Author: claimsbot

1. A manufacturing method of a stator core of a rotating electrical machine comprising:
a pressing process that forms a core sheet that has slots punched out on one side in a width direction of a strip of steel sheet at a fixed interval to form teeth between the slots, and core-back parts on another side of the steel sheet;
a winding process that forms a helically stacked core by winding spirally and stacking cylindrically the core sheet so that the slots and teeth are positioned in an inner diameter side of the stacked core;
a joining process that joins between each layer of the helically stacked core; and
a finishing process that corrects inner and outer shapes to predetermined forms while correcting gaps of stacking of the helically stacked core; wherein,
the finishing process buckles the core-back part by a coining process that simultaneously moves a coining punch divided in a circumferential direction and arranged around the helically stacked core to a center side in a radial direction and presses an outer surface of each core-back part of the helically stacked core while pressing down an end side of the helically stacked core by a holding device, and
both the core-back part and the teeth are deformed until an end side of an inner circumferential surface of the teeth becomes coaxial with the coining punch and contacts an inner circumferential surface pole arranged inside the helically stacked core so as to correct inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the helically stacked core.
2. The manufacturing method of the stator core of the rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein,
an amount of buckling deformation of each core-back part in a radial direction by the coining process is smaller at a slot position compared with a teeth position in a circumferential direction, and
an amount of movement of each core-back part in the radial directional is larger at the slot position compared with the teeth position in the circumferential direction.
3. The manufacturing method of the stator core of the rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein,
a plate thickness after the buckling near a perimeter of each core sheet of the helically stacked core after the coining process is thinner than a plate thickness of the core sheet.

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 wide tuning oscillator based local oscillator (LO) generator system, comprising:
a wide tuning range oscillator for generating a signal with a first initial frequency or a second initial frequency in response to a control voltage;
a first frequency controlling circuit for converting the first initial frequency of the signal into a final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is separated from the first initial frequency by a factor of at least two and wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is not a harmonic of the first initial frequency; and
a second frequency controlling circuit for converting the second initial frequency of the signal into the final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit is separated from the second initial frequency by a factor of at least two and wherein the control voltage is associated with an output level of a power amplifier (PA) transmitter coupled to the first frequency controlling circuit or the second frequency controlling circuit.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a phase lock loop coupled to the wide tuning range oscillator for forwarding the control voltage.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a multiplexer coupled to the first frequency controlling circuit and the second frequency controlling circuit for forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit or the second frequency controlling circuit based on the output level of the PA transmitter.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA transmitter is greater than a threshold voltage and wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA transmitter is less than the threshold voltage.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the signal comprises an in-phase signal or a quadrature signal.
6. The system of claim 4, wherein the multiplexer is coupled to at least one mixer which is further coupled to the PA transmitter.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first frequency controlling circuit comprises:
a first frequency divider for dividing the first initial frequency of the signal into a first frequency;
a second frequency divider for dividing the first frequency into a second frequency; and
a frequency combiner for adding the first frequency and the second frequency into the final frequency.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first initial frequency is 6.4 GHz, the first frequency is 1.6 GHz, the second frequency is 0.8 GHz, and the final frequency is 2.4 GHz.
9. The system of claim 7, wherein the frequency combiner comprises a mixer.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the second frequency controlling circuit comprises a third frequency divider for dividing the second initial frequency of the signal into the final frequency.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the second initial frequency of the signal is 4.8 GHz and the final frequency is 2.4 GHz.
12. The system of claim, 10, wherein the frequency divider is coupled to at least one mixer which is further coupled to a low noise amplifier (LNA) receiver.
13. A wide tuning oscillator based local oscillator (LO) generator, comprising:
a wide tuning range oscillator for generating a signal with a first initial frequency or a second initial frequency in response to a control voltage;
a first frequency controlling circuit for converting the first initial frequency of the signal into a final frequency, comprising:
a first frequency divider for dividing the first initial frequency of the signal into a first frequency;
a second frequency divider for dividing the first frequency into a second frequency;
a frequency combiner for adding the first frequency and the second frequency into the final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is separated from the first initial frequency by a factor of at least two and wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is not a harmonic of the first initial frequency; and

