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Microwave plasma sterilisation system and applicators therefor

A sterilisation system having a controllable (e.g. adjustably modulatable) non-ionising microwave radiation source for providing microwave energy for combining with a gas (e.g. an inert gas or a mixture of inert gases) to produce atmospheric low temperature plasma for sterilising biological tissue surfaces or the like. A plasma generating region may be contained in a hand held plasma applicator. The system may include an impedance adjustor e.g. integrated in the plasma applicator arranged to set a plasma strike condition and plasma sustain condition. The gas and microwave energy may be transported to a plasma generating region along an integrated cable assembly. The integrated cable assembly may provide a two way gas flow arrangement to permit residual gas to be removed from the surface. Invasive surface plasma treatment is therefore possible. The plasma applicator may have multiple plasma emitters to produce a line or blanket of plasma.
Owner:CREO MEDICAL LTD

Laser scanner and method for optically scanning an environment

A laser scanner for optically scanning and measuring an environment comprises a light transmitter having a predetermined transmission power for emitting a light beam. The emitted light beam is reflected at a measurement point in the environment. The reflected light beam is received with a certain intensity by a receiver. The transmission power is adjustable as a function of the intensity of the reflected light beam. Furthermore, a gray-scale value of the measurement point is determined as a function of the transmission power adjusted.
Owner:FARO TECH INC

Multifunctional writing apparatus with capacitive touch screen stylus

A multifunctional writing apparatus includes a writing device and a stylus operable to control a capacitive touch screen display device. The multifunctional apparatus includes an electrically conducting body having a first end and a second end. The first end includes a writing device such as a pen or pencil which allows a user to write on a paper or another type of media. The second end of the body comprises an electrically conductive portion which, when in contact with a capacitive based touch screen display device, allows a user to make a capacitive coupling and operate the touch screen display device.
Owner:GLT TECHNOVATIONS

Self-powered vibration monitoring system

A system for monitoring the vibration of electrical and mechanical equipment. More particularly, the present invention relates to a self-powered vibration monitoring device and system that generates an electrical signal that not only powers the device(s), but also is indicative of the frequency and / or amplitude of vibration of the equipment to which it is attached. The power is preferably generated through a piezoelectric element and is sent through signal generation circuitry coupled to a transmitter for sending RF signals indicative of the vibrational status of the equipment to one or more receivers for further display or processing.
Owner:FACE BRADBURY R

Battery device

A battery device includes a battery cell constituted by a secondary cell, a case that houses the battery cell, and a battery-side positive electrode terminal and a battery-side negative electrode terminal electrically provided in the case and connected to the battery cell. The battery device further includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the battery cell, a temperature control unit that heats and / or cools the battery cell when an electric current is supplied thereto, and a current control unit that divides, according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, an externally-supplied charging current supplied from the outside via the battery-side positive electrode terminal and the battery-side negative electrode terminal into a first current supplied to the battery cell and a second current supplied to the temperature control unit.
Owner:SONY CORP

Thermal mass flow transducer including PWM-type heater current driver

A thermal mass flow transducer includes first and second constant current sources, a first temperature sensitive element, a second temperature sensitive element, a heater element, and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the heater element and is further coupled to receive temperature signals from the first and second temperature sensitive element. The control circuit is responsive to the temperature signals to determine a temperature difference between the first and second temperature sensitive elements, to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) current based on the determined temperature difference, and to supply the current to the heater element at a current magnitude sufficient to maintain the temperature difference at a predetermined value.
Owner:HONEYWELL INT INC

Rotation detecting device using magnetic sensor

A rotation detecting device is provided that detects the rotation of a rotating object by means of a biasing permanent magnet and multiple sensor chips. The sensor chips are disposed on front and back sides of a mounting chip along the rotation direction of the rotating object, aligned with a line perpendicular to the direction or rotation of the rotating object, so as to convert magnetic vectors of a magnetic field to a plurality of sensor signals. A selection circuit is connected to the magnetoresistance sensors and selects the one of the sensor signals whose magnitude is the largest.
Owner:DENSO CORP

Vehicular ejector system and control method thereof

A vehicular ejector system having an ejector that generates a negative pressure that is greater than the intake manifold negative pressure that is to be extracted from an intake manifold, a VSV that causes the ejector to function or stop functioning, and an ECU that controls the VSV. The ECU includes a control device that controls the VSV so as to cause the ejector to function if an ISC request amount for controlling, during idling, a throttle valve that adjusts the intake air flow amount supplied to the internal combustion engine is greater than a predetermined amount.
Owner:TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

