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An inductive power transfer system including a synchronous drive system having a resonance control module. The resonance control module includes a primary coil module with a primary LC circuit. The resonance control module seeks and detects the resonant frequency of the primary LC circuit. The synchronous drive system further includes a switching coil amplifier for selectively energizing the primary coil to keep the primary LC circuit operating at or as close as possible to its natural resonant frequency. The inductive power transfer system may further include a secondary receiving unit. The secondary receiving unit includes a secondary LC circuit coupled with the primary LC circuit for inductively receiving power. The secondary LC circuit includes an LC filter and a rectifier unit for operating the secondary LC circuit at a mutual resonance with the primary LC circuit.

A system for enhancing the television presentation of an object at a sporting event includes one or more sensors which are used to determine the location of the object. Based on the location of the object and the field of view of a broadcast camera, a processor determines the position of the object in a video frame of the broadcast camera. Once knowing where the object is positioned within the video frame, the television signal can be edited or augmented to enhance the presentation of the object.

Method, apparatus and program storage device that provides a distributed file serving architecture with metadata storage virtualization and data access at the data server connection speed is provided. A host issues a file access request including data target locations. The file access request including data target locations is processed. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) channel endpoint connection are issued in response to the processing of the file access request. An RDMA transfer of the file-block data associated with the file access request is made directly between a memory at the host and a data server.

A system for enhancing the television presentation of an object that can highlight the object without obscuring the image of the object. The system receives a first video image, matches a second video image to a portion of the first video image corresponding to the image of the object. Specific pixels within the portion of the first video image which are not part of the image of the object are modified using a pixel from the second video image.

A Mobile Alert Network service includes identifying an Alert Area related to an Event Location, identifying a group of subscribers in the Alert Area, and broadcasting an Alert Message to the identified subscribers in a push-to-talk-equivalent environment. The Alert Messages can alert the subscribers about the cause of the alert, offer message related choices, and offer event related choices, such as promotion information or offers. The MAN Service may include an Alert Information Service, a Subscriber Selector, and a Broadcast Module to generate an Alert Message. The event related choices may be generated based on campaigns by Ad-insertion Agents. A Wrapper Framework can be downloaded to manage Alert Messages, a mailbox, and to update on board applications. An on-board logger can provide a detailed account of the operations of the handset and its user. A Sensor Array can be used to determine the location of users, based on the self-identification information, broadcast by the cell phones.

A two stage power amplifier circuit that employs both a DC to DC converter and sliding bias controller to improve power amplifier efficiency. The control signal that is generated by the power detector circuit to control the input voltage to the DC to DC converter is also used to provide the reference voltage that controls the sliding bias controller. The sliding bias controller reduces the quiescent current of the power amplifiers by reducing the bias currents, and thus the DC voltage at lower power output levels driving the power amplifiers. This causes the power amplifiers to operate at or near higher efficiency Class B operation at lower power output levels. As the power level increases, the sliding bias controller reduces its control on the bias currents so that the power amplifier can be driven at necessary higher power output levels.

The invention features methods compositions and infusion pumps for infusing levodopa prodrugs (e.g., levodopa esters, levodopa amides, levodopa carboxamides, and levodopa sulfonamides) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a magnetorheological fluid valve assembly having a supply of a magnetorheological fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil for inducing a magnetic field that alters the resistance of the magnetorheological fluid to flow between the first and second chambers, thereby increasing the damping provided by the valve. A remanent magnetic field is induced in one or more components of the magnetorheological fluid valve during operation that can be used to provide the magnetic field for operating the valve so as to eliminate the need to energize the coils during operation except temporarily when changing the amount of damping required, thereby eliminating the need for a turbine alternator power the magnetorheological fluid valve. A demagnetization cycle can be used to reduce the remanent magnetic field when necessary.

The present invention is directed to a fuel supply with an environmentally sensitive valve. The environmentally sensitive valve is sensitive to the environmental factor(s) such as temperature, pressure or velocity. The valve may be configured so that the valve automatically resets when the environmental triggering event no longer exists.

An aircraft galley power and control system is disclosed having a plurality of electrical appliances within a monument, the galley control system including a control panel removed from the electrical appliances that include controls for operating each of the electrical appliances, The galley also includes a galley controller interface for receiving commands from a display screen on the control panel and communicating the commands to the electrical appliances.

It is provided a LED light (10) for a motor vehicle, comprising several LED fields (14), wherein each LED field (14) comprises at least one LED (L1, L2, L3, L4), a housing (34) for supporting the LED fields (14) and a circuit board (12) comprising a driving electronics for operating the LED fields (14), wherein the LED fields (14) are connected in series by the driving electronics and the driving electronics is adapted to switch on and off each LED field (14) according to its position in the series in dependence of a signal, wherein the circuit board (12) is connectable to an outside of the LED light (10) located current source (16) for applying an electrical current to the LED fields (14), and wherein the circuit board (12) is integrated into the housing (34). Since complicated and/or changing switching orders of the LED fields (14) are not intended the necessary circuit board (12) for providing the corresponding driving electronics may be so small that it may be integrated into the housing (34) of the LED light (10) without significantly increasing the building space. Particularly a lot of wires between a central control unit and the different LED fields (14) are omitted as well as the central control unit itself so that the LED light (10) only requires a small building space.

An improved light-emitting display having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large trigger voltage is supplied across the micro-component by up to two triggering electrodes and ionization can be maintain by a sustain voltage supplied by up to two sustain electrodes. The display is further divided into a plurality of panels that can be individually addressed in parallel, preferably directly through the back of the panels and can include voltage multiplying circuitry to decrease the power demands for addressing circuitry. Alternative methods of addressing the micro-components include the use of directed light and arrangements of electrodes to address multiple micro-components with a single electrode.

A field effect transistor includes an n+ high-density impurity injection area, a p+ high-density impurity injection area, an i-impurity non-injection area, and a gate electrode. The gate electrode is free from completely lapping over the i-impurity non-injection area, but laps over substantially half the i-impurity non-injection area adjacent to the n+ high-density impurity injection area so as to avoid channel carrier capture levels due to crystal defects/grain boundaries and an effect of potential barriers due to the channel carrier capture levels.

A battery ECU includes i) a circuit connected to a plurality of battery temperature sensors provided on a plurality of battery cells which make up a battery, and a cooling fan, the circuit detecting operation of the cooling fan, and ii) a circuit that determines that there is a temperature abnormality in a battery based on the difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of battery temperatures measured by the battery temperature sensors only when the period of time during which temperature increases within a predetermined period of time in the battery temperatures measured by the battery temperature sensors continue to be less than a threshold value is longer than a predetermined period of time, and the cooling fan has been operating for a longer period of time than a suitable cooling fan operating time obtained based on the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the measured battery temperatures.