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A data processing apparatus comprises at least one source processor core (110), at least two destination processor cores (120), a message handler (130) and a bus arrangement (150) providing a data communication path between the source core, the destination cores and the message handler. The message handler (130) has plurality of message-handling modules (132-1 to 132-3). At least one of the message-handling modules has a message receipt indicator that is modifiable by each of the destination processor cores to indicate that a message has been received at its destination. This message-handling module also has a transmission completion detector operable to detect, in dependence upon a message receipt indicator value that a message has been received by all of the at least two destination processor cores and to initiate transmission of an acknowledgement signal to the source processor core.

A pneumatic nail gun includes a gun body with a trigger, collecting a compressed high pressure air with a constant pressure, a movable cylinder installed in the gun body, a hitting piston disposed in the cylinder, a valve ring formed outside the cylinder, a head valve disposed on the top of the cylinder, at least one return passage formed outside the cylinder, and a valve bolt disposed in the return passage. Before the trigger is pressed, the high pressure air drives the valve ring to keep the cylinder at the upper position to close the head valve. When the trigger is pressed, the high pressure air drives the cylinder move downwardly to open the head valve for guiding the high pressure air to drive the piston downwardly move to hit nails. When the trigger is released, the high pressure air drives the valve bolt open for guiding the high pressure air via the return passage to drive the piston rapidly move upwardly to reposit.

One end of each variable resistive element, which forms a memory array, in the same row is connected to the same word line and the other end of each variable resistive element in the same column is connected to the same bit line. A first word line voltage is selected and applied to the selected word line, a second word line voltage is selected and applied to the unselected word lines, a first bit line voltage is selected and applied to the selected bit line, and a second bit line voltage is selected and applied to the unselected bit lines. The voltage difference between the first word line voltage and the first bit line voltage is set at a value that is no less than the first voltage difference that changes the resistance value of a variable resistive element, and the voltage difference between the first word line voltage and the second bit line voltage, the voltage difference between the second word line voltage and the first bit line voltage and the voltage difference between the second word line voltage and the second bit line voltage are respectively set at a value that is no greater than the second voltage difference that does not change the resistance value of a variable resistive element.

Disclosed is a walking robot having an improved driving structure for a pitch-direction femoral joint and a knee joint. The walking robot includes a pitch-direction actuator driving the pitch-direction femoral joint to rotate a femoral link relative to a body in a pitch direction, and a power transmission unit transferring driving force of the pitch-direction actuator to the knee joint to rotate the lower leg link relative to the femoral link in the pitch direction.

Disclosed is a walking robot having an improved driving structure for a pitch-direction femoral joint and a knee joint. The walking robot includes a pitch-direction actuator driving the pitch-direction femoral joint to rotate a femoral link relative to a body in a pitch direction, and a power transmission unit transferring driving force of the pitch-direction actuator to the knee joint to rotate the lower leg link relative to the femoral link in the pitch direction.

A method for forming a median crack and an apparatus for forming a median crack are provided, where the formation of a deep, straight median crack is possible, and an excellent broken surface of a brittle substrate can be gained as a result of breaking.In the method for forming a median crack in a brittle substrate, the brittle substrate is irradiated with a laser beam along a laser-scribe line to be formed with median cracks on the brittle substrate so as to be heated to a temperature that is no higher than its melting temperature, and thereby, a median crack is created along the laser-scribe line to be formed with median cracks and expanded starting from a notch that has been formed in the brittle substrate, and this method for forming a median crack in a brittle substrate is characterized in that high temperature portions that receive intense radiation from a laser beam, and low temperature portions that receive faint radiation from a laser beam are alternately formed along the laser-scribe line to be formed with median cracks.

The AC power generated by AC utility has been successfully transferred from AC-to-DC by means of an AC-to-DC converting circuit. This disclosure provides an AC-to-DC converting circuit applicable to a power-charging module, and the AC-to-DC converting circuit comprises two parts such as a first stage being a low-frequency AC to high-frequency AC converter comprising an input full-bridge rectifier, a full-bridge inverter and an immittance conversion circuit and a second stage being an AC-to-DC converter comprising a single-phase transformer and a full-bridge rectifier, where the inverter in the first stage is switched at high frequencies so as to reduce the size of the transformer in the second stage. Additionally, the immittance conversion circuit is further characterized in voltage to current conversion so as to simplify the control mechanism of the power-charging module, reduce the number of current measuring elements and the cost thereof.

