245 results about "Passive networks" patented technology

The present invention relates to a semiconductor structure having an integrated passive network and a method for making the same. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate which can be an interposer. The substrate can include a plurality of conductive vias. In various embodiments, the substrate includes a dielectric layer disposed thereon, the dielectric layer having an opening forming a straight hole allowing electrical connection between the passive network and the conductive via. The passive network includes a series of patterned dielectric and conductive layers, forming passive electronic components. In an embodiment, the passive device includes a common resistor coupled to a pair of inductors, each of the inductors coupled to a capacitor. In another embodiment, the passive device includes a resistor and an inductor electrically connected to each other, a bottom surface of the inductor coplanar with a bottom surface of the resistor.

A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes (1) an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, (2) a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead, the passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a first inductive value, and (3) an electromagnetic shield substantially surrounding the inductive component or the passive network. The first inductive value of the inductive component is adjusted to a account for a shift in its inductance to a second inductive value when shielded.

A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, and a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead. The passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a primary magnetic field line axis. A conductive shield or housing having a primary longitudinal axis substantially surrounds the inductive component or the passive network. The inductive component's magnetic field line axis is oriented substantially orthogonally to the primary longitudinal axis of the conductive shield or housing.

An implantable apparatus for sensing biological signals from an animal includes at least two electrodes disposed at locations to sense the biological signals. The electrode locations may be internal or external to the animal. Insulated conductors couple the electrodes via a passive network of filters to an instrumentation amplifier that has an internal voltage reference. Thus a sensed biological signal is filtered and amplified to provide an amplified differential signal. A signal analysis module processes amplified differential signal to determine at least one physiological parameter of the animal. The signal analysis module may include a first derivative zero detector for signal transition detection and feature detection and analysis. The apparatus may also comprise a signal presentation module to display amplified signals and physiological parameters associated with those signals.

A network fingerprinting component for a computerized system issues network identifiers (NID) for computer networks. Identity confidences may be determined for each issued network identifier with respect to current computer networks. Computer network attributes may include passive network attributes and active network attributes. Retrieving values for active network attributes involves generating network traffic. As a result passive network attributes may be available to the network fingerprinting component before active network attributes. Learned identity confidence modifiers may be applied to identity confidences determined independent of active network attributes to achieve more accurate identity confidence sooner. Better learned identity confidence modifiers may be obtained by comparing identity confidences for a particular computer network determined independently of active network attributes with identity confidences for the computer network determined once active network attributes become available and then adjusting the learned identity confidence modifiers so as to minimize any differences.

A system and method for managing liability insurer's healthcare claims, allows liability insurers, such as property and casualty insurers, who have no direct policy relationship with patients for whom they become financially responsible, to take advantage of healthcare provider “rate regulations,” and “healthcare management,” including incentives, heretofore only available to healthcare insurers from healthcare providers within an “active network.” A system administrator manages clamant healthcare claims from member passive network healthcare providers for member liability insurers that become financially responsible for these claims as a result of the actions or inactions of their liability policyholders. The liability insurer members within the insurer network are in contractual relationship with the system administrator who is in contractual relationship with member healthcare providers of the passive healthcare provider network such that when a provider of healthcare product or service submits a claim, for which a system liability insurer member is financially responsible, the system administrator validates the claim as falling in the system; applies the provider network rules; and applies provider coverage rules to determine the level of coverage by the member liability insurer for the claim. Based on this determination, that portion of the claim covered by the member liability policy the Claimant is paid by the system administrator. In another aspect, an Allocation Fund is provided to pay claims where more than one system liability insurer may be liable for the claim.

The present invention discloses a fault localization method and a fault localization apparatus in a Passive Optical Network (PON) and a passive optical network having the same.A fault localization method in PON according to the present invention comprises a) configuring an optical path of a remote node (RN) selectively by electric power being fed temporarily only when necessary, while the PON is regularly being operated as a passive network; and b) detecting a fault occurring on the selectively configured optical path by inserting a monitoring signal of an OTDR unit, which is positioned in a central office (CO), through the selectively configured optical path.

This invention relates to high frequency electromagnetic circuits, in particular to those made on planar or quasi-planar substrates, where the circuit is patterned on a metallic or superconducting film on top of a dielectric in any of the configurations known to those skilled in the art (for instance micro-strip, strip-line, co-planar, parallel plate or slot-line configurations). A part of the circuit such as the characteristic strip or slot of said configurations is shaped in a novel space-filling geometry which allows a significant size reduction of the circuital component. Miniature transmission lines, capacitors, inductors, resistors, filters and oscillators can be manufactured this way.

