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27 results about "Flow pulse" patented technology

Pulse flow, as the name suggests, is based on inhaling, that is, the patient's breathing rate. It is used most when patients are awake and active during the day. Pulse flow delivers oxygen every time the patient takes a breath.

Fault self-checking maintenance management system for water meter equipment

The invention discloses a water meter equipment fault self-checking maintenance management system, particularly relates to the field of water affair metering management, is used for solving the problem of fault missing report risk hidden danger pain points caused by self-checking failure, and is characterized in that self-diagnosis drift monitoring and heartbeat frame extremely simple coding are triggered through pseudo-flow rate pulses, and the energy consumption increment of an uplink link is reduced to a milliwatt level; the health score drives the rhythm to be rechecked, so that the deep sampling only occurs at a necessary moment; a differential patch is combined with a digital twinborn model to accurately position a failure branch, pushing and loading are only loaded with micro bytes, and downlink consumption and refreshing time are greatly shortened; shape-frequency complementary indexes are fused with unsupervised boundary learning, so that deviation judgment is sensitive and stable; the dual-redundancy monitoring timer verifies that the patch takes effect and then uploads an abstract, and the maintenance center can carry out remote self-repair under the condition of not interrupting metering and communication; and therefore, instant capture and directional repair of silent faults are realized, the autonomous reliability of the water meter is remarkably improved, and the operation and maintenance cost and the field intervention frequency are greatly reduced.
Owner:SHANDONG HUAWEI INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD

High-precision monitoring method and system for partial discharge current pulse signal

The invention relates to the technical field of discharge monitoring, and provides a high-precision monitoring method and system for partial discharge current pulse signals. The method comprises the following steps: activating distributed broadband monitoring equipment to continuously monitor a transformer to obtain distributed monitoring information; extracting first monitoring information, and performing feature collection on the first pulse signal to obtain a pulse feature set; establishing a multi-conductor transmission line model based on the multi-dimensional characteristic parameters of the transformer, and performing simulation to obtain simulation information; and calling a partial discharge positioning strategy to analyze the pulse feature set and the simulation information, and determining the partial discharge source of the transformer. According to the invention, the technical problems that the partial discharge pulse signal in the transformer cannot be accurately extracted and analyzed and the accurate positioning of the partial discharge source is influenced because the detection blind area is easily influenced by electromagnetic interference and the weak signal identification is insufficient in the existing partial discharge monitoring method are solved; the technical effect of high-precision partial discharge source positioning is achieved.
Owner:STATE GRID SHANXI ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY TAIYUAN POWER SUPPLY COMPANY +6

Grounding resistance regular monitoring system and method

The invention discloses a grounding resistance regular monitoring system and method, and belongs to the technical field of power equipment state monitoring. The system comprises a pulse generation module, a measurement module, a control module, a protection module and a communication module. The core lies in that a low-amplitude short-time-range direct-current pulse current is adopted to be injected into a grounding system, the pulse amplitude, width and frequency parameters are optimized to be always lower than the action threshold value of a relay protection device, and therefore accurate measurement is achieved on the premise that power is not cut off and misoperation is not caused. Meanwhile, historical data trend analysis and soil environment factors are fused, the deterioration trend of the grounding resistance is intelligently predicted, early warning is performed in advance, and a resistance reduction device can be linked for automatic adjustment. The method effectively solves the problems that a traditional measurement method needs power failure and is poor in interference resistance and an existing online monitoring technology is likely to trigger protection by mistake, and achieves safe, accurate, automatic and intelligent monitoring, operation and maintenance of the grounding resistance.
Owner:THREE GORGES NEW ENERGY (PHOENIX) POWER GENERATION CO LTD

Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation system capable of cooperating with rehabilitation exercise

The invention discloses a closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation system capable of cooperating with rehabilitation exercise. The closed-loop controller is used for collecting an external signal related to animal movement as a gating signal, processing the signal and generating a control instruction; the vagus nerve stimulator is used for receiving the control instruction of the closed-loop controller, adjusting stimulation parameters and outputting vagus nerve stimulation pulses; the wireless communication module is used for realizing wireless connection between the closed-loop controller and the vagus nerve stimulator and ensuring rapid transmission of a control instruction; the motion signal acquisition device is used for acquiring external signals related to animal motion; according to the invention, the problem of output misalignment of existing small equipment under a high load is obviously improved through a four-stage cascaded constant-current pulse generation architecture; meanwhile, based on a naked pulse infrared direct drive protocol and an MCU highly integrated processing chain, the timing sequence matching precision requirement of vagus nerve stimulation pulses and rat rehabilitation exercise actions is ensured.
Owner:HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIV

Oil engine intelligent monitoring system and method based on multi-source data analysis

The invention relates to the technical field of flow signal processing and leakage early warning, in particular to an oil engine intelligent monitoring system and method based on multi-source data analysis. A data acquisition unit acquires an oil return pipe flow pulse signal, an engine body vibration signal and an oil pump load rate parameter in real time; the vibration direction analysis unit distinguishes vertical and horizontal vibration dominant modes according to the load rate and outputs directional data and compensation and early warning signals, and the eddy current pseudo peak value detection unit is matched with a pulse template by means of wavelet decomposition, identifies the amplitude, frequency and dislocation characteristics of a pseudo peak value at a pipe diameter sudden change position, and outputs the directional data and the compensation and early warning signals. The dynamic baseline correction unit constructs a vibration and eddy current coupling factor model, compensates a pseudo peak lifting effect at a low load and corrects time sequence offset at a high load, the leakage judgment unit calculates corrected flow deviation degree and weighted residual energy distribution characteristics, leakage alarm is triggered when an alarm threshold value is exceeded, misjudgment caused by interference is eliminated, and the oil engine leakage monitoring accuracy is improved.
Owner:BEIJING YUNXIN GUANYUAN INFORMATION TECH CO LTD

System and method for estimating cardiac dynamics and flow instability using ultrasound

The present disclosure relates to ultrasound-based strategies and techniques that are specially designed for time-resolved simultaneous cardiac tissue visualization and intracardiac flow instability mapping. First, to achieve high-resolution tissues images while also acquiring flow data, we devised an acquisition scheme which consists of two batches. The first batch is dedicated to tissue imaging, where we transmit a series of diverging waves emitted from different virtual source locations. These pulses have a single pulse-cycle to optimize axial resolution and are coherently compounded for improving lateral resolution. This paradigm generates tissue images with an improved resolution, allowing for real-time guidance at frame rates up to 50 fps. The second batch is dedicated for flow imaging where all diverging waves are transmitted from the same virtual source location. These flow pulses have a 5-cycle pulse length for improved flow signal. The length of this batch can be adjusted, but our experiments use a length of 64. The final transmission scheme alternates between the tissue batch and flow batch.
Owner:KALLWEIT CHRISTOPHER +2

Temperature-controlled pulsed RF ablation

Described embodiments include a system and method for pulsed RF ablation that includes generating a plurality of pulses of radiofrequency (RF) current for application to tissue of a subject for cardiac ablation, driving the RF each one of the pulses such that the power of the pulse initially rises from zero to a maximum value, each one of the pulses having a duration from a start point in time to an end point in time, and an intermission between the end point and the start point of successive pulses, receiving at least one signal from a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the tissue being ablated and controlling the power of the plurality of pulses to fractionally change the power of each of the pulses between the start point and end point in response to the measured temperature of the tissue being ablated.
Owner:BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD

A multi-level dual-flow pulse wavelet fusion panoramic video quality enhancement method

This invention belongs to the field of video coding and image processing technology, specifically relating to a multi-level dual-stream pulse wavelet fusion panoramic video quality enhancement method, comprising the following steps: 1. Acquiring the original high-quality panoramic video image, performing video coding standard compression processing to generate a compressed low-quality panoramic video image; 2. Performing shallow feature extraction and mapping it to a high-dimensional feature space to obtain shallow features; 3. Performing feature splitting, inputting it into the parallel global and local stream branches of the pulse-driven biomimetic quality enhancement model SWFN for feature extraction; 4. Performing channel stitching, using fusion convolution for feature interaction and compensation, and outputting the fused features; 5. Performing residual connection and reconstruction, outputting a quality-enhanced panoramic video frame. This method can more accurately eliminate the block artifacts and quantization distortion caused by VVC coding compression, improving the reconstruction quality of ultra-high-definition panoramic video.
Owner:HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIV

On-demand flow pulse system

The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a flow pulse system including a rotor, a stator, an ejector configured for releasable coupling to the rotor, and a nozzle releasablely coupled to the rotor, the nozzle being configured to control fluid flow through the rotor. In some embodiments, the system uses a screen disposed therein, the screen including an inner aperture in fluid communication with a plurality of lobe-shaped cavities along the rotor. In some embodiments, the system uses a fixed valve and an oscillating valve having a plurality of oscillating valve ports in fluid communication with the plurality of lobe-shaped cavities.
Owner:NAT OILWELL VARCO LP

