59 results about "Control banding" patented technology

Apparatus and methods are provided comprising an implantable non-hydraulic ring that encircles and provides a controllable degree of constriction to an organ or duct and an external control that powers and controls operation of the ring. The ring includes a rigid dorsal periphery that maintains a constant exterior diameter, and a compliant constriction system that reduces intolerance phenomena. A high precision, energy efficient mechanical actuator is employed that is telemetrically powered and controlled, and maintains the ring at a selected diameter when the device is unpowered, even for extended periods. The actuator provides a reversible degree of constriction of the organ or duct, which is readily ascertainable without the need for radiographic imaging. Methods of use and implantation also are provided.

Apparatus and methods are provided comprising an implantable non-hydraulic ring that encircles and provides a controllable degree of constriction to an organ or duct and an external control that powers and controls operation of the ring. The ring includes a rigid dorsal periphery that maintains a constant exterior diameter, and a compliant constriction system that reduces intolerance phenomena. A high precision, energy efficient mechanical actuator is employed that is telemetrically powered and controlled, and maintains the ring at a selected diameter when the device is unpowered, even for extended periods. The actuator provides a reversible degree of constriction of the organ or duct, which is readily ascertainable without the need for radiographic imaging. Methods of use and implantation also are provided.

Systems and methods of controlling banding defects on a receiving member in an imaging or printing process using a feedback and / or feedforward control technique. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of controlling banding defects on a receiving member in an imaging or printing process includes (a) determining a toner density on the receiving member, (b) automatically determining the extent of banding on the receiving member by comparing the determined toner density to a reference toner density value, and (c) automatically adjusting the toner density based on a result obtained from the comparison of the measured toner density to the reference toner density value, automatically determining the extent of banding and automatically adjusting the toner density being performed using a feedback and / or feedforward control routine or application.

Apparatus and methods are provided comprising an implantable non-hydraulic ring that encircles and provides a controllable degree of constriction to an organ or duct and an external control that powers and controls operation of the ring. The ring includes a rigid dorsal periphery that maintains a constant exterior diameter, and a compliant constriction system that reduces intolerance phenomena. A high precision, energy efficient mechanical actuator is employed that is telemetrically powered and controlled, and maintains the ring at a selected diameter when the device is unpowered, even for extended periods. The actuator provides a reversible degree of constriction of the organ or duct, which is readily ascertainable without the need for radiographic imaging. Methods of use and implantation also are provided.

Apparatus and methods are provided comprising an implantable non-hydraulic ring that encircles and provides a controllable degree of constriction to an organ or duct and an external control that powers and controls operation of the ring. The ring includes a rigid dorsal periphery that maintains a constant exterior diameter, and a compliant constriction system that reduces intolerance phenomena. A high precision, energy efficient mechanical actuator is employed that is telemetrically powered and controlled, and maintains the ring at a selected diameter when the device is unpowered, even for extended periods. The actuator provides a reversible degree of constriction of the organ or duct, which is readily ascertainable without the need for radiographic imaging. Methods of use and implantation also are provided.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, equipment and system for controlling band width. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring and identifying an HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol ) request message of streaming media on-demand service, and forwarding the HTTP request message of the streaming media on-demand service to a media server; receiving an HTTP response message which is returned by the media server and corresponds to the HTTP request message of the streaming media on-demand service; resolving the HTTP response message to acquire a playing code rate of a streaming media file to be transmitted; determining actually distributed transmission band width of the streaming media on-demand service according to the comparison result of the playing code rate and the initially distributed user signed bandwidth of the streaming media on-demand service; and controlling the transmission of the streaming media file by adopting the determined transmission band width. Therefore, in the embodiment of the invention, band width control is directly performed in a network element, so that the problems of more interaction among different network elements and additional increment of processing overhead of other network elements in the prior art are avoided at the same time of simply and effectively improving the utilization rate of network resources.

