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A conformable adhesive article for use as a sterile medical dressing is described. The article includes a breathable polymeric matrix, a plurality of phases, and an adhesive composition positioned on the polymeric matrix. The plurality of phases preferably provide reinforcement and stiffness to the article. The article permits transport of moisture across the breathable polymeric matrix, preferably at an Inverted water moisture vapor transmission rate of at least 300 g / m2 / 24 hours.

A light source including at least one light emitting diode and, optionally, a housing portion surrounding the light emitting diode. The at least one light emitting diode can be an organic light-emitting diode sheet. The at least one light emitting diode is preferably enclosed in a housing portion comprising a hollow bulb-shaped portion formed of glass, plastic, etc. The housing portion can be filled partially or completely by a potting material. Alternatively, the housing portion can be formed of a potting material or a conformal coating material. At least one connector is coupled to the end of the housing portion. A power supply circuit supplies electrical current to the at least one light emitting diode through the connector.

An optical coupling assembly for coupling light from an optical fiber including an angled tip into a planar waveguide via a waveguide coupling element is provided. In one embodiment, the optical fiber extends along the planar waveguide with the angled tip positioned such that light propagating in the optical fiber is coupled by the waveguide coupling element to propagate in the planar waveguide in counter propagation with respect to a fiber propagation direction. In another embodiment, the optical fiber includes a tapered peripheral portion tapering toward the angled tip and is disposed over the planar waveguide with the tapered peripheral portion extending therealong such that light propagating in the optical fiber is coupled to propagate in the planar waveguide with either forward or counter propagation. Embodiments of the present invention may be part of various photonic integrated circuits and may be manufactured more easily than known optical coupling assemblies.

A method and apparatus are disclosed to enhance access to an archive of motion picture assets for which the storage volume has been physically reduced. All B-negative, trims and outs, sound rolls, mag, dailies, work prints, scripts, and reports are manually consolidated and indexed by a computer database retain accessibility. The consolidated assets are digitized and made available in thumbnail versions to users remote from the archive, thereby increasing the availability, usability, security, and value of the consolidated assets.

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is designed to be so efficient that it can be commercially competitive with runway dependent aircraft operating in a range of 100 to 1000 miles or more, with glide ratios of at least 24. Improvements include a combination of high efficiency tilting rotor and wing design that enable both vertical takeoff and efficient high speed cruising, a high aspect ratio wing, and a variable speed propulsion system efficient in both hover and cruise flight. Preferred aircraft use narrow chord inboard and outboard wings, and use efficient lightweight design to achieve unusually low empty weight fraction. In some embodiments, the rotors use medium rather than high modulus fibers, with wider blades of lower taper ratio, to provide the stiffness and mass properties required for high performance OSTR rotor blades. Also disclosed are VTOL aircraft with glide ratios from approximately 26 to over 40.

An anti-corrosive polymeric complex which is comprised of a plurality of double-stranded molecular complexes. Each of the molecular complexes are comprised of a strand of a conductive polymer and a strand of a copolymer. The strands of the polymeric complex are non-covalently bonded to each other along the contour of the strands to form a side-by-side, twisted, double-stranded configuration.

A wearable or portable intermittently operable hydration system (10) includes a purification module (22) that contains one or more solid state UW devices that are positioned in the path of hydrating fluid, or water, flow through the hydration system to a mouthpiece (18) or other orifice. The purification module (22) provides a path for the fluid past one or more solid state LW devices, such as LW LEDs, that produce LW radiation in a germicidal range. When the fluid is flowing past the UV LEDs, the LEDs are turned on to provide sufficient UW radiation to purify the water. The UW LEDs are instant on devices with essentially no ramp-up required, and a sensor (20) or other signaling means in the flow path controls the turning on of the UV LEDs whenever the user initiates the fluid flow. The fluid flow path may run from a bladder (12) in a backpack (19) worn by the user, a sports bottle worn by or carried by the user or may be through a water filtration system that a user operates via a pump. The power for the purification module may come from batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, power converted from pumping or winding action or any combination thereof. Further, UV LEDs may be included in the walls of the container as additional or alternative sources of UV radiation. The UV LEDs in the walls of the container may then be turned on when sufficient energy is available, as a precaution against, for example, a change in environmental conditions.