A passive full-duplex bidirectional ZPL tap includes first and second network ports and first and second tap ports. A passive signal separator is configured to receive a data stream from at least one of the first or second network port and pass through the data stream and a first signal portion comprising at least the first signal component and a second signal portion comprising at least the second signal component. A first receive only physical interface device (Phy) is configured to receive the first signal portion from the signal separator and provide the first portion to the first tap port and a second receive only Phy is configured to receive the second signal portion from the signal separator and provide the second signal portion to the second tap port.

The invention discloses a 10G single-fiber bidirectional optical module, which comprises a burst laser driver, a burst light power indicator, a microcontroller, a single-fiber bidirectional optical device, an avalanche photoelectric diode bias control circuit, a limiting amplifier, a receiving end light power monitor and an SFP+ connector, wherein the microcontroller is mainly used for controlling the burst laser driver and the limiting amplifier; the single-fiber bidirectional optical device is connected between the burst laser driver and the limiting amplifier to realize conversion between electrical signals and light signals; and the avalanche photoelectric diode bias control circuit supplies a high bias voltage to a receiving end avalanche photoelectric diode and performs voltage compensation on the receiving end avalanche photoelectric diode according to the temperature property. The 10G single-fiber bidirectional optical module has the advantages of low design cost, simple circuit design and capability of meeting the requirement of a 10G EPON ONU symmetrical scheme.

The invention provides a railway side slope crag rockfall monitoring and warning system based on a fiber grating sensing technology. The system provided by the invention comprises on-site monitoring equipment and monitoring control equipment. wherein the on-site monitoring equipment is used for monitoring the rock mass deformation and looseness of an active network protection zone of a railway line side slope and monitoring crag rockfall by using as flexible passive network as a monitoring carrier; the monitoring control equipment is connected with the on-site monitoring equipment; the on-site monitoring equipment comprises a rock mass deformation and looseness monitoring subsystem, a rockfall broken network monitoring and warning subsystem and a rockfall state monitoring subsystem which are connected with the monitoring control equipment; and the monitoring control equipment comprises a fiber terminal box (9), a fiber grating signal demodulator (10), a network switch (11) and a computer system (12) which are sequentially connected. According to the invention, the accuracy of a railway crag rockfall warning and monitoring technology is enhanced and the train transport operation safety is better guaranteed.

A device is designed for channeling electricity to a lamp, and adjusts downwards the amount of power channeled to the lamp as a function of available electrical energy in the source. In so doing, a reduction in the available energy in the source causes a less proportionate reduction in luminosity of the lamp. This might be accomplished by passing the electricity through a passive network of resistors and diodes on its way down to the lamp. In one example, the electrical energy source may be a battery that is powered by one or more solar panels. In that case, the device may also perform the function of protecting the battery from being overly charged. It channels downwards a greater daily lamp's energy consumption than that of daily electrical charging from the solar panels, when the available battery energy is near its full capacity.

The invention discloses a self-adaptive warning system for intelligently addressing circumferential intrusions of fiber Bragging grating. The self-adaptive warning system consists of a fiber Bragging grating vibration sensor, an optical transmission cable, a fiber grating signal demodulator and a security centralized control platform. When in detection, a plurality of the fiber Bragging grating vibration sensors with different wavelengths are connected in series with one optical fiber by the wavelength division multiplexing technology to acquire the distributed information; by acquiring and processing the fiber grating signals, the fiber Bragging grating vibration sensors are integrated with the application software of an upper computer into an intelligent management system to form a set of ideal and complete self-adaptive warning system for the fiber circumferential intrusion security. The system can be applied to the circumference intrusion warning guard, and can be used as the environmental sensing device by the circumferential intrusion of the intelligent addressing. The invention adopts the outdoor all-passive network type transmission system, so that the sensing region can be addressed freely. The passive transmission and the optical cable laying are applied to the system, so that the system is convenient for the on-site installation and no device debugging is needed on site; in particular, the invention has the advantages of suitability of the outdoor laying, lightning and flash resistance and anti-electromagnetic interference, capability of sufficiently meeting and being applied to the circumference security in various complex environments, capability of accurately solving the misinformation and the report missing and the like.

