Active vibration control
    1.
    发明公开
    Active vibration control 审中-公开
    系统,用于有源振动控制

    公开(公告)号:EP0999379A3

    公开(公告)日:2003-01-08

    申请号:EP99308808.7

    申请日:1999-11-04

    IPC分类号: F16F15/00

    CPC分类号: F16F15/005

    摘要: An apparatus for actively damping vibrations in an element (30) which is secured to a support (28) comprises: an actuator (10, 40) locatable at a point adjacent to the point of attachment (29) of the element to the support and operable to apply force between the element and the support. A sensor (34) is associated with the element to produce a signal in response to vibration of the element and control means (36) is provided to operate the actuator in response to said signal to apply a force to the element to damp vibrations therein.

    PIEZO-ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER CIRCUIT
    4.
    发明公开
    PIEZO-ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER CIRCUIT 审中-公开
    压电变压器电路

    公开(公告)号:EP1190457A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-27

    申请号:EP00940592.9

    申请日:2000-06-22

    IPC分类号: H01L41/107

    CPC分类号: H01L41/044 H01L41/107

    摘要: The invention relates to a piezo-electric transformer circuit (200) incorporating a piezo-electric transformer (10) comprising a multi-element primary region (12) and a single element secondary region (14) mutually joined together. In operation, the circuit (200) applies a drive signal to the primary region (12) to excite the primary and secondary regions (12, 14) into longitudinal resonance, thereby generating a high potential signal at the secondary region (14). The drive signal is derived from the signal at the secondary region (14) in a self oscillating feedback loop configuration. The transformer (10) is fabricated from a hard piezo-electric ceramic material having a dielectric loss of substantially 0.005 or less at 1 kHz. Although such a hard ceramic does not provide as high a charge coefficient as softer piezo-electric ceramic materials, it is found that hard ceramics provide surprisingly improved energy conversion when used in piezo-electric transformer power supplies.

    Magnetic resonance imaging
    5.
    发明公开
    Magnetic resonance imaging 审中-公开
    磁共振成像

    公开(公告)号:EP1102076A3

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-02

    申请号:EP00310108.6

    申请日:2000-11-14

    IPC分类号: G01R33/3415 G01R33/561

    CPC分类号: G01R33/54 G01R33/5611

    摘要: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus employing magnetic gradient fields in a phase-encode and in a read-out direction for spatially encoding excited MR active nuclei in a region of interest of a patient, in which a reduced number of readings in the read-out direction is taken, thereby creating an aliased reduced field of view image, at least two r.f. receive coils are used together with sensitivity information concerning those coils in order to unfold the aliased image to produce a full image while taking advantage of the reduced time of collection of data. In accordance with the invention, sensitivity information is collected at a lower resolution than that at which the image information is collected.

    Apparatus and method for magnetic resonance imaging
    7.
    发明公开
    Apparatus and method for magnetic resonance imaging 审中-公开
    Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Bildgebung mittels magnetischer Resonanz

    公开(公告)号:EP1111401A2

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-27

    申请号:EP00310109.4

    申请日:2000-11-14

    IPC分类号: G01R33/561 G01R33/34

    CPC分类号: G01R33/5611 G01R33/3415

    摘要: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus employing magnetic gradient fields in a phase-encode direction for spatially encoding excited MR active nuclei in a region of interest of a patient, in which a reduced number of readings in the phase-encode direction is taken, thereby creating an aliased reduced field of view image, a pair of r.f. receive coils is used together with sensitivity information concerning those coils in order to unfold the aliased image to produce a full image while taking advantage of the reduced time of collection of data. In accordance with the invention, the phase sensitivity pattern of each coil over the region of interest is different from that of the other coil.

    摘要翻译: 在磁共振成像装置中,在相位编码方向上使用磁梯度场,对患者感兴趣的区域进行兴奋的MR活性核的空间编码,其中取得相位编码方向的读数减少, 别名缩小的视野图像,一对rf 接收线圈(L,B)与这些线圈的灵敏度信息一起使用,以便展开混叠图像以产生完整图像,同时利用缩短的数据采集时间。 根据本发明,感兴趣区域中每个线圈的相位灵敏度图案与另一个线圈的相位灵敏度图案不同。

    OPTICAL LINKS
    8.
    发明公开
    OPTICAL LINKS 有权
    光纤连接

    公开(公告)号:EP1060583A1

    公开(公告)日:2000-12-20

    申请号:EP99904967.9

    申请日:1999-02-05

    IPC分类号: H04B10/152

    CPC分类号: H04B10/697 H04B10/676

    摘要: An optical link (10) is described for transmitting a microwave signal (30) in modulated optical form over an optical fibre (24). The optical link (10) has a transmitter (12) and a receiver (18). The transmitter (12) splits and converts the microwave signal (30) into two separate optical signals (34 and 36), each of which represent either the positive varying part of the microwave signal (30) or the negative varying part of the microwave signal (30). The receiver (18) combines the two separate optical signals (34 and 36) and converts them back into the microwave signal (30).

    IDENTIFICATION TAG
    10.
    发明公开
    IDENTIFICATION TAG 有权
    识别标签

    公开(公告)号:EP1190380A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-27

    申请号:EP00927594.2

    申请日:2000-05-15

    发明人: FORSTER, Ian

    IPC分类号: G06K19/077

    摘要: An identification tag (300) is provided comprising a multilayer assembly incorporating, in sequence, a metal backing layer (320), a bulk structural layer (330), a piezo-electric layer (340) and an electrode layer (350). The electrode layer (350) incorporates antennae structures for receiving interrogating radiation comprising a first radiation component at a relatively lower frequency and a second radiation component at a relatively higher frequency. The electrode layer (350) also incorporates a structure (390, 400) for modulating a second signal generated in response to receiving the second component by a first signal generated in response to receiving the first component to generate a modulated signal which is re-emitted as reflected radiation from the tag (300). The presence of the tag (300) is determinable from modulation components present in the reflected radiation, thereby distinguishing the tag (300) from other objects capable of reflecting radiation, but not modulating it.