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A terminal includes a control unit that measures, for a first component carrier and a second component carrier forming a carrier aggregation in a case where the carrier aggregation is to be executed, a difference between a timing at which a radio frame is received on the first component carrier and a timing at which a radio frame is received on the second component carrier; and a transmission unit that transmits information indicating the difference measured by the control unit.

First information received by a first MLD on a first link is used to determine whether a BSS configuration of a second link is updated. In response to the BSS configuration of the second link not being updated, the first MLD directly transmits a data frame on the switched-to second link or the second link whose status is transited, and the data frame is not transmitted until a beacon frame is received and a latest parameter of the BSS configuration is obtained on the switched-to second link or the second link whose status is transited. A waiting time occurring before the data frame is transmitted is reduced.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a power adjustment method, apparatus, and system. A first access network device may obtain a power back-off value at a first moment, and compare the power back-off value at the first moment with a power back-off value at a second moment. The second moment is earlier than the first moment. When a difference between the power back-off value at the second moment and the power back-off value at the first moment is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the first access network device adjusts an output power based on the power back-off value at the first moment.

A method by a computing device obtains a digital image of a physical map, identifies features in the digital image, and obtains map augmentation information based on the identified features. The method then generates an augmented map based on the map augmentation information, and provides the augmented map for display. Related mobile devices and computer program products are disclosed.

Provided is the technique for efficiently using the phoresis medium contained in the phoresis medium container by minimizing the remaining phoresis medium as small as possible, and further lowering the running cost. The disclosure proposes the measurement system as an example, which includes an electrophoresis device and a computer. The electrophoresis device includes a phoresis medium container for storing a phoresis medium, a capillary having its inside filled with the phoresis medium, a delivery mechanism for delivering the phoresis medium in the phoresis medium container to the capillary, and a device control section for controlling an operation of the delivery mechanism. The computer calculates a deliverable number of times from an amount of the phoresis medium in the phoresis medium container and an estimated delivery amount of the phoresis medium delivered by the delivery mechanism (see FIG 16).

Provided is a downhole fracturing tool assembly, a well system, and a method for fracturing a well system. The downhole fracturing tool assembly, in one aspect, includes a fracturing port cover coupleable to an interior of a wellbore casing having one or more fracturing ports therein. The downhole fracturing tool assembly, according to this aspect, further includes a fracturing port cover actuator coupled to the fracturing port cover, the fracturing port cover actuator operable to move the fracturing port cover between a first position sealing the one or more fracturing ports from an interior of the wellbore casing and a second position exposing the one or more fracturing ports to the interior of the wellbore casing, and fracturing port cover electronics coupled to the fracturing port cover actuator proximate the fracturing port cover, the fracturing port cover electronics operable to activate the fracturing port cover actuator.

The present invention relates an apparatus for sealing a secondary battery, which seals a pouch. The apparatus for sealing the secondary battery comprises: a support block configured to support a bottom surface of one-side sealing part of the pouch; a sealing member comprising a sealing roller that moves in a longitudinal direction of the one-side sealing part in a state of pressing a top surface of the one-side sealing part supported on the support block to seal the one-side sealing part supported on the support block; and a straightening member configured to flatten a surface of the one-side sealing part on which the sealing roller passes.

The present invention relates to a tip for injecting a tattoo dye, the tip comprising: a pressure chamber configured to be able to accommodate liquid; a window provided on one side of the pressure chamber and provided to allow laser irradiated from the outside to pass therethrough so that the laser can reach the liquid accommodated in the pressure chamber; a membrane part provided on one side of the pressure chamber to seal a chamber and configured to be deformable according to pressure generated by the irradiation of the laser to the liquid; a dye chamber which is configured to be able to accommodate a tattoo dye and of which one side is configured to be in fluid communication with the membrane part; a dye supply unit configured to supply a dye to a dye accommodation unit; a first valve for determining whether the dye is flowing from the dye supply unit to the dye chamber; and an inject nozzle provided on one side of the dye chamber and configured to enable the dye accommodated in the dye accommodation unit to be injected to the outside. The tip for injecting a tattoo dye according to the present invention can inject a dye at high pressure without a needle, and thus can relieve pain of a person being tattooed, and has the effect of allowing tattooing to be hygienically performed.

A watertight joint and a plug-in device are provided. The watertight joint includes a gland, a plug, an end cap and a sleeve cover, wherein the end cap includes a cable, a wrapping body and a sealing ring, wherein the wrapping body is wrapped on the cable and in a cone-shaped structure, and the sealing ring is sleeved over the second end of the wrapping body, the plug is fixedly connected to the port of the cable, the sleeve cover and the gland are sleeved over the wrapping body, opposite to each other, and the sleeve cover and the gland are in threaded connection, and the inner wall of sleeve cover abuts on the sealing ring.

A hybrid system for a vehicle includes a drive unit provided with a motor for driving wheels and a power generation unit provided with an engine and a generator driven by the engine. The power generation unit is provided so as to be adjacent to the drive unit in a separated state. One of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on a vehicle body via a first mount member at a lower portion of the one unit. The other one of the drive unit and the power generation unit is mounted on the vehicle body via a second mount member at an upper portion of the other one unit.

There is provided a shower head disposed in a processing container where a substrate is accommodated and configured to discharge a gas to the substrate in a shower pattern, comprising: a main body portion having a facing surface facing a stage disposed in the processing container to place the substrate thereon; a covering section that covers a surface formed on an opposite side of the facing surface of the main body portion, and forms, between the surface and the covering section, an exhaust space that is exhausted by an exhaust mechanism; a plurality of exhaust hole forming regions disposed on the facing surface apart from each other and each having a plurality of exhaust holes; a plurality of discharge holes disposed for each of the exhaust hole forming regions on the facing surface to surround each of the plurality of exhaust hole forming regions and configured to discharge the gas; a diffusion space disposed to be shared by the plurality of discharge holes, where the gas supplied to the main body portion is diffused to be supplied to each of the plurality of discharge holes; and an exhaust path disposed in the main body portion to be connected to the exhaust holes and opened to the exhaust space in order to exhaust the gas discharged from the discharge holes into the exhaust space.

