696 results about "Direct effects" patented technology

A method of treating a metabolic condition in a patient, comprising:

• • determining a target non-immediate effect of a therapy relating to treatment of a metabolic condition; and
  • applying an electric field to an abdominal cavity of the patient in a manner designed to at least approach said target.

In a stage for supporting a substrate, a body, a base plate and a buffer are provided in the stage. The body on which the substrate is positioned includes a plate having a heating electrode for generating heat therein and a tube protruded from a bottom surface of the plate. The body is mounted on the base plate. The buffer is interposed between the base plate and the tube and has a thermal expansion ratio higher than that of the tube of the body and lower than that of the base plate. Accordingly, thermal expansion of the base plate may be absorbed by the buffer and may not have direct effect on the body. Therefore, the body may be prevented from being damaged due to the thermal expansion of the base plate.

The invention discloses a positive electrode active material of a lithium-ion secondary battery, which structurally comprises three layers, the three layers are respectively a matrix positioned on a center, a co-crystallizing grid layer covering the matrix and a covering layer covering the co-crystallizing grid layer, wherein the matrix is made from metallic oxide containing lithium, the co-crystallizing grid layer is made of the matrix material mixed with transition metal, and the material of the covering layer is metal oxide ZOi, phosphate Z (PO4)j or fluoride ZFk. Compared with prior art, the positive electrode active material of the lithium-ion secondary battery adopts a three-layer structural material in design, the covering layer on the outermost layer is made of stable ceramic material, the direct effect of electrolyte and active material can be effectively improved, the co-crystallizing grid layer and the matrix material are in eutectic cladding, so as to enable the transportation of Li+ to be free from blockage. Therefore, the purpose of expanding positive electrode active material charging to end voltage is achieved.

A gaming device that enables a player to choose or alter certain symbols displayed on the reels of the gaming device. The player can change or select the changeable symbol at any time as long as the reels are not in motion. The gaming device maintains the change until the player changes the symbol again. The gaming device preferably supplies a touch screen along with a video monitor in which the reels and associated stops are simulated. The touch screen enables the player to simply touch the symbol that the player wishes to change. Pressing a single symbol may change the selected symbol or others linked to the symbol. A stop on the reels having a selectable symbol can provide the player with any number of possible symbols from which to choose. The changeable symbols preferably have a direct effect upon whether the player obtains a gaming device award.

In many areas, recent developments have generated very large datasets from which it is desired to extract meaningful relationships between the dataset elements. However, to date, the finding of such relationships using prior art methods has proved extremely difficult especially in the biomedical arts. Methods for local causal learning and Markov blanket discovery are important recent developments in pattern recognition and applied statistics, primarily because they offer a principled solution to the variable/feature selection problem and give insight about local causal structure. The present invention provides a generative method for learning local causal structure around target variables of interest in the form of direct causes/effects and Markov blankets applicable to very large datasets and relatively small samples. The method is readily applicable to real-world data, and the selected feature sets can be used for causal discovery and classification. The generative method GLL-PC can be instantiated in many ways, giving rise to novel method variants. In general, the inventive method transforms a dataset with many variables into either a minimal reduced dataset where all variables are needed for optimal prediction of the response variable or a dataset where all variables are direct causes and direct effects of the response variable. The power of the invention and significant advantages over the prior art were empirically demonstrated with datasets from a diversity of application domains (biology, medicine, economics, ecology, digit recognition, text categorization, and computational biology) and data generated by Bayesian networks.

A multi-zonal system and method for detecting contraband substances associated with a human subject. Objects containing such substances may be carried by the subject or in a garment worn by the subject, or as vapors entrained by the subject's garments. Alternatively, the substance may be present as small particles or residues present on skin, garment fibers, or the like that may be dislodged from the subject or his immediate effects. The system comprises: (i) an examination station through which the subject passes; (ii) sample generation means to produce a sample for analysis, comprising a plurality of air jets disposed in the examination station to impinge flowing gas onto pre-selected zones on the subject; (iii) collection means operative to acquire and convey the sample, comprising a plurality of collection ports disposed in the examination station to receive gas deflected by the subject from the air jets; (iv) analysis means in communication with the collection means to receive the sample and carry out a chemical analysis to detect the contraband substances; and (v) signal means operably connected to the analysis means for indicating detection of the contraband substances. Preferably the system employs a chemiluminescent detector based on the reaction of luminol with NO₂ produced by pyrolysis of explosive or other contraband substance and is capable of high throughput, accurate screening in real time of a large number of subjects, e.g. persons being screened in an airport.

