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The cartridge of claim 6 wherein the separation promotion part comprises a first protrusion protruding from an upper end of the lower housing and exposed to the outside and a first elastic member connected to the first protrusion the first elastic member being pressed when the drug dispensing box is connected and providing restoring force the drug dispensing box in the separation direction when the drug dispensing box is separated.

Specifically the memory chip 471 provided at the medicine cartridge 10 stores the serial number of the medicine cartridge 10 information on the accommodated medicine products etc.and provides them to the memory readerprovided at the cartridge mount 20.

The method of claim 17 further comprising locking the yaw axis in a fixed yaw position of the nacelle and locking the shaft in a fixed respective azimuth position of the blade prior to the step of pitching the blade.

The greater drag force 114 on cup 108 acts to rotate the arm 102 and the cup 108 in a clockwise direction.If the arms 102104 rotate beyond the horizontal then the open face of the cup 110 will be presented to the oncoming wind and the corresponding increased drag force in cup 110 and the arm 104 will act to rotate the anemometer 100 further.

Refrigeration appliance having a cooling circuit with a variable cooling capacity compressor and a control unit for driving said compressor characterized in that the control unit is adapted to assess the cooling capacity of the cooling circuit and to calculate the defrost time on the basis of such cooling capacity.

In STEP 5 the reason for determining whether the state that the detected pipe temperature is lower than the established defrosting initiation temperatureis maintained for more than the preset timeis that the evaporating temperature of the refrigerant abnormally falls in case that the system of the air conditioner is not stabilized when the compressor is driven.

The sensor of claim 1 or 2 further comprising a light source configured to emit light at a certain target wavelength wherein said optical blocking filter is configured to block said certain target wavelength.

The detection system which is the main embodiment of the invention consists for example of the dual element type P4488 series pyroelectric detector from the Hamamatsu Corporation Bridgewater NJ with two pyroelectric sensing areas 11 and 12 covered by a silicon window 13 with a 5 m long pass filter to pass only infrared radiation which corresponds to emission in the range of the internal temperature of a human body as shown schematically on FIG.4a.One of the sensing elements 11 is covered by a negative correlation filter when the other sensing area 12 is covered by an appropriate attenuation filter which does not have spectral bands characteristic to the measured analyte.Spectrally modified infrared radiation from for example the tympanic membrane illuminates both windows one with a negative correlating filter which blocks radiation in the absorption bands for the analyte to be measured and the other which passes through a neutral density filter capable of blocking radiation equally at all wavelengths in the range of interest.It is to compensate for overall attenuation by the negative correlating filter in the first sensing area.The two sensing areas 11 and 12 of the detector 7 whose top view is shown on FIG.4b are connected so that theiroutputs are subtracted as shown on the electrical internal detector scheme on FIG.4c.Difference of the radiation intensity between the two radiation paths provides a measure proportional to the analyte concentration.The electrical signal from the detector is then sent to the forming electronics 8 system and further to the microcomputer 9 and to the display 10 system as shown in FIG.4.The intensity of this signal is proportional to the spectral difference measured by the detector and thus proportional to the concentration of the body analyte.

The combustor arrangement 10 according to any one of claims 1 to 12 wherein the central lance body 50 is removably mounted in the combustor arrangement 10 optionally especially for an axial removal along the longitudinal axis 13 of the combustor arrangement 10.

Combustor portion 20 also includes a plurality of outer premixed injection nozzles two of which are indicated at 80 and 81 that are disposed in an annular array radially outward from center injection nozzle 62.The term premixed injection nozzle should be understood to mean an injection nozzle in which fuel and air are mixed soas to have greater than a 50 mixedness or homogeneity.In accordance with one aspect of the exemplary embodiment premixed injection nozzles 80 and 81 have greater than 80 mixedness.As each outer premixed injection nozzle 80 81 is similarly formed a detailed description will follow with reference to premixed injection nozzle 80 with an understanding that premixed injection nozzle 81 includes corresponding structure.It should also be understood that the number of outer premixed injection nozzles can vary.

The method of claim 11 wherein the position markers represent a periphery of the bounded portion of the content.

A fourth step will now be explained with reference to Fig.18 which makes it possible to select consistent objects for the North and South directions with the aim of permitting navigation among all available objects this is a preferred aim and feature and may be provided independently or implemented by other algorithms.

A method according to claim 2 or claim 7 wherein if an instruction is received before the uninterruptible process begins the time delay is set to a value determined relative to the time between two previous successive instructions and preferably to a value determined by adding a predetermined period to the time between two previous successive instructions.

For this purpose the present invention proposes a method for processing a channel change request in a television system on IP comprising a digital decoder connected to a television and an access network remarkable in that in response to said channel change request the digital decoder carries out the following stepsa transmits to the access network a physical channel change request corresponding to the channel change request and triggers a timeout period of Ttempo b if a new channel change request is received by the digital decoder during said timeout period it triggers a new timeout period of Ttempo and c transmits to the access network a physical channel change request corresponding to the channel change request as soon as the new timeout period has ended or if a new channel change request is receivedby the digital decoder during the new timeout period it restarts at step b.

A signal processing apparatus comprising an audio separator that separates audios into a first audio and a second audio using two inputted audio signals an operation input unit that inputs proportions of a first image corresponding to the first audio and a second image corresponding to the second audio in accordance with user operation an image combiner that combines the first image with the second image based on the proportions inputted by the operation input unit and an audio combiner that combines the first audio with thesecond audio based on the proportions inputted by the operation input unit.

This arrangement permits the user to perform a video communication using first camera 300 which obtains images of the user while second camera 400 obtains images of another location e.g.scenery which the user is facing during the videocommunication.If desired images from both the first and second cameras may be transmitted to the other party with which the user is engaged in the video communication.In an embodiment images obtained from either the first camera or the second camera are transmitted to other parties.

A computer program product including instructions which when implemented on one or more processors carries out any of the method of any one of the preceding Claims.

In another embodiment the step of determining is carried out using an algorithm with a space complexity equal or less than ONS1 with N the number of subnetworks and S the number of surrogate servers.

Method MET1 according to claims 4 wherein said frequency parameter is a frequency range of at least two transmit frequency subranges FB1 FB2 RB 0..99 for transmitting said initial transmission or said retransmission or for transmitting said at least first part of said retransmission process indicator or for transmitting an indication for a radio resource RPI1 RPI11 that comprises said at least first part RPI1 RPI11 of said retransmission process indicator RPI and wherein a first one of said at least two transmit frequency subranges FB1 FB2 RB 0..99 is allocated to a first one of said at least two states and wherein a second one of said at least two transmit frequency subranges FB1 FB2 RB 0..99 is allocated to a second one of said at least two states.

The sequence of control signalling bits is error correction coded in an error correction coding step ECE to get codeword bits CB and the codeword bits CB are rate matched for example in a selfdecodable way by applying predefined RV parameters RVredundancy version in a rate matching step RM to get error correction coded and rate matched control signalling bits CSIB.Alternatively the RV parameters andor a coding scheme for the codeword bits CB may be implicitly defined by using a same coding scheme as applied on a downlink control channel.

The method of any one of claims 8 to 10 further comprising updating a database to indicate that the temporary subscriber identity has been assigned to the mobile device.

The information 36 sent to the home HLR 11 links the original CLI of the Mobile Station with the temporary CLI currently allocated to it.Any incoming call to the users usual directory number can then be handled by diversion to the number provided by the Server 18.The call is thus forwarded by the original network 11 to the number given to it by the server which would be in most cases the visitedMSISDN number.

Process according to claim 13 or 14 characterized in that said final kneading temperature is a temperature within the range of 25C30C.

With very good olives in order to obtain good oil the temperature of the paste during kneading must be approximately 3035C and in any case not higher than human body temperature.In order to obtain coldextracted oil the Italian legislation establishes a kneading temperature not higher than 27C.Therefore considering that generally the temperature of olive paste from crushing does not exceed 17C the olive paste inside the kneading tank must suffer a thermal gradient of at least 10C to achieve efficient kneading.

A gasturbine engine 20 comprising a turbine 46 54 comprising an aft blade platform 106 configured to rotate around an axis AA a static structure aft of the turbine 46 54 and proximate a cavity 104 defined by the aft blade platform 106 and a vane of the static structure comprising a vane platform 102 having a shaped tip 126 200 202 204 extending into the cavity 104.

Referring now to FIG.3 a turbine arrangement according to the invention is shown.Similar reference signs as before are used to show equivalent elements.In FIG.3 only component parts are shown that are located in the area of the rim seal arrangement.

Damper system 1 of a direct driven wind turbinewhereby the wind turbine comprises a nacelle 2 a rotor hub 3 and a electric generator 4whereby the electric generator 4 comprises a rotor 5 and a nonrotating part 6whereby the rotor hub 3 is connected to the rotor 5 of the electric generator 4whereby the nonrotating part 6 of the generator 4 is connected to the nacelle 2whereby the wind turbine comprises a damper system 1 to at least partially eliminate an unwanted movement of the wind turbine resulting from wind loadswhereby the damper system 1 comprises a liquid damper characterized in thatthe damper system 1 is arranged at the nonrotating part 6 of the electric generator 4.

According to the embodiment of FIG 4 the ringshaped stator support element 21 is again arranged on the front side of the stator arrangement 13.In this embodiment of the invention the stator support structure 18 comprises additionally a plurality of springs 30 and dampers 31.The springs 30 and dampers 31 are preferably arranged around the perimeter of the stationary shaft 6 e.g.every 30 a spring 30 and a damper 31 connects the hollow cylindrical support element 22 and the stationary shaft 6 with each other.Thus twelve springs 30 and twelve dampers 31 are arranged around the perimeter ofthe stationary shaft 6.Thereby the twelve springs 30 are substantially arranged in a first plane and the twelve dampers 31 are substantially arranged in second plane.Both planes are substantially rectangular oriented in relation to the centre axis A.In case of the present embodiment of the invention the springs 30 and dampers 31 are arranged in parallel but it is also possible to arrange in each case a spring and a damper in series as a springdamperelement.Subject to the properties of the springs 30 and dampers 31 the flexing of the stator support element 21 is able to be more or less influenced by means of the springs 30 and the dampers 31.Appropriate dampers and springs are e.g.air dampers or air springs.

