1524 results about "Human power" patented technology

A system for determining a service outages and restorations that includes an outage management server (OMS) that generates reports outages and restoration information for metering endpoints. The outages may be caused by faults at various locations in the distribution network. The metering endpoint may include a transmitter having a battery backup that transmits the outage information upon a failure to detect a voltage at the endpoint. The transmission of the information may be filtered based on configurable criteria. The metering endpoints may also inform the OMS when power is restored. Thus, a utility may better service its customers by focusing manpower efforts using the outage and restoration information generated by the OMS.

A negative pressure wound therapy apparatus that can include a wound dressing, a fluid collection device, a vacuum pump comprising a pump motor, and tubing can be powered by auxiliary power sources such as high efficiency batteries, photovoltaic panels or cells, fuel cells, combustion generators, human powered generators, or other mechanical, electrical, or chemical power sources such as hand operated dynamos or wound springs, or any combination of the foregoing. Additionally, the apparatus can include a high efficiency pressure controller for controlling the output of the vacuum pump. In some embodiments, the pressure controller can control the pump without using a processor, and can have other features such as an intermittent delay function and an anti-stall mechanism to reduce the energy consumption of the apparatus.

This invention provides an environmentally-friendly system for operating a green fitness facility. It also provides for the use of a human-powered renewably energy source in a fitness facility. It further provides for the monetization of surplus power generated, carbon-credits earned through its operation method, and the promotion of an ecologically-minded fitness center.

The invention discloses a pneumatic-muscle-driven exoskeleton assisting mechanism. One-arm members with four rotation freedom degrees are connected with both sides of the upper portion of a back support and are identical in structure. Each one-arm member comprises a shoulder joint part, an upper arm part, an elbow joint part and a forearm part which are connected successively. Two sides of the lower portion of the back support are connected with one-leg members with identical structures. Each one-leg members with identical structure comprises a hip joint part, a thigh part, a knee joint part, a shank part, an ankle joint part and a pressure shoe part. Each of the shoulder joint parts and the hip joint part has three rotation freedom degrees, and each of the elbow joint parts, the knee joint parts and the ankle joint parts has one rotation freedom degree. The exoskeleton assisting mechanism has 18 rotation freedom degrees altogether. The mechanism is simple in structure, low in weight, good in flexibility and capable of increasing wearer function power and being used in occasions of military actions, disaster relief, rescuing and the like, where human power is not enough to support required loads.

When large numbers of children play in a playground, part of the power of their play could be usefully harnessed resulting in large energy storage. This stored energy can then be converted for basic, low-power, applications in the school such as lighting, communication, or operating fans. Energy can be produced through the use of pneumatic (i.e., compressed air) systems such as cylinders, motors, valves, and regulators for the conversion of human power of children's play in school playgrounds and other public places. The energy of the compressed air can then be converted to electricity for purposes such as lighting and communication. This provides a low-cost, low-resource means of generation of electricity, especially for use in developing countries.

The invention relates to the body building field, in particular to a body automatic build system and a method based on the text mining field. The system mainly comprises a linguistic data pretreatment subsystem, a text mining subsystem and a body build subsystem, wherein, the linguistic data pretreatment subsystem is used for receiving and processing relevant data provided by a user, the text mining subsystem is used for analyzing and mining the relevant knowledge in the linguistic data, and the body build subsystem is used for organizing and building the final field body knowledge base. The body automatic build system and the method based on text mining of the invention can finish the automatic building of the body under the condition of few manual interventions, thus shortening the body building period, and saving a great amount of manpower, material resources and financial resource input during manual body building; and meanwhile, the system and the method can fully utilize internet information and electronic resources owned by users for better blending, reasoning and disambiguation and avoid the effect on the body knowledge base by the view of individual expert and scholar.

A human power amplifier includes an end-effector that is grasped by a human operator and applied to a load. The end-effector is suspended, via a line, from a take-up pulley, winch, or drum that is driven by an actuator to lift or lower the load. The end-effector includes a force sensor that measures the vertical force imposed on the end-effector by the operator and delivers a signal to a controller. The controller and actuator are structured in such a way that a predetermined percentage of the force necessary to lift or lower the load is applied by the actuator, with the remaining force being supplied by the operator. The load thus feels lighter to the operator, but the operator does not lose the sense of lifting against both the gravitation and inertial forces originating in the load.

