519 results about "Negative phase" patented technology

An intraoperative neural monitoring system includes a power source and a simulator powered by the power source to deliver a cycle of electrical stimulation to a patient as a first group of positive or negative phase pulses automatically followed by a second group of pulses of opposite phase or polarity to the pulses of the first group. An activation performed to initiate delivery of the first group of pulses is effective to deliver the entire cycle of stimulation. A method of intraoperative neural monitoring involves activating a simulator to deliver a biphasic cycle of electrical stimulation to a patient during an operative procedure, delivering the entire cycle of electrical stimulation to the patient in response to the activating step and detecting EMG activity in the patient.

A Personal Noise Reduction for enclosed cabins is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an input audio source corresponding to sound received from multiple microphones situated equidistantly in both directions in a two dimensional plane, is converted to a digital signal via an analog to digital (A/D) convertor. The AID converted audio is analyzed for content to identify ambient noise. The frequency, amplitude and phase of the identified ambient noise is subsequently determined. A Noise correction sound wave is generated with negative phase of that corresponding to the identified ambient noise. The noise correction sound wave is added to the identified noise to create a noise corrected sound.

A method of treating an ailment suffered by a patient using one or more electrodes adjacent spinal column tissue of the patient, comprises delivering electrical modulation energy from the one or more electrodes to the spinal column tissue in accordance with a continuous bi-phasic waveform having a positive phase and a negative phase, thereby modulating the spinal column tissue to treat the ailment. An implantable electrical modulation system, comprises one or more electrical terminals configured for being coupled to one or more modulation leads, output modulation circuitry capable of outputting electrical modulation energy to the electrical terminal(s) in accordance with a continuous bi-phasic waveform, and control circuitry configured for modifying a shape of the continuous bi-phasic waveform, thereby changing the characteristics of the electrical modulation energy outputted to the electrode(s).

An electroporation therapy apparatus method, and system is provided. The apparatus, system, and method comprise an electroporation generator (26). The electroporation generator (26) is configured to output an asymmetric balanced waveform to a medical device, and the asymmetric balanced waveform comprises a first positive phase and a first negative phase. The first positive phase comprises a first current and a first time and the first negative phase comprises a second current and a second time. The first current is greater than the second current and the second time is greater than the first time. The asymmetric balanced waveform is configured to irreversibly electroporate a target tissue.

The present invention is an ordnance device capable of launching discrete failure prone fragments in a coherent, controllable fashion. The described device is comprised of an explosive charge, a buffer element, a plurality of preformed failure prone fragments, and a wrap element in the described order. Buffer element separates failure prone fragments from the explosive charge so as to protect the fragments from damage by explosive detonation products and to reduce an incident pressure wave communicated into the fragments by the detonation. Wrap element further reduces the pressure within fragments by imparting a compressive pulse into the fragments thereby offsetting the negative phase of the incident pressure wave.

In a piezoelectric actuator, a first driving signal amplified a predetermined sine wave is a applied to a piezoelectric device in a direction parallel to a polarization direction thereof. A second driving signal having a negative phase with respect to the first driving signal which is amplified the sine wave is applied to the piezoelectric device in a direction opposite to the polarization direction. Thus, the piezoelectric device is driven by a driving signal amplified the first or second driving signal double. Voltages of the first and second driving signals are much smaller than a voltage of invention of polarization of ceramic thin plates constituting the piezoelectric device.

A system and method for automatically generating a return beam in the direction of a received beam. The inventive system (10) includes a phased array antenna (12) for receiving a radio frequency signal having a first wavefront from a first direction. In response to this signal, the invention (10) provides a second signal having a second wavefront. The second signal is a phase conjugate of the first signal and is transmitted in a reverse direction relative to the direction of the first signal. In the illustrative embodiment, the invention includes a plurality of phase conjugators each of which are disposed in a transmit/receive module and coupled to an associated radiating element. Each of the phase conjugators includes a mixer (60) having the input signal as a first input thereto. The input signal has a first frequency and a first phase. A second signal having a frequency equal to twice the first frequency is input to each mixer (60) from a reference frequency module (30) such that the output of the mixer includes a component representative of the negative of the first phase. The output of each mixer (60) is filtered to extract a signal component having a negative phase relative to the input signal. These signal components are then transmitted as the phase conjugated wavefront. This process will occur for each signal when multiple signals are received within the field of regard of the phased array antenna (12).

