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Disclosed herein are a fiber-reinforced heating unit (100) and a mattress comprising the fiber-reinforced heating unit (100) installed therein. The heating unit (100) comprises flexible filaments (11) woven vertically and horizontally in a net, a stiff synthetic resin filament (12) alternately woven with the flexible filament (11) in either a vertical direction or a horizontal direction, and copper wires (32) woven together with the flexible filaments (11) on the longitudinal edges at both sides and the center and the woven material is dipped in liquid carbon, followed by drying. The copper wires (32) on the both longitudinal edges are connected to positive (+) terminal (31, 51) and the copper wires at the center are connected to a negative (−) terminal (41). The carbon-coated woven material has coating layers (90) formed by compression or impregnation with a gel type flexible synthetic resin at the top and the bottom. The heating unit (100) can maintain an original net structure by the stiff synthetic resin filament (12) while maintaining flexibility. The heating unit (100) has excellent durability since the flexible filament (11) is not disconnected even when heating unit is bent or folded. Also, the heating unit (100) can provide partial heating by selectively applying electricity to the positive (+) terminals (31, 51) at the both edges.

For controlling a threshing mechanism of a combine harvester parameters of the threshing mechanism are adjusted with respect to a nominal crop throughput determined for corresponding harvesting conditions to an optimal value, the changing automatically and the adjustment includes automatically determining a deviation of an actual crop throughput from the nominal crop throughput, and adjusting at least one threshing mechanism parameter for adaptation to the actual crop throughput; also a combine harvester with the control device for performing the method is proposed.

A communication system includes a portable machine having an identification code registered in a controlled object, the portable machine being capable of conducting wireless communications with the controlled object, and a portable terminal being capable of conducting noncontact wireless communications with the portable machine, wherein after noncontact wireless communications start between the portable machine and the portable terminal, the noncontact wireless communications are inhibited when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and then do not resume unless a specified instruction is given.

The invention relates to the use of flumazenil in developing a drug used for the sequential administration of small quantities of flumazenil at short intervals, until a therapeutically effective quantity is administered to treat alcohol dependence.

The present invention relates to a hair dryer in which the direction of a palm of a user gripping the hair dryer is same as the direction of wind blown from the hair dryer. A blowing pipe is coupled to a case and has an air outlet at one end. A heater for heating air is provided inside the case. A fan for blowing air toward the heater and the air outlet is provided inside the case. A grip part, which is designed to be gripped by a human hand, is coupled to a portion of the case opposite to the air outlet. A handle is mounted to the grip part so as to prevent the grip part from being released from the hand.

An image display method for a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus has a light source module for providing a light source. An original image including a plurality of original pixels is provided, wherein each original pixel is represented by a plurality of first gray levels. A histogram is established according to the first gray levels. An adjustment factor is established according to the histogram, and the brightness of the light source is adjusted according to the adjustment factor. A brightness factor is established, and the original pixels are transformed into a plurality of output pixels according to the brightness factor such that the display apparatus displays an output image according to the output pixels. Each of the output pixels is represented by a plurality of second gray levels, and each of the second gray levels is the product of the first gray level and the corresponding brightness factor.

An ink jet recording system includes a recovery device for maintaining and recovering performance of discharge from a plurality of discharge ports for discharging a plurality of different inks for recording, and a control device for controlling the apparatus such that a content of recovery by the recovery device for discharge ports not used for recording and a content of recovery by the recording device for discharge ports used for recording is different. The control device also controls the apparatus such that a content of recovery for a discharge port used for recording is based on whether a predetermined lapse time has passed since a previous recovery of the discharge port used for recording.

A method and apparatus is provided for selecting a memory device or a group of memory devices in a memory system using dedicated bank select signals in combination with encoded chip selection signals. A memory controller transmits bank select signals over bank select signal lines and encoded chip select signals on the command and address bus which are used to select an individual memory device or group of memory devices in a bank for an operation.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.

An optimum image selection method for a digital photograph device selecting an optimum image by driving a vibration detection sensor mechanism is provided. In continuous photography mode, as soon as capturing an image, it detects and records the vibration amount of the image, and then compares the presently detected vibration amount with the vibration amount of the image which is stored formerly, and if the vibration amount detected presently is smaller, the image captured presently will be stored, so the clearest image will be distinguished and retained immediately by using the vibration amount.

To provide a die cushion device which is inexpensive, functional, and capable of locking completely (at or below the slide bottom dead center). The die cushion device includes a cushion pad, a hydraulic cylinder that moves the cushion pad up and down, and a hydraulic closed circuit connected to a die cushion pressure generation chamber of the hydraulic cylinder. The hydraulic closed circuit includes a cushion pad lowering pressure generation line and a second system pressure line in addition to a die cushion pressure generation line and a first system pressure line. When the cushion pad is locked at the bottom dead center, the cushion pad lowering pressure generation chamber is connected to the first system pressure line, and the die cushion pressure generation chamber is connected to the second system pressure line such that the cushion pad is held at or below the slide bottom dead center.

