91 results about "Bias effect" patented technology

The present invention is directed to an electro-magnetophoresis display having either the traditional up/down or dual switching mode. The display cells are filled with an electro-magnetophoretic dispersion comprising particles suspended in a solvent and the particles are both charged and magnetized.

The display of the invention prevents undesired movement of the particles in the cells. The magnetic force generated by the magnetic layer(s) eliminates the need to provide cells with a threshold voltage high enough to avoid the cross talk and/or cross bias effects. In addition, the dual switching mode allows the particles to move in the up/down direction as well as the planar direction, thus providing a multicolor display of high color quality at very low cost.

The invention provides a temperature measurement correction system and method for a thermal infrared imager. The system includes an infrared optical module, a plane black body and a high and low temperature box arranged in the thermal infrared imager, wherein a focal plane of the to-be-corrected thermal infrared imager is aligned with the plane black body through the infrared optical module, radiation of the plane black body is uniformly irradiated on the focal plane, a preset distance between the to-be-corrected thermal infrared imager and the plane black body is kept, the to-be-corrected thermal infrared imager is placed in the high and low temperature box for preheating, and subsequent calibration is performed after the temperature is stabilized. The system is advantaged in that the distance of a measured object is compensated by an optical system, influence of surface emissivity of the measured object and the environment temperature on temperature measurement is compensated by thecorrection method, the thermal infrared imager is made to be more adaptable to the measured object and the environment, gain and the bias effect of the thermal infrared imager on external radiation under different temperatures are accurately calibrated, a temperature measurement error caused by temperature change of an instrument in the temperature measurement process is avoided, an additional device such as a shutter is not needed for calibration, and the structure of the instrument is simplified.

A bicycle carrier provides a rotatable beam on which are mounted foldable support arms having first wheel support means for engaging and entrapping the upper peripheral regions of the wheels of a bicycle, the beam being rotatable into a bicycle carriage mode vertically above the vehicle when the arms are in an arm deployed position and lockable in that position. Resiliently-biased detent means are associated with the support arms mountings for positively locking the arms in the deployed position in relation to the beam, simple movement against the bias effecting disengagement.

The present invention is directed to an electro-magnetophoresis display having either the traditional up/down or dual switching mode. The display cells are filled with an electro-magnetophoretic dispersion comprising particles suspended in a solvent and the particles are both charged and magnetized. The display of the invention prevents undesired movement of the particles in the cells. The magnetic force generated by the magnetic layer(s) eliminates the need to provide cells with a threshold voltage high enough to avoid the cross talk and/or cross bias effects. In addition, the dual switching mode allows the particles to move in the up/down direction as well as the planar direction, thus providing a multicolor display of high color quality at very low cost.

The invention relates to a photocatalytic wastewater fuel cell capable of strengthening a free radical reaction. The photocatalytic wastewater fuel cell comprises a photo-anode, a cathode, persistent organic pollutant wastewater, a light source, an electrolyte solution, a quartz reaction pool and an air vent, wherein the photo-anode and the cathode are respectively inserted into the electrolyte solution, which contains the persistent organic pollutant wastewater, in the quartz reaction pool, and are connected by an external circuit; 0.1-0.4mM ferrous ions are added into the electrolyte solution, and the pH value is adjusted to be 1.0-4.0; the cathode is close to the air vent which is continuously filled with air; the light source is turned on for irradiating the photo-anode and the cathode; the ferrous ions have a Fenton-like circular reaction with free radicals and related substances which are generated on the surfaces of the photo-anode and the cathode under the automatic bias effect of the photocatalytic fuel cell, so that the free radical reaction in a system is strengthened, and the performance of the photocatalytic fuel cell is greatly improved. The invention provides a more efficient and economical wastewater treatment and energy recovery method, and has a wide application prospect.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of integrated circuit, specifically to a MOS switching circuit with broadband and high linearity. A MOS switch is the main body of the circuit; a grid voltage bootstrap circuit is used for stabilizing a switching tube grid source voltage; a substrate bias effect and a switch source drain parasitic junction capacitance are eliminated by isolating a substrate and enabling the substrate to follow an input signal when the switch is conducted; influences of the parasitic junction capacitance between the substrate and an isolated trap by a pre-charge-suspension structure. The main non-ideal factors of non-linearity generated by a common MOS switch are eliminated by the three aspects; and the linearity of the switch under high, middle and low frequency input signals is improved.

