379 results about "Transport time" patented technology

An inventory control and prescription management and dispensing system including a dispensing vault for storing and dispensing prescriptions, the dispensing vault in communication with a central computer system that, in turn, communicates with prescription providers, insurance companies, and other third parties; the dispensing vault including robotic means for randomly accessing pre-filled prescriptions within the vault, with the vault further including RFID, bar code, and other means for verifying the content and internal location of pre-filled prescriptions; a customer interface that uses customer biometrics to ID a customer to ensure that prescriptions are only dispensed to the correct person; a patient registration system in communication with the central computer system for collecting insurance, doctor, biometric, and other information to facilitate transactions; a labeling system for labeling pre-filled prescriptions with customer specific information upon dispensing; transport container that integrate into the dispensing vault and provide secure transportation from a pharmaceutical manufacturer or repackager to the dispensing vault, security provided through RFID tags which communicate with the central computer to verify that the transport container contains the correct formulary and that the integrity of the container (temperature range, time in transit, tampering) has not been compromised; a payment system integral to the dispensing vault that is in communication with third party banks and pharmacy billing management systems, credit agencies and the central computer; a verification system for ensuring that pre-filled bottles received from the manufacturer (before they are placed into the storage locations inside the vault) have not had their integrity compromised, with this system evaluating each container's weight, size, moisture content, shape, velocity change, color, pattern, and physical integrity (all comparisons made against standards stored in the central computer).

Systems and methods for delivering transport aware publications to users in a network-based environment are discussed. In an example, a method for delivering transport aware advertisements can include receiving user-related location data, determining if a user is inside a transport time defined geofence, generating an advertisement, transmitting the advertisement, and optionally updating the advertisement. The transport time defined geofence may be specified by an advertiser to be directed to a set of users who are capable of traveling to a point of interest, such as a retail location, in the specified time period. The advertisement may be updated and include a dynamic content portion of the advertisement, and at least the updated dynamic content portion may be transmitted to the user. The advertisement is generated based at least in part on the user-related location data and transport data.

A method and computer program product for providing paperless customs documentation associated with an international parcel shipment. In various embodiments, the method comprises storing shipping data associated with a parcel shipment, the shipping data designating a destination country and including invoice data, verifying that the destination country accepts electronic customs documentation, and creating an electronic invoice from the shipping data. In various embodiments, the electronic invoice may be easily accessed, such as being transmitted over a network or stored in an RFID transponder associated with the parcel shipment. As a result, the present invention reduces the costs and shipping times associated with preparing, processing, and receiving international shipments by determining whether a country accepts paperless customs documentation and, if so, providing a variety of functions that streamline the international shipping process.

Crane control and anti-sway are facilitated utilizing a diagnostic component that includes a model component and a control component. The diagnostic component interfaces with an extrinsic data analysis component and a controller component. The diagnostic component receives operating condition information from the extrinsic data analysis component and performs predictive modeling, based on a current status and stored information. Further, the diagnostic component predicts the affect of the operating conditions on a crane and implements and / or recommends actions to mitigate the affect of the existing and / or predicted operating conditions. The diagnostic component further mitigates crane sway and / or induces crane sway to reduce container transit time. Intelligent agents are employed to provide trajectory planning and execution and / or to detect potential component failure.

A navigation system and method factors into its routing decisions information pertaining to transient delays encountered from time to time, one example of such a transient delay is accident information obtained from currently available broadcast traffic flow sources. The system can also factor in historically available traffic delay data based on time of day or other parameters. The navigation system keeps track of the routes traveled by the vehicle (or user) and the times of transit of such routes. When a user requests a route based upon given end-points, the navigation system can use its own stored historical data, as well as currently available traffic delay data, to calculate and announce a given route.

