447 results about "Placement method" patented technology

Composite structures having a single continuous skin may be formed using automated fiber placement methods. These composite structures include frameless aircraft fuselage components offering an increased interior cabin width over conventional fuselage components. The composite structures may be constructed of multiple layers of fibers and other materials placed on a fiber placement tool that includes a mandrel body surrounded by a bladder or an integral bladder / caul sheet having expansion spaces created within the caul sheet section. Uncured composite structures may be created by placing fibers around the fiber placement tool in a plurality of discontinuous segments that are capable of moving or sliding in relation to each other so that the uncured composite structure is expandable from within. Fluid openings may be provided in the outer surface of the mandrel body for the application of vacuum and / or fluid pressure to secure the bladder to the mandrel body and to assist in the removal of the bladder from the mandrel body, respectively. Uncured composite structures may be sealed between the bladder and is clam shell molds. The uncured structures may be expanded against the inner surface of the molds by creating a vacuum between the bladder and molds.

Systems and methods for determining placement of prosthetic components in joint including defining patient-specific frame of reference for joint, determining patient-specific postoperative range of motion of joint, evaluating patient-specific range of motion of joint, automatically planning placement of components balancing need for range of motion with prosthesis stability through bony coverage, and applying manual adjustments to the automatically planned placement of component by giving greater or lesser weight to need for range of motion or prosthesis stability through bony coverage. Apparatuses for defining center of prosthetic femoral head and axis of prosthetic femoral neck including primary cylinder, first alignment receptacle and second alignment receptacle, and a divot on exterior of primary cylinder, divot having normal parallel to longitudinal axis of second alignment receptacle and position of the divot being translated toward an opening of the first alignment receptacle on the primary cylinder. Methods for using apparatuses. Apparatus for mounting spatially tracked device to impactor for impacting prosthetic cup into reamed socket.

A high-speed machine and method for placing an RFID circuit onto an electrical component includes separating an RFID circuit from a web of RFID circuits, and placing the RFID circuit onto an electrical component with a placing device. The separating includes directing the RFID circuit onto a transfer drum of the placement device and separably coupling the RFID circuit to the transfer drum. According to one method, a separator device separates and directs chips or interposers onto a placement device. According to another method, chips or interposers are tested before being separated from a web, and if good, are separated from the web, directed onto a placement device, and placed on an electrical component. If defective, the chips or interposers are not directed onto a placement device and are removed by a scrap web removal device.

A system and method allowing wager(s) to be placed over a wireless network using a remote device by authenticating an established user account, and validating the location of the player using network centric data. The player utilizes the remote device, which may be a cell phone or remote computing device, connected securely to a wagering system over a wireless network (e.g., 3G). Depending on the type of game, player location is determined using A-GPS and / or control plane technology utilizing carrier network information. Wagers may be placed using verbal instructions or keypad entries which communicate with a voice recognition system, dedicated software application, live operator and / or web browser based application. Regardless of the wager placement methodology, the remote device is linked to a wager server and location verification is specific to the subject remote device connected thereto. Other methods of verifying location are utilized as safeguards against spoofing and remote operation.

A method and apparatus for correcting vision, including a corneal-pocket keratome device to create a corneal pocket and a lens to be inserted and retained in the corneal pocket to effect correction. The corneal-pocket keratome includes a drive unit having cutting head elements which contact the subject eye during corneal pocket formation. The cutting head elements may be removeable and may be disposable. The cutting head elements include a corneal restraint device, which may be a positioning ring to position an eyeball with the cornea protruding through the ring; a keratome blade assembly with a corneal-pocket blade; and may also include an applanation shoe surface to restrain the cornea, in addition or instead of the positioning ring. The applanation shoe may be pivotable away from the surgical area. The corneal-pocket blade may include a guide which travels with the blade. The blade assembly oscillates laterally while extending forward into the cornea to form the pocket, and the amplitude of the lateral oscillation is preferably increased as the blade goes beyond an opening incision into the cornea. Lenses for this invention preferably include a feature to impede accidental lens movement after the lens is disposed within the corneal pocket, which may be a swelling after insertion or a circumferential irregularity. Lenses may be of Fresnel or non-Fresnel type, and may employ annular changes in the index of refraction of the lens material, as well as changes in refractive shape which may be annular or not, to effect variations in focal length for relieving presbyopia, astigmatism, and combinations of those as well as myopia and hyperopia. Drive control and vacuum for the positioning ring are provided under user command by a control unit having user inputs.

