When a cell phone attempts a roaming connection, it is connected to a roamed mobile communication network, without need for user's effort to perform a connection operation. When a home mobile communication network managed by a telecommunications carrier in contract with the user of the cell phone receives location registration information indicating that the cell phone has registered a location with the roamed mobile communication network, it transmits to the cell phone, priority access point information containing information about roamed mobile communication networks providing a packet communication service. The cell phone searches the roamed mobile communication networks and requests location registration with a roamed mobile communication network contained in the access point information received from the home mobile communication network.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal to receive a roaming service, a mobile communication system for providing a roaming service for the mobile communication terminal, and a roaming connection method.
2. Related Background of the Invention
In recent years, roaming services are provided for mobile communication terminals typified by cell phones. The roaming service is a service for providing a variety of communication services provided by a telecommunications carrier in contract with a user (hereinafter also referred to as a home carrier), for the user by use of communication facilities of another telecommunications carrier (hereinafter also referred to as a roamed carrier) affiliated with the home carrier. For example, when a user in contract with a Japanese telecommunications carrier uses an international roaming service in a foreign country, the user receives various communication services provided by the Japanese telecommunications carrier in contract with the user, through the use of communication facilities of a telecommunications carrier in the foreign country. Such technology about the roaming service is disclosed, for example, in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-63640).

Mobile communication terminal, mobile communication system, and roaming connection method


A message protection method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: When a terminal prepares to hand over from a first-standard system to a second-standard system, the terminal may not have a security context of the second-standard system after handover. Therefore, in the method of the present disclosure, the terminal performs integrity protection on a registration request message and a location update request message by using an integrity key in a security context of the first-standard system before handover. Both the registration request message and the location update request message are messages for triggering handover. Therefore, in the method, security protection is implemented on the message for triggering handover, thereby helping improve communication security.

Application of a new-standard system requires interaction with an old-standard system. For example, interaction with a second generation (2G) system needs to be considered when a third generation (3G) system is designed, interaction with the 3G system needs to be considered when a fourth generation (4G) system is designed, and interaction with the 4G system needs to be considered when a fifth generation (5G) system is designed.
In the prior art, a method for protecting a message for triggering handover between different standard systems is: If a terminal has a proper security context, the terminal protects the message by using the security context; and if the terminal does not have a proper security context, the terminal does not protect the message. The proper security context is a security context applicable to a standard system after handover.
With development of communications technologies, a new-standard system (for example, 5G) has a higher requirement on protection of a message for triggering handover between different standard systems. The requirement is specifically: Even if a terminal does not have a proper security context, the message still needs to be protected.
In the foregoing scenario of handover between different standard systems, currently, there is no corresponding solution to how to perform security protection on the message for triggering handover.


A virtual data warehouse (the functional equivalent of a conventional data warehouse) that provides aggregated views of the complete data inventory. The virtual data warehouse contains metadata, which is used to form a logical enterprise data model that is part of the database of record (DBOR) infrastructure. Each legacy back-end database system is published on the infrastructure, with its metadata extracted and used as noted above. The infrastructure software uses standard J2EE, JMS and reusable EJBs, for transactional unit requests, and ETL (extract-transform-load) tools for real-time bulk loading of data.

Due to the increased amounts of data being stored and processed today, operational databases are constructed, categorized and formatted in a manner conducive for maximum throughput, access time and storage capacity. Unfortunately, the raw data found in these operational databases often exist as rows and columns of numbers and code that appears bewildering and incomprehensible to business analysts and decision makers. Furthermore, the scope and vastness of the raw data stored in modern databases renders it harder to analyze. As a result, applications have been developed in an effort to help interpret, analyze and compile the data so that it may be readily and easily understood. This is accomplished by mapping, sorting and summarizing the raw data before it is presented for display, allowing individuals to more easily interpret the data and make key decisions based on the collected data.
Extracting raw data from one or more operational databases and transforming it into useful information is the function of data warehouses. In data warehouses, the data is structured to satisfy decision support roles rather than operational needs. Before the data is loaded into the data warehouse, the corresponding source data from an operational database is filtered to remove extraneous and erroneous records, cryptic and conflicting codes are resolved, raw data is translated into meaningful information and summary data that is useful for decision support, trend analysis or other end-user needs is pre-calculated. In the end, the data warehouse is comprised of an analytical database containing data useful for decision support.
In large enterprises, different organizations have, over the years, developed their own data warehouses, often particular to the type of data used by that organization. As a result, the ability to obtain an "enterprise view" of the company's performance is a difficult task, requiring hours of human effort to coordinate and evaluate all of the data from each data warehouse. Additionally, as companies merge and/or acquire other companies, the back-end database systems associated with the merged and/or acquiring entities must be subsumed into the existing systems. This has become a cumbersome activity and an issue that needs to be addressed.


A hydraulic tool including a frame having a hydraulic fluid conduit system; a hydraulic pump coupled to the conduit system; and a tactile feedback system. The tactile feedback system is coupled to the conduit system and is adapted to signal a user of an occurrence of a predetermined event.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a hydraulic tool and, more particularly, to a tool having a tactile feedback system.
2. Brief Description of Prior Developments
Battery powered hydraulic crimp tools are known. Some battery powered hydraulic crimp tools have a system for generating an audible sound, such as a "pop" when a predetermined hydraulic pressure is reached. This can be used to signal a user that a good crimp has been obtained. This sound can be generated by a pressure relief valve opening.
There is a problem with this type of audible system in that, if the audible pop is not very loud or non-existent, then the user may not realize that the crimp pressure was achieved. If the user continues to operate the tool motor without further crimping action, the battery will be drained unnecessarily. It is, therefore, desirable to provide an alternate type of feedback to the user which indicates that a predetermined crimp pressure was achieved so the user can stop the tool and thereby prevent unnecessary use of the battery (and premature draining of the battery). This is particularly desired in a noisy environment.


A method of flowing a current selectively with a nonvolatile switching device according to the present disclosure includes a step of configuring, in the nonvolatile switching device, any one of a first state in which a current does not flow between the electrode group, a second state in which a current flows selectively between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a third state in which a current flows selectively between the first electrode and the third electrode. When any one of the first state, the second state and the third state is configured, voltages V1, Va, Vb and Vc, which satisfy predetermined inequality set corresponding to the one of the first to third states, are applied to the control electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, respectively.

Patent Literature 1 discloses a nonvolatile switching device. FIG. 8 shows the prior nonvolatile switching device disclosed in FIG. 3 of Patent Literature 1.
As shown in FIG. 8A, the nonvolatile switching device comprises a substrate 11, a control electrode 12, a ferroelectric layer 13, a semiconductor layer 14, and first to third electrodes 15a-15c. The control electrode 12, the ferroelectric layer 13, and the semiconductor layer 14 are stacked in this order on the substrate 11. The first to third electrodes 15a-15c are provided on the semiconductor layer 14.
A voltage is applied between the control electrode 12 and the first to third electrodes 15a-15c to change the polarization direction of the ferroelectric layer 13.
In a case where a portion of the ferroelectric layer 13 has upward polarization direction, the portion of the semiconductor layer 14 stacked on this portion of the ferroelectric layer 13 has low resistance. This corresponds to the ON-state.
On the contrary, in a case where a portion of the ferroelectric layer 13 has downward polarization direction, the portion of the semiconductor layer 14 stacked on this portion of the ferroelectric layer 13 has high resistance. This corresponds to the OFF-state.
In FIG. 8A, only the portion of the ferroelectric layer 13 positioned below the third electrode 15c has the downward polarization direction. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 8B, a current flows selectively from the first electrode 15a to the second electrode 15b.

Method for operating a nonvolatile switching device


A light source device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a light source section including a first light source outputting light in a first wavelength range and a second light source outputting light in a second wavelength range in a same direction as the light in the first wavelength range; a wavelength converter that is excited by the light in the first wavelength range to output fluorescent light; a light condenser that concentrates the light in the first wavelength range and the light in the second wavelength range on the wavelength converter; and a multiplexer that transmits light in the first wavelength range and that reflects at least a portion of the light in the second wavelength range in accordance with incident angles of the light, and combines the light in the first wavelength range, the light in the second wavelength range, and the fluorescent light.

In recent years, a light source device using, for example, a laser diode (LD) and a fluorescent light body has been developed for a projection-type display apparatus (projector). A light source device for a projector uses a system in which a Ce-YAG (cerium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet) fluorescent light body is excited to output fluorescent light and red light and green light are obtained from the fluorescent light. However, a color gamut in this system is as narrow as about 60% in the BT2020 standard. In addition, in a case where display is performed using D65 that is defined as a white point in the sRGB standard, a red light component of fluorescent light is rate-limiting.
In contrast, for example, PTL 1 discloses a light source device in which balance of three reduced colors is improved by adding a laser that outputs light in a red wavelength range in an optical path aside from a laser in a blue wavelength range that is a light source for excitation of a fluorescent light body.

