1358 results about "Sequence control" patented technology

Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Coleopteran plant pest or a Diabrotica plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: disclosed herein, (but not including the forward and reverse primers.) or active variants and fragments thereof, or complements thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more of the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiments, the pest is D. virgifera virgifera, D. barberi, D. virgifera zeae, D. speciosa, D. speciosa, or D. undecimpunctata howardi. Plants, plant parts, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.

Welding systems and sequence controllers therefor are presented for controlling components of a welding system during a welding operation. The sequence controller receives system inputs and provides control outputs to the system components, and includes a processing component, an executable sequence control program, and a state table file. The sequence control state table file includes a number of entries corresponding to welding operation states, where the individual entries comprise one or more instruction identifiers, instruction parameters, exit condition identifiers and corresponding next state identifiers. The sequence control program is executed according to the sequence controller inputs and according to the state table file to provide the sequence controller outputs, where the state table file can be easily modified or new state table files can be created and downloaded to the sequence controller to facilitate easy reconfiguration of a welding system.

Welding systems and sequence controllers therefor are presented for controlling components of a welding system during a welding operation. The sequence controller receives system inputs and provides control outputs to the system components, and includes a processing component, an executable sequence control program, and a state table file. The sequence control state table file includes a number of entries corresponding to welding operation states, where the individual entries comprise one or more instruction identifiers, instruction parameters, exit condition identifiers and corresponding next state identifiers. The sequence control program is executed according to the sequence controller inputs and according to the state table file to provide the sequence controller outputs, where the state table file can be easily modified or new state table files can be created and downloaded to the sequence controller to facilitate easy reconfiguration of a welding system.

An interleaver has an input multiplexer that receives a data sequence at an interleaver input and that separates the data sequence into multiple data sub-blocks. The interleaver has a linear feedback shift register that generates an input address sequence. The interleaver has adder circuits that generate output address sequences associated with each data sub-block. The interleaver has memory that stores the data sub-blocks at addresses controlled by the input address sequence. The memory reproduces each data sub-block in an interleaved sequence controlled by the associated output address sequence. The interleaver has an output multiplexer that assembles the interleaved sequences to provide an interleaver output.

Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Coleopteran plant pest or a Diabrotica plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-236 or active variants and fragments thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiment, the pest is D. virgifera virgifera, D. barberi, D. speciosa, or D. undecimpunctata howardi. Plants, plant part, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.

A system for monitoring reverse paths of a bi-directional cable communication network such as a CATV network, to detect and analyze ingress signals entering a reverse path and ending at a network sub-headend or headend through a corresponding one of communication lines, comprises a plurality of radio frequency signal detectors connected thereto. The radio frequency signal detectors are provided with bandpass filter for receiving a radio frequency signal within the frequency band used, to generate corresponding output signals indicative of the strength of the received radio frequency signal. The output signal generated by the frequency signal detector which is coupled to the communication line corresponding to the ingress signal carrying path is indicative of the strength of the received ingress signal with received reverse signals. The system further comprises a signal processor for analyzing the detector output signals through comparison with one or more predetermined ingress thresholds to generate an alarm signal whenever the ingress signal is detected. The system further comprises a control computer receiving the alarm signal to generate monitoring sequence control data indicative of the communication line corresponding to the ingress signal carrying path to be monitored. The system also comprises a selector switch having a plurality of inputs being connected to the communication lines and being responsive to the monitoring sequence control data to select the input connected to the communication line to be monitored, and signal monitoring instrumentation such as a spectrum analyzer and a broadband analyzer coupled to an output of the switching device and being responsive to the monitoring sequence control data for analyzing the ingress signal and generating alarm message data accordingly. The control computer receives the alarm message data to further generate diagnostic sequence control data for the monitoring instrumentation also used to determine source characteristics of the ingress signal.

A a clock signal input for receiving a clock signal, a scan shift mode signal input for receiving a scan shift mode signal, and a sequence controller coupled to the clock signal input for gating a selected number of clock signal pulses at a time to generate a sequence of nonconcurrent scan clock signals at separate outputs respectively in response to a first state of the scan shift mode signal.

Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Pentatomidae plant pest or a N. viridula, Acrosternum hilare, Piezodorus guildini, and / or Halymorpha halys plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-292 or 302-304 or active variants and fragments thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiment, the pest is Pentatomidae. Plants, plant part, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.

Operand vector multiplexer sequence control is used in a vector-based execution unit to control the shuffling of data elements in operand vectors used by a sequence of vector instructions processed by the vector-based execution unit. A swizzle sequence instruction is defined in an instruction set for the vector-based execution unit and is used to selectively apply a sequence of vector data element shuffle orders to one or more operand vectors to be used by the associated sequence of vector instructions. As a result, when a common sequence of data element shuffle orders is used frequently for a sequence of vector instructions, a single swizzle sequence instruction may be used to select the desired sequence of custom data element ordering for each of the vector instructions in the sequence.

Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a pest from the Lygus genus, they are capable of decreasing the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides from specific polypeptide families as disclosed herein, and further provides target polynucleotides set forth in SEQ ID NOS:1-21 or active variants thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiment, the pest is Lygus Hesperus. Plants, plant part, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.

A method controls redundant actuators of a machine based on a reference trajectory. The method determines a cost function representing operations of the redundant actuators and minimizes the cost function subject to constraints to produce a sequence of commands for each actuator. The redundant actuators are controlled according to the sequences of commands.

A siren sensor for detecting siren sounds emitted from emergency vehicles and electronic processing circuits for detecting and identifying the siren sounds electronically to control the traffic signal lights at an intersection to permit only the emergency vehicle to travel through an intersection with the right of way. The method and apparatus utilizes an acoustic horn in combination with a microphone for receiving the siren sounds and converting them to corresponding electrical signals. A conventional horn is modified to function as an acoustic lens to filter and amplify the siren sounds applied to the microphone. The modified acoustic horn and microphone combination comprise a tuned and directional audio sensor sensitive in the frequency range of an emergency vehicle siren. The electronic signal processing circuitry amplifies the resulting microphone signals to obtain the maximum sensitivity to the frequency spectrum of siren sounds. Detectors tuned to a harmonic of the siren signals is utilized for eliminating extraneous sounds along with unique filtering to band pass only sounds in siren frequency spectrum to a phase locked loop detector. The validity of the detected signal is verified by tracking a portion of the siren signal in pre-selected increment under time constraints to lock up and unlock the detector to verify a valid siren sound signal has been detected and provides a valid output signal for use in controlling a conventional traffic light sequencing control or to warn a motorist of an approaching emergency vehicle.

A sampler for taking a defined amount of sample of a fluid medium from a sample-taking site, with a tubular line, which can be brought into contact with the fluid medium at the sample-taking site, for conducting the fluid medium into at least one sample storing receptacle, with a pump. The pump moves the medium via the tubular line into the sample storing receptacle. A sequence control activates the pump, such that it dispenses the defined amount of sample into the sample storing receptacle. The pump is a rotary piston pump.

The invention, which relates to the technical field of the radar target simulation, discloses a general signal generator for radar target simulation. With the signal generator, a defect that the existing radar target signal generator is based on a special-purpose signal generator and only serve a radar system with a specific type in terms of frequency band coverage and function setting and thus the application range is limited can be solved. The signal generator comprises an embedded main control computer, a timing sequence control unit, an attenuation drive, a local oscillation module, a filtering, amplifying and limiting amplitude power divider, a plurality of digital radio frequency storage and playback modules, a plurality of Doppler frequency simulation modules, a radar cross section control module, a noise modulation module, a microwave down mixer, and IQ up mixing unit and the like. The output terminal of the microwave down mixer is connected with the filtering, amplifying and limiting amplitude power divider; the multiple digital radio frequency storage and playback modules are connected to the filtering, amplifying and limiting amplitude power divider; and the output terminal of each digital radio frequency storage and playback module is connected with one Doppler frequency simulation module.

According to this invention, encoded data of a target data amount is generated by one image input operation while both lossless encoding and lossy encoding are adopted. For this purpose, a first memory stores encoded data of a shorter encode length among encoded data generated by a first encoding unit which performs lossy encoding and encoded data generated by a second encoding unit which performs lossless encoding. A second memory stores encoded data from a second encoding unit. When an encoding sequence control unit determines that the encoded data amount in the first memory has exceeded the target data amount, the encoding sequence control unit discards data in the first memory, sets a quantization parameter for a higher compression ratio for the first encoding unit, and causes the first encoding unit to execute encoding. Encoded data before the encoded data amount is determined to have exceeded the target data amount is re-encoded by a re-encoding unit.

A method for detecting a welding of a relay contact in a circuit having a DC power supply; a load circuit; a first main relay and a second main relay respectively inserted in a pair of power supply lines disposed between the DC power supply and the load circuit; and a precharge relay which is provided in parallel to the contact of the first main relay has the step of carrying out a sequence control to each of the relays (11, 12, 13) while measuring voltage across both ends of the load circuit (16) when shifting from a normal operation state in which a first main relay (11) and a second main relay (12) are controlled to be on and the precharge relay (13) is controlled to be off to a suspension state in which each of the relays (11, 12, 13) are controlled to be off. The welding of the relay contact of the first main relay (11) and the second main relay (12) is determined independently and separately from a correspondence between the proceeding of the sequence and the measured voltage.