An optical network element 1 2 3 comprises an optical input 10 110 for receiving a plurality of optical signals on a plurality of wavelength channels an optical output 11 111 for transmitting a plurality of optical signals on the plurality of wavelength channels a distributing component 14114 arranged to pass optical signals from the optical input to an optical transit path 16 116 and to an optical drop path 23 123 a merging component 15 115 arranged to pass optical signals from the optical transit path and from an optical add path 33133 to the optical output a drop module 20 120 comprising a plurality of optical receivers 21 121 for demodulating optical signals an add module 30 130 comprising a wavelength multiplexing arrangement 32 132 connected to the optical add path 33 133 and a plurality of optical transmitters 31 131 connected to the wavelength multiplexing arrangement for generating optical signals on the wavelength channels an optical loop back path 40 140 70 connecting the add module to the drop module for passing optical signals generated by the transmitters of the add module to the receivers of the drop module for the purpose of testing.

FIGURE 2 illustrates details of an example ADN 100.In certain embodiments ADNs 100 are operable to process traffic in different channels based on the type of optical traffic communicated on that channel.This ability allows the use of transmitterreceiver pairs used in an ADN 100 at any moment in time to be optimized for the type of traffic.Thus if transmitterreceiver pairs within a given ADN 100 are not required to be used to transmit or receive certain traffic based on its data rate those transmitterreceiver pairs may be used for other purposed within network 10 thereby optimizing the use of the transmitterreceiver pairs in each ADN 100.Optical network management software can set data rate thresholds discussed below which are used to determine how the traffic in each channel is handled at any one moment in time.In certain embodiments the data rate of the optical traffic received at an ADN 100 may be monitored every ten to twenty seconds to facilitate dynamic changes in the configuration of ADN 100 to handle changes in the data rate of traffic in a channel.

The apparatus 1000 of claim 13 wherein said antennas of the array are placed according to a curved surface 23 defining a concavity facing towards said probe antenna device a curvature of the curved surface being substantially equal to a curvature wavefront of the second radiofrequency resulting signal SIN.

It is also observed that the first antenna 1 is used in a fixed radiation frequency range.To the purposes of the present invention with the wording fixed radiation frequency range it is meant that the radiation frequency range of the antenna is substantially independent either from the interaction with the radiated tissue and the position variations of the first antenna 1.As an example the first antenna 1 operates in the following radiofrequency range 320MHz390MHz.It is observed that the considerations made for the first antenna 1 can made also for the second antenna 2.

Communication system comprising a long term evolution network LTE network and a user equipment UE for the network the network comprising a memory for an element of information of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services MBMS log Minimization of Drive Test MDT configuration information for the UE the element having a first value for identifying a signaling based operational mode of MBMS log MDT for the UE and the element having a second value different from the first value for identifying a management based operational mode of MBMS log MDT for the UE.

In the present invention a network side notifies a UE to measure and report an MBMS service by a signaling and the signaling optionally includes a measurement configuration and when a measurement reporting norm is met the UE reports a measurement result to the network side.Optionally the UE can record the measurement result of the corresponding measurementquantity as a measurement log and when the reporting norm is met the UE reports the measurement result to the network side in the form of the measurement log.

The network device 570 of claim 13 wherein the configuration information 404 further includes IP address configuration information and wherein upon receiving the IP address configuration information the low powered device gateway 118 is caused to configure theselection of the plurality of low powered devices 120A120N with IP addresses based on the IP address configuration information.

The WAG sends the IMSI and MSISDN to the mobile network gateway to request a GTP tunnel between the WAG and mobile network gateway.Upon receiving a reply from the mobile network gateway including an end user IP address for the subscribers wireless device the WAG creates a packet data protocol PDP context to associate an upstream and downstream GTP tunnel between the WAG and the mobile network gateway with the subscriberfacing connection of the alternate access network between the WAG and the wireless device.The WAG uses the PDP context to implement a PDP bearer for a service session between the wireless device and the mobile network gateway which may then apply mobile policy and charging to subscriber data traffic for the service session.

The device module according to any of claims 1 to 3 wherein the holder 500 comprises a plurality of pieces 501 502 surrounding a part of the leadout portion 420 of the external connection.

With reference to FIG.6 and FIG.7 description has been given to a production method for an electronic circuit device 10 provided on one side with a convex connector 12.Where an electronic circuit device 10 with a convex connector 12 provided on two three or four sides is produced the following measures must be taken the molds are provided with a shape corresponding to a plurality of the convex connectors 12 and accordingly required resin injection portions 64.

The method according to one of the preceding claims wherein the physical object is a landmark.

The menu displaying part 310 receives an instruction output from the command analyzing part 301 transfers various type types of menus or marks which are required to the display processing part 311 and the transferred menus or marks are then superimposed on the displayed map image.

The method of claim 4 wherein the second electromagnetic signal further comprises identity information corresponding to the wearable device.

The data transmission between the portable equipment 10 and the service terminal 20 through the human body occurs by the human body that is a portion of the user 30 contacting a contact point 18 provided on the portable equipment 10 and the contact point 29 provided on the service terminal 20.Meanwhile since the portable equipment 10 is an item of personal accessories such as a wrist watch the contact point 18 is normally in perpetual contact with or in extremely close proximity to the human body in a state of electrical conduction therewith.So data transfer betweenthe portable equipment 10 and the service terminal 20 through the human body becomes feasible at a time point the user 30 touches the contact point 29 of the service terminal 20.

System 10 20 of a CI host 10 according to any of the claims 19 and a CICAM 20 according to any of the claims 1114.

When the host device receives USB packets from the external service module via the USB transceiving unit 110 the data carried in the received USB packets is detected first in the detecting unit 121 to detect whether it contains the identification information indicating that MPEG TS data is carried in the USB packets.Upon detection of the identification information in the detecting unit 121 the unpackaging unit 123 unpackages the USB packets.Specifically the unpackaging operation is to extract the MPEG TS data from the data field of the USB packets according to the data structure shown in Fig.3.

The gas turbine combustor 3 according to any one of claims 1 to 5 further comprising an air passage 201a for leading compressed air into the combustion chamber 12 via the air hole 201 of the first swirler 401 wherein the fuel hole 202 of the first swirler 401 is provided in the air passage of the first swirler 401 and wherein a startup oil nozzle 800 or gas nozzle is disposed on the radially inward of the first swirler 401.

The first perforated plate 316 is a disklike member disposed in an upstream side portion of the combustion chamber 12 with the first perforated plate 316 assuming a posture in which its broadest end face is oriented toward the space inside the combustion chamber 12 that is in a posture in which the broadest end face is perpendicular to the central axis of the combustor.In addition the first perforated plate 316 has a plurality of nozzle holes 331 332 and air holes 340 which face the inside space of the combustion chamber 12.The plurality of nozzle holes 331 and the plurality of nozzle holes 332 are provided and each of the gas nozzles 320 faces a corresponding one of the nozzle holes 331 332.The inside nozzle holes 331 are annularly arranged around the pilot nozzle 53.The outside nozzle holes 332 are annularly arranged on the outer circumferential side of the row of the nozzle holes 331.

The method 500 of any preceding claim further comprising generating and monitoring feedback from which the DRM and the CDM can be improved.

Data in CMMP 300 is transmitted using a data network configured to transmit the collected data between at least one of the customer amaintenance repair and overhaul operator MRO and the business entity.In the exemplary embodiment the network includes at least one wireless communications link.

A sensor assembly according to claim 10 wherein the gas sensor comprises a piezoelectric oscillator for immersion in the gas within the gas cylinder and the sensor assembly further includes a drive circuit for driving the piezoelectric oscillator at a resonant frequency.

It has been found by the inventors that a suitably good approximation can be obtained by approximating fA

The method of claim 2 wherein providing the service area index further comprises appending the index in a System Information Block SIB.

The MBMS PTM RB information is a message exchanged between eNBs through an X2 interface.If the MBMS control information of a current cell is modified according to the start change or termination of an EMBMS session the MBMS PTM RB information may be used to inform neighbor cells of this modification.The MBMS PTM RB information may be configured on the basis of an MBMS transmission identity.MBMS modified services information and MBMS unmodified services information can be mapped to the service information of a current cell without being separately transmitted.Accordingly there is an advantage in that the number of messages transmitted can be reduced.

The separator of claim 1 wherein the organic material comprises polyolefin a polyolefin derivative polyolefin wax an acrylbased compound or a combination thereof.

The fourth polymeric binder preferably an emulsion polymeric binder may preferably include a styrenebutadiene rubber an acrylated styrenebutadiene rubber an acrylonitrilebutadiene rubber an acrylonitrilebutadienestyrene rubber an acrylic rubber a butyl rubber a fluorine rubber polytetrafluoroethylene polyethylene polypropylene ethylene propylenecopolymer polyethyleneoxide polyvinylpyrrolidone polyepichlorohydrine polyphosphazene polyacrylate polyacrylonitrile polystyrene ethylene propylene diene copolymer polyvinylpyridine chlorosulfonated polyethylene latex a polyester resin an acrylic resin a phenolic resin an epoxy resinpolyvinylalcohol carboxylmethylcellulose hydroxypropylmethylcellulose hydroxypropylcellulose diacetylcellulose or a combination thereof.

The method of claim 9 wherein the alkyl groups in components 1 and 2 are C20 to C28.