An ultrasonic gas flowmeter includes a measuring pipe with flowing gas, transmitting and receiving sound transducers, transmission and reception electronics, and evaluation electronics. The sound transducers (7, 8, 9, 10) are designed as capacitive electro-acoustic ultrasonic transducers to construct a flowmeter with improved capacity, especially in view of temperature stability and the reduction and consideration of a temperature profile. Devices (5, 6) are provided to level the gas temperature profile and to minimize the influence of the temperature profile on the flow measurement. A more accurate and dependable detection of the volume flow or the mass flow of gases is to be achieved, especially in highly dynamic flows, for the method of determining the flow of gases whereby the mean flow velocity is determined and the flowing gas quantity is determined with highly synchronized resolution from the two transit times of two acoustic signals. In addition, an assessed value is computed (35) for the flow after the determination of the transit times and the assessed value is corrected at least by means of a characteristic temperature of the gas and the temperature of the wall of the measuring pipe (36).

An avalanche photo-detector (APD) is disclosed, which can reduce device capacitance, operating voltage, carrier transport time and dark current as well as increasing response speed and output power. Thus, an avalanche photo-detector (APD) with high saturation power, high gain-bandwidth product, low noise, fast response, low dark current is achieved. The APD includes an absorption layer with graded doping for converting an incident light into carriers, an undoped multiplication layer for multiplying current by means of receiving carriers, a doped field buffer layer sandwiched between the absorption layer and the multiplication layer for concentrating an electric field in the multiplication layer when a bias voltage is applied, and an undoped drift layer sandwiched between the absorption layer and the field buffer layer for capacitance reduction.

A directional geothermal energy system and method helps to increase control in paths to be taken by geo-fluid flow through hot rock to create engineered geothermal reservoirs and networks to mine heat from hot rock resources. The system uses directional drilling techniques to create a spanning borehole extending between an injection borehole and a production borehole. The spanning borehole typically extends through hot rock for a distance on the order of kilometers to allow the geo-fluid flowing through the spanning borehole adequate transit time and surface contact to obtain sufficient heat given a certain flow rate for the geo-fluid. In some implementations, multiple injection boreholes can supply geo-fluid to a single production borehole. Individual geo-fluid networks can be so sized, shaped, and located with respect to one another to form a collection of geo-fluid networks to mine heat from very large hot rock resources.

Methods and apparatus for collecting a fluid sample using an integrated collection device are disclosed. The integrated collection device includes an analyte detector and a gradient means to actively and rapidly drive the transport of a sample fluid from the point of contact to the point of detection and reading. The analyte detector can include a visually-read colorimetric detector using a chemical or enzymatic detection process. The gradient means can include physical and / or chemical processes as described in more detail herein. In some embodiments, the device is provided as an occlusive patch. Preferably, the test device provides a reading immediately upon fluid contact with the analyte detector. Consequently, the time-to-result is sample volume and transport time dependent. By providing immediate or nearly immediate reading of results, the device is particularly useful in those applications in which immediate results are advantageous.

A transcutaneous energy transfer system with subcutaneous non coupled coils is used to transmit power and signals to an implanted biological support device or sensor, such as a flow sensor for measuring relatively low flow rates, such as hydrocephalic shunt flow. The flow sensor is configured to convert a shear wave generated by a transducer to a longitudinal wave at the interface of a signal pathway and the flow, wherein the longitudinal wave travels parallel to the flow and exits a flow channel to convert to a shear wave which intersects a second transducer. The transcutaneous energy transfer employs a pair of inductive coupling coils, wherein the coils are disposed in zero coupling orientation which can include a perpendicular orientation of corresponding coil axes.

A method and system to provide aggregate transit time. In one embodiment, the method, which may be performed by a system, comprises receiving information identifying a shipping destination; and in response to the information, providing data related to on-time performance for one or more shipping vendors providing shipping services to the destination. In one embodiment, a method, which may be performed by a system, is provided to track missed delivery deadlines, and may initiate an automatic or semi-automatic refund request in such cases.

A method and system to provide aggregate transit time. In one embodiment, the method, which may be performed by a system, comprises receiving information identifying a shipping destination; and in response to the information, providing data related to on-time performance for one or more shipping vendors providing shipping services to the destination.

