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About: Paddle is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5649 publications have been published within this topic receiving 28389 citations.


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26 Oct 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, a system for controlling gear changes in a vehicle may include at least one primary paddle shifter coupled to the steering wheel and/or the steering column, as well as at least two auxiliary paddle shifters.
Abstract: A system for controlling gear changes in a vehicle. The system may include at least one primary paddle shifter coupled to the steering wheel and/or the steering column. The system also includes at least one auxiliary paddle shifter coupled to the steering wheel, the steering column and/or the at least one primary paddle shifter. The primary paddle shifter may engage a primary function, such as one sequential gear shift up or down and the auxiliary paddle shifter may engage a secondary function, such as an optimal gear shift up or down.

9 citations

Patent
14 Mar 1997
TL;DR: In this article, a positioning system for a sample testing machine incudes a base pan and a set of independent drive systems for sliding a sample tray across the base pan, each of the drive systems is mounted on a shaft with a collar that slides over the shaft, and a motor and drive belt is provided to move the collar along the shaft.
Abstract: A positioning system for a sample testing machine incudes a base pan and a set of independent drive systems for sliding a sample tray across the base pan Each of the drive systems incudes a paddle that engages a side of the sample tray The paddle is slideably mounted to a shaft with a collar that slides over the shaft A motor and drive belt is provided to move the collar along the shaft, causing the paddle to engage the side of the sample tray and slide the sample tray across the base pan Track sections are provided in the base pan to prevent the sample tray from rotating as the paddle slides the sample tray across the base pan

9 citations

Patent
02 Feb 2007
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated circuit package consisting of a paddle, an outer lead, and an inner lead between the paddle and the outer lead is presented. Butts et al.
Abstract: An integrated circuit package system is provided including forming a paddle, an outer lead, and an inner lead between the paddle and the outer lead; forming a non-vertical paddle edge of the paddle and a non-vertical lead edge of the inner lead facing the non-vertical paddle edge; and encapsulating an integrated circuit die over the paddle.

9 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
28 Nov 2007
TL;DR: A motion capture system and feedback mechanism can be integrated into a virtual ping- pong game to create a multi-player platform and during an exhibition many people positively responded to it.
Abstract: In this paper we show how a motion capture system and feedback mechanism can be integrated into a virtual ping- pong game to create a multi-player platform. To trace the motion of each player, optical markers are attached to different places on each player's paddle. For tactile feedback, we designed a controller for a DC (Direct Current) motor, which is also attached to the paddle. This controller communicates with the game server through wireless Bluetooth technology. When the game server detects a collision between the paddle and ball, the controller receives the message from the game server and then triggers one of the respective paddle's DC motors to vibrate depending on the position of the impact on the paddle. During an exhibition many people positively responded to the game.

9 citations

Patent
06 Aug 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, an embedded or etched paddle that rotates rigidly about an axis parallel to that of the cantilever with hinges that connect the paddle to the body is detected using radiation irradiating the paddle; the reflected beam is centered onto a four quadrant photodiode as commonly found in AFM.
Abstract: A microcantilever used in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) includes an elongated cantilevered body with a probe tip placed preferably near its free end and preferably along the cantilever's axis. Some embodiments of the present invention integrate into the microcantilever body an embedded or etched paddle that rotates rigidly about an axis parallel to that of the cantilever with hinges that connect the paddle to the cantilever body. In one embodiment the resonance frequency of this paddle resonator is higher than the fundamental resonance of the microcantilever so that the paddle rotation is proportional to the vertical microcantilever acceleration at the hinge location. The motion of the paddle can be detected using radiation irradiating the paddle; the reflected beam is centered onto a four quadrant photodiode as commonly found in AFM. The paddle's vertical motion is detected in the usual way by monitoring the vertical channel in the photodiode while its rotation is monitored from the lateral channel in the photodiode. By monitoring the vertical tip acceleration signal from the paddle rotation, it is possible to resolve the history of tip-sample force during oscillation cycles. A calibration method to convert the measured paddle rotation into vertical probe tip acceleration and instantaneous tip-sample force is also disclosed.

9 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
202364
2022146
202143
2020174
2019272