Abstract: An arrangement has peripheral systems such as disc memory controllers or other device controllers used in the field of data technology. This allows a flexible design in such a manner that it is possible to match the controller designed using the arrangement to desired values in a simple manner in terms of performance, that is the throughput and the response time, failure reliability, the capability for expanding from very small to very large systems and the capability for connection to a large number of host systems (HS). The design is based on a specific combination of serial device buses to form ring circuits (RS) and high-performance buses (SPBP; SPBS), for example parallel buses, for linking relevant data transmission controllers (DS).

Abstract: A system and a method are provided for detecting a type of a received signal. The system includes a processor (32) and two receivers (24, 26). Both receivers (24, 26) are coupled to the processor (32). The first receiver (26) is capable of receiving a first signal type, and the second receiver (24) is capable of receiving a second signal type. An algorithm (30), coupled to the second receiver (24), is used for distinguishing between the first signal type and the second signal type. The algorithm (30) is used after the first receiver (26) begins storing the signal as a first signal type, and after the second receiver (24) begins storing the signal as a second signal type. At least one of the two signal types is retained.

Abstract: A plug connector having a two-part housing formed of a lower part and a cover. The cover is used as a pressure clamping plate during connection of the two housing parts by screws and presses insulated individual conductors of a connecting cable, which have previously been inserted into guides disposed in the lower part of the housing into insulation displacement connection (IDC) contacts. The IDC contacts that are fixed in the lower part between the guides, and firmly clamps the connecting cable in a cable entry of the housing.

Abstract: The input amplifier with unilateral current shutoff for input signals with steep edges has a MOS transistor, the source or drain of which is connected to a node connected to an output stage. An N-channel MOS transistor, which is connected between the two P-channel MOS transistors of the input amplifier, prevents a shutoff of the P-channel MOS transistor by the steep edge input signals. The node is pulled upward to the operating voltage when the input signal is present.

Abstract: A modular cooling panel for cooling a turbine member is provided. The cooling panel comprises a first panel having a relative width, relative length, upper surface and lower surface. The upper surface defines at least one corrugated portion traversing along a portion of the relative width of the upper surface. The corrugated portion defines a cooling flow channel through which a cooling fluid can travel to cool the turbine member. The cooling flow channel has at least one inlet opening for enabling the cooling fluid to enter into the cooling flow channel. The lower portion surface of the first panel is adapted to be coupled in fluid communication with the turbine member.

Abstract: A chip card for the contactless transmission of electric signals to a terminal includes a card body in which a coupling element having conductor tracks and contact connections, and a semiconductor chip having an electronic circuit associated with the coupling element, are constructed in an integrated manner. The semiconductor chip is provided on its surface with contact elements for electrical connection of the electronic circuit and the contact connections of the coupling element. A carrier made of an electrically insulating material supports at least part of the conductor tracks and the contact connections of the coupling element. The carrier is provided with an aperture in the vicinity of the contact connections of the coupling element, for receiving the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A system for viewing digital video stored in a remote location allows a user to first request a visual summary of the video which consists of still images corresponding to the frames where scenes change and then allows the user to utilize this information to control the playback of the audio track using the keypad of a touch-tone phone. The first main component, a digital video pre-processor, extracts information from the original video. This is performed in advance of the user's access. The second main component, a phone-based video-playback attendant, receives remote instructions from the user via the telephone and presents the requested information.

Abstract: An electrical utility meter includes a controller that determines a list of highest demands using event-triggered windows of time to ensure that only one of the entries on the list corresponds to any one high consumption event. The controller generates a demand value corresponding to the quantity of energy consumed within a demand interval, and then determines whether the demand value for the demand interval is greater than a smallest demand value on a list of highest demands in a memory location. If so, the controller opens a demand window, the demand window having a duration exceeding the demand interval. The controller then obtains a plurality of additional demand values for the duration of the demand window, each of the additional demand values corresponding to one of a plurality of additional demand intervals within the demand window. The controller records in the list of highest demands in the memory location a select one of the demand value and plurality of additional demand values.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor plant includes a reactor pressure vessel having a core barrel supported on a cylindrical holding structure fixed in the reactor pressure vessel. The core barrel has a lower part with at least one elastically resilient segment. A projection disposed on the segment engages under the holding structure in such a way that a wedge-like gap is formed between a lower surface of the holding structure and the projection. A wedge is braced in the gap. A method is also provided for mounting the core barrel.

Abstract: A scanning and data acquisition method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of a region-of-interest (ROI) in an object, wherein image reconstruction processing is applied to a plurality of sets of 2D cone beam projection data, each set being acquired on a 2D detector at a corresponding plurality of scan path source positions. A first image reconstruction processing step comprises applying a mask to each set of the projection data so that data inside the boundaries of each mask form a corresponding plurality of masked 2D data sets. The next step comprises ramp filtering of each masked 2D data set along a plurality of parallel lines formed therein, to generate a corresponding plurality of filtered 2D data sets. Each filtered 2D data set is a calculation of a first estimate of Radon derivative data determined from a given set of the 2D cone beam projection data.