Timing characteristics of message-oriented transports are measured using common personal computers which easily support a wide variety of analytical tools. The apparatus measures timing characteristics of bursty message traffic over relatively low-speed digital transports such as the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). The apparatus includes means for generating a reference pulse stream, such as a sequencer. A transcoder device receives the reference pulse stream and routes the pulse stream to a device under test and, in analog form, to a first channel input of a digital recording device, such as a sound card installed in a personal computer. The transcoder also receives an output pulse stream from the device under test and routes the output pulse stream, in analog form, to a second channel input of the digital recording device. A differential technique allows timing errors in the reference pulse stream to be eliminated from measurements. The apparatus can also be used for measuring propagation characteristics of a particular transmission medium.

The invention provides a similarity calculation-based junk comment detection method. The method comprises the following steps of 1, performing data acquisition: capturing webpages of a forum, e-commerce and the like related to a specified product by utilizing a network crawler, then extracting comment data in the webpages, and storing the comment data in a database; 2, performing false comment detection: calculating a time difference T between commenting time and purchase time, and if T is less than cargo transport time, determining that a comment is a false comment; 3, performing repeated comment detection: performing word segmentation on each comment, then calculating the similarity between the comments, and when the similarity between the comments is higher than a threshold, determining that one comment and another comment similar to the one comment are repeated comments; 4, performing data processing: performing processing including syntactic analysis, emotion annotation, feature word extraction and the like on the comments, and constructing a product feature dictionary according to a product specification; and 5, performing unrelated comment detection: calculating whether a comment target of each comment is a target product and features thereof or not, and detecting out the comments unrelated to the target product. The invention provides a new junk comment detection method.

An avalanche photo-detector (APD) is disclosed, which can reduce device capacitance, operating voltage, carrier transport time and dark current as well as increasing response speed and output power. Thus, an avalanche photo-detector (APD) with high saturation power, high gain-bandwidth product, low noise, fast response, low dark current is achieved. The APD includes an absorption layer with graded doping for converting an incident light into carriers, an undoped multiplication layer for multiplying current by means of receiving carriers, a doped field buffer layer sandwiched between the absorption layer and the multiplication layer for concentrating an electric field in the multiplication layer when a bias voltage is applied, and an undoped drift layer sandwiched between the absorption layer and the field buffer layer for capacitance reduction.

The present invention provides a direction change device which can reduce the transport time, including first and second transport passage 3, 4, in which one of the transport passages is disposed at the same vertical position as that of the first transport rail 16, the other is disposed below the one, a rotating unit 22 rotating the transport passages 3, 4 about their central points, a lift unit 23 lifting the transport passages 3, 4 in a vertical direction and a control unit 21. The control unit 21 controls such that when the FOUP 5 is carried out from the transport rail 16 to the transport passage disposed at the same vertical position as that of the transport rail 16, rotating the transport passages 3, 4 by about 90 DEG, carrying out the FOUP 5 from one of the transport passages, and exchanging the respective vertical positions of the first and second transport passages 3, 4.

A vehicle dispatch system enables optimal dispatch of a plurality of vehicles with information of available vehicles from transportation company terminals and information of orders from client terminals under restrictive conditions such as vehicle sizes, minimum loading rates, and a maximum number of assignment locations, based on transportation regions preset in consideration of transportation times, past order quantities, and order congestion degrees, such that a relevant vehicle can perform delivery of freight within a predetermined transportation region to minimize a total transportation cost for each transportation region. The system minimizes a delivery distance of each vehicle, increases a loading volume of the vehicle to reduce an empty rate of vehicles, and minimizes the number of dispatched vehicles, thereby reducing the total transportation cost.

Crane control and anti-sway are facilitated utilizing a diagnostic component that includes a model component and a control component. The diagnostic component interfaces with an extrinsic data analysis component and a controller component. The diagnostic component receives operating condition information from the extrinsic data analysis component and performs predictive modeling, based on a current status and stored information. Further, the diagnostic component predicts the affect of the operating conditions on a crane and implements and / or recommends actions to mitigate the affect of the existing and / or predicted operating conditions. The diagnostic component further mitigates crane sway and / or induces crane sway to reduce container transit time. Intelligent agents are employed to provide trajectory planning and execution and / or to detect potential component failure.

