The method involves estimating energy supply and energy demand in a preset future time period, based on time, date, weather and pre-stored data. Available renewable energy is supplied to a part of energy consumers, based on previously stored data representing time-planned energy-consuming operations of the energy consumers. The energy consumers are selected based on a preset criteria. Renewable en...

The method involves estimating energy supply and energy demand in a preset future time period, based on time, date, weather and pre-stored data. Available renewable energy is supplied to a part of energy consumers, based on previously stored data representing time-planned energy-consuming operations of the energy consumers. The energy consumers are selected based on a preset criteria. Renewable en...

According to the present invention, when a target braking/driving force and a vehicle target yaw moment required to a vehicle cannot be achieved through a control of a braking/driving forces of wheels, in a rectangular coordinate of the braking/driving force and the yaw moment, a polygon indicating the maximum range of the braking/driving force and the yaw moment attainable by the braking/driving ...

Methods of encoding a signal using a perceptual model are described in which a signal to mask ratio parameter within the perceptual model is tuned. The signal to mask ratio parameter is tuned based on a function of the bitrate of the pad of the signal which has already been encoded and the target bitrate for the encoding process. The tuned signal to mask ratio parameter is used to compute a maskin...

A shredder includes a housing, a shredder mechanism including a motor and cutter elements, a capacitive sensor, and a controller. The capacitive sensor is configured to detect the capacitance of an entity attempting to operate the shredder and thereby detect an appropriate indication of the relative size of the entity because relative size can be an effective indicator of age of the entity. The co...

The device has an LED (101) emitting light rays towards a diffusion module having an input zone (110) provided with an optical system to receive and collimate the rays. A central zone (120) is provided with another system (121). An output zone (130) is provided with a third system to receive and ensure diffusion, where the module is formed of a monoblock piece in a transparent material and the sys...

A vehicle motion control device and method computes a size of a using friction circle in each of wheels by multiplying a size of an each wheel friction circle indicating a maximum generating force in each of the wheel tires by a previously computed each wheel using percentage, computes the each wheel tire generating force and the each wheel using percentage indicating a rate with respect to an upp...

A carrier matrix may be delivered to a target position within a patient in a minimally invasive manner by first cutting a collagen sponge sheet into a plurality of relatively small pieces. These pieces are sized so that, when wet, they are capable of flowing through a cannula and/or reduced-diameter syringe tip. The pieces are placed into a syringe and wetted, say with a morphogenic solution, and ...

A fuel economy improvement assist device (1) has: accelerator operation amount detection means (12); and display control means (15a) for displaying, on a display device (20), a target value corresponding to a target accelerator operation amount and a deviation value of the detected accelerator operation amount from the target accelerator operation amount (14a). The display control means (15a) calc...

The present invention relates to a magnetic field generation device comprising a magnetic field generating element (101) and a limiter (103) for limiting a magnitude of a current through the magnetic field generating element (101).

A power storage device has a stack including positive electrodes and negative electrodes that are stacked on top of each other with electrolytes interposed in-between. A positioning member is inserted into a positioning hole that is formed in the stack so as to penetrate the stack in the stacking direction. A terminal portion is formed at an end of the positioning member in the inserting direction...

A roll paper supply mechanism always suitably stores roll paper without being affected by variations in the roll paper supply mechanism (10) or the paper width of the roll paper. When the first side wall (41) in the roll paper supply mechanism (10) of the printer is moved in the storage width direction to adjust the paper storage width of the roll paper compartment (11), the paper urging member (4...

An electrically-variable transmission (114) is provided with first and second motor/generators (180,182) and three planetary gear assemblies (120,130,140). At least one of the planetary gear assemblies (120,130,140) is a planetary gear assembly having multiple planetary gear sets. As a result, the gears for the planetary gear assembly can be represented on multiple radial planes. Each of the plane...

In an electronic control unit including a master integrated ECU (111) and a slave VSA ECU (112), the VSA ECU is provided with a request restriction unit (1122) which receives a request of the integrated ECU. The request restriction unit prohibits the use of the request and prioritizes the control of the VSA ECU when a direction of vehicle behavior controlled by the request of the integrated ECU an...

In the conventional alumina sintered bodies, a sintered body having high flexural strength, high toughness and high translucency in combination is not obtained, and a translucent alumina sintered body suitable for a dental material requiring both strength and sensuousness was not obtained. A translucent alumina sintered body having fracture toughness of 4.5 MPa·m 0.5 or more, flexural strength of...

Disclosed are articles comprising polyglutaraldehyde nanoparticulates modified substrates for use, for example, in binding biomolecules, and methods of making and using the modified substrates.

In an optical device, a number of structures having higher portions or lower portions are arranged at a fine pitch equal to or shorter than a wavelength of visible light on a surface of a base. Each of the structures is arranged to form a plurality of arc track rows on the surface of the base, and to form a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern, and the structure has an elliptical cone or truncated elli...

An electrode assembly (10) and a secondary battery having the same are provided. More particularly, an electrode assembly (10) which can improve efficiency and stability of a battery, and a secondary battery having the same are provided. The electrode assembly (10) includes: a positive electrode plate (20) having a positive electrode collector (21), and a positive electrode coated portion (22) and...

A method for backing up and recovering a license to solve the problem in the prior art that an original license is sent to a user when the license is recovered by a server which results in a right extension includes: backing up the license information of the first device in the server, and associating the license information of the first device with a user identifier, and the license information i...