61 results about "Serial cable" patented technology

The cable for a medical device is an optically isolated serial transmission cable, used to connect a base device with a serial port, or the like, to a medical device. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, the invention enables auto detection of the cable. The base device is used to power the cable electronics. In another embodiment of the present invention, the interface cable is also supported by graphical and text message display that assists users in connecting the cable to both the medical device and a base device.

Techniques and systems for providing a virtual serial cable are provided. For example, computing device, a method, and a computer-program product may be provided. A computing device may include one or more data processors and a receiver for receiving a serial communication from a first serially-connected device located in a first location, wherein the first serially-connected device is assigned a first universally unique identifier, and wherein the serial communication includes a second universally unique identifier assigned to a second serially-connected device located in a second location. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may contain instructions which when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain the second universally unique identifier, determine that the second universally unique identifier is assigned to the second serially-connected device, and create a virtual serial connection between the first serially-connected device and the second serially-connected device, wherein the virtual serial connection is established with the second serially-connected device based on the second universally unique identifier being assigned to the second serially-connected device. The computing device may include a transmitter for transmitting the serial communication to the second serially-connected device located in the second location, wherein the serial communication causes the second serially-connected device to perform an operation.

A stereoscopic image detecting unit has a first non-volatile memory for storing inherent camera characteristic data therein and an image processing unit has a second non-volatile memory for storing inherent circuit characteristic data therein. When the stereoscopic image detecting unit is connected with the image processing unit through a serial cable and video cables and then electric power is turned on, the inherent camera characteristic data are sent to the image processing unit. In the image processing unit, based on the camera data sent from the image detecting unit and the circuit characteristic data in the image processing unit, data for correcting the optical dispersion between two cameras and that of signal characteristic are established.

An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having a tongue including an upper surface, a lower surface, and opposite side surfaces. A plurality of signal contacts are held by the housing and are exposed along the upper surface. At least one power contact is held by the housing and is exposed along one of the opposite side surfaces. Optionally, the tongue and signal contacts define an eSATA mating interface configured for mating with a plug of a serial cable defining an eSATA plug interface.

The invention discloses a control method for magnetic disk heartbeat of a cluster. The control method comprises the following steps of: alternately executing, by any node of the cluster, one of magnetic disk heartbeat, network heartbeat or serial port heartbeat or performing at least one network heartbeat process and one serial port heartbeat process between two magnetic disk heartbeat processes when a communication heartbeat mark is yes; performing magnetic disk heartbeat when the communication heartbeat mark is no; setting the communication heartbeat mark to be no when no node can detect the network heartbeat or the serial port heartbeat; determining, by any node, one of sectors unused by other nodes to be a sector to be used and determining other sectors except for the sector to be used by any node to be the sectors to be used by other nodes; and transmitting the heartbeat to the other nodes by any node by writing data into the sector to be used and acquiring heartbeat information of other nodes by reading other sectors. When network connection fails and/or a serial cable fails, the cluster can still work normally since the magnetic disk heartbeat is independently controlled, so that cluster fissure is prevented.

A vending machine permits a customer to purchase phone cards or other merchandise articles from a plurality of article dispenser units. A cabinet contains a host computer, a customer interface device such as a touch screen monitor, and a credit card acceptor or cash acceptor for receiving payment from the customer. Each article dispenser unit within the cabinet containing a supply of merchandise articles, and has a motor or actuator for dispensing one of said articles per cycle upon command from the computer; a connector receiving a respective serial cable coupled to the host computer; and an internal circuit board for recognizing control signals addressed to the dispenser unit and disregarding control signals addressed to the other dispenser units. The connection may be by USB, ethernet or other serial connection.

A wireless handheld device such as a Palm computer configured to download G-code instructions to a Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) machine is disclosed. The G-code instructions can be edited and loaded onto the handheld device from a stationary PC. The handheld device communicates with the CNC machine using a specialized serial cable.

An expansion unit (peripheral device) includes a detection circuit for detecting establishment of communication between a PC card of a notebook-type personal computer and a communication board of the expansion unit, and a power supply control circuit for powering on the expansion unit in accordance with the detection of the establishment of communication by the detection circuit. The notebook-type personal computer starts up the OS as a result of being powered ON, performs recognition of the PC card in a card slot, supplies power to the PC card and, after a fixed wait time, performs recognition of a PCI board of the expansion unit via the PC card, the serial cable (communication line) and the communication board.

