An apparatus and method of the present invention includes a high frequency exclusive OR (XOR) with a peaked load stage. The peaked load stage coupled to the XOR produces a peaked response at a specified frequency of operation. The high frequency XOR comprises a mixer stage comprising first and second transconductance stages coupled to produce a differential output current. The peaked load stage receives the differential output current from the mixer stage and provides increasing impedance at a specified frequency of operation. The peaked load stage includes a pair of peaked load blocks comprising a saturation region peaked load MOSFET and a resistive load. The gate-to-source capacitance of the peaked load MOSFET is coupled to the resistive load to form a high pass filter that provides additional bias to a gate of the peaked load MOSFET that increases the resistance of the peaked load MOSFET at the specified frequency.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to communication systems and more particularly to high frequency XOR circuits used therein.
2. Description of Related Art
Communication systems are known to transport large amounts of data between a plurality of end user devices, which, for example, include telephones (i.e., land line and cellular), facsimile machines, computers, television sets, personal digital assistants, etc. As is known, such communication systems may be local area networks (LANs) and/or wide area networks (WANs) that are stand-alone communication systems or interconnected to other LANs and/or WANs as part of a public switched telephone network (PSTN), packet switched data network (PSDN), integrated service digital network (ISDN), or the Internet. As is further known, communication systems include a plurality of system equipment to facilitate the transporting of data. Such system equipment includes, but is not limited to, routers, switches, bridges, gateways, protocol converters, frame relays, and private branch exchanges.
The transportation of data within communication systems is governed by one or more standards that ensure the integrity of data conveyances and fairness of access for data conveyances. For example, there are a variety of Ethernet standards that govern serial transmissions within a communication system at data rates of 10 megabits-per-second, 100 megabits-per-second, 1 gigabit-per-second and beyond. Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET), for example, currently provides for up to 10 gigabits-per-second. In accordance with such standards, many system components and end user devices of a communication system transport data via serial transmission paths. Internally, however, the system components and end user devices may process data in a parallel manner. As such, each system component and end user device must receive the serial data and convert the serial data into parallel data without loss of information. After processing the data, the parallel data must be converted back to serial data for transmission without loss of information.
Accurate recovery of information from high-speed serial transmissions typically requires transceiver components that operate at clock speeds equal to or higher than the received serial data rate. As the demand for data throughput increases, so do the demands on a high-speed serial transceiver. The increased throughput demands are pushing some current integrated circuit manufacturing processes to their operating limits. Integrated circuit processing limits (e.g., device parasitics, trace sizes, propagation delays, and device sizes) and integrated circuit (IC) fabrication limits (e.g., IC layout, frequency response of the packaging, and frequency response of bonding wires) limit the speed at which the high-speed serial transceiver may operate without loss of signal contents. Additionally, modern communication systems, including high data rate communication systems, typically include a plurality of circuit boards that communicate with each other by way of signal traces, bundled data lines, backplanes, etc.
At high data rates, the impedance due to series inductance and stray capacitance in the signal traces, backplanes and bonding wires increases. The increased impedance at high data rates causes circuit losses that reduce the magnitude and the high frequency content of the received data. At high data rates, the rise time of the data approaches the propagation time through the transport medium (backplanes, circuit traces, bonding wires, etc.) thus approaching a transmission line wherein the device parasitics are distributed across the transmission line. The distributed parasitics degrade the high frequency content of the high-speed data to the extent that the corners of an idealized square wave become significantly rounded.
Additionally, the distributed parasitics attenuate the high-speed data to the point where recovery of data and/or a clock introduces substantial errors thereby increasing inter-symbol interference and more generally, to result in the data being misread. Exclusive OR gates, among other circuit components, often produce an output signal from a logic circuit (such as a clock and data recovery circuit for high speed applications) that are required to propagate a distance sufficient yet the high frequency related circuit responses introduce high frequency errors as discussed above to result in erroneous readings of signal logic states. There is a need, therefore, for a method and an apparatus to increase the output signal magnitude at the high frequencies at a device level to compensate for the circuit losses. More specifically, this need is acute for XOR logic blocks in specified applications in order for XOR logic block output signals to be properly interpreted.

High frequency XOR with peaked load stage


A first chart and a second chart are parsed to determine one or more measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the first chart and the second chart. The number of measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the first chart and the second chart are calculated. It is determined how many of the number of measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the first chart and the second chart are the same. One or more merge rules corresponding to the number of measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the first chart and to the number of measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the second chart that aren't the same as measures, dimensions, and filters visualized in the first chart are obtained, and one or more merge permutations are derived based on the obtained merge rules. The first chart and the second chart are merged in accordance with one of the merge permutations.

Modern business intelligence tools allow for the visual analysis of data so that technical or non-technical users can create charts through a variety of techniques. These techniques include selecting measures, dimensions, filters, and chart types (e.g., bar charts, pie charts, etc.) to create a chart, or creating a chart from an existing chart by performing a selection on the existing chart.
While these visualization generation approaches are relatively simple and easy to understand for a layperson, they also have several limitations. They tend to only be simple for basic charts (e.g., one dimension, measure, and filter). They can be quite complex to generate charts with multiple filters, for example. Additionally, they do not allow the user to reuse previous (e.g., existing) charts to compose new ones.

