Author: claimsbot

1. A radio access network system which gives an analysis of fault for radio communications of a mobile terminal, the system comprising:
a control equipment for controlling calls for the mobile terminal, which receives a signal analysis request command with a user identifier to be monitored, outputs a signal monitor request including the user identifier and performs monitoring operation for control signals of calls related to the mobile terminal specified by the user identifier in accordance with the signal analysis request command, and outputs monitored control signals when the monitoring operation has been completed;
a relay equipment for relaying control signals between the mobile terminal and the control equipment, which receives the signal monitor request, performs monitoring operation for control signals of calls related to the mobile terminal specified by the user identifier in accordance with the signal monitor request, and outputs monitored control signals when the monitoring operation has been completed; and
a data collection and analysis equipment, which receives monitored control signals output from the control equipment and the relay equipment, combines the monitored control signals from the control equipment and the monitored control signals from the relay equipment based on the user identifier, reorders the combined control signals based on time index attached to respective control signals, and outputs the reordered control signals for fault analysis.
2. The radio access network system according to claim 1, further comprising:
A console to be used by a network operator, which generates the signal analysis request command and transmits the signal analysis request command with the user identifier to specify the mobile terminal to be monitored to the control equipment.
3. The radio access network system according to claim 1, wherein the signal analysis request command includes classification of signal to specify the control signal to be monitored at the control equipment, and the signal monitor request command includes classification of signal, which has been specified by the signal analysis request command, to specify the control signal to be monitored at the relay equipment.
4. The radio access network system according to claim 3, wherein the signal analysis request command further includes information to control the monitoring operation to start, to suspend, to resume, or to cancel at the control equipment, and the signal monitor request further includes information to control the monitoring operation to start, to suspend, to resume, or to cancel at the relay equipment.
5. The radio access network system according to claim 4, wherein the control equipment stops the monitoring operation when receiving the information to cancel the monitoring operation, and transmits the monitored control signals to the data collection and analysis equipment.
6. The radio access network system according to claim 4, wherein the relay equipment stops the monitoring operation when receiving the information to cancel the monitoring operation, and transmits the monitored control signals to the data collection and analysis equipment.
7. A method of fault analysis for a radio access network system provided with a mobile terminal, a control equipment for controlling calls for the mobile terminal, a relay equipment for relaying control signals between the mobile terminal and the control equipment, and a data collection and analysis equipment for data processing, the method comprising:
receiving a signal analysis request command, at the control equipment, with a user identifier which specifies the mobile terminal to be monitored;
transmitting a signal monitor request, from the control equipment to the relay equipment, including the user identifier which has been received with the signal analysis request command;
performing monitoring operation, at the control equipment, for control signals of calls related to the mobile terminal specified by the user identifier in accordance with the signal analysis request command;
receiving the signal monitor request, at the relay equipment;
performing monitoring operation, at the relay equipment, for control signals of calls related to the mobile terminal specified by the user identifier in accordance with the signal monitor request;
transmitting monitored control signals, from the respective control equipment and relay equipment to the data collection and analysis equipment, when the monitoring operation has been completed;
combining the monitored control signals received from the respective control equipment and relay equipment based on the user identifier, at the data collection and analysis equipment;
reordering the combined control signals based on time index attached to respective control signals, at the data collection and analysis equipment; and
outputting the reordered control signals, from the data collection and analysis equipment, for fault analysis.
8. The method of fault analysis for a radio access network system according to claim 7, wherein the signal analysis request command includes classification of signal to specify the control signal to be monitored at the control equipment, and the signal monitor request command includes classification of signal, which has been specified by the signal analysis request command, to specify the control signal to be monitored at the relay equipment.
9. The method of fault analysis for a radio access network system according to claim 8, the signal analysis request command further includes information to control the monitoring operation to start, to suspend, to resume, or to cancel at the control equipment, and the signal monitor request further includes information to control the monitoring operation to start, to suspend, to resume, or to cancel at the relay equipment.

