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A washing system for high temperature cleaning applications, such as carpet-cleaning, is disclosed that provides a consistent cleaning fluid temperature. The washing system utilizes multiple heat exchangers and multiple heat paths. The heating and power source is provided by a medium duty, diesel cycle engine. Multi-stage heating involves heat transfer from the engine's coolant to the cleaning fluid and heat transfer from the exhaust of the engine to the cleaning fluid via an intermediate medium. The system also includes a fluid clutch used to engage a power takeoff from the engine to operate the pump and blower of the washing plant. A failsafe source cutoff diverts the exhaust flow from thermal contact with an intermediate heat transfer oil.

Apparatuses and methods for pumping fluid are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus is a miniature pump that includes a shape memory wire that obtains a plastic condition below a transformation temperature and has a memorized shape such that the shape memory wire produces a work stroke by returning to the memorize shape at least at the transformation temperature. A spring biased against the shape memory wire is deflected by the work stroke to deform the shape memory wire from the memorized shape below the transformation temperature. A fluid pump is coupled to the shape memory wire and driven by the biased spring and shape memory wire to produce a fluid flow. The miniature pump can be incorporated into a self-contained infusion device in the form of a compact self-adhesive patch including a fluid reservoir, control electronics and power supply that is place directly at the infusion site of a user.

A method for accelerated object detection or for accelerated object attribute detection, wherein a first information item is acquired by a vehicle-to-X communication device, and describes at least one object or at least one object attribute in an evaluated data form. A second information item is acquired by at least one individual sensor or by a sensor group, and describes the at least one object or the at least one object attribute in sensor raw data form, and an object detection algorithm and / or an object attribute detection algorithm is applied to sensor raw data of the second information item. The method is defined in that a threshold value of the object detection algorithm or of the object attribute detection algorithm for detecting the at least one object or at least one object attribute described by the first information item is reduced in the sensor raw data of the second information item.

The hybrid vehicle transfers power between the two motors, releases a coupling between one of the motors and the drive shaft, adjusts the rotation speed of one of the motors which is released from the coupling to the drive shaft by the transmission so as to enable drive source element connection, and connects the clutch as well as cranks the engine by either one or the other motor when the engine is started while the clutch is released, the engine is stopped, both the motors are coupled to the drive shaft as well as at least one of the motors is caused to output power.

A dynamic path estimation method reconstructs a program timeline in real time from an incoming stream of audio or visual content in which watermark payloads are redundantly encoded. A receiving device buffers a portion of the incoming signal, executes watermark detection on the contents of the buffer, presents detection results, and then advances the incoming signal in the buffer. Each detection result corresponds to different possible detection paths, as the detector does not reveal the precise position of the watermark payload. The dynamic path estimation method operates on the detection results to determine a global cost function for each possible detection path. As the incoming audio advances through a detection buffer, the method updates cost values for the possible paths, determines a global cost for the paths, and outputs a timeline based on the path of the lowest global cost.

The invention discloses a method for diagnosing the type of leakage of a drilled well based on the neural network fusion technique. The method for diagnosing the type of leakage of the drilled well based on the neural network fusion technique comprises the following steps that S1, a fusion neural network structure is determined, and a well leakage type diagnosis parameter space is established; S2, data are preprocessed; S3, data which are normalized are input into all neural networks; S4, data infusion is conducted on output values of all the neural networks according to multiple neural network fusion algorithms and then a well leakage type diagnosis result is obtained finally. The step S1 comprises the sub-steps that S11, the fusion neural network structure is selected; S12, network training is conducted; S13, the networks are checked, and the well leakage type diagnosis parameter space is established. According to the method for diagnosing the type of leakage of the drilled well based on the neural network fusion, the multiple neural networks are used for processing data, the multiple neural network output results are processed through the data fusion algorithm, the performance is high, and the result is highly reliable.

