The Content Transform Proxy (CTP) service is an advanced Web proxy service, the basic function of which is to modify incoming HTTP requests having a server-side destination and/or outgoing HTTP responses. The CTP service is implemented by the CTP program, which resides on a host in a data communications network between an end user (the Web client) and a content server that the client is attempting to access. The HTTP request and/or an HTTP response is modified by making an HTTP request on the client side using a client web browser, processing the HTTP request on the server side using outgoing proxy rules, passing on the processed HTTP transaction to the server-side destination, returning the results of the processed HTTP request from the server-side destination, processing the HTTP response on the server side using incoming proxy rules, and returning the processed HTTP response to the client web browser on the client side.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to Web proxy services. More specifically, the invention relates to an advanced Web proxy service capable of modifying incoming and outgoing Web transactions.
2. Related Art
Various Web proxy services are currently available commercially. Examples include WebCleaner, Winproxy6, Webwasher, Portlet Bridge, and Squid Proxy. Webcleaner is a "C"-based, open source filtering HTTP proxy-HTML parser and filter. Winproxy6 is an Internet security proxy that provides anti-spyware protection, a firewall, antivirus protection, and Web filtering. Webwasher is a secure content management suite proxy that offers security solutions for individual threats (for example, worms and viruses in spam emails, malware on active Web pages, spyware, and ransom-ware), and that is hardware or software based. PortletBridge is a Web clipping proxy portlet for deployment within a Web portal. It is used to rewrite content from a downstream Website. The PortletBridge portlet makes downstream HTTP calls and uses CyberNeko and XSLT to do the Web clipping. It must operate in a portal environment and cannot be deployed remotely. Squid Proxy is an open source Web proxy cache server software used to proxy and cache HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and other URLs.
Although the commercially-available Web proxy services provide a variety of features, none of the above-described Web proxy services employ an XML-based rules and scenario scripting language, which would enable building and activating rules in real time. They also do not enable operator role and user, privilege-based rule visibility selection or provide a broad range of configurable scenario and/or rule-based activities, full bi-direction content filtering and/or blocking, full bi-directional content insertion, native bi-directional content routing and/or redirecting, full bi-directional content modification, or replacement and rule-based substitution of multiple types of Internet objects.
Network Web applications tend to be complicated and do not easily fit into a Web portal environment. None of the commercially-available Web proxy services is capable of executing content modification so as to enable complicated network Web applications to work through the portal.
The URLs that are contained in proxied pages must be encoded or "wrapped." All references (anchor tags, images, JavaScript code references, etc.) need to be modified, so that when the client requests the specific content, the reference is translated on the proxy server and the actual path is resolved. For traditional proxies, the reference on the proxy server is supported as part of the protocol specification. Other solutions have utilized JavaScript to dynamically rewrite a page on the client side. Alternatively, the information is embedded in the QUERY_STRING (the part of a URL that contains data to be passed to CGI programs) or passed in cookies that contain the host and port for the content. All of these solutions have significant limitations in accomplishing the desired function (hiding/retrieving/modifying HTTP responses without modifying the browser configuration).
It is to the solution of these and other problems that the present invention is directed.

System and method for modifying web content via a content transform proxy service


An ergonomic earth-working device includes a horizontal handle having a grip with an outer grip, an inner grip and an inner grip interface. The outer grip's ribbed and contoured surface provides easy grasping, while the inner grip interface connects the grip and handle. The handle connects at one end to a curved upper portion having an arc angle. The curved upper portion also connects to an angled portion vertical portion with an angle offset. The angled vertical portion also connects to a vertical shaft, which is perpendicular to a ground plane and removably attaches to a contoured tool member. The configuration of the horizontal handle, curved upper portion, angled portion and vertical shaft, as well as the location of the grip on the horizontal handle, provide an ergonomic advantage allowing users to direct an earth-working force and the contoured tool member straight down rather than at an angle.

Utility companies must post warning signs along utility lines to prevent commercial excavators from severing gas, electricity or other vital utility lines. Alternately, these signs may guide the utility companies when they unearth utility lines for replacement or repair. Warning signs also prevent private property owners from accidentally and hazardously, perhaps even fatally, digging up utility lines located on their property.
Twenty states, as well as the District of Columbia, have laws requiring the posting of notification signs after application of a commercial pesticide to a lawn or other grounds. According to a 2004 survey by the National Gardening Association, 66 million U.S. households used chemical pesticides and/or fertilizers on their lawns and gardens. In 2003 alone, homeowners spent $38 billion on landscaping activities.
These warning and notification signs are small placards or flags attached to the ends of wires or thin posts. The most common method of posting these signs is to grasp the placard or flag end and manually push the opposite end of the sign into the ground. Because these signs are relatively short, a worker must bend over to post them. In one day, a landscaping or utility worker may be required to place hundreds of signs.
One-half of all working Americans admit to have back pain symptoms each year. Frequent bending, as might be experienced by a worker planting numerous signs, can worsen these symptoms. Furthermore, other activities can also aggravate back pain. In gardening and landscaping, frequent bending to till or aerate soil, dig holes for planting or dig trenches also exacerbates back pain. This pain may cause loss of working hours for professional landscapers or make every day gardening activities difficult for hobbyists.
It is desirable to have an ergonomic tool that can install signs quickly and easily, and does not cause back pain.
It is also desirable to have an ergonomic tool for gardening, landscaping and lawn care activities, which does not require a user to bend.


A heavy-load driving device for a electronic watch is provided that assures reliable timekeeping operation and enables proper drive in accordance with the power supply voltage level. When drive command circuit generates an alarm-coincidence signal Sa, this signal Sa causes a preparatory judging circuit 10 to operate, so as to make a judgment, in accordance with the reduced power supply voltage level under a given load condition, as to whether or not to allow drive of a beeper device 31, a drive-enabling signal Svm being output if the judgment is to allow drive. By doing this, a heavy-load voltage detection circuit 21 starts to output a drive-time judgment signal Pvh which indicates the power supply voltage level judgment results. By means of the Svm signal, the a drive-signal control circuit 23 begins to operate, and at a drive condition selection circuit 25, in accordance with the signal Pvh, successive selection is made of a drive signal to be supplied to the beeper device 31 from the plurality of drive signals B75, B50, and B25 which are generated by the a drive-signal generating circuit 16, the selected drive signal driving the beeper device 31.

A heavy-load drive apparatus used for an electronic watch in the past, as already proposed by the applicant in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (KOKAI) No. 62-274289, has a battery voltage detection circuit which, in order to drive a beeper device which is the heavy-load means, detects the voltage level of a battery which serves as the drive power supply and outputs a drive-limiting signal continuously when this voltage level is below a prescribed value, and a drive level control circuit which, when the above-noted drive-limiting signal is input, controls the drive of the beeper device so that it is driven with a drive current that is smaller than when being driven normally, thereby enabling the operation of an alarm function without sacrificing the timekeeping function when the battery is worn, and also enabling the detection of battery deterioration in the electronic watch. There is also disclosure of a method for stopping the drive to the heavy-load means when the voltage level is below a prescribed value.
However, in the above-noted prior art, in the case of using a battery which does not exhibit a rapid change in voltage, but rather deteriorates slowly, such as is the case with silver or lithium batteries, it is not possible to achieve the intended effect.
With interest in recent years in achieving environmental friendliness, watches have come into common use in which a compact power supply using a solar battery system formed by the combination of a solar cell and a storage device is used as the drive power supply instead of using the conventional battery.
In the drive source for a solar battery system, the storage device has a small capacity compared to that of a conventional battery and can undergo a large change in voltage over a short period of time, caused by a change in the charging environment, there also arising the problem of a large difference between the no-load voltage and the heavy-load voltage.
Therefore, when applying the above-noted solar battery, the following problems arise.
(1) In a prior art heavy-load drive apparatus which must limit the drive of the heavy-load means when the power supply voltage is detected as being blow a prescribed value, regardless of how low the power supply voltage level drops, the limited drive is started, and with a drive source such as a solar battery, the voltage drop causes the power supply voltage to drop extremely low, so that often operation of the timekeeping function cannot be assured. PA1 (2) In a heavy-load drive apparatus devised so that the heavy-load means is not driven when the power supply voltage level is below a prescribed value, in the case of a drive source exhibiting large voltage variations, such as a solar battery, the power supply voltage level drops below the prescribed value and often causes a stoppage of the drive to the heavy-load means, thereby causing the functional reliability to drop to an impractical level.
The above-noted problems will be described in more detail, with reference being made to FIG. 8.
FIG. 8 is a graph which shows an example of the time variations of the charging voltage in a solar battery.
In FIG. 8, the horizontal axis represents elapsed time, and the vertical axis represents the charging voltage of the solar battery, the various points indicated by squares being the measured values of power supply voltage level.
These measurements are performed at the time when performing normal drive of the heavy-load means, an so indicate the power supply voltage level when performing normal drive.
The solar battery illustrated in FIG. 8 exhibits a wide voltage variation from 1 V to 2 V. Consider the case in which the minimum voltage level Vmin at which timekeeping operation of the watch is guaranteed is 1 V, and a threshold value Vth is established at 1.15 V.
In the above-noted drawing, there is indicated a point P1 at which the power supply voltage level is 1 V.
When the power supply voltage level is below the threshold value, in the heavy-load drive apparatus which limits the drive of the heavy-load means, it continues to perform limited drive even at the point P1, so that ultimately when the power supply voltage level falls to below 1 V, it is no longer possible to assure proper operation of the watch.
In FIG. 8, although there is a plurality of points P2 which are below the threshold value but very close to 1.15 V, in a heavy-load drive apparatus devised so that the heavy-load means is not driven when the power supply voltage level is below the threshold value, at the above-noted points P2, the drive of the heavy-load means would stop.
The present invention was made to solve the above-noted problems in the prior art, and has as an object the provision of a heavy-load means for an electronic watch, which assures reliable operation of the watch and also performs proper drive in response to the power supply voltage level.