Provided are methods for treating neuropathic pain by administering to a subject in need thereof a compound comprising phenyl-indole scaffold, wherein the compound has a modulatory effect on cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB.sub.1R). Pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds comprising phenyl-indole scaffolds and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers are also provided, along with methods of using the same.

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A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, to receive a second RRC parameter related to a CORESET wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set in the CORESET, wherein the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a first time duration, the number of consecutive OFDM symbols for each set is determined based on the second RRC parameter, the first time duration is determined based on a RRC parameter included in the first parameter. The first RRC parameter include a third RRC parameter indicating a first symbol for each of the one or more than one sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot, the first duration is determined as one slot, the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot.

A method for indicating a power saving mode, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receiving first Downlink Control Information (DCI), where the first DCI is DCI that is not used for scheduling data, and the first DCI is used to indicate a first cell of the terminal to switch to or activate a target power saving mode.

A control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to perform a setting for forwarding a packet destined for first software to a second computer on a switch on a communication path from a first computer to the second computer during a migration of the first software from the first computer to the second computer, the first computer being a computer in which the first software and second software configured to communicate with the first software run, and a deletion unit configured to delete the setting from the switch when the migration of the first software is completed. Thus, the control apparatus shortens the time during which the setting of data forwarding remains at the switch.

A delivery management server, connected to a sender terminal and a carrier terminal over a network, includes a registration means for writing destination information of a delivery object received from the sender terminal and a first image in which a random pattern on a surface of the delivery object is captured, into a storage means in association with each other; a matching means for performing matching between a second image in which a random pattern on a surface of the delivery object is captured, received from the carrier terminal, and the first image stored in the storage means; and a presentation means for displaying the destination information associated with the first image stored in the storage means on a terminal screen of the carrier terminal, on the basis of a result of the matching.

A system for chip-removing machining of a workpiece and for measuring and evaluating force and torque during the chip-removing machining of the workpiece includes a machine tool with a tool for chip-removing machining of the workpiece; a device for measuring force and torque during chip-removing machining of the workpiece; and an evaluation unit for evaluating measured value data of the device. The measuring device includes a measuring unit installed in the machine tool and rotates with the tool about an axis of rotation during chip-removing machining. The evaluation unit is stationary. The measuring unit generates measured values of force and torque. The measuring device includes a control unit that transmits measured values as measured value data in a wireless manner directly to the evaluation unit with a transmission power in the range of 0.1 mW to 10 mW.

A method and encoding unit for encoding a block of pixels into a compressed data structure determines a set of Haar coefficients for a 2×2 quad of pixels of the block of pixels, which set includes a plurality of differential coefficients and an average coefficient. A first portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the differential coefficients and includes a first set of bits which indicates an order of the magnitudes of the differential coefficients, and a second set of bits which indicates a sign and an exponent for each of one or more of the differential coefficients which are non-zero. A second portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the average coefficient determined for the 2×2 quad of pixels. The compressed data structure is stored.

A manufacturing method of a composite substrate capable of suppressing damage due to heat treatment after bonding, and a composite substrate manufactured by the method are provided. The manufacturing method of a composite substrate according to the present invention is a manufacturing method of a composite substrate in which a piezoelectric wafer, which is a lithium tantalate wafer or lithium niobate wafer, and a support wafer are bonded together. This manufacturing method is characterized by a step of bonding a piezoelectric wafer and a support wafer, and a step of performing heat treatment of the wafer bonded in the step of bonding, with the non-bonded surface of the piezoelectric wafer being a mirror surface.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) transmission with slot aggregation. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a grant scheduling a slot aggregated transmission in a plurality of aggregated slots and triggering an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) transmission in one of the plurality of aggregated slots. The method includes determining one or more of the plurality of aggregated slots to transmit the A-CSI transmission. The method includes transmitting the A-CSI transmission in the determined one or more of the plurality of aggregated slots.

An apparatus including: a base plate; a guide rail being disposed on the base plate; a sliding bar with a first side being disposed on the guide rail, wherein the sliding rail includes a wedge on a second side of the sliding bar opposite the first side; and a heat sink, wherein the base plate and the heat sink form a slot for insertion of a pluggable module at a front of the slot.

A life log management device 1A mainly includes an image retrieval unit 31A and a display control unit 33A. The image retrieval unit 31A is configured to retrieve an objective image Iobj in which a target user is photographed from a database 22A of installation camera images generated by a camera installed in a public place. The display control unit 33A is configured to display life log information based on the objective image Iobj on a display device 7A.

A method of applying fragrance to a fabric substrate includes bleaching a cotton fabric substrate, mercerizing the cotton fabric substrate, and preparing the cotton fabric substrate for dyeing. The method includes making a foam containing a bonding material made of an acrylic polymer or a carboxylated, heat-reactive, styrene-acrylic copolymer, a surfactant, water, and microcapsules of a fragrant material in a ratio of about 40% bonding material, about 2% surfactant, about 45% water, and about 13% microcapsules of a fragrant material. The cotton fabric substrate is passed through a foam applicator where the foam is applied to the cotton fabric substrate using a top applicator of a foaming machine to apply the foam to a face of the fabric substrate in a wet-pickup range of 25% to 10%.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive part, a controller module and a sealing resin. The substrate has a substrate obverse surface and a substrate reverse surface facing away from each other in a z direction. The conductive part is made of an electrically conductive material on the substrate obverse surface. The controller module is disposed on the substrate obverse surface and electrically connected to the conductive part. The sealing resin covers the controller module and at least a portion of the substrate. The conductive part includes an overlapping wiring trace having an overlapping portion overlapping with the electronic component as viewed in the z direction. The overlapping portion of the overlapping wiring trace is not electrically bonded to the controller module.

