公开(公告)号：US5768331A

公开(公告)日：1998-06-16

申请号：US653113

申请日：1996-05-24

申请人： Bernard M. Gordon ,  John Dobbs ,  David Banks

发明人： Bernard M. Gordon ,  John Dobbs ,  David Banks

IPC分类号： A61B6/03 ,  G01N23/04 ,  H05G1/60

CPC分类号： A61B6/4078 ,  A61B6/032 ,  A61B6/4028 ,  A61B6/4411 ,  A61B6/4452 ,  A61B6/5264 ,  G01N23/046 ,  G01N2223/419

摘要： A scanning tomography system has a gantry including a disk for supporting a X-ray source and detector array and rotatable about a central axis. Multiple scans are made to reduce the effects of motion artifacts and improve image quality. In addition, the detector array is supported by a suspension system and is movable about the focal spot of the X-ray source a small amount so that in one mode of operation the detector array can be shifted at a predetermined angle from one position to at least one other position during a scan so as to provide an increase in the number of unique X-ray paths so as to provide improved image quality. In a second mode of operation, the detector array can be offset from the center ray so as to provide a quarter of a detector offset.

摘要翻译： 扫描断层摄影系统具有包括用于支撑X射线源和检测器阵列并且可围绕中心轴线旋转的盘的台架。 进行多次扫描以减少运动伪影的影响并提高图像质量。 此外，检测器阵列由悬挂系统支撑，并且可以在X射线源的焦点附近移动少量，使得在一种操作模式中，检测器阵列可以从一个位置移动到预定角度 在扫描期间至少一个其他位置，以提供唯一X射线路径的数量的增加，以便提供改进的图像质量。 在第二种操作模式中，检测器阵列可偏离中心射线，从而提供四分之一的检测器偏移。

公开(公告)号：US5745548A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-28

申请号：US800587

申请日：1997-02-18

申请人： John Dobbs ,  Ruvin Deych ,  David Banks

发明人： John Dobbs ,  Ruvin Deych ,  David Banks

IPC分类号： A61B6/03 ,  H05G1/26 ,  H05G1/52 ,  G01D18/00 ,  A61B6/08

CPC分类号： H05G1/26 ,  H05G1/52

摘要： The invention provides a system for and method of precalibrating the position of the focal spot of an X-ray tube before its installation in a CT scanner system so that the focal spot of the tube is properly aligned with the off-focal aperture, slice-defining aperture and detectors of the scanner system. The precalibration is performed using an interface registration support that receives the X-ray tube and supports the X-ray tube on a mount provided in either the precalibration system or the scanner system. The mount of the precalibration system duplicates the mount of the scanner system, so that desired position of the focal spot in the scanner system relative to the scanner system mount is duplicated in the precalibration system relative to the precalibration system mount. Adjustments in the position of the focal spot are carried out by measuring any displacement of the focal spot of the X-ray tube relative to an interface registration support which is referenced to the desired position of the focal spot by registering the registration support to the mount of the precalibration system. The as-adjusted X-ray tube and its interface registration support can then be installed in the CT scanner without the need for subsequent calibration adjustments. Additional testing of the X-ray tube can also be provided.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种用于在X射线管安装在CT扫描仪系统中之前对X射线管焦点的位置进行预校准的系统和方法，使得该管的焦斑与离焦孔径， 定义扫描仪系统的孔径和检测器。 使用接收X射线管并将X射线管支撑在设置在预校准系统或扫描仪系统中的支架上的接口对准支架进行预校准。 预校准系统的安装件与扫描仪系统的安装件重复，使得扫描仪系统中相对于扫描仪系统安装座的焦点的期望位置相对于预校准系统安装座复制在预校准系统中。 焦点位置的调整是通过测量X射线管的焦点相对于通过将对准支撑件登记到安装座的参考焦点的所需位置的界面对准支撑件的任何位移来进行的 的预校准系统。 然后将经调整的X射线管及其界面对位支撑件安装在CT扫描仪中，无需进行后续校准调整。 还可以提供X射线管的附加测试。