The invention discloses a hybrid DC (direct current) electric power transmission system comprising a passive filter, a rectifier converter transformer, a thyristor converter, a flat wave reactor, a DC electric power line, a multi-level converter and an inverse converter transformer. A twelve-pulse bridge converter based on a thyristor is arranged at a sending-end rectifier side, and a modularized multi-level converter is arranged at a receiving-end inverter side, thus eliminating the phase conversion failure of the traditional DC electric power transmission system fundamentally and being suitable for supplying power for multi-DC droppoint areas, passive networks or weak alternating current systems and other occasions. Compared with a light-type high-voltage DC electric transmission system, the hybrid DC electric power transmission system provided by the invention has the advantages that the number of expensive full-control devices is greatly decreased, the cost is reduced, the loss is reduced, the reliability is high, the control is flexible, and fewer reactive compensation devices are used. In addition, the hybrid DC electric power transmission system provided by the invention can be used as a black start power supply of a receiving-end alternating current system and is good in engineering application value.

The invention discloses a Boost type isolated DC / DC converter and a control method of the Boost type isolated DC / DC converter. The Boost type isolated DC / DC converter is composed of a primary side circuit, an auxiliary side circuit, an ideal transformer and a two-port passive network, wherein the primary side circuit is composed of a full-bridge unit circuit where interleaved Boost circuits are integrated, the auxiliary side circuit is composed of a rectifying circuit, the two-port passive circuit is composed of an inductor and a capacitor and is an energy transmitting unit, and the transformer is used for achieving isolation and transformation. Two interleaved Boost input inductors are connected in the middles of two bridge arms of the full-bridge unit circuit, and therefore the gain range of the isolated DC / DC converter is widened, and input current ripples are reduced; frequency-fixed PWM control is adopted, the duty ratio D of a bridge arm switching tube is controlled, and therefore the output voltage can be adjusted. The Boost type isolated DC / DC converter and the control method have the advantages of being wide in input voltage range, small in input current ripple, fixed in switching frequency, capable of allowing soft switching to be achieved, small in switching loss and the like, and are particularly suitable for renewable energy power generation systems and other systems.

The invention discloses a method for designing a microwave and millimeter-wave spatial power synthesis amplifier. The design method determines the components of the power synthesis amplifier first comprising a power divider, a power amplifier and a power combiner, and then mainly introduces the design method of the power divider according to the characteristics and requirements of the prior art. The power divider is realized mainly by the following steps: a, designing a transition section from a microstrip to a substrate integrated waveguide; b, designing a transition section from the substrate integrated waveguide to a semi-mode substrate integrated waveguide; and c, designing a transition section from the semi-mode substrate integrated waveguide to the microstrip so as to form a multi-channel power divider. Based on the realization of the power divider, the power divider can be used as the power synthesizer by reversing the power divider according to the reversibility of a passive network. Compared with the prior art, the microwave and millimeter-wave spatial power combining amplifier adopts the planar structure design completely, and has the advantages of high combining efficiency, good heat sink performance, simple processing, low cost, high yield and the like.

The invention discloses a single-stage boosting inverter with a tap inductor, which is shown in a figure described in the specification. The inverter comprises an inversion bridge (B) and a passive network. The passive network comprises an inductor (L), capacitors (C1 and C2), diodes (D1, D2 and D3) and the tap inductor (Lt). A first winding (N1) and a second winding (N2) of the tap inductor (Lt) are connected in series positively. According to the inverter disclosed by the invention, energy is stored in the tap inductor (Lt) by utilizing an ended zero vector state forbidden in the traditional voltage type inverter; the energy is combined with energy supplied by an input power supply in a non-ended zero vector state; and the combined energy is transmitted together to a middle bus so that the voltage of the bus is boosted. Therefore, the inverter can output alternating-current voltage, an amplitude value of which is higher than that of input voltage (Vi); the inverter can satisfy boosting requirements in different application situations by configuring the turn ratio of the tap inductor (Lt); and in the event of being applicable to an alternating-current input situation, the inverter can also realize a power factor correction (PFC) function.