The high-frequency treatment device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a heating chamber that accommodates a heating target; an oscillator; at least one feeder; a detector; and a controller. The oscillator generates high-frequency power having an arbitrary frequency in a predetermined frequency band. At least one feeder supplies incident microwave power based on the high-frequency power to the heating chamber. The detector detects the incident microwave power and reflected microwave power returning from the heating chamber to at least one feeder. The controller causes the oscillator to execute a frequency sweep and measures a reflection characteristic based on the incident microwave power and the reflected microwave power for each heating condition including a frequency. The controller determines, based on a reflection variation range indicating a change in the reflection characteristic for each heating condition, a heating condition to be used next. According to the present aspect, various heating targets can be optimally heated.

An integrated circuit device including processing circuitry, communications circuitry configured to provide a communication link with a communication apparatus external to the integrated circuit device, and a memory accessible by the processing circuitry and by the communications circuitry, the memory comprising a memory region to which the processing circuitry has write access and to which the communications circuitry has read access, in which the processing circuitry is configured to write information to the memory region indicative of one or more use conditions of the integrated circuit device, and in which the communications circuitry is configured to access the memory region and to provide the information indicative of the one or more use conditions of the integrated circuit device via the communication link.

A catheter system is disclosed. A catheter system comprises a catheter module and a magnetic robot, which can be coupled to the catheter module, wherein: the catheter module comprises a catheter having an accommodation space formed on the front end thereof, and a rotational magnet that is rotatable; and the magnetic robot comprises a body and a magnet member, which is coupled to the body and induces magnetism with the rotational magnet.

A hearing system includes a hearing instrument for capturing a sound signal from an environment of the hearing instrument. The captured sound signal is processed, and the processed sound signal is output to a user of the hearing instrument. In a speech recognition step, the captured sound signal is analyzed to recognize speech intervals, in which the captured sound signal contains speech. In a speech enhancement procedure performed during recognized speech intervals, the amplitude of the processed sound signal is periodically varied according to a temporal pattern that is consistent with a stress rhythmic pattern of the user. A method for operating the hearing instrument is also provided.

A particle arrangement transportation device includes: a base material in which is formed a flow channel from an inlet port-side opening through which a solution containing particles to be an object of arrangement and transportation is introduced to an outlet port-side opening; an electrode which is formed along the flow channel on a wall surface of the base material being exposed in the flow channel; electrodes which are formed along the flow channel in the base material on both sides of the flow channel; and a power supply which applies an AC voltage between the electrodes.

The present disclosure provides a printed circuit board with a plated through hole. The through hole covered by a solder pad at both ends of the through hole. At least two pins are plugged into the through hole, one of which with its head end being thermal contacted with one of the solder pads. Another pin's head end being thermal contacted with the other solder pad. The at least two pins are thermal contacted with one another. Thermal dissipation rate is increased with the structure of the through hole.

The present application relates to a synchronous rectification sampling control circuit, method and chip. The control circuit includes a withstand voltage switch tube Q2, a power supply switch tube Q3, a positive phase power supply driving module, a detection control module, and a negative phase power supply module. The withstand voltage switch tube Q2 includes a withstand voltage source, a withstand voltage grid and a withstand voltage drain, in which the withstand voltage drain is configured to connect a secondary winding power supply circuit in a synchronous rectification circuit of a transformer to obtain a supply voltage and output a positive or negative sampling voltage at the withstand voltage source.

Provided are binder particles for an all-solid-state battery with which an all-solid-state battery having excellent battery characteristics can be obtained even in a situation in which the all-solid-state battery is produced by a dry method. The binder particles for an all-solid-state battery are formed of a polymer and have a cohesion of not less than 1% and less than 30% and a volume-average particle diameter D50 of not less than 10 μm and not more than 100 μm. Moreover, a composition for an all-solid-state battery contains these binder particles for an all-solid-state battery and solid electrolyte particles. Furthermore, a functional layer for an all-solid-state battery is formed from this composition for an all-solid-state battery. Also, an all-solid-state battery includes this functional layer for an all-solid-state battery.

A comparator including: first and second input transistors connected to control signals at first and second nodes of the comparator; latch circuitry; at least one controllable offset-correction component having an input terminal and connected to control the signal at one of the first and second nodes based on an offset-correction signal provided at its input terminal; for each controllable offset-correction component, an offset correction circuit configured to provide the offset-correction signal provided at its input terminal; and control circuitry. The control circuitry controls the at least one offset-correction circuit to: control an amount by which the offset-correction signal is adjusted; and/or in a bypass operation, connect the input terminal of the at least one controllable offset-correction component to a bypass-operation reference voltage supply; and/or in a maintenance operation, control the charging-operation voltage supply and/or the bypass-operation voltage supply to control leakage of the charge stored on the holding capacitor.

Provided is an imaging device capable of reliably achieving both widening an angle of view and an improvement in productivity. An imaging device 100 includes a pair of camera modules 2 each including an imaging element 4 and a lens unit 3, in which optical axes OA of the lens units 3 are arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the pair of camera modules 2 has a configuration in which the imaging element 4 and the lens unit 3 are relatively arranged such that a center C of the imaging element 4 is separated from the optical axis CA by the same distance in the same direction. With respect to the posture of one camera module 2, the other camera modules 2 is arranged in an inverted posture in which the other camera modules 2 has rotated around a rotation axis RA along the optical axis OA. To read directions Dh, Dv in which signals are read from the imaging element 4 and that have been set in advance in one camera module 2, read directions Dh, Dv, in which signals are read from the imaging element 4 of the other camera module 2, are set to be opposite.