Heavy-load drive apparatus for an electronic watch


Processing an electronic order involves receiving from a mobile customer device first order data for an order that contains less than a minimum set of data required by a merchant to completely process the order. Additional information required by the merchant to completely process the order is retrieved. Second order data is generated based upon the first order data and the additional information. The second order data contains at least the minimum set of data required by the merchant to completely process the order. The second order data is provided to a merchant for processing.

The worldwide packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the "Internet" has experienced extraordinary growth and acceptance. The Internet provides access to hundreds of millions of electronic documents, making it the largest single source of information in the world. As used herein, the term "electronic document" refers to any type of data or information in electronic form. Examples of electronic documents include, without limitation, text documents and web pages. In addition to providing access to vast amounts of information, the Internet provides a medium for a plethora of exciting and useful services such as electronic mail, user-to-user chat services and even the ability to place conventional telephone calls, sometimes referred to generally as "voice over IP."
Arguably one of the most important services provided by the Internet medium is electronic commerce or "ecommerce." Ecommerce refers to electronic transactions conducted over the Internet. The Internet allows customers to purchase a wide variety of products and services directly from merchants. Many merchant web sites and shopping portals sport sophisticated user interfaces that greatly simplify locating and purchasing products and services for customers at a reduced cost to consumers. For example, some shopping portals provide a comparative shopping feature that allows customers to compare prices and terms offered by different merchants for the same or comparable products.
Customers have conventionally used personal computers to complete ecommerce transactions. The advent of small, mobile devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile telephones, allow users greater flexibility in conducting ecommerce transactions. Using mobile devices, customers can shop at multiple merchants and make purchases. Mobile devices with wireless Internet connections transform the concept of wireless computing and arguably greatly increase the value and usefulness of mobile devices. Customers can now view web pages from merchant sites and make purchases from any location, so long as they can establish a wireless connection to the Internet. The geographical regions available to wireless Internet customers continues to expand as wireless infrastructure grows.
There are several problems with processing ecommerce transactions over the Internet using mobile devices. First, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, for mobile devices to process standard web pages because of processing limitations inherent in mobile devices. The relatively small screens and limited processing resources in mobile devices greatly inhibit or completely prevent the display of conventional web pages. For example, most cellular telephones necessarily have relatively small displays because of their small physical size. Second, by PC standards, mobile devices generally have fairly crude Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). This makes specifying complete user information, such as billing and shipping information, as well as product information from mobile devices difficult and tedious. Third, providing web pages to mobile devices is generally significantly slower than to personal computers because of bandwidth limitations in wireless communications networks. These problems are exacerbated with web pages that are rich in graphics. The result is that it is generally very difficult, if not impossible, to conduct ecommerce over the Internet with mobile devices using conventional web pages, especially over wireless communications links.
One solution to this problem is to generate special web pages for mobile devices that contain less "content" than conventional web pages. These pages generally contain only a subset of the text contained in conventional web pages and little or no graphical information. Despite the attractiveness of this solution, it has several significant drawbacks. First, the special web pages must be generated, which can require substantial computational and storage resources and place additional burdens on merchants. Moreover, the content of some web pages changes very frequently, which increases the frequency at which the corresponding special web pages must be re-generated. Generating special web pages "on-the-fly" can consume a significant amount of computational resources and increase the amount of time required to provide the special web pages to customers' mobile devices. Furthermore, web pages have to be customized for different mobile devices since mobile devices do not necessarily use the same interface standard.
Second, merchant web sites must know to provide the special web pages instead of the full web pages, which requires that merchant web sites know when a web page request originates from a mobile device. This may require mobile devices to access merchant sites through a special portal or a proxy server.
Based upon the increasing need for customers to conduct ecommerce transactions over the Internet and the limitations in prior approaches, an approach for processing electronic orders that does not suffer from limitations in prior approaches is highly desirable. Further, based upon the particular limitations and problems associated with conducting ecommerce transactions over the Internet using mobile devices with wireless connections to the Internet, there is a particular need for an approach for processing ecommerce transactions over the Internet from mobile devices with wireless connections to the Internet that does not suffer from the problems appurtenant to conventional approaches.

Approach for processing electronic orders


A method of power system preventive control candidate measures identification self-adaptive to external environment, which is applicable to dynamic identification of stations and power equipment under the effect of calamity, and judgment of preventive control measures that lose or restore control capability, and those for which control range or cost has changed. Automatic online identification of set of preventive control candidate measures includes two tasks: identification of stations and power equipment under the effect of calamity, and adjustment of the space of preventive control measures. According to information of power transmission line fault probability due to calamity, online dynamic quantitative assessment of stations and equipment is performed under the effect of external environment, and automatically correct control range and control cost of the measures according to the effect on equipment, so that the result of preventive control adapts to real-time external environment, ensuring feasibility and economy of auxiliary decision making.

Normally, online safety and stability defense systems of Chinese grids (state grid and province grids) feature online preventive control assistant decision making functions for safety and stability of power grids. These functions automatically search preventive control measures that restore system safe status at minimum cost from specified set of candidate preventive control measures (control equipment, control range, and control cost) according to grid real-time operating conditions and results of safety and stability assessment of the grid, so as to allow preventive control assistant decision making by dispatchers.
In present online defense systems, basically fixed set of candidate control measures specified in advance is used. In the environment of external calamity, control capability and control cost of candidate control measures may vary. If existing set of candidate measures is still used, result of preventive control decision may not be economic and even feasible, so that effective preventive control assistant decision making is not available to dispatchers.
At present, some research organizations have studied effect of natural calamities (e.g. typhoon, lighting, and ice covering) on power equipment, particularly fault probability of power transmission lines, and developed related probability assessment technique. This has laid a good foundation for assessment of effect of calamities on equipment inside stations (units and buses etc.) and dynamic adjustment of the set of candidate control measures.

Method of power system preventive control candidate measures identification self-adaptive to external environment

STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE


Systems and methods are provided for monitoring a group of vehicles for suspicious activity. The method includes grouping a plurality of vehicles in communication with a network to collectively monitor and detect evidence of theft or unauthorized intrusion using existing theft detection sensors located in the plurality of vehicles. One of the plurality of vehicles is designated as a master vehicle responsible for managing at least one control feature, and is operably coupled to the network and at least one processor. At least one input from at least one theft detection sensor of the plurality of vehicles is obtained and analyzed for suspicious information. The method includes determining that the input represents or contains evidence indicative of a theft or unauthorized intrusion. A communication is then provided to at least one of another vehicle, a vehicle owner, and the network indicating a potential theft or unauthorized intrusion.

The background description provided herein is for the purpose of generally presenting the context of the disclosure. Work of the presently named inventors, to the extent it may be described in this background section, as well as aspects of the description that may not otherwise qualify as prior art at the time of filing, are neither expressly nor impliedly admitted as prior art against the present technology.
Vehicles, when not in use, may be parked in a lot or structure where temporary parking is allowed. In some cases, the parking lot or structure may be monitored for safety and other considerations. In many other cases, the parking lot or structure is not monitored. Although unfortunate, incidents such as vehicle thefts, vandalism, and unauthorized intrusions into vehicles may occur. While it may not be possible to fully prevent such acts, it remains desirable to be able to provide increased preventative and/or vehicle safety and security assurances.
Accordingly, it would be desirable to utilize existing vehicle sensors in order to provide improved detection and vehicle monitoring systems that have a high rate of success of identifying suspicious activity while it occurs, but yet does not as heavily rely on parking lot or structure security systems.

