Power managing energy-harvesting for selectively controlling a state of individual computer based on a harvesting energy stored available
    1.
    发明授权
    Power managing energy-harvesting for selectively controlling a state of individual computer based on a harvesting energy stored available 有权
    电力管理能量收集,用于基于存储的可获得的能量来选择性地控制个人计算机的状态

    公开(公告)号:US08769315B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-01

    申请号:US13172185

    申请日:2011-06-29

    IPC分类号: G06F1/26 G06F1/32 G06F1/00

    摘要: According to typical inventive practice, each inventive sensor node performs computer processing that is tri-chotomized in a progressive, power-regulating scheme of three processors, namely, a low-performance processor, a middle-performance processor (which remains in sleep mode until activated upon demand for a middle-computation function), and a high-performance processor (which remains in sleep mode until activated upon demand for a high-computation function). The low-performance processor performs low computation functions such as routine sensing functions. The middle-performance processor performs middle-computation functions such as validative sensing functions. The high-performance processor performs high computation functions such as remedial communicative functions. Each sensor node has one or more transceivers for wirelessly transmitting and receiving radio signals (e.g. remedial communication) to and from transceivers of other sensor nodes. Some transceivers may be specifically dedicated to wirelessly communicating “wake-up” signals among nodes. Inventive practice is notably efficacious in furtherance of situational awareness of damage events onboard naval ships.

    摘要翻译: 根据典型的发明实践,每个创造性传感器节点执行三个处理器的逐行,功率调节方案三分之一的计算机处理,即三个处理器,即低性能处理器,中间处理器(其保持睡眠模式直到 根据对中间计算功能的需求激活)和高性能处理器(其保持在睡眠模式,直到根据需要为高计算功能激活)。 低性能处理器执行诸如常规感测功能的低计算功能。 中间处理器执行中间计算功能,如验证感应功能。 高性能处理器执行诸如补救交流功能的高计算功能。 每个传感器节点具有一个或多个收发器,用于向其他传感器节点的收发器进行无线发射和接收无线电信号(例如补救通信)。 一些收发器可以专门用于在节点之间无线地传送“唤醒”信号。 发明实践显着有效地促进船上船舶上的损坏事件的情境意识。

    Thermal management smart valve with rupture detection and isolation
    2.
    发明授权
    Thermal management smart valve with rupture detection and isolation 失效
    具有破裂检测和隔离的热管理智能阀

    公开(公告)号:US08600566B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-12-03

    申请号:US13021580

    申请日:2011-02-04

    IPC分类号: G05D7/00

    摘要: The condition of a fluid piping system is monitored by multiple intercommunicative smart valves, each executing a computer algorithm that designates smart valves as critical or non-critical, compares measurement data versus simulation data, and makes decisions based on the critical-or-noncritical designations and the measurement-versus-simulation comparisons. Initial measurement-versus-simulation comparisons are made for downstream pressure, flow rate, and temperature. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in either the downstream pressure or the flow rate, then the algorithm compares a measurement rupture determinant versus a simulation rupture determinant; if a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the rupture determinant, then the smart valve is closed. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the temperature, then the smart valve, if non-critical, is closed; however, if the smart valve is critical, then the nearest upstream non-critical smart valve is closed. Any measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy results, at least, in an alarm or warning.

    摘要翻译: 流体管道系统的状况由多个互通智能阀监控,每个执行一个将智能阀指定为关键或非关键的计算机算法,将测量数据与模拟数据进行比较,并根据关键或非关键指标进行决策 和测量与模拟的比较。 对下游压力,流量和温度进行初始测量与模拟比较。 如果在下游压力或流速中发现测量与模拟的差异,则该算法将测量断裂行为与模拟破裂行列式进行比较; 如果在断裂决定因素中发现测量与模拟的差异,则智能阀关闭。 如果在温度中发现测量与模拟的差异,则智能阀(如果不重要)关闭; 然而,如果智能阀是关键的,则最近的上游非关键智能阀关闭。 至少在报警或警告中,任何测量与模拟的差异都会产生。

    Active-avoidance-based routing in a wireless ad hoc network
    3.
    发明授权
    Active-avoidance-based routing in a wireless ad hoc network 失效
    无线自组织网络中基于主动回避的路由

    公开(公告)号:US08509060B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-13

    申请号:US13172137

    申请日:2011-06-29

    摘要: Conventional multi-hop routing of ad hoc wireless networks involves considerations such as costs, connection quality, distances, and numbers of hops. A conventional wireless routing algorithm may fail when a destructive event takes place and is rapidly expanding in area, as the route discoveries may perpetually lag behind the rate of expansion of the destructive area. As typically embodied, the present invention's wireless routing algorithm detects a destructive event early, assumes rapid expansion of the destruction area, establishes “subnets” of nodes, and predetermines one or more routes that circumvent the rapidly expanding destruction area by exiting from and returning to the subnet in which the destructive event originates. Typical inventive practice avails itself of the architectural character of the physical setting for the wireless network, for instance by establishing subnets corresponding to compartments formed by wall-like structures (e.g., shipboard bulkheads), which represent natural barriers to expansion of a destruction area.

