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A robotic surgery system comprises a mounting base, a plurality of surgical instruments, and an articulate support assembly. Each instrument is insertable into a patient through an associated minimally invasive aperture to a desired internal surgical site. The articulate support assembly movably supports the instruments relative to the base. The support generally comprises an orienting platform, a platform linkage movably supporting the orienting platform relative to the base, and a plurality of manipulators mounted to the orienting platform, wherein each manipulator movably supports an associated instrument.

A system and method for replacing file system processors, also known as hot swapping, is described. The system and method operate on a fault-tolerant network file system that includes a first file server that is operably connected to a network fabric and a second file server that is operably connected to the network fabric. The fault-tolerant network file system includes a first disk array that is operably coupled to the first file server and to the second file server and a second disk array that is operably coupled to the first file server and to the second file server. First file system information is loaded on the first file server. The first file system information includes a first intent log of proposed changes to first metadata. Second file system information is loaded on the second file server. The second file system information includes a second intent log of proposed changes to second metadata. The first file server has a copy of the second metadata, and the second file server maintains a copy of the first metadata, thereby allowing the first file server to access files on the second disk array in the event of a failure of the second file server.

Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating trace statements to a log file. A log method in a program, such as a Java program, including an identifier parameter is processed. The program includes multiple instances of the log method to trace the execution of the program during debugging operations. A determination is made as to whether a variable indicates that log methods called with the identifier parameter should be processed. The class and method from which the log method was called is determined if the variable indicates that log methods called with the identifier parameter should be processed. Information on the identifier parameter and determined class and method are written to the log file.

An integrated module frame and racking system for a solar panel is disclosed. The solar panel comprises a plurality of solar modules and a plurality of splices for coupling the plurality of solar modules together. The plurality of splices provide a way to make the connected modules mechanically rigid both during transport to the roof and after mounting for the lifetime of the system, provide wiring connections between modules, provide an electrical grounding path for the modules, provide a way to add modules to the panel, and provide a way to remove or change a defective module. Connector mount assemblies are provided on the sides of the modules to simplify the electrical assembly of modules when the modules are connected together with splices and to simplify the final connection of external wiring to the module.

An apparatus and method of charging and housing of an unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is disclosed. The apparatus includes an accommodator to accommodate an aircraft, a landing platform on which the aircraft lands, a housing portion to monitor state data by housing or charging the aircraft, and a sensor to assist in landing of the aircraft by allowing the aircraft to communicate with the apparatus. The apparatus enhances operational efficiency by reducing a travel time of the aircraft.

A robotic surgery system comprises a mounting base, a plurality of surgical instruments, and an articulate support assembly. Each instrument is insertable into a patient through an associated minimally invasive aperture to a desired internal surgical site. The articulate support assembly movably supports the instruments relative to the base. The support generally comprises an orienting platform, a platform linkage movably supporting the orienting platform relative to the base, and a plurality of manipulators mounted to the orienting platform, wherein each manipulator movably supports an associated instrument.

A file system that balances the loading of filers and the capacity of drives that are associated with the filers is described. The file system includes a first disk drive that includes a first unused capacity and a second disk drive that includes a second unused capacity, wherein the second unused capacity is smaller than the first unused capacity. The file system further includes a first filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the first disk drive. The file system further includes a second filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the second disk drive. The second filer is configured to select an infrequently accessed file from the second disk drive and to push the infrequently accessed files to the first disk drive, thereby improving a balance of unused capacity between the first and second disk drives without substantially affecting a loading for each of the first and second filers.

An integrated module frame and racking system for a solar panel is disclosed. The solar panel comprises a plurality of solar modules and a plurality of splices for coupling the plurality of solar modules together. The plurality of splices provide a way to make the connected modules mechanically rigid both during transport to the roof and after mounting for the lifetime of the system, provide wiring connections between modules, provide an electrical grounding path for the modules, provide a way to add modules to the panel, and provide a way to remove or change a defective module. Connector sockets are provided on the sides of the modules to simplify the electrical assembly of modules when the modules are connected together with splices.

The invention discloses a fast power transformation station of a battery box of an electric automobile and a replacement method of the battery box. The power transformation station at least comprises the following devices: an automobile positioning platform, a battery box lifting and replacing platform, a stacking machine, a battery box storage rack, a logistics transmission port of the battery box and a delivery roller way which are symmetrically arranged relative to the longitudinal movement axis of the stacking machine, the simultaneous working of the two power transformation systems can be achieved, and the space utilization rate and the power transformation efficiency are improved. The fast power transformation station also comprises a power supply system which is arranged on a roof and consists of a solar photovoltaic power generation battery board; and self sufficiency of power can be achieved by virtue of the solar energy, the power supply of the equipment in the station or the charging for the battery box in the station are met. The invention also provides the replacement method of the battery box of the power transformation station. According to the power transformation station, the distribution is reasonable, the space utilization rate is high, the work of the equipment is reliable and simple, and the power transformation process is fast, so that the power transformation time can be shortened, the power transformation fault is reduced, and the compatibility for different vehicles and different battery boxes is also improved.

