1028 results about "Effective power" patented technology

A system, method and power/data transmission device comprising a coil having a high Q, a low-voltage driver and a high-voltage driver switchably coupled to the coil. The low-voltage driver and the high-voltage driver are controlled by a microcontroller and switch at about the same time thereby providing a modulated data signal for transmission. Furthermore, the system includes at least one implantable microstimulator coupled to the transmission device.

An efficient and effective power control system method are described with expedited recovery from a reduced power state. In one embodiment, a present invention power control system includes performing a reduced power detection process for detecting a reduced power state, wherein the reduced power state is associated with an expedited recovery; performing a reduced power state entry process; performing a recovery detection process for detecting a recover indication event; and performing an expedited recovery process in accordance with detection of a recovery indication event. The reduced power state entry process comprises saving an expedited recovery information in registers of an always on domain and putting an external memory in self refresh mode to preserve a system context while a chip is turned off. The expedited recovery process comprises determining whether to proceed with the expedited recovery process; initializing memory controller registers and directing memory controller to exit self refresh; validating system context recovered from memory using keys stored in an always on domain; jumping to recovery instructions in memory; restoring operating system information and returning to operating system control.

A device and a process for processing and/or joining work pieces via laser radiation, with an effective power laser and a pilot target laser that emit laser beams of different wavelengths, with the laser beams being directed at the work pieces by laser optics. Regarding the laser beams, by the laser optics that comprise at least one diffractive optical element (DOE) as a masking system, the beam pattern of the pilot target laser is adjusted to match the beam pattern of the effective laser beam. This is accomplished preferably by removing the pilot laser beam from the effective laser beam for part of the path length by dichroic mirrors, and by expanding the diverging pilot laser beam on said part of the path length by deflecting mirrors whose distance from the dichroic mirrors is variable.

A method for limiting power consumption in a multiprocessor chip is provided. In this method, a read or write request is received by the memory controller, which controls a memory that is external to the multiprocessor chip. The memory controller includes a bank counter that keeps track of the number of read or write requests received by the memory controller. At every clock cycle, the bank counter value is compared with a threshold value to determine whether the counter value is equal to the threshold value. If the bank counter value is determined to be equal to the threshold value, then any subsequent incoming read or write requests are blocked. The bank counter value is incremented each time a read or write request is sent to the memory.

A system and method for efficient power management of peripheral port connections. A USB hub core is configured to detect the presence of a legacy peripheral device on a downstream port when a corresponding USB host is in a non-operational state. The USB hub core chooses a battery charger signature for the peripheral device and subsequently directs an external port power controller to simulate disconnection/reconnection of the peripheral device. The chosen signature is presented to the peripheral device. If the signature matches the expected value of the peripheral device, then the peripheral device charges its battery. Otherwise, the process of choosing a different signature and simulating disconnection/reconnection is repeated.

The invention is a plasma-generating device useful in a wide variety of industrial processes. The plasma is formed in a chamber having a toroidal topology, and is heated inductively. As with all inductive plasmas, a primary coil carries an applied AC current, which, in turn, generates a corresponding applied AC magnetic flux inside the plasma. This flux induces current to flow through the plasma in closed paths that encircle the flux, thereby heating and maintaining the plasma. In this invention, the applied AC current flows through the primary coil around substantially the short poloidal direction on the torus. Accordingly, the applied magnetic flux is caused to circulate through the plasma along the larger toroidal direction. Finally, the current induced within the plasma will flow in the poloidal direction, anti-parallel to the applied primary current. The plasma chamber wall is preferably made of metal such as aluminum and includes one or more electrical breaks that extend fully around the chamber wall in the toroidal direction. This prevents poloidal currents from being induced in the chamber wall, ensuring effective power transfer to the plasma. Elastomeric seals made from electrically insulating material seal the breaks.

A desired value of reactive power flow between a to-be-controlled power system and an adjoining power system is determined according to measured values of the reactive power flow and an effective power flow and desired voltage values of the to-be-controlled power system and of the adjoining power system. Thereafter, a required value of a reactive power of the to-be-controlled power system is calculated according to the desired value of the reactive power flow, the measured values of the reactive power flow and the effective power flow, and the desired voltage value and a measured voltage value in the to-be-controlled power system. Thereafter, a control apparatus having an electric capacity near to the required value of the reactive power is selected from control apparatus arranged in the to-be-controlled power system to make the selected control apparatus adjust a voltage of the to-be-controlled power system. Therefore, cooperation of the to-be-controlled power system with the adjoining power system can be performed by collecting locally-existing-information, and a voltage fluctuation and/or a reactive power fluctuation in the to-be-controlled power system can be immediately suppressed.

