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13,557 | The method of claim 1 wherein generating the prioritized list comprises including services based at least in part on an assigned priority. | Additionally each available service is associated with a lease timeout before which the available service has to be reannounced.This mechanism is used to avoid old entries in the service tables. |
22,581 | The terminal according to claim 21 characterized in that the generating module 820 is configured to display the device identification list based on the state switching request receive a trigger instruction generated by a user triggering a target device identification the target device identification being a device identification selected from the device identification list by the user and generate the reply message containing the target device identification based on the trigger instruction. | At block 310 the neighboring device 1022 may relay the join request to the controlling device 1024 or the parent device of the neighboring device 1022 based on whether the neighboring device 1022 knows the address of the controlling device 1024. |
14,394 | A handover communication method in a mobile communication system having a mobile station base stations and a base station controller comprising a first base station transmitting user data from the base station controller to the mobile station a second base station transmitting error correction code for the user data from the base station controller to the mobile station using the same frequency as that used by the first base station for transmitting the user data and the mobile station subjecting the received user data to error correction processing using the received error correction code. | Fig.7 shows transmission signals of the base station 502 under communication and the new base station 503 during the handoff period.During the handoff period under the control of the upper level station 501 in the two base stations 502 and 503 making handoff operation error correction code is not produced but only the user data sequence portion is modulated to make communication from both the communicating base station 502 and the new base station 503.Specifically the main controller 109 Fig.1A of each base station enables or disables the error correction encoder 102 according to the instruction from the upper level station 501 to transmit the user data in the timing as shown in Fig.7. |
18,314 | A developer carrying member that is capable of carrying a developer on a surface thereof and that supplies the developer carried on the surface to a surface of an image bearing member when a voltage is applied thereto comprising an elastic layer and a surface layer that covers the elastic layer contains alumina and has a higher volume resistivity than the elastic layer. | The following materials were mixed by stirring them by a stirring motor and dissolved and mixed in MEK so as to obtain a total solid content of 30 by mass.Thereafter the mixture was uniformly dispersed by a sand mill to obtain a coating material for forming a surface layer.Polyol compound A 62 parts by mass on a solid basis Isocyanate compound D 38 parts by mass on a solid basis Urethane resin particle No.39 15 parts by mass Alumina trade name AluC805 manufactured by Nippon Aerosil Co.Ltd.85 parts by mass Carbon black trade nameMA100 manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 20 parts by mass. |
13,343 | Rotarydrum laundry dryer according to any one of the foregoing claims characterized by also comprising an upper boxlike cabinet 10 which is rigidly fixed to the top of the lower supporting base or socle 9 and is structured so to house the revolving drum 3. | As can be seen in Figure 1 after exiting the drum 4 the drying air full of moisture fluff and other small particles enters the filter 12 through the apertures 15 and gets into the recirculation conduit 8 after passing through the filtering septa 17a 17b which retain the fluff and the other small particles. |
19,423 | An arrangement according to claim 8 characterized in that the arrangement is configured to record the common mode current values while scanning through the permissible switching frequency range before starting the electronics device. | In order to reduce conducted highfrequency disturbances RFI radio frequency interference filters to be coupled to feeders are commonly used.These filters typically comprise a coupling of capacitive and inductive components.The RFI filter inductance may comprise both phasespecific andcommon mode choke but to save on costs common mode chokes alone are often used in these filters.A problem arises when the RFI filter employs common mode chokes alone which get saturated.Saturation may result from high capacitance of motor cables of the frequency converter with respect to earth whereby the capacitances generate a high common mode current during transitions.The switching frequency of the frequency converter also has an effect on the magnitude of the common mode current passing through earth capacitances.The common mode current tends to return to the source of disturbance i.e.to the highpower semiconductors of the frequency converter either through antiinterference capacitors earthed via a DC intermediate circuit of the frequency converter or through the earth capacitances of the supply network.If the switching frequency of the frequency converter is at the resonance frequency of an LC circuit formed together by the supply network earth capacitance and the supply networks inductance and the RFI filters common mode inductance the common mode currents tend to return to the source of disturbance via said route and not via the desired route i.e.via the antiinterference capacitors. |
19,972 | Method according to any one of claims 6 to 7 where said element of information is obtained by the UE when said UE receives a configuration information for the MBMS MDT log. | 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. |
19,383 | The computerimplemented method of predicting with high accuracy a descent trajectory of any of the preceding claims wherein each set of historical flight recorded data comprises at leastan Aircraft identification number Aircraft ID 101 and for each particular time at least information about the following variableslongitude and latitude coordinates 102an altitude Hp 103 anda ground speed Vgd 104. | Figure 4 shows an example of an aircraft 400 flying an approach into an airport and shows the resulting trajectory 410.The horizontal profile is shown in the upper part of the figure and the vertical profile is shown in the lower part of the figure.The figure also shows how the trajectory may be decomposed into flight segments according to the instructions of the aircraft intent. |
15,254 | The mobile terminal100 of claim 4 wherein the controller180 is further configured to control the display151 to display a plurality of images available for selection as the background image in a first region of the display151 and control the display151 to display a selected image of the plurality ofimages in a second region of the display151. | The key input unit 140 includes character keys such asandkeys and a plurality of function keys such as menu key option key call key cancel key onoff key volume key and photo key for various functions of the mobile communication terminal.The key input unit 140 provides key input data based on a key pressed by user to the controller 110.The key input unit 140 includes alphanumeric keys having each numeral of 0 to 9 and a plurality of Hangeuls or alphabets. |
20,307 | The rechargeable battery of claim 2 wherein the bent portion 33a3 133 23 of the sinuous body 33a 130a 230a is covered with an insulating coating layer 33a5 135 235 33a6 136 236. | Further the resistance of the variable member may be controlled by stacking variable plates made of different materials so that the flowing speed of the current is decreased thereby reducing or preventing the chance of explosion and fire of the battery. |
15,172 | The washing machine of claim 10 wherein the flow path switching apparatus comprises a pump configured to pump thewater in the tub and a flow path switching valve configured to switch a flow path such that water being discharged from the tub is drained to an outside or the water is circulated to the tub. | At the front of the machine body 10 is mounted a door 19 having an inlet 19a through which laundry is put into or removed from the drum 12.Above the water tub 11 are mounted a detergent supply unit 20 to supply detergent and a water supply unit 30 to supply water wash water or rinse water. |
20,096 | A method for reducing a number of bits NBits used for a frequency value of a measuring signal stored in each memory cell of a display memory 2 in a measuring device 1 comprising the following stepsdetermining the frequency value in each memory cell by assigning the frequency of sampled values in several measuring portions of a measured signal within an update cycle of the display 4 to a corresponding memory celldisplaying each pixel of the display 4 with a brightness or a color corresponding to the frequency value in the corresponding memory cell after each update cycle characterized in that the determined frequency value is a sum of a first frequency value which is determined in a number Nunkomp of first measuring portions of the measured signal within the update cycle and at least one compressed second frequency value which is determined by compression of a corresponding compressed second frequency value with a compression factor PKompres. | The TOP region above the intensity threshold IA and up to the MAXimum value that can be stored in a pixel location can be reserved for illuminating unusual waveforms and the maximum intensity used for normal i.e.usual waveforms can be limited to a maximum of IA.However since the total dynamic range of intensity is a scarce commodity in communicating signal activity to the operator all of the values in the TOP range can be compressed and mapped 18 in FIG.1 to the maximum intensity value actually displayed on the raster scan display 20 in FIG.1.This approach uses the TOP range and its decay function FT as a countertimer creating a duration of time during which the mapped pixel intensity will remain at it maximum value. |
13,542 | The vehicle navigation system of Claim 1 further comprising a computer program for operating in one of three modes including GPS receiver only DRcomputer only and a mixed mode including both the GPS receiver and the DRcomputer wherein operation in the GPS receiver only mode results when GPS fixes are available there are enoughconsistently available satellite vehicles and more than two satellite vehicles are being tracked wherein operation in the DRcomputer only mode results when a GPS fix is not available or less than two satellite vehicles are being tracked and calibration is available and wherein operation in the mixed mode results from tests when less than two satellite vehicles are being tracked or there are not enough consistently available satellite vehicles and a calibration is available and verified. | As described above when the mapmatching has been performed about the computed location information x and y coordinate corresponding to the matched link are calculated in step S65.In step S66 a difference between the x and the y coordinate included in the computed location information and the x and the y coordinates calculated in step S65 are outputted as filter correction data.The filter correction data is a differencexy andbetween a locationangle of the car matched in step S63 S64 and a locationangle computed in the filter 44.The error of the GPSDR integrated Kalman filter is corrected using the outputted filter correction data in step S70 FIG 4a. |
17,292 | An electronic device as set forth in any preceding claim wherein the flexible touch screen displays a visual cue for the predefined bending action when operating in the lock state. | Referring to FIG.2 a body of the mobile terminal 100 includes a case e.g.a casing a housing a cover etc.configuring an exterior thereof.According to the present embodiment the case can be divided into a front case 101 and a rear case 102.Various electricelectronic parts are loaded in a space provided between the front and rear cases 101 and 102.Optionally at least one middle case can be further provided between the front and rear cases 101 and 102 in addition. |