In a method for forming a light absorber layer (4) of a thin film solar cell, the absorber layer is formed from a plurality of sub-layers each of which is formed by preparing a plurality of mixtures containing Cu, Se, In and Ga in a liquid medium, a composition ratio of In to Ga being progressively increased from one mixture to another, the mixtures optionally including a mixture containing no In or Ga; applying a layer of one of the mixtures onto a back electrode layer (3) formed on a substrate (2); drying the applied layer of the mixture; and rapidly baking the dried layer of the mixture. By forming the absorber layer with a plurality of thin absorber sub-layers each having a controlled band gap, a solar cell having a large surface area can be fabricated at low cost and the efficiency of the solar cell can be improved by forming a favorable band gap gradient structure. As these sub-layers can be applied simply by any known processes, the method of the present invention is highly suited to be used for mass producing solar cells.

The present invention relates to a lateral flow assay and system, including a test strip, for detection and quantification of analytes in samples, such as samples containing cells and fluid, where the assay is volume independent, and the sample size is less than about 100 μl, where the test strip includes a first membrane such as a sample filter, that is in capillary contact with an optional second membrane, such as a fluid collector, the second membrane, if present is in capillary contact with an optional third membrane, such as a conjugate pad containing a mobilizable detectable agent, or with a fourth membrane, which is a chromatographic strip, which optionally contains a mobilizable detectable agent, all such membranes being in fluid contact with a fifth membrane, such as a buffer pad, a sixth membrane, such as an absorbent pad, optionally a seventh membrane, which is also an absorbent pad, a capture band for capturing the analyte and at least one control band, or alternatively, the chromatographic strip contains the mobilizable detectable agent in place of a conjugate pad, where the test strip is configured to support removal of red blood cells from the sample and to allow uni-directional or bi-directional fluid flow of fluid from the sample filter to the capture band to be retained therein and detected thereon.

An automatic driving vehicle system includes: a surrounding information recognition unit that recognizes surrounding information of a vehicle; a vehicle state recognition unit that recognizes a vehicle state of the vehicle; a running plan generation unit that generates a running plan based on the surrounding information of the vehicle and that generates a control band of a target control value for the vehicle in the running plan, based on at least one of the vehicle state and the surrounding information; a first computation unit that computes a command control value such that the vehicle state becomes a target vehicle state corresponding to the target control value, based on the running plan, the vehicle state and the control band; and an actuator that controls the running of the vehicle based on the command control value. The system may also include an actuator control unit.

The invention relates to a balance type radio frequency electronically-controlled band-pass filter with bandwidth control. The balance type radio frequency electronically-controlled band-pass filter with bandwidth control is composed of an upper layer micro-strip structure, an intermediate layer dielectric substrate and a lower layer grounded metal. Two input ports in the upper layer micro-strip structure are respectively connected with two input feed networks, and two output ports are respectively connected with two output feed networks. Two input feed networks are coupled with a first half-wavelength phrase step impedance resonator, a first half-wavelength phrase step impedance resonator is coupled with a second half-wavelength phrase step impedance resonator, finally the second half-wavelength phrase step impedance resonator is coupled with two output feed networks, and the whole filter structure is in a structure of longitudinal mirror symmetry. The balance type radio frequency electronically-controlled band-pass filter with bandwidth control achieves flexible bandwidth control, has the advantages of being high in common-mode rejection ration and wide in stop band and can be used for a reconfigurable radio frequency front end of the wireless communication or a radar system.

A method for anticipating multiprotocol label exchange flow control bandwidth resources is to firstly rank all the label exchange paths in every priority according to the size of the occupied bandwidth separately and try best to anticipate low priority in the limited anticipated sphere then to select the fewest number of LSP combination in its most advanced level after determining the anticipated level, if the anticipated bandwidth exceeds the desired value then the label exchange path is selected from high bandwidth label exchange path to make the occupied sum of bandwidth the smallest exceeding the desired value in the equivalent numbers of occupied sum of bandwidth to increase network stability and bandwidth utility.