A set of accessory devices and a method that improves riding experience indoors and outdoors on devices using human propulsion and reciprocating motion. A mechanical accessory device that adds the stepping and reciprocating motion to a pedaling system, like those used on bicycles, tricycles, boats, individual power generators used indoors and outdoors with various positions, and movement range adjustments. A set of electronic accessories added gradually, that measures, records, transmits, processes and shares a large range of the parameters, generically called “riding experience” force and displacements, giving effort and work, GPS, accelerations, movie, etc. giving the path and rider vital and functional parameters, giving medical and exploratory results. A system that uses a code to process these information and transmits on the Internet, used on their indoors devices to reproduce the experience in their terms, transforming their devices in simulators, enabled to remotely control outdoors devices.

A method and apparatus for string load reduction and real-time pitch alteration on stringed instruments. A string load is substantially reduced with a camming surface actuator so that the pitch can be rapidly manipulated by an input force which is generated by human power or an electronically controlled motor. Various types of camming surfaces are provided as well as a load optimization calculation which determines the shape of a variable ratio camming surface. Multiple embodiments are described including a constant force pitch alteration device, a motorized control system with pitch compensation and real-time tracking of string pitch to multiple relative input signals, a control signal generator based on real-time position measurement of a control object relative to an electromagnetic radiation sensor, and methods for generating mechanical looping, vibrato, and polyphonic chorus effects which can be automated or dynamically controlled by a user. Other embodiments are described and shown.

The present invention relates to a personal, green-energy, transportation device with single wheel and self-balancing function. The personal, green-energy, transportation device can be propelled by the manpower and simultaneously execute the self-balancing function thereof. The device comprises: a body, a wheel, a pedal portion, a roller chain, an in-wheel motor, and a sensing-control module, wherein the sensing-control module detects the balancing condition of the body when the personal, green-energy, transportation device is driven, and then the sensing-control module controls the in-wheel motor to output a balancing torque for maintaining the self balance of the body.

A human powered land vehicle sufficiently rigid so as to transport a human rider constructed only from pulpably recyclable and shreddably recyclable materials.

A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user. A vehicle adapted to this method.

System determines impact of a helmet, comprising: accelerometer and processor, the accelerometer detecting acceleration of the helmet, the processor configured to process the signals from the accelerometer to determine impact of the helmet. System determines athletic performance, comprising: pressure sensor for sensing change in elevation; microprocessor for processing signals from the pressure sensor to determine vertical speed corresponding to the change in elevation; and display for reporting the vertical speed to a user. System assesses athletic performance, comprising: protective housing configured for attachment to a human-powered sport vehicle; GPS sensor configured with the housing for generating earth position signals; microprocessor configured with the housing for processing the signals to determine speed and distance traveled of the sport vehicle; and display configured with the housing for displaying one or both of the speed and distance traveled to a user of the human-powered sport vehicle.

The invention relates to the technical field of measurement, and particularly relates to a measurement system based on a cloud technology. The measurement system based on the cloud technology comprises a cloud server, a cloud client and at least one measurement terminal connected through a network; the measurement terminal transmits data to the cloud server by network connection; the cloud client obtains the required measurement data from the cloud server; a user carries out operations such as inquiring, displaying, outputting, utilizing and estimating the measurement data through the cloud client, and achieves coordinated or associated measurement, which cannot be finished by the traditional measurement technology, of associated objects at difference scenes. Thus, the measurement time is shortened; a plurality of measurement terminals can carry out real-time monitoring and remote measurement on the measured object at the same time; the measurement system can be widely applied to associated measurements among a plurality of sites, a plurality of factories, a plurality of workshops, a plurality of suppliers and a plurality of parts; the rejection rate is reduced; the inventory time is reduced, and consumption of manpower and material resources is also reduced.

A personal transporter device and corresponding method of operation are given that utilize an exercise mode. A transporter assembly includes a platform, a ground-contacting module, and a motorized drive. The platform supports a user. The ground-contacting module is connected to the platform. The motorized drive powers the ground-contacting module to drive the assembly in a selected direction over an underlying surface. A controller is coupled to and controlling the motorized drive, and also has an exercise mode for opposing a user-provided human power input with a selected level of resistance. When the device is a dynamically stabilized transporter, the controller also controls the motorized drive so as to dynamically stabilize the transporter assembly.

