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A bed mattress including an outer casing adapted to house one or a plurality of different supportive materials within said casing (1) in distinct transverse regions wherein fixed supportive materials (7, 9, 11) are provided at the top and bottom regions of said mattress corresponding to the head and foot regions of a user; and an intermediate region so formed between is provided with a transverse assay of fixed supportive materials (11) having vacant regions between adjacent materials, wherein said outer casing has a plurality of ports (4) corresponding to said vacant regions which are adapted to facilitate the ready insertion, removal and / or replacement of one or more auxiliary supportive materials (10) so as to allow the user to vary the supportive quality of said intermediate region of said mattress.

A throttle includes a throttle body having a generally tubular throttle body side wall with a throttle body side wall interior surface defining a throttle body interior for containing an air flow path for delivering air into at least one cylinder of an engine; and a flow regulating mechanism including an diaphragm valve secured to the throttle body and extending diametrically across the throttle body interior for progressively reducing and progressively increasing the diameter of an air flow passing valve opening defined within the diaphragm valve, and thereby regulating air flow through the throttle body.

A fan variable area nozzle (FVAN) includes a flap driven through a cable which circumscribes the fan nacelle. The cable is strung through a multiple of flaps to define a flap set of each circumferential sector of the EVAN. An actuator system includes a compact high power density electromechanical actuator which rotates a spool to deploy and retract the cable and effectively increase or decrease the length thereof between the spool and a fixed attachment to increase and decrease the fan nozzle exit area.

An apparatus for adjusting the air-fuel ratio of a fuel mixture to be supplied to an engine. The apparatus has a pair of needle valve bodies and a pair of receptacles formed in a main body of a carburetor for receiving the needle valve bodies. Each needle valve body has a needle and a head. The needles are axially movable relative to a respective needle orifice. The needles may be axially advanced and retracted by rotating the needle valve bodies within the receptacles to respectively decrease and increase the flow of the fuel mixture around the needles and through the orifices. To prevent tampering with the needle valve body setting, the head of the needle valve body has an unconventional shape requiring a specialized tool to rotatably adjust the needle valve body. To further prevent tampering, the head is recessed with the main body of the carburetor. A retainer is disposed in the main body of the carburetor and receives the needle valve bodies to facilitate maintaining alignment of the needle valve bodies relative to the receptacles. The retainer assures that a constant fuel calibration setting is maintained through the orifices by resisting displacement of the needles due to such factors as external forces applied to the head of the needle valve body or engine vibration.

A bed mattress including an outer casing adapted to house one or a plurality of different supportive materials within said casing (1) in distinct transverse regions wherein fixed supportive materials (7, 9, 11) are provided at the top and bottom regions of said mattress corresponding to the head and foot regions of a user; and an intermediate region so formed between is provided with a transverse assay of fixed supportive materials (11) having vacant regions between adjacent materials, wherein said outer casing has a plurality of ports (4) corresponding to said vacant regions which are adapted to facilitate the ready insertion, removal and / or replacement of one or more auxiliary supportive materials (10) so as to allow the user to vary the supportive quality of said intermediate region of said mattress.

Disclosed herein is a method for inspecting a transparent film. The method comprises irradiating an inspection target with light using a polarizer, receiving light that is reflected by the inspection target and passes through an analyzer by a line scan camera, synthesizing an amplitude and a phase of wavelength of the light into an intensity of light, comparing the intensity of the light with predetermined intensities of light for inspection targets having different thicknesses; and detecting a defect of the inspection target based on the compared intensity with the predetermined intensities. It can be determined whether there is a transparent film, and the thickness of the transparent film can be measured in a large area. The inspection is carried out in real-time after the transparent film is formed, such that if a defect is generated, it can be fed back immediately to thereby reduce defects. In this case, the processing cost can be saved.

A respiration monitoring apparatus comprises an image-acquiring unit that acquires images at predetermined timings, each image photographed in a direction inclined at a prescribed angle to a region-of-interest including at least one of a subject' s chest and abdomen; and an expiration / aspiration discriminating unit that determines a direction in which a pixel moves, from a positional change of the pixel in an image, on the basis of a plurality of images acquired at consecutive timings by the image-acquiring unit, and discriminates between the subject's expiration and aspiration on the basis of the direction determined.

An apparatus for adjusting the air-fuel ratio of a fuel mixture to be supplied to an engine. The apparatus has a pair of needle valve bodies and a pair of receptacles formed in a main body of a carburetor for receiving the needle valve bodies. Each needle valve body has a needle and a head. The needles are axially movable relative to a respective needle orifice. The needles may be axially advanced and retracted by rotating the needle valve bodies within the receptacles to respectively decrease and increase the flow of the fuel mixture around the needles and through the orifices. To prevent tampering with the needle valve body setting, the head of the needle valve body has an unconventional shape requiring a specialized tool to rotatably adjust the needle valve body. To further prevent tampering, the head is recessed with the main body of the carburetor. A retainer is disposed in the main body of the carburetor and receives the needle valve bodies to facilitate maintaining alignment of the needle valve bodies relative to the receptacles. The retainer assures that a constant fuel calibration setting is maintained through the orifices by resisting displacement of the needles due to such factors as external forces applied to the head of the needle valve body or engine vibration.