Abstract: A configuration for triggering a personal protection system supplies a trigger signal for triggering the personal protection system which is dependent on an acceleration-dependent release signal and a response of a switch that operates acceleration-dependently, in a protection device or safing sensor. A simple and testable structure for such a protection device includes two switching units which can be alternately connected through and locked for testing purposes.

Abstract: A bottle-shaped trench capacitor having an expanded lower trench portion with an epi layer therein. The epi layer serves as the buried plate of the trench capacitor. A diffusion region surrounds the expanded lower trench portion to enhance the dopant concentration of the epi layer. The diffusion region is formed by, for example, gas phase doping, plasma doping, or plasma immersion ion implantation.

Abstract: A memory bank, in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of memory sub-units, each memory sub-unit being divided by sense amplifier banks wherein adjacent memory sub-units share the sense amplifier bank therebetween. Redundancy regions are also included which are disposed in the memory sub-units and sharing circuitry therewith. The redundancy regions are located at a first end portion and a second end portion of the memory bank, the first and second end portions being disposed at opposing ends of the memory bank. A central sense amplifier bank is disposed between a first half and a second half of the memory bank wherein failed devices in the first half of the memory bank are replaced by a device in the redundancy region at the first end portion and failed devices in the second half of the memory bank are replaced by a device in the redundancy region at the second end portion such that sense amplifier contention is prevented for the central sense amplifier bank.

Abstract: A logging device for a trip unit records temporal information related to a circuit breaker trip event, with the circuit breaker (11) including a trip unit (12). The device (10) includes at least a clock circuit (13), a microcontroller (14), and a storage medium (15). The device (10) can be configured as either a plug-in module for the trip unit (12), or as an accessory is mounted on the panel proximate to and in communication with the trip unit (12). The clock circuit (13) generates signals representing temporal information, such as real-time date and time information. The microcontroller (14) is adapted to be coupled to the trip unit (12) to receive signals from the trip unit (12). These signals from the trip unit (12) indicate a circuit breaker trip event. The microcontroller (14) receives the time and date information from the clock circuit (13) and associates a given trip event with the time and date information related to that given trip event.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a magnet valve. The magnet valve has a ferromagnetic coil body with a winding and defines first and second terminal positions. An armature for driving a valve is displaceably disposed in the ferromagnetic coil body between the first terminal position and the second terminal position. The magnet valve also has a housing with a support and a spring is braced between the armature and the support. The magnet valve further has a piezoelectric measuring instrument disposed between the spring and the support for detecting a position of the armature. The measuring instrument provides an output signal which is dependent on a spring force of the spring. In turn, the spring force is associated with a position of the armature. The actual speed of the armature is determined from the position of the armature and the actual speed of the armature is used to regulate a future speed of the armature.

Abstract: A telephone system includes a mobile telephone set having a signal processing unit which is coupled through an amplifier unit to a microphone and at least one speaker. The telephone system also includes a stationary base station for communicating with the mobile telephone set. The signal processing unit has a digital signal processor with an associated memory. A hands-free function is accomplished through the use of the additional signal processor. An echo suppressor or echo compensation function realized by the digital signal processor can be reduced or turned off.

Abstract: An ultrasonic inspection system for ultrasonic inspection of the guide structure of a reactor pressure vessel having two shear wave transducers, one positioned to face in a first direction about 30.degree. from normal to a top edge of the grid members of the top guide structure and a second one positioned to face in a second direction about 30.degree. from normal to a top edge of the grid members of the top guide.

Abstract: A module for an on-board evaporative emission leak detection system that detects leakage from an evaporative emission space of an automotive vehicle fuel system, and corresponding method that calibrates a leak detection module pump to set a desired stroke of a moveable wall in the pump of such evaporative emission leak detection system. A pump disposed within interior space of the module has an inlet in communication with the interior space and an outlet that communicates through a flow passage with the evaporative emission space. A vent valve within the interior space is selectively operable to a first state that vents the flow passage to the interior space of the module, thereby venting the evaporative emission space to atmosphere, and to a second state that does not vent the flow passage to the interior space. An electromechanical actuator within the interior space operates the pump and the vent valve by respective magnetically responsive levers.

Abstract: A method for dissolving a hardened glass solder, a method for separating components joined by a glass solder, a method for disassembling a fuel cell, and an apparatus for disassembling a fuel cell, include heating the hardened glass solder in a melt of a hydroxide. As a result, components which had been joined through the use of the hardened glass solder are able to be reused or subjected to a recycling process.

Abstract: The card reading device is for use in mobile radio devices. From a battery compartment, the card is longitudinally inserted into a receiving apparatus through a receiving slot and is ejected through the receiving slot, following use, by a slide which is accessible from outside through an opening in the housing and which has a catch for the card. For reasons of space efficiency the slide is located beneath the receiving apparatus, the catch being arranged at the end of the slide, which is situated behind the card, viewed in the direction of card ejection. The front edge of the slide, viewed in the direction of card ejection, serves as a snapping lock for the battery and projects into the battery compartment through a second slot. In a first inserted position of the slide the front edge projects a prescribed length into the battery compartment. The slide can be slid counter to a spring restoring force into a second position, in which the front edge is located inside the second slot.