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The invention provides a monitoring device featuring: 1) a housing having a first surface; 2) a sensor pad, positioned on the first surface, that includes a first LED emitting red light, a second LED emitting infrared light, and a photodetector; 3) a data-processing circuit that analyzes a signal from the photodetector to generate a blood pressure value; and 4) means for transmitting the blood pressure value to an external device.

A large-scale, capacitor-based electrical energy storage and distribution system capable of effectuating load-leveling during periods of peak demand on a utility, and of effectuating a cost savings associated with the purchase of electrical energy. A capacitor or multitude of capacitors may be charged with electrical energy produced by the utility, such as during periods of low demand or low cost, and discharged during periods of high electrical energy consumption or high electrical energy cost. One or more capacitors may be located at a consumer's residence or business. Alternatively, a farm of capacitors may be provided at or near a utility, or at or near a location experiencing high demand. In another embodiment, one or more capacitors may be located in or on a vehicle, such as an automobile, a truck, or a train of a light rail system.

A method and a device for determining the quality of signal used for measuring a physiological parameter. One embodiment of the present invention is directed towards a pulse oximeter, where the measured physiological parameter includes a patient's pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation. The signal quality, which is indicative of the accuracy and reliability of the measured physiological parameter, is calculated by combining a plurality of signal quality indicators, each of which is an indicator of a quality of the measured signal. The value of the signal quality metric is compared to a threshold and based on this comparison various decisions are made by the medical device. One decision is directed towards deciding whether or not to display the measured physiological parameter, to ensure that only accurate measured values are displayed. Another decision is directed towards providing feedback to guide the clinician to adjust the location of the sensor to a more suitable tissue location.

A method for detecting a target oligo-nucleotides includes the following steps: providing a substrate mounted with at least a pair of detecting electrodes separated with a gap; coating a surface activation agent on the substrate; providing a plurality of nano-particles and immobilizing them between the two detecting electrodes on the substrate; providing a plurality of capturing oligo-nucleotides; providing a plurality of target oligo-nucleotides and a plurality of probe oligo-nucleotides in order, wherein a portion of the capturing oligo-nucleotides is complementary to the first portion of the sequence of the target oligo-nucleotides; and a portion of the probe oligo-nucleotides is complementary to the second portion of the sequence of the target oligo-nucleotides; and adding a plurality of nano-particles to the gap between the two detecting electrodes.

A two-wire smart load control device, such as an electronic switch, for controlling the power delivered from a power source to an electrical load comprises a relay for conducting a load current through the load and an in-line power supply coupled in series with the relay for generating a supply voltage across a capacitor when the relay is conductive. The power supply controls when the capacitor charges asynchronously with respect to the frequency of the source. The capacitor conducts the load current for at least a portion of a line cycle of the source when the relay is conductive. The load control device also comprises a bidirectional semiconductor switch, which is controlled to minimize the inrush current conducted through the relay. The bidirectional semiconductor switch is rendered conductive in response to an over-current condition in the capacitor of the power supply, and the relay is rendered non-conductive in response to an over-temperature condition in the power supply.

D/A converter of this invention including n+1 capacitors in total consisting of one terminating capacitor (C0) and n binary-weighted capacitors (C1-4) that are subjected to binary weighting ratio of 1:2:4: . . . :2⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾, and, an inverting amplifier (INV1), further comprising: a feedback switching means (SWR5) provided between the input and output of the inverting amplifier (INV1); a switching means for terminating operation (SWR0) supplies one of two main reference voltages (VB,VT) to the terminating capacitor (C0), and then, makes connection of the terminating capacitor (C0) to the output of the inverting amplifier (INV1); a plurality of switching means for input operation (SWD1-4,SWR1-4) makes selection of one of the two main reference voltages (VB,VT) to be provided for the n binary-weighted capacitors (C1-4) depending on digital data (D1-4), and then, makes connection of the second terminal side of the n binary-weighted capacitors (C1-4) to the output of the inverting amplifier (INV1).