Light source device and projection-type display apparatus


A fire blocking system for building panels includes a fireproof block held in place between two beams or studs on opposing fastener members. The fireproof block is preferably held adjacent a slab or other structure, and is preferably of the same thickness. Thus, fire and smoke is prevented from or at least delayed from passing from one side of the structure to the other through the building panel (e.g., from passing from one floor to the next). The fire blocking system reduces the use of fire proofing materials required for building panels, while simultaneously improving the fire blocking capabilities of the building panels to meet building codes for fire resistance.

Building construction panels for walled external and surface structures, either prefabricated with embedded metal frames or cast-in-place concrete building panels, are manufactured with a wide array of materials and techniques. Since the resistance of the building to fire is directly related to the material used in the building structure and construction panels, many efforts were made to improve fire-rated wall construction components and assemblies. In the case of building panels with metal frames, model building codes require certain building elements to meet a specific fire resistance rating.
Current strategies of fireproofing buildings generally involve two approaches. One is to modify the composition of insulating materials in the panel by including flame retardant additives or inorganic additives or both. Another method is to coat or layer the building panels with fire-resistance materials or additional panels. One example of a fire resistant construction panel is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,028,854 (Diggs); a fireproof modular building with a frame comprising prefabricated non-flammable tubular wall columns adapted for circulating the non-flammable fluid. U.S. Pat. No. 5,167,098 (Blackwelder) discloses a fire-resistant building system that comprises stacked sheets of gypsum type board and overlapping metal sheets. U.S. Pat. No. 6,755,907 by Westerman, et al., which describes a gypsum composition made with a styrene butadiene latex additive and methods of manufacturing wallboard for improved properties. Such strategies, however, do not provide solutions for some known concerns; e.g. high cost due to increased installation time and materials, potential detachment of layered panels or plates, and reduced structural strength of the panels that is caused by altering panel density and integrity.
There is a need in the art for an improved fire blocking method for building panels and more specifically to block the spread of fire in a building while providing good mechanical strength and high fire resistance in the most cost- and space-efficient manner.


System for producing an oxygen-rich gas comprising (a) a primary gas mover including a first and a second compressor, wherein the primary gas mover is characterized by a weight Wp; (b) a drive motor adapted to drive the first and second compressors; (c) a rechargeable power supply characterized by a weight, Wb; and (d) a pressure/vacuum swing adsorption unit adapted to separate the pressurized feed air into an oxygen-rich product at a product flow rate Fp and an oxygen-depleted waste gas, wherein the adsorption unit comprises a plurality of adsorber beds containing an adsorbent and characterized by a total adsorbent weight Wa; and wherein the combined weight, Wt, of the adsorbent, the primary gas mover, and the rechargeable power supply is characterized by the expression0.75 Fp<Wt<2.02 Fpwhere Fp is in liters per min (at 23° C. and 1 atma pressure), and Wa, Wp, and Wb are in pounds.

The supply of therapeutic oxygen to patients in homes and other residential settings is an important and growing market in the health care industry. A segment of this market includes the development and commercialization of portable oxygen concentrators, particularly units that can be carried easily by patients requiring continuous oxygen therapy. A portable and easily-carried oxygen supply may be provided by stored liquid or compressed oxygen with an appropriate vaporization or pressure regulation system and a gas delivery cannula. Alternatively and preferably, oxygen may be supplied by a small air separation device carried by the patient that supplies gaseous oxygen at the desired purity, flow rate, and pressure. Power for operating the device can be provided by a rechargeable power supply, typically a rechargeable battery. The small air separation device may be an adsorption-based system using a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process.
Respiratory oxygen usage rates typically range up to about 5 lpm (liters per minute at 23° C. and 1 atma pressure) for ambulatory patients with moderate oxygen requirements. The design of an easily-carried, rechargeable, portable oxygen concentrator in this product range should achieve an appropriate balance among product gas flow rate, weight, and power supply life or run time (i.e., the operating time between power supply recharges). This balance requires the proper choice of numerous operating and design parameters and presents a significant challenge to engineering designers. In a small adsorptive air separation unit, for example, design parameters may include product purity, product delivery pressure, type of process cycle, process cycle pressure envelope, adsorbent, number and dimensions of adsorbent beds, type of gas mover, type of power supply, gas flow control methods, electrical control systems, and materials of construction.
There is a need in the art for methods to design portable adsorption-based oxygen generation systems that provide the required gas supply rates and run times with minimum system weight. This need can be met by optimization methods that enable designers to balance these requirements while specifying appropriate process and mechanical parameters for these systems.

Weight-optimized portable oxygen concentrator


Modified medical syringe with a flow regulator for the administration of anaesthesia, which allows for anaesthesiologists to handle the needle, control continuous aspiration and administer the anaesthetic with a single hand, thereby preventing intravascular injections. It comprises a flexible tube, designed to be introduced inside the barrel, which supplies the anaesthetic; a cylindrical body located on the rod, equipped with a protuberance along a semicircle located on the proximal side of the body and a through-hole wherein one end of the flexible tube may be introduced; a cylindrical cap located inside the syringe barrel, equipped with a longitudinal groove along its cylindrical side, which is designed to house the aforementioned flexible tube; a preloaded spring around the rod located between the cap and the support disk; and a pressurization device connected to the flexible tube.

Nerve blocks are an increasingly used option for providing adequate surgical anaesthesia, post-operative analgesia or treating various chronic pathologies; it is performed by depositing a local anaesthetic, at sufficient volume and concentration, at the adequate site or sites by means of a needle; i.e. as close as possible to the nerves without puncturing the blood vessels that accompany them. To this end, it is very important to always perform aspiration prior to the injection.
As may be seen from the preceding paragraph, performing a correct nerve block is dependent upon the location of the areas of the body where the anaesthetic is to be applied, on the basis of anatomical references or the use of neurostimulation devices or ultrasound and ultrasonography techniques.
The fact that anaesthesiologists use ultrasound scanning or neurostimulation in order to locate the nerves to be blocked entails that one of their hands handles the device whilst the other handles the needle; for this reason, controlling both the aspiration and the administration of the anaesthetic to be injected must be left to another person or requires complex contraptions that may be handled with other parts of the body, for example, the feet, by pressing down a pedal.
The present invention proposes a device that allows for anaesthesiologists to handle the needle and continuously control both aspiration and administration of the anaesthetic when desired, with a single hand, thereby preventing potential undesirable intravascular injections.

Modified medical syringe with a flow regulator for the administration of local anaesthetic


A file box includes a main board and a bottom board. The main board includes four spaced vertical notches in one face thereof such that the main board is foldable to form four sides of the file box. The face of the main board further has a fifth notch formed in a lower section thereof and extending along a length thereof for securely holding the bottom board when the main board is folded along two inner notches of the four notches. A pair of adhesive tapes are provided to securely hold two sides of the main board together to form a complete file box.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a file box, and more particularly to a paper file box which is formed by a foldable main board and a bottom board.
2. Description of Related Art
Paper file boxes are generally constructed by gluing four side boards and a bottom board together. Although the paper file boxes may avoid environmental problems, the structure strength thereof is insufficiently strong in the gluing areas. A further drawback of the conventional file boxes is that they are not foldable after gluing and thus occupy a considerable space. The present invention provides an improved design to mitigate and/or obviate the above-mentioned drawbacks.