An etching based semiconductor wafer thinning arrangement usable as an improved alternative to the usual grinding and polishing wafer thinning. The thinned wafer includes a structurally enhancing wafer backside grid array of original wafer thickness semiconductor material with grid cells surrounding individual thinned wafer areas and serving to improve the strength and physical rigidity characteristics of the thinned wafer. Preferably this grid array is supplemented with an additional, wafer periphery-located, backside ring of semiconductor material also of original wafer thickness. Ability to avoid a wafer front side mounting during thinning accomplishment, fast etching, reduced wafer breakage, enhanced wafer strength and improved wafer handling achieved with the disclosed thinning arrangement all contribute to achieved advantages over conventional wafer thinning. Gallium arsenide or other semiconductor materials are contemplated along with use in radio frequency or other integrated circuit devices of either the single transistor or complete integrated circuit components types.

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is designed to be so efficient that it can be commercially competitive with runway dependent aircraft operating in a range of 100 to 1000 miles or more, with glide ratios of at least 24. Improvements include a combination of high efficiency tilting rotor and wing design that enable both vertical takeoff and efficient high speed cruising, a high aspect ratio wing, and a variable speed propulsion system efficient in both hover and cruise flight. Preferred aircraft use narrow chord inboard and outboard wings, and use efficient lightweight design to achieve unusually low empty weight fraction. In some embodiments, the rotors use medium rather than high modulus fibers, with wider blades of lower taper ratio, to provide the stiffness and mass properties required for high performance OSTR rotor blades. Also disclosed are VTOL aircraft with glide ratios from approximately 26 to over 40.

An archive of motion picture assets having reduced physical volume and method of manufacture are disclosed. All B-negative, trims and outs, sound rolls, mag, dailies, work prints, scripts, and reports are manually consolidated and indexed by a computer database retain accessibility. The consolidated assets are digitized and made available in thumbnail versions to users remote from the archive, thereby increasing the availability, usability, security, and value of the consolidated assets.

An optical coupling assembly for coupling light from an optical fiber including an angled tip into a planar waveguide via a waveguide coupling element is provided. In one embodiment, the optical fiber extends along the planar waveguide with the angled tip positioned such that light propagating in the optical fiber is coupled by the waveguide coupling element to propagate in the planar waveguide in counter propagation with respect to a fiber propagation direction. In another embodiment, the optical fiber includes a tapered peripheral portion tapering toward the angled tip and is disposed over the planar waveguide with the tapered peripheral portion extending therealong such that light propagating in the optical fiber is coupled to propagate in the planar waveguide with either forward or counter propagation. Embodiments of the present invention may be part of various photonic integrated circuits and may be manufactured more easily than known optical coupling assemblies.

The invention discloses a treatment technology for producing needle-shaped coke raw material oil by using catalytic slurry oil filtration. The technology comprises the processes of pretreatment, liquid-solid separation treatment, reheating treatment, pressure reduction distillation treatment and the like. According to the treatment technology, catalytic slurry oil which is originally difficult totreat and low in economic value has the capacity of being regenerated into high-quality raw material oil required by production of oil-system needle-shaped coke, catalytic slurry oil low in economic additional value is filtered to obtain the needle-shaped coke raw material oil high in economic value, and the problem is solved that since the ash content of a catalytic slurry oil solid is high, slurry oil filtration devices and pipes are easily damaged; the economic benefit of oil refining enterprises is directly improved, the operation and maintenance cost of the devices is lowered, and the technology has high economic benefits.

A gaming machine cabinet including one or more assembly components which are fabricated for shipment in knock down condition and for on-site assembly.

The invention relates to a sandwich structure (1) comprising a flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) (2), wherein the opposite outer surfaces (3, 4) of said OLED (2) consist of a glass material, and at least one layer (5, 6) provided on at least one of said outer surfaces (3, 4) of said OLED (2) and comprising an organic polymer material, wherein said layer (5, 6) comprising an organic polymer material and said outer surface (3, 4) consisting of glass are bonded to each other in a stacking manner by a bonding layer (7, 8).

