245 results about "Branching points" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for the production of a branched polycarbonate composition, having increased melt strength, by late addition of branch-inducing catalysts to the polycarbonate oligomer in a melt polycondensation process. Surprisingly, it has been found that by adding branch-inducing catalysts, such as alkali metal compounds and / or alkaline earth metal compounds, to the melt polycarbonate oligomer at a later stage of the melt polycondensation process, preferably after the oligomer has reached an average molecular weight of between about 3,000 and 30,000 g / mole, a unique branched polycarbonate composition is formed that has improved properties. It is believed that the addition of the branch-inducing catalysts at the later stages of the process produces a branched polycarbonate composition having longer chains between the branching points, and thus a new composition is produced. The invention also relates to various applications of the branched polycarbonate composition.

An antenna device and a radio apparatus are provided. The antenna device is configured to be coupled to a feeding point of the radio apparatus. The antenna device has a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first antenna element is configured to be an unbalanced-fed antenna fed at the feeding point to resonate at a first frequency. The second antenna element is configured to be a monopole antenna having an open end and to be fed at the feeding point. The first antenna element and the second antenna element have a common portion from the feeding point to a branching point. The second antenna element is configured to be ungrounded in a first state to resonate at a second frequency lower than the first frequency and to be grounded in a second state at a switch point between the branching point and the open end.

Systems and methods of monitoring packet delivery are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes querying multiple network devices for performance metrics corresponding to video data packets sent from a video server. The network devices may include multicast branching points between the video server and the destination. A delivery failure may be identified based on the performance metrics, and a response to the delivery failure may be initiated.

The present invention provides a device and a method for separating particles from fluids using ultrasound, laminar flow, and stationary wave effects comprisinga micro-technology channel system with an integrated branching point or branching fork, and a single ultrasound source. One of the characteristics of the invention is that the single ultrasound source, which generates the standing waves, excites the complete structure including the channel system. No special reflectors or the like are needed. Extremely thin dividers can separate the flow, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the device. The device could be manufactured in silicon and the ultrasound energy could preferably be delivered by a piezoelectric element.

A first evaporator evaporates refrigerant, which is outputted from an ejector. A refrigerant outlet of the first evaporator is connected to a suction inlet of a compressor, which is connected to a radiator. A branched passage branches a flow of the refrigerant at a corresponding branching point located between the radiator and the ejector. The branched passage conducts the branched flow of the refrigerant to a suction inlet of the ejector. A flow rate control valve is arranged in the branched passage between a radiator and an ejector on a downstream side of the radiator to depressurize refrigerant outputted from the radiator. A second evaporator is arranged in the first branched passage.

A device for manipulating particles present in a fluid medium is disclosed. The device comprises a planar substrate, formed with at least one primary microchannel to allow passage of the fluid medium therethrough. The primary microchannel(s) has walls and a base and being in fluid communication with a plurality of secondary microchannels via at least one branching point. The device further comprises one or more ultrasound transmission pairs, positioned at opposite sides of the walls to generate ultrasound waves propagating through the fluid medium, substantially parallel to the planar substrate, such as to form a standing wave within the primary microchannel.

A first evaporator evaporates refrigerant, which is outputted from an ejector. A refrigerant outlet of the first evaporator is connected to a suction inlet of a compressor, which is connected to a radiator. A branched passage branches a flow of the refrigerant at a corresponding branching point located between the radiator and the ejector. The branched passage conducts the branched flow of the refrigerant to a suction inlet of the ejector. A flow rate control valve is arranged in the branched passage between a radiator and an ejector on a downstream side of the radiator to depressurize refrigerant outputted from the radiator. A second evaporator is arranged in the first branched passage.

In an antenna device, a half wavelength dipole antenna is folded so as to form a forward path section, a folding section and a backward path section such that the backward path section is connected to the substrate at the ground terminal, and an electric power is supplied from the power supply source at the branching point, so as to configure a folding monopole antenna. Also, an additional antenna is folded similarly and connected to the monopole antenna such that the branching point and the power supply section are shared by the monopole antenna and the additional antenna.

A method for manufacturing the surgical device for removing a foreign object from a body and a retrieval basket of the device are described. The retrieval basket is adapted for entrapping and retaining the object located in the body. The basket comprises a structure having a proximal end and a distal end. The structure is formed by a plurality of filaments fabricated from a single or several wires. The filaments extend from the proximal end towards the distal end, and are bound together to define a plurality of strands. The strands ramify at corresponding branching points into loops having various shapes and sizes. At least a part of the loops are overlapped and / or interlaced so as to define a net, and thereby impart structural rigidity and dilatation ability to the basket when opened. The method of manufacturing the retrieval basket includes selecting at least one wire; weaving the basket from the wire by overlapping and / or interlacing the filaments so that to form a net at least in the vicinity of the distal end; and binding the filaments for forming a shape of the retrieval basket.