A system for treating patients includes a first magnetic device including a set of four magnetic discs arranged in an array, the four magnetic discs including two having negative magnetic poles lying in a first plane and two having positive magnetic poles lying in the first plane, wherein the two magnetic discs having negative magnetic poles extend along a first diagonal line and the two magnetic discs having positive magnetic poles extend along a second diagonal line that crosses the first diagonal line, and a housing containing the four magnetic discs for maintaining the magnetic discs in the array arrangement, the housing including an alignment marker for aligning the first magnetic device on a patient.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to treating patients for health issues, and more specifically relates to systems, devices and methods that use muscle response testing and multi-polar magnetic devices for treating patients for health issues.
2. Description of the Related Art
For centuries, particular locations on the body, referred to as acupuncture or acupressure points, have been used to aid the body in healing. Each of the points on a human body correlates to a particular electromagnetic line, meridian or "flow" that runs through the body. Hieroglyphics and pictographs from the Shang Dynasty, circa 1600-1100 B.C., suggest that acupuncture was in use during that time period. Chinese documents from the beginning of the first century contain the earliest written record of acupuncture points.
The mummified remains of Ötzi, an iceman estimated to be 5,300 years old, had tattoos on various locations of his body that correlate to acupuncture and meridian points. DNA evidence suggests that Ötzi had genetic markers associated with reduced fertility. It was also found that Ötzi had whipworm, an intestinal parasite, which would have caused him to have abdominal complaints. Ötzi was also found to be suffering from arthritis. Among the tattoos found on his body, the tattoo behind his left knee is the location used today for individuals suffering from abdominal complaints, reproductive organ complaints, and vertigo, to name a few. The tattoo located on the inside of his ankle is used for improving digestion. In addition, his fingernails indicated that he had been sick three times in the six months prior to his death (cause of death was a wound), the last time lasting about two weeks. One of the tattoos is at an area of rejuvenation for the body. The placement of tattoos on Ötzi's body fits his scientifically discovered medical history perfectly, and in fact, if Ötzi went to a practitioner today, there is a good chance that those very same acupuncture points would be chosen to treat his ailments.
The use of acupuncture and acupressure has a more recent history as well. In 1683, a Dutch physician named Willem Ten Rhijne studied acupuncture for two years in Japan, and he mentioned it in an essay he wrote in a medical text on arthritis.
In 1943, Dr. Reinhold Voll, a medical doctor in Germany, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Western medicine provided him with no hope of a cure so he tried acupuncture and was able to completely heal himself. This experience started his quest to learn more about acupuncture. During his studies of acupuncture, he learned that the points used on the body for acupuncture were in fact more conductive of electricity than the tissue surrounding it. From this discovery he was able to develop the EAV Device (Electromagnetic Acupuncture according to Voll), which is a diagnostic machine that is still widely used today. It is believed that the extra conductivity at or around the acupuncture points is what makes the placement of therapeutic devices at these locations so effective in the treatment of health issues.
Today, acupuncture and other healing arts, such as Jin Shin Jyutsu®, are widely accepted. Medical acupuncture is taught in Harvard Medical School and the Helms Medical Institute, as well as at other well-respected medical schools. Acupuncture, Jin Shin Jyutsu, as well as other similar therapeutic techniques based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), have been implemented in many hospitals to help with pain and healing. Although not always fully understood in the West, the value of these ancient healing arts is finally being appreciated by Western medicine.
Magnetism has been used for centuries for healing health complaints, and is possibly even older than acupuncture. Magnetic energy influences every cell in the body. If the cells become depolarized, it has been observed that an individual will tire. Thousands of years ago, the Eastern belief was that the life force or Chi is generated by the Earth's magnetic field. Its use is recorded in ancient Egyptian writings and it is known that Cleopatra wore magnetic jewelry (i.e., a lodestone) on her head in the belief that it would help her maintain a youthful appearance.
The existence of electromagnetic energy and its effect on the human body is being studied more and more in Western medicine. Many prestigious institutions have made it a focal point of clinical trials with such research being conducted at Harvard Medical School, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Today magnetic therapies are accepted and used in many countries.
In 1964, Dr. George J. Goodheart, a doctor of chiropractic medicine, realized that basic chiropractic adjustments were not providing complete and long-term relief for patients' physical complaints. In response, Dr. Goodheart combined the knowledge of those before him with his own experiences involving the muscles of the body in relation to acupuncture therapy to create Applied Kinesiology, a unique method of balancing the electromagnetic lines or flows that run throughout the body. Applied Kinesiology describes a branch of holistic medicine that studies the relationship between muscle movement and the health of the human body.
He achieved significant results using his new methods and found a very important and specific relationship between the muscles and the rest of the body. He later discovered a diagnostic and treatment tool that he called therapy localization. He observed that if a patient touched a part of the body where there was a problem or "blockage," a weak muscle would become strong. From that observation, Dr. Goodheart realized he could use a muscle that was strong and go to various points on the body to detect a reflex or organ that created weakness. This weakness would show up in the muscle that was being tested. In this way problem areas could be identified and solutions could be found. For example, he discovered that if an individual was exposed to supplements that could help a patient, that the physical exposure of the individual to the correct supplement would make a weak muscle strong again.
There are many references that describe the underlying principals of Applied Kinesiology including "Applied Kinesiology," written by Tom and Carole Valentine of Rochester, Vt. (1985); "Your Body Doesn't Lie," written by John Diamond of New York, N.Y. (1980); and "Thorsons Introductory Guide to Kinesiology—Touch for Health," written by Maggie La Tourelle and Anthea Courtenay of London, England (1992).
Building upon the efforts of Dr. Goodheart and Applied Kinesiology, there is a growing body of medical evidence that indicates that many health issues, whether physical, mental or emotional, are rooted in the electromagnetic lines or flows of the body. Different flows feed different sections of the body and a disruption in the flow will cause various health issues. The electromagnetic lines, also referred to as meridians, work in the body in a similar way as the electrical wiring in a house. When a circuit breaker "blows," a section of the house fed by that current line loses power. It has long been observed that the removal of "blockages" of the meridian lines will restore good health. Different means have been used to stimulate these lines such as sharp stones, bone needles, and eventually metal needles, as well as hand techniques. Other methods used to "open" the blockages in electromagnetic lines include taping stationary magnets to a patient, magnetic beds, foot pads, plasters, etc, as well as various other types of machines.
Muscle response testing is a diagnostic methodology that uses the principals of Applied Kinesiology for determining a body's needs. Muscle response testing (MRT) is used widely by medical doctors, acupuncturists, chiropractors, osteopaths, veterinarians, and holistic dentists. There have been a number of books written on MRT including a seminal work written by Dr. David R. Hawkins in 1995.
During MRT, medical personnel will push down on a patient's extended arm while the patient resists the downward pressure. If the patient's nervous system is irritated for a period of time, a temporary short circuit will arise in the nervous system causing the arm being tested to momentarily weaken. During testing, medical personnel will irritate the nervous system by touching a sensitive area of the body, an acupuncture point or even by generating uncomfortable or irritating thoughts. Medical personnel may also ask a series of "yes/no" questions of the nervous system, looking for a weak or a strong response of the patient's extended arm. The weak or strong response reveals information about troubled areas in the body and provides additional information to medical personnel on how to treat the troubled areas.
MRT is used for virtually any question that can be asked of the body to make determinations about physiology, skeletal trauma, allergies, nutritional imbalances, emotional states or anything that may affect the body or the mind. MRT is a diagnostic tool that is only limited to the creativity of the practitioner's ability to ask a proper question. Once the information is ascertained, muscle testing may then be used to find out what the body or mind will respond to in terms of a resolution to the problem. Another benefit of MRT is that many of the problems that may be detected using MRT cannot be detected using conventional lab and exam tests and thus, are not discoverable except when using MRT.
There have been many efforts directed to using muscle response testing and applied kinesiology techniques. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,188,107 discloses a bi-digital O-ring test for imaging and diagnosis of internal organs of a patient. During the test, a patient forms an O-ring with a first hand by placing the finger tips of his thumb and one of his remaining fingers together, and a sample of tissue of an internal organ is placed in contact with the patient's second hand. The patient's internal organ is non-invasively externally probed with a probing instrument. The internal organ is the same type of organ as that of the sample. Simultaneously, a tester attempts to pull apart the O-ring shape of the first hand by means of the tester placing his thumb and one of the remaining fingers of each of his hands within the O-ring shape of the patient to form interlocking O-rings and pulling the thumb and the finger of the patient apart due to an electromagnetic field of the tissue of the sample interacting with an electromagnetic field of the internal organ being probed. This interaction is detected by the ability to pull apart O-ring shape, thereby permitting imaging of the boundaries of the internal organ being probed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,855,539 discloses a kinesiology testing apparatus having a base, and a foot treadle having a first end and a second end. The first end of the foot treadle is pivotally attached to the base. The apparatus includes a line having a first end and a second end, whereby the second end of the line is secured adjacent to the second end of the foot treadle. Means is provided for securing the first end of the line to a person's arm. When a person has his arm extended out parallel to a floor, a downward force exerted by a foot of the person upon the foot treadle transmits, via the line, a downward force upon the persons arm.
In spite of the above advances, there remains a need for improved systems, devices and methods for efficiently diagnosing medical conditions using muscle response testing and treating the medical conditions using magnetic devices.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

Multi-polar magnetic devices for treating patients and methods therefor


A centrifugal fan includes a spiral-shaped housing with a driving mechanism and multiple internally mounted centrifugal impellers. The driving mechanism is mounted on a circular base. At least two support brackets links the circular base to the spiral-shaped housing, wherein profiles of the support brackets are involute curves based upon the circular base. The multiple centrifugal impellers, driven by the driving mechanism, suck airflow into the spiral-shaped housing through void spaces among the support brackets. The centrifugal impellers are perpendicular to the support bracket profiles.