An object of the present invention is to provide a power supply circuit including a charge-pumping booster section which uses switching elements provided only by N-channel transistors yet does not have a problem of voltage drop by threshold value. In a booster section (11a), capacitors (C1) and (C2) have their respective first terminals connected with transistors (Q1, Q3) and (Q2, Q4) respectively. Each transistor has its gate terminal supplied with control signals generated in a driver section (11b). The driver section (11b) includes capacitors (C3, C4) connected with input terminals (Ti3, Ti4) for respective supply of clock signals DCK2, DCK2B each having a voltage alternating between −VDD and VDD (VDD represents an input supply voltage from outside), as level-shifted signals of clock signals DCK1, DCK1B which are supplied to second terminals of the capacitors (C1, C2) respectively. In this arrangement, the driver section 11b generates signals each having a voltage alternating between VDD and 3VDD, as the control signals.

Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detectors in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, the multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector uses soft metrics based on the Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of each symbol to provide information concerning the reliability of each detected symbol. One embodiment of the invention includes a receiver configured to receive and sample a phase modulated input signal, and a multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector configured to receive the sampled input signal and to generate a soft metric indicative of the reliability of a detected symbol based upon observations over multiple symbols.

A write counter provides a write count value synchronized with a write clock signal. A read counter provides a read count value synchronized with a read clock signal. The read and write count values are routed through logic, which introduces noise to these values. A first delay circuit generates a first blanking signal, which has a duration corresponding with the duration of the noise introduced to the write count value, in response to the write clock signal. A second delay circuit generates a second blanking signal, which has a duration corresponding with the duration of the noise introduced to the read count value, in response to the second clock signal. The read and write count values are latched into read and write blanking registers, respectively, in response to the first and second blanking signals, respectively, effectively filtering the introduced noise prior to a subsequently performed comparison operation.

When light is made incident into antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c of a photodetector 1, specific wavelength components of light contained in the incident light combine with surface plasmons of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c, and surface plasmon resonance occurs. Thereby, near-field lights are outputted from through-holes 13 of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c. The near-field light outputted from each through-hole 13 reaches a light absorbing layer 4 via light receiving surfaces 4a, 4b, and 4c. The light absorbing layer 4 generates a charge of an amount according to the amount of received light. Since cycle intervals Λa, Λb, and Λc of convex portions 12 in the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c are different from each other, the wavelength component of light that combines with a surface plasmon differs in each of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c. Consequently, a plurality of wavelength components of light can be detected.

An object of the present invention is to provide a power supply circuit including a charge-pumping booster section which uses switching elements provided only by N-channel transistors yet does not have a problem of voltage drop by threshold value. In a booster section (11a), capacitors (C1) and (C2) have their respective first terminals connected with transistors (Q1, Q3) and (Q2, Q4) respectively. Each transistor has its gate terminal supplied with control signals generated in a driver section (11b). The driver section (11b) includes capacitors (C3, C4) connected with input terminals (Ti3, Ti4) for respective supply of clock signals DCK2, DCK2B each having a voltage alternating between −VDD and VDD (VDD represents an input supply voltage from outside), as level-shifted signals of clock signals DCK1, DCK1B which are supplied to second terminals of the capacitors (C1, C2) respectively. In this arrangement, the driver section 11b generates signals each having a voltage alternating between VDD and 3VDD, as the control signals.

Apparatus and methods for mitigating precipitation effects realized at an antenna system of an instrument such as a microwave radiometer are disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a blower mechanism that enables instrument operation even during precipitation events (rain, snow, sleet, or excessive condensation) by causing a flow of air at relatively high velocity tangentially across the antenna system. The air flow is of sufficient force to disallow contact by hydrometeors with the antenna or antenna window of the system by redirecting the path of the falling hydrometeors in flight and / or to sweep hydrometeors reaching or formed at the window from the vicinity of the window. Other mechanisms for such precipitation effects mitigation are also disclosed.

A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a combinational circuit section having a combinational circuit, a scan path circuit for inputting and outputting a value from and to the combinational circuit section in accordance with a scan enable signal and in synchronization with a clock signal, and a clock control section for generating and outputting a predetermined number of pulses as the clock signal after a predetermined period has passed since a time when an output command signal was received. The clock control section has an oscillator circuit for generating and outputting the pulse, and is configured to output a last pulse of the predetermined number of pulses in a manner which holds a logical value immediately after an active edge for the scan path circuit.