In certain embodiments the antiwear agent is or comprises a dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphate metal salt such as zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compounds zinc diaryl dithiophosphate or a combination or mixture thereof.The metal of the dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphate metal salt may be an alkali or alkaline earth metal or aluminum lead tinmolybdenum manganese nickel or copper.In some embodiments the metal is zinc.In other embodiments the alkyl group of the dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphate metal salt has from about 3 to about 22 carbon atoms from about 3 to about 18 carbon atoms from about 3 to about 12 carbon atoms or from about 3 to about 8 carbon atoms and may be linear or branched.

A drive system 40 for a gridenabled vehicle including an electric machine 42 and an integrated power module 44 as claimed in any of claims 1 to 15 mounted thereon.

Supporting body 2 also comprises lateral walls 6 7 8 9 which are substantially perpendicular to first and second wall 4 and 5 are parallel two by two and laterally define volume 3 through which the cooling fluid flows.

The method according to claim 1 further comprising tapping the drilled hole.

In an embodiment the repaired internally threaded opening 44 is configured to receive a conventional threaded fastener 50 such as the bolt illustrated in FIG.7.Other types of threaded fasteners include a helicoil a stud or an AN porttype.In another embodiment referring to FIGS.1 8A and 8B method 10 continues by optionally installing a threaded insert 46 FIGS.8A and 8B or the like into the repaired internally threaded opening 44 step 900.The repaired internally threaded opening 44 is configured to receive the threaded insert 46.A standard size threaded insert may be installed in the repaired internally threaded opening.Alternatively an oversized threaded insert may be installed in the repaired oversized internally threaded opening.The conventional threaded fastener 50 may then be installed in the threaded insert 46.

The information processing system 1 according to any one of claims 1 to 21 characterized in that the information processing unit 14 22 operates the virtual camera in response to the movement andor the orientation of the controller 5 in accordance with the changedcorrespondence relation when the controller 5 is operated in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction after the correspondence relation is changed.

When the switching from the planar view image to the stereoscopically visible image is started the switching start time St has been determined and counting of the switching time t from the switching start time St to the upper limit time is started.Until the switching time t reaches the upper limit time the virtual camera distance Kk is sequentially calculated and determined by using equation 1 so as to reach the upper limit value Jt.Thus the planar view image can be gradually switched to the stereoscopically visible image.When the planar view image is immediately switched to the stereoscopically visible image the stereoscopically visible image blurs due to adjustment of focus of users eyes being delayed.However in the process described above a state where an image which blurs and provides no stereoscopic effect is viewed can be prevented.In the game process in which the enemy object Eo is displayed on the upper LCD 22 as if the enemy object Eo is moving in the real space it is possible to prevent a state where the moving object cannot be viewed.

The method of claim 4 wherein in step a the application is at least one of a WiFi application a mobile network continuation application a screen display control application and a powersaving mode application.

As an example of the profile for use in power supply management and power saving setting Normal Setting and Power Saving Setting are shown in Table below.

The method of claim 1 wherein the object information indicates that an object of the image comprises at least one of a person a thing and a scenery.

Still another embodiment of the present invention is an image display method executable by a processor.The method comprises acquiring the number of pixels of image data stored in a storage device acquiring the aspect ratio of the image data and displaying on a display device a list of a plurality of thumbnail images of the image data having more pixels as a larger thumbnail image than that of the image data having less pixels while keeping the aspect ratio of the image data.

A power distribution system according to any preceding claim further comprising a busbar tie 6 for selectively connecting the first and second ac busbars 2a 2b.

Referring to FIG 1 a power distribution system 10 includes a number of prime mover units 13 15 17 and 19.In the illustrated embodiment the prime movers 13 15 17 and 19 comprise diesel engines.However the prime movers may alternatively comprise any other kind of internal combustion engines gas turbines or microturbines among others.The diesel engines 13 15 17 and 19 are rotationally coupled to AC generators 20 22 24 and 26 respectively.Under operation of one or more of the diesel engines 13 15 17 and 19 the respective generators 20 22 24 and 26 produce AC outputs 38 40 42 and 44 respectively.In accordance with the present invention each of the generators 20 22 24 and 26 is directly connected to a respective rectifier 28 30 32 and 34 the generators and rectifier together forming a part of the generator systems 12 14 16 and 18 respectively.The rectifiers 28 30 32 and 34 convert the AC outputs of the generators 20 22 24 and 26 to DC outputs 46 48 50 and 52 respectively.The DC outputs 46 48 50 and 52 of the rectifiers 28 30 32 and 34 are delivered to a DC distribution bus 36 which replaces the AC switchboard thatare currently used in state of the art implementations.The DC distribution bus may be split into two by a disconnector or a bus tie 54.From the DC distribution bus 36 power is supplied to one or more AC motors 64 66 68 70 independent of the number of generators via inverters 56 58 60 62 respectively.In case of a propulsion system these motors may be directly coupled to the propellers azimuth thrusters etc.The number of generator systems operational at any point of time is dependent on the power requirement.For example under low load only one generator system may be operational.Additional generator systems may be energized in case of higher power requirement.

The cooling apparatus according to one of claims 1 to 6 wherein the second surface 12 of the base plate 9 conducts the airflow 18 towards the second section 22 22 by changing the direction of the airflow 18.

In Figures 1 and 2 the mounting base is utilized in a position where the second connecting part 10 is located higher than the first connecting part 9 and the circulation of the fluid will take place due to gravity and condensationevaporation of the fluid in a similar way as has been explained in EP2 031 332 A1

The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of claim 5 wherein the beamformer forms a transmit beam per focal point if there are multiple focal points in the same scan line.

The beam forming unit 12 may be coupled to the probe 11 to thereby receive the first and second receive signals which may be amplified by the amplifier.The beam forming unit 12 may be operable to apply delays to the receive signals in consideration of distances between the transducer elements and focal points to thereby output receivefocused beams.

The recording medium according to any one of Claims 1 to 6 wherein a content gm2 of the resin particle in the second ink receiving layer to the content gm2 of the colloidal silica is 0.2 times or more and 0.7 times or less.

FIGS.1 to 3 illustrate an example of an ink jet recording medium of the present invention.FIG.2 is a crosssectional view illustrating the ink jet recording medium.As illustrated in FIG.2 the ink jet recording medium of the present invention is provided with on a substrate 1 a porous layer 2 and a silica layer 3 in the stated order.

The terminal of claim 1 wherein the connection port comprises a Universal Serial Bus USB.

As illustrated in FIG.1 the method for a USB device to identify an OS includes as follows.101 The USB device receives through a disc port an SCSI command sent by the OS to be identified.

The mobile device of claim 5 wherein the input device includes a display 118 provided on the first housing inner face 158.

As shown in FIG.3 a second manipulation unit 127 an interface unit 370 and the like may be disposed at a side surface in parallel to facing the upper surface of the second body 120.

The inkjet recording method according to Claim 12 wherein the polymerization accelerator is an aminobenzoate derivative.

Among the lamps disposed at both ends the lamp positioned to the rear with respect to the scanning direction trailing lamp was the lamp that first applied light to a landed inkjet droplet with regard to this lamp the lamp position the main scan speed and the discharge frequency were adjusted so that irradiation started within 0.7 seconds after ink landing on the recording medium and with regard to the illumination intensity this lamp was focused so that the irradiation intensity was 50 to 500 mWcm2 and the total integrated exposure was no greater than 40 mJcm2.The time taken from landing to the first lamp irradiation could be adjusted by the shuttle scanning speed.The next exposure was carried out by the lamp leading lamp to the front with respect to the scanning direction direction opposite to the above and the lamp was focused so that the illumination intensity was 500 to 1500 mWcm2 as an exposure surface illumination intensity.During this process the integrated exposure was in the range of 25 to 70 mJcm2.Setting was carried out so that a solid image could be drawn by a total of 4 head passes bidirectional printing in the case of 300 dpi and a total of 8 head passes bidirectional printing in the case of 600 dpi.Since the head was provided with two lamps the total number of lamp passes was 4 for the leading lamp and 4 for the trailing lamp 4 in the case of 300 dpi and 8 for the leading lampand 8 for the trailing lamp in the case of 600 dpi.The value obtained by summing all integrated exposures during irradiation for each pass was calculated as the total integrated exposure.Furthermore depending on the case an additional exposure scan scanning of lamp alone without discharging ink was carried out as a postcure after printing was completed.

Computer program product comprising one or more computer readable media having computerexecutable instructions for performing the steps of the method according to one of the preceding claims.

Here although the architectural body is displayed with a representation method different from the stereoscopic method of displaying an architectural body if it is determined in step 603 that the calculated distance or level difference d is larger than the predetermined value L it is conversely possible to change the representation method to another one that is different from the stereoscopic method of displaying an architectural body.With this display method the difference between the region around the architectural body to be noticed and the other region can be clearly displayed which can improve the guiding ability in a navigation processing function to which the above display method is applied.

A piezoelectricelectrostrictive element comprising a piezoelectric body formed in a thin filmshape the piezoelectric body having a first main surface and a second main surface a first electrode disposed on the first main surface of the piezoelectric body the first electrode having an electrode side surface configured to be connected with the first main surface a second electrode disposed on the second main surface of the piezoelectric body a glass layer continuously formed on the first main surface and the electrode side surface the glass layer containing glass as a principal constituent and the glass layer be isolated from the side surface of the piezoelectric body.

The electrode thin films 216 are preferably formed to be a square circumscribing a circle having a radius r.The length 2r of one side of this square is preferably about 150 m.Also the thickness t of the electrode thin films 216 in the opposing section is preferably about 1.9 m.Thus the vibration in this preferred embodiment satisfies the condition r20tn.The electrode thin films 216 are extended to the outside of the vibrating section 220.The shape of the electrode thin film 216 may be substantially circular or a polygon such as a hexagon octagon or other suitable shape including a circle satisfying the above condition.