The disadvantages of the prior art are overcome by providing a technique for identification of information based upon protocol markers. According to the technique a signature is generated from a protocol used to store, distribute and transport time-variant multi-dimensional information, such as “real-world” signal and multi-media data that uniquely identifies the information. The signature comprises a set of protocol markers that is unique to the protocol. Using the extracted signature, the system and method can differentiate amongst a plurality of data. Identification of the data is necessary to ensure uniqueness of that information and to compare various data in a distributed environment.

The present invention provides a vehicle AGV system based on cyber-physical system and a traffic control method. The system comprises an AGV vehicle, an intersection controller, a master controller and a workshop positioning system. A vehicle following method based on a safe distance, a vehicle overtaking method of an emergency task and a collision prediction and processing method are employed bya corresponding traffic control method. A processor is added into the design of a vehicle, the calculation ability of the vehicle is improved, the vehicle can independently decide an operating state according to sensed information, the real-time information sharing of the vehicle is realized through a communicator module, and the efficiency of information collection and utilization is improved. Through the traffic control method, the transport efficiency of the vehicle can be improved, the transport time is shortened, the collision of vehicles is avoided through an adjustment in advance without stopping, and the time and energy are saved while the safety is improved.

The present provides a cryogenic thermal battery arrangement for maintaining a superconducting magnet coil or similar apparatus at cryogenic temperature for a required shipping period, such as thirty days, without consuming a significant amount of costly cryogen. According to another aspect, the invention allows extended shipping periods without incurring excessive costs.

The invention belongs to the field of the intelligent control, and discloses a scheduling method and system for multi-robots and multi-elevators. The method comprises the following steps: to obtain atarget floor to be arrived by a current robot to be scheduled; selecting elevators of which a loaded number is smaller than a maximum loading number as elevators to be scheduled; in the elevators to be scheduled, selecting the elevator of which needed total time of the current robot to be scheduled arriving the target floor is shortest as the target elevator; issuing an instruction, and enabling the current robot to be scheduled to be moved to an elevator landing opening of the target elevator, and enabling the target elevator to be moved to the floor on which the current robot to be scheduledis positioned, and conveying the current robot to be scheduled to the target floor. The method is capable of firstly selecting multiple elevators of which the loading numbers do not reach an upper limit as the elevators to be scheduled, and selecting the elevator of which the needed time of arriving the target floor is shortest as the target elevator from the elevators to be scheduled, and conveying the current robot to be scheduled, thereby reducing conveying time of the current robot to be scheduled, and improving conveying efficiency of the robots.

A sensitized photovoltaic device (10) provides for a reduction of the charge recombination rate and charge transport time. The device (10) includes a first electrode (12) comprising a transparent conducting oxide and a plurality of carbon nanostructures (16) formed thereon. A first layer (18) is formed on the carbon nanostructure (16) and comprises a first conduction band level (44). A second layer (20) is formed on the first oxide (18) and comprises a second conduction band level (46) higher than the first conduction band level (44). A sensitizer (22) is formed on the second layer (20) and comprises a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level (48) higher than the second conduction band level (46). An electrolyte (24) is positioned over the sensitizer (22), and a second electrode (26) comprising a transparent conducting oxide and a layer of catalyst is formed over the electrolyte (24).

The invention relates to an all-hydraulic tunnel inverted arch trestle-type moving die frame which comprises a main bridge, a front ramp bridge and a rear ramp bridge. The main bridge is provided with multiple span travelling devices from front to rear; the span travelling device comprises a pair of height regulating mechanisms and a pair of travelling mechanisms; the external side of the main bridge is at least provided with a pair of vertical die locating mechanisms, a pair of vertical die stripping mechanisms and a pair of vertical arc templates; and the bottom of the main bridge is provided with a gutter template device. According to the invention, the all-hydraulic tunnel inverted arch trestle-type moving die frame can rapidly and safely span the excavated surface of the inverted arch through the span travelling devices so that the work efficiency is increased; the vertical die locating mechanisms realize the rapid locating of the vertical arc templates so as to ensure no shift of the vertical arc templates when concrete is poured; the vertical die stripping mechanisms realize the stripping and collecting of vertical dies so that the manual transport time is reduced and the space is saved; and the gutter template device increases the utilization rate of the gutter template and the construction standardization. The all-hydraulic tunnel inverted arch trestle-type moving dieframe realizes the one-time construction of inverted arch lining, inverted arch filling and central gutter separation without disturbing the working procedures at the same time.