The invention provides operating the dry or solvent fractionation of oils and fats in a crystallizer comprising a crystallization vessel (1,2), an agitator, cooling means and a drive, wherein said drive provides said agitator with an oscillating motion, and / or a rotating motion around an axis, with the proviso that each point of said agitator moves at substantially the same linear speed.The invention also provides a crystallizer comprising a crystallization vessel (1,2) having a polygonal cross-section, an agitator and a drive, wherein said drive provides said agitator with an oscillating motion, and wherein said agitator is not inclined to the moving direction.

A fuel tank and a motor vehicle equipped to recapture, store and recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a vehicle includes a fuel tank which stores carbon dioxide in a same area with the combustible fuel of the vehicle. The fuel tank may include one or more pistons, baffles, bladders, or fixed dividers to separate carbon dioxide storage from fuel storage within a fuel tank area. The fuel tank may share volumetric space between carbon dioxide and fuel within the fuel tank. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a carbon fiber vehicle body. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a frame of a vehicle.

The invention relates to an AI intelligent vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and sea-land-air convertible aircraft carrier, carrier and universal carrying device which are capable of changing motion modes among sea, land and air, and vertically taking off, landing and moving in any geographical environment. The universal carrying device comprises a carrying platform, connectors and engines. Thechange of the connectors controls the change of the distance / angle / direction of nozzles of the engines relative to the carrying platform, controls the change / locking / retraction / extension of the engines relative to the carrying platform, and controls the disconnection / connection / replacement / increment-and-decrement between the engines and the carrying platform. The change of the motion modes amongsea, land and air is realized through various changes of the engines relative to the carrying platform and the cooperation of assisting devices. The assisting devices comprise various compartments, airbags, an air passage, water bags, rails, rail vehicles, manipulator combinations, a movable repairing device, a movable cockpit / cargo compartment, a movable engine, a generator, an underwater jet-flow power device and other required equipment.

The invention discloses a display device and a control method thereof. The display device comprises a flexible screen, a supporting structural member, a detection module and a compensation module. The detection module is electrically connected with the compensation module, the detection module can detect the flatness of at least part of the surface of the flexible screen and transmit the detected flatness to the compensation module, and the compensation module provides tensile stress for the mobile terminal when the flatness is smaller than a preset flatness threshold value, so that the flexible screen is flattened. According to the technical scheme, when the surface flatness of the flexible screen is poor, the tensile stress can be provided for the mobile terminal in time through the compensation module, then it is guaranteed that the flexible screen is flattened, it is guaranteed that the surface flatness of the flexible screen is good, and the user experience is improved.

The invention relates to a multifunctional touring car, including a touring car body. The touring car body includes a cockpit, a chassis located at the back of the cockpit, a living cabin and a healthcabin fixed on the chassis. The top of the living cabin is provided with a hollow cabin roof. The cabin roof is connected with a shading shed frame through a telescopic rod. The two sides of the shading shed frame are respectively provided with solar panels. An inverted 'V' awning is formed through the solar panels of two sides. The interior of the living cabin is provided with stairs. The livingcabin is divided into two parts by the stairs, which are a bedroom and a living room. The bedroom part of the living cabin is provided with an assembled folding bed and a folding desk. The lower partof the living cabin is connected with a telescopic plate in intercalation. The side of the living cabin is provided with a living cabin door with an extended folding structure. The chassis is connected with an axle through an adjustable suspension system. The multifunctional touring car has the advantages of being simple in structure, convenient to use, capable of effectively saving the space ofoccupied space in the car and meanwhile enlarging the interior space of the car to improve the comfort degree according to the demand.

An access device installs on a wellscreen joint during manufacture and allows access to one or more spaces or layers where tracer elements can be installed adjacent the joint's screen jacket (i.e., internal and / or external to the screen jacket). Portion of the access device is removable to allow installation of the tracer elements after the joint has been manufactured. With the tracer elements installed, the access device can be reassembled and locked in place. Any various mechanism can allow the access device to be partially removed, the tracer elements to be installed, and the access device to be reassembled in place. For example, an end ring holding the jacket on the basepipe can have at least one channel communicating with a space or layer for insertion of the tracer elements. A removable cover can be removed to allow access to the at least one channel and can be reattached for the wellscreen to be used downhole.

