4108 results about "Vertical distance" patented technology

In a method for scroll bar control on a touchpad, the fingers touching on the touchpad are detected to start up and terminate a scroll bar control function. In the scroll bar control function, the movement of the finger or fingers touching on the touchpad is detected for scrolling on a window, and the vertical distance and the horizontal distance of the movement are evaluated for determining the scrolling amount of a vertical scroll bar or a horizontal scroll bar of the window.

A backlight module for LCD monitors and method of backlighting are disclosed, in which a dome-shaped lens and a LED light source are employed in the backlight module. This method includes the preparation of a LED light source and a dome lens, fitting the dome lens over the light source, attaching the dome lens and the light source under the optical lens sheets, whereby the optical lens sheet closest to the light source is at a vertical distance X therefrom. The hemispherical lens provides light coverage on the optical lens sheet in a peripheral areas with diameters ranging from 2X to 7X, as compared with the small area (diameter X) using the conventional technique. The dome lens is constructed with a light emergent plane on one side, and a light incident plane around hollow cavity in the center.

A golf club comprises a club shaft and a hollow club head, wherein the club head has a loft angle of from 14 to 18 degrees, a head volume of not less than 250 cc, and a sweet spot at a vertical distance of from 1 to 5 mm downwards of a face center, and the club shaft has a variable flexural rigidity whose minimum is in a range of from 5 to 10 N·m², and the minimum flexural rigidity occurs in a range between 0% and 40% of the length of the club shaft from the end of the club shaft.

A learning marker configured such that one of learning horizontal distance information and learning vertical distance information can be learned based on detection information from a horizontal travel distance detection device or a vertical travel distance detection device upon detection of at least one edge section of the learning marker in one direction of a horizontal travel direction and a vertical travel direction of a transfer means by a learning marker detector for detecting the learning marker, and the other of the learning horizontal distance information and learning vertical distance information can be learned based on detection information from the horizontal travel distance detection device or the vertical travel distance detection device upon detection of each of both edge sections of the learning marker in the one direction by the learning marker detector.

The invention relates to a visual computing and prewarning method of deviation angle and distance of an automobile from a lane line. The image processing and computer vision technologies are utilized, and the deviation angle and distance of the automobile from the lane line are computed in real time according to the road surface image acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera, thereby estimating the line crossing time for safety prewarning. The method comprises the following steps: detecting the lane lines of the road surface image to obtain a linear equation of partial lane lines; establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system by using the camera as the initial point, and recording the mounting height and depression angle of the camera; calibrating the focal length according to the lane detection result under the condition of a given deflection angle; computing the deflection angle and vertical distance of the automobile relative to the lane line according to a pinhole camera model; and estimating the deviation time from the lane according to the instantaneous running speed of the automobile, thereby obtaining the safety prewarning or intelligent control information of the running automobile.

Data entry arrangements that include twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet arranged in matrices including six rows of three to six letters per row and in five column matrices. The transposition of the letters of the Roman alphabet on a standard three-row QWERTY keyboard into six row matrices and five column matrices utilizes spacing between the letters wherein a vertical distance between adjacent letters is at least the same.

The present invention provides a pair of arm rest platforms and vertical handles so the user of a rolling walker can have added or alternate support not provided by a conventional rolling walker or rollator. The arm rest platforms are supported at a vertical distance above the conventional walker by providing a pair of arm rest frames each extending between the main frame of the conventional walker and a respective arm rest platform. The arm rest frames each includes an main arm rest frame member carried by the main frame of the conventional walker and an arm rest support member to carry the arm rest platform and vertical handles. The conventional hand brakes can also be relocated; to be operated when gripping the vertical handles. The arm rest platforms can be adjusted in both horizontally and vertically with respect to the main frame of the conventional walker for better distribution of the user's weight.

An engine is provided which includes various precise configuration parameters, including dimensions, shape and/or relative positioning of the combustion chamber features, resulting in a combustion process minimizing NOx emissions and particulates. The combustion chamber includes one or more of the following: a spray angle relative to an inner bowl floor angle; a vertical distance from the tip of the piston bowl to the injection orifices; a number of injection orifices; a swirl ratio; a vertical distance from the injection orifices to an inner face of the cylinder head; a radius of curvature of an outer bowl section; chamfer with dimensional parameters; and a transition radius.