Systems and methods for determining placement of prosthetic components in joint including defining patient-specific frame of reference for joint, determining patient-specific postoperative range of motion of joint, evaluating patient-specific range of motion of joint, automatically planning placement of components balancing need for range of motion with prosthesis stability through bony coverage, and applying manual adjustments to the automatically planned placement of component by giving greater or lesser weight to need for range of motion or prosthesis stability through bony coverage. Apparatuses for defining center of prosthetic femoral head and axis of prosthetic femoral neck including primary cylinder, first alignment receptacle and second alignment receptacle, and a divot on exterior of primary cylinder, divot having normal parallel to longitudinal axis of second alignment receptacle and position of the divot being translated toward an opening of the first alignment receptacle on the primary cylinder. Methods for using apparatuses. Apparatus for mounting spatially tracked device to impactor for impacting prosthetic cup into reamed socket.

The invention discloses a deep learning-based quick automatic capture and placement method. The method can quickly and accurately determine positions and attitudes of articles in combination with a GPU and a 3D camera by adopting a deep learning scheme. Through a quick calibration scheme, a transfer matrix from a coordinate system of the 3D camera to a coordinate system of a mechanical arm can beobtained. The transfer matrix can convert the positions and attitudes of the articles to the coordinate system of the mechanical arm, and then operate the mechanical arm to perform capture. For accurately placing the articles in a specific mode, the articles are subjected to secondary attitude estimation. A secondary attitude estimation process comprises the steps of firstly capturing the articlesto an estimation position by fixed attitude; at the moment, segmenting out the articles more completely by only using depth information; projecting the articles to a placement plane; and performing accurate attitude estimation for information on the plane, thereby enabling the mechanical arm to perform placement.

The invention discloses an energy-saving virtual machine placement method for a cloud computing data center, comprising the following steps: a, a physical server zone is built; b, the information of physical servers is obtained; c, virtual machine resources to be created are computed; d, the physical servers are sorted; e, the mapping between the virtual machines to be created and the physical servers is built; f, a single physical server is judged whether meeting the demands or not; g, a physical server sequence meeting the demands in the same sub area is judged whether existing or not; and h, the server sequence with the minimum air-conditioning consumption cost and the least number of physical servers is selected. According to the energy-saving virtual machine placement method for the cloud computing data center, a single physical server is preferentially selected for creating a virtual machine, and then the physical servers in the same sub area are selected for creating virtual machines; under the circumstances that the single physical server and the physical servers in the same sub area do not exist, the physical server sequence with the highest centralization degree is finally selected for creating the virtual machines, the virtual machines of the cloud computing data center are placed in an energy-saving manner, the energy-saving effect is remarkable, and the application and popularization are facilitated.

Emergency call placement methods and apparatus for a user equipment in a wireless network are disclosed. The placement method includes detecting initiation of an emergency call during a non-idle connection mode of the user equipment (204), terminating the non-idle connection mode (206) and initiating a new connection for the emergency call (208). This method allows the new connection to use a location methodology to locate the user equipment in response to the emergency call. The disclosed wireless user equipment (102, 500) is configured to implement the disclosed method.

Methods and systems are provided for positioning a remote sensor within a target object. An articulated robotic system is coupled to the remote sensor. A positioning system determines a position of the target object to be inspected and determines a first position of the remote sensor. A control system calibrates a virtual representation of the target object with respect to the position of the target object, and tracks movement of the remote sensor relative to the target object.

There is provided a traffic placement method in a communications network, the communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, the nodes being connected to one another by links, the method comprising selecting a (possibly non-strict) subset from a given set of traffic flow demands and calculating a plurality of paths for the selected demands under consideration of a set of constraints using an algorithm hybridisation combining backtrack search with local consistency techniques (BT+CS) and guiding search by the use of one or more probe generators, that is, search techniques that solve a routing sub-problem or an arbitrary relaxation of the traffic placement problem. By using a hybrid algorithm that integrates other solvers (search techniques) into BT+CS through the use of probe generators, a more powerful search strategy can be achieved compared to BT+CS or the individual search techniques.