19,535 | The information processing system 1 according to claim 2 further comprising the display. | According to the above configuration it is possible to realize a display control such that when the direction of the virtual world displayed on the portable display device changes the direction of the virtual world displayed on the other display device also changes in the same direction. |
20,359 | The induction heat cooking apparatus according to claim 1 2 or 3 wherein the plurality of switching devices comprise a first switching device 321 a second switching device 322 and a third switching device 323 and the plurality of heating coils comprise a first heating coil 341 connected between the first switching device and the second switching device and a second heating coil 342 connected between the second switching device and the third switching device. | FIG.10 is a circuit diagram of the induction heating cooker 200 in the third operation mode and FIG.11 is a diagram illustrating a third switching signal according to an embodiment. |
22,313 | The evaluation unit according to one of the claims 3 to 6 wherein the evaluation unit is operative to compute the transition values as a twodimensional convolution of a filter with pixels of an image frame pixel. | Upon completion of the process for the accumulated information next the attached matter determination process Step S80 is executed by the adhered matter determiner 32.In this embodiment since dirt is detected the attached matter is limited to dirt in this process.However the attached matter is not limited to dirt in the present invention as a dirt determination target and dirt can be read as each attached matter for example a waterdrop determination target. |
20,107 | The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the magnetic user input device is at least one finger sleeve worn on at least one finger of the user of the magnetic device. | The drive signals 516 may be dependent upon graphical content displayed on a screen of the host electronic device.For example a force may be generated to indicate the boundary of a displayed object such as an icon menu item or graphical item.In another illustrative example the stylus tip may be attracted to or repelled from displayed items. |
20,640 | The lithographic printing plate precursor of claim 1 or 2 wherein the counter cation has a total of8 carbon atoms. | In formula A2 R1 to R3 have the same meanings as R101 to R103 defined in formula A1 respectively.L represents a divalent connecting group selected from the group consisting of CO O NH a divalent aliphatic group a divalent aromatic goup and a combination thereof. |
16,404 | Method for controlling the defrost of an evaporator in a refrigeration appliance having a cooling circuit with a variable cooling capacity compressor characterized in that it comprises the steps of assessing the cooling capacity of the cooling circuit and calculating the defrost time on the basis of such cooling capacity. | Therefore the defrosting initiation temperature can be seen from Equation 1 according to the operational combination of the compressor.TdefrostingabxTe |
13,494 | The stereoscopic display apparatus according to claim 12 wherein the synchronous control unit is synchronized with the infrared emitting device for controlling to open or close the left shutter unit andor the right shutter unit. | In an exemplary embodiment when high voltage is removed from the Picells the opening of the shutters 106 andor 108 start.This is a relaxation process meaning that liquid crystal LC molecules in the Picell go back to the equilibrium state i.e.molecules align with the alignment layer i.e.the rubbing direction of the substrates.The Picells relaxation time depends on the cell thickness and rotational viscosity of the fluid. |
19,021 | The information processing device 1 according to claim 1 further comprising a recognizing unit 71 that recognizes the different information processing device 1 that is permitted to access each area of the shared memory 43 a stop informing unit 73 that when an access failure is detected in the first area informs thedifferent information processing device 1 which is recognized by the recognizing unit 71 regarding the permission to access the first area of stop of access to the first area and a restart informing unit 76 that when the replacing unit 75 replaces the first area with the second area informs the different information processing device 1 which is informed of stop of access to the first area by the stop informing unit 73 of restart of access. | A specific example will be described.The cache directory managing unit 36 instructs the packet generating unit 37a to transmit an order of instructing a CPU which caches data with a status M Modified to write back.Further the cache directory managing unit 36 updates a data status and executes processing matching the updated status.In addition a type of a request or an order transmitted and received by the cache directory managing unit 36 will be described below. |
17,523 | The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a neutral pitch mode wherein each blade rotates independently and passively about its respective pitch axis without angular limit under the influence of twisting moments caused by the changing wind directions. | In the event of a detected or forecast extreme wind condition the wind turbine controller is operable to pitch the outer blade sections 2830 in a particular manner that will allow the wind turbine blades 1820 to passively align in a substantially horizontal position. |
22,438 | The backlight unit according to any one of claims 2 to 5 wherein the first anglebetween the second support side member and the bottom surface of the bottom cover is lessthan 90 and greater than a light orientation angleof the plurality of light sources with respect to the bottom cover. | In more detail the third side portion 330 in the first mold 300 includes an upper surface 3301 a sloping surface 3302 inclined downwardly from the upper surface 3301 and a side wall 3303.Since the light source 210 is received in the third side portion 330 it is not necessary to separately provide a reflection plane in an area where the light source 210 is received.Thus a vertical plane 3307 is disposed in the area where the light source 210 is received.The sloping surface 3302 extends upwardly from the vertical plane 3307.In addition the sloping surface 3302 is vertical to the long axis of the light source 210 which means that an amount of light directly incident from the light source 210 is small.Thus a downward inclination angle 2 of the sloping portion 3302 does not need to be gentle unlike in the first side portion 310.Meanwhile the greater the downward inclination angle 2 of the sloping portion 3302 with respect to the bottom chassis 250 the narrower the distance between the side wall of the bottom chassis 250 and the vertical plane 3307.This is advantageous in acquiring an exposure area ofthe light source 210 Therefore the sloping portion 3302 is preferably inclined with respect to the bottom chassis 250 at a relatively large downward inclination angle 2 within a range in which reflection efficiency is not unduly declined for example in a range of about 60 degrees to about 80 degrees. |
19,865 | A method performed at a network node within a wireless communication network of determining a set of user equipment identifiers for allocation to user equipment within a cell of said network node said method comprising for a plurality of control channel resources that are available to said network node for locating control messages for transmission towards said user equipment assessing whether a signal transmitted by said network node on said control channel resource has at least a predetermined quality level said signal quality assessing step including assessing interference within said control channel resource from control messages sent from at least one neighbouring network node and determining said set of user equipment identifiers by selecting user equipment identifiers that allow said control messages for said user equipment to be located in at least a predetermined number of said control channel resources where said quality level of said signal is assessed to be above said predetermined quality level. | In a LTEspecific implementation of the control channel a subblock interleaver used for the PDCCH is subject to a socalled pushpop effect.This means that for some CCEs of the control channel of the target cell e.g.a femto cell the number of collisions with CCEs of the victim terminal devices potential resources in common and dedicated search space is lower than for other CCEs. |
16,110 | The method of claim 1 wherein the communicationlimited state corresponds to at least one of a Subscriber Identity Module SIM card unmounted state a Personal Identification Number PIN lock state and a PIN Unlock Key PUK lock state. | Otherwise that is when only the cellular network is accessible in step 323 the emergency call connection is attempted using the cellular network and the process then ends. |
13,190 | The collisions avoiding method as claimed in claim 1 also including the steps of storing in said map of said predetermined area preferred routes used by manned vehicles 12 and continuously predicting specific paths of manned vehicles based on present positions and said preferred routes of said manned vehicles. | According to the running state signal of the own vehicle transmitted from the own vehicle sensor 4 the own vehicle track predicting section 12 predicts and acquires a track of the own vehicle.Though one or a plurality of tracks of the own vehicle may be predicted one track is predicted here.The own vehicle track predicting section 12 outputs own vehicle track information concerning the predicted track of the own vehicle to the collision probability calculating section 13. |
18,186 | The immunogen according to any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein said antigenic IgE peptide further comprises eitherat its Cterminus a linker having the formula GnC wherein n is an integer chosen in the group consisting of 0 and 1 where n is equal to 0 said formula represents a cysteine orat its Nterminus a linker having the formula CGn wherein n is an integer chosen in the group consisting of 0 and 1 where n is equal to 0 the formula represents a cysteine orat its Cterminus a linker having the formula GnC wherein n is an integer chosen in the group consisting of 0 and 1 where n is equal to 0 said formula represents a cysteine and at its Nterminus a linker having the formula CGn wherein n is an integer chosen in the group consisting of 0 and 1 where n is equal to 0 the formula represents a cysteine. | A heterologous carrier protein can be fused to the Nterminus or Cterminus of an antigenic peptide of the invention.Antigenic fusion proteins of the invention can be produced by techniques known to those of skill in the art for example by standard recombinant DNA techniques.For example a nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic fusion protein can be synthesized by conventional techniques including automated DNA synthesizers.Alternatively PCR amplification of nucleotide fragments can be carried out using anchor primers which give rise to complementary overhangs between two consecutive nucleotide fragments which can subsequently be annealed and reamplified to generate a nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic fusion protein see e.g.Ausubel et al.infra.Moreover many expression vectors are commercially available that already encode a fusion moiety e.g.a GST polypeptide.A nucleic acid encoding an antigenic peptide of the invention can be cloned into such an expression vector such that the fusion moiety is linked inframe to theantigenic peptide of the invention.Further a heterologous carrier protein can be fused to an antigenic peptide by chemical methods known to those of skill in the art. |
