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A foreign-particle detection system for use with an optical instrument having a transmissive window with a first side and a second side includes a radiation source to emit a radiation signal, a diffusing reflector to diffusively spread the radiation signal emitted by the radiation source over the first side of the transmissive window, a radiation detector to detect, at the second side of the transmissive window, the diffusively spread radiation signal transmitted by the transmissive window, and to generate a detected radiation signal based on the detected diffusively spread radiation signal, and a computation module communicatively coupled to the radiation detector to detect a presence of foreign particles on at least one of the first side or the second side of the transmissive window based on at least the detected radiation signal.

A speed-ratio control apparatus for controlling a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission of a vehicle, such that an actual input speed of the transmission coincides with a target input speed, the apparatus including an acceleration-requirement determining portion operable to determine whether non-rapid acceleration or rapid acceleration of the vehicle is required by a vehicle operator, and a target-input-speed setting portion operable, upon determination of the operator's requirement for the non-rapid acceleration, to implement an instantaneous stepping increase of the target input speed to a first transient target value, (ii) hold the target input speed at the first transient target value in a first portion of a rapid shifting period, (iii) instantaneously reduce, at the end of the first portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed to an initial value of a second transient target value which initial value is close to the actual input speed and lower than the first transient target value, and (iv) gradually increase, in a second portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed back toward the first transient value, and upon determination of the operator's requirement for the rapid acceleration, the target-input-speed setting portion holding the target input speed at the first transient target input speed during the rapid shifting period, without setting at the second transient target value.

An endoscopic access system is provided including an outer cannula and a penetrating stylet. The stylet provides an enhanced echogenic profile configured to provide for effective navigation under ultrasound visualization in a patient body. The cannula may include a rounded distal margin configured to provide for efficient passage though the cannula distal end of tools such as a wire guide.

When there is an incoming call, a mobile terminal device detects ambient sounds by a microphone. A filter separates the detected ambient sounds into a speech component and a non-speech component. An analysis section analyzes which one of the speech component and the non-speech component is the dominant component. A decision section selects a ringing tone generating section, a vibrator or a light emitting section based on which one of the speech component and the non-speech component is the dominant component and the volume of that dominant one. The selected ringing tone generating section, vibrator or light emitting section makes ringing to inform a user of the incoming call.

According to the present invention, even if a plurality of operators perform gesture operations in three-dimensional space, the three-dimensional spatial gesture of each operator is accurately associated with the target object of the three-dimensional spatial gesture. For this, a projector displays at least one selection-target object on an upper surface of a table. When a pointer operated by an operator comes in contact with the upper surface of the table, a two-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus detects the contact position, and determines which object has been designated by the operator. In this stage, among pointers detected by a three-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus, a pointer having a position closest to the contact position is determined, and the pointer determined to be the closest is decided as a tracking target. Thereafter, the tracking-target pointer is tracked by the three-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus to determine the operator's gesture pattern.

Methods and systems for controlling a wind turbine in a manner that takes into account the degree of loading of and damage to one or more components of the turbine are provided. An operational load on a wind turbine part is determined, and is used to compute a damage signal. The damage signal is indicative of the potential damage to the component or to the turbine as a whole that will result if action is not taken to reduce or mitigate the determined load. When the damage signal exceeds a pre-determined threshold, load-reducing wind turbine control means are activated to obviate the estimated damage.

A general-use white color reflecting material, and a process for production thereof are provided. The white color reflecting material, without troublesome surface treatment such as formation of a reflective layer by plating, is capable of reflecting a near-ultraviolet ray of a wavelength region of 380 nm or longer or a near-infrared ray sufficiently without light leakage; does not become yellow even when exposed to near-ultraviolet rays; has excellent lightfastness, heat resistance, and weatherability; has high mechanical strength and chemical stability; is capable of maintaining a high degree of whiteness; and is easily moldable at a low cost. Further a white color reflecting material used as an ink composition for producing the white color reflecting material in a film shape is also provided. The white color reflecting material comprises; a silicone resin or silicone rubber formed from titanium oxide-containing silicone composition, in which anatase-type or rutile-type titanium oxide particles are dispersed.

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a fluid transfer process, including the steps: providing an allowable pressure profile; detecting a pressure occurring in the course of the fluid transfer process; comparing detected pressure with the allowable pressure profile and signaling an error, if the detected pressure is not within the allowable pressure profile. The allowable pressure profile is defined by interpolation points, the interpolation points being based on a probability function representing a family of pressure courses of a plurality of fluid transfer processes. The allowable pressure profile can be divided into at least two distinct process sections, each section corresponding to a distinct process phase of the fluid transfer process. The probability function is calculated from a family of test pressure curves and reflects the statistical behavior of the pipette system. The present invention further relates to a computer readable medium for storing interpolation point information as well as to a kit-of-parts comprising a device implementing the inventive method, together with a computer readable medium for storing interpolation point information.

