Hitachi, Ltd.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation

Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Ying Shi

Hiroki Ikeda

Hideya Yoshiuchi

Guoqing Wang

Zhaobin Zhang

Lijun Zhang

Junjie Liu

Yonggang Zhang

Cong Zhou

Zhiguo Du

Xiaofeng Li

Shifang Yang

Dongfa Shen

Shasha Yang

Jinghang Guo

Wei Zhang

Ariya Rastrow

Nikko Strom

Arindam Mandal

Nan Chen

Ling Han

Yi Yang Ren

Angeliki Metallinou

Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda

Prakash Krishnan

Guixiang Zhu

Aaron Challenner

Cui Zheng

Vincent Auvray

Lizhi Liu

David Chi-Wai Tang

Minmin Shen

Xuerong Yao

Minqiao Ren

Nishtha Gupta

Bonan Zheng

The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe () includes a pipe body () of tubular shape having an inlet () for entering of a fluid and an outlet () for said fluid to flow out; internal wall of the pipe body () is provided with a fin () protruding towards interior of the pipe body (), wherein the fin () has one or more fin sections extending spirally in the axial direction of the pipe body (), and each fin section has a first end surface facing the inlet () and a second end surface facing the outlet (), at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface of at least one of the rib sections is formed as a transition surface along spirally extending direction. The heat transfer enhancement pipe can reduce thermal stress of itself, thereby increasing service life of the heat transfer enhancement pipe.

Heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as cracking furnace and atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same

The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe () includes a pipe body () of tubular shape having an inlet () for entering of a fluid and an outlet () for said fluid to flow out; internal wall of the pipe body () is provided with a fin () protruding towards interior of the pipe body (), the fin () spirally extends in an axial direction of the pipe body (), wherein a height of the fin () gradually increases from one end in at least a part extension of the fin. The heat transfer enhancement pipe can reduce thermal stress of itself, thereby increasing service life of the heat transfer enhancement pipe.

A system that is capable of resolving anaphora using timing data received by a local device. A local device outputs audio representing a list of entries. The audio may represent synthesized speech of the list of entries. A user can interrupt the device to select an entry in the list, such as by saying 'that one.' The local device can determine an offset time representing the time between when audio playback began and when the user interrupted. The local device sends the offset time and audio data representing the utterance to a speech processing system which can then use the offset time and stored data to identify which entry on the list was most recently output by the local device when the user interrupted. The system can then resolve anaphora to match that entry and can perform additional processing based on the referred to item.

Dialog management for multiple users

A polyester composition includes a first polyester selected from one or more of aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters, which is a copolymer comprising repeating units A as shown in formula (I) and repeating units B as shown in formula (II), in which m is an integer of 2 to 10 and n is an integer of 2 to 8; p is an integer of 2 to 10; and m, n and p are the same or different from each other. Optionally, the polyester composition has a second polyester. The polyester composition includes at least two polyesters. The polyester composition can be used in shape memory materials, 3D print wires, heat shrinkable sleeves, functional layers, medical limb immobilization braces, heat shrinkable thin films, nonwoven fabrics, elastic fibers, etc. 

Polyester composition, preparation method therefor and application thereof

An optical line terminal includes an optical network interface having an optical receiver unit to convert an optical signal received from an optical network unit into an electrical signal and output a direct current bias monitoring signal and an error code detector to detect an error code in the electrical signal to output an error code indication signal, a storage to store therein a direct current bias table indicating a direct current bias corresponding to a direct current bias control parameter of the optical network units and a dynamic band allocation information table indicating communication time slot information allotted to each optical network unit and a control unit to receive the direct current bias monitoring signal and the error code indication signal and supply the direct current bias control signal to the optical receiver unit to thereby form one feedback circuit together with the optical network interface.

Optical line terminal and optical line transmission and reception system

In the bandwidth-allocating method of the present invention for PON (: Passive Optical Network), a bandwidth is allocated from an optical line terminal to each optical network unit. The optical line terminal stores a bandwidth contract table for indicating a correspondence relationship between communication flow IDs and service quality parameters, each communication flow ID identifying each communication flow between the optical line terminal and each optical network unit. The bandwidth-allocating method includes a step of transmitting a service-quality request message including the communication flow IDs and the service quality parameters from each optical network unit to the optical line terminal, and a step of the optical line terminal's updating the bandwidth contract table based on the service quality parameters, and performing the bandwidth allocation to a communication flow specified by the corresponding communication flow ID based on the bandwidth contract table.

Bandwidth-allocating device and method

An optical line terminal connecting with numbers of optical network units comprises a control unit which controls each optical network unit to make it operate in a first mode in which transmission and reception of control messages and data are possible or in a second mode in which the transmission and reception of control messages are possible but the transmission of data is impossible, according to a communication permission request transmitted from an optical network unit and based on a preset maximum number of optical network units permitted to execute upstream communication from the optical network unit to the optical line terminal.

Passive optical network system with mode-variable optical network unit

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