公开(公告)号：US5487098A

公开(公告)日：1996-01-23

申请号：US447181

申请日：1995-05-22

申请人： John Dobbs ,  David Banks

发明人： John Dobbs ,  David Banks

IPC分类号： G01T1/20 ,  A61B6/03 ,  A61B6/02

CPC分类号： A61B6/032

摘要： Preassembled detector modules, each containing several detectors, and preassembled anti-scatter modules, each containing several anti-scatter plates, are mounted on a spine, which is attached to the rotating gantry of a CAT scanner by adjustable end supports. A pair of dowel pins in accurately drilled reference holes in the spine control the location and alignment of each module, one in a module round hole and one in a module slot. Critical dimensions in the modules are referenced to the hole, the slot, and reference surfaces on the modules contact the spine so as to reduce tolerance build-up. As such the modules can be easily manufactured using standard machine tools, and easily assembled and secured to a rotatable disk of a tomographic system.

摘要翻译： 每个包含多个检测器的预组装的检测器模块和每个包含几个防散射板的预组装的防散射模块安装在脊柱上，该脊柱通过可调节的端部支撑件连接到CAT扫描器的旋转机架上。 在脊柱中精确钻孔的参考孔中的一对定位销可以控制每个模块的位置和对齐，一个在模块圆孔中，一个在模块插槽中。 模块中的关键尺寸参考孔，插槽和模块上的参考表面接触脊柱，以减少容差积聚。 因此，可以使用标准机床容易地制造模块，并且容易地组装并固定到断层摄影系统的可旋转盘。

公开(公告)号：US5444752A

公开(公告)日：1995-08-22

申请号：US191426

申请日：1994-02-03

申请人： John Dobbs ,  David Banks ,  Leonhard Katz

发明人： John Dobbs ,  David Banks ,  Leonhard Katz

IPC分类号： A61B6/03 ,  G21K5/04 ,  G01T1/24

CPC分类号： A61B6/035 ,  G21K5/04 ,  A61B6/4488

摘要： Temperature control of solid state detectors carried on the rotating gantry of computed tomography equipment is impractical for very detailed images. The temperatures of all of the detectors in the array can be equalized, however, by closely coupling them to a thermally massive object and isolating this combination from the environment. Significant thermal gradients are thereby removed from the array, and time is removed as a calibrating factor. The detectors are mounted on a common heat sink which provides the thermal mass, and the heat sink is covered with insulation and attached to the gantry by thermally isolating mounts, such as thin flexible stainless steel plates.

摘要翻译： 在计算机断层摄影设备的旋转机架上进行的固态检测器的温度控制对于非常详细的图像是不切实际的。 然而，阵列中的所有检测器的温度可以被均衡，通过将它们紧密地耦合到热质量物体并将该组合与环境隔离。 因此，从阵列中除去显着的热梯度，并且作为校准因子去除时间。 检测器安装在提供热质量的公共散热器上，并且散热器被绝缘体覆盖并且通过热隔离安装件（例如薄柔性不锈钢板）附接到台架。

公开(公告)号：US20120077394A1

公开(公告)日：2012-03-29

申请号：US13242356

申请日：2011-09-23

申请人： David Banks ,  Emory Hodges ,  Kenneth A. Kaczmarz

发明人： David Banks ,  Emory Hodges ,  Kenneth A. Kaczmarz

IPC分类号： B63H21/21

CPC分类号： B63H21/213

摘要： The present subject matter is directed to electronic circuitry and associated hardware configured to electronically control directional signals, i.e., neutral, forward and reverse signals, to the transmission of a watercraft. The circuitry provides for electronic control of the throttle position of the watercraft engine and electronic override of the transmission shifting circuitry to allow throttling up (i.e., revving) of the engine without placing the transmission into gear. In an alternative embodiment, directional control is effected by operation of a lever mechanism and override functionality is effected by manual disengagement of a drive mechanism for the directional control while maintaining operation of the electronic throttle control.