A beverage dispenser provides numerous inventive features in its refrigeration system (82), diluent delivery system (78), concentrate delivery system (74), mixing and dispensing system (76), and control system. The refrigeration system (82) employs a plate heat exchanger to provide on demand refrigeration of an intermittent water flow. The diluent delivery system includes a flowmeter / solenoid / check-valve assembly. The concentrate delivery system employs a positive displacement pump. The mixing and dispensing system includes a mixing nozzle (80) that has a locking feature such that an elevated blocking surface directly faces the inlet of pressurized diluent to create turbulence. The control system receives package-specific information from a scanner and diluent flow rate information from the flowmeter, and then determines the pump speed in order to set a desired mix ratio.

A high chair for a child with a simple control mechanism for adjusting the inclination of the backrest, including a foldable frame work, a seat portion, a backrest, an adjusting mechanism movable along the backrest, and a connecting element pivitolly interconnected between the adjusting mechanism and the foldable frame work. The adjusting mechanism can be manipulated to move along the backrest and carries the connecting element to pivotally change to different inclination angles, so as to support the backrest at different inclination angles.

The invention provides an electric control scanning waveguide leaky-wave antenna based on liquid crystal, belongs to the technical field of microwave antenna engineering, and aims at solving problems that a conventional electric control scanning leaky-wave antenna based on a varactor and other conventional electrically controlled elements is difficult to work at a microwave high-frequency band, and existing liquid crystal electric control scanning leaky-wave antennas require the special design of a bias circuit. The electric control scanning waveguide leaky-wave antenna comprises a top part dielectric plate layer, a metal layer, an insulation paste layer, a liquid crystal layer and a bottom part waveguide slot. The metal layer is arranged at the lower surface of the top part dielectric plate layer. The metal layer has a leaky-wave structure with etching of periodic transverse seams. Equivalent series inductance of electromagnetic wave is enabled to be increased by the periodic transverse seams when electromagnetic wave is transmitted between the bottom part waveguide slot and the metal layer. The metal layer is provided with N periodic seam units. Seam unit spacing distance p is from lambdag / 2 to lambdag. The seams of the middle part are main radiation units. Seam length l of the main radiation unit is from lambdag / 4 to lambdag / 2. The former four and the latter four seams are auxiliary radiation units.

The invention discloses a liquid crystal electrical control zero-crossing scanning leaky wave antenna based on comb-line waveguide, which belongs to the technical field of microwave antenna construction. The problems that a conventional electrical control scanning leaky wave antenna based on a varactor and other traditional electric tuning elements difficultly works in a microwave high frequency band and the existing liquid crystal electrical control fixed-frequency scanning leaky wave antenna is difficult to realize zero-crossing scanning and requires a bias circuit which is specially designed are solved. The antenna provided by the invention comprises a top dielectric plate layer, a metal layer, a liquid crystal layer and a bottom waveguide groove. The metal layer is arranged between the top dielectric plate layer and the bottom waveguide groove. A longitudinal groove structure is arranged on the upper surface of a rectangular plate to form the bottom waveguide groove. The metal layer is in a comb-line structure. N periodic slit units are arranged between two columns of comb teeth on the comb-line structure. N periodic slit units comprise two groups of vertical slit columns and a group of transverse slit column. Through periodic transverse slits, the equivalent series inductance of electromagnetic waves spreading between the bottom waveguide groove and the metal layer is increased. Through periodic vertical slits, the equivalent parallel capacitance is increased.

A limiting plate control device is for a scooter luggage. The device includes first and second shells that form a cavity shell, and a sliding pressing block, first and second sliders, and first and second elastic elements that are all located within the cavity shell. The device comprises an extrusion mechanism configured to allow the first slider protrusion to retract into the cavity shell by pushing the pressing block and to allow the second slider protrusion to retract by further pushing the pressing block. The device has a simple structure and is easy to operate. Moreover, a button shell for a scooter luggage is provided. The button shell has a spilt frame which includes a first baffle with a limiting bump and a second baffle with a limiting groove. The button shell has a simple structure and is easy to assemble and operate.