A speed-ratio control apparatus for controlling a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission of a vehicle, such that an actual input speed of the transmission coincides with a target input speed, the apparatus including an acceleration-requirement determining portion operable to determine whether non-rapid acceleration or rapid acceleration of the vehicle is required by a vehicle operator, and a target-input-speed setting portion operable, upon determination of the operator's requirement for the non-rapid acceleration, to implement an instantaneous stepping increase of the target input speed to a first transient target value, (ii) hold the target input speed at the first transient target value in a first portion of a rapid shifting period, (iii) instantaneously reduce, at the end of the first portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed to an initial value of a second transient target value which initial value is close to the actual input speed and lower than the first transient target value, and (iv) gradually increase, in a second portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed back toward the first transient value, and upon determination of the operator's requirement for the rapid acceleration, the target-input-speed setting portion holding the target input speed at the first transient target input speed during the rapid shifting period, without setting at the second transient target value.

A drive method for an electrophoretic display device that has an electrophoretic device composed of a suspension fluid containing electrophoretic particles disposed between a common electrode and a plurality of pixel electrodes, a driver that drives the electrophoretic device by applying voltage between the common electrode and the plural pixel electrodes, and a controller that controls the driver. The control method has a display redrawing process that changes the displayed image by applying a common electrode drive pulse that repeats two different potentials to the common electrode, and applying either of the two different potentials to the pixel electrodes according to the updated display content. The display redrawing process includes a first pulse application step that applies a first pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, and a second pulse application step that executes after the first pulse application step to apply a second pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, the pulses of the second pulse train being wider than the pulses of the first pulse train.

Described herein are tissue adhesive substrates and methods of making such substrates. Tissue adhesive substrates comprise a glass substrate and a silane covalently bound to the glass substrate. In some variations, the silane may be an amino silane, and may comprise an aryl or an alkyl moiety. In other variations, the silane may be coated with carbon. Silanes may be deposited onto the glass substrate by vapor deposition. Tissue adhesive substrates comprising carbon-coated silanized glass substrates may be capable of retaining a tissue section through multiple cycles of antibody staining and stripping without discernible or substantial damage to the tissue section. In addition, carbon-coated tissue adhesive substrates may also provide a fiduciary marker for closed-loop autofocussing mechanisms.

The invention provides a piezoelectric liquid gauge system in particular for a motor vehicle fuel tank, the system comprising piezoelectric means suitable for transmitting a sound wave in a liquid and for detecting said wave in order to determine the distance traveled by the wave in the liquid on the basis of the time between transmission and reception, said piezoelectric means comprising two distinct active piezoelectric portions suitable respectively for directing a sound wave towards a reference obstacle and a sound wave towards the surface of the liquid to be gauged, the system being wherein the pellet is contained in a housing suitable for being fixed in position in the tank in which measurement is to be performed, the reference obstacle extending over a face of the housing which faces one of the active portions, said face also having a measurement opening placed facing the other active portion and suitable for allowing the measurement sound waves to pass through.

The polarization beam splitting element splits an entering beam according to polarization directions. The element includes, in order from a beam entrance side, an entrance side multi-layered film layer constituted by laminated multiple dielectric films, and a one-dimensional grating structure having a grating period smaller than a wavelength of the entering beam and formed of a metal. When a medium existing on the beam entrance side further than the entrance side multi-layered film layer is referred to as an entrance medium, the multiple dielectric films constituting the entrance side multi-layered film layer include at least one dielectric film having a higher refractive index than that of the entrance medium and at least one dielectric film having a lower refractive index than that of the entrance medium.

The invention provides a piezoelectric liquid gauge system in particular for a motor vehicle fuel tank, the system comprising piezoelectric means suitable for transmitting a sound wave in a liquid and for detecting said wave in order to determine the distance traveled by the wave in the liquid on the basis of the time between transmission and reception, said piezoelectric means comprising two distinct active piezoelectric portions suitable respectively for directing a sound wave towards a reference obstacle and a sound wave towards the surface of the liquid to be gauged, the system being wherein the pellet is contained in a housing suitable for being fixed in position in the tank in which measurement is to be performed, the reference obstacle extending over a face of the housing which faces one of the active portions, said face also having a measurement opening placed facing the other active portion and suitable for allowing the measurement sound waves to pass through.

A diagnosis supporting device generates execution information from an examination image by using a rented computer program. The diagnosis supporting device sends the execution information of the computer program to a charging management server. The charging management server stores the execution information as an execution history. The charging management server includes a duplication judging section, an execution number calculating section, and a usage fee calculating section. The duplication judging section judges whether or not there are plural pieces of execution information having the same examination ID. The execution number calculating section counts the pieces of execution information while eliminating the pieces of execution information judged to be duplicated to calculate the execution number of times. The usage fee calculating section multiplies the execution number of times calculated by the execution number calculating section by a unit price to calculate a usage fee for the computer program.

