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Apparatus for transmitting a digital signal within, for example, an integrated circuit includes a signal transmission line with a directional coupler at one or both ends. The directional coupler blocks the direct-current component of the digital signal while transmitting the alternating-current component, including enough higher harmonics to transmit a well-defined pulse waveform. A suitable directional coupler consists of two adjacent line pairs in materials with different dielectric constants. The apparatus may also include a driver of the inverter type, a receiver of the differential amplifier type, a terminating resistor, and a power-ground transmission line pair for supplying power to the driver. An all-metallic transmission-line structure is preferably maintained from the output interconnections in the driver to the input interconnections in the receiver.

A system and method for detecting malicious code based on the Web are disclosed herein. The system includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) collection unit, a data crawling unit, a malicious code candidate extraction unit, and a secure pattern filtering unit. The URL collection unit collects and stores the URL information of a web server. The data crawling unit crawls and stores the contents data of a website. The malicious code candidate extraction unit detects a pattern, matching previously stored malicious pattern information, in the stored data, and extracts an event including the detected pattern as a malicious code candidate. The secure pattern filtering unit detects a pattern, matching previously stored secure pattern information known as being secure, in the extracted malicious code candidate, filters out the event including the detected pattern from the extracted malicious code candidate, and outputs a remaining malicious code candidate as malicious code.

A mobile terminal is capable of reducing unnecessary consumption of electric power. The mobile terminal includes a terminal status detecting unit which detects a first terminal status and a second terminal status, the first terminal status being a status of the mobile terminal before a change in the mobile terminal takes place, and the second terminal status being a status of the mobile terminal after the change in the mobile terminal takes place. The mobile terminal also includes a condition managing table which manages a condition for starting an electric power supply to an SD memory card, a judging unit which judges, when the first terminal status and the second terminal status are detected by the terminal status detecting unit, whether or not the change in the status of the mobile terminal meets the condition, and an electric power supplying unit which starts the electric power supply to the SD memory card when the change in the status of the mobile terminal is judged by the judging unit as meeting the condition.

The invention is a system that provides a means to using passing air to turn on an electronically powered device that is removably attached to an exterior portion of a vehicle as the vehicle travels betweens two locations. The invention is also embodied as a device that provides a means to turn on an incandescent light bulb that illuminates an ornament that is attached to an automobile window using passing air caused a moving automobile.

A drum washing machine in which washing water is supplied directly to a drum to reduce consumption of the washing water, and is easily discharged from the drum in a dehydrating mode without leakage of the washing water from the drum in a washing mode. The drum washing machine includes an opening and closing device to open the dehydration holes by a centrifugal force only when the drum is rotated more than a designated speed. The opening and closing device includes opening and closing members to open and close the dehydration holes, and an elastic member to enable the opening and closing members to open and close the dehydration holes according to an intensity of the centrifugal force generated due to a rotation of the drum. The drum washing machine supplies the washing water directly to the drum, thereby preventing problems regarding the leakage or discharge of the washing water.

A washing machine and suds removal method thereof. The suds removal method is designed to effectively remove suds at the earliest possible time using a small amount of water by adjusting an activity of suds when the generation of suds is sensed. The suds removal method includes sensing the generation of suds during a washing cycle, and removing the suds by adjusting the activity of suds when the generation of suds is sensed.

An image display apparatus which controls an external device transmitting data using a USB connector is provided. The image display apparatus includes a first connector and a second connector which receive an image signal, respectively, a display unit which selectively displays the image signal input via the first connector and the second connector, and if the image signal input via the first connector is displayed on the display unit, a central processing unit (CPU) which stops an external device connected via the second connector from transmitting an image signal. Accordingly, resources in the external device can be efficiently managed by stopping unnecessary operations.

A technique for realizing a snapshot function is provided, which can reduce data transfer between a server system and a storage subsystem which is necessary in data copy in storages and reduce the degradation of data access performance of the storage in operation. In a storage system, a command processed by a CPU of a storage subsystem includes a COPY and WRITE command for performing a data copy process and a data storage process in accordance with a predetermined sequence, and a server system issues the command to the storage subsystem. After receiving the command, the storage subsystem executes a data copy process from a first disk drive to a second disk drive, and subsequently executes a data storage process to the first disk drive, thereby keeping a snapshot of the data stored in the first disk drive.

