Abstract: A method, device and/or a system of centralized management and emergency allocation of deployed defibrillators each having associated communication modules. A central server may process a message from a communication module associated with a defibrillator, and then analyze a photograph and/or a video of a defibrillator display to compare it to a set of expected visual markers using a pixel algorithm of a pixel analysis module. The central server may then determine the operational status of the defibrillator such as whether it is in a nonfunctional status. The central server may then send alerts to the communication module and notifications to the an organization owning or leasing the defibrillator. The central server may also send alerts to the communication module based on a nearby emergency call, provide geospatial mapping of defibrillators to improve deployment efficiency and/or establish bi-directional communication between the operator of the defibrillator and a medical professional.

Abstract: The invention relates to a power converter for converting a first electrical power signal into a second electrical power signal having an output voltage Vout with a DC component comprising a control circuit (320) arranged for measuring the output voltage Vout and controlling the operation of the power converter in dependence thereof. The control circuit (320) comprises voltage level shifting means (326) for generating a measurement voltage signal V2 by adjusting the DC component of the output voltage Vout.

Abstract: The invention relates to a power converter for converting a first electrical power signal into a second electrical power signal having an output voltage Vout with a DC component comprising a control circuit (320) arranged for measuring the output voltage Vout and controlling the operation of the power converter in dependence thereof. The control circuit (320) comprises voltage level shifting means (326) for generating a measurement voltage signal V2 by adjusting the DC component of the output voltage Vout.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for syntactic signal analysis which is suitable for processing signals which deviate, within a freely selected margin, from a set of signals predetermined by a grammar, the apparatus being provided with a feature unification mechanism which detects violations of features, and an adaptive threshold mechanism coupled thereto. The feature unification mechanism, which processes the features in groups so that rapid processing is obtained, determines a violation score, thus providing a measure of the deviation of the analyzed signal from the set of signals predetermined by the grammar and indicates what elements of the signal are not satisfactory so that these can be corrected if necessary. The adaptive threshold mechanism enables a number of analyses to be delivered each having a violation score, so that on the basis thereof, in combination with other factors which may be available, it is possible to select the best analysis.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for syntactic signal analysis which is suitable for processing signals which deviate, within a freely selected margin, from a set of signals predetermined by a grammar, the apparatus being provided with a feature unification mechanism which detects violations of features, and an adaptive threshold mechanism coupled thereto. The feature unification mechanism, which processes the features in groups so that rapid processing is obtained, determines a violation score, thus providing a measure of the deviation of the analyzed signal from the set of signals predetermined by the grammar and indicates what elements of the signal are not satisfactory so that these can be corrected if necessary. The adaptive threshold mechanism enables a number of analyses to be delivered each having a violation score, so that on the basis thereof, in combination with other factors which may be available, it is possible to select the best analysis.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube, such as a blue luminescing projection television display tube including, in an evacuated envelope (1), an electron gun (5) for generating an electron beam (6) which is focused to a spot (8) on a display screen (7) by means of an electrostatic focusing lens (27, 30) and which is deflected across this display screen (7) in two mutually perpendicular directions (x, y). A structure (37) magnetized as a four-pole and consisting of a magnetic half-hard material is provided at the area of a focusing lens formed by two electrodes (27, 30) and coaxially around the gun axis (20), the axes of the four-pole being located centrally between the deflection directions. The structure (37) extends the spot in the vertical direction so that phosphor saturation, particularly in blue projection tubes is reduced.

Abstract: A wash additive combination is provided which is loaded into a washing machine at the start of a wash cycle, and which releases a wash additive, such as a fabric softener, into the rinse solution. The combination comprises a wash additive packet of a foam substrate material having a first and a second stable conformation of differing surface area, and a wash additive deposited thereon. A dispenser is provided for mounting atop a washing machine agitator, and into which the packet may be releasably placed, after arranging the packet in its lesser surface area conformation. The packet is retained by the dispenser during initial phases of the wash cycle, and ejected during the spin phase, whereupon it regains its greater surface area conformation for rapid and complete dispersion of active. Embodiments are provided for dual, sequential release of active in the rinse and the dryer.