The invention discloses a laser-TIG electric arc hybrid welding technology for a spaceflight aluminum alloy plate with medium thickness and high strength and belongs to the technical field of weldingengineering. In the hybrid welding technology, a non-consumable TIG electric arc and laser beams emitted by a optical fiber laser are gathered at the same welding position on a workpiece along weldingdirection so as to jointly form a molten pool; when in welding, the laser beams are in the front and the non-consumable TIG electric arc is in the back; the distance form between the focus of the laser beams and the workpiece is sharp defocus, a dip angle between the laser beams and vertical direction is 15-17 degrees, the vertical distance from the tungsten electrode point end of the TIG electric arc to the surface of the workpiece is 3-5mm, the horizontal distances between the tungsten electrode point end of the TIG electric arc and from the laser beams to an action point on the surface ofthe workpiece are 3-5mm, and a dip angle between the tungsten electrode point end of the TIG electric arc and the horizontal direction of the workpiece is 45-55 degrees. The hybrid welding technologynot only improves the utilization ratio of laser energy, but also obviously enhances welding speed, and reduces metallurgical damage of a spaceflight aluminum alloy welding joint with high strength.

Automated systems and methods for adapting semiconductor fabrication tools to process wafers of different diameters are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises providing a semiconductor fabrication tool, placing an adapter ring on a plurality of ring holders via a robotic arm, the plurality of ring holders being operable to support the adapter ring at a vertical distance from a stage heater and the stage heater being movable in a vertical direction, placing a first semiconductor wafer on the stage heater via the robotic arm, the first semiconductor wafer having a first diameter, and moving the stage heater upward to receive the adapter ring from the plurality of ring holders and to cover a portion of the stage heater during processing of the first semiconductor wafer.

The invention discloses a method for measuring and pre-warning a lane departure distance based on monocular vision, belonging to the technical field of computer imaging processing. The method comprises the following steps of: collecting a video image through a monocular video camera installed in the front of an automobile at first, completing the detection of a lane line after processing through an image processing technology, and extracting geometrical information of the lane line; obtaining vertical distances between the automobile and the lane lines at left and right sides by utilizing thethree-dimensional geometry transformation relation of a pinhole imaging principle; and establishing a departure pre-warning decision method according to the vertical distances measured in real time, and providing effective information for an intelligent assistant driving technology. According to the method disclosed by the invention, when the lane line is detected by utilizing Hough transform, a constraint condition is added, a part of virtual lane line is excluded, and the operation speed and the lane line detection accuracy are increased; simultaneously, the lane departure pre-warning can be realized only by utilizing image information; the measurement influence of a vehicle departure angle on the lane departure distance is low; furthermore, the solving operation speed is high owing to the use of the three-dimensional geometry transform method; and the requirements of the intelligent assistant driving technology can be satisfied.

A method for operating a wind energy installation, in particular for adapting a wind energy installation (10) to given wind conditions, the wind energy installation (10) having a rotor (16), which can be driven by wind, with at least two rotor blades (20), whose respective angles of incidence of the wind can be adjusted by means of at least one adjustment device, and having a generator for converting the mechanical energy of the rotor (16) to electrical energy. During operation of the wind energy installation, parameters are measured with spatial and/or temporal resolution on the side of the wind energy installation (10) facing the wind, said parameters describing the wind conditions in the measurement region, preferably the wind speed and/or the wind direction. The wind parameters are measured at various vertical distances from the ground, namely various heights, and at horizontal distances from the rotor (16), which are selected such that the angles of incidence of the wind on the individual rotor blades (20) can be adapted in response to the measured wind parameters before the wind on which the wind parameters are based, in particular a wind front or a gust of wind, reaches the rotor (16). Values are predicted or calculated, in particular continuously or periodically, from the measured wind parameters—prognosis values—which describe wind conditions occurring in the future at the rotor blades for various heights. The angles of incidence of the wind on the individual rotor blades (20) are adjusted individually and independently of one another, preferably a plurality of times during a complete revolution of a rotor blade, depending on these predicted or calculated prognosis values at the various heights.