Vehicle monitoring system using multiple security cameras


An intravascular catheter comprises a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal portion has greater torsional stiffness than the distal portion, while the distal portion has greater dependability than the proximal portion. In accordance with this invention the distal portion carries a helical wire support member embedded therein, the helical support member being essentially free of crossing wires, to provide kink-resistance upon bending to the distal portion.

This invention relates to an intravascular catheter which exhibits improved resistance to kinking in the tip even when the tip is thin-walled and flexible.
Intravascular, and particularly intravascular catheters for angioplasty or angiography are equipped with a pliable tip to facilitate the advancement of the catheter through the vascular system of a patient toward its objective, typically a coronary artery or a chamber of the heart. The proximal majority of the catheter length is typically flexible but firm, being generally equipped with a tubular, braided or otherwise crossing wire reinforcement member to provide torsional stiffness and pushability to the catheter. Thus the catheter may be reliably rotated from the proximal end to cause the distal end to rotate a substantially equal amount.
However, the distal tip end of the catheter is desirably more flexible than is generally possible with such a tubular braid-reinforced catheter section. Accordingly, in the prior art most catheters of this type carry no wire reinforcement at all at the distal tip.
Because of this, a problem arises in that, while the distal tip portions of prior art catheters are adequately flexible and soft so that advancement of the catheter does not injure vascular or heart tissues, the tip portion is subject to collapsing or kinking when it is directed around a bend in a branched blood vessel or the like. This of course is deemed undesirable, even if the plastic material of the tip portion is capable of springing back into uncollapsed condition when it is straightened out again.
Accordingly, there is a need for a catheter which has a high torsion resistance in its proximal section in accordance with the prior art, but which exhibits a highly flexible tip which, nevertheless, has substantial collapse resistance, particularly resistance against kinking as the tip is directed about a bend in a blood vessel.
In accordance with this invention, a catheter is provided which has a distal portion which may be soft and pliable as needed, but in which the distal portion is strongly resistant to collapse so that it may be directed through a labyrinth of branching blood vessels or the like without damaging tissues, but without collapsing or kinking. The resulting catheter exhibits improved characteristics over prior art catheters, particularly for the well-known PTCA procedure or any other angioplasty or angiography procedure.
As a further advantage, the plastic material out of which the distal portion of the catheter of this invention can be made may be inherently softer than in the prior art, for added tolerability of catheter advancement through tissues. At the same time, the distal section exhibits its improved and desired resistance to collapse or kinking.

Intravascular catheter with kink resistant tip


The application relates to an adaptive vibration damping scheme that provides for detection of, and adjustment for, vibration-related disturbances in devices. The vibration damping scheme utilizes a common filter function to implement vibration detection and vibration compensation.

Vibration is a major factor that negatively impacts performance of devices such as computer disc drives. In a computer disc drive, data is stored on discs in concentric tracks. In disc drives with relatively high track densities, a servo feedback loop is used to maintain a head over the desired track during read or write operations. This is accomplished by utilizing prerecorded servo information either on a dedicated servo disc or on sectors that are interspersed along a disc. During track following, the servo information sensed by the head is demodulated to generate a position error signal (PES) which provides an indication of the distance between the head and the track center. The PES is then converted into an actuator control signal, which is used to control an actuator that positions the head.
Misalignment of the read/write heads with respect to the tracks causes increases in read/write errors and a slowdown in read or write operations. Accurate positioning of read/write heads is required even in the presence of anomalies such as aging, temperature changes, changes in orientation of the disc drive, humidity, shock and vibration.
In general, as indicated above, vibration negatively impacts performance of devices with moving parts. The combination of high speed and tight tolerances in disc drives makes them particularly vulnerable to vibration-induced performance degradation.
The present embodiments address these problems and offers other advantages over the prior art.

Vibration detection and compensation filter


The apparatus has a driven pair of feed rolls (10, 11) and a folding roll (23) which is urged against the lower feed roll (10). The roll pair (10, 11) transports the sheet into a guide element (35, 36) for guiding and arresting the front end of the sheet. The guide element (35, 36) can be another roll pair with a reversible drive (41). After the front end of the sheet has come to a stop, the sheet is transported into the feed nip (22) between the rolls (10, 23), then folded and discharged downwardly. For increasing the operating speed without damaging the sheets, the roll pair (10, 11) is initially accelerated after the sheet is captured, and subsequently decelerated before the front end of the sheet comes to a stop.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a folding apparatus. An apparatus of this type is known in the art. In a conventional apparatus of this type, a pair of feed rolls rotates with constant velocity and transports the individually fed sheets into an upwardly inclined buckle chute having a stop. When the front end of the sheet makes contact with the stop, the sheet buckles downwardly against the feed nip between the bottom feed roll and a folding roll. At that point the sheet is captured and folded and discharged downwardly.


A change-over structure disposed between a moving contact and a static contact of a tap selector includes an insulation changer base plate, static contacts which are fixed on the insulation changer base plate in at least one column at intervals, the inner ends of the static contacts are electrically connected to respective tap windings of a transformer, rotation shafts, each comprising moving contacts that are evenly distributed on each of the rotation shafts and are electrically connected to each other, and arc-shaped conductors corresponding to the static contacts in at least one column. Each of the arc-shaped conductors and outer ends of the static contacts are disposed at the same circumference with a center of one of the rotation shafts as a circle center. When one of the moving contacts is changed over between the two static contacts, another moving contact is electrically connected to the arc-shaped conductor.

1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to the technical field of on-load tap-changers of transformers, and particularly to a change-over structure between a moving contact and a static contact of a tap selector of a hanged combined-type on-load tap selector.
2. Related Art
For an on-load tap-changer, in the case that a transformer is on load, that is, is uninterrupted, a turn ratio of a primary winding to a secondary winding of the transformer is changed by changing winding taps connected to the transformer, so as to achieve the purpose of changing an output voltage of the transformer.
A combined-type on-load tap-changer is divided into two parts in terms of functions, that is, a change-over changer and a tap selector. As shown in FIG. 1, the upper part is a change-over changer A, and the lower part is a tap selector B. The resistor R is a transitional resistor. A main tap winding b of the transformer is serially connected to a main winding a of the transformer, the main tap winding b of the transformer has taps 1-12, where the taps 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 are located at an odd side and the taps 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 are located at an even side. As shown in FIG. 1, the selector is conductive at the position of the tap 3 at the odd side, and the tap 2 or tap 4 of the even side may be pre-selected in the non-conduction case. When the upper change-over changer is changed over to the right side, that is, the even side, the tap 2 or the tap 4 is conductive, thereby changing the number of turns of the winding of the transformer, and changing the turn ratio of the primary winding to the secondary winding of the transformer.
Referring to FIG. 2, the conventional combined-type on-load tap-changer selector adopts two concentrically rotating circle structures of equal diameter with a certain interval in an axial direction, where in one circle, static contacts connected to winding taps of the odd taps 1b, 3b, 5b, 7b, 9b, and 11b are circularly arranged, and in the other circle, static contacts connected to winding taps of the even taps 2b, 4b, 6b, 8b, 10b, and 12b are circularly arranged. In the conventional transformer, a winding of each phase has 10 to 18 voltage regulating taps. In this way, in each circle structure, 5 to 9 (in most cases, 9) static contacts are distributed, as shown in FIG. 2.
This concentrically rotating structure has a certain advantage in a combined-type on-load tap-changer of a buried vertical structure, but in a combined-type on-load tap-changer hanged and arranged horizontally, leads 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, and 12a need to be connected to the static contacts 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b, 11b, and 12b of a on-load tap-changer selector on a wiring terminal C of an insulation plate. Since the on-load tap-changer is used in a high-voltage and large current environment, the leads la, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, and 12a cannot be connected with a flexible wire due to the action of an electromagnetic force, where a circular copper rod needs to be used to be bent and shaped. It can be seen from FIG. 2 that, the leads 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, and 12a need to be bent to various shapes, so the manufacturing is difficult. Due to an inter-stage voltage, a certain interval needs to be ensured between the leads, so a large space is occupied, and the changer oil chamber needs to be large, that is, the cost of the apparatus is increased, and the consumption of the transformer oil is increased. Due to the action of the electromagnetic force, the positions of the leads are easily changed, easily causing an accident.

Change-over structure between moving contact and static contact of tap selector

SHANGHAI HUAMING POWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD


The loading of a privileged application can be selectively blocked. An application restrictor can be configured to register for notifications whenever an application image is loaded. Then, whenever the application restrictor receives a notification, the application restrictor can evaluate whether the application image that is being loaded is a privileged application. If so, the application restrictor can evaluate the current process's parent tree to determine if an untrusted application is present at any level of the parent tree. The application restrictor will then allow the privileged application to load only when all applications in the parent tree are trusted applications. In this way, untrusted applications can be blocked from accessing a privileged application without blocking trusted applications from accessing the privileged application.