Flash radiotherapy dose control method and apparatus, and electronic device

Provided are a FLASH radiotherapy dose control method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises: calculating the number of delivered pulses of at least two beam pulses having different pulse widths, the total beam delivery time, and the beam repetition frequency of the beam pulses, issuing the beam repetition frequency to a beam generation system, and issuing a set beam termination dose threshold, a pulse conversion dose threshold obtained by means of calculation, and a beam termination time threshold to a beam sampling controller; determining whether a real beam delivery dose is greater than or equal to the pulse conversion dose threshold; determining, on the basis of the determination result, whether to output a level control signal for adjusting the pulse width to the beam generation system; then determining whether the real beam delivery dose is greater than or equal to a beam termination dose threshold, and at the same time, determining whether a real beam delivery time is greater than or equal to the beam termination time threshold; and determing, on the basis of the determination result, whether to output a level control signal for beam termination to the beam generation system. The accuracy of FLASH beam dose control is improved.
Owner:ZHONGJIU FLASH MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Portable cable fault detecting and positioning equipment

The utility model relates to the technical field of cable fault detection, in particular to portable cable fault detecting and positioning equipment. Comprising an equipment box, a high-frequency current pulse sensor, two first insulating ropes and two groups of clamping assemblies, mounting plates are arranged on the two sides of the equipment box, the mounting plate on one side is fixed to the end of the equipment box, a sliding plate is connected to the mounting plate on the other side, the sliding plate is slidably arranged on the equipment box, and an electric telescopic rod used for driving the sliding plate to move is mounted on the equipment box; the two groups of clamping assemblies are respectively mounted on the mounting plates on the two sides; the high-frequency current pulse sensor is installed on the clamping assembly on one side. And the two first insulating ropes are connected with the equipment box. The technical scheme has the advantages of being wide in detection range and convenient to disassemble.
Owner:FUJIAN YIRUI POWER TECH

A water meter equipment fault self-diagnosis and maintenance management system

The present invention discloses a water meter equipment fault self-inspection and maintenance management system, which specifically relates to the field of water metering management, and is used to solve the pain point problem of risk of fault omission caused by self-inspection failure. It triggers self-diagnosis drift monitoring and heartbeat frame minimalist coding through pseudo-flow pulse, and the energy consumption increment of the uplink link is reduced to the milliwatt level. The health score drives the review rhythm, so that deep sampling occurs only when necessary; differential patches are combined with digital twin models to accurately locate the failure branch, and push and load only bear microbytes, and the downlink consumption and refresh time are greatly reduced; the shape-frequency complementary index is integrated with unsupervised boundary learning to ensure that the deviation judgment is both sensitive and robust; the dual redundant monitoring timer verifies that the patch takes effect and then uploads the summary, and the maintenance center can remotely self-repair without interrupting metering and communication; thereby realizing the real-time capture and directional repair of silent faults, significantly improving the autonomous reliability of water meters and greatly reducing operation and maintenance costs and the frequency of on-site intervention.
Owner:SHANDONG HUAWEI INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD

A method for analyzing a corona current pulse waveform, a computer device and a medium

The application discloses a corona current pulse waveform analysis method, computer equipment and a medium, and relates to the technical field of deep learning. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a plurality of original waveforms of corona current; for each original waveform, a sub-waveform is obtained by intercepting; for each sub-waveform, the sub-waveform is input into a trained neural network model to obtain a polarity recognition result of the sub-waveform; the polarity recognition result is a Trichel pulse waveform or a non-Trichel pulse waveform; for the original waveform with the polarity recognition result being the Trichel pulse waveform, a waveform analysis parameter of the original waveform is extracted. The trained neural network model can quickly and accurately identify the sub-waveform with the polarity recognition result being the Trichel pulse waveform, so that the waveform analysis parameter of the original waveform where the sub-waveform is located can be quickly extracted, and support is provided for further analysis of the influence of different working conditions on the corona current pulse waveform.
Owner:NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIV +1

Outward-peeping type flame detection sleeve air flow pulse decoking device for thermal power plant

