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A magnetic field sensor for measuring at least two components of a magnetic field comprises a ferromagnetic core mounted on a semiconductor chip, an exciter coil to which a current can be applied and two read-out sensors. The ferromagnetic core is ring-shaped. The exciter coil is preferably formed from conductor tracks of the semiconductor chip and from bonding wires.

An living body information collecting apparatus having a shape suitable for being worn in the external auditory meatus of the human body, and having a sensing part for collecting living body information from the external auditory meatus is provided. In addition, a blood-pressure meter is provided, wherein the blood-pressure meter includes: a frame part including a first arm and a second arm that are opposed to each other; a pressure applying part provided on at least one of a side of the first arm opposed to the second arm and a side of the second arm opposed to the first arm; and a detection part for detecting a pulse wave.

A probe pin for testing electric characteristics of a semiconductor device comprises a silicon pin core (3, 23, 33), and a conductive film (4, 24, 34) covering the entire surface, including the bottom face, of the pin core. The bottom face of the probe pin is connected directly to an electrode (7, 37) positioned in or on a print wiring board. A number of probe pins can be connected to the associated electrodes at a high density, thereby forming a fine-pitch probe card having a superior high-frequency signal characteristic.

The invention provides a fiber-optic sensing system, utilizing a fiber-grating-based sensor, for a physical parameter, e.g., a pressure or a temperature. Different kinds of fiber-grating-based sensors may be used for this purpose but in-fiber gratings such as Fiber Bragg Grating, Long Period Grating and Surface Corrugated Long Period Fiber Grating are particularly suitable. Due to the small size of the optical fiber and the fact that same fiber acts as the sensing element as well as the signal conducting medium, it is possible to install the sensor in a small diameter needle which is commonly used for medical diagnosis and treatment. As a result, when the fiber-optic sensing system of the invention is used for in-vivo measurement of a biological parameter, such a sensing needle can be used for different in-vivo pressure or temperature sensing applications without causing too much harm and discomfort to the subject tested.

The measurement transducer includes a transducer housing, which exhibits a plurality of natural oscillation modes, as well as at least one first flow tube held oscillatably in the transducer housing, vibrating at least at times, and conveying at least a portion of the medium to be measured. Additionally, the measurement transducer includes an electromechanical, especially electrodynamic, exciter arrangement acting on the at least one flow tube for producing and / or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the at least one flow tube, and a sensor arrangement reacting to movements of the flow tube, especially bending oscillations, for producing at least one oscillation measurement signal representing oscillations of the flow tube. Additionally, for improving the oscillation properties and, consequently, also the measurement accuracy of the measurement transducer, at least three coupling elements are provided for connecting the first and second flow tubes together at the inlet end, as well as at least three coupling elements for connecting the first and second flow tubes together at the outlet end. By using at least six coupling elements, it is possible to produce vibration-type measurement transducers of high measuring accuracy even at large nominal diameters of more than 150 mm, especially also while largely maintaining already established and proven forms of construction.

The measuring transducer comprises: a transducer housing, of which an inlet-side, housing end is formed by means of a flow divider including four flow openings spaced, and an outlet-side, formed by means of a flow divider including four flow openings spaced, from one another. A tube arrangement including four curved measuring tubes connected to the flow dividers for guiding flowing medium along flow paths connected in parallel. Each measuring tubes opens with an inlet-side, measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider and with an outlet-side, measuring tube end into one the flow openings of the flow divider. The two flow dividers are embodied and arranged in the measuring transducer, so that the tube arrangement extends both between a first and a second of the measuring tubes and between a third and a fourth of the measuring tubes. An imaginary longitudinal-section plane, with respect to which the tube arrangement is mirror symmetric and perpendicular to the imaginary longitudinal-section plane, an imaginary longitudinal-section plane, with respect to which the tube arrangement likewise is mirror symmetric. An electromechanical exciter mechanism of the measuring transducer serves for producing and / or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the four measuring tubes.

The measurement transducer includes a transducer housing, which exhibits a plurality of natural oscillation modes, as well as at least one first flow tube held oscillatably in the transducer housing, vibrating at least at times, and conveying at least a portion of the medium to be measured. Additionally, the measurement transducer includes an electromechanical, especially electrodynamic, exciter arrangement acting on the at least one flow tube for producing and / or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the at least one flow tube, and a sensor arrangement reacting to movements of the flow tube, especially bending oscillations, for producing at least one oscillation measurement signal representing oscillations of the flow tube. Additionally, for improving the oscillation properties and, consequently, also the measurement accuracy of the measurement transducer, at least three coupling elements are provided for connecting the first and second flow tubes together at the inlet end, as well as at least three coupling elements for connecting the first and second flow tubes together at the outlet end. By using at least six coupling elements, it is possible to produce vibration-type measurement transducers of high measuring accuracy even at large nominal diameters of more than 150 mm, especially also while largely maintaining already established and proven forms of construction.