Anti-malware applications are commonly installed on computing devices to block the execution of malware. Such anti-malware applications primarily function by analyzing executables to determine whether they include any known malware signatures. The problem with this approach is that, if the signature of a particular malware is still unknown, the anti-malware applications likely will not detect it. These vulnerabilities are commonly referred to as zero-day vulnerabilities where "zero-day" refers to the fact that the software vendor has not yet provided a patch to fix the vulnerability and anti-malware providers have not yet developed a way to detect malware intended to exploit the vulnerability.
To protect against zero-day vulnerabilities, it is common in some environments to block the execution of all but a limited set of trusted applications. This is particularly true of controlled environments such as Kiosks, ATM machines and the like. As an example, a Kiosk that provides information in a public location can be configured so that only the applications necessary to provide the user interface are trusted and therefore allowed to execute while all other applications are blocked. In a Windows environment, this can be accomplished using suitable group policies in Active Directory to block all applications that are not identified as trusted.
This all or nothing blocking technique of current solutions creates various problems. For example, if a trusted application desires to print using Adobe Reader, and Adobe Reader is not listed as a trusted application, the trusted application would be prevented from printing. Similarly, if a trusted application desired to use regedit to change a setting, but regedit is not listed as a trusted application, the trusted application will be prevented from changing the setting. There currently is no way to selectively allow a trusted application to load and access a blocked application. Using the same two examples, the only way to allow the trusted application to print via Adobe Reader or to change a setting using regedit is to make Adobe Reader and regedit trusted applications. However, doing so would increase the system's vulnerability.

Selectively blocking the loading of a privileged application


A system for reproducibly measuring motion along surfaces of arbitrary or indeterminate length and of arbitrary curvature, using an opto-electronic sensor mounted to an object in motion along the surfaces. The system involves the detection of alternating reflective and non-reflective markings, on surfaces which can be curved in a certain dimension and can be of any length. Additionally, the system can be applied to measure the motion of camera carts or dollies along straight track, curved track, or any combination of straight and curved track.

It is frequently desirable to analyze the motion of an object moving in two dimensions. That is, to determine its speed, acceleration, or location on a real time basis. As an example, the side view film of automobile crash tests is commonly seen, but for valid testing, much more precise measurements of the vehicle and the characteristics of its motion along a constraint path may be required. Another field that requires precise measurements of a moving object's position, velocity and acceleration is that of motion pictures—in which photographic, or electronic recordings of a scene are captured.
Motion picture visual effects often require the photography of multiple individual images which must be combined to form one integrated image. If that composite image is intended to appear as from a spatially moving viewpoint, then all the aforementioned individual images may also be required to be imaged from that identical moving viewpoint. The process of repeatably imaging a physically moving viewpoint forms the basis for what is commonly known as "motion-control" photography, in which motorized devices move the viewpoint in predetermined or recordable trajectories or spatial pathways. In some cases, a viewpoint's spatial path may need to be recorded for other purposes, such as acquiring the data necessary for computer generated imagery, a process commonly referred to as "motion capture".
One of the more difficult of the types of motion to accurately measure has been the two dimensional movement of a camera cart, or "dolly", along the track it rides upon. Factors contributing to this difficulty include the variable and potentially long distances—well over one hundred feet in some cases—over which the dolly may travel, and that some sections of track may need to be curved. The track itself is not unlike a small railroad track, with about a two foot spread between rails, the rails being typically about two inches high. The tops of the rails are convex, and the dolly's wheels are concave, or in some cases "V" shaped to provide a wedge fit to the rail.
Several types of approach have been taken in the past to attempt accurate measurement between dolly and track. The approach most frequently taken consists of measuring the motion of a motor driving the dolly. Whether the drive mechanism to which the motor is attached is based on mechanical principles such as rack-and-pinion gearing, timing belt, friction drive or other such means, these drives may ensure repeatable measurements at the drive itself but, due to issues of backlash, compliance, or slippage, measurements taken at the motor in such mechanisms may not necessarily provide an accurate representation of movement between the dolly and the track. In cases where a drive was unnecessary or undesirable, various devices have been used for measurement between dolly and track. A simple friction-contact rubber-wheeled capstan on a common shaft with an encoder, mounted to the dolly and rolling in contact with the track has commonly been used but, due to slippage between capstan and rail, requires frequent recalibration to some reference point on the track. Another approach has been to attach one end of a cable to the dolly, with the cable's opposite end wound on the shaft of a rotary encoder attached to one end of the track, while maintaining constant tension on the cable. Dolly movement in this configuration results in a corresponding encoder shaft rotation, allowing a resultant encoder signal to be generated. Measurement inaccuracy in such applications can result due to elasticity in the cable, and applications requiring the use of curved track sections have prohibited use of this approach.
In film and video production, minimizing setup time is considered to be of great importance. These aforementioned track drive measurement implementations share common drawbacks in such an environment: they may require considerable time to assemble mechanical and electronic components, to align these components, and to calibrate the system to known reference points and in meaningful units of measurement.
The goal of this new approach is a two dimensional measurement method that, among other advantages in the field of motion picture production, is quick and easy to use, is capable of maintaining its measurement accuracy in situations where there may be backlash in the drive, can be used with combinations of straight and curved track, works with or without an external drive, and may be used with most existing track and drive systems. Of course in the general sense of recording the movement of an object other than a camera, many of the same advantages can be realized.
This new method comprises placing a sensor on the moving object (in the case of a camera, the dolly) and affixing markings along the surface over which the object moves (in the case of a dolly, some surface of the track). Naturally, in other applications, the surface could move, and the object remain stationary. The sensor detects and decodes the markings to produce information about the object's motion in real-time, whether that information is position, velocity or acceleration. The information may be used simply to record the motion, or even used to close a servo loop. This approach works well whether an external force moves the object, or when internal power drives the object.

Method for measuring position, linear velocity and velocity change of an object in two-dimensional motion


