156 results about "Instrument design" patented technology

A disclosed gaming machine may be customized for game play according to one or more preferences using preference information that is not correlated to an identity of a player. Therefore, the gaming machine may be configured to one or more player preferences without requiring the player to reveal their identity. The gaming machine may receive the preference information from at least one of a configuration instrument designed to store preference information, such as a cashless ticket voucher, ii) a display interface on the gaming machine, iii) a remote server, iv) a speech recognition interface on the gaming machine and v) combinations thereof. The preference information used to configure the gaming machine may be selected by the player, selected by a gaming establishment, generated by the gaming machine and combinations thereof.

An electronic system for aggregated pricing of linked multi-leg (e.g., equity/option and option/option) asset packages with an additional link to an automated broker system for trading the linked asset packages are disclosed. The invention provides methodology and apparatus to electronically produce aggregated price quotes for packages of instruments designed to represent traditional trading strategies involving cash and their derivatives (e.g., stock and equity options). The system develops packages according to specified strategies, and prices the packages based on the national best bid and offer (NBBO) or direct input from participating market makers and investors. The packages are designed for easy understanding by traditional investors and designed for trading through a single order. These packages are desirable over separately trading the asset and its derivative (e.g., equity and option) instruments because they transfer market volatility risk from the investor to the institution by requiring market makers to agree to the aggregated price of the package prior to executing any trades. Certain linked packages, such as most stocks and options, cannot be traded together on a single floor of an exchange due to restrictions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding side-by-side trading and integrated market making of most stocks and options. This invention provides an electronic process for synthetic side-by-side trading across separate trading locations (e.g., equity and option exchanges and within the existing rules of the SEC). The electronic process follows traditional rules regarding the manual handling of combination orders involving multiple asset types. The process significantly improves efficiency over manual handling resulting in a system that is scalable to high trade volumes.

A data processing system and method for implementing and control of a financial instrument having pre-set maturity that provides efficient exposure to common stock at a reduced risk. In a preferred embodiment, the financial instrument is divided into units, each one consisting of a long-dated Treasury STRIP and the common stock of one company. Over its life term, each unit generates income based on the total return of the underlying common stock and can be created or redeemed at any time. The data processing system receives input from the capital market and evaluates the financial instrument, reporting its price to customers. The system further arranges for periodic distributions according to pre-defined distribution schedule and for the creation and redemption of new units. Also disclosed is a data processing system and method for administering a group of such instruments designed to track the performance of specified equity securities.

A method and system are disclosed that utilize the expressiveness of hardware description languages for incrementally compiling instrumentation logic into a simulation model of a digital circuit design. According to the present invention, a simulation model that includes a design entity file of a digital circuit design is generated. Next, an instrumentation entity file is associated with the design entity file, thereby producing an instrumented design entity file. Finally, and during the process of compiling the simulation model, for the instrumented design entity file: searching for a consistent and previously compiled version of said instrumented design entity file. In response to finding a consistent and previously compiled version, loading the consistent and previously compiled version into the simulation model. In response to finding no consistent and previously compiled version, loading and compiling the instrumented design entity file.

In contrast to instruments of the prior art that require bulky, cumbersome and/or costly electrical connections and energy sources, instruments designed in accordance with the instant disclosure are both portable and self-powered. The electrosurgical instruments of the present invention are not limited to a particular use or construction and can be adapted for operation with or without a patient return electrode (sometimes referred to as return pad or plate), in dry or wet fields, in the presence of bodily fluids (such as blood saliva and more), electrically conductive or non-conductive fluids. They may further be optionally equipped or configured for irrigation and or aspiration of liquids, gases or cryogenics, either external, remote or on-board. The electrode component of the electrosurgical instrument of the present invention may be monopolar, bipolar, or multipolar and may optionally include one or more floating electrodes. The electrosurgical instruments of the present invention may be single use (disposable) or multi-use (reusable) and can be compatible with various image-guiding systems, like fluoroscopic, ultrasound and others.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional ice form detection instrument, which comprises externally purchase components such as a laser, a CCD camera, a step motor, a steering engine and the like. The three-dimensional ice form detection instrument also comprises a movement sub platform and a rotation sub platform, wherein the movement sub platform and the rotation sub platform are used for installing the externally purchase components, the movement sub platform is used for supporting the rotation sub platform to make the rotation sub platform move in the horizontal direction, and two guide rails arranged on the rotation sub platform can make the laser and the CCD camera be regulated to an angle satisfying the collection. The three-dimensional ice form detection instrument designed by the invention is based on the visual ice forms, can intuitively display the icing forms in an image mode, provides the visual technical solution scheme for researchers to accurately identify the three-dimensional ice forms and to obtain the dimension data of the ice forms, has important significance and practical value of the later stage study of influence of icing on the aircraft aerodynamic performance, and provides test verification detection measures for the three-dimensional ice forms obtained through calculation.