A wearable device includes: a biological information detection unit which detects biological information of a user; a body motion detection unit which detects a body motion signal related to a movement of the user; a processing unit which generates notification information based on at least one type of information, of the biological information and the body motion signal; and a notification unit (display unit) which notifies the user of the notification information. The processing unit detects a movement state based on the body motion signal of the user. The processing unit performs processing (control) in which the notification unit is made to notify the user of the notification information if a first movement state included in the movement state is detected. The processing unit performs processing (control) in which the notification of the notification information by the notification unit is stopped if a second movement state is detected.

Provided are a pancreas perfusion apparatus capable of administering a drug only to the pancreas and strictly suppressing a leakage of the drug outside the pancreas and a method for controlling the same. The apparatus includes: a first vein occlusion section occluding a vein through which a venous blood from the pancreas flows; a second vein occlusion section occluding a vein into which a venous blood from collateral pathways outside the pancreas flows; an artery occlusion section occluding sites where an artery that nourishes the pancreas is connected to arteries that nourish other tissues; a drug administration section recovering a liquid upstream of the first vein occlusion section and supplying the recovered liquid to the artery; a systemic circulation section recovering a liquid upstream of the second vein occlusion section and feeding the recovered liquid into a systemic circulation; and a control device controlling the systemic circulation pump.

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a power source (9) at a rock drilling apparatus, said power source (9) being arranged to drive at least a first load (8,10,15) at the rock drilling apparatus, wherein said first load (8,10,15), in operation, provides power to a first consumer (11,21), and where the power that can be delivered by- said first load (8,10,15) depends on the rotation speed of the power source. The method includes, by means of a representation of said first consumer (11,21), determining a power demand of said first consumer (11,21), and based on said determined power demand, determine a rotation speed demand of said first load (8,10,15). The rotation speed of said power source is then controlled based at least on said determined rotation speed demand of said first load (8, 10, 15 ). The invention also relates to a system and a rock drilling apparatus.

Proposed are a method and apparatus for real-time location tracking using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the apparatus including: a first reception information receiver to receive first reception information of a tag signal from a plurality of RFID readers that receives the tag signal from an RFID tag; a reader group generator to select, from the plurality of RFID readers, at least three RFID readers based on the first reception information and generate an RFID reader group including the selected at least three RFID readers; and a location calculator to calculate a location of the RFID tag based on first reception information that is received from the at least three RFID readers included in the RFID reader group.

An on-the-fly error checking and correcting system and method of supporting a non-volatile memory processes data using an on-the-fly error correction method to be performed between a temporary memory and a flash memory. The flash memory stores actual data read from the temporary memory and parity generated on-the-fly in a write mode, and transmits the stored data to the temporary memory, computes a syndrome from the stored data on-the-fly, and generates an error correction information signal according to the result of computing in a read mode. Thus, error correction may only be selectively performed.

A printed color pattern is subjected to accurate colorimetry irrespective of the type of sheet to be used or the like, and further, sheet consumption is reduced. For the purpose of this, a printing apparatus includes: a print unit configured to perform printing on a sheet; a sensor configured to subject a color pattern formed on the sheet printed; and a mechanism configured to press the sheet against a reference surface at the time of the colorimetry by the sensor. In a case where the color pattern is printed, a position, at which the color pattern in a sheet movement direction is started to be printed, is varied based on the type of sheet to be used. After the color pattern is printed, the sheet is pressed by the mechanism in a state in which a part of the sheet including the sheet tip is suspended from the reference surface.

The present invention relates to a machine to machine communication (M2M) technique, and to a technique for changing an update period of location information in an M2M system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and a device for allowing a common service entity to dynamically set an update period of location information in an M2M system.

A GPS receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes: a GPS radio wave receiving unit that receives GPS radio waves; a walking state determination unit that determines a walking state of a wearer continuously for a predetermined interval; a storage unit that stores walking information determined by way of the walking state determination unit; a determination unit that determines whether being a state in which GPS radio waves can be received, based on a series of the walking states stored in the storage unit; and a control unit that causes reception of GPS radio waves to be carried out by way of the GPS radio wave receiving unit, in a case of being determined by way of the determination unit as being a state in which GPS radio waves can be received.

The process for controlling an electronic power component for piloting an opening and / or closure of this component. The piloting process includes a plurality of steps for controlling the application of a succession of different commutation voltages on a control electrode of the electronic power component between an instant when the piloting process begins and an instant when either the opening or the closure of the electronic power component is to stop. Passage from one commutation voltage to a successive commutation voltage in this piloting process is automatically effected as soon as a corresponding condition of passage is satisfied. The process further includes a step of interrupting the piloting process and immediately triggering off a process for safeguarding the integrity of the electronic power component if the component does not react to a commutation voltage within a predetermined time for the commutation voltage.