A flow meter monitoring system (100) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The flow meter monitoring system (100) includes a communication interface (101) configured to communicate with one or more flow meters and receive meter calibration values for a flow meter of the one or more flow meters. The flow meter monitoring system (100) further includes a processing system (102) in ...

The present invention relates to the use of isomaltulose as a taste-decreasing (e.g., aftertaste-reducing) agent, and to sweetener mixtures in which isomaltulose decreases the duration of taste by, for example, reducing the duration of aftertaste.

A secure memory card with encryption capabilities comprises various life cycle states that allow for testing of the hardware and software of the card in certain of the states. The testing mechanisms are disabled in certain other of the states thus closing potential back doors to secure data and cryptographic keys. Controlled availability and generation of the keys required for encryption and decry...

Methods, processes and materials for the production and recovery of Tiacumicins produced by culturing a microorganism belonging to the species Dactylosporangium aurantiacum subspecies hamdenensis having the ability to produce and accumulate one or more Tiacumicin in a nutrient medium comprising a carbon source, a nitrogen source, trace elements such as inorganic salts, and an adsorbent, wherein sa...

A number of compact, high-efficiency thermoelectric system utilizing the advantages of thermal isolation in the direction of a working medium flow or movement, in manufacturable systems, are described. Such configurations exhibit high system efficiency and power density. Several different embodiments and applications are disclosed utilizing a plurality of thermoelectric modules or thermoelectric e...

The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixed-composition comprising one or more cellulose derivatives and one or more liquid crystal compounds (preferably low-molecular liquid crystal compound) which can be oriented in a specific direction differing from that of the cellulose derivative, wherein the ratio by weight of the both is preferably in a range from 1 : 9 to 9: 1, a retardation film prod...

A solid-state pixel structure or pixel array includes integrated exposure control provided within the pixel structure and/or pixel array. Including exposure control within the pixel structure and/or array allows optimal exposure to be achieved in real time. Optimal exposure is achieved by measuring the response of pixel structures to received electromagnetic radiation, and using the response infor...

A dental x-ray system comprising: - a first substantially vertical column; - a second substantially vertical column supporting a dental x-ray device, the second column being movable with respect to the first column; - a motor connected to the second column, the motor having a threaded shaft extending toward the first column; - a threaded sleeve in threaded engagement with the shaft, the thread...

The counter-movement or butterfly windscreen wiper installation contains several independently driven motors (22,24) coupled to wiper arms (18) retaining wiper blades (14,16). The motors are controlled by a control unit (26), coupled to sensors (28,32,30,34) determining the angular position of blades. The wiping angle (alpha 1,2) of blades lie within different angle zones. Absolute (30) and relati...

The present invention provides a base station comprising a first antenna (15) for transmitting a first communication burst and a second antenna (16) for transmitting a second communication burst, first means (8) for spreading provided data by using a first channelization code producing first spread data and second means (9) for spreading the same provided data by using a second channelization code...

In a wireless digital communication system employing code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, a method in which adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) is utilized in order to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provide increased data rates for user services in which the base station measures up link interference on all time slots received from mobile terminals (UEs) and determin...

The invention provides a power-line carrier communication apparatus including a transmission unit with a signal point mapping device for mapping a plurality of bit streams produced from transmission data, a wavelet inverse transforming device for modulating the respective sub-carriers by wavelet waveforms which are orthogonal to each other for producing temporal waveform series data, and a D/A...

The present invention relates to a bandpass filter having a passband passband width appropriate as a bandpass filter for UWB, a high frequency module using the bandpass filter, and a radio communication device using the bandpass filter and the high frequency module. There is provided a bandpass filter including a laminate composed of a plurality of dielectric layers 11; first and second ground ele...

An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two transmissions of the same content from two base stations can mitigate the problem of duplicated frames. The user of the subscriber statio...

[PROBLEMS] In a system for converting a low resolution image to a high resolution image, it is difficult to carry out processing to generate a high resolution image for each frame in real time using temporally continuous frame images. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] An image processing system includes a conversion parameter calculation unit 101, an initial image generation unit 102, a high resolu...

A solder ball is loaded on a bump having a small height (FIG. 5(B)) and the height of the bump is intensified by melting the solder ball by heating with laser (FIG. 5(C)). Thus, the heights of the bumps are adjusted within a requested allowable range. Because the bump is not removed by heating when the height of the low bump is intensified, the printed wiring board is not subjected to local heat h...

This disclosure is directed to techniques for selection of wireless network interfaces for data communication within an access terminal. The techniques may rely on a set of interface selection rules to identify network interfaces that are eligible to serve a particular communication application or the type of traffic forwarded on behalf of another device. In addition, each network interface may be...