A scannerless range imaging system includes an illumination system and an electromechanical light modulator. The illumination system illuminates objects in the scene with modulated illumination of a predetermined modulation frequency, and the modulated illumination reflected from objects in the scene incorporates a phase delay corresponding to the distance of the objects from the range imaging system. The electromechanical light modulator, which is positioned in an optical path of the reflected illumination, operates at a reference frequency that corresponds to the predetermined modulation frequency and accordingly modulates the modulated illumination reflected from the object, thereby generating a phase image from the interference between the reference frequency and the reflected modulated illumination. The system further includes an optical system that deflects the reflected illumination to the electromechanical light modulator and redirects the phase image generated by the electromechanical light modulator to an image capture section. A color image may be captured by moving the optical system out of the optical path such that reflected illumination from the object will pass directly to the image capture section without contacting the electromechanical light modulator.

The invention discloses a doubling metal net inserting glass board on the building door and window, which is characterized by the following: the metal net is clamped between two transparent glass boards at adhering pattern to reinforce the strength of glass board; the metal net inserted glass board possesses five layer structure, which contains top transparent silicate glass board on the outer surface and bottom transparent silicate glass board; the inner structure is upper layer transparent glue film and lower layer transparent glue film; the metal net layer is clamped by upper and lower transparent glue films; the transparent glass board fills the metal net hole blanking, whose thickness is more than half of metal net thickness and less than 10mm.

The invention discloses a high-strength and wear-resisting liteglow glass product and a preparation method thereof. The glass product is prepared from the following components: silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, graphene, titanium dioxide, diboron trioxide, sodium silicate, potassium oxide, antimony oxide, arsenic oxide and noctilucent powder. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out mixed melting on all the components to obtain a molten mass; secondly, raising the temperature of the molten mass to 1400 to 1500DEG C and performing thermal insulation for 12 to 14 hours; thirdly, feeding a glass molten mass into a forming machine to obtain glass products with different shapes and sizes; fourthly, carrying out annealing treatment on the glass products to obtain a finished product. The glass product prepared by the preparation method disclosed by the invention has better strength and wear resistance; the fragile degree of the product can be greatly reduced, the service life of the product is prolonged, and the use cost of the product is reduced.

The invention relates to the field of building material machinery, in particular to an electromagnetic combined synthetic stone pressure plate device. The pressure plate device solves the problem that at present, when the electromagnetic vibration theory is applied to controlling a one-piece pressing tool to achieve integral vibration and pressing, the actual press power applied on part of a material is insufficient, and the pressing requirement on achieving the best compaction effect cannot be satisfied. The device comprises a vacuum cover provided with a supporting plate therein, wherein the supporting plate is provided with electromagnets, and a pressing device is arranged under the supporting plate; the pressing device is provided with a driving rod the end part of which is connected with movable iron cores of the electromagnets through a connecting piece; and a compression spring is arranged between the connecting piece and an electromagnet base. The pressing tool comprises vibrating plates the number of which is in accordance with that of the electromagnets on the supporting plate and which form a rectangular pressing tool through matrix arrangement on the same plane, the vibrating plates are corresponding to the electromagnets on the supporting plate one by one, and each vibrating plate is connected with the movable iron cores of the electromagnets through the driving rod. The pressure plate device has a reasonable and simple structure, good molding effect on pressing artificial quartzes, and high compactness of the finished products.

The invention relates to a pipeline cleaner with an automatic blockage removal function. The pipeline cleaner with the automatic blockage removal function is characterized by comprising a pipeline cleaning device and a blockage removal device. The blockage removal device is arranged at the front end of the pipeline cleaning device and comprises shearing breaking tool bit reinforcement front teeth,a shearing breaking tool bit blade and a buckle connector, and the shearing breaking tool bit reinforcement front teeth and the shearing breaking tool bit blade form a shearing breaking tool bit. Theroot of the shearing breaking tool bit is connected with the pipeline cleaning device through the buckle connector. The pipeline cleaner with the automatic blockage removal function guarantees that under the condition that high-strength impurities accumulate in front of the pipeline cleaner, the blockage removal tool, namely, the shearing breaking tool bit, of the pipeline cleaner can be used forshearing the impurities in front at a high speed, the structure strength of the impurities is lowered, and smooth passing of the pipeline cleaner is realized.