A control method for a high-voltage direct-current flexible system for supplying power to a passive network includes: arranging a rectifier controller at the head end of a direct-current transmission line of the high-voltage direct-current flexible system, performing constant direct-current voltage control for a VSC (voltage source converter)-rectifier on the alternating-current system side, arranging a VSC-inverter controller at the tail end of the direct-current transmission line, and performing constant direct-current voltage control for the a VSC-inverter. A double closed-loop vector control policy is used for VSC-rectifier constant direct-current voltage control, fuzzy PI (proportional integral) control is used for an outer voltage loop, and current decoupling control is used for an inner voltage loop, so that active power and reactive power are controlled independently. The method avoids complicated offline parameter adjustment of a traditional PI adjustor and is capable of performing online PI parameter adjustment according to changes of the system running state and high in adaptive adjustment capability, the system is higher in response speed and control precision for various interferences and failures, and anti-interference capability and dynamic and steady-state performances of the system are improved.

The invention discloses a mixed type multi-level current converter with direct-current fault ride-through capability and a working method. The current converter is based on a dislocation stacking theory and comprises a three-phase bridge rectifier circuit; each bridge arm of the three-phase bridge rectifier circuit comprises a dislocation stacking module, a cascading double-sub-module assembly, a half-bridge sub-module assembly and an electric reactor which are cascaded to one another; when a fault occurs, a discharging process before locking of the current converter is an oscillating discharging process under known initial conditions; and after the current converter is locked, equivalent capacitance values of the bridge arms are changed, if and only if backward voltages of cascading capacitors of the bridge arms are always greater than an alternating-current line voltage amplitude value in any loop states, a short-circuiting current is reduced to zero by the inverting blocking characteristic of diodes, and the direct-current fault is eliminated. The direct-current fault is eliminated in a self-limited manner by locking the current converter, and an extra high-voltage and direct-current circuit breaker is not required. The mixed type multi-level current converter with the direct-current fault ride-through capability is suitable for a common overhead circuit, and can be used for the fields of multi-terminal direct-current network establishment, new energy grid connection, passive network power supply and the like.

In the configuration of an optical communication system interconnecting a parent station and a plurality of child stations via an optical fiber network equipped with an optical splitter, RE is provided having a measuring unit for measuring a transmission distance or time to a child station, a determining unit for determining a timing when a child station transmits a signal, in accordance with a transmission bandwidth request from the child station, and a signal processing unit for processing a signal received from a child station and transmitting the processed signal to the parent station. When a burst signal is received from each child station at the determined timing, a portion of the header of the burst signal is deleted, and a dummy signal is inserted into the deleted area and a gap area between received burst signals to convert the burst signals into a series of signals to be sent to the parent station.

The principles of the present invention relate to passive full-duplex bidirectional Zero Packet Loss (ZPL) network taps that include single, dual, or dual differential couplers that are placed in the communication path between two network devices that communicate using a full-duplex bidirectional data stream that include a first and a second data component. The bidirectional couplers are configured to at least partially obtain a second data stream that includes at least the first data component and to obtain a third data stream that includes at least the second data component. In some embodiments, the bidirectional couplers may include a signal separation module or stage that is configured to further separate the first and second data components.

Disclosed is an optical access passive network supportive of quantum communication. The network is supportive of bidirectional data communication of a GPON (gigabit passive optical network) accordant with the ITU (International Telecommunication Union)-T G.984 standard or an EPON (Ethernet passive optical network) accordant with the IEEE802.3 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard and quantum key distribution (QKD) of uplink direction. An improved optical network unit is adopted in the network to add a QKD emitter and an alternating time-division multiple-address access control module on a basis of an original GPON or EPON, an improved optical line terminal is adopted to add a QKD receiver and a clock extraction module on a basis of the original GPON or EPON, and an improved passive optical splitter is adopted and comprises two 1: N optical splitters and N Bragg gratings (N is the number of the optical network unit). The network integrally greatly avoids inferences, on quantum signals, of high-light signals to enable the QKD to be capable of coexisting with the GPON or EPON. The optical access passive network supportive of quantum communication can thoroughly improve potential security loopholes of common optical access networks and provides a feasible scheme for popularizing the quantum communication technology to a fiber to house (building) FTTx (fiber to the x) access network.

The invention relates to an active disturbance control method of a flexible direct current power transmission system. The method adopts the technical scheme that the method comprises the following steps that a rectifier controller is arranged at the head end of a direct current power transmission line of the flexible direct current power transmission system to carry out the constant direct current voltage control on a rectifier at the alternating current system side, an inverter controller is arranged at the tail end of the direct current power transmission line to carry out the constant alternating current voltage control on an inverter, and a double-closed loop type vector control strategy is adopted for the constant alternating current voltage control of the inverter, wherein an outer loop of the voltage is controlled by an active disturbance controller, an inner loop is controlled by current decoupling, and the direction of bus voltage at the inverter alternating current side is fixed to the direction of an axis d. The method has the advantages that the overshoot of the bus voltage at the passive network alternating current side is reduced when the flexible direct current power transmission system starts to respond, the precision and the stability of the alternating current voltage control are improved, the inside and outside total disturbance of the flexible direct current power transmission system can be evaluated in a real-time way, the feedforward compensation can be timely carried out, the disturbance control capability of the flexible direct current power transmission system is improved, and the control requirements of a non-linear system can be met.

