Abstract:
A method and system for generating electrical energy is provided. The method and the system comprises a geothermal underground dry space with a hot ambient temperature, a water intake at the bottom of the sea or ocean, a passageway leading from said water intake to said geothermal underground dry space, allowing water to flow from said water intake to said geothermal underground dry space, a duct for allowing hot water or steam to escape upwardly from said geothermal underground dry space towards the surface of the ground, and means for converting thermal energy from said hot water or steam to electrical energy.
Abstract:
A pulse code modulation (PCM) modem system employs a relatively white training signal to optimize the adaptive filter coefficients in the receiver equalizers. During the training mode, any line coding or equivalent spectral shaping is disabled to provide a training signal sequence having a substantially even spectral content. The presence of DC within the training signal reduces the likelihood that the error function of the equalizers will settle at a local minimum. Following the training interval, the encoder enables the line coder to condition the digital input sequences, introduce DC nulls, and reduce the detrimental effects of baseline wander.
Abstract:
A modem system utilizes PCM encoding and transmission techniques in the upstream direction from a client modem (connected to a digital network via an analog loop) to a central site modem (connected to the digital network via a digital link). The modem system employs precoding techniques that enable the transmit signal to be pre-equalized to compensate for the analog channel characteristics. The precoding technique generates a plurality of equivalent signal point sequences in response to a digital data input. The signal point sequences are analyzed and compared relative to a predetermined cost metric such as transmit power. A preferred signal point sequence is selected and transmitted to the central site modem.
Abstract:
A pulse code modulation (PCM) modem system employs a relatively white training signal to optimize the adaptive filter coefficients in the receiver equalizers. During the training mode, any line coding or equivalent spectral shaping is disabled to provide a training signal sequence having a substantially even spectral content. The presence of DC within the training signal reduces the likelihood that the error function of the equalizers will settle at a local minimum. Following the training interval, the encoder enables the line coder to condition the digital input sequences, introduce DC nulls, and reduce the detrimental effects of baseline wander.
Abstract:
A pulse code modulation (PCM) modem system employs a relatively white training signal to optimize the adaptive filter coefficients in the receiver equalizers. During the training mode, any line coding or equivalent spectral shaping is disabled to provide a training signal sequence having a substantially even spectral content. The presence of DC within the training signal reduces the likelihood that the error function of the equalizers will settle at a local minimum. Following the training interval, the encoder enables the line coder to condition the digital input sequences, introduce DC nulls, and reduce the detrimental effects of baseline wander.
Abstract:
A method and equipment for mixing hard granules into tire tread bodies and into sundry rubber strips and tread stock. Rubber stock is extruded into tread bands of a suitable shape which are rolled under control, in a suitable thickness and number of layers, in a circular process over a pre-treated tire, or other object. The tire is subsequently patterned and vulcanized. The hard granules are distributed according to a predetermined configuration onto at least part of the surface of the extruded rubber tread band before the next layer is rolled in a circular process onto the pre-treated tire, using dedicated equipment so that the granules will be mixed into the patterned wearing surface of the tire after profiling and vulcanization.