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. An input apparatus that moves an instruction sign displayed on a display device to any position, the display device being connected to an information processing apparatus, comprising:
an operation portion that includes a magnet, and operates the movement of the instruction sign;
a restoration portion that is composed of an elastic member, supports the operation portion, and restores the operation portion to a reference position when the operation portion has inclined;
magnetic members that are arranged at maximum displacement positions of the operation portion where a suction force of the magnet exceeds the restoring force of the restoration portion;
a detection portion that detects an inclined direction and an inclined angle of the operation portion; and
an output portion that outputs the inclined direction and the inclined angle detected by the detection portion to the information processing apparatus.
2. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic member is composed of a planar spring having a plane in parallel with a perpendicular direction, and an upper part and a lower part of the planar spring are mutually twisted 90 degrees at any position of the plane.
3. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the any position of the plane of the planar spring is the center of the plane of the planar spring.
4. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the sizes of the upper part and the lower part of the single planar spring are different from each other.
5. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic member is composed of planar springs each having a plane in parallel with a perpendicular direction, and one planar spring is joined to the other planar spring so that the one planar spring is twisted 90 degrees from the other planar spring.
6. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the sizes of the planar springs are the same as each other.
7. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnet included in the operation portion is capable of being exchanged for other magnet having different magnetism.
8. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a restriction portion that restricts the movement of the operation portion to a double-H shape.
9. The input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnet is an electromagnet, and the input apparatus further includes an acquisition portion that acquires a setting value of magnetism of the electromagnet from the information processing apparatus, and a current adjustment portion that adjusts a value of a current supplied from the information processing apparatus to the electromagnet based on the setting value.

1. Medical instrument comprising a housing, at least one valve body secured to the housing, a hollow instrument canal that is configured in the housing, the housing having an end wall with an outer surface, the outer surface of the end wall having an at least partially annular groove therein and an opening that can be closed by the valve body, which is pivotable into an open position by an instrument inserted into the instrument canal, and a bendable wire spring with an at least partially annular section corresponding to the at least partially annular groove in the outer surface of the end wall, wherein the annular section of the bendable wire spring is disposed in the corresponding annular groove in the outer surface of the end wall to secure the valve body to the housing, wherein the valve body is configured as a flap comprising non-bendable material mounted on the housing by the bendable wire spring so as to be pivotable and pre-tensioned in the closed direction.
2. Medical instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the ring groove configured in the housing to secure the connecting element is designed as a surrounding ring groove.
3. Medical instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the valve body has a ring groove, in particular a surrounding ring groove, for receiving the connecting element.
4. Medical instrument according to claim 3, characterized in that the valve body consists of at least two parts, which after their connection to one another, especially by clamping, bolting, or cementing, surround a corresponding segment of the connecting element.
5. Medical instrument according to claim 4, characterized in that the connecting element is constructed in the material of the valve body, in particular through casting.
6. Medical instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the ring groove configured in the housing to secure the connecting element is designed as an interrupted ring groove.
7. Medical instrument according to claim 6, characterized in that at least one positioning element operating in conjunction with at least one ring groove segment is mounted on the connecting element.
8. The medical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the ring groove is positioned coaxially to the hollow instrument canal.
9. Medical instrument comprising a hollow instrument canal that is configured in a housing and can be closed by at least one valve body and rotated into open position by an instrument inserted into the instrument canal wherein the valve body is configured as a flap comprising non-bendable material mounted on the housing so as to be pivotable, by an elastic, bendable connecting element configured as a wire spring in such a way that the valve body is pre-tensioned in the closed direction, wherein the connecting element is secured on the housing and carries the valve body, and wherein the connecting element is secured in a surrounding ring groove configured in the housing and the valve body has a surrounding ring groove, for receiving the connecting element, characterized in that the portion of the connecting element that can be secured in the ring groove in the housing is surrounded by a tube of an inelastic material and the connecting element and the tube are pressure-joined together, wherein the valve body consists of at least two parts, which after their connection to one another surround a corresponding segment of the connecting element, and wherein the connecting element is constructed in the material of the valve body.
10. Medical instrument according to claim 9, characterized in that the connecting element and the tube are joined together through soldering, in particular laser soldering.
11. Medical instrument according to claim 10, characterized in that the outer diameter of the connecting element is only slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the tube.
12. Medical instrument according to claim 11, characterized in that the connecting element consists of spring steel or a super-elastic compound such as Ni\u2014Ti, Cu\u2014Al\u2014Ni or Cu\u2014Zn\u2014Al alloys.
13. Medical instrument according to claim 12, characterized in that the valve body consists of hard plastic.
14. Medical instrument according to claim 13, characterized in that an insulating ring, in particular made of an elastomer plastic, can be secured on the valve body.
15. Medical instrument according to claim 14, characterized in that an insulating surface is configured on the housing coaxially surrounding the instrument canal to hold the insulating ring of the valve body.
16. Medical instrument according to claim 15, characterized in that the insulating surface is configured as a raised insulating rim, step, or level surface.
17. Medical instrument according to claim 16, characterized in that the valve body can, in addition, be mounted in the open position by means of a manually activatable mechanism.
18. Medical instrument according to claim 17, characterized in that the manually operable mechanism is configured as a push rod mounted eccentrically to the instrument canal, and this push rod can be pushed in the longitudinal direction of the instrument canal by means of an activating element stored on the housing.
19. Medical instrument according to claim 18, characterized in that the activating element is configured as a lever mounted so as to be rotatable on the housing.
20. Medical instrument according to claim 19, characterized in that the lever is pre-tensioned by means of a spring in the closed direction of the valve body.
21. Medical instrument according to claim 20, characterized in that the plane of the valve aperture is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the instrument canal.
22. Medical instrument according to claim 21, characterized in that an additional component can be secured on the housing in such a way that the additional component holds the ring groove or the ring groove segments, at least partially enclosing the connecting element in the ring groove or the ring groove segments.
23. Medical instrument according to claim 22, characterized in that the housing is a trocar head and the additional component is a trocar sheath of a trocar and can be secured on the trocar head.
24. Medical instrument according to claim 18, characterized in that the activating element is configured as a disk that can be pushed parallel to the instrument canal.
25. Medical instrument according to claim 24, characterized in that the disk is pre-tensioned by means of a spring in the closed position of the valve body.
26. Medical instrument according to claim 18, characterized in that the push rod is mounted parallel to the instrument canal.
27. Medical instrument according to claim 9, characterized in that the connecting element and the tube are pressure-squeezed together.
28. Medical instrument comprising a housing, at least one valve body comprising hard plastic secured to the housing, a hollow instrument canal that is configured in the housing, the housing having an end wall with an outer surface, the outer surface of the end wall having an at least partially annular groove therein and an opening that can be closed by the valve body, which is pivotable into an open position by an instrument inserted into the instrument canal, and a bendable wire spring with an at least partially annular section corresponding to the at least partially annular groove in the outer surface of the end wall, wherein the annular section of the bendable wire spring is disposed in the corresponding annular groove in the outer surface of the end wall to secure the valve body to the housing, wherein the valve body is configured as a flap comprising non-bendable material mounted on the housing by the bendable wire spring so as to be pivotable, and pre-tensioned in the closed direction.