A Serial ATA cable assembly (1000) having a small size includes an housing (1), upper and lower rows of contacts (2), a contact spacer (3), a number of standard Serial ATA cables (4) arranged in two rows, a cable spacer (5) defining two rows of receiving cavities for receiving corresponding cables, a cover (6) over-molding a rear portion of the housing, a front portion of the cables and the cable spacer, and a locking member (7) assembled onto the housing and the cover. The housing includes an upper wall (10), an opposite bottom wall (11) and a pair of sidewalls (12) connecting with the upper and the bottom walls. The walls together define an L-shaped receiving space (13). The upper and the bottom walls each defines a row of passageways for receiving the upper and the lower rows of contacts.

The invention discloses a mobile phone main board performance parameter quick-calibration method, which comprises the following steps of: firstly, running a quick calibration program, and automatically configuring the testing environment of a testing instrument and a controllable power supply by using a general purpose interface bus (GPIB) cable; secondly, automatically controlling a mobile phonemain board to enter a test mode by using a universal serial bus (USB) serial cable, and automatically configuring a mobile phone main board performance parameter testing environment by using the USB serial cable; and finally, reading an initial main board performance parameter test value from the testing instrument, automatically dynamically regulating a, upper temporary bound and a lower temporary bound in a calibration process, and quickly searching a proper calibration value of a mobile phone main board performance parameter out from a relatively smaller range. In the quick calibration method, effects are more and more remarkable along with the increasing of number of main boards to be calibrated. Compared with the conventional calibration methods, the invention optimizes a performanceparameter calibration algorithm and shortens performance parameter calibration time.

A storage system and a data transmission method are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. According to embodiments of the present invention, a storage system contains a master node, and auxiliary nodes at different physical positions, for example, a short-distance auxiliary node and a long-distance auxiliary node, and for auxiliary nodes at different physical positions, different protocols are adopted for data transmission, for example, data is transmitted between the master node and the short-distance auxiliary node by using a SAS protocol through a SAS cable, while data is transmitted between the master node and the long-distance auxiliary node by using a protocol that supports serial long-distance transmission through an optical fiber or a serial cable, thereby minimizing the cost when long-distance data transmission can be implemented.

The invention discloses a method and a device for performing a loop test on normal startup and shutdown of a server system. The device comprises a computer and a unit under test (the server system); the computer intercommunicates with the unit under test; when the unit under test normally works in an operating system, a feedback signal is transmitted to the control system of the computer, the control system of the computer identifies the feedback signals and transmits a control signal to control a relay to switch on or off AC power supply, and therefore, the on-off loop test on the unit under test is realized. The method and the device are used for realizing the loop test on normal startup and shutdown of the server system so that the startup and shutdown cycle of the tested server system can be further shortened; besides, the device for performing the loop test is simple and reasonable in design, relatively low in cost, practical and simple, and quick in control; the device is flexible and convenient to use and has high practical value because a feedback channel is set with various choices such as network and serial cable.

The invention provides an automatic invoicing method of a gas station trade, which provides a universal, open, efficient and automatic invoicing method for business system software of petroleum corporations, facilitating the business system software to access tax control register products in different brands realizing automatic invoicing through uniform and standard DLL interface documents by shielding the complicated physical communication characteristics of a computer and the terminal of the tax control register, and satisfying the functional requirements of the gas station for automatic invoicing business. A use method comprises the following steps: connecting the computer of the gas station with the tax control register through a serial cable, and calling an interface of dynamic link library (DLL) documents through a gas station information management system (business system software for short), realizing that the business system software is connected with the tax control registerto automatically invoice taxation control invoices after refueling by an hanging gun in the gas station and closing an account of sold commodities.

The invention discloses a method for realizing serial heartbeat in a high-availability cluster. The high-availability cluster is formed by network connection and serial cables, and provides services to outside by network heartbeat under common conditions. The method adopts a timer module; and the timer module monitors the state of the network environment by modifying a timer function for judging the fault of the network heartbeat in corosync, and uses the serial heartbeat to replace the network heartbeat in time when the network heartbeat is interrupted, so that the separation of nodes from the cluster due to network fault is avoided and the cluster can operate normally.