An aeration duct apparatus has a plurality of aeration tubes connected together by hollow connectors, each hollow connector defining at least three connection ports. Each aeration tube is connected at each tube end thereof to one of the connection ports, and each connection port is connected to a tube end such that the connected aeration tubes and hollow connectors form a substantially rigid structure. A transition duct is connected to one of the aeration tubes at an inside end thereof and is adapted at an outside end thereof for attachment to a fan. The aeration tubes and transition duct are configured such that air can flow from the fan through the transition duct into each aeration tube and out through a perforated area of walls of the aeration tubes.

The invention discloses a steel structure roof framework. The steel structure roof framework comprises four support legs erected on the ground, and ceilings arranged at the tops of the support legs; every support leg is composed of a base and a plurality of support racks arranged on the base, wherein the plurality of support racks are stacked to the top from bottom to top, the bottom of an upper support rack is connected with the top of a lower support rack through bolts, a top support rack is connected with the ceilings, a bottom support rack is connected with the base, the lower portion of every support rack is a cavity capable of accommodating a telescopic cylinder, and the bottom of the support rack is provided with a guide bar tightly attached to the support rack. When the steel structure roof framework is assembled, workers only need to firmly connect the ceilings, hook hooks at the tops of the telescopic cylinders onto the horizontal connecting rods of the support racks, the telescopic cylinders move up to lift the ceilings up, then the workers connect side frames to the bottoms of lifted components to form the support racks and at the meantime the telescopic cylinders are reset, then the workers can hook the hooks onto next support racks for lifting up to repeated the processes above until the height of the ceilings reaches a set value to complete installation.

A respiratory treatment device having an inlet configured to receive exhaled air into the device, an outlet configured to permit exhaled air to exit the device, a valve moveable in response to a threshold exhalation pressure at the inlet between a closed position where the flow of air from the inlet to the outlet is restricted, and an open exhalation position where the flow of air from the inlet to the outlet is less restricted, and a valve brace configured to support the valve, wherein a position of the valve brace relative to the valve is selectively adjustable to increase or decrease the threshold exhalation pressure.

A fuel tank and a motor vehicle equipped to recapture, store and recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a vehicle includes a fuel tank which stores carbon dioxide in a same area with the combustible fuel of the vehicle. The fuel tank may include one or more pistons, baffles, bladders, or fixed dividers to separate carbon dioxide storage from fuel storage within a fuel tank area. The fuel tank may share volumetric space between carbon dioxide and fuel within the fuel tank. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a carbon fiber vehicle body. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a frame of a vehicle.

The invention relates to the field of valve control, in particular to a ceramic plate group which is used for a water heater and can simultaneously adjust cold water and hot water, a ceramic valve core comprising the ceramic plate group, and a water heater valve comprising the ceramic plate group. The ceramic plate group can perform smooth linearity adjustment to water discharge, is applied to a ceramic valve core, and comprises a ceramic fixed plate and a ceramic moving plate, which is matched with the ceramic fixed plate and is capable of rotating relative to the ceramic fixed plate; a water through hole is formed in the end surface of one end of the ceramic fixed plate; and the ceramic moving plate can linearly control the water discharge when rotating relative to the ceramic fixed plate. The smooth adjustment to water temperature and water quantity is realized through the linearity adjustment to the water discharge, and the defects that the water flow quantity is unstable during the water quantity adjustment and the water temperature is unstable during the temperature adjustment caused by nonlinearity adjustment in the prior art are avoided.

A flap assembly for a fixed wing aircraft, comprising first and second flap portions, a compartments in the flap portions enclosing rechargeable batteries, motor controllers and electric motors, vertically-oriented slots in the first flap portion with propellers operable through a sidewall of the slot, such that the propeller in operation extends both over and under the top and bottom walls of the flap portion. With the flap assembly retracted in the wing the propeller is entirely enclosed in the length of the slot, and wherein the flap assembly is extended from the edge of the wing, enhancing area and curvature of the wing, increasing lift on the wing, exposing the slot, and with the slot exposed the motor is started spinning the propeller, providing increased airflow over the flap assembly, further increasing lift on the wing.

Disclosed herein is a method for inspecting a transparent film. The method comprises irradiating an inspection target with light using a polarizer, receiving light that is reflected by the inspection target and passes through an analyzer by a line scan camera, synthesizing an amplitude and a phase of wavelength of the light into an intensity of light, comparing the intensity of the light with predetermined intensities of light for inspection targets having different thicknesses; and detecting a defect of the inspection target based on the compared intensity with the predetermined intensities. It can be determined whether there is a transparent film, and the thickness of the transparent film can be measured in a large area. The inspection is carried out in real-time after the transparent film is formed, such that if a defect is generated, it can be fed back immediately to thereby reduce defects.