The computer program of claim 6 wherein the computer program is a computer program product comprising a computerreadable medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer.

The APC function may be automatically enabled when the Bluetooth function is enabled on a host device such as a cell phone.In other implementations the APC function may be implemented by clicking on an icon or by other methods in which the user is given a means for enabling and disabling the function.

The power tool of any preceding claim further comprising a removable attachment accessory wherein the removable attachment accessory includes a retainer having a radially inwardly extending key feature and the plurality of indexing features are configured to selectively engage the key feature.

The eccentric shaft 154 is illustrated separately in FIGS.14 and I5 and includes an eccentric portion 158 that is not centered about the axis A.A counter balance 160 is press fit on a centered portion 159 of the eccentric shaft 154 and a ball bearing eccentric member 162 is press fit on the eccentric portion 158 of the eccentric shaft 154.The counter balance 160 counters the offcenter rotation of the eccentric portion 158 and the ball bearing eccentric member 162 to reduce vibrations caused by the eccentric rotation thereof.The eccentric shaft 154 also includes a shaft extension 164 centered about the axis A.As shown in FIGS.13 and 15 a bearing 166 is coupled to the outer circumference of the shaft extension 164.The bearing 166 is held in a housing 155 of the oscillating attachment head 104.The bearing 166 and shaft extension 164 with the support of the housing 155 constrain the eccentric shaft 154 to rotation about the axis A to reduce vibrations caused by rotation of the eccentric portion 158.

The pneumatic tire of claim 6 wherein the terpene phenol resin has a softening point temperature in a range of from 160 to 170 C.

It is highly desirable for tires to have good wet skid resistance low rolling resistance and good wear characteristics.It has traditionally been very difficult to improve a tires wear characteristics without sacrificing its wet skid resistance and traction characteristics.These properties depend to a great extent on the dynamic viscoelastic properties of the rubbers utilized in making the tire.

A vortex generator 32 for a rotor blade 16 of a wind turbine 10 the vortex generator 32 comprising a base portion 36 configured for attachment to at least one of a suction side surface 20 or a pressure side surface 22 of the rotor blade 16 and at least one airflow modifying element 34 extending from the base portion 36 wherein the airflow modifying element 34 comprises one or more discontinuities 38 configured therein so as to increase flexibility of the vortex generator 32.

Each side 32 34 of the ridge 28 may span between a respective corner 46 48 of a squared trailing edge 22 and the peak 30 of the ridge 28.Herein corner in this context means a corner as seen in a cross sectional view.Each side 32 34 may form an inward angle A B of at least 20 degrees relative to an extension of the respective suction and pressure sides 36 38 of the airfoil or especially more than 30 degrees.The sides may be concave as shown.Such a ridge reduces the size of the stationary vortices 42 compared to that which would be produced by a flat splitter plate by providing a compact smoothly contoured nest for each stationary vortex 42.This results in a smoother and more compact slipstream that produces less drag and noise.This noise reduction device 27A may be made of a material compatible with the airfoil material such as carbon fiberpolymer composite or fiberglasspolymer composite but are not limited to such materials.Alternately the device 27A may be made of a more flexible material than the airfoil such as nylon polyester or rubber that may deform to alleviate loads.

The method as in claim 1 wherein computing the bit size ratio further comprises providing a size value for each iframe macroblock in two successive iframes of the parsed stream and providing a size value of each pframe macroblock corresponding to each iframe macroblock of the two successive iframes.

Since the number of bits taken on encode each object varies significantly a fixed threshold is not suitable as it might be in MPEG2 data.Using a fixed threshold with MPEG4 data results in false detection andor fails to detect scene changes at the object level.A combination of a fixed threshold and a sliding window therefore is used to ensure that the detection works at all bit rates of interest.

The drug dispensing box of claim 8 further comprising at least one gear receiving external power.

In the medicine feeding apparatus having the above described configuration the medicine products M discharged from the medicine cartridges 10 are delivered to a user via the transfer device T.

The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the at least one first image comprises a plurality of images representing the ROI and wherein the brightness adjusting unit adjusts brightnesses of the plurality of images so that they are equal to one another based on the external signal.

The method may further include receiving an additional setup from the user in relation to the selected preset gain.

The system of Claim 15 wherein the descrambling unit further comprises a descrambling driver configured to receive the polarization signal over the optical network determine polarization descrambling according to the polarization scrambling as indicated by the polarization signal and generate descrambling instructions from the descrambling driver based on the determined polarization descrambling and a polarization descrambler communicatively coupled to the descrambling driver and configured to receive the optical signal over the optical network as the polarization monitor receives the optical signal receive the descrambling instructions from the descrambling driver and descramble the optical signal according to the descrambling instructions received from the descrambling driver.

A control signal generated from the polarization descrambler driver 170 is a control signal having a predetermined frequency and the frequency corresponds to the polarization scrambling frequency of the polarization scrambler 140 and is set such that the polarization scramble is carried out in a direction inverse to a direction of a variation over time of the polarization scrambler 140.Information of setting the polarization scrambler 140 of carrying out the polarization scramble for example a polarization scrambling frequency a direction of a variation over time of the polarization scramble and a pattern of the variation and the like is transferred from the polarization scrambler information acquiring part 120 through the control network and the information is received by the polarization descrambler control part 160.The polarization descrambler controlling part 160 operates the polarization descrambler driver 170 based on the set information.

The device according to claim 1 wherein the plurality of perforations comprises at least eight perforations.

Considering the volume of the ablation necrosis region and irregularity of the spherical shape in the above embodiments Embodiments 2 3 and 4 were deemed to be optimum results.In the case of Embodiment 1 although the ablation volume was small because of a small discharge flow rate of saline solution as discussed later if the number of the holes 22 increases or the total circulation flow rate increases a satisfactory result is expected.Meanwhile although the ablation necrosis volume was larger in Embodiments 5 6 and 7 than the previous embodiments a sectional shape of the sphere was a little irregular or similar to an ellipse.

The method of claim 8 wherein the state of charge for the first PWM signal is determined by a voltage and an internal resistance of the first battery.

As mentioned hereinabove in the power supply device 10 of the present embodiment at least three battery packs 100 can be connected by combining parallel connection with series connection.As a result electric power can be supplied at a high voltage to the power tool 200.Furthermore even when the amount of remaining power in the battery packs 100 is not uniform larger amount of electric power stored in the battery packs 100 can be supplied.Since the connection is changed by the relays 62 the user is not required to change the positions of the battery packs 100 attached to the battery interfaces 12.Further in the power supply device 10 of the present embodiment it is possible as will be described hereinbelow to detect the amount of remaining power in the attached battery packs 100 and form automatically the adequate connection.

The aircraft air conditioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 4 further comprising a turbine exhaust air line 60 adapted to discharge turbineexhaust air to a heat source present on board the aircraft so as to cool the heat source.

In current aircraft airconditioning systems after being circulated through the cabin pressurized air is removed from the cabin and discarded i.e.sent overboard.Depending upon the altitude of the aircraft the air pressure outside of the aircraft can be significantly lower than the air being discarded.In one embodiment the pressurized air being discarded from the cabin 20 is forwarded to the turbine 18 which captures the energy created as the air is depressurized to the ambient air pressure.After passing through theturbine 18 the depressurized air from the cabin is sent overboard.In one embodiment the turbine 18 may provide the energy captured from the depressurization of the air being discarded from the cabin to the shaft 28 coupled to the motor 16 and the compressor 14.This energy can be used to reduce the energy required from the aircraft to operate the aircraft airconditioning system 10.

The lubricating oil composition as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein R6 in a compound of formula R6CONH2 which additive component C represents is an acyclic C9 to C29 alkenyl group having a single double bond.

Lubricating oil compositions shockabsorber oils having compositional proportions shown in Table 1 were prepared.Each composition was subjected to friction coefficient measurement the immersion test copper and iron and the oxidation stability test.Table 1 shows the results.

A docking device according to claim 1 characterized in that the offshore structure 4 comprises several second docking components 5 disposed in circumferential direction.

In order to minimize and damp the movement between the mooring device 100 and the vessel 200 dampers 140 have been attached between the ends of the frame 110 and the prow of the vessel.The ends of the dampers 140 are pivotedly attached both to the frame 110 and to the vessel 200.

Data storage device encoding a program in machinereadable and machineexecutable form to perform the optimizing andor reconfiguring step of the method of any one of the previous claims.

FIG.4 is a highlevel flowchart showing a method for determining data rate change rules during data receptions.Inputs include RSSI 110 SNR 112 SNR VAR 114 and Packet Error Rate PE 116.A waveform setting WF 118 is also saved.The rate adaptation algorithm requires a suitable number of data packets 122.If the average SNR RSSI SNR Var meet specific thresholds 124 the rate is increased if the packet error is zero 126.If a change in average SNR or RSSI since the entered waveform exceeds a threshold 128 a rate increase is allowed if the packet error is zero 130.A SNR and SNR VAR based look up table rate selection is performed if the threshold is met for the current waveform 132 to force the best match rate change 134.If the packet error rate exceeds a threshold 10 the rate and bandwidth is decreased as necessary 136.

A computer program which when executed on a computing device is configured to carry out the method of any one of claims 8 to 14.

For the example of Figure 5 the message with which a popup display 145 is associated was sent less than one minute ago.Such time information provides information to a user on how much time has elapsed since a particular message has been sent or received without the user having to exit the conversation history panel 110.

The method of making a planographic printing plate according to claim 1 wherein the positiveworking recording layer has a multilayer structure comprising an upper layer that contains the copolymer A containing a structural unit derived from methacrylonitrile and a structural unit derived from styrene and a lower layer that contains the waterinsoluble and alkalisoluble resin B and wherein either one or both of the upper and lower layers comprises the infrared absorbing agent C.