Interactive chart authoring through chart merging


A particulate reusable sorbing coalescing agent facilitating the separation of a non-aqueous phase from an aqueous phase. The agent has a desired shape and properties, sheared from a block of matrix material and presents a higher coalescing rate relative to existing sorbing coalescing agents. Also, a method of manufacturing the particulate reusable sorbing coalescing agent and a method of use the particulate reusable sorbing coalescing agent are disclosed.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to sorbing coalescing technology.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the recent past there have been several well documented instances of the inadvertent spillage of non-aqueous liquids causing both environmental, ecological and even toxicological problems for plant species, insects, wild life and even people. Examples of spilled liquids include oils and solvents, and a group of materials known as PCB's, which in addition to being pollutants are carcinogenic. Further, in many cases when the spilled liquid is a nonaqueous liquid which is not compatible with water, such as fuel oil and hydrocarbon solvents, in addition to the spilled liquid, aqueous emulsions are also often formed. For many of these liquids, methods of clean up including adsorption and coalescing steps are known, even for relatively difficult ones such as crude oil and toxic PCB's.
Patents in the prior art in some way involve a particulate material for adsorbing or coalescing a non-aqueous phase, typically crude oil or a derivative of it, such as gasoline, diesel fuel or lubricating oil. These patents utilise a wide range of adsorbents and/or coalescing agents, not all of which are clearly defined. They include: polyethylene; polypropylene; polyisocyanurate; polyurethane; shreds of solids loaded polyurethane foam; silane cross linked polyolefin; polymethyl methacrylate; shredded fibreglass; wool; cork; styrofoam; polyester and/or cotton.
Kozlowski, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,239,040 discloses a particulate reusable polyurethane adsorbents capable of adsorbing many spilled liquids, and from which the adsorbed liquid can be removed by the simple process of centrifugation. The main limitation on the use of the particulate adsorbents of that invention is the properties of the liquid spilled. Any liquid which would destroy or dissolve a polyurethane polymer cannot be recovered using the product described by Kozlowski.
Another difficulty with spilt non-aqueous liquids arises when water is present. A water immiscible liquid can be present in association with water in two quite different forms. At least a part of it will generally be present as a discrete second phase, which may be heavier or lighter than water. The remainder will generally be present as an emulsion, of at least some level of stability, and in which water can be either the continuous phase or the disperse phase. In both cases, there is also the difficulty that nearly all substances that appear to be immiscible with water, for example light hydrocarbons such as benzene, in fact are soluble in water to a small extent, often at a level of parts per million.
Until quite recently it was considered that the chemical structure of the material used in the adsorbent or coalescing agent powder (units) determined the adsorptive or coalescing characteristics of the adsorbent or coalescing agent. There are numerous patents in which polyurethane foam is stated to be essential. According to Kozlowski, in WO 02/20115, not only Kozlowski polyurethane foam as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,239,040, but also other matrix materials, when fabricated into a body of high surface area material such as foam, if used under the correct conditions, will function as an emulsion breaker, and will separate a flow of an aqueous emulsion into two separate phases.
Patents of the prior art use polyethylene, and describe comminuting a matrix material, typically a body of polymer foam, into small particles.


The present application relates to a wheel rolling device, which is composed of a lower lifting rotating system, first rolling systems, a synchronous clamping drive system, a second rolling system and a third rolling system. The present application may not only strengthen the center hole, the inner and outer rims, the upper and lower rims, the flange root and the like portion of the wheel by rolling, but also may strengthen the bolt holes and valve holes of the wheel by extrusion; at the same time, the present application has the characteristics of high automation, powerful function, advanced technology, strong versatility and safe and stable performance.

As the automotive industry continues to pursue lightweight, especially in the wheel industry, the lightweight of wheels directly affects the fuel economy of automobiles. Some automobile factories not only require the wheels to be lightweight, but also have strict standards for the appearances and structures of the wheels. Lightweight tends to reduce the bending and the radial fatigue lives of the wheels.


