Sentence examples for tilt switch from inspiring English sources
A novel accelerometer tilt switch device for switch actuation in the patient with profound disability.
As an electrically conductive liquid, it was used in mercury switches (including home mercury light switches installed prior to 1970), tilt switches used in old fire detectors, and tilt switches in some home thermostats.
Chalayan's inspiration centered around the idea of self-image, so his engineer Robert Davis rigged tiny battery-powered wireless cameras with tilt switches inside champagne flutes, which when tipped 15 degrees, would light up and capture the inside of the models' mouths.
The position (tilt switches) and motion sensors are fixed to plastic brackets.
The tilt switches are oriented so that they will be in the vertical position when the subject is standing.
It is based on a dual-axis accelerometer, combined with tilt switches, and samples at a rate of 10 Hz.
The position of the trace on the graph (high or low) is derived from the combined information of the tilt switches and can be used to determine the different positions of the participant (lying, sitting, or upright).
The combination of information from both of the tilt switches, one attached to the upper leg and one on the lower leg, allows the wearer's position (lying, sitting, or upright) to be determined.
Without it, the Axiom wallows disconcertingly, and although in non-Sport mode it will simply overshoot a tight turn rather than tilt alarmingly, switching to Sport inspires far more confidence.
A value is derived from the true tilt-switch sensor and estimates the percentage of time the animal's head was up during a predefined sampling period [45].