In order to finely adjust the alkali concentration or assist dissolution of a nonimage area of a photosensitive layer another alkali agent such as for example an organic alkali agent may be supplementarily used.Examples of the organic alkali agent include monomethylamine dimethylamine trimethylamine monoethylamine diethylamine triethylamine monoisopropylamine diisopropylamine triisopropylamine nbutylamine monoethanolamine diethanolamine triethanolamine monoisopropanola mine diisopropanolamine ethyleneimine ethylenediamine pyridine and tetramethylammonium hydroxide.These other alkali agents may be used singly or in a combination of two or more types.

Method according to claim 1 2 or 3 wherein the end of a subsequence is determined in response to the detected or monitored input variable exceeding reaching or undershooting a predefined threshold exceeding reaching or undershooting a predefined amount of change of the detected or monitored input variable exceeding reaching or undershooting a predefined temporal gradient of the detected or monitored input variable or a combination thereof.

In order to control the dissipation of excess heat as explained above a temperature sensor 28 operable by the control unit 3 is disposed adjacent to the liquefier heat exchanger 13 in order to measure a temperature of the refrigerant in or at the liquefier heat exchanger 13.That temperature is an effective indication of the thermal load imposed on the heat pump unit 12 to 18 and can be utilized in several ways to improve the function of the appliance 1.First of all operation of second blower 22 can be effectedonly under condition that the temperature measured by the sensor 28 exceeds a predetermined threshold.Secondly a degree of control of the said temperature can be affected by operating the second blower 22 in response to the signal.In case that the second blower motor 23 is a fixedspeed motor 23 control of operation may be effected by operating the motor 23 intermittently in response to the signal obtained from the said temperature.A fixedspeed motor 23 is a proper choice due to the relative cheapness of such motor.In case that a finer control is desired the second blower motor 23 may also be a variable speedmotor that may be more expensive but that allows a fine control of its output power.In such case the motor 23 may be operated at speeds varying in response to the signal.

A wind turbine having a generator a rotor with a plurality of blades one or more pitch mechanisms for rotating the blades a system for determining the rotor speed a wind speed sensor a control system comprising a pitch control system and a generator control system the generator control system being adapted to control the generator the pitch control system being adapted to control the pitch mechanisms wherein the generator control system is adapted to determine generator torquecommands in accordance with a steadystate control loop and the pitch control system is adapted to determine pitch commands in accordance with a transient control loop and the steadystate control loop and the steadystate control loop being adapted to calculate generator torque set commands and pitch set commands based at least partially on the instantaneous rotor speed determined by the system for determining the rotor speed the transient control loop being adapted to calculate an instantaneous tip speed ratio based on a wind speed measured by the wind speed sensor and the instantaneous rotor speed determined by the system for determining the rotor speed and is further adapted to determine instantaneous minimum pitch commands based on the instantaneous tip speed ratio and wherein in a supranominal zone of operation for wind speeds above a nominal wind speed the pitch control system is adapted to determine whether the pitch set command is above the instantaneous minimum pitch command and in case of positive result follow the received pitch set command and in case of negative result follow the instantaneous minimum pitch command.

One aspect of the present disclosure includes a method for operating a wind turbine.The method includes providing a wind turbine having at least one blade having adjustable pitch angle that is adjusted according to an operational parameter schedule.A blade efficiency parameter is determined in response to a wind speed and a rotor speed.A minimum pitch angle is determined in response to the blade efficiency parameter and the pitch angle of the at least one blade in response to the blade efficiency parameter is maintained to an angle equal to or greater than the minimum pitch angle independent of the operational parameter schedule.

Method according to one of the preceding claims further comprising setting the valve 103 to a flow rate of the fuel such that the error signal is zero the method afterwards comprising supplying another fuel to the combustor the other fuel being different from the fuel obtaining another inlet air pressure PT7 at the compressor inlet obtaining another inlet air temperature Tinlet at the compressor inlet obtaining another outlet air pressure PT8 at the compressor outletestimating another heat input HIengmodel of the other fuel supplied to the combustor based on the other inlet air pressure the other inlet air temperature and the other outlet air pressure comparing the other estimated heat input with the demanded heat input FFDEM to derive another error signal 121 and controlling the valve 103 based on the other error signal 121 such that the valve 103 is set to another flow rate of the other fuel different from the flow rate of the fuel previously applied.

In accordance with certain embodiments of the invention0 may correspond to natural gas only fuel.Highermay indicate worse NOx and better CO.In accordance with certain example embodiments of the invention one or more emissions parameters including NOx CO or unburned hydrocarbons may be monitored.In certain embodiments performance parameters including but not limited to temperature compressor pressure ratio load or speed may be additionally monitored.According to example embodiments fuel composition may be estimated based at least in part on one or more of the one or more monitored emissions parameters or the one or more monitored performance parameters.In an example embodiment at least one turbine operating parameter may be adjusted based at least in part on the estimated fuel composition.

The separator of claim 1 wherein the particle sizes of the organic particles are in the range of 0.1 m to 5 m.

The polymeric binder may preferably include polymeric binders having a different particle size.

The amplifier as claimed in any preceding claim wherein said power controller comprises a lookup table providing for each of a plurality of requested power outputs switching mechanism configuration information for reconfiguring said switching mechanism and biasing controller configuration information for configuring said biasing controller.

Similarly when at least one of the transistors Q12 Q13 and Q14 is appropriately biased so as to perform a predistortion operation the effects of the third embodiment can be attained without involving a predistortion circuit.

The method according to claim 11 further comprises the step of setting before said changing step a duty cycle of said first motor control signal or second motor control signal at said target speed optionally said setting step comprises looking up for a value of said duty cycle in a first lookup table according to said target speed of said brushless motor.

In general the brushless motor is widely used when a constant speed is required and when high speeds and low speeds are required a brush motor is used because it is easily driven at variable speeds.In other words a problem is produced that when the abovedescribed brushless motor is controlled by using a speed control feedback system based on the output of the Hall effect sensor and the brushless motor is driven at low speeds because the output of Hall effect sensor has a small amount of information a response to the feedback is reduced to make the rotation unstable and to reduce the rotation because of a variation in load.In order to solve this problem thebrushless motor can be provided with an encoder for detecting the position of rotationin addition to the Hall effect sensor for detecting the polarity of the field magnet to increase the amount of information relating to the speed control but the cost of the brushless motor is greatly increased if the brushless motor is provided with an expensive encoder only for speed control.

A machine 1 according to claim 2 wherein the exchanger 9 comprises a fixed portion and a movable portion wherein the fixed portion always stays positioned inside the compartment 100 and wherein the movable portion of the exchanger 9 can be replaced with the drawer.

In the embodiment illustrated in the enclosed Figures the handle 22 advantageously comprises two arms 23a 23b preferably triangular shaped protruding from the parallel sides of the frontal frame 18 which when the condenser 8 is placed into the seat 6 are substantially horizontally positioned the two arms 23a and 23b support a grasping element 24 preferably cylindrical.

A vein authentication module comprising a light source for irradiating an authentication object with light an image sensor for taking an image of a vein pattern of the authentication object a reflecting mirror for reflecting the light emitted from the light source and making the reflected light reach the authentication object and a housing containing the light source the image sensor and the reflecting mirror wherein the image sensor is of an area sensor type and the light source and the reflecting mirror are located within a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the image sensor and including the image sensor.

Alternatively as illustrated in FIGs.20A to 20C the light sources 10 may be arranged at both ends of the light guide section 32A.Thereby the light amount is easily adjusted and light is allowed to be applied more uniformly.

The carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein the sum total of the volatile organic compounds in the core material is 1 ppb or more and 0.5 ppm or less.

Next the pellets were pulverized to an average particle size of about 4 m with a dry media mill vibration mill stainless steel beads of 18 inch in diameter.Then water was added to the pulverized pellets and the mixture thus obtained was further pulverized for 10 hours with a wet media mill upright bead mill stainless steel beads of 116 inch in diameter.The particle size primary particle size in pulverization of the slurry thus obtained was measured with a Microtrac analyzer and the D50 was found to be 1.5 m.An appropriate amount of a dispersant was added to the slurry and for the purpose of obtaining an appropriate pore volume PVA 20 solution as a binder was added to the slurry in an amount of 0.2 by weight in relation to the solid content of the slurry.Then the resulting slurry was granulated and dried with a spray dryer.The obtained particles granulated substance were regulated in particle size and then heated at 700C for 2 hours with a rotary electric furnace to remove the organic components such as the dispersant and the binder.

A radiation curable composition containing a a free radical polymerizable composition containing at least 95 wt relative to the free radical polymerizable composition of one or more monofunctional methacrylates wherein at least 80 wt of the one or more monofunctional methacrylates consist of monofunctional methacrylates including at least one five or six membered acetal ring in their structure and b at least one acetal containing polymer having a plurality of repeating units according to Formula Iwherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen an alkyl group an alkenyl group an alkynyl group an aralkyl group an alkaryl group an aryl group and a heteoraryl group.