A tail light structure having a light-emitting body and a reflector member for reflecting light from the light-emitting body for external illumination. The reflector member has a lower reflecting surface for receiving maximum external light and an upper reflecting surface and left and right reflecting surfaces, and the lower reflecting surface having a lower reflectance than the upper reflecting surface and the left and right reflecting surfaces.

Provided is an optical recording medium that comprises two layers of a first information recording layer and a second information recording layer; the first information recording layer and the second information recording layer are laminated through an intermediate layer; wherein the two layers are recorded and regenerated by action of laser light irradiated from the side of the first information recording layer, the second information recording layer comprises a light reflective layer, a dye recording layer, and an inorganic protective layer on a substrate, and the substrate comprises wobble convex portions on its surface, the inorganic protective layer has a thickness of 3 nm to 40 nm, the dye recording layer comprises a cyanine compound expressed by General Formula (I) and a squarylium compound expressed by General Formula (II):

An optical apparatus for training a golfer which is the form of a pair of spectacles with tinted lenses, one of which is inclined so that an image projected onto an inner surface of the lens is reflected onto an eye of a user. The image comprises data which aids the golfer in a training stroke. To reduce ghost images, to allow for binocular vision and to superimpose the projected image on a background view, the lenses have an absorption of from 60% to 85%.

In a W-CDMA wireless system, when communication is performed by using a StandAlone-DCCH, adequate transmission power control is performed depending on change in a communication status. In a W-CDMA wireless system 1, a reception quality of a common channel is measured, and if a StandAlone-DCCH state has occurred, transmission power control corresponding to the common channel is performed in which a target SIR is determined depending on the reception quality of the common channel. Therefore, even in the StandAlone-DCCH state in which Blind transport format detection is used, it is possible to set the target SIR in accordance with a reception status of a user equipment 20, enabling the adequate transmission power control depending on the change in the communication status.

A light emitting device includes a light emitting element that emits light, and a wiring substrate that includes a light reflective reflecting electrode to which the light emitting element is bonded using a bonding material. The reflecting electrode has a reflecting region which reflects light emitted from the light emitting element. An area of a mounting region surrounded by an outer circumference of the reflecting region is greater than an area of the light emitting element by four times or more seen in a direction perpendicular to the wiring substrate.

Optical apparatus with a discharge lamp and a concave reflecting mirror, the concave reflecting mirror has a front elliptical reflecting mirror portion, a middle spherical reflecting mirror portion, and a rear elliptical reflecting mirror portion; the relationship between an angle α between a virtual tangential line VTL, which runs from the center position between the electrodes to the outer surface of the electrode positioned towards the neck of the concave reflecting mirror, and the beam axis Z and an angle β between a virtual straight line VSL, which runs from the center position between the electrodes to the boundary position between the middle spherical reflecting mirror portion and the rear elliptical reflecting mirror portion, and the beam axis Z is β>α; and the relationship between the volume V of the electrode E1 (mm3) and the wattage (P) meets the condition, 0.07×EXP(0.014×P)<V.

An active element array substrate includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The data lines are intersected with the scan lines. Each of the pixel transistors is electrically coupled to corresponding one of the scan lines and corresponding one of the data lines respectively, and each of the pixel electrodes is electrically coupled to one of the corresponding pixel transistors respectively. Furthermore, each of the pixel electrodes includes an alloy having nickel and boron.

A drive method for an electrophoretic display device that has an electrophoretic device composed of a suspension fluid containing electrophoretic particles disposed between a common electrode and a plurality of pixel electrodes, a driver that drives the electrophoretic device by applying voltage between the common electrode and the plural pixel electrodes, and a controller that controls the driver. The control method has a display redrawing process that changes the displayed image by applying a common electrode drive pulse that repeats two different potentials to the common electrode, and applying either of the two different potentials to the pixel electrodes according to the updated display content. The display redrawing process includes a first pulse application step that applies a first pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, and a second pulse application step that executes after the first pulse application step to apply a second pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, the pulses of the second pulse train being wider than the pulses of the first pulse train.

The present disclosure concerns a data processing device configured to be connected to one or more physiological sensors for receiving physiological data of a user, to one or more behavioral sensors for receiving behavioral data of the user and to a vehicle context detection unit for receiving vehicle context information, and to determine a discomfort level index value based on a personality profile of the user together with at least the vehicle context information and physiological and behavioral data received within corresponding time windows, as well as a method for evaluating user discomfort implemented by said data processing device.

The present invention relates to a method of creating a script for automatically handling a mobile terminal in the process of testing an application mounted on the mobile terminal such as a smart phone or the like. Through the present invention, an automation script faithfully reflecting the use environment of a mobile terminal can be created, and therefore, effectiveness and reliability of the test of an application program can be dramatically enhanced.