Disclosed in a wind rotor (1) comprising one or more blades (3) rotating around a vertical, central axis (4) within a main bearing (5), said blades being parallel to said vertical axis (4), said blades being connected via crossbars (6), said blades being disposed freely rotatably in bearings (7), and said blades being orientable by means of a wind vane (9). Said blades (3) comprise a symmetrical aerodynamic profile (8) over their entire cross-section. Said rotor comprises a primary control mechanism (11), which is controlled by said wind vane (9) and aligns said profiles (8) of said blade(s) (3) along the wind direction (10) at each point of their trajectory (13) around the central vertical axis (4), said blades being disposed on said crossbars (6), and a secondary control mechanism (12), which aligns the longitudinal axes of said profiles (8) of said blade(s) (3) to the wind (10) at each point of their trajectory (13) around the central vertical axis (4) so as to produce an optimum aerodynamic force depending on the rotation angle of the crossbars (6) with respect to the wind vane (9) and the rotation velocity of the crossbars (6).

A processor for performing a Fast Fourier Transform and / or an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform of a complex input signal comprises a first stage for passing the input signal to a second stage when a Fast Fourier Transform procedure is to be performed and for swapping the real and imaginary components of the complex input signal before passing the signal to the second stage if an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform procedure is to be performed. The second stage has first and second radix-4 butterfly elements. A third stage is arranged to switch between first and second operating modes, the second operating mode being for processing a complex conjugate symmetrical input signal. A fourth stage has a plurality of processing units, one or more of the processing units comprising a radix-2 pipelined Fast Fourier Transform processor. The first and second radix-4 butterfly elements are arranged to perform a butterfly operation on the complex input signal to generate and deliver one or more components of a processed signal to the fourth stage. The fourth stage is arranged to process the processed signal received from the first stage according to a Fast Fourier Transform processing procedure to produce an output signal. There is also disclosed a method for performing a Fast Fourier Transform and / or Inverse Fast Fourier Transform of a complex input signal.

The present invention provides a controller and method for controlling interfacing to a data link, the data link enabling data items relating to a number of data elements to be transferred in corresponding data slots of the data link. The controller comprises at least one channel, each channel comprising a data buffer for storing data items, and a control register associated with the data buffer and arranged to store control data. The control data is settable to define for which data element or data elements data items are to be stored in that data buffer. Further, an interface mechanism is provided for controlling the transfer of data items between the at least one channel and the data slots of the data link in dependence upon said control data. This enables a generic controller to be developed, which is of an acceptable size and cost.

In a chromatic dispersion and dispersion slope compensating apparatus according to the present invention, a WDM light which has been angularly dispersed to a first direction by a VIPA plate, is angularly dispersed to a second direction vertical to the first direction by a diffraction grating, and optical signals of respective wavelengths output from the diffraction grating are reflected by any one of a plurality of three-dimensional mirrors having reflective surfaces of curved shapes different from each other, to be returned to the VIPA plate. Thus, with a simple control mechanism in which the plurality of three-dimensional mirrors are moved to only the second direction, an apparatus capable of variably compensating for the chromatic dispersion and the dispersion slope independent of each other can be provided.

An autostereoscopic projection device comprises a light source providing a light, a light scanning module, a light transmitting module, a light combining module including a first light combining element, a spatial light modulator module including a first spatial light modulator element, and a lens. The light scanning module includes a reflective surface and an actuating device capable of deflecting the reflective surface. The normal vector of an incident surface of the first light combining element is coplanar with the normal vector of a reflective surface of the first spatial light modulator element, and the coplanar plane is perpendicular to a disposition plane of the projection device. The light provided by the light source module is transmitted through the light scanning module, the light transmitting module, the light combining module and the spatial light modulator module sequentially and then leaves the projection device through the lens.