15,053 | The electric connector as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein the lock device 30 is made of a single plate having elasticity. | Referring to Fig.9 the holding member 18 formed in the conductive shell 14 comprises an arm portion 24 which extends from the front end of the upper portion of the conductive shell 14 to the inside of the conductive shell 14 an engaging projection 25 which is provided at an end of the arm portion 24 to be positioned in the inside of the conductive shell 14 for engaging with an engaging edged portion provided on the FPC inserted in the housing 11 as described later a pressure receiving portion 26 which extends from the engaging projection 25 to be positioned in the inside of the conductive shell 14 for receiving pressure from the pressing portion 23 or the pressing portion 21 of the movable lever 19 and an indicating portion 27 which extends from the pressure receiving portion 26 toward the outside of the upper portion of the conductive shell 14 for indicating astate of the holding member 18.The indicating portion 27 has a top end thereof and is postured to take up selectively first and second positions.When the indicating portion 27 is postured to take up the first position the top end of the indicating portion 27 is positioned to face the outside of the conductive shell 14 through an opening 29 formed in the upper portion of the conductive shell 14.When the indicating portion 27 is postured to take up the second position the top end of the indicating portion 27 is positioned to project from the inside to the outside of the conductive shell 14 through the opening 29 formed in the upper portion of the conductive shell 14. |
13,682 | The article of claim 1 wherein the article comprises one or more of nickel and tin and tin and silver intermetallics. | Moreover the electrically conductive base member 1 has the electrical conductivity a characteristic of spring a durability or the like sufficient to be usedfor the movable contact component and the same is comprised of copper or the copper alloy in accordance with the present invention.Further regarding a copper alloy to be made use as preferred for the base material 1 there is given an example of such as a beryllium copper CuBe a phosphor bronze a brass a nickel silver a Corson alloy or the like.Still further it is desirable for the base material 1 to have a thickness between 0.03 m and 0.3 m or it is further preferable to be as between 0.05 m and 0.1 m. |
20,466 | The surgical stapling apparatus of Claim 7 wherein said layer is wedged into said channel. | In FIGS.37 the lower latch arms 52 of the electrically actuated buttress deployment mechanism 20 selectively hold the lower buttress pad 24 by electrically actuating cylindrical EAP actuators 74 positioned in holes 76 formed in left and right lateral lips 78 79 of a staple cartridge body 80 of the replaceable staple cartridge 54.With particular reference to FIG.4 the polymeric staple body 80 has an aft vertical slot 82 that receives a knife of a firing bar not shown.A plurality of vertical staple apertures 84 are formed in the polymeric staple body 80 with each containing a staple supported by staple drivers not shown.A staple cartridge tray 85 underlies and laterally encompasses the polymeric staple body 80 to retain these components.Left and right aft rectangular EAP actuators 86 88 extend out of left and right aft rectangular apertures 90 92 formed in the staple cartridge body 80 on each side of the aft vertical slot 82.Left and right aft latch arms 94 96 are formed into the staple cartridge tray 85 attached at their aft portion and horizontally extending distally to bend front upwardly as the respective aft rectangular EAP actuators 86 88 expand FIG.7.Separate left and right side brackets 98 100 each include a plurality of opposing and inwardly bent top and bottom flanges 102 104 that grip respective left and right lateral lips 78 79.The lower latch arms 52 are formed from the left and right side brackets 98 100 as Lshaped flanges that overlie and are spaced away from the respective left and right lateral lips 78 79.Each side latch arm 52 and aft latch arm 94 96 has a down turned inward edge 106 that assists in gripping the lower buttress pad 24 FIGS.3 5.In FIG.6 electrical activation of cylindrical EAP actuators 74 rotates the lower latch arms 52 upwardly and laterally allowing the lower buttress pad 24 to deploy away from a top compression surface 108 of the replaceable staple cartridge 54. |
19,567 | A gas turbine engine comprising a bladed rotor assembly 100200300400 according to any one of Claims 1 to 9. | Viewing a crosssection of the fan shroud 44 as shown in FIG.8 and FIG.9 the inner annular surface 48 is shown as being triangulated or somewhat triangular in contour.This triangular configuration indicates that the inner annular surface 48 is tapered and has an inner diameter A that varies along the axial length B of the fan shroud 44.Triangular can also be substantially trapezoidal in shape wherein the inner diameter A at a particular axial position is substantially constant for a certain axial length B that is less than the overall width of the fan shroud 44 and the surface 48 has a contour having a different slope for a given axial length B on either side of this particular axial position Preferably the contour of the surface 48 has at least two different linear slopes in opposite directions betweenthe positions adjacent to the leading edge 38 and the trailing edge 39 along the axial length B of the fan shroud 44.In particular referring back to FIG.6 the inner diameter is represented by A and the axial length is represented by B. |
22,376 | Method for sharing values of optimization parameters for control of printing in a printing system the printing system comprising a storage unit a print unit and a control unit the storage unit comprising a print media catalog comprising a list of print media each print medium in the list having a plurality of media attribute values characterizing the print medium and each print medium categorized in at least one group based on atleast one media attribute value the print unit comprising a print head for ejecting marking material on a print medium of the list and the control unit configured to control the printing on a print medium of the list according to a plurality of optimization parameters an optimization parameter being related to the at least one media attribute value used for categorization in a group of the at least one groupwherein the method comprises the steps of receiving a value of a particular optimization parameter for a print medium categorized in a particular group of the at least one group and automatically propagating the received value to other print media categorized in the same particular group wherein the particular optimization parameter is a parameter for a curl correction determined by a sizeweight combination of the print medium. | For example if a printing company introduces new brands of paper an operator is required to newly generate and set printing conditions for each of the brands of paper.Sheets of paper and printing plates as supplies or consumables have already been available in a vast number of brands and types and the number of such supplies is expected to keep growing in the future.In such a situation the operator will find it highly tedious and timeconsuming to set printing conditions for each of the brands and types of supplies. |
19,558 | A method for managing packets according to claim 5 wherein the given caching decision policy is Leave a Copy Down LCD. | The Proxy node 102 is configured to respond to the RTSP request message sent by the Client node 101 and obtain a Universal Resource Identifier URI corresponding to the media resource requested by the Client node 101 according to the RTSP request message.In thisembodiment the Proxy node 102 obtains the URI corresponding to the media resource according to the media resource information requiring to be obtained by the user in the RTSP request message. |
19,820 | An apparatus 1002 for wireless communication comprisingmeans for establishing 1004 at least one of first and second communication links 708 714 with at least a first cell the first communication link 708 for receiving transmissions and the second communication link 714 for sending transmissions means for performing 1006 a handover of one of the first and second communication links 708 7014 to at least a second cell.and means for maintaining 1010 with the first cell the other of the one of the first and second communications links 708 714 involved in the handover means for receiving 1014 and transmitting 1016 wherein a virtual cell ID is reconfigured for the one of the first and second communication links 708 714. | When the user performs uplink and downlink switching the uplink cell and the downlink cell of the user are always switched at the same time.However in some new situations such as the aggregation scenario or the CoMP scenario only the uplink cell of the user changes or the downlink cell changes sometimes and since signal levels of the uplink and the downlink of the user are different the uplink signal is poor sometimes or the downlink signal is poor sometimes and at this time uplink and downlink synchronized switching may cause that the whole performance of the data is deteriorated.In addition if the uplink or downlink cell without data transmission is switched the number of the cells required to be maintained by the user is increased thereby increasing the maintenance complexity of the user and the system. |
17,925 | The surgical instrument according to claim 11 or claim 12 wherein the controller is further configured to store an event counter of current draw samples within the third range. | Surgical devices 10 may include at least one drive motor at least one power source PS see FIG.5 for powering the at least one drive motor and at least one rotatable drive shaft connected to the drive motor. |
21,961 | The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the joint part and the projection are sheetshaped and the thickness of the projection is larger than the thickness of the joint part. | As illustrated in FIG.4 MEA 5 includes membrane 5A and a pair of electrode layers 5D.Membrane 5A has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and electrode layer 5D as an anode electrode layer formed on the first surface and electrode layer 5D as a cathode electrode layer formed on the second surface constitute an electrode portion.Electrode layer 5D includes catalyst layer 5B formedon membrane 5A and diffusion layer 5C covering catalyst layer 5B.Frame body 6 is formed of first frame body 6A second frame body 6B and third frame body 6C. |
21,813 | Locking system of weapons by satellite tracking according to previous claim characterizes that the implementation of a tracking GPS system by satellite 1 with a screen 2 which defines a security strip 4 on both sides of the axis representation of the shot 7 delimited by the representation of a front 15 and another back transmitter 16 previously installed in the weapon 10. | Figure 4A shows an example of a blueforcesoldier 400 with a weapon system 410 and an injury zone 420 of the weapon system 410 in accordance with embodiments of the invention.An injury zone of a weapon system may be determined based on a direction of fire.Figure 4A shows an injury zone 420 with dashed lines and defined by a left extent 414a right extent 416 and an outer extent 418 oriented around a direction of fire DOF 412.The direction of fire 412 may be determined as described above with reference to Figure 3. |
14,200 | The apparatus 10 of claim 8 wherein the one or more lookup tables comprise information on a subsequent operation on the data packet and wherein the second packet inspection comprises the subsequent operation. | According to a preferred embodiment of the invention the controlunit andor one or more of the subengines are interconnected by means of a communication bus.For instance the controlunit andor one or more subengines of the two or more subengines are interconnected by means of one or more technologies of the group of Ethernet InfiniBand wireless network technologies and network technologies based on optical fiber.Preferably a communication bus interconnecting the controlunit andor one or more subengines of the two or more subengines is a serial bus or a parallel bus.The swiching device can comprise communication means.It is possible that the communication means are or comprise one or more interfaces which are preferably high speed interfaces.The communication bus can provide a high bandwidth which can be of at least 10 Gbits.In particular it is possible that each of the one or more interfaces provides a high bandwidth which can be of at least 10 Gbits.Preferably the communication bus can provide of a least 1 or 10 Tbits in order to provide a sufficiently large bandwidth to carry an aggregated traffic of the data packets handled by means of the communication means comprising the one or more interfaces. |