The invention discloses a collaborative work congestion control method in the high-speed network, the transmitter detects the RTT delay information and 1-bit prediction information from the router to determine the network congestion status and the congestion window is the self-adapted and adjustable. The method of the invention combines the load factor of the network path and number of the data packets in the buffers of all routers connected in the path to adjust the congestion window of the high-speed network which can effectively adapt to the transfer characteristic of the high-speed network to guarantee the better link utilization rate of the network, friendly TCP and fair of the streaming. These two congestion information mechanisms can be fused to avoid the mistaken determination of single congestion detection mode under certain environment and reduce the direct influences of the unilateral information error on the reliability of the method.

The invention relates to garments and undergarments. More particularly, to a garment that may induce caloric burn while the wearer goes about his or her day. An objective for the garment is to increase exercise of body muscles used in daily living. In one embodiment, a garment and/or shaper is described with carefully positioned resistance bands that are relatively more resistant (i.e., less stretchy or elastic) than the fabric used to construct the remainder of the garment. At least two of these bands are positioned to extend from the thighs upwards towards the waist and cross at the ischium. These bands have a direct effect on muscles that would normally be activated during regular activity and cause them to be further exercised, but in a gentle manner. The effect, which may be slightly perceptible, is felt while the wearer goes about his or her day.

This invention discloses a resin concrete, which is composed of: aggregate 71-86 wt.%, filler 3-12 wt.%, reinforcing material 3-8 wt.%, and binding material 7-11 wt.%. the resin concrete is manufactured by: (1) mixing epoxy resin, curing agent and fly ashes, and uniformly stirring; (2) adding stone and glass fiber, and stirring; (3) mounting the mold onto a vibration desk; (4) injecting the mixture into the mold with vibrating; (5) standing for 7 d, and demolding. The resin concrete has such advantages as high impact strength, high cracking resistance and reasonable aggregate particle sizes.

The invention relates to a remote control system and method in network communication technology field. It induces RCMC and CGW to make control terminal communicate with RCMC, RCMC communicate with CGW, and CGW communicate with controlled device. It realizes the remote control and managing to controlled device of different type. The invention also supports mobile communication device, PC and fixed telephone method to take remote control. The CGW would shield the difference between the different devices that could expand the ability and application range of the system.

The invention relates to a self-arresting rope belay device comprising a cam arranged to clamp the rope when the rope is under tension, and a lever arranged to act on the cam to progressively release the rope by manual action on the lever. The lever acts on the cam respectively with a geared-down effect in an initial part of its release travel, and with a direct effect in a final part of its travel. This results in the relative movement of the cam with respect to the lever being smaller in the initial part of the travel than in the final part, which enables accurate adjustment of the braking effort and of the running speed of the rope in the initial part of travel of the lever.

Systems and methods are presented that enable a legged robot to maintain its balance when subjected to an unexpected force. In the reflex phase, the robot withstands the immediate effect of the force by yielding to it. In one embodiment, during the reflex phase, the control system determines an instruction that will cause the robot to perform a movement that generates a negative rate of change of the robot's angular momentum at its centroid in a magnitude large enough to compensate for the destabilizing effect of the force. In the recovery phase, the robot recovers its posture after having moved during the reflex phase. In one embodiment, the robot returns to a statically stable upright posture that maximizes the robot's potential energy. In one embodiment, during the recovery phase, the control system determines an instruction that will cause the robot to perform a movement that increases its potential energy.

The invention discloses a lightning effect test device for a dynamic airplane. A computer in the device is arranged outside a microwave dark room; a round turntable A, a round turntable B, an airplane scale model, a lightning generator, a spectrum recorder, a support platform and a camera are arranged in the microwave dark room; the camera is mounted on the support platform; the airplane scale model is mounted on the round turntable A; the spectrum recorder is mounted on or in the airplane scale model; and the lightning generator is mounted on the round turntable B. When the round turntable A and the round turntable B rotate relatively, various types of lightning analogue currents and electromagnetic waves generated by the lightning generator act on the airplane scale model; and when the lightning happens, the spectrum recorder records the lightning indirect effect, and the camera records the lightning direct effect. According to the invention, the process that the airplane in dynamic flying mode encounters lightning can be simulated in the limited space of the microwave dark room so that the tested data approaches to the real conditions better and the error is reduced.