    摘要翻译: ad hoc无线网络的传统多跳路由涉及诸如成本,连接质量,距离和跳数的考虑。 传统的无线路由算法可能在破坏性事件发生并且在区域中迅速扩大时失败,因为路由发现可能永久落后于破坏性区域的扩展速率。 如通常实施的,本发明的无线路由算法早期检测到破坏性事件,假定破坏区域的快速扩展,建立节点的“子网”,并且通过退出并返回到预定义来规避快速扩大的破坏区域的一个或多个路由 破坏性事件起源的子网。 典型的创造性实践利用了无线网络的物理设置的架构特征,例如通过建立对应于由壁状结构(例如,船上舱壁)形成的隔间的子网,其代表破坏区域的扩展的自然障碍。

    Trolley-payload inter-ship transfer system
    4.
    发明授权
    Trolley-payload inter-ship transfer system 有权
    手推车 - 有效载荷互运系统

    公开(公告)号:US09096294B1

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-04

    申请号:US13164172

    申请日:2011-06-20

    摘要: The present invention is particularly efficacious when practiced as a system for transferring payloads between sideways-adjacent vessels at sea. As typically embodied, an inventive inter-locational transfer system includes: a trolley; a set of parallel cable-rails upon and along which the trolley is rollable; a pair of pulling cables, respectively connected to the two sideways-adjacent ships, for exerting pulling forces on the trolley in opposite directions along the cable-rails; at least four hoisting cables, separately and distantly attached at the bottom of the trolley and at peripheral points of the payload, for suspending a rectangular payload (e.g., ISO container with contents) from the trolley; a first computer control capability; for controlling the impelling and restraining of the trolley by the respective pulling cables; and, a second computer control capability, for controlling the lengthening and shortening of the respective hoisting cables in a coordinated manner to reduce or minimize payload pendulation.

    摘要翻译: 当作为在海上侧向相邻船舶之间传送有效载荷的系统被实践时,本发明特别有效。 如通常所体现的,创造性的位置间转移系统包括:手推车; 一组平行的电缆轨道,其上可滑动推车; 分别连接到两侧相邻船舶的一对牵引电缆,沿着电缆轨道沿相反方向在台车上施加拉力; 至少四个提升电缆,分别且远离地连接在手推车的底部和有效载荷的外围点处,用于悬挂来自手推车的矩形有效载荷(例如,具有内容物的ISO容器); 第一台电脑控制能力; 用于控制通过各个牵引电缆推动和限制手推车; 以及第二计算机控制能力,用于以协调的方式控制相应的起重电缆的延长和缩短以减少或最小化有效负载弯曲。

    Wireless electric power transmission through wall
    5.
    发明授权
    Wireless electric power transmission through wall 有权
    无线电力传输通过墙壁

    公开(公告)号:US08594572B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-26

    申请号:US13161652

    申请日:2011-06-16

    IPC分类号: H04B7/00

    摘要: An apparatus for wirelessly transmitting electric currents walls. The walls may be bulkhead compartment walls of a fixed structure or a vehicle or the like. The apparatus includes a wireless electric power transmission arrangement that includes an electronic device on one side of a wall, which is powered by a power source on another side of the wall. The electronic device may be a sensor arrangement having one or more sensors, a battery charging device, a through-the-bulkhead repeater device or other electronic device requiring power.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于无线传输电流壁的装置。 墙壁可以是固定结构或车辆等的隔板隔室壁。 该装置包括无线电力传输装置,其包括在壁的一侧上的电子装置,其由壁的另一侧上的电源供电。 电子设备可以是具有一个或多个传感器,电池充电装置,通过隔板中继装置或需要电力的其他电子装置的传感器装置。

    Dynamic simulation of a system of interdependent systems
    6.
    发明授权
    Dynamic simulation of a system of interdependent systems 失效
    相互依赖的系统的动态模拟

    公开(公告)号:US08589133B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-19

    申请号:US12462059

    申请日:2009-07-17

    摘要: Interdependencies between pairs/groups of individual systems are evaluated in determining the composition of a universal system of interdependent systems. Data tables reflecting the interdependencies are contained in a central database resident in a server's memory. Plural/multiple computers are connected to the server, each computer having running thereon at least one simulation program, each simulation program being associated with at least one individual system and being characterized by individual time steps. In each individual time step, the simulation program updates (reads data from and writes data to) the central database, and displays updated information. In each universal time step (characterizing the simulation of the universal system), all simulation programs are temporally coordinated so that each simulation program's individual time step takes place once; no universal time step is perfected until every individual time step has completed its updating of pertinent data in the central database.

    摘要翻译: 在确定相互依赖系统的通用系统的组成时,将对单个系统对/组之间的相互依赖性进行评估。 反映相互依赖关系的数据表包含在驻留在服务器内存中的中央数据库中。 多个/多个计算机连接到服务器,每个计算机在其上运行至少一个模拟程序,每个模拟程序与至少一个单独的系统相关联并且通过各个时间步长进行表征。 在每个单独的时间步骤中,模拟程序更新(从数据读取数据并将数据写入)中央数据库,并显示更新的信息。 在每个通用时间步骤(表征通用系统的仿真)中,所有仿真程序都在时间上协调,以便每个仿真程序的单独时间步长都发生一次; 没有任何通用时间步骤得到完善,直到每个单独的时间步骤完成对中央数据库中相关数据的更新。