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Disclosed herein are systems and methods including hardware, software and electronic service components and systems to provide large-scale, reliable, and secure foundations for distributed databases and content management systems combining unstructured and structured data, and allowing post-input reorganization to achieve a high degree of flexibility.

The present invention generally relates to the insertion of needles or needle-like members. Thus, a device comprises a housing having a mounting surface adapted for application to the skin of a subject, and a needle unit connected to the housing by a hinge allowing the needle unit to pivot corresponding to a pivoting axis defined by the hinge, the pivoting axis being arranged substantially in parallel with the mounting surface. The needle unit comprises a needle having a distal pointed portion adapted to penetrate the skin of the subject, the distal portion extending generally perpendicular to the mounting surface, and a proximal portion arranged substantially corresponding to the pivoting axis, whereby the needle unit is arranged to pivot between a first position in which the distal portion of the needle is retracted within the housing, and a second position in which the distal portion projects relative to the mounting surface. The needle may e.g. be in the form of a hollow needle or a needle sensor.

A stem-like bone implant includes longitudinal structural members and tension cables that provide curvature control and support, and rigidity against bending and buckling. The longitudinal structural members and tension cables may become an integral part of a composite regenerated bone having a substantially increased strength over natural bone. The flexibility of the implant is controlled by specifically varying the structural geometry of certain portions of the implant, and by adjusting the tension in the tension cables before, during and after the implantation operation to thereby adjust the stiffness of the implant. The tension cables may be adjusted to produce asymmetric or non-uniform levels of tension in the longitudinal structural members.

A display includes: display pixel electrodes; common electrodes; a display layer; a display control circuit; touch detection electrodes; and a touch detection circuit detecting an external proximity object based on a detection signal obtained from the touch detection electrodes with use of a common drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode as a touch sensor drive signal. The touch detection circuit includes: a first filter allowing a fundamental detection signal, contained in the detection signal and having a frequency same as a fundamental frequency of the touch sensor drive signal, to pass therethrough, a plurality of second filters separately allowing two or more harmonic detection signals, contained in the detection signal and having frequencies same as respective harmonic frequencies of the touch sensor drive signal, to pass therethrough, and a detection section performing a detection operation based on the fundamental detection signal and the harmonic detection signals.

A radially expandable stent-graft endoprosthesis includes a knitted tubular structure circumferentially disposed and securably attached to the stent. The knitted tubular structure has a warp knit pattern of interlacing yarns with at least a two-needle underlap to provide greater than 50 percent longitudinal stretchability while substantially inhibiting dilation. A knitted tubular graft is combined with an ePTFE liner to form a composite with greater than 50 percent longitudinal stretchability is also provided. The knitted tubular graft also has a warp knit pattern of interlacing yarns with at least a two-needle underlap to provide the longitudinal stretchability while also substantially inhibiting dilation.

A radially expandable stent-graft endoprosthesis is provided. The graft included in the stent-graft is a knitted tubular structure circumferentially disposed and securably attached to the stent. The knitted tubular structure has a knit pattern of interlacing yarns in an Atlas or a modified-Atlas pattern to provide greater than 150 percent longitudinal stretchability. A knitted tubular graft and a knitted medical fabric with greater than 150 percent longitudinal stretchability are also provided.

An implantable vascular prosthesis having improved flexibility is provided comprising a helical body portion having a reduced delivery configuration and an expanded deployed configuration, the helical body portion comprising a plurality of cells interconnected by hinge points that enhances flexibility of the vascular prosthesis in the reduced delivery configuration.

The invention discloses a flexible assembly system for an aircraft panel. The flexible assembly system comprises a fixed base frame, a movable base frame which is capable of moving in the X-axis direction and is matched with the fixed base frame, a plurality of flexible clamping board assemblies arranged on the fixed base frame and the movable base frame and used for clamping the aircraft panel, a plurality of transmission positioning units arranged on the fixed base frame and the movable base frame and used for adjusting the positions of the flexible clamping board assemblies and robot perforating systems. The positioning assembly requirements of different aircraft panels can be satisfied by adjusting the positions of an inside fixing clamping board and an outside fixing clamping board and replacing a replaceable internal clamping board and a replaceable skin clamping board, and therefore the flexibility of the assembly system is achieved. The two robot perforating systems arranged on the two sides of a panel assembly tool are used for simultaneously satisfying the automatic perforating connecting requirements of the two sides of the aircraft panel. The flexible assembly system is high in flexibility, high-efficiency and high-quality assembly of the aircraft panel can be achieved, the assembly period is greatly shortened, and cost is reduced.

