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Systems and methods for wireless power transfer are disclosed. Primary windings generate magnetic fields which are inductively coupled to secondary windings to transfer power in a wireless manner. One embodiment includes a plurality of tiles of magnetic cores and windings for the primary windings. The tiles can be arranged in a magnetic segment with windings of tiles being orthogonal with respect to windings of adjacent tiles. For example, a winding of a first tile can be horizontal, and windings of adjacent tiles can be vertical. One embodiment further groups these magnetic segments into larger entities, wherein each magnetic segment can be independently activated. One embodiment includes a magnetic amplifier or an electronic device for secondary side control of power. This permits multiple devices to be powered or charged to be able to regulate power or charging independently from one another.

A method and apparatus for magnetically levitating and further steering of an intraluminal device, such as a swallowable microelectronic capsule, for monitoring bodily functions is provided. The method comprises diamagnetically-stabilized levitation, followed by dynamic modification of the external magnetic field producing the said levitation, so that the levitating intraluminal device can be steered in desired direction. The said intraluminal device contains appropriate sensors and reports in real time the forces and pressures exerted on it, as well as its position, so that the levitation and the steering can be dynamically adjusted using appropriate dynamic control of external magnetic devices such as solenoids.

An active CMOS biosensor chip for fluorescent-based detection is provided that enables time-gated, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. In one embodiment, analytes are loaded with fluorophores that are bound to probe molecules immobilized on the surface of the chip. Photodiodes and other circuitry in the chip are used to measure the fluorescent intensity of the fluorophore at different times. These measurements are then averaged to generate a representation of the transient fluorescent decay response unique to the fluorophores. In addition to its low-cost, compact form, the biosensor chip provides capabilities beyond those of macroscopic instrumentation by enabling time-gated operation for background rejection, easing requirements on optical filters, and by characterizing fluorescence lifetime, allowing for a more detailed characterization of fluorophore labels and their environment. The biosensor chip can be used for a variety of applications including biological, medical, in-the-field applications, and fluorescent lifetime imaging applications.

Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and encoders employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or imaged along a line.

A vehicle transmission includes a differential gear set having five coaxial gear elements and an output member. Two of the gear elements are controllable via torque transmitting mechanisms such as electric motors to establish a plurality of speed ratios between the input shaft and the output shaft. Two of the other gear elements are selectively operatively connectable to an output shaft via a gear arrangement that allows for a plurality of speed ratios between the gear elements and the output shaft. Additional torque transmitting mechanisms such as clutches are selectively engageable to provide continuously variable speed ranges between the input shaft and the output shaft, fixed gear ratios and an electric drive mode. The various speed ratios enable a plurality of compound split operating modes as well as an input split mode.

The present invention relates to an analog transmitter using an external cavity laser (ECL) in which specific characteristics of the ECL are enhanced and exploited to improve 2nd and 3rd order distortion while increasing the threshold for the occurrence of deleterious stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The performance of the ECL shows a substantial reduction in distortion occurring over certain narrow ranges of operating temperatures. Optical, electronic, thermal and/or mechanical methods are described that cause this “distortion dip” to be moved to, or created at, stable regions of ECL operation, away from mode hops. Methods are also described that allow the distortion dip to be moved to, or created at, ECL operating regions in which sufficiently high chirp occurs, thereby reducing SBS. Transmitters and other devices employing these and related techniques are also described.

According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a system and method that allows an individual to upload any combination of still images, video images, and/or audio files to a central server. Then, the system will automatically and dynamically create a slide show using the materials provided. The images might be shown sequentially or randomly. The user's video files will be incorporated into the show and the audio data will be used to create a background soundtrack when displaying still images. Additionally, the resolution and the data values of specific multimedia files comprising the slide show will be modified dynamically to fit the user's bandwidth, with high resolution images/videos being used if the user has a high speed connection to the central server.

This invention concerns an improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-T_c superconductors fabricated with a coated conductor technique to provide superconducting layers containing flat grains. A superconductor with superior critical current density is obtained by joining, i.e. pressing or otherwise bringing into intensive facial contact, preferably superconducting contact, two or more such superconducting layers.

The invention provides a casting method of movable and fixed vortex casting pieces of a compressor, aiming at solving the technical problem that the movable and fixed vortex casting pieces generate loosing and shrinkage at the hot joint in the casting process. The casting method comprises the following steps: embedding a conformal cold iron into the hot joint of the casting piece at the corresponding position of a core box, then carrying out sand shooting and manufacturing a sand core with the conformal cold iron; and placing the sand core with the conformal cold iron into a casting mold, combining a dead head feeding technique and casting the casting piece. The shape of the conformal cold iron is manufactured into a vortex shape or an arc shape according to the shapes of a vortex sand core teeth and the position of the hot joint of the vortex casting piece. One end of the conformal cold iron is provided with a columnar positioning lag; and the core box is provided with a positioning hole matched with the positioning lag. The sand core is internally provided with the conformal cold iron which is directly applied on the hot joint, thus having fast cooling speed and leading the hot joint position to obtain maximum subcooled temperature in the vortex casting piece. The casting method can effectively solve the defects of loosing and shrinkage of the root part of the vortex teeth.

The invention discloses one-component moisture cured polyurethane sealant containing a novel water removal agent. The one-component moisture cured polyurethane sealant containing the novel water removal agent is prepared from polyurethane prepolymer, a plasticizer, a water removal agent a, a water removal agent b, a filler, a silane coupling agent, a catalyst and an auxiliary agent; the inventiondiscloses the one-component moisture cured polyurethane sealant containing the novel water removal agent; the polyurethane prepolymer with low molecular weight is prepared and added into the formula of the one-component moisture cured polyurethane sealant to substitute monofunctional isocyanate p-toluenesulfonyl isocyanate serving as a high-efficiency chemical water removal agent in part of formulae, so that the requirements on types and using amounts of water removing agents in a product system are lowered; moreover, a series of serious problems caused by adding of excessive monofunctional isocyanate cannot be caused; the novel water removal agent a of the one-component moisture cured polyurethane sealant protects NCO active groups in a main body prepolymer with high molecular weight frombeing consumed, so that the final curing strength of the product reaches expected strength; better construction performance is achieved, and a bubbling phenomenon of the product is improved.

