Author: claimsbot

We claim:

1. A combination grapple rake and subsoiling implement adapted for pivotal attachment to an excavating machine, comprising:
(a) a frame;
(b) a rake securely attached to said frame; and
(c) at least one shank socket affixed to said frame, said socket adapted to receive and secure a subsoiling shank having a substantially pointed earth-working end, and wherein said socket is further adapted to orient said shank in an operating position when the rake is substantially parallel to the ground.
2. The grapple rake of claim 1, wherein said shank socket is adapted to receive at least one removable fastener for securing said subsoiling shank within said socket.
3. The grapple rake of claim 1 having two of said shank sockets.
4. The grapple rake of claim 1 and further comprising a coulter blade adjacent to said shank socket.
5. The grapple rake of claim 1, and further comprising a subsoiling shank secured within said shank socket.
6. The grapple rake of claim 5, wherein said subsoiling shank lies substantially in a plane and comprises at least one wing perpendicular to said plane.
7. The grapple rake of claim 5 and further comprising a coulter blade adjacent to said shank socket and positioned between said subsoiler shank and said rake.
8. A method for conducting dissimilar soil management activities above and beneath the surface of the soil, comprising:
a. providing a combination grapple rake and subsoiler implement comprising a grapple rake and a subsoiler shank having an earth-working end, wherein said grapple rake and said earth-working end are disposed with respect to one another such that when the grapple rake is in an operable position for conducting a grapple rake activity, then the earthworking end for conducting a subsoiling activity is in an idle position, and vice versa;
b. operating said implement to employ said subsoiler shank to penetrate the soil to a predetermined depth and moving the earth-working end through said soil along a path in a plane beneath, and generally parallel to, the soil surface to thereby loosen the soil beneath said surface; and
c. operating said implement to employ said rake to move material over the surface of said loosened soil.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein said plane is below a zone of soil compaction.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein said material is organic material.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein said combination grapple rake and subsoiler implement further comprises a coulter blade, and the method includes operating said implement against organic debris so as to shear said debris with said coulter blade.
12. The method of claim 8, wherein said soil has a zone of hardpan or other compaction and said path is at a depth below said zone.
13. A method for preparing an area having soil compaction for reforestation in a single pass of heavy equipment over said area with an implement, comprising the steps of:
a. providing a combination grapple rake and subsoiler implement comprising a grapple rake and a subsoiler shank having an earth-working end, wherein said grapple rake and said earth-working end are disposed with respect to one another such that when the grapple rake is in an operable position for conducting a grapple rake activity, then the earthworking end is in an idle position for conducting a subsoiling activity, and vice versa;
b. operating said implement to employ said subsoiler shank to penetrate the soil in said area to a predetermined depth and moving the earth-working end through said soil along a path in a plane beneath, and generally parallel to, the soil surface to thereby loosen the soil beneath said surface; and
c. operating said implement to employ said rake in said area to move material over the surface of said loosened soil.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein said area of reforestation is selected from the group consisting of a road, a temporary road, a skid trail, a landing and a legacy compaction area.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A heart rate monitor assembly comprising:
a data processing unit having a case in which a data processor and a power supply device are received therein, the case including two L-shaped holes defined in a top surface and an end thereof;
a belt having two connection ends and each connection end including a conductive portion and an outer layer, a connector connected to each of the connection ends, the conductive portion adapted to be in contact with a user’s skin, and
two conductive plates connected to the data processor and located in the two L-shaped holes, the connectors of the two connection ends being L-shaped connectors so as to be removably inserted into the two L-shaped holes to be in contact with the conductive plates.
2. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the case includes a chamber defined in a rear side thereof and the processor is accessible from the chamber, the power supply device is received in the chamber which is sealed by a cover.
3. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the belt has two end members .on two distal ends thereof and the two connectors respectively extend from the two end members, each end member includes a boss extending from an end surface thereof, the case includes two notches defined in the two ends thereof such that the two bosses are engaged with the two notches when the two connectors are inserted into the two L-shaped holes of the case.
4. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two conductive plates each are an L-shaped plate which has a first end fixed to the data processor by bolts and a second end of each L-shaped conductive plate extends into the L-shaped hole corresponding thereto.
5. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein each L-shaped hole is composed of a first hole communicating with one of the two ends of the case and a second hole communicating with the top surface of the case, the two conductive plates each are an L-shaped plate, which has a first end fixed to the data processor by bolts and a second end of each L-shaped conductive plate extends into the second hole of the L-shaped hole corresponding thereto, each of the L-shaped connectors is composed of a first section and a second section, the first section is engaged with the first hole and second section is engaged with the second hole, the second end of each conductive plate is located at an inside of the second hole and close to the end of the case so as to be in contact with the second section of the connector.

1. A steam generator of a drum washing machine comprising:
a housing which defines the exterior of the steam generator, and holds washing water therein;
deformation-preventing ribs provided on an outer and upper surface of the housing so as to prevent the housing from being deformed in an injection molding process, wherein the deformation-preventing ribs are provided with a hole for discharging water collected therein and includes a deformation-preventing rib formed in a longitudinal direction of the housing and a deformation-preventing rib formed in a perpendicular direction of the housing; and
a fixation part provided in the outer and upper surface of the housing to fix a hose or cable provided in the washing machine.