In a method to correct noise effects in magnetic resonance (MR) images, which is executed in a processor (computer), the processor executes a fitting algorithm in order to calculate initial values for each of selected variables in signal model that models noise effects in a modeled, noise-containing MR image. The processor then iteratively executes the same or a different fitting algorithm, in order to generate final values for each of the selected variables. The processor is provided with an actual, acquired MR image that contains noise, and the processor uses the final values of the selected variables to calculate synthetic signal intensities in the MR image, thereby producing a synthetic MR image with no noise bias effects of errors. This synthetic image is made available in electronic form at an output of the processor, as a data file.

The invention provides a CMOS gate voltage bootstrapping switch circuit which comprises a charge pump circuit, a gate electrode charge and discharge circuit, an input buffering circuit and a switch circuit. The charge pump circuit is electrically connected to the gate electrode charge and discharge circuit. The gate electrode charge and discharge circuit is electrically connected to the switch circuit. The input buffering circuit is arranged between the gate electrode charge and discharge circuit and the switch circuit. According to the invention, the input buffering circuit is adopted to drive a charge pump circuit. Such a design greatly reduces the input of parasitic capacitance because the input buffering circuit separates the inputted signal from an inputting end and the charge pump circuit. Beyond that, the CMOS gate voltage bootstrapping circuit provided by the invention overcomes the problems that a conventional CMOS gate voltage bootstrapping circuit only achieves constant gate-source voltage Vgs of a switching tube and omits a substrate bias effect to cause the non-linearity introduced by Vth change .

A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a voltage controlled oscillation circuit that is capable of sufficient oscillation performance and a wireless communication device having the semiconductor integrated circuit device are disclosed. A difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the oscillation output signal is automatically controlled to be substantially equal to the first predetermined voltage which is the threshold voltage of the oscillation MOSFET for sufficient phase noise performance. It is further disclosed that the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the oscillation output signal may be varied by the change of the threshold voltage of the MOSFET caused by substrate bias effect, while maintaining the sufficient phase noise performance.

The invention discloses a high frequency switch circuit for inhibiting substrate bias effect in a sampling hold circuit, comprising a first substrate bias-inhibiting high frequency switch unit, a second substrate bias-inhibiting high frequency switch unit and a transmission gate switch, wherein the first substrate bias-inhibiting high frequency switch unit consists of two NMOS (N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistors and two PMOS (P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistors, the second substrate bias-inhibiting high frequency switch unit consists of two NMOS transistors and two PMOS transistors and the transmission gate switch consists of one NMOS transistor and one PMOS transistor. In the high frequency switch circuit, because a feed through signal introduced by a switch parasitic capacitor can be grounded through a by-pass, the variation of the input end does not affect the output end after the switch is turned off, thereby the hold function of high precision is realized. The switch design of inhibiting the substrate bias effect is utilized. Because the variation of a threshold voltage caused by the inequality of a substrate and a source electric potential is inhibited, the linearity of the equivalent resistance of the switch circuit is better and the signal-to-noise distortion ratio of the circuit is improved.

The invention discloses a novel Si-APD (Silicon-Avalanche Photo Diode) device. The novel Si-APD device comprises a first single Si-APD and a second single Si-APD which are arranged adjacently in parallel, wherein the first single Si-APD corresponds to a light window and serves as a light detection unit; the second single Si-APD is set in backlight and serves as a breakdown voltage detection unit; the first single Si-APD and the second single Si-APD share the same negative pole. Based on the principle that the properties of adjacent devices in the integrated circuit technology are consistent with each other, and paired Si-APDs are adopted; the first single Si-APD is used for detecting light and the second single Si-APD serves as the breakdown voltage detection unit; an optimal bias effect can be achieved, just by means of detecting the dark current of the second single Si-APD, stabilizing the value of the dark current via a negative feedback control loop, and utilizing the voltage when the value of the dark current is maintained at a set value to serve as the work bias voltage of the first single Si-APD, so that the complicacy problem of the traditional dynamic bias is solved, the complicacy degree and cost of a distance measuring system are lowered, and the novel Si-APD device is simple and practical.

