302 results about "Measurement station" patented technology

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

Described here are embodiments of processes and systems for the continuous manufacturing of implantable continuous analyte sensors. In some embodiments, a method is provided for sequentially advancing an elongated conductive body through a plurality of stations, each configured to treat the elongated conductive body. In some of these embodiments, one or more of the stations is configured to coat the elongated conductive body using a meniscus coating process, whereby a solution formed of a polymer and a solvent is prepared, the solution is continuously circulated to provide a meniscus on a top portion of a vessel holding the solution, and the elongated conductive body is advanced through the meniscus. The method may also comprise the step of removing excess coating material from the elongated conductive body by advancing the elongated conductive body through a die orifice. For example, a provided elongated conductive body 510 is advanced through a pre-coating treatment station 520, through a coating station 530, through a thickness control station 540, through a drying or curing station 550, through a thickness measurement station 560, and through a post-coating treatment station 570.

Sorting/storage device for wafers. A sorting device is provided in which at least two cassettes containing wafers may be present and the wafers are moved from one cassette to the other cassette or vice versa. If appropriate, a measuring station may be present in the sorting device. In the immediate vicinity of the sorting device, the cassettes are stored in a magazine which is designed for this purpose and the cassettes are moved using a handling device for cassettes.

Apparatus for measuring surveying parameters, such as distances and angular displacements between an instrument survey station and a mobile survey station, with improved accuracy. The invention combines a differential satellite positioning system (DSATPS), available with positioning systems such as GPS and GLONASS, with electromagnetic measurements of distances and optically encoded angles by a conventional electro-optical survey instrument to provide survey measurements that can be accurate to within a few millimeters in favorable situations. The DSATPS relies upon pseudorange measurements or upon carrier phase measurements, after removal of certain phase integer ambiguities associated with carrier phase SATPS signals. The SATPS may be retrofitted within the housing of the conventional electro-optical instrument. In a first approach, a remote station provides DSATPS corrections for the mobile station and/or for the instrument station. In a second approach, the mobile station provides DSATPS corrections for itself and for the instrument station. In a third approach, the instrument station provides DSATPS corrections for itself and for the mobile station.

The invention relates to a mixed measurement analysis method for a satellite antenna. The method effectively solves the problems that various measurement devices are used for co-measurement to reduce detection difficulty and improve detection efficiency during a measurement process of the satellite antenna. The method comprises the steps: cubic mirror collimating measurement is carried out by electronic theodolites during antenna installation and detection processes, scanning measurement of an antenna shaped surface is carried out by a laser radar, a space point position is measured by a laser tracker, and thus the measurement of the satellite antenna is jointly completed by the various measurement devices; union calibration algorithm of 'six freedom degree measurement station three-dimensional network' is employed, a conversion relationship between measurement station coordinates and measurement coordinates is utilized, various observed value error equations are directly listed, so as to overcome shortcomings of a traditional algorithm and improve adaptability of the algorithm. The method provided by the invention is simple, is easy to operate, enables an initial value to be fast acquired, has low requirements for precise degree of the initial value, has a few iteration times, is quick in convergence speed, theoretically is an optimal solution, and has strong algorithm adaptability, high measuring efficiency, fast speed and high precision.

Automatic environmental measuring stations (10, 10a, 10b, 10c) are connected in a physical connection with base stations (11; 11a; 11b; 11c) of a cellular radio system which stations measure certain basic phenomena of the atmosphere and/or the concentrations of certain substances in the air. The information of the measurements is transferred using a base station over the cellular radio system to a central equipment (14) either as regular reports or as acute alarms if any alarm limit is exceeded. The information may also be transmitted over the base station of the cellular radio system to mobile stations (15) in the area of the base station in the form of individually tailored reports and alarms.

A method for qualifying airfoil blades includes securing an airfoil blade into a fixture, taking digital measurements of the airfoil blade, comparing the digital measurements of the airfoil blade with measurements of a target model, calculating deviations between the digital measurements of the airfoil blade and the measurements of the target model, determining a required treatment for the airfoil blade to conform with the measurements of the target model, directing a reworking system to provide the required treatment to the airfoil blade, and repeating the previous steps until it is determined that no further treatment is required. An airfoil qualification system for performing the method for qualifying airfoil blades includes a measurement station, a data processing system in communication with the measurement station and for determining a point deviation from a surface standard point for each of at least a portion of the plurality of surface points and for determining a required treatment of the airfoil, and a reworking station for directing treatments to the airfoil in response to input from the data processing system.