a second frequency controlling circuit for converting the second initial frequency of the signal into the final frequency, comprising:
a third frequency divider for dividing the second initial frequency of the signal into the final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit is separated from the second initial frequency by a factor of at least two and wherein the control voltage is associated with an output level of a power amplifier (PA) transmitter coupled to the first frequency controlling circuit or the second frequency controlling circuit.
14. The generator of claim 13, further comprising a phase lock loop coupled to the wide tuning range oscillator for forwarding the control voltage.
15. The generator of claim 13, further comprising a multiplexer coupled to the first frequency controlling circuit and the second frequency controlling circuit for forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit or the second frequency controlling circuit based on the output level of the PA transmitter.
16. The generator of claim 15, wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA transmitter is greater than a threshold voltage and wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA transmitter is less than the threshold voltage.
17. The generator of claim 13, wherein the frequency combiner comprises a mixer.
18. The system of claim 13, wherein the first initial frequency is 6.4 GHz, the second initial frequency of the signal is 4.8 GHz, the first frequency is 1.6 GHz, the second frequency is 0.8 GHz, and the final frequency is 2.4 GHz.
19. A transceiver with a wide tuning oscillator based local oscillator (LO) generator, comprising:
a wide tuning oscillator based LO generator, comprising:
a phase lock loop for forwarding a control voltage;
a wide tuning range oscillator for generating a signal with a first initial frequency or a second initial frequency in response to the control voltage;
a first frequency controlling circuit for converting the first initial frequency of the signal into a final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is separated from the first initial frequency by a factor of at least two and wherein the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit is not a harmonic of the first initial frequency; and
a second frequency controlling circuit for converting the second initial frequency of the signal into the final frequency, wherein the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit is separated from the second initial frequency by a factor of at least two;

a low noise amplifier (LNA) for forwarding a received signal with a channel specific radio frequency (RF) via an antenna;
at least one receiver mixer for mixing the received signal with the channel specific RF and the signal with the final frequency into a received signal with a constant intermediate frequency (IF);
at least one transmitter mixer for mixing a transmitted signal with the constant IF and the signal with the final frequency into a transmitted signal with the channel specific RF;
a power amplifier (PA) for forwarding the transmitted signal; and
a multiplexer coupled to the first frequency controlling circuit and the second frequency controlling circuit for forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit or the second frequency controlling circuit to the power amplifier based on an output level of the power amplifier, wherein the control voltage is associated with an output level of the power amplifier.
20. The transceiver of claim 19, wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the first frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA is greater than a threshold voltage and wherein the multiplexer performs the forwarding the signal with the final frequency forwarded by the second frequency controlling circuit if the output level of the PA is less than the threshold voltage.

1. An diagnosis information generating system comprising:
a radiation image photographing device capable of generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a high energy zone and image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a low energy zone, the radiation image photographing device including:
a radiation source for irradiating a radiation to a region of a subject to be radiographed; and
a radiation image detector for recording a radiation image according to a dose of a radiation irradiated from the radiation source and having entered the detector,
the diagnosis information generating system further comprising,
an output device for outputting image data generated by the radiation image photographing device.
2. The diagnosis information generating system of claim 1,
wherein an average radiation energy of the radiation source of the radiation image photographing device is 27.4 keV or less when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the low energy zone and the average radiation energy is 41.2 keV or more when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the high energy zone.
3. A diagnosis information generating method comprising:
generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a low energy zone by irradiating a radiation to a region of a subject to be radiographed, in a low energy zone image generating step;
generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a high energy zone by irradiating a radiation to a region of a subject to be radiographed, in a high energy zone image generating step; and
outputting the image data generated in the low energy zone image generating step and the high energy zone image generating step.
4. The diagnosis information generating method of claim 3,
wherein an average radiation energy of a radiation irradiated when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the low energy zone is 27.4 keV or less and the average radiation energy of a radiation irradiated when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the high energy zone is 41.2 keV or more.
5. A diagnosis information displaying method comprising:
generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a low energy zone by irradiating a radiation to a region of a subject to be radiographed, in a low energy zone image generating step;
generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a high energy zone by irradiating a radiation to a region of a subject to be radiographed, in a high energy zone image generating step; and
displaying the image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a low energy zone, generated in the low energy zone image generating step and the image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to a high energy zone, generated in the high energy zone image generating step so as to be switchable to each other.
6. The diagnosis information displaying method of claim 5,
wherein an average radiation energy of a radiation irradiated when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the low energy zone is 27.4 keV or less and the average radiation energy of a radiation irradiated when generating image data of a phase contrast image corresponding to the high energy zone is 41.2 keV or more.