A file system that balances the loading of filers and the capacity of drives that are associated with the filers is described. The file system includes a first disk drive that includes a first unused capacity and a second disk drive that includes a second unused capacity, wherein the second unused capacity is smaller than the first unused capacity. The file system further includes a first filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the first disk drive. The file system further includes a second filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the second disk drive. The second filer is configured to select an infrequently accessed file from the second disk drive and to push the infrequently accessed files to the first disk drive, thereby improving a balance of unused capacity between the first and second disk drives without substantially affecting a loading for each of the first and second filers.

The present invention relates to a fine-granularity files and directory edition management method based on snapshots, belonging to the multi-version document system field. The present invention separates a name space consisting of files and dirnames in a whole file system from an edition space representing the generating periods of different editions, and adopts relatively independent strategies to execute management, forming a hierarchical two-dimensional structure, i.e. forming a hierarchical structure from a root directory to a file in the name space; in the edition space, the editions of files and directory are organized through an index structure chronologically, forming a hierarchical structure in the edition space. The retrieval of the name space adopts an index strategy based on dynamic hash. The retrieval of the edition space adopts an index strategy based on a red-black tree. The directory edition and file edition respectively adopt a red-black tree structure variant aiming at the respective characteristics. The present invention can greatly improve the usability and the performance of the system, and controls the amount of consumption of time and space resulting from the maintenance of historical editions in an acceptable scope.

The invention discloses a non-rope circulating multi-cabin elevator and a circulating system thereof and relates to the field of non-rope elevators. The non-rope circulating multi-cabin elevator comprises a vertical shaft, wherein an elevating guide rail is fixed inside the vertical shaft and is connected with a cabin, an elevating power mechanism and a control system; an elevating guide rail II is fixed inside the vertical shaft; a horizontal shaft is arranged on the vertical shaft; a movable frame is arranged inside the horizontal shaft; an elevating guide rail I is fixed on the movable frame; the elevating guide rail I and the elevating guide rail II are in seamed butt joint; a movable frame transfer mechanism is arranged inside the horizontal shaft; the movable frame is driven by a translational power source; and an elevating brake and an elevating guide roller are fixed on the cabin. Through the technical scheme of the invention, the problem of waiting for the elevator in a high-rise building for a long time is solved; the building space is rationally arranged and the space utilization ratio of the elevator is effectively improved.

The present invention relates to a nitrogen-doped porous carbon material for a lithium-air battery positive electrode, wherein the nitrogen-doped porous carbon material has an interconnected graded pore structure, N is uniformly doped in the C skeleton, N accounts for 0.2-15% of the carbon material atomic ratio, the graded pores comprise mass transfer pores and deposition holes, the deposition holes account for 40-95% of the total pore volume, and the mass transfer pores account for 4-55% of the total pore volume. According to the present invention, with application of the carbon material as the lithium-air battery electrode material, the space utilization rate of the carbon material during the charge-discharge process can be increased at a maximum, and the energy density and the power density of the lithium-air battery can be effectively increased; and the preparation process is simple, the material source is wide, the pore structure of the graded pore carbon material can be regulated, the regulation manner is diverse, and the nitrogen doping manner is easily achieved.

An integrated module fame and racking system for a solar panel is disclosed. The solar panel comprises a plurality of solar modules and a plurality of splices for coupling the plurality of solar modules together. The plurality of splices provide a way to make the connected modules mechanically rigid both during transport to the roof and after mounting for the lifetime of the system, provide wiring connections between modules, provide an electrical grounding path for the modules, provide a way to add modules to the panel, and provide a way to remove or change a defective module. Connector sockets are provided on the sides of the modules to simplify the electrical assembly of modules when the modules are connected together with splices.