A solid image capturing device outputs image data and characteristic data of the solid image capturing device on the same output signal line. Both outputs are processed by the same circuit. In one embodiment, the characteristic data is optically stored in the solid image capturing device. In another embodiment, the characteristic data is non-optically stored in the solid image capturing device. The image field of the solid image capturing device includes an invalid image field located outside the effective image field. Signals output from the invalid image field include those concerning the characteristic data of the solid image capturing device.

The invention discloses a video multi-target tracking method based on multi-dimensional feature fusion, and relates to the technical field of videos and images. The method comprises the following steps of recording the time information, position information and content characteristics of a detection target; calculating the content feature similarity between the detection target and all track containers, and if the maximum similarity value is greater than a first threshold value, determining that the matching is effective; for the unmatched track container, further calculating the change proportion of the historical speed and the temporary speed of the track, detecting the movement included angle and the width change proportion of the target and the movement direction of the historical track, and if the three are all within a given threshold interval, determining that the matching is effective; and storing the effectively matched detection target in the corresponding track container. According to the method, the matching result is real and reliable, and the phenomenon of serial numbers caused by track fragments, shielding and the like is effectively reduced.

There is provided a clutch device in which a half clutch range can be set at a wide range and in which smoothness and quickness in the disconnection of the clutch can be dramatically improved and in which a shift operation can be performed smoothly and quickly.In a clutch device 1 in which clutch plates 5, 6 are sandwiched between a flywheel 10 and a pressure plate 23 to transmit a rotational force of an engine to a transmission, the pressure plate 23 is provided with an intermediate ring 24 which can be moved freely slightly in a direction in which the intermediate ring 24 is pressed by a diaphragm spring 21, and air passages 31 for making an inner peripheral side communicate with an outer peripheral side are formed between the intermediate ring 24 and the pressure plate 23 radially at specified intervals in a circumferential direction, and plate springs 25 for always biasing the intermediate ring 24 and the pressure plate 23 in a direction in which the intermediate ring 24 and the pressure plate 23 are separated from each other are fixed in the air passages 31, and the intermediate ring 24 is provided with spring members 40 for always biasing the diaphragm spring 21 to an abutting side in which the diaphragm spring 21 abuts against the intermediate ring 24.

A driver circuit for a semiconductor laser of the invention comprises: first bias current supply means for supplying, at least at a time of non-output of data, a first bias current to an LD; signal processing means for generating a pulse current control signal in which a burst data signal is delayed, and generating a second bias current control signal which rises more rapidly by a predetermined time than the rise of burst data included in the pulse current control signal; pulse current supply means for supplying to the LD a pulse current generated in accordance with the pulse current control signal; and second bias current supply means for supplying to the LD a second bias current generated in accordance with the second bias current control signal.

An audio playback apparatus realizes both of normal playback and loop playback with respect to compressive coded data forming an audio waveform of one phrase, which is constituted by a string of samples and which includes a loop section. In the normal playback, a decoder sequentially reproduces the samples. In the loop playback, the decoder sequentially reproduces the samples until a sample preceding a loop start point, then, the decoder repeatedly reproduces the samples belonging to the loop section, then, the decoder sequentially reproduces the samples started from the loop start point. Alternatively, two decoders are alternately controlled to perform decoding in the loop playback. Thus, it is possible to reliably output all the samples including the samples of the loop section without causing breaks.

It is intended to provide a frequency multiplier capable of switching as appropriate among frequency signals having frequencies obtained by multiplying prescribed multiplication numbers with low current consumption and a simple circuit configuration in effectively utilizing frequencies in radio communication equipment. The base terminals of an input differential pair are biased by respective voltage sources, and an input frequency signal is input to one of the base terminals. The differential output terminals are connected to the base terminals of next-stage buffer circuit transistors, and their emitter terminals are connected to respective diodes. A full-wave-rectified signal, which is obtained at the connecting point of the cathode terminals of the diodes, is input to a comparison differential pair, which produces an output frequency signal by comparing the full-wave-rectified signal with a reference voltage. The frequency of the output frequency signal is switched as appropriate between the same frequency as the frequency of the input frequency signal and its double frequency by the manner of setting the bias voltages of the voltage sources.

