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A near field communication, NFC, device for use in preparing a carrier signal for active load modulation transmission, the NFC device comprising: a local clock generator configured to generate a reference clock signal; a clock extractor configured to recover a clock signal generated by an NFC initiator device; a frequency tracking module, FTM, configured to perform a frequency tracking operation based on an input clock signal to produce a FTM output with its frequency aligned with the input clock signal wherein the input clock signal is the reference clock signal or the recovered clock signal; and a phase tracking module, PTM, configured to perform a phase tracking operation on the FTM output based on the recovered clock signal to produce a PTM output with its phase aligned with the recovered clock signal; wherein the PTM output at a desired frequency and phase is served as the carrier signal for use in load modulating data of the NFC device to form a load modulated signal to be actively transmitted to the NFC initiator device. a local clock generator configured to generate a reference clock signal; a clock extractor configured to recover a clock signal generated by an NFC initiator device; a frequency tracking module, FTM, configured to perform a frequency tracking operation based on an input clock signal to produce a FTM output with its frequency aligned with the input clock signal wherein the input clock signal is the reference clock signal or the recovered clock signal; and a phase tracking module, PTM, configured to perform a phase tracking operation on the FTM output based on the recovered clock signal to produce a PTM output with its phase aligned with the recovered clock signal; wherein the PTM output at a desired frequency and phase is served as the carrier signal for use in load modulating data of the NFC device to form a load modulated signal to be actively transmitted to the NFC initiator device.
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element, comprising: forming a substrate layer (L11, L12); forming an intermediate layer (L21, L22) on an upper surface of the substrate layer; the intermediate layer forming step including forming a lower electrode layer, and depositing a stress relaxing layer with a lattice constant that is closer to the lattice constant of the piezoelectric layer (L31, L32) than the lattice constant of the lower electrode layer; forming a piezoelectric layer (L31, L32) on an upper surface of the stress relaxing layer, characterised in that the stress relaxing layer is structured before the deposition of the piezoelectric layer (L31, L32), leaving an independent region surrounded by an area not covered by the stress relaxing layer on the lower electrode. forming a substrate layer (L11, L12); forming an intermediate layer (L21, L22) on an upper surface of the substrate layer; the intermediate layer forming step including forming a lower electrode layer, and depositing a stress relaxing layer with a lattice constant that is closer to the lattice constant of the piezoelectric layer (L31, L32) than the lattice constant of the lower electrode layer; forming a piezoelectric layer (L31, L32) on an upper surface of the stress relaxing layer, characterised in that the stress relaxing layer is structured before the deposition of the piezoelectric layer (L31, L32), leaving an independent region surrounded by an area not covered by the stress relaxing layer on the lower electrode.
A power converter comprising a DC input connected to an inductive element (TR; L1), a switch arranged to interrupt the inductive current cyclically with a predetermined cycle period, a plurality of load circuits (31, 32, 33), and a multiplexer having a plurality of parallel channels (M1, M2, M3) between first and second output terminals (34, 38) of the inductive element, wherein each channel includes one of the load circuits (31, 32, 33), and the multiplexer is adapted to make the channels conductive sequentially and periodically, characterized in that the multiplexer has a switching period that is at least nine times the predetermined cycle period of the switch, and the power converter comprises a controller controlling the multiplexer for controlling the output power of the load circuits (31, 32, 33) by determining the numbers of cycle periods of the switch for which the channels (M1, M2, M3) of the multiplexer that are associated with the individual load circuits are conductive in each multiplex period, said numbers of cycle periods being three or more for at least one of the channels.
A communication method performed by a first access network device, comprising: determining a timing offset of a first carrier and a second carrier, wherein the timing offset is an offset between timing of downlink communication of the first carrier and timing of uplink communication of the second carrier; and sending, by using a system message or a radio resource control signaling message carried on the first carrier, first indication information to a terminal, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate the timing offset, and the timing offset is used to determine the timing of the second carrier; wherein the timing offset indicates a time difference between a subframe or symbol boundary of the first carrier and a start location of a physical random access channel, PRACH, on the second carrier. determining a timing offset of a first carrier and a second carrier, wherein the timing offset is an offset between timing of downlink communication of the first carrier and timing of uplink communication of the second carrier; and sending, by using a system message or a radio resource control signaling message carried on the first carrier, first indication information to a terminal, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate the timing offset, and the timing offset is used to determine the timing of the second carrier; wherein the timing offset indicates a time difference between a subframe or symbol boundary of the first carrier and a start location of a physical random access channel, PRACH, on the second carrier.