A spray type heat exchange device includes a spray unit, a first group set of heat transfer tubes, at least a distributing unit and a second group set of heat transfer tubes. The distributing unit redistributes the remaining liquid refrigerant that is sprayed out from the spray unit and flowed through the first group set of heat transfer tubes, and the remaining liquid refrigerant is dropped downwardly to the second group set of heat transfer tubes. By this disclosed method, the inner space of the heat exchange device could be fully utilized to configure and accommodate more heat transfer tubes therein.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional multi-box specially-structured cargo loading optimizing method. The three-dimensional multi-box specially-structured cargo loading optimizing method comprises the steps that a plurality of containers A are selected as containers to be loaded, spaces of the containers A serve as initial spaces, and the list of cargoes which can be loaded and basic data information of the cargoes are determined according to the initial spaces; sequencing is carried out in a descending order mode according to priority attribute values, T primary branches are generated, the initial j is set to be equal to one, the j is larger than or equal to one and is smaller than or equal to T, loading calculation of the containers A is carried out on the jth primary branch until loading calculation of all the T primary branches is accomplished, an optimal scheme is selected, the classifications of the cargoes, the placement direction of the cargoes, the number of the cargoes and position information of the cargoes in the optimal scheme are recorded, and the number of cargoes to be loaded is updated; if more cargoes to be loaded exist, the number of the classifications of the cargoes to be loaded is integer N times that of the cargoes in the reserved optimal scheme result, and the corresponding amount of the cargoes to be loaded is integer N times that of the cargoes in the reserved optimal scheme result, N stowage results same as the optimal scheme are generated; if not, switching is carried out, and recomputation is started until all the cargoes is completely loaded. The three-dimensional multi-box specially-structured cargo loading optimizing method has the advantages that the speed of an algorithm is high, the utilization rate of the spaces of the containers is high, and the three-dimensional multi-box specially-structured cargo loading optimizing method can be better applied actually.

The present invention relates to a pouch type case having trimming portions formed on both sides or four corners thereof and a battery pack including the same. The trimming portions are formed on the corners of the pouch type case such that the trimming portions are indented toward an electrode assembly accommodating part to reduce a unit area so as to increase pressure applied to unit cells when a battery pack is assembled, thereby facilitating assembling of the battery pack and increasing cell capacity per unit area. Furthermore, the unit cells can be fixed in the battery pack more stably. The pouch type case reduces the unit area so as to include a relatively large number of cells for pressure applied to the cells when the battery pack is assembled to thereby increase the cell capacity.

A subsurface mounted inductive charging coil system for electric vehicles accommodates the gap distance between primary charging coil and secondary coil on the vehicle with an extendable primary coil carrier. The system protects the primary coil when exposed by mounting on a deformable and elastic structure. By keeping the primary coil normally hidden in a deformable and elastic structure several advantages are obtained. The extendable structure is preferably a low pressure inflatable bladder or membrane in the floor for carrying, protecting, and extending the primary coil.

An image capturing optical assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group, a second lens group and a third lens group, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens element and a second lens element, the second lens group includes a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element, and the third lens group includes a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements of each lens group is aspheric. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements includes at least one inflection point.

An LCD device and a method for manufacturing the same is disclosed, in which it is possible to correct a problem of insufficient or excessive supply of liquid crystal in an LCD device by controlling an amount of liquid crystal. The method includes preparing a liquid crystal cell comprised of a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, and a first sealant formed in the periphery of the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; measuring an amount of liquid crystal provided to the inside of liquid crystal cell; forming an inlet for liquid crystal in the first sealant; and regulating the amount of liquid crystal by supplying or discharging the liquid crystal through the inlet; and sealing the inlet.

A clothes dryer is provided. In the dryer, air flowing into a drying container is provided with heat from heat pump. The clothes dryer comprises a cabinet, a drying container rotationally mounted in the cabinet, a motor providing the container with rotational force, a first air path connected to a side of the container, a second air path connected to another side of the container and to the outside of the cabinet, and a first heat exchanging member and a second heat exchanging member in the first air path. A damper may be additionally included in the second air path.

The present invention provides a battery module, which includes: a battery group formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells, each of which includes electrode tabs; a cooling housing including a cooling plate located corresponding to one side of sides of the battery group, in which the electrode tabs are not extended, and side plates located on both sides of the battery group perpendicular to the one side of the sides, thus to house the battery group; a cover plate located on the other side of the battery group; and a front cover part and a rear cover part, which are located at outermost front and rear of the battery group on both sides in a direction in which the electrode tabs are extended.