A method for controlling operational sequencing of gears in an automatic transmission (102) which has been built in an auxiliary mode. In the case of such a shifting transmission it is possible that during the engagement of its transmission gear stage, impact noises or contact noises are present in the shifting procedure. This can occur by the generation of a tooth-on-tooth positioning between the toothing of a sliding collar (126) and the come-along toothing of an idler gear (130, 132). Provision is made for the control of the activation movement of the sliding collar (126) carried out in such a manner that an activation condition impact of the transmission parts, which are partakers in the shifting associated transmission part onto other transmission parts with the least possible impact force and / or with a least possible impact noise level.

The invention discloses a dynamic time frame compensation rendering system and a dynamic time frame compensation rendering method for a virtual-reality mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of generating an application frame buffer sequence by use of frame rendering, extracting the up-to-date or latest application frame from the application frame buffer sequence, and performing secondary rendering, thereby obtaining a time frame; sending the time frame to a shared buffer; and under sequence control of a vertical synchronous management module, reading a time frame rendering result by use of a screen, and performing updating. By virtue of the design of the shared buffer, a GPU rendering result is directly stored in a cache updated by the screen, so that delay of multi-caching exchange is reduced; by virtue of vertical synchronous time management, the GPU rendering time is controlled, collision between GPU rendering writing and screen update reading is avoided, frames can be normally displayed with low delay, and no splitting is generated.

The invention discloses a multiple inspection robot cooperative operation method for a substation sequence control system. When the closed-loop control and the state visualization of the intelligent substation sequence control system are implemented, the executing and checking time of the sequence control system can be effectively saved by adopting the method. The invention provides the multiple inspection robot cooperative operation method which comprises the following steps: modeling by adopting a topological method on the basis of the substation environment, forming a topological network chart and a communication relation matrix according to walking routes of inspection robots, and carrying out search and traversal of paths to output a discharge matrix and a shortest path matrix; in the single-step sequence control process, determining a shortest communication path sequence of each inspection robot from a current position to a target point according to the distance matrix and the shortest path matrix; carrying out excellence selection of single-step sequence control, i.e. selecting the inspection robot with the optimal performance under the condition of considering comprehensive indexes of journey, time, safety and maneuverability; determining an operation path sequence of each inspection robot and a corresponding activation event; and carrying out on-line monitoring, wherein if the environment is changed, the on-line monitoring takes charge of debugging and recovering operation.

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes: a cell array having electrically rewritable and non-volatile memory cells disposed at the respective intersections of word liens and bit lines intersecting each other; a row decoder circuit for selectively driving a word line of the cell array; a sense amplifier circuit disposed in communication with the cell array for data reading and writing; and a controller for executing sequence control of data write and erase, wherein in a data erase cycle controlled by the controller to erase memory cells disposed along at least one selected word line of the cell array, an adjacent / non-selected word line which is non-selected and adjacent to the selected word line in non-selected words lines in the cell array is precharged to a first erase-inhibition voltage, while the remaining non-selected word lines are precharged to a second erase-inhibition.

A soft-switching multiple output fly-back converter provides output cyclying sequence control. Each of the multiple output circuits includes a bi-directional switching circuit which provides for flexible reconfiguration of the output cycling sequence. Further, the novel circuit allows each of the individual outputs, or any combination thereof, to be independently turned "off' (i.e., removed from the cycling sequence) and re-introduced (i.e., turned "on' again) at a later time as needed.

The invention relates to a method and a device for spreading trace particles in a supersonic PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) flow field testing experiment. The trace particles are charged by using vacuum suction in a supersonic wind tunnel high-pressure high-temperature large-flow flow field environment, the trace particles are stored in a particle generator before the experiment, after a gas flow is injected, the gas flow and the trace particles are sufficiently mixed, pass through a high-pressure pipeline, are spread by a particle spreader and then enter a wind tunnel pipeline, the trace particles are uniformly spread under the condition of a high-Mach-number flow, and the trace particles are tested through a particle image velocity-measuring system. Compared with the prior art, the method and the device provided by the invention realize that the PIV trace particles are charged and uniformly spread in a high-pressure high-temperature large-flow flow field ambient condition, the probable agglomeration phenomenon of the trace particles in the injection process is effectively avoided, precise sequence control between a PIV system and wind tunnel operation is guaranteed, and the testing scheme corresponding to the spreading concentration satisfying the PIV operation requirement is determined.

An imaging system is disclosed that uses piezoelectric markers. The piezoelectric fields in combination with ultrasound reflections can be used to construct an image of an otherwise difficult to detect feature within a subject's body. In one embodiment, the invention includes a piezoelectric marker, including at least one piece of piezoelectric material, an ultrasound transducer connected to an ultrasound pulser and a receiver, a computer sequencing control connected to the receiver and the ultrasound pulser, a display connected to the computer sequencing control and electrodes connected to the computer sequencing control via amplification circuitry.

