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The present invention relates to a variable-torque magnetorheologically actuated prosthetic knee which utilizes a plurality of interspersed and alternating rotors and stators to shear magnetorheological fluid in gaps formed therebetween. Advantageously, by operating in the "shear mode" there is substantially no or negligible fluid pressure buildup or change. Moreover, the multiple MR fluid gaps or flux interfaces desirably allow for the production of a large torque at low speed-eliminating the need for a transmission-and also for a wide dynamic torque range. One embodiment of the invention allows the rotors and/or stators to close the gaps therebetween to create a frictional torque component, thereby forming a "hybrid" braking system which provides a total torque or damping which is a combination of viscous torque and frictional torque.

The present embodiments disclose a system (100) for reducing inlet air temperature of a device, comprising: a fogging system that provides air cooling, wherein the fogging system comprises at least one low pressure atomiser (110).

An apparatus is disclosed for treating a wound with negative pressure. The apparatus includes a wound cover, a first pump for providing said negative pressure to the wound, a canister, a first conduit between the wound cover and the canister, a means for measuring the pressure within the canister, and a second conduit which connects the canister with the first pump. A method for controlling the negative pressure in a wound using such an apparatus is also disclosed.

The invention provides a process and device for processing liquid steel slag, belonging to the technical field of the metallurgical equipment and aiming at solving the problems of liquid steel slag granulation and liquid steel slag sensible heat recovery. The process for processing the liquid steel slag comprises the following steps: a, granulating the liquid steel slag by quenching gas; b, cooling the high-temperature liquid solid steel slag; c, recovering liquid steel slag sensible heat; and d, reusing cooling gas. The invention also provides a device for processing liquid steel slag. The invention is mainly characterized in that firstly, the liquid steel slag is granulated in a sealed granulating tank, the liquid steel slag is small and uniform, the pure Fe in the liquid steel slag can not be oxidized and the economic benefit of the liquid steel slag processing process is improved; secondly, the liquid solid steel slag is cooled in a sealed cooling tank, less cooling gas leaks, the dust pollution is reduced, and less cooling gas is supplemented; and thirdly, the inert gas is used as the cooling gas in the granulating tank and the cooling tank, and the cooling gas inversely exchanges heat with the liquid steel slag, thus the efficiency of exchanging heat between the liquid steel slag and the cooling gas is improved, the temperature of the cooling gas at the outlet is increased, and the liquid steel slag sensible heat is recovered.

Bag-on-container assemblies and bag-in-container assemblies are disclosed. The container may include a paperboard box having a front wall, a rear wall, a pair of opposed side walls, a plurality of flaps capable of forming a bottom wall and a plurality of flaps capable of forming a top wall. The inside surfaces of the box walls, including the outwardly facing strips, may have a thermal plastic coating thereon. The bag component of each type of assembly may include a closure member for to enable resealing of the bag component.

An apparatus and method are provided for treating wound with negative pressure. The apparatus includes a wound cover, a first pump for providing said negative pressure at a chosen pressure level to the wound, a canister, a first conduit between the wound cover and the canister, first means for measuring the pressure within the canister, and a second conduit which connects the canister with the first pump. A circulating pump is arranged to intermittently transport a gas volume from the canister to the wound region via a third conduit and back to the canister via the first conduit in order to press out possible exudates from the first conduit to the canister. A second means analyzes the pressure curve over time of said pressure in the canister and a third means indicates by alarm when said pressure curve differs from a normal cyclical form.

An apparatus for dispensing a post-foaming gel soap is disclosed. The dispenser includes a housing containing a first actuator and a second actuator. A motor is operatively connected to said first and second actuator. A circuit is connected to said motor, as well as a sensor assembly and a power supply. In operation, said first and second actuator moves a stem valve and a cylindrical pump located on a reservoir containing a gel soap and an inert propellant gas. The cylindrical pump operates on a piston principle and also closes to prevent any dripping after use. Further disclosed are various methods of accurately dispensing a consistent dose of gel soap.

