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The process and equipment, according to this invention, for manufacturing clear, solid ice of spherical and other shapes are capable of making clear ice balls and block ice of other shapes in the mold quickly, efficiently, and with effective energy utilization. This process is characterized in the steps of:

• • a) preparing a mold for making ice balls and block ice of other shapes, which comprises an upper mold (24a) made of an insulating material and provided with a vertical injection hole (23) drilled therein and a water-injection nozzle (22) fitted in the hole; and a lower mold (24b) made of a water-freezing block (26) having coolant pipe (25) embedded therein;
  • b) preparing for a domed lid (21a) or the lid of a different shape made of an insulating sheet, said lid (21a) having a shape that fits in with the surface shaped for the upper mold (24a) and being provided with a cylinder for being fitted into the vertical injection hole (23); and a shaped hemispherical cup (21b) of the same insulating sheet, which similarly fits in with the shaped surface of the lower mold (24b);
  • c) assembling both halves of the mold (24) after the lid (21a) and the cup (21b) have been attached tightly to each other and placed in the mold;
  • d) then, keeping the liquid to be frozen cooled at a predetermined temperature and spraying the liquid intermittently in the direction of the water-freezing block (26) that has been cooled to a predetermined freezing temperature;
  • e) repeating the spraying operation to freeze the sprayed liquid in the container (21), layer by layer, until clear ice balls (20) or block ice of other shapes are formed; and
  • f) disassembling the halves of the mold under the ice-releasing effect, which the ice container (21) has on the ice-making mold (24), and immediately taking out We shaped ice balls (20) or the block ice of a different shape.

Methods and systems are provided for leveraging engine skip-fire operation during an engine cold-start to expedite catalyst heating. Based on the heat flux required, the engine may be operated with a group of cylinders selectively deactivated, with spark retard on remaining active cylinders increased, and with engine speed increased to reduce NVH issues during the skip-fire operation. The combination of parameters may be adjusted based on changes in exhaust temperature and NVH limits of the engine.

A method and structure for protection against latch-up is provided. Integrated circuits manufactured in accordance with the present disclosure feature well and substrate contacts of varying periodicity. Such a strategy enables maximizing the design of an integrated circuit as to the suppression of latch-up while concurrently optimizing available area on the chip allocable to circuit design. This method and structure is particularly beneficial to protect against cable discharge events and other discharge occurrences prone to injecting large current densities into an integrated circuit.

An anchorage device comprising a mesh substrate coupled to an implantable medical device is disclosed, where the mesh substrate has a coating comprising a polymer, and the mesh further comprises at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient. The active pharmaceutical agent is designed to elute from the mesh over time. The mesh substrate can be configured to reduce the mass of the anchorage device such that tissue in-growth and/or scar tissue formation at the treatment site is reduced. In some embodiments, the mesh substrate can be formed with a mesh having a low areal density. In some embodiments, the mesh substrate can include one or more apertures or pores to reduce the mass of the substrate.

This progressing cavity pump including a helical rotor (2) mounted to turn inside a helical stator (3), said stator (3) and said rotor (2) being disposed such that the cavities (4) formed between said rotor (2) and said stator (3) move from the inlet (5) towards the outlet (6), is characterized by the fact that hydraulic regulation (HR) means are provided for obtaining internal recirculation of the pumped fluid between at least two of said cavities (4) under conditions capable of performing at least one function selected from: achieving the desired pressure distribution along the pump, stabilizing the temperatures, controlling the leakage flow rates, and compensating for the volumes of compressed gas.

The invention belongs to the technical field of micro and nano fibers prepared by electrostatic spinning, and relates to a method for preparing a conductive polymer micro and nano fiber array of an ordered coaxial structure by adopting a rotary disk collecting electrostatic spinning technology, in particular to a method for preparing ordered coaxial structural micro and nano fibers. The method comprises the following steps of: covering a flexible plastic substrate with a rectangular slit shape on a collector of a rotary disk type electrostatic spinning device, and obtaining ordered micro and nano fibers by using transverse relative motion of the collector and high-speed moving electro-spun fibers; and treating the ordered micro and nano fibers serving as a template by a chemical wet method, wrapping a layer of conductive polymer on the surface of the fiber template by in-situ polymerization, and thus obtaining the conductive polymer micro and nano composite fibers of the ordered coaxial structure. The method is high in ordered arrangement degree of the fibers, simple in process, reliable in principle and easy to operate; and the fibers have high electric conductivity and wide application range.

The invention discloses a porous silicon/graphite composite electrode material with low expansion rate and a preparation method thereof. The porous silicon/graphite composite electrode material is characterized in that porous silicon is prepared by a dealloying technology, so as to prepare nanometer silicon at low cost; by utilizing carbon coating, the conductivity and stability of the porous silicon are improved; the porous silicon is uniformly mixed with a graphite anode material according to a certain ratio, so as to prepare and design the porous silicon/graphite composite anode material. The porous silicon/graphite composite electrode material has the advantages that the space in the porous silicon can provide enough space for the expansion of silicon, so as to realize the low expansion rate of whole silicon and carbon anode, and ensure the low expansion rate of the electrode and the safety of a battery; the silicon is coated with carbon, and the carbon comprises graphite, amorphous cracking carbon and the like, so that the conductivity and stability of the porous silicon are improved; by adopting the low-cost dealloying method, the costs of silicon and whole composite anode are low.

An improved tape applicator for apply a tape to close a case or box is provided that uses a wiper system that better seals the tape to the box, provides an improved cut-off system wherein the action of the cut-off blade which partially cuts and then tears the tape is across the tape path at an improved angle. Also included is an improved system for adjusting tab length on the lead end of the case, providing a stiffened free end portion of the tape to engage an on-coming case, for controlling the rotation of large tape rolls by applying pressure to the side of a large roll and locking the tape roll to the mounting hub on the machine by penetrating the tape roll core with locking elements.

The present invention relates to a method for distinguishing a first group of wires from other wires of a multi-wire cable, i.e. a method for identifying those wires of a multi-wire cable which belong to one group. Moreover, the present invention relates to a test connector for use in the method referred to before. Finally the present invention relates to a kit including a multi-wire cable with a connector and a mating test connector for performing the identification method.

A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser element, a lead having an element disposing section where elements are disposed and a resin bonded to the lead. The lead has a thick portion and a thin portion with the thick portion being formed to extend at least in the direction of the width of the resin to cover a region having a length equal to or greater then the width of the resin. A semiconductor laser device has a semiconductor laser element, a lead having an element mount portion on which the semiconductor laser element is mounted and a resin maintained in intimate contact with the lead. The lead has a thicker portion and a thinner portion. The thicker portion is formed to extend in the direction of the width of the resin over a width equal to or greater than the width of the resin.

An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an epoxy (meth)acrylate safely with good productivity, and the invention provides a process for continuously producing an epoxy (meth)acrylate, containing causing a mixed liquid of a compound (A) having a carboxyl group and a (meth)acryloyl group and a compound (B) having an epoxy group to pass continuously and densely through a tubular microchannel formed in a heat-conducting reaction device, and reacting the carboxyl group of the compound (A) with the epoxy group of the compound (B), in which the tubular microchannel in the reaction device has a space size making a fluid cross-sectional area, through which the mixed liquid passes densely, of from 0.1 to 4.0 mm², and the process contains heating the heat-conducting reaction device to a temperature of from 150 to 260° C., reacting the mixed liquid to provide a Reynolds number of a reaction liquid passing through the tubular microchannel in a range of from 0.4 to 100, and after completing reaction, cooling continuously a reaction product discharged from the heat-conducting reaction device.

Provided is an exhaust gas purification catalyst that combines reduction of pressure loss and enhancement of purification performance. This invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a wall-flow-type substrate and first and second catalytic layers. The first catalytic layer is provided to the interior of a partition wall, in contact with an entrance cell, from an exhaust inlet-side end in the running direction, having a length L1 less than Lw. The second catalytic layer is provided to the interior of a partition wall, in contact with an exit cell, from an exhaust outlet-side end in the running direction, having a length L2 less than Lw. An internal portion of partition wall in contact with entrance cell has a substrate-exposing segment near the exhaust outlet-side end.