The invention relates to a method of forecasting casing pipe damage by exploring casing pipe inner stress and the metal magnetic memory testing instrument designed specially for the method, which mainly solves the problem that prior casing damage testing technology only estimates the existed casing damage and can not forecast the possible casing damage. It is characterized in that the metal magnetic memory testing instrument is set to the objective measuring well segment; it moving along the underground casing pipe takes the normal component of leakage magnetic field Hy; The ground treatment system makes sampling data sequence x(n) is filtered in data by hanning filter; index wavelet denoising is carried out by Db4 wavelet function and four decomposed layers; denoising signal f(ti) is used to draw the magnetic memory data and grads curve; according to the curve the peak value of magnetic memory signal is taken out; the value is controlled with the four-grade semi-quantity evaluation underground casing stress distribution state table to forecast the criticality of casing damage. It has the early forecasting casing damage and can avoid huge economical loss of casing damage in oil field.

A web-based automation control method and system for controlling a whole-flow production process are provided. The system includes a first production equipment; an inspection equipment; a warehouse controlling instrument designed to collect or monitor some elements concerning warehouse; an environmental parameter controlling instrument for collecting and monitoring variable environment elements; an input/output (I/O) cabinet connected to the first production equipment, the inspection equipment, the warehousing controlling instrument, environmental parameter controlling instrument; a programmable logic controller (PLC) cabinet connected to the I/O cabinet; a switch for connecting the PLC control cabinet with a manufacturing execution systems (MES) server; and a terminal connected to the manufacturing execution systems (MES) server via a communications network.

A magnetic writing instrument designed to allow people with hand tremors to write and draw with increased clarity. Consisting of a stylus attached to a base at an appropriate writing angle. The base houses a magnet and accommodates three caps of varying thickness to match the resistance needed with the users tremors. There is also a metal writing base that interacts with the magnet. The paper or writing stationary is placed between the metal writing base and the writing instrument.

The present invention relates to instruments for achieving improved accuracy in targeting objects from a distance. In particular, the present invention provides instruments designed to measure the slope of a reference point to an object at a distance. In addition, the present invention provides instruments designed to measure the cant level of a reference point to an object at a distance.

The invention discloses a method and structure for collecting tiny dust particles and provides a method and structure for collecting tiny dust particles from a spacecraft orbit environment. By adopting the method, the charge-mass ratio of tiny dust particles can be measured quantitatively under the condition of simulating the spacecraft orbit environment, and the national mass in-situ monitoring sensitivity is increased to 1.10*10<-9> to 4.42*10<-9> g/cm<2>; a dust particle charge-mass ratio testing instrument is simple in structural design and mainly comprises a circular grid plate, a hollow cylindrical capacitor and a QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalances), so that the accuracy of measured data is greatly increased in the testing process and the load using risk of a spacecraft orbit is lowered; in the method, the hollow cylindrical capacitor is used, the design size of the instrument is reduced and a signal acquisition circuit and an assembly box are used, so that the charge-mass ratio of tiny dust particles is well measured and the testing process is stable and reliable; and due to the adoption of the QCM, the mass change of passing particles is well measured, the testing process is stable and reliable and high reproducibility is achieved. The method and the structure have the characteristic of in-situ monitoring of the charge-mass ratio of particles in the spacecraft orbit environment, and are suitable for scale test, production, research and the like.