A spray ionization device comprising: a first pipe body that has a first flow path which allows a liquid to flow therethrough, and has, at one end thereof, a first outlet through which the liquid is sprayed out; a second pipe body that surrounds the first pipe body; and a third pipe body that surrounds the second pipe body with a space interposed therebetween, that has a second flow path allowing a gas to flow therethrough, and that has a second outlet at the one end. At least the leading end part of the third pipe body including the second outlet is made of an electrically conductive material so as to serve as an electrode. Charged droplets can be sprayed from the second outlet by applying an electric field to droplets sprayed from the first outlet using a power supply connected to the electrode.

In an electric rotating machine apparatus according to the present disclosure, noise-removal capability is secured by adopting a structure in which an external terminal is connected with a protruding portion, of a control circuit board in a control unit, that protrudes from a through hole of an electromagnetic shield and in which a filter unit is provided. Because a conventional dedicated wiring board for mounting the filter unit thereon is not required, the foregoing structure can contribute to downsizing and cost reduction. In addition, the foregoing structure can contribute to downsizing and cost reduction of an electric power steering apparatus equipped with the electric rotating machine apparatus according to the present disclosure.

A method and device for encoding a stereo sound signal comprise stereo encoders using stereo modes operating in time domain (TD), in frequency domain (FD) or in modified discrete Fourier transform (MDCT) domain. A controller controls switching between the TD, FD and MDCT stereo modes. Upon switching from one stereo mode to the other, the switching controller may (a) recalculate at least one length of down-processed/mixed signal in a current frame of the stereo sound signal, (b) reconstruct a down-processed/mixed signal and also other signals related to the other stereo mode in the current frame, (c) adapt data structures and/or memories for coding the stereo sound signal in the current frame using the other stereo mode, and/or (d) alter a TD stereo channel down-mixing to maintain a correct phase of left and right channels of the stereo sound signal. Corresponding stereo sound signal decoding method and device are described.

The end-face incident type semiconductor light receiving device has a first light absorbing region on the main surface side of the semiconductor substrate and causes light incident from the end-face of the semiconductor substrate to enter the first light absorbing region by reflection or refraction, and the first reflective section is provided on the main surface side of the semiconductor substrate to cause light transmitted through the light absorbing region to enter the first light absorbing region, and a single second reflective section is provided on the back surface for causing the light reflected by the first reflective section and transmitted through the first light absorbing region to reflect directly toward the first light absorbing region.

A bellows as gangway protection between two movably connected car bodies or a jetway has a roof and two side parts facing one another. At least the two side parts have a multiplicity of folds or corrugations formed of a bendable sheet material. Each fold or corrugation has a narrow and a longitudinal side. Two folds or corrugations abutting one another are joined along their longitudinal sides. At least one fold or corrugation has at least one reinforcing section and at least two normal sections. The reinforcing section has a thickness greater than the normal sections. The reinforcing section has a narrow and a longitudinal side. The longitudinal side primarily extends in the direction of the longitudinal side of the fold or corrugation. An extension of the narrow side of the reinforcing section is a maximum of 75% of an extension of the narrow side of the fold or corrugation.

A display device includes: a display panel including: a base substrate; a thin film transistor layer provided on the base substrate and including a semiconductor layer, a gate insulation film, a plurality of first wiring lines, an interlayer insulation film, and a plurality of second wiring lines, all of which are stacked in a stated order; a light-emitting element layer provided on the thin film transistor layer; and a sealing film provided on the light-emitting element layer; and an image capturing unit provided on a base substrate side of the display area of the display panel, wherein in a plan view, the plurality of second wiring lines, in an area overlapping the image capturing unit, have portions respectively overlapping the plurality of first wiring lines.

A chargeable atomic battery (CAB) includes a plurality of CAB units and a CAB housing to hold the plurality of CAB units. Each of the CAB units are formed of a precursor compact including precursor material particles embedded inside an encapsulation material. The precursor material particles include a precursor kernel formed of a precursor material that is initially manufactured in a stable state and convertible into an activated material that is an activated state via atomic irradiation by a particle radiation source. Upon the precursor material being converted, the precursor material is in a partially depleted state such that an initial portion of the precursor material is depleted and a recharge portion of the precursor material is convertible into the activated state via atomic irradiation by the particle radiation source for recharging the chargeable atomic battery.

A method for video communication includes: selecting a first virtual object on a first video communication interface and obtaining associated first virtual object information, displaying a first virtual reality video image and a second virtual reality video image on the first video communication interface, the first virtual reality video image corresponds the first virtual object information and a first user feature, and the second virtual reality video image corresponds second virtual object information and a second user feature; and playing a target virtual audio, the target virtual audio including one or both of a first virtual audio or a second virtual audio, the first virtual audio corresponds to first voice data and the first virtual object information, and the second virtual audio corresponds to second voice data and the second virtual object information.

Deterioration of gas barrier properties due to sedimentation of aggregates in a coating liquid is decreased or minimized. A coating liquid for producing a gas barrier laminate contains a carboxy group-containing polymer, polyvalent metal-containing particles, a high molecular weight dispersant with an acidic group, and an organic solvent, and has a pH in a range of 4 to 6 at 25° C.

There is described a ultra-wide band (UWB) communication device, comprising:

i) a UWB antenna, configured to receive a UWB signal from a further UWB communication device, and
ii) a control device, configured to
iia) determine an angle of arrival (β) based on the received UWB signal,
iib) determine a distance between the UWB communication device and the further UWB communication device, and thereby
iic) compensate for a distance determination disturbance using the determined angle of arrival (β).

Further, a UWB communication system and a method of determining a distance are described.