Rotation detecting device

A rotation detecting device detects rotation of a rotating object by means of a biasing permanent magnet and plural magnetoresistance sensors. The sensors are disposed along the rotation direction of the rotating object to convert magnetic vectors of a magnetic field to a plurality of sensor signals. A selection circuit is connected to the magnetoresistance sensors and selects one of the sensor signals whose magnitude is the largest.
Owner:DENSO CORP

Optimized write pole flare angle for side shield or semi side shield PMR writer application

ActiveUS20080273276A1Improves cross-track field gradientSufficient write field magnitudeMultiple-port networksGain controlEngineeringFlare
Improved writability and a reduction in adjacent track erasure are achieved in a PMR writer with a large flare angle of 45 and 90 degrees in the main write pole and a full side shield or partial side shield configuration around the narrow write pole section and write pole tip. A trailing shield is formed above the write pole's top surface and a full or partial side shield section is spaced a certain distance from each side of the write pole. The partial side shield has a thickness less than that of the write pole and a top or bottom surface about coplanar with the pole tip's top or bottom edge, respectively. The partial side shield may include two sections on each side of the write pole wherein the bottom surface of a top section is separated by a certain distance from the top surface of a bottom section.
Owner:HEADWAY TECH INC

Optimized write pole flare angle for side shield or semi side shield PMR writer application

Improved writability and a reduction in adjacent track erasure are achieved in a PMR writer with a large flare angle of 45 and 90 degrees in the main write pole and a full side shield or partial side shield configuration around the narrow write pole section and write pole tip. A trailing shield is formed above the write pole's top surface and a full or partial side shield section is spaced a certain distance from each side of the write pole. The partial side shield has a thickness less than that of the write pole and a top or bottom surface about coplanar with the pole tip's top or bottom edge, respectively. The partial side shield may include two sections on each side of the write pole wherein the bottom surface of a top section is separated by a certain distance from the top surface of a bottom section.
Owner:HEADWAY TECH INC

Microwave plasma sterilisation system and applicators therefor

A sterilization system having a controllable (e.g. adjustably modulatable) non-ionising microwave radiation source for providing microwave energy for combining with a gas (e.g. an inert gas or a mixture of inert gases) to produce atmospheric low temperature plasma for sterilizing biological tissue surfaces or the like. A plasma generating region may be contained in a hand held plasma applicator. The system may include an impedance adjustor e.g. integrated in the plasma applicator arranged to set a plasma strike condition and plasma sustain condition. The gas and microwave energy may be transported to a plasma generating region along an integrated cable assembly. The integrated cable assembly may provide a two way gas flow arrangement to permit residual gas to be removed from the surface. Invasive surface plasma treatment is therefore possible. The plasma applicator may have multiple plasma emitters to produce a line or blanket of plasma.
Owner:CREO MEDICAL LTD

Devices and methods for detecting islanding operation of a static power source

Devices and methods for detecting islanding operation of a static power source involve injection of a non-harmonic error on the phase angle of the static power source in regular steps to introduce a very small intentional phase shift for the output voltage of the static power source in every voltage cycle which is corrected in each cycle in synchronization with the grid voltage in normal operation of the grid. In abnormal operation of a grid loss, this intentional small phase shift or error causes an intentional small frequency drift in each voltage cycle that continues in one cycle after another cycle. When the intentional frequency drift is over a preset level, a detection circuit starts to isolate the static power source from the grid to prevent islanding operation.
Owner:EDA IP HLDG

Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head including a main pole, a plasmon generator and two side shields

A thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes a main pole, a plasmon generator, and first and second side shields. The main pole has a front end face located in the medium facing surface. The plasmon generator has a near-field light generating surface located in the medium facing surface. The front end face of the main pole includes a first end face portion, and a second end face portion greater in width than the first end face portion. The first and second side shields have first and second side shield end faces located on opposite sides of at least part of the near-field light generating surface and at least part of the first end face portion in the track width direction.
Owner:HEADWAY TECH INC

System and method for maintaining a vehicle at zero speed on a graded surface

Methods and apparatus are provided for determining when vehicle powertrain torque is being used to substantially maintain a vehicle at a substantially zero speed on a graded surface, and to shift the supplied torque from the powertrain to another vehicle system or component. A vehicle controller determines that the powertrain system is supplying a hold torque, which has a magnitude sufficient to substantially maintain the vehicle at a substantially zero speed on the graded surface. A brake torque at a magnitude at least equivalent to the hold torque is automatically applied from the vehicle brake system to thereby maintain the vehicle at the substantially zero speed. Thus, the powertrain system can remove the torque it is supplying to hold the vehicle at the substantially zero speed.
Owner:GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC

Combined egr cooler and plasma reactor

A combined EGR cooler and non-thermal plasma device has first and second fluid passageways which are in heat exchange communication with one another. One or more electrodes are located in the second fluid passageway. The electrodes are connected to a voltage source. When a voltage of sufficient magnitude is applied to the electrodes, a non-thermal plasma is generated in the second fluid passageway. The device can be constructed in the form of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger or a stacked-tube type heat exchanger, wherein the electrodes extend through the heat exchange tubes. Hot exhaust gases preferably flow through the tubes in heat exchange contact with a liquid coolant, thereby cooling the exhaust gases. The electrodes generate non-thermal plasma inside the tubes, converting at least a portion of the NO in the exhaust to NO2, which reacts with soot in the exhaust gases to generate CO2 and N2, thereby cleaning the exhaust gases.
Owner:DANA CANADA CORP

Apparatus and method for inline solid, semisolid, or liquid antimicrobial treatment

An antimicrobial treatment method for non-thermal pasteurization and anti-microbial treatment of solid, semisolid, or liquid foods in industrial food transport systems is provided. For solid food applications, the method and related apparatus comprises a conveyor-based transport system. For semisolid or liquid food applications, the method and related apparatus comprises a conduit-based transport system. Both the conveyor-based and conduit-based transport systems are capable of treating food with ultrasound, a UV-ruby lightwave combination, a pulsed electric field, and / or a magnetic field. The method is capable of realizing greater than 3 log reductions in live microbes in foodstuffs, although the technology may be used in nonfood applications.
Owner:JOHNSONVILLE SAUSAGE

Starting a compression ignition free piston internal combustion engine having multiple cylinders

A method for starting a free piston, internal combustion engine includes supplying an air charge to a space in a combustion cylinder, and reciprocating the piston in the cylinder so that the maximum pressure of the air charge in the space cyclically increases. Air and fuel are cyclically admitting to the cylinder to produce an air-fuel mixture, and spark ignition is used to produce cyclic combustion of the air-fuel mixture. The air-fuel ratio of the mixture is increasing when a maximum pressure in the cylinder occurs within a predetermined period following a TDC position of the piston. Spark ignition is discontinued, and cyclic compression ignition (HCCI) of the air-fuel mixture occurs.
Owner:FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

Lateral-flow assay device with filtration flow control

A lateral-flow assay device includes a substrate with a sample addition zone and a fluid flow path. A cover supports a filter having a portion contacting the substrate to create a contact area that at least partly overlaps the sample addition zone. Another portion extends from the contact portion to the supported periphery of the filter to define with the substrate a reservoir configured to retain the filtrate by capillary pressure between the substrate and the extending portion. The reservoir volume is based on an acute angle formed between the substrate and the extending portion of the filter and on a fluid meniscus of the filtrate. The filter and sample addition zone are configured to provide capillary pressure drawing the filtrate from the reservoir to the sample addition zone. Methods for controlling flow characteristics in a lateral-flow assay device are also described.
Owner:ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS

High expansion two-component structural foam

The present invention is directed to a high expansion two-component structural foam that expands to about twice its original volume while maintaining good cell structure. The foam of the present invention is based on epoxy resins. Each component of the foam system exhibits storage stability, e.g., no phase separation, yet reacts when combined to provide a cured material having exceptionally good compression strength and modulus. The blowing system used to prepare the foam produces a foam which is uniform in appearance and is essentially free of the large voids often found in conventional two-part thermosettable compositions, even when a relatively large mass is utilized.
Owner:HENKEL KGAA

Battery device

A battery device includes a battery cell constituted by a secondary cell, a case that houses the battery cell, and a battery-side positive electrode terminal and a battery-side negative electrode terminal electrically provided in the case and connected to the battery cell. The battery device further includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the battery cell, a temperature control unit that heats and / or cools the battery cell when an electric current is supplied thereto, and a current control unit that divides, according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, an externally-supplied charging current supplied from the outside via the battery-side positive electrode terminal and the battery-side negative electrode terminal into a first current supplied to the battery cell and a second current supplied to the temperature control unit.
Owner:SONY CORP

High-frequency diaphragm and voice coil assembly

A high frequency drive unit comprising a dome-type diaphragm in a diaphragm and voice coil assembly. The diaphragm and voice coil assembly is particular suitable for use in compound loudspeakers with a plurality of drive units adapted to reproduce different part of the audio frequency spectra and which drive units are arranged in a co-axial configuration. The diaphragm of the diaphragm and voice coil assembly according to the invention has a circular cut out at its top defining an inner periphery of the diaphragm dome. The diaphragm is suspended on its inner periphery by a top annular suspension, at the outer periphery by an outer annular suspension extending outwards in a radial direction and at the outer periphery by an inner annular suspension extending inwards.
Owner:SAGREN ANDERS
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