Described are methods for extracting oil and phorbol esters from oil seed kernel, for example from Jatropha curcas oil seed kernel. The methods comprise treating the oil seed kernel with at least one solvent and separating the resultant solvent / oil mix from the treated kernel to leave a seedcake substantially free of phorbol esters. Also described are seedcakes produced by the methods which can be used as nutritional compositions, for example as animal feeds.

The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a rigid polyurethane foam for a heat insulation material that satisfies performance required for practical use, such as a low thermal conductivity over a long period, and excellent adhesiveness and excellent dimensional stability under a low temperature environment. The manufacturing method of a rigid polyurethane foam for a heat insulation material, which is formed from blowing and molding using a mixture that includes polyisocyanate, a polyol, and a blowing agent, wherein a polyol prepared by addition-polymerizing ethylene oxide and propylene oxide to an aromatic monoamine compound or an aromatic diol compound.

A metamorphic device including a substrate structure upon which a semiconductor device can be formed. In the metamorphic device, a buffer layer matching a substrate lattice constant is formed at normal growth temperatures and a thin grading layer which grades past the desired lattice constant is configured at a low temperature. A reverse grading layer grades the lattice constant back to match a desired lattice constant. Thereafter, a thick layer is formed thereon, based on the desired lattice constant. Annealing can then occur to isolate dislocated material in at least the grading layer and the reverse grading layer. Thereon a strained layer superlattice is created upon which a high-speed photodiode or other semiconductor device can be formed.

A fuel cell assembly for using hydrogen gas and oxygen to produce electrical energy. The cathode of the fuel cell produces water vapor to define a flow of moist air including water vapor. A dehumidifier receives the flow of moist air including water vapor to produce purified liquid water and a flow of dehumidified air. The dehumidifier has an air inlet having a first cross-sectional area and an air outlet having a larger second cross-sectional area. The diffuser cavity of the dehumidifier progressively increases in size from the air inlet to the air outlet for depressurizing and cooling the flow of moist air including water vapor below the dew point of the moist air including water vapor to condense the water vapor on the housing of the dehumidifier.

The invention discloses an automatic punching and discharging machine for a large-area zinc electrolyzing cathode plate. The automatic punching and discharging machine for the large-area zinc electrolyzing cathode plate consists of a feeding mechanism (14), a feeding manipulator (13), a material pushing device (2), a punching machine (4), an excess material collecting box (12), a sunk table flattener (6), a material bearing platform (7), a discharging manipulator (8), a plate material discharging mechanism (10), an infrared safety protecting rail (9), a console (11), a GGD cabinet (5), a hydraulic pipeline (1) and a hydraulic station (3). A 3.2m<2> zinc electrolyzing cathode plate is pushed onto the punching machine and the sunk table flattener through the feeding manipulator and the material pushing device and automatically punched and discharged, a sunk table at a release opening is manufactured, and the side edge of an aluminum plate is knurled. The automatic punching and discharging machine for the large-area zinc electrolyzing cathode plate has the obvious advantages of compact structure, high punching efficiency, high automatic degree, easy operation, reliable performance and the like; and multiple workstations work at the same time, so that a continuous production is realized.

The invention relates to a sandwich structure (1) comprising a flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) (2), wherein the opposite outer surfaces (3, 4) of said OLED (2) consist of a glass material, and at least one layer (5, 6) provided on at least one of said outer surfaces (3, 4) of said OLED (2) and comprising an organic polymer material, wherein said layer (5, 6) comprising an organic polymer material and said outer surface (3, 4) consisting of glass are bonded to each other in a stacking manner by a bonding layer (7, 8).

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, and discloses a POS machine with good shock absorption effect. There are folding buckles, and the bottom ends of the two folding frames are respectively fixedly connected with the two ends of the upper surface of the circuit board. The POS machine with good shock absorption effect can protect the bottom of the circuit board by setting an upper buffer plate, a telescopic rod and a lower buffer plate, and the upper buffer plate and the lower buffer plate can protect the bottom of the circuit board through the telescopic rod, and reduce slipping due to irregular use. The internal parts of the machine are easily damaged due to other unsafe factors. By setting a buffer spring, the impact force generated by falling on the ground can be absorbed, so as to protect the internal parts of the POS machine and further reduce the internal parts of the machine. In the case of damage, the service life of the POS machine is extended while being easy to use, thereby improving the stability of the POS machine.