Embodiments of this application disclose an information reporting method, an information processing method, an apparatus, and a device. The method in embodiments of this application includes the network device obtains a routing prefix included in local routing information, and information about a neighboring peer set corresponding to the routing prefix, and sends a local route monitoring message including the routing prefix and the information about the neighboring peer set to a first device. The neighboring peer set includes a source peer set and/or a destination peer set, the source peer set includes one or more source peers, the source peer is a peer that advertises original routing information including the routing prefix to the network device, the destination peer set includes one or more destination peers, and the destination peer is a peer to which the network device advertises destination routing information including the routing prefix.

A storage system. In some embodiments, the storage system includes a plurality of object stores, and a plurality of data managers, connected to the object stores. The plurality of data managers may include a plurality of processing circuits. A first processing circuit of the plurality of processing circuits may be configured to process primarily input-output operations, and a second processing circuit of the plurality of processing circuits may be configured to process primarily input-output completions.

A system for controlling a pitch of an endless track vehicle for driving the endless track vehicle in a given direction; monitoring a pitch angle of the endless track vehicle while moving along the given direction; and upon determining that the pitch angle is varying, controlling the driving of the endless track vehicle to control a rate of variation of the pitch angle of the endless track vehicle. The endless track vehicle may include a body defining a load bearing surface. Track(s) is rotatably mounted to the body to move the body. A motorization unit actuates the track(s). A drive system operates the motorization unit.

A computer-implemented method for predicting properties of a plurality of objects in a vicinity of a vehicle includes multiple steps that can be carried out by computer hardware components. The method includes determining a grid map representation of road-users perception data, with the road-users perception data including tracked perception results and/or untracked sensor intermediate detections. The method also includes determining a grid map representation of static environment data based on data obtained from a perception system and/or a pre-determined map. The method further includes determining the properties of the plurality of objects based on the grid map representation of road-users perception data and the grid map representation of static environment data.

A device is for an axial displacement of a hole saw for a hand-held drill, wherein the hole saw is coupled to the drill by a drive shaft, and the hole saw and an actuator are rotatably connected and positioned in a housing with a coupling for the drill. The actuator has an outer threaded portion which corresponds to an inner threaded portion in the housing so that the actuator and the hole saw are displaced axially along the drive shaft when the actuator rotates relative to the housing. The actuator is connected to the drive shaft via a slip clutch arranged to transfer and reduce a reduced torque from the drive shaft to the actuator.

The present invention relates to a hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle, in which hydroxyapatite is supported on a surface a spherical porous silica particle and inner surfaces of pores of the spherical porous silica particle, and in which the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle has a circularity of 0.760 or larger, a method for producing the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particles, and a composition containing the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle.

A transistor includes a wide bandgap semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a gate pad, and a gate runner. The gate electrode extends to a region where the gate pad is located and a region where the gate runner is located. The gate pad is connected to the gate electrode. The gate runner is connected to the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a first region connected to the gate pad, a second region connected to the gate runner, and a third region and a fourth region arranged between the first and second regions in different positions in a first direction. In a cross section perpendicular to the first direction, the gate electrode in the fourth region has a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the gate electrode in the third region.

Provided are: a hydrocarbon adsorbent capable of adsorbing hydrocarbons, storing the adsorbed hydrocarbons up to a relatively high temperature, and desorbing the adsorbed and stored hydrocarbons at a relatively high temperature; an exhaust gas purifying catalyst composition using the same; an exhaust gas purifying catalyst; and a method for treating an exhaust gas. The hydrocarbon adsorbent comprises a zeolite having an MRT-type framework structure. The hydrocarbon adsorbent comprises a small-pore zeolite having a total desorption amount ZD.sub.1 of propylene desorbed at 50° C. or higher and lower than 300° C. being 3.5 mmol/g or less and a total desorption amount ZD.sub.2 of propylene desorbed at 300° C. or higher and 500° C. or lower being 0.5 mmol/g or more, per 1 g by mass of the small-pore zeolite, when adsorbing propylene at 50° C. and then heating from 50° C. to 500° C. under the condition of 10° C./min by a temperature-programmed desorption method.

This method includes: an initial crack forming step of forming an initial crack (CR1) on a first surface (MG1) of a mother glass sheet (MG); and a laser irradiation step of irradiating the mother glass sheet (MG) with laser light (L) to cause a crack (CR2) to propagate along a preset cleaving line (CL) through use of the initial crack (CR1) as a starting point. The laser irradiation step includes irradiating a second surface (MG2) of the mother glass sheet (MG) with the laser light (L) to heat a surface layer (SL) and an inner portion (IL) of the second surface (MG2), to thereby cause, through a thermal shock caused by the heating, the crack (CR2) to propagate in an entire thickness direction of the mother glass sheet (MG) while propagating along the preset cleaving line (CL).

A charge detection mass spectrometer (CDMS) includes an electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT), a processor, and a memory having instructions stored therein executable by the processor to (a) control the ELIT to trap an ion, (b) collect ion measurement information as the trapped ion oscillates back and forth through the ELIT, the ion measurement information including charge induced by the ion on a charge detector of the ELIT during each pass of the ion through the ELIT and timing of the induced charges relative to one another, (c) process the ion measurement information in the time-domain for each of a plurality of sequential time windows of the ion measurement information to determine a charge magnitude of the ion during each time window, and (d) determine the magnitude of charge of the trapped ion based on the charge magnitudes of each of the time windows.

Provided is a vacuum pump regarding which compression can be improved at low costs.

Included is a plurality of Siegbahn exhaust mechanisms in which a helical groove is provided to a stator disc. The Siegbahn exhaust mechanisms are provided on both faces of an upstream side and a downstream side of the stator disc. An end portion of the helical groove provided on the upstream side and a start portion of the helical groove provided on the downstream side are situated at least partially overlapping in a circumferential direction. A width of a channel of a switchback portion of the upstream side and the downstream side is equivalent or less than a depth of a channel of the Siegbahn exhaust mechanisms.