The invention discloses a fingerprint detection circuit, a fingerprint detection device and a touch panel. The fingerprint detection circuit comprises an operational amplifier, a feedback branch, a reference capacitor and a fingerprint detection electrode. The operational amplifier comprises a positive input end, a negative phase input end, an output end, a power supply end and a grounding end. The feedback branch is connected with the negative phase input end and the output end. An upper pole plate of the reference capacitor is connected with the negative phase input end. A lower pole plate inputs a first drive signal. The fingerprint detection electrode is connected with the negative phase input end. The positive input end inputs first reference voltage. The power supply end inputs a power supply signal. The grounding end inputs a second drive signal. The fingerprint detection circuit improves the difference of an output signal of the output end by adjusting the first drive signal, the second drive signal or the first reference voltage. According to the invention, the accuracy of fingerprint detection is improved.

Drive and startup circuits are described particularly suitable for use with a switched capacitor divider. In one example, a drive circuit has a level shifter coupled to a gate of each switch of a switched capacitor drive circuit to couple alternating current into the respective gate, a positive phase low side driver coupled to each level shifter to drive the gates of the top switch path through the respective level shifters, and a negative phase low side driver coupled to each level shifter to drive gates of the bottom switch path through the respective level shifters. A startup circuit, such as a capacitive soft start circuit may be used to slow the application of the current to each switch.

An optical transmitting apparatus includes a modulating unit that branches an input light and performs independent phase modulation to branched optical signals of arms, a phase adjusting unit that changes a phase difference between the optical signals of respective arms according to a control signal, a combining unit that combines modulated lights having the phase difference, an acquiring unit that acquires a positive-phase signal and a negative-phase signal from the combining unit, a subtracting unit that obtains a difference between the positive-phase signal and the negative-phase signal acquired by the acquiring unit, a detecting unit detecting a power of a differential signal from subtraction by the subtracting unit, and a control unit that changes the control signal according to signal component intensity detected by the detecting unit.

The present invention relates to the preparation process of high-purity momordica glycoside V. The preparation process includes: crushing grosvenor momordica, heated ethanol reflux extracting, separating the extract in D101 macroporous resin, deionized water and ethanol eluting to no color and collecting the eluate, decompression concentrating to obtain paste, separating in positive phase silica gel column with chloroform, methanol and water as eluent and collecting the eluate, decompression concentrating, separating in negative phase silica gel C-18 column, detecting the eluate with HPLC, merging momordica glycoside V components with the same retention time and purity of 90-98 % and over 98 % separately, decompression concentrating to obtain momordica glycoside V component with purity of 90-98 % and momordica glycoside V component with purity over 98 %. The present invention has raised momordica glycoside V purity and low cost.

The invention relates to a method for measuring an amplitude phase, which comprises the steps as follows: two paths of digital periodic signals are received and obtained, and each path of signal performs self-correlation calculation to obtain amplitude values respectively; after being delayed by one quarter cycle, one path of signal and the other path of signal perform mutual correlation calculation, the product of each amplitude value is divided by an obtained result, and then the phase difference between two paths of signals is obtained through the solution of an inverse sine function. The method has the advantages that the negative phase difference can be measured by a method for solving an arcsine instead of an arc cosine through shifting, thereby the requirement for the actual measurement of an electromagnetic wave logging instrument is met, the arithmetic mean value is further taken through a plurality of times of measurement, thus further enhancing measuring accuracy.

A light receiving circuit includes: a 1-bit delay interferometer; two photodiodes; and a demodulating circuit for converting current signals of the photodiodes into voltages to thereby demodulate signals that have been modulated by return-to-zero differential phase shift keying, the demodulating circuit including a differential transimpedance amplifier, in which the differential transimpedance amplifier includes a level adjusting circuit that has a function of adjusting levels of a positive phase signal and a negative phase signal of two feedback closed loops.

A Noise Cancellation Process for enclosed cabins is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an input audio source corresponding to sound received from multiple microphones situated equidistantly in both directions in a two dimensional plane, is converted to a digital signal via an analog to digital (A/D) convertor. The A/D converted audio is analyzed for content to identify ambient noise. The frequency, amplitude and phase of the identified ambient noise is subsequently determined. A Noise correction sound wave is generated with negative phase of that corresponding to the identified ambient noise. The noise correction sound wave is added to the identified noise to create a noise corrected sound.

