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A method for stabilizing a knowledge graph includes: generating a knowledge graph in which same entities in a semantic relation list between entities provided as an input are represented as a single node based on names and types of the entities; computing, on the knowledge graph, semantic similarities between all potential entity pairs of same entity types by comparing, for each potential entity pair, a type of relation associated with an entity in the entity pair and an opponent entity to the entity; and selecting, based on the semantic similarities, a representative entity from each of semantically similar entity pairs on the knowledge graph and integrating an opponent entity to the representative entity into the representative entity. The method further includes computing relation weighted values between the entities by using a graph analysis and statistic information, and adding the weighted values to the knowledge graph.

A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for providing a custom view of a set of user-interface elements (UI elements) to a requesting component. The method includes representing the UI elements as a raw tree structure composed of a set of nodes, which correspond to the UI elements; identifying a subset of the nodes that satisfy the condition(s); and communicating to the requesting component a representation of all or some of the identified nodes. The apparatus includes a request-transmission component for submitting to an interface component instructions and a transmission-reception component for receiving from the interface component the information associated with one or more UI elements that satisfy the one or more conditions.

A dust collecting device of a vacuum cleaner includes a first cyclone unit comprising a first cyclone chamber where the air enters through a first inlet and spins, and a first dust collecting chamber where dust separated from the air is collected; and a second cyclone unit comprising a second cyclone chamber where the air, discharged from the first cyclone unit, enters through a second inlet and spins, and one or more dust collecting parts formed on a circumference of a second cyclone body to separate minute dust from the air upon contacting with the air spinning within the second cyclone chamber. Accordingly, efficiency in collecting minute dust by the dust collecting device increases.

There is provided an intermediate data based video / audio streaming method in which, in the transmission of video / audio data, a server transmits the video / audio data in the form of intermediate data and a client receives and directly processes it without using an additional decompression apparatus, allowing easy video / audio data transfer and simplifying the structure of the client system. The method includes: a video / audio transmitting step of, in case that the server transmits a video / audio file to the client, converting compressed video / audio data to be transmitted into intermediate data and duplicating the intermediate data into a packet to transmit it to the client; and, in case that the client processes the intermediate data transmitted through the network, an intermediate data receiving step of analyzing the received packet, when the analyzed result corresponds to a video intermediate data packet, reconstructing the original video data from the video intermediate data duplicated into the packet and then outputting it, and, when the received packet corresponds to an audio intermediate data packet, converting the audio intermediate data duplicated into the packet into analog voice data and outputting it.

The prevent invention discloses a boneless wiper blade, which mainly consists of a pivot socket, two end ferrules, spring steel sheet and rubber strip, wherein the spring steel sheet is used to support and fix the rubber strip, and the pivot socket, on which the connecting adaptors are installed to connect with wiper arms, is mounted on the center of the spring steel sheet and the rubber strip, with end ferrules mounted at both ends of them. The upper part of the wind-pressure sheathes featuring specially curved surface is designed to prevent the wiper blade from lifting off from the surface of the windshield at highway speeds. The said spring steel sheet is so parabolically designed that the rubber strip can firmly and closely contact the various windshield glasses. Both connecting structures between the connecting adaptor and the pivot socket, and the pivot socket and the spring steel sheet and rubber strip are removable, it is same with the connecting structure between end ferrule and spring steel sheet and rubber strip. In this way, it is easy to assemble, dismount and replace them, and even facilitate use of them. The wiper blade has strong compatibility in that the pivot socket can be mounted with various kinds of connecting adaptors to be compatible with multiple wiper arm configurations.