2. The steam generator of claim 1, wherein the hole is provided to any one or both of the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib and the perpendicular deformation-preventing rib.
3. The steam generator of claim 1, wherein the fixation part provided in the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib.
4. The steam generator of claim 1, wherein a number of the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib is 3 and each of the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib has a fixation part provided in the outer and upper surface of the housing to fix a hose or cable provided in the washing machine.
5. The steam generator of claim 4, wherein the each of the deformation-preventing rib is parallel.
6. The steam generator of claim 5, wherein the fixation part is provided to fix the hose or cable in the perpendicular direction of the housing.
7. The steam generator of claim 1, further comprising a steam-filling part of a protruding structure provided at one side of the upper housing to be filled with generated steam.
8. The steam generator of claim 7, wherein the deformation-preventing ribs are formed in a predetermined portion of the upper housing having no steam-filling part.
9. The steam generator of claim 1, further comprising a semi-cylindrical shaped deformation-preventing rib provided on an inner surface of the upper housing.
10. The steam generator of claim 9, wherein the semi-cylindrical shaped deformation-preventing rib is formed in an oblique direction of the housing.
11. A washing machine comprising:
a cabinet;
a cylindrical tub within the cabinet;
a drum rotatably mounted within the tub; and
a steam generator to generate and supply steam to the drum, wherein the steam generator including:
a housing which defines the exterior of the steam generator, and holds washing water therein; and
at least one deformation-preventing rib provided on an outer surface of the housing so as to prevent the housing from being deformed in an injection molding process, wherein the at least one deformation-preventing rib is provided with holes for discharging water collected therein, wherein the steam generator further comprises a fixation part provided in the outer and upper surface of the housing to fix a hose or cable provided in the washing machine.
12. The washing machine of claim 11, wherein the at least one deformation-preventing rib includes a deformation-preventing rib formed in a longitudinal direction of the housing and a deformation-preventing rib formed in a perpendicular direction of the housing.
13. The steam generator of claim 12, wherein the holes are provided to any one or both of the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib and the perpendicular deformation-preventing rib.
14. The steam generator of claim 12, wherein the fixation part provided in the longitudinal deformation-preventing rib.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A transmission method, applied to a sending device in a transmission network, and used for transmitting data to a receiving device from the sending device over the transmission network, wherein the transmission method comprises the steps of:
detecting whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;
dividing the data to be transmitted into a first data and a second data when determining that the predetermined condition has been satisfied;
converting the first data to a third data with a first algorithm and the second data to a fourth data with a second algorithm, so that the sum of the amounts of the third data and the fourth data is less than the sum of the amounts of the first data and the second data, wherein the first algorithm is different from the second algorithm; and
transmitting the third data and the fourth data to the receiving device.
2. The transmission method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step for detecting whether the pre-determined condition is satisfied is specifically as below:
detecting whether the network transmission flow over the transmission network is greater than a first threshold, or
detecting whether the network transmission quality over the transmission network is less than a second threshold.
3. The transmission method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step for detecting whether the pre-determined condition is satisfied is specifically as below:
detecting whether the sending device transmits the data to be transmitted in an interframe compression manner; and
in the case of detecting that the sending device transmits the data to be sent in an interframe compression manner, detecting by a sensor whether a motion parameter of the sending device is greater than a third threshold,
the motion parameter is at least one of the parameters of the sending device as follows: motion speed, motion amplitude, and motion angle.
4. The transmission method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step for detecting whether the pre-determined condition is satisfied is specifically as below:
when the sending device transmits the data to be sent in an interframe compression manner, detecting by a sensor whether a motion parameter of the sending device is greater than a third threshold,
the motion parameter is at least one of the parameters of the sending device as follows: motion speed, motion amplitude, and motion angle.
5. The transmission method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of converting the first data into the third data by the first algorithm and converting the second data into the fourth data by the second algorithm is specifically as below:
compressing the first data into the third data by a first compression algorithm, and
compressing the second data into the fourth data by a second compression algorithm,
wherein, the second compression algorithm has a higher data compression ratio than the first compression algorithm does; or
converting the first data into the third data to be transmitted at a first frame rate, and
converting the second data into the fourth data to be transmitted at a second frame rate,
wherein, the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate.
6. The transmission method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data transmitted from the sending device to the receiving device over the transmission network are images;
the step for dividing the data to be transmitted into the first data and the second data is specifically as below:
dividing the image into an important area and a non-important area according to a pre-determined strategy,
wherein, the image in the important area serves as the first data and the image in the non-important area serves as the second data; and
the step for converting the first data into the third data by the first algorithm and converting the second data into the fourth data by the second algorithm is specifically as below:
compressing the important area of the image by a first compression algorithm, and
compressing the non-important area of the image by a second compression algorithm,
wherein the second compression algorithm has a higher data compression ratio than the first compression algorithm does.
