327 results about "Electric current pulse" patented technology

A device and a related device for driving LED-based, direct-lit backlight modules are provided. The device contains a driver controller which receives the timing signals from the display device and a number of drivers which is series-connected or parallel-connected to the driver controller. Each of the drivers is activated by the driver controller to drive a number of LEDs of the backlight module by current pulses. Each driver automatically detects its output current or voltage and increases the duty cycle of the current pulses so as to compensate the brightness loss from out-of-work LEDs. The method delivers pulses of different pulse counts in a fixed period of time (e.g., a frame time) to the red-, green-, and blue-light LEDs so as to achieve a constant color temperature based on their different response to the temperature.

An alkali metal, solid cathode, nonaqueous electrochemical cell capable of delivering high current pulses, rapidly recovering its open circuit voltage and having high current capacity, is described. The stated benefits are realized by the addition of at least one phosphonate additive to an electrolyte comprising an alkali metal salt dissolved in a mixture of a low viscosity solvent and a high permittivity solvent. A preferred solvent mixture includes propylene carbonate, dimethoxyethane and an alkyl phosphonate additive.

Magnetic wires that include two antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic regions show improved domain wall motion properties, when the domain walls are driven by pulses of electrical current. The magnetic regions preferably include Co, Ni, and Pt and exhibit perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, thereby supporting the propagation of narrow domain walls. The direction of motion of the domain walls can be influenced by the order in which the wire's layers are arranged.

A method of eliciting analgesia in a human subject by Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TCES, herein “TES”) is provided. Electrodes secured to the skin of the subject's head at particular sites provide an electrical current that includes a direct current combined with rectangular AC current pulses delivered at a particular frequency of between 10 and 100 Hz. In an embodiment the total current transmitted, a sum of the DC component and a Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) of the current pulses, has a value between 0.2 and 20 mA. The method is used to produce analgesia during perioperative period, surgery and the post-operative procedure. It can also be used for treating acute chronic pain and a wide variety of other conditions.

In a switching type power supply for use in an electric arc welder or plasma cutter, of the type having an output transformer with a primary winding in a series circuit DC source with a selected voltage and a switch, either single or tandem, with a conductive on state to pass a current pulse through the primary winding in a first electrical direction and a non-conductive off state disconnecting the DC voltage source from the winding and a large filter capacitor across the DC input voltage source, the improvement comprising: a snubber network for transferring energy due to the leakage inductance of the primary winding to the filter capacitor when the switch is shifted from the on state to the off state where the snubber network includes a storage capacitor with a diode controlled resonant charging circuit so the winding is in a tank circuit with the storage capacitor to charge the storage capacitor in a charging cycle when the switch shifts from the on state to the off state and a diode controlled discharging circuit where the storage capacitor is in series with the winding and the filter capacitor to discharge the storage capacitor into the filter capacitor when the winding reverses polarity.

A process and system for electrical extraction of intracellular matter from biological matter, and intracellular matter products formed thereby, based on preparing a mixture of biological matter featuring cells, and an electro-conductive liquid, and electrifying the mixture by transmitting controlled cycles of pulses and pauses of electrical current into the mixture by using electrodes, whereby the pulses of electrical current pierce holes into or perforate the cell membranes of the cells, enabling the release of intracellular matter for collecting and separating into target intracellular matter extract and solid waste. Pauses included in each cycle of transmitting pulses of electrical current enable firm control of electrical extraction processing conditions, including extent of extraction, temperature effects, and pressure effects, during the electrical extraction process. Electrical extraction of the present invention is applicable to a wide variety of biological matter originating from human, animal, and plant entities. Intracellular matter extracts so obtained include highly concentrated liquid fertilizer, valuable elements, nutrients, oils, and fats, which are used for manufacturing a diversity of end products of the agricultural, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries.

Method and apparatus for providing harmonic inductive power, and more particularly for delivering current pulses providing a desired amount of pulse energy in high frequency harmonics to a load circuit for inductive heating of an article. By controlling the shape and / or frequency of such current pulses, the apparatus and method can be used to enhance the rate, intensity and / or power of inductive heating delivered by the heater coil and / or to enhance the lifetime or reduce the cost and complexity of an inductive heating power supply. Of particular significance, the apparatus and method may be used to significantly increase the power inductively delivered to a ferromagnetic or other inductively heated load, without requiring an increase of current in the heater coil. This enables new heating applications, and in some known applications, decreases the energy consumption or cooling requirements and / or increase the lifetime of the heater coil.