In an image forming apparatus in which a DC bias is applied to charge a photosensitive drum, when a charge eliminating device is in deterioration or failure, there are some cases where a proper charging is not made, and thus poor imaging occurs. A DC bias is applied to a charging member in the charge eliminating operation area of an image bearing member where the charge eliminating device makes charge eliminating operation; and based on the values of an electric current passing through the image bearing member on that occasion, a DC bias application is switched between by constant-current-control and by constant-voltage-control.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic printing method and the like.
2. Description of the Related Art
A printer will be described as an example among image forming apparatuses.
As a method of charging an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus with a charging member, such as a charging roller, a DC charging bias is applied to the charging roller by a constant-current-control. By making constant-current-control, good charging can be made without being affected by fluctuations in the impedance of the charging roller or environmental fluctuations.
FIG. 12 illustrates a schematic arrangement of a conventional charging bias application circuit 1301. A voltage setting circuit portion 1302 changes a set value in response to a PWM signal. The charging bias application circuit 1301 includes a transformer driving circuit portion 1303 and a high voltage transformer 1304. A feedback circuit portion 1305 converts the value of an electric current I162 passing through a charging roller (a charging member) 106 to a voltage with a resistor R161 for detection, and transmits this voltage to an engine controlling portion as an analog value from J501. Then, based on this analog value, the engine controlling portion sets a PWM signal so as to be a required electric current value. Making a series of control in such an arrangement can pass a constant electric current value through the charging roller. Application of such an embodiment is made in Japanese Patent No. 3397339. Like this, by applying a DC charging bias by constant-current-control, images of a constant density, without being affected by fluctuations in impedance of a charging roller or environmental fluctuations, can be obtained.
When applying a DC charging bias by constant-current-control, if remaining electric potential is left on an image bearing member, an electric potential difference is decreased between a charging member and the image bearing member, and an electric current is less likely to pass. By making constant-current-control in such situations, the electric potential of the charging member 106 will be set to be excessively high, and thus the electric potential of the image bearing member to be charged will be higher as well, eventually causing poor imaging. Therefore, as to the remaining electric potential, an electric charge needs to be eliminated using an optical element (charge eliminating device) such as an LED to reduce an electric potential. Thus, this charge eliminating process needs to be inserted in sequence. However, in the case of the occurrence of deterioration, contamination or breakdown in the charge eliminating device, applying a DC charging bias by constant-current-control as it is may cause poor imaging.
This deterioration or the like of the charge eliminating device may not be found even if an electric current passing through the charge eliminating device is detected. For example, when a charge eliminating device is an optical element, the surface of the optical element may be contaminated with toner. In this case, in spite of the same electric current as in the normal state passing through the optical element, a sufficient exposure cannot be made onto an image bearing member, resulting in the occurrence of charging failure, and thus poor imaging.


A one-pot process for the manufacture of 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione starting from 2-hydroxyimino-N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide via tandem cyclization in sulfuric acid and acetic acid, followed by in-situ chlorination with sulfur dioxide and chlorine gas in high regioselectivity and yield.

5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione can be a potential intermediate compound in the manufacture of the agrochemical insecticide, chlorantraniliprole. The synthesis of chlorantraniliprole has been described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,232,836 using a synthetic route that does not use 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione as an intermediate compound. Several other publications describe other synthetic routes to chlorantraniliprole. none of which describe the synthesis of 5-chloro-7-methyl indole-2,3-dione or its use as an intermediate. (U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,528,260, 8,153,844, 8,217,179, 8,481,744, 8,871,939, 9,162,973, WO2018214685).
The desired 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione may be made by two routes: Route 1-chlorination of N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide by cyclization to produce the desired 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione
or
Route 2 by the cyclization of the un-chlorinated N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide to yield the 7-methylindoline-2,3-dione which is subsequently chlorinated at the 5-position to yield the desired 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione.
With reference to Route 1, the prior art has described a few methods to chlorinate N-(o-acyl) acetamides in general. Chenevert, Robert and Ampleman et al (Canadian Journal of Chemistry, v65(2), p307-10) have reported the chlorination of N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide using Cl2 gas, with a poor regioselectivity of 61% for the desired N-(4-chloro-2-methylphenyl)acetamide. Singh, Harshvardhan et al (European Journal of Organic Chemistry v34, 4748-4753; 2018) and Bovonsombat, Pakom et al (Tetrahedron, 73(46), 6564-6572; 2017) have reported the chlorination of N-(o-acyl)acetamides using N-Chlorosuccinimide with similar low regioselectivity. Other reagents such as N-Chloro-4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine, t-butylhypochlorite and hydrochloric acid with hydrogen peroxide have also been described without achieving the desired regioselectivity needed. (V. P. et al; Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry v77(6), 964-967; 2004; Lengyel, Istvan et al; Synthetic Communications v28(10), 1891-1896; 1998; Pan, Qiangbiao et al. CN 107021889)
We carried out chlorination of N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide in acetic acid using chlorine gas As shown in Example 1, this results in a low yield reaction with multiple regioisomeric byproducts that makes the isolation of the desired N-(4-chloro-2-methylphenyl) acetamide very low yielding and environmentally wasteful. Further, as shown in Example 2, chlorination of the downstream 2-(hydroxyimino)-N-(o-tolyl)acetamide intermediate as another pre-cyclization option actually does not lead to any isolable quantity of the desired N-(4-chloro-2-methylphenyl)acetamide at all. Thus as shown above as Route 1, chlorination of N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide is not a viable route to the desired 5-chloro-7-methylindole-2,3-dione.
The second method, Route 2 involves chlorination of the 7-methylindoline-2,3-dione, after cyclization of the N-(2-methylphenyl)-2-(hydroxyimino)acetamide. The prior art describes some general methods of chlorination of indoline-2,3-diones. Gutierrez, Elisa et al (e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, 1-5, 2013) have reported the chlorination of indoline-2,3-dione using sodium dichloroisocyanurate. Hiegel, Gene A. et al (e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, 1-7; 2013) have reported the chlorination of indoline-2,3-dione using lsocyanuric chloride. Mahajan, Tanu et al (Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51(10), 3881-3886, 2012) have reported the chlorination of indoline-2,3-dione using N-chlorosuccinimide while Dos Santos, Edeilza Lopes et al, (Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 295(1-2), 18-23; 2008) have reported the use of isatin carbonimidic dichloride and Li, Wei et al (CN103058993) have reported the use of SO2Cl2 in the presence of Ac2O. Further as shown in Example 3, direct chlorination of 7-methylindoline-2,3-dione with chlorine gas in acetic acid results once again in poor regioselectivity that requires expensive fractionational distillation for purification to the desired 95%+ regioselectivity for use in the manufacture of chlorantraniliprole.
Consequently there still exists a need for a commercially viable method to regioselectively add a chlorine atom at the 5-position of indoline-2,3-diones and specifically to 7-methylindoline-2,3-dione to produce the key agrochemical intermediate, 5-chloro-7-methylindole-2,3-dione, in good yield and with the high regioselectivity that would allow for direct, without fractional distillation, use in the manufacture of chlorantraniliprole.