A method of operating a nuclear fission reactor, the reactor comprising a reactor core, and a coolant tank, the reactor core comprising an array of fuel assemblies, each fuel assembly extending generally vertically and comprising one or more fuel tubes containing fissile fuel, the fuel tubes being immersed in the coolant the method comprising: monitoring and/or modelling fuel concentrations and/or fission rates in each of the fuel assemblies; in dependence upon results of the monitoring and/or modelling, moving fuel assemblies horizontally within the array, without lifting any of the fuel assemblies from the array of fuel assemblies, in order to control fission rates in the reactor core; moving a spent fuel assembly to a horizontal periphery of the array without lifting the fuel assembly from the array by moving a row or part row of the array of fuel assemblies towards the periphery of the array; and removing the spent fuel assembly from the horizontal periphery of the array into a spent fuel storage area within the coolant tank without lifting the spent fuel assembly from the coolant. monitoring and/or modelling fuel concentrations and/or fission rates in each of the fuel assemblies; in dependence upon results of the monitoring and/or modelling, moving fuel assemblies horizontally within the array, without lifting any of the fuel assemblies from the array of fuel assemblies, in order to control fission rates in the reactor core; moving a spent fuel assembly to a horizontal periphery of the array without lifting the fuel assembly from the array by moving a row or part row of the array of fuel assemblies towards the periphery of the array; and removing the spent fuel assembly from the horizontal periphery of the array into a spent fuel storage area within the coolant tank without lifting the spent fuel assembly from the coolant.
A method for operating a drive system of a traction vehicle, wherein the drive system comprises a generator, which is driven by a fuel powered motor and which comprises two galvanically separated stator winding systems; wherein the drive system comprises two converter branches supplied by the generator; wherein each converter branch comprises a generator side inverter supplied by one of the stator winding systems, a DC link and a drive motor side inverter connected to the DC link supplying at least one drive motor, wherein the DC link is directly connectable with an electrical DC network for supplying the traction vehicle, the method comprising: determining a reference power to be provided to the at least one drive motor; determining an actual DC network power provided by the DC network; in the case, the actual DC network power is smaller than the reference power: controlling the fuel powered motor, such that a difference power is provided by the generator; automatically balancing the power from the fuel powered motor between the two converter branches with the two inductively coupled stator winding systems of the generator, to which the converter branches are connected. wherein the drive system comprises a generator, which is driven by a fuel powered motor and which comprises two galvanically separated stator winding systems; wherein the drive system comprises two converter branches supplied by the generator; wherein each converter branch comprises a generator side inverter supplied by one of the stator winding systems, a DC link and a drive motor side inverter connected to the DC link supplying at least one drive motor, wherein the DC link is directly connectable with an electrical DC network for supplying the traction vehicle, the method comprising: determining a reference power to be provided to the at least one drive motor; determining an actual DC network power provided by the DC network; in the case, the actual DC network power is smaller than the reference power: controlling the fuel powered motor, such that a difference power is provided by the generator; automatically balancing the power from the fuel powered motor between the two converter branches with the two inductively coupled stator winding systems of the generator, to which the converter branches are connected. determining a reference power to be provided to the at least one drive motor; determining an actual DC network power provided by the DC network; in the case, the actual DC network power is smaller than the reference power: controlling the fuel powered motor, such that a difference power is provided by the generator; automatically balancing the power from the fuel powered motor between the two converter branches with the two inductively coupled stator winding systems of the generator, to which the converter branches are connected.
A method for checking a moving available area of a robot on a moving surface in order to allow the robot to autonomously move on the moving surface of a curved surface, the method comprising: a) generating a geometric model of the moving surface divided into a plurality of curved surfaces (110, 120); b) dividing the plurality of curved surfaces into a plurality of triangles (10, 20, 30, 40) by using the geometric model; c) calculating angles between the plurality of triangles and triangles adjacent to the plurality of triangles; and d) determining whether or not the angles are within a predetermined range. a) generating a geometric model of the moving surface divided into a plurality of curved surfaces (110, 120); b) dividing the plurality of curved surfaces into a plurality of triangles (10, 20, 30, 40) by using the geometric model; c) calculating angles between the plurality of triangles and triangles adjacent to the plurality of triangles; and d) determining whether or not the angles are within a predetermined range.