A memory includes: first and second recording layers for recording information by utilizing a reversible phase change between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase which occurs due to increases in temperature caused by application of an electric current pulse. The crystallization temperatures of the first and second recording layers, Tx1 and Tx2 have the relationship Tx1<Tx2. The crystallization times of the first and second recording layers, tx1 and tx2, have the relationship tx1>tx2. Ra1+Ra2, Ra1+Rc2, Rc1+Ra2, and Rc1+Rc2are different from one another where the resistance value of the first recording layer in the amorphous phase is Ra1: the:resistance value of the first recording layer in the crystalline phase is Rc1, the resistance value of the second recording layer in the amorphous phase is Ra2 and the resistance value of the second recording layer In the crystalline phase is Rc2.

There is disclosed a process and apparatus for carrying out plasma electrolytic oxidation of metals and alloys, forming ceramic coatings on surfaces thereof at a rate of 2-10 microns per minute. The process comprises the use of high-frequency current pulses of a certain form and having a given frequency range, combined with the generation of acoustic vibrations in a sonic frequency range in the electrolyte, the frequency ranges of the current pulses and the acoustic vibrations being overlapping. The process makes it possible to introduce ultra-disperse powders into the electrolyte, with the acoustic vibrations helping to form a stable hydrosol, and to create coatings with set properties. The process makes it possible to produce dense hard microcrystalline ceramic coatings of thickness up to 150 microns. The coatings are characterised by reduced specific thickness of an external porous layer (less than 14% of the total coating thickness) and low roughness of the oxidised surface, Ra 0.6-2.1 microns.

The invention relates to a method for reducing the residual stress of a ferromagnetic metal material. The method is to process the ferromagnetic metal material through a pulse current and a pulse magnetic field, wherein the processing time is 10 to 50 s; the density of the pulse current is 102 to 104 A / cm2; the action time of a single pulse is 0.1 to 50 ms; the number of the continuously input current pulses is 5 to 30; an interval between a process of continuously inputting 5 to 30 pulse current with the action time of 0.1 to 50 ms and a process of inputting 5 to 30 pulse current again with the action time of 0.1 to 50 ms is 3 to 5 s; the number of interval times of the whole processing procedure is 4 to 6; the pulse magnetic field is generated in an electromagnet mode; the exciting peak value current is 30 to 80 amperes; the output field strength is 0 to 2.25 T; the action time of a single magnetic pulse is 0.2 to 1 s and the interval is 0.2 to 1 s; and the magnetic pulse and the interval are performed alternatively until the whole processing procedure ends up. The method can obviously reduce the residual stress.

A system for detecting spark in an igniter for a gas turbine engine. An igniter generates a plasma, or spark, somewhat similar to an automotive spark plug. In the invention, an inductive pick-up is positioned adjacent the igniter, to detect current pulses in the igniter, to thereby infer the presence of spark. The pick-up can take the form of a coil embedded in a mounting bracket which is used to fasten the igniter to the engine.

An electrolytic filtration method and apparatus for the concentration and collection of suspended particulates from aqueous solutions is disclosed. The electrolytic cell contains at least an anode and a cathode, and in one embodiment contains a plurality of anodes and cathodes. The electrolytic cell also contains a filter, and in one embodiment the filter is a moving belt filter. While not bound by theory, the electrolytic filtration method and apparatus is based on the electrophoretic movement of algae particles suspended in an aqueous solution away from the filter under the influence of an electric field. In one embodiment the electric field is a pulsed waveform with unidirectional voltage or current pulses. In another embodiment, the electric field is a pulsed waveform with bidirectional voltage or current pulses.

An alkali metal, solid cathode, non-aqueous electrochemical cell capable of delivering high current pulses, rapidly recovering its open circuit voltage and having high current capacity, is described. The stated benefits are realized by the addition of at least one organic sulfate additive to an electrolyte comprising an alkali metal salt dissolved in a mixture of a low viscosity solvent and a high permittivity solvent. A preferred solvent mixture includes propylene carbonate, dimethoxyethane and a sulfate additive.

An apparatus for removing ice from an object (e.g., in-flight ice removal from the skin of an aircraft) includes an actuator assembly that forms an elongated electrically conductive loop. The actuator is mounted in a position enabling it to impact the object to be de-iced in response to movement of the loop that is produced by electric current pulses flowing in opposite directions in two mechanically independent loop subassemblies. The loop subassemblies include multiple electrically conductive elements interconnected at their ends using elongated flexible connectors in order to introduce a physically discontinuity that reduces any restriction of relative movement of the subassembly ends caused by the connectors, thereby achieving enhanced operation and less fatigue failure as compared to a rigid structure having encapsulated element

A method and system for reducing audible motor noise in a system for reconstructing motor phase current from a DC bus current comprising current pulses on a DC bus in a PWM inverter motor drive system having a PWM cycle, and for controlling the motor, which forms a command voltage vector according to a space vector modulation arrangement for controlling the motor; measures the DC bus current on the DC bus supplying power to the inverter to reconstruct said motor phase current; and determines when the command voltage vector results in an inverter switching state that prevents the measuring of the DC bus current from accurately indicating motor phase current. During said inverter switching state, a current sampling scheduler applies a minimum pulse width constraint to said current pulses in said DC bus current to improve reconstruction of said motor phase current based on said DC bus current; and reduces the application of said minimum pulse width constraint to less than once per PWM cycle imposed by the PWM inverter motor drive system, thereby allowing motor phase current reconstruction with reduced audible motor noise. The current sampling scheduler synchronously samples said measured motor phase current to reduce errors in said measured motor phase current caused by said reduction of said minimum pulse constraint; reduces a bandwidth of said motor controller during said inverter switching state; and is adjustable in response to motor speed for setting the number of said minimum pulse width constraints per PWM cycle.

