The invention discloses a light-emitting diode illuminating equipment, including a heat-dissipating plate device, a plurality of heat-conducting devices, a plurality of diode light-emitting apparatuses, a plurality of optical devices, and a hollow barrel. The hollow barrel is engaged to the heat-dissipating plate device to form a space for accommodating the heat-conducting devices, the diode light...

A virtual card system provides a card game which is presented in a three-dimensional representation on monitor screens. The system allows human players to play the card game through the monitor screens. The monitor screen may be touch screens which allow the human players to input commands directly. The card game displayed on the touch screen is adapted for graphical manipulation in response to co...

An elevator control system (24) provides elevator dispatch and door control based on passenger data received from a video monitoring system. The video monitoring system includes a video processor (16) connected to receive video input from at least one video camera (12). The video processor (16) tracks objects located within the field of view of the video camera, and calculates passenger data param...

An elevator load bearing assembly (30) includes a jacket (34) having different portions comprising different polymer compositions. In a disclosed example, a plurality of tension members (32) are at least partially surrounded by a first portion (36) comprising a first polymer composition. A second portion (38) establishes at least one exterior surface (40) of the jacket (34) and comprises a second ...

Estimation of a 3D layout of roads and paths traveled by pedestrians is achieved by observing the pedestrians and estimating road parameters from the pedestrian's size and position in a sequence of video frames. The system includes a foreground object detection unit to analyze video frames of a 3D scene and detect objects and object positions in video frames, an object scale prediction unit to est...

A vane machine comprises an inner rotor (28) and an outer rotor (51). A plurality of radially extending vane elements (32) separates first vane chambers (89) from one another. The van elements (32), with a radially inner end region (34), are accommodated in the inner rotor (28) in a radially displaceable manner and, with a radially outer end region (36), are accommodated in the outer rotor (51) in...

A method for predicting and preventing occurrence of shrinkage cavity in an iron casting of any of various shapes or in each part of an iron casting precisely prior to casting. The shape of an iron casting is approximated entirely or partially to a rectangular parallelepiped or a cube, to the sum of the two long sides is divided by the short side to determine a shape coefficient, and occurrence of...

Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such that although the channels can be identical, they are disjointed in time. Accordingly, such channels and/or dynamically generated paging...

A telecommunications system includes an infosphere having a mobile telephone. A first telecommunications device may request to be added to the infosphere by sending a request to a registry server. In response to the request, the registry server adds the first telecommunications device to the infosphere by creating a network address for the first telecommunications device, the network address being...

The transition between a rectangular wave guide and a microurban line uses a ribbed waveguide (G) formed in a plastic foam bar with the metallised base (8) under the rib extends under the form of a foam panel forming a substrate for the microurban line. The rib has abase extending between the upper plane of the guide and the upper plane of the substrate. The line is positioned on the upper plane ...

The appliance comprises an IC card reader (3) for an operation with an IC card and a power supply (4) for providing a supply voltage (VCC), in particular for the IC card. The appliance comprises further an overload protection circuit (6), which simulates an IC card extraction in case of an overload of the supply voltage. The power supply (4) is then immediately switched off to avoid any damage for...

There is provided an exhaust purifying system for an internal combustion engine which can achieve a function of a catalyst without deteriorating a function of ozone at the time of oxidizing and removing PM by using the ozone. The exhaust purifying system for the internal combustion engine comprises a wall-flow type particulate filter (30) for collecting particulate matter in an exhaust gas inside ...

A method and device for recovering electrical energy in a motor vehicle driven by at least one electric motor. A fuel cell powers the electric motor, which is supplied with fuel by a reformer, the fuel flow being controlled according to power consumption of the electric motor, and which temporarily produces an excess of fuel when the consumption of the electric motor falls. Moreover, the device in...

The invention relates to a light-emitting apparatus. The light-emitting apparatus includes a heat-conducting/dissipating module and at least one semiconductor light-emitting module. The heat-conducting/dissipating module includes a substantially cylindrical heat-conducting device having at least one flat portion and at least one heat-dissipating fin mounted on the circumference of the heat-conduct...

The present invention relates to a process for carrying out gas-liquid countercurrent processing comprising passing the liquid material and the gas reactant in countercurrent flow through the fixed bed of catalyst in a reactor, characterized in that the fixed bed of catalyst includes two or more catalyst layers, with the difference of voidage between the adjacent catalyst layers being at least 0.0...

Non-coherent UV-treated porous halopolymer membranes are disclosed.

To provide an accessory drive system which is capable of achieving downsizing of the system, reduction of manufacturing costs thereof, and enhancement of its marketability. An accessory drive system 1 is comprised of a stator 6, a first rotor 5, and a second rotor 7, which include a plurality of armatures 6a, permanent magnets 5a, and first and second cores 7a and 7b, all of which are arranged in ...

An analog/digital gain control device avoids some of the requirements associated with the nature of a closed-loop AGC circuit and which meets the remaining requirements without much difficulty uses an analog to digital conversion method that increases the number of effective ADC bits by compressing the baseband input analog signal using a logarithmic circuit. After the compressed analog signal is ...

An MPEG processor is provided. According to one aspect of the processor, multiple MPEG data streams for corresponding channels are individually stored in an off-chip memory. Corresponding data for a channel is then retrieved from the off-chip memory for processing. The retrieved data is then decoded. The decoded results and associated information are stored on the off-chip memory. Some or all of t...

A method and system for the UE and RNC to reduce transmission latency and potentially prevent loss of PDUs upon a MAC layer reset. UE generation of the status PDU is coupled with the MAC layer reset. The RNC generates a message with a MAC reset indication. Following the MAC layer reset all PDUs stored in the UE MAC layer reordering buffers are flushed to RLC entities and then processed by RLC enti...