The materials used in the present invention are as follows.IRGALITE BLUE GLVO phthalocyanine pigment Ciba Specialty Chemicals CINQUASIA MAGENTA RT355D C.I.Pigment Violet 19C.I.Pigment Red 202 mixed crystal pigment Ciba Specialty Chemicals NOVOPERM YELLOW 4G01 C.I.Pigment Yellow 155 pigment Clariant SPECIAL BLACK 250 carbon black pigment Ciba Specialty Chemicals SOLSPERSE 32000 Noveon dispersant VCAP Nvinylcaprolactam ISP SR285 tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate THFA Sartomer SR9003 propylene glycolmodified neopentyl glycol diacrylate PGmodified NPGDA Sartomer SR506 isobornyl acrylate Sartomer SR531 trimethylolpropane formal acrylate CTFA Sartomer SR395 isodecyl acrylate Sartomer SR339 2phenoxyethyl acrylate Sartomer CN964 A85 difunctional aliphatic urethane acrylate containing 15 wttripropylene glycol diacrylate Sartomer FIRSTCURE ST1 polymerization inhibitor mixture of trisNnitrosoNphenylhydroxyamine aluminum salt 10 wt and phenoxyethyl acrylate 90 wt Chem First LUCIRIN TPO photopolymerization initiator 246trimethylbenzoyldiphenylphosphine oxide BASF IRGACURE 184 photopolymerization initiator 1hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone CibaGeigy Ltd.TEGORAD 2100 siliconebased surfactant Degussa Preparation of cyan mill base C1 phthalocyanine Pigment

The method of claim 12 wherein the authenticating of the user comprises incrementing an authentication attempt counter if the authenticating of the user fails and reattempting the authentication of the user if the authentication attempt counter is less than a predetermined authentication attempt threshold.

The various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods that enable users to secure data stored on their smart cards by requiring biometric authentication before the stored data can be accessed.Access is controlled by an access controller that receives biometric authentication information from a biometric sensor.Embodiments provide the biometric sensor and access controller integrated within the smart card.Other embodiments provide the biometric sensor and access controller as a modular unit that can be plugged into a smart card.Still other embodiments provide the biometric sensor as a modular unit that can be plugged into a smart card which includes the access controller unit.Because the biometric sensor may be vulnerable to mechanical failure and physical damage some embodimentsinclude replaceable biometric sensors.In use the various embodiments require a user to provide a biometric sample such as a fingerprint scan prior to storing or accessing sensitive personal data to the smart card.In some embodiments each time users devices or applications attempt to access the stored sensitive data users must authenticate themselves before access will be granted.In other embodiments access to stored sensitive data is permitted so long as users have authenticated themselves within some acceptable period of time or other criterias.

The mobile terminal as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7 wherein the controller is configured to check whether a received notification message is present upon reception of a second drag input applied to a second corner of the touchscreen and dragged to the center of the touchscreen and display one or more application icons related to the received notification message along a drag path of the second drag input when the received notification message is present wherein one of the first corner and the second corner corresponds to one of left and right corners of the touchscreen and the other one of the first corner and the second corner corresponds to the other of the touchscreen.

The disclosure generally relates to an electronic device which is a portable or nonportable electronic device in the embodiments described herein.Examples of portable electronic devices include mobile or handheld wirelesscommunication devices such as pagers cellular phones cellular smartphones wireless organizers PDAs wirelessly enabled notebook computers tablet computers and so forth.Examples of non portable electronic devices include electronic white boards for example on a wall smart boards utilized for collaboration builtin displays in furniture or appliances and so forth.The portable electronic device may also be a portable electronic device without wireless communication capabilities such as a handheld electronic game device digital photograph album digital camera or other device.

The method of Claim 8 further comprising receiving the polarization signal over an optical supervisory channel OSC.

An optical signal which is transmitted from the optical transmitter 10 and passes through the optical fiber transmission line 150 is inputted to the optical receiver 20 of Fig.1 and is inputted to the polarization descrambler 180.As the polarization descrambler an optical device such as a polarization scrambler of varying a polarization of an optical signal in the direction inverse to the direction of the polarization scrambler 140 at a high speed is pertinent.The polarization descrambler 180 cancels polarizationscrambling of an optical signal subjected to polarization scramble at the polarization scrambler 140 by subjecting an optical signal which has been subjected to polarization scramble at the polarization scrambler 140 in a direction inverse to a direction of rotation of the polarization scramble at the polarization scrambler 140 at a polarization scrambling frequency the same as that of the polarization scrambler 140.The optical signal the polarization scrambling of which is canceled by the polarization descrambler 180 is received by the polarization dependent optical receiving part 190.

The power tool assembly of claim 14 or claim 15 wherein the power tool includes a first axis of rotation and the accessory includes a tool having a second axis of rotation the first and second axes of rotation defining a plane and wherein the key feature is offset from the plane by an angle.

FIGS.26A and 26B illustrate the ratchet attachment head 110 according to one construction of the invention.The ratchet attachment head 110 is a compact right angle tool for manipulation in small spaces.The ratchet attachment head 110 includes a drive shank or 38 inch hex head 239 and a dial 240 or forwardreverse knob cover coupled with a direction knob 241 FIG.27.In other constructions the hex head 239 may be a size smaller or larger than 38 inch.As shown in FIG.26B the hex head 239 receives a socket adaptor 220 and sockets 222A 2228.FIG.27 is an exploded view of the ratchet attachment head 110.FIGS.28 and 29 are cross sections of the ratchet attachment head 110.

The mobile device of claim 13 or 14 wherein the one or more computer readable memory150 including further instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including outputting the audio signals to the external audio output device if the external audio output device is connected to the connecting unit while the music file is being reproduced in the silent mode.

The process of the portable telephone 1 when there is an incoming call from a partner during an audioreproduction will be described below with reference to display screens of Figs.15A 15B and a flowchart of Fig.16.

A method for detecting a road dividing object in a target scene comprising obtaining an input image of the target scene selecting an image unit from the input image extracting an image feature within the image unit in each of continuous input images of the target scene so as to generate an image feature sequence and detecting the road dividing object based on the image feature sequence.

FIG.10 is a flowchart illustrating the method for detecting the continuous road partition with a height according to the second embodiment.

Method of any of the claims 1 to 7 wherein the Entitlement Control Message ECM comprises access conditions these access conditions being checked by the Conditioner 200 before the content key is transferred to the CA Descrambler 103.

In case that the access conditions are met the CO is then processed in view of furnishing to the descrambler of the receiver the Primary Marked Correction Data PMCD 231 to descramble the modified stream.

A system to represent at least part of an organisation said system including at least one model which represents at least part of the organisation said model including a plurality of items representing features of the organisation which are available to be referred to in a predetermined manner wherein said model is provided independently of one or more databases which include data relating to the organisation and accesses data from said one or more databases andor external sources in a predefined manner to provide a representation of at least part of the organisation at an instant of time.

For example for one element a number of components may be required to be performed.Each of these components can be shown on a display screen when the particular element is selected.The user is then provided with the required components for that element immediately and typically interacts with the components to perform the same.The interaction conventionally includes inputting data values representative of the requirement at that time and allowing the component to use that data to perform a particular task.The user may have to repeat this interaction for each component linked to each element.

The search system claimed in claim 12 further comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to select a scalar quantizer wherein expanding the set includes first quantizing the data points in the set of data points.

The method will be described in more detail.The process to be performed is common to the feature vector of the query and the feature vectors in the database and thus the feature vector is generally represented by v.By using L different functions g1v...gLv which are generated based on the following procedure v is stored in the corresponding L hash tables.The respective pieces of gjv are used to transform v into the kdimensional vectors so as to satisfy gjvh1v...hkv.Hiv is a function to transform v into an integer and is expressed as follows.

A method for adaptively processing audio commands supplied by a user in an aircraft cabin comprising the steps of receiving ambient noise in the aircraft cabin via one or more audio input device sampling with a processor the received ambient noise analyzing in the processor the sampled ambient noise and based on the analysis selecting one or more filter functions and adjusting one or more filter parameters associated with the one or more selected filter functions selectively receiving audio and ambient noise via the one or more audio input device and filtering through the selected one or more filter functions the audio and ambient noise supplied to the one or more audio input devices to thereby supply filtered audio.

In an exemplary embodiment the voice command recognition process 200 continues by receiving or otherwise sensing an audio input indicative of a desired voice command from the audio input device task 208.In this regard the audio input device 104 receives or otherwise senses sound and converts the sound to a corresponding electrical signal.In an exemplary embodiment the audio input device 104 generates an analog signal in response to receiving or otherwise sensing a sound and provides the analog signal to the processing system 108 which in turn converts the analog signal to a corresponding digital signal.In an exemplary embodiment the voice command recognition process 200 continues by filtering the audio input in a manner that is influenced by the identified operating state by filtering the audio input based on the acoustic noise model corresponding to the identified operating state task 210.In this regard in an exemplary embodiment the processing system 108 implements a digital filter based on the selected acoustic noise model for the identified flight phase andor operating state.For example the processing system 108 may identify particular frequencies of the acoustic noise model having relatively larger signal levels compared to surrounding frequencies e.g.peak frequencies or pole frequencies and implement a digital filter with zeros corresponding to the identified peak frequencies from the selected acoustic noise model.In this manner the received audio input signal is filtered based on the current flight phase andor operating state of the aircraft 122 resulting in a filtered audio input signal.In an exemplary embodiment the characteristics e.g.gainattenuation bandwidth roll off and the like of the digital filter are chosen such that the digital filter achieves a desired signaltonoise ratio SNR for the bandwidth corresponding to human speech e.g.100 Hz3 kHz.In other embodiments the processing system 108 may be configured to process the received audio input using noise cancelling techniques in conjunction with the acoustic noise model for the identified flight phase to obtain the filtered audio input signal.By the filtering the audio input based on the flight phase andor operating state the processing system 108 is capable of identifying or otherwise recognizing command words from the received audio input signal with increased accuracy andor reliability as described in greater detail below.

The CuNibased sintered alloy according to claim 1 wherein said solid lubricant is at least any one of graphite molybdenum disulfide boron nitride and calcium fluoride.

Furthermore the following additive elements can be added to a copper alloy in the weight percentage.Nimore than 5 and up to 50 preferably from 5 to 15 Sn20 or less preferably from 3 to 15 P 0.5 or less preferably from 0.01 to 0.1 Al5 or less preferably from 0.5 to 3 Si1 or less preferably from 0.1 to 0.5 Bi1 or less preferably from 0.1 to 0.5 Mn5 or less preferably from 0.5 to 3 Zn30 or less preferably from 5 to 25 Fe10 or less preferably from 1 to 5 Sb1 or less preferably from 0.1 to 0.5

An electrical drive system 100 300 according to claim 9 wherein at least two of the winding systems are parts of a first one of the one or more electrical machines and directions of respective magnetic axes of the at least two winding systems are different from each other.