The invention relates to power management technologies, solves the problem that generally voltage spike in output voltage is overcome for the existing low-dropout regulator at the costs of increased circuit complexity, decreased load capacity, increased output voltage noise and the like, and provides a High-PSR (high power supply rejection) low-dropout regulator with a slew rate enhancement circuit integrated thereto. According to the scheme, the regulator compared to the existing LDO regulators has the advantages that the slew rate enhancement circuit and a compensation capacitor are added, the positive phase input end of an error amplifier is connected with a reference voltage source, the negative phase input end of the error amplifier is connected with a resistance feedback circuit, the output end of the error amplifier is connected with the input end of the slew rate enhancement circuit, the output end of the slew rate enhancement circuit is connected with a gate of a pass transistor, one end of the compensation capacitor is connected with the negative phase input end of the error amplifier, and the other end of the compensation capacitor is connected with the output end of the error amplifier. The high-PSR low-dropout regulator has the advantages that transient response is enhanced and the scheme is applied to low-dropout regulators.

The invention relates to a reluctance brushless multipolar rotational transformer. And the external circular surface of a rotor is uniformly provided with P wave crests and P wave throughs, where these wave crests and wave throughs are smoothly interlinked to compose the wavy external circular surface of the rotor, and excitation, sine and cosine windings are positive phase-to-negative phase connected in series. As a constant voltage alternating current passes through the excitation winding, the sine and cosine windings output voltages whose electromotive force amplitudes make p sine and cosine variations with the rotation angle of the rotor. And the invention has characters of simple structure, convenient to make, and especially applied to the rotor position sensor of a brushless DC motor.

Single-phase currents at two frequencies f alpha and f beta (f alpha <nxfs<f beta ) of non-integral multiples of a system fundamental wave frequency fs sandwiching an targeted harmonic (frequency nxfs) are injected between two phases of a three-phase power system as interharmonic currents. A frequency analysis of measurement current and measurement voltage of each phase in the system is carried out and a positive-phase-sequence current I1, a positive-phase-sequence voltage V1, a negative-phase-sequence current I2, and a negative-phase-sequence voltage V2 are detected for each of the two frequencies f alpha and f beta in the system based on injecting of the interharmonic currents. Positive-phase-sequence and negative-phase-sequence admittances Y1 and Y2 or positive-phase-sequence and negative-phase-sequence impedances Z1 and Z2 are found for each of the frequencies f alpha and f beta in the system as Y1=I1/V1 and Y2=I2/V2 or Z1=V1/I1 and Z2=V2/I2. Interpolation operation is performed for finding positive-phase-sequence and negative-phase-sequence admittances or positive-phase-sequence and negative-phase-sequence impedances for the targeted harmonic in the system from the admittances Y1 and Y2 or the impedances Z1 and Z2 for the frequencies f alpha and f beta .

A machinery is disclosed that comprises a movable body that moves linearly with respect to a main body and an active damper for controlling an inherent vibration of the movable body occurred in a direction of movement of the movable body, the active damper comprising a sensor, provided with the movable body, for detecting the inherent vibration currently occurred in the direction of movement of the movable body, among one or a plurality of the inherent vibrations of the movable body; an actuator, provided with the movable body, for generating a vibration in the direction of movement of the movable body; and a controller for allowing the actuator to generate the vibration having a negative phase relationship with respect to the inherent vibration detected by the sensor.

The invention provides a 12-bit intermediate-rate successive approximation type analog-digital converter and relates to the field of analog-digital converters. The 12-bit intermediate-rate successive approximation type analog-digital converter comprises a sampling network, a differential capacitor array connected with the sampling network, and a comparator circuit connected with the differential capacitor array, wherein the differential capacitor array comprises a first capacitor array connected with the positive-phase input end of the comparator circuit, and a second capacitor array connected with the negative-phase input end of the comparator circuit; both the first capacitor array and the second capacitor array are composed of 11 groups of binary-structured bit capacitors, and the bottom plates of the redundant capacitors of the second capacitor array are constantly connected with a common-mode voltage VCM. The 12-bit intermediate-rate successive approximation type analog-digital converter solves the problems of large capacitor area and high power consumption of a traditional binary capacitor type structure.

The embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method and an apparatus to confine a plasma within a processing region in a plasma processing chamber. The apparatus may include an annular ring with a gap distance with the chamber wall at between about 0.8 inch to about 1.5 inch. In addition to the annular plasma confinement ring, the plasma can also be confined by reducing a voltage supplied to the top electrode by a voltage ratio during plasma processing and supplying the remaining voltage supplied to the top electrode at a negative phase at the substrate support and the substrate, if the substrate is present during processing. The voltage ratio can be adjusted by changing the impedances of the substrate support and the dielectric seal surrounding the top electrode. Lowering top electrode voltage by a voltage ratio and supplying the remaining voltage supplied to the top electrode at a negative phase at the substrate support reduce the amount of plasma got attracted to the grounded chamber walls and thus improves plasma confinement. This method of plasma confinement is called impedance confinement. Plasma confinement can be improved by using either the described annular ring, the impedance confinement scheme or a combination of both.