Improved transient response times are obtained while maintaining low emissions with a low pressure EGR system through methods for quickly obtaining a desired oxygen concentration for charge-air to be used for combustion. Under a first method, fuel quantity in the main combustion event is controlled in the combustion process to produce exhaust around a relatively constant target exhaust oxygen concentration value. By keeping the exhaust oxygen concentration levels at a relatively constant value, lag time in waiting for low pressure EGR valve adjustments during transients may be avoided, and the system's air handling response to meet transients may be paced solely by adjusting the mass of air to be supplied (i.e. boost response). Under a second method, a multiple-stage combustion process is utilized, in which fuel feed is controlled in a small, preliminary HCCI-type combustion event in order to produce a target oxygen concentration of charge-air to be used for the second, main combustion event. Under a third method, exhaust rebreathing is used to produce a target oxygen concentration of charge-air to be used for combustion.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to EGR and combustion control processes to assist in the cost-effective lowering of harmful NOx emissions produced in diesel internal combustion engines, with good transient response times.
2. Background of the Invention, and Description of the Related Art
The continuing use of diesel engines in motor vehicles greatly adds to the atmospheric presence of harmful pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx). Conventional diesel engines emit NOx substantially in excess of acceptable environmental levels. Nevertheless, because of their fuel efficiency, diesel engines remain preferable to gasoline engines for many applications. Attempts to reduce NOx emissions from diesel engines have therefore continued for many years.
There is a need in the art for a cost-effective robust diesel combustion system that is capable of maintaining emissions levels of NOx within upcoming federally mandated environmentally acceptable levels (defined for purposes of this invention as 0.2 g/bhp-hr or lower, after possible exhaust aftertreatment). Reducing NOx emissions in diesel engines to the 0.2 g/bhp-hr standard is generally believed to require utilization of NOx aftertreatment such as a NOx absorber, NOx trap, or Urea/SCR. However, industry views such NOx aftertreatment technologies as presenting cost and durability challenges. It is therefore potentially desirable to use, in conjunction with and in addition to such NOx aftertreatment, methods to reduce NOx formation in combustion and thereby reduce the NOx-reduction burden to be handled through NOx aftertreatment.
Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is a known method in the art to lower engine-out NOx emissions, although the extent of EGR use is generally limited by an increase in smoke formation and loss of efficiency that occurs as the EGR ratio reaches high levels. EGR usage to lower NOx formation in diesel engines has generally stayed at EGR/ambient air ratios lower than 25% for medium and higher load conditions.
High pressure EGR (i.e., recirculating exhaust gas upstream of the turbine in the exhaust line, before the exhaust gas expands in the turbine) is the most common form of exhaust gas recirculation. However, significant use of high pressure EGR requires significant and expensive cooling of the hot recirculated exhaust gas, as well as an adverse pressure differential across the engine to move the EGR from the exhaust to the engine intake system.
Low pressure loop EGR systems are an attractive alternative that may also be used to lower engine-out NOx emissions, allowing some natural cooling of the exhaust gas (e.g., in expansion and transport of the exhaust gas through the turbine and exhaust line) and therefore reducing cooling requirements and costs for EGR, as well as avoiding the pumping losses inherent in high pressure EGR systems. But low pressure EGR systems are nevertheless generally avoided in the art due to concerns with transport delays (lag time) in EGR adjustments associated with such systems, which are made by adjustment of EGR levels can generally pace the system's response time during transients. Attempts to control in-cylinder NOx formation through low pressure EGR valve adjustments are challenged to keep up with the transient response times and system responsiveness desired for motor vehicle engine applications.
As a result, in-cylinder control of NOx formation during transients has been difficult to achieve in the art. Transient changes in the operating conditions of a diesel engine, such as upon vehicle acceleration, can result in significant NOx or PM emissions if EGR flow rate and level adjustments do not keep up with the changes in fuel feed and boost levels necessary to meet the change in power demand. For example, temporary fuel levels in excess of desired fuel/oxygen ratios can occur in transients, with resulting increased PM levels. Likewise, if intake oxygen concentrations rise in transients, an increase in NOx emissions will result. Such problems are a common occurrence in the prior art, as it is also conventional to stop exhaust gas recirculation during an increase power demand, which therefore results in an increase in the intake oxygen concentration, and can therefore cause spikes in NOx emissions during such transients. Such emissions during transient changes can cause vehicles to fail emission standards even where such vehicles could meet the emission standards at steady state conditions.
Thus, it is desirable to reduce the time required for EGR adjustments during transients in a low pressure EGR loop system, when the goal is to maintain consistent or low NOx emissions during rapid engine speed and load transitions.
As disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 6,857,263, the teachings of which are incorporated herein by reference, active control of the oxygen concentration of charge-air used in combustion in a diesel engine can be used to significantly reduce formation of NOx in combustion. Said commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 6,857,263 also discloses one method for maintaining control of the oxygen concentration of charge-air used in combustion in a diesel engine through transients without an impediment to engine responsiveness, by maintaining the exhaust oxygen concentration and intake oxygen concentration relatively constant from cycle to cycle for at least medium and high loads, and through transients. The relatively constant oxygen concentration of charge-air used for combustion could be any range selected below 20%, depending on the particular NOx formation acceptable for the engine system. Without a NOx aftertreatment system, the oxygen concentration is preferably below 16%, within a tight range somewhere between 10% and 15%. On the other hand, with a NOx aftertreatment device present in the system, the oxygen concentration range for combustion could be higher for better efficiency (e.g. 16%, 17%, 18%, or 19%). The control of oxygen concentration to a relative constant allows continued control of NOx formation through transients without a need for transient response to be paced by adjustments in the low pressure EGR system.
However, for improved efficiency, it would also be desirable if the oxygen concentration of the charge-air used in combustion could be selectively controlled to an oxygen concentration varying with engine condition, with good transient response.

Control methods for low emission internal combustion system

The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


The invention relates to a method for making it easier to carry out information search and processing with a communications device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a network browser employing the method and a www service at a server in a communications network as well as a cellular network terminal. In the method according to the invention, information entered in the address field of the network browser is utilized so that the address field with its virtual function keys is modified in accordance with the service used on the basis of information entered in the address field.

Communications devices have become very versatile. One and the same device can be used for a wide range of functions. A device may be used for personal communication, to pay bills and to play games, for instance. Therefore it is desirable from the user's point of view that transitions from one application to another are smooth and easy. In a so-called IP (Internet Protocol) network, for example, a user may be linked to various applications and services which may be very different. These applications use various messages and operating instructions to guide the user in the correct use of the applications.
To make the use of computers easier a so-called graphic user interface has been developed. It means that various virtual function keys and menus are created on the display of an apparatus so that the user can use these keys and menus using either a separate mouse or keys of a keyboard connected to the computer.
To make navigation in IP networks easier so-called network browsers have been developed. A network browser is a program-based user interface comprising a standard-format graphic user interface. When using a network browser, the pages visited will be saved in the memory of the device, from where they can be retrieved by means of virtual keys in the network browser or by typing the address of a page in the address field in the network browser. In some browsers some of these virtual keys will change their appearance according to whether the function associated with a particular key can be used or not. In some browsers data entered in the address field will automatically start a search engine operating in the network, which search engine will then suggest a network address to connect to.
Attempts have been made to utilize the methods described above in mobile communications devices and portable computers as well. However, with these types of communications devices one will be faced with limitations caused by the physical size. The size of the display of a communications device of a cellular network, a portable computer or a palmtop computer is not comparable to that of the display of a device designed to be used in a fixed location such as an office. However, the user interfaces of various IP applications are mainly designed with such office equipment in mind. A device designed for office use has a large display and, additionally, there is sufficient desktop space for various accessories if needed. To use such a user interface in an apparatus which is smaller by an order of magnitude is difficult or even impossible.
However, more and more services, such as electronic banking and gaming applications, are being developed for, say, cellular terminals. Therefore, one and the same device has to be applicable to a wide range of uses, and the user interfaces of the devices may differ considerably. It is difficult for a user to master all the functions and commands required in the various user interfaces. In the worst case, an application may crash because of an incorrect input from the user. Moreover, a transition from a user interface required by an application to another user interface required by a second application may take an unreasonably long time from the user's point of view. These factors contribute to users' reluctance to utilize the various already existing service applications.

Method, functional arrangement and software means for searching and processing information with user interface of a terminal in which an address field and virtual function keys are modified to correspond to an invoked service through data input to a browser address field, and cellular network terminal employing the method


An automatic fastening device includes a driving mechanism for driving a double-headed fastener and a magazine for receiving and delivering the double-headed fastener to the driving mechanism. The magazine includes a first channel that receives a first head of the fastener and a second channel that receives a second head of the same fastener. The first and second channels guide the fastener along the magazine and toward an actuation component of the driving mechanism for driving the fastener into an object. A plurality of double-headed fasteners are inserted into the magazine, guided by the magazine to the driving mechanism, and driven one at a time into an object such that the first head of the fasteners extends from the object for easy removal of the fasteners.

Technical Field
The present disclosure relates generally to fastening devices, and more particularly, to an automatic fastening device drives double-headed fasteners.
Description of the Related Art
Double-headed fasteners (or "duplex nails") have been used for many years in applications where it is desirable to later remove the fasteners from objects. For example, thousands of double-headed fasteners are manually driven through wood boards/panels when creating forms for a concrete structure. The outer heads of the double-headed fasteners will protrude from the wood boards/panels for easy removal of the double-headed fasteners a later time, such as after concrete has cured adjacent the boards/panels. Manually driving thousands of double-headed fasteners into wood boards/panels or other objects is very time consuming and inefficient.
Power fastener devices, such as electric, pneumatic, and fuel cell types, have been known for many years. These fastener devices typically include a magazine that is adapted to hold a strip of nails which can be driven one at a time as the strip is advanced through a drive head and engaged by a reciprocating knife or hammer. These magazines are adapted to hold a single-headed nail. Thus, workers are required to manually drive thousands of double-headed fasteners without the aid of a power fastening device.
Currently, nail guns used to build homes and other construction projects are typically pneumatic. A pneumatic nail gun has a long hose connected to an air compressor that provides the compressor air. This hose must be connected to the nail gun at all times. If the pneumatic nail gun is being used around concrete construction, there are many protruding rebars, spikes and other hard items on which the hose might be caught or punctured. Dragging a pneumatic hose around a concrete construction building in which duplex nails are often used is dangerous and may result in damage to either the pneumatic hose system or the user.
Another disadvantage of pneumatic hose nail guns is their limited power. An air compressor must deliver compressed air through a long hose and the amount of drive power is limited based on the compressor pressure and the amount of pressure that can be held in the hose system. As a result, a pneumatic system has trouble driving even 8 d nails.
A duplex nail has particular technical issues for being driven a full depth of the first head because power can only be applied to the second head. The driving force must be transmitted from the second head through the shaft and to the first head. The head being driven to be flush with the top surface is not directly impacted by the driving hammer, but rather, the second head is driven.
Accordingly, the inventors realized that it would be beneficial to have a compressed gas cartridge type of nail gun to drive a duplex nail.