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

1-7. (canceled)
8. An apparatus comprising an improved broadband optical communication network, said improved broadband communication network comprising an optical channel protection apparatus, said improved broadband optical communication network comprising a transmitting end that incorporates a transmitting-end portion of said improved optical channel protection apparatus, a receiving end that incorporates a receiving-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus, and a main fiber link that optically interconnects said transmitting end and said receiving end, wherein said transmitting-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus comprises a plurality of wavelength-tunable transmitting-end transponders, a transmitting-end network switch that is optically interconnected to a plurality of transmitting customer premise equipment units at an input side thereof and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of non-tunable transmitting end transponders and to said plurality of wavelength tunable transmitting-end transponders at an output side thereof, a 1\xd7N optical coupler that is optically interconnected to a plurality of output lines of said plurality of wavelength-tunable transmitting-end transponders at an input side thereof, a 1\xd72 optical coupler having input lines, one of which is optically interconnected to an output side of said 1\xd7N optical coupler and another one of which is optically interconnected to an output of a transmitting-end wavelength division multiplexer, and a transmitting-end controller that is electrically interconnected to said transmitting-end network switch and that serves to control routing of optical signals by said transmitting-end network switch, and wherein said receiving-end portion of said optical channel protection apparatus comprises a plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders, a first receiving-end network switch that is optically interconnected to a plurality of output lines of a receiving-end optical wavelength de-multiplexer at an input side and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of receiving-end non-tunable transponders and to said plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders, a second receiving-end network switch that is optically interconnected to said plurality of receiving-end non-tunable transponders and to said plurality of receiving-end wavelength tunable transponders at an input side and that is optically interconnected to a plurality of receiving end customer premise equipment units at an output side, and a receiving-end controller that is electrically interconnected to said first receiving end network switch and to said second receiving-end network switch that serve to control routing of optical signals by said first network switch and said second network switches.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said transmitting-end wavelength division multiplexer comprises coarse wavelength division multiplexer.
10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said transmitting-end wavelength division multiplexer comprises a dense wavelength division multiplexer.
11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said receiving-end wavelength division de-multiplexer comprises a coarse wavelength division de-multiplexer.
12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said receiving-end wavelength division de-multiplexer comprises a dense wavelength division de-multiplexer.
13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said transmitting-end wavelength division multiplexer is optically interconnected to the outputs of the plurality of transmitting end non-tunable transponders at an input side thereof.
14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein operation of said transmitting end controller and operation of said receiving controller are coordinated and arbitrated by a network monitoring and control system.