The invention provides a marine information management system based on the time series outlier detection technology. The system mainly comprises six functional modules, i.e. a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, an outlier detection module, a data memory module, a data management module and a data display module. The quality of marine data directly affects the scientificalness of the marine information management system. Because the data volume of a marine information database is huge, the marine information database is often susceptible to noise, data loss and data inconsistency, and therefore the invention provides a cumulative variation-based time series outlier detection method; the cumulative variation-based time series outlier detection method can effectively detect outliers in marine data, an appropriate correction method is then chosen to correct the outliers in order to provide clean, accurate and simple data for the marine information database, and thereby the complete set of marine information management system is established to effectively manage marine data, thus providing powerful support for the construction of digital ocean in China.

The invention discloses a detection method for video mosaic images, belonging to the technical field of image detection. A video mosaic phenomenon is a block effect phenomenon occurring when data in video transmission is lost or over compressed in video compression and can directly influence the understanding and the analysis of image contents. No method capable of effectively detecting the mosaic phenomenon exists in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, converting an image to be detected into a gray image for cannae edge detection so as to obtain an image only with outline information; utilizing four templates to carry out the template match of the outline information so as to obtain four matched images; carrying out the binaryzation treatment of the four matched images so as to obtain an image only with matched points; and utilizing a sliding window mosaic detection algorithm to detect whether the image has mosaic or not. The method can effectively detect whether a video has mosaic or not.

The invention relates to an automatic peripheral blood pushing device, which can achieve regular and standard blood smears by controlling parameters having directly affection on quality of the blood smears during a pushing process. Particularly, the automatic peripheral blood pushing device can control three degrees of freedom, utilizes a horizontal motor to control inclined included angle between a push slide and a glass slide, and utilizes a left motor to drive a synchronous belt pulley to complete blood pushing action, and adjusts speed and acceleration of the push slide by controlling rotation speed and acceleration of the left motor so as to control lengths of formed blood films. A clearance between the push slide and the horizontal glass slide is adjusted by utilizing an upper motor to drive a lead screw so as to control thicknesses of the formed blood films. Angle, speed and acceleration of the push slide, lengths of blood films and a clearance between the push slide and the glass slide can be adjusted by controlling running of the three motor, thereby manufacturing regular and stand blood smears with different thicknesses.

A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22). The static model (20) is a rigorous predictive model that is trained over a wide range of data, whereas the dynamic model (22) is trained over a narrow range of data. The gain K of the static model (20) is utilized to scale the gain k of the dynamic model (22). The forced dynamic portion of the model (22) referred to as the b_i variables are scaled by the ratio of the gains K and k. The b_i have a direct effect on the gain of a dynamic model (22). This is facilitated by a coefficient modification block (40). Thereafter, the difference between the new value input to the static model (20) and the prior steady-state value is utilized as an input to the dynamic model (22). The predicted dynamic output is then summed with the previous steady-state value to provide a predicted value Y. Additionally, the path that is traversed between steady-state value changes.

Electric machines operating according to the reluctance principle have toothed air gap surfaces between their moving and fixed parts. The magnetizability of these teeth directly affects the performance of the machine. According to the invention, the teeth projecting into the air gap consist of a material which in relation to the remaining soft-magnetic body presents better magnetizability and/or greater magnetic saturation flux density. This material is preferably a grain-oriented electric steel sheet or a cobalt/iron alloy. Alternatively or in addition thereto, the soft-magnetic body in which the conductor coils are positioned can be made entirely of a grain-oriented material by appropriate segmentation. In this case, every other pole is non-spooled and consists of two halves separated by a non-magnetic holding element. The use of steel sheets rolled at an angle also contributes to the improved utilization of space and material in rotating machines, especially in transverse flux machines. The characteristics of the construction provided for in the invention result in the production of little cutting waste and thus raise the performance of electric machines with soft-magnetic teeth at the air gap surface and reduce losses.