A device for handling a clothes line, the device being mountable to a support, the device comprising: a body; a pulley mounted to the body for mounting the clothes line thereto; an elongated guide mountable substantially vertically to the support, the body being mounted to the guide and movable longitudinally therealong; and an actuating assembly operative for selectively moving the body along the guide and for selectively rotating the pulley to move the clothes line when the clothes line is also mounted to another pulley and looped around the two pulleys under tension.

A device for insertion into a cavity, such as the vagina of a mammal, the device comprising a body for insertion into the cavity comprising a variable geometry retention mechanism, one or more active-impregnated matrices supported by the body, the matrix or matrices having (i) a ratio of exposed surface area to volume of 11.5:1 to 18.5:1, or (ii) a ratio of exposed surface area to weight of 11:1 to 17:1, or (iii) both (i) and (ii).

A method of treating episodic and chronic nasal congestion of the human nasal passages is disclosed. The present invention combines use of decongestant nasal spray, saline nasal spray, and nasal dilator therapies with minimized risk of incurring rebound congestion. The method may be used as both preventative and withdrawal therapies for patients experiencing rebound congestion. Nasal dilators, decongestant nasal spray and saline nasal spray are provided in kit form whereby users may practice the method.

A multi-pulse line-interphase transformer converter includes an electric part that includes magnetic components configured to be connected to a three-phase AC grid, and an electric part that includes a multi-phase voltage system configured to be connected to a common DC capacitor. The electric part splits each AC grid phase n times into two phases, resulting in a plurality of intermediate phases at an internal interface, each intermediate phase corresponding to a pulse of the multi-pulse line-interphase transformer converter. The intermediate phases are connected to the multi-phase voltage system. The multi-phase voltage system comprises bridges with actively controlled switches. The bridges are connected in parallel to the common DC capacitor.

A flexible pump comprises: a flexible pump balloon comprising multiple non-stretchable tubular flexible films that have a shuttle-shaped cross-section, are arranged in a ring array, and are spliced adjacently, a middle section of each tubular flexible film being a fill area saturated with a liquid medium with high breakdown strength, and a positive electrode and a negative electrode being fixed on a surface of one side of the middle section of each tubular flexible film in a radial direction and symmetrically located on two sides of an axial reference plane of the middle section respectively; and a pair of rigid end covers. The flexible pump solves the technical problems of liquid transport and pressurization.

Provided is a method of controlling a bitrate of a user equipment (UE), the method including: receiving bitrate control information from a base station (BS); changing a bitrate by a value determined based on the bitrate control information; transmitting, to the BS, information notifying that the bitrate has been changed; and communicating with another UE at the changed bitrate.

The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display device. The system includes: a first optical element and a second optical element arranged successively long an incident direction of an optical axis of human eyes and a first lens group located on in optical axis of in miniature image displayer. The first optical element is used for transmitting and reflecting an image light from the miniature image displayer. The second optical element includes one optical reflect on surface. The first optical element reflects the image light refracted b the first tens group to the second optical element, and then transits the image light reflected by the second optical element to the human eyes. The effective focal lengths of the first sub-lens group and the second sub-lens group are a combination of positive and negative.

A method for propelling of a vehicle comprising a power train with an electric motor connected to a location in the vehicle intended for mounting of an energy supply unit intended for driving of the electric motor during normal operating conditions of the vehicle is described. The method comprises the steps of: connecting an electric power source to a power connection element mounted on the vehicle and being connected to the electric motor and to the location, disconnecting the location in order to accomplish a direct connection between the power connection element and the electric motor and propelling the vehicle by means of the electric motor powered by electricity from the electric power source. A method for manufacturing of a vehicle comprising a power train with an electric motor and a vehicle comprising a power train with an electric motor are also described herein.

A circuit and a method for eliminating a spurious signal are provided. The circuit includes a phase detector, a spurious estimation and regeneration device, and a phase shifter. After an actual clock signal containing a spurious signal is obtained, the contained spurious signal is estimated based on the reference clock signal that does not contain the spurious signal. Reverse adjustment is performed on the actual clock signal based on the estimated spurious signal to eliminate the spurious signal in the actual clock signal, ensuring eliminating the generated spurious signal by performing reverse adjustment, improving the signal transmission quality, thereby solving the problem of reduced signal quality due to that the spurious signal cannot be suppressed in generation according to the conventional technology.

A data interface sleep and wakeup method includes receiving data information sent by a second electronic device, where the data information includes sleep information, and setting, based on the sleep information, at least one data interface to either a sleep state or a wakeup state.

A work vehicle includes a vehicular body and a work implement including a blade. The vehicular body includes a controller that controls an operation of the work implement and an acceleration sensor. The controller controls a blade propulsive angle θ of the blade based on an output from the acceleration sensor.

A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer a charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit, a first charge modulation unit to which the charge is transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit by the charge transfer unit, a second charge modulation unit, a charge accumulation unit configured to accumulate a charge overflowing from the photoelectric conversion unit during an accumulation period, a modulation switching unit configured to couple or divide the first charge modulation unit and the second charge modulation unit, and a capacitance connection unit configured to couple or divide the second charge modulation unit and the charge accumulation unit, in which, in a state of the first charge modulation unit alone and a state where the first charge modulation unit and the second charge modulation unit are coupled by the modulation switching unit, the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit is modulated into a voltage signal, and voltage signals having different conversion efficiencies are continuously read, and the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge overflowing from the photoelectric conversion unit during the accumulation period are modulated into a voltage signal and the voltage signal is read in a capacitance obtained by coupling the first charge modulation unit, the second charge modulation unit, and the charge accumulation unit.

A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a light-receiving substrate, a circuit board, and a plurality of first connections. The light-receiving substrate includes a plurality of light-receiving circuits provided with photoelectric conversion elements. The circuit board is directly bonded to the light-receiving substrate and includes a plurality of address event detection circuits that detects individual changes in voltages output from the photoelectric conversion elements of the plurality of light-receiving circuits. The plurality of first connections is provided at a joint between the light-receiving substrate and the circuit board to electrically connect the light-receiving circuits and the address event detection circuits corresponding to each other.