7. The transmission method as recited in claim 6, wherein
the data transmitted from the sending device to the receiving device over the transmission network are images;
the step for dividing the data to be transmitted into the first data and the second data is specifically as below:
dividing the image into an important area and a non-important area according to a pre-determined strategy,
wherein, the image in the important area serves as the first data and the image in the non-important area serves as the second data; and
the step for converting the first data into the third data by the first algorithm and converting the second data into the fourth data by the second algorithm is specifically as below:
transmitting the important area of the image at a first frame rate, and
transmitting the non-important area of the image at a second frame rate,
wherein the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate.
8. The transmission method as recited in claim 6, wherein the sending device includes an image collection unit, wherein prior to the step for detecting whether the pre-determined condition is satisfied, the method further comprises:
collecting an image in real-time by the image collection unit as the data to be transmitted.
9. The transmission method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step for dividing the image into the important area and non-important area according to the pre-determined strategy is specifically as below:
using a fixed area in the image as the important area, and
using the area other than the fixed area as the non-important area; or
determining a pre-determined object into which the important area to be divided in the image,
analyzing the image to identify an boundary of the pre-determined object, and
dividing the image into the important area and non-important area with the boundary.
10. The transmission method as recited in claim 9, wherein the step for determining the pre-determined object into which the important area to be divided in the image is specifically as below:
determining a face of a human in the image as the pre-determined object.
11. An electronic device, which is applied as a sending device in a transmission network and transmits data from the electronic device to a receiving device over the transmission network, wherein the electronic device comprises:
a detecting module configured to detect whether a pre-determined condition is satisfied;
a dividing module configured to divide the data to be transmitted into a first data and a second data when the detecting module detects that the pre-determined condition is satisfied;
a converting module configured to convert the first data divided by the divide module to a third data by a first algorithm and convert the second data divided by the divide module to a fourth data by a second algorithm so that the sum of the amounts of the third data and the fourth data is less than the sum of the amounts of the first data and the second data, wherein the first algorithm is different from the second algorithm; and
a transmitting module, transmitting the third data and the fourth data converted by the converting module to the receiving device.
12. The electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein the detecting module is used for detecting whether the network transmission flow of the transmission network is greater than a first threshold, or detecting whether the network transmission quality of the transmission network is less than a second threshold.
13. The electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein the detecting module comprises a sensor, and the detecting module is used for detecting whether the sending device transmits the data to be transmitted in an interframe compression manner; and in the case of detecting that the sending device transmits the data to be transmitted in an interframe compression manner, detecting by the sensor whether a motion parameter of the sending device is greater than a third threshold,
the motion parameter is at least one of the parameters of the sending device as follows: motion speed, motion amplitude, and motion angle.
14. The electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein the detecting module comprises a sensor, and the detecting module is used for detecting by the sensor whether a motion parameter of the sending device is greater than a third threshold when the sending device transmits the data to be transmitted in an interframe compression manner,
the motion parameter is at least one of the parameters of the sending device as follows: motion speed, motion amplitude, and motion angle.
15. The electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein the converting module is used for compressing the first data into the third data by a first compression algorithm and compressing the second data into the fourth data by a second compression algorithm, wherein, the second compression algorithm has a higher data compression ratio than the first compression algorithm does; or the converting module is used for converting the first data into the third data to be transmitted at a first frame rate and converting the second data into the fourth data to be transmitted at a second frame rate, wherein, the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate.
16. The electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein
the data transmitted from the sending device to the receiving device over the transmission network are images;
the dividing module is used for dividing the image into an important area and a non-important area according to a pre-determined strategy, wherein, the image in the important area serves as the first data and the image in the non-important area serves as the second data; and
the converting module is used for compressing the important area of the image by a first compression algorithm and compressing the non-important area of the image by a second compression algorithm,
wherein the second compression algorithm has a higher data compression ratio than the first compression algorithm does.
17. The electronic device as recited in claim 16, wherein
the data transmitted from the sending device to the receiving device over the transmission network are images;
the dividing module is used for dividing the image into an important area and a non-important area according to a pre-determined strategy,
wherein, the image in the important area serves as the first data and the image in the non-important area serves as the second data; and
the converting module is used for transmitting the important area of the image at a first frame rate and transmitting the non-important area of the image at a second frame rate,
wherein the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate.
18. The electronic device as recited in claim 16, wherein the electronic device further comprise an image collection unit, and an image collected in real-time by the image collection unit serves as the data to be transmitted.
19. The electronic device as recited in claim 18, wherein dividing the image into the important area and non-important area according to the pre-determined strategy by the dividing module is specifically as below:
using a fixed area in the image as the important area and the area other than the fixed area as the non-important area; or
determining a pre-determined object into which the important area to be divided in the image,
analyzing the image to identify the boundary of the pre-determined object, and
dividing the image into the important area and non-important area with the boundary.
20. The electronic device as recited in claim 19, wherein, determining a pre-determined object into which the important area to be divided in the image by the dividing module is specifically as below:
determining a face of a human in the image as the pre-determined object.