A backlight device obtains white light by mixing and synthesizing the three primary colors, the white light appearing as bright to the human eye as conventional white light; in addition, the backlight device is highly economical, in that it reduces power consumption by reducing the effective power input to the light-emitting diodes, and lengthens the lives of the light-emitting diodes. In a backlight device comprising self-luminous-sources in the colors of red, green, and blue, the device mixing and synthesizing the three primary colors from the self-luminous sources into white light, in order to light a liquid crystal display device using a light-conducting plate and/or a light-scattering plate, the self-luminous-sources of the three primary colors are illuminated sequentially at different timings for each color, so that the light-generating timings partially overlap, achieving time-division light-emission.

The invention provides a power transmission network expansion and energy storage configuration combined planning method based on large-scale wind power access, and belongs to the field of power grid planning considering new energy power generation and consumption. According to the method, by combining multi-scene random planning and operation simulation, a hybrid optimization method considering wind power uncertainty and energy storage life loss is provided; a random output scene of full-year wind power-load can be considered, and the influence of the energy storage life loss on a combined planning result can be considered; and finally, solving is performed to obtain a reasonable and effective power transmission network expansion and energy storage configuration scheme. The method can be applied to the field of combined planning of power transmission network expansion and energy storage configuration under the large-scale wind power access; and an obtained configuration result can notonly effectively relieve the problem of difficulty in grid connection of wind power generation but also improve the utilization efficiency of a power transmission line, thereby relieving line blockage.

A method of identifying the operation of an electrical appliance comprising an induction motor is described. The method comprises identifying the operation of an electrical appliance comprising an induction motor when a path traced by real power values against corresponding reactive power values over a time period of interest comprises one or more substantially circular arcs. The real power values are related to the total real power supplied to one or more electrical appliances as a function of time, and the reactive power values are related to the total reactive power supplied to the one or more electrical appliances as a function of time.

There is also described a related method of identifying the operation of a specified type of appliance, in which the operation of said specified type of appliance is dependent on a supply of at least one utility such as electricity, natural gas or water. Corresponding computer programs, computer-readable mediums, computer program products and apparatuses are also described.

Circuitry for and method of power efficient operation of, and energy recovery from, tissue-stimulating electrodes having high charge capacities. Post-stimulation energy is recovered from the electrodes through a variety of techniques into circuit elements such as other electrodes, an intermediate distribution system, a power supply or any other elements, through the use of sequential switching. Energy is also recoverable from the intermediate distribution system, which preferably is comprised of one or more storage capacitors operating a different voltages. Efficient power transfer among circuit elements is effected by transferring energy while limiting element-element voltage differences and/or voltage differences between the elements and the capacitances of the electrodes.

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates power management in a multi-core processor. During operation, the system detects a change related to a number of active processor cores in the multi-core processor. (Within this system, a given processor core can reside in an active state, wherein the given processor core can draw an active power, or alternatively in a constrained state, wherein the given processor core can draw a constrained power, which is less than the active power.) In response to detecting the change, the system computes a new current limit I_CCMAX for the multi-core processor based on the number of active and constrained processor cores. Finally, the system communicates I_CCMAX to a power-management mechanism within the multi-core processor. This enables the power-management mechanism to use I_CCMAX to account for power saved by the constrained processor cores when the multi-core system is subsequently determining whether to change its operating frequency.

The invention discloses a digital ultrasonic generator for measuring current wave forms and voltage wave forms at two ends of a transducer load in an isolation manner, acquiring current signals and voltage signals under effective power and automatically tracking frequencies through the signals to accurately find out resonant frequencies. The voltage wave forms and the current wave forms are calculated by multiplication; phase differences delta phi of the voltage and current wave forms are directly reflected through the obtained direct-current wave forms; and when delta phi is lower, a transducer is nearer a pure resistor, the conversion frequency of the transducer is higher, and the oscillation frequency thereof is nearer an optimal resonant point, so that the transducer load works in a resonant state, the conversion frequency of the ultrasonic transducer is improved, the heating capacity of an inductor and a transformer is reduced, and the current stability and efficiency are improved.

The invention discloses a method for power over Ethernet. Power sourcing equipment acquires power sourcing information of Ethernet ports, and the power sourcing information includes the state of powered devices; if the state of the powered devices of the Ethernet ports is ineffective, the powered devices connected with the power sourcing equipment via the Ethernet ports are detected, and when the powered devices are ensured to be effective powered devices, the state of the powered devices of the Ethernet ports is set to be effective and the powered devices are powered on; and if the state of the powered devices of the Ethernet ports is effective, the powered devices are directly powered on so that rapid power-on and starting of the powered devices can be realized. The invention also provides the power sourcing equipment and a system for power over Ethernet.

A power-efficient link group-based communication system is provided. In link group-based communication, according to the amount of transmitted traffic, an appropriate number of links in a link group are set to active mode to be used for traffic transmission, and the rest of the links in the link group are set to power save mode, thereby not transmitting traffic. Thus, efficient power reduction in the link group-based communication can be realized.