A small antenna operating in multiple modes including three or more modes. There are provided an antenna that includes a ground conductor having a ground potential, a single feeding point whose one end is formed by a part of the ground conductor, and a plurality of transmission lines to which RF power supplied to the feeding point is input, the transmission lines each radiating electromagnetic waves of three frequencies of three modes into space. These transmission lines comprises a transmission line 41 that is connected to the feeding point at one end and to a branching point at the other end, a transmission line connected between branching points, and transmission lines connected to the branching points. The lengths of the respective transmission lines are set so that impedance matching is performed at the feeding point with respect to a plurality of frequencies. The antenna is formed from an integrated metal plate.

In all-optical networks, optical switching and routing become the most important issues for interconnecting the transport network layers. This invention describes a novel tunable optical add / drop filter for the all-optical wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) network applications. This filter can add or drop part of the high transmission capacity signals of a WDM link. It can be used to decentralized access point in the access network or as small core network node to realizing branching points in the network topology. It works in both wavelength and space domains. It has the advantages of: 1) High throughput and low voltage operation; 2) Wide tuning range and therefore, high channel capacity; 3) High isolation and high directivity between input and output ports; 4) Compact device packaging is possible as compares to the conventional grating and mechanical switching type of add / drop filter; 5) Multiple ports add / drop tunable filters can be realized with this invention to interconnect multiple WDM networks. This novel add / drop filter can be used in various WDM topologies. It enhances the performance of the conventional tunable filter by re-routing the rejected wavelengths back to network, which not only save the precious optical energy, but also cut down the return loss of the device.

A crosstalk compensator provides for the compensation of mismatches in mutual coupling capacitances between adjacent parallel wire pairs. The aforementioned mismatch in mutual coupling capacitance may arise in a customer premises wiring system which may consist of at least the drop cable, cable run and / or receiver cable (from the service drop point to a digital device). Mismatches in the mutual coupling capacitances in the customer premises wiring system may give rise to undesirable levels of premises end crosstalk (PEXT) interference for which the crosstalk compensator has been designed to mitigate by providing a system and method for the connection of compensating capacitors between pairs of conductors selected from the plurality of subscriber loop conductors such that the mismatch is reduced or eliminated. The crosstalk compensator may be implemented in a variety of formats, including firmware or program code residing on a computer-readable medium, hardware, or a combination thereof.

A refrigerator and control method thereof, the refrigerator including a main body having a plurality of storage compartments, a compressor and a condenser which are provided in the main body, a plurality of evaporators corresponding to the respective storage compartments, a main refrigerant pipe to connect the compressor, the condenser and the evaporators in series, at least one branch refrigerant pipe which is branched between the condenser and one of the evaporators to be connected with an inlet of one of the remaining evaporators, and a selection valve which is provided on a branching point of the at least one branch refrigerant pipe to open and close the main refrigerant pipe and the at least one branch refrigerant pipe, respectively. The refrigerator adjusts a flow of a refrigerant flowing through respective evaporators according to preset temperatures of respective storage compartments in a refrigerator.

The invention discloses a strategy control method supporting a multi-homed protocol data unit session. The method comprises the steps as follows: a PCF receives a notification message sent by an SMF to the PCF after a branching point is introduced into a PDU session, wherein the carried PDU session is indication information of the multi-homed PDU session, and a first IP address newly distributed for UE; the PCF makes a first strategy for the PDU session and distributes the first strategy to the SMF, wherein the branching point is used for sending an uplink data packet of which the source address is the first IP address to a first anchoring point UPF selected by the SMF when the branching point is introduced, and sending an uplink data packet of which the source address is a second IP address to a second anchoring point UPF selected by the SMF when the PDU session is built, wherein the second IP address is distributed by the SMF to the UE when the PDU is built. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the strategy control of the multi-homed protocol data unit session can be achieved.

Disclosed are a method and system of conducting multi-location collaboration. The method comprises the steps of establishing a collaboration session among the multiple remote users, each of the users having a respective white board; and during the collaboration session, said multiple users exchanging audio, video, text and graphics among the multiple users via the white boards, said collaboration session including branching points and collaboration output between the branching points. The method comprises the further steps of defining each of the branching points as a respective one node, and recording nodes and segments of the collaboration session in near real time. Also, replay of any of the collaboration segments is enabled, said replay comprised of audio, video, text and graphics, and relationships among the nodes and the segments are graphically rendered.