摘要翻译： 本主题涉及电子电路和相关联的硬件，该电子电路和相关联的硬件被配置为电子地控制方向信号，即中立的，正向和反向的信号到船舶的传输。 该电路提供对船只发动机的节气门位置的电子控制和变速器换档电路的电子控制，以允许发动机的节流（即转速）而不将变速器置于档位。 在替代实施例中，通过杠杆机构的操作实现方向控制，并且通过在维持电子节气门控制的操作的同时方向控制的驱动机构的手动分离来实现超控功能。

公开(公告)号：US20070043883A1

公开(公告)日：2007-02-22

申请号：US11492808

申请日：2006-07-26

申请人： Neil MacDougall ,  David Banks ,  Russell Perry

发明人： Neil MacDougall ,  David Banks ,  Russell Perry

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/541

摘要： A computer processor and associated computer memory which has in the memory a number of existing content processing operations (CPOs) which include associated description of the type of content they can process, and which has installed, and runable on it, a content processing operation protocol software which is capable of identifying the input requirements of input pins of the CPOs, and which can enable the characteristics of outputs of the CPOs to be identified; and which processor also has installed and runable on it CPO binding software which is adapted to reserve the operation of one CPO and provide its output to another CPO, and which has the protocol necessary to promise the services of one CPO to another CPO, the CPO binding software being able to interpret and use the characteristics of the CPOs expressed in the CPO protocol to determine that it is appropriate to link the one CPO with the other CPO to produce a desired overall function.

摘要翻译： 一种计算机处理器和相关联的计算机存储器，其在存储器中具有多个现有的内容处理操作（CPO），其包括他们可以处理的内容的类型的相关描述，并且其中已经安装并且可运行的内容处理操作协议 能够识别CPO的输入引脚的输入要求的软件，并且能够识别CPO的输出特征; 哪个处理器也已经安装并运行了CPO绑定软件，该软件适用于保留一个CPO的操作并将其输出提供给另一个CPO，并且具有向一个CPO承诺一个CPO的服务所必需的协议，CPO 绑定软件能够解释和使用CPO协议中表达的CPO的特征来确定将一个CPO与其他CPO链接以产生期望的总体功能是适当的。

公开(公告)号：US20060230023A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-12

申请号：US11096577

申请日：2005-03-30

申请人： John Erickson ,  David Banks ,  Mark Butler

发明人： John Erickson ,  David Banks ,  Mark Butler

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30557

摘要： A digital repository 20 includes data items. A user can add additional functionality or program routines to data item by including as a data item a data processing identifier pointing to at least one data processing routine. Such routines are accessed by a client 22 by sending from a client to the digital repository 20 a request to access a data item, wherein the repository provides an interface description document 32 from the digital repository 20 to the client 22 as the response to the request. The client 22 can then transmit a data processing request from the client to a service 26 identified by the data processing identifier of the interface description document 32, the data processing request including the identifier from the interface description document.

摘要翻译： 数字存储库20包括数据项。 用户可以通过将数据处理标识符指向至少一个数据处理例程作为数据项来添加附加功能或程序例程到数据项。 这样的例程由客户端22通过从客户端向数字存储库20发送访问数据项的请求来访问，其中，存储库提供从数字存储库20到客户机22的接口描述文档32作为对请求的响应 。 客户机22然后可以将数据处理请求从客户端发送到由接口描述文档32的数据处理标识符识别的服务26，数据处理请求包括来自接口描述文档的标识符。

公开(公告)号：US20060097944A1

公开(公告)日：2006-05-11

申请号：US10970703

申请日：2004-10-21

申请人： Douglas McCarville ,  Gerald Herndon ,  Joseph Marshall ,  Robert Vos ,  David Banks ,  Isaac Bekker

发明人： Douglas McCarville ,  Gerald Herndon ,  Joseph Marshall ,  Robert Vos ,  David Banks ,  Isaac Bekker

IPC分类号： H01Q9/28

CPC分类号： H01Q21/0087 ,  H01Q1/286 ,  H01Q21/0075 ,  H01Q21/062 ,  H01Q21/24 ,  H01Q21/28

摘要： A antenna aperture having electromagnetic radiating elements embedded in structural wall portions of a honeycomb-like core. Independent wall sections each having a plurality electromagnetic radiating elements are formed into the honeycomb-like core. Feed portions of each radiating element form teeth that are copper plated before being assembled onto a back skin panel. Each of the teeth are then generally machined flush with a surface of the back skin to present electrical contact pads which enable electrical coupling to each of the radiating elements by an external antenna electronics board.

