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An electrosurgical system and method for transmitting, monitoring, and controlling electrosurgical energy and tissue parameter quality at the tissue site. The electrosurgical system includes a generator adapted to generate electrosurgical energy for treating tissue. The generator includes one or more active output terminals which supply energy to the tissue. The active output terminals are operatively connected to one or more active leads. The generator also includes one or more return output terminal which returns energy from the tissue. The return output terminals are operatively connected to at least one return lead. The system also includes an electrosurgical instrument operatively connected to the one or more active leads and one or more return electrodes operatively connected to one or more return leads. The system further includes an electrosurgical cable including one or more active leads and one or more return leads. The one or more active leads and one or more return leads are wound in a double helix fashion such that the electrical field along the cable is mitigated along the length thereof.

An electrosurgical system is disclosed. The system includes an electrosurgical instrument having at least one electrode configured as a first sensor for measuring a voltage drop therethrough and a temperature sensor for a thermal sensor configured to measure a temperature difference across the at least one electrode; and a generator including an output stage coupled to the at least one electrode, the output stage configured to generate radio frequency energy; and a controller configured to determine actual radio frequency current based on the voltage drop and electrical resistivity of the at least one electrode and radio frequency power based on the measured temperature difference and the thermal conductivity of the at least one electrode.

Compositions and methods are provided for modulating the growth, development and repair of bone, cartilage or other connective tissue. Devices and stimulus waveforms are provided to differentially modulate the behavior of osteoblasts, chondrocytes and other connective tissue cells to promote proliferation, differentiation, matrix formation or mineralization for in vitro or in vivo applications. Continuous-mode and pulse-burst-mode stimulation of cells with charge-balanced signals may be used. Bone, cartilage and other connective tissue growth is stimulated in part by nitric oxide release through electrical stimulation and may be modulated through co-administration of NO donors and NO synthase inhibitors. Bone, cartilage and other connective tissue growth is stimulated in part by release of BMP-2 and BMP-7 in response to electrical stimulation to promote differentiation of cells. The methods and devices described are useful in promoting repair of bone fractures, cartilage and connective tissue repair as well as for engineering tissue for transplantation.

An operator driven, ridable carpet cleaning machine is provided with a pressurized cleaning solution spray applicator located forward of a counter-rotating pair of cylindrical brushes and a pair of articulating vacuum shoes. The pressurized spray enables the delivery of sufficient cleaning solution, with agitation of the soft, carpeted surface enhanced by the counter-rotating brushes. Articulation of the vacuum shoes enables them to remain in close contact with the carpeting, maximizing the removal of the applied cleaning solution.

The present invention provides a pyrolysis system and method thereof which are capable of converting an entire rubber tire into several energy resources in an environmentally-friendly manner. The system includes a tire transporting unit, a waste to energy conversion unit, and a energy collection unit. The waste to energy conversion unit includes a conversion housing having a reaction chamber for receiving the rubber tire for pyrolysis processing to decompose the rubber tire into fuel oil, methane gas and carbon black, while metal wire from the rubber tire are resided for recycling use.

A system and method for transmitting electrosurgical energy from a generator to an electrosurgical instrument are provided. The electrosurgical system includes a generator adapted to generate electrosurgical energy for treating tissue. The generator includes one or more active output terminals which supply energy to the tissue. The active output terminals are operatively connected to one or more supply lines. The generator also includes one or more return output terminal which returns energy from the tissue. The return output terminals are operatively connected to at least one return line. The system also includes an electrosurgical instrument operatively connected to the one or more supply lines and one or more return electrodes operatively connected to one or more return lines. The system further includes an electrosurgical cable including one or more supply lines and one or more return lines. The one or more supply lines and one or more return lines are wound in a double helix fashion such that the electrical field along the cable is mitigated along the length thereof.