A pulsed plasma thruster provides for an advanced lightweight design with solid propellant and predominately electromagnetic thrust in a coaxial geometry. Electromagnetic forces are generated in a plasma by current flowing from a small central electrode to an electrically conducting diverging nozzle electrode. The thruster employs a series of electric current pulses of limited duration and varying frequency between the pair of electrodes creating a series of electric arcs. The electric arcs pass over a propellant surface located between the electrodes, forming a plasma, which is then exhausted from the device to produce thrust. The thruster maintains a low plasma resistance and cavity pressure, which in turn yields strong electromagnetic body forces, resulting in a high efficiency and consistent pulse-to-pulse performance.

An electromagnetic forming apparatus for forming an essentially planar metal plate into a dish having a three-dimensional pattern, is provided. The apparatus comprises a mould having a forming surface with a contour corresponding to said three-dimensional pattern; a forming coil device; and an electric discharge circuitry for discharging a short and intense electric current pulse through the forming coil device to yield a pulsed magnetic forming (PMF) force for deforming said plate.

Systems and methods for determining multiple touch events in a multi- touch sensor system are provided. The system may include a capacitance measurement unit (600), a pulse drive unit (1012), and a touch sensor having a plurality of nodes (200) and a plurality of electrodes (1014,1016) comprising at least two sets of electrodes. The method may include connecting a first electrode (1016) in a first set to the capacitance measurement unit (600), the pulse drive unit (1012) driving a voltage or current pulse onto a second electrode (1014) in a second set of electrodes. The method may further include the capacitance measurement unit measuring the mutual capacitance (Cm) at a node corresponding to the first and second electrodes. The method may include comparing the measured mutual capacitance at the node with a previously measured mutual capacitance for the node, and reporting that the node has been touched if there has been a deviation from the previously measured mutual capacitance.

The present invention relates to a device and a method for reliably securing an electric line with a controllable switching element, wherein the device and the method can be easily adapted to the properties of an electric line. The device comprises a controllable switching element (110, 610) than is designed to take on at least two states, specifically a first state with a first resistance and a second state with a second resistance that is lower than the first resistance. The invention further comprises a current measuring device (120, 620) for measuring a current via the line; an averaging device (125, 625) for determining at least one first current pulse on the basis of the measured current, averaged over a first duration, and a second current pulse, averaged over a second duration that is longer than the first duration; and a controller (130, 630) for controlling the switching element such that the switching element switches into the first state when the first or the second averaged current pulse exceeds a first or second threshold value of a tripping characteristic curve.

The invention discloses a device and a method for decomposing adipose tissue by an electromagnetic field. At least one switch, a capacitor and an excitation coil are included; the method comprises a method of decomposing excess fat with the steps of fully charging the capacitor with a power supply, switching the at least one switch; providing a current pulse having a peak current in the range of 300 A to 8000 A from the pulse capacitor to the excitation coil to generate a pulsed magnetic field through the excitation coil; and applying a biphasic sinusoidal pulse of a pulsed magnetic field to the muscle of a user for a pulse duration in the range of 50 [mu] s to 500 [mu] s to cause muscle contraction, thereby reducing adipose tissue.

An electric arc welder for creating a succession of AC waveforms between an electrode and workpiece by a power source comprising an high frequency switching device for creating individual waveforms in the succession of waveforms. Each of the individual waveforms has a profile determined by the magnitude of each of a large number of short current pulses generated at a frequency of at least 18 kHz by a pulse width modulator with the magnitude of the current pulses controlled by a wave shaper. The welder is provided with a profile control network for setting more than one profile parameter selected from the class consisting of frequency, duty cycle, up ramp rate and down ramp rate and a magnitude circuit for adjusting the waveform profile to set total current, voltage and / or power.

A process for fine crystallization of metal liquid by electric current pulses is carried out by: smelting metal and over-heating, casting, inserting two parallel electrodes from above into molten metal, and disturbing metal liquid by 1000-4000A impulse electric current at 100-1000Hz to obtain fine-crystallized cast ingots. The disturbance is divided into both periods of core forming and solidifying. It can be used mold casting or continuous casting various metals.