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods for generating a multilingual acoustic model. A main acoustic model comprising a main acoustic model having probability distribution functions and a probabilistic state sequence model including first states is provided to a processor. At least one second acoustic model including probability distribution functions and a probabilistic state sequence model including states is also provided to the processor. The processor replaces each of the probability distribution functions of the at least one second acoustic model by one of the probability distribution functions and / or each of the states of the probabilistic state sequence model of the at least one second acoustic model with the state of the probabilistic state sequence model of the main acoustic model based on a criteria set to obtain at least one modified second acoustic model. The criteria set may be a distance measurement. The processor then combines the main acoustic model and the at least one modified second acoustic model to obtain the multilingual acoustic model.

A device avoids traffic accidents where at least one four-wheeled road user and another type of road user are involved, where the road user comes into contact with a side of the vehicle. The vehicle includes presence detection devices for detecting the presence of another road user in the vicinity of the side of the vehicle to be established by the driver of the vehicle. These presence detection devices include at least one proximity sensor fixed in or to the relevant side of the vehicle, for detecting the presence of the road user within a strip of selectable width from the side of the vehicle, which sensor is linked to an alarm sounding device to alert the driver if the sensor is activated.

In a heterogeneous network based on LTE, the random access, RA, procedure triggered in a macrocell produces transmissions from a UE (20) on the physical random access channel, PRACH, which a picocell eNB (12) can attempt to make measurements of for interference coordination purposes over the X2 interface between the macro eNB (10) and the pico eNB (12). By reconfiguring the UE's behaviour during principally the contention-free RA procedure, its transmissions on PRACH are made different to the default such as to be suitable for heterogeneous network interference measurements. This is done by assigning new meanings to certain of the characteristic parameters provided by the macro eNB (10) to the UE (20), such as the RA preamble it uses and the C-RNTI it is assigned during the procedure. Interpreting these new meanings allows the UE (20) to temporarily re-configure its PRACH transmissions so as to be useful to the pico eNB's (12) interference measurement needs without disrupting the UE's existing configuration within the macrocell, and without the UE needing to know the purpose of its transmissions.

A measuring transducer comprises a transducer housing, of which an inlet-side housing end is formed by means of an inlet-side flow divider having eight, mutually spaced flow openings and an outlet-side housing end is formed by means of an outlet-side flow divider having eight, mutually spaced flow openings as well as a tube arrangement with eight bent measuring tubes for the conveying flowing medium, which, forming flow paths connected for parallel flow, are connected to the flow dividers, wherein each of the eight measuring tubes in each case opens with an inlet-side measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider, and in each case opens with an outlet-side measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider. An electro-mechanical exciter mechanism of the measuring transducer serves for producing and / or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the measuring tubes.

An expendable container of the invention has a function of measuring a residual quantity of an expendable kept therein. The expendable container has: an expendable tank that keeps the expendable therein and has a piezoelectric element attached thereto; a detection signal generation circuit that charges and discharges the piezoelectric element and generates a detection signal including information, which represents a cycle of remaining vibration of the piezoelectric element after the discharge; and a control module that controls the charge and the discharge of the piezoelectric element. The cycle is used to determine whether the residual quantity of the expendable kept in the expendable tank is greater than a preset level. The control module varies a discharge characteristic of the piezoelectric element.

A method of infrared-optically determining the concentration of at least one analyte in a liquid sample, wherein the infrared absorption of the analyte(s) is measured and compared with a standard, which is characterized in that the liquid sample is sampled with an infrared radiation of high light density, wherein the infrared radiation has a sharp intensity peak at at least one wave length, as well as an arrangement for the infrared-optical transmission determination of the concentration of at least one analyte in a liquid sample, with a sample cuvette flowed through by the sample liquid, the sample cuvette being arranged in the radiation path between a radiation source for providing the infrared radiation and a detector for measuring the infrared absorption induced by the analyte in the sample cuvette.

A measuring transducer comprises a transducer housing, of which an inlet-side housing end is formed by means of an inlet-side flow divider having eight, mutually spaced flow openings and an outlet-side housing end is formed by means of an outlet-side flow divider having eight, mutually spaced flow openings as well as a tube arrangement with eight bent measuring tubes for the conveying flowing medium, which, forming flow paths connected for parallel flow, are connected to the flow dividers, wherein each of the eight measuring tubes in each case opens with an inlet-side measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider, and in each case opens with an outlet-side measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider. An electro-mechanical exciter mechanism of the measuring transducer serves for producing and / or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the measuring tubes.