A broad band wireless city-domain network method provides the broad band wireless city-domain network system structure, the network protocol model, the basic station protocol shed structure, network topological structure and radio station phonetic communication flow. The phonetic communication is one level of the classification service, and the communication process includes: main call radio station applies for the control band width and operational band width to the entrance of the base station, the base station distributes the required band width according to the utilizing condition of the radio resources; the main call party sends the request, the base station inquires the IP address corresponding to the number called; the city-domain network starts the route discovery, resource pre-reservation and mark exchange path establishment process, found a double-layer exchanging path meeting the demand of special quality between the main caller and the one being called; the conversation begins, and the network starts the fare registering; when the conversation is concluded, the relative network resources are released.

The invention discloses a method for accurately controlling band-steel ductility when welding joints pass a leveling machine. The method includes steps that firstly, when band steel moves to the welding joints and is close to the leveling machine, the moving speed of the band steel is reduced to 30-70m / min, and the welding joints needs to be more 1m away from the leveling machine after speed reduction; when the band steel moves to the welding joints and passes the leveling machine, rolling force is reduced to 80-150 tons; when the band steel moves to the welding joints and goes through the leveling machine, a current practical ductility value and a ductility target value are compared, if the former is larger than the latter, rolling force is 300-800 tons; if the former is smaller than the latter, rolling force is 90-150 tons, and if the former is equal to the latter, all steps are finished; the band steel keeps moving, whether the current practical ductility value is approximate to the ductility target value or not is judged, if yes, the next step is performed, and if not, rolling force rises at the speed of 500-1500 tons; the steps are finished.

A band allocation control apparatus to control bands to be allocated to a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONUs) includes a band allocating unit which sets an allocation band to be allocated to each ONU according to a ratio of a maximum band limit value of the ONU. The apparatus achieves band control guaranteeing impartiality between the service levels of ONUs.

In a method and hearing aid (200) for processing sound signals for hearing impaired persons by providing multi-band compression processing an input sound signal is filtered by a band split filter (202) into a number of frequency bands to obtain band split signals. A signal level for each of the band split signals is determined and the frequency bands are arranged into a number of groups. Based on the signal levels in each of the groups, a compressor input level for a number of band split compressors each associated to one of the frequency bands is calculated. A compressor gain for each band split compressor is determined based on the corresponding compressor input signal and the band split signals are amplified with the corresponding compressor gain and summed in a summing unit (208) to produce an output sound signal.

A DC voltage value from a DC voltage detection unit (201) is directly inputted to a voltage correction unit (202) without using a compensator or a filter. Accordingly, a voltage correction unit (202) can rapidly perform a correction process even upon a sudden voltage change such as an instantaneous power supply stop, an instantaneous voltage lowering, or a recovery from an instantaneous voltage lowering. Moreover, since a limit unit (212) limits a link resonance compensation amount to a predetermined range, it is possible to prevent an excessive fluctuation of a link resonance compensation amount upon a sudden voltage change. Moreover, the link resonance compensation amount limited to the predetermined range by the limit unit (212) is inputted to a compensator (206) of an appropriate control band in control calculation units (204 - 208). Accordingly, it is possible to avoid response of a higher speed than is necessary and perform stable control.

In a method and hearing aid (200) for processing sound signals for hearing impaired persons by providing multi-band compression processing an input sound signal is filtered by a band split filter (202) into a number of frequency bands to obtain band split signals. A signal level for each of the band split signals is determined and the frequency bands are arranged into a number of groups. Based on the signal levels in each of the groups, a compressor input level for a number of band split compressors each associated to one of the frequency bands is calculated. A compressor gain for each band split compressor is determined based on the corresponding compressor input signal and the band split signals are amplified with the corresponding compressor gain and summed in a summing unit (208) to produce an output sound signal.