1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a centrifugal fan. More particularly, the present invention relates to a centrifugal fan with a noise reduction functionality.
2. Description of Related Art
As notebook PCs become thinner, less space is available for heat convection and heat dissipation components inside the notebook PC case housing. High-frequency components, such as the CPU (central processing unit) and graphics processing chip, also place limitations on heat dissipation designs. Thus, the mainstream method to dissipate heat is forced heat convection via a centrifugal fan.
A centrifugal fan employs a spiral-shaped flow channel design to convert dynamic air energy into static pressure so as to overcome the high air flow impedance inside the notebook PC case housing. However, high static pressure generating centrifugal fans face the dual challenge of reducing noise and improving heat dissipation efficiency. Noise can be divided into broadband noise and narrowband noise, wherein narrowband noise is preferably eliminated from a centrifugal fan.
FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a conventional centrifugal fan. A centrifugal fan 100 includes a spiral-shaped housing 102, which has a motor (not illustrated) and an internal centrifugal impeller 108. The motor is mounted behind the base 106, and three support brackets 104 links the base 106 to the remaining parts of the spiral-shaped housing 102. Three void spaces are formed between the three support brackets 104, the base 106 and the remaining parts of the spiral-shaped housing 102. When the motor rotates the centrifugal impeller 108, driven airflow is sucked along a direction 110 and then into the spiral-shaped flow channel through the void spaces. The driven airflow, which travels at a rate of 15-40 km/hr with relation to the spiral-shaped housing 102, is unavoidably incident into the support bracket 104. Crashing impacts against the support bracket 104, which perpendicularly links to the base 106 and the spiral-shaped housing 102, generates high-frequency, narrowband noise.


In order to prevent a noise from being generated by the contact of a fixed meshing gear and an elevation meshing gear when a level of a steering wheel is adjusted, a fixed gear is fixed to an outer surface of a vertical plate of the fixed bracket, a lock plate is held by a hold member provided at a base of a leaf spring, and the engagement of the meshing gears is disengaged by a leg provided in the leaf spring. An inner surface of the vertical plate is always elastically urged toward the outer surface of the elevation bracket.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a tilting type steering apparatus for enabling adjustment of a level of a steering wheel which steers a car.
2. Related Background Art
A level adjusting apparatus for a steering wheel called a tilting type steering apparatus to permit to change a level of a steering wheel depending on a physical feature of a driver or an attitude of the driver has been known by Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-18121.
The tilting type steering apparatus may be constructed as shown in FIG. 6. A steering shaft 2 which is rotated by manipulating a steering wheel 1 fixed at a top (rear) end extends through a steering column 3, which is pivotally supported around a horizontal shaft 4 to a car body at a bottom (front) end thereof and vertically movably supported to the car body at a top end thereof.
An arcuate slot 6 centered at the horizontal shaft 4 vertically extends in a fixed bracket 5 which is fixed to the car body below a dash board. An elevation bracket 7 (see FIGS. 7 to 9 to be explained later) made of a metal plate having a sufficient rigidity which is bent is fixed by welding to the top of the steering column 3 at a portion facing the fixed bracket 5.
A tilt bolt extends through holes 8 (see FIGS. 7 to 9) formed in the elevation bracket 7 and the slot 6. A width d of a head 21 (see FIGS. 7 to 9) of the tilt bolt 9 is selected to be sufficiently larger than a width W.sub.6 of the slot 6 (d>W.sub.6) so that the head 21 does not pass through the slot 6. The head 21 is engaged in a manner to permit only elevational movement but prevent the rotation of the slot 6. The binding and the release of a tilt nut 10 (FIGS. 7 to 9) meshed with a male screw at an end of the tilt bolt 9 are carried out by manipulating a tilt lever 11.
In order to adjust the level of the steering wheel 1, the tilt bolt 9 is moved along the slot 9 of the fixed bracket 5 while the tilt nut 10 is loosened, and the tilt nut 10 meshed with the tilt 9 is bound by the tilt lever 11.
For example, when the tilt nut 10 is bound while the tilt bolt 9 is moved to the top end of the slot 9, the steering wheel 1 is in a position shown by a solid line in FIG. 6, and when the tilt nut 10 is bound while the tilt bolt 9 is moved to the bottom end of the slot 6, the steering wheel 1 is at a descended position as shown by a chain line in FIG. 6.
In order to prevent inadvertent movement of the level of the steering wheel 1 after the adjustment of the level of the steering wheel 1, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 59-43163 discloses a structure as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. A fixed gear 13 is screwed to an outer surface of one of a pair of vertical plates 12 which form a fixed bracket 5.
A lock plate 14 is provided between the fixed gear 13 and the tilt nut 10 meshed with the end of the tilt bolt 9. An elevation corrugated plate 17 and a fixed corrugated plate 16 of a wash board shape, which mesh with each other, are formed on an inner surface of the lock plate 14 and an outer surface of the fixed gear 13. The lock plate 14 is resiliently urged to the fixed gear 13 by a compression spring 15 provided between the tilt nut 10 and the lock plate 14.
When the tilt nut 10 is moved leftward in FIG. 8 to fix the steering wheel 1 after the adjustment of the level thereof, the lock plate 14 is inhibited to move rightward in FIG. 8. As a result, the lock plate 14 is inhibited from the elevation while the fixed corrugated plate 16 and and the elevation corrugated plate 17 are meshed with each other. Accordingly, the tilt bolt 9 which extends through the lock plate 14 is inhibited from the elevation so that the inadvertent change of the level of the steering wheel is prevented.
On the other hand, Japanese Laid-Open Utility Model Application No. 63-32963 discloses a structure as shown in FIG. 9. A lock member 18 is provided between a tilt nut 10 and a fixed bracket 5, and an elevation corrugated plate 17 formed on the lock member 18 is engageable with a fixed corrugated plate 16 formed on an outer surface of a fixed bracket. Projections 19 are formed at top and bottom ends of the inner surface of the lock member 18 so that the rotation of the lock member 18 is prevented by the engagement of the projections 19 with the slot 6. A compression spring 20 is provided between an outer surface of an elevation bracket 7 and the lock member 18 to apply a biasing force to the lock member 18 for releasing the meshing of the fixed corrugated plate 16 and the elevation corrugated plate 17.
When the tilt nut 10 is moved rightward in FIG. 9 to fix it after the adjustment of the level of the steering wheel, the lock member 18 is inhibited from the leftward displacement. As a result, the lock member 18 is prevented from the elevation while the fixed corrugated plate 16 and the elevation corrugated plate 17 are meshed with each other. Accordingly, the tilt bolt 9 which extends through the lock member 18 is inhibited from the elevation so that the inadvertent change of the level of the steering wheel is prevented.
In the structure shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 of the prior art structures described above, the lock plate 14 is kept resiliently urged to the fixed gear 13 by the resilient force of the compression spring 15. As a result, when the lock plate 14 is elevated to adjust the level of the steering wheel, the elevation corrugated plate 17 rides over the fixed corrugated plate 16 so that a person (driver) who manipulates the tilting steering apparatus feels uncomfortable feeling.
On the other hand, in the structure shown in FIG. 9, when the tilt nut 10 is loosened, the lock member 18 is urged leftward by the spring force of the compression spring 20 so that the elevation corrugated plate 17 formed on the lock member 18 and the fixed corrugated plate 16 formed on the outer surface of the fixed bracket 5 tend to be disengaged. Thus, noise will not be generated when the level of the steering wheel is adjusted so long as the dimensional accuracy of the components is assured.
In actual, however, it is difficult to secure the dimensional accuracy of the components in view of the cost, and when the level of the steering wheel is adjusted while the tilt nut 10 is loosened, noise may be generated from the meshing area of the corrugated plates 16 and 17 if a retract amount of the elevation corrugated plate is short.
In the prior art tilting steering column apparatus, the pair of vertical plates 12 which form the fixed bracket 5 are parallel to each other. In order to permit smooth elevation of the elevation bracket 7 within the vertical plates 12 when the level of the steering wheel is adjusted, a spacing D between the inner surfaces of the vertical plates 12 is selected to be sufficiently larger than a width W.sub.7 of the elevation bracket 7 (D>W.sub.7) as exaggeratedly shown in FIG. 10.
When the tilt nut 10 is bound to fix the level of the steering wheel, the spacing D is reduced because of the elastic deformation of the vertical plates 12 so that the inner surfaces of the vertical plates 12 and the outer surfaces of the elevation bracket 7 come closer to each other. On the other hand, when the tilt nut 10 is loosened to adjsut the level of the steering wheel, a distance L between the tilt nut 10 and a head 21 of the tilt bolt 9 is expanded and the vertical plates 12 are elastically deformed so that the inner surfaces of the vertical plates 12 and the outer surfaces of the elevation brackets 7 are moved apart from each other and a clearance 42 is formed between the inner surface of the vertical plate 12 facing the tilt nut 10 and the outer surface of the elevation bracket 7 as exaggeratedly shown in FIG. 10.
On the other hand, when the meshing of the fixed corrugated plate 16 and the elevation corrugated plate 17 are to be completely disengaged, it is necessary to form a clearance 43 between the corrugated plates 16 and 17 as exaggeratedly shown in FIG. 10. No problem will arise if the clearance 43 is formed between the fixed and elevation corrugated plates 16 and 17 when the tilt nut 10 is loosened, but in actual, a clearance 42 is first formed between the inner surface of the vertical plate 12 and the outer surface of the elevation bracket 7 and then the clearance 43 is formed. This is due to the fact that the elasticity of the vertical plates 12 is larger than that of the compression spring 20.
The above problem may be avoided if the elasticity of the vertical plates 12 is smaller than that of the compression spring 20 but a sufficiently large elasticity is required for the vertical plates 12. In addition, the increase of the elasticity of the compression spring 20 leads to the increase of the manipulation force of the tilt nut 10. Accordingly, it is difficult to make the elasticity of the vertical plates 12 smaller than the elasticity of the compression spring 20.
Further, when a stroke of the distance L between the tilt nut 10 and the head 21 of the tilt bolt 9 due to the manipulation of the tilt nut 10 is increased, the manipulation for adjusting the level of the steering wheel is rendered troublesome and it is difficult to adopt it.
On the other hand, in the structure shown in FIG. 9, when the tilt nut 10 is in the loose position, the meshing of the corrugated plates 16 and 17 is disengaged by the spring force of the compression spring 20. Accordingly, noise is not generated when the level of the steering wheel is adjsuted but it is hard to mesh the corrugated plates 16 and 17 with each other when the tilt nut is bound to fix the level of the steering wheel.
Namely, in the structure shown in FIG. 9, when the tilt nut 10 is bound while the peaks of the corrugated plates 16 and 17 face each other, the lock member 18 is urged to the outer surface of the fixed bracket 15 while the peaks abut against each other. When a vertical force is applied to the steering wheel under this condition, the level of the steering wheel will easily be changed.
Particularly in the structure shown in FIG. 9, the projections 19 formed on the lock member 18 are engaged with the slot 6 of the fixed bracket 5 in order to prevent the rotation of the lock member 18 but a certain clearance must exist at the engagement in order to permit the smooth elevation of the lock member 18. Because of this clearance, it is unavoidable that the lock member 18 is rotationally displaced even if it is small. When the lock member 18 is displaced, the apex of the fixed corrugated plate 16 and the apex of the elevation corrugated plate 17 are in a twisted positional relation so that the apexes of the corrugated plates 16 and 17 may easily abut against each other.
In the structure shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 as well as the structure shown in FIG. 9, since the coiled compression springs 15 and 20 are used to press the lock plate 15 or the lock member 18, the axial dimension (lateral direction in FIGS. 7 and 8) of the tilt bolt 9 increases.


