Author: claimsbot

1. Mount and phone holder comprising:
a phone holder having
a rear projecting housing part with an extension provided with contacts, and
on its front side, an accommodating pocket for a cell phone; and

a mount for said phone holder, said mount having
a recess which accommodates a rear housing part of said phone holder,
a contact chamber adjoined to said recess which has an opening on one side, wherein said contact chamber contains mating contacts,
wherein said extension of the housing part of said phone holder can be pushed into said contact chamber of said mount for establishing contact-connection between the contacts of the phone holder and the mating contacts of said contact chamber,
wherein said housing part is insertable into the recess of said mount,
a displaceable wall component which bounds the recess of said mount on a side located opposite the contact chamber, said displaceable wall component allows the housing part of said phone holder to be introduced into the recess of the mount, such that the housing part of said phone holder butts against a base of the recess only when the wall component has been displaced counter to a spring force,
wherein said displaceable wall component can be blocked in terms of displaceability by a locking device in a position which corresponds to the position of the displaceable wall component with the extension of the phone holder inserted into the recess of the mount and pushed into the contact chamber to the contact-connection state, and
a covering of the contact chamber, said covering extends over the opening of the contact chamber can be pushed down by the phone holder to so as to achieve a pushed-down state which uncovers the opening of the contact chamber of the mount,
wherein locking is activated by the locking device when the covering is in the pushed-down state,
wherein said covering is formed by a flap which is pivotable and which is initially obliquely positioned with respect to said base, said flap is mounted in a pivotable manner on the base of the recess of the mount, whereby the opening of the contact chamber of the mount can be uncovered by virtue of the flap being pivoted into the plane of the base.
2. The mount and phone holder of claim 1, wherein the contact chamber of the mount is dimensioned such that the extension of the housing part of the phone holder can only be introduced when the housing part, following displacement of the wall component, is oriented parallel to the base.
3. The mount and phone holder of claim 1, wherein locking with the locking device can be is controlled by the pivoting of the flap.

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 wireless communication device for carrying out diversity reception and a noise cancellation process, the wireless communication device comprising:
a first signal-reception antenna;
a second signal-reception antenna which is different from the first signal-reception antenna;
a noise pickup antenna; and
a signal combining section,
the signal combining section combining a received signal received by the first signal-reception antenna and a received signal received by a second signal-reception antenna in a case where the diversity reception is carried out, and combining the received signal received by the first signal-reception antenna and a noise signal received by the noise pickup antenna in the noise cancellation process.
2. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising
a phase adjustment section,
the phase adjustment section adjusting a phase(s) of the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna in a case where the diversity reception is carried out and adjusting a phase of the noise signal in the noise cancellation process.
3. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 2, wherein, in a case where the diversity reception is carried out, the phase adjustment section adjusts the phase(s) of the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna to be identical with a phase(s) of a received signal(s) to be combined with the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna in the signal combining section, and, in the noise cancellation process, the phase adjustment section adjusts the phase of the noise signal to be opposite to a phase of a received signal to be combined with the noise signal in the signal combining section.
4. A wireless communication device for carrying out diversity reception and a noise cancellation process, the wireless communication device comprising:
a signal combining section,
the signal combining section combining a plurality of received signals in a case where the diversity reception is carried out, and combining a received signal and a noise signal in the noise cancellation process;
a phase adjustment section,
the phase adjustment section adjusting a phase(s) of a part of the plurality of received signals in a case where the diversity reception is carried out and adjusting a phase of the noise signal in the noise cancellation process; and
a switching section for carrying out switching of a signal to be supplied to the phase adjustment section,
wherein, in a case where the switching section carries out the switching so that the part of the plurality of received signals is supplied to the phase adjustment section, the phase adjustment section adjusts the phase(s) of the part of the plurality of received signals, which part has been supplied to the phase adjustment section, to be identical with a phase(s) of a received signal(s) to be combined with the part of the plurality of received signals in the signal combining section, and, in a case where the switching section carries out the switching so that the noise signal is supplied to the phase adjustment section, the phase adjustment section adjusts the phase of the noise signal, which has been supplied to the phase adjustment section, to be opposite to a phase of a received signal to be combined with the noise signal in the signal combining section.
5. A wireless communication device for carrying out diversity reception and a noise cancellation process, the wireless communication device comprising:
a signal combining section,
the signal combining section combining a plurality of received signals in a case where the diversity reception is carried out, and combining a received signal and a noise signal in the noise cancellation process;
a first signal-reception antenna;
a noise pickup antenna;
a first signal transmission section for outputting, to the signal combining section, a received signal received by the first signal-reception antenna; and
a second signal transmission section for receiving (A) a received signal received by a second signal-reception antenna which is different from the first signal-reception antenna, and (B) the noise signal received by the noise pickup antenna, adjusting at least one of a phase and amplitude of at least one of the received signal and the noise signal thus received, and outputting the at least one of the received signal and the noise signal to the signal combining section, wherein:
diversity combining is carried out with use of at least the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna; and
the noise cancellation process is carried out with use of at least the noise signal received by the noise pickup antenna.
6. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 5, wherein the second signal-reception antenna is a removable external antenna.
7. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 5, further comprising
a tuner for tuning at least the received signal received by the first signal-reception antenna,
wherein a signal combined in the signal combining section is supplied to the tuner.
8. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 5, wherein:
the second signal transmission section includes a switch; and
a signal to be supplied to the signal combining section is selected from the received signal and the noise signal, which have been supplied to the second signal transmission section, by carrying out switching of the switch.
9. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 8, wherein:
the second signal transmission section includes an adjustment section for adjusting at least one of a phase and amplitude of a signal to be supplied to the signal combining section; and
the switch connects the adjustment section to one of the second signal-reception antenna and the noise pickup antenna.
10. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 8, further comprising
switch controlling means for carrying out the switching of the switch.
11. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 10, further comprising
reception quality determination means for determining a reception quality,
wherein the switch controlling means controls the switching of the switch in accordance with a determination result of the reception quality determination means.
12. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 10,
wherein the switch controlling means controls the switching of the switch in accordance with a frequency band in which the wireless communication device carries out a wireless communication.
13. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 10, wherein:
the second signal-reception antenna is an external antenna; and
the switch controlling means controls the switching of the switch so that, in a case where the second signal-reception antenna is connected to the wireless communication device, the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna is supplied to the signal combining section.
14. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 10, further comprising
noise amount detection means for detecting an amount of noise in the wireless communication device,
wherein the switch controlling means controls the switching of the switch so that, in a case where the amount of noise detected by the noise amount detection means excesses a standard value, the noise signal received by the noise pickup antenna is supplied to the signal combining section, and, in a case where the amount of noise is equal to or less than the standard value, the received signal received by the second signal-reception antenna is supplied to the signal combining section.
15. The wireless communication device as set forth in claim 5, wherein
the noise pickup antenna includes a plurality of noise pickup antennas or the second signal-reception antenna includes a plurality of second signal-reception antennas.

