126 results about "Cold spot" patented technology

Personal video recorders (PVRs) contain many desirable features, including the ability to skip undesirable portions of a recorded broadcast program. Disclosed is a method and system for a PVR user to share with other users tags identifying desirable program portions or segments (“Hot-Spots”) and undesirable segments (“Cold-Spots”). Other users are able to either automatically or manually to adjust the replay of the program based on the tags.

Personal video recorders (PVRs) contain many desirable features, including the ability to skip undesirable portions of a recorded broadcast program. Disclosed is a method and system for a PVR user to share with other users tags identifying desirable program portions or segments (“Hot-Spots”) and undesirable segments (“Cold-Spots”). Other users are able to either automatically or manually to adjust the replay of the program based on the tags.

A device for connecting a source of electrical power to a coating or film incorporating carbon particles, an objective met by providing a coating of a nickel compound to the coating or film of carbon particles, and applying to the nickel coating a tin-copper tape coated with a silver-loaded conductive adhesive. What results is a uniform heating effect over a relatively wide area, substantially free from hot and cold spots or areas.

An embodiment of the invention provides a data processing method, a data processing device and a data processing system. The data processing method includes: acquiring data writing requests comprising to-be-written data blocks containing heat attribute and compression attribute, writing the data blocks into corresponding target storage areas according to the heat attribute and the compression attribute, wherein the heat attribute includes a hot spot, a warm spot or a cold spot, the compression attribute includes a compressible attribute or non-compressible attribute. Accordingly, reading hit rate of data in cache or hot spot data disk is increased by utilizing data compression technology.

A modulator for radiation therapy provides modulation of an area beam to decrease treatment time. Separate channels passing modulated “beamlets” are possible by spacing the channels such that spreading of the beams and multiple angles of treatment eliminate cold spots. The space between the channels allows well-defined channel walls and space for modulator mechanisms.

A machine wraps packages such as bales of crumb rubber, or other containers of goods, into a protective synthetic resin film bag or cover. The machine is provided with a set of movable jaws each having a heat-sealing frame assembly having improved heat transfer characteristics. The heat-sealing frame assembly is composed of heat sealing units which have enhanced heat distribution and reduced cold spot or no-seal areas, and also reduced hot spot burn-through. Heat transfer from the heat sealing elements to the remaining portions of the baling assembly is also reduced.

The invention relates to a polysilicon ingot casting method with low defect and high output and a thermal field structure thereof. The thermal field structure comprises a thermal insulation cover system, a crucible system, split resistance heaters, a support part and a cooling device, wherein the three heaters are independently and separably controlled to lower energy consumption to the maximum degree and bring convenience for regulating a crystal growth interface, thereby obtaining an evener crystal growth interface, improving crystal quality and solving the later-stage cooling problem of the crystal growth because of the increase of the height of the ingot casting. A support block with the unique design and a cooling device are combined to realize the purpose of local cooling, so that the local position on the bottom of a crucible generates cold spots at the early stage of the crystal growth; nucleation is carried out firstly to reduce nucleation spots, and lateral temperature gradient is obtained to provide the necessary condition for the lateral growth of the crystal nucleus; crystalline grains are enlarged to reduce a crystal boundary to the large extent; and microdefects, such as dislocation and the like, are lowered.

The embodiment of the invention provides a CDN file storage method, a file distribution control center and a system thereof, and relates to the field of network multimedia technology. According to the invention, reasonable storage modes can be flexibly allocated for files according to types of the files. Thus, visit pressure of a content distribution system is balanced; system resources are utilized reasonably; network congestion is relieved; system overloads are avoided; and performance of a CDN system is raised. The method comprises the following steps: the file distribution control center acquires files to be stored; the file distribution control center judges types of the files to be stored; if the files to be stored are cold-spot files, the file distribution control center sends a first file storage message to a storage node so as to make a server of the storage node store the cold-spot files; and if the files to be stored are hotspot files or ultra-hotspot files, the file distribution control center sends a second file storage message to the storage node and an edge node so as to make the storage node and the edge node store the hotspot files or ultra-hotspot files.