InactiveCN121297021ASolid removalCokeStrong pulse
The invention relates to the field of decoking, in particular to a thermal power plant external peeping type flame detection sleeve air flow pulse decoking device which comprises a spray head piece, a plurality of power assisting holes, a plurality of air flow pulse decoking devices and a plurality of air flow pulse decoking devices. The sensing assembly is located in the spray head part; the adjusting assembly is movably arranged on the outer side of the spray head part; when the sensing assembly moves in the first direction, the adjusting assembly is driven to movably change the medium flow of the assistance hole. The coke cleaning device has the beneficial effects that through linkage of the sensing assembly and the adjusting assembly in the coke cleaning device, the resistance change in the coke cleaning process is automatically sensed, and the forward thrust is correspondingly adjusted. When encountering stubborn coke blocks, the device can automatically pressurize and break obstacles, and can automatically depressurize and stably move when passing through a smooth area, so that the self-adaptive control of the coke cleaning process is realized; by instantly maximizing the flow of the power-assisted hole and generating strong pulse-type thrust, coke blocks can be effectively crushed, cleaning of difficult areas can be completed without manual intervention, and the success rate of coke cleaning is remarkably improved.
Owner:HUANENG PINGLIANG POWER GENERATION CO LTD

Intelligent flow transmitter based on POWERBUS communication

The invention belongs to the field of automation instruments, particularly relates to an intelligent flow transmitter based on POWERBUS communication, and aims to solve the problems that a communication mode of an existing flow pulse signal transmitter has no optoelectronic isolation design, is poor in anti-electromagnetic interference capability, is influenced by factors such as pump starting and stopping and power failure, generates long-term accumulated errors, is large in data reading deviation, and is poor in communication performance. The problems of short communication distance, weak driving capability, no back-up power supply, data loss after power failure, easy burnout of components due to wiring errors due to power supply in a polarity connection mode, and no automatic identification of positive and negative rotation are solved. The microprocessor is arranged in a shell, and the signal processing unit, the POWERBUS communication unit and the power management circuit are connected with the microprocessor. According to the invention, the communication anti-interference capability and stability are high; reading is convenient; wiring errors are avoided, the reliability is enhanced, and the construction design is simplified and easy; the backup power supply can avoid the phenomenon of system operation cumulant data loss during transient power failure.
Owner:CHINA NAT PETROLEUM CORP +1

Intelligent testing method for flush valve based on multi-source sensing data

PendingCN122282309ASensing dataData stream
This invention relates to the field of bathroom fixture testing technology, specifically an intelligent testing method for flush valves based on multi-source sensor data. The method includes: collecting dynamic waveforms of water pressure, flow pulse sequences, valve body vibration spectra, and sealing surface image frames of the flush valve during a test period to form a multi-source sensor data stream; performing spatiotemporal alignment and fusion processing on the multi-source sensor data stream to construct a comprehensive state field for the flush valve; and using an improved hidden Markov model constrained by the mechanical action stage characteristics of the flush valve to constrain state transition probabilities, decoding the internal working state sequence of the flush valve, and accurately locating performance anomaly events and their spatiotemporal coordinates. A set of hypotheses for anomaly causes is constructed through reverse tracing, and the root cause of the fault is determined through verification testing. This method achieves integrated analysis of multi-dimensional operating data of the flush valve, accurately identifies operational anomalies, standardizes the fault tracing process, and improves the precision of intelligent testing and fault identification of flush valves.
Owner:ZHEJIANG KEXIN IND

Current pulse modulation identification circuit

The embodiment of the present application discloses a current pulse modulation identification circuit. The current pulse modulation identification circuit comprises a protection module, a conversion module, a diagnosis module and a processing module; the protection module is used for receiving a current pulse signal and protecting the conversion module, the diagnosis module and the processing module; the protection module is connected with the conversion module, and the conversion module is used for converting the current pulse signal into a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal; the diagnosis module is connected with the conversion module, and the diagnosis module is used for rectifying the first voltage signal to generate a third voltage signal; the conversion module and the diagnosis module are both connected with the processing module, and the processing module is used for identifying the current pulse signal according to the second voltage signal and judging the running state of the current pulse modulation identification circuit according to the third voltage signal. The current pulse modulation identification circuit provided by the embodiment of the present application can quickly process and identify the current pulse signal.
Owner:CHINA FAW CO LTD

