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20080260225 | Infrared Multi-Spectral Camera and Process of Using Infrared Multi-Spectral Camera - A process of performing a medical test includes taking multi-spectral images of an area of interest of a patient. The patient can be a human being or an animal, and can be known to be healthy or known to have health issues or problems. A multi-spectral camera includes a long-infrared charge-coupled device, a mid-infrared detector array, and a control device that synchronizes operation of the charge-coupled device and the detector array. The mid-infrared detector array can include carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes can be detector elements. For example, the carbon nanotubes can be tuned-bandgap carbon nanotubes. Each pixel of resolution of the detector array can include a balanced Wheatstone bridge circuit including one of the tuned-bandgap carbon nanotubes. Adjacent pixels of the detector array can be arranged for orthogonal polarization. | 10-23-2008 |
20100274493 | Nowcast of Natural Resource and Calamity Warning - A method of forecasting naturally-occurring phenomena, such as seismic activity, includes taking localized measurements of the Earth's gravitational force change using MEM inertial motion units. Trends in the measurements are interpreted and related to a phenomenon of interest, a likelihood of occurrence is predicted based on the relationship, and the likelihood is reported to interested parties, preferably automatically to emergency bulletin sources. Measurements can be taken from above the Earth's atmosphere. The trends can be interpreted by determining blind source separation information directed to the region underneath the Earth's mantle crust to determine composition and/or movement. | 10-28-2010 |
20120249302 | Smart Hybrid Card System Providing Authenticity, Privacy, and Security (APS) - An RFID system includes a number of RFID tags and an RFID reader. Each RFID tag includes a respective portion of a target data object. The RFID reader is adapted to read each portion of the target data object from the respective RFID tags. A method of providing an identification function includes using an RFID reader to read one portion of a target data object stored on an RFID tag, from among a number of portions of the target data object stored on a respective number of RFID tags. | 10-04-2012 |
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20110283119 | System and Method for Providing Energy Efficient Cloud Computing - In one aspect, a cloud cube for providing energy efficient cloud computing is disclosed, which includes: an internal DC bus for transferring energy, clusters of computing servers coupled to the internal DC bus for performing cloud computing, at least one NAS storage coupled to the internal DC bus, at least one energy storage coupled to the internal DC bus, a plurality of energy sources coupled to the internal DC bus, and at least one energy manager coupled to the internal DC bus for performing energy management or energy routing. | 11-17-2011 |
20130082525 | Shared Power System with Multiple Inputs - A shared power system includes a power router; a plurality of power input devices respectively connected to the power router; a first diode coupled between the power router and an output; a second diode coupled between a DC grid and the output; wherein the power router can provide power to the output by conducting the first diode when voltage of the power router is higher than the DC grid, and the DC grid can provide power to the output by conducting the second diode when voltage of the DC grid is higher than the power router. The power router can further determine the energy ratio between each power input device to achiever the energy-sharing. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088084 | Networklized DC Power System - A networklized DC power system includes: a micro DC grid, and a plurality of energy routers connected to the micro DC grid. Each of energy routers includes a controlling module for controlling the energy router. A DC receiving port is coupled for receiving DC power from at least one DC power generating system. An AC receiving port is provided for receiving AC power from an AC power supplying system. A battery charging/discharging port is connected to a battery system for charging or discharging the battery system. A DC outputting port is provided for applying DC voltage to a load. A network interface port is coupled to the micro DC grid, and for receiving the power from the micro DC grid or for transferring power to the other energy routers of the micro DC grid. | 04-11-2013 |
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20120164887 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH A COVER TRANSITIONALLY ASSEMBLED ON AN INCLINED SLIDING SLOT - An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mounting face, a pair of pivotal grooves on opposite sides of a rear end of the housing and a pair of locking recesses in front of the pivotal grooves respectively; a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing and a metal shell defining a pair of pivotal posts assembled in the pivotal grooves and a pair locking tabs to couple with the pair of locking recesses in a condition that the metal shell rotates to cover on the insulating housing and move forwards. The pair of pivotal posts therebetween defines an axis paralleling to the mounting face and the axis of the pair of pivotal posts is closer gradually to the mounting face during forward movement of the metal shell. | 06-28-2012 |