The invention discloses an immunofluorescence test paper strip which consists of a sample pad, a reaction film and an absorption pad which are sequentially arranged on a shell and are in overlap joint with one another, wherein an internal quality control band, at least one detection band and an excessive antigen detection band are fixed on the reaction film; quantitative antigen or antibody substances serving as internal references are fixed on the internal quality control band; an antibody which can be specifically combined with a substance to be detected is fixed on the detection band; and a secondary antibody is fixed on the excessive antigen detection band. The immunofluorescence test paper strip can be used for quantitative detection of various clinical diagnosis biomarkers, specific biological molecules, pesticide residues, microbes, water body pollutants and the like, has the characteristics of convenience, quickness, portability and low environment pollution, and is particularly suitable for the fields of in vitro quick diagnosis and quick detection, and the reagent is safe and non-toxic.

Systems and methods of controlling banding defects on a receiving member in an imaging or printing process using a feedback and / or feedforward control technique. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of controlling banding defects on a receiving member in an imaging or printing process includes (a) determining a toner density on the receiving member, (b) automatically determining the extent of banding on the receiving member by comparing the determined toner density to a reference toner density value, and (c) automatically adjusting the toner density based on a result obtained from the comparison of the measured toner density to the reference toner density value, automatically determining the extent of banding and automatically adjusting the toner density being performed using a feedback and / or feedforward control routine or application.

The invention discloses a method for performing banded sclerotial blight inoculation and resistance evaluation by precisely controlling banded sclerotial blight inoculation conditions of rice detached leaves. The method comprises the steps of rice planting, rhizoctonia solani, rhizoctonia solani inoculation, illness surveying and statistics after inoculation of rice detached leaves, sampling of rice materials inoculated with the rhizoctonia solani, rice RNA extraction, RT-PCR identification and the like. An experimental procedure for quantitatively evaluating the detached leaf morbidity degree and precisely conducting molecular detection is built, and therefore the screening and research efficiency of the rice banded sclerotial blight resistance material is improved.

In order to perform stable pressure control, provided is a control device for an injection molding machine which comprises: a filling / pressure keeping assessment unit which assesses whether or not the injection molding machine is performing a pressure keeping operation (Step ST3); an elastic constant identification unit which, when the filling / pressure keeping assessment unit assesses that the pressure keeping operation is performed (Yes in Step ST3), acquires a pressure detection value and a position detection value as motor operation information (Step ST4), and identifies an elastic constant K on the basis of the acquired pressure detection value and position detection value (Step ST7); and a pressure control parameter setting unit which calculates a proportional gain Ka of a pressure control unit so that a product of the proportional gain Ka of the pressure control unit and the elastic constant K is smaller than a velocity control band Omegasc of a velocity control unit (Step ST8), and sets the pressure control unit to the calculated proportional gain Ka(Step ST9).

An automatic driving vehicle system includes: a surrounding information recognition unit that recognizes surrounding information of a vehicle; a vehicle state recognition unit that recognizes a vehicle state of the vehicle; a running plan generation unit that generates a running plan based on the surrounding information of the vehicle and that generates a control band of a target control value for the vehicle in the running plan, based on at least one of the vehicle state and the surrounding information; a first computation unit that computes a command control value such that the vehicle state becomes a target vehicle state corresponding to the target control value, based on the running plan, the vehicle state and the control band; and an actuator that controls the running of the vehicle based on the command control value. The system may also include an actuator control unit.

The invention discloses a digital zooming spectrum imager based on a self-adaptive micro-lens array sensor.The digital zooming spectrum imager comprises an electronic control band-pass light filter, an optical imaging lens, the self-adaptive micro-lens array sensor, a chromatic dispersion self-adaptive imaging controller and an image collecting and processing terminal.According to the imager, while the spectrum image timing sequence scanning of a spectrum imaging system is performed, spatial frequency light field information of each spectrum image is obtained, the digital zooming function of carrying out zooming after exposure imaging is carried out is achieved, self-adaptive achromaticity is carried out, the digital zooming performance is improved, the chromatic dispersion influence caused by large-range spectrum scanning is eliminated to the greatest extent, acquisition of spectrum image information of a complex landform can be ensured to the greatest extent, when the complex landform is probed in a remote sensing mode, the more distinct image information and the more accurate spectrum information can be obtained, and the main function and the application range of an existing spectrum imager are expanded.