A device (10) for cutting through cables (6) is provided with a jaw (30) having a top portion (31) and a bottom portion (32) which together define a notch (35). The device (10) is provided with a first and second stationary and co-operating sharp edges (33, 34) arranged at a downstream end (35′) of the notch (35) so as to form an angle between each other. The device further includes a rotary blade (50) provided with a body (51) having a tapering side (52), the body (51) being fastened to one of the portions (31, 32) of the jaw (33) so that the tapering side (52) is arranged in the notch (35) upstream from the first and second sharp edges (33, 34).

Thus, document U.S. Pat. No. 1,273,287 forms part of the technological background and not part of the technical field of the invention. That document describes a cable cutter suitable for being arranged on a bayonet and making use only of a pivoting knife in order to cut through said cables.
Cables, such as telephone cables or high-voltage electricity cables, constitute a significant danger for helicopters.
Because of the kinds of mission that they perform, helicopters fly at low altitude and run the risk at any time of coming into collision with a cable. Even if the pilot of the helicopter pays particular attention, it remains difficult to see a cable having a diameter of 1 centimeter (cm) or 2 cm, for example.
In forward flight, the helicopter thus runs the risk of striking a cable. Under such circumstances, the cable slides along the cockpit and then comes into contact with the rotor mast or else with the landing gear, and that can lead to a catastrophic situation.
It should be observed that most accidents that occur during low-altitude flights result from a helicopter colliding with a suspended cable.
Helicopter manufacturers have thus implemented devices suitable for cutting a cable while in flight in order to protect their helicopters in the event of an accident.
Document U.S. Pat. No. 4,407,467 describes a first device provided with a structure at the front of the helicopter, said structure supporting a plurality of explosive charges.
When the helicopter strikes a cable, the cable slides along the structure until it reaches an explosive charge that explodes on coming into contact therewith, thereby cutting through the cable.
That first device fulfils requirements; however it can be dangerous, since metal elements might damage the helicopter at the time of the explosion.
In addition, the carrier structure is found to be heavy, bulky, and not very aerodynamic.
Document WO 2006/068507 discloses a second device for cutting cables.
That second device recommends using pairs of electrodes mounted on the fuselage to cut through a cable, if any.
That second device differs completely from the first device, but it requires a constricting electrical installation.
Furthermore, that second device tends to present risks for personnel on the ground close to the aircraft.
Document U.S. Pat. No. 4,826,103 discloses a third device.
That third device includes a jaw provided with a top portion and a bottom portion that define a notch. That third device is also provided with a knife that is set into movement by an explosive charge to cut through a cable in the notch.
The presence of an explosive makes using that third device difficult or even dangerous, and also requires maintenance that is relatively constraining.
Finally, document FR 2 443 309 discloses a fourth device for cutting a cable under mechanical tension, said device comprising a pair of stationary sharp edges that co-operate with each other.
Those two sharp edges are then arranged in such a manner as to form an angle between them that produces a sloping plane effect or wedge effect while also presenting a cutting face to a cable that comes into contact with said sharp edges.
That fourth device is very effective for cables of medium diameter, of the order of 11 millimeters (mm), and/or suitable for withstanding a maximum force of about 80,000 newtons (N).
Similarly, that fourth device is effective at low speeds, lying in the range 20 kilometers per hour (km/h) to 120 km/h, but it is of limited effectiveness at faster or slower speeds that lie outside said range.


The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates an interactive game-powered search engine that serve the purposes of both users who may be looking for information as well as game participants who may desire to earn some reward or level of enjoyment by playing the game. More specifically, the system and method provides feedback to a user based on the user's input string or a string derived therefrom. The feedback can be a response or answer to the user's input in the form of text, an image, audio or sound, video, and/or a URL that is provided by one or more game participants when there is some degree of consistency or agreement between the responses or when individual players have demonstrated good reliability in their responses.

The World Wide Web has become a popular reference tool to search for information due to its large collection of documents. However, finding information in such a large document collection can often be a challenging and time-consuming task. For example, a user must decide which search engine to use and how to best phrase his/her search request. To verify the results, some users may even repeat the search using slightly different words or changing the order of the words. More and more, looking for the desired information can be rather cumbersome. In addition, the abilities of search engine users can vary immensely. For instance, information that might take one user a few seconds to find may take several minutes or be impossible for another user to find.
Coincident with some of these concerns, numerous systems have been built for community question answering. Examples of these conventional systems include Usenet newsgroups where a user posts a question to a particular topic group and persons or people who monitor that group individually respond to the question. Google Answers is similar except that user offers to pay money to have their questions answered. Naver, a Korean search engine, even offers points for those who individually answer a question posted by another user. The systems currently in operation do provide answers for users, however, the integrity or accuracy of the answer may not or cannot be checked or known, and often the user is still left with the task of determining the right answer. Another problem with these systems is that the throughput is limited because a relatively small number of people participate in providing answers.


An inflator for a vehicle occupant restraint system. The inflator includes a cylindrical outer wall having a longitudinal axis and a first opening formed therealong for enabling fluid communication between an interior of the inflator and an exterior of the inflator. A first inflation fluid source is positioned within the outer wall. A baffle system is fluidly interposed between the first inflation fluid source and the outer wall for conveying inflation fluid between the first inflation fluid source and the outer wall, and for cooling the inflation fluid. A second opening enables fluid communication between the first inflation fluid source and the baffle system, and a third opening enables fluid communication between the baffle system and the outer wall. The first opening is substantially radially aligned with the second opening. An expanded metal mesh buffer may be positioned between within the baffle system. Openings enabling fluid communication between the baffle system and the exterior of the baffle system, any openings provided within the baffle system, and the opening enabling fluid communication between the interior and exterior of the inflator housing are cooperatively positioned to direct the flow of an inflation through the baffle system in directions substantially perpendicular to and/or substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. Also disclosed is a vehicle occupant restraint system incorporating an inflator in accordance with the present invention.

Installation of inflatable occupant restraint systems, generally known as "airbags," as standard equipment in all new vehicles has intensified the search for smaller, lighter and less expensive restraint systems. Accordingly, since the inflator used in such systems tends to be the heaviest and most expensive component, there is a need for a lighter and less expensive inflator.
A typical inflator includes a cylindrical steel or aluminum housing having a diameter and length related to the vehicle application whereby the propellant is contained therein. The inflator is generally provided with an internal filter comprising one or more layers of steel screen of varying mesh and wire diameter. Gas produced upon combustion of the propellant passes through the filter before exiting the inflator. Particulate material, or slag, produced during combustion of the propellant in a conventional system is substantially removed as the gas passes through the filter.
Much research and development in gas generant technology has been devoted to reducing the smoke, soot and other particulates produced during combustion. Inhalation of the particulates by a vehicle occupant after airbag activation can be hazardous. Various gas generant formulations and inflator design have been developed in which the particulates resulting from combustion of the gas generant are substantially eliminated or significantly reduced.
Nevertheless, certain types of propellants are still desirable notwithstanding the relatively high percent of combustion solids produced, given favorable characteristics such as burn rate, sustained combustion, and repeatability of performance.