Single step regioselective cyclization and chlorination of hydroxyamino-N-(2-methylphenyl)acetamide to 5-chloro-7-methylindoline-2,3-dione


A system, method, and computer program product which allows a user to view and navigate reduced-content web pages on a wireless connection. Upon the user's selection of specific web pages, the pages are then delivered to the user by a less expensive connection, as in a conventional wired internet connection. The delivery is accomplished by several methods, according to different embodiments, including by an electronic mail message, by “push” delivery to an internet-connected data processing system, and by providing a set of hyperlinks to the wired internet connection which reference the selected pages, among other methods. The user is thereby able to view, on a second internet-connected data processing system, the data selected when using the wireless internet-connected data processing system.

1. Technical Field
The present invention generally relates to improved networked computer systems and in particular to improved wireless communications over networked computer systems. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to improved communications over a combination of wired and wireless data processing systems.
2. Description of the Related Art
In today's society, the use of the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) have become pervasive. The Web, a global network of interconnected computer systems which communicate using common protocols and addressing means, allows users to receive information on almost any topic at the press of a button or the click of a mouse, and is becoming the research tool of choice for many users.
Further, the Web is being used more every day as a means to transact business, make purchases, manage investments, and perform other interactive tasks. A user is increasingly able to perform almost any type of personal or business transaction simply by using his client-side data processing system to access a server system to perform the transaction on-line.
Internet use is no longer limited to wired connections such as analog Plain-Old-Telephone-System (POTS) modems, ISDN, and xDSL. Every day, it is becoming more common for users to access the Internet via portable data processing systems that use a wireless connection to the internet. One common example of this is a typical laptop computer systems with a modem that is connected to a wireless telephone. Relatively new examples of this technology are wireless digital telephones and handheld computers with integrated access to the internet over a wireless digital network. These systems use a simplified Web browser which is modified to accommodate the limited display capabilities of the systems.
For example, the PalmPilot® family of PDA systems has Web browsing software like the HandWeb and ProxiWeb. Windows CE and some digital PCS telephones also have Web browsing software.
One significant drawback to using these wireless devices to connect to the internet is that the cost of wireless communication systems are prohibitively high. In some common wireless systems, the cost-per-byte for content delivery is very high relative to wired systems or voice communications. To address this, most wireless devices use some mechanism to reduce the amount of data downloaded from a given website. Common techniques include accessing websites which have content specially designed for wireless devices, with simplified menu options and reduced amounts of text. Another technique is that of "Web clipping," which is essentially the dilution of Web content to essential truncated text. Further, most wireless browsers eliminate any graphics from the website displayed.
The cost differential between wired and wireless internet systems makes these sort of approaches attractive. While wired connections have become relatively inexpensive, even for "dedicated" connections that are continually connected to the internet, wireless systems are still very expensive, and are generally billed either by the length of time the user is connected to the internet, the amount of data transferred, or both. The content-reduction techniques outlined above are used to minimize the cost of the connections.
An unfortunate side effect of these approaches is that the user loses a great deal of the content he was seeking in the first place. While these techniques generally allow the user to perform some basic functions or retrieve some limited information, the user is prevented from seeing the websites in their entirety or from seeing any accompanying graphics or illustrations. Further, the more content he does display on the wireless connection, the more expensive it is.
Often, in order for the user to see the entire web page he was looking for, the user must access the web from a wired data processing system, and look up each page from that connection in order to fully view or print it. Because of the "hyperlinked" nature of the Web, it is often difficult for a user to relocate a particular page on the wired system that he had viewed on the wireless system. It would therefore be desirable to provide a means for a user to easily coordinate the use of a wireless internet connection with the use of a less-expensive wired Internet connection, so that web pages can be viewed less expensively and without unnecessary inefficiency. Even more desirable would be a means for a user to easily coordinate the use of both a relatively expensive and relatively inexpensive connection, whether the distinction be connection speed, connection method, or otherwise, so that the data can be transferred and used less expensively and without unnecessary inefficiency.