Each layer in the magnetic multilayer film is a closed ring or oval ring and the magnetic moment or flux of the ferromagnetic film in the magnetic unit is in close state either clockwise or counterclockwise. A metal core is put in the geometry center position in the close-shaped magnetic multilayer film. The cross section of the metal core is a corresponding circular or oval. A MRAM is made of the closed magnetic multilayer film with or without a metal core. The close-shaped magnetic multilayer film is formed by micro process method. The close-shaped magnetic multilayer film can be used broadly in a great variety of device that uses a magnetic multilayer film as the core, such as MRAM, magnetic bead in computer, magnetic sensitive sensor, magnetic logic device and spin transistor.

The invention discloses a name routing fast matching search method and device. The device mainly comprises a tree-bitmap and a Blond filter. The tree-bitmap is used for storing the first m layers of name routing, and performing fast longest prefix matching on the first m layers of request content name reaching a router; the Blond filter is used for storing the rest of the prefix of the name routing, and performing longest prefix matching on the rest of the request content name reaching the router. According to the different prefix length of the name routing to be updated, the tree-bitmap and the Blond filter can be updated respectively or simultaneously by the method. According to the invention, the characteristics of fast searching, little required storing of the tree-bitmap and the characteristics of high time efficiency and spatial efficiency are utilized, the routing addressing problem based on the content name in the novel network system is solved, and the requirements of little occupied memory, fast matching speed and fast updating speed of the future network routing are met.

The invention provides a monitoring device that features: 1) a cardiac sensor component with at least one light-emitting diode and a photodetector; 2) a pedometer component with at least one motion-sensing component (e.g., an accelerometer); and 3) a wireless component with a wireless interface that communicates with an external weight scale. The device also features a microprocessor in electrical communication with the cardiac sensor, pedometer, and wireless components and configured to analyze: 1) a signal from the cardiac sensor component to generate heart rate information; 2) a signal from the pedometer component to generate exercise information; 3) heart rate and exercise information to generate calorie information; and 4) a signal from the external weight scale to calculate weight information (e.g., weight and percent body fat).

The invention discloses a method for extracting a malicious code behavior characteristic, which belongs to the technical field of network security. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) running a malicious code and extracting executive information of the malicious code, wherein the executive information comprises an executive instruction sequence and a behavior sequence of the maliciouscode; 2) constructing a control dependence graph and a data dependence graph for executing the code according to the executive information; 3) comparing relevance of the control dependence graph and the data dependence graph and recording related relevance information; and 4) comparing the control dependence graphs and the data dependence graphs of different malicious codes and extracting characteristic dependency of each type of samples according to similarity clustering. Compared with the prior art, the method has the characteristics of complete information extraction, high anti-interference performance, certain applicability to varieties of a single sample characteristic, small-sized characteristic library and wide application range.

Method for measuring weekly and annual emissions of a greenhouse gas generated over a determined geographical area and measuring system implementing the method.

An LED driving circuit is used for dimming by switching between an operating current and a maintaining current or by voltage clamping of a source/drain of MOSFET that is coupled to the LED module. When the LED module is dimmed off, the voltage across the LED module can be kept at a value around a lighting threshold voltage of the LED module that is a minimum voltage for lighting the LED module. Therefore, a voltage difference between the drain and the source of MOSFET coupled to the LED module is smaller than that in the conventional arts. Hence, a withstand voltage of MOSFET can be reduced, and cost of the LED driving circuit as well as the power consumption of MOSFET can be lessened, thereby improving integral efficiency of the circuit.

Various techniques are provided for reducing the impact of tangential forces on touch location in a touch location device. For example, in one aspect, shunt connections are provided that impede lateral motion of the touch surface structure at the level of the touch plane, thereby reducing to insignificant magnitude reactions to tangential force passing through the sensing connections. In another aspect, sensing connections incorporate elastic means so adjusted as to turn that connection's reaction to tangential touch force perpendicular to its axis of sensitivity. In another aspect, sensing connections incorporate sensing means so adjusted as to turn that connection's axis of sensitivity perpendicular to its reaction to tangential force.

Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing the scale of a drive circuit and decreasing the frame. A display area in which pixels are provided in matrix, a scanning line drive circuit for driving scanning lines, and a signal line drive circuit for driving signal lines are provided on a support substrate. The pixel within the display area is constituted with a plurality of dots. Each dot corresponds to a color filter of a certain color. The dot is in a laterally long shape, i.e. in a shape extending in a direction along the scanning lines. In other words, each dot is in a shape extending in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the signal line drive circuit. The color filters are of lateral stripe type, for example.

The invention provides a compensating method of the switching frequency of a amplifier which comprises the following steps: two output end polarities is compared in the state in which the amplifier has no signal outputting; the inputting end current of the amplifier is adjusted according to the electrode; repeated circle is carried out until achieving the requirement of stopping the cycle. The invention also provides a compensating device of the DC offset voltage of the amplifier which comprises a comparator, a register, a decoding module and a current compensation module. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, small power-consumption. Meanwhile, the invention is used both for a signal amplifier and an amplifier system, which can limit the imbalance voltage to be in small scope.

A method of fabricating a high voltage MOS transistor with a medium operation voltage on a semiconductor wafer. The transistor has a double diffused drain (DDD) and a medium operation voltage such as 6 to 10 volts, which is advantageous for applications having both low and higher operation transistor devices. The second diffusion region of the DDD is self-aligned to the spacer on the sidewalls of the gate and gate dielectric, so that the transistor size may be decreased.

A mechanical teleoperated device for remote manipulation includes a slave unit having a number of slave links interconnected by a plurality of slave joints; an end-effector connected to the slave unit; a master unit having a corresponding number of master links interconnected by a plurality of master joints; and a handle connected to a distal end of the master unit. The device further includes first device arranged to kinematically connect the slave unit with the master unit, second device arranged to kinematically connect the end-effector with the handle, and a mechanical constraint device configured to ensure that one master link of the master unit is guided along its longitudinal axis so that the corresponding slave link of the slave unit always translates along a virtual axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the guided master link in the vicinity of the remote manipulation when the mechanical teleoperated device is operated.

The invention provides a treatment system and treatment method for biochemical effluent of industrial wastewater. The treatment system comprises a flocculation sedimentation unit, a filtration unit, an advanced oxidation unit, an ultrafiltration unit, a reverse osmosis unit, a nanofiltration unit, an electrodialysis unit and an evaporation unit which are sequentially connected; and the water production outlet of the ultrafiltration unit is connected with the water inlet tank of the reverse osmosis unit, and the concentrated-water outlet of the reverse osmosis unit is connected with the water inlet of the nanofiltration unit. According to the invention, the treatment system and the treatment method utilize the coupling and synergistic effects of a physical-chemical method and a membrane technology to overcome the limitation of using a single technology, and the advanced treatment and desalination reuse of the industrial wastewater are realized; and the treatment system and the treatmentmethod have the advantages of strong adaptability to raw water, a high recovery rate of fresh water, a high concentration multiple of concentrated water, low energy consumption of evaporation and crystallization and the like, greatly improve the reuse rate of the industrial wastewater, reduce the amount of wastewater discharging, can be applied to the deep treatment and desalination reuse of various effluent wastewater, and promote the promotion and application of the technology in related industries.

The invention discloses an encryption and decryption method and an encryption and decryption device based on an AES (advanced encryption standard) algorithm. Decryption iteration comprises the following steps: b1, performing S-box inverse permutation on input data; b2, performing inverse row shift operation on the data processed by the S-box inverse permutation; b3, performing inverse column mixing operation on the data processed by the row shift operation; b4, according to subkeys in the last round, generating subkeys in the current round through reverse expansion, and performing inverse column mixing operation on the generated subkeys; b5, performing round key addition on the data obtained in the steps b3 and b4. Through the decryption iteration in the sequence, and hardware sharing of the encryption and decryption algorithm is further promoted, an operation circuit for encryption and decryption operations is more efficiently integrated into a hardware structure, the overhead area and the circuit scale are reduced, and the power consumption is lowered; the use of RAM is further omitted and hardware resources are further saved.