91 results about "Operational effectiveness" patented technology

A Mixer/Ejector Wind Turbine (“MEWT”) system is disclosed which routinely exceeds the efficiencies of prior wind turbines. In the preferred embodiment, Applicants' MEWT incorporates advanced flow mixing technology, single and multi-stage ejector technology, aircraft and propulsion aerodynamics and noise abatement technologies in a unique manner to fluid-dynamically improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of wind turbines, so that its operating efficiency routinely exceeds the Betz limit. Applicants' preferred MEWT embodiment comprises: an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud with an inlet; a ring of stator vanes; a ring of rotating blades (i.e., an impeller) in line with the stator vanes; and a mixer/ejector pump to increase the flow volume through the turbine while rapidly mixing the low energy turbine exit flow with high energy bypass wind flow. The MEWT can produce three or more time the power of its un-shrouded counterparts for the same frontal area, and can increase the productivity of wind farms by a factor of two or more. The same MEWT is safer and quieter providing improved wind turbine options for populated areas.

A pneumatic tool is disclosed. The pneumatic tool has a hollow housing with a handle extending therefrom, the handle having a chamber defined therein and an air passage communicating with the housing, an actuating mechanism mounted in the housing to actuate a tool shank and a cap securely attached to said handle to cover the chamber so as to form an oil reservoir in the handle. The pneumatic tool further has a control member mounted in the actuating mechanism to control the opening and closing of a discharge passage formed in the actuating mechanism. The disclosed pneumatic tool can limit the size of the pneumatic tool and let the air completely flow out so as to improve the convenience and operational effectiveness of the pneumatic tool.

In a method and an arrangement for evaluating operational effectiveness of an implantable medical device for different lead placements associated with the medical device, a measuring unit records signals that are characteristic of cardiac activity at respectively different lead positions, and these signals are stored. A processor accesses the stored signals and, from the stored signals, determines a measure of cardiac activity at each of the lead positions. The recorded signals may be intracardiac ECG signals, surface ECG signals, heart sound signals obtained from a microphone, or impedance signals. The lead position at which the best hemodynamic behavior of the heart is identified from the analysis of the stored signals, and is determined as being the optimum site for placement of the electrode leads.

A Mixer-Ejector Prop System (MEPS) is presented as a new, unique and improved concept for injecting power and producing force in flowing fluids such as air or water. MEPS incorporates advanced flow mixing technology, single and multi-stage ejector technology, aircraft and propulsion aerodynamics and noise abatement technologies in a unique manner to fluid-dynamically improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency for subsonic flow velocities.

The invention discloses a high-speed target tracking control method applied to a photoelectric tracker, and belongs to the technical field of servo control. Relevant parameters outputted from the photoelectric tracker, artillery, a carrier inertial navigation system, a video tracker and a laser range finder are utilized, calculation of tracking feedforward compensating parameters of an orientation speed ring and a pitching speed ring below an aiming line coordinate system is completed through a series of coordinate transformation, recursive iteration and coordinate inverse transformation, and the parameters are respectively superimposed to an orientation and pitching tracking control loop to participate in tracking control. By the adoption of the photoelectric tracker, the high-speed target tracking control method has the advantages of being high in response speed, little in dynamic lag, high in tracking precision and good in tracking stability when the method is used for tracking an incoming high-speed moving target, is suitable for tracking high-speed moving targets such as incoming guided missiles and aircrafts by vehicle-mounted and ship-based photoelectric tracking systems, and has great significance in improvement of target resolving precision of fire control systems and operational effectiveness of the whole weapon system.

A system that extends the operational effectiveness of an image reproduction machine without requiring downtime for service by personnel includes a detection subsystem that monitors components of an image reproduction system for detecting a banding defect in the image reproduction system and an automated compensation subsystem for modifying operation of the image reproduction system to compensate for the detected banding defect so that the image reproduction system continues to generate images at an acceptable quality level. The automated compensation subsystem adjusts components and/or data used by image reproduction system to compensate for the identified banding defect without requiring immediate operator or service personnel intervention. This compensation may successfully attenuate the banding defect so that the image reproduction system continues to produce acceptable images without downtime while awaiting service by personnel. The system may also include a diagnostic subsystem for determining causes for a detected banding defect to further enhance the operation of the compensation system or to facilitate a repair action by a person.

To determine whether a machine tool is operating effectively, the present invention system, instead of directly measuring the operating parameters of the machine tool, monitors the presence or absence of any holes made by the machine tool and the quality of those holes, if made. The operational effectiveness of the machine tool is then correlated with the data thus monitored.