A barrel supporting bed (58) for holding a projection optical system (PL), a driving mechanism (86A, 86B) for driving a stage (WST), a frame (84A, 84B) in which a reaction force caused by driving the stage (WST) is transmitted in a non-contact to the supporting bed (58), and a damping member (85) that is arranged on the frame are provided. Therefore, a vibration and a reaction force, which are caused by the reaction force caused by driving the stage, are damped by the damping member and are transmitted to the earth (set floor), thereby making it possible to effectively reduce a force that is transmitted to the supporting bed from the earth. The frame and the supporting bed have an independent relationship with respect to the vibration, so that the reaction force and the vibration of the frame due thereto exert no direct influence on the projection optical system. This results in suppressing an influence on exposure accuracy which is exerted by vibration of components in an apparatus.

An acoustic-to-electrical transducer for sensing body sounds is disclosed. The transducer comprises a diaphragm that can be placed in direct contact with a body, whereby the diaphragm motion directly affects an electromagnetic sensing signal, which is then converted to an electrical signal representation of the diaphragm motion. Such sensing means allows the diaphragm to move freely without mechanical coupling to a secondary transducer, while providing a direct and efficient acoustic to electrical conversion means. The transducer further provides a means for using static diaphragm pressure to control gain and frequency characteristics of the electrical signal. The transducer provides methods for ambient noise reduction or cancellation, as well as means for simulating sound detection for applications such as medical education and testing. The sensor, circuitry, manufacturing methods and improvements are disclosed.

The invention provides a slipproofing agent for the surface of a ceramic tile and a preparation method of the slipproofing agent. The slipproofing agent is prepared from villiaumite, a corrosion inhibitor, a surfactant, a humectant, essence and the balance of water, wherein the villiaumite is ammonium fluoride and/or ammonium hydrogen fluoride. The preparation method of the slipproofing agent comprises the following steps:, at 25 to 30 DEG C, weighing and taking proper raw materials in sequence, and uniformly agitating the proper raw materials, so as to subsequently obtain the slipproofing agent for the surface of the ceramic tile. According to the slipproofing agent, the villiaumite is used as a main raw material; a product is a neutral aqueous solution; a fluorine ion generates a chemical reaction with a silicate component in the ceramic tile under the action of an ammonium ion in a formula, so as to produce silicon fluoride gas for escaping; the direct effect of the chemical reaction is that numerous nano-sized microporous structures are formed in the surface of the ceramic tile; thus, a slipproofing effect is achieved; nontoxic and harmless raw materials are used by the formula of the slipproofing agent; a neutral solution is convenient to transport and use; further, the slipproofing agent provided by the invention has ultrahigh seepage force.

The invention discloses a robot full-coverage path planning method and device based on a raster map as well as equipment. Firstly, the whole environment map is divided into multiple simple adjacent subareas, then, each subarea is traversed, and the repetition rate is very low while the coverage rate is high. Besides, in the traversal process, the walking state is changed in real time according topositioning information and map barrier information, and the method has the advantages of being simple, flexible and easy to implement. In addition, when a robot is in a cleaning area, the main running direction of the robot directly affects the turn times of paths. The main direction of the areas is used as the main running direction of the robot for traversing the cleaning paths, so that the turn times of paths is greatly reduced, and the traversal efficiency is improved.

A process for preparing the full-dulling polyamide-66 resin and fibers includes such steps as preparing full-dulling solution, preparing full-dulling polymer, and polycondensating in horizontal tubular apparatus. Its advantages are low cost, high dulling effect.

The invention discloses a power system equipment importance assessing and sorting method based on risk analysis. Based on risk assessment of a power system, the importance of power grid equipment for the overall operational risk of the power system under different operating conditions can be shown truly and comprehensively; during assessment of the equipment importance, the commonly-used certainty security standard of power enterprises is also taken into account while comprehensively considering uncertainties of power grid operation, so that the defects that by the conventional importance assessing method, uncertainties of the grid operation cannot be comprehensively considered, the evaluation angle is single, the practicality is not high and the like are effectively overcome, and more comprehensive risk assessment information than that provided by the conventional assessing method can be provided. In the power system equipment importance assessing and sorting method, the equipment importance assessment is carried out by dividing system risk levels, so that both direct influence and indirect influence of the equipment on the safe operation of the power system can be reflected and references can be provided for a local control and optimization scheme of risk management and control of the power system so as to improve responsiveness to the risk management and control of the power system.