18,181 | The composition according to any one of claims 10 to 13 said antigenic IgE peptide are linked to an immunogenic carrier selected from the group consisting of HBcAg VLP HBsAg VLP and Qbeta VLP. | The present invention also provides methods of administering compositions of the invention to animals preferably mammals and most preferably humans for the treatment or prevention of IgEmediated allergic disorders.The compositions of the present invention are in suitable formulation to be administered to animals preferably mammals such as companion animals e.g.dogs cats and horses and livestock e.g.cows and pigs and most preferably humans.The compositions of the invention are administered in an amount effective to elicit an immune response for example the production of polyclonal antibodieswith specificity for an IgE molecule.In one embodiment the compositions of the invention are administered in an amount effective to induce the production of polyclonal antibodies with specificity for the Fc portion of an IgE molecule required for IgE to bind to its receptor i.e.the CH3 domain of an IgE molecule.In a preferred embodiment the compositions of present invention are administered in an amount effective to induce the production of antiIgE antibodies which bind to soluble free IgE in serum and other bodily fluids prevent IgE from binding to its high affinity receptors on mast cells and basophils and do not crosslink receptorbound IgE.Accordingly the compositions of the invention are administered in an amount effective to induce the production of polyclonal antibodies which do not induce anaphylaxis for the treatment or prevention of IgEmediated allergic disorders. |
18,500 | The display device according to claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of electrode groups comprises a group of two or more electrodes arranged along a column in the first direction or along a row in the second direction. | Accordingly to more closely shield against the noise signal a scheme of providing a shielding layer 18 as shown in FIG.3 is becoming widespread.Generally the shielding layer 18 is provided on a rear surface of an insulating layer 17 and is configured to cover an entire display screen of the LCD module 20.Since the shielding layer 18 is connected to a ground pattern of an electronic device an electric potential of the shielding layer 18 may be maintained at a ground level regardless of a noise signal generated from the LCD module 20.Accordingly the air gap 16 may be reduced in size compared with that of FIG.2 or may be omitted.However when the shielding layer 18 is connected to the ground a parasitic capacitance may be formed between the sensing electrode 15 and the shielding layer 18 and may have influence on a touch sensing performance.The parasitic capacitance may greatly reduce a touch sensitivity in a capacitivetype touch screen in particular. |
14,729 | The method according to any of claims 10 to 12 wherein mounting the support frame further comprises forming a torque box for resisting bending with the chassis the plastic part and the support frame. | Next the embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the attached diagrams.FIG.1 is a perspective view showing the structure of a portable device casing according to an embodiment of the present invention wherein a is a view from above and b is a view from below.FIG.2 is an exploded view showing a metal structure 100 of the casing as being separated from the portable device shown in FIG.1.FIG.3 is a perspective view of the metal structure 100 as seen from the reverse side.FIG.4 is a crosssectional view of the casing shown in FIG.1.FIGS.5a through c are perspective views of the portable deviceafter a bottom casing having switches has been incorporated.FIG.6 is an exploded perspective view of the portable device shown in FIG.5.FIG.7 is a crosssectional view of the assembled casing wherein a is a horizontal crosssectional view along a line that cuts through a connector 501 shown in FIG.6 and b is a horizontal crosssectional view along a line that cuts through a battery 600. |
14,570 | A body temperature maintaining apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5 wherein the heat medium is circulated in the heat receiving part the tube body and the heat applying part. | In one embodiment the sealing element 140 can be wrapped around a portion of the extremity of the mammal to seal the opening 112.Example of the sealing element 140 includes mechanical fasteners or other fastening units e.g.Velcro fasteners.One example includes one or more conventional mating rings which can snap into the device 100.Another example includes the use of a tape with a removableliner such as 3M removable tapes etc.which can be removed when ready to use.In one embodiment the sealing element 140 is a single use seal.In another embodiment the single use sealing element 140 is attached to the device 100 and the device and the sealing element 140 are disposed of after a single use.In still another embodiment the sealing element 140 may be removed from the device 100 and the device may be used repeatedly with another sealing element. |
13,524 | The resonator of claim 13 wherein the lowest state of compression is a nonzero state of compression. | The height of the dielectric resonance element 103 is set to such a value that the dielectric resonance element 103 protrudes slightly beyond the frame upper end of the metallic casing 104 and that the protrusion is maintained in a temperature range in which the dielectric resonator is supposed to be used.The thin portion 202 of the metallic cover 105 is warped according to the length of the abovedescribed protrusion when the metallic casing 104 and the metallic cover 105 are connected by screwing with the connecting screws 106.That is the thin portion 202 is warped in the abovedescribed manner to press the upper flat surface 109 of the dielectric resonance element 103 by a biasing force. |
22,014 | The method of any one of claims 1 to 5 further comprising when a current frame in the sequence of video frames is encoded with respect to the reference framedecoding the current frame using the encoded pixel data for the current frame and the pixel data representing the reference frame at the first resolution and generating and storing in memory pixel data representing the current frame at at least one different resolution to the first resolution. | Specifically in the case of a moving picture in which a large number of frames are displayed sequentially with respect to lapse of time since the data size increases generally the compression rate is prioritized.However as the compression rate rises the arithmetic operation cost upon decoding increases and the granularity of data access tends to increase.As a result even when it is desired to display only a restricted region it may become necessary to decode an overall area of a frame or deploy the overall area in a memory.This is disadvantageous in terms of the arithmetic operation cost and the memory cost. |
15,747 | The apparatus of claim 5 wherein supposing that the first plane displays the timewise program airing information the first plane displays timewise information along an X axis. | The apparatus may further include a display which displays the tags and information about their respective categories output from the EPG processor. |
15,892 | The capacitive position sensor system according to claim 1 wherein the first capacitors are interconnected on a first layer and the second capacitors are interconnected on a second layer. | Detection circuit 20 additionally includes a set of three absolute value difference circuits 92 94 96 each having an input connected to line 58 through a controlled switch 98 100 102 for selective sampling of the output voltage VOUT at the output of operational amplifier 36.The circuits 9296 and the switches 98102 utilize the timing signals A B and C as shown so that circuits 9298 output the indicated voltage differences.That is circuit 92 forms an output on line 104 equal to twice the absolute value of the difference VOUTAVOUTC where VOUTA is the output voltage VOUT corresponding to sensor capacitance CSA and VOUTC is the output voltage VOUT corresponding to sensor capacitance Csc.Similarly circuit 94 forms an output on line 106 equal to twice the absolute value of the difference VOUTBVOUTC where VOUTC is the output voltage VOUT corresponding to sensor capacitance CSC and circuit 96 forms an output on line 108 equal to twice the absolute value of the difference VOUTAVOUTB.The output voltages on lines 104 106 and 108 are summed by summing circuit 110 to form combined output voltage VCOMBOUT on line 112 as follows VCOMBOUT2VOUTAVOUTCVOUTBVOUTC2VOUTAVOUTB |
22,071 | The compound cycle engine as defined in any one of the preceding claims wherein the at least two rotary units include the first rotary unit the second rotary unit and additional rotary units the additional rotary units being located such that a same number of the rotary units is disposed in front of and behind the first stage turbine along the output shaft. | A pipe 70 extends from an outlet of the compressor 20 and splits into two inlet pipes 72 each connected to the intake port 48 see also Fig.2 of the respective rotary unit 12.In this embodiment the compressor 20 includes a single radial impeller 74.Alternately the compressor 20 may include one or more rotors with radial axial or mixed flow blades. |
20,899 | The use of any of claims 1 to 4 where the composition contains one or more coadditives selected from aminic or phenolic antioxidants and from ashless dispersants. | In another aspect the present invention relates to a viscositystabilized trunk piston engine lubricating oil composition comprising a major amount of one or more Group I base oils and one or more dispersant additives where the concentration of the one or more dispersant additives within the trunk piston engine lubricating oil composition is about 0.20.6 wt.on an actives basis where the composition has a total base number of at least about 12 and where the composition has at least about 5 less oxidationbased viscosity increase when compared to a dispersantfree lubricating oil composition. |
20,734 | A single or multicompartment watersoluble cleaning pouch comprising a cleaning composition and an enveloping material the pouch comprising at least one compartment comprising a liquid composition said liquid composition comprising a mixture of a complexing agent and an eRH reducing agent wherein the complexing agent is selected from the group consisting of methyl glycine diacetic acid its salts and mixtures thereof and the eRH reducing agent is a salt of an organic acid selected from the group consisting of mono dicarboxylic acids and mixtures thereof. | Preferred organic builders include aminocarboxylate builders such as salts of MGDA methylglycinediacetic acid GLDA glutamicNN diacetic acid iminodisuccinic acid IDS and carboxymethyl inulin.Salts of MGDA and GLDA more in particular salts of GLDA are especially preferred herein with the trisodium salt thereof being preferred and a sodiumpotassium salt being specially preferred for the favourable hygroscopicity and fast dissolution properties when in particulate form. |
18,650 | A power tool as claimed in any one of the previous claims wherein the passageway is integrally formed within either the housing 2 or the handle 24. | The present invention relates to a hammer drill and in particular a vibration dampening mechanism for a handle of a hammer drill. |