A device management system which makes it possible to promptly and easily change and reset device-related operation rights assigned to users. User's operation rights with respect to a device are set, and a system policy is set which is used to restrict the operation rights with respect to the device and is to be applied to a plurality of specific users. It is determined whether or not the system policy is to be applied. If it is determined that the system policy is to be applied, the user's operation rights with respect to the device are restricted based on the system policy irrespective of whether or not operation rights have been set.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a device management system, a device management apparatus, a device management method, a program for implementing the method, and a storage medium storing the program.
2. Description of the Related Art
Some recent copying machines have a function of printing print jobs from an external client, a function of sending read originals to an external apparatus by electronic mail or file transfer, and so on, as well as a function of copying originals. Such copying machines with a plurality of functions are generally referred to as MFPs (multi function peripherals).
If apparatuses such as the above-mentioned MFPs have a function of sending read information to an external apparatus, they have an increased risk of leaking information. Accordingly, it is becoming increasingly important to manage e.g. the usage of MFPs by users.
To prevent information leakage, it has been desired to impose restrictions on the usage of various functions by users or user groups (hereinafter collectively referred to as users). In particular, in a case where many users share an MFP, which has many functions, it is desirable that restrictions be imposed according to combinations of users and MFP's functions.
To cope with such a case, there has been proposed a method of preparing roles in which restriction information is set with respect to various operations, and assigning roles to users to thereby impose restrictions on user's operations (see e.g. Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2002-202945). Also, there has been proposed a method of preparing a plurality of roles, and interchanging roles or assigning a plurality of roles to a user at a time so as to impose restrictions on user's operations.
For example, assume that business conditions become worse or the level of security is temporarily raised in a company where MFPs are used for business. In such a case, specific restrictions are imposed, e.g. the usage of certain functions of the MFPs is prohibited for a predetermined period of time, or users permitted to operate the MFPs are restricted for a predetermined period of time.
However, to impose such specific restrictions, it is necessary to reedit MFP operation rights written in roles assigned to target users, which requires a large number of man-hours and a large amount of time. As a result, extra costs are required. Similarly, when the specific restrictions are removed to reset the original restrictions after the lapse of a predetermined period of time, it is necessary to reedit MFP operation rights written in roles, and as a result, extra costs are required.
For example, if a certain role is assigned to a plurality of users, a change in the role affects not only users whose rights are desired to be restricted but also other users. Also, if a plurality of users are assigned to a user whose right is desired to be restricted, a change in only one role may not affect user's rights depending on final right calculation rules used in a case where a plurality of roles are assigned to a user. For example, if a role A and a role B that permit "Color Printing" are assigned to a user, "Color Printing" is permitted if permission takes priority according to final right calculation rules. That is, even if the role A is changed to prohibit "Color Printing", permission by the role B takes priority according to the final right calculation rule. Thus, the plurality of roles have to be changed.
If the number of users, the number of roles, and the number of functions to be restricted using the roles, which are managed by the system, are increased, a large number of changes have to be made, which requires a large amount of time. Also, there may be a case where the number of errors such as forgetting to make changes increases, making it impossible to impose desired restrictions.

Device management system, device management apparatus, device management method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program


A system is provided that includes a security system that protects a secured area, a passive infrared (PIR) detector of the security system that detects intruders within the secured area, a pyroelectric element carried by the PIR detector, the pyroelectric element being tilted downwards towards a floor within the secured area to receive and detect a predominant portion of energy from an area extending outwards from the PIR detector and directly in front of the PIR detector and a relatively small portion of energy from a floor area directly below the PIR detector, and a pivoting door having first and second positions mounted below and directly adjacent the pyroelectric element, the door pivoting upwards to the first position where the relatively small portion of energy is blocked and pivoting downwards where the relatively small portion of energy is transmitted onto the pyroelectric element.

Systems are known to protect people and assets within secured areas. Such systems are typically based upon the use of one or more sensors that detect threats within a secured area.
Threats to people and assets may originate from any of a number of different sources. For example, a fire may kill or injure occupants who have become trapped by a fire in a home. Similarly, carbon monoxide from a fire may kill people in their sleep.
Alternatively, an unauthorized intruder, such as a burglar, may present a threat to assets within the area. Intruders have also been known to injure or kill people living within the area.
In the case of intruders, sensors may be placed in different areas based upon the respective uses of those areas. For example, if people are present during some portions of a normal day and not at other times, then sensors may be placed along a periphery of a space to provide protection while the space is occupied while additional sensors may be placed within an interior of the space and used when the space is not occupied.
In most cases, threat sensors are connected to a local control panel. In the event of a threat detected via one of the sensors, the control panel may sound a local audible alarm. The control panel may also send a signal to a central monitoring station.
While security systems work well, they are sometimes difficult to set up and use, especially when large numbers of sensors and different levels of security are involved. Accordingly, a need exists for better methods of expediting the setup of such systems.

Smart lookdown function switch design for intrusion detectors


Local areas of a visualized modeling language diagram are viewable at different levels of detail without losing information such as model elements and their connectivity. Multiple elements are associated with a group element, which has a visual portion derived from the appearance of a group member element. Connectors between group member elements and non-member elements are suppressed in favor of replacement connectors between the group element and the non-member element(s). The integrity of incoming and outgoing connections to the group is maintained relative to the rest of the model. Ungrouping elements restores the elements to their original state. Grouping can be applied locally to one or more parts of the visual model.

Modeling languages have been created to express structure, flow, and other information about software, organizations, and other systems which behave (at least in part) according to a set of rules. Modeling languages may be textual, graphical, or both. Textual modeling languages provide standardized keywords, which may have associated parameters, to represent concepts and relationships. Graphical modeling languages provide design diagrams with named symbols to represent concepts, and lines connecting the symbols to represent relationships between the concepts. Graphical modeling languages are sometimes known as visualized modeling languages, and their named symbols are sometimes known as elements.

Localized information-preserving levels in model visualization


An inflatable trim panel assembly (20) operable to provide a gas-filled cushion for protecting the vehicle occupant in an accident situation. The trim panel assembly (20) includes a support member (22), an elastic skin (24) attached to the periphery of the support member (22), and tethers (28) that are secured between the elastic skin (24) and the support member (22). The trim panel assembly (20) also includes an inflator (26) which, upon activation, supplies gas to the sealed area (30) between the elastic skin (24) and the support member (22) causing expansion of the elastic skin (24) and formation of an energy absorbing safety restraint cushion. The tethers (28) shape the elastic skin (24) so that the body of the vehicle occupant may be properly directed into the location for optimum safety restraint.

The present invention relates generally to vehicle air bag restraint systems and, more specifically, to an inflatable trim panel assembly for use in a vehicular air bag restraint system.
In the automotive industry, air bag restraint devices have become standard equipment in most passenger vehicles. Most commonly, the air bag restraint device is mounted in the dashboard and/or the steering wheel assembly of the motor vehicle. While the particular location of such air bag restraint devices may vary, each is typically designed for installation as a modular assembly. A conventional air bag module contains an inflator, a folded air bag and a deployment housing within which the air bag and the inflator are mounted. The deployment housing is typically secured to a rigid support structure within the steering wheel assembly, dashboard, door panel, or other air bag location.
Traditionally, most air bag restraint devices are mounted in a position to protect the vehicle occupant's upper torso and head when deployed in response to an accident situation. As is known, the use of such traditional air bag restraint devices, particularly in conjunction with the use of seat belts, has proven to reduce the severity of injuries and increase the survival rate of accidents. However, because conventional steering wheel and dashboard mounted air bag restraint devices are primarily designed to protect the uppermost part of the occupant's body, their use, without more, may leave the lower extremities of the occupant's body vulnerable to potential injuries.
It is also known in the art to deploy the air bag through a hinged door. Upon deployment of a low-mounted air bag assembly during an accident situation, the hinged door swings outward to release the air bag. A problem may arise if the impact caused by an accident thrusts the vehicle occupant into contact with the exposed door, potentially causing injury to the occupant's lower extremities. Thus, the need exists to develop alternative air bag restraint devices that advance the art and overcome the shortcomings associated with conventional air bag restraint devices.
The present invention is directed to a trim panel assembly having means for providing a gasfilled cushion for protecting the vehicle occupant during an accident situation. The trim panel assembly of the present invention finds particular utility in providing lower extremity safety restraint for vehicle occupants by providing an inflated knee bolster. When used as a knee bolster, the invention achieves optimum safety restraint by directing the knees of the vehicle occupant to a desired location for such restraint. In this regard, an expandable skin of the trim panel assembly can be inflated to form an energy absorbing gas-filled cushion having optional internal tethers that shape the cushion so as to guide the vehicle occupant's knees to a desired location for optimum safety restraint. As can be appreciated the present invention is not limited to use as a knee bolster. The concept of using an inflatable trim or skin can be incorporated into an inflatable door panel trim or an inflatable instrument panel trim.
The inflatable trim panel assembly of the present invention is advantageous over traditional air bag restraint devices in that it reduces material and assembly costs in view of the dual function of the expandable skin. Namely, the skin normally serves as a cover layer for a decorative trim panel and also serves as an inflatable cushion when expanded in response to a vehicular collision. The use of the expandable skin as contemplated by the present invention further reduces the material and assembly costs by eliminating the need for a folded air bag and a hinged door assembly through which the air bag is deployed.
In addition to the expandable skin, the trim panel assembly of the present invention includes a support member and a source of inflation gas, such as, for example, a pyrotechnic inflator. The support member can be a separate structure or an existing portion of the vehicle passenger compartment. The skin covers an associated energy absorbing pad and at least partially covers the support member and attaches to its peripheral surface. Upon activation, the inflator fills the area between the skin and the support member with pressurized gas for expanding the elastic skin to define a gas-filled cushion. As a further option, tethers are secured between the skin and the support member. The tethers are used to define the shape of the gas-filled cushion formed by the inflated skin. One end of each of the tethers is secured to a non-exposed surface of the expandable skin by sewing, ultrasonic welding, or the like. The other end of the tethers is secured directly or indirectly to the support member.
In response to an accident situation, a crash detection sensor sends a signal to the vehicle's crash management controller which, in turn, sends a signal to activate the inflator. Activation of the inflator fills the area between the elastic skin and the support member with pressurized gas, thereby causing the elastic skin to expand. Preferably, the gas is discharged through a nozzle in communication with the inflator. The gas discharged from discharge ports in the nozzle initially flows in a direction generally parallel to the uninflated skin, thereby allowing uniform expansion of the elastic skin. Radial flow can also be used to tailor the inflation characteristics of the skin.
In one alternative embodiment, the present invention contemplates the optional use of a foam material between the elastic skin and the support member. The foam material acts as a padding to dampen contact between the occupant and the support member.