The invention discloses a method for determining harmonic instability of a single-circuit high-voltage direct-current power transmission system. The method is characterized in that the direct-current magnetic bias effect of transformers is taken into account, a direct-current magnetic bias coefficient is introduced to the process of derivation, a negative sequence impedance parameter of the alternating-current side is omitted, and only positive sequence secondary impedance of the alternating-current side and fundamental frequency impedance of the direct-current side are adopted to determine whether the system suffers from harmonic instability. A novel method for determining whether a single-circuit high-voltage direct-current system suffers from harmonic instability is put forward.

The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for detecting biasing effects induced by one or more biasing entities when using a quantum representation of like-minded subjects and their shared contextualizations of propositions. Like-minded subjects are understood to be any sentient beings, e.g., human beings, that use shared contextualizations modulo certain propositions and exhibit analogous measurable indications in response to these propositions. Measureable indications can take on the form of responses, actions, behaviors or any measurable aspects that can be collected from the subjects in response to the propositions. Contextualizations that are mutually incompatible are represented by non-commuting quantum mechanical operators while compatible contextualizations are represented by commuting quantum mechanical operators.

The invention provides a design method of an analog switch chip which controls the time sequence by a clock circuit and controls the work of the substrate bias canceling circuit of a main switch MOS in a standard CMOS technique analog switch circuit by an additional switch module. The invention also provides a chip device which comprises a standard CMOS technique analog switch circuit, a substrate bias canceling circuit, an additional switch module and a clock circuit. The substrate bias canceling circuit is connected with the substrate of the main switch MOS; a secondary switch provided by the additional switch module is respectively connected with the substrate bias canceling circuit and a power supply voltage; the clock circuit provides a chip device control time sequence. The analog switch chip of the invention improves the bandwidth of the analog switch as well as the turn-off isolation and charge injection properties of the analog switch, which simultaneously ensures the substrate bias effect to be cancelled and improves the conducting impendence property.

When the substrate bias voltage Vbb lowers by the pumping operation of the charge pump circuit, a drain-to-source resistance of the N-transistor becomes high. When a first power supply voltage Vcc is set at high value, a drain-to-source current of the N-transistor increases (I+ΔI1), however the drain-to-source current decreases (I+ΔI1−ΔI2) by the increase of the drain-to-source current owing to the substrate bias effect so that the increase of the potential of the node N34 caused by the increase of the first power supply voltage VCC is restrained. As a result, a reference level of the substrate bias voltage Vbb does not largely lower than the reference level of the substrate bias voltage Vbb when the first power supply voltage VCC is in a standard level.

The invention discloses a device and a method for correcting pixel output nonlinear response of an image sensor. The device comprises a photosensitive pixel array, a dark pixel, a photosensitive pixel row selection switch, a dark pixel switch, a photosensitive pixel bias current source, a dark pixel bias current source, a linear circuit, a simulating line reading circuit and a row selection and exposure control decoder. Compared with traditional image sensors, a nonlinear correcting circuit formed by the dark pixel and the linear circuit is added, the correcting circuit occupies smaller chip area, effectively restrains nonlinear problems caused by substrate bias effects, linearity of pixel output signals and imaging quality of image sensors are improved greatly.

A semiconductor device (100) includes a MOS transistor (10) having a back gate region “a”, a first region “b” serving as one of a source region and a drain region, and a second region “c” serving as the other of the source region and the drain region. The semiconductor device further includes an input terminal (20) connected to the first region “b” and to which an input voltage is applied from outside the semiconductor device (100), an output terminal (30) connected to the second region “c” and outputting an output voltage outside the semiconductor device (100), and a back gate control circuit (40) for applying the input voltage or the output voltage to the back gate region “a”. With this configuration of the semiconductor device having the output MOS transistor, even when a reverse bias is applied between the input and the output terminal, the terminals are insulated from each other and lowering of the drain current by the substrate bias effect can be suppressed.