A method for use with a magnetic racetrack device includes placing domain walls having a first structure and domain walls having a second, different structure along the racetrack at stable positions corresponding to different regions within the device. The domain walls having the first structure and the domain walls having the second structure occupy alternating positions along the racetrack. A current pulse is applied to the racetrack, so that each of the domain walls moves to an adjacent region. This results in a transformation of the domain walls having the first structure into domain walls having the second structure, and vice versa. The first structure may be a vortex structure and the second structure may be a transverse structure.

The invention relates to a generalized force magnet, which forms the magnetic flux change of using the rise and drop change of the voltage or the current pulse in the coil, thus has the induced electromotive force, the induced current and the reverse induction field in the conductor. Through regulating the time ratio, pulse waveform and so on of impulse in the electric current rise and drop to realize the repelling force, the attraction or the vibration power which is exerted on all conductors, and enables this magnet to maintain separates or mutual attraction relatively static or back and forth vibrates with each kind of conductor. One kind magnetic suspension vehicles or the train which used the above magnet, provides the separation aerosol magnet, the guidance magnet, the actuation magnet, the brake / back-draft magnet in the bogie or the frame of the locomotive and lower part vehicles (and essential degaussing magnet); the kind of vehicles no need to rebuild the existing railroad to realize high speed or / heavy load travel on the conductor track specially on the existing railroad.

A set of methods controls the pumping action of and provides leak checking of a solid electrolyte oxygen sensor having internal and external electrodes. A first method performs a leak check on the sensor by forcing the sensor internal reference chamber to an evacuated state while seeking a minimum pumping current able to maintain this state. Further pumping control methods apply current pulses to the sensor electrodes to achieve a balanced state between an external oxygen partial pressure and an internal reference oxygen partial pressure. Reduction expressions modify the pulse parameters as a function of the sensor voltage output. A further expression modifies the pulse magnitude as a function of the internal reference chamber oxygen partial pressure. A further expression modifies the initial value of the pulse magnitude as a function of the oxygen partial pressure in a calibration gas during a calibration process.

A power supply device comprising an advanced harmonic current quashing (AHQ) and current pulse multiplier (CPM) (AHQ / CPM) three-phase transformer having: a primary winding placed around a magnetic core and having three primary winding input leads to connect a three phase power supply; and a plurality of secondary windings placed around the magnetic core in a predetermined winding turns configuration to generate a plurality of three phase outputs, where each three phase output of the plurality of three phase outputs has a different phase angle from all other three phase outputs, with each unique phase angle associated with a three phase output of a corresponding secondary winding being determined based on the winding turns configuration utilized for the corresponding secondary winding. A variable frequency drive (VFD) having 3N converters / inverters coupled to the secondary windings outputs exhibit substantially reduced harmonic currents and a current pulse number of greater than 6N.

A memory includes: first and second recording layers for recording information by utilizing a reversible phase change between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase which occurs due to increases in temperature caused by application of an electric current pulse. The crystallization temperatures of the first and second recording layers, Tx1 and Tx2 have the relationship Tx1<Tx2. The crystallization times of the first and second recording layers, tx1 and tx2, have the relationship tx1>tx2. Ra1+Ra2, Ra1+Rc2, Rc1+Ra2, and Rc1+Rc2 are different from one another where the resistance value of the first recording layer in the amorphous phase is Ra1, the resistance value of the first recording layer in the crystalline phase is Rc1, the resistance value of the second recording layer in the amorphous phase is Ra2 and the resistance value of the second recording layer in the crystalline phase is Rc2.

A skull-implantable electrode assembly for delivering pulses of electric current to a patient's brain, comprising an electrode housed in an insulated conduit and threaded through an electrically-conductive cannulated skull screw. Details of the exterior construction are discussed, as well as electrode arrangements and methods of treating a medical ailment of a patient.

An electric spark servo control method based on current pulse probability detection is characterized in that a current signal is adopted as a sampled signal; the current pulse occurring probability in a sampling period is acquired through a sampling circuit, so as to obtain a sampled current pulse probability; the sampled current pulse probability is calculated and stored by adopting a microprocessor, and is compared with a set current pulse probability, so as to obtain a scaling factor serving as servo control reference and control the feeding of an electric spark machine tool; when the sampled current pulse probability is larger than the set current pulse probability, the present feeding speed is multiplied by the scaling factor; and when the sampled current pulse probability is smaller than the set current pulse probability, the present feeding speed is multiplied by the scaling factor, so that the practical current pulse probability gets is changed to be equal to the set current pulse probability step by step. The method has the advantages that the controlling precision is high, the phenomena of over feeding and lack of feeding can be avoided; suitability for various electric spark processing forms of metal, semi-conductors, and heterogeneous composite materials containing conductive substances is realized; and the processing stability and the processing quality can be improved.