The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes as well as methods of using such enzymes or variants thereof.

A power conversion device includes: a power converter connected to an AC grid to which a load is connected; and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a harmonic compensation unit that includes a current command generation unit and a limit coefficient calculation unit and compensates for harmonic current contained in load current. The current command generation unit generates compensation current desired values for respective frequency components, and corrects the compensation current desired values using corresponding limit coefficients, to generate compensation current commands for respective frequency components. The limit coefficient calculation unit calculates each limit coefficient, on the basis of the compensation current desired value for each frequency component, and maximum voltage and maximum current that the power converter can output.

In an example, a method comprises receiving, at a processor, a digital model representing an object to be produced by additive manufacturing. The method may comprise receiving, at the processor, an indication that a first selected region of a surface of the object is to have a first coating applied after printing. The method may further comprise applying a first predefined surface roughness pattern to the first selected region of the surface of the digital model.

A beam report method and a device are provided. The method is performed by a terminal device, and includes: sending a beam report, where the beam report is obtained by performing measurement based on at least one of a reference signal (RS) of a first TRP and an RS of a second TRP, and for the beam report, referring to or prioritizing the first RS of the first TRP.

An XR-based system (virtual reality, augmented reality, or mixed reality system), is provided to visualize and resolve at least one condition of a subject. A dynamic virtual representation of the subject's body is generated based on the captured physical traits and movement of the subject's body is captured by at least one motion tracking device, and rendered in the extended reality environment. The dynamic virtual representation is synchronized with the movement of the body of the subject, generating a virtual representation of at least one condition of the subject in response to one or more inputs, overlaying or rendering the virtual representation of the condition of the subject on the virtual representation of the body of the subject, and receiving and processing one or more inputs representing one or more attributes of the condition to adjust the virtual representation of the condition of the subject in the extended reality environment.

A queue analysis apparatus (2000) estimates a position and an orientation of each object (20) included in a target image (10). The target image (10) is generated by a camera (50) that captures the object (20). The queue analysis apparatus (2000) generates a queue line (40) that expresses, by a linear shape, a queue included in a queue region (30) being a region representing a queue in the target image (10), based on a position and an orientation being estimated for each object (20) included in the queue region (30).

A sample input interface for inputting samples into a detecting unit of an in-vitro diagnostic analyzer. The sample input interface comprises a sample input port comprising an outer input-port side configured for plugging-in an open end of a sample container and an inner input-port side, an aspiration needle comprising an upstream end and a downstream end, where the downstream end is fluidically connected or connectable to the detecting unit and where the upstream end is configured to alternately couple to the inner input-port side and to a fluid supply port. The outer input-port side is further configured to alternately couple to a fluid supply port while the upstream end of the aspiration needle is coupled to the inner input-port side in order to rinse the sample input port with fluid aspirated by the aspiration needle from a fluid supply unit via the sample input port.

A train control system includes: a sensor unit; a linear feature configured such that sensor information acquired by the sensor unit includes characteristic information and installed on a track where a train travels; a feature recognition unit calculating a difference value between first sensor information and second sensor information by comparison between the first sensor information acquired during forward monitoring by the sensor unit and the second sensor information acquired by the sensor unit when the linear feature is not shielded and recognizing a presence or absence of shielding of the linear feature based on the difference value; an intrusion determination unit determining a presence or absence of an intrusion into the track based on the presence or absence of the shielding and generating an intrusion determination result; and a train control unit controlling the train by generating a train control instruction based on the intrusion determination.

Provide are a stator, a rotor, and a rotating electrical machine that reduce cogging or ripple due to a gap between core divided sections. The stator comprises a plurality of core divided sections each having a cutout part extending along an. axial direction, and a plurality of pins provided for each of the core divisions adjacent to each. other and press- fit into pin press-fit holes formed by the cutout parts facing each. other. The plurality of core divided. sections are divided from each other at division surfaces each consisting of four or more constituent surfaces extending along the axial direction, the constituent surfaces including the three surfaces of a first surface closest to a magnetic gap part, a second surface second closest to the magnetic gap part after the first surface, and a farthest surface farthest from. the magnetic gap part. A pin press-fit surface that is one of the constituent surfaces other than the first surface and the second surface and provided with the cutout part has a normal direction oriented in an out-of-plane direction of the first surface or an out-of-plane direction of the second surface.

Methods and devices are provided for reducing the decoding latency introduced by LMCS. In one method, during decoding of a coding unit (CU), a plurality of reconstructed luma samples is selected from a first pre-determined region neighboring to a second pre-determined region where the CU is located, an average of the plurality of reconstructed luma samples is calculated, and the average of the plurality of reconstructed luma samples is used directly, without any clipping, in deriving a chroma residual scaling factor for decoding the CU.

A method for detecting a user's intent in an adaptive lower limb device includes providing the adaptive lower limb device. The lower limb device includes a device control unit. The device control unit includes activity controllers and at least one accelerometer. The acceleration features are measured via the at least one accelerometer. The measured acceleration features are determined whether they correspond to a tapping movement initiated by a user with an intent to switch from a first one of the plurality of activity controllers to a second one of the plurality of activity controllers. If the measured accelerating features correspond to the tapping movement, the control unit of the adaptive lower limb device is switched from the first one of the activity controllers to the second one of the activity controllers.

Methods and apparatuses for associating aperiodic SRS triggering state(s) with SRS resource sets or SRS CC sets are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting an Activation/Deactivation MAC CE to indicate or update the association between aperiodic SRS triggering state(s) and the aperiodic SRS resource set(s) for the SRS request field value carried by DCI format 0_1 or 1_1 or DCI format 2_3 with a higher layer parameter srs-TPC-PDCCH-Group=typeB or the SRS CC set(s) for the SRS request field value carried by DCI format 2_3 with the higher layer parameter srs-TPC-PDCCH-Group=typeA.