Sending full-content data to a second data processing system while viewing reduced-content data on a first data processing system

International Business Machines Corporation


A batting tee that can be used by righthanded and lefthanded hitters to expand their batting zone. The batting tee comprises of two weighted legs that extend from a point of origin, an angle of twenty-five degree is created between the two weighted legs. Each weighted leg is hollow and defines an upper and a lower linear channel that can receive a block that sustains a screw in post. The post has a ball holder. A triangular weighted sheet attaches to an inside side of each weighted leg. Each leg defines a block insertion point at a location that is at a furthest distance from the point of origin, the block insertion points are defined on the upper part and the power part of each leg.

The present invention is directed to a batting tee that is used by righthanded and lefthanded hitters to expand their batting zone.
The batting tee is designed to allow either a righthanded hitter or a lefthanded hitter to hit any ball pitched over home plate.
The batting tee is designed to allow a hitter to adjust his swing in accordance with the location of the ball when it passes over home plate.
The batting tee teaches the hitter where to connect with a ball in relation to home plate and wherein the ball will be driven after the connection.
The batting tee is designed to allow a hitter to develop muscle memory with regards to a swing that passes over a certain area of a home plate.
Muscle memory and hand to eye coordination is what makes a hitter. This invention is made to train the hitter in hand to eye coordination, while also creating the muscle memory required to hit a ball that passes through any area of home plate.


A plush toy is provided having its surface generally covered with multiple panels of fur fabric or plush fabric, which is non-stretching but soft to the touch. The toy includes a center body, a head, two ears and four legs. Eye and nose members may also be added as appropriate to model the actual animals and the like. In the belly side of the toy, a shaped patch of elastic fabric is stitched to cover a blank, which is defined by the edges of the panels of the fur fabric. The elastic fabric is free of fur and lies flush with the surrounding belly panel areas in its natural state. The head and four legs have respective cavities filled with cotton batting and the like to give a thickness and softness before or after their attachments to the center body. A bladder of elastic material such as rubber or silicon is prepared with liquid, which is filled at least partially to provide an expansive response to squeezes. The bladder is introduced into a cavity of the body through the blank and rests securely therein. The blank is then covered by an elastic fabric that acts as an interface for the toy owner to feel the elasticity of the bladder.

A. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a toy, and more particularly to a plush doll having a liquid-filled bladder that is stretchable through a wall of the doll.
B. Description of the Prior Art
Animal shaped plush dolls are typically comprised of outer furry fabrics and an inner soft filler, such as cotton, that gives the dolls volume. It has been suggested that portions of the plush dolls' filler be replaced with liquid or air.
For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,813,896 describes a balloon that inflates a toy figure, which renders the plush toy easier to ship and launder. The future toy owner is responsible for the plush toy's complete assembly from the provided balloons and an outer plush toy figure. Inflation of the balloons underneath the outer fabric casing gives volume to the head and body parts of the figure.
This construction method bestows a convenient manner in which a toy can be easily compressed and decompressed. However, children often develop a strong emotional attachment to plush dolls because of their resemblance to actual living species. This relationship makes plush dolls unlike most other commodities in which production efficiency is priority, because the convenience of a deformable plush toy is overshadowed by children's' dissatisfaction with the unrealistic element of decompression. This emotional factor creates a continued need to improve the utility of plush toys without compromising the creatures' lifelike representation.
Accordingly, the general object of the present invention is to provide a plush toy with a squeezable liquid element that is highly sensible through a stretching interface built into the toy.
Another object is to provide a plush toy that is furry outside and watery inside at the same time to simulate the real living model in nature.
Yet another object is to provide a noninvasive plush toy with a built-in liquid bladder that entails no by-products associated with user preparation of inflatable parts.
According to the present invention, the plush toy comprises a non-stretchy outer fabric having a blank area stitched with a flexible cover. This design allows for the consumer to feel the squeezable filler inside of the doll. The filler may be a squeezable liquid element provided by an elastic water-filled bladder.


A passive cooling topology and a manufacturing method are described for a transformer to achieve improved power density at a light weight. No fans or cooling liquids are required. Vertical planar faces are used for the central core element, the primary and secondary windings, the outer core element, and a finned heat sink. The primary flow for thermal cooling is radial, through the vertical planar faces. The transformer may be configured to float at the potential of a high voltage transmission line, leading to improved thermal characteristics. Eddy currents are reduced using repeating air gaps in the central core, and a continuously transposed cable comprising multiple strands per turn in the secondary winding. Air pockets in the windings are eliminated using a potting resin and vacuum pressure impregnation (VPI).

Power flow control devices that are constructed for optional attachment to power transmission lines are preferably light in weight and of minimum size. Accordingly, for power flow devices that incorporate a power transformer, it is desirable to use a passive cooling topology that eliminates cooling liquids and pumping equipment and fans.
In a transformer implementation, eddy current losses are preferably minimized since they decrease both electrical and thermal efficiency. High voltage operation of a transformer may include features (such as air pockets) that may arc unless mitigating strategies are employed. Such arcing can quickly lead to failure of the transformer. Insulating materials may be chosen that withstand high dielectric stress while also providing good thermal conductivity.
Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a transformer of small size and light weight optimized for use in a power flow control system.