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

1-28. (canceled)
29. An apparatus comprising:
a challenge unit to:
transmit challenges to respective ones of a plurality of session servers; and receive, based on the challenges, challenge responses from the respective ones of the plurality of session servers, wherein individual challenge responses are to include an indication of an activity status of a communication session controlled by a corresponding session server; and

a response unit coupled with the challenge unit, the response unit to:
generate a single response based on the activity statuses of communication sessions controlled by at least a subset of the plurality of session servers; and
transmit the single response.
30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the challenge unit is to transmit the challenges based on a received request from a communication session participant appliance, and the response unit is to transmit the single response to the communication session participant appliance.
31. The apparatus of claim 29, further comprising a condition checking unit coupled with the response unit, the condition checking unit to:
identify a condition of an active communication session; and
identify, based on the respective challenge responses, active communication sessions that fulfill the condition; and
the response unit is further to generate the single response related only to the activity statuses of communication sessions that fulfill the condition and inactive communication sessions.
32. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the condition relates to a presence information item or a location information item.
33. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the single response is a first single response, and where the challenge unit is further to receive an updated indication from a session server that an active communication session controlled by the session server has become inactive; and
the response unit is further to:
generate a second single response based on the activity statuses of communication sessions controlled by at least a subset of the plurality of session servers and the updated indication; and
transmit the second single response.
34. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein individual challenge responses include a group address or a participant address for a respective communication session.
35. A method for ascertaining active communication sessions, the method comprising:
receiving, at a communication session information server, a request to identify active communication sessions of a plurality of communication session servers;
transmitting, from the communication session information server in response to the request, challenges to respective ones of the plurality of communication session servers;
receiving, at the communication session information server and based on the challenges, challenge responses from corresponding ones of the plurality of communication session servers, wherein an individual challenge response includes an indication of whether a communication session controlled by the communication session server is active or does not exist;
consolidating, by the communication session information server, the challenge responses into a single response message that includes an indication of activity statuses of the communication sessions controlled by at least a subset of the plurality of communication session servers; and
transmitting, from the communication session information server, the single response.
36. The method of claim 35, wherein the received request is a request from a communication session participant appliance and the single response is sent to the communication session participant appliance.
37. The method of claim 35, wherein the request includes an indication of a condition, and the single response includes an indication of only active communication sessions that fulfill the condition.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein the condition relates to a presence information item or a location information item.
39. The method of claim 35, wherein the single response is a first single response, and further comprising:
receiving, by the communication session information server, after the transmitting the single response, an updated indication from a communication session server that an active communication session controlled by the communication session server has become inactive;
consolidating, by the communication session information server, the challenge responses of at least a subset of the plurality of session servers and the updated indication into a second single response message; and
transmitting, by the communication session information server, the second single response message.
40. The method of claim 35, wherein the individual challenge response includes a group address or a participant address for communication session related to the individual challenge response.
41. The method of claim 35, wherein the communication sessions are Push-to-Talk over Cellular telecommunication conference sessions.
42. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an information server, cause the information server to:
receive a request to identify active communication sessions of a plurality of session servers;
transmit, in response to the request, challenges to respective ones of the plurality of session servers;
receive, based on the challenges, challenge responses from corresponding ones of the plurality of session servers, wherein an individual challenge response of a session server includes an indication of an active or inactive communication session controlled by the session server;
consolidate the respective challenge responses into a single response message based on activity statuses of communication sessions of at least a subset of the plurality of session servers; and
transmit the single response.
43. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 42, wherein the received request is a request from a communication session participant appliance and the single response is sent to the communication session participant appliance.
44. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 42, wherein the request includes an indication of a condition, and the single response includes an indication of only active communication sessions that fulfill the condition and inactive communication sessions.
45. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 44, wherein the condition relates to a presence information item or a location information item.
46. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 42, wherein the single response is a first single response, and further comprising instructions to:
identify, after the transmitting the first single response, an updated indication from a session server that an active communication session of the session server has become inactive;
aggregate the challenge responses and the updated indication into a second single response message based on activity statuses of communication sessions controlled by at least a subset of the plurality of session servers; and
transmit the second single response message.
47. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 42, wherein an individual challenge response includes a group address or a participant address for a communication session.
48. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 42, wherein the communication sessions are Push-to-Talk over Cellular telecommunication conference sessions.