摘要:
A method and system for monitoring the activity of a system of one or more electro-mechanical components that receive electrical current from a power supply. The method and system samples an actual current supplied to the electro-mechanical component from the power supply. Next, the method and system reads a theoretical current for the activity of the system. A statistical value is computed from comparing the actual current and the theoretical current. This statistical value is compared to upper and lower threshold values. Depending upon this comparison, the system issues various output messages. Further, if this comparison indicates that one of the electro-mechanical components is failing, the method and system will shut that component down.
摘要:
A platform carries an integrated circuit (IC) (20) for handling and alignment through wire bonding operations, provides interconnections, and supports the shielded IC with uniform, controlled adhesive thickness. The platform base (10) has a flat portion which may have a slot (30) extending the length of a chip with wire-bond pads (140). The IC is mounted to the platform base with cast or contained adhesive, epoxy, or tape (50), which provides at least one adhesive surface. For several rows of wire-bond pads, there may be several slots. If the platform carries more than one chip, the platform base may have one or more slots (30, 40) per chip. A platform may carry other components (110, 120). Circuitry (90) may be printed on one or both sides of the platform base, with moderate resistivity to damp ringing of noise signals. Wire bonds are made through the slot (30), connecting IC pads with circuitry. The platform base may have conductive areas (90) on one or both sides to provide a shield or bus connected by wire bonds. Conductive bus elements (60 and 70) may be attached with tape (80). The platform may have terminals (100) for interconnection with higher level of circuitry and/or narrow leads (1220) extending over the IC. The platform base may be formed of metal, stamped in a continuous strip consisting of many individual platform segments, the individual segments being excised during assembly.
摘要:
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for authorized remote access to a target system. The apparatus, system, and method include a security module and an authorization module that cooperate to authenticate a remote user using three passwords. The apparatus, system, and method selectively generate an encrypted key in response to a first password. The authorization module decrypts the encrypted key and determines a third password in response to authenticating a second password and identifying a remote user within an authorized user list. The third password is then used to gain secure, traceable, and in certain embodiments, restricted remote access to a target system.
摘要:
This invention provides a library of genes involved in mitochondrial biology, arrays containing probes for genes involved in mitochondrial biology, methods for making such arrays, and methods of using such arrays. Genes and probe sequences involved in mitochondrial biology in humans and mice are provided. The arrays of this invention are useful for determining mitochondrial biology gene expression profiles. Mitochondrial biology gene expression profiles are useful for determining expression profiles diagnostic of physiological conditions; diagnosing physiological conditions; identifying biochemical pathways, genes, and mutations involved in physiological conditions; identify therapeutic agents useful for preventing and/or treating such physiological conditions; evaluating and/or monitoring the efficacy of such therapies, and creating and identifying animal models of human physiologic conditions. Arrays containing probes for all genes known to be involved in mitochondrial biology are provided, as well as arrays containing subsets of such probes.
摘要:
An integrated-circuit manufacturing process uses a platform to carry an integrated circuit (IC) (20) for handling and alignment through wire bonding or TAB operations, to provide interconnections, and to support the shielded IC with uniform, controlled adhesive thickness. The platform base (10) has a flat portion which may have a slot (30) extending the length of a chip with wire-bond pads (140). The IC is mounted to the platform base with cast or contained adhesive, epoxy, or tape (50), which provides at least one adhesive surface. For several rows of wire-bond pads, there may be several slots. If the platform carries more than one chip, the platform base may have one or more slots (30, 40) per chip. A platform may carry other components (110, 120). Circuitry (90) may be printed on one or both sides of the platform base, with moderate resistivity to damp ringing of noise signals. Wire bonds are made through the slot (30), connecting IC pads with circuitry. The platform base may have conductive areas (90) on one or both sides to provide a shield or bus connected by wire bonds. Conductive bus elements (60 and 70) may be attached with tape (80). The platform may have terminals (100) for interconnection with higher level of circuitry and/or narrow leads (1220) extending over the IC. The platform base is preferably made from epoxy-glass laminate with conductive layers of a clad composite with preferred resistivity and preferred thermal expansion. Platform bases may be composite metal, stamped in a continuous strip, with platform segments excised during assembly. Another embodiment provides a lead paddle assembly in which two tape application platforms hold an IC in a rigid assembly.
摘要:
This invention provides human mtDNA polymorphisms that are diagnostic of all the major human haplogroups and methods of diagnosing those haplogroups and selected subhaplogroups. This invention also provides methods for identifying evolutionarily significant mitochondrial DNA genes, nucleotide alleles, and amino acid alleles. Evolutionarily significant genes and alleles are identified using one or two populations of a single species. The process of identifying evolutionarily significant nucleotide alleles involves identifying evolutionarily significant genes and then evolutionarily significant nucleotide alleles in those genes, and identifying evolutionarily significant amino acid alleles involves identifying amino acids encoded by all nonsynonymous alleles. Synonymous codings of the nucleotide alleles encoding evolutionarily significant amino acid alleles of this invention are equivalent to the evolutionarily significant amino acid alleles disclosed herein and are included within the scope of this invention. Synonymous codings include alleles at neighboring nucleotide loci that are within the same codon. This invention also provides methods for associating haplogroups and evolutionarily significant nucleotide and amino acid alleles with predispositions to physiological conditions. Methods for diagnosing predisposition to LHON, and methods for diagnosing increased likelihood of developing blindness, centenaria, and increased longevity that are not dependent on the geographical location of the individual being diagnosed are provided herein. Diagnosis of an individual with a predisposition to an energy metabolism-related physiological condition is dependent on the geographic region of the individual. Physiological conditions diagnosable by the methods of this invention include healthy conditions and pathological conditions. Physiological conditions that are associated with haplogroups and with alleles provided by this invention include energetic imbalance, metabolic disease, abnormal energy metabolism, abnormal temperature regulation, abnormal oxidative phosphorylation, abnormal electron transport, obesity, amount of body fat, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.
摘要:
A computerized test preparation system and methods are disclosed which assist an examinee to increase his learning and improve his performance on standardized academic or applied aptitude and achievement exams. Performance feedback information is provided to a user, including conventional information such as number of items correct and time elapsed, pinpoints substantive areas of a particular exam in which the user is either weak or strong, and offers diagnoses of, and remediation tailored to, a user's personal difficulties. By assessing a user's responses to given exam questions, through various distractor error patterns manifested in the incorrect answers to multiple-choice questions, or through coded categories of responses in the case of user responses to constrained open-ended items, a preliminary diagnosis of a user's deficits in knowledge and/or test taking skill is made. This preliminary diagnosis is subsequently refined utilizing additional examination questions. The refined diagnosis is then utilized to offer recommendations to an individual user to ameliorate the user's manifested error patterns. A user's response to this remediation is confirmed and reinforced using subsequent remediation activities.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for providing information, such as power consumption, to a subscriber over an electronic network in response to commands provided by the subscriber. The apparatus includes a remote unit which detects and stores the power consumption information, a subscriber device, i.e., a telephone, for generating request commands and a control device which tracks the information. The subscriber using the subscriber device, feeds the request commands via the network to the control device. The control device responds to the commands by directing the remote unit to feed its stored power consumption information onto the network to the control device. The control device then processes the information and indicates the result back to the subscriber.