A diesel particulate filter including a microwave-absorbing target within a waveguide cavity. The cavity accepts microwave-frequency electromagnetic radiation through input couplers 90 degrees out of phase with each other to excite circular polarization heating modes. Through excitation of circularly polarized modes, heating patterns are time-averaged azimuthally to smooth out the hot and cold spots, thereby providing greater uniformity relative to heating patterns for corresponding linearly polarized modes.

The present invention is a fluorescent light lumen regulating apparatus. More specifically, in one aspect, the present invention is a fluorescent lighting assembly for mounting at least one fluorescent lamp. In this aspect, the lighting assembly comprises a lamp housing. In another aspect, the invention further comprises a thermal dissipater to selectively dissipate heat from the fluorescent lamp to the ambient air to maintain the temperature of the cold spot of the fluorescent lamp within a predetermined temperature range.

A system and method for sensing and controlling the temperature of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system utilizes an infrared sensor. The infrared sensor is used to detect temperature over several different areas on an evaporator surface on which a cold spot may occur. More preferably, the infrared sensor continuously scans the whole surface on the air outlet side of the evaporator. The sensed temperature is used to detect any cold spots that may dynamically form on the evaporator surface. The system is controlled in response to the detected temperature.

There is provided a stage structure which can prevent the formation of a cool spot in the central portion of a stage, thereby preventing breakage of the stage, and can enhance the in-plane uniformity of heat treatment of a processing object.The stage structure, provided in a treatment container of a heat treatment apparatus, for placing thereon a semiconductor wafer W as a processing object to be heat treated, includes: a stage 52 for placing the processing object on it; and a cylindrical support post 54 jointed to the center of the lower surface of the stage and supporting the stage. A heat reflecting section 56 is provided at an upper position within the support post and close to the lower surface of the stage. The use of the heat reflecting section 56 prevents the formation of a cool spot in the central portion of the stage 54.

A compact fluorescent lamp having an arc tube is disclosed. The arc tube comprises: at least a first tube part and a second tube part connected to each other through a transverse connecting tube portion including a cold spot. The lamp further comprises an outer bulb enclosing the arc tube. A clip member is adapted to clip to the connecting tube portion. The clip member is for providing heat dissipation from the cold spot and for providing resilient positioning for the arc tube along a longitudinal axis of the lamp. The clip member is comprised of:at least one gripping section adapted to clip on said connecting tube portion diametrically around, and made of a curved resilient metallic strip;at least two resilient outward tags protruding out from the gripping section in different directions for providing flexible support on an inner surface portion of the outer bulb. The outward tags are made of metal and having contacting sections for sprung contact onto the inner surface portion of the outer bulb.

A modulator for radiation therapy provides modulation of an area beam to decrease treatment time. Separate channels passing modulated “beamlets” are possible by spacing the channels such that spreading of the beams and multiple angles of treatment eliminate cold spots. The space between the channels allows well-defined channel walls and space for modulator mechanisms.

An improved fuser includes a heater which provides uniformity at the surface of a fuser roll that contacts an imaged sheet. The heater is configured to include a single resistive element shaped to heat multiple sheet sizes with independently controllable conductive traces connected to outer segments of the resistive element and adapted to supply electricity to separate sections of the resistive element in accordance with the size of sheet being fed through the fuser center registered and without the need for cold spot compensation.

A heat retaining sleeve for raising the cold spot temperature of a fluorescent lamp is comprised of a base end, a distal end, and a sleeve body sized and shaped to fit over the end of a fluorescent lamp or lamps where the lamp's cold spot exists. The sleeve creates a heat retaining air gap between the inner surface of the sleeve body and the lamp end or ends with the cold spot, and has sufficient length to so that, when fitted over the lamp end or ends, the cold spot temperature is elevated to a temperature that increase the lumen output of the fitted fluorescent lamp or lamps.

This invention relates to efficiently regenerating catalyst particles by minimizing the formation of localized “hot spots” and “cold spots” in a regeneration zone. In one embodiment, the invention includes mixing spent catalyst from a reactor and cold catalyst from a catalyst cooler in a mixing zone and directing the mixed catalyst to the regeneration zone in a fluidized manner with a fluidizing medium. In the regeneration zone, the mixed catalyst contacts an oxygen-containing regeneration medium under conditions effective to regenerate the spent catalyst contained therein.

