Abstract: A smart socket has an off setting, an on setting, and a manual switch to switch manually between the off setting and the on setting. An automatic switch mode provides for switching automatically between the off setting and the on setting, based on time and/or on sensor input. The socket also has a Sabbath mode, wherein the manual switch is disabled and the automatic switching is based on time or on a predetermined set of sensors, wherein the smart socket is configured to enter the Sabbath mode based on Sabbaths and/or festivals using the Hebrew calendar and locally calculated daylight times.

Abstract: A harmonic oscillator realizing harmonic tuning based on harmonic current selection is provided. The harmonic oscillator includes a first MOS transistor M1, a second MOS transistor M2, a first inductor L1, a second inductor L2, a third inductor L3, a fourth inductor L4, a fifth inductor L5, a first variable capacitor C1, a second capacitor C2, a first fixed capacitor C3, a second fixed capacitor C4 and a switched capacitor array SCA. By suppressing a second harmonic current and promoting a third harmonic current, the invention avoids the design complexity caused by synchronous tuning of two types of harmonic impedances. By suppressing a second harmonic current and promoting a third harmonic current, the design complexity caused by synchronous tuning of two types of harmonic impedances is avoided.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit including a transistor configured to control a current flowing through a coil. The integrated circuit is configured to drive the transistor. The integrated circuit includes: a determination circuit configured to determine whether a predetermined time period has elapsed since a power supply voltage of the integrated circuit rises to a first predetermined level; an oscillator circuit configured to output an oscillator signal, which has a first frequency before lapse of the predetermined period, and changes in a range at least from the first frequency to a second frequency higher than the first frequency after the lapse of the predetermined time period; and a driver circuit configured to switch the transistor responsive to the oscillator signal during and after the predetermined time period, the switching causing an on period of the transistor to gradually increase in the predetermined time period.

Abstract: A thermally compensated circuit includes a first adjustable circuit, like an adjustable current source, to produce a first adjustable signal, such a reference current. The circuit includes a second adjustable circuit to produce a second adjustable signal, such as a reference voltage. Circuitry responsive to the first and second adjustable signals produces an output, such as a clock signal. A tunable circuit in the first adjustable circuit and a tunable first element of the second adjustable circuit set an operating characteristic, such as a clock period, of the output to a target level at a first temperature. A tunable second element of the second adjustable circuit sets the operating characteristic of the output signal at the target level at a second temperature. Tuning of the second tunable element at the second temperature does not substantially change the operating characteristic of the output signal at the first temperature.

Abstract: A charging/discharging system to provide a direct current (DC) distribution based charging/discharging system for a battery formation process, in which a large number of batteries is connected in common to a DC grid through charge/discharge equipment, alternating current (AC) power from an AC power network is converted to DC power required for the battery formation process and the DC power is outputted to the DC grid is provided.

Abstract: An energy storage system (ESS) including a battery management system (BMS) arranged to monitor and control operations associated with charging and discharging electrical current from a storage element where the BMS is positioned within a cavity of a housing. A site controller coordinates operations of the ESS with a component of a power distribution system where the site controller is positioned within the housing's cavity. The storage element may include one or more battery cells. The ESS may include a frame defining the housing's cavity and including first and second side panels and a front access panel. The access panel may include at least one hinge in proximity to the first side panel where the hinge is arranged to prevent a portion of the hinge from extending beyond an edge of the first side panel as the access panel rotates from a closed position to an open position.

Abstract: A mechanical resonator-based oscillator comprises an input signal generator configured to output an input signal, a mechanical resonator comprising a body configured to vibrate according to the input signal and to output a vibration signal, a phase detector configured to detect a relative phase of the vibration signal with respect to the input signal, and a frequency synthesizer configured to produce a temperature-insensitive oscillation output based on the relative phase. The input signal generator comprises an adder configured to add the drive amplitude to the tone amplitude to produce an amplified pilot tone, and a mixer configured to modulate the amplified pilot tone with the drive frequency to produce the input signal. The oscillator further comprises a temperature compensator determines a multiplier to scale the relative phase, wherein the frequency synthesizer performs a scale operation on the vibration signal by the multiplier to produce the temperature-insensitive oscillation output.