A starter generator has an electric rotating machine having a rotating shaft and designed to carry two reverse operations—motor and generator. A first clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the first rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the rotating machine to the first rotating shaft. A second clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the second rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. A continuously variable transmission is provided for changing the number of rotations transmitted from the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. The rotating machine is supplied with electric power to rotate the rotating shaft, or the number of rotations of the rotating shaft is kept constant by controlling a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first thin film transistor having an active layer, a gate electrode with a double conductive layer structure overlapping the active layer with a gate insulating film there between, a source electrode and a drain electrode connected to the active layer through first and second contact holes which penetrate an interlayer insulating film on the gate insulating film; a pixel electrode having a double layer structure, including a first transparent conductive layer and a second conductive layer, formed on the gate insulating film, wherein a portion of the first transparent conductive layer is exposed through a first transmission hole, which penetrates the interlayer insulating film; a luminescence layer on a portion of the pixel electrode; and a common electrode on the luminescence layer.

Disclosed herein is linear compressor. The linear compressor comprises a cylinder, a piston disposed to linearly reciprocate into the cylinder, and a linear motor provided to linearly reciprocate the piston. The linear motor includes an outer core, a bobbin mounted in the outer core, a coil wound on the bobbin, an inner core spaced apart from the outer core to define a gap therebetween, the inner core being mounted to linearly reciprocate simultaneously with the piston, a magnet holder mounted on the inner core, and a magnet mounted in the magnet holder. The linear compressor has a simplified structure, resulting in a reduced number of parts and low manufacturing costs.

A touch panel has a first substrate and a second substrate. The thickness in the non-sensor regions of the first substrate is greater than the thickness in the sensor regions of the first substrate. The second substrate includes first photo spacers and second photo spacers having substantially the same heights. The first photo spacers are structurally connected to the non-sensor regions of the first region of the first substrate, and the second photo spacers are positioned corresponding to the sensor regions of the first substrate that maintain a first gap with the first substrate.

To provide a wireless sensor system, in which an abnormal power supply in the power supply section can be ascertained, for avoiding a malfunction of the system and accomplishing a stable power supply with reduction of the consumption of a power being transmitted, the wireless sensor system includes wireless sensor units and a sensor signal receiving unit. The wireless sensor units include a sensor section for detecting a detection object, a sensor signal transmitting section for transmitting by wireless a sensor signal from the sensor section, and a power supply section having a power receiving section for receiving a driving power transmitted by wireless. In this system, a power supply monitoring section is provided for monitoring the voltage of the power supply section. The sensor signal receiving unit includes a monitor dependent power control section for regulating the power to be transmitted, depending on a monitored result of the power monitoring section.

A device for cleaning a collector of a solar thermal electric power generation system is provided which does not need to secure any water source or the like and which improves the flexibility of selection of a place for installing the solar thermal electric power generation system. The cleaning device includes an air supply device and an air nozzle configured to blow air supplied from the air supply device, which are mounted on a self-propelled truck. The cleaning device is capable of blowing air blown from the air nozzle against a sunlight reflecting surface of a collector to clean up the sunlight reflecting surface. The air nozzle is configured to be capable of moving up and down. The cleaning device further includes a soiling degree measuring device for measuring soiling degrees of the sunlight reflecting surface before and after air blowing by the air nozzle.

A reflective display device using photonic crystals includes a plurality of reflective color filters, each reflective color filter reflects a predetermined wavelength range of an incident visible light; and a plurality of optical switches disposed adjacent to and facing a corresponding one of the plurality of reflective color filters, each of the plurality of optical switches extracts a predetermined color by adjusting an intensity or on / off-frequency of light reflected from the corresponding one of the plurality of reflective color filters. Accordingly, a reflective display device using photonic crystals may have a simplified structure requiring no conventional reflecting mirror.

In an intake valve lift variable engine including: an engine body; a cylinder head; an intake valve which is disposed in the cylinder head and which is controlled to be open and close so as to regulate the amount of intake air; and an intake system having no throttle valve and connected to the cylinder head, blow-by gas is sucked from a crank case of the engine body into a first pump and pressurizingly transferred by the first pump to the side of the intake system, and purge gas from a canister is mixed into the blow-by gas pressurizingly transferred by the first pump. Thus, the blow-by gas and the purge gas are guided to the intake system.