An optical measurement system for optically measuring a body to be inspected and obtaining an image of a desired item based on information obtained by the measurement includes means for displaying a number of measurement points, means for indicating a light irradiation position and a light detecting position and means for displaying a measurement position and a state of allocating a number to the measurement position. The system further includes means for displaying measuring time sequence data, means for setting a condition of acquiring data, means for displaying a status of acquiring the data, means for instructing control of measurement and means for marking a mark at a position measuring time sequence data.

The invention provides a fiber-optic sensing system, utilizing a fiber-grating-based sensor, for a physical parameter, e.g., a pressure or a temperature. Different kinds of fiber-grating-based sensors may be used for this purpose but in-fiber gratings such as Fiber Bragg Grating, Long Period Grating and Surface Corrugated Long Period Fiber Grating are particularly suitable. Due to the small size of the optical fiber and the fact that same fiber acts as the sensing element as well as the signal conducting medium, it is possible to install the sensor in a small diameter needle which is commonly used for medical diagnosis and treatment. As a result, when the fiber-optic sensing system of the invention is used for in-vivo measurement of a biological parameter, such a sensing needle can be used for different in-vivo pressure or temperature sensing applications without causing too much harm and discomfort to the subject tested.

A probe pin for testing electric characteristics of a semiconductor device comprises a silicon pin core (3, 23, 33), and a conductive film (4, 24, 34) covering the entire surface, including the bottom face, of the pin core. The bottom face of the probe pin is connected directly to an electrode (7, 37) positioned in or on a print wiring board. A number of probe pins can be connected to the associated electrodes at a high density, thereby forming a fine-pitch probe card having a superior high-frequency signal characteristic.

The invention relates to a pressure probe for characterizing the pressure and / or differential pressure in a fluid, and all derivatives, like for instance, flow rate. The device comprises a front side adapted for facing an upstream direction of the fluid flow, a bulbous part adapted for creating a region of low pressure, also called wake, and a flow detachment means. The front side allows creation of a region of high pressure. It has a planar shape or the shape of a recess. The device thus allows to be substantially flow angle independent, to be Reynolds number independent in a wide range of flow velocities and to obtain a large differential pressure gain.

A body fluid component measuring apparatus capable of accurately measuring a specific component in a body fluid for a short time includes, in a main body, a measuring device for detecting the sampling of a body fluid and measuring a component of the sampled body fluid, and a pump and an electromagnetic valve which constitute an evacuating mechanism. When the sampling of blood is detected, the pump is stopped to release the evacuation state. Another apparatus according to a second aspect includes a pressure detecting means and a notifying device. A puncturing device is operated only when it is decided on the basis of a result of detection by a sensor, that the housing is in an evacuation state, and after the sampling is detected, the evacuation is released and information is notified. A further apparatus according to a third aspect includes a pressure adjusting means for fluctuating the pressure.

A unilateral NMR sensor comprising a ferromagnetic yoke; a permanent magnet arranged on the yoke; a pole piece on the magnet; the pole piece including an air-pole piece interface surface whose shape corresponds to an equipotential contour of magnetic scalar potential. An approach for designing single-sided magnets suitable for unilateral magnetic resonance (UMR) measurements is presented. The method uses metal pole pieces to shape the field from permanent magnets in a target region. The pole pieces are shaped according to solutions to Laplace's equation, and can be designed using a combination of analytical methods and numerical optimization. The design leads to analytical expressions for the pole piece shape and magnetic field. The method is developed in Cartesian, polar, and spherical coordinates, and the merits of each system are discussed. The effects of finite magnet size on the field quality are explored through simulation, and are found to have a substantial effect in many cases. A magnet is designed using our method to produce a static field with a constant gradient over a region 2 cm in diameter and 2 mm thick. This leads to a compact cylindrical magnet just over 11 cm in diameter, topped with a single metal pole piece. The design is validated through simulation. The simulated field is found to agree closely with that specified analytically through the design procedure.

A co-axial magnet configuration for the production of a magnetic field and investigational volume which is suitable for measurement of magnetic resonance has at least one superconducting solenoid coil or solenoid coils which are radially nested within each other, wherein the windings of the solenoid coil(s) in a radial region about the axis of the magnetic configuration are disposed between r1 and r2, wherein r1<r2 is characterized in that the windings are surrounded by at least one rotationally symmetric magnet body made from ferromagnetic material which extends over a radial region between r3 and r4 wherein r3<r4 wherein r2<r3<1.3 r2 and r4>1.3 r3, wherein the rotationally symmetric magnet body or bodies are structured, dimensioned and positioned in such a fashion that the magnetic field is homogenized in the investigational volume and the magnetic fringe field outside the magnet configuration is essentially suppressed to permit the production of strong magnetic fields of high homogeneity without requiring notches in the coil configuration.