Fastening device for driving double-headed fasteners


A thinner portable wireless telephone with a thinner built-in antenna. An antenna unit is composed of a first radiating conductor and a second radiating conductor. The second radiating conductor having about half electrical length of the first radiating conductor is arranged so as to correspond the first radiating conductor from its center to one end in parallel. In addition, one ends of the first and second radiating conductors are electrically connected and power is supplied to around the center of the first radiating conductor and the other end of the second radiating conductor. Only electric current flowing on the external surfaces of the antenna unit causes radio waves. As a result, the space between the first and second radiating conductors can be narrowed, thus making it possible to construct a thinner antenna unit. Thus a portable wireless apparatus can be made thinner.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a portable wireless apparatus, and more particularly, is suitably applied to a portable telephone.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, telescopic whip antennae 21 and built-in inverted-F antennae 22 as shown in FIG. 1 are widely used as antennae of portable telephones. The inverted-F antenna 22 is constructed by arranging a radiating conductor 22A on the ground plane in parallel. Since some space is necessary between the radiating conductor and the ground plane for good antenna performance, it is difficult to make the portable telephone with the inverted-F antenna thinner. In order to realize a thinner antenna unit, such an antenna unit has been proposed that two conductors serving as antenna elements for feeding are installed in respective upper and lower cases of a clamshell portable telephone (refer to Japanese Patent Laid Open 2001-156898).
Such antenna units, however, are difficult to use for stick portable telephones because the two conductors have to be electrically separated.

Sony Ericsson Mobil Communications Japan, Inc.


A disk drive apparatus for recording and reproducing desired information on and from floppy disks, is simply and thinly structured and has an excellent shock resistance. The disk unit includes a support for carrying a pair of heads for pinching a magnetic disk from both sides thereof and for reading and writing information thereon supported on respective carriages that can move the pair of heads to a desired track on the disk, and a holder, supported by the support, for storing a disk cartridge. The holder is provided with a head guard movable between a guarding position where the head guard is inserted between the pair of heads to prevent the pair of heads from abutting each other and a withdrawn position where the head guard is withdrawn from between the pair of heads, and a spring for urging and moving the head guard to the guarding position. The head guard moves from the guarding position to the withdrawn position when one end of the disk cartridge to be stored in the holder abuts with a part of the head guard.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a disk drive apparatus for recording and reproducing desired information on and from, for example, a floppy disk.
2. Description of Related Art
FIGS. 10 and 11 show one example of a conventional disk drive apparatus. FIG. 10 is a schematic plan view of the conventional disk drive apparatus in which no disk cartridge is mounted. FIG. 11 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main portion of the disk drive apparatus.
In FIGS. 10 and 11, a first carriage 113 having a first head 111 for pinching and moving on a magnetic disk D stored in a disk cartridge C, and for carrying out recording and reproducing magnetically, carries a second carriage 114 having a second head 112. The second carriage 114 and second head 112 are pressed in the direction of arrow S in FIG. 11 by a pressing means, such as spring 114a.
A lifting part 114b which protrudes from the second carriage 114 is engaged with a supporting part 151d of a holder 151 and is supported by the holder 151. The holder 151 is provided with a shutter lever 157 which is freely pivotal about point P. Holder 151 is also provided with a trigger 154, and is structured so that it can move while it is receiving the disk cartridge C.
To move the cartridge C to a position for recording/reproducing, the cartridge C is inserted into holder 151 in the direction of arrow r in FIG. 11. A shutter C1 of cartridge C (shown in FIG. 9) is opened by the shutter lever 157 which rotates when one end of the cartridge C abuts it. In particular, a shutter pin 157a engages a side C1a of shutter C1, and moves shutter C1 in the direction of arrow d as cartridge C is inserted so as to open shutter C1. When the end of the cartridge abuts on the trigger 154, holder 151 moves, by the action of the trigger mechanism, to mount the cartridge C in the predetermined recording/reproducing position. At this time, the first head 111 and the second head 112 pinch the magnetic disk D to perform recording and reproducing.
However, when the whole body of the conventional disk drive apparatus as described above is dropped in the direction of the arrow s in FIG. 11 or the second carriage 114 is struck or pressed in the direction of the arrow T as shown in FIG. 12B, the second carriage 114 inclines largely in the direction of the arrow u as shown in FIG. 12B from the normal state shown in FIG. 12A. The arm 151d of the holder 151 can also deflect a great deal and in some cases, the first head 111 and the second head 112 contact each other, thereby damaging the heads. Moreover, there is a possibility of an excessive strain being applied to the lifting part 114b, thereby breaking it.
These problems are further aggravated because computers are more and more being down-sized, thinned and lightened in weight in the field of small portable computers. Since portable computers, from their nature and purpose, are carried to various places, they have a higher chance of receiving shocks due to being dropped, for example. Some measures against such shock have been taken for the computers, and the same requirement is true of disk drive apparatus.
Especially in the thin type of disk drive apparatus, the first head 111 and the second head 112 are apt to be contacted with each other because the gap between the heads is reduced, thereby bringing about damage to the heads, which are critical to the drive apparatus.
Furthermore, there is a limit to rigidly securing the holder 151 for storing the disk cartridge C, and it is not easy to control its deflection and the like when it receives shocks. It has thus become an important issue to improve the shock resistance of the unit.


A storage device actuator on an information handling system accepts an end user input to eject a first non-volatile storage device that stores the operating system running on the information handling system. Boot logic running on firmware of the information handling system initiates a shutdown of the operating system at the information handling system in response to an eject actuation and then permits ejection of the first non-volatile storage device. The storage device actuator detects insertion of a second non-volatile storage device into the information handling system and in response to the detection of the insertion initiates a boot by the boot logic of an operating system stored on the second non-volatile storage device.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to the field of information handling system storage devices, and more particularly to an information handling system swappable boot storage device.
2. Description of the Related Art
As the value and use of information continues to increase, individuals and businesses seek additional ways to process and store information. One option available to users is information handling systems. An information handling system generally processes, compiles, stores, and/or communicates information or data for business, personal, or other purposes thereby allowing users to take advantage of the value of the information. Because technology and information handling needs and requirements vary between different users or applications, information handling systems may also vary regarding what information is handled, how the information is handled, how much information is processed, stored, or communicated, and how quickly and efficiently the information may be processed, stored, or communicated. The variations in information handling systems allow for information handling systems to be general or configured for a specific user or specific use such as financial transaction processing, airline reservations, enterprise data storage, or global communications. In addition, information handling systems may include a variety of hardware and software components that may be configured to process, store, and communicate information and may include one or more computer systems, data storage systems, and networking systems.
Information handling systems process information with a variety of processing components disposed in a housing. For example, a central processing unit (CPU) executes instructions stored in random access memory (RAM) to perform functions. Generally, an operating system running on the CPU coordinates the use of processing components by applications running over the operating system. For instance, the WINDOWs operating system supports execution of a multimedia application, which retrieves multimedia content from an optical disc drive and presents the multimedia content through a graphics and audio subsystem at a display and speakers. Portable information handling systems include in portable housing components sufficient to support execution of applications free from any fixed resources or peripherals. For example, portable information handling systems integrate a battery and display in the housing to power the processing components free from an external power source and to present information as visual images free from a peripheral display. The convenience of portable information handling systems has made portable systems an accepted alternative to fixed desktop systems among both enterprise and individual end users.
In order to transition from an off state to an operational state, information handling systems generally perform a boot operation. The boot initiates with firmware instructions stored in non-volatile memory of the information handling system, such as flash memory within a chipset. Boot instructions, often code within firmware that is referred to as the BIOS, power up the CPU and direct retrieval of the operating system from a non-volatile storage device, such as a hard disk drive or solid state drive, to the RAM for execution by the CPU. The non-volatile storage device also typically stores applications that run over the operating system, such as word processing or multi-media applications, and end user information, such as documents and multimedia content. Two physically identical information handling systems having exactly the same processing components can have entirely different functionality based upon the operating system, applications, device drivers and content stored on the hard disk drive of each system.
At manufacture of an information handling system, an "image" of the hard disk drive is usually copied to the hard disk drive with the operating system and applications purchased or licensed to an end user of the information handling system. Often, enterprises will purchase a number of identical information handling systems for use by employees, each information handling system having an enterprise image, which is individualized for intended end users at delivery of the systems to the enterprise. By controlling the image, enterprises control the operating system and applications initially available to the end user. If a hard disk drive fails in an information handling system, information technology administrators can repair the information handling system by removing and replacing the hard disk drive with another hard disk drive having a similar image. Generally, this repair is performed by an information technology professional since the hard disk drive is usually built into the housing with permanent attachment devices, such as screws, and the BIOS of the information handling system must typically be updated to interact with a new hard disk drive by loading appropriate drivers to the chipset.

Information handling system swappable boot storage device


A spare part set for a gearmotor series includes transmissions actuated by electric motors. The series has at least one dimension which may be characterized by at least one physical, mechanical and/or geometrical value, e.g., by nominal power, axis height or torque. Each electric motor includes at least one crankcase, a rotor provided with a rotor axis and a side-shield for a motor bearing arranged within a given size. The crankcase includes an interface with the side-shield for a motor bearing, which is selected such that at least two different embodiments thereof are connectable to the said crankcase.

