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An integrated process for the production of ethanol from woody plant material is provided, the process comprising: contacting a continuous flow of the plant material with a counter-current continuous flow of an aqueous ethanol solution at elevated temperature and pressure to provide plant material depleted of lignin; removing ethanol from the lignin-depleted plant material; contacting a continuous flow of the lignin-depleted plant material with water at elevated temperature and pressure to solubilize xylose within the plant material; and hydrolyzing cellulose present in the plant material to form glucose, which in turn is fermented to produce ethanol.

The invention discloses an automobile electromechanical brake, which comprises a front floating caliper and a floating caliper block. The front floating caliper is connected with a front friction disc, the floating caliper block is connected with a back friction disc through a nut-piston, a brake disc is arranged between the front friction disc and the back friction disc, and the nut-piston is connected with a motor through a boosting linkage and is connected with a gap regulating mechanism. The motor pushes the back friction disc and the front friction disc to attach onto the brake disc by the boosting linkage, thereby realizing braking. The automobile electromechanical brake has a gap regulating function, and gaps among the brake disc and the friction discs can be regulated freely, so that constancy of the brake response speed of automobiles is guaranteed and braking performance is guaranteed further. The automobile electromechanical brake is fine in braking performance, simple in structure, convenient in installation, easy to maintain and low in energy consumption.

A heating apparatus is provided that is optimized in terms of its heating efficiencies and wind proofing against flame out. The heating apparatus includes a heating head and a burner assembly for igniting fuel from a fuel source. The heating head has a dual-walled construction to form several flue chambers with the inner wall preferably being insulated to maximize heat transfer to the outer wall from combustion gases flowing through the flue chambers. The flue chambers can also be formed to be substantially isolated from each other and configured to generate turbulent gas flow therein for maximum heat transfer to the outer wall.

A heating apparatus is provided that is optimized in terms of its heating efficiencies and wind proofing against flame out. The heating apparatus includes a heating head and a burner assembly for igniting fuel from a fuel source. The heating head has a dual-walled construction to form several flue chambers with the inner wall preferably being insulated to maximize heat transfer to the outer wall from combustion gases flowing through the flue chambers. The flue chambers can also be formed to be substantially isolated from each other and configured to generate turbulent gas flow therein for maximum heat transfer to the outer wall.

The present invention relates to a garlic oil nanometer-scale microemulsion liquid and a preparation method thereof. The garlic oil nanometer-scale microemulsion liquid comprises the following components (in mass percentage): surfactant 6%-65%, auxiliary surfactant 2%-30%, garlic oil 2%-13%, vegetable oil 0%-80%, and water 0-85%. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a garlic oil nanometer-scale microemulsion liquid preparation method which includes the following steps: at room temperature, the garlic oil and the vegetable oil are mixed into mixture oil phase, and then the surfactant and auxiliary surfactant are added and mixed, and mixed in a swirl manner by slowly stirring, water is added into the system under the slowing stirring condition until the mutation of viscosity, and thus the clear and transparent garlic oil nanometer-scale microemulsion liquid is obtained. The garlic oil nanometer-scale microemulsion liquid can be used in the fields of food, health-care food, medicines and cosmetic, and the application scope of the fat-soluble garlic oil is extended.

A self-resetting piezoelectric semi-active friction damper comprises a shell and sleeves, wherein the shell comprises a top cover and a small box. One end of each sleeve is arranged on a base at the bottom of the small box, the other end of each sleeve is arranged on a top seat below the bottom of the top cover, a certain gap is reserved between the top seat and the other end of the corresponding sleeve, piezoelectric ceramic drivers are placed in the sleeves, leads of the piezoelectric ceramic drivers extend out of the damper through small grooves in the side faces of the sleeves and long and narrow hole grooves in the side walls of the small box and are connected with an external power supply, gaskets are arranged at two ends of each piezoelectric ceramic driver, a baffle is fixed to one side wall of the small box through a fixing screw, pre-pressure is applied by pre-tightening screws on the top cover, a balancing pull rod penetrates the baffle and is connected with the outer wall of the left sleeve, a connecting pull rod is fixed to the left side wall of the small box through a hexagonal nut, an actuating pull rod penetrates one side wall of the small box and is connected with the right sleeve, and reset springs are arranged on the balancing pull rod and the actuating pull rod respectively. A control system of the self-resetting piezoelectric semi-active friction damper is simple, the performance of the piezoelectric ceramic drivers is stable, the pre-pressure is conveniently applied, output energy is less, power output is high, and a piston can automatically reset.