The invention relates to the technical field of multimedia and motion simulation systems, particular to a distributed motion simulation system and a control method thereof. The system comprises a plurality of 6-degree-of-freedom motion simulation platforms, a screen, a video play system, a sound system, a central control system and a special effect system. The screen is mounted in right front of or right above the 6-degree-of-freedom motion simulation platform composed of a rotary mechanism and a 6-degree-of-freedom platform. The rotary mechanism is driven by a servo motor, and the 6-degree-of-freedom platform is driven by hydraulic pressure. A control server of the 6-degree-of-freedom motion simulation platforms and a control hydraulic servo motor are connected through a RS232 serial cable. A plurality of audience seats are arranged on the 6-degree-of-freedom platform. The simulation system is organically combined by a series of subsystems, the central control system is responsible for coordinate the subsystems to operate in a system frame synergistically, corresponding special effects are provided, display effects are more diversified, and users are provided with extraordinary amazing watching experience.

The invention discloses a serial-type mooring ball-carrying wind driven power generation device which comprises airships, wind driven power generation devices, device compartments, mooring ropes and serial cables, wherein the wind driven power generation devices and the device compartments are arranged on the airships; the airships are fixed and are subjected to height adjustment by the mooring ropes; and a plurality of airships are connected by the serial cables. The airships act as transportation platforms depending on buoyancy, the wind driven power generation devices and the device compartments are installed on the platforms, the electricity energy generated by the wind driven power generation devices is provided for an electricity using system in each device compartment, and through the traction of the mooring ropes, mooring balls can be stabilized in certain height, and the self supplying of energy sources is realized; because the electricity of an electricity using device carried by each device compartment on each mooring ball is provided by each wind driven power generation device, and does not depend on the power sources on the ground, the using and operation of the mooring balls are simpler and safer; and a plurality of mooring ball units are connected in series, the stability of the mooring balls and the number of power generators are increased, and much electricity energy can be generated so as to meet greater electricity using load.

A real-time energy efficiency data acquisition and track recording device for an electric drone, comprising: a current sensor for collecting the battery operating current of the electric drone; a voltage sensor for collecting the battery voltage of the electric drone; an ADC module for converting the collected analog quantity into Digital quantity; three-axis acceleration sensor, which collects the acceleration in three directions of the electric drone; three-axis gyroscope sensor, which collects the angular velocity of the electric drone in three directions; single-chip microcomputer, which receives the data collected by each sensor; wireless module, The collected data is transmitted wirelessly; the USB-to-serial port line is used for the connection between the wireless module and the computer and data transmission; the computer is used for receiving, processing and storing various data; the invention can realize the flight process of the electric drone The current, voltage, acceleration, and angular velocity are collected, and the energy consumption, energy efficiency, flight attitude and flight trajectory of the flight process are obtained, which can provide data support for the efficient flight of electric drones.

The invention discloses a program updating method and system based on an FPGA. The updating method comprises the following steps that firstly, a soff file and an elf file are synthesized into a hex file through a script sh file; and then an upper computer reads the hex file, sends the hex file to the FPGA through a serial cable, and controls the FPGA to write data in the hex file into the Flash according to address information, thereby realizing program updating and solidification. The programming solidification of the FPGA program is realized by combining the external serial port with the upper computer program, complex equipment disassembly and installation work is not needed, the programming solidification time of the program is about 10 minutes, the efficiency is greatly improved, andthe efficient utilization of external serial port resources is realized.

The present invention provides a SATA cable with light display feature, which is mainly used for the SATA cables for computer host and their peripheral devices. With the light display capability, the connection readiness status and the signal transmission conditions can be easily detected via the pins on the SATA cable. The realization technique used by the present invention is adding the LED lights and the control pins inlayed at the two plug-in ends of the SATA cable. When the two plug-in ends of the SATA cable are both connected and ready, or there is data transmission going on, the control pins automatically turn on the LED lights to indicate the ON/ACTIVE connection status/condition.