Abstract: Voltage-controlled oscillation circuitry includes multiple cores and multiple mode or gain boosters coupled between the multiple cores. To prevent an undesired operating mode of the voltage-controlled oscillation circuitry from dominating a desired operating mode (e.g., an in-phase operating mode or an out-of-phase operating mode), the mode boosters may increase a desired gain of the desired operating mode and decrease an undesired gain of the undesired operating modes. In particular, mode boosters coupled to terminals of the cores that are associated with the desired operating mode may be enabled, while mode boosters coupled to terminals of the cores that are associated with the undesired operating mode may be disabled.

Abstract: A power system is disclosed. Output terminals of a power supply or a DC-to-DC unit are cascaded to increase an output voltage, so as to reduce a current between the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit and the DC-to-AC unit, and resolve cost and loss problems of the cable from the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit to the DC-to-AC unit. In addition, according to the power system provided in the embodiments of this application, a quantity of cables from the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit to the DC-to-AC unit may be further reduced by cascading output terminals of the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit and cascading inputs of the DC-to-AC unit, thereby reducing system costs. In addition, in the power system provided in the embodiments of this application, cascaded input and isolated output of the DC-to-AC unit can reduce a specification of a power conversion device.

Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator may include an inductor. The inductor may include a first coil coupled to an electronic component. The inductor may include a first coil coupled to the first circuit component, a second coil coupled to the first circuit component via a junction and being in parallel with the first coil, and a shared circuit path coupled to the second circuit component, the first coil, and the second coil, the shared circuit path overlapping the junction. The inductor may be configured to reduce phase noise generated by the electronic component.

Abstract: An electrical assembly may include an electrical component, a first switch, and/or a second switch. The electrical component may include a closed state and an open state. The first switch may be connected in series with the second switch. The first switch and the second switch may be connected in parallel with the electrical component. The first switch and the second switch may be configured to provide a second electrical connection when the electrical component is in the open state. A method of operating an electrical assembly may include providing power from a power source to the electrical component, opening the electrical component, the first switch, and/or the second switch via a controller, closing a second electrical component via the controller, and/or providing a diagnostic current from the power source to a diagnostic load to determine a status of the power source.

Abstract: A system includes a first, particularly mobile, unit which has a number m of function terminals, a first potential equalization terminal, which is intended to be galvanically connected to a reference potential, an energy source, a power converter, which is fed from the energy source and produces a number m of signals, a switching unit, the signals produced by the power converter being fed to the input side of the switching unit, and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the function terminals, or the input side of the switching unit being connected to the energy source and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the power converter, an insulation monitoring unit, which detects an undesired galvanic connection of a component of the system to the reference potential, and a connection monitoring unit, which monitors whether the first potential equalization terminal is properly electrically connected to a corresponding potential equalization terminal of a second unit to be conn

Abstract: Disclosed are an electromagnet driving mechanism, an electromagnet driving assembly and a dual power automatic transfer switch. The electromagnet driving mechanism includes: a mechanism frame; a stationary core; a movable core, including a moving stroke between a first position away from the stationary core and a second position in contact with the stationary core, the moving stroke including an approaching stroke section; a coil, configured to generate a magnetic attraction force between the stationary core and the movable core upon being energized to drive the movable core to move towards the second position; a reset spring member; and a reset auxiliary assembly, including a push member and a reset auxiliary spring. The reset auxiliary assembly applies a reset auxiliary spring force to the movable core in the approaching stroke section through the push member.

Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating injection-locked oscillators into transceiver arrays are disclosed. In one aspect, there is provided an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) distribution system including a master clock generator configured to generate a master clock signal. The ILO distribution system also includes an ILO distribution circuit including an ILO and configured to receive the master clock signal. The ILO is configured to generate a reference clock signal based on the master clock signal. The ILO distribution circuit is further configured to generate an output signal indicative of an operating frequency of the ILO. The ILO distribution system further includes an injection-locked detector (ILD) configured to receive the master clock signal and the output signal. The ILD is further configured to determine whether the ILO is in a locked state or in an unlocked state based on the master clock signal and the output signal.

Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments include a sensor, a first magnetic element which can be rotated to have a polarity of a first pole or a second pole in a first direction, and a processor. When the first magnetic element is aligned in the first direction by a magnetic force generated due to the approach of a second magnetic element included in an external electronic device, the processor is configured to identify the strength of the magnetic force and the polarity of the first magnetic element corresponding to the magnetic force by means of the sensor, select any one of a plurality of power transmission methods on the basis of the strength of the magnetic force and the polarity, and transmit power to the external electronic device wirelessly on the basis of the power transmission method.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a voltage controlled oscillator for flipped and complementary low noise. The voltage controlled oscillator includes a first resonant cavity, a second resonant cavity, and an associated circuit. The associated circuit is configured to connect the first resonant cavity and the second resonant cavity in series and couple the first resonant cavity and the second resonant cavity. A resonant frequency of the first resonant cavity and a resonant frequency of the second resonant cavity satisfy a first preset condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vibration capsule and a power supply method thereof. The vibration capsule includes an enclosure, a vibration source disposed within the enclosure and a battery unit electrically connected to the vibration source. The battery unit includes a battery and a power supply regulation unit connected to the circuit of the battery and the vibration source. The vibration capsule regulates the supply voltage of the battery to the vibration source through the power supply regulation unit, so that the battery provides the supply voltage lower than the total voltage of the battery to the vibration source, which can reduce power consumption and provide longer vibration time while ensuring the vibration safety of the vibration capsule.

Abstract: An oscillator equipped with a temperature compensation circuit is illustrated. Through the temperature compensation circuit, a transistor of a current mirror circuit of the oscillator which outputs a reference current to a voltage matching circuit is controlled by the temperature compensation voltage. Both of the temperature compensation voltage and a reference current decrease as the temperature rises, and a delay time of the oscillation voltage is proportional to the temperature compensation voltage and inversely proportional to the reference current. Therefore, the effects of temperature on the delay time just cancel each other out. The delay time of the oscillating voltage is related to the frequency of the clock signal. Therefore, if the delay time of the oscillating voltage is not affected by temperature, the frequency of the clock signal will not be affected by temperature.

Abstract: A hydroelectrically-charged agricultural irrigation prime mover includes: a carriage; a plurality of wheels coupled to the carriage; a fluid supply pipe configured to receive a pressurized fluid; an electric drive system; and a hydroelectric charging system. The electric drive system includes: a battery pack; and a motor electrically connected to the battery pack and configured to rotate at least some of the wheels. The hydroelectric charging system includes: a turbine fluidly connected to the fluid supply pipe to receive at least some of the pressurized fluid; and a hydroelectric generator connected to the turbine and configured to charge the battery pack.

Abstract: A system for collecting, generating, and transmitting Gigawatt scale energy is provided. The system comprises a geographically dispersed network comprising a plurality of nodes, each node comprising: a water source; renewable energy sources comprising: a wind turbine string of a plurality of wind turbines; and a solar photovoltaic string; a nodal substation in electrical communication with the renewable energy sources. The nodal substation comprises: at least one electrolyser in electrical communication with the renewable energy sources, the at least one electrolyser configured to convert water from the water source into hydrogen, or hydrogen compound, with electricity from the renewable energy sources; a compressor to compress hydrogen, or hydrogen compound, from the at least one electrolyser into a pipeline fluidly connecting each node.