A system for noise reduction, comprising: a sub-band noise sensor configured to detect a noise and generate a plurality of sub-band noise signals in response to the detected noise, each of the sub-band noise signals having a distinctive sub-band of the frequency band of the noise; a plurality of sub-band noise reduction modules, each of the sub-band noise reduction modules being configured to receive one of the sub-band noise signals from the sub-band noise sensor and generate a sub-band noise correction signal for reducing the received sub-band noise signal; and an output module (170, 180) configured to receive the sub-band noise correction signals and output a noise correction signal for reducing the noise based on the sub-band noise correction signals, characterized in that the sub-band noise sensor comprises: a plurality of acoustic-electric transducers (410, 610), each of the acoustic-electric transducers (410, 610) having a unique frequency response (510, 520, 530) and being configured to generate a sub-band noise electrical signal by processing the noise; and a plurality of sampling modules, each of the sampling modules being configured to receive one sub-band noise electrical signal of the sub-band noise electrical signals, and sample the received sub-band noise electrical signal to generate one sub-band noise signal of the sub-band noise signals. a sub-band noise sensor configured to detect a noise and generate a plurality of sub-band noise signals in response to the detected noise, each of the sub-band noise signals having a distinctive sub-band of the frequency band of the noise; a plurality of sub-band noise reduction modules, each of the sub-band noise reduction modules being configured to receive one of the sub-band noise signals from the sub-band noise sensor and generate a sub-band noise correction signal for reducing the received sub-band noise signal; and an output module (170, 180) configured to receive the sub-band noise correction signals and output a noise correction signal for reducing the noise based on the sub-band noise correction signals, characterized in that the sub-band noise sensor comprises: a plurality of acoustic-electric transducers (410, 610), each of the acoustic-electric transducers (410, 610) having a unique frequency response (510, 520, 530) and being configured to generate a sub-band noise electrical signal by processing the noise; and a plurality of sampling modules, each of the sampling modules being configured to receive one sub-band noise electrical signal of the sub-band noise electrical signals, and sample the received sub-band noise electrical signal to generate one sub-band noise signal of the sub-band noise signals.
. A solid detergent composition comprising: a) from 25 to 88 wt. % free acid equivalent of non-crystalline chiral aminopolycarboxylate; and b) from 10 to 60 wt. % free acid equivalent of non-crystalline organic acid different from aminopolycarboxylate; and c) from 0.01 to 20 wt. % of surfactant; and d) from 0.7 to 25 wt. % of water; wherein the organic acid has an average molecular mass of at most 500 Dalton, the molecular mass being based on the free acid equivalent; and wherein the ingredients a), b) c) and d) are molecularly distributed throughout the solid. a) from 25 to 88 wt. % free acid equivalent of non-crystalline chiral aminopolycarboxylate; and b) from 10 to 60 wt. % free acid equivalent of non-crystalline organic acid different from aminopolycarboxylate; and c) from 0.01 to 20 wt. % of surfactant; and d) from 0.7 to 25 wt. % of water; wherein the organic acid has an average molecular mass of at most 500 Dalton, the molecular mass being based on the free acid equivalent; and wherein the ingredients a), b) c) and d) are molecularly distributed throughout the solid.
Method for processing containers in a container processing machine comprising a plurality of processing positions formed along a circulating conveyor element and arranged at a spacing from each other, and with a container feed having a conveying path for individually feeding the containers to a processing position, wherein the containers on the conveying path of the container feed form a flow of containers in such a way that the position of each container in the flow of containers is associated with a defined processing position on the conveyor element, with which, in order to avoid the transfer of containers, at least at one processing position, excluded from container processing and not to be occupied by a container, the respective container associated with this processing position due to its position in the flow of containers, is held back on the conveying path in order to form a gap, corresponding to at least one container, in the flow of containers, such that the container concerned is transferred to a processing position, which, in the conveying direction of the conveying element, follows on the at least one processing position which is not to be occupied, wherein the formation of the gap takes place by the use of at least one retention element, which can be moved out of a starting position, outside the trajectory of the containers on the conveying path, into a retention position, in which it retains or brakes the container following the gap which is to be formed, related to the conveying direction of the conveying path, and also the containers following this in the flow of containers, at least until the complete formation of this gap, characterised in that the retention element, located in its retention position, and after the formation of the gap, is moved together with the flow of containers on the conveying path, with the support of the container following the gap, related to the conveying direction of the conveying path, and specifically as far as a region of an inlet of a device, with which the containers are brought to a container spacing which corresponds to the division spacing of the processing positions.