An electrosurgical system is disclosed. The system includes an electrosurgical instrument having at least one electrode configured as a first sensor for measuring a voltage drop therethrough and a temperature sensor for a thermal sensor configured to measure a temperature difference across the at least one electrode; and a generator including an output stage coupled to the at least one electrode, the output stage configured to generate radio frequency energy; and a controller configured to determine actual radio frequency current based on the voltage drop and electrical resistivity of the at least one electrode and radio frequency power based on the measured temperature difference and the thermal conductivity of the at least one electrode.

Method and apparatus useful in simultaneously enhancing the fuel consumption efficiency of an ICE, with concomitant enhancement of the power delivered by the engine, and reduction of undesirable exhaust emissions. One embodiment of the method of this invention includes the steps of introducing a fuel / air mixture to the main combustion chamber of the ICE, providing a flame front pre-combustion system which enhances the timely delivery of multiple flame fronts to specific locations within the main combustion chamber for substantial spontaneity of ignition and combustion of the fuel / air mixture disposed within the combustion chamber when the crankshaft is within about 5 degrees nearer top dead center (TDC) than the timing established by a standard operation map for the ICE in question and which employs a conventional spark plug disposed within the combustion chamber. Such combustion continues over that time period during which the crankshaft travels at least past TDC and into its power stroke.

A system and method for transmitting electrosurgical energy from a generator to an electrosurgical instrument are provided. The electrosurgical system includes a generator adapted to generate electrosurgical energy for treating tissue. The generator includes one or more active output terminals which supply energy to the tissue. The active output terminals are operatively connected to one or more supply lines. The generator also includes one or more return output terminal which returns energy from the tissue. The return output terminals are operatively connected to at least one return line. The system also includes an electrosurgical instrument operatively connected to the one or more supply lines and one or more return electrodes operatively connected to one or more return lines. The system further includes an electrosurgical cable including one or more supply lines and one or more return lines. The one or more supply lines and one or more return lines are wound in a double helix fashion such that the electrical field along the cable is mitigated along the length thereof.

A vacuum pump valve includes a valve body and a suction diaphragm. The valve body includes a sealing platform sealedly attached on the container at the opening thereof, and a guiding sleeve upwardly extended from the sealing platform to form a suction channel, wherein the sealing platform has an operation slot formed thereon at a position within the suction channel and at least a through ventilating groove communicating the receiving cavity of the container with an exterior thereof. The suction diaphragm is disposed within the suction channel of the valve body, including an enlarged sealing head adapted to seal on the sealing platform to enclose the ventilating groove thereof, and a guiding shaft extended from the sealing head to slidably mounted at the sealing platform at the operation slot to move the sealing head between a releasing position and a sealing position.

A combined heat and power system, or an energy system, is provided. A four-stroke opposed-piston engine provides efficient power from a generator set or genset. A heat exchange system is provided within the energy system to provide efficient waste heat recovery as the engine is operated.

Method and apparatus useful in simultaneously enhancing the fuel consumption efficiency of an ICE, with concomitant enhancement of the power delivered by the engine, and reduction of undesirable exhaust emissions. One embodiment of the method of this invention includes the steps of introducing a fuel / air mixture to the main combustion chamber of the ICE, providing a flame front pre-combustion system which enhances the timely delivery of multiple flame fronts to specific locations within the main combustion chamber for substantial spontaneity of ignition and combustion of the fuel / air mixture disposed within the combustion chamber when the crankshaft is within about 5 degrees nearer top dead center (TDC) than the timing established by a standard operation map for the ICE in question and which employs a conventional spark plug disposed within the combustion chamber. Such combustion continues over that time period during which the crankshaft travels at least past TDC and into its power stroke.

Provided are a low-noise image sensor capable of improving the efficiency of charge transfer from a photodiode to a diffusion node region and effectively suppressing the generation of dark current, and a transistor for the image sensor. The image sensor includes: a photosensitive pixel having a transfer transistor formed in a structure which causes hole accumulation in a part or all regions of a gate oxide; and a sensing control part applying a negative offset potential to the gate during a part or whole of a turn-off period of the transfer transistor. When the transfer transistor is off, the image sensor may form a sufficient barrier and accumulate electrons in the photodiode, and when the transistor is on, the sensor sufficiently lowers a barrier, fully depletes the photodiode before the transfer transistor reaches a threshold voltage, and inactivates a trap in a predetermined region for a certain time, and thus the dark current can be reduced.

The present invention generally relates to an electroplating solution for manufacturing nanometer platinum and platinum based alloy particles and a method thereof. That is, an acid solution having platinum complex compound and citric acid is provided into a reaction tank to be as an electroplating solution, then a plurality of platinum and platinum based alloy particles are deposited on the surfaces of electrodes under the condition of applying negative potentials. The acid solution is capable of effectively providing the rate of conducting ions. The citric acid can effectively promote the dispersity of the platinum and platinum based alloy particles and reduce the dimensions the platinum and platinum based alloy particles.

A vacuum pump valve includes a valve body and a suction diaphragm. The valve body includes a sealing platform sealedly attached on the container at the opening thereof, and a guiding sleeve upwardly extended from the sealing platform to form a suction channel, wherein the sealing platform has an operation slot formed thereon at a position within the suction channel and at least a through ventilating groove communicating the receiving cavity of the container with an exterior thereof. The suction diaphragm is disposed within the suction channel of the valve body, including an enlarged sealing head adapted to seal on the sealing platform to enclose the ventilating groove thereof, and a guiding shaft extended from the sealing head to slidably mounted at the sealing platform at the operation slot to move the sealing head between a releasing position and a sealing position.

The present invention provides a pyrolysis system and method thereof which are capable of converting an entire rubber tire into several energy resources in an environmentally-friendly manner. The system includes a tire transporting unit, a waste to energy conversion unit, and a energy collection unit. The waste to energy conversion unit includes a conversion housing having a reaction chamber for receiving the rubber tire for pyrolysis processing to decompose the rubber tire into fuel oil, methane gas and carbon black, while metal wire from the rubber tire are resided for recycling use.

The invention discloses a system and a method for utilizing heat energy of an oximation device. The system comprises a TBA (Tert Butyl Alcohol) recovery tower feeding heat energy recoverer, a TBA recovery tower, a valve 1, a valve 2, an oximation wastewater steam stripping evaporator, a methylbenzene oximate heat energy recoverer, a first rectification tower, a TBA recovery tower gas-phase condenser, a TBA reflux tank, a wastewater steam condenser, a mechanical vacuum pump and a condensed wastewater recovery tank, wherein the oximation wastewater steam stripping evaporator and the methylbenzene oximate heat energy recoverer are in parallel and serial arrangement. According to the system and the method for utilizing the heat energy of the oximation device, disclosed by the invention, heat of high-temperature condensate during a production process of caprolactam can be recovered through the TBA recovery tower feeding heat energy recoverer, and heat of gas-phase steam flowing out of the TBA recovery tower can be recovered through the oximation wastewater gas stripping evaporator and the methylbenzene oximate heat energy recoverer which are in parallel and serial arrangement, so that the using amount of boiler steam is reduced; through the whole system and the method, the boiler steam can be saved by about 1.5 to 1.6 tons through the production of caprolactam per ton, the cost of steam is reduced from original 560 yuan to about 310 yuan, and huge economic benefit is gained.

The invention discloses a hot water type solar energy and air energy combined heat and power generation integrated system which comprises a water storage box, a first water pump, a solar heat collector, a low-position side heat exchanger, a compression and expansion difunctional machine head, a permanent magnet electric power generation integrated motor, a high-position side heat exchanger, an expansion valve, a working medium pump and a second water pump. Air cooling is adopted by the low-position side heat exchanger, one port of a low-position side heat exchanger working medium side passes through the compression and expansion difunctional machine head to be connected to one port of a high-position side heat exchanger working medium side, two bypasses are connected to the other port of the high-position side heat exchanger working medium side and the other port of the low-position side heat exchanger working medium side in parallel, opening or closing of the valve is adjusted, solarenergy and air energy can achieve heating in the heating period and power generation in the non-heating period, and the building requirement for hot water supplying all year around is met; the air source heat pump cost is low, installation is simple, the energy efficiency is high, environmental protection is achieved, the preheating time is short, the indoor temperature requirement can be quicklymet, and the hot water type solar energy and air energy combined heat and power generation integrated system is suitable for supplementary heat sources of a solar heating system.

Provided are an adiabatic compressed air energy storage for an automotive vehicle and an energy storage method using the same, whereby a new vehicle function is provided by using available energy from the discharged and expelled energy generated from a driven automotive vehicle or available energy source outside an automotive vehicle, and transforming the generated energy to convenient electric power and efficiently storing the energy, so that electric power can be supplied regardless of space or time constraint during the automotive vehicle in operation or parked or vehicle engine stop in view of the increase demands of electric power in automotive vehicles.

A micro-droplet-emulsifier to generate a micro-droplet-emulsion for application on digital polymerase chain reaction is provided. This device comprises of a micro-pipette to hold a dispersed-phase-liquid; a droplet generator that attaches to the micro-pipette and has a plurality of substantially flat micro-channels. The dispersed-phase-liquid is forced through the micro-channels to form micro-droplet-emulsion of dispersed-liquid-phase in the continuous-liquid-phase inside the chamber. The size of the micro-droplets is controlled by the shape and the aspect ratio of the micro-channels, the depth of micro-channel and the material of the micro-droplet-generator-head that dictates the contact angle of the droplet on the micro-channels.

The invention discloses a task issuing method based on cloud computing. The method comprises steps of establishing and splitting a to-be-executed application calculation process into hierarchical application calculation processes according to the framework level; carrying out task decomposition on the generated hierarchy application based on a basic component division rule; adopting fine granularity task splitting; splitting a large task into small tasks for execution through a divide-and-conquer strategy. Therefore, a common computer with weak computing power can also participate in large-scale computing; common PCs of individuals, companies, schools and the like can be effectively integrated with servers in the cloud machine room to form more powerful public cloud service, maximized application of physical resources such as processors, memories, hard disks, video cards and bandwidths in the whole people range is realized, single dependence of cloud service manufacturers on computer equipment is solved, and problems of waste caused by excessive purchase of host hardware resources and overlarge pressure caused by excessive purchase of host hardware resources are avoided. The invention also discloses a task issuing device and system based on cloud computing, and a readable storage medium, which have the above beneficial effects.

A device (15) for the application of pesticides to animals as they feed and that accommodates wildlife of all sizes, poses no threat of harm to the animals, and maximizes the per capita application of pesticide. Whole kernel corn (or other feed) placed in a feed bin (30) is dispensed into a trough / receptacle (20) through an opening at the bottom of the bin. The trough / receptacle (20) is surrounded by pesticide applicators (40) such that as an animal feeds, some part of its head, neck and / or ears will contact one or more of the applicators. The applicators (40) are flexible and rotatable, so that animals attracted to the apparatus to feed are subjected to the application of a pesticide upon their head, neck, ears, and / or, where applicable, antlers or horns, the flexible and rotatable applicators (40) maximizing pesticide application with minimal stress to both the animal and device. The device employs a modular molded polyethylene design that is durable, economical, mass-producible, lightweight, and can be shipped for user-assembly, thereby reducing shipping and manufacturing costs.

