Abstract: A ventilating fan includes a sirocco fan disposed in a box-shaped body and an adapter connected to an air outlet of the sirocco fan. The sirocco fan is composed of two opposite scroll plates with scroll shapes and a casing plate sandwiched between the two scroll plates. An overall air inlet of the sirocco fan is disposed on the first scroll plate and a central line of the air outlet of the adapter is offset towards the second scroll plate. The present invention is advantageous in that no turbulence is generated at the adapter and the wind amount of the ventilating fan is thus ensured and noise is reduced. Therefore, the present invention can provide a small air blowing device with high efficiency and improve stability of performance of the product.

Abstract: An electronic control device has a circuit board to which, at one side thereof, a connector is fixed; a housing having a pair of connector sandwiching members that sandwich the connector, a part of the connector being exposed to an outside of the housing and a remaining part of the connector and the circuit board being housed in a watertight space of the housing, and one of the connector sandwiching members being set to be higher in rigidity than the other; a seal portion filled with a sealant; and a shift suppression unit having a protruding portion formed at one side of the higher-rigidity connector sandwiching member and the connector and a hollow portion formed at the other side The shift suppression unit suppresses a shift of the connector with respect to the housing by fitting of the protruding portion and the hollow portion together.

Abstract: Provided is a diffractive optical element that is formed by laminating two optical material layers formed of different energy-cured resins; in which a relief pattern is formed at the interface between the two optical material layers; and that satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.01<d2/d1<0.2??(1) 0.05<d1/?E<1.0??(2) 0.0005<d2/?E<0.1??(3) wherein d1 is the center plate thickness (mm) of one optical material layer 2 that is cured first, d2 is the center plate thickness (mm) of the other optical material layer 3 that is cured later, and ?E is the effective diameter (mm) of the relief pattern 4.

Abstract: A system and a method of generating a three-dimensional terrain model using one-dimensional interferometry of a rotating radar unit is provided herein. Height information is evaluated from phase differences between two echoes by applying a Kalman filter in relation to a phase confidence map that is generated from phase forward projections relating to formerly analyzed phase data. The radar system starts from a flat earth model and gathers height information of the actual terrain as the platform approaches it. Height ambiguities are corrected by removing redundant 2? multiples from the unwrapped phase difference between the echoes.

Abstract: There is provided a current sense circuit (134). An exemplary current sense circuit (134) comprises a voltage-to-current converter circuit (218) that is adapted to receive a voltage that is proportional to a load current drawn from a battery (110) by a load (202) and to produce a current proportional to the load current, and a current-to-voltage converter circuit (228) that is adapted to receive the current proportional to the load current and to produce a voltage proportional to the load current based on a regulated voltage source (230).

Abstract: A load measuring unit obtains load information on a configuring device. A status obtaining unit obtains status information of the configuring device based on the load information received from the load measuring unit. A learning unit learns actual power consumption based on actual power consumption received by a receiver unit, the load information obtained by the load measuring unit, and the status information obtained by the status obtaining unit. An estimating unit obtains estimated power consumption based on a learning result by the learning unit, the load information obtained by the load measuring unit, and the status information obtained by the status obtaining unit.

Abstract: A wall block comprises an upper surface and an opposed lower surface. A front face and an opposed back face, and a first side face and an opposed second side face, are disposed between the upper surface and the lower surface. The first side face and the second side face generally extend from the front face to the back face. The block includes one or more features that define a horizontal alignment direction. The front face extends from the first side face to the second side face generally along a direction that is slanted with respect to the horizontal alignment direction.

Abstract: A structure anti-torsion device includes a structural column. The structural column is positioned between adjacent studs of a structural stud wall construction and oriented vertically between the studs. A structural column lower end is fastened to a lower base plate which rests on a wall construction bottom plate. A pair of anchor bolts secured to a foundation extends through the bottom plate and the lower base plate and are fastened to the lower base plate. A structural column upper end is bolted using first and second bolts to an upper base plate. The first and second bolts cooperate through the upper base plate to connect the upper base plate to a double top plate of the wall construction such that the double top plate is connected by the upper base plate, the structural column, and the lower base plate to the foundation.

Abstract: An electric cable includes: a flat electric wire that is hard to bend in a longitudinal direction and easy to bend in a lateral direction; and a terminal that is coupled to a terminal end of the flat electric wire and connected to an inverter. The terminal has a wire connection portion coupled to the terminal end of the flat electric wire and a connecting portion connected to the inverter. The terminal is formed so that, when the terminal is connected to the inverter, a plane that includes a flat surface of the connecting portion is oriented in the direction in which the flat electric wire is easy to bend and intersects with the predetermined direction.

Abstract: Restocking cards with machine readable tags are placed on article packaging in a supply room. When an employee wishes to order an article, the employee removes the restocking card from the article packaging and presents the restocking card to a container equipped with a machine readable tag reader. The machine readable tag of the restocking card enables the container to generate an order for a predefined quantity of the identified article. The order is sent to a central stock server which processes the order and sends it to the appropriate fulfillment server.