The present invention provides medical devices comprising at least one visualization device sealed to, attached to or otherwise combined with at least one of the following second devices: an oral airway, ventilating mask, urinary catheter, trocar, a tool tube, and a medical glove. The present invention also provides methods for rapid and accurate placement of a medical device in a patient and continuous real time monitoring, including a remote monitoring, of the patient after the placement.

A corneal-pocket keratome having a support and blade assembly and in which the support has a guide on a forward portion in front of the blade and spaced precisely from the blade to control entry of the blade into the cornea to precisely position the pocket in the cornea that is cut by the blade. A lens is placed in the pocket.

A network of nodes interconnected by links has content filtering specified at certain nodes, and routing of packet connections through the network is generated based on the specified content-filtering nodes. The network is specified via a content-filtering node placement method and a network-capacity maximization method so as to apply content filtering to packets for substantially all traffic (packet streams) carried by the network.

Provides point label placement determining methods, apparatus and systems. A point label placement determining method and system are used in map browsing service based on session mode. In an example embodiment, initial label placement data in a scale is calculated by a static point label determining method. When a user requires a map browsing service, the requirement are met by using an incremental label placement method on the base of said initial label placement data. The incremental point label placement method dramatically reduces the cost for service process. Therefore, the simultaneous requirements of a large number of users can be met. The present invention is successfully used in location based service systems.

The invention discloses a multi-objective optimization virtual machine placing method under the cloud environment. According to the method provided by the invention, firstly, initializing various parameters in an improved ant colony algorithm, wherein the number of ants NA is included; secondly, sorting a server list in a random arrangement manner, and selecting a new server to perform the virtual machine placing from servers; thirdly, using the formula to calculate the server which is the most valuable server to be placed into a virtual machine based on the all servers which can be placed into the virtual machine, and placing the virtual machine on the current server; lastly, repeating the former step until the resource of the current server cannot meet resource needs of all virtual machines required to be placed. According to the method provided by the invention, the virtual machine placement problem serves as a multi-objective combinational optimization problem, and meanwhile, resource usage and power consumption of a physical machine during running of the virtual machine are taken into account. Compared to other solutions, the method can better improve the resource utilization of a physical server and reduce the power consumption of the physical server.

The invention discloses a data placement method based on a distributed cluster. In order to solve the problem that the loading condition, the computing power of a computational node and movement of mass data can have an influence on operational performance, the three factors are effectively combined to compute an evaluation value of data placement, and then a node is selected according to the evaluation value. The data placement method based on the distributed cluster has the advantages that load balancing of data placement can be achieved, and the degree of parallelism is improved when data read-write is carried out; the computing power of the node can be well used, corresponding computation tasks are distributed according to the computing power, and the time of operation is reduced; good transmission performance is achieved, data are stored in the nearby computational node, data transmission can be minimized, and efficiency is improved.

Methods are disclosed for the layout and manufacture of microelectronic circuits. The methods employ the monitoring of the placement of macros within circuit layouts for design rule compliance. Upon detection of noncompliance, the macros associated with noncompliance are adapted to bring the layout within the design rules. In a preferred embodiment of the invention monitoring the relative positions of macros includes identifying instances of coinciding macro (x, y) coordinates. Adapting noncompliant macros further includes steps for maintaining minimum (x, y) distances between adjacent macro corners.

A computer system, comprising: a plurality of computers for storing data; a management computer for managing the data; and a storage, the management computer stores: storage configuration information including information on the storage areas; and file management information including information relevant to placement of the plurality of pieces of division data; the management computer is configured to: identify the file system being a storage destination of a file, in a case of receiving a file generation request including the file identification information on the file from at least one of applications; refer to the storage configuration information to determine the placement method for the plurality of pieces of division data, generated from the plurality of pieces of file data of the file; generate the file management information.

To apply a course on a layup mold, a ply boundary that defines a ply area on the layup mold is determined and a tape of composite material is applied on the ply area at an oblique angle relative to the ply boundary. In addition, a leading edge of the tape is butt cut and the leading edge, and the ply boundary essentially converge. Furthermore, a trailing edge is generated. The trailing edge is a butt cut and the trailing edge and the ply boundary essentially converge.

