Abstract: A fixing device that fixes a lower end portion of a suspension belt to a holding portion is provided with a shaft-like portion with an axial direction aligned with a horizontal direction; a fixing portion where the lower end portion of the suspension belt is fixed is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft-like portion; a region of the outer circumferential surface on one side of a virtual vertical surface that runs through an axial center of the shaft-like portion is defined as a first region and a region of the outer circumferential surface on the other side of the virtual vertical surface is defined as a second region; the fixing portion is provided in the first region; and the suspension belt extending from the fixing portion is disposed running through a lowest portion of the outer circumferential surface and running along the second region and upward.

Abstract: A phase-shift unit includes: a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other; a medium layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a microstrip line disposed at a side of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate; and a grounding layer provided at a side of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate and formed with a via hole; wherein a projection of the via hole onto the second substrate and a projection of the microstrip line onto the second substrate have an overlapped area therebetween; and wherein the via hole is configured to feed a phase-shifted microwave signal out of the phase-shift unit, or feed a microwave signal into the phase-shift unit such that the microwave signal is phase-shifted.

Abstract: Wireless sensing units, methods, systems, and processor-readable media for obtaining pressure data relating to one or more pressure locations of a surface area are described. A wireless sensing system includes a pressure monitoring device communicating with modular wireless smart floor tiles using RFID, either using an RFID reader or wireless network interface (e.g., 802.11). The tiles incorporate passive or active RFID tags. The tiles can be powered wirelessly, e.g. by a built-in piezoelectric power unit or by a wireless power source using magnetic resonance. A data capture circuit in each tile collects and saves the data for transmission to the floor pressure monitoring device. Various software applications can be enabled by the smart floor system, including fall detection and prediction, gesture input, intrusion detection, and user location tracking for smart home automation.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer containing strontium (Sr) and first and second internal electrodes alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and a first external electrode and a second external electrode connected to the first and second internal electrode, respectively, in which the dielectric layer includes a first region parallel to and adjacent to the first internal electrode or the second internal electrode and having a thickness of 50 nm or less, and a second region parallel to and adjacent to the first region, and the first region has an average content of strontium (Sr) greater than 0.1 mol % and less than 9.3 mol %, and the second region has a lower average content of strontium (Sr) than that of the strontium of the first region.

Abstract: A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion of a block of a video picture in a video and a bitstream representation of the video, gradients of a subset of samples in a region for a classification operation in a filtering process. The region has a dimension of M×N and the block has a dimension of K×L, M, N, K, L being positive integers. The block is located within the region. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.