A method for evaluating the operational effectiveness of an anti-ship missile and an auxiliary decision-making is disclosed, belonging to the field of weapon evaluation and development. Existing anti-ship missiles can only evaluate single operational effectiveness, and the operational effectiveness evaluation system of anti-ship missiles is not complete. The method for evaluating the operational effectiveness of anti-ship missile and assistant decision-making comprises: the simulation process model of anti-ship missile and surface ship offensive-defensive countermeasure is established; the index system structure of anti-ship missile operational effectiveness evaluation is established; On the basis of the simulation process model of anti-ship missile and surface ship offensive-defensive countermeasure, a rapid evaluation model of anti-ship missile operational effectiveness is designed; Based on the design of anti-ship missile operational effectiveness evaluation model and evaluation function, the anti-ship missile model with the best operational effectiveness is determined according to the ship target type after the ship target is found. The invention forms an integrated system including anti-ship missile operation process simulation, data learning, operation effectiveness evaluation and operation auxiliary decision-making, which has the advantages of fast operation effectiveness evaluation and short auxiliary decision-making time of operation effectiveness evaluation.

A method is disclosed for improving the operational effectiveness and efficiency of wind turbines. Applicants' preferred method comprises: generating a level of power over the Betz limit for an axial flow wind turbine, of the type having a turbine shroud with a flared inlet and an impeller downstream having a ring of impeller blades, by receiving and directing a primary air stream of ambient air into the flared inlet and through the turbine shroud; rotating the impeller inside the shroud by the primary air stream, whereby the primary air stream transfers energy to the impeller; entraining and mixing a secondary flow stream of ambient air exclusively with the primary air stream, which has passed through the impeller, via a mixer and an ejector sequentially downstream of the impeller. Unlike gas turbine mixers and ejectors which also mix with hot core exhaust gases, Applicants' preferred method entrains and mixes ambient air (i.e., wind) exclusively with lower energy air (i.e., partially spent air) which has passed through a turbine shroud and rotor. Applicant's method further comprises harnessing the power of the primary air stream to produce mechanical energy while exceeding the Betz limit for operational efficiency of the axial flow wind turbine over a non-anomalous period.

The invention relates to a method for preparing an environment-friendly interior dry powder coating from blast furnace slag micro powder serving as a main raw material, and belongs to the technical fields of chemical building materials and comprehensive utilization of solid wastes. The environment-friendly interior dry powder coating is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 80 to 90 percent of the blast furnace slag micro powder, 3 to 18 percent of titanium pigment, 3 to 8 percent of ash calcium powder, 3 to 6 percent of redispersible emulsion powder, 0.2 to 0.6 percent of water-retaining agent and 0.05 to 0.2 percent of defoaming agent. The method comprises the following steps: weighing and mixing the raw materials in percentage by weight; and putting the mixed material into a stirrer, fully stirring for 15 minutes, and fully mixing uniformly to obtain the environment-friendly interior dry powder coating. When used, the environment-friendly interior dry powder coating is blended with a proper amount of water fully, and then the mixture can be coated and puttied on wall surfaces. The coating has good construction performance and operational effectiveness. The coating has strong bonding power, and washing, alkali and water resistance; and the coated film is difficult to crack. Moreover, the coating has no organic volatile matters, is nontoxic and tasteless, and has no harm to human bodies.

A multi-spectral-coverage synthetic environment simulation system comprises a synthetic environment modeling and calculating unit, a synthetic environment data Sedris standardization unit and a synthetic environment rendering and visualization unit. The defects in the prior art are overcome, and the problems that in a simulation test, the complex and true environment is difficult to simulate, and meanwhile accurate and effective environment support data are insufficient, so that influences on the test by environmental factors are not sufficiently embodied are solved. modeling, SEDRIS standardization and visualization of the synthetic environment of atmosphere, infrared, electromagnetism and others are achieved, standardized synthetic environment data are provided for simulation application, and support is provided for operational effectiveness evaluation of a weapon system.

The invention discloses a fast reflecting mirror image stabilizing method based on subpixel image related detection. A dithering optical axis of a photoelectric stabilization and tracking platform in a movement or vibration environment is subjected to stabilization and tracking and correction by using a fast reflecting mirror to deflect light beams. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, calculating a subpixel level image offset caused by dithering of a photoelectric system by virtue of an image related method; then calculating an offset of an unstable optical axis according to optical parameters of a photoelectric imaging system in the photoelectric stabilization and tracking platform; feeding the offset of the unstable optical axis back to a controller of the fast reflecting mirror; and controlling the deflection of the fast reflecting mirror in real time to realize stabilization of the optical axis. The system can achieve image stabilization of a single frame frequency image and a video sequence, and eliminate video signal dithering or image blurring, caused by optical axis dithering, of a photoelectric-television sensor in the photoelectric stabilization and tracking platform, thereby improving video quality of the imaging system. Meanwhile, the aiming line stabilization precision and operational effectiveness of the photoelectric stabilization and tracking platform are improved. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of high speed, simplicity, high calculation precision, low cost and the like.

