System and method for extracting oxygen from powdered metal oxides

    公开(公告)号:US11987893B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17509431

    申请日:2021-10-25

    摘要: A system for extracting oxygen from powdered metal oxides, the system comprising a container comprising an electrolyte in the form of meltable or molten salt, at least one cathode, at least one anode, a power supply, and a conducting structure, wherein the cathode is shaped as a receptacle having a porous shell, which has an upper opening, the cathode being arranged in the electrolyte with the opening protruding over the electrolyte, wherein the conducting structure comprises a plurality of conducting elements and gaps between the conducting elements, wherein the power supply is connectable to the at least one cathode and the at least one anode to selectively apply an electric potential across the cathode and the anode, wherein the conducting structure is insertable into the cathode, such that the conducting elements reach into an inner space of the cathode, wherein the conducting structure is electrically connectable to the cathode, and wherein the system is adapted for reducing at least one respective metallic species of at least one metal oxide of feedstock inside the shell of the cathode with inserted conducting structure by applying the electric potential, wherein the potential is greater than the dissociation potential of the at least one metal oxide.

    Method for protecting at least a part of a network segment of an electrical power distribution network

    公开(公告)号:US11955792B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US17701868

    申请日:2022-03-23

    IPC分类号: H02H7/22 H02H1/00

    CPC分类号: H02H7/22 H02H1/0007

    摘要: A method for protecting at least a part of a network segment of an electrical power distribution network has: detecting voltage dips at the intermediate feeding devices of the line arrangements by the voltage dip detection devices; generating and feeding an electrical signal into the line arrangement by the signal generating device at each intermediate feeding device at which one of the voltage dips is detected, the electrical signals having frequencies different from a network frequency of the network segment; receiving the electrical signals via the line arrangements by the receiving devices of the line protection devices; detecting electrical faults on the line arrangement using the electrical signals received by the triggering device of the respective line protection device; and triggering the disconnecting device of the line protection device of the line arrangement, where an electric fault is detected, by the triggering device so that the line arrangement is electrically disconnected from the further element.

    Apparatus comprising a comparator circuit
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240088881A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18508341

    申请日:2023-11-14

    发明人: Raik FIEDLER

    IPC分类号: H03K5/24 H03K19/21

    摘要: An apparatus includes a comparator circuit and a clock generation circuit. The comparator circuit is configured to compare a first input signal with a second input signal during a first comparison phase to obtain a comparison result. Furthermore, an output signal is output, wherein a waveform of the output signal indicates the comparison result. During a subsequent regeneration phase, at least a part of the comparator circuit is reset for a subsequent second comparison phase. The comparator circuit is configured to receive a clock signal, and to change from the first comparison phase to the regeneration phase based on the clock signal. The clock generation circuit is configured to receive the output signal or a signal derived therefrom, and to generate the clock signal based on the waveform of the output signal to control the comparator circuit from the comparison phase to the regeneration phase based on the signal waveform.

    ENCODING AND DECODING OF ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20240087582A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18515502

    申请日:2023-11-21

    IPC分类号: G10L19/022

    CPC分类号: G10L19/022

    摘要: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for encoding and decoding of acoustic environment.
    In accordance with an example, there is provided an apparatus for decoding an acoustic environment, the acoustic environment including at least one audio source and at least one audio object, the at least one audio object being represented by a structural-acoustic data which links positional data of polygons with acoustic properties of acoustic materials, wherein the positional data includes, for each polygon, the position of the vertexes, the apparatus comprising:



    a bitstream reader for reading, from the bitstream, an encoded version of structural-acoustic data and at least one audio stream to be rendered as generated by the at least one audio source in the acoustic environment;
    an audio source decoding block to decode the at least one an audio stream representing the at least one audio source;
    a structural-acoustic data decoding block to decode the structural-acoustic data.