The invention relates to a centralized monitoring and managing system for optical cable resources. A system structure based on two stages of monitoring and managing platforms and a layer of monitoring and operating platform is at least regulated and controlled by the two stages of monitoring centers of a province and city stage and a region stage, and the monitoring of various modes of optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) test, light power test, linking test thereof and the like is also provided to an optical fiber in use or a standby fiber in an optical fiber network at an executing lay by a plurality of monitoring stations correspondingly. The system also provides an abundant system managing function; especially, a resource topology drawing of an entire network can be drawn according to the configuration parameter of the system; and the operation of quick and accurate positioning during maintenance and fault examination is assisted by utilizing a geographic information system (GIS) technology. Therefore, according to the system disclosed by the invention, the expense of manpower and financial resources for maintenance and management can be effectively reduced, and the time of fault diagnosis and treatment is effectively shortened, so that the safe and stable running of the entire network is ensured.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the automatic distribution field, and discloses a delivery method and device based on intelligent containers and delivery robots and a storage medium. In theinvention, the delivery method comprises the following steps: obtaining the delivery point information of the goods, the communication information of the user matched with the goods and the positioninformation of the intelligent container storing the goods; controlling the delivery robot to move to the position of the intelligent container according to the position information of the intelligentcontainer; controlling the delivery robot is controlled to carry the intelligent container to the delivery point according to the delivery point information, and a prompt message for indicating thatthe goods have been delivered is sent to the user according to the communication information. The invention provides a delivery method based on an intelligent container and a delivery robot, a deviceand a computer-readable storage medium, which can realize the whole-process automatic delivery service and reduce the human cost.

The invention discloses a water surface floating plant fishing device, which comprises a stander, a power mechanism, a fishing mechanism (1), a cutting mechanism and a compression collecting mechanism. The fishing mechanism (1) is positioned at one end of the stander; the cutting mechanism is positioned in the middle of the stander; the compression collecting mechanism is positioned under the cutting mechanism and fixed at one end of a bottom beam (11) of the stander; and the power mechanism drives the fishing mechanism, the cutting mechanism and the compression collecting mechanism through a chain wheel. The fished aquatic plant is conveyed into a cutting box (9); a bevel gear (16) drives a cutter (4) to do vertical reciprocating motion through a cam shaft (20) to cut the aquatic plant; the cut aquatic plant is compressed through the reciprocating motion of a compression plate (22); and the intermittent motion of a movable bottom plate (39) under the compression box is realized through an incomplete gear (10) so that the compressed aquatic plant falls into a collecting device. The device integrates fishing, cutting, compressing and collecting, replaces manual fishing, is suitable for various water aircrafts, and has the characteristics of high efficiency and convenient use.

A wind powered generation platform in accordance with the present invention provides for remote placement of wind generation systems in a body of water. A platform for such use includes a base portion, a control portion, a stabilizing portion, a power generation portion and a power link portion. Management of the platform is automated and independent and platforms may be organized into aquatic wind farms without the necessity of having to provide manpower to supervise operations. Another embodiment of the present invention provides for the generation of hydrogen in remote locations, which may be harvested on a periodic basis.

The invention relates to a clinical-knowledge-graph construction method based on electronic medical records. The method is characterized by including the following steps: step 1, concept layer designing, step 2, instance layer learning, and step 3, knowledge graph updating. Compared with the prior art, the method is better in a construction effect. Construction of a graph is automatic, partial manpower is saved, for unique data features of medical data, professionalism, data semantics, connection, knowledge time sequences and the like of the medical data are maintained, updating of the clinical knowledge graph is supported, and subsequent use is facilitated.

A human-powered, ride-on vehicle, includes a main longitudinal frame member having a steering/drive mechanism mounted thereon for oscillating movement; a driven rear wheel having an axle, a rear sprocket operatively fixed to the rear wheel for coastable engagement therewith; a pair of spaced apart, steerable front wheel located adjacent the other end of the main longitudinal frame member and operatively connected to the steering/drive mechanism; wherein, the steering/drive mechanism include: a teeter arm mounted to the main longitudinal frame member intermediate the ends thereof for pivoting movement in a fore direction and an aft direction; a drive mechanism including first and second drive linkages, wherein the first drive linkage provides a motive force to the driven rear wheel during a first power stroke and the second drive linkage provides a motive force to the driven rear wheel during a second power stroke, and wherein, for equal movement of the teeter arm in the for and aft directions, the motive force of the first powers strokes is between about one to three times that of the second power stroke.