16,026 | The method of claim 1 wherein the meta data for the image comprises at least one of an image capture time face recognition information an exposure value a flash availability focus information a resolution an image size and a capture mode. | The output unit 400 further includes a music data output unit 402 and an image data output unit 404.The music data output unit 402 is an interface for outputting the music reproduced by the music data reproducing unit 302 to speakers.The image data output unit 404 is an interface for outputting the image generated by the image processing unit 500 to a display device such as a television set monitor or the like and an example of the image data output unit 404 is for example an HDMI HighDefinition Multimedia Interface terminal. |
16,041 | A method of manufacturing an electrode wire forelectrodischarge machining the method comprising preparing an intermediate wire rod which includes a first metal has one of phasesandand has a first diameter as a core wire plating the core wire with a second metal performing a heat treatment process to make the plated core wire representing tensile strength of about 500Nmm2 or less and elongation percentage of 5 or more and to form a first alloy layer having a phasein at least a boundary region between the core wire and the second metal due to mutual diffusion between the core wire and the second metal and to form a second alloy layer having a phaseandor a phaseon an outer portion of the first alloy layer through diffusion of the first metal to the second metal and forming a grain including at least a core wire material and a second alloy material on a surface of the electrode wire for electrodischarge machining by erupting the core wire material through a crack appearing on the second alloy layer when performing a fine wire process of making the electrode wire for electrodischarge machining which includes the first alloy layer the second alloy layer and the core wire and has a second diameter. | Referring to FIG.2 a core wire 12 including brass including about 65 weight of copper and about 35 weight of zinc is provided with a diameter in the range of about 0.9nm to about 1.2nm. |
21,463 | The power steering apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6 wherein the angle sensor comprises a gear rotating together with the second pinion and a detection unit meshing with the gear and detecting the rotation of the gear. | In the embodiment described above a manner in which the steering gear ratio R is changed depending on the steering angle s may be appropriately changed.For example the specifications of the first rack teeth 5a may be changed so that the steering gear ratio R is continuously increased as the absolute value of the steering angle s increases in an entire range from the neutral position to the steering ends.For example the specifications of the first rack teeth 5a may be changed so that the steering gear ratio R is decreased as the absolute value of the steering angle s increases. |
20,235 | A phosphor exhibiting a luminescence peak in a wavelength range of 500 to 600 nm when excited with light having a luminescence peak within a wavelength range of 250 to 500 nm wherein said phosphor is represented by the following formula 1 SrpM1p1xCex2yAlzSi10zOuNw wherein M is at least one of alkali metals or alkaline earth metals and 0p1 0ltx1 0.8y1.1 2.0z3.5 0ltu1 1.8zu and 13uw15 are satisfied and a distance between an atom at coordinates corresponding to first coordinates of Sr M or Ce atoms and an atom at coordinates corresponding to 14th coordinates of O or N atoms is 2.0 to 2.6in a case in which an average crystal structure of said phosphor is analyzed assuming that the crystal structure belongs to a space group Pna21 and is represented using crystal structure data standardization software STRUCTURE TIDY. | In general according to one embodiment a luminescent material exhibits a luminescence peak in a wavelength ranging from 500 to 600 nm when excited with light having an emission peak in a wavelength ranging from 250 to 500 nm and thus it is a luminescent material capable of emitting light in a yellowgreen to orange region.Since the luminescent material of this embodiment mainly emits light in a yellow region it is hereinafter referred to as yellowemitting luminescent material.The luminescent material includes a parent material having a crystal structure which is substantially the same as the crystal structure of Sr2Si7Al3ON13.The parent material is activated by Ce.The composition of the yellowemitting luminescent material according to this embodiment is represented by Formula 1 below.M1xCex2yAlzSi10zOuNwFormula 1wherein M represents Sr and a part of the Sr may be substituted by at least one selected from Ba Ca and Mg.x y z u and w satisfy following condition 0ltx1 0.8y1.1.2z3.5 u1 1.8zu and 13uw15 |
19,023 | The information processing device 1 according to claim 1 wherein the replacing unit 75 replaces the first area with the second area by rewriting a mapping table 63 for converting a virtual address to a real address or a physical address. | A specific example will be described.The cache directory managing unit 36 instructs the packet generating unit 37a to transmit an order of instructing a CPU which caches data with a status M Modified to write back.Further the cache directory managing unit 36 updates a data status and executes processing matching the updated status.In addition a type of a request or an order transmitted and received by the cache directory managing unit 36 will be described below. |
13,061 | A method according to claim 1 wherein the time period includes the time delay period and the subsequent instruction causes the device not to initiate the uninterruptible process. | Figure 1 shows a timing diagram showing the transmission of physical channel change requests by the decoder following a plurality of channel change requests from the subscriber via his remote control according to a standard process of the prior art.When the subscriber presses the P or P key of his remote control the decoder immediately transmits a physical channel change request to the access network.If the subscriber presses n times successively on the keys P or P of his remote control in a very short time interval to rapidly attain a given channel n physical channel change requests are transmitted to the access network although only the last of them would suffice as it contains the IP address of the last requested channel.This massive transmission of physical channel change requests creates a useless overloading even saturation of the access network. |
14,812 | The ultrasound apparatus of claim 12 wherein the display unit displays in the 2D image mode the 2D ultrasound image corresponding to the location of the probe on a first region and a 3D ultrasound image on which a location corresponding to the 2D ultrasound image displayed on the first region is marked on a second region. | In this way calculation unit 62 in positional information analyzing unit 6 rotates 3dimensional ultrasonic image data 14 by the positional information in position Aabc and position Babc of ultrasonic probe 2 and computes the adjustment parameter for acquiring the same image as the 3dimensional ultrasonic image in position Aabc.And image processing calculation unit 72 in ultrasonic image construction unit 7 automatically acquires the 3dimensional ultrasonic image by reconstructing 3dimensional ultrasonic image data 14 using the abovementioned adjustment parameter. |
20,677 | The method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said predefined filter rule comprises one out of a group including time data and locationposition data. | The system could also be configured to automatically transfer information 48 from the ticket buffer 40 to the secure storage 38 based upon the time of day or occurrence of a predetermined event.The predetermined event could be the amount of time which the information 48 has been located in the ticket buffer 40 or when the user manipulates the keypad 24 to initiate a transfer.In an alternate embodiment any suitable type of method or system for transferring information between the secure storage 38 and the ticket buffer 40 could be provided.In one type of alternate embodiment transfer of the information 48 from the ticket buffer 40 to the secure storage 38 might not comprise use of the access control 42. |
18,140 | The apparatus according to claim 1 and wherein the processor is configured to indicate the estimated risk level to an operator of the medical procedure. | If any of inequalities 1 2 and 3 are invalid the flow chart returns to step 154. |
12,985 | The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein when there are a plurality of combinations of wireless communication paths in each of which a spatial distance between wireless communication paths is larger than a predetermined value said selection means selects a combination of wireless communication paths based on characteristic information of respective wireless communication paths. | Fig.3 shows such examples of channel transfer functions that are not flat.The channel transfer functions or channel amplitude responses H1f H2f and H3f correspond to the respective communication paths 10 11 12 of the embodiments shown in Figs.1 and 2. |
22,338 | Method according to claim 1 or 2 wherein to switch to the second subscription the token uses besides the identifier relating to the second subscription additional data relating to the second subscription the additional data comprising at least one element of a group comprisingat least one key for accessing the second mobile networkat least one second mobile network authentication algorithmat least one secret. | The token memory 144 stores within a second security domain 147 as second memory area the set of data relating to a third service subscription.The third service subscription data set includes for instance the third service subscription data subscription 3 and two associated third criterions criterion 3 and criterion 4. |
17,411 | A method for preparing organosilicon compound of any one of claims 1 to 6 or claim 8 comprising the step of reacting a mercapto compound having the general formula 9wherein A and B are as defined above f is 3 or 4 g is 0 or 1 fg is 4 f is 3 or 4 g is 0 or 1 fg is 4 with an isocyanatecontaining organosilicon compound having the general formula awherein D R R and m are as defined above. | According to preferred embodiment the thiocarbamatesilane is obtained from the reaction between 3triethoxysilylepropyl isocyanate and 2mercaptoethyl sulphide using dibutyltin dilaurate as a catalyst.The thiocarbamate synthesized by this reaction has the molecular structure |
18,634 | The server system according to claim 5 wherein the learning data is sent from each of a plurality of devices the plurality of devices being defined as the at least one device the devices being respectively installed in a plurality of vehicles the plurality of vehicles being defined as the vehicle the obtaining means obtains the learning data and a piece of environmental data sent from each of the devices the piece of environmental data being associated with at least one of an environment of a periphery of a corresponding one of the vehicles and an environment of a corresponding one of the vehicles itself the server system further comprises means for categorizing the pieces of the learning data sent from all the devices into a plurality of groups of learning data according to the pieces of the environmental data sent from the respective devices the performing means of the server system performing the learning process on at least the factor defining the predetermined process using the plurality of groups of learning data to generate pieces of the update data for the respective groups of learning data for updating at least the factor defining the predetermined process. | In step 550 an object in the vehicle environment is identified on the basis of the comparison between the extracted features and the reference features. |
16,018 | The electronic device of claim 11 wherein the meta data for theimage comprises at least one of an image capture time face recognition information an exposure value a flash availability focus information a resolution an image size and a capture mode. | Still another embodiment of the present invention is also an image display apparatus.The apparatus comprises a display of a list control unit configured to display on a display device a list of a plurality of thumbnails of the image data to which attribute information is added the image data being stored in a storage device a direction receiving unit configured to acquire a user selection for the image data and a display control unit configured to acquire from the storage device the predetermined number of sheets of image data including attribute information associated with the attribute information included in a selected image to arrange the predetermined number of sheets of image data within a virtual threedimensional space and to display on the display device a walkthrough video of the predetermined number of sheets of image data. |