A parking control method for executing a control instruction to move a vehicle along a parking route, comprising: searching a first position at which an operator of the vehicle can get off the vehicle;stopping the vehicle; and parking the vehicle in accordance with the control instruction on a basis of an operation command acquired from the operator who has got off the vehicle characterized in that the searching is searching two or more first positions at which an operator of the vehicle can get off the vehicle; and in that the control method further comprises: calculating operability evaluation value of remote operation regarding to each of the first positions on the basis of an existence and an area of an observable area which is observable by the operator; selecting a second position with relatively high operability evaluation value of remote operation from among the first positions; and stopping the vehicle at the second position. searching a first position at which an operator of the vehicle can get off the vehicle;stopping the vehicle; and parking the vehicle in accordance with the control instruction on a basis of an operation command acquired from the operator who has got off the vehicle characterized in that the searching is searching two or more first positions at which an operator of the vehicle can get off the vehicle; and in that the control method further comprises: calculating operability evaluation value of remote operation regarding to each of the first positions on the basis of an existence and an area of an observable area which is observable by the operator; selecting a second position with relatively high operability evaluation value of remote operation from among the first positions; and stopping the vehicle at the second position. calculating operability evaluation value of remote operation regarding to each of the first positions on the basis of an existence and an area of an observable area which is observable by the operator; selecting a second position with relatively high operability evaluation value of remote operation from among the first positions; and stopping the vehicle at the second position.
Method for producing a flavoured cheese, comprising a step a) of producing the cheese, characterised in that it comprises, after this step of producing the cheese, the following steps, in order: b) pricking the cheese with hollow needles, moved by a back and forth movement with respect to the cheese, said movement comprising a phase of entering said needles into the cheese, followed by a phase of removing said needles from the cheese and, injection of a flavoured liquid into the cheese with said needles; c) salting the cheese; and d) vacuum-packing the cheese. b) pricking the cheese with hollow needles, moved by a back and forth movement with respect to the cheese, said movement comprising a phase of entering said needles into the cheese, followed by a phase of removing said needles from the cheese and, injection of a flavoured liquid into the cheese with said needles; c) salting the cheese; and d) vacuum-packing the cheese.
A switch driving circuit which electrically opens and closes a switch circuit including two N-channel type semiconductor switching elements (6a, 6b) series connected in opposite directions, thereby electrically opening and closing an electrical path between a DC power supply and an inverter circuit, the switch driving circuit having a reference potential point in common with the inverter circuit and supplying an opening/closing control signal to the switch circuit, the switch driving circuit comprising: a half bridge circuit including two semiconductor switching elements (10, 11) series connected between a driving power supply and the reference potential point; two protection diodes (13, 14) connected in parallel between conduction terminals of each of the semiconductor switching elements (10, 11) respectively; and at least one current blocking diode (39, 42, 43) configured to block current from flowing from the reference potential point through an output terminal of the half bridge circuit and further therethrough to the switch circuit side when the DC power supply is connected to the inverter circuit in reverse polarity; and characterized in that: the at least one blocking diode (39, 42, 43) comprises two current blocking diodes (42, 43) that are provided and connected between a signal output terminal of the half bridge circuit and one of the semiconductor switching elements at the reference potential side and between the signal output terminal of the half bridge circuit and one of the protection diodes connected in parallel to the one semiconductor switching element respectively. a half bridge circuit including two semiconductor switching elements (10, 11) series connected between a driving power supply and the reference potential point; two protection diodes (13, 14) connected in parallel between conduction terminals of each of the semiconductor switching elements (10, 11) respectively; and at least one current blocking diode (39, 42, 43) configured to block current from flowing from the reference potential point through an output terminal of the half bridge circuit and further therethrough to the switch circuit side when the DC power supply is connected to the inverter circuit in reverse polarity; and characterized in that: the at least one blocking diode (39, 42, 43) comprises two current blocking diodes (42, 43) that are provided and connected between a signal output terminal of the half bridge circuit and one of the semiconductor switching elements at the reference potential side and between the signal output terminal of the half bridge circuit and one of the protection diodes connected in parallel to the one semiconductor switching element respectively.