摘要翻译： 具有埋入蜂窝状核心的结构壁部分的电磁辐射元件的天线孔。 每个具有多个电磁辐射元件的独立壁部分形成为蜂窝状芯。 每个辐射元件的进给部分在组装到背部皮肤面板上之前形成镀铜的齿。 然后，每个齿通常与背部皮肤的表面齐平地加工，以呈现电接触焊盘，其能够通过外部天线电子板电耦合到每个辐射元件。

公开(公告)号：US20060066470A1

公开(公告)日：2006-03-30

申请号：US10955818

申请日：2004-09-30

申请人： David Anderson ,  Aydin Akdeniz ,  David Banks ,  William Renton ,  Robert Avery

发明人： David Anderson ,  Aydin Akdeniz ,  David Banks ,  William Renton ,  Robert Avery

IPC分类号： G01S13/93

CPC分类号： G08G5/045 ,  B60Q1/48 ,  B60Q1/525 ,  B60Q5/006 ,  B64F1/3055 ,  G01S13/931 ,  G01S2013/9335 ,  G01S2013/9367 ,  G08G5/0082 ,  G08G5/065 ,  Y10S367/909

摘要： The present invention comprises systems and methods for preventing collisions between aircraft and ground vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a proximity detection unit and a transducer proximate to a selected structural portion of an aircraft, the proximity detection unit being operable to emit ranging signals through the transducer and to receive reflected signals through the transducer to determine the position of an object within a ranging area adjacent to the structural portion. The system further includes an alarm device coupled to the proximity detection unit that is responsive to a signal generated by the proximity detection unit. In another embodiment, a method includes determining a distance between the ground service vehicle and a selected structural portion of the aircraft when the vehicle is positioned in a ranging area about the aircraft. The method further includes generating a proximity alarm based upon the distance.

摘要翻译： 本发明包括用于防止飞机和地面车辆之间碰撞的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中，系统包括接近检测单元和靠近飞行器的选定结构部分的换能器，该接近检测单元可操作以通过换能器发射测距信号并且通过换能器接收反射信号以确定 与结构部分相邻的测距区域内的对象。 该系统还包括耦合到接近检测单元的报警装置，其响应于由接近检测单元产生的信号。 在另一个实施例中，一种方法包括当车辆位于围绕飞机的测距区域中时，确定地面服务车辆与飞行器的选定结构部分之间的距离。 该方法还包括基于距离产生接近警报。

公开(公告)号：US06859527B1

公开(公告)日：2005-02-22

申请号：US09561601

申请日：2000-04-27

申请人： David Banks ,  Anthony J. Wiley ,  Enrico Fedrigo

发明人： David Banks ,  Anthony J. Wiley ,  Enrico Fedrigo

IPC分类号： H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04L12/66 ,  H04M3/00 ,  H04M5/00

CPC分类号： H04L63/126 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/12103 ,  H04L61/1535 ,  H04L63/14 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/142 ,  H04L67/16 ,  H04L67/28 ,  H04L67/2814 ,  H04L67/2819 ,  H04L69/329

摘要： An internet-connected service system is provided for facilitating communication across the internet between image-sending and image-receiving systems that have dial-up internet access. The image-sending system, after connecting to the internet, sends a communication request to the service system and the latter is then responsible for waking up the image-receiving system. Upon being woken up, the image-receiving system connects to the internet and contacts the service system. The service system then transfers the current network address of at least one of the systems to the other thereby enabling direct communication to be established between the image-sending and image-receiving systems.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种互联网连接的服务系统，用于促进图像发送和具有拨号上网的图像接收系统之间的互联网通信。 图像发送系统在连接到互联网之后向服务系统发送通信请求，然后后者负责唤醒图像接收系统。 唤醒后，图像接收系统连接到互联网并与服务系统联系。 服务系统然后将至少一个系统的当前网络地址传送到另一个，从而使得能够在图像发送和图像接收系统之间建立直接通信。