The invention relates to a valve for a water heater. The valve comprises a switching valve provided with a mixed water outlet through hole, a cold water inlet through hole, a cold water feeding through hole and a mixed water inlet through hole, wherein the cold water inlet through hole is connected with a cold water inlet pipeline; the mixed water inlet through hole is connected with a hot water inlet pipeline; the hot water inlet pipeline is connected with the water heater; the cold water feeding through hole is connected with a cold water feeding pipeline leading to a water heater end through a temperature adjusting valve; the cold water feeding pipeline is connected with the water heater; a cold water inlet hole, a cold water feeding hole leading to the water heater end and a cold water outlet hole leading to a mixed water end are formed in the temperature adjusting valve; the cold water inlet hole is connected with the cold water feeding pipeline; the cold water feeding hole is further connected with the cold water feeding pipeline; the cold water outlet hole is connected with a cold water branch pipe; and the cold water branch pipe is radially communicated with the hot water inlet pipeline close to one end of a hot water inlet. The valve realizes double linkage control, and hot water does not flow through a valve core, so that the service life of the valve core is prolonged.

An aeration duct apparatus has a plurality of aeration tubes connected together by hollow connectors, each hollow connector defining at least three connection ports. Each aeration tube is connected at each tube end thereof to one of the connection ports, and each connection port is connected to a tube end such that the connected aeration tubes and hollow connectors form a substantially rigid structure. A transition duct is connected to one of the aeration tubes at an inside end thereof and is adapted at an outside end thereof for attachment to a fan. The aeration tubes and transition duct are configured such that air can flow from the fan through the transition duct into each aeration tube and out through a perforated area of walls of the aeration tubes.

The invention discloses an area-controlled flue gas distributor and a boiler system. According to the technical scheme, the area-controlled flue gas distributor is characterized in that a plurality of flow guide plates are arranged in the flue gas distributor in a staggered mode, each flow guide plate comprises a fixed flow guide plate body and an adjustable flow guide plate body, and the adjustable flow guide plate bodies are connected with a driving mechanism; and under the action of the driving mechanism, the adjustable flow guide plate bodies can stretch out or retract by a set distance relative to the fixed flow guide plate bodies so as to change the areas of the flow guide plates. According to the flue gas distributor, by arranging the adjustable flow guide plate bodies, the areas of the flow guide plates can be increased or reduced according to actual requirements, so that the flue gas mixing degree and the resistance are adjusted, and different actual heat conduction requirements are met; and the heat exchange requirement is further met, and the service life of a product is prolonged.

An access device installs on a wellscreen joint during manufacture and allows access to one or more spaces or layers where tracer elements can be installed adjacent the joint's screen jacket (i.e., internal and / or external to the screen jacket). Portion of the access device is removable to allow installation of the tracer elements after the joint has been manufactured. With the tracer elements installed, the access device can be reassembled and locked in place. Any various mechanism can allow the access device to be partially removed, the tracer elements to be installed, and the access device to be reassembled in place. For example, an end ring holding the jacket on the basepipe can have at least one channel communicating with a space or layer for insertion of the tracer elements. A removable cover can be removed to allow access to the at least one channel and can be reattached for the wellscreen to be used downhole.

A keyboard device includes a base plate, a key structure and a membrane switch circuit member. The membrane switch circuit member includes a first board and a second board. The first board includes a first circuit pattern, a conductive paste mark and a first insulation layer. The conductive paste mark is dispensed or sprayed on the first board or the first circuit pattern to define an equivalent resistance. Consequently, a ghosting problem is avoided. The second board includes a second circuit pattern and a second insulation layer. Since the first contact and the second contact are separated from each other through the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, it is not necessary to install the separation layer in the membrane switch circuit member.

A fuel tank and a motor vehicle equipped to recapture, store and recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a vehicle includes a fuel tank which stores carbon dioxide in a same area with the combustible fuel of the vehicle. The fuel tank may include one or more pistons, baffles, bladders, or fixed dividers to separate carbon dioxide storage from fuel storage within a fuel tank area. The fuel tank may share volumetric space between carbon dioxide and fuel within the fuel tank. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a carbon fiber vehicle body. The fuel tank may be integrally formed into a frame of a vehicle.

The invention discloses a vacuum sucker. A plurality of circular grooves are formed in the front end face of the vacuum sucker; through holes are formed in the bottom ends of the circular grooves; a first through hole is formed in the axial center of the vacuum sucker; a second through hole is formed in the radial direction of the vacuum sucker; the second through hole communicates with the through holes; and sucker plugs are arranged in the second through hole. When the vacuum sucker provided by the invention is used for clamping disc parts with different sizes, a vacuum sucker area adjusting mechanism has the advantage of flexibly, conveniently and quickly adjusting the clamping area of the vacuum sucker according to the sizes of the parts during use.