1. Method for inspecting a turbine component comprising a thermally insulating layer over a ceramic matrix composite material, the method comprising:
providing a distinguishing agent indicative of a remaining thickness of said thermally insulating layer, wherein the distinguishing agent comprises a non-luminescent colorant; and
monitoring visually perceptible color-changing effects of said distinguishing agent to determine a thickness range for said thermally insulating layer.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a corrective action on the turbine component based on the determined thickness range for said thermally insulating layer.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said distinguishing agent is introduced into an interface layer disposed between the thermally insulating layer and the ceramic matrix composite material.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said distinguishing agent is uniformly distributed throughout the thermally insulating layer.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said distinguishing agent is varyingly distributed throughout the thermally insulating layer to form a distinguishing gradient in the thermally insulating layer.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the thermally insulating layer comprises a stack of discrete layers, and the distinguishing agent is introduced to form distinctive adjacent layers in the stack of discrete layers.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said distinguishing agent comprises a coloring agent.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said coloring agent is selected from the group consisting of transition element oxides and rare earth element oxides.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein said coloring agent is perceptible in a range of an electromagnetic spectrum visible to human vision.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said distinguishing agent is selected from the group consisting of infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and visible electromagnetic spectrum.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the distinguishing agent is introduced in a precursor form of said thermally insulating layer.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein said precursor form is selected from the group consisting of a fully densified body, a partially densified body, and a green body.

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 system for filtering a communication channel, and comprising:
a differencer for differencing a pair of signal inputs and outputting a difference signal corresponding to the difference there between;
a pair of adaptive finite impulse response filters (FIR) each having a delay line input and an error signal input and an output and the delay line input of a first of the pair of FIR coupled to the communication channel and the outputs of the pair of FIR coupled to the pair of signal inputs of the difference;
a statistical sequence estimator with an input coupled to the differencer to alter the difference signal based on statistics therefore and to output an altered difference signal which includes both altered bits or symbols together with associated confidence or likelihood values; and
a blender with an inputs coupled to the differencer and the statistical sequence estimator and the blender responsive to the confidence or likelihood values in the altered difference signal to vary both a blend of different error signal sources forming a resultant error signal coupled to the error signal inputs of the pair of adaptive FIR as well as the blend of different input signal sources forming a resultant input signal coupled to the delay line input of a second of the pair of FIR, to stabilize the adaptive filtering performed by the pair of FIR.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the pair of adaptive FIR further comprise:
a delay line with \u201cN\u201d taps to successive portions of the communication channel, and the delay line shifting the successive portions of the communication channel once in each symbol processing interval;
at least one tap processor subjecting each of the \u201cN\u201d taps to a first scaling utilizing first scaling coefficients associated with filtering the current symbol interval and further subjecting at least one of the \u201cN\u201d taps to a second scaling by a second scaling coefficient associated with filtering the prior symbol interval; and
at least one summer generating in each symbol interval a filtered output comprising a sum of the \u201cN\u201d scaled taps from the first scaling in the prior symbol interval and the second scaling of the at least one tap in the current symbol interval, thereby increasing an order of the FIR without corresponding increase in an order of the delay line.
3. A method for filtering a communication channel, comprising:
subjecting a first set of successive samples of the received communication channel to a first impulse response filtering using a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter that utilizes weighting coefficients which vary based on an error signal and which minimize at least one of frequency dependent and multi-path dependent variations in a resultant first filtered output;
subjecting a second set of successive samples to a second impulse response filtering using a second finite impulse response (FIR) filter that utilizes weighting coefficients which vary based on the error signal and which minimize at least one of frequency dependent and multi-path dependent variations in a resultant second filtered output;
generating a difference signal proportional to a difference between the first and second filtered outputs;
generating an altered difference signal, based on statistics for the difference signal, which altered difference signal includes both altered bits or symbols of the difference signal together with associated confidence or likelihood values; and
blending, responsive to the confidence or likelihood values in the altered difference signal, both different error signal sources to form the error signal as well as different input signal sources to form the second set of successive samples; thereby stabilizing the filtering performed.