Plasma processing with phase-locked waveforms

A plasma processing method includes applying AC waveforms to a bottom electrode in a plasma chamber to generate a plasma. The method further includes applying a first pulse train including a first plurality of DC pulses to a top electrode in the plasma chamber, where each DC pulse of the first plurality of DC pulses includes a first on-state and a first off-state. And the method further includes applying a second pulse train including a second plurality of DC pulses to the bottom electrode in the plasma chamber, and where each DC pulse of the second plurality of DC pulses includes a second on-state and a second off-state, the first pulse train being offset in phase relative to the second pulse train so that each first off-state overlaps with each second on-state.
Owner:TOKYO ELECTRON LTD

Method and system for simulating current pulse of Hall thruster by using electronic load

The invention belongs to the technical field of Hall propellers, and particularly relates to a method and system for simulating current pulse of a Hall propeller by using an electronic load, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, obtaining anode current pulse data of the Hall propeller, and extracting pulse parameters; s2, current pulse waveforms are edited in the electronic load based on the pulse parameters; s3, current pulse simulation is carried out through an electronic load, and an output pulse waveform is synchronously obtained through an oscilloscope; s4, comparing the anode current pulse data in the step S1 with the pulse waveform in the step S3; when the error is higher than the threshold value, returning to the step S2 and correcting the current pulse waveform; when the error is not higher than the threshold value, entering the step S5; and S5, the oscilloscope outputs analog data of the electronic load. Compared with the prior art, the method solves the problem that full numerical simulation depends on a model simplification hypothesis, and a nonlinear dynamic process in a real test is difficult to reproduce. According to the scheme, a low-cost and high-reliability test means is realized.
Owner:上海航天动力科技工程有限公司

Equipment fault information intelligent interaction system based on power distribution network

An equipment fault information intelligent interaction system based on a power distribution network belongs to the field of state monitoring. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting periodically acquired pulses, judging access pulses and choked current pulses according to a current direction, and calculating corresponding internal resistance measured values under circuit operation; respectively carrying out self-learning on pulse changes obtained under the circuit operation in the detection process so as to respectively obtain the measured initial internal resistance and the self-learning times under the circuit operation; when the self-learning times respectively reach a threshold value under the operation of the circuit, correcting the internal resistance value under the operation of the circuit; and taking the correction frequency under the circuit operation as a correction weight under the circuit operation, and giving evaluation. Based on a diagnosis mechanism of open circuit and short circuit of a current sensor, pulse signals of current of an access and a choked current are calculated at the same time by adopting a method of weight correction next time in circuit operation, and whether the circuit of the current distribution box has a fault or not is judged through the change of an input current pulse signal and the change of an output current pulse signal.
Owner:STATE GRID SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC POWER CO

Water flow pulse compensation method, water output detection method, device and cleaning machine

The present invention discloses a water flow pulse compensation method, a water output detection method, a device, and a cleaning machine. The method includes: obtaining a first pulse state in a current preset time period; obtaining a second pulse state in a previous preset time period; determining whether to compensate for the number of pulses in the current preset time period based on the first pulse state and the second pulse state, and if so, calculating a pulse compensation value based on the pulse data in the previous preset time period; and calculating a target pulse number based on the pulse compensation value and the number of pulses. In the present invention, whether to compensate for the number of pulses can be determined based on the pulse state. If compensation is required, the pulse compensation value can be calculated based on the pulse data in the previous preset time period, thereby adding the under-counted pulse compensation value or subtracting the over-counted pulse compensation value in the current preset time period, thereby correcting the number of pulses collected in the current preset time period to obtain a target pulse number that is more accurate and can better reflect the actual water flow situation.
Owner:NINGBO FOTILE KITCHEN WARE CO LTD

Power cable fault location system and method based on beidou and angle of arrival

The application discloses a power cable fault positioning system based on Beidou and a sound arrival angle, which comprises a pulse generator and a measuring station; the pulse generator periodically applies a pulse signal to a power cable to excite a sound signal emitted by a fault point of the power cable; the measuring station is movably installed in a cable trench, and after being fixed after each movement, a satellite signal receiver is used to obtain a coordinate position where the measuring station is located, and a MEMS microphone array is used to collect a sound array signal generated by the power cable when the power cable is applied with a high-voltage direct-current pulse signal by the pulse generator and to time stamp the sound array signal; and further, according to the coordinate position obtained after each movement and the time-stamped sound array signal, a data calculation module is used to determine a final position of the fault point in the power cable. By implementing the application, defects existing in a current acoustic-magnetic synchronous method for positioning a fault point of a power cable can be solved, so that fast and accurate positioning of the fault point of the power cable is realized.
Owner:SHENZHEN POWER SUPPLY BUREAU