The invention relates to the use of a urease inhibitor in an absorbent article to maintain the pH of the wearer's skin in a range of 4.0 to 6.0, wherein the urease inhibitor is provided between the topsheet and the absorbent core and/or is provided in the absorbent core. The invention also relates to absorbent articles comprising a urease inhibitor.

Provided herein are indole compounds that bind to BF3 of an androgen receptor (AR), which can modulate the AR for the treatment of Kennedy's disease

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for repeatedly transmitting an uplink in a wireless communication system. A method by which a terminal repeatedly transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving configuration information related to repeated transmission of the PUSCH; receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling of the PUSCH; and repeatedly transmitting the PUSCH N times (an integer, greater than 1, of N) on the basis of the configuration information and the DCI. The PUSCH transmitted N times is circularly and sequentially mapped to a plurality of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states in an ascending order, may be grouped into M PUSCH groups (an integer, greater than 1, of N) for each PUSCH to which the same TCI is mapped, and frequency hopping may be individually applied to the M PUSCH groups.

The present invention prevents a movable arm part from being easily bent. This connector comprises: a male-side housing (10) which fits with a female-side housing (40); a seal ring (15) which is attached to the inner peripheral surface of the male-side housing (10) and seals the space with the outer peripheral surface of the female-side housing (40); a movable arm part (30) which is elastically deformable and formed on the male-side housing (10); and a stopper (37) for restricting movement of the seal ring (15), wherein the movable arm part (30) has a fulcrum part (31) and a displacement part (32) which extends from the fulcrum part (31) and can be displaced in a direction intersecting with the extending direction, and the stopper (37) has a shape which protrudes from the displacement part (32).

An antenna package according to an embodiment includes an antenna unit including a radiator, a transmission line extending from the radiator and an antenna ground pad disposed around the transmission line, and a circuit board electrically connected to the antenna unit. The circuit board includes a core layer, a circuit wiring layer disposed on one surface of the core layer, the circuit wiring layer including a signal transmission wiring electrically connected to the transmission line of the antenna unit and a first ground pattern bonded to the antenna ground pad, and a ground layer disposed on an opposite surface facing the one surface of the core layer. The ground layer does not overlap a portion of the antenna ground pad except for a region bonded to the first ground pattern in a planar view.

A method for joining two substantially planar fiber-composite structural components, includes stacking the two components on a support jig to overlap along a joining region. A lower component end section within the joining region borders a gap between the upper component and the jig, where the upper component is unsupported by the jig. The gap is bordered on an opposite side of the lower component end section by a filling portion of the upper component or a planar filler element supported by the jig. The lower component is joined to the upper component within the joining region by applying temperature and pressure to the components. A width of the gap allows the upper component to elastically deform along the gap under the pressure and bend down into the gap to abut the jig along the gap and thereby compensate thickness tolerances between the components during the pressure application.

When a disconnection detecting circuit detects failure, a controller of a temperature controller manipulates a duty ratio to distribute the duty ratio to normal heating rollers. Since the amount of heat decreased by failure of a heating roller can be compensated for by the other heating rollers, no defective drying will occur. It is not necessary to stop a printing process immediately when the disconnection detecting circuit detects failure, but a maintenance operation can be carried out after fully securing a preparation time for maintenance. The quick maintenance can be performed to restrain downtime of the printing apparatus.

A LIT-based bi-directional medium voltage converter topology includes active medium voltage switches that comprise low voltage switches connected in series and/or switch-cells in a cascode-configuration.

Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving multicast and broadcast service (MBS) information from a base station, identifying an MBS service that the UE desires to receive from the base station, based on the MBS information, transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection setup request message for the identified MBS service to the base station, based on a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) of the identified MBS service included in the MBS information, receiving RRC connection setup information from the base station, and receiving, from the base station, data corresponding to the identified MBS service, wherein the TMGI of the identified MBS service includes access category information for controlling access to the base station.

A power supply system includes a coupling device including a power conversion device, and one or more power supply units. Each of the power supply units includes a distributed power supply, a first interface outputting DC power to the power conversion device, an individual converter converting the DC power to AC power, and a second interface outputting the AC power output from the individual converter. The power conversion device includes a coupling side converter that converts the direct current power output from the power supply units to AC power, and an interface for outputting the AC power output from the coupling side converter. The power supply system includes a controller for controlling at least one of a corresponding one of the power supply units or the power conversion device based on communication information obtained by communication between the corresponding one of the power supply units or the power conversion device.

The present description concerns a method of manufacturing a device comprising at least one radio frequency component on a semiconductor substrate comprising: a) a laser anneal of a first thickness of the substrate on the upper surface side of the substrate; b) the forming of an insulating layer on the upper surface of the substrate; and c) the forming of said at least one radio frequency component on the insulating layer.

Provided is a bootstrap method for registering a charging station (CS), which was in an offline state, to an electric vehicle charging station management system (CSMS) and operating same. The bootstrap method comprises the steps of: storing at least partial bootstrap information in a CS so as to configure bootstrap information; connecting the CS to a CSMS by setting a security channel between the CS and the CSMS for maintaining registration information about the CS; and registering the CS to the CSMS.

A speaker and an electronic device are provided. The speaker includes a counterweight body, and a lower shell, a middle shell, an electric vibration plate, and a dome where the lower shell, the middle shell, and the electric vibration plate are matched to form an accommodating cavity, and the counterweight body is disposed in the accommodating cavity and is connected to a first surface of the electric vibration plate; the dome is disposed on a second surface of the electric vibration plate away from the counterweight body; and when a voltage is applied to the electric vibration plate, the electric vibration plate drives the dome to move.