摘要:
The present invention encompasses novel inhibitors for growth hormone and related hormones, including prolactin, and placental lactogen, and other hormones. The invention specifically encompasses antibodies, antibody fragments, and modifications thereof, as well as polynucleotides, such antisense polynucleotides, interfering RNAs, and small interfering RNAs, and uses thereof, for inhibition of one or more of such hormones. In particular aspects, the invention encompasses methods of producing such inhibitors, compositions comprising one or more of these inhibitors, and methods of inhibiting a cell, e.g., inhibiting cell proliferation, cell survival, or cell motility, especially for a cancer cell, using one or more of the inhibitors. The invention also encompasses methods of diagnosis and monitoring, and methods of treatment, especially for cancer, using one or more of the disclosed compositions or inhibitors.
摘要:
An inductive power transfer (IPT) pad and system for the charging of electric and hybid electric vehicles. The batter of such a vehicle can be selectively coupled to a high power electrical supply for fast charging or a lower power electrical supply for charging using IPT. The batteries of the vehicles are used in a system to control the load demand in an electricity network through variations of the frequency of power supplied.
摘要:
Disclosed is an assembly for supplying a consumer with electric power of a power source. Said assembly comprises a textile, woven floor cover (101) with longitudinal warp threads and transversal weft threads. Three or more spaced-apart conductors (106) that run substantially parallel to each other are woven in as warp threads or weft threads, said conductors replacing part of a filling warp or binding warp or some of the weft threads. The inventive assembly further comprises a feeder for connecting the conductors (106) to the power source as well as a coupling device (130) for receiving electric power from the conductors (106) in the floor cover (101) and conveying the electric power on to the consumer when the coupling device (130) is brought into a power receiving zone of the floor cover (101). The coupling device (130) is especially configured such that electric power can be received inductively from the conductors (106) extending in the floor cover. The disclosed power supply assembly offers great flexibility and is easy to integrate in rooms.
摘要:
An Inductively Coupled Power Transfer (ICPT, or IPT) pick-up circuit is provided which includes an inductive element L2 provided between a resonant circuit and a rectifier means. A DC inductor is not required. The inductive element L2 is chosen to have substantially the same inductance as that of the pick-up coil L1, reducing or eliminating the reactive component of the reflected impedance.
摘要:
An Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) pick-up apparatus includes a magnetically permeable core, a first coil, being wound about the core so as to be inductive coupled therewith such that a current induced in the first coil is most sensitive to a first directional component of magnetic flux and a second coil, being wound about the core so as to be inductively coupled therewith such that a current induced in the second coil is most sensitive to a second directional component of magnetic flux. The first directional component is substantially orthogonal to the second directional component.
摘要:
The invention relates to immunomodulators. In particular the invention relates to specific immunomodulators based on the superantigen SMEZ-2 and more particularly based on mutants of the superantigen SMEZ-2, which are adapted to target antigen-presenting-cells for the purpose of enhancing or suppressing a host immune response.
摘要:
The present invention is concerned with methods for the assessment of pulmonary function and/or disorders, and in particular for diagnosing predisposition to and/or severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in smokers and non-smokers using analysis of genetic polymorphisms and altered gene expression, particularly with regard to genes involved in matrix remodelling, anti-oxidant defence and the inflammatory response.
摘要:
The present invention provides a system for controlling one or more operating unites in an inductive power transfer (IPT) system. Each operating unit includes a pick-up coil that takes power from a primary conductor or track over an air gap. The operating unit is controlled by frequency modulating the primary conductor power supply to send a control instruction which is decoded by the operating unit. The instruction is decoded by generating a signal using a local oscillator in the operating unit and using the signal to detect changes in the frequency of the current in the primary conductor. Such a system can be used, for example, to control inductively powered road-studs that include a light source for controlling traffic on a roadway. A narrow band modulated data transmission system and method for controlling an operating unit are also provided.
摘要:
PCT No. PCT/NZ97/00053 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 3, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 3, 1998 PCT Filed May 2, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/42695 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 13, 1997Loosely coupled inductive power for charging batteries is rectified from a first power pickup winding and the resulting current source is connected to a battery unit. Each current source is controlled by shorting a second resonant winding. Battery banks may be charged using multiple isolated position-tolerant pickups independently controlled according to the condition of the connected battery unit and by overall commands communicated over an isolated link. The battery unit may be a single cell. In a self-stabilizing bank or monoblock a primary inductive conductor is energized using all the cells, individual cells are separately monitored by control means and any below-average cell can be individually charged from the inductive conductor, thus correcting between-cell variations. The charge in all cells within a bank can be held within 30% to 70% of full charge and prevented from drifting towards full or empty during repetitive charge and discharge times.
摘要:
A resonant converter is provided which may be used for supplying power to the primary conductive path of an inductively coupled power transfer (ICPT) system. The converter includes a variable reactive element in the resonant circuit which may be controlled to vary the effective inductance or capacitance of the reactive element. The frequency of the converter is stabilised to a nominal value by sensing the frequency of the converter resonant circuit, comparing the sensed frequency with a nominal frequency and varying the effective inductance or capacitance of the variable reactive element to adjust the converter frequency toward the nominal frequency.