An electronic circuitry is provided for reading out a memory element (ME). The electronic circuitry comprises a first electronic path (IP) being coupled to the memory element (ME), a second electronic path (RP) having predetermined electrical properties, and a basic detection element (BDE) being coupled to the first and second electronic paths (IP, RP) such that the information contained in the memory element (ME) can be determined by the basic detection element (BDE) based on the relation of a digital signal being propagated over the first path (IP) to a digital signal being propagated over the second path (RP).

The invention discloses a joint calibration and adjustment method for a satellite-borne optical camera-laser range finder combined system. According to the method, geometric correlation between a satellite-borne optical camera and a satellite-borne laser range finder is built by using a geometrical relationship of an internal structure of the satellite-borne optical camera-laser range finder combined system, a joint calibration and adjustment model based on an optical stereoscopic image observation equation and a laser ranging observation equation is built, high-precision estimation of orientation elements in the optical camera an relative orientation elements between the laser range finder and the optical camera can be achieved at the same time, and the influence of a system error is automatically compensated, thereby fully developing the advantages of the combined system in three-dimensional positioning of a ground target.

An AC claw-pole electric motor includes a casing, a stator connected with the casing, a rotor and two exciting parts. The rotor includes a rotor shaft (9), a center magnetic yoke (11), a first side magnetic yoke (8), a second side magnetic yoke (13), and claw poles (2, 3, 4, 5) provided on the center magnetic yoke (11), the first side magnetic yoke (8) and the second side magnetic yoke (13). The two exciting parts are respectively provided in spaces formed by the center magnetic yoke (11), the first side magnetic yoke (8), the second side magnetic yoke (13) and the claw poles (2, 3, 4, 5). The axial exciting magnetic fluxes of the two exciting parts are opposite in direction. Thus, the main magnetic flux and the magnetic energy product of the electric motor are increased, and the output and the operation efficiency of the electric motor at a low speed are improved.

The invention discloses nanostructured lithium orthosilicate ceramic spheres used for tritium propagation and a preparation method thereof. The nanostructured lithium orthosilicate ceramic spheres are made by preparing precursor powder with uniform particle size through a solvothermal method, obtaining a lithium ceramic sphere blank with a uniform microstructure through wet moulding, and carrying out two-step sintering. The prepared lithium orthosilicate ceramics is high in purity, good in sphericility, small in hole size and uniform in hole dispersion, has a crystal grain size in nanometer order and allows the radiation resistance, mechanical properties and tritium release properties of tritium propagation ceramics to be improved at the same time.

There is disclosed a device for purifying oily wastewater, including a vertical tank of an atmospheric pressure, inside which a central coagulation reaction tube, a reverse cone-shaped cyclone flocculation stage, a suspended sludge filtering zone and a purified water commutation stage of inclined plates are included from bottom to top sequentially, oily wastewater is sequentially subjected to a coagulation reaction, suspended sludge filtering and a purified water commutation process and then discharged, a sludge collecting groove collects and guides the suspended sludge to a sludge concentrating zone for further sedimentation and concentration processes and then discharges it to external to the tank, in this way, the purification reaction, flocculation and fine filtration of wastewater and the sludge concentration process are integrated within the same wastewater purifying device. Thus, the device is equivalent to the existing wastewater pretreatment system plus a fine filtration system.

A system-on-chip integrated circuit 2 includes a packet transmitter 28 for generating data packets to be sent via a communication circuit 34 to a packet receiver 30 containing a buffer circuit 32. A transmitter counter 36 stores a transmitter count value counting data packets sent. A receiver counter 38 stores a receiver count value tracking data packets emptied from the buffer circuit 32. A comparison circuitry 40 is used to compare the transmitter count value and the receiver count value to determine whether or not there is storage space available within the buffer circuit 30 to receive transmission of further data packets. The packet transmitter 28 operates in a transmitter clock domain that is asynchronous from a receiver clock domain in which the packet receiver operates. One of the count values is passed across this asynchronous clock boundary in order that the comparison may be performed and flow control exercised.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a technical grade sodium carboxymethylcellulose with high viscosity and high salt resistance, belonging to the field of organic polymer compound. The method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: (1) opening cellulose raw materials into a flocculent product for use; pre-preparing an alkali-wine mixed solution; (2) alkalizing the mixed solution; (3) etherifying the mixed solution; and (4) after finishing the etherification, drying and crushing the product. The product manufactured by the invention has good stability and long quality guarantee period; the method provided by the invention can effectively improve the viscosity and the cross-linking evenness of the product and effectively reduce the cost, thus having wide market prospect. The physical and chemical indicators of the sodium carboxymethylcellulose prepared by the method provided by the invention are that the purity is 68-75%, the substitution degree D.S is 0.7-0.9, 1% of brooklfield viscosity is 500 -2000 mpas, 2% of NDJ-79 type viscosity is 600 -1000 mpas, and 2% of SVR is 0.85-1.0; the method provided by the invention is widely applied to the industries such as ceramics, petroleum and construction.

A method of coacting a fluid with a media, such as granular particles. The media is moved to an upper portion in an upright media container, and held there during a treatment cycle in which the fluid is coacted with the media. When the media requires regeneration, the media is allowed to fall to a lower portion of the media container where a regeneration fluid is passed through the media.