The invention discloses an electronic cigarette with an MEMS micropump. The electronic cigarette comprises a battery (307), an atomizing chamber (302) and a microcomputer control system (306), whereinthe top of the atomizing chamber (302) is connected with a suction nozzle (302), an aerosol spraying device (305) and a heater (309) are arranged at the bottom of the atomizing chamber (302), the heater (309) is in conduction connection with fluid of the micropump (305) through a micropump outlet (202), and the micropump (305) comprises a pump cavity formed by a pump membrane (102), an inlet pumpvalve (104A) and an outlet pump valve (104B); a driver (101) is arranged on the outer side of the pump membrane (102); the microcomputer control system (306) is electrically connected with the micropump (305) through an electrode terminal (313). An oil guiding piece does not make direct contact with a heating piece, the problem that an oil guiding medium is not heated uniformly due to the elasticity of an oil conducting medium and due to the fact that a traditional electronic cigarette makes tight contact with a heating element is avoided, and quantified active tobacco tar supply can be achieved.

A camera system has an optical unit including: an optical system forming subject light into an image; a shooting section receiving the subject light formed into the image through the optical system, taking the image in a shooting mode selected from plural types of shooting modes, and generating an analog image signal indicating the subject light; and a data converter section converting the image signal into digital data having a data format corresponding to the shooting mode. The system also has a camera body including: a connect section where the optical unit is detachably attached; an image processing section obtaining the image data from the optical unit and processing the image data depending on the data format of the image data; and a mode selector section instructing the shooting section to select among the shooting modes and allowing the shooting section to perform shooting in the selected shooting mode.

There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing a trial printing function that minimizes unnecessary consumption of time and supplies. Images that are inputted are accumulated in a memory. An output mode is set and a setting is made as to whether trial printing is to be carried out in the output mode or not. A CPU provides control to read out a corresponding image from the memory according to the set output mode and form the readout image on a sheet. When it is determined that the trial printing is to be carried out during image formation according to the set output mode, the CPU provides control to set the number of trial print pages according to predetermined conditions and carry out the trial printing for the set number of trial print pages.

Provided is a system and method for automatically providing content in access areas based on access points, in which when a user enters an area in which an access point is installed, content corresponding to the content providing area is automatically provided to a terminal of the user.

A technique for realizing a snapshot function is provided, which can reduce data transfer between a server system and a storage subsystem which is necessary during data copy operations between storage devices and reduce the degradation of data access performance of the storage device in operation. In a storage system, a command processed by a CPU of a storage subsystem includes a COPY and WRITE command for performing a data copy process and a data storage process in accordance with a predetermined sequence, and a server system issues the command to the storage subsystem. After receiving the command, the storage subsystem executes a data copy process from a first disk drive to a second disk drive, and subsequently executes a data storage process to the first disk drive, thereby keeping a snapshot of the data stored in the first disk drive.

A camera system has an optical unit including: an optical system forming subject light into an image; a shooting section receiving the subject light formed into the image through the optical system, taking the image in a shooting mode selected from plural types of shooting modes, and generating an analog image signal indicating the subject light; and a data converter section converting the image signal into digital data having a data format corresponding to the shooting mode. The system also has a camera body including: a connect section where the optical unit is detachably attached; an image processing section obtaining the image data from the optical unit and processing the image data depending on the data format of the image data; and a mode selector section instructing the shooting section to select among the shooting modes and allowing the shooting section to perform shooting in the selected shooting mode.

In a charging unit, a configuration is obtained in which power stored in a battery can be prevented from being unnecessarily consumed when a device is not being used. The charging unit (10) includes a power receiver (13) (power receiving coil) that receives power from a power feeder (2) (charger), a battery (12) that is charged with power received by the power receiver (13), a charge controller (14) that is provided between the power receiver (13) and the battery (12), and controls the battery (12), and a disconnecting section (15) (relay) that is provided between the battery (12) and the charge controller (14), and electrically disconnects the battery (12) and the charge controller (14) when the battery (12) is not being charged.