The excitingline malfunction detection circuit 34 shown in Fig.2A includes a comparator 341 for comparing the potentials at both ends of the exciter coil 11 for generating the exciting pulse signal and for outputting the generated exciting pulse signal a dutycycle detection section 342 for receiving the exciting pulse signal and for extracting and outputting a value corresponding to the duty cycle of the exciting pulse signal and a threshold comparison section 343 for receiving the value corresponding to the duty cycle of the exciting pulse signal for comparing this value with a value corresponding to a predetermined lower limit and a value corresponding to a predetermined upper limit to detect a short circuit to ground and a short circuit to power of the signal lines of the exciting signals and for outputting excitingline malfunction detection signals.The threshold comparison section 343 includes a comparator 343a for comparing the value corresponding to the duty cycle of the exciting pulse signal with the value corresponding to the upper limit positiveinput threshold and a comparator 343b for comparing the value corresponding to the duty cycle of the exciting pulse signal with the value corresponding to the lower limit negativeinput threshold.

The selflocking headreplaceable hard alloy drill bit according to claim 6 characterized in that the included angle between the bottom of the loadingunloading clamp slots and the horizontal direction is 60.

The exact centering of the loose top in relation to the basic body is initiated in the position P2 when the edges 40 of the loose top first get in contact with the inner support surfaces 17 of the branches 15.As the edges are turned toward their end position P4 the centering will become increasingly distinct and exact as a consequence of the increasing clamping force in the branches.The branches 15 retain an ample clamping force in the end position P4 even if the clamping force to a certain extent has been reduced in relation to the maximal clamping force in the position P3.By suitably adjusting such geometrical factors as the amount of rotary motion between P3 and P4 in relation to the selected difference in length between DL1 and DL2 the clamping force in the operative end position can be predetermined.For instance the clamping force in the end position P4 can be determined to 50of the maximal clamping force in the dead position P3.

The portable electronic device according to claim 5 or 6 wherein the lower flat surface is flush with at least the part of the area between the first operative stick and the second operative stick.

Figs.15A and 15B are diagrams of an electronic device 220 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.The electronic device 220 may for example correspond to the electronic device shown in Fig.14.The electronic device 220 includes a display device 222 slidably seated within a housing 224.The housing 224 is configured to enclose the electrical components of the electronic device 200 including the slidable display device 222 and control circuitry associated therewith.Although enclosed the housing 224 typically includes an opening 226 for providing access to the display device 222.The slidable display device 222 on the other hand includes a display 228 and a touch screen 230 disposed above the display 228.In order to support and protect the display device 228 during movements the display device 228 may additional include aplatform 232 disposed underneath the display 228 and a transparent cover 234 disposed over the touch screen 230.

The ultrasound apparatus of claim 1 wherein the measuring device image has a shape that two partial images cross each other based on a reference point and the controller adjusts the position of the at least one of the plurality of measuring points by rotating the two partial images based on the reference point when the touch input for changing the position of the adjusting portion is received.

The display 110 may change a control panel for adjustment of parameter values related to the ultrasound image according to a predetermined mode and then may display the control panel on a third area of the touch screen.

Use of the fiber reinforced composition according to one of the claims 1 to 10 for producing automotive articles.

In the present invention the content of units derivable from propylene in the elastomeric copolymer E1 equates with the content of propylene detectable in the xylene cold soluble XCS fraction.Accordingly the propylene detectable in the xylene cold soluble XCS fraction ranges from 50.0 to 75.0 wt.more preferably 55.0 to 70.0 wt..Thus in a specific embodiment the elastomeric copolymer E1 i.e.the xylene cold soluble XCS fraction comprises from 25.0 to 50.0 wt.more preferably 30.0 to 45.0 wt.units derivable from ethylene.Preferably the elastomeric copolymer E1 is an ethylene propylene nonconjugated diene monomer polymer EPDM1 or an ethylene propylene rubber EPR1 the latter especially preferred with a propylene andor ethylene content as defined in this paragraph.

The mobile terminal according to claim 7 wherein the controller is arranged to determine that the security mode is the first security mode when the users security level is a second security level and to determine that the security mode is the second security mode when the users security level is a third security level.

The second sensor 22 has a sensor surface which is provided on the operation surface 20a to detect the light with which the operation surface 20a the sensor surface is irradiated and supplies the detection result to the movement determining unit 23.The second sensor 22 detects the amount of light very close to 0 in a state where the operation surface 20a is completely put face down with respect to a nonlighttransmitting flat surface the state where the operation surface 20a is in contact with or is about to come into contact with the flat surface while being in parallel to the flat surface.

The method of claim 10 wherein the measuring of the biometric information based on the at least one second sensor comprises acquiring data from at least one of the at least one first sensor and the at least one second sensor and changing at least one condition for activating the at least one second sensor based on at least a part of the data.

The biometric sensor 220 measures various biometric signals of a human body to output various data values related to the human body.According to one embodiment the signals from the biometric sensor 220 are used to determine whether the electronic device 101 is being currently worn on a human body.

A composition comprising A group 2 metal imidazolate complex comprising an imidazolate comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of 245tritertbutylimidazolate 2tertbutyl45di11dimethylpropyl imidazolate 211dimethylbutyl45ditertbutylimidazolate 211dimethylbutyl45di11dimethylpropylimidazolate 2tertbutyl45di11dimethylbutylimidazolate 245tri11dimethylbutylimidazolate 245tri11dimethylpropylimidazolate 211dimethylpropyl45di11dimethylbutylimidazolateand 211dimethylpropyl45ditertbutylimidazolate a group 2 metal selected from barium strontium magnesium radium and calcium and a ligand which coordinates to the group 2 metal imidazolate complex wherein the ligand is at least one selected from the group consisting of a nitrogencontaining monodentate C4 to C12 cyclic molecule an oxygencontaining monodentate C4 to C12 cyclic molecule a nitrogencontaining C4 to C12 bidentate ligand an oxygencontaining C4 to C12 bidentate ligand and a C4 to C12 bidentate ligand comprising nitrogen and oxygen and a hydrocarbon solvent.

Sterically hindered imidazole ligands are disclosed along with the syntheses of the same which when complexed to a Group 2 metal form highly volatile and stable complexes that are exceptionally useful as precursor molecules for CVD ALD and the like thin film deposition processes.

An electric connector 100 comprising a housing 10 having a groove 11 into which a signaltransmission medium 200 is inserted at opposite edges thereof and a lock device 30 including a locker 31 for locking the signaltransmission medium 200 at the groove 11 and allowing the signaltransmission medium 200 to be released out of the groove 11 the locker 31 moving up beyond and moving down below a first inner surface 11a of the groove 11 extending in parallel with a direction C in which the signaltransmission medium 200 is inserted into the groove 11 the locker 31 being energized towards a second inner surface 11b of the groove 11 situated opposing to the first inner surface 11a characterized in that the lock device 30 further includes a compressor 34 for compressing the signaltransmission medium 200 towards the second inner surface 11b so as to allow the signaltransmission medium 200 to be released out of the groove 11.

Under a condition wherein the engaging projections 25 of the holding members 18 engage respectively with the engaging edged recesses 33 and 34 provided on the FPC 30 the front slanted portion of each of the engaging projections 25 which is in presscontact with the edge on the FPC 30 forming the engaging edged recess 33 or 34 is operative to press the FPC 30 down against the bottom portion of the housing 11 so as to fix the FPC 30 vertically in the housing 11.Further the end portion of the FPC 30extending forward from each of the engaging edged recesses 33 and 34 provided on the FPC 30 is put in contact with a part of an inner surface of the housing 11 and thereby the FPC 30 inserted in the housing 11 is fixed in a direction of insertion thereof.With the holding members 18 having the engaging projections 25 which engage respectively with the engaging edged recesses 33 and 34 provided on the FPC in such a manner as mentioned above the FPC 30 is held in the housing 11 so as to be prevented from getting out from the housing 11 unwillingly.

The battery 10 of claim 6 characterized in that the current collecting member 112 extends from the electrode terminal 111 in a longitudinal direction and the groove portion 115c completely circulates the joining portion 113 in a circumferential direction of the current collecting member 112.

The first collecting terminal 122 penetrates a cap plate 151 described later and protrudes upwardly by a predetermined length.The first collecting terminal 122 is electrically connected to the first collecting plate 121 at the lower side of the cap plate 151.The first collecting terminal 122 extends and protrudes upward from the cap plate 151 by a predetermined length and along with this the first collecting terminal 122 includes a flange 122a at a position under the cap plate 151 so that the first collecting terminal 122 cannot be separated from the cap plate 151.A part of the first collecting terminal 122 lower than the flange 122a is inserted in the terminal hole 121d of the first collecting plate 121 and is welded to the first collecting plate 121.A part of the first collecting terminal 122 higher than the flange 122a is fixed to the first terminal plate 123.For example an upper end of the first collecting terminal 122 may be coupled to the first terminal plate 123 described later and be fixed by riveting.The first collecting terminal 122 is electrically insulated from the cap plate 151.For example the first collecting terminal 122 may be formed of oneof copper copper alloy and an equivalent thereof.However materials that can be used to form the first collecting terminal 122 are not limited thereto.

A method of aircraft communication comprising converting received voice communications regarding an aircraft into a plurality of voicetotext converted messages analyzing each of the plurality of voicetotext converted messages to determine a measure of validation for each of the plurality of voicetotext converted messages and displaying the plurality of voicetotext converted messages on a display screen along with an indication of a corresponding measure of validation for each of the plurality of voicetotext converted messages.