An inverter motor is described, for example, in German Published Patent Application No. 197 04 226, an inverter for supplying the motor with power being connected at the terminal box of the motor.
Geared motors include motors that are connected directly or indirectly to at least one gear unit.
German Published Patent Application No. 101 16 595 describes a series of geared motors, in which a motor shaft is connectable to a shank pinion or a plug-on pinion. However, an adapter is necessary for the plug-on pinion.

Assembly set for a series of geared motors


An engine control module (ECM) having a plurality of driver banks is provided. Each of the driver banks is configured to drive a plurality of combustion control elements. The driver banks include two low side driver circuits and a high side driver circuit, the high side driver circuit in each of the plurality of driver banks being shared pairwise by two combustion control elements. Each one of said at least two low side driver circuits is respectively associated with the two combustion control elements. The ECM includes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the plurality of driver banks and configured to provide firing signals to at least twelve high side driver circuits to simultaneously drive at least twelve combustion control elements respectively coupled to the at least twelve high side driver circuits.

Conventional large engine electronic control modules (ECMs) are scaled up versions of medium engine controls, and have functional and environmental limitations when used with modern large engine fuel systems/ignition systems. Some conventional solutions have flexibility in terms of the waveforms they can generate, but are thermally inefficient, and do not allow multiple simultaneous waveforms on different injectors/ignition coils. Other conventional solutions provide more efficient drivers, but lack flexibility with respect to the waveforms that can be generated, and are incompatible with ignition waveforms, and potentially new injector waveforms. For example, one such waveform transitioning method and apparatus is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,371,077 that provides transitioning from one waveform to another at a time.
Some conventional solutions include Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to control output waveforms and the fuel system of a vehicle. However, such ASIC based solutions do not have flexibility of commanding or controlling waveforms for gas engines, and lack customized diagnostics or monitoring of various engine parameters. Further, such ASIC based solutions are not backward compatible in terms of accurately replicating various waveforms associated with previous generations of ECMs.
Furthermore, the drivers implemented in conventional ECMs utilize blocking diodes that reduce thermal efficiency and have limited window of engine crank angles in which they can operate or fire.

Electronic control module with driver banks for engines


An optical correlator for correlating incident optical signals is described. The correlator comprises a transmission line in close juxtaposition to a photoconductor. The photoconductor may be positioned within the transmission line. The transmission line and the photoconductor may be monolithically integrated on a substrate. The optical correlator has an electrical non-linear response to the incident optical signals that results from a voltage divider formed from the combination of the transmission line and the photoconductor. The electrical non-linear response is proportional to a second-order intensity autocorrelation function g.sup.(2) (.tau.). The response time of the electrical nonlinear response is less than the width of the narrowest pulse of the optical signals and may be less than twenty picoseconds.

Many applications such as pulsed-laser diagnostics, laser radar, and optical signal processing utilize information contained in modulations of the intensity envelope of optical pulses. Intensity modulations can be directly measured on time scales longer than approximately 10 ps with a high-speed photodetector and a sampling oscilloscope. However, for optical pulses shorter than a few picoseconds, the electrical signal generated by the high-speed photodetector is dispersed by the transmission line that couples the photodetector to the sampling receiver of the oscilloscope and the information is scrambled or lost completely.
Other techniques for measuring high-speed intensity modulation have been proposed. One technique utilizes two photoconductors separated by a length of transmission line to correlate the optical pulses. The temporal resolution of the correlation, however, is limited to several picoseconds because of linear dispersion of the electrical pulses in the transmission line.
Another technique for measuring high-speed intensity modulation utilizes a photodiode connected to a high-speed microwave detector with a short length of transmission line. The optical pulses are converted to electrical pulses by the photodiode. The electrical pulses then propagate along the transmission line and are cross-correlated by the microwave detector. The temporal resolution of this technique is also limited to several picoseconds because of linear dispersion along the transmission line and because of parasitic capacitance in the photodiode.
Streak cameras have been utilized in laboratory experiments to measure intensity modulations with temporal resolution of approximately one picosecond. Steak cameras, however, not practical for use in most system applications.
Sub-picosecond correlation techniques have been developed that utilize nonlinear crystals to measure intensity modulation. These correlation techniques measure the nth-order intensity autocorrelation function for orders of n=2,3. For example, autocorrelation techniques that utilize nonlinear crystals for second-harmonic generation measure the second-order intensity autocorrelation function: ##EQU1## These autocorrelation techniques, however, are notoriously sensitive to wavelength, polarization, intensity, and orientation of the input beams with respect to the crystal because of strict phase-matching requirements.
There currently exists a need for an all-solid-state ultrafast correlator that can be monolithically integrated and that is relatively insensitive to wavelength, polarization, intensity, and orientation of the input beams.


The present invention provides a system and a method to enhance HYGE impact simulator sled testing, enabling more accurate measurements of lower leg injury criteria and providing a more accurate restraint system evaluation during a HYGE impact simulator test. The system provides the generation of both rotational and translational footwell intrusion, replicating an actual barrier crash impact test. The rotational and translational footwell intrusion includes foot motion; lower leg motion, including various forces and moments; and knee motion, including interaction with the instrument panel.

In a severe frontal vehicle crash impact, there is often intrusion into the footwell region of the vehicle. Such intrusion may result in severe lower leg injury to the driver or a front passenger. To better manufacture vehicles to shield against such an impact, automobile manufacturers conduct a broad range of barrier crash tests when developing a vehicle for production. In many of these tests, requirements exist for anthropomorphic test device (ATD, also known as a "test dummy") leg values. For example, the tibia index is the primary lower leg measurement used to predict lower leg injury. The tibia index is an interaction formula that includes both axial forces and moments. The tibia index is used to predict damage to an actual human tibia.
Test device leg values are difficult to accurately assess in conventional testing equipment known in the art. For example, with the traditional HYGE crash simulation sled test, lower leg values are difficult to assess because the HYGE system is a non-intrusion environment. Thus, with a HYGE system, there is no intrusion into the footwell region. Although a traditional HYGE test is suitable for analysis measurements about the head and chest areas, the HYGE test is ill-suited for lower leg analysis. Additionally, lower leg values also are difficult to assess with computer aided engineering (CAE) due to the limited fidelity in the MADYMO (design and crash simulation software) test manikin. Although CAE analysis includes footwell rotational and translational motion, the MADYMO test manikin does not accurately measure lower leg values. Thus, the simulation tools that are currently available for impact sled testing, such as CAE and traditional HYGE testing, cannot meaningfully assess lower extremity injury criteria.

Method and system for an impact sled footwell intrusion test


A submergible stool includes a body having a top, a bottom spaced from the top, and a sidewall extending between the top and the bottom and defining an enclosed interior cavity extending between the top, the bottom, and the sidewall. A first aperture is formed in the sidewall proximate the bottom and extends from the enclosed interior cavity to an exterior of the stool. A second aperture is formed in the sidewall proximate the top and extends from the enclosed interior cavity to an exterior of the stool. The apertures are positioned such that when the stool is placed in a body of water, water will flow into the interior cavity through the first aperture, air will be forced out of the second aperture, and the stool will sink to a bottom of the body of water in an upright position.

Individuals may often float in a swimming pool in order to cool off and socialize with others. The individuals may rest on inflatable devices that float in the pool. Individuals may also place stools, chairs, or other objects in the pool in order to provide seating.
It would be desirable to provide a stool that is submergible and provides seating for individuals in a swimming pool. Particular objects and advantages will be apparent to those skilled in the art, that is, those who are knowledgeable or experienced in this field of technology, in view of the following disclosure of the invention and detailed description of certain embodiments.


A computer-implemented reservoir prediction system, method, and software are provided for modeling the behavior of non-Newtonian fluids in subterranean reservoirs while accounting for shear-rate dependent viscosity and permeability reduction with a skin zone characterized by a traditional skin factor and an apparent skin factor. A non-Newtonian fluid injection pressure or a non-Newtonian fluid injection rate is computed at steady-state responsive to reservoir data associated with a subterranean reservoir, injection data for a non-Newtonian fluid, and fluid data for the non-Newtonian fluid. The shear-rate dependent viscosity can further be applied to a well model in numerical reservoir simulation to improve the well model.

