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The invention provides a sensor for monitoring an environmental parameter in concrete including an enclosure; a detecting device connected to the enclosure for a detecting at least one environmental parameter in concrete, wherein the detecting device includes at least one capacitive element; an active material connected to the enclosure, wherein the active material is liable to respond to the environmental parameter and is operably connected to the capacitive element; a RFID chip mounted within the enclosure and operably connected to the detecting device; and an antenna operably connected to the RFID chip and the detecting device, wherein the antenna is part of an L-R-C circuit whose resonance frequency shifts within an assigned frequency band. The invention also provides a MEMS-based capacitive element that responds to an environmental parameter in concrete. The invention further provides a method of forming a MEMS-based capacitive element.

In order to improve surgical scissors with two scissor blades mounted for pivotal movement relative to each other about a pivot axis and having one cutting edge each, the scissor blades having proximally of the pivot axis one sliding surface area each, the sliding surface areas sliding along each other and the scissor blades contacting each other distally of the pivot axis at a moving point of contact of the cutting edges sliding along each other when the scissors are opened and closed, and at least one of the cutting edges being provided with a hard material coating, so that their service life is further increased, it is proposed that at least one of the two sliding surface areas have a first hard material coating-free surface. A method for the manufacture of surgical scissors is also proposed.

An electronic ballast for a lighting unit may include: a Power Factor Correction (PFC) circuit, an inverter, and a control circuit for controlling startup of the inverter, wherein the control circuit is coupled between the PFC circuit and the inverter and includes: a switching device coupled in a startup loop for the inverter; a unidirectional conductive device coupled between a PFC power supply circuit for providing an operation current to a PFC controller of the PFC circuit and an input of the PFC controller, for preventing a startup current flowing through the PFC circuit from triggering the switching device; and a triggering device coupled to the switching device and a connection point between the unidirectional conductive device and the PFC power supply circuit, for controlling switch-on and -off of the switching device.

A display-enabled card with security authentication function includes a flexible card structure internally provided with a flexible electronic system, which includes a flexible display, a power supply module for supplying a DC voltage, a driving control module having a DC voltage converter for converting the DC voltage into a first driving voltage; a smart IC connected to the driving control module, a communication module connected to and working with the smart IC to perform security authentication, and a power management module arranged between the power supply module, the driving control module and the smart IC to provide the DC voltage to the driving control module and convert the DC voltage into a second driving voltage. The driving control module directly reads data stored in the smart IC and drives the flexible display to show the read data, so as to avoid poor sensing or data communication due to unstable voltage.

A parallel-connected LED illuminant, including: a parallel-connected bracket, LED light emitting unit groups, and fluorescent powder layers. The parallel-connected bracket includes two or more than two linear substrate monomers. The linear substrate monomers are disposed in parallel. Each of the LED light emitting unit groups is disposed in the straight line on each of the linear substrate monomers along the long axis thereof. The LED illuminant is connected in series with electrode pins disposed at two ends of the parallel-connected bracket. The surface of each linear substrate monomer where each LED light emitting unit group is disposed is coated with each of the fluorescent powder layers.

A combination of an outer motor and a control box therefor including an upper main body and a lower controller. The upper main body includes a casing, a front end cover, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The controller includes a control box and a control circuit board, and the control box is sheathed in a tail end of the casing. A center of an upper bottom surface of the control box is arranged with a bearing chamber corresponding to that arranged at the front end cover. The control box forms a cavity downwards accommodating the control circuit board. A cover is mounted at the bottom of the control box. A fairlead arranged at an inner wall of the control box extends through the bottom of the motor casing to connect an empty cavity of the casing.

The present invention discloses a power-efficient backbone-oriented wireless sensor network, a method for constructing the same and a method for repairing the same, wherein energy-rich nodes are used to form backbones linking to a server, and wherein regular nodes having limited energy storage link to the backbones. When one energy-rich node malfunctions, the energy-rich node, which is posterior to the malfunctioning energy-rich node, searches for and links to a linkable neighboring energy-rich node on the backbone. If there is none linkable neighboring energy-rich node, the regular nodes are used to form a temporary tunnel until the malfunctioning energy-rich node has been repaired. The present invention can relieve the influence of hot spots, increase the robustness of the wireless sensor network, and prolong the service life of the wireless sensor network.

A dense composite material of the present invention contains 37% to 60% by mass of silicon carbide grains, also contains titanium silicide, titanium silicon carbide, and titanium carbide, each in an amount smaller than the mass percent of the silicon carbide grains, and has an open porosity of 1% or less. Such a dense composite material is, for example, characterized in that it has an average coefficient of linear thermal expansion at 40° C. to 570° C. