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An expandable bone device including first and second bone support elements, a manipulator positioned between the first and second bone support elements and connected to them by link members, the manipulator adapted to move the first and second bone support elements between a collapsed orientation and an expanded orientation, wherein in the collapsed orientation the first and second bone support elements are drawn towards the manipulator and in the expanded orientation the first and second bone support elements are moved outwards away from a longitudinal axis of the manipulator, and deformable support struts connected between the manipulator and the first and second bone support elements that deform when moved by the manipulator from the collapsed orientation to the expanded orientation and vice versa, wherein in the expanded orientation the deformable support struts form a structure that maintains the first and second bone support elements in the expanded orientation.

A platen of an injection molding machine includes a plate-shaped center area having corners, each corner formed with a recess. A plurality of sleeves is received in the recesses of the center area and defines bores for accommodation of column-like holding and / or guide elements. The sleeves have an outer surface in confronting relationship to the center area and are configured for only partial connection to the center area, thereby establishing an elastic connection between the center area and the sleeves.

A polishing head assembly for retaining an object that is subject to polishing with a polishing pad is disclosed. The polishing head assembly comprises a head retainer assembly movably coupled to a wafer carrier head. The head retainer assembly includes a gimbal post and a load suspension plate. The gimbal post and the load suspension plate are operable to transfer a loading force to the wafer carrier head during polishing. The gimbal post also provides gimballing to optimize the position of the object in parallel with the polishing pad. In addition, the load suspension plate provides distribution of the loading force to optimize the flatness of the object during polishing.

A vibration motor able to greatly suppress lateral shaking of conduction terminals, provided with a pair of motor power parts provided at an end cap closing an open end of a motor case, a pair of plate-shaped conduction terminals including contact faces for abutting against elastically retractable power contacts provided at the board side and connected corresponding to the motor power parts, and a spacer formed integrally with the end cap and abutting against a circumferential surface of the motor case to separate the contact faces from the circumferential surface, wherein the first contact face integrally has a first abutting part abutting against a first side face of the spacer and the second contact face integrally has a second abutting part abutting against a second side face different from the first side face of the spacer.

Disclosed is a quantum image encryption method based on image association dissection. A quantum-state superposition and measurement principle is used to establish correlation between image pixels. An image is dissected into superposition of a series of characteristic sub-images. Conversion operations are performed on the characteristic sub-images stored in a complete binary-tree digit group through use of a random phase door and a quantum rotating door and then a plurality of superpositions are performed on all the images through quantum-state superposition so as to obtain a cipher image. Schmidt orthogonal dissection is performed on the quantum random phase door, the quantum rotating door, a coefficient matrix and the cipher image so as to obtain a standard orthogonal ground state which is then used as a key. The quantum image encryption method based on the image association dissection has a larger key space so that strong attacks can be resisted and combination of a quantum-mechanical theory and an image encryption technology is realized. The method has classical information theory security and quantum information theory security so that quantum image encryption surpasses restriction of classical image encryption and compared with classical images, quantum images are higher in security.

A method of making a semiconductor optical integrated device includes the steps of forming, on a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor integrated devices including a first optical semiconductor element having a first bonding pad and a second optical semiconductor element; forming a plurality of bar-shaped semiconductor optical integrated device arrays by cutting the substrate, each of the semiconductor optical integrated device arrays including two or more semiconductor optical integrated devices; alternately arranging the plurality of semiconductor optical integrated device arrays and a plurality of spacers in a thickness direction of the substrate so as to be fixed in place; and forming a coating film on a facet of the semiconductor optical integrated device array. Furthermore, the spacer has a movable portion facing the first bonding pad, the movable portion protruding toward the first bonding pad and being displaceable in a protruding direction.

A housing for holding and fixing components of a liquid crystal display device is composed of a pair of frame members each having the same shape. Four sides of the side face of each frame member are formed such that an outer face section positioned at the outer side when combined and an inner face section positioned at the inner side when combined are stepped to each other, and a cut section is formed between the outer face section and the inner face section. The side face section of the frame member of the housing is formed to be stepped as described above, so that the strength and assembling property are enhanced, thereby being capable of preventing deterioration in display quality caused by the displacement of the position and space of the components.

In a roller or bushing chain, inner link plats have an oval shape, with a guide-contacting surface continuous with arc-shaped ends, and in the form of an arc having end points that are spaced from each other by a distance greater than the chain pitch but less than the greatest distance between parts of bushing holes in the inner link plates. The outer link plates have straight parallel edges parallel to the direction of chain elongation and semicircular ends continuous with the straight edges. The configuration of the inner link plates prevents the outer link plates from coming into contact with a chain guide.

A recording apparatus includes a recording executing section, a transport driving roller, and an ejection driving roller. The recording executing section can execute recording on both a first recording material and a second recording material set on a first surface of a holding tray in a recording execution area. The transport of the holding tray in the recording execution area is performed by the feeding force of the transport driving roller and the ejection driving roller, and the maintenance of the posture of the holding tray in the recording execution area is performed by the transport driving roller, the ejection driving roller, and a posture maintainer located outside a transit area through which the first recording material passes.

A beam reshaping unit for an illumination system (10) of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus comprises a first beam reshaping element (62) having a first beam reshaping surface (68) and a second beam reshaping element having a second beam reshaping surface (74) which faces the first beam reshaping surface (68). The two beam reshaping surfaces (68; 74) are rotationally symmetrical with respect to an optical axis (22) of the beam reshaping unit. At least the first beam reshaping surface (68, 74) has a concavely or convexly curved region (70, 76).

The invention discloses a monochromatic light adjustable-ratio polarization-independent beam splitter comprising five light beam displacers (BDs) which are arranged in sequence and recorded as BD1-BD5. After incident light enter BD1, the incident light is divided into an upper light beam and a lower light beam; the upper light beam and the lower light beam correspondingly pass through a half wave plate and a glass compensation plate and then enter BD2, and both the upper light beam and the lower light beam are shifted downward through the spatial walk-off function of BD2; the upper light beam and the lower light beam pass through corresponding half wave plates and then enter BD3, BD3 respectively divide the upper light beam and the lower light beam into two light beams, and therefore, four light beams distributed from top to bottom are formed; the four light beams enter BD4 after passing through a half wave plate, BD4 combines the two light beams in the middle into one light beam, and therefore, three light beams distributed from top to bottom are formed; the three light beams correspondingly pass through a half wave plate, a glass compensation plate and a half wave plate and then enter BD5, BD5 combines the light beam in the middle with the upper and lower light beams respectively, and therefore, an upper light beam and a lower light beam are formed and emitted out. By adopting the beam splitter of the invention, adjustment of beam splitting in any ratio can be realized, and high precision is achieved.

A fiber optic switching system which includes an optical switch having a movable actuator and a light fiber coupled to the actuator which terminates at an end target surface thereof for conducting excitation light from a light source to the optical switch mechanism. A flexible film or other surface whose response is conditioned to provide at least two different fluorescent surfaces is positioned such that an end surface of the actuator abuts or is placed in close proximity to the film throughout its movement from one position to another. A detector detects light emitted from the film. The actuator is movable so as to direct excitation light from the light fiber from the one fluorescent surface of the film to another and the detector detects light emitted from the film so as to determine which fluorescent surface of the film from which light has been emitted.

The present invention relates to a disc drive apparatus capable of preventing skew or wobble from occurring when a spindle motor is attached to a base.The disc drive apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a turntable 22 which holds an optical disc 2; a spindle motor which rotatively drives the turntable 22; an optical pick-up 20 which writes / reads signals on or from the optical disc 2; guide shafts 42a and 42b which slidably supports the optical pick-up 20 in the radial direction of the optical disc 2, and a base 15 to which a spindle motor 23 and both end portions of each of the guide shafts 42a and 42b, wherein the spindle motor 23 is attached to the base 15 through a spacer member 28 which performs positioning of the turntable 22 in the vertical direction thereof relative to the base 15.

A housing for holding and fixing components of a liquid crystal display device is composed of a pair of frame members each having the same shape. Four sides of the side face of each frame member are formed such that an outer face section positioned at the outer side when combined and an inner face section positioned at the inner side when combined are stepped to each other, and a cut section is formed between the outer face section and the inner face section. The side face section of the frame member of the housing is formed to be stepped as described above, so that the strength and assembling property are enhanced, thereby being capable of preventing deterioration in display quality caused by the displacement of the position and space of the components.

Provided is a steering device including an inner pipe, an outer column including a holding main body section and a clamp section, a fixed bracket including fixed side sections, a stopper bracket including a movable guide section firmly attached to the inner pipe, and attachment sections formed at front-back-direction both ends of the movable guide section, and a hanger bracket in which sections to be attached to both the attachment sections are formed on front-back-direction both sides, the hanger bracket including side plate sections which sandwich width-direction both side surfaces of the clamp section and in which long holes for telescopic adjustment are formed. The attachment sections of the stopper bracket and the sections to be attached of the hanger bracket are firmly attached and joined by joining members.

A method of making a semiconductor optical integrated device includes the steps of forming, on a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor integrated devices including a first optical semiconductor element having a first bonding pad and a second optical semiconductor element; forming a plurality of bar-shaped semiconductor optical integrated device arrays by cutting the substrate, each of the semiconductor optical integrated device arrays including two or more semiconductor optical integrated devices; alternately arranging the plurality of semiconductor optical integrated device arrays and a plurality of spacers in a thickness direction of the substrate so as to be fixed in place; and forming a coating film on a facet of the semiconductor optical integrated device array. Furthermore, the spacer has a movable portion facing the first bonding pad, the movable portion protruding toward the first bonding pad and being displaceable in a protruding direction.

A power unit made up of a solder-free assembly of a plurality of battery cells having positive and negative contact surfaces, respectively, on the two opposing front ends thereof, the cells being mechanically juxtaposed and parallel with one another, the unit including: a bottom plate having metal contact zones capable of ensuring electrical and optionally thermal connection with the bottom metal base of a cell; a top plate having metal contact zones for ensuring electrical connection with the top cap of a cell; means for connecting with the top caps of the cells, which are resiliently deformable in an axial direction relative to the orientation of the cells.

A beam coupler adapted to couple two beams mounted side by side. One coupler comprises a central plate mounted to the first beam, comprising two central-plate side faces in the coupling orientation; and a longitudinal oblong hole providing a passage connecting the two side faces. The coupler also comprises a pair of side plates mounted to the second beam, each comprising an interior face to neighbor the central plate; an exterior face; and a circular side-plate hole providing a passage connecting the interior face with the exterior face. The coupler further comprises compression means applying an inward preload over the plates, comprising a body extending between the exterior faces through the circular and oblong holes. The oblong holes allow displacement of the body of the compression means therein in the longitudinal direction upon a displacement of the plates resulting from a deflection of the beams.

A beam reshaping unit for an illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus includes a first beam reshaping element having a first beam reshaping surface and a second beam reshaping element having a second beam reshaping surface which faces the first beam reshaping surface. The two beam reshaping surfaces are rotationally symmetrical with respect to an optical axis of the beam reshaping unit. At least the first beam reshaping surface has a concavely or convexly curved region.

A method for controlling a wireless charging device includes: receiving information sensed by at least one of a yaw rate sensor, a gyro sensor, and a tire pressure sensor of a vehicle; calculating a longitudinal / transversal gradient of the vehicle according to the received information; and adjusting a height or a gradient of a receiving pad equipped in the vehicle or adjusting a height, a gradient, a transmission power, or a frequency of a transmitting pad corresponding to the receiving pad, based on the calculated longitudinal / transversal gradient.

The invention discloses a timer reading method, which is suitable for being executed in computing equipment. The computing equipment comprises a plurality of CPU cores, the plurality of CPU cores are connected with a timer, and the timer is associated with a spin lock. The method comprises the following steps that a first CPU core in the plurality of CPU cores performs locking processing on the spin lock based on a time reading request; when the locking processing is successful, the first CPU core reads the time data from the timer, writes the read time data into the time memory, releases the spin lock and returns the time data to the logic initiating the time reading request; and when the locking processing fails, the first CPU core enters a spin state, quits the spin state until the spin lock is released, and returns the time data stored in the time memory to the logic initiating the time reading request. According to the timer reading method, the performance of a computer system can be greatly improved. The invention further discloses a computing device and a readable storage medium.

An image reading device includes a reading device body and a document feeder that is turnably attached on the upper side of the reading device body with hinge devices. An extended portion that extends outward from a rear frame is formed on a beam frame fixing the rear frame and a front frame of the document feeder at a predetermined interval, and a third coupling portion coupled to the turning member of the hinge device is formed in the extended portion.

An injection molding machine comprises a stationary platen 46 and a movable platen 40. The stationary platen 46 and movable platen 40 may be supported on a base frame 10. A mold cramping frame 56 comprises a first member 54 joined to the stationary platen 46, a second member 24 joined to the movable platen 40, and connecting members 78 and 80 for connecting the first member 54 and the second member 24 at their approximate centers. A mold cramping cylinder 50 is disposed between the first member 54 and the stationary platen 46 or between the second member 24 and the movable platen 40. The stationary platen 46 and the first member 54 are joined in a flexible manner, and the movable platen 40 and the second member 24 are similarly joined in a flexible manner.

An injection molding machine comprises a stationary platen 46 and a movable platen 40. The stationary platen 46 and movable platen 40 may be supported on a base frame 10. A mold clamping frame 56 comprises a first member 54 joined to the stationary platen 46, a second member 24 joined to the movable platen 40, and connecting members 78 and 80 for connecting the first member 54 and the second member 24 at their approximate centers. A mold clamping cylinder 50 is disposed between the first member 54 and the stationary platen 46 or between the second member 24 and the movable platen 40. The stationary platen 46 and the first member 54 are joined in a flexible manner, and the movable platen 40 and the second member 24 are similarly joined in a flexible manner.

A power unit made up of a weld-free assembly of a plurality of battery cells having positive and negative contact surfaces, respectively, on the two opposing front ends thereof, the cells being mechanically juxtaposed and parallel with one another, the unit including: a bottom plate having metal contact zones capable of ensuring electrical and optionally thermal connection with the bottom metal base of a cell; a top plate having metal contact zones for ensuring electrical connection with the top cap of a cell; means for connecting with the top caps of the cells, which are resiliently deformable in an axial direction relative to the orientation of the cells.

The invention relates to a disinfection robot. The disinfection robot performs disinfection work in an area through cooperative work; the disinfection robot adopts a non-centralized cooperative control; the disinfection robot includes a communication module, a cooperative computing module, and a sensing module , control module, storage module, mobile module and disinfection module. The present invention adopts a loose coupling method to control the system of the robot, which reduces all non-essential communication handshakes and map location updates, can reduce the difficulty of use and compatibility of the disinfection robot, and reduces the amount of information communication and hardware overhead required by the disinfection robot; Any disinfection robot can create a light-structure disinfection task and ensure that the disinfection task can maintain parallelism with the increase in the number of robots by executing the disinfection strategy of the building block structure.