Transformer having passive cooling topology


A micromirror for micro-electro-mechanical systems. The micromirror comprises a pad layer, a doped aluminum layer containing 0.002 wt % to 0.3 wt % of silicon overlying the pad layer and a protective layer overlying the doped aluminum layer.

The present invention relates to micromirrors for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMSs). More particularly, the present invention relates to micromirrors using doped aluminum layer and methods of fabricating the same.
New advancements in projection systems utilize an optical semiconductor known as a digital micromirror device. A digital micromirror device chip is one of the most sophisticated light switches in the field. It contains an array of 750,000 to 1.3 million pivotally-mounted microscopic mirrors. Each mirror may measure less than ⅕ of the width of a human hair and corresponds to one pixel in a projected image. The digital micromirror device chip can be combined with a digital video or graphic signal, a light source and projector lens so that the micromirrors reflect an all-digital image onto a screen or other surface.
US patent publication No. 2004/0223240 discloses micromirror arrays having a reflective layer comprising gold, silver, titanium, or aluminum. The micromirror optimizes the contrast ratio of the micromirror array so that when the micromirrors are in their 'off' state they send minimal light to the spatial region where light is directed when micromirrors are in their 'on' state.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,778,315 discloses a Micro mirror structure with flat reflective coating. Each mirror includes a substrate, a diffusion barrier layer located above the substrate, and a reflective layer located above the diffusion barrier layer. The reflective layer comprises gold, silver or aluminum.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,800,210 discloses a method for making a micromechanical device by removing a sacrificial layer with multiple sequential etchants. The micromechanical device uses metal such as gold, silver or aluminum as reflective layer.
Conventional micromirrors often include hillocks (raised feature or bumps) or voids in the reflective layer. The hillocks or voids may however cause artifacts or distortions in the projected image. Conventional micromirrors also tend to have unstable light-reflecting characteristics, possibly resulting from large surface roughness of the reflective layer.

Micromirrors for micro-electro-mechanical systems and methods of fabricating the same

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.


A method for controlling a fuel pump for a hybrid diesel vehicle may include determining, by a control device, whether to drive the hybrid diesel vehicle in an EV driving mode or in an engine driving mode by reflecting a vehicle driving state information value and stopping, by the control device, operation of a fuel pump relay when the determination is made to drive in the EV driving mode.

Field of the Invention
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for controlling a fuel pump for a hybrid diesel vehicle; and particularly, to a technology for preventing unnecessary consumption of power charged in the battery of a vehicle by temporarily stopping the operation of a fuel pump in a driving mode when an engine is not required to be driven.
Description of Related Art
The operation procedure of a fuel pump mounted in a conventional diesel vehicle is as follows.
A fuel pump relay for running a fuel pump according to a pump control signal received by an ECU operates generally under the condition of ignition-on, cranking, or engine running, and occasionally, when it is determined whether or not the fuel pump is normally operated with an inspection device.
Meanwhile, a hybrid diesel vehicle, which has been recently developed and mass-produced, stops the operation of a fuel pump when the engine ignition is turned off, while the hybrid diesel vehicle is still maintained at an ignition-on state in an EV mode in which the vehicle travels only by a motor, thereby continuously operating the fuel pump.
That is to say, in spite of the fact that the hybrid diesel vehicle does not need to continuously and unnecessarily operate the fuel pump when traveling in the EV mode, the fuel pump operates while the hybrid diesel vehicle is traveling in the EV driving mode, so that power charged in a battery is unnecessarily consumed.
Accordingly, when the hybrid diesel vehicle travels in the EV mode, the engine is turned off, but the ignition-on state is still maintained, so that there is a problem in that the fuel pump continuously operates.
For this reason, the various aspects of the present invention are directed to providing a method and system for controlling a fuel pump for a hybrid diesel vehicle, which temporarily stops a fuel pump when a hybrid diesel vehicle travels in an EV mode, and prevents a delay in the operation of an engine and a shock of the vehicle due to sudden fuel supply by operating a fuel pump relay in advance to protect the fuel pump before shifting to an engine mode on the shifting from the EV mode to the engine mode.
The information disclosed in this Background of the Invention section is only for enhancement of understanding of the general background of the invention and should not be taken as an acknowledgement or any form of suggestion that this information forms the prior art already known to a person skilled in the art.

