Abstract: An optical-electrical hybrid transmission cable (100), comprises an insulative layer (2); a shielding layer located on an inner side of the insulative layer; an optical cable (5) disposed in the shielding layer and comprising two optical fibers (51) and an insulative sheath (52) enclosing the two optical fibers; a pair of signal wires (6) twisted together and disposed in the shielding layer; and a pair of power wires disposed in the shielding layer. And the optical cable, the pair of signal wires and the pair of power wires are arranged along a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for observing the interior of a blast furnace system includes a visible light guiding unit which defines a light path along a viewing axis that is radial to an upright axis of a furnace wall body of a blast furnace and which is adapted to be secured to a furnace blowpipe to permit the light path to be in visual communication with a tuyere, a beam splitter which is disposed in an accommodation space in the tubular mount to split a beam of light propagating along the light path into a horizontal component so that the operator can observe furnace condition through a peeping hole, and a vertical component, and a video camera system which includes an elongate casing connected to the tubular mount, and a video camera disposed in a cooling chamber of the casing to capture a light image from the vertical component of the light beam.

Abstract: A resident measurement system for a charge level of a blast furnace includes a chamber, a servo system, a distance measurement unit, and a cooling-cleaning unit. The chamber is combined with a lateral furnace wall of the blast-furnace, covers an opening of the furnace wall, and has a pivoting hole. A pivot of the distance measurement unit is pivotally disposed at the pivoting hole, and the distance measurement unit is driven by the servo system to perform a motion with the pivot as a movement center, so as to measure the charge level. The cooling-cleaning unit is used to supply a high-pressure gas, which flows through the distance measurement unit to perform cooling and cleansing operations.

Abstract: A method has steps of providing a three-dimensional (3-D) laser scanner, providing a computer, obtaining point group data (PGD) and calculating measuring an outline of a top reactant stratum from the PGD. The step of providing a 3-D laser scanner directs a 3-D laser scanner at reactant strata in a blast furnace and output PGD that represent digital data of an inside of the blast furnace. The step of providing a computer connects the 3-D laser scanner to a computer having a point group analysis program. The step of calculating an outline of the top reactant stratum from the PGD is performed by the point group analysis program to calculate an outline of the top reactant stratum in the blast furnace from the PGD. At least one two-dimensional laser scanner is used to measure a path of the reactant being charged.

Abstract: An apparatus for observing the interior of a blast furnace system includes a visible light guiding unit which defines a light path along a viewing axis that is radial to an upright axis of a furnace wall body of a blast furnace and which is adapted to be secured to a furnace blowpipe to permit the light path to be in visual communication with a tuyere, a beam splitter which is disposed in an accommodation space in the tubular mount to split a beam of light propagating along the light path into a horizontal component so that the operator can observe furnace condition through a peeping hole, and a vertical component, and a video camera system which includes an elongate casing connected to the tubular mount, and a video camera disposed in a cooling chamber of the casing to capture a light image from the vertical component of the light beam.

Abstract: A method has steps of providing a three-dimensional (3-D) laser scanner, providing a computer, obtaining point group data (PGD) and calculating measuring an outline of a top reactant stratum from the PGD. The step of providing a 3-D laser scanner directs a 3-D laser scanner at reactant strata in a blast furnace and output PGD that represent digital data of an inside of the blast furnace. The step of providing a computer connects the 3-D laser scanner to a computer having a point group analysis program. The step of calculating an outline of the top reactant stratum from the PGD is performed by the point group analysis program to calculate an outline of the top reactant stratum in the blast furnace from the PGD. At least one two-dimensional laser scanner is used to measure a path of the reactant being charged.

Abstract: This invention provides a communication terminal device, a communication terminal receiving method, a communication system with the terminal device and a gateway which stabilize the time delay during VoIP communication and improve the voice quality. The invention comprises: a data packet unpacking unit; a receiving buffer; a decoding unit; a playing unit; and a central control unit. The central control unit comprises: a network state decision section for deciding whether the network is in a spike state according to the received data packets; a buffer adjusting section which predicts the subsequent data packets in one group of data packets when the network is decided to be in a normal state to adjusts the size of the buffer and predicts the subsequent data packets in one data packet when the network is decided to be in a spike state to enlarges the buffer.

Abstract: A platform to implement a Chinese input method consists of the following components: 1. A Keypad. 2. A cascade Multi-Window, 3. A Sentence Editing Buffer. 4. An Attribute Viewing Window. 5. A Text Accumulation Window. 6. A two-level phrase set refining control window. The keypads are designed based on the lexical structures of the Zhu-Yin and Pin-Yin phonetic systems. Efficient mouse operations have been designed to enter phonetic symbol strings. The Multi-Window can present a great many candidate words and phrases. It allows a user to browse on its multi pages without mouse clicking. A two-phase sentence generation procedure relieves users from the burden of sentence segmentation and creates the possibility of harvesting system supplied longer generalized phrases.

Abstract: An adaptive record ranking method for full text information retrieval, which quantifies the relevance of retrieved records to query terms occurring in said record. The method utilizes a multilevel weighting technique which permits user input to affect record weighting at each level of the ranking process. The method utilizes weighted attributes of properties of terms occurring in the records of the data base and compensates for the distance between adjacent words of complex terms. The method has been implemented on large full text data bases and the resulting rankings achieve a relatively high level of precision in ranking the relevance of retrieved records to a user query.