Inflatable trim panel assembly for safety restraint systems


According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for using both a temporal zone of seismic data and conditioned amplitude spectra thereof to determine the underlying layer sequence. The instant invention is suitable both for determining layer positions and layer impedance magnitudes, that best describes the geologic sequence sampled by a band limited seismic source wavelet as reflected from the zone.

A seismic survey represents an attempt to image or map the subsurface of the earth by sending sound energy down into the ground and recording the "echoes" that return from the rock layers below. The source of the down-going sound energy might come, for example, from explosions or seismic vibrators on land, or air guns in marine environments. During a seismic survey, the energy source is placed at various locations near the surface of the earth above a geologic structure of interest. Each time the source is activated, it generates a seismic signal that travels downward through the earth, is reflected, and, upon its return, is recorded at a great many locations on the surface. Multiple source/recording combinations are then combined to create a near continuous profile of the subsurface that can extend for many miles. In a two-dimensional (2D) seismic survey, the recording locations are generally laid out along a single line, whereas in a three dimensional (3D) survey the recording locations are distributed across the surface in a grid pattern. In simplest terms, a 2D seismic line can be thought of as giving a cross sectional picture (vertical slice) of the earth layers as they exist directly beneath the recording locations. A 3D survey produces a data "cube" or volume that is, at least conceptually, a 3D picture of the subsurface that lies beneath the survey area. In reality, though, both 2D and 3D surveys interrogate some volume of earth lying beneath the area covered by the survey.
A seismic survey is composed of a very large number of individual seismic recordings or traces. In a typical 2D survey, there will usually be several tens of thousands of traces, whereas in a 3D survey the number of individual traces may run into the multiple millions of traces. Chapter 1, pages 9-89, of Seismic Data Processing by Ozdogan Yilmaz, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1987, contains general information relating to conventional 2D processing and that disclosure is incorporated herein by reference. General background information pertaining to 3D data acquisition and processing may be found in Chapter 6, pages 384-427, of Yilmaz, the disclosure of which is also incorporated herein by reference.
A seismic trace is a digital recording of the acoustic energy reflecting from inhomogeneities or discontinuities in the subsurface, a partial reflection occurring each time there is a change in the elastic properties of the subsurface materials. The digital samples are usually acquired at 0.002 second (2 millisecond or "ms") intervals, although 4 millisecond and 1 millisecond sampling intervals are also common. Each discrete sample in a conventional digital seismic trace is associated with a travel time, and in the case of reflected energy, a two-way travel time from the source to the reflector and back to the surface again, assuming, of course, that the source and receiver are both located on the surface. Many variations of the conventional source-receiver arrangement are used in practice, e.g. VSP (vertical seismic profiles) surveys, ocean bottom surveys, etc. Further, the surface location of every trace in a seismic survey is carefully tracked and is generally made a part of the trace itself (as part of the trace header information). This allows the seismic information contained within the traces to be later correlated with specific surface and subsurface locations, thereby providing a means for posting and contouring seismic data—and attributes extracted therefrom—on a map (i.e., "mapping").
The data in a 3D survey are amenable to viewing in a number of different ways. First, horizontal "constant time slices" may be taken extracted from a stacked or unstacked seismic volume by collecting all of the digital samples that occur at the same travel time. This operation results in a horizontal 2D plane of seismic data. By animating a series of 2D planes it is possible for the interpreter to pan through the volume, giving the impression that successive layers are being stripped away so that the information that lies underneath may be observed. Similarly, a vertical plane of seismic data may be taken at an arbitrary azimuth through the volume by collecting and displaying the seismic traces that lie along a particular line. This operation, in effect, extracts an individual 2D seismic line from within the 3D data volume.
Seismic data that have been properly acquired and processed can provide a wealth of information to the explorationist, one of the individuals within an oil company whose job it is to locate potential drilling sites. For example, a seismic profile gives the explorationist a broad view of the subsurface structure of the rock layers and often reveals important features associated with the entrapment and storage of hydrocarbons such as faults, folds, anticlines, unconformities, and sub-surface salt domes and reefs, among many others. During the computer processing of seismic data, estimates of subsurface rock velocities are routinely generated and near surface inhomogeneities are detected and displayed. In some cases, seismic data can be used to directly estimate rock porosity, water saturation, and hydrocarbon content. Less obviously, seismic waveform attributes such as phase, peak amplitude, peak-to-trough ratio, and a host of others, can often be empirically correlated with known hydrocarbon occurrences and that correlation applied to seismic data collected over new exploration targets.
Seismic data are limited, through, in one crucial regard: rock units that are relatively "thin" are often not clearly resolved. In more particular, whereas seismic reflection data can provide a near "geologic cross section" representation of the subsurface when the lithologic layers are relatively thick, the seismic image that results when the layers are thin is much less clear. This phenomenon is known to those skilled in the art as the seismic resolution problem.
Seismic resolution in the present context will be taken to refer to vertical resolution within a single seismic trace, and is loosely defined to be to the minimum separation between two seismic reflectors in the subsurface that can be recognized as separate interfaces—rather than as a single composite reflection—on the seismic record. By way of explanation, a subsurface unit is ideally recognized on a seismic section as a combination of two things: a distinct reflection originating at the top of the unit and a second distinct reflection, possibly of opposite polarity, originating from its base. In the ideal case, both the top and the bottom of the unit appear on the recorded seismogram as distinct and isolated reflectors that can be individually "time picked" (i.e., marked and identified) on the seismic section, the seismic data within the interval between the two time picks containing information about the intervening rock unit. On the other hand, where the seismic unit is not sufficiently thick, the returning reflections from the top and the bottom of the unit overlap, thereby causing interference between the two reflection events and blurring the image of the subsurface. This blurred image of the subsurface is one example of the phenomena known to those skilled in the art as the "thin bed" problem.
On the surface, the composite reflection from one or more thin beds is typically acknowledged to be the arithmetic sum (superposition) of the multiple returning reflections, taking into account the time separation between the events. However, when multiple returning waveforms overlap in time, the recorded seismic record will yield a confusing picture of the actual subsurface layer configuration and such interference makes it difficult to determine the number and thickness of beds contained within the composite reflection event.
Needless to say, the thickness of a subsurface exploration target is of considerable economic importance to an oil company explorationist because, other things being equal, the thicker the lithographic unit the greater the volume of hydrocarbons it might potentially contain. Given the importance of accurately determining layer thickness, it should come as no surprise that a variety of approaches have been employed in an effort to ameliorate the thin bed problem including deconvolution (to whiten and shorten the length of the returning waveform), wavelet processing (e.g., signature deconvolution), etc. Although any of these processes could potentially yield in dramatic changes in the character of the recorded seismic section and may shorten the length of the wavelet significantly, there are many instances where other techniques are needed.
General information related to the thin bed problem and to seismic exploration and processing in may be found within U.S. Pat. No. 5,870,691 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,131,071, the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set out at this point.
Heretofore, as is well known in the seismic processing and seismic interpretation arts, there has been a need for a method of identifying and interpreting thin bed reflections. Accordingly, it should now be recognized, as was recognized by the present inventor, that there exists, and has existed for some time, a very real need for a method of seismic data processing that would address and solve the above-described problems.
Before proceeding to a description of the present invention, however, it should be noted and remembered that the description of the invention which follows, together with the accompanying drawings, should not be construed as limiting the invention to the examples (or preferred embodiments) shown and described. This is so because those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains will be able to devise other forms of this invention within the ambit of the appended claims.

