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A self-retaining suture has a suture thread less than 1 millimeter nominal diameter. A plurality of retainers is cut into the suture thread using a high accuracy retainer cutting machine. The retainer cutting machine has sufficient accuracy and repeatability to cut consistent and effective retainers at high density on suture threads less than 1 mm nominal diameter.

Scanning Laser Epitaxy (SLE) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that allows for the fabrication of three-dimensional objects with specified microstructure through the controlled melting and re-solidification of a metal powders placed atop a base substrate. SLE can be used to repair single crystal (SX) turbine airfoils, for example, as well as the manufacture functionally graded turbine components. The SLE process is capable of creating equiaxed, directionally solidified, and SX structures. Real-time feedback control schemes based upon an offline model can be used both to create specified defect free microstructures and to improve the repeatability of the process. Control schemes can be used based upon temperature data feedback provided at high frame rate by a thermal imaging camera as well as a melt-pool viewing video microscope. A real-time control scheme can deliver the capability of creating engine ready net shape turbine components from raw powder material.

The invention provides a manufacture method for polarization maintaining fiber and a polarization maintaining fiber, and relates to optical waveguide fibers in the field of fiber-optical communication and fiber optical sensors. The method comprises the following steps that: (1) two oppositely arranged open slots with a same shape are inwardly provided at a side surface of a glass mother rod, stress rods are machined to obtain a shape matching the open slots, and the centers of the cross sections of the two open slots and the center of circle in the cross section of the glass mother rod are in a same line; (2) the stress rods are respectively inserted into each open slot on the glass mother rod, and the assembled glass mother rod and stress rods are put in a cannula to form a preformed rod of the polarization maintaining fiber; (3) the preformed rod of the polarization maintaining fiber is drew to form the polarization maintaining fiber. According to the invention, the glass mother rod is provided with the open slots, and the stress rods are embedded in the open slots, thereby obtaining high process repeatability; inner surfaces of the open slots have high fineness, and the open slots have good symmetry, thereby improving processing efficiency; therefore, the optical performance and reliability of the polarization maintaining fiber are substantially improved.

The invention discloses a trajectory tracking control method used for an automatic driving robot of a vehicle, which relates to electronic control technologies of vehicles. The desired trajectory of a vehicle is described in a data point mode to obtain the current position information of the vehicle; humanoid driving is carried out according to the current driving direction at the current vehicle position to preview a distance ahead; the position obtained by previewing is compared with the desired trajectory to determine the lateral position deviation, the angle deviation and the vehicle speed deviation of the coordinate position obtained by previewing relative to the desired trajectory; then, the vehicle direction is jointly controlled by a trajectory tracking and speed controller according to position deviation and direction deviation; and according to vehicle speed deviation, the control quantities of an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal are determined with a fuzzy control method. The trajectory tracking control method is suitable for controlling the trajectory tracking of any trajectory, various vehicle types and various working conditions, and an automatic driving robot performs the control. The trajectory tracking control method has high precision and good repeatability and has an important meaning for guaranteeing the quality of vehicle reliability experiments and improving experiment safety.

A sensing device is attached to a living subject that includes a first sensors for distinguishing lying, sitting, and standing positions. In another embodiment, sensor data is stored in a storage device as a function of time. Multiple points or multiple intervals of the time dependent data are used to direct a feedback mechanism to provide information or instruction in response to the time dependent output indicating too little activity, too much time with a joint not being moved beyond a specified range of motion, too many motions beyond a specified range of motion, or repetitive activity that can cause repetitive stress injury.

Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a method for etching in a processing platform (e.g. a cluster tool) wherein robust pre-etch and post-etch data may be obtained in-situ. The method includes the steps of obtaining pre-etched critical dimension (CD) measurements of a feature on a substrate, etching the feature; treating the etched substrate to reduce and / or remove sidewall polymers deposited on the feature during etching, and obtaining post-etched CD measurements. The CD measurements may be utilized to adjust the etch process to improved the accuracy and repeatability of device fabrication.

Plasma etch processes incorporating etch chemistries which include hydrogen. In particular, high density plasma chemical vapor deposition-etch-deposition processes incorporating etch chemistries which include hydrogen that can effectively fill high aspect ratio (typically at least 3:1, for example 6:1, and up to 10:1 or higher), narrow width (typically sub 0.13 micron, for example 0.1 micron or less) gaps while reducing or eliminating chamber loading and redeposition and improving wafer-to-wafer uniformity relative to conventional deposition-etch-deposition processes which do not incorporate hydrogen in their etch chemistries.

An electrocardiographic device for recording the rhythm of the human heart using a home personal computer and printer. This device consists of three silver-plated leads, a 1000× amplifier, an analog to digital computer, an oscillating timing clock, a microcontroller unit, a USB input bus, a data output bus, and computer software for displaying the rhythm graphically. The advantages of this device include convenience, low cost, and repeatability. A patient can record their cardiac rhythm themselves at any time whenever a sudden cardiac arrhythmia occurs without traveling to the doctor's office or emergency room. Based on the low cost of this inexpensive device a patient can own his own rhythm recording device instead of paying for expensive Holter monitors or event recorders from a doctor's office. Lastly, this device can be used repeatedly without the expense of disposable electrodes or limitations of monitoring device memory restricting the number of electrocardiographic recordings.

An edge of a surface to be measured of wafer and each of search alignment marks on the wafer are detected by an inline measurement instrument or the like that operates independently of an exposure apparatus, and position coordinates of the search marks in an X′Y′ coordinate system, which is a two-dimensional coordinate system substantially parallel to the surface to be measured and is set by a position of a notch of the wafer, are measured. Then, in pre-alignment performed when loading the wafer into the exposure apparatus, the edge of the wafer is detected, and from the detection results, position information of the object in the X′Y′ coordinate system is measured. Further, a relative position in the X′Y′ coordinate system of the wafer to be loaded into the exposure apparatus based on measurement results of the pre-alignment with respect to a measurement field of an alignment system that measures positions of the search marks on the wafer is adjusted based on measurement results of the inline measurement instrument or the like.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an epoxy resin super-hydrophobic coat, comprising the following steps: (1), preparing collosol of the coat: dissolving silicon dioxide particles in a solvent, adding a silane coupling agent, heating and stirring for reaction, adding an epoxy resin paint and a hydrophobing agent, stirring for reaction, and obtaining the collosol of the coating layer; (2) coating film on the surface of a substrate material: coating the collosol obtained in the step (1) on the surface of the substrate through the way of lifting-pulling coating film, rotationally coating, curtain coating or spraying, after lifting, placing statically at the room temperature for using; and (3) heating and curing: putting the substrate material coated by the film in the step (2) in an oven, raising temperature to heat to make the epoxy resin cure and cross, taking out to obtain the epoxy resin super-hydrophobic coat. The invention has the advantages of easy technique, easily obtained raw materials, low cost and good repeatability; and the obtained coat has good super-hydrophobicity and self-cleaning performance for the industrial production of the super-hydrophobic paint properly.

Disclosed are an articulated hydraulic machine supporting, control system and control method for same. The articulated hydraulic machine has an end effector for performing useful work. The control system is capable of controlling the end effector for automated movement along a preselected trajectory. The control system has a position error correction system to correct discrepancies between an actual end effector trajectory and a desired end effector trajectory. The correction system can employ one or more absolute position signals provided by one or more acceleration sensors supported by one or more movable machine elements. Good trajectory positioning and repeatability can be obtained. A two-joystick controller system is enabled, which can in some cases facilitate the operator's task and enhance their work quality and productivity.

Scanning Laser Epitaxy (SLE) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that allows for the fabrication of three-dimensional objects with specified microstructure through the controlled melting and re-solidification of a metal powders placed atop a base substrate. SLE can be used to repair single crystal (SX) turbine airfoils, for example, as well as the manufacture functionally graded turbine components. The SLE process is capable of creating equiaxed, directionally solidified, and SX structures. Real-time feedback control schemes based upon an offline model can be used both to create specified defect free microstructures and to improve the repeatability of the process. Control schemes can be used based upon temperature data feedback provided at high frame rate by a thermal imaging camera as well as a melt-pool viewing video microscope. A real-time control scheme can deliver the capability of creating engine ready net shape turbine components from raw powder material.

The invention discloses laser-cladding high-entropy alloy powder. The laser-cladding high-entropy alloy powder comprises the following elements in percentage by weight: 10%-15% of Fe, 14%-17% of Cr, 22%-25% of Ni, 22%-24% of Co, 22%-24% of Mn, 0%-4% of Si and 0%-4% of B. The invention further discloses a scheme of adding another element Al based on the gradients of the scheme, and a method for preparing a high-entropy alloy coating by using the laser-cladding high-entropy alloy powder. According to the technical scheme, after laser cladding, good coating quality is realized; a phase structure of the coating retains peculiar solid solution structure of high-entropy alloy, and the atomic percent of each main metal element in the cladding coating satisfies nominal category of the high-entropy alloy; the coating has a plurality of excellent performances of high rigidity, high temperature resistance, wear resistance, corrosion resistance and the like; the technical repeatability and operability are both greatly improved, so that the high-entropy alloy is popularized and applied in surface modification of laser materials.

The invention discloses hot pepper and a determining method for 96 pesticide residues in a product of the hot pepper. The determining method comprises the following steps: homogenously extracting residual pesticide in a sample with 1% acetic acid-acetonitrile solution, purifying the extracting solution with a Florisil solid phase extraction column, dispersing and purifying the extracting solution with ethylenediamine-N-propyl silane (PSA) and octadecyl silane bonded phase (C18) substrate, detecting 69 pesticide residuals in the purified concentrated liquid of the Florisil column by GC-MS (gaschromatographic mass spectrometry), detecting 27 pesticide residuals in the substrate dispersed purified liquid by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS / MS), using the black substrate solution dilution standard to construct the updated calibration curves, adopting an internal standard method to quantify when using GC / MS to detect the residuals, and adopting an external standard method to quantify when using LC-MS / MS to detect the residuals. The average recovery rate of the method is 70.7-118.6%; the average relative standard deviation (RSD) is 3.2-11.4%; the detection limit is 0.13-28.2 ug / kg. The determining method has the advantages of simplicity and convenience in operation, high speed, accuracy, high sensitivity and good repeatability.

A volumetric error compensation measurement system and method are disclosed wherein a laser tracker tracks an active target as the reference point. The active target has an optical retroreflector mounted at the center of two motorized gimbals to provide full 360 degree azimuth rotation of the retroreflector. A position sensitive detector is placed behind an aperture provided at the apex of the retroreflector to detect the relative orientation between the tracker laser beam and the retroreflector by measuring a small portion of the laser beam transmitted through the aperture. The detector's output is used as the feedback for the servo motors to drive the gimbals to maintain the retroreflector facing the tracker laser beam at all times. The gimbals are designed and the position of the retroreflector controlled such that the laser tracker always tracks to a pre-defined single point in the active target, which does not move in space when the gimbals and / or the retroreflector makes pure rotations. Special mechanism and alignment algorithm are used in the gimbal design and retroreflector centering alignment to achieve accurate rotational axis alignment and repeatability.

A voice recognition device and method allows position-stabilized capture of spoken sounds with great repeatability and accuracy. The voice recognition device may additionally provide two channels of lip movement information to supplement the usual audible speech component recognition system in selecting the proper pairing of data input to text output. The voice recognition device may provide a further channel of information about the speech generating motions via an ultrasonic injection of sound into the vocal cavity and subsequent decoding of the emitted sound after injection. The ultrasonic injection and decoding may also used to provide audible clues as to the unvoiced sound formed by speaking when the vocal cords are not energized. The ensemble of electronic equipment upon the bail band may be in microcircuit form, including placing the components on a copper layer polyimide flexible strip.

The invention belongs to the technical field of membrane preparation and water purification and discloses a high-performance two-dimensional layered Ti3C2-MXene membrane, a preparation method thereof and an application of the Ti3C2-MXene membrane in water treatment. The method comprises steps as follows: (1), Ti3AlC2 powder and an HF solution are mixed, stirred for a reaction, centrifugally washed and dried, and Ti3C2 powder is obtained; (2), the Ti3C2 powder and a solvent are mixed, stirred for the reaction, washed and dried, and treated powder is obtained; (3), the treated powder is dissolved in the solvent and subjected to ultrasonic treatment and centrifugation, a liquid supernatant is taken and dried, and a two-dimensional nanosheet is obtained; (4), a solution is prepared from the two-dimensional nanosheet and deposited on a porous substrate with a nano self-assembly technology, and the high-performance two-dimensional layered Ti3C2-MXene membrane is obtained. The membrane has ultrahigh water flux, higher selectivity and good mechanical property and stability; the method is simple, low in energy consumption and cost, good in repeatability and wide in applicability.

