Abstract: A method for optimizing drilling fluids by creating a proper particle size analysis and distribution curve of particle sizing within drilling fluid. The particle size distribution curve is maintained with a maximum particle sizing of 6 microns so as to not allow for coarser drilled solids to degrade beyond the point of mechanical separation to prevent a build-up of low gravity solids that can no longer be removed from the drilling fluid during the drilling operation due to their size. An optimal drilling system requires that drilling fluids be modified through the following process to attain the appropriate particle sizing distribution to: make the most efficient use of the drilling operation, reduce the amount to drilling fluids utilized, and reduce formation damage. The method generates corrective actions to modify the drilling fluids or adjust solids control equipment parameters, to obtain a unique particle size distribution throughout the drilling process.

Abstract: A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width and accessible number of general purpose registers.

Abstract: Including either a platen or a flat bed, and a printer head; the printing device is configured in such a way as to print by making a combination of a reciprocating motion of the printer head and an operation of discharging ink toward a white medium. Meanwhile, the printer head includes a plurality of heads individually corresponding to each color. The printing device includes a control unit for setting a test pattern for testing each color, and pattern print areas where the test pattern is printed. The control unit makes a setting in such a way that, for the pattern print area where a test pattern is printed by discharging white ink of a nearly-identical color as a color of the white medium, the test pattern is printed with the white ink on a primer print prepared with black ink.

Abstract: An ultraviolet irradiation unit (100) is provided with an ultraviolet irradiation device (50) and an ink mist sucking and removing device (60). The ink mist sucking and removing device (60) includes a blower fan (62), an air filter (63) and a device cover (61) for forming an air flow passage whose one end is provided with a suction port (64) located in an upper vicinity of a printing object (80) and whose another end is provided with a ventilation port (58a) facing an LED drive circuit board (55). Air in the upper vicinity of a printing object (80) is sucked through the suction port (64) by the blower fan (62), ink mist included in the air is removed by the air filter (63), and cleaned air discharged through the ventilation port (58a) is blown to an LED circuit board (51), an LED drive circuit board (55).

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for communicating data. A user terminal is connected to a first data communication network, and a first network node is connected to the first and a second data communication network. A gateway is connected to the second and a third data communication network. The user terminal packetizes data according to protocols corresponding to a protocol stack. The user terminal further transmits packetized data to the gateway via the first network node and via the first and second data communication networks and determines whether the packetized data arrived at the gateway. The user terminal also modifies the packetized data by replacing at least a part of a first header corresponding to a specific protocol of the protocol stack with a replacement. When the gateway receives the packetized data it depacketizes the data and generates, based upon replacement information, a specific payload according to a predefined protocol.

Abstract: An intelligent electronic device incorporates a first port that accepts a time signal from a time server over a network and a second port for receiving a second time signal over a separate network. The intelligent electronic device approximates the amount of error in the second time signal based on calculations of the error in the first time signal.

Abstract: A rotary compressor having a housing and a rotor positioned within an internal cavity of the housing. The rotor being configured to rotate about a rotor axis of rotation eccentric to a housing longitudinal axis. A gate is also provided that is slidably mounted therewith the rotor and movable axially about and between a first position, in which a distal end of the gate is positioned at a first distance from the peripheral surface of the rotor, and a second position, in which the distal end of the gate is positioned at a second distance from the peripheral surface of the rotor. The distal end of the gate being constrained to be spaced proximate from the inner wall surface of the housing as the rotor rotates about the rotor axis of rotation.

Abstract: The method for filling a liquid material, and the apparatus and the program make it possible, without changing a moving speed of an ejection device, to correct a change in ejection amount and to stabilize an application shape. The method fills a liquid material into a gap between a substrate and a work by using the capillary action. The method includes the steps of: generating an application pattern consisting of a plurality of application areas continuous to one another; assigning a plurality of ejection cycles, each obtained by combining the number of ejection pulses and the number of pause pulses at a predetermined ratio therebetween, to each of the application areas; and measuring an ejection amount at correction intervals and calculating a correction amount for the ejection amount.

Abstract: A frontal impact countermeasure assembly for an automotive vehicle, the countermeasure assembly comprising: a front side rail extending in a generally longitudinal direction and having a forward end; a bumper extending generally laterally to the longitudinal direction of the front side rail and having an outboard end; and a pivot link having outer and inner mounting portions, the outer mounting portion being pivotably engaged with the bumper in a region of the outboard end to define a front pivot joint, the inner mounting portion being pivotably engaged with the front side rail to define a rear pivot joint, the rear pivot joint being located rearward and inward relative to the front pivot joint.

Abstract: A multi-orientation cryostat 5 for a superconducting magnet 4 for use in a plurality of orientations. The cryostat 5 comprises a vessel 6 for holding cryogenic liquid and, leading away from the vessel, a quench duct 7 for allowing escape from the vessel of gas generated by boiling of the cryogenic liquid due to quenching of the magnet. The quench duct 7 is sinuous so as to provide at least to differently orientated anti-convection portions 71, each portion for functioning as an anti-convection portion with the cryostat in a respective corresponding orientation.