The invention mainly relates to measurement on unified glare indexes, belonging to the field of photoelectric detection and instrument design, applicable to detecting the unified glare rating of architectural lighting. A portable type unified glare measuring apparatus disclosed by the invention is composed of an optical imaging system, an image transmission interface, an image processing module, a correction module, a calculating and transmitting system, a CPU, a display system and a power module. The optical imaging system provided with an ultra wide angle lens is in charge of acquiring an image of an object which causes unified glare at a predicted position and transmitting the image to the image processing module by virtue of the image transmission interface, and the image processing module carries out filtering and enhancing and the like on the image. The correction module corrects the brightness of the processed image according to predetermined correction parameters, thus the apparent brightness of the object in the image is equivalent to the apparent brightness of a real object. The calculating and transmitting system calculates the unified glare indexes of the corrected image, then the unified glare indexes are transmitted to the CPU, and the CPU controls a liquid crystal display screen to display related information. The portable type unified glare measuring apparatus has high detection speed and small error and is portable.

The invention provides a control device for a surgical instrument. The device comprises an actuator, an intermediate connecting body and a controller, wherein the intermediate connecting body is connected to a far end of the controller; and the actuator is connected to a far end of the intermediate connecting body. The steering control device applied to the surgical instrument ensures that a direct control assembly operates the same percussion trigger to make an actuator of the instrument execute different operation instructions when being in two different states. The disadvantage that a surgery operator cannot operate the instrument conveniently or risks of injuring patients are potential in the operation process in the conventional instrument design is overcome.

The invention provides an optical system applied to a laser interferometer measuring guide rail linearity. The optical system comprises a detecting optical assembly, an optical turning mirror, a rotatable laser head and a reflector path assembly, wherein two channel optical detection can be conducted on light beams via the detecting optical assembly, the optical turning mirror is used for moving down and turning the light beams, and therefore detecting requirements of the detecting optical assembly can be met; the rotatable laser head is a rotatable light returning part arranged between the detecting optical assembly and the reflector path assembly, and the reflector path assembly is used for measuring a reflector path of the optical system. According to the optical system disclosed in the invention, setting and steps of linearity measurement in a vertical direction are greatly simplified via the three dimensional optical turning mirror; two channel optical detection is realized via the detecting optical assembly, optical elements of the optical system are simplified and are used to a maximum extent, instrument design space is saved, laser light returning holes of the rotatable laser head are reasonably designed, and existing hole sites are fully used.

The Thread Ruler and Multi-Function Drafting Instrument is a single instrument designed to draw circles, ellipses and parallel lines, and which includes features that allow the instrument to function as protractor, a ruler and a drawing compass. The instrument has a slide ruler that holds a marking device and that has a stem with a thread attached. The thread is further attached to the main ruler body at an outer end of the protractor so that ellipses can be drawn. The instrument may be used on any flat marking surface including: paper, drafting table, chalkboard and dry erased board. The instrument may be adapted to be used in portable manner so that it can be placed in shirt pocket.

The invention relates to a method for setting a machine tool. The method is a method for setting the tool in a non-contact way, in which the relatively low millivolt voltage is used as tool setting voltage, a position when air breakdown occurs between a tool noise and a tool setting plane is used as a tool setting point, and a voltage signal between two electrodes at the moment is processed to be used as a tool setting signal. A tool setting instrument designed according to the method for setting the machine tool has a simple structure, high tool setting accuracy, can avoid the damage caused by contacting the tool nose and the tool setting plane and is particularly suitable for setting a microminiature tool.

Modular component mounting systems and methods employ a plurality of members adapted to be interlocked with one another and anchored to an instrument housing. Each of the members comprises a central elongated body, cross-holes extending transversely through the body, beads extending along corners of the body to a position spaced apart from an end of the body defining a key at the end of the body, a channel defined by a surface of the body and a pair of the beads to receive and register with a key of another member, and a fastener receptive orifice defined in the end of the body. A fastener extends though one of the cross-holes of a first member to be received by an end orifice of a second member, interlocking the members and preventing torsional movement by the members relative to one another.