This invention provides a method of improving operational effectiveness in a clinical trial, the method comprises the steps of: obtaining historical clinical trial operation data for a disease condition; normalizing data from different clinical trials; grouping different clinical trials into groups; and calculating Site Effectiveness Index (SEI), wherein the SEI is useful for improving operational effectiveness in a clinical trial. In one embodiment, using the method disclosed herein would result in reducing the cost for the clinical trial.

The invention relates to an intelligent human platform establishing method for equipment design and evaluation. The method comprise the steps of 1) building a real three-dimensional digital soldier parameterized model, and controlling the human body height, weight and percentile; 2) performing individual movement simulation; 3) performing individual equipment parametric modeling and building a model base; 4) performing geometrical efficiency evaluation, biomechanical analysis evaluation, load metabolism analysis evaluation and comprehensive operational effectiveness fuzzy evaluation on single soldiers on the basis of prior standards, calculation models and independent experiment data. The main objective of the human platform is to develop individual equipment and soldier system ergonomic characteristics fully, study relations of soldiers, equipment and battlefield environments and how to design and improve the relations so as to achieve the reasonable combination, and accordingly, the developed equipment can be suitable for solider physiological and psychological characteristics, and the individual comprehensive operational effectiveness and survivability can be improved. The method can be widely applied to individual training.

The invention belongs to testability technologies, and relates to a digital-analog hybrid circuit BIT device based on boundary scan. The device is composed of a link scanning module, a boundary scan controller, a master controller, a test vector storage and a tested digital-analog hybrid circuit, the boundary scan controller and the master controller are needed in scan test execution, the test vector storage is loaded with test vectors, the device can achieve a BIT based on the boundary scan according to the characteristic of a digital-analog hybrid complex circuit, and therefore the test problem caused by the structure and cross link complexity of the digital-analog hybrid circuit can be effectively solved, and universal and reliable testability design is provided for the device. The fault detection and locating of the circuit can be facilitated, testing efficiency and reliability are improved, development and maintenance cost is lowered, and operational effectiveness and overall economic benefits are improved.

The invention discloses an anti-radiation guided weapon system capacity exploratory analysis method. The method includes the implementation steps that firstly, the anti-radiation guided weapon system capacity is confirmed; secondly, key capacity indexes of an anti-radiation guided weapon system are determined; thirdly, a capacity index demand track of the anti-radiation guided weapon system is acquired; fourthly, the effectiveness and the flexibility of the capacity indexes of the anti-radiation guided weapon system are analyzed; fifthly, capacity index distributed values are acquired. The exploratory analysis method is adopted at the angle of operational effectiveness evaluation and the purpose of capacity index distribution of each system is achieved.

The invention relates to a shockproof fixing device capable of ensuring tool-free fan detachment and installation. The fixing device comprises a fan and a fan support used for accommodating the fan, wherein four corners on two sides of the fan are respectively provided with a mounting hole; the mounting holes are internally provided with shockproof rubber plugs; the side surfaces of the fan support are provided with mounting parts; through holes of the mounting parts are internally provided with floating screws; the fan is plugged in the fan support by use of the shockproof rubber plugs; a case and the fan support are fixed by use of floating screws. The fixing device has the advantages that the fan can be installed and replaced without using tools, so that the installation and replacement time is further reduced, and the application range is wide; the universality is good, i.e., the fixing device is applicable to various personal desktop computers, industrial computers and servers; performances are improved, i.e., the fan support is endowed with favorable shockproof effect by use of the shockproof rubber plugs, shock caused by rotation of the fan is prevented from being directly transferred into a computer shell, so that direct influence of quite heavy shock on operational effectiveness losses of electronic components can be reduced.

The invention belongs to the field of phased array radar resource scheduling, and relates to a sliding window resource scheduling technology based on sectors, in particular to a method for generating digital combined pulse signals with continuous phase positions. The technology is mainly suitable for resource management and distribution of a two-dimensional rotary phased array radar. A radar system carries out resource distribution on multiple functions and multiple tasks according to the sectors, and the residence time of various tasks is adjusted in the sectors in a self-adaptive mode according to loads of the tasks. According to the sliding window resource scheduling technology, when resource distribution is carried out on a current scheduling interval, the task load condition of one sector starting from the current scheduling interval is considered, the task load of one sector starting from the next interval is considered when the next scheduling interval is carried out, and sliding window type resource scheduling is formed. The residence time distribution ratio of the various tasks is determined according to the different work modes of the radar, the detection range, the search data rate, the fine batch number, the determination batch number and the like of the radar are adjusted in a self-adaptive mode according to the time obtaining the tasks, the multiple functions and the multiple tasks are achieved at the same time, and the flexibility and operational effectiveness of the two-dimensional rotary phased array radar are improved.