The heating apparatus includes a first detection part which detects whether or not the power supplied to the heat generation member is in an overpower state by detecting a positive phase of a half wave in an alternating voltage of a commercial power supply applied to the first or the second current path of the heat generation member, a second detection part which detects whether the power supplied to the heat generation member is in an overpower state or not by detecting a negative phase of a half wave in an alternating voltage the commercial power supply applied to the first current path or the second current path of the heat generation member, and a control part which controls itself to stop supplying power from the commercial power supply to the heat generation member in a case where an overpower state is detected by the first or second detection part.

The invention relates to a single-wire-system radio-frequency light modulator based on a microcontroller, and the single-wire-system radio-frequency light modulator is characterized by comprising a power supply module, a single chip microprocessor, a radio frequency module, a zero-passage detection circuit, a phase-control light modulation circuit, a drive circuit and a sampling and over-current detection protection circuit, wherein the power supply module is used for powering the light modulator through leak current of a live wire; the radio frequency module is connected with the single chip microprocessor and used for receiving a radio frequency remote control signal; the zero-passage detection circuit is used for detecting and transmitting an alternative-current zero-passage signal of the live wire to the single chip microprocessor; the phase-control light modulation circuit adopts two insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBT) to control the cutting of a positive-phase and a negative-phase waveform of the live wire power supply so as to change an effective value of the power for a lamp; the single chip microprocessor controls the phase-control light modulation circuit through the drive circuit; and the sampling and over-current detection protection circuit is used for detecting current flowing through the IGBT so as to avoid the burning of the IGBT. Due to the adoption of the single-wire-system radio-frequency light modulator based on the microprocessor, the problems that the existing light modulator suffers severe electromagnetic interference (EMI) and does not support the radio frequency remote-control light modulation and the single-wire-system working condition can be solved, the circuit structure is simple, and a good market value can be realized.

The invention provides a high-speed low-imbalance dynamic comparator for a high-speed analog-digital converter. The high-speed low-imbalance dynamic comparator comprises a pre-amplifier, a dynamic amplifier and a dynamic latch. The pre-amplifier comprises a static amplifier, a first input imbalance storage capacitor and a second input imbalance storage capacitor. The first input imbalance storage capacitor and the second input imbalance storage capacitor are connected to a positive phase input end of the static amplifier and the negative phase input end of the static amplifier in series respectively so as to store the offset voltage of the static amplifier in the imbalance and elimination stage; the dynamic amplifier is used for amplifying the output signals of the pre-amplifier; the dynamic latch is used for amplifying the output signals of the dynamic amplifier and converting the amplified signals into a digital logic level. According to the high-speed low-imbalance dynamic comparator, the imbalance elimination technology is adopted for the pre-amplifier, the bandwidth of the pre-amplifier is optimized through an active resistor, the imbalance voltage can be reduced effectively while the high speed is guaranteed, and the dynamic amplifier which is low in power dissipation is adopted, so that power dissipation can be reduced.

The present invention provides a digital automatic power interruption and re-supply relay for performing detection and comparing operation to inform a state of an accident with voice and numerals and automatically operating a connected relay to interrupt power when there occur abnormal changes such as interruption of electric power, open-phase, anomalous voltage, unbalanced voltage, negative-phase, overcurrent, and electric leakage in a power transmit and supply line of high and low voltage or special high voltage and high (low) voltage and, after compensating for the accident, for automatically re-supplying the power. The automatic power interruption and re-supply relay for an electric power line comprises: an anomalous voltage detector coupled to three phase buses for detecting unbalanced voltage and anomalous voltage of three phases; a phase detector for detecting an open-phase, negative-phase, and interruption of electric power; an overcurrent detector for detecting overcurrent on each electric power line; a zero current detector for detecting zero current on each electric power line; a breakdown detector for detecting an anomalous state of relays installed on the electric power lines and machinery installed in an industrial site; and a central processing unit (CPU) implemented with a microprocessor for comparing and analyzing information from the detectors with preselected reference values and determining and processing the anomalous state.