A copy management strategy for data blocks in an HDFS comprises a method for selecting the starting time of copies, a method for selecting the number of the copies, a method for selecting the positions of the copies and a method for arranging newly added copies. According to the method for selecting the starting time of the copies, a starting cycle is determined first, one day is regarded as an access cycle to carry out starting of a copy strategy, and then starting moments are determined; according to the method for selecting the number of the copies, the number of the copies are calculated by adopting Poisson distribution, and then calculation is carried out through a copy number calculation method based on a queuing theory; according to the method for selecting the positions of the copies, a copy arranging strategy is adopted in the selection of bays and nodes, and the utilization conditions need to be taken into consideration; according to the method for arranging the newly added copies, the positions of the newly added copies are selected in the bay with the nodes accessed the most by users, and nodes with the lightest load are selected in the bay with the nodes accessed the most by the users to carry out the establishment of the copies. The copy management strategy for the data blocks in the HDFS proposes an HDFS copy-first strategy, can reduce the waiting time when the users access HDFS data and improve the throughput of the system.

Through designing a radial basis function neural network compensator to estimate coupling between channels, a model uncertainty part and external interference, a pole-placement method is used to determine a gain initial value of a fractional order proportional differential controller, the control performance is further improved by the fine adjustment of a fractional order differential order number, the flexibility of a system is enhanced, finally a feedback linearization controller is designed to obtain a control amount, and the stable attitude control with strong anti-interference for a four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is realized. The invention has the advantages that an unmodeled part of the system, the coupling effect between the channels and the external interference are considered, and the universality of an attitude control method is improved. Through designing a radial basis function neural network estimator to estimate the unmodeled part of the system, the coupling effect between the channels and the external interference for compensation, the system has good anti-interference ability. On the basis of traditional proportional differential control, fractional order differential is introduced to improve the control performance and flexibility of the system.

An incremental placement method uses a set of connections to optimize and a set of movable design objects. The movable design objects are unplaced. A plurality of anchoring connections is associated with the movable design objects. A set of weights is associated with the set of connections to optimize and the plurality of anchoring connections. An objective function is constructed using the set of connections to optimize, the plurality of anchoring connections, and the set of weights. The objective function is minimized to obtain a placement of the movable design objects.

Methods and devices are provided for spinal fixation. In one exemplary embodiment, the methods and devices provide one or more points of fixation located adjacent to a first fixation point at which a bone anchor is implanted in bone. For example, an extension member can be coupled, either directly or indirectly, to a bone anchor, and a fastener can be used to anchor the extension member to bone at a second point of fixation adjacent to the first point of fixation. The second point of fixation can be effective to prevent rotation or other movement of the bone anchor, thereby stabilizing the bone anchor. The methods and devices are particularly useful for unilateral fixation, in which one or more levels of the spine are stabilized along a single lateral side of the spine.

The invention discloses an automatic placement method used for a medical image system and the medical image system. The medical image system includes a scanning device, a bed platform axially moving along scanning apertures of the scanning device and a photographing device arranged at the upper portion and / or lateral portion of the bed platform. The photographing device includes an infrared detector. The method includes the steps of obtaining an infrared thermal radiation image of a subject when the bed platform stays at the current position; according to the infrared thermal radiation image,determining a to-be-scanned part of the subject; moving the bed platform to make the to-be-scanned part of the subject reach a target position or positioned within a set distance range from the targetposition. The method solves the problem that existing placement methods in the prior art are low in efficiency, and has the technical advantage that the placement efficiency is improved.

A high-speed process includes removing chips or interposers from a carrier web having a first pitch and transferring the chips or interposers to electrical components, such as RFID antenna structures, on a moving web having a second pitch. According to one method, a transfer drum transfers chips or interposers to a moving web of electrical components by picking a chip when the transfer drum is stationary, and transferring the chip to the moving web when the transfer drum is rotating such that a tangential velocity of the transfer drum is substantially equal to the linear velocity of the moving web. According to another method, a primary drum removes chips or interposers from a carrier web having a first pitch, and transfers the chips or interposers to a variably rotating secondary drum which then places the chips or interposers onto an electrical component on a moving web having a second pitch.