The invention provides a method for controlling band steel sag for a pickling bath. The method is to calculate the formula of pickling bath sag according to the actual size of the pickling bath, regulate the speed of an inlet roller of the pickling bath and maintain velocity of an outlet roller as band steel linear velocity according to a certain regulation, so that the sag can change in a certain range, and the sag is controlled to change up and down in a permitted range, and pickling quality and pickling efficiency of the band steel can be improved through up and down oscillatory washing of the band steel. The method has the advantages of accurate control, easy realization, simple system and reliability, can wash the band steel up and down in a strong acid bath, improve the efficiency of washing on the premise that process requirement is completely met, and reduce production cost at the same time.

Methods of providing a control band for a hysteresis controller are presented. A method can determine a control band analytically to avoid the time and costs associated with manual calibration of a hysteresis controller. By way of example, a method can include modeling a machine output, such as stator flux or machine torque, modeling the variation rate for the machine output, and providing a control band based on the variation rate modeling.

The invention discloses a bean sowing machine. The bean sowing machine mainly comprises a framework tank, a bean sowing control band and a conical funnel container, wherein the framework tank and landing legs are fixedly installed together; the heights of the landing legs with universal wheels on the lower portions can be adjusted through height adjusting buttons. Multiple through holes are formed in the corresponding positions of a framework tank base plate, a bean sowing control band bottom band and a conical funnel container base plate. On-off control over a bean sowing channel is achieved by controlling the position of the bean sowing control band, automatic bean sowing can be achieved without electricity or other external power, manual labor is saved, and production efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a ground full-size equivalent test method for a low-temperature pressurized delivery system of a carrier rocket, which comprises the steps of providing a ground full-size test module of the carrier rocket, wherein the ground full-size test module comprises a full-size storage tank and a low-temperature pressurization conveying system; pressurizing a storage tank by adopting normal-temperature helium, and setting a pressurization control band, a filling liquid level height, an initial air pillow and a propellant temperature according to the pressure of the storage tank of the carrier rocket in a real flight state; when the initial parameter of the propellant filling liquid level height meets the requirement, opening a throttling orifice plate of a corresponding discharge pipe based on the output quantity of the carrier rocket propellant in the real flight state, and recording working condition parameters; controlling working condition characteristic parameters, carrying out data analysis according to the consistency comparison condition with the flight state characteristic parameters, and optimizing the flight state parameters. According to the test method, the number of whole-system power test run and flight test times of the carrier rocket can be reduced.

Described herein are materials and systems for efficient upconversion of photons. The materials may be disposed in a system comprising two semiconductor materials with an interface therebetween, the interface comprising a valence and / or conduction band offset between the semiconducting materials of about −0.5 eV to about 0.5 eV, including 0, wherein one of the semiconductor materials is a material with discrete energy states and the other is a material with a graded composition and / or controlled band gap. The system can upconvert photons by: a) controlling energy levels of discrete energy states of a semiconducting material in a system to direct tunneling and exciton separation; b) controlling a compositional profile of another semiconducting material in the system to funnel charges away from an upconversion region and into a recombination zone; and c) utilizing the discrete energy states of the semiconducting material in the system to inhibit phonon relaxation.

The present invention discloses a method for using a coordination control module to control a strip steel continuously producing machine set. The method respectively provides the control method for every type of equipment under every operating mode according to the sorts of the controlled equipments including tension establishing equipment, speed reference equipment or auxiliary equipment and according to the differences of the operating modes of one time complete set operation or independent inching operation and especially provides the time sequence relation of every control signal. The method can improve the working characteristic of the whole producing machine set and the dynamic response performance of the machine operation and can ensure the accordance of the equipment and the strip steel surface line speed during the starting and the stopping periods, and avoids surface scuffing of the strip steel. The method is realized on the basis of a delay engage relay by software, only ordinary instruction is used, and the control logic can be realized in various kinds of PLC conveniently.