In an imaging system having a number of subsystems and a control device that controls the subsystems in a coordinated manner to implement a measurement sequence and an operating method therefor, sequence control data that define different functional sub-sequences of the measurement sequence are transmitted to the control device. Different active volumes are associated with the functional sub-sequences. In addition to the sequence control data, active volume position data are provided to the control device that define bearing and extent of the active volumes associated with the different functional sub-sequences. Control signals to implement the measurement sequence for the different subsystems are generated automatically by the control device based on the sequence control data and the active volume position data so that the individual functional sub-sequences are locally optimized at least with regard to a sub-region of their associated active volume.

The invention provides a method for realizing hot-plug of PCIE (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) equipment by CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) or FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). A hardware system comprises PCIE HOST, CPLD / FPGA, PCIE HOT-PLUG CONTROLLER, and a PCIE insertion groove co-constructed system hardware platform, wherein multiple PCA9555 functional modules are hung under the PCIE HOST, and the function of converting SMBUS (System Management Bus) into GPIO (General Purpose Input / Output) is simulated in the CPLD / FPGA by the PCA9555 functional modules; different PCA9555 are distinguished by addresses A2, A1 and A0; the PCIE HOST communicates with the PAC9555 by the SMBUS; and the sequence control of a computer system and the hot-plug control of the PCIE equipment are integrated, and the PCA9555 function is realized by a programmable logic device CPLD / FPGA. Therefore, PCA9555 chips are not needed, the device use is reduced, the system cost is lowered, the power consumption is reduced, the board card space is saved, the computer system is lower in power consumption, and the reliability, stability and expandability are improved.

A wireless remote control unit (60) that operates in the radio frequency bandwidth is used for interfacing with a sequence control system (B) and an image processing system (C) from within a magnetic resonance suite (A) in the presence of a magnetic field produced by a main magnet assembly (10). The sequence control system and the image processing system are connected with a first wireless transceiver (30) whose antenna (28) is located within a magnetic resonance suite. The first transceiver (30) communicates with the remote control unit (60) and a second transceiver (32) connected with a transmitter (40) and gradient coil amplifiers (34). Resonance signals received by a radio frequency coil (46) are communicated to the first transceiver (30) by the second transceiver (32) or by a transceiver (46′) mounted on the receiving coil. The receiver coil transceiver also engages in a handshake protocol to identify itself.

A method for detecting a welding of a relay contact in a circuit having a DC power supply; a load circuit; a first main relay and a second main relay respectively inserted in a pair of power supply lines disposed between the DC power supply and the load circuit; and a precharge relay which is provided in parallel to the contact of the first main relay has the step of carrying out a sequence control to each of the relays (11, 12, 13) while measuring voltage across both ends of the load circuit (16) when shifting from a normal operation state in which a first main relay (11) and a second main relay (12) are controlled to be on and the precharge relay (13) is controlled to be off to a suspension state in which each of the relays (11, 12, 13) are controlled to be off. The welding of the relay contact of the first main relay (11) and the second main relay (12) is determined independently and separately from a correspondence between the proceeding of the sequence and the measured voltage.

An environmentally sound apparatus and method for automatically extracting fluids such as lubricating fluids from a target reservoir such as a crankcase for a vehicle engine, and injecting the proper type and quantity of fresh fluid into the reservoir is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more sources of lubricating fluid, a waste fluid tank, a pump, and a flow meter. A programmed microprocessor produces selected sequences of control signals to govern the flow of fluid among the fluid sources, the waste fluid tank, and the target reservoir in response to input identification information and signals produced by a flow monitoring pulse meter. Input identification information is compared with data in a stored database to determine the correct type and quantity of fresh fluid to inject. Operator identification information is compared with a stored operator database to determine what operations each operator is permitted to perform. A display and selection switches allows the operator to select from different procedure options. Evacuation, injection and clearing operations are initiated by an operator and executed automatically through status monitored sequences controlled by the microprocessor. All fluid exchange sequences are performed without exposing the operator or the environment to either waste or fresh fluid.

A display is connected to at least one sensor for detecting and transmitting physiological measurement values. In addition, one or more displays are used to present the measurement values and / or other associated data visually, acoustically, mechanically, or in some other way perceptible to the senses. A sequence control approach is implemented, according to which the measurement value, before reaching the display, passes through a testing stage, which, on the basis of at least one measured or stored additional value, verifies, checks, or changes the physiological measurement value detected at the sensor or supplements it with additional information. In a process for the noninvasive determination of the oxygen content CaO2 of human and / or animal tissue, the blood oxygen saturation and data on the blood hemoglobin concentration are obtained after the measurements have been acquired by the use of radiation with wavelengths in the range of 400-1,800 nanometers.