A method of mutagenesis by which a predetermined amino acid is introduced into each and every position of a selected set of positions in a preselected region (or several different regions) of a polypeptide to produce a library of polypeptide analogs is disclosed. The method is based on the premise that certain amino acids play a crucial role in the structure and function of proteins and thus is capable of identifying and distinguishing functional amino acid residues (“hot spots”) from non-functional amino acids residues (“cold spots”) within a polypeptide or portion thereof. Libraries can be generated which contain only desired polypeptide analogs and are of reasonable size for screening. The libraries can be used to study the role of specific amino acids in polypeptide structure and function and to develop new or improved polypeptides such as antibodies, antibody fragments, single chain antibodies, enzymes, and ligands.

A housing for a microcell base station is provided that includes independent, selectively controlled heating elements for maintaining a desired range of operational temperatures within the housing. In particular, temperatures within the housing are sensed at different regions so as to provide a more accurate sensing of the temperature within the housing for independent control of the heating elements, despite hot or cold spots in the housing or the like.

The invention provides a method and a device for presenting virtual gift in a multi-anchor live broadcasting room, wherein the method comprises the following steps: according to a random presenting virtual gift instruction sent by a user client in the multi-anchor live broadcasting room, randomly selecting a user client to receive the virtual gift from a candidate user client in the multi-anchor live broadcasting room; playing an animation that presents a virtual gift to a user client that accepts the virtual gift. By randomly selecting a user client that accepts a virtual gift, after randomlydetermining the goal of gift-giving, the animation of gift-giving is played, so that the user can realize random gift-giving, and the user can be provided with random selection under the condition that the user is not sure which anchor to give the gift to, so as to solve the problem that the audience often falls into the confusion of selection when the audience does not know which anchor to choose as the object of gift-giving. At the same time, the application can also help the users in the multi-anchor live broadcast room to select a temporary topic center in a random gift mode, so as to achieve the beneficial effect of breaking the cold spot.

The invention discloses a data behavior based low-energy consumption cluster storage replication device and method. The data behavior based low-energy consumption cluster storage replication device comprises a metadata server and a storage server. The storage server is composed of a hot node set and a cold node set. The data behavior based low-energy consumption cluster storage replication method includes that the hot node set is in a normally open state to store hot spot data frequently accessed by clients and provides QoS (quality of service) guarantee for a storage system; the cold node set stores cold spot data containing large amount of data and seldom accessed by the clients, automatically transfers into a dormant state in the absence of requests, and immediately switches back to a working state to process requests once arriving. Since data access behaviors of the clients are subject to a 80 / 20 rule, that is, 80% of the requests concentrate on 20% of the hot spot data, while only 20% of the requests access to 80% of the cold spot data. By the method, energy consumption of a system can be greatly reduced on condition that the quality of service of storage cluster system performance is guaranteed.

The invention discloses a heat dissipation method and device for a stage lamp and the stage lamp. A gravity sensor is arranged in the stage lamp and is used for judging and recognizing the change angle of a bulb and feeds back the information to an integrated circuit control panel, the integrated circuit control panel controls a motor to change the air direction of a fan, and then the heat of a bulb ball body can be uniformly dissipated. According to the heat dissipation method, the high heat dissipation requirement of high-power platinum cup bulbs can be met, the heat of bulb ball bodies can be dissipated uniformly, great temperature difference between the upper part and the lower part can be avoided, cold spots can be avoided, the use requirement of the bulb can be met, and the service life of the bulb can be prolonged.

A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a network of wireless remote climate sensors to develop a complete heat map of an enclosed space. The remote climate sensor is configured to collect temperature and humidity data on a zone of the enclosed space. The HVAC system uses a network of these sensors to obtain data points across the enclosed space. The resulting heat map is used by the HVAC system to determine where to direct air in the enclosed space. By comparing the temperature and humidity at a specific remote climate sensor with the user's desired temperature and humidity, the HVAC system can decide whether to increase or decrease the air flow through a variable damper that is located near the remote climate sensor. By conducting this analysis throughout the enclosed space and making incremental adjustments to the air flow in hot and cold spots in the enclosed space, the disclosed HVAC system provides even comfort to the user along with reduced energy consumption.

