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A system and method for pelletizing extruded materials, such as thermoplastic polymers in various pelletizing applications, including underwater, hot face, and strand pelletizing applications, utilizes a high pressure liquid delivered to one or more nozzles which direct a high pressure liquid jet cutting stream at the extruded polymer strand to cut the strand into pellets. The system and method are particularly applicable to underwater pelletizers utilizing water or water-based solutions. In a preferred underwater pelletizing embodiment, a plurality of nozzles are mounted on a rotating nozzle hub which is fed high pressure water through sealed hollow pelletizer and hollow motor shafts. The high pressure water jet cutting streams exiting the rotating nozzles are preferably in the form of a flat V-shaped spray with a spread angle of about 15° to about 45° and an approach angle between 0° and 60°, depending upon the pelletizing application.

An extruded aluminum bottom-load ceiling used in conjunction with cleanrooms comprises main tees and cross tees with removable flanges. The tees are connected via cam-lock devices or splice bars and may be hung on a 4′×4′ or 8′×8′ configuration. The tees also include hammerhead-nut slots used to suspend the tees from the building structure above and hang AMHS hangers from the tees. Grid stiffeners are included to increase the carrying capacity of the tees.

A cap dispensing chamber to hold powder and/or liquids in a contained unit with a line of weakening, including but not limited to for bottles, pouches, cartons, cans, drums, IV bags, syringes, and any other type of container that can hold a product. The body and the plunger fits snugly with one another allowing ingredients to be stored and activated by an individual when on a as needed basis. A dust cover for allowing RFID, Nano and barcodes that can be applied during or post manufacturing or any location on or in the invention A body can be molded with a screw cap, snap lid, click-in, or by itself that can ultimately fit on any type or style container.

A linerless closure of one-piece integrally molded plastic construction includes a base wall and a cylindrical skirt for attaching the closure to a container neck finish. First and second circumferentially continuous annular walls extend from the base wall at positions radially inward from the skirt. The first and second annular walls are spaced from each other to receive an end portion of the container neck finish when the closure is applied to the neck finish. At least one of the annular walls has a circumferentially continuous annular projection extending toward the opposing annular wall. The annular projection is axially flexible for bending and folding toward the base wall and toward the at least one annular wall in sealing engagement with the end portion of the container neck finish when such end portion is received between the annular walls.

The balloon display system used in indoor and outdoor show rooms and the like. The system includes a heavy plastic inflatable balloon. The balloon is mounted on top of a circular balloon holder cup. The cup and the balloon are attached to an upper end of a flexible rod. A lower end of a flexible rod can be attached to a flexible or a rigid, hollow mounting pole. A lower end of the mounting pole can be attached to an upper end of a ground stake. A lower end of the ground stake is inserted into a ground surface. Also the lower end of the mounting pole can be mounted on top of a weighted base stand or other upright objects. The system is designed to display one balloon or a plurality of balloons in a balloon cluster.

A system for tracking mobile subscribers, the system includes an aircraft having an on-board virtual BTS that substitutes for a stationary BTS. The virtual BTS emulates a behavior of the stationary BTS so as to be indistinguishable from the stationary BTS to the mobile device, including emulation of communication protocols and billing operations The virtual BTS communicate with the mobile devices. The virtual BTS includes a processor running Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a signal amplifier, the SDR receiving identifiers of the mobile devices. The aircraft includes a high-gain antenna for determining directions of signals from the mobile devices. A camera on board the aircraft takes images or video of an area on the ground. The processor collects and processes the images or video, the directions of the signals and the identifiers of the mobile devices to locate a specific subscriber. The processor transmits the processed information to a server.

After making to an agreement with a mobile telephony operator (123), an entity (130) may offer his customers the possibility of sending SMS messages free of charge. The sending of messages is then actually subsidized by the entity. A user (101) of this method then indicates his wish to send a message free of charge, and the entity subsidizes the sending of this message along with a second message to the same recipient. The contents of the second message can be chosen by the entity. This second message is composed automatically by the server (123) if it detects a flag, in the message, indicating that a first message is being conveyed through a subsidy from the entity. The conveyance of such messages may be limited in number and time. The contents of the second message are selected from a list that may be updated by the entity.

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are based on quantum cascade (QC) structures. In embodiment methods and corresponding devices, a QC layer in a wave confinement region of an integrated multi-layer semiconductor structure capable of producing optical gain is depleted of free charge carriers to create a low-loss optical wave confinement region in a portion of the structure. Ion implantation may be used to create energetically deep trap levels to trap free charge carriers. Other embodiments include modifying a region of a passive, depleted QC structure to produce an active region capable of optical gain. Gain or loss may also be modified by partially depleting or enhancing free charge carrier density. QC lasers and amplifiers may be integrated monolithically with each other or with passive waveguides and other passive devices in a self-aligned manner. Embodiments overcome challenges of high cost, complex fabrication, and coupling loss involved with material re-growth methods.

Infusion devices that are configured to measure fluid flow and to adjust delivery.

A dial plan for a gateway in a packet based voice system provides call re-direct functionality to the system. The dial plan allows a gateway to process all incoming and outgoing calls for an enterprise, thereby minimizing required interface with an existing PBX. The dial plan identifies a given call as an incoming call from a data network, an incoming call from the PSTN, or an outgoing call from the PBX at an enterprise. The dial plan further identifies a desired route for transmitting the call to a desired destination. If the desired route is over a data network, the dial plan tests the route to determine its availability, and if it is not available determines an alternate re-direct route over the PSTN.

A clip end hair fastening band for fastening and styling hair comprising an elastic band with claw-toothed clips integrally attached to each end and additional claw clips attached to its underside. The band can be any material including a swatch of hair.

Multiple video game players access an encrypted video game library stored on a shared mass storage device. A multiplexer multiplexes data read from the mass storage device to provide output streams to multiple video game playing units consuming video game instructions. A secure bus communicates video game instructions from the shared mass storage device to each of the video game playing units. Video game software or other entertainment content is distributed to the shared mass storage device via electronic download in multi-level encrypted form. Before being transported, the content is encrypted and then further encrypted. Once the content has been successfully transported, it is decrypted to remove the further encryption layer—leaving the first encryption layer intact for protecting the video game during storage on mass storage at the remote distribution location.

The present invention provides a method for acquiring video data by using a camera mobile phone as a computer camera, which comprises: step A: the camera mobile phone is virtualized as a video-capturing device in a computer; step B: the mobile phone virtualized as the video-capturing device in step A is selected as current video-capturing device of the computer; step C: the computer sends a command for acquiring video data to the mobile phone selected as the current video-capturing device, and said mobile phone acquires video data according to the received command and transmits to the computer via wireless connection; and step D: the computer receives the video data transmitted from the mobile phone. The invention can achieve a resource sharing between the mobile phone and the computer, make full use of their functions, save the interface resource of the computer and enable the mobile phone to break down the capacity limitation during the acquisition of video data.

The invention relates to a process method for producing zirconium tetrachloride through a fluidizing chlorination method. The process method comprises the following steps: smashing zircon sand to 300-325 meshes, smashing petroleum coke to 100-200 meshes, smashing chemical heat supplementing agent to 200-400 meshes, firstly fully mixing the zircon sand and the petroleum coke powder, simultaneously adding the mixture and the heat supplementing agent into a fluidizing chlorination furnace, introducing chlorine to carry out chlorination reaction and keeping the temperature of the fluidizing chlorination furnace at 1100 DEG C, wherein the chemical heat supplementing agent is silica powder or silicon carbide or a mixture of the silica powder and the silicon carbide; the reaction formula of the chemical heat supplementing agent is SiC+2Cl2=SiCl4+C or Si+2Cl2=SiCl4; the main reaction formula of producing the zirconium tetrachloride through zircon sand chlorination is ZrSiO4+4C+4Cl2=ZrCl4+SiCl4+4CO. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the heating problem of a zircon sand fluidizing chlorination furnace can be solved, the production cost of the zirconium tetrachloride is reduced and a byproduct: an important chemical raw material silicon tetrachloride can be produced, so that the process method has the advantages of increasing the working efficiency, saving the energy and reducing the production cost.

Process and apparatus for extraction of oil and hydrocarbons from crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids (101), such as oil shale, involving the pyrolyzing of the crushed solids (101) with liquid hydrocarbon (104) and hot gas such as syn gas (103) rich in hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide or a solid hydrocarbon such as gilsonite. Crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids are treated with a hydrocarbon and hot gas in a rotary kiln (105) where the crushed solids are cascaded into the hot gas for sufficient time to strip the volatile liquids and gases found in the solids, removing the vaporized liquids, enriched hot gas and spent crushed solids from the kiln, fractionating the vaporized liquids (106) and enriched syn gas into the desired fractions. Use of hot syn gas is particularly suited for use in conjunction with combined-cycle electricity generation (110) and in the preparation of various by-products. The process efficiently recycles heat and energy to reduce harmful atmospheric emissions and reliance on external energy sources.

A videophone system includes: a mobile communication terminal having a function for transmitting/receiving an imaged moving picture to/from a radio communication base station and performing communication; and a monitor device for displaying a moving picture transmitted/received to/from a radio communication base station by using a communication protocol between the radio communication base station and the mobile communication terminal. Thus, it is possible to perform high-image-quality videophone communication by using a camera arranged at a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile telephone, PHS, and PDA.

A network enabled system and method for transacting property sales and rentals without a real estate agent. The method provides a network, accessible to a property seller, a buyer, a landlord, and a renter. The network facilitates a property transaction for property between the buyer and the seller, such that a real estate agent is not required. The system matches a seller of a real estate property with a potential buyer through the network. The seller can display the property on the network. The system allows the buyer to indicate desired property criteria. The seller and buyer review each other personal information, property records, and property criteria to determine if the property is appropriate for buyer. The seller and the buyer communicate directly and in real time on the network. This open communication negates the need to use the agent. The method also provides directions that facilitate the transaction.

The invention discloses a sludge and sewage treatment system of drainage facility. The system comprises drainage facility, a dredging mechanism and moving sludge and sewage treatment equipment, wherein the moving sludge and sewage treatment equipment comprises a moving handcart and a moving carriage; a filtering component, a sludge and sewage treatment component, a silt temporary storage device, silt output equipment, a generating set and control equipment are arranged in the moving carriage; the filtering component, the sludge and sewage treatment component and the silt temporary storage device are all connected with the generating set and the control equipment; the sludge and sewage treatment component is communicated with the filtering component through a pipeline; the filtering component is provided with a filtered granular impurity outlet; the sludge and sewage treatment component is provided with a sludge and sewage granular impurity outlet; both the filtered granular impurity outlet and the sludge and sewage granular impurity outlet are arranged towards the interior of the silt temporary storage device; a sludge and sewage accessing pipe is connected with the filtering device; a drainage pipe is connected with the bottom of the sludge and sewage treatment component; the dredging mechanism is connected with the sludge and sewage accessing pipe of the moving sludge and sewage treatment equipment through a discharge pipe. The sludge and sewage treatment efficiency are improved through filtering, treatment and separation.

A power factor corrected boost converter circuit comprising a rectifier connectable to an ac input and having a rectified dc output provided across a dc bus, an inductor having first and second terminals connected in one leg of the dc bus, a first terminal of the inductor coupled to the output of said rectifier, an integrated circuit comprising a control circuit for controlling a switch, the integrated circuit comprising a housing enclosing the control circuit, the integrated circuit having a power terminal, a ground terminal, a first control input terminal coupled to an output of the converter circuit, and a second control input terminal coupled to a sensor for sensing current in the dc bus and further having an output terminal connected to the switch, a boost rectifier diode having a first terminal, the first terminal of the diode coupled to the second terminal of the inductor, the diode having a second terminal, and a storage capacitor connected to the second terminal of the diode, wherein the control circuit comprises a one cycle control circuit having an integrator reset by a clock signal for each cycle of the clock signal, the integrator receiving as an input a signal provided on said first control input terminal, further comprising an inrush current limiting circuit for limiting the current through the inductor to a value below a predetermined level. Also disclosed is a fan motor speed controller and a housekeeping power supply controller.

The invention relates to a simulation bicycle field environmental training and body building device, comprising a mechanical part and a control part which are connected with each other by a circuit, and the mechanical part includes a road simulation device and a bicycle body arranged thereon, the bicycle body is fixed on the road simulation device through a supporting device, and a loading device is disposed on the bicycle body. Compared with the prior art, the device has the advantages that: 1) the device can simulate a specific environment indoors and reduce the environmental pollution, and is more environment-friendly, energy-saving and secure. 2) The device is a trainer or a body builder, and can simulate a plurality of true road conditions and surroundings, and has the visual and aural virtual reality function to a certain extent. 3) A generator is driven to generate power by wheels, the power generated during the training of athletes can simultaneously drive a fan, different wind speeds can be realized, and energy sources can be saved. And 4) the trainer adopts a simple and realizable structure to achieve functions, and has advantages of power saving, low cost and high performance price ratio when in use.

Method and apparatus for processing satellite positioning system signals is described. In one example, assistance data is received at a mobile receiver from a first wireless network using a wireless transceiver. The first wireless network may be a non-synchronized cellular network. A time synchronization signal is obtained from a second wireless network at the mobile receiver using a wireless receiver. A time offset is then determined in response to the time synchronization signal. Satellite signals are processed at the mobile receiver using the assistance data and the time offset. The second wireless network may be a synchronized cellular network or may be a non-synchronized cellular network that is externally synchronized to GPS time.

A foundation apparatus comprised of flat plates that is used to support above-ground structures is disclosed. A method of making, using and installing a pile foundation for those applications is also provided. The present invention relates to various flat plate foundation supports that provide a foundation anchor for various ground supported structures. Specifically, the present invention relates to a foundation anchor support that comprises flat longitudinally extending plates that are adapted to be inserted beneath a ground surface.