A human-powered recumbent tricycle with an articulated frame that permits leaning of the single-wheeled front sub-frame (10) during turns. While the seat (20) and pedal crank (18) move the driver's body with the leaning front sub-frame (10), the two-wheeled rear sub-frame (71) carries the handlebar (90) for optimum driver control of vehicular orientation. Steering of the front wheel (16) is accomplished by two cables (60L, 60R) within housings (61L, 61R) that provide immunity from distortions caused by articulation (100) rotations during leaning. Front wheel (16) drive utilizes a universal joint hub (30) for continuous power drive and no chain (40, 50) twist throughout the full turning radius. High seat (20) height and narrow wheelspan of the two rear wheels (80L, 80R) provide for improved visibility and traffic penetration on congested urban streets. A low cargo rack (75) is provided such that carrying cargo lowers the overall center of gravity and increases vehicular stability. Since the front wheel (16) drive system is self-contained within the front sub-frame (10), the rear sub-frame (70) is interchangeable with other rear sub-frame (70) configurations; whereby this modular system can create vehicles for personal transportation, delivery, pedicabs, flat-bed trucks, and other custom needs; all with the same front drive sub-frame (10).

The present invention discloses an online early warning device of the ice coating and throwing about the electric transmission line. The early warning device consists of a data collecting terminal, a wireless communication base station and a specialist analyzing device. The data collecting terminal includes a solar battery board for charging the storage battery, and the insulator collecting signals are input into each sensor, a pretreatment unit, a central data processing unit, a transmitting and receiving unit of a wireless communication base station, a transmitting wireless communication device, a transmitting and receiving unit and a computer of the specialist analyzing device. The combination of the units is reasonable and the using of the device is convenient, the data is transmitted through the wireless relay, GSM, CDMA network and the security of the line is known by combining the parameters of the spot image, the temperature, the humidity, the wind speed, the wind direction and the weight of the guide line and the extent of throwing about. The over-standard electric transmission line is alarmed in time for directing the examining, repairing and preventing. 50-20000Hz signals can be detected; the power consumption is 3mA; the manpower, material resources and time can be saved and the device can be widely used on the high-pressure electric transmission lines.

The invention discloses an automatic detection device for the quality of a brake pad, which comprises a brake pad delivery mechanism, a multi-point automatic knocking module, a sound acquisition processing module and a brake pad screening module. A brake pad delivery module adopts a narrow conveyor belt to transmit the brake pad to a rear sound acquisition and screening part. A brake pad upward supporting device upward supports the brake pad transported to the knocked position to the position below a knocking hammer and ensures that the brake pad is exactly knocked by the knocking hammer, the multi-point automatic knocking hammer automatically and orderly knocks a plurality of position points, a sound signal is acquired by a pickup of the sound acquisition processing module and enters a computer for processing to judge the quality of the brake pad, and finally the screening module is used to reject the brake pad with defective quality according to a processing result. The device can quickly, automatically and accurately screen brake pads with defective quality, save a large quantity of manpower and material resources, and also avoid the error detection phenomenon of manual detection. The device can also be used for detecting the quality of other workpieces.

The invention discloses a big data analysis based intelligent greenhouse control system and method. The system includes an air temperature and humidity sensor, a light intensity sensor, a carbon dioxide sensor, a soil temperature and humidity sensor, an equipment driving module, a CC2530, a ZigBee/WiFi gateway, a cloud server and a network camera; the air temperature and humidity sensor, the light intensity sensor, the carbon dioxide sensor and the soil temperature and humidity sensor are used for collecting the environment information of a greenhouse; the equipment driving module is used for adjusting the environment parameters of the greenhouse; the network camera is used for collecting the growth pictures of crops in the greenhouse; the CC2530 sends a control instruction to the equipment driving module; the equipment driving module transmits the control instruction to a ventilating fan, a sprinkling irrigation facility and a light supplementary lamp/light shading curtain, so that the environment parameters in the greenhouse can be adjusted; and the cloud server determines the growth demands of the crops according to the collected crop growth pictures, an information processing decision system and a convolutional neural network model. Through the growth environment demands of the planted crops analyzed based on big data and equipment that can automatically control and adjust the environment parameters according to the growth environment demands of the crops, manpower costs can be greatly saved, and the output of the crops can be enhanced.