The invention relates to a temperature-controlled injector for a chemical analysis unit, in particular a gas chromatograph, comprising an injector tube, which can be received by a receiving tube, having a cooling system, which surrounds the receiving tube, through which coolant can flow, which has coolant connections and which is designed as a metallic tube coil, and a resistance heating system for the injector tube, in which injector the receiving tube consists of a material of good thermal conductivity, is electrically insulating towards the outside, and the tube coil rests on the receiving tube, has an electrical resistance which is sufficient to rapidly heat the injector tube and can be acted on by current via electrical connection pieces.

A fuel feed apparatus including a sub-tank is received in a fuel tank having multiple tank sections. Multiple jet pumps respectively transfers fuel received in the tank sections into the sub-tank. Therefore, even if a fuel amount received in a single tank section decreases, fuel can be steadily supplied from another tank section. Intermediately pressurized fuel in a fuel pump is supplied to the jet pumps, so that fuel can be steadily supplied to the jet pumps regardless of fuel consumption amount in an engine. Fuel is drawn from an upstream side of a pressure regulator, and supplied to the jet pump. The pressure regulator has an urging unit, and controls fuel pressure without using a diaphragm. Therefore, the pressure regulator is simplified and downsized.

A wheel assembly has a wheel bracket, a connecting base, a wheel and a brake device. The wheel bracket has a holding slot. The connecting base is rotatably mounted on the wheel bracket. The brake device is mounted on the wheel bracket, corresponds to the wheel and has a brake plate and a pushbutton. The brake plate is pivotally connected to the wheel bracket and has a first end, a second end and a securing tab. The first end corresponds to the wheel, and the second end corresponds to the connecting base. The securing tab is formed on the brake plate and is securely held inside the holding slot in the wheel brake to pivotally connect the brake plate to the wheel bracket. The pushbutton is pivotally attached to the wheel bracket and corresponds to the first end of the brake plate.

Provided is a stand of a display device which can be used both as a wall-mounted type and a desk-type for improving an operational reliability and a convenience of users, comprising: a display device; a supporting portion supporting a rear surface of the display device; a base placing the display device at a different position; a main link portion connected between the supporting portion and the base by a hinge so that the supporting portion can be rotated with respect to the base; an auxiliary link portion connected between the supporting portion and the base by a hinge at a side of the main link portion for maintaining an angle of a display device when the main link portion is rotated; an elastic member of which both ends being connected at the auxiliary link portion and the main link portion, respectively, for controlling vertical movements of the display device; and a stopping portion for fixing a folding state when the main link portion is folded.

A bank angle detecting device includes an angular velocity sensor for detecting a roll rate and a yaw rate of the vehicle, a roll rate estimating circuit for calculating an estimated roll rate, which is an angular velocity about a forward and rearward axis, on the basis of the roll rate, the yaw rate and a travelling speed, a bank angle estimator for calculating an estimated bank angle from the estimated roll rate, a straightforward travel determiner for determining a straightforward travelling condition on the basis of the estimated roll rate and an estimated yaw rate, a time-of-straight-forward-travel drift amount estimator for estimating a time-of-straight-forward drift amount from an output of the angular sensor in the event that the straightforward travel determiner determines a straightforward travel, and an angular velocity corrector for correcting the output of the angular velocity sensor with the time-of-straight-forward drift amount.

A clamping device for a rotary index device for a machine tool, in particular, a normal clamp type clamping device makes it possible to simplify the structure thereof and to maintain a stabilized positioning performance. In a rotary index device (1) for the machine tool, in which the index position of, for example, a circular table (16) is maintained by normally clamping a clamp disc (11) with clamping means (6) and in which, for example, the circular table (16) is unclamped by unclamping means (13) when an indexing operation is performed, the clamping means (6) includes a fixing portion (7), a resiliently deformable supporting portion (8), and urging means (10). The fixing portion (7) is fixed to a housing (3) of the rotary index device (1) for the machine tool. One end of the supporting portion (8) is secured to the fixing portion (7), and a pressing portion (9) having a face that opposes the clamp disc (11) is secured to the other end of the supporting member (8). The urging means (10) normally urges the supporting portion (8) towards the clamp disc (11) to realize a state in which the clamp disc (11) is pressed by the pressing portion (9).