16,758 | A baler having a net dispensing assembly 202 according to any of the claims 1 to 9. | The assembly 11 further includes a drum locking pin 51 and pin bracket 53 fixedly attached preferably by welding to the pivot plate 23.Pin 51 removably engages and holds in a fixed not rotatable position drum 21 and roll mount 23 via at least one aperture not shown in the external side of drum 21. |
16,376 | The method according to claim 12 wherein the Rogowski coil comprises an outer coil comprising a plurality of top conductive traces disposed between a top dielectric layer and a first dielectric intermediate layer of the printed circuit board a plurality of bottom conductive traces disposed between a bottom dielectric layer and a second dielectric intermediate layer of the printed circuit board wherein the outer conductive traces are disposed over the bottom and top dielectric layers and a plurality of inner and outer vias interconnecting the pluralities of top and bottom conductive traces. | The controller 24 includes a microprocessor 25 operably connected to a memory 26 which may be volatile type memory e.g.RAM andor nonvolatile type memory e.g.flash media disk media etc..The microprocessor 25 includes an output port that is operably connected to the HVPS 27 andor RF output stage 28 allowing the microprocessor 25 to control the output of the generator 20 according to either open andor closed control loop schemes.Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the microprocessor 25 may be substituted by any logic processor e.g.control circuit adapted to perform the calculations discussed herein. |
16,809 | A battery 10 comprising a container 1 having an opening a lid 2 provided on the opening of the container 1 a gasrelief vent 22 provided in the lid 2 an electrode group 3 housed in the container 1 comprising an edge face opposed to the lid 2 and comprising a plurality of current collecting tabs 31 32 extending from the edge face an intermediate lead 4 comprising a first leadjoint part 4b an electrodegroupjoint part 4a to which the plurality of current collecting tabs 31 32 are electrically connected and a leg part 4c connecting the first leadjoint part 4b and the electrodegroupjoint part 4a to each other and the first leadjoint part 4b and the electrodegroupjoint part 4a being located on planes different from each other and a terminal lead 5 comprising a lidjoint part 5a connected to the lid 2 and a second leadjoint part 5b extending from the lidjoint part 5a being opposed to the first leadjoint part 4b and electrically connected to the first leadjoint part 4b. | The electrode assembly 110 may be formed by winding or stacking a first electrode plate a separator and a second electrode plate which have a thin plate or film shape.For example the electrode assembly 110 may have a jelly rolltype wound shape.The first electrode plate may be a positive electrode plate and the second electrode plate may be a negative electrode plate.Alternatively the first electrode plate may be a negative electrode plate and the second electrode plate may be a positive electrode plate.The first electrode plate includes a first metal foil and a first active material.If the first electrode plate is a positive electrode plate the first metal foil may be an aluminum foil and the first active material may be a lithiumcontaining oxide.The second electrode plate includes a second metal foil and a second active material.If the second electrode plate is a negative electrode plate the second metalfoil may be a copper foil and the second active material may be graphite.However embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the abovedescribed materials.The separator may be formed of porous polyethylene PE polypropylene PP or an equivalent thereof.However the separator according to embodiments of the present invention is not limited to the above materials. |
20,403 | An outdoor unit of an air conditioner the outdoor unit comprising an outdoor unit main body 1 comprising a fan 4 and a discharge port 1b and a detection device 10 installed in the outdoor unit main body to detect snow that piles up on the outdoor unit main body wherein the detection device comprises an optical sensor 20 comprising a lightemitting unit 21 and a lightreceiving unit 22 a reflecting plate 30 disposed to be spaced from the optical sensor and configured to reflect optical signals radiated from the lightemitting unit and a snow cover detection area 40 disposed between the optical sensor and the reflecting plate. | Referring to FIG.3 the air conditioner 1 includes an indoor unit not shown an outdoor unit 200 including an outdoor fan 212 a sensor unit 300a mounted at an upper portion of the outdoor unit 200 to sense snow piled up on the outdoor unit 200 and a control unit 400 to determine piling up of snow based on an output of the sensor unit 300a and control an operation of the outdoor fan 212 based on the determined result.Referring to FIG.4 the air conditioner 1 may further include a heater 350 installed as an inner structure of a sensor case to supply heat to the surroundings of the sensor unit 300aand a communication unit 500 for communication between a user and the air conditioner 1. |
20,331 | The process as recited in claim 2 wherein removing the carrier 54 of the blocking material 50 is effectuated via a green run. | After curing the TBC coated article the article may be dried to remove that is evaporate or burn off the excess solvent dispersant andor resin materials.The article may be dried using any processes known to one of ordinary skill in the art suitable for use herein.Suitable drying processes include but are not limited to air drying drying under pressure drying under a heating element combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing processes and the like.The amount of time necessary to dry the article depends upon several factors and in particular the solvent of the suspension.For example the TBC coated article may be dried at a temperature of about 750F 399C to about 1600F 871C for about 10 minutes to about 90 minutes in order to burn off the resin materials. |
17,404 | The method of any of claims 1112 further comprising generating the analog pulse width modulated representation of the data during the time slot. | As previously mentioned when a transmitter 16 applies a voltage to the bus 18 it also sources current onto the communications bus 18.The sourced current from nodes 1 and 2 are shown in Figs.4D and 4E respectively.Accordingly node 1 will source current while it drives bus 18 while node 2 sources current for the portion over which it drives bus 18.With the inclusion of resistor 200 the current sourcing provided by transmitter 16 will not turn on and off instantaneously.Instead the current sourcing of node 1 turns off more gradually as shownby sloping current signal 220 in Fig.4D.Likewise the current sourcing provided by node 2 turns on with more of a gradual rising slope 222 as shown in Fig.4E. |
20,772 | The electronic device of any of claims 15 wherein the processor is further configured to check whether the specific audio data is stored at the memory in response to a play request on the specific audio data. | After completion of step 42 the music player 30 proceeds to step 43.In step 43 the music player 30 notes the notification from the server 10 to judge whether the file to be recorded in the flash memory 34 is available.If the file to be recorded is not available the music player 30 immediately terminates the process.If on the other hand the file to be recorded is available the music player 30 proceeds to step 44 and detects the free space of the flash memory 34.The musicplayer 30 further proceeds to step 45 and judges whether the free space is not smaller than the download size. |
22,708 | The secondary battery of any of the preceding claims wherein the first and second surfaces 1121 1122 of the current limiting plate 112 comprise insulating surfaces. | FIG.7C is a sectional view showing variable plates 13 14 and 15 according to still another embodiment of the present invention. |
15,488 | The information processing system according to claim 2 wherein when the two verification results among the verification results of the validity of the control data of the first system and the code data of the second system and the verification results of the validity of the control data of the first systemand the code data of the first system are valid the control unit determines that the control data of the first system is valid and transmits the control data of the first system to the control target apparatus. | Upon receiving the output from the multiple system processor 100 the controller 107 creates a signal or railroadswitch control instruction through decisionbymajority operation which will be described in detail later based on the received processing results.The controller then outputs the control instruction over a parallel line 122 via which the field units such as railroad switches or track circuits not shown in the figure are connected.That is the controller outputs information such as track circuit information.This configuration eliminates the need for the controller 107 to check if the multiple system processor 100 has issued a control instruction thus reducing the processing time.In addition this configuration requires fewer lines because the main processing unit 101 of the multiple system processor 100 collects the processing results of the processing units. |
16,480 | Method according to claim 1characterised in that it comprises establishing an RF communication between the first secure element and the second secure element so that the first secure element and the second secure element communicates securely. | In one embodiment a predetermined number of tokens may be provided automatically to the slave application in response to the notification.In another embodiment the transmission of valid tokens to the slave application has to be confirmedby the user of the communication unit 101 by a corresponding operation of the mobile communication device 110.Moreover one or more predefined conditions may have to be fulfilled in order that the master application provides a new token or set of tokens.These conditions may be preconfigured in the master application or they may again be specified by the user of the communication unit 101.According to one possible condition the master application may not provide a new valid token or a new set of valid tokens unless a predetermined time interval has elapsed since the preceding transmission of one or more valid tokens to the slave application.This is especially useful when the validity of tokens is limited to certain time period.In this case the time interval between two transmissions of valid tokens may correspond to the validity period of the tokens.The conditions may be checked by the master application.If the tokens are provided by the server 114 it is also possible that the server 114 checks whether the conditions are fulfilled when it receives the request for tokens sent by the master application. |
21,244 | Plant 10 according to any one of claims 1 to 11 characterized in that the separator 22 is constituted by a vertical centrifuge. | The aforementioned critical aspect of the traditional technology consists in the fact that the current permanence time of olive paste in the tank of a kneader comprised between 30 and 90 minutes is objectively excessive.Lamentably the long permanence of the olive paste inside the kneader extends the total duration of the entire oil extraction process. |
18,153 | A multisensor device comprising a semiconductorbased gas sensor according to any of claims 8 to 10. | 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. |