The apparatus contains a counter that is synchronized to the reference time in the mobile station. The counter counts sampled chips of the radio signal to produce a count. The apparatus further includes a controller that controls the processing of the radio signal, activates the processing of the radio signal when the count matches a begin count, and deactivates the processing of the radio signal when the count matches an end count, wherein the begin count and the end count are determined by a signal processor as a function of the time frame offset of the radio signal with respect to the reference time in the mobile station.

The invention provides a preparation method of a titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure. The preparation method comprises the steps that (a) a titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure model is sliced and layered according to 20-30 mu m layer thickness; (2) titanium alloy powder is uniformly paved on a titanium alloy substrate, a laser beam which is emitted by a laser is used for selectively melting a titanium alloy powder layer according to the determined scan locus of the laser beam to complete the processing of one layer of titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure; (c) the titanium alloy powder is paved on the layer of formed titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure again, the laser beam which is emitted by the laser is used for selectively melting the titanium alloy powder layer according to the determined scan locus of the laser beam; (d) the titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure is processed layer by layer, and the titanium alloy thin-wall honeycomb structure is finally formed. According to the method, the stress accumulation and the deformation of a forming piece in the forming process are reduced, the flexibility degree is high, and a thin-wall honeycomb component with variable honeycomb distance and a three-dimensional dot matrix structure can be prepared.

The invention discloses a reconfigurable automatic flexible welding production platform and an operation method thereof. The reconfigurable automatic flexible welding production platform comprises a production line main body, an accompanying platform, an accompanying fixture, a lifting mechanism, welding robots, a welding robot control center, a fixture transfer trolley, a fixture base and a production platform control center, wherein the accompanying platform can move on a line body; the accompanying clamp is positioned on the accompanying platform; the lifting mechanism is positioned on two sections of the line body; the welding robots are positioned at the two sides of a line body welding station; the welding robot control center controls movement of the welding robots and welding action of a fixed welding gun; the transfer trolley is responsible for replacing a fixture; the fixture base stores fixtures for producing different kinds of assemblies; the production platform control center controls movement of the whole production platform, wherein the movement comprises operation of a welding production line main body and operation of the lifting mechanism, so that high-flexibility requirements of automatic welding production for various small assembly components are reached, and production capacity is re-designed for realizing coordination of production tasks and production capacity.

The invention provides a flexible wearable sensor and a corresponding wearable device and preparation method thereof, wherein the flexible wearable sensor is small in size and high in flexible degreeand output capacity. The flexible wearable sensor comprises a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, a second electrode layer, an interval layer, a friction layer and a third electrode layer which are arranged in sequence; a flexible mixed material at least constituted by a piezoelectric material and silicone rubber is contained in the piezoelectric layer, and the piezoelectric layer can generate a piezoelectric signal after being subjected to polarization treatment; a flexible mixed material at least constituted by silicone rubber is contained in the friction layer, a plurality of protrusion parts formed by a plurality of protrusion structures which are configured in an arrayed mode are formed on the opposite areas in the inner surface of the piezoelectric layer and the inner surface of the friction layer correspondingly, and the two inner surfaces are oppositely arranged; the outer surface and the inner surface of the piezoelectric layer are covered with the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer correspondingly; and the interval layer is provided with hollow parts opposite to the protrusion parts on the inner surface of the piezoelectric layer, and the outersurface of the friction layer is covered with the third electrode layer.

The present invention is a double-purpose deformable welding fixture for welding linear and curved weld seams, and the fixture has linear welding slot and curved welding slot integrated onto one pedestal to reach the double-purpose aim. The double-purpose deformable welding fixture consists of one pedestal height difference structure comprising one thickness difference step and one height regulating tab for fitting different welding thickness, and one clamping screw mechanism comprising right and left pressing boards with screw holes and corresponding cap screws. It can regulate clamping force and control welding deformation by means of novel flexible location mode, and is suitable for linear and curved welding of common steel plate, high strength steel plate, aluminum plate, etc of different sizes.