Abstract: Provided is a composite (A) including a metal plate (B) and a reinforcing member (C) that is made of a resin. The metal plate (B) includes a joint portion (2) that is continuous with one end of a body portion (1), a hole that is formed through the body portion (1) in a thickness direction of the body portion (1) in the proximity of the joint portion (2), and a guide portion provided around the hole. The reinforcing member (C) continuously includes a main portion (5), a coupling portion (6) formed in the hole (3), and a locking portion (7) that is held in close contact with a surface on another side of the body portion (1). The guide portion (4) is at least one of a protruding portion provided on at least one of a rear side and a lateral side relative to the hole (3) in a direction from the body portion (1) to the joint portion (2), and a recessed portion extended from a front side relative to the hole (3) to the hole (3) in the direction from the body portion to the joint portion.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes a main body case, a vibrating body provided inside of the main body case, a magnetic circuit unit disposed in front of the vibrating body in a sound emitting direction of the vibrating body, a coil located inside of a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit unit, a bobbin configured to support the coil and vibrate along with the vibrating body, and a damper configured to connect the main body case to the bobbin. The damper is disposed in the rear of the vibrating body, and a damper regulation unit is provided in the rear of the damper at a position facing the damper.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a memory controller which provides a clock signal; a buffer which receives the clock signal and re-drives the clock signal, the buffer including a sampler which receives a data signal and a data strobe signal regarding the data signal, and which outputs a data stream; and a nonvolatile memory, including: a first duty cycle corrector, which receives the clock signal outputs a corrected clock signal by performing a first duty correction operation on the clock signal; and a data strobe signal generator, which generates the data strobe signal based on the corrected clock signal and provides the data strobe signal to the buffer. The buffer receives the data strobe signal output from the nonvolatile memory, senses a duty ratio of the data strobe signal input to the sampler, and performs a second duty correction operation on the duty ratio of the input data strobe signal.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle excitation advice. The vehicle excitation device that excites a vehicle having a plurality of wheels includes a plurality of excitation machine bodies on which the wheels are placed, respectively. The excitation machine body includes a front shaft and a rear shaft on which the wheels are placed at intervals in the in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and an actuator (hydraulic actuator) that excites vibration to the wheels by moving at least one of the front shaft and the rear shaft in the front-rear direction. The front shaft is inclined such that the inner end portion of the front shaft in the left-right direction of the vehicle is located closer to the front of the vehicle than the outer end portion of the front shaft in the left-right direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A first main plate has a first principal surface and a second principal surface. A second main plate has a third principal surface, a fourth principal surface, and an aperture. A piezoelectric element is provided on the first main plate and vibrates the first main plate. A first frame is disposed outside an outer peripheral end of the first main plate. First connecting portions connect the first main plate and the first frame to each other. Apertures are formed between the first connecting portions and connect a space adjacent to the first principal surface and a space adjacent to the second principal surface to each other. The second frame is disposed outside an outer peripheral end of the first frame. A second connecting portion connects the first frame and the second frame to each other.

Abstract: A method for visual media processing, including: computing, during a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and/or a chroma residual scaling (CRS) factor for the current video block based, at least in part, on neighboring samples of a corresponding luma block which covers a top-left sample of a collocated luma block associated with the current video block, wherein one or more characteristics of the current video block are used for identifying the corresponding luma block.

Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a method for transmitting data in a wireless communication network. A device of the network receives a bit sequence of K information bits. The device polar codes the bit sequence to obtain a first encoded sequence, wherein a length of the first encoded sequence is N, and N is greater than or equal to K. The device block interleaves the first encoded sequence to obtain an interleaved bit sequence. The device determines a transmission code rate R. When the transmission code rate R is less than the code rate threshold, the device outputs a second bit sequence. The length of the second bit sequence is M, M is smaller than N. The second bit sequence is punctured from the interleaved bit sequence by removing (N?M) bits from beginning of the interleaved bit sequence.

Abstract: A sealed battery, which is an exemplary embodiment, comprises a battery case including a bottomed cylindrical outer can and a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, and an electrode body including an electrode and housed in the battery case. The sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate has a thin portion formed in an annular shape, a valve portion having a convex shape inside the battery case, and an annular portion to which the electrode lead is connected. The gasket is provided with an elastically deformable portion that abuts against the inner surface of the valve portion and urges the valve portion to the outside of the battery case.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor and a fabrication method thereof, an array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display panel. The method for fabricating a thin film transistor includes: forming an active layer including a first region, a second region and a third region on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on a side of the active layer away from the substrate; forming a gate electrode on a side of the gate insulating layer away from the active layer; and ion-implanting the active layer from a side of the gate electrode away from the active layer, so that the first region is formed into a heavily doped region, the second region is formed into a lightly doped region, and the third region is formed into an active region.

Abstract: An antenna includes: a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion arranged adjacently. The first antenna portion includes a first antenna branch and a first parasitic branch, and the second antenna portion includes a second antenna branch. The first parasitic branch is positioned between the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch. The first parasitic branch is L-shaped, and includes a first branch segment and a second branch segment. A first end of the first branch segment is in contact to a ground region, a second end of the first branch segment is joined to a first end of the second branch segment, and a second end of the second branch segment points towards the second antenna branch.