摘要:
An electronic ballast has control circuitry to operate a gas discharge lamp in both full and dimmed illumination modes. A dimming controller serves as the mechanism to permit a selection between full and dimmed illumination modes. The dimming controller signal has a dimming request range which describes the range of dimming controller signal magnitudes. The electronic ballast also includes a full power circuit having a power control coupled to the dimming controller output to receive the dimming controller signal. The full power circuit also has a full power output that can couple to the lamp. When the full power circuit receives the dimming controller signal, via the power control, and the dimming controller signal is not in the dimming request range (i.e. the full illumination mode has been selected), the full power circuit generates a full power signal capable of driving/operating the lamp(s) in the full illumination mode. A filament heating circuit has a heating input coupled to the reduced power circuit, to receive the reduced power signal, and a heating output that can couple to the filaments of one or more lamps. When the reduced power signal is present, the filament heating circuit generates and provides a filament heating signal to the filaments, via the heating output. The filament heating signal maintains the temperature of the filaments when the lamp(s) are operated in the dimmed illumination mode. Further, the filament heating signal is responsive to the reduced power signal.
摘要:
A method of conducting sales over the computer internet where the prices of the merchandises are dynamic functions of time instead of static rational numbers. In one embodiment, this method and system is a free market place that's able to conduct single-unit or multiple-unit sales of products and services from multiple sellers. In this market place, negotiation of the price does not require either side to make arbitrary offers, and further, with a large pool of prospect buyers, the true, current market value of the on sale products and services can be automatically reflected and updated through the purchases made.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for digital jammer detection. In an aspect, a method is provided for detecting a jammer in a received waveform. The method includes filtering the received waveform to produce a filtered waveform and subtracting the filtered waveform from the received waveform to produce a difference waveform. The method also includes determining a power differential associated with the difference waveform, and detecting the jammer if the power differential exceeds a selected threshold. In an aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a filter configured to filter the received waveform to produce a filtered waveform and combining logic configured to subtract the filtered waveform from the received waveform to produce a difference waveform. The apparatus also includes power determination logic configured to determine a power differential associated with the difference waveform, and decision logic configured to detect the jammer if the power differential exceeds a selected threshold.
摘要:
A chainsaw tensioner that includes set of bevel gears. The input gear is connected to a knob to be operated to the user. Torque from the input knob is transferred to an output bevel gear that is connected to a threaded rod. A plate travels about the threaded rod and is mated with the chain guide bar. When the rod is rotated, the plate and the chain guide bar translate linearly to either tighten or loosen the chain around the periphery of the chain guide bar depending on the direction of rotation of the knob.
摘要:
A method and system for providing a magnetoresistive sensor and a read head that includes the magnetoresistive sensor is disclosed. The method and system include providing a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer and a composite sensor layer. The pinned layer has a first magnetization that is pinned in a particular direction. The nonmagnetic spacer layer resides between the composite sensor layer and the pinned layer. The composite sensor layer includes a CoFe layer and a composite layer adjacent to the CoFe layer. The composite layer includes CoFe and at least one of Ta, Hf, Ti, Nb, Zr, Au, Ag, Cu, B, C, O2, H2 and N2.
摘要:
A method for making a carbon nanotube composite film is provided. A PVDF is dissolved into a first solvent to form a PVDF solution. A number of magnetic particles is dispersed into the PVDF solution to form a suspension. A carbon nanotube film is immersed into the suspension and then transferred into a second solvent. The carbon nanotube film structure is transferred from the second solvent and dried to form the carbon nanotube composite film.
摘要:
Disclosed are a magnetic sensor chip and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor chip comprises a magnetic sensitive film (2, 21), and in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic sensitive film (2, 21) are provided a number n of suppression units (4) capable of achieving the sectionalized suppression of a demagnetizing field, where the number n is an integer equal to or greater than 2. By means of the suppression units (4) arranged in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic sensitive film (2, 21), the magnetic sensitive film (2, 21) to achieve a suppression of a demagnetizing field, so as to reduce or even eliminate the hysteresis of the magnetic sensitive film (2, 21), thus improving the sensitivity of the magnetic sensor chip.
摘要:
A receiver in an OFDM communication system includes a power detector and a gain controller. The power detector detects for total received power of a received OFDM signal, e.g., by computing the power of the data samples from an ADC and averaging the power. The gain controller adjusts the gain of the receiver in discrete gain steps and in one direction, e.g., from the lowest gain state to the highest gain state, based on the detected total received power. The gain controller initializes the receiver to the lowest gain state. Thereafter, the gain controller detects for low total received power, e.g., by comparing the detected total received power against a predetermined threshold. The gain controller transitions to a higher gain state if low total received power is detected and maintains the current gain state otherwise.
摘要:
In some embodiments, both video quality and processing speed may be traded off on the fly automatically. Thus different methods and parameters may be invoked to achieve a dynamically varying balance between speed and quality.
摘要:
An electronic ballast for fluorescent lighting includes an inverter circuit having an output circuit coupled to a pair of lamp terminals. A protection circuit is coupled to one of the lamp terminals. The protection circuit includes a differential voltage sensing circuit that is functional to sense the lamp voltage pulses as sudden changes in voltage across a DC blocking capacitor and, in response, to provide a positive AC voltage pulse. A pulse accumulation circuit is coupled to the differential voltage sensing circuit. The pulse accumulation circuit is responsive to the positive AC voltage pulses from the differential voltage sensing circuit to accumulate the positive AC voltage pulses into the ballast shutdown signal.