Abstract: Seal structure for electronic control device having a seal portion formed between an outer peripheral surface of a connector and an inner peripheral surface of a housing, and provided with a seal groove and a protruding line. The seal portion has a deep bottom portion having a seal groove, a shallow bottom portion whose seal groove is shallower than that of the deep bottom portion, and a connecting portion connecting these deep and shallow bottom portions. Width of the seal groove of the shallow bottom portion is set to be larger than the deep bottom portion As a position of a seal groove of the connecting portion gets closer to the deep bottom portion from the shallow bottom portion, depth of the seal groove of the connecting portion is set to be gradually larger, and width of the seal groove of the connecting portion is set to be gradually smaller.

Abstract: A process modeling technique uses a single statistical model developed from historical data for a typical process and uses this model to perform quality prediction or fault detection for various different process states of a process. The modeling technique determines means (and possibly standard deviations) of process parameters for each of a set of product grades, throughputs, etc., compares on-line process parameter measurements to these means and uses these comparisons in a single process model to perform quality prediction or fault detection across the various states of the process. In this manner, a single process model can be used to perform quality prediction or fault detection while the process is operating in any of the defined process stages or states.

Abstract: In an assembly method for an endoscope image pickup unit, the endoscope image pickup unit includes a distal end portion main body portion including a front opening portion, a side opening portion, a rear opening portion and an arrangement space portion, a lens section including a distal end lens having an outer diameter that generally fits in the front opening portion, and an image pickup section that fits in the rear opening portion and includes an image pickup device arranged in an image forming position by a lens system such as the lens section. The assembly method includes steps for inserting the lens section into the arrangement space portion from the side opening portion, fitting the inserted lens section in the front opening portion, and fitting the image pickup section in the rear opening portion from a rear of the rear opening portion.

Abstract: A terminal structure of a wiring harness for automobile use having a profound anticorrosive effect. A terminal member is fixed to a terminal portion of a coated electric wire such that a crimping portion that the member includes at its one end is crimped around a coating portion of the wire in a terminal region of the wire. A resin member completely covers at least entire outer surfaces of an exposed region at an end portion of the crimping portion and its vicinal region, and is made from a material mainly containing a thermoplastic polyamide resin, and having a tensile lap-shear strength of lapped aluminums of 6 N/mm2 or more in accordance with the JIS K6850, an elongation of 100% or more in accordance with the ASTM D-1708, and a water absorption of 1.0% or less in accordance with the JIS K7209.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to therapeutic compositions and delivery systems comprising at least one microparticle or nanoparticle. In various embodiments, the surface of the microparticle or nanoparticle is modified or functionalized with at least a portion of an isolated cellular membrane, such as an isolated plasma membrane. In addition, the microparticle or nanoparticle contains at least one active agent, such as a therapeutic and/or imaging agent. In additional embodiments, the compositions and delivery systems of the present invention may be used for targeted delivery of an active agent. Also provided are methods of making the therapeutic compositions and delivery systems of the present invention.

Abstract: A housing (10) includes a cavity (11) into which a terminal fitting (40) fixed to an end portion of a wire (30) is to be inserted from behind. The terminal fitting (40) includes a barrel (42) to be fixed to a core (31) of the wire (30) and a contact part between the barrel portion (42) and the core (31) of the wire (30) is covered by a waterproof member (50). Recesses (23) that widen the width of the cavity (11) are formed in parts of peripheral walls (16) of the cavity (11) corresponding to the barrel (42) of the terminal fitting (40).

Abstract: A system is adapted to manage the distribution of content to one or more cooperating media/substrates. The system receives data representative of environment conditions for one or more cooperating media/substrates adapted to display digital content. The media/substrates may be located in public spaces. The system compares the received data representative of environment conditions with selection criteria to identify content for distribution to the media/substrates. The selected content is distributed to the one or more cooperating media/substrates.

Abstract: A switching power converter with an input terminal configured to receive a first input voltage; an output terminal configured to provide an output current to a load, wherein the output current has a peak value and an average value; a power switch; a first loop coupled to the input terminal, wherein the first loop configured to generate a first output signal based on the first input voltage; a second loop configured to generate a second output signal based on the output current; a multiplier configured to generate a multiplying signal based on multiplying the first output signal with the second output signal; and a driving circuit configured to generate a driving signal based on the multiplying signal to control the power switch, so as to reduce the ratio between the peak value and the average value of the output current.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally relate to identifying, assessing, and managing cancer diseases.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, circuits and systems for generating satellite navigation beacon signals. There is provided a multi-system beacon transmitter adapted to generate a beacon signal for navigation systems. The multi-system beacon transmitter may include: (1) a baseband data processor adapted to process a navigation data based data signal in baseband; (2) an adjustable radio-frequency (RF) transmission module adapted to process and up-convert the baseband data signal, and further adapted to transmit the RF signal via one or more functionally associated antenna(s); and (3) a multi-system interfacing module adapted to convey the navigation signal and to control the RF transmission module based on a determined RF transmission mode. The determined RF transmission mode may be selected from a set of navigation system transmission modes. The need for external frequency selectable elements (e.g. filters) may be obviated.