The present inventions relates to a fundus imaging device integrated with a computer processing to comprise a fundus information processing apparatus and method for executing the same in order to produce a panoramic fundus image and to obtain blood vessel information of the fundus. The apparatus and method processes a first fundus image and a second fundus image acquired with a fundus imaging device. The fundus information processing apparatus and method extracts blood vessel shapes from the first and second fundus images, and identifies branching points of the blood vessel of the blood vessel shape through image processing. Further, a plurality of line segments are obtained by interconnecting two predetermined branching points and thereafter identification of two common line segments of the first and second fundus images. The apparatus and method determines relative positional relationship between the branching points constituting at least two of the line segments and thereafter performs comparison operation followed by an alignment operation. By the alignment a panoramic image of the plurality of fundus images is produced along with blood vessel information of the fundus.

In a vehicular navigation system, it is determined that a branching point is present along a guidance route within a given distance from a guidance intersection. It is then determined that approaching the branching point by using a natural exit lane results in entering a road that is not included in the guidance route, wherein the natural exit lane is included in an exit road exiting from the guidance intersection and exits naturally from the guidance intersection along the guidance route. Before entering the guidance intersection, it is suggested that a lane change be required after passing through the guidance intersection. Thus, in a case that a lane change is needed just after passing through the guidance intersection, a driver can respond with a sufficient time period.

A transceiving circuit (1) for contactless communication comprises transmitter means (3) to generate an electromagnetic carrier signal, to modulate the carrier signal according to transmitting data and to drive an antenna (5) with the modulated carrier signal, and receiver means (4) to sense response signals being received at the antenna (5) and to demodulate the response signals. The transmitter means (3) are connected to the antenna (5) by at least a first transmitting path (TX1), wherein a first DC decoupling capacitor (C1b) is switched into the first transmitting path (TX1). A receiving path (RX) branches off from the first transmitting path (TX1) to the receiver means (4). A second DC decoupling capacitor (C1c) is switched into the first transmitting path (TX1) in series to the first DC decoupling capacitor (C1b). The receiving path (RX) branches off from the first transmitting path (TX1) at a branching point (C) between the first and second DC decoupling capacitors (C1b, C1c).

A latent curing agent for an epoxy resin containing a curing agent (A) for an epoxy resin and a resin coating said curing agent (A) for an epoxy resin, wherein the resin coating said curing agent (A) for an epoxy resin comprises a structure in which two of the structure (structure (1)) are bonded via a urea bonding, the structure (1) being obtained by bonding three sulfur atoms at a branching point via a linear or cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon group optionally containing an ester structure, wherein at least one of nitrogen atoms of each structure (1) is incorporated into said urea bonding; and a one component epoxy resin composition using the latent curing agent. The above one component epoxy resin composition which can exhibit high curability and storage stability in combination. The above latent curing agent can suitably used for producing the one component epoxy resin composition, which can provide an anisotropic electroconductive material, an electroconductive adhesive material, an insulating adhesive material, a sealing material or the like which exhibits high storage stability, and also exhibits high adhesion reliability and adhesive strength and high sealability.

The guideway-based transportation system includes a guideway and a mating vehicle. The guideway includes a main guideway section that may branch at a branch point into two separate branch sections. The guideway has a suitable geometry to support and guide the vehicle at any speed reasonably associated with such a transportation system. The vehicle includes both support and guide wheels to support the weight of the vehicle and to maintain contact between the vehicle and the guideway as it moves along the guideway, and may optionally include a switching wheel assembly for switching the path of travel of the vehicle from the main guideway section to either of the branch sections.

The structures of blood vessels can be segmented from a medical image, and the segmentation is significant for research and diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases. In a conventional blood vessel extracting method, a large amount of labor force are engaged in the operation and calculated amount of related algorithms is large. The invention provides a method for tracking and extracting blood vessels from an angiography image full-automatically. The method comprises the steps of detecting a large amount of seed points which are located on central lines of blood vessels automatically based on the fact that blood vessels in the image is subjected to multi-scale ridge strengthening and calculating original tracking directions of the blood vessels; acquiring a candidate central line assembly through a method in which ridge points are tracked and extracted on the central lines of the blood vessels and rejecting false blood vessel central lines; and finally, analyzing discrete points on the central lines, and determining which point is a branching point of a blood vessel and calculating blood vessel diameter length corresponding to a ridge point on a central line of the blood vessel. The algorithm is high in operating speed, a topological structure of blood vessels can be extracted accurately without manual intervention, and the method can be used in a clinical diagnosis and treatment process of cardiovascular diseases.

In a vehicle having an air-conditioning system and a heat source, wherein a common medium for cooling and heating is used in the air-conditioning system and the heat source, and which includes means for expanding and compressing the medium in a medium circuit, the medium circuit includes a first branch which extends between a combining point and a branching point, where the medium circuit branches off into a first sub-circuit extending through the heat source, and a second sub-circuit extending through the air-conditioning system, and the sub-circuits are combined again at the combining point, and a compressor and a first heat exchanger cooled by ambient air are arranged in the first branch between the combining point and the branch point.