Static and dynamic acceleration as well as static and dynamic angular velocity are detected with a simple structure. An acceleration detecting section includes a weight body, a pedestal around the weight body, flexible plate-like bridge portions, and piezoresistive elements embedded in the upper surface of the bridge portions. An angular velocity detecting section includes a weight body, a pedestal around the weight body, flexible plate-like bridge portions, and piezoelectric elements fixed to the upper surface of the bridge portions. The pedestals are fixed to a device chassis. When the weight body is displaced by acceleration, the plate-like bridge portions are deflected, so that the acceleration is detected based on the change in the electrical resistances of the piezoresistive elements. When the weight body is displaced by a Coriolis force based on angular velocity while supplying alternating signals to the piezoelectric elements to oscillate the weight body, the plate-like bridge portions are deflected, so that the angular velocity is detected based on charge generation in the piezoelectric elements.

A frequency measurement device includes: a counter section that counts a supplied pulse stream signal to be measured at a predetermined time interval and outputs a stream of count values corresponding to the frequency of the signal to be measured; and a low-pass filter section that performs a filtering process on the stream of count values, the low-pass filter section including moving average filters in multiple stages, and an output of at least one moving average filter among the moving average filters in multiple stages is downsampled.

A rack assist type electric power steering system has a durable and simplified structure with reduced parts and has an improved productivity, so as to reduce the manufacturing cost thereof and remarkably reduce an assembling difficulty thereof.

A solar module system includes a first transparent substrate member, a second transparent substrate member, and a plurality of photovoltaic members configured in a spatial manner sandwiched between the first substrate member and the second substrate member to allow at least a first portion of light to be transmitted and a second portion of light to be blocked. The system also has one or more inverter devices coupled to the solar module and configured to convert direct current to alternating current. The system may have an electrical cord comprising a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled to the one or more inverter devices and the second end comprising at least a pair of electrodes. The system can be used for indoor use or other application.

An inclined flange roller is located outward of an end portion of a tension roller in the belt width direction. The inclined flange roller includes a flange surface capable of being in contact with the edge portion of a belt in a region in which the belt is wound around the tension roller and a roller surface capable of being in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the belt between the flange surface and an end portion of the tension roller in the belt width direction.

Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a curtain airbag, which comprises a bracket plate 20 for attaching a curtain airbag to a vehicle body inner panel 1b, and a pillar trim 30 formed with a trim engagement-plate potion 31 in the vicinity of an upper end thereof. The trim engagement-plate potion 31 has a trim engagement surface 32 oriented toward a vehicle interior space in an orthogonal direction relative thereto. The bracket plate 20 is formed with a bracket engagement-plate portion 21 having a bracket engagement surface 22 which is disposed on the side of the vehicle interior space relative to the trim engagement surface 32 and in adjacent and opposed relation to the trim engagement surface 32 without contact with the trim engagement surface 32 when a vehicle 1 has no side-impact collision, and adapted to come into contact with the trim engagement surface 32 in conjunction with a displacement of the trim engagement-plate potion 31 in the upward or inward direction of the vehicle interior space during a side-impact collision against the vehicle 1.

Provided is a small-scale cell culture apparatus having a culture medium replacement function for culturing cells in a small number of Petri dishes, the cell culture apparatus being capable of performing automatic replacement of the culture medium and cell culture within the same cavity and significantly reducing the apparatus cost. At least one set of upper and lower discs is arranged inside an incubator chamber 1. Petri dishes 4, 6 in each of which cells and a culture medium are put are held on lower discs 18, 19, and top lids 5, 7 are held on upper discs 19, 30. The lower side of each of the top lids is open.