An apparatus for making a highly repetitive micro-pattern using a laser writer includes one or more diffractive optical elements. At least one diffractive optical element is adapted to split a beam of a laser writer into sub-beams based on a separation distance matching a period of a repetitive structure to be formed in a laser-writable substrate. One or more f-theta lenses are also included. At least one f-theta lens is disposed to intercept the sub-beams, forming a periodic distribution of laser writer output beams.

A fill time and stabilize and measurement time are determined for a pneumatic testing procedure. The fill time is computed by identifying, in the filling of a sample unit, a time when a substantial portion of variations of a measured variable (due to stabilization) are completed. The stabilize and measurement time is determined by comparison of the measurement variable behavior when filling sample unit(s) that do not leak, to the measurement variable behaviors when filling a sample unit that is in communication with an orifice simulating a leak. A measurement performance factor may be computed from this data at each of several possible times after a unit is filled. A gauge repeatability factor may be computed based on variance of nonleaking units at each possible time, compared to the variable change made on a sample unit when coupled to a leak-simulating orifice. Either factor may be used to select a stabilize and measurement time.

The invention discloses a multi-channel fiber Bragg grating (FBG) demodulator, which adopts a scanning fiber laser as a light source. The scanning fiber laser is on the basis of a micro-mechanical structural filter with temperature control, and belongs to a narrow-linewidth and high-coherent light source which is calibrated accurately. The calibration is implemented by a thermostable FP etalon with a wavelength label. A gain matching fiber amplifier amplifies the power of the output of a laser and achieves the power flatness of scanning laser spectroscopy. A fiber Bragg grating reflected signal enters a data acquiring and processing system after passing through a photoelectric detector and an AD converter processing module. A data acquiring and processing and peak detection system is implemented by adopting an FPGA-based all-digital scheme, and simultaneously utilizes a synchronous signal of a direct numerical frequency synthesis module to obtain a control voltage of the micro-mechanical structural filter. By combining with other equipment, the scanning fiber laser, the etalon and the FPGA realize the multichannel, high-precision, high-stability, high-repeatability, and serial-parallel structure detection of a grating sensor network signal.

Data de-duplication (“de-dupe”) offers IT organizations the opportunity to replace aging tape systems with disk-based backup solutions and minimize the storage allocated to backup and data protection. The effectiveness of de-dupe technology is extremely dependent on the data being protected. Data streams with little data repetitiveness will provide disappointing results when processed through a block-level de-dupe engine. To avoid this problem, Assisted Mainframe De-Dupe (AMDD) technology can be used to insure that filesystem block-level de-dupe products efficiently and effectively de-dupe tape backup streams received from IBM and or compatible mainframes. By pre-processing backup tape volumes before sending the data to storage, AMDD will insure that large amounts of unchanged data will line up on de-dupe block boundaries each time the data is sent to the de-dupe process engine. By providing “well-behaved” data to the de-dupe process, AMDD can significantly improve the effectiveness of de-dupe processing and substantially reduce the storage is used to backup critical mainframe DASD resources.

A process and apparatus (invention) permitting the distribution of micro or submicro liter or gram (exceptionally small) quantities of liquids and powders, (hereafter materials) in patterns and quantities that are especially well-suited for ophthalmologic patient self-application of drugs to his own eye(s) with substantially no overdose. The invention is thus also highly beneficial in those many topical drug applications where overdoses should be avoided. This is particularly applicable for the eye, where overdoses can have many deleterious medical consequences. Use of the invention permits exceptionally small doses of ophthalmologic drugs. Moreover, it also permits the repeatability of the quantity size of the materials chosen for delivery. In the case of drugs, particularly opthomologic drugs, this means that the invention permits the repeated multiple distribution of the same chosen drug / carrier quantity resulting in a uniform repeatable dosage. Variation of dose from one application to another is very unacceptable. The preferred apparatus of the invention employs a venturi configuration inventively modified which uses gas under pressure to pump exceptionally small quantities of material from a reservoir for delivery. In especially preferred embodiments of the invention, said reservoir is pressurized by at least a quantity of gas at somewhat above atmospheric. prior to the removal of any material by pumping.