A tape drive has a front panel with an opening therein for receiving tape cartridges, and contains tape drive electronics. For transferring data into and out the tape drive electronics, the tape drive electronics includes a USB or Firewire serial data port, and the front panel of the tape drive has an access opening therein, behind which the serial port is mounted, so that a serial cable connector can be plugged into the serial port from the front panel of the tape drive. Alternatively, a data transfer cartridge can be inserted into the opening of the tape drive that is normally used for tape cartridges, the data transfer cartridge having a front side that is accessible via the opening in the front panel of the drive, and a USB or Firewire connector is disposed in the front side of the data transfer cartridge. A connector at the rear side of the data transfer cartridge communicates with the serial port at the front side, and mates with a connector in the tape drive when the data transfer cartridge is inserted therein.

The invention provides a system for redirecting serial data and a method thereof; wherein, the redirection system includes a client; the client is provided with a browser and is connected with a management server through HTTP; the management server is connected with a plurality of managed servers through LAN; the redirection method is achieved by the redirection system and comprises the following steps: the browser judges whether input information is acquired or not; when the browser acquires the input information, the browser can judge whether the input information is disconnection; if when the browser determines the input information is not disconnection, the input information is sent to the managed server through the management server; when the managed server receives the input information, corresponding information is returned to the management server; then monochrome text and color text on the managed server are output and displayed by the browser on the client. Therefore, a vacant serial port and serial cable used for connecting the serial port are not needed, and the invention can be applied conveniently.

The invention provides an indoor scene positioning method and an indoor scene positioning device based on ultrasonic array information, and relates to the technical field of positioning. The method comprises the following steps: (1) collecting the ultrasonic array information of indoor scenes used as training samples; (2) collecting the ultrasonic array information of indoor scenes used as test samples; (3) respectively aligning the ultrasonic training samples with the ultrasonic test samples; (4) calculating out a distance matrix of the ultrasonic training samples and the ultrasonic test samples; and (5) positioning the scenes of all the ultrasonic test samples based on a nearest neighbor algorithm. The device comprises a robot body, an ultrasonic sensor, and a computer. The robot body and the computer are connected via a USB-serial cable. Ultrasonic array information collected by the ultrasonic sensor in real time is saved in the computer. An indoor scene positioning method and an indoor scene positioning device based on ultrasonic array information are implemented on the basis of machine learning. The robustness and accuracy of indoor scene positioning are improved.

The invention discloses an intelligent liquid level sensor, comprising a pressure sensor, an A/D converter, a processor, an RS232 serial port communication and a host computer, the A/D converter adopts ADC0804 for acquisition and conversion; the processor adopts STC89C52 Single-chip microcomputer, through the STC89C52 single-chip microcomputer to control the signal acquisition and conversion of ADC0804 and the control of RS232 serial port communication; the RS232 serial port communication mainly communicates with the PC through the USB to serial port line, and transmits the data collected and converted by ADC0804 to the upper computer to display the Measure the liquid level. An intelligent liquid level sensor of the present invention uses a pressure sensor to measure the pressure of the liquid level, ADC0804 collects and converts the analog voltage output by the pressure sensor and sends it to the single-chip microcomputer, and then transmits it to the upper computer through RS232 serial port communication to display the height of the liquid level .

The invention relates to an electromagnetic flowmeter control system and control method based on 485 communication. The control system is that the computer is bidirectionally connected to the controller through the serial port line and the 485 bus, and the electromagnetic flowmeter is connected to the controller in one direction. The analog signal is bidirectionally connected to the valve of the electromagnetic flowmeter, and the parameters are set on the control system of the electromagnetic flowmeter, and the control command is sent to the controller according to the 485 communication protocol format, and then the control command is sent to the valve through the controller, and the electromagnetic flowmeter’s The real-time data is fed back to the electromagnetic flowmeter control system through the controller, and the real-time data is compared with the set parameters in real time. Within the specified range, the valve will automatically open and operate normally with one button. Otherwise, a real-time alarm will be issued and the valve will automatically close. The beneficial effect is that when the temperature exceeds the limit, the setting parameters are automatically completed, and the valve is automatically closed, which is safe and saves raw materials and costs; real-time alarms are convenient for emergency measures, and one-button operation after recovery.