20130078845 | CONNECTOR FOR FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT - An electrical connector for connecting a flat circuit includes an insulating housing defining an insertion slot for receiving the flat circuit, a plurality of terminals arranged in the housing in parallel relationship, a shielding shell surrounding the insulating housing and an actuator. The terminals have contacting projections extending into the insertion slot. The shell provides a plurality of spaced spring fingers extending into the inserting slot and establishes a receiving path between the contacting projections and the pivot beams. The actuator is mounted on the electrical connector for movement between an open position lifting up the spring fingers of the shielding shell and allowing insertion of the flat circuit into the inserting slot and a closed position allowing the pivot beam restore and pressing against the flat circuit toward the contacting projections. | 03-28-2013 |
20130252450 | BURN-IN SOCKET - A burn-in socket for an IC package includes a base loaded with several terminals, a sliding plate, an actuator and a pair of locking elements. The sliding plate is assembled on the base and defines an upper surface. The actuator is mounted on the base and defines a receiving opening facing the upper surface. The locking elements is assembled on the actuator under a condition that the locking elements rotate inwards to press against the IC package and outwards to release the IC package when the actuator is push downwards in a vertical direction. Each locking element includes a rotating element and a pressing element. The rotating elements rotate in relative to the actuator and the pressing element rotates in relative to the rotating element. The pressing element defines a sliding slot and the rotating element defines a sliding post slidably receiving in the sliding slot. | 09-26-2013 |
20140273652 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVED CONTACTING PORTIONS - A plug connector includes a housing with a rear base and a front mating tongue in a mating direction and a plurality of terminals arranged in the housing in a lateral direction. The front mating tongue defines a first face and a second face. The first side defines a rib thereby the first face being divided to a first mating face, a third mating face and a second mating face on the rib. The second face is defined as a fourth mating face. The terminals include plate portions exposed upon the mating tongue and mounting legs outside the housing. The terminals are divided to four groups, the plate portions of the four groups are exposed upon the mating faces respectively. Each of the first and second groups of terminals includes grounding terminals and differential signal pairs, the plate portions of the differential signal pairs have a length equal to 3.2 mm. | 09-18-2014 |
20140335729 | DUAL ORIENTATION CONNECTOR AND ASSEMBLY OF THE SAME - An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly in a front-to-rear direction from the base, the mating tongue defining a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. A plurality of contact strips are disposed around the outer surface of the mating tongue of the insulative housing, each contact strip is stamped a metal sheet and defines a first contacting section exposed upon the first surface and arranged along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-rear direction, and a second contacting section exposed upon the second surface and arranged along the transverse direction. The first and second contacting sections of each contact strip extend along the front-to-rear direction and rearwardly extending into the base of the insulative housing. | 11-13-2014 |
20150072562 | FLIPPABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches. | 03-12-2015 |
20150155661 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING WATERPROOF FUNCTION - An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals installed in the insulating housing and a metallic shell shielding around the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a mating portion extending forwardly thereof. The metallic shell surrounds to form a mating cavity into which the mating portion extending and a joint communicating with the mating cavity. The conductive terminals are exposed to one face of the mating portion. The joint is filled with soldering material to form a soldering segment. The electrical connector has good waterproof function with the soldering segment in the joint. | 06-04-2015 |
20150207280 | FLIPPABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating. | 07-23-2015 |
20150222059 | FLIPPABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating. | 08-06-2015 |
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20120303174 | Green Data Center and the Method for Achieving Power Usage Efficiency less than 1 - A green data center is provided, which comprises: a utility power source for providing utility power; a facility electrically connected to the utility power source; a renewable energy provider electrically connected to the facility for providing renewable energy; an IT equipment electrically connected to the renewable energy provider; wherein the total power received by the IT equipment is not less to the utility power provided by the utility power source, so that the PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) can be less than one, thereby achieving the effect of carbon-reducing and energy-saving. | 11-29-2012 |
20140054968 | DUAL-INPUT POWER SUPPLY - The present invention provides an improved dual-input power supply including a dual-input terminal, an input source selection controller, a load adjustment switch circuit, a power conversion circuit, an automatic switch circuit for power interruption, and an output terminal. The input source selection controller is adapted to select a mode for power inputting comprising AC power source in priority mode, DC power source in priority mode, and dual-power source supply (AC and DC power sources simultaneously supplying) mode. Therefore the present invention allows users to select flexibly power source input mode and maintains uninterruptible power supply by switching automatically the power source input mode upon accident power failure. | 02-27-2014 |