The invention belongs to the surface patterning microstructure construction technique, which relates to a method for constructing a microstructure with anti-reflection performance on a foundation base by combining the self-assembly technique with the reactive ion beam etching technique. The method is to take monolayer polymeric micro-spheres, silicon dioxide micro-spheres and nano-particles of metal or metal oxides as a barrier layer and implement the RIE etching to the foundation base, then an approximate cone-shaped microstructure is constructed on the foundation base, and the structure has extreme high anti-reflection performance, thereby effectively improving the light energy utilization rate, reducing the interference of veiling glare in an optical system, increasing the optical transmittance, and further improving the sensitivity and stability of the optical system, and the method can be used for constructing large-area anti-reflection structures. The method of the invention has advantages of simple operation, changeable foundation base, strong applicability, good repeatability, low cost, high efficiency, adjustable anti-reflective applied wavelength and conformity to industrialized standards, and can be used for making photoelectric devices such as solar batteries and white light sensors.

The invention relates to a portable device and a method for monitoring the performance a sportsman performing a plurality of motor acts, such as golf swings. The device comprises at least one sensor providing an output signal, the sensor being responsive to body movements of the sportsman. A signal processing unit is used for extracting data on the course of each of the plurality of motor acts from the sensor output signal, and a computing unit is used for determining, based on the data on the course of the plurality of motor acts, at least one characteristic number describing the repeatability of the motor act. By the means of the invention, the handicap number of the golfer can be predicted with good accuracy by monitoring several his or her subsequent swings.

The invention relates to a kit for determining heart-type fatty acid binding protein in serum or urine by latex enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay. Specifically, the kit for determining the heart-type fatty acid binding protein comprises a reagent R1, a reagent R2 and a calibrator, wherein the reagent R1 contains a reaction promoter, an antiseptic, a surfactant, a stabilizing agent, an electrolyte and a buffer; the reagent R2 contains latex particles with binding of anti-heart-type fatty acid binding protein monoclonal antibody and polyclonal antibody, an antiseptic, a surfactant, a stabilizing agent, an electrolyte and a buffer; and the calibrator contains an antiseptic, an electrolyte, a stabilizing agent, a heart-type fatty acid binding protein pure product and a buffer. By the complex coating method of latex particles with the monoclonal antibody and the polyclonal antibody, high sensitivity and wide linear range of the kit are guaranteed. Simultaneously, the kit also has advantages of high accuracy, good repeatability, strong singularity, easy operation and the like, and is applicable to an automatic biochemical analyzer which is commonly used in clinic.

The invention discloses a method for converting an SCD (Substation Configuration Description) model into a dispatching center CIM (Common Information Model), which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) establishing a complete SCD model; (2) deleting models which are not needed by a primary station and minimizing the SCD model; (3) realizing mapping between the SCD model and the CIM; (4) deriving a single line drawing file in an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format by the CIM and meanwhile establishing an association relationship between an SVG single line drawing and the CIM; (5) after the primary station obtains the CIM and the SVG single line drawing file of a substation, testing validity; and after passing the test, splicing the models and meanwhile establishing a database by the association relationship between the SVG single line drawing and the CIM. The invention can automatically explain real-time data, reduce repetitive time-consuming work which easily causes mistakes, such as manual signal check, and the like, and meet the maintenance requirement of a source terminal directly by adopting a self-describing model established by the substation.

An adjustable nanopore is fabricated by placing the surfaces of two planar substrates in contact, wherein each substrate contains a hole having sharp corners and edges. A corner is brought into proximity with an edge to define a triangular aperture of variable area. Ionic current in a liquid solution and through the aperture is monitored as the area of the aperture is adjusted by moving one planar substrate with respect to the other along two directional axes and a rotational axis. Piezoelectric positioners can provide subnanometer repeatability in the adjustment process. The invention is useful for characterizing, cleaving, and capturing molecules, molecular complexes, and supramolecular complexes which pass through the nanopore, and provides an improvement over previous devices in which the hole size of nanopores fabricated by etching and / or redeposition is fixed after fabrication.

A system is described for managing interaction between an untimed HAL portion and a timed HDL portion of the testbench, wherein the timed portion is embodied on an emulator and the un-timed portion executes on a workstation. Repeatability of verification results may be achieved even though the HAL portion and the HDL portion run in parallel with each other. A communication interface is also described for synchronizing and passing data between multiple HDL threads on the emulator domain and simultaneously-running multiple HAL threads on the workstation domain. In addition, a remote procedural-call-based communication link, transparent to the user, is generated between the workstation and the emulator. A technique provides for repeatability for blocking and non-blocking procedure calls. FSMs and synchronization logic are automatically inferred to implement remote procedural calls. A subset of behavioral language is identified that combines the power of conventional modeling paradigms with RTL performance.