Seismic inversion of conditioned amplitude spectra


Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for talent-post matching, a device and a medium, which relates to the field of information matching and recruitment. The method includes: determining a resume feature representing a resume to be predicted according to a post submitted and the resume to be predicted; and predicting a matching degree between the resume to be predicted and the post by using a pre-trained predictive model according to a post feature of the post and the resume feature. With the method and the apparatus for talent-post matching, the device and the medium provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, the resume and the post may be matched automatically.

Recruitment is an important part of enterprise development. According to the actual needs of enterprise development, various scientific selection techniques are used to select suitable candidates for different posts (job positions) to achieve the best match among talents, positions and organizations, such that goals of assigning personnel to suitable posts according to their talents may be achieved.
At present, the talent-post matching is generally performed by the HR specialists screening the submitted resumes according to the post requirements.
There are several problems existing in the prior art: since the number of resumes delivered for each post is large, it is necessary to pay a large amount of labor cost to screen the resumes, resulting in a problem of high labor costs. Moreover, screening of the resumes depends to a great extent on the HR specialists' subjectivity, which leads to serious subjective problems of the screened results.

Method and apparatus for talent-post matching and computer readable storage medium

BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.


A skew adjusting apparatus includes: latching circuits that latch other signals in synchronism with transition timing of the signal level of a reference signal among signals transmitted with a plurality of communication cables; delay elements that are provided on the plurality of communication cables, and delay the signals transmitted with the plurality of communication cables, respectively; and a controller that controls the delay elements based on the outputs of the latching circuits to adjust skews between the signals.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a skew adjusting apparatus which is used for and is suitable for a remote unit that operates a server placed on a remote place with a keyboard, a mouse, and so on while a user is watching a display, as well as a transmitting and receiving system, and a skew adjusting method.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, there has been known a remote unit in which a remote server is connected to a display, a keyboard, and a mouse which are provided in the vicinity of a user via a LAN (local Area Network) cable, and the server is operated with the keyboard and the mouse while information is displayed on the display.
In the server side, a transmitting device which transmits signals from the server to the side of the display, the keyboard, and the mouse is provided as a piece of the remote unit, and in the side of the display, the keyboard, and the mouse, a receiving device which receives the signals transmitted from the transmitting device is provided as a piece of the remote unit.
To display an image on the display, the transmitting device transmits three types of RGB video signals to the receiving device with a plurality of signal lines which are connected between the transmitting device and the receiving device. However, when the signal lines connected between the transmitting device and the receiving device have lengths of several hundred meters and more, the lengths of signal lines transmitting a red signal, a green signal, and a blue signal, respectively, are different from each other, and hence differences between arrival times of the respective signals occur. A gap between the phases of the signals causes the color blur and the decrease in definition of characters displayed on the display. Therefore, a skew adjusting apparatus which adjust the differences between the arrival times of the respective signals is provided on the receiving device, so that skews between the signals are adjusted (see Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 10-13398).
FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a conventional skew adjusting apparatus provided on the receiving device. The receiving device in FIG. 1 is connected to the transmitting device with a LAN cable, and receives the RGB video signals, a horizontal synchronizing signal (Hsync), and a vertical synchronizing signal (Vsync) transmitted from the transmitting device via the LAN cable. Moreover, the receiving device transmits an operation signal input from the keyboard or the mouse to the transmitting device.
In the receiving device, a RGB receiver 201, a delay line 202, and an amplifier 203 are provided for each of RGB signal lines. The skews of the video signals received with the RGB receiver 201 are adjusted with delay elements of the delay line 202. The adjusted video signals are amplified with the amplifier 203, and then are output to the display.
In the receiving device, peak hold circuits 204, 205 and 206, comparators 207, 208 and 209, delay difference-integral circuits 210, 211, 212 and 213, AD (analog-to-digital) converter 214, and a CPU 220 are provided.
The peak hold circuits 204, 205 and 206 are connected to the respective RGB signal lines, and detect the peak values of the RGB signals. The detected peak values are AD-converted with the AD converter 214, and the AD-converted peak values are input to the CPU 220.
The comparators 207, 208 and 209 are also connected to the RGB signal lines, respectively. A reference voltage is input to the comparators 207, 208 and 209. When voltage levels of the RGB signal lines exceed the reference voltage, the comparator 207 outputs a notification signal to the delay difference-integral circuits 210 and 211, the comparator 208 outputs the notification signal to the delay difference-integral circuits 212 and 213, and the comparator 209 outputs the notification signal to the delay difference-integral circuits 210 to 213.
The delay difference-integral circuits 210 to 213 calculate delay-time differences between the blue signal as a reference signal and the red signal or the green signal, by integral. That is, the delay difference-integral circuits 210 calculates the advance-time (R-B) of the red signal from the blue signal as the reference signal, the delay difference-integral circuits 211 calculates the delay-time (B-R) of the red signal from the blue signal as the reference signal, the delay difference-integral circuits 212 calculates the advance-time (G-B) of the green signal from the blue signal as the reference signal, and the delay difference-integral circuits 213 calculates the delay-time (B-G) of the green signal from the blue signal as the reference signal. The pieces of the time information (i.e., the delay-time and the advance-time) calculated with the delay difference-integral circuits 210 to 213 are AD-converted with the AD converter 214, and are output to the CPU 220.
The CPU 220 controls the delay elements provided on the respective RGB signal lines based on the delay-time or the advance-time calculated with the delay difference-integral circuits 210 to 213, and performs skew adjustment between the red signal, the green signal and the blue signal.
However, the conventional skew adjusting apparatus in FIG. 1 uses the delay difference-integral circuits and the AD converter to measure the skews. Therefore, the circuit configuration of the conventional skew adjusting apparatus becomes complex and the cost of the conventional skew adjusting apparatus becomes expensive. Since the delay difference-integral circuits output analog signals, a program of the CPU which adjusts the difference between the phases of the RGB signals based on the measured skews becomes complex.

Skew adjusting apparatus, transmitting and receiving system, and skew adjusting method


An optical disk apparatus optically records and reproduces data from an optical information recording medium by an optical head. A first chamber is formed to accommodate at least an optical disk cartridge accommodating therein the recording medium and the optical head and is isolated from ambient air. The first chamber is spatially isolated from heat sources, such as a power supply or a circuit board package which needs cooling. Ambient air is supplied to the heat sources while bypassing the first chamber. In this manner, dust contained in ambient air is prevented from adhering to optical parts such as the optical disk and the optical head.

The present invention relates to an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus which records the information in or reproduces the information from an optical information recording medium, such as an optical disk, by means of an optical head, and more particularly relates to an arrangement of components of the optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for effectively preventing dust from adhering to the optical head.
An optical disk drive can record more than 1 GB of data in an optical disk with a diameter of 13 cm (5.25 inches) or 30 cm (12 inches) and is becoming widely used as a memory apparatus for electronic files or picture processing systems.
The optical disk drive is advantageous in that the optical disk is a recording medium with a large capacity and is exchangeable. To exchange the recording medium, a front loading mechanism as disclosed in Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 63-282955 is adopted. The optical disk is encased in an optical disk cartridge for preventing the information recording surface thereof from being exposed to the atmosphere and for ease of handling.
In the optical disk drive according to the prior art, an optical disk cartridge encasing therein an optical disk is mounted on a turntable, which is rotated by a spindle motor, by a loading mechanism. An optical head which records information to and reproduces information from the optical disk is radially movably carried on an optical head supporting portion. The optical head is moved along the optical head supporting portion by a linear motor. The displacement of the optical head is detected by a linear encoder and the moving speed thereof is detected by a speed sensor. A base which supports these mechanisms is supported on a frame through vibration insulating rubber members. The optical disk drive is further provided with a power supply, a cooling fan and a board package mounting electronic circuits to control the mechanisms.
The optical disk drive according to the prior art has a drawback in that dust adheres to optical parts including the optical head in a case where ambient air which contains the dust is sucked into the frame by the cooling fan when the optical disk is rotated within the optical disk cartridge to perform the recording or reproducing of information. Thus, the conventional optical disk drive has a problem in that an error may take place in recording information in or reproducing information from the optical disk due to lack of quantity of light by the adhesion of dust. It has been found that the adhesion of dust is mainly caused by the accumulation of dust contained in ambient air on the lens of the optical head. The ambient air is supplied to the board package and the power source which need cooling.

Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus