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An apparatus and method for providing electrical energy to an electrical device by deriving the electrical energy from motion of the device. In one embodiment, the inventive apparatus includes a novel kinetic electrical power generator (KEPG) consisting of an inventive oscillating weight having an internal cavity with a freely movable acceleration element disposed therein, resulting in improved acceleration and oscillation capabilities and lower motion threshold for the weight, a system for converting the weight's oscillating motion into rotational motion, and an electromechanical transducer system for generating electrical energy from the rotational motion. The novel KEPG includes components for modifying the electrical energy for storing and/or feeding the modified electrical energy to the electrical device. Optional components may be included for using the modified electrical energy to recharge one or more rechargeable batteries used in an electric device. Alternate advantageous embodiments of the inventive apparatus include, but are not limited to: a KEPG with multiple inventive oscillating weights to increase velocity and frequency of desirable rotational motion, and a KEPG system utilizing multiple electrically coupled KEPG sub-systems.

Sediment control devices and systems are provided. The device generally includes a core made up of granular material encased within a puncture resistant fabric, a compressible layer enwrapping the core and a geotextile fabric outer casing. A plurality of such devices provide a system for controlling erosion and sedimentation.

A barrier for reducing erosion along shorelines includes a barrier body formed as a unitary, molded plastic structure. In one embodiment, the barrier body has at least one elongate passage extending through it, between oppositely disposed first and second sides, and an interior reservoir. A port formed into the barrier body communicates with the interior reservoir to facilitate filling the reservoir with material to thereby add weight to the barrier. The barrier further includes at least one anchor formed into a side of the barrier body and associated with the passage to control shrinkage of the barrier body as it is being molded. In another embodiment, a method of making the barrier body includes placing plastic material in a mold, manipulating the mold to distribute the plastic material within the mold and thereby form the barrier body as a unitary piece, and reducing the shrinkage of the molded barrier body with the anchor.

A sediment control roll includes a threshold member having large apertures therethrough, a hollow sediment collection chamber, and an outflow filter having small apertures therethrough. The sediment control roll can be used to collect sediment in runoff from a construction site, or to reduce removal of sediment from an existing mass of soil, sand or other sediment. The sediment control roll can for example be made by rolling up extruded polymeric netting with filter cloth attached thereto.

A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus is divided into a display area on which an image is displayed and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The LCD apparatus includes an organic insulating layer partially formed in the non-display area. A portion of the organic insulating layer is not formed, obtaining a vent space through which to exhaust air trapped when a first substrate is combined with a second substrate of the liquid crystal display apparatus. The LCD apparatus may rapidly and easily exhaust the trapped air from the display area and uniformly maintain the cell gap between the first and second substrates, improving display quality of the LCD apparatus.

A device and method for stabilization of beaches and building walls, patios and similar simple structures consisting of blocks with trapezoidal or rectangular shapes which have staking or interlocking means of interconnecting blocks and where the top has an open area allowing fill by slurries of water and sand, gravel or clay and the escape of clarified water during and after filling.

A modular retaining wall with improved features is illustrated and described. Open or closed polygonal modules having channels disposed therein are set at least partially below a surface, said surface either being land-based or aqueous-based, and interfaces therebetween, e.g., shoreline, and attached to each other by respective fastening means which provide engaging connectivity between the modules.

A floating breakwater assembly comprising an array of elongate rods articulated to one another for extending at a substantial vertical position at least partially submersed in water, wherein the rods are made of a flexible material and where the array is elastically deformable into an arcuate shape by bending the array.

The invention relates to a floating breaker, which comprises a floating box, wave weakening plates and an anchoring system. The more than one wave weaning plate is arranged at the bottom of the floating box in front and rear manner; a plurality of wave weakening holes are arranged on the wave weakening plates; the plurality of wave weakening holes are distributed in a staggered manner on the wave weakening plates arranged in front and rear manner; and the floating box is connected with the anchoring system. With the adoption of the floating breaker provided by the invention, the effect of weakening deep water wave energy is improved, the impact force on a wave weakening panel by waves is reduced, the weight of the integral floating breakwater and the impact force of the waves are reduced, and the security of a fixing anchoring system is promoted; when an anchor chain of the fixing anchoring system fractures or an anchor slips away, the protecting anchoring system is started immediately to play the role of protecting and fixing the anchor chain or the anchor; and if the anchor chain fractures or the anchor slips away again in the protecting anchoring system, a security anchor chain of a security anchoring system is started to automatically pull down a security door of the floating box, so that seawater flows in the floating box quickly, and the floating box sinks to the seabed. The floating breaker provided by the invention is safe and reliable and can substantially reduce the manufacturing cost of the whole engineering.

A large scale geotextile tube includes a plurality of shelves that extend across the width of the geotextile tube with each shelf formed of a web of geogrid material or geocell material. As one moves from the bottom of the geotextile tube to the top of the geotextile tube, the width of each shelf decreases. The geotextile tube can be surrounded by an envelope formed of geogrid material.

A process for the bonding of a plastics pipe to another plastics part by ultrasound welding using sound waves which act longitudinally with respect to the pipe axis, while the arrangement of the areas to be welded is substantially parallel to the pipe axis. The welding procedure is combined with the forced insertion of the other plastics part into the plastics pipe in such a way that there is at least some overlap between the exposure to sound and the forced insertion.

The present invention is directed to an irrigation device and irrigation system. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a weep or tear type irrigation device and irrigation system.

A transportable wave suppressor and sediment collection (WSSC) system, including a method of installing same, the system installed to suppress wave action and provide land restoration along the shore of a body of water, such as a coastline, which includes a plurality of interconnected sections of the system, each section including a base, a forward wall, and a rear wall, having a plurality of fluid flow pipes extending from the forward wall to the rear wall, for allowing water including sediment to flow into the pipes at the forward wall and exit the pipes at the rear wall. There is further provided a one-way valve member at the rear wall exit of each pipe, so that water carrying sediment cannot return through the pipe as the wave action recedes from the coastline. There is provided a flow opening including a weir between multiple sections so that water can flow therethrough.

The invention discloses a perforated case type floating breakwater with a built-in buoyancy unit. The perforated case type floating breakwater comprises a perforated case structure, the buoyancy unit and anchoring devices; the buoyancy unit is arranged inside the perforated case structure, and the anchoring devices are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the perforated case structure; the perforated case structure comprises a plurality of porous rigid plates, rigid plates and rigid support columns, the porous rigid plates and the rigid plates are perpendicular to one another pairwise and are rigidly connected with one another to form the perforated case structure, and the rigid support columns are parallelly mounted at the bottom of the perforated case structure; the buoyancy unit comprises a plurality of rubber pieces, air is filled in each rubber piece, and the rubber pieces are arranged inside the lower half portion of the perforated case structure. The perforated case type floating breakwater has the advantages that stable and reliable buoyancy can be provided, so that accidents that the traditional case type floating breakwater is sunken into a seabed due to loss of buoyancy when cracks are formed in an outer structure of the traditional floating breakwater and water seeps into the traditional floating breakwater are prevented, materials are effectively saved, the cost is lowered, draft of the breakwater can be adjusted, a wave absorbing effect is improved, and the perforated case type floating breakwater can be applied to water areas where piling anchoring cannot be implemented.

A device is provided for preventing shoreline erosion and for rebuilding the sand beach along the shoreline of a large body of water. A series of the devices are placed in side-by-side relation essentially parallel to the shoreline. The device includes a hollow plastic structure fillable with a heavy material, such as cement. The structure has a trapezoidal configuration to lower the center of gravity of the device and includes inclining front and rear walls converging toward each other to the top wall. The hollow plastic structure includes a plurality of tubular members extending from the front wall to the rear wall. The front and rear walls have access apertures opening to the tubular members. The tubular members gradually taper from a predetermined diameter at the access apertures in the front wall to half of the predetermined diameter at the access apertures in the rear wall to reduce the velocity of the flow of water to the large body of water.

Provided are a variety of variable-buoyancy structures, such anchors, together with methods and apparatuses for fabricating the same in the water. Generally speaking, such methods and apparatuses use a variable-buoyancy platform-based mold, initially floating, that includes multiple forming cells for fabricating the resulting variable-buoyancy structure. As a result, the variable-buoyancy structure produced has multiple corresponding structural cells having open bottoms. However, the structure may be fabricated so as to include a flexible or rigid container within some or all of such open-bottom cells.

A modular retaining wall is illustrated and described having open or closed polygonal modules with channels disposed therein. The wall is set at least partially below a surface, the surface either being land-based or aqueous-based, and interfaces therebetween, e.g., shoreline. The modules of the wall are fastened to each other by respective fastening means such that engaging connectivity is provided between the modules, yet retains the ability for fluid to pass through.

The invention discloses a high-pile permeable breakwater which comprises pile foundations, cross beams, longitudinal beams, and a breakwater wave absorbing structure fixed on the cross beams and the longitudinal beams, wherein the cross beams and the longitudinal beams are mounted on the pile foundations; the breakwater wave absorbing structure comprises a plurality of vertically arranged perforated wave blocking plates, a plurality of horizontal wave absorbing plates, a plurality of transverse partition plates, a panel and a breast wall; the horizontal wave absorbing plates and the perforated wave blocking plates are arranged in a cross manner; the transverse partition plates, the horizontal wave absorbing plates and the perforated wave blocking plates are arranged in a cross manner; the panel and the breast wall are arranged at the upper part of the breakwater wave absorbing structure; the breakwater wave absorbing structure is an overall structure; bottom elevations and perforation ratios of the perforated wave blocking plates are different; and elevations of the transverse partition plates are different. The high-pile permeable breakwater is simple in structure, quick to construct, convenient to dismount, low in wave transmission coefficient, economical and light, integrates flow transmission and wave absorbing functions, can effectively reduce the transmissivity of a long wave, and ensures stability of a water area in a harbor.

The invention provides a large filling bag ecological embankment and revetment building method for a river lake channel. The method comprises the steps that (1), on the basis of cleaning and leveling, an embankment structure is filled with cleaned river lake bottom mud layer by layer through the large filling bag technology until the embankment structure reaches up to a designed elevation of the embankment top and the height of 0.5-1 m beyond the designed elevation is reserved through filling construction; (2), the cleaned river lake bottom mud is filled through a land pump, or special complete equipment and corresponding construction technologies are adopted to directly conduct mechanical paving and filling, and then the filled cleaned river lake bottom mud is sewn into bags; and (3), filling soil materials of the large geotextile filling bag embankment structure are taken from local resources, the bottom mud obtained through river lake regulation and channel excavation and cleaning is used as the filling soil materials, the initial water content of the filling soil materials is controlled within the range from 50%-80%, and the large filling bag embankment structure which is layered appropriately is adopted according to the practical situation. According to the method, the design is reasonable, the process is simple, construction is easy, operation is convenient, cost is low, popularization is easy, the ecological functions are good, and the method is applicable to ecological management and ecological channel construction of river lakes in soft soil areas.

The invention relates to a mooring device that is suitable for use in water. The mooring device includes a pile configured to be embedded in a floor supporting the body of water, at least one arm configured to engage at least one entity; a joint configured to couple the pile and the at least one arm and permit rotation of the at least one arm relative to the pile, and joint locking means configured to lock the joint. The invention may further relate to a method of mounting the mooring device in water, a mooring system including multiple mooring devices and a system including the mooring devices.

A flood wall system and method of constructing same, including providing a first main panel section; attaching sleeves to each side of a main panel prior to configuring the final chamber; providing two sleeves of fabric at the upper opening of each chamber for supporting the chambers while they are filled with materials such as sand; providing a series of chambers sewn together to define a continuous cellular wall; the final chamber having a horizontal height which is two feet (0.6 m) longer than the vertical height further having a front toe portion one foot (0.3 m) in height; filling each chamber with a quantity of material, such as sand; on each end of a completed chain of chambers, further comprising a set of loops or ties so that a chain of chambers is capable of being tied to other chains of chambers to define the continuous flood wall system.

The invention discloses a floating breakwater with multiple columns of fence type wave stopping insertion plates and a design method of the floating breakwater, and belongs to the field of offshore engineering. The floating breakwater is composed of a plurality of breakwater units, a wave stopping wall is distributed on the wave facing side of the upper portion of a rectangular floating box of each breakwater unit, a plurality of T-shaped installation holes are reserved in the middle of each rectangular floating box, and the multiple columns of insertion type wave stopping plates are formed through embedding, fixing and joining. Each rectangular floating box is connected to a sinking block through an anchor cable and is then anchored in a design zone, and the breakwater units are in meshed connection through hooks. According to the floating breakwater, the water limiting effect is formed by the multiple columns of wave stopping plates, water bodies around the wave stopping insertion plates are used for increasing the additional mass of the overall floating breakwater, the inertia and the overall stability of the floating breakwater are improved, and motion of floating bodies is not limited by anchoring only; and meanwhile, the fence type wave stopping insertion plates give consideration to energy transformation of reflection energy dissipation and turbulent fluctuation energy dissipation on the aspect of energy dissipation, and the wave dissipation effect of the breakwater can be obviously improved.

A wiring member is arranged to have a protruding portion extending beyond a bonding layer at its end in the extending direction

A wet concrete recycling system for mixing trucks returning to the cement plant throughout the workday. “Residual-collection” molds, kept on-hand at the plant, are filled with any excess wet concrete present in the returning trucks. The molds are configured to form finished components such as roadway barrier sections (i.e. jersey walls), and the like. The finished components are low in cost due to the use of recycled wet concrete, inexpensive reinforcing materials, and handles/assembly elements fabricated from other recycled materials. The finished components may be sold or leased to customers, thereby converting costs typically associated with traditional residual concrete disposal techniques into supplemental income streams. The finished components may be assembled into continuous roadway safety barrier walls. All structures assembled from two or more of the finished components are inexpensive due to the low cost of the individual components, easily constructed, and may be permanent or temporary in nature.

A floating drive-on watercraft dock comprises a one-piece molded body defining a watercraft receiving area. The watercraft receiving area includes roller assemblies on the bottom of the watercraft receiving area and glide assemblies on the sides of the watercraft receiving area. The roller and glide assemblies can be easily removed and replaced for servicing of the watercraft dock. An extension unit is provided which can be connected to the watercraft dock body. The extension unit includes an extension body and a tongue extending from the extension body. The tongue is sized and shaped to have a bottom surface complementary to the entrance to the watercraft receiving area of the watercraft dock body. The extension unit also includes a watercraft receiving area, which, when the extension unit is connected to the watercraft dock, increases the length of the watercraft receiving area.

The invention relates to prefabricated and combined porous floating breakwater suitable for long waves. The breakwater can be arranged in harbors, coasts, rivers and the like. Multiple energy dissipation mechanisms such as reflection resistance, energy peak dissipation, turbulence energy consumption, porous seepage energy consumption and the like are adopted. The floating breakwater consists of three parts, namely, floating components, mooring systems and connecting devices between adjacent floating components. The problems that existing breakwaters are complex in construction method, long in construction period and high in engineering cost are solved. Another technical scheme of the breakwater is as follows: in order to realize a better wave dissipation effect, water surfaces of the floating components are set as vertical still water surfaces, a plurality of wave-dissipation through holes are formed in wave surfaces and back surfaces, and grooves are formed in upper surfaces of the floating components, so that the wave energy can be consumed effectively, and the wave height behind the breakwater can be reduced. The breakwater adopts a thin-wall reinforced concrete structure and is high in self-strength; fixing seams are connected into a whole, and the firmness is good; the construction operation is convenient, short in period and high in efficiency; vertical construction can be performed in water surfaces of embankments of canals, ponds, rivers, lakes, seas and the like as well as waters, the foundation earth volume is small, the paving area is small, and the engineering cost is low.

The invention discloses a slope protection or flood control dam using discarded tyres. The slope protection or flood control dam is built by superposing multiple layers of discarded tyre prestressed mesh plates; the discarded tyre prestressed mesh plates are formed by combining multiple discarded tyre prestressed straps; and the discarded tyre prestressed straps are formed by penetrating parallel steel strands through the discarded tyres, prestressing the steel strands, and fixing two ends of the steel strands on outer edges of outmost tyres on two sides. The slope protection or flood control dam using the discarded tyres realizes recycling of wastes at a low cost, and has the advantages of high processing speed, low cost, high transportation speed, rapidness and flexibility in combination and detachment, less resource consumption, capability of regulating the height, the length and other sizes freely, and the like; and the slope protection or flood control dam using the discarded tyres is applicable to on-site quick processing, can meet an emergency requirement, is high in strength, high in impact resistance, high in self-supporting strength, stable and unloose in structure and durable, and is also applicable to manual filling of concrete or stones or filling of gaps between the discarded tyres by using naturally silting sands, stones and the like so as to improve the self weight and the stability and firmness.

The invention relates to a hydraulic automatic lifting flood control wall, which is arranged side by side along the inner side of a river embankment, and includes a driving device, a locking mechanism, a column, a base, and a baffle. The side of the column is provided with a chute corresponding to the baffle; the inner cavity of the base is provided with a driving device corresponding to the baffle, and the driving device includes a water wheel and a pulley block, and the water wheel drives the baffle to move up and down along the chute through the pulley block ;A liftable baffle is set up. The baffle is hidden in the base of the flood control wall during non-flood season. When the flood arrives and reaches a certain water level, the flood control baffle will automatically rise under the action of the traction force of the waterwheel. After the baffle rises to the upper part of the column, The bayonet on the top of the baffle is docked with the locking mechanism on the column to form a fixed connection relationship, and the baffle is used to block the flood and complete the flood control task.

The invention discloses a breakwater capable of generating electricity by using waves. The upstream side of the cylindrical breakwater is provided with a water accumulating structure; the water accumulating structure comprises two side walls fixedly connected with the cylindrical breakwater; the bottoms of the two side walls are fixedly connected with a reinforced concrete cover plate; the two side walls are provided with inclined upstream fixed front baffle plates; the bottoms of the fixed front baffle plates are fixedly connected with the reinforced concrete cover plate; the reinforced concrete cover plate, the two side walls, the cylindrical breakwater and the fixed front baffle plates form a water accumulating pond with a water accumulating structure; a support frame of the water accumulating structure is arranged in the water accumulating pond; the bottom of the cylindrical breakwater is provided with a drainage flow channel communicated with the water accumulating pond; the drainage flow channel is communicated with the cylindrical breakwater; and a hydraulic power generation unit is arranged in the drainage flow channel. The breakwater capable of generating electricity by using waves has a wave-preventing function, is provided with a wave power generation device, has structural stability and high energy conversion efficiency, and realizes structural optimization.

A wave-dissipating block has a body and a turbine generator assembly. The body has an airway and an overhang. The airway is formed in the body, is substantially J-shape and has an opening communicating with a front of the body and substantially facing upward. The overhang hangs over the airway and has an air window formed in the overhang and communicating with the airway. The turbine generator assembly has a housing mounted on the overhang and has an air channel communicating with the air window, a turbine fan mounted in the air channel and a generator connected to the turbinate fan. Waves can directly pour into the airway with minimized loss of kinetic energy and forms a water column in the airway to effectively suck or push air to passing through the air channel to rotate the turbinate fan to drive the generator to efficiently generate electric power.