Process for producing a copper-containing aqueous solution, in which a copper mass is dissolved in the presence of air in an aqueous leach liquor containing monoethanolamine and an acid, wherein the amount of acid equivalents is between 0.05 and about 0.7 times the equivalents of monoethanolamine, and wherein the rate of copper dissolution into the aqueous leach liquor is greater than about 4.3 grams of copper per liter of leach liquor per hour until a product having at least about 80 grams per liter is obtained.

An ADC is disclosed which has, as a first stage, a successive approximation converter, or other compensated, direct comparison converter, followed by a sigma delta modulation converter as a second stage. The sigma delta converter may beneficially be a first order modulator. The resulting ADC combines accuracy with low power consumption per conversion, and thus is particularly suited for use in temperature sensors for applications such as RFID transponders. Such a temperature sensor and an RFID transponder are also disclosed. There is also disclosed a method of analog-to-digital conversion, comprising a first successive approximation register or other compensated, direct comparison conversion stage followed by a sigma delta modulation stage, which, further, may be combined with providing a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) signal, for low-power, accurate temperature sensing.

The invention provides an underactuated lower limb assistance exoskeleton robot based on a rope-pulley mechanism, and relates to an underactuated lower limb assistance exoskeleton robot. The robot aims to solve the problems that a prior active joint-driving exoskeleton has large self-mass, large drive energy consumption, and a passive joint exoskeleton cannot provide effective assistance. The robot comprises a harness device, a drive control power system, two thigh bar devices, two leg bar devices, two ankle devices, two drive devices and two strings; wherein each drive device includes a motor shell bracket, a first motor shell, a waist frame, a planetary reducer, a second motor shell, a servo motor, a third motor shell, a hip joint spline shaft, a drive pulley, an elastic actuator, a first shaft sleeve, a small bevel gear, a large bevel gear, a second shaft sleeve, a fourth motor shell, a fifth motor shell, a sixth motor shell, a fixing plate and two first bearing end covers with bearings. The underactuated lower limb assistance exoskeleton robot based on the rope-pulley mechanism is used for the field of assistance exoskeleton robots.

The objective of this invention, on demand hydrogen enhancement system for internal and external combustion engine, is to develop a continuous non pressurized water electrolyzer from clean water (not pure water or distil water) generator system. The mixed hydrogen gas and oxygen gas called “Oxyhydrogen”. Oxyhydrogen use as catalyse for internal and external combustion engine to increase fuel flame speed. It can use with variety fuels such as Ethanol, Methanol, Gasohol, Gasoline, Diesel, Bio Diesel, LPG, CNG, and LNG. This system can reduce fuel consumption, increase fuel efficiency, increase torque, reduce emissions, and reduce engine temperatures. The system required no cooling fan and electrolytic solution circulating pump. The system has less heat loss and very low electrical consumption. Oxyhydrogen will produce on demand as the engine RPM and load of generator. The control unit detects signal frequency from the alternator. Gas production rate low at low RPM and use less current and gas production will high at high RPM and use higher current. This can save lot of energy for the electrolysis process. In the past, water electrolysis use direct current (D.C.). In this invention the inventor uses D.C. with Frequency Modulate (FM) pulse width modulator (PWM) instead of Amplitude Modulator (AM) to control the electrolyzer (FMPWM). This circuit had current detector for automatic current adjustment and over current protection.

The inventive vibration absorber comprises an execution unit, a control unit and a sensor. The execution unit consists of a magnetic inductor, a coil, a magnetic rheological elastic body, a vibration-absorbing mass block and a base. The above magnetic inductor consists of inner and outer sleeves, or a U-shaped iron-core and an armature or top and bottom plates and a column iron-core. Between inner and outer sleeves, the U-shaped iron-core and the armature or the top and bottom plates are filled the magnetic rheological elastic bodies. By regulating the voltage on the coil, the rigidity and the elasticity of the magnetic rheological elastic body are regulated to make its vibration frequency change, so as to make the vibration frequency of the vibration absorber execution unit is the same as that of the vibration-damping object.