Method 100 for reducing and detecting readback and hearback errors continues by outputting a discrepancy alert if the comparing and determining steps 140 and 145 determine there is a readback error i.e.a material discrepancy between the text of the inbound voice communication i.e.the request for pilot action and the text of the outbound communication i.e.the readback step 150.The discrepancy alert may be a visual alert a visual and audible alert or both.The visual discrepancy alert may be provided on the display provided in step 139.For example the transcribed text of the inbound voice communication the request for pilot action the outbound voice communication the readback and an inbound voice reply is displayed on display device 24b.In step 150 the discrepancy between the text of the inbound voice communication and the outbound voice communication is visually highlighted in the text of the inbound voice reply by making the erroneous text bold as further depicted in FIG.6.It should be understood that the visually distinguishing technique depicted in FIG.6 making the erroneous text bold is exemplary and does not comprise an exhaustive list of techniques that may be employed by processor to provide the visual discrepancy alert.The visual alert is such that the text e.g.text of the call sign parameter or both andor a number call sign number parameter value or both corresponding to the material discrepancy may be displayed with special effects e.g.flashing underlining special characters e.g.question mark brighter color intensity or opacity different from the other information on the display screen or by using any other visually distinguishing or highlighting technique that would alert the receiving station or the receiving and transmitting stations to the readback error thereby permitting its detection.An audible alert may be outputted by known methods and systems.It should be appreciated that the display screen as depicted in FIGS.4 through 6 represents the state of a dynamic display frozen at one particular time and that the display screen may be continuously refreshed during operation of the aircraft to reflect a particular dialog.While the visual discrepancy alert is described in the text of the inbound voice reply it is to be understood that the discrepancy may be visually highlighted in the erroneous text of the outbound communication.

The method of any preceding Claim comprising receiving a third routing table of a third server computer estimating that the first server computer is as close to the client computer as the third server computer is to the client computer based at least in part on the client internet protocol address the first routing table and the third routing table sending a second address to the client computer based at least in part on estimating that the first server computer is as close to the client computer than the third server computer is to the client computer wherein the second address identifies the media item title stored on the third server computer.

In a preferred embodiment the step of finding a subnetwork is carried out using an algorithm with a time complexity equal to or less than OW with W the length of an address in the network.

The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the method further comprising prioritizing the user preferred background application in an operating system scheduler module 414 of the computing device 400.

By having the daemon process 212 running as one of the higher importance process 208 the user application process 204 does not experience a drop in performance by making a service request to daemon process 212.For this daemon process 212 having the daemon service requests alleviate the performance drop for the user application process204.However another problem arises because this daemon 212 may also process service requests from other daemons or other processes running in the operating system 202.By processing other service requests the high importance daemon process 212 receives more of the mobile device 200 resources and reduces the amount of resources available to user application process 204.This problem can worsen as the number of daemon process running as high importance processes 208 increases.Furthermore this situation still suffers from the problem of the low importance daemons handling service requests at a low importance.

Host interface circuit IF1 to be implemented in a host device HDEV with a processing unit HPROC the host interface circuit IF1 suitable for coupling the host device HDEV to an accessory device ADEV via a data cable 4PAC the host interface circuit IF1 comprising a power regulator PR and a legacy terminal MICS and configured tooperate in a power mode of operation when connected to an accessory device ADEV being compatible with a power supply via a first line LM of the data cable 4PACto couple the power regulator PR to the first line LM when operating in the power modeto operate in a legacy mode of operation when connected to an accessory device ADEV being not compatible with a power supply via the first line LM andto couple the legacy terminal MICS to the first line LM when operating in the legacy mode.

If the control unit 110 detects that the accessory device 20 is an intelligent component a handshaking procedure is performed between the electrical power transmitting controller device 100 and the electrical power receiving controller device 200 to determine the power requirements of the accessory device.If it is detected that the intelligent accessory device is power supplied by a battery of the accessory device the controllable switch unit 125 is controlled such that the connection between the supply terminal V100 and the power delivering terminal IO100 is interrupted via the interruptednonconnected path 124.

A thermal conductivity detector according to any preceding claim wherein the elongate multilayered sensing element is arranged so as to have a path length which exceeds a physical length of the detector.

The present invention can be applied not only to the thermal fluid flow sensor and the acceleration sensor according to the abovedescribed embodiments but also to various sensors such as a temperature sensor humidity sensor and gas sensor.

An exhaust gas sampling apparatus comprising a constant volume sampling part that is configured to sample mixed gas that is controlled to have a constant flow rate wherein the constant volume sampling part comprises a main flow path that is connected with an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas flows and a diluent gas flow path through which diluent gas flows and intended to flow the mixed gas that is a mixture of the exhaust gas and the diluent gas a constant flow rate mechanism that is provided in the main flow path and configured to control a flow rate of the mixed gas flowing through the main flow path to the constant flow rate and enable the constant flow rate to be changed a sampling flow path that is connected to the main flow path to sample the mixed gas that is controlled to have the constant flow rate and a moisture detecting part that is provided on an upstream side of the constant flow rate mechanism to detect moisture in the mixed gas or the diluent gas.

The water content of the exhaust gas is measured by a humidity sensor 44 shown in Figure 1A to determine the composition of the exhaust gas.The humidity sensor 44 is shown connected to the fluid conduit 37 by a fluid conduit 45 after the pump 36 to measure the diluted exhaust gases.However it is to be understood that the water content of the exhaust gas may be measured elsewhere.Preferably the carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas is also determined to further increase the accuracy of determining the Kfactor for the exhaust emissions.Combustion stoichiometry is used to determine the composition of the combustible mixture and the composition of the products of reaction to calculate the Kfactor for each product of reaction.Because the concentration of carbon dioxide and water content is measured in the dilute exhaust gas the concentration of raw exhaust gas values have to be calculated and applied to the calculation of the Kfactor which may be represented by the equation below.

The method of any one of claims 1 to 10 further implementing delay equalization at each node.

To allow full P2P emulation the OLT must have N MAC interfaces ports each one associated with each existing and registered LLID see FIG 5a.When sending a frame downstream the emulation manager in the OLT will insert the LLID associated with a particular MAC port on which the frame arrived and even though the frame will be delivered to each ONU in the downstream the EPON is purely broadcast due to the multidirectional properties of the PSC Passive Splitter Combiner located in the Remote Node placed somewhere in thefield only the ONU with the matching LLID number can accept the frame packet filtering and pass it to its MAC layer for further processing.The MAC layers in all remaining ONUs will never see this particular data frame.Therefore it may be considered that the employed P2P emulation mechanism makes the packet frame appear to have been transmitted over a true P2P connection.

Control device 2 for determining the stability of a Digital Subscriber Line 5 comprisingmeans 6 7 P for obtaining at least one performance indicator representative of an issue rate on said Digital Subscriber Line andmeans 6 7 P for determining the stability of said Digital Subscriber Line by comparing said performance indicator with at least one thresholdwherein said control device comprises means 6 7 P for determining said at least one threshold comprisingmeans 6 7 P for obtaining data representative of the actual or attainable bitrates of a group of Digital Subscriber Lines said group including a plurality of Digital Subscriber Linesmeans 6 7 P for determining at least one reference bitrate in function of said actual or attainable bitrates andmeans 6 7 P for determining said at least one threshold in function of said reference bitrate.

In an embodiment the optimum weight vector wopt may be determined by minimizing the overlapping between the two distributions duMTBE and dsMTBE.The overlapping is a discriminant measure used in the exemplary embodiment described herein.Consequently the following optimization problem has to be solvedMTBEsshowtimew1CVw2ESw3SEStagged with satisfiedMTBEushowtimew1CVw2ESw3SEStagged with unsatisfied1MTBEw1CVw2ESw3SESshowtimelog1MTBElogw1CVshowtimew2ESshowtimew3SESshowtimelogMTBElogw1CVshowtimew2ESshowtimew3SESshowtimewoptargwmaxXXfsxdxXfuxdxwithxlogMTBEfxdistributionx

The apparatus 1000 of claim 1 wherein the receiving device 4 is configured to produce the received data from a second radiofrequency resulting signal SIN corresponding to aninterference of the reflected signal SR and the first resulting signal SBS.

The receiving device 200 includes at least a demodulator module DEM11 and in accordance with the embodiment described includes a plurality of demodulator modules DEM11DEMMK each associated with a respective pair of receiving antennas RHiRVi.Particularly as it will be described with reference to Figure 5A the second embodiment if FDM modulating modules MOD1 and MOD2 are employed each demodulator DEM11DEMMN can include at least an IFDM Inverse FDM demodulator.

Method according to any of the preceding claims characterized in that said heating phase takes place activating said heating device 20 which is located at the bottom of the tub 3.

By means of the level detection unit 17 the detergent water is allowed to be maintained at a bubble generating level which permits generation of the bubbles while preventing the detergent water from contacting the laundry through continuous detection of the level in addition to the detection of the first and second levels.In addition with help of the level detection unit 17 the detergent concentrate liquid and the water are supplied at amounts required for generation ofthe bubbles having a predetermined detergent concentration by measuring a reduced level through flow and time control during the bubble washing operation.

A method according to any of claims 1 to 13 comprisingsaid UE having obtained a list of candidate WLANANs allowing session continuity through connectivity with at least one PDNGW in the VPLMN getting over signalling between WLANAN and UE connectivity information including whether said WLANANs have connectivity to at least one PDNGW in said HPLMN and if said information is negative said UE no more considering said WLANANs as candidate WLAN ANs for said selection.

Interworking between WLAN systems and PLMN systems provide for seamless communication operations using a mobile station operable in both of the network systems.As communication by way of a WLAN system is generally less expensive than communications by way of a PLMN system if communications by way of the WLAN system are available communications by way of the WLAN system are generally preferred.