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  2. Active hard-drive protection - Wikipedia

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    Usually, the system consists of accelerometers that alert the system when excess acceleration or vibration is detected. The software then tells the hard disk drive to unload its heads to prevent them from coming in contact with the platters, thus potentially preventing a head crash.

  3. Automatic door - Wikipedia

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    The automatic door used a mat actuator. In 1960, they co-founded Horton Automatics Inc and placed the first commercial automatic sliding door on the market. [5] With the invention of the Gunn diode, microwave motion detectors became common in automatic doors in the 1970s. [6] [7] In 1980, the first automatic door using an infrared sensor was ...

  4. HP filter - Wikipedia

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    HP filter has several meanings: Hodrick-Prescott filter, an economical filter; High-Pass Filter, a frequency filter This page was last edited on 28 ...

  5. Accelerometer - Wikipedia

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    An accelerometer measures proper acceleration, which is the acceleration it experiences relative to freefall and is the acceleration felt by people and objects. [2] Put another way, at any point in spacetime the equivalence principle guarantees the existence of a local inertial frame, and an accelerometer measures the acceleration relative to that frame. [4]

  6. Crash bar - Wikipedia

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    A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.

  7. HP OpenView - Wikipedia

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    HP OpenView is the former name for a Hewlett-Packard product family that consisted of network and systems management products. In 2007, HP OpenView was rebranded as HP BTO (Business Technology Optimization) Software when it became part of the HP Software Division.

  8. Piezoelectric accelerometer - Wikipedia

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    The cross-section of a piezoelectric accelerometer. The word piezoelectric finds its roots in the Greek word piezein, which means to squeeze or press. When a physical force is exerted on the accelerometer, the seismic mass loads the piezoelectric element according to Newton's second law of motion (=). The force exerted on the piezoelectric ...

  9. Rindler coordinates - Wikipedia

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    These hyperbolic coordinates can be separated into two main variants depending on the accelerated observer's position: If the observer is located at time T = 0 at position X = 1/α (with α as the constant proper acceleration measured by a comoving accelerometer), then the hyperbolic coordinates are often called Rindler coordinates with the ...