A system for monitoring at least one parameter of interest relating to a flow conduit having a through passage and a fluid flow therein comprises at least one measurement station coupled to the flow conduit for taking a measurement relating to the parameter of interest. An interrogation device is adapted to move proximate the measurement station and to transmit a first signal to the measurement station, and to receive a second signal from the measurement station relating to the parameter of interest. The measurement station receives power from the first signal.

When a wafer on a fine movement stage supported by a coarse movement stage is exposed via a projection optical system with an illumination light at an exposure station, a position of the fine movement stage within an XY plane is measured with good precision by a measurement system. Further, when an alignment to a wafer on a fine movement stage supported by a coarse movement stage is performed at a measurement station, a position of the fine movement stage within an XY plane is measured with good precision by a measurement system.

A system for tracking the position of multiple objects in three dimensional space by transmitting radar interrogation signals having predetermined wave shapes to surface acoustic wave transducers attached to each object. Each transducer includes a unique electrically conductive pattern on one surface of a piezoelectric substrate for selectively responding to the predetermined wave shape of one of the interrogation signals for inducing a surface acoustic wave in the substrate and for thereafter transforming the surface acoustic wave into an electromagnetic response signal having detectable properties that uniquely identify said transducer. The location of each transducer is estimated by measuring the time-of-flight or angle-of-arrival of the radar signals at several measurement stations and producing a position estimate by triangulation.

Method and system of determining a location of a wireless transmitting device, such as a cellular phone, a wireless PDA or a radio tag, and guiding the searching personnel to physically reach the wireless transmitting device are disclosed that employ a 'Movable Detection Station' and a 'Guiding and Reference Device', and optionally a 'searching robot'. The movable detection station is carried on board of a moving platform, such as a police car, an ambulance or a fire truck, or carried by searching personnel. The guiding and reference device is a handheld device including a display device that displays position and guiding information to a user, and a reference wireless transmitter that works with a movable detection station. A searching robot is a robot with a reference transmitter installed on it.

In an exposure station, positional information of a stage holding a wafer is measured by a first fine movement stage position measurement system including a measurement arm, and in a measurement station, positional information of a stage holding a wafer is measured by a second fine movement stage position measurement system including another measurement arm. An exposure apparatus has a third fine movement stage position measurement system which can measure positional information of a stage when the stage is carried from the measurement station to the exposure station. The third fine movement stage measurement system includes an encoder system including a plurality of Y heads and a laser interferometer system including a laser interferometer.

Formation properties in a vertical section of a wellbore are determined by considering the vertical section as consisting of one or more segments. Measurements are obtained with a directional resistivity tool at two or more measurement stations within each segment for which the complex 0^th harmonic coefficients for the obtained measurements are non-trivially different from one another. For each such segment, the phase shift and attenuation are determined using the complex 0^th harmonic coefficients obtained for that segment and an inversion is performed for the formation properties using the determined phase shift and attenuation for that segment. Formation properties for that segment may be output to a display or memory storage device. For certain segments, one or more gain factors may be obtained. The gain factors are used to correct the measured voltages for certain neighboring segments and the corrected voltages inverted to obtain anisotropy and formation structure.

The invention discloses a flexible measurement and control tool system for large wall panels with complicated surfaces. The flexible measurement and control tool system comprises a fixture frame assembly, a wall panel surface retaining positioning assembly, a surface measurement assembly and an assembly information integrated control system module; the fixture frame assembly is configured in such a manner that wall panel assembly mounting space is limited by the fixture frame assembly; the wall panel surface retaining positioning assembly is rotatably mounted on the fixture frame assembly and is used for mounting a wall panel assembly; the surface measurement assembly is horizontally movably mounted on the fixture frame assembly; the assembly information integrated control system module is electrically connected with the surface measurement assembly. The invention further provides a flexible measurement and control method for assembling the wall panels by the aid of the system. The flexible measurement and control tool system and the flexible measurement and control method have the advantages that positioning points can be flexibly adjusted, the flexible measurement and control tool system and the flexible measurement and control method are applicable to different types of fuselage wall panel assemblies within a certain size range, large special tools are omitted, the assembly period can be shortened, and the tool cost can be saved; assembly requirements of different types of fuselage wall panels can be quickly met, and the assembly efficiency can be obviously improved; requirements on the openness of assembly stations and visibility of measurement stations can be met by the flexible measurement and control tool system owing to the design of dynamic modules in tools.