The invention provides a production method of high-rutin and high-niacin germinated tartary buckwheat tea. The production method includes soaking tartary buckwheat subjected to impurity removal, stone removal and cleaning in warm water; culturing the tartary buckwheat grains at 15-30 DEG C under the humidity of 80-90% with 3-5 pH to allow the tartary buckwheat grains to germinate and bud; cooking the germinated tartary buckwheat grains at certain temperature for gelatinization of tartary buckwheat starch; drying and removing wheat hulls, retaining kernels with tartary buckwheat bran, and screening to obtain clean tartary buckwheat kernels; grinding the clean tartary buckwheat kernels, and baking at 150-190 DEG C for 5-15 minutes; and allowing for cooling to room temperature, and performing color selection to remove discolored kernels so as to obtain the germinated tartary buckwheat tea. By the production method, the tartary buckwheat seeds are activated to fully germinate and are made into tea in the early budding stage, original wheat aroma and nutrients of the tartary buckwheat are retained to the maximum extent, stability of product quality is guaranteed, the objective needs for function and health are met, and unnecessary consumption of raw material is reduced.

The invention discloses a digitalized-control low-voltage direct-current power source energy feedback type electronic loading boosting system comprising a main circuit and a control circuit. The main circuit comprises a Boost module and a DC (direct current)-DC boosting conversion module which are sequentially connected, the Boost module is connected with a parallel low-voltage direct-current power source, and the DC-DC boosting conversion module is connected with a grid-connected inverter system. The control circuit comprises a fault protection circuit module, a current and voltage sampling and signal processing module, a DSP (digital signal processor) embedded type system module and a high-frequency driving module. The digitalized-control low-voltage direct-current power source energy feedback type electronic loading boosting system thoroughly solves the problems that energy feedback is hard to realize during ageing of the low-voltage direct-current power source and a conventional static loading is energy-consuming, heating and large in size, and is energy-saving, efficient, environment-friendly, reliable in performance, high in automation degree and stable in power source ageing quality, and is particularly applicable to reliability test, on-load test and output characteristic test of the low-voltage direct-current power source.

An aeration apparatus, comprising: a gas-liquid mixing-circulating module, a gas supplying module, a controlling module and a cleaning unit, wherein the gas-liquid mixing-circulating module comprises: a first switch valve, connecting to a liquid outlet of a culture tank; a booster pump, connecting to the first switch valve; a micro-bubble producing device, having one end connecting to the booster pump and the other end connecting to a liquid inlet of the culture tank; a first proportional valve; a venturi tube, having a head, a tail and a branch, the other opening of the first proportional valve connecting to the head; and a second proportional valve, having an opening connecting to the tail, and the other opening connecting to the second tube, wherein, a fifth tube transfer gas to the venturi tube through the branch; wherein, the controlling module regulates the gas-liquid mixing-circulating module, the gas supplying module and the cleaning unit.

When a nozzle abnormality detecting mechanism detects an abnormality of the nozzle, in the maintenance process of causing the drive waveform to be applied plural times to the actuator corresponding to the nozzle that the detecting mechanism detects as being abnormal, and thereby causing the ejecting operation to be performed, at least a first-time drive waveform applied to the actuator is a flushing pulse which causes a meniscus in the nozzle not to be positively attracted from an initial position to the pressure chamber, but causes the meniscus to be extruded to the ejection side and thereby causes the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle.

A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal.

An image processing apparatus that enables to reduce needless consumption of memory band and control duplicated access to a main memory. A reading unit reads image data stored in a first storage unit and divides the image data into a plurality of rectangular areas of a predetermined size. A second storage unit stores image data in reference areas surrounding the rectangular areas, the reference areas having overlapped areas each of which includes a boundary between adjacent two rectangular areas. An image processing unit performs an image process based on the image data in the rectangular areas read by the reading unit and the image data in the reference areas stored in the second storage unit. A cache control unit controls to transfer the image data in the reference areas from the second storage unit to the image processing unit in response to a request from the image processing unit.