The invention relates to a method for rapidly, efficiently heating and dispensing a flowable food product, using a device preferably of limited footprint whereby removable cassettes are provided for receiving a food-containing package. The cassettes at least include a direct conduction surface and an insulating coverage that substantially reduces radiant heat loss outside the cassettes. Preferably, there is provided peristaltic pumps, each one being adapted to engage a discharge tube of the food pouch wherein the pumps have their rotor plane oriented in alignment or parallel to the axial plane of the cassettes. Cassettes are heated by low power density generating heating members, such as a thin film heater or equivalent.

The invention relates to a device and a method for producing sodium methyl taurate, in particular to a device and a method for continuously producing sodium methyl taurate in a pipeline mode. The method comprises the following steps of: adding sodium hydroxyethyl sulfonate, water, methylamine and catalyst into a storage tank, pumping the materials into a continuous pipeline reactor through a boosting pipeline pump under the high pressure of 10 to 25MPa, heating to the temperature of between 150 and 300 DEG C through heat conducting oil, and reacting for 10 to 60 minutes in the pipeline reactor; and feeding the materials into an evaporator after reaction, performing multistage distillation, decolorizing, moisturizing, refining, and thus obtaining the qualified sodium methyl taurate. The device is simple and high in process safety, the reaction conditions are easy to control, continuous production is realized, the yield reaches over 90 percent, the sodium methyl taurate is stable in quality, and large-scale production can be realized with low investment in the industry.

A control for a field device comprises a monitoring unit that is separate from a control unit for controlling the field device which monitoring unit, when the control unit is in a sleep mode, waits for an activation signal in order to switch the control unit to the operating mode.

The basic principles of the method for heavy metals electroextraction from technological solutions and wastewater includes pretreating to remove Chromium-6 and high concentrations of heavy metals and periodically treating in a six-electrode bipolar cylindrical electroreactor made of non-conducting material to achieve lower accepted levels of impurities. Six cylindrical steel electrodes form two triode stacks and are fed with three-phase alternating current of commercial frequency (50-60 Hz), which can be pulsed. Each phase of the three-phase current is connected to three electrodes of one triode stack or in parallel to two triode stacks. The parallel connection of three-phase current to two triode stacks is performed so that the same phase of the three phase current is connected in parallel with each two opposite electrodes of six electrodes located along the periphery, or with two adjacent electrodes. A bipolar stationary aluminum electrode is situated in the inter-electrode space. In one of the embodiments, the bipolar electrode is made of a perforated heat-resistant plastic container filled with secondary aluminum and duralumin scrap. In another embodiment, the bipolar electrode of aluminum or duralumin scrap may be made without a perforated container and is placed in the inter-electrode space as a bulk scrap. In this case, to prevent shorts, each of six steel electrodes is placed in isolated perforated plastic shell with holes of 5 mm in diameter. Non-ferrous metals are extracted in a form of ferrite-chromites, and aluminates as well as hydroxyl salts deposited in the inter-electrode space without electrolysis deposits on electrodes. Deposits are separated from solution by known methods of filtration.

An electric toothbrush with a handle and a brush member having a brush head, individual cylindrical bristle holders with tufts of bristles held rotatably in the brush head. They are set into an oscillatory rotating movement by means of a connecting rod executing a reciprocating sliding movement and simultaneously an oscillatory movement about its longitudinal axis, with transverse grooves, disposed therein. In addition, a bristle holder plate in the brush head is held so as to oscillate about a shaft running in the longitudinal direction of the toothbrush. Thus, during the oscillatory movement of the bristle holders the bristle holder plate swivels back and forth in synchronism with the connecting rod.

An optical engine for an image projector comprises a light source, a taper rod, at least one light condenser, a prism module, a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) and a projection lens set. One end of the taper rod is adjacent to the light source. Light generated by the light source is guided by the taper rod following a light path. The taper rod has increasing sizes of cross-sections along the light path, so as to decrease the dispersion angle of light, make the light more uniform, and increase the brightness of light. The prism module includes a first prism having a right triangle cross-section and a second prism having a wedge cross-section. The prism module receives the light from the condenser, passes the light toward the DMD, receives the light reflected by the DMD, and then passes the reflected light toward the projection lens set. The projection lens set projects the light on an external projection plane.