Method and system for controlling fuel pump for hybrid diesel vehicle


A double lid truck storage box that includes a rectangular box arranged for mounting in a standard pickup truck bed to extend thereacross and includes a double lid for closing thereover. The rectangular box and double lid are preferably formed of steel, or like material, and include a top lid that is hinge connected along a rear wall lower edge to a lower lid rear wall upper edge, and which lower lid rear wall lower edge, is hinge connected to an upper edge of the rectangular box rear wall, such that the respective hinges are aligned vertically with one another to allow for individual opening of the top lid off of the lower lid and the lower lid off of the rectangular box. The double lid provides, from the rectangular box rear wall, for clearance as from a pickup truck cab and bed forward wall as the double lid is lifted. The top lid and lower lid of the double lid can be individually locked over the lower lid and to the rectangular box, respectively, and the interior area between the upper and lower lid is arranged to accommodate items, such as guns, tools or the like, therein, with tools, hunting and fishing gear, or the like, maintained in the rectangular box.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to utility containers, that are preferably metallic, for providing a secured storage of items, such as tools, and arranged for mounting into the bed of a standard pickup truck.
2. Prior Art
Similar to the invention a number of earlier container and box arrangements have been devised for mounting in and to a pickup truck bed. For example, U.S. Pat. to Whatley, No. 4,531,774; to West, No. 4,936,624; and to Waters, No. 4,967,944, all show pickup truck mounted boxes and mounting structures that have elements in common with the present invention. Specifically, like the invention, each includes a box with a hinged lid structure and provides for mounting to a pickup truck bed, juxtaposition to the truck cab. Further, the Waters, '944 patent, also includes a removable tray that is exposed by lifting the box lid around its hinge coupling, and the West '624 patent provides an arrangement of tool trays that rise as the lid is opened. None of which earlier patents, however, show a double lid arrangement like that of the invention that includes separate hinges and locks for a top lid and lid, respectively, where the lid itself is a container for receiving items, such as guns, stored therein.
Containers or boxes for mounting and/or transport in a motor vehicle are shown in U.S. Pat. to Lauderdale, No. 4,136,904 and to Novikov, No. 4,878,706, that, like the above cited patents, are boxes with lids and looks, and further include compartments, with the Lauderdale '904, also providing a mounting arrangement. Neither of which patents, however, shows a double lid structure like that of the invention. Containers or boxes having one or more tray structures fitted and/or stacked therein are shown in a number of earlier U.S. Pat. to Crenshaw, No. 750,817; to Taylor, No. 784,601; to Fleming, No. 2,501,270; to McIntyre, No. 3,777,882; to McPhaul, No. 4,697,379; and to Connors, et al, No. 5,004,103; and a hinged tray is shown in a U.S. Pat. to Sullivan, No. 3,926,308. None of which patents show a double lid arrangement for both covering over a container or box that is like that of the invention, for providing a separate storage capability.
Finally, an accordion hinged top lid, lid, and container arranged as a console storage receptacle is shown in a U.S. Pat. to Wright, Jr., No. 4,809,897. Which storage receptacle top lid and lid connected along one edge with the lid hinged to the container along the lid opposite edge, and, of course, the top lid and lid are not separately lockable or even lockable. Also, the console storage receptacle of Wright '897 is structurally different from the invention as it is for arrangement between vehicle seats rather than in a pickup truck bed.


Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus provided with: an ultrasonic probe which transmits/receives ultrasonic waves to/from an object while being in contact with the object; a transmission/reception unit which, in a process in which pressing force applied to the object by the ultrasonic probe is changed and the tomographic position at which the ultrasonic waves are transmitted/received to/from the object is moved in a short axis direction, periodically transmits/receives the ultrasonic waves to/from the object, performs reception processing on a reflection echo signal from the object, and measures RF signal frame data at the tomographic position; a displacement measurement unit which, on the basis of two pieces of RF signal frame data, between which the difference in measurement time falls within a set range, selected from among multiple pieces of RF signal frame data sequentially measured by the transmission/reception unit, finds the displacement of a living tissue at the tomographic position and sequentially generates displacement frame data; an elasticity information calculation unit which on the basis of the displacement frame data sequentially generated by the displacement measurement unit, finds elasticity information relating to the living tissue at the tomographic position, and sequentially generates elasticity frame data; and an elasticity image construction unit which on the basis of the elasticity frame data sequentially generated by the elasticity information calculation unit, sequentially constructs elasticity images.