The invention discloses a city illumination and emergency system adopting a solar photovoltaic system as a power supply, which consists of a solar photovoltaic battery array (1), a city illumination system (3), a control dispatching center (6), a storage battery (2), an emergency load (4) and a back-up power supply (5), wherein the control dispatching center has the functions of photovoltaic generating system distribution management, alternating and direct current control, grid-connected control, storage battery management, illumination control, emergency system control, measurement and the like. In the city illumination system in which a photovoltaic power supply system and a large power grid are complementary, a photovoltaic generating system can supplies power independently for the city illumination system and can realize grid-connected output so that the utilization ratio of the photovoltaic generating system is improved; the city illumination system can take power from the photovoltaic generating system and the large power grid; and the service life of the storage battery can be prolonged through concentrated charging and discharging management. Simultaneously, the solar photovoltaic system, the storage battery and the back-up power supply can serve as an emergency power supply system of city important loads in an emergency.

A manufacturing device for a microneedle includes an upper plate stage, a lower plate stage disposed in horizontally parallel with the upper plate stage, a rotating device configured to rotate and move the upper plate stage over the lower plate stage, and a first cylindrical type actuator configured to vertically move the lower plate stage in a state in which the upper plate stage has been rotated and moved over the lower plate stage by the rotating device. The first cylindrical type actuator may upwardly and downwardly move so as to be able to stretch a viscous composition in a vertical direction in a state in which a contacting to the viscous composition is performed, wherein the viscous composition is applied on both of a patch sheet seated on the upper plate stage and a patch sheet seated on the lower plate stage, or is applied on one of them.

The embodiment of the invention provides a data processing method and device for a sensing terminal. The data processing method of the sensing terminal comprises the following steps of: processing data of the sensing terminal; according to the information of the sensing terminals arranged in the at least two sensing areas, obtaining the information of the sensing terminals, and generating index parameters corresponding to the sensing areas, determining a nesting relationship between the at least two sensing areas based on a Pareto optimal allocation method, finally determining weights of the sensing terminals in the at least two sensing areas according to the nesting relationship between the at least two sensing areas, and finally processing data acquired by the sensing terminals based onthe weights. According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the nesting relationship between the sensing areas is determined based on the Pareto optimal allocation method; and the weight corresponding to the sensing terminal in each sensing area is determined based on the nesting relationship, so that the data acquired by each sensing terminal is processed based onthe weight, the resource utilization rate of the sensing terminal is improved, the maximum application of the data is realized, and the performance of the Internet of Things control system is improved.

A manufacturing device for a microneedle includes an upper plate stage, a lower plate stage disposed in horizontally parallel with the upper plate stage, a rotating device configured to rotate and move the upper plate stage over the lower plate stage, and a first cylindrical type actuator configured to vertically move the lower plate stage in a state in which the upper plate stage has been rotated and moved over the lower plate stage by the rotating device. The first cylindrical type actuator may upwardly and downwardly move so as to be able to stretch a viscous composition in a vertical direction in a state in which a contacting to the viscous composition is performed, wherein the viscous composition is applied on both of a patch sheet seated on the upper plate stage and a patch sheet seated on the lower plate stage, or is applied on one of them.

The invention discloses a wind power on-site work safety management and control method, through integration of a multi-service system and automatic identification of safety risks, the safety risks areautomatically pushed to an on-site mobile terminal APP system, preventable safety prompts are provided for on-site workers, safety technical defense of on-site work is limited, and therefore personalsafety of the on-site workers is ensured. And meanwhile, effective integration of related multi-service systems is carried out through data and information sources under a security condition, so thatintercommunication and interconnection of security management information and maximum application are realized.

A combined heat and power system, or an energy system, is provided. A four-stroke opposed-piston engine provides efficient power from a generator set or genset. A heat exchange system is provided within the energy system to provide efficient waste heat recovery as the engine is operated.

A manual device maximizing application of butter to an ear of corn. The manual device includes a bottom portion, a top portion, and a butter applicator. The bottom portion rests on a support surface, carries the butter, and rotatably carries the ear of corn. The butter applicator is rotatably connected in the bottom portion, maximizes the application of the butter to the ear of corn when the butter applicator is rotated, which in turn rotates the ear of corn. The top portion is optional and when used is operatively connected to the bottom portion, is for maintaining the ear of corn in the bottom portion during rotation, and prevents the butter from splashing during rotation.