The invention relates to a laser etching method of a three-dimensional curved surface, is applied to the fields of aerospace, electronic and optical devices, and solves the problem that ideal texturegraphs cannot be acquired as a conventional three-dimensional curved surface laser processing method can only be utilized to process parts with to-be-processed surface texture characteristics and processed graphs have angle change. The laser etching method comprises the following steps that: (1) a two-dimensional graph is mapped to a corresponding position of a three-dimensional curved surface model; (2) the graph is cut according to a processing region of a scanning galvanometer and laser focus depth, and central point normal vector coordinates of cut regions are calculated; (3) processing tracks of the scanning galvanometer in the cut regions are confirmed; and (4) the central point normal vector coordinates acquired in the step (2) are adopted as target point positions of five-shaft motion of a machine tool, the processing tracks of the scanning galvanometer acquired in the step (3) are adopted as processing graphs of the cut regions, scanning processing is carried out, and laser etching processing of curved surface parts is achieved.

A wireless sensor network comprises at least one sensor unit which comprises a sensor for sensing a parameter and at least one interrogating node. The interrogating node is arranged to transmit an interrogation message periodically to said sensor unit and to receive a reply message from said sensor unit. The sensor unit is arranged to transmit said reply message after a predetermined deliberate delay unless the sensor unit determines that an alarm condition has been met, in which case the sensor unit is arranged to transmit said reply message before the end of the deliberate delay.

The invention belongs to the technical field of ultrafine processing of hard and brittle ceramic materials, in particular to special microstructure-type excimer laser delaminated processing method and device of a ceramic material sealing ring. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: delaminating the special microstructure-type three-dimensional profile of a processed ceramic material; converting into NC (Numerical Control) codes and realizing the computer control of the position of a lens, the size and the shape of an aperture, the replacement of a round lens and a cylindrical lens, the aperture size and the shape of a light chopper and the movement of a worktable in an optical system by combining the generated NC codes so as to realize the automation and the flexibility of a processing process. The invention has the advantages that the ultrafine processing problem of the special microstructure-type hard and brittle ceramic material sealing ring is solved by applying an excimer delaminated processing technology. A non-contact, clean and high-efficiency processing mode is provided to effectively solve the problems of attached contact stress, embedded abrasive grains and low processing efficiency in a traditional processing method, and the processing flexibility is realized.

A circuit device includes a substrate 11, and a transmission line 10. The transmission line 10 includes a dielectric film13 formed on the substrate 11, and a signal line formed on the dielectric film 13. The dielectric film 13 includes a nano-composite film in which particles of a first material are dispersed in a second material.

A charging cable device for a fast charging station for fast charging a battery of a vehicle with an electric drive, having a temperature control device, and a charging cable connected thereto. The charging cable has a multiplicity of fluid lines which extend from an end of the charging cable facing the temperature control device to an end facing away from the temperature control device, and are connected to one another at the end facing away from the temperature control device. The temperature control device is connected to the fluid lines of the charging cable to form a fluid circuit. The temperature control device is designed to heat a fluid in the fluid circuit. Also disclosed is a fast charging station for fast charging a battery of a vehicle with an electric drive. The fast charging station has a charging cable device at the top.

An arrangement for supplying a load with electrical energy from a power source comprises a textile, woven floor covering (101) with longitudinally running warp threads and transversely running weft threads, three or more current conductors (106) that are spaced apart and substantially parallel to one another being woven in either as warp threads or as weft threads, the current conductors replacing part of a filling warp, a binding warp or the weft threads during the weaving operation. The arrangement also comprises a feed for the connection of the current conductors (106) to the power source and a coupling device (130) for picking up electrical energy from the current conductors (106) in the floor covering (101) and transporting it further to the load when the coupling device (130) is brought into a power pick-up area of the floor covering (101). The coupling device (130) is formed in particular in such a way that electrical energy can be inductively picked up from the current conductors (106) running in the floor covering. The supply arrangement allows a high degree of flexibility and can be integrated well in rooms.

The electrolytic ignitor comprises an injector (2) constituting a first electrode and including a fuel injector device (26), an oxidizer injector device (27), and an electrolyte injector device (1), a second electrode (5) electrically insulated from the injector (2) by an insulator (4) and extending downstream beyond the injector (2), an electrolyte tank (12), a solenoid valve (11) interposed between the tank (12) and an electrolyte distribution channel (3) suitable for delivering electrolyte in the form of free jets through the electrolyte injector device constituted by at least one injection hole (1) situated in the vicinity of the fuel injector device (26) and the oxidizer injector device (27), and an electrical power supply circuit adapted to raise the second electrode (5) to a potential lying in the range 50 V to 1000 V relative to the potential of the first electrode. The electrolyte injected through the injection hole (1) is capable of causing ignition of a gaseous mixture formed at the outlet from the fuel injector device (26) and of the oxidizer injector device (27) in a combustion chamber of an ignitor torch suitable for incorporating in a main injector of a rocket engine.