The invention discloses a single-stage booster inverter non-isolated grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system. A coupled inductor passive network is introduced to couple the main circuit of the inverter with a power source, the booster function is realized through primary transformation, and at the same time, a fourth diode is added, the electrical connection between the effective vector and the photovoltaic cell end and the power grid side in the traditional zero vector state can be disconnected, so the common mode voltage generation current circuit in the state can be blocked. The invention further discloses a single-stage booster inverter non-isolated grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system control method, in the control method, the adjacent effective vector synthesis pulse width modulation and direct connection control mode is adopted, and the traditional zero vector does not adopted, so the common mode voltage when the traditional zero vector is switched to other states can be eliminated, and the common mode voltage amplitude of the effective vector can be reduced.

A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes (1) an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, (2) a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead, the passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a first inductive value, and (3) an electromagnetic shield substantially surrounding the inductive component or the passive network. The first inductive value of the inductive component is adjusted to a account for a shift in its inductance to a second inductive value when shielded.

Profile-based passive network switching of wireless mobile devices comprises receiving at a wireless access point a device specific identifier beacon transmitted from a mobile device and extracting a device specific identifier from the beacon. The access point then transmits the device specific identifier and access point provider information to a networked server configured with presence network switching software for determining network switching requirements based on the transmitted device specific identifier. The access point then receives mobile device network switching data from the server for processing. The access point then transmits local wireless network authentication and connection information from the access point to the mobile device to facilitate activating a wireless network connection between the mobile device and the access point at which point the access point starts processing wireless communication from the mobile device over the local wireless network.

A system and method for covertly managing passive network devices from a local or remote management center. A standard IP-based conversation established over a data network between two or more partner devices occurs in a first communication channel. Transparent passive network devices listen to the network traffic passing on the data network to which they are connected and extract their management information from this traffic. By generating protocol data units (PDU's) imitating those sent by the intended nodes, the reverse direction of the management traffic may be implemented.

The invention discloses a totem-pole bridgeless power factor correction circuit of a soft switch. The circuit comprises a boost inductor, input current sampling, totem-pole bridgeless topology, a resonant passive network, a filter circuit, output voltage sampling, a control circuit, and voltage zero-crossing detection. Through adding the resonant network formed by an inductor, a capacitor, and a diode passive element on a totem-pole bridgeless topological main circuit, each PWM duty ratio period of two switching devices on the positive and negative half cycles of an input power supply is controlled, one switch is used as a main switch, and the other one is used as a resonant switch. The circuit realizes that an auxiliary power switch is not needed and the two switching devices on the totem-pole bridgeless topology work in a soft switching state of zero voltage conduction and zero current shutoff. Circuit efficiency is improved, and rated values of the switching devices are reduced. The circuit can operate in a current discontinuous mode, a critical conduction mode, and a current continuous mode, and is suitable to be used in low, intermediate, and large and various power. A dead-time is not needed to be set, thereby preventing the two switching devices from connecting directly and being in short circuit, and improving reliability of the circuit.

Disclosed is an apparatus including a transmitter amplifier having an output terminal communicatively coupled to a transmission line to output a first set of radio frequency (RF) signals to an antenna. The apparatus may include a receiver amplifier having an input terminal communicatively coupled to the transmission line to receive a second set of RF signals from the antenna. The apparatus may include a passive network coupled between the transmitter amplifier and the receiver amplifier, the passive network being configurable to cancel either a first reactance of a parasitic capacitance of the transmitter amplifier or second reactance of a parasitic capacitance of the receiver amplifier. The apparatus may also include a switch coupled between the input terminal and a voltage reference to selectively configure the passive network to cancel either the first reactance or the second reactance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, and a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead. The passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a primary magnetic field line axis. A conductive shield or housing having a primary longitudinal axis substantially surrounds the inductive component or the passive network. The inductive component's magnetic field line axis is oriented substantially orthogonally to the primary longitudinal axis of the conductive shield or housing.