The invention discloses a closed self-dredging type biological filter membrane assembly, and belongs to the technical field of biological reactions. Real-time oxygen supply to microorganisms in a filtering process can be realized without an external aeration device, oxygen only needs to be conveyed into deformed oxygen storage balls before filtration until saturation is achieved, fine filtration and pollutant decomposition are carried out by a self-dredging filter disc in which microorganisms are cultured in this process, the impact effect of water flow makes the oxygen storage balls deform and shake in the process, and energy conversion balls in oxygen storage balls convert kinetic energy into heat energy in real time; the conveyed oxygen is forced to be released from a semi-permeable membrane to the self-dredging filter disc by utilizing the heating expansion characteristic of the gas, so the slow-release oxygen supply effect on the microorganisms is achieved, the gas can more easilydredge pore channels, blocked by pollutants and microorganism metabolites, in the self-dredging filter disc, than water, and the effect of dredging the pore channels can also be achieved during explosion impact of bubbles formed by sewage, thereby the effects of closed filtering and real-time self-dredging are achieved.

A power supply apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a power supply request and a power supply condition from a power receiving apparatus, and a power supply control unit configured to instruct a power supply unit to perform a test power supply to a target power receiving apparatus which is a transmission source of the power supply request, and instruct the power supply unit to perform actual power supply according to the power supply condition when the receiving unit receives a success notification of the test power supply from the target power receiving apparatus after performing the test power supply.

A liquid ejecting apparatus performs ejection in which droplets are deposited onto a medium and flushing in which droplets are not deposited onto the medium. The apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject the droplets, a presentation unit configured to present at least one condition selected from a number of times of ejecting droplets in the one flushing, a weight per one of the droplets in the flushing, and a timing of the flushing to be changeable, and a flushing controller configured to control the recording head to perform the flushing based on the condition changed via the presentation unit.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle intelligent distribution system and method based on the Internet of Things. The system comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle distribution network, a communication base station, an aircraft control end, a background management end and a user end. The unmanned aerial vehicle distribution network is composed of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles; the communication base station receives and forwards messages from the unmanned aerial vehicle, the aircraft control end and the cloud server; the aircraft control end is used for a pilot to control the unmanned aerial vehicle, display the information of a currently delivered order and complete the operation in the process of delivering an article by the pilot; the background management end is used for maintaining management information and data, and monitoring information of all current orders, delivery states of all orders and flight data of the unmanned aerial vehicle in real time; and the user side is used for a user to put forward an order, check a delivery state and complete a receiving operation.

The invention provides a six-color transfer printing machine used for processing glass-ceramic products, which can work automatically and mechanically and can form six-color complex patterns on the surfaces of the glass-ceramic products. The technical scheme of the invention is that the six-color transfer printing machine comprises an automatically-operating machine platform, wherein the automatically-operating machine platform is provided with an intermittently-moving rotary frame; the intermittently-moving rotary frame is provided with stations for placing workpieces and a workpiece positioning device matched with the stations; the automatically-operating machine platform is successively provided with six transfer printing devices matched with the workpieces on the stations; each transfer printing device comprises a scraper which moves in a reciprocating manner in the transverse direction, a screen printing forme which is fixed in the automatically-operating machine platform and is used for loading printing ink, a transfer printing plate which moves in a reciprocating manner in the transverse direction, and a transfer printing head which moves in a reciprocating manner in the longitudinal direction; the scraper is propped against and matched with the screen printing forme; the transfer printing plate is respectively and alternately propped against and matched with the screen printing forme and the transfer printing head; and the transfer printing head is respectively and alternately propped against and matched with the workpieces on the stations and the transfer printing plate.

There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing a trial printing function that minimizes unnecessary consumption of time and supplies. Images that are inputted are accumulated in a memory. An output mode is set and a setting is made as to whether trial printing is to be carried out in the output mode or not. A CPU provides control to read out a corresponding image from the memory according to the set output mode and form the readout image on a sheet. When it is determined that the trial printing is to be carried out during image formation according to the set output mode, the CPU provides control to set the number of trial print pages according to predetermined conditions and carry out the trial printing for the set number of trial print pages.

The present invention provides a method of supplementing animals with carotenoids by drinking water, comprising the following steps of: (1) making yellow and / or red pigments into the microencapsulated dry powders or beadlets; (2) mixing the aforementioned microencapsulated dry powders or beadlets in a certain proportion and dissolving them in water to prepare for a pigment solution; (3) administering the prepared pigment solution to animals by drinking. The method of supplementing the carotenoids according to the present invention has the advantages of easy absorption, economical dosages of pigments, high efficiency of coloration, stable coloration and small effects on the process of pigments in comparison with conventional methods currently.