21,664 | The selflocking headreplaceable hard alloy drill bit according to claim 2 characterized in that the included angle between each of the second cutter head contact faces and the horizontal direction is 4590 the upper part of each second cutter head contact face is more distal to the vertical central line of the drilling body of the cutter head than the lower part and the included angle between each of the first lateral surfaces of the protrusions and the horizontal direction is 4590. | In accordance with the invention the diametrical line DL2 is somewhat longer than the diametrical line DL1.Because the length difference is utmost small some hundredths of a millimetre and not visible to the naked eye reference is nowmade to the series of pictures in Figs.1316 as well as to the enlarged schematic picture in Fig.19.In Fig.13 the loose top 2 is shown in an initial position P1 according to Fig.10.Fig.13 shows how the loose top in this position can be freely inserted axially into the jaw by the fact that the side contact surfaces thereof have no contact with the branches 15.In this position the convex guide surfaces 45 of the loose top are partially located between the concave guide surfaces 48 of the branches 15.In a first step the loose top is turned into the position P2 according to Fig.14 where the two opposite edges 40 get in contact with the inner support surfaces of the branches.After further turning the loose top 2 reaches the position P3 shown in Fig.15 where the diametrical lines DL1 and DL2 coincide.In this position the edges 40 have reached a dead or intermediate position in which the clamping force of the branches 15 is maximal.From this dead position P3 the loose top is turned further a short distance to reach its end position P4 according to Fig.16.In this position the edges 40 have passed the dead position P3 according to Fig.15 but without the spring force or tensile capacity of the branches 15 having been exhausted.In the end position P4 according to Fig.16 the side contact surfaces 23 abut against the inner support surfaces 17 at the same time as the torquetransferring tangential support surfaces 19 of the branches are pressed in close contact against the tangential contact surfaces 44 of the loose top. |
20,224 | The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the secondary cutting element includes a distal projection and a distally oriented cutting edge wherein the distal projection is oriented above the cutting edge. | As described above the cam 2322 can engage rails andor channels 2334 in the distal cavity 2332.Furthermore the rails andor channels 2334 can be arranged at an angle relative to the staple deck 2302 of the staple cartridge 2330.In variousembodiments the rails andor channels 2334 can be arranged at an angle such that the cam 2322 and the distal cutting blade 2324 move distally as the blade 2324 deploys from the distal cavity.In various circumstances arranging the rails at such an angle can reduce the amount of force required to actuate the firing member 2326 by aligning a component of the movement of the cam 2322 and the blade 2324 along a longitudinal axis along which the firing member 2326 moves.Arranging the rails at such an angle can also reduce the likelihood of binding between the cam 2322 and the firing member 2326 andor between the cam 2322 and the rails andor channels 2324 in the distal cavity 2332. |
18,196 | The aqueous inkjet ink set according to any one of claims 12 to 13 wherein the one or more aqueous inkjet inks include a humectant in an amount of 0.1 to 25 wt based on the total weight of the aqueous inkjet ink. | As shown in Table 3 in ink sets 4 to 17 in which the resin particles were contained in the ink and the compound represented by General Formula I was contained in the process liquid the image roughness was suppressed. |
21,490 | The method of claim 1 wherein the probabilistic channel model is an estimated channel impulse response comprising the one or more multipath gain estimates and the one or more multipath delay estimates. | The next section outlines the main principles behind the VBSAGE algorithm for estimating multipath wireless channels. |
19,324 | The electric power steering apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a circumferential side surface of the center arm portion is configured to protrude toward the engagement space side with respect to a circumferential side surface of the first cover arm portion and a circumferential side surface of the second cover arm portion. | As described above according to the shaft coupling mechanism 1 the intermediate interposed member 8 disposed between the rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 has the projecting portions 73 each of which is disposed between the respective ones of the projecting portions 33 and 53 of the rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 in the A direction and has the larger width D2 in the R direction than the width D1 of each of the projecting portions 33 and 53.Each projecting portion 73 of the intermediate interposed member 8 has a smaller rigidity than the rigidity of each of the projecting portions 33 and 53 of the rotation transmitting members 6 and 7.As a result the transmission of the rotation of the rotating shaft 2 in the R direction to the steering shaft 4 is effected through the elastic deformation of the projecting portions 73 of the intermediate interposed member 8.Therefore the transmission of very small rotationof the rotating shaft 2 in the R direction to the steering shaft 4 can be reduced or prevented by the elastic deformation of the projecting portions 73 of the intermediate interposed member 8 while the transmission to the steering shaft 4 of large relative rotation of the rotating shaft 2 in the R direction with respect to the steering shaft 4 can be effected as it is through the rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 having a greater rigidity than the projecting portions 73 of the intermediate interposed member 8.Moreover in the relative rotation of the rotating shaft 2 in the R direction by more than a fixed degree with respect to the steering shaft 4 the large elastic deformation of the projecting portions 73 of the intermediate interposed member 8 can be prevented by the rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 having a greater rigidity so that even if a flexible resin material having a small rigidity is used for the intermediate interposed member 8 the permanent deformation of the intermediate interposed member 8 due to creep can be reduced.Moreover since the pair of rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 are coupled to each other through the coupling means 9 the assembling efficiency can be improved and the mutual separation in the A direction between the pair of rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 due to the elastic deformation of the intermediate interposed member 8 can be eliminated thereby making it possible to suppress the expansion of the pair of rotation transmitting members 6 and 7 in the A direction to a fixed degree.Thus it is possible to reduce the transmission to the steering wheel of the impact at the time of the reversing of the electric motor and the brush vibration.Furthermore it is possible to eliminate backlash in the R direction between the rotating shaft 2 and the steering shaft 4.Hence the steering feel can be prevented from becoming uncomfortable and the shaft coupling mechanism can be made to excel in durability and can be provided with stable characteristics. |
20,679 | The method according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said informational data comprises one out of a group including validity information information about a purpose of usage and information about a position. | The system could also be configured to automatically transfer information 48 from the ticket buffer 40 to the secure storage 38 based upon the time of day or occurrence of a predetermined event.The predetermined event could be the amount of time which the information 48 has been located in the ticket buffer 40 or when the user manipulates the keypad 24 to initiate a transfer.In an alternate embodiment any suitable type of method or system for transferring information between the secure storage 38 and the ticket buffer 40 could be provided.In one type of alternate embodiment transfer of the information 48 from the ticket buffer 40 to the secure storage 38 might not comprise use of the access control 42. |
22,310 | The evaluation unit according to one of the claims 3 to 11 wherein the evaluation unit is operative to assign motion vectors to the pixels of the image frames according to a simplified model of a surrounding scene the simplified model comprising a horizontal ground surface a first region of vertical objects and a second region of vertical objects. | In the track detection the contour position of the track is specified in the input image illustrated in a of FIG.11.In order to specify the contour position of the track the input images for a predetermined time are compared and the area where the weak edges are temporarily and spatially continued in the vehicle traveling direction is detected.The process target area is divided into a plurality of small frames and the pixels which detect the edges two frames in a row are displayed by white as illustrated in b of FIG.11.A line in which the edges are continued in the Z axis direction on the world coordinate in this case the X axis is the vehicle width direction the Y axis is the vertical direction and the Z axis is the vehicle traveling direction is extracted and this line is set as the mask target area.The mask image obtained by this process is illustrated in c of FIG.11.The details of these processes will be described below. |
18,437 | The colorimetric gas sensing layer of any one of claims 1 through 6 wherein the sensing material includes the salt within a range of about 60 weight percent to about 20 weight percent based on a total weight of the sensing material. | The term measurement used herein should be most broadly interpreted so as to encompass any measurement which can provide any information concerning existence of a thiol groupcontaining compound including qualitative and quantitativemeasurements.When the measurement is performed according to the method of the present invention if a thiol groupcontaining compound is contained in a sample the compound interacts with the microparticles of a substance selected from the group consisting of a metal and a metal compound contained in the thin membrane and as a result a detectable color change arises on the thin membrane.The term interaction used herein includes various physicochemical andor chemical interactions which occur between a thiol groupcontaining compound and a colloid comprising a substance selected from the group consisting of a metal and a metal compound and the term should be most broadly construed so as to include for example formation of a complex or a salt adsorption chemical bonding and the like.Moreover the term also encompasses interaction between a substance produced by an enzymatic action e.g.a substrate after decomposition by the action of a protease and a substance selected form a metal and a metal compound. |
19,979 | A process of producing a water dispersion for inkjet printing as defined in any one of the claims 1 to 6 the process comprising the following steps I and II Step I dispersing a mixture containing a waterinsoluble polymer carbon black a having an acid group content of from 0 to 200 molg carbon black b having an acid group content of more than 200 molg but not more than 1000 molg an organic solvent and water in which a difference between acid group contents of the carbon blacks a and b is from 100 to 1000 molg to obtain a dispersion and Step II removing the organic solvent from the dispersion obtained in the step I to obtain a water dispersion. | Also ink using carbon black having a high specific surface area has a high viscosity giving rise to the problem that the ink has deteriorated jetting ability which does not lead to a large improvement in optical density. |
13,832 | The method according to claim 1 wherein first touch attributes and second touch attributes are utilized to identify a corresponding one of a plurality of single gestures. | In the figure the CPU 11 executes the processing of changing the entire screens in accordance with the rotation gesture but may change positions of other objects images such as windows and icons between the touch panels 2a and 2b. |
