1-19. (canceled)
20. A system for providing adaptive haptic feedback effects to a user of a user device in response to an incoming communication, said system comprising:
at least one sensor configured to capture data related to at least one of a user device and a surrounding environment of said user device;
at least one interface module configured to identify one or more contextual characteristics of said user device based on said captured data;
a context management module configured to evaluate said one or more contextual characteristics and to determine a local context assessment of said user device based on said evaluation;
a haptic feedback control module configured to adjust one or more parameters of one of a plurality of haptic effects based, at least in part, on said local context assessment and to generate a control signal having data related to said adjusted haptic effect; and
a haptic device configured to generate said adjusted haptic effect in response to receipt of said control signal from said haptic feedback control module.
21. The system of claim 20, wherein said at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of a light sensor, a microphone, a touch sensor and a motion sensor, said light sensor and microphone configured to capture light and sound of the surrounding environment, respectively, and said touch sensor and motion sensor configured to capture user contact with and motion of the user device, respectively.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein said at least one recognition module is configured to identify said one or more contextual characteristics of said user device and said surrounding environment based on at least one of said light in the surrounding environment, sound in the surrounding environment, user contact with the user device and motion of the user device.
23. The system of claim 22, wherein said one or more contextual characteristics are selected from the group consisting of user possession of said user device, active user interaction with said user device, ambient light levels within surrounding environment and ambient noise levels within surrounding environment.
24. The system of claim 20, wherein each of said plurality of haptic effects includes a mechanical vibration effect.
25. The system of claim 24, wherein said one or more parameters of said haptic effect is selected from the group consisting of intensity, waveform and duration of said vibration effect.
26. The system of claim 24, wherein said haptic device includes a vibration actuator.
27. The system of claim 20, wherein each of said plurality of haptic effects corresponds to an associated one of a plurality of incoming communications to said user device from at least one of an internal notification system of said user device, a remote device and an external computing device, system, or server.
28. The system of claim 27, wherein one of said plurality of incoming communications is selected from the group consisting of a phone call, text message, user input, email, push notification from a social media platform, internally stored calendar event notification and home appliance alert notification.
29. A method for providing adaptive haptic effects to a user of a user device in response to an incoming communication, said method comprising:
receiving data related to at least one of a user device and a surrounding environment of said user device;
identifying one or more contextual characteristics of said user device based on said data;
evaluating said one or more contextual characteristics and determining a local context assessment of said user device based on said evaluation;
adjusting one or more parameters of one of a plurality of haptic effects based, at least in part, on said local context assessment; and
generating said adjusted haptic effect.
30. The method of claim 29, further comprising capturing said data related to said at least one of user device and said surrounding environment of said user device with at least one sensor.
31. The method of claim 30, wherein said at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of a light sensor, a microphone, a touch sensor and a motion sensor, said light sensor and microphone to capture light and sound of the surrounding environment, respectively, and said touch sensor and motion sensor to capture user contact with and motion of the user device, respectively.
32. The method of claim 29, wherein said one or more contextual characteristics are selected from the group consisting of user possession of said user device, active user interaction with said user device, ambient light levels within surrounding environment and ambient noise levels within surrounding environment.
33. The method of claim 29, wherein each of said plurality of haptic effects includes a mechanical vibration effect.
34. The method of claim 33, wherein adjusting one or more parameters of a haptic effect comprises adjusting at least one of intensity, waveform and duration of said vibration effect.
35. The method of claim 29, wherein each of said plurality of haptic effects corresponds to an associated one of a plurality of incoming communications to said user device.
36. The method of claim 35, further comprising receiving one of a plurality of incoming communications from at least one of an internal notification system of said user device, a remote device and an external computing device, system, or server.
37. The method of claim 36, wherein one of said plurality of incoming communications is selected from the group consisting of a phone call, text message, user input, email, push notification from a social media platform, internally stored calendar event notification and home appliance alert notification.
38. A system including at least a device, the system being arranged to perform the method of claim 29.
39. A chipset arranged to perform the method of claim 29.
40. At least one computer accessible medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to carry out the method according to claim 29.
41. A device configured for providing adaptive haptic feedback effects, the device being arranged to perform the method of claim 29.
42. A system having means to perform the method of claim 29.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. In a land based gas turbine comprising a compressor, a combustor and turbine section including at least three stages, a cooling circuit comprising:
an inlet into a third stage nozzle from the compressor for feeding cooling air from the compressor to the third stage nozzle; at least one passageway running substantially radially through each airfoil of said third stage nozzle and an associated diaphragm, into an annular space between the rotor and the diaphragm; and passageways communicating between said annular space and individual buckets of said third stage.
2. The gas turbine of claim 1 wherein said at least one passageway includes a portion in said diaphragm configured to feed said cooling air into said annular space substantially tangent to the rotor.
3. The gas turbine of claim 2 wherein said portion of said at least one passageway contracts in the flow direction to accelerate the cooling air as it enters said annular space.
4. The gas turbine of claim 2 wherein said portion of at least one passageway in said diaphragm is provided in a part annular labyrinth seal segment secured to said diaphragm and cooperating with a corresponding seal on a rotor spacer wheel located radially inwardly of said third stage nozzle.
5. The gas turbine of claim 4 wherein means are provided to accommodate relative motion or mismatch between said portion of said at least one passageway in said seal segment and said diaphragm.
6. The gas turbine of claim 1 wherein said inlet to said third stage nozzle includes a manifold external to a casing of said gas turbine.
7. The gas turbine of claim 4 wherein said passageways communicating between said annular space and said individual buckets include plural sets of axial passages through said spacer wheel.
8. The gas turbine of claim 1 wherein said third stage nozzle includes a plurality of part annular segments, each segment having two nozzle airfoils, and wherein said inlet includes a pipe feeding cooling air to each segment, said pipe supplying cooling air to each of said two nozzle airfoils.
9. The gas turbine of claim 1 wherein stages 1 and 2 are primarily steam cooled.
10. The gas turbine of claim 4 including an annular seal between said spacer wheel and said third stage buckets to prevent leakage of cooling air passing into said third stage buckets.
11. A method of cooling one stage of a gas turbine comprising:
a) extracting cooling air from a turbine compressor;
b) supplying cooling air to a stationary nozzle adjacent said one stage of the gas turbine;
c) establishing a path for said cooling air from said stationary nozzle to a plurality of buckets in said one turbine stage; and
d) flowing said cooling air radially outwardly through said plurality of buckets and exhausting said cooling air from radially outer tips of said buckets.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein during step c), said cooling air is fed tangentially into an annular space surrounding a rotor of said gas turbine.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein said cooling air is accelerated into said annular space.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein said one turbine stage is a third stage.
15. The method of claim 11 wherein said cooling air is supplied to said stationary nozzle via a path outside said gas turbine.
16. In a land based gas turbine comprising a compressor, a combustor and turbine section including at least three stages, a cooling circuit comprising:
means for supplying cooling air from a gas turbine compressor to a stationary nozzle; and
means for establishing a cooling air flow path from said nozzle to individual buckets of a turbine stage downstream and adjacent said stationary nozzle.