The invention belongs to the field of a tracked robot and particularly relates to a six-rod self-adaptive tracked robot. The six-rod self-adaptive tracked robot comprises tracks, synchronous pulleys, a vehicle body and a driving motor at the middle part of the vehicle body, wherein each track is supported by two six-rod linkage mechanisms; each six-rod linkage mechanism is formed by a frame, a front lower arm, a front upper arm, a main arm, a rear arm and a big arm; the two six-rod linkage mechanisms are fixedly connected by brackets; a spring set is arranged between the bracket for fixing two big arms and the bracket for fixing two frames; and preferably, the six-rod self-adaptive tracked robot also comprises a tail wheel. The robot disclosed by the invention has strong stability and good obstacle crossing ability, is simple to control and can cross obstacles by the structure without obstacle crossing driving equipment; and meanwhile, only the frames are fixedly connected with the vehicle body, so that the six-rod self-adaptive tracked robot can obtain a better damping effect.

A power conversion circuit includes a flyback DC-to-DC converter, a capacitor and a DC-to-AC converter. The flyback DC-to-DC converter is used for receiving an input DC voltage and converting the input DC voltage into a constant high DC voltage. The capacitor is connected to the flyback DC-to-DC converter for filtering the high DC voltage. The DC-to-AC converter is connected to the capacitor for converting the filtered high DC voltage into an output AC voltage.

The present invention provides a diffraction grating element that allows the temperature control mechanism to be dispensed with or simplified. The diffraction grating element of the present invention comprises a transparent plate having a first surface and a second surface that are substantially parallel with one another; and a diffraction grating which is formed on a first surface side with respect to the second surface and is substantially parallel with the first surface. At any temperature within a temperature range −20° C. to +80° C., the sum of the rate of change in the period per unit length of the diffraction grating with respect to a temperature change, and the temperature coefficient of the refractive index of a medium that surrounds the diffraction grating element is 0.

The invention provides an electric control zero crossing scanning waveguide leaky-wave antenna based on liquid crystal, belongs to the technical field of microwave antenna engineering, and aims at solving problems that a conventional electric control scanning leaky-wave antenna based on a varactor and other conventional electrically controlled elements is difficult to work at a microwave high-frequency band, and zero crossing scanning of existing liquid crystal electric control fixed-frequency scanning leaky-wave antennas is not easy to realize and the special design of a bias circuit is required. The electric control zero crossing scanning waveguide leaky-wave antenna comprises a top part dielectric plate layer, a metal layer, an insulation paste layer, a liquid crystal layer and a bottom part waveguide slot. The metal layer is arranged at the lower surface of the top part dielectric plate layer. The metal layer has a leaky-wave structure with etching of periodic transverse seams and longitudinal seams. Equivalent series inductance of electromagnetic wave is enabled to be increased by the periodic transverse seams when electromagnetic wave is transmitted between the bottom part waveguide slot and the metal layer. Equivalent parallel induction of electromagnetic wave is enabled to be increased by the periodic longitudinal seams when electromagnetic wave is transmitted between the bottom part waveguide slot and the metal layer. The metal layer is provided with N periodic seam units and two conduction bands. The N periodic seam units include two groups of longitudinal seam columns and a group of transverse seam columns.

The invention discloses a home environment health control method based on fuzzy intelligent behavior simulation. The home environment health control method is characterized by comprising the following steps that a home environment health control device is constructed, a health fuzzy control mathematic model is built, the health fuzzy control mathematic model is input into a single chip microcomputer fuzzy controller, the indoor environment is collected and transmitted to the single chip microcomputer fuzzy controller, the single chip microcomputer fuzzy controller performs fuzzy reasoning calculation to obtain fuzzy comfort control output response values, and the values are transmitted to a drive executing mechanism. The home environment health control method resolves the problems that indoor health cannot be directly measured, and hardware circuits are complex. The home environment health control method has the advantages of being simple in control mechanism, scientific and effective in control method, simple in hardware circuit and the like, and is convenient to popularize and use during practical application.