Non-Newtonian fluids (e.g., polymer, gels) are commonly used in oil field applications such as for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), water production control, conformance control, and control of leak-off and back-flow characteristics during hydraulic fracturing. Knowledge of non-Newtonian fluids has therefore become increasingly important for optimization of field operation designs and performance prediction.
However, currently available methods and systems for predicting fluid flow in heterogeneous porous media are unable to accurately capture the flow behaviors of non-Newtonian fluids due to their complex rheological behavior, especially when in the vicinity of wells due to high flow activity. In particular, the integration of physical phenomena such as shear-thinning effect, permeability reduction, and adsorption, as well as, inaccessible pore volume into the well model is inadequate, leading to inaccuracy in prediction, or requiring additional steps for validation. Accordingly, more accurate methods and systems for predicting fluid flow of non-Newtonian fluids in heterogeneous porous media, and particularly in the vicinity of wells, are needed.

Modeling of non-newtonian fluids in subterranean reservoirs


A 1-bromopropane composition is disclosed, which stays stable even under the condition that it is repeatedly used at high temperatures over an extended period of time as in vapor degreasing. The stabilized 1-bromopropane composition comprises 100 parts by weight of 1-bromopropane, from 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of nitromethane, and from 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of 1,2-butylene oxide or trimethoxymethane.

For the degreasing of worked parts and precision parts having a large amount of mineral oils and fats attached thereto, metallic parts which are liable to stain or rust, small parts which are handled in a large amount in a cleaning basket, etc., chlorine solvents have been heretofore used for the most part, particularly 1,1,1-trichloroethane, which is a non-aqueous chlorine solvent excellent in properties such as high degreasing power and incombustibility.
In recent years, however, social awareness of global environmental issues has been increasing more and more, and this has led to a growing trend toward severer control on the discharge of environment-destroying substances. For example, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, which has been used in great quantities as an excellent degreasing detergent, is now on the list of substances destroying the ozone layer in the stratosphere. It was decided that the production of 1,1,1-trichloroethane shall be abolished by the end of 1995. Further, other chlorine solvents such as trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene involve environmental problems such as toxicity and contamination of underground water and have thus been gradually placed under restrictions. Accordingly, less pollutive substitute detergents for these chlorine solvents have been keenly demanded.
It is well known that a certain kind of bromohydrocarbon has a high dissolving power for various oils. For example, tribromomethane and 1,2-dibromopropane are described in JP-B-44-20082 (the term "JP-B" as used herein means an "examined Japanese patent publication"). 2,3-Dibromobutane and n-butyl bromide are described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,730,904. 1-Bromopropane and 2-bromopropane are described in JP-A-6-220494.
Among these bromohydrocarbons, 1-bromopropane is incombustible and has a detergent action equal to or higher than that of 1,1,1-trichloroethane but is disadvantageous in that it is liable to cause decomposition reaction induced by various metals such as aluminum, zinc, iron and copper.
The decomposition reaction of 1-bromopropane upon contact with a metal proceeds differently by the kind of the metal. This decomposition reaction shows a marked progress upon contact with aluminum. At ordinary temperatures, this decomposition reaction proceeds very slowly. Upon heating, this reaction involves a chain decomposition reaction while producing hydrogen bromide that eventually vigorously corrodes aluminum to convert 1-bromopropane to a dark brown tar substance. Accordingly, the essential requirement for the use of 1-bromopropane in the cleaning of various metallic parts is the stabilization of 1-bromopropane such that the decomposition of 1-bromopropane induced by various metals, particularly aluminum, is inhibited to prevent the materials to be cleaned and the cleaning apparatus from being corroded.
As an approach for inhibiting the decomposition reaction of 1-bromopropane induced by aluminum there is disclosed in JP-A-6-220494 a method which comprises the use of nitroalkanes, ethers, epoxides or amines singly or in combination as a stabilizer. However, the stabilizer composition disclosed as an example in the above cited Japanese patent application is disadvantageous in that it is not necessarily stable to metals commonly used as industrial metallic materials such as zinc, iron and copper and thus can corrode the materials to be cleaned or cleaning apparatus when used at high temperatures over an extended period of time, such as in vapor degreasing.


An upright vacuum cleaner is provided which has a handle pivotally mounted to a foot. The foot has a releasable mechanism pivotally mounted thereto. The releasable mechanism and the handle are provided with abutting protrusions and recesses which can abut one another to retain the handle in an upright storage position, in an angularly disposed position for normal use and a generally horizontal position. The releasable mechanism preferably comprises a foot pedal which has an integral arm spring extending angularly therefrom and biased against the foot so that the protrusion and/or recess on the foot pedal is urged within a corresponding recess and/or protrusion on the handle.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner, and more particularly, to a vacuum cleaner having a mechanism for releasably retaining a handle portion thereon in various positions relative to a vertical, upright position.
2. Description of the Related Art
Vacuum cleaners are often provided with a handle pivotally mounted to a wheeled foot having a nozzle portion thereon. The handle allows a user to push the foot across a floor surface for cleaning whereby debris collected by the nozzle is collected in a filter bag carried on the vacuum cleaner. A pedal is typically provided on the foot which engages a series of protrusions on the handle for releasably engaging the handle in a series of angular positions relative to a vertical upright position. For example, the pedal is typically adapted to retain the handle portion in an upright position for storage, an angular position for normal use and a generally horizontal position for pushing the foot underneath an object, such as a piece of furniture. Examples of these types of retaining mechanisms are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,423,534 (Lyman et al.) issued Jan. 3, 1984, 3,683,449 (Nordeen) issued Aug. 15, 1972, 3,932,912 (Johnson) issued Jan. 20, 1976, and 3,199,138 (Nordeen) issued Aug. 10, 1965.

Vacuum cleaner having a handle release thereon


Machines having torques variable as a function of the angle of rotation such as piston driving mechanisms like compressors, cam driving mechanisms, printing machines and looms, are driven by an electric motor in such a way that a trend in angular velocity which is dependent upon the angle of rotation, in particular also a constant angular velocity of the main driving shaft (2) of the driven machine, may be predetermined. To do this the angle of rotation (3) as well as the torque (4) are picked up off the main shaft (2) and fed to an adaptive control system (S) which, starting from the desired values (s0) of the angular velocity as a function of the angle of rotation, applies a corresponding correcting variable (Y) to the electric motor (1) and iteratively adapts it periodically in order to bring the trend in angular velocity of the main shaft (2) into agreement with the desired value (s0).

The invention is concerned with a system of driving by electric motor machines which work in a periodic manner.
Machines having torques variable as a function of the angle of rotation are, e.g., piston driving mechanisms such as compressors or cam driving mechanisms or printing machines and looms. Typical of the behavior of these machines is the torque changing as a function of the angular position of the driving shaft, the trend of the torque repeating periodically and only changing little over succeeding periods. The driving problems with torques variable as a function of the angle of rotation and representative of the machines already mentioned are further shown in the example of looms.
For driving fast running looms by means of an electric motor three operational states are to be distinguished, each of which imposes specific demands. These are the starting behavior, the behavior at shutdown and the behavior while running.
The effects of the torques variable as a function of the angle of rotation make themselves felt predominantly in the behavior while running.
Characteristic of the weaving process are the wide differences in the power needed by the individual mechanisms during one revolution of the main shaft. Through the starting of different sequences such, e.g., as formation of the shed, movement of the reed or warp let-off energy is needed on short notice as a function of the angle of rotation of the main shaft, which makes itself felt in a considerable instantaneous variation in the torque and resulting from that a variation in the angular velocity of the rotating system. Since the individual sequences take place at exactly defined angles of rotation, the torque varies as a function of angle but it varies little from one period or cycle to the next.
The significant variations of the torque as a function of angle cause, for example:
a) vibrations which both internally to the machine and externally, e.g., on the foundations, can act to disturb or even destroy; PA1 b) an influence upon the radiation of noise from noise-generating components such as battens, healds, torsion rods, etc.; PA1 c) alternations in the weaving process which may in certain materials become visible through so-called streakiness; PA1 d) alterations in the tension ratios in the weave which can make themselves felt for the first time in faults in the finish, e.g., the shrinkage behavior.
A driving mechanism would be desirable which enables the kinematic sequences and the torques which occur to be independent of one another. This applies, for example, to a continuous weaving process. The fulfillment of this requirement is particularly difficult during start-up and shutdown of the loom. Here the kinematic desired values should be reached right after switching.
A series of proposals have become known for reaching gradual independence better than is possible with a simple three-phrase drive, including flywheels connected via couplings. These solutions confer advantages in sub-ranges. Flywheels enable a reduction in the variations in torque but not any active influence or any elimination at all. Up to now there has been no success, within a justifiable economic frame of expenditure, in attempts to uncouple kinematics and torque for periodically working machines with the torque variable as a function of the angle of rotation, such as, for example, loom drives. The application of a classical regulator and regulation, e.g., to assure a constant angular velocity relies on the presence of an error in the regulating process, or a deviation in regulation, whereby the desired independence between the two does not exist.

System of driving by electric motor machines which work in a periodic manner at torque variable as a function of the angle of rotation