This present invention serves to simplify manufacture of a contactless data transmission device (50). This device (50) has an electrically insulating carrier (1), a circuit element arranged on the carrier (1) made from a continuous antenna conductor track (2) in the form of at least one spiral winding (4, 5, 6) and respectively one terminal contact (15, 16) at the ends thereof as well as an electronic component (3) with at least two contact points (11, 12) electrically connected with the circuit element. The electronic component (3) is placed in a mounting region (10) above the at least one spiral winding (4, 5, 6). The at least two contact points (11, 12) of the component (3) are electrically connected with a respective terminal contact (15, 16) of the antenna conductor track (2). At least one spiral winding (4, 5, 6) is branched outside the mounting region (10) between two respective branching points (7′, 7″; 8′, 8″; 9′, 9″) into at least two spiral winding branches (4′, 4″; 5′, 5″; 6′, 6″). The data transmission device (50) is a component part of a valuable and / or security document (100).

The present invention relates to communication field, wherein an embodiment of the invention discloses an ECMP path soft recovery method in a MPLS-TP packet transfer network. The embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps: realizing functions of congestion discovering, congestion positioning, etc. by the expanded OAM information; transmitting TDM grouping dynamic clock by MPLS-TP for adjusting operation; path cracking of the bypass heavy routing; when congestion occurs, firstly adjusting TDM service data grouping length through a source end for improving the delay characteristic; adopting a local service for shunting to the service with overhigh speed for steering clear of the congestion routing; if local link resource is insufficient, informing the source end for adjusting the bandwidth allocation, allocating higher bandwidth resource on the other N-1 paths; if no enough resources can be allocated or the allocated resources are not adjusted under the principle of simplifying the operation, informing the routing module by the source end, and completing the calculation of the other routing through the mode of incremental computation according to the bandwidth request amount. The method of the invention reduces the time for recovering network congestion. The network flexibility can be enhanced through the mode of self-adapting grouping variable-length transmission, and the using efficiency of the protected resource is increased. The quick performance recovery of the service is realized through the mode of bypass heavy routing cracking. The quick combining operation at the branching point is completed with a special numbering and a signaling process.

A vehicle control device includes: a first recognizer recognizing, in the vicinity of a first vehicle, a plurality of second vehicles; a second recognizer recognizing a road shoulder of a road on which the first vehicle is present; and a controller executing driving control of controlling one or both of steering and acceleration / deceleration of the first vehicle, wherein the controller sets a degree of monitoring of one of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder in a section from a branching point to a point a predetermined distance from the branching point, to be higher than another of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder out of the section.

A vehicle navigation method, comprising the following steps: receiving the current position information of the vehicle from a satellite positioning processor, and connecting to a network communication unit to receive the current position information of the vehicle if there is no satellite signal; generating a planned route according to the current position of the vehicle, map information and destination; Judging whether the distance between the current position of the vehicle and the nearest bifurcation point in front of the planned path is less than the preset distance, if not, return to the step of receiving the current position information of the vehicle; the direction sensing unit and the height sensing unit sense and record Vehicle driving direction and height change; compare whether the direction and height change information is the same as the direction and height information of the correct path, and send a warning message if they are not the same. The invention also provides a vehicle navigation device. The present invention can provide critical and real-time path direction and height change judgments, so as to prevent drivers from driving to wrong paths at critical path bifurcation points.

The invention relates to an electrical wiring system for the drive unit in automobiles, especially for a combustion engine having a transmission, comprising a central distribution unit (1), first electrical connections (8,9) between the vehicle and the distribution unit (1), second electrical connections (3) between the distribution unit (1) and the functional units (4) of the drive unit (7) or in the surrounding engine area, wherein the first (8, 9) and the second (3) electrical connections are configured as electrically non-branching point-to-point connections, the interconnections (10) between the first and the second electrical connections are configured in the central distribution unit, the central distribution unit (1) is mounted on the drive unit (7) and the central distribution unit (7) comprises a control platform (6) with at least one electronic control module (5).

A method for classifying a plant leaf by utilizing the feature points of venation has been developed. A sample image of the venation can be extracted by utilizing a Curvature Scale Space (CSS) Corner Detection Algorithm. The sample image is treated to thicken the venation and increase the contrast through the retrieval unit prior to applying the Canny Edge Detection technology. The feature point, Branching Point and End Point is detected at each point where the calculated curvature angle is a local maximum. The distribution of the feature points of the extracted venation is calculated by applying a Parzen Window non-parametric estimation method.