Abstract: In a color display tube including an electron gun system for producing three electron beams situated with their axes in one plane, coincides to the said plane, curved field shapers 27, 28 are provided at the end of the system. Each field shaper comprises at least three plates of ferromagnetic material. The plates are situated symmetrically with resepect to the plane and the central beam axis, and the curved field shapers face the three beams with their concave sides. The field shapers make the edge field of the frame deflection field pin-cushion-shaped. Each field shaper comprises at least two circumferentially-spaced plates and slots 35, 36 between the plates are covered by plates 31, 34, so that at least one magnetic shunt is formed in each field shaper. The line deflection field is attenuated less and a field disturbance at the area of the electron beams is prevented.

Abstract: A wash additive combination is provided which is loaded into a washing machine at the start of a wash cycle, and which releases a wash additive, such as a fabric softener, into the rinse solution. The combination comprises a wash additive packet of a foam substrate material having a first and a second stable conformation of differing surface area, and a wash additive deposited thereon. A dispenser is provided for mounting atop a washing machine agitator, and into which the packet may be releasably placed, after arranging the packet in its lesser surface area conformation. The packet is retained by the dispenser during initial phases of the wash cycle, and ejected during the spin phase, whereupon it regains its greater surface area conformation for rapid and complete dispersion of active. Embodiments are provided for dual, sequential release of active in the rinse and the dryer.

Abstract: Color display tube comprising an electron gun 5 of the in-line type. The electron gun 5 comprises a main lens which is constituted by a first focussing electrode 25 and a second focussing electrode 26. The first focussing electrode comprises sub-electrodes 27, 28 placed at a distance from each other between which an auxiliary electrode constituting an astigmatic element G.sub.AST is positioned. The auxiliary electrode G.sub.AST is connected during operation to means for applying a constant voltage, whilst at least the sub-electrode 28 forming part of the main lens is connected during operation to means for applying a control voltage. The control voltage may be a static voltage or a dynamically varying voltage, for example, a parabolic voltage which is in synchronism with the line deflection.

Abstract: A display tube comprising an evacuated envelope having a display window, a conical portion and a neck, and an electron gun in the neck for generating an electron beam which is focused to form a spot on a display screen on the display window, the electron beam being deflected over the display screen in mutually perpendicular directions by pin-cushion-shaped deflection fields produced by a system of deflection coils. Field shapers are provided at the gun end of the tube which comprise two mutually perpendicular pairs of flat plates of ferromagnetic sheet material, the respective pairs of plates being arranged coaxially around the electron beam and respectively extending in the respective deflection directions. The plates are supported so that the gun ends thereof are at substantially the same distance from the electron gun, and cause the edge fields of the deflection fields to be barrel-shaped so as to prevent defocusing of the beam by the pin-cushion deflection fields.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube comprising in an evacuated envelope an electron gun for generating at least one electron beam which is focused on a display screen to form a spot and which is deflected in two mutually perpendicular directions so that a raster is written on the display screen. The electron gun comprises a cathode which is centered on an axis, a first grid at some distance therefrom along the axis and a second grid at some distance from the first grid, the first and second grids each having a part which is perpendicular to the axis and which comprises an aperture around the axis. The aperture in the first grid, on the side of the second grid, is elongate in a direction coinciding with one of the deflection directions and, on the side of the cathode, is elongate in a direction perpendicular to the elongate direction of the aperture on the side of the second grid.

Abstract: In a color display tube having an electron gun of the "in-line" type for generating three electron beams situated with their axes in one plane, the electron gun includes curved field shapers at the end from which the beams exit into frame and line deflection fields. Each field shaper includes two or more plates of ferromagnetic material aligned along a curve and spaced from each other by slots. The plates are arranged symmetrically with respect to the plane and the central beam axis, and a concave side of each field shaper faces the three beam axes. At least the ends of each field shaper which are most remote from the plane have substantially flat plates extending in the direction of the central electron beam axis. By using such field shapers the losses in the line deflection field are small and substantially undistorted, while a desirable pincushion-shaped distortion of the frame deflection field is intensified.