Targeted temperature compensation for use with a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) apparatus. A localized temperature monitoring system is configured to provide localized temperature information representing surface temperatures of portions of the one or more wafers on a wafer carrier while the wafer carrier is rotating in a CVD process. A temperature profiling system is configured to generate a temperature profile that is indicative of localized cold spots on a surface of the one or more wafers. The temperature profile is based on the localized temperature information. A targeted heating system is configured to selectively apply localized heat to the localized cold spots dynamically based on the temperature profile such that a thermal distribution of the surface of the one or more wafers is made more uniform while a CVD process is carried out on the CVD apparatus.

Provided is a direct heating tube which has a sufficient heating rate and a sufficient cooling rate, and has no cold spots therein, making it possible to ensure a uniform temperature distribution in the whole part thereof or a temperature distribution having a desired temperature gradient, and making it possible to keep constant the temperature of a fluid which is caused to flow through the tube or to give a desired change to the temperature of the fluid. Provided also is a direct heating tube which does not exert an adverse influence on devices near the tube, such as a detector and an oven, even by heating the tube. In a desired portion of the tube to be heated, a second heated tube connected to a first heated tube is provided outside the first heated tube, and an electrode portion is connected to the second heated tube.

A warming gas flows through a jacket to heat an insufflation gas flowing in a separate tube, thereby reducing cost and disposable waste. The heated warming gas may be filtered to sterilize or maintain sterility and released to atmosphere after heating the flowing insufflation gas. Alternatively the warming gas may be reheated and recirculated through the jacket, with an additional tube being used within the jacket so that the warming gas flows in both directions lengthwise. The insufflation gas may be carbon dioxide and the warming gas may be room air. The heating element and sensors may be separate from the disposable unit of a heated insufflation set, and need not be re-sterilized prior to or after use in surgery. The heat is constantly maintained, thereby eliminating “cold spots” caused by the natural cycling of the resistance heaters due to the nature of the operation being preformed on the patient.

The invention provides a population genetic evolution map and a construction method thereof. The construction method comprises the following steps: selecting a recombined cold spot region; constructing a phylogenetic tree by utilizing the SNP sites of the recombined cold spot region; performing clustering analysis on the phylogenetic tree, and determining an evolution relationship between speciesso as to obtain a population genetic evolution map. According to the method, the phylogenetic tree is constructed by selecting SNP sites of the recombined cold spot region (such as a centromere region); on one hand, due to low recombination occurrence rate and stable inheritance between parents and filial generations, the genetic evolution relationship is clear, the constructed phylogenetic tree is more accurate, and on the other hand, the number of SNP sites in the selected sequence is smaller than that of whole genome sequences and is more and more comprehensive than that of SNP sites in a haplotype analysis method. Therefore, the phylogenetic tree can be quickly and accurately constructed.

A single-ended arc discharge vessel for a metal halide lamp includes a U-shaped arc discharge chamber that has two juxtaposed subchambers with a divider wall therebetween and a passageway around the divider wall that connects the two subchambers to each other. The vessel has two parallel electrodes in a same end of the vessel that is opposite the passageway. Each of the electrodes extends into a respective one of the two subchambers a distance less than a height of the divider wall so that the arc discharge between the electrodes is U-shaped. This arrangement moves the vessel cold spot away from the electrodes to permit higher operating temperatures and increases arc gap length for a given vessel size to permit a higher lamp voltage.

The present invention discloses a file storage method and a server for implementing the storage method. The file storage method comprises the following steps: determining whether an externally transmitted to-be-stored file is received or a preset interval time period is reached; if the externally transmitted to-be-stored file is received, determining whether the to-be-stored file is a cold spot file, a hot spot file or a super hot spot file; if the to-be-stored file is the cold spot file, storing the to-be-stored file into a conventional hard disk; if the to-be-stored file is the hot spot file, storing the to-be-stored file into a solid-state disk; and if the to-be-stored file is the super hot spot file, storing the to-be-stored file into a memory. According to the method and the server disclosed by the present invention, a storage position is determined according to a type of the to-be-stored file so as to ensure that the to-be-stored file, which is going to be accessed for many times in the future, is stored in a memory device with a high reading speed, so that the response speed of the server is improved.