A pneumatic nail gun includes a gun body having a movable cylinder therein; a hitting piston disposed in the cylinder; a main air housing collecting a compressed high pressure air with a constant pressure; and at least one main passage disposed at a peripheral portion of the cylinder or a side of the main air housing, the at least one main passage having a valve bolt therein to divide the main passage into a top passage, a middle valve chamber, and a bottom passage, the top passage and the middle valve chamber being connecting with the main air housing for introducing and gathering high pressure air therein, the middle valve chamber being connecting with the bottom passage via the main valve opening, the valve bolt being capable of controlling the opening and closing of the main valve opening for rapidly repositing the piston.

A method of controlling a controllable device related to a building aperture, whereby a climate related characteristic for the aperture is adjusted by the device, and whereby the device is controlled in accordance with a climate and comfort program which is dependent on a control parameter, whereby the device is controlled in accordance with a time schedule provided by the climate and comfort program.

The invention provides a liquid crystal electric control zero crossing scanning leaky-wave antenna based on half-mode pectinate line waveguide, belongs to the technical field of microwave antenna engineering, and solves problems that an electric control scanning leaky-wave antenna of conventional electrically controlled elements is difficult to work at a microwave high-frequency band. The liquid crystal electric control zero crossing scanning leaky-wave antenna comprises a top part dielectric plate layer, a metal layer, a liquid crystal layer and a bottom part waveguide slot. The metal layer is arranged between the top part dielectric plate layer and the bottom part waveguide slot. The bottom part waveguide slot has a longitudinal slot structure arranged at the upper surface of a rectangular plate. The liquid crystal layer is arranged in the longitudinal slot. The metal layer has a half-mode pectinate line waveguide structure. N periodic seam units are arranged between the column of pectinate teeth and the longitudinal edge of the opposite side of a rectangular waveguide frame in a rectangular waveguide frame area. The N periodic seam units include a group s longitudinal seam columns and a group of transverse seam columns. The transverse seam columns are arranged between the longitudinal seam columns and the pectinate teeth. Equivalent series inductance of electromagnetic wave is enabled to be increased by the periodic transverse seams and equivalent parallel induction is enabled to be increased by the periodic longitudinal seams when electromagnetic wave is transmitted between the bottom part waveguide slot and the metal layer.

The spring-loaded mechanical control mechanism for a circuit-breaker in a high-voltage or medium-voltage grid comprises a toothed wheel turned by a spring from a first angular position to a second angular position, and a cog wheel co-operating with the toothed wheel to displace it from the second angular position to the first angular position so as to tension said spring. Said toothed wheel has a peripheral set of teeth including a retractable segment on which at least four teeth are spaced apart from one another at a constant pitch identical to the pitch of the primary teeth.

A portable compound battery system comprises at least one or more portable high energy battery sets, a load information center, a fixed high power battery set and a variable output power compound battery management module, wherein the portable high energy battery sets convert the output voltage by means of the variable output power compound battery management module including a variable output power DC / DC converter and then parallel with the fixed high power battery set. The system according to the present invention can determine the output power based on load requirements and overall battery system conditions so as to appropriately provide the electric energy that the load needs or replenish electric energy of the high power battery set. In addition, the portable high energy battery sets according to the present invention enable features in convenience and compactness, so it is possible to recharge using a battery recharger anytime and anywhere.

A hemodialysis apparatus includes means for measuring or calculating a blood volume or a blood volume change as a blood index level, a hemodialysis means, and a controlling means that controls hemodialysis conditions of the hemodialysis means according to the blood index level. The controlling means controls the hemodialysis means so that hemodialysis operation is carried out without performing water removal at the time of the initiation of the hemodialysis operation until the blood volume stabilizes. The hemodialysis operation is carried out by performing water removal after the blood volume is stabilized by the hemodialysis operation without performing water removal, and that is a constitution so that it is possible to calculate the primary blood volume (BV0) of each patient according to the following formula (I), from % ΔBV of hemodialysis operation which has been carried out before the blood volume is stabilized, and the increased blood volume circulating outside the body. The primary blood volume (BV0)=increased blood volume circulating outside the body (space outside the body) / % ΔBVx. (I), wherein % ΔBVx is the ratio of the volume change of the blood volume (BV) when hemodialysis is performed without performing water removal.