An apparatus for a liquid drop emitter, especially for use in an ink jet printhead, is disclosed. A chamber filled with a liquid, a nozzle and a thermo-mechanical actuator, extending into the chamber from at least one wall of the chamber is disclosed. A movable element of the thermo-mechanical actuator is configured with a bending portion which bends when heated, the bending portion having at least one actuator opening for passage of the liquid. Apparatus is adapted to apply heat pulses to the bending portion resulting in rapid deflection of the movable element, ejection of a liquid drop, and passage of liquid through the at least one actuator opening. A movable element configured as a cantilever or as a beam extending from anchor walls of the chamber is disclosed. The thermo-mechanical actuator may be formed as a laminate structure including a layer constructed of a deflector material having a high coefficient of thermal expansion and that is electrically resistive, for example, titanium aluminide. Apparatus adapted to apply heat pulses comprising a resistive heater formed in the deflector material in the bending portion is also disclosed.

An inkjet printhead with a resistive heaters for vaporizing ink to eject drops through respective nozzles. The heater is formed from a TiAlX alloy where Ti contributes more than 40% by weight, Al contributes more than 40% by weight and X contributes less than 5% by weight and comprises zero or more of Ag, Cr, Mo, Nb, Si, Ta and W.

An apparatus for and method of operating a thermal actuator for a micromechanical device, especially a liquid drop emitter for use in an ink jet printhead, is disclosed. The disclosed thermal actuator includes a base element and a cantilevered element including a thermo-mechanical bender portion extending from the base element to a free end tip. The thermo-mechanical bender portion includes a barrier layer constructed of a dielectric material having low thermal conductivity, a first deflector layer constructed of a first electrically resistive material having a large coefficient of thermal expansion, and a second deflector layer constructed of a second electrically resistive material having a large coefficient of thermal expansion wherein the baffler layer is bonded between the first and second deflector layers.

The invention discloses a frequency-controllable airflow deflection control device and belongs to the technical field of fluid control. The control device comprises a monostable wall-attached oscillating efflux element and a plasma exciter (5). The monostable wall-attached oscillating efflux element comprises an efflux inlet (1), an inlet nozzle (2), a concave flow distribution wedge (4), a control port (3), a left airflow deflection outlet (6-1) an a right airflow deflection outlet (6-2). The frequency-controllable airflow deflection control device has the advantages that the size is small, the structure is simple, continuous adjustment can be achieved, the service life is long, the deflection frequency is high, and the control energy needing to be input is low.

An inkjet printer that has a printhead with an array of ejection devices for ejecting drops of liquid onto a media substrate. Each of the ejection devices having a chamber for holding liquid, a nozzle in fluid communication with the chamber and a heater positioned in the chamber for contact with the liquid such that resistive heating of the heater generates a vapor bubble that ejects a drop of the liquid through the nozzle. The printer also has a controller for receiving print data and generating drive pulses to energize the heaters in accordance with the print data. The controller increases the drive pulse energy during the printhead lifetime.

An autonomous deployment system is herein for functional utilization in the physical placement and deployment of a heating or thermal mat(s). The system is designed to enhance human productivity and ease deployment of the prior art thermal radiating or generating devices for the removal and or inhibition of accumulation of snow and ice. The deployment system as can be designed to operate autonomously with automatic controls and sensors to control both the thermal system and the technology of controlling a deployment system. The system is well suited to autonomously deploy and retract rolled membranes and or flexible materials out over a flat or sloped surface area. The inherent flexibility of the mat allows it to traverse gently curved surfaces.

A vapor compression refrigerating cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a radiator, first and second throttle devices, a flow distributor, an ejector, a suction passage, and first and second evaporators. The flow distributor separates refrigerant decompressed through the first throttle device into a first passage and a second passage. The first passage is in communication with a nozzle portion of the ejector. The second passage is in communication with a suction portion of the ejector through the suction passage. The second throttle device and the second evaporator are disposed on the suction passage. The flow distributor is configured to be capable of adjusting a ratio of a flow rate of refrigerant passing through the second passage to a flow rate of refrigerant passing through the first passage in accordance with a heat load of at least one of the radiator, the first evaporator and the second evaporator.

The non-contact composite capacitance electrode type displacement transducer and measurer is especially suitable for measurement of displacement and thickness. The sensor consists of outer shielding electrode casing, measuring electrodes, composite electrodes. inner shielded electrode, circuit board and cable connector. There is also air valve joint to constitute air path together with sensor inner cavity and electrode interval. The circuit boards includes mainly thermosensitive element, pressure-sensitive element and humidify-sensitive element. The measurer includes standard signal generator circuit, negative feedback operation amplifier, monochip computer data processing and controlling circuit, and display circuit system. The present invention features that the measured displacement is related to the structural parameters of the instrument but the medium environment the measured object is in.