The invention relates to domain of special purpose vehicle and especially to a separate four-wheel steering device of vehicle and controlling means, which is mainly used in steering system of special purpose vehicle to guarantee steering behavior. The device comprises steering knuckle arm, steering hydraulic cylinder, electro-hydraulic proportional control valves, and accumulator, easing valve, hydraulic pump, clarifier and electronic control system. The invention is characterized in that every wheel is controlled by independent oil-hydraulic cylinder, electronic control system comprises steering emulator, signal processor and measuring apparatus of displacement line and hydraulic pump driven by engine in steering hydraulic system controls hydraulic cylinder of steering system via electro-hydraulic proportional control valves of steering system. Hydraulic cylinder connects with linear movement pickup to feed variable of displacement line of hydraulic cylinder back to CPU. System adopts closed-loop control. Control circuit equips system failure diagnosis element to realize alarm when system steering error occurs and steering mode switching control unit to complete steering mode switching of vehicle.

The invention provides a hydrotreating device which comprises a hydrotreating protection unit and a main hydrotreating unit, which are connected with each other in series, wherein the hydrotreating protection unit comprises a main hydrotreating protection reactor and a spare hydrotreating protection reactor, which are connected with each other in parallel, and the volume of the main hydrotreating protection reactor is larger than that of the spare hydrotreating protection reactor. The invention further provides the application of the hydrotreating device and a residual oil hydrotreating method. The method comprises the following steps of: introducing the residual oil and the hydrogen into the hydrotreating device, and alternately using the main hydrotreating protection reactor and the spare hydrotreating protection reactor in the process of hydrotreating, wherein the online time of the main hydrotreating protection reactor is longer than that of the spare hydrotreating protection reactor. The method provided by the invention is particularly suitable for machining the high-carbon content residual oil and the high-metal content residual oil. Furthermore, the bigger hydrotreating protection reactor is longer in online time, so that the invention is higher in reactor use ratio.

The invention discloses an automated instrument applied to nucleic acid extraction and continuous operation process of a mass spectrum sample application chip in biomass spectrometry analysis of a nucleic acid sample. The automated instrument comprises three main devices, namely, a nucleic acid extraction and purification device, a nucleic acid liquor relief distributing device and a mass spectrum chip sample application device, wherein nucleic acid in body fluid is extracted by using a magnetic bead method, a mechanical arm is utilized to complete a nucleic acid extraction action, the extracted nucleic acid is dispensed onto a sample board through a dispenser, a pipettor is used for transferring the sample board onto a chip sample application instrument, and the mass spectrum and relatedinformation of the nucleic acid are obtained through laser sampling of a mass spectrometer, so that the nucleic acid is analyzed rapidly, directly and continuously. The automated instrument is high-precision in controlling the volume of dispensed liquor, high-cleanliness in controlling the quality of the dispensed liquor and high-efficiency in meeting sample application requirements of large-batch samples; meanwhile, the samples are uniformly distributed under the control of a computer program, volume errors and possible foreign pollution caused by manual operation are avoided, and the speed and efficiency in sample application are increased at the same time.

A computer network file system is described. The computer network file system includes first metadata, which is managed primarily by a first file server that is operably connected to a network fabric. The first metadata includes first file location information, and the first file location information includes at least one server id. The computer network file system also includes second metadata, which is managed primarily by a second file server that is operably connected to a network fabric. The second metadata includes second file location information, and the second file location information includes at least one server id. The first metadata and the second metadata are configured to allow a requestor to locate files that are stored by the first file server and files that are stored by the second file server in a directory structure that spans the first file server and the second file server.

A LC-typed duplex connector includes a connecting head assembly, a boot assembly and a handle. The handle includes a first elastic structure portion, a second elastic structure portion and a hand shank portion. When the second elastic structure portion is detached from the boot assembly, the first elastic structure portion is detached from the connecting head assembly under the action of the hand shank portion, achieving the detachment and alternate side operation of the LC-typed duplex connector. The detachable handle can efficiently fasten the connecting head assembly with the boot assembly together. The first and second elastic structure portions are easier to detach from the connecting head assembly and the boot assembly respectively under the action of the hand shank portion. Moreover, the hand shank portion is matched with the tail end of the boot assembly, thereby improving efficiently the space utilization of the panel.

A system and method for replacing file system processors, also known as hot swapping, is described. The system and method operate on a fault-tolerant network file system that includes a first file server that is operably connected to a network fabric and a second file server that is operably connected to the network fabric. The fault-tolerant network file system includes a first disk array that is operably coupled to the first file server and to the second file server and a second disk array that is operably coupled to the first file server and to the second file server. First file system information is loaded on the first file server. The first file system information includes a first intent log of proposed changes to first metadata. Second file system information is loaded on the second file server. The second file system information includes a second intent log of proposed changes to second metadata. The first file server has a copy of the second metadata, and the second file server maintains a copy of the first metadata, thereby allowing the first file server to access files on the second disk array in the event of a failure of the second file server.