20140191579 | Power System for Data Center - A power system for data center, which comprises: a critical electrical equipment, an alternating current (AC) transformer, an AC power distribution unit (PDU), a rectifier transformer, and a DC PDU. The critical electrical equipment is disposed in the data center. The AC transformer is utilized to receive a first high AC electrical power from a first power utility and transform it to a low AC electrical power, and the AC PDU receives the low AC electrical power and applies the low AC electrical power to the critical electrical equipment of the data center. Further, the rectifier transformer is utilized to receive a second high AC electrical power from a second power utility and transform and rectify it to a low direct current (DC) electrical power, and a DC PDU receives the low DC electrical power and applies the low DC electrical power to the critical electrical equipment. | 07-10-2014 |
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20090251314 | Back-end host server unit for remote ecological environment monitoring system - A back-end host server unit for remote ecological environment monitoring system is designed to provide a back-end host server function for a front-end gateway unit and sensor network, such as WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) installed at a remote site such as farmland. This back-end host server unit is characterized by the capability of using a public wireless communication system, such as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), for receiving ecological data from the front-end gateway unit and WSN system, and the capability of compiling received ecological data into webpages for posting on a website that allows the research/management personnel to browse the ecological data via a network system such as the Internet. This feature allows the research/management personnel at the local site to conveniently gather ecological data and learn the ecological conditions of the remote site. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252032 | Wireless sensor network gateway unit with failed link auto-redirecting capability - A wireless sensor network gateway unit is proposed, which is designed for integration to a wireless sensor network (WSN) for providing a gateway function with a failed link auto-redirecting capability for the wireless sensor network. The proposed WSN gateway unit is characterized by the provision of an failed link auto-redirecting capability, which can respond to the failure of any sensor node in the WSN system by performing a failed link auto-redirecting operation for redirecting the down-linked good sensor nodes for linking to a nearby good sensor node to thereby allow the down-linked good sensor nodes to be nevertheless able to transfer data to the WSN gateway unit of the invention. This feature allows the WSN gateway unit of the invention to maintain good operational reliability for the WSN system. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252086 | FRONT-END GATEWAY UNIT FOR REMOTE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM - A front-end gateway unit is designed for integration to a remote ecological environment monitoring system that is equipped with a wireless sensor network (WSN) system installed at a remote site, such as a farmland or a garden, for the purpose of allowing the WSN system to exchange data with a back-end host server via a wireless communication system. The front-end gateway unit is characterized by the capability of using either the WSN system or a built-in sensing module for collecting ecological data, and the capability of combining geographical location data in the ecological data. This feature allows the collection of a comprehensive set of ecological data (including geographical location, temperature, humidity, sunlight data, wind speed, and pest number) for transfer to the back-end host server, such that research/management personnel at the local site can conveniently browse these ecological data and learn the ecological conditions of the remotely monitored area. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252087 | Wireless-linked remote ecological environment monitoring system - A wireless-linked remote ecological environment monitoring system is proposed, which is characterized by the use of a sensor network such as WSN (wireless sensor network) installed at the remote site for collecting ecological data, and the use of a public wireless communication system such as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) for transferring all the collected ecological data to a back-end host server unit where the ecological data are compiled into webpages for posting on a website. This feature allows the research/management personnel to browse the ecological data simply by linking a network workstation via a network system such as the Internet to the website, without having to travel to the remote site and collect ecological data by human labor. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252284 | MULTI-CHECKPOINT TYPE CLUSTERED ANIMAL COUNTING DEVICE - A multi-checkpoint type clustered animal counting device is proposed, which is capable of providing a counting function that can be used for statistically determining the number of animals (such as fruit flies) within a region such as farmland or garden. The proposed animal counting device is characterized by the utilized to at least two object sensors, wherein the first object sensor is disposed at a first checkpoint while the second object sensor is disposed at a second checkpoint, and wherein the first object sensor is initially set to power-on state while the second object sensor is initially set to power-off state and can be switched on only when the first object sensor is triggered. When the second object sensor is triggered, the counting operation will increase the output count number by one. This feature allows a more accurate result and can help save power consumption. | 10-08-2009 |