Abstract: A plurality of measurement signals may be evaluated to detect a poorly damped oscillation mode in an electric power delivery system. An oscillation mode of interest may be detected, and the oscillation mode of interest may be analyzed using a frequency transform. A plurality of amplitudes of the oscillation mode of interest in each measurement signal may be determined using a sliding window. The plurality of amplitudes may be used to calculate a damping of the oscillation mode of interest. The damping may be calculated solving a linearized system of equations. The linearized system of equations may be a least square estimate of the damping based on the logarithm of each amplitude. If the damping indicates that the oscillation mode of interest is poorly damped, a control action may be taken.

Abstract: A file cloning mechanism allows for quickly creating copies (clones) of files within a filesystem, such as when a user makes a copy of a file. In exemplary embodiments, a clone of a source object is at least initially represented by a structure containing references to various elements of the source object (e.g., indirect onodes, direct onodes, and data blocks). Both read-only and mutable clones can be created. The source file and the clone initially share such elements and continue to share unmodified elements as changes are made to the source file or mutable clone. None of the user data blocks or the metadata blocks describing the data stream (i.e., the indirect/direct onodes) associated with the source file need to be copied at the time the clone is created. At appropriate times, cloned files may be “de-cloned.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for ergonomically supporting a worker while performing a work operation includes an automatic guided vehicle capable of moving a seat carrying the worker between a first non-work position relative to a work piece and a second work position at which the worker performs the work operation. The automatic guided vehicle includes controls to enable the worker to ergonomically position the angle of a seatback relative to a seat bottom and the height of the seat relative to the automatic guided vehicle for ergonomic support of the worker while performing the work operation. Under program control, the automatic guided vehicle is movable from one work position to another work position and/or back to the non-work position.

Abstract: A method for accessing a signal value of an FPGA at runtime, including the steps of loading an FPGA hardware configuration into the FPGA, executing the FPGA hardware configuration in the FPGA, requesting a signal value of the FPGA, sending status data from a functional level of the FPGA to a configuration memory in its configuration level, reading the status data from the configuration memory as readback data, and determining the signal value of the readback data. A method is also provided for making an FPGA build, based on an FPGA model, using a hardware description language, including the steps of creating an FPGA hardware configuration, identifying memory locations of a configuration memory for status data of at least one signal value based on the FPGA hardware configuration, and creating a list with signal values accessible at runtime and the memory locations corresponding thereto.

Abstract: A calibration fixture for use during a calibration procedure of a machine vision vehicle wheel alignment system. The calibration fixture consists of a pair of support legs, and a rotating transverse bar supported within an outer support tube secured between the support legs. The rotating transverse bar is supported within the outer support tube by a pair of annular bearings adjacent each end of the outer support tube, and is isolated from external influences which may result in deflection or distortion. A hub for receiving a sensor or optical target is secured to each end of the rotating transverse bar, such that optical targets mounted to each hub are maintained in axial alignment at opposite ends of the rotating transverse bar.

Abstract: A power switching apparatus includes: a first input terminal to which first power is supplied; a second input terminal to which second power is supplied, the second power having a voltage that is lower than a voltage that the first power has; a first output terminal to supply to an outside the first power supplied to the first input terminal; and a second output terminal to supply to the outside the second power supplied to the second input terminal. First switching means manages the supplying of the second power from the first input terminal to the second output terminal. Second switching means manages the supplying of the second power from the second input terminal to the second output terminal. A processor manages the supplies of the first power and the second power using the first and second switching means.

Abstract: A continuous waste to energy partial oxidation gasification system and process is accomplished with high pressure.

Abstract: A fixed structure and a printing method are provided with which cracking and detachment of a UV ink coating do not occur even when a UV ink of high surface hardness is used. As a solution, an adhesive primer layer 12 is provided between a substrate 11, and a UV ink coating 16 having a surface hardness higher than a pencil hardness H.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cylindrical non-melt and partial melt type entrained flow bed gasifier with one or more burners mounted on the top thereof for supplying pulverized raw coal and oxidizer thereto, wherein each of the burners comprises three or four pipes so as to form a central supplying line for injecting the pulverized coal with a carrier gas into the gasifier, a primary oxidizer annular region around the central supplying line having a plurality of primary oxidizer supplying bores for injecting primary oxidizer vertically or at an angle to the injection region of the pulverized coal supplied through the central supplying line so as to direct the pulverized coal to the central region, and an outer cooling annular region around the primary oxidizer annular region for flowing cooling water, which is operated preferably at a temperature range of 1,250˜1,450° C., or of 1,150˜1,500° C. according to the properties of the coal.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of a detection device for a cleaning system used in heat exchange systems which comprise a plurality of tubes. The detection device comprises a mounting plate defining a plurality of perforations and a plurality of sensors. Each sensor is being coupled to at least one perforation. In many embodiments of this disclosure, each of the plurality of tubes is operable with a corresponding one of the sensors and during a cleaning process where cleaning balls passage through the plurality of tubes, the cleaning balls are detected by a corresponding one of the sensors.