Airborne pulse signal acquisition circuit and method

The invention belongs to the technical field of electrics, and discloses an airborne pulse signal acquisition circuit, which comprises a signal conditioning circuit for scaling down a pulse signal PulseIN through a differential scaling operation circuit and converting a differential pulse signal into a single-ended pulse signal Vout which is common-grounded with an analog ground; the comparison circuit compares the signal Vout with a threshold voltage Vref and outputs TTL level signals IOTimer with the same amplitude and different frequencies to the FPGA circuit; and the FPGA circuit rejects channels with abnormal acquisition to complete TTL level signal IOTimer edge counting, so that a direct-current pulse signal accurate counting function is achieved. The circuit is simple in structure, circuit parameters are convenient to calculate, the differential signal acquisition function is achieved, circuit input impedance is high, voltage drop is small, accurate acquisition of pulse signals in different measuring ranges can be achieved by changing resistance devices, and expansion is easy.
Owner:TIANJIN JINHANG COMP TECH RES INST

Flow determining and adjusting method and device, medium and equipment

The invention discloses a flow determination method and device, a medium and equipment, and the method comprises the steps that the first flow pulse number of a flow meter in the current first unit time is obtained, and the flow meter is used for monitoring the flow of protective gas of an annealing furnace; performing frequency division processing on the first flow pulse number according to a preset frequency division number to obtain a second flow pulse number; according to the second flow pulse number, the preset frequency division number and a preset instrument coefficient of the flowmeter, the flow of the protective gas is obtained, and the preset instrument coefficient represents the pulse number of unit flow. Frequency division processing is adopted to replace a pulse flow converter, cost is lower, and work is more stable.
Owner:BEIJING SHOUGANG AUTOMATION INFORMATION TECH

A CT polarity testing method for preventing height risks

The present invention relates to the technical field of substation maintenance, specifically a method for testing CT polarity to prevent height hazards. The method includes a CT polarity tester, wherein a PCB control board within the CT polarity tester includes a touch display module, a controller, a charging circuit, a switch, a discharge circuit, an energy storage capacitor, a polarity detection circuit, and a mutual inductor. A P1 terminal, a P2 terminal, an S1 terminal, and an S2 terminal are sequentially provided on one side of the CT polarity tester from top to bottom. The CT polarity tester developed by the present invention can significantly reduce the volume and weight of the tester, facilitating on-site use and improving work efficiency. The method employs a current pulse signal less than 1A to test CY polarity. A pulse current signal is input to the P1 terminal of the CT, and S1 and S2 will generate a pulse current signal output with millisecond-level speed characteristics. The CT polarity is determined by analyzing these tandem current pulse signals.
Owner:CHUXIONG POWER SUPPLY BUREAU OF YUNNAN POWER GRID CO LTD

Pulse Width Modulated Fault Managed Power Systems

A fault managed power system (FMPS) and method therefor can limit the cumulative effects of repeated current pulses on the human body during a fault without changing the amplitudes of the current pulses. Upon detection of a fault, the fault managed power system progressively reduces the durations of the current pulses (i.e., ON intervals) instead of the amplitudes to limit the cumulative effects of the current pulses. The fault managed power system can perform the progressive pulse width reductions in increments or steps that limit the cumulative effects of the current pulses to below a predefined energy level. In some embodiments, the predefined level is a level that could prevent let-go or cause ventricular fibrillation in a human body. Such a fault managed power system advantageously provides a simple and efficient way to limit the energy delivered into a fault without having to change the amplitudes of the current pulses.
Owner:SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA INC

Non-invasive sensor for determining heartbeats and / or heart rate in a segment of an extracorporeal blood circuit

Non-invasive heartbeat sensor for determining the heart rate in a catheter of an extracorporeal blood treatment device, comprising a source for directing an optical signal towards blood flowing in a segment, a detector for receiving an optical information signal and emitting a corresponding output signal, the optical information signal comprising a signal emitted by the source after passing through the blood, a controller receiving the corresponding output signal and deriving a heartbeat frequency and a heart rate value based on the output signal, wherein the information signal is altered by a flow disturbance of the blood caused by a flow pulse originating from the heart.
Owner:GAMBRO LUNDIA AB