A flow rate device for measuring the flow rate of a fluid flowing through a wellbore is disclosed. The flow rate device includes a differential pressure conduit, a flow restrictor insert and a differential pressure measurement device. The differential pressure conduit is locatable in the wellbore, defines an internal bore, and is adapted to include a restriction having a cross-sectional area to increase the velocity of fluid flowing through the differential pressure conduit to create a differential pressure. The differential pressure conduit defining first and second pressure measuring stations axially spaced along the differential pressure conduit. The flow restrictor insert is located in the restriction to reduce the cross-sectional area of the restriction. The flow restrictor insert defines an internal bore having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the restriction. The flow restrictor insert also has a pressure measuring port aligned with the second pressure measuring station. The differential pressure measurement device has at least one pressure sensor for detecting the pressure at the first pressure station, and for detecting the pressure at the second pressure station to generate a signal indicative of the flow rate of the fluid.

The invention provides a method for improving resolving success rate of medium and long baseline GPS integral cycle fuzziness, and aims to provide a method with advantages of high fuzziness real solution precision and high success rate. The method is realized through a technical solution which is characterized in that the method comprises the steps of setting an elevation mask angle by means of monitoring and measuring software, acquiring rough coordinates of a main measurement station and an auxiliary measurement station, and extracting useful observation data; selecting a reference satellite, comparing observation data of the main measurement state with the observation data of the auxiliary measurement station, establishing a double-difference observation equation by means of the observation data of the main measurement station and the auxiliary measurement station, performing state updating and parameter estimation on an observed equation by means of a Kalman filter, and solving a fuzziness float solution; then, converting the fuzziness float solutions of GPS double-difference carrier L1 and L2, and forming a vector set which comprises a wide lane integral cycle fuzziness and a carrier L1 fuzziness; searching the wide lane integral cycle fuzziness by means of a LAMBDA algorithm, obtaining the integer solution of the wide lane integral cycle fuzziness after fixation, and finally determining the success rate of the resolved fuzziness through a preset threshold, and confirming a correctly resolved integral cycle fuzziness.

The invention discloses a base station based air pressure relative measurement method for calculating a precise elevation. The method uses a known elevation value and an air pressure measurement value of a wireless communication network base station and an air pressure measurement value of a point to be measured to calculate the elevation of the point to be measured. In particular, the base station of ground mobile communication network is installed with an air pressure measuring sensor as a relative measurement station. A base station transmission link is used to transfer the measured data to a user; the user terminal is provided with an air pressure sensor chip to measure air pressure value of the terminal, so as to facilitate calculation of a relative elevation of the terminal to an installation location of the base station air pressure sensor by utilizing the corresponding relationship between elevation and air pressure value. Similarly, if temperature values of the base station and the terminal are known, the two temperature measurement values can be used to correct the relationship between elevation and air pressure value to further improve conversion accuracy of elevation calculation. The elevation calculation value of the method of the invention can be substituted into various positioning measurement equations to further improve accuracy of three-dimensional positioning solution of the measurement equations.

An optical system for measuring an irregularly shaped object includes a dimensioning station having a base, a first wall extending from the base, and a second wall extending from the base. A collimated light is passed from each of first and second collimated light sources arranged generally parallel to the base, illuminating the first and second walls and defining first and second shadows, respectively. A camera is arranged to obtain image data representing each of the first and second shadows. The system is configured to collect the image data for determining at least one dimension of an object from each of the first and second shadows. Each of the first and second collimated light sources may be a light with a collimating lens arranged between the light and the respective wall. The light source may be an LED and the collimating lens may be a collimating Fresnel lens.

An exposure apparatus is equipped with a first and second stage that are movable independently from each other within a predetermined plane and each have a table with a grating positioned under a surface where a wafer is mounted, and a third stage that is movable independently from the first and second stages within a predetermined plane and includes a light-receiving plane that receives an energy beam via an optical system. An optical member is provided that is at least a part of a measurement device, which performs a measurement related to exposure based on a light-receiving result of the energy beam received via the light-receiving plane. In an exposure station and measurement station, a first and second measurement system are respectively provided that measure the position of the tables by irradiating the grating of the first or second stage from below with a measurement beam.

A method and a system for the localization of a mobile WLAN client, located within a WLAN network of multiple WLAN stations. Static reference points are ascertained by measuring field strengths of the WLAN stations at spatial coordinates, aided by WLAN client(s), and assignment of the measured field strengths to the spatial coordinates in terms of data records. Self-learning ascertainment of further dynamic reference points is obtained by measuring field strengths of the WLAN stations, aided by WLAN client(s) moving through the region of the network, and assignment of the measured field strengths in terms of data records to the respective spatial coordinates calculated for this purpose, in the database server. This may be done to localize a WLAN client by selecting a plurality of nearest matched data records of static and dynamic reference points whose subsequently calculated center of gravity corresponds to the estimated position of the WLAN client.