A composite material packaged fiber grating sensor and a manufacturing method thereof. The sensor includes a fiber grating sensor component, a composite material coverage layer, a resin package layer and a composite material substrate layer. In the sensor, a temperature fiber grating and a strain fiber grating are packaged in a composite material structure, so that the structure is light and simple, its computability with the composite material is good, the measurement accuracy is high, and the survival rate and the service life of the installed sensor can be greatly improved, the sensor component can be externally pasted on to or inter-implanted in a composite material structural part, and can be applied to the distributed online health monitoring on the structural part. The manufacturing method of the composite material packaged fiber grating sensor is simple, efficient and stable, and is suitable for rapid mass production by enterprises.

Provided is a polishing method of polishing a substrate by rotating the substrate and a pad while keeping the pad in contact with the substrate, the method including: a first polishing step of polishing the substrate by rotating the substrate and the pad in a first direction; and a second polishing step of polishing the substrate by rotating the substrate and the pad in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Magnetoresistive sensors which use the AMR or the GMR effect and indicate the direction of the homogeneous magnetic field of a rotatable permanent magnet in the angle measurement or the position of the sensor with respect to a scale, which is magnetized periodically in an alternating direction, for the position measurement, and in which the angle or position value is obtained from the quotient of the output signals from two bridges or half bridges with the aid of arctan interpolation, allow small measurement errors if the output signals have small harmonic components and hysteresis areas. In arrangements according to the invention, this is achieved by the resistors being composed of strips and by continuously varying the resistance-determining angle along the strip longitudinal extent for each constant magnetic field acting on the strips. The resistance-determining angle is between the current and magnetization direction for AMR sensors and is between the magnetization directions of two layer components for GMR sensors.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for determining sepsis in an individual. Specifically, the present invention provides for antibodies of fragments thereof that specifically bind to presepsin. The antibodies of the present invention may be monoclonal antibodies, and they may specifically bind to a particular epitope of presepsin. The present invention further provides methods of using such antibodies to determine whether an individual has sepsis, and kits comprising the disclosed antibodies.

A method and a device for measuring electrical differential currents, which in addition to the alternating current component also contain a direct current component, by means of an inductive differential current transformer.The known methods for measuring mixed currents require special current transformer designs with respect to the coil winding and magnetic core material and core number. The new method copes with the same current transformers that are common for measuring pure differential alternating currents.According to the invention, the secondary coil (3) of the current transformer is controlled such that the magnetic flux (φ) linked with the secondary coil (3) inside the core remains constant, irrespective of the differential current and the secondary current (Is) required for this is measured. For this, on the one hand, the ohmic resistor (Rcu) of the secondary coil (3) is compensated in the secondary circuit (4) by an electronically produced, negative resistor (Rz), and on the other hand a defined magnetic flux is periodically restored, in that the saturation flux (φs) of the core is used as a reference point.

There is provided a fluorescent X-ray analysis apparatus in which a detection lower limit is improved, and it is possible to quantify a trace aimed element having been contained not only in a sample whose main component is a heavy element but also in a sample whose main component is a light element. The fluorescent X-ray analysis apparatus possesses a sample base supporting the sample, an X-ray source irradiating a primary X-ray with a predetermined irradiation position being made a center, and a detector disposed toward the irradiation position and detecting a fluorescent X-ray generated from the sample. The sample base has a detachable sample holding tool fixing the sample while being approached to the X-ray source and the detector, and a measurement is possible by selectively disposing the sample in any one of a 1st inspection position in which an irradiated face is coincided with the irradiation position, or a 2nd inspection position in which the sample is fixed to the sample holding tool, an irradiated face is approached to the X-ray source, and an inspected face is approached to the detector.

A dynamic pressure sensing structure used in a condenser microphone includes an upper electrode plate, a lower electrode plate, a spacer and a substrate, wherein the upper and lower electrode plates are separated by the spacer and form a resonance cavity with the substrate. The upper electrode plate comprises a flat vibration area and a surrounding flexible area connected thereto. The lower electrode plate comprises a sensible electrode and an actuation electrode surrounding the sensible electrode. The plate is in connection with the flexible area so that a capacitor is formed between the sense area and the flat vibration area. The actuation electrode provides a polarization voltage to generate an electrostatic force, thereby attract the flexible vibration area to curve downwards so that the flat vibration area moves in a flat state and a distance between the flat vibration area and the sensible electrode is varied correspondingly.