An elevated raceway for routing utility lines in a vertically spaced relationship above the upper edge of a partition. The raceway includes an elongated passageway configured to retain utility lines in a horizontally extending manner. A first support member extends downwardly from the raceway, and has a connector spaced apart from the raceway a first vertical distance. The connector is configured to attach to a partition frame. A second support member extends downwardly from the raceway, and has a connector spaced apart from the raceway a second vertical distance that is different from the first vertical distance, such that the raceway is supported at a generally uniform vertical height above an upper edge of a partition having sections with different heights.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic anemoscope, which comprises a base plate, a control circuit board, four measuring arms and four ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving probes. The four measuring arms are respectively connected with the base plate and are adjacent in turn to form 90 DEG included angles; the four ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving probes are respectively arranged on one ends of the four measuring arms away from the base plate, and the two pairs of probes which form 180 DEG angles oppositely are arranged in the same plane and have equal vertical distances from the base plate. The invention also discloses a method of measuring wind velocity and direction through ultrasonic wave, which comprises the following steps of measuring the time difference of the ultrasonic wave which is transmitted towards the positive and negative directions, travels in the air and reaches the receiving ends through the opposite two pairs of ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving probes; calculating the air flow velocity through integrally considering the distances between the probes. The ultrasonic anemoscope solves the technical problem that an action part obtains measurement information, improves the measurement accuracy and prolongs the service of the apparatus, thereby being applicable to various bad measurement surroundings.

An apparatus for generating electrical power. The apparatus comprises a plurality of solar energy collectors for generating electricity from solar energy; a plurality of wind turbines for generating electricity from wind energy; a support structure having arms extending radially from a vertical shaft, the arms positioned at different vertical distances along the vertical shaft and the arms having different lengths; solar energy collectors and the wind turbines affixed to terminal ends of the arms; and the support structure comprising camouflage elements causing the support structure to resemble vegetation.

The real-time measuring device and measuring method for the draft of a navigable ship according to the present invention are composed of a detection door, an automatic lifting control device for the detection door and a data acquisition and processing device; the detection door is a mounting frame, and the detection door is composed of The automatic lifting control device controls it to reach a predetermined depth position below the water surface, and is placed below the water surface that the navigable ship will pass through. An array of ultrasonic ranging sensors is installed on it, and the front of the ultrasonic ranging sensor is upward; The distance sensor array measures the vertical distance from the bottom surface of the entire ship to the detection door mounting frame, and all the measurement data constitute a data set C; then according to the installation depth H of the ultrasonic ranging sensor array on the detection door mounting frame, the water depth at the bottom of the ship will be obtained The data set D, where D=H-C; then find the maximum value in the data set D, which is the draft Dmax of the navigable ship, that is, Dmax=MAX(D).

The invention relates to a cap assembling device which is used for assembling kettle caps, bottle caps and other combined type caps. The cap assembling device is characterized in that a cap combining device comprises a divided plate, a plurality of locating components are arranged on the divided plate along the periphery, and a concave-convex station sliding rail is arranged below the divided plate in a surrounding mode and located at the position which is aligned to the locating components vertically. The locating components comprise screening blocks, locating pads, and a guide assembly which is arranged below the screening blocks and the locating pads and used for changing the vertical distance between the locating pads and the screening blocks. The screening blocks and the locating pads are used for locating raw materials, and the lower end of the guide assembly is connected with the station sliding rail. The cap combining device in a divided plate mode is used, connection of upper caps and lower caps is controlled intelligently and finished automatically, and a lower cap conveying device, an upper cap conveying device, a paster conveying device, an output device and the like are combined, so that the complete process from feeding to output of finished products of kettle caps is finished orderly and compactly. Production automation is improved, and assembling efficiency of the kettle caps, the bottle caps and other combined type caps is improved.