A distance measurement system for locating a geostationary satellite equipped with a transponder includes: a central station emitting a distance measurement signal; and at least one measurement station receiving the emitted signal, including means for measuring the time of arrival of the emitted signal, and transmitted via the transponder of the satellite. The central and measurement stations, of known positions, include synchronization means with a common time base. The transponder is that of a satellite telecommunications system, and has a bandwidth B. The central station includes means for emitting a specific distance measurement signal, distinct from the telecommunications signals transmitted via the transponder, with periodic events and with spread spectrum, the bandwidth of which is included in B.

A methodology that performs downhole fluid analysis of fluid properties of a reservoir and characterizes the reservoir based upon such downhole fluid analysis. The methodology acquires at least one fluid sample at a respective measurement station and performs downhole fluid analysis to measure properties of the fluid sample, including concentration of a plurality of high molecular weight components. For each of a plurality of type classes corresponding to different subsets of a predetermined set of high molecular weight components, a model is used to predict the concentration of the components of the given type class for the plurality of measurement stations. The predicted concentrations of the high molecular weight components for the plurality of type classes are then compared with corresponding concentrations measured by downhole fluid analysis for the plurality of measurement stations to identify the best matching type class. The results of the comparison are used for reservoir analysis,

The invention discloses a measuring method for inversing reservoir feeding flow procedure, comprising the steps: step I, performing observation and sampling to obtain the information of reservoir water level and discharging flow via a water level in front of the reservoir dam; step II, building a data assimilative state model and an observation model according to the information obtained in the step I; and step III, ascertaining the reservoir feeding flow procedures by a data assimilation algorithm according to the state model and the observation model obtained in the step II. The method disclosed by the invention can be used for ascertaining the reservoir feeding flow; compared with the prior art, the method disclosed by the invention can ensure smooth reservoir feeding flow, and avoid exceptional data like negative values and the like of the flow; the method also can supply the reservoir feeding flow procedure of minute time step, so as to reflect the flood peak information more truthfully; in addition, the method disclosed by the invention has low precision requirement to the water level gauge on the reservoir dam, so that the building and management costs of water level measurement stations are saved.

Disclosed is a method for correcting an unbalance on a vehicle wheel including a rim and a tire, which includes measuring the unbalance of the vehicle wheel in an unbalance measuring station, rotating the vehicle wheel in the unbalance measuring station into a defined angular position and transmitting the defined angular position and the correction data to a control device for controlling an applicator head of a balancing station, transferring the vehicle wheel from the unbalance measuring station to the balancing station by means of a gripper arranged on a handling device and centrally locating and holding it in the balancing station, loading a corrective element which has one side coated with an adhesive and exhibits the weight amount determined in the unbalance measuring station into the applicator head of the balancing station, and rotating the vehicle wheel and/or the applicator head in dependence upon the control device in such a way that the corrective element in the cavity of the wheel rim reaches the correction plane and the attachment location on the attachment surface, and fastening the corrective element by pressing its adhesive-coated side against the attachment surface of the rim.

The invention provides a track slab fine adjustment method for China railway track system (CTRS) I-type ballastless track laying. A CTRS I-type ballastless track comprises a base (5), cement emulsion asphalt mortar (4), a track slab (3) and a steel rail which are stacked with one another from top to down, and fasteners (2) which are fixed in bolt holes in the track slab and used for fastening the steel rail and convex flanges (6) positioned between longitudinal ends of the track slab. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a control point (CP) III point control network according to a provided CP I and a provided CP II; arranging a track slab reference point (GRP) positioned in the center of each convex flange (6) according to the CP III; placing a measurement standard frame with a prism on the track slab to be measured; arranging a universal theodolite measurement station at the GRP of the track slab; and measuring the prism through a universal theodolite and finely adjusting the track slab according to the measured data. The invention also relates to a CTRS I-type ballastless track laying method.

A machine for closing and sealing cardboard boxes or other packaging cases with random sizes of cases presented. An input gate controls passage of cases onto at least one conveyor that moves the cases through the machine. An input positioning stage centers and squares the case. A measuring station performs a primary measurement of the width and height of the open case. A closing station and tape sealing station are adjusted to the primary case size measurement. The case closing station then closes the case. The side major flaps are closed using a major flap closer with crossed arms pivoted at separated pivot axes. The sealing station has a secondary or closed case measurement detector which more accurately adjusts the tape applicator height. Lateral support heads engage the sides of the case to prevent distortion while tape is applied.