Abstract: The spot quality of an electron beam produced by an electron gun in a cathode ray tube is improved by optimizing the dimensions of a beam-forming, apertured electrode arrangement in the gun. This arrangement includes electrodes for forming a cross-over followed by, in the direction of propagation of the electron beam, first and second lens electrodes centered around an axis, for defining an accelerating and prefocusing lens and at least two lens electrodes for defining a main focusing lens. The diameter of the aperture in the second lens electrode is smaller than twice the diameter of the aperture in the first lens electrode, and the effective spacing S-eff between the first and the second lens electrodes is smaller than 1 mm. S-eff is defined as the minimum of the function ##EQU1## where .DELTA.

Abstract: A picture display device including a picture display tube and a circuit for supplying the heater thereof with an increased heater voltage during a predetermined warming up period. The heater is connected to the secondary winding of an (auto) transformer, the primary winding of which is connected to a terminal of an a.c. voltage source, for example a winding provided on a line output transformer, the other ends of the primary and the secondary windings being interconnected and connected to a positive temperature coefficient thermistor and the other ends of the heater and the thermistor being connected to the other terminal of the source. The secondary winding has more turns than the primary winding.

Abstract: A device for and methods of measuring and adjusting the convergence of the electron beams in a color display tube of the shadow mask type.The device includes a detector in the form of a divided photosensitive cell comprising at least two separate photosensitive surface parts which are situated symmetrically relative to the center of the cell. The photosensitivity of the surface parts increases substantially from the center of the cell.In use the device is mounted so that the detector is on the central area of the display screen. Three lines are produced in one deflection direction of the tube by means of the three electron beams with one video signal. The central line and detector are moved relative to each other until the longitudinal axis of the line coincides with the center of the cell.

Abstract: Physically stable liquid detergent compositions are provided comprising a mixture of alkyl sulphate, alkyl ether sulphate and alkylbenzene sulphonate surfactants in which the cations include a level of magnesium providing molar equivalence with the alkyl sulphate, together with a suds booster, preferably an alkyl ethanolamide.

Abstract: If in a device for displaying colored pictures comprising a color display tube of the "in-line" type, which comprises magnetized means for maintaining a static magnetic multipole magnetic field near the output of the electron gun system for carrying out static beam corrections, a correction magnet is provided outside the neck near the output of the electron gun system and near at least one outermost electron beam, which magnet forms a magnetic dipole and is intersected by the said plane and which correction magnet is small with respect to its distance to said electron beam, it is possible afterwards to provide small corrections in the horizontal static convergence.

Abstract: A color television display device comprising a deflection coil unit with a deflection coil for the vertical deflection which coil is divided into two coil halves. A balancing resistor by means of which the convergence can be corrected is in a parallel branch. A static convergence error introduced by this resistor owing to the non-zero inductance of the deflection coil is corrected by means for decreasing the voltage present across the balancing resistor during the trace period of the deflection current by a direct voltage in such a way that the voltage across the resistor is more decreased after the center instant of the trace period than before and that the correction current at and about said center instant is substantially zero. (FIG. 3).

Abstract: Color display tube comprising an electron gun 5 of the in-line type. The electron gun 5 comprises a main lens which is constituted by a first focussing electrode 25 and a second focussing electrode 26. The first focussing electrode comprises sub-electrodes 27, 28 placed at a distance from each other between which an auxiliary electrode constituting an astigmatic element G.sub.AST is positioned. The auxiiary electrode G.sub.AST is connected during operation to means for applying a constant voltage, whilst at least the sub-electrode 28 forming part of the main lens is connected during operation to means for applying a control voltage. The control voltage may be a static voltage or a dynamically varying voltage, for example, a parabolic voltage which is in synchronism with the line deflection.