A method and apparatus for monitoring a predetermined condition of a medium by; transmitting acoustical waves through the medium, continuously measuring changes in the transit time of the acoustical waves resulting from changes in the monitored condition; and utilizing the changes in transit time to provide a continuous measurement of the changes in the monitored condition. The acoustical waves are bending waves wherein cross-sections of the medium have a rotational movement orthogonally to the axis of propagation of the waves through the acoustical channel. Several examples of such method and apparatus are described, including a highly sensitive pressure sensor for sensing changes in pressure applied to a displaceable membrane, and a highly-sensitive vibration sensor for sensing earth or other vibrations.

In a method for detecting a leak in a double pipe, a medium located in an intermediate chamber between the interior and exterior pipe is moved toward a first end of the pipe, whereupon the medium flows in from the second end. On the first end the medium is examined for any leakage of a characteristic material, upon the detection of which a leakage signal is generated and a location of the leakage is calculated based on the transport time of the characteristic material from the leakage to the first end and on the mass flow of the medium. A corresponding device contains a conveyor unit for moving the medium through the intermediate chamber. A material sensor is disposed at the first end for examining the medium for the characteristic material. A control and analysis unit is provided for generating a leakage signal and calculating the location of the leakage.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display manufacturing process and its manufacturing equipment. The technical proposal mainly includes: using a material feeding device to grab the liquid crystal display produced in the previous process; placing the liquid crystal display on a transparent carrier; Before the device returns to the process, the next LCD screen is grabbed, and the transparent carrier moves to the inspection station, which is located between the LCD screen and the backlight unit; the LCD screen is inspected; and the LCD screen that passes the inspection is sent to the downstream of the assembly line. Through the above technical solution, the processes of taking, placing, detecting and transporting the LCD display are not interfered with each other and can work at the same time. Therefore, the working time can be greatly shortened, and the work efficiency and production capacity can be improved; The transportation time of the display screen on the assembly line not only facilitates the operation, but also shortens the operation time; finally, due to the higher degree of automation of the present invention, it can avoid human contact, thereby reducing the defects caused by it.

In a method for detecting a leak in a double pipe, a medium located in an intermediate chamber between the interior and exterior pipe is moved toward a first end of the pipe, whereupon the medium flows in from the second end. On the first end the medium is examined for any leakage of a characteristic material, upon the detection of which a leakage signal is generated and a location of the leakage is calculated based on the transport time of the characteristic material from the leakage to the first end and on the mass flow of the medium. A corresponding device contains a conveyor unit for moving the medium through the intermediate chamber. A material sensor is disposed at the first end for examining the medium for the characteristic material. A control and analysis unit is provided for generating a leakage signal and calculating the location of the leakage.

When a heating plate performs heat treatment on a substrate by a wireless wafer provided with a temperature detecting portion, a storing portion and a controller, the temperature of the heating plate is measured readily and accurately while suppressing lowering of a heating operation efficiency due to a measuring operation. A temperature measurement start instruction is provided to the controller of the wireless wafer at a position in a wireless wafer carrier, and thereby the wireless wafer starts temperature detection to store time-series data of the detected temperature value in the storing portion. The wireless wafer is transferred to a heating unit through a predetermined transfer path. Based on a transportation time required for placing the wireless wafer on the heating plate and the time-series data of the detected temperature value in the storing portion, the time-series data of the detected temperature value obtained after the wireless wafer is placed on the heating plate is fetched.

A device and method for flight management of an aircraft along a flight plan comprises a plurality of waypoints comprising a computation of the temporal predictions determining the temporal situation of the aircraft for each waypoint of the flight plan, a temporal situation of the aircraft being defined by at least one set of information from among the group comprising the target time of transit at each waypoint the estimated minimum and maximum times of arrival at each waypoint, the estimated time of transit at the waypoint, and a formatting and display simultaneously presenting the temporal situations of the said plurality of waypoints