A system and method for generating energy with human powered devices and providing environmental feedback to users is disclosed which motivates individuals to use the equipment for the purpose of improving the environment. Fitness equipment is fitted with energy conversion devices such as electric generators to convert human powered energy to electrical energy. Energy that is generated by the user is converted to a quantitative or qualitative environmental feedback parameter. The environmental feedback parameter is indicative of the user's positive effect on the environment as a function of the energy generated by their use of the fitness equipment. The environmental feedback parameter is displayed to the users during their use of the equipment, and may be stored as a log of individual session use, or cumulative total use, for later examination by the users or for group use.

The invention discloses a big data criminal accomplice screening system and method. According to the technical scheme, the big data criminal accomplice screening system comprises an acquisition module for acquiring signaling data, a preprocessing module for conducting association analysis on the signaling data, a summarizing module for summarizing association analysis data and a page displaying module for performing display according to query results. The big data criminal accomplice screening method comprises the steps of acquiring signaling data of designated users, conducting association analysis and summarization on the signaling data and displaying tracks of criminal accomplices through a geographic information platform. The big data criminal accomplice screening system and the big data criminal accomplice screening method have the advantages that persons which are most like the designated users in behavior are automatically calculated by adopting a designated user mobile phone number combined fitting algorithm, track reproduction of the designated users and real-time position tracing can be achieved, long-term resident places and other feature information of the persons can be provided, and a large number of manpower and material resources can be saved.

The invention relates to a electronic car queuing system and method based on a position, can prevent frequent starting and moving of a car when drivers wait for passengers and queue up, and can also realize the human-based management of queuing taxies. The electronic car queuing system is at least formed by a vehicle-mounted terminal, a number calling terminal and a background dispatching center, wherein the vehicle-mounted terminal and the background dispatching center are communicated in a bidirectional manner in a wireless manner; the vehicle-mounted terminal sends position information to the background dispatching center and receives queuing information sent by the background dispatching center; the number calling terminal is used for sending a number calling instruction to the background dispatching center and receiving dispatching information sent by the background dispatching center. The electronic car queuing system and method based on the position have the advantages that a queuing lane does not need to be specially arranged for the taxies during passenger waiting, and the drivers can easily and effectively queue up; the loss and the oil consumption of the cars are reduced and management manpower resources of a passenger waiting region can also be reduced; and therefore, the environmental pollution caused by frequency starting the queuing taxies is avoided.

The invention relates to an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) electricity separating system and an electricity separating method based on dynamic environment monitoring. The electricity separating system comprises a UPS operation data acquisition analyzing device, a UPS accumulator capacity analyzing device, a UPS electricity separating control device and a power supply output device. The UPS operation data acquisition analyzing device is used for analyzing and processing original data so as to carry out monitoring through calling a distal data collector to collect needed original data, and comprises a UPS basic operation parameter acquisition module, a UPS operation control parameter acquisition module and a UPS operation protecting parameter acquisition module. The UPS accumulator capacity analyzing device is used for analyzing and processing UPS accumulator capacity data. The UPS electricity separating control device is used for carrying out pertinence electricity separating control on power supply equipment according to the monitoring information. The power supply output device is used for separating electricity for the power supply equipment. The invention solves the problems of noise jamming and unstable voltage, realizes online UPS failure diagnosis by utilizing dynamic environment monitoring, finds failure, gives an alarm and saves the economic cost and the manual cost.

The invention provides a system for automatically generating a single-wire tidal current diagram of a large-screen power transmission network during power scheduling, which relates to the field of the automation of the power scheduling. At present, the single-wire tidal current diagram is mainly drawn artificially, but with the continuous increase of transformer stations and lines, the task of drawing a wiring diagram of the power transmission network with the help of manpower is more and more difficult, and a generated scheduling large-screen wiring diagram presents more and more crowded and disorder states and brings difficulties to scheduling operators to distinguish. The system comprises a data reading module, a data maintenance and management module, an electric power system resource query module, a diagram generation module, a diagram query module, a diagram output module and a system management module. The system fulfills the aim of automatically generating the single-wire tidal current diagram and solves the problems of low efficiency and easy errors caused by relying on manual diagram drawing for a long time.