17,626 | A terminal for use in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations the terminal arranged to communicate with the network via at least two cells of a plurality of cells and to transmit a request for uplink resources wherein the terminal is arranged to select at least one cell from among said plurality of said cells for transmission of said request a resource for transmission of said request from among a plurality of resources provided by a cell and a characteristic of a signal used to transmit said request and to perform the selection in dependence on at least one of the reason for said request the characteristics of an uplink channel for transmission of said request and the preference of the network. | The UE sends the uplink signal including the identifier of the uplink serving node to the downlink serving node and in this case the downlink serving node learns the mapping relationship among the UE the uplink serving node and the downlink serving node.The UE sends the uplink signal including the identifier of the downlink serving node to the uplink serving node an in thiscase the uplink serving node learns the mapping relationship among the UE the uplink serving node and the downlink serving node. |
15,309 | The child carrier as claimed in claim 9 characterized in that said brake unit 6 is a stick having a pair of distal ends each of which extends through said base unit 4 and a corresponding one of said side walls 51 of said operable unit 5. | As shown in FIG.7 the brake mechanism 100 includes the linkage part 26 only shown partially in FIG.7 a second wheel base 102 and an active brake device 104.The active brake device 104 includes a first engaging part 106 and a driving part 108.The first engaging part 106 is used for engaging with the hub 48 of the second wheel set 18.The first engaging part 106 includes a sliding block 110 and an engaging rod 112.The second end P2 of the linkage part 26 is connected to the sliding block 110 after passing through the second wheel base 102.The engaging rod 112 passes through a pivot hole 110a of the sliding block 110 and is disposed through a slot hole 114 of the second wheel base 102 and a guide slot 116 of the driving part 108.The driving part 108 is pivotally connected to the second wheel base 102 by utilizing the pivot part 43 to pass through its pivot hole 108a and a pivot hole 102a of the second wheel base 102.The second wheel set 18 is pivotally connected to the second wheel base 102 by utilizing the shaft 19 to pass through a pivot hole 102b of the second wheel base 102. |
13,114 | The method according to claim 2 wherein the twodimensional graphical object is displayed if the distance of the physical object from the determined location of the navigation system exceeds a predetermined threshold. | Since distant buildings are displayed with simple shapes in the example 801 of display the scene around the car which the user wants to see are more clearly displayed. |
13,850 | A communication system comprising at least a first apparatus configured to perform a method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 a second apparatus configured to perform a method as claimed in claim 3 a first access network between the first and the second apparatus and a second access network provided by the first apparatus. | For example a dualmode radio user terminal may comprise a first radio interface compliant with a GPRS General Packet Radio Servicestandard and a second radio interface compliant with a WLAN Wireless Local Area Networkstandard.The GPRSnetwork is operated by a first operator and the WLANnetwork is operated by a second operator.In Europe the set of carriers in GSM Global System for Mobile Communication is composed of 200 kHzcarriers in the bands of 900 MHz and 1800 MHz.In UMTS Universal Mobile Telephone Service the set of carriers is composed by about 12 carriers of 5 MHz in the 1900 MHzband.A radio user terminal according to the present invention can be any type of mobile phone smart phone or computer in particular palm top PDA Personal Digital Assistant or lap top equipped with the appropriate hardware and software for accessing radio communication networks compliant with the various network standards. |
13,789 | Method for operating a driving unit 101 in a household appliance 100 according to any of the preceding claims wherein a driving speed in particular a compressor rotating speed is restricted to be below a predetermined vibration threshold value. | More specifically refrigerant compressing device 15 has a number of outwardlyprojecting supporting legs 15a and the distal end of each supporting leg 15a is connected to the bottom wall 2b of casing 2 via a respective vibration damper 17 structured for damping the mechanical vibration generated by refrigerant compressingdevice 15 when working. |
13,519 | The switching device 1 according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that it comprise at least one opening actuator 30 suitable for causing with its intervention the movement of said at least one movable contact 3 from the closed position to the open position said locking device 100 being operatively connected to said at least one opening actuator 30 to cause the intervention of the opening actuator 30 by means of at least one electrical signal S1 which is indicative of at least one of the under actuation condition and the operative configuration of the locking device 100. | Furthermore it will be noted that the manual opening of the device 100 associated with the reset module 200 is particularly advantageous since it can take place with a single manoeuvre i.e.by acting only on cover 225 without having to remove the same to gainaccess to the first lever 112 and in total safety since the cover is made of an insulating material and the drive lever 112 is not accessible. |
15,654 | The method of claim 7 wherein the uplink resource allocation information is transmitted with the negative acknowledgement NACK signal to the uplink data to theuser equipment when the uplink resource allocation information is transmitted through the downlink control channel. | The base station makes resolution of the contention generated between the first and second mobile stations through the aforementioned procedure when it received the signal according to the random access of the first random mobile IDfrom the second mobile station but did not receive the signal according to the random access of the first random mobile ID from the first mobile station. |
14,104 | The device as claimed in claim 9 wherein the raw video is stored in a memory of the electronic device. | Figure 2 provides a representation of an event log for a football match.In Figure 2 the event log is divided into two halves 20 22 to represent the two halves of the football match.In the first half 20 a lefthand column 24 identifies events which occurred during the match and a righthand column 26 shows a time at which those event codes were logged in the event log.Correspondingly in the second half 22 a lefthand column 27 illustrates the event codes which were logged and the righthand column 28 illustrates a time at which those event logs occurred. |
13,506 | The network device of claim 10 where the processor is further to select an LI session associated with an oldest initiation timestamp from the selected set of existing LI sessions as the particular LI session to terminate when there does not exist at least one LI session in an idle state in the selected set of existing LI sessions. | For example the interception priority of the interception target user A is designated to be a high priority and the interception priority of user B is designated to be a low priority. |
19,175 | The time division or frequency division multiplexing radio system of claim 25 wherein the closed loop transfer function obeys the filter prototype of a Gaussian filter a Butterworth filter a Chebyshev filter or any other all pole filter prototype. | The order of the numerator of Hos is equal to the order of the numerator of Fs while the order of the denominator of Hos is one higher than that of Fs.The denominator of Hos reveals the order and type of the PLL system.The number of ideal integrators ni1 sets the type and the number of additional poles sets the order ni1np.The simplest PLL system is a 2nd order type I ni0 np1 nd0 nz0.More popular systems have additional poles and integrators. |
15,902 | A vehicle testing method for detecting vehicle tampering said method comprising operatively connecting a vehicle testing system with a vehicle computer whereby said vehicle testing system is able to evaluate signals within the vehicle computer said vehicle testing system including a tamper testing sequence wherein said vehicle testing method comprises performing said tamper testing sequence comprising applying a test action to the vehicle said test action intended to generate a signal in the vehicle computer responsive to said test action monitoring the signal of the vehicle computer associated with said test action and determining whether the signal of the vehicle computer associated with said test action responds to said test action consistent with a nontampered vehicle wherein a determination that the signal of the vehicle computer associated with said test action responds inconsistently indicates that tampering has occurred. | Here it is assumed that the vehicle has stopped at the fixed position as shown in FIG.4 and that the automatic charging apparatus 10 functions properly.In this case the result of the judgment in step 705 becomes Yes and the CPU 21a proceeds to step 710 so as to transmit a policing code to the automatic charging apparatus 10.By means of processing in subsequent steps 715 and 720 the CPU 21a judges whether a response signal has been received from the automatic charging apparatus 10 within a 5 second period subsequent to transmission of the policing code. |
15,025 | A near flow path seal 100 for a gas turbine comprising a base 130 a pair of arms 110 120 extending from the base 130 and a curved indentation 160 positioned between the pair of arms 110 120. | In the exemplary embodiment of the adjacent first and second rotor disks 72 74 illustrated herein the forward and aft spacer arms 39 37 are integrally formed as one piece with the adjacent disks and bolted together with bolted connections 100 to form a low pressure turbine disk assembly 50 of the low pressure turbine LPT 26 as more particularly illustrated in FIGS.2 and 4.The forward and aft spacer arms 39 37 extend axially forwardly and aftwardly respectively away from the disk rims 46.Annular forward and aft flanges 58 59 are located at distal ends 61 of the forward and aft spacer arms 39 37.Adjacent forward and aft spacer arms 39 37 are bolted together with the bolted connections 100 having bolts 101 through arm flange apertures 103 in the forward and aft flanges 58 59 as more particularly illustrated in FIG.3. |
16,697 | The robotic work tool system 200 according to claim 3 wherein the robotic work tool 100 is configured to mechanically regulate a desired grass height bylowering or raising the cutting blade 160 and the cutting load threshold levels are fixed. | The number of operations i.e.lawn mowing sessions during a given period of time depends on factors including the mowing capacity of the robotic lawnmower 100 i.e.the area to be covered for a particular period of operation the lawn area and the type of grass including factors such as speed in which the grass grows and the frequency which it needs to be cut.It is desirable to program the robot to operate for only the minimum number of times that will maintain the lawn at the desired cut level.Previously the schedule programming process required a relatively large number of input operations from the user including inputting data such as the exact date and time of the week the robot should engage in the mowing process.Also a user was previously required to change the scheduling program during an initial period of operation until an optimum operation schedule was determined The presently disclosed method for robot scheduling automatically determines the required scheduling data by employing at least one of the methods described below. |