An infrared detector includes a circuit block carrying an infrared sensor element and electronic components. The circuit block is composed of a dielectric resin layer and a first substrate formed with a circuit pattern and mounting the electronic components. The dielectric resin layer is formed in its top with a recess which defines around its periphery with a shoulder for supporting opposite ends of the infrared sensor. The first substrate is integrated to the lower end of the dielectric resin layer with at least one of the electronic components being molded into the dielectric resin layer to make the circuit block of a unified mold structure. Thus, a part or all of the electronic components are molded into the dielectric layer to realize the circuit block of a simple and low profile structure, while retaining an advantage of keeping the infrared sensor element sufficiently away from the electronic components and an associated electronic circuit, thereby assuring to give the infrared detector which is simple in construction, economical in cost, and reliable in the infrared detection.

A sheet cutting apparatus that automatically adjusts blade depth for a sheet being cut regardless of the amount of wear on the blade. The apparatus includes a top plate for supporting a sheet being cut. A cutting head is disposed above the top plate and has a cutting blade movable toward the top plate. The cutting blade includes a cutting blade tip which engages a cutting blade tip sensor to indicate a location of the tip relative to the cutting head.

An object is to provide a semiconductor device capable of reducing an area of the semiconductor device, reading data reliably, and simplifying replacement of data. A memory cell and a data line are controlled with a reset signal, so that data can be reliably outputted in the semiconductor device. In addition, an element of data holding unit is included, and the data holding unit includes a plurality of memory cells. The area can be reduced by using such a memory cell. A transistor is not connected to GND, thereby simplifying the replacement of data in the memory cell.

A radar apparatus is configured to set a first target to be a non-output object with respect to a control apparatus of a host vehicle in a case where the first target (1) has a fore-and-aft distance from the host vehicle that is larger than a fore-and-aft distance from the host vehicle of a second target and (2) has a predetermined dependency to be an accessory portion which belongs to a same vehicle as the second target. The radar apparatus includes a signal processor configured to: determine whether or not the second target is present in an own lane of the host vehicle; determine whether or not the second target is changing a lane; and set the first target to be an output object with respect to the control apparatus of the host vehicle in a case where the second target is changing the lane from the own lane.

The invention discloses a winter wheat later freezing disaster monitoring and yield prediction method based on Internet of Things and remote sensing inversion, and aims to solve the technical problemthat the yield prediction is directly carried out without considering the influence of winter wheat later freezing disaster. The invention designs a winter wheat later freezing disaster monitoring method based on Internet of Things and remote sensing inversion and a construction method of a winter wheat yield prediction model, and provides a winter wheat yield prediction method. According to the invention, the occurrence of the winter wheat later freezing disaster can be accurately and accurately monitored, the extreme climate is quantified, the decision guidance and suggestions are provided for the timely disaster detection and post-disaster remedy; the influence of the extreme climate on the winter wheat yield is reduced, a yield estimation model is further perfected, and an Internet ofThings and remote sensing data fusion method is provided for the yield prediction; a new idea is provided for the intelligent decision diagnosis of the winter wheat production in Hebei Province, the guidance and suggestions are provided for the agricultural production decision, and the data support is provided for the wheat production and the market transaction.

An image processing apparatus includes an image scanner unit arranged to generate image data by scanning an original document, at least two output units arranged to output the image data scanned by the image scanner unit, a data table arranged to store a destination with respect to each output unit for at least two recipients, an output specifying unit arranged to specify, in advance with respect to each recipient, the valid output unit for the recipient to receive the image data, a recipient specifying unit arranged for the operator to specify the recipient at the time of output of the image data, and an output control unit arranged to determine a destination based on the data table, the valid output unit specified by the output specifying unit, and the recipient specified by the operator by using the recipient specifying unit, and to output the image data via the output unit that corresponds to the destination.

Anomalies in images are detected. A generative network and / or an autoencoder (“G / A-Network”), a Siamese network, a first training-dataset of normal images and a second training-dataset of abnormal images are provided. The G / A-network is trained to produce latent data from input images and output images from the latent data, wherein the training is performed with images of the first training-dataset, wherein a loss function is used for training at least at the beginning of training, and the loss function enhances the similarity of the input images and respective output images. The Siamese network is trained to generate similarity measures between input images and respective output images, wherein the training is performed with images of the first training-dataset and the second training-dataset in that images of both training-datasets are used as input images for the G / A-network and output images of the G / A-network are compared with their respective input images by the Siamese network.