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus performs ultrasonic scanning along an arbitrary cross-sectional plane inside an object by an ultrasonic probe and constructs and displays, for example, a tomographic image on the basis of RF signal frame data obtained by performing reception processing on a reflection echo signal from a living tissue at a cross-sectional position including the cross-sectional plane. Since RF signal frame data here is substantially identical to tomographic image data, the term tomographic image data in the description below conceptually includes RF signal frame data.
Also, it is commonly performed to repeatedly measure RF signal frame data at a single cross-sectional position while pressing an object with an ultrasonic probe, obtain displacements of parts of a living tissue at the cross-sectional position on the basis of two pieces of RF signal frame data different in measurement time (the amount of pressing), and construct an elasticity image indicating the hardness or softness of the living tissue on the basis of obtained displacement frame data (e.g., Patent Literature 1). Elasticity information indicating the hardness or softness of a living tissue is typically a strain or the elastic-modulus of the living tissue. It is, however, well-known that examples of elasticity information include a physical quantity, such as a displacement, correlating with a strain or an elastic-modulus.
Further, it is commonly performed to transmit/receive ultrasonic waves while moving an ultrasonic probe in a short axis direction orthogonal to a direction in which transducers are arranged (a long axis direction), measure respective two-dimensional tomographic images at different cross-sectional positions to generate volume data of the tomographic images, perform volume rendering using the volume data to construct a three-dimensional tomographic image (e.g., a two-dimensional projection image), and display the three-dimensional tomographic image (e.g., Patent Literature 2). In this case, a position sensor which measures the position and tilt of the ultrasonic probe is provided, position information and tilt information are acquired at the same time as transmission/reception of ultrasonic waves, and a plurality of two-dimensional tomographic images are registered in association with three-dimensional coordinates of volume data. With a three-dimensional tomographic image constructed in the above-described manner, information on the extent of a part of interest can be observed from a different angle.
Similarly, the process of constructing and displaying a three-dimensional elasticity image has been proposed in order to intuitively recognize the shape and volume of a hard part or a soft part present in a living tissue (e.g., Patent Literature 3). According to the process, elasticity image volume data composed of a plurality of two-dimensional elasticity images measured by general elasticity image measurement is generated, and a three-dimensional image (e.g., a two-dimensional projection image) is constructed on the basis of the elasticity image volume data. A further improvement in visibility by displaying a three-dimensional elasticity image to be superimposed on, e.g., a three-dimensional tomographic image has also been proposed.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and elasticity image display method


A method, computer program and apparatus are disclosed that include accessing client data records, such as, medical records. The method for may include, for example, receiving a data file at a file server comprising client records information. The method may also include forwarding the file to a database and adding the file to a record in the database, creating a database file and storing the database file on the file server, and scheduling a call to at least one client, the call including a portion of the information included in the received data file. The method may further provide performing the call, monitoring the call, and may also include updating the client records information stored in the database based on the additional information provided by the at least one client.

Conventional data record systems that provide client access to their personal records may be provided by a variety of different mediums and networking systems. One example of a data record system may be a telephony-based system which allows clients to access their personal record information by operating a telephone. For instance, a client may wish to access personal medical records stored in a remote database by calling a phone-based data record system and accessing their records via keypad entries or voice commands made over their telephones.
The telephony-based data record systems may provide access to client records through a remote web server and a corresponding database. For example, FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional data record accessing system 10A. Referring to FIG. 1, client 100 uses a hypertext transfer protocol script secure (HTTPS) web posting application to connect to a web server 101 over the network, which is illustrated by the network cloud that may represent a wide area network, the Internet, etc. Once a connection is established the client may send a data file to the web server 101.
The data file is originally sent to the web server 101 which provides a connection to a file server 102. After the file has been moved to the file server 102, a record is generated based on the received file, and that record is sent to a database server, such as, for example, a SQL server 103. The SQL server 103 receives the data file and a record may be generated and added to the SQL database in the SQL server 103.
The file server 102 includes two server engines, which include a parser server engine 102A and an image parser engine 102B. These file server engines provide additional features for processing the data files which are sent to the file server 102. For example, parser server 102A may read and write the data files to the SQL cluster at the SQL server 103. Other applications performed by the file server 102 may include file branding, storing and accessing of appointment file information and voice files (i.e., VCE files).
The SQL sever 103 may also provide additional applications, such as, a parse queue to parse data received from the data file, appointment data organization and storage, email applications for sending reminders to individuals including bulk email, news letter creation and updating procedures, after hours data access services for clients, and short messaging services (SMS) for clients.
The parser server 102A may also parse information for the client, such as, appointment data, and then format the appointment data for storage in appointment tables. The image parser may obtain image information stored in a remote storage unit 104, which may be a database of pre-stored data records, for example, dental records, medical records, x-rays, client chart information, etc.
After data has been stored and processed by the data record accessing system 10A, the clients may access the data records by using an internet portal link to connect to the web server 101 and access client data records. For example, a client may access pre-stored records to obtain appointment information of an approaching doctor appointment based on client data records previously stored in the appointment tables by the file server 102 and the parser server 102A.
Upon accessing the client's records, certain information may be provided automatically or in response to a request submitted by the client accessing the client's records. For instance, images that are stored in the storage 104 and that are associated with the client's personal data may be offered to the client and downloaded to the client's terminal device (not shown).
A similar access scheme may be performed by a client calling in over a telephone to a telephone server 106, which includes an engine 106A and a voice board 106B. For example, after the offices are closed, clients may desire to access their personal data records so that certain information may be confirmed, such as, their appointment time for their next doctor visit.
The engine 106A and the voice board 106B provide the clients with the necessary options to access their personal information. The client may access appointment information and pre-recorded voice file (VCE) information from the file server 102 regarding personal record information. In addition, the telephone server 106 may provide an emergency service that calls the clients when their related personal medical information requires immediate attention. The emergency notifications may also be provided by e-mail, text messaging and other notification techniques via the e-mail server 105.
The conventional data record accessing system 10A performs data record storage and accessing options without anticipating changes to the clients' needs and without providing a dynamic updating platform. Clients need access to all of their personal records, and also need to update their personal records based on the changes that may occur since their last information accessing session and/or during their current sessions with the data record assessing system.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

Method, apparatus and computer program to provide access to client records and data resources