The invention belongs to the technical field of geodesic astronomy measurements, particularly relates to the digital zenith instrument. The technical solution is as follows: a resolving method of a rotating shaft of a digital zenith instrument, comprising the following steps: (A) building an image model of symmetrical observation pictures; (B) building resolving equation of the rotating shaft and computing Charge Coupled Device (CCD) plane coordinate; (C) computing ideal coordinate and earth coordinate of the rotating shaft; and (D) iteratively computing the rotating shaft. Actual experiments verifies that the method can accurately complete resolving of the rotating shaft in the location of the zenith instrument; the national first-class astronomical measurement accuracy level (not more than 0.3 inches and mLambda is not less than 0.3 inches) can be achieved primarily according to the digital zenith instrument designed by the invention; meanwhile, inner parameters such as focal length, principal point coordinate, distortion coefficient and so on do not need to be known; and the inner parameters are difficult to standardize when the optical axis resolving principle. Due to the fitting model, the method is suitable for tiny change of the optical system in a certain range, so that the system is more practical in the field environment.

An orthopedic instrument designed to engage a rod within a fixation element during a surgical procedure is described. The present invention has a distal end portion designed to hold a fixation element such as a pedicle screw while the rod is positioned within the fixation element. The instrument comprises a series of arms which form the grasping and handle portions of the device.

The invention relates to a precision measuring instrument, in particular, a non-orthogonal shaft laser total station instrument-based three-dimensional coordinate measurement method. The objective of the invention is to realize the three-dimensional coordinate measurement of a space point and decrease the difficulty and cost of instrument design, processing and assembly. The method includes the following steps that: (1) two single-axis turntables or a two-axis pan/tilt holder and a laser ranging module are adopted to construct a non-orthogonal shaft laser total station instrument; (2) the two rotation platforms of the two single-axis turntables or the pan/tilt holder are named as a horizontal turntable and a vertical turntable respectively; (3) ranging information corresponding to a calibration point on a measurement axis is obtained and recorded; (4) a non-orthogonal shaft laser total station instrument measurement coordinate system O-XYZ is established; (5) a conversion relationship between a calibration device coordinate system and the non-orthogonal shaft laser total station measurement coordinate system is determined; (6) the space coordinates of calibration points on each axis and the normalized direction vectors of each axis are converted into the non-orthogonal shaft laser total station measurement coordinate system; and (7) the space coordinate measurement of a target point is achieved. The method of the present invention is mainly applied to design and manufacturing conditions.

A cryogen boil-off gas re-liquefier adapted for retrofitting magnetic resonance instruments designed to exhaust vaporized helium. Means for recondensing helium and nitrogen boil off gasses to reduce operating cost of cryogenic systems.

The invention discloses an imaging method and an imaging device for inducing a surface thermal deformation effect based on a laser array. The method comprises the following steps of: dividing pump light into pump light beam groups which have equal light intensity and are distributed in an array mode at equal intervals, and irradiating the surface of a sample to be detected by using the pump light beam groups to induce the local surface deformation of the sample to be detected; dividing detection light into detection light beam groups which have equal light intensity and are distributed in an array mode at equal intervals, and irradiating the surface of the sample to be detected by using the detection light beam groups, wherein each detection light beam is correspondingly overlapped with one pump light beam; and ensuring that the detection light beam groups which are emergent from the sample to be detected finally enter a photoelectric detector, and acquiring a two-dimensional image about the surface characteristic of a material by measuring the change of the propagation characteristic of the detection light beams, which is caused by surface thermal deformation. Imaging speed can be greatly improved compared with that of the traditional point-by-point sample scanning method; and in addition, point-by-point scanning is not needed, so that moving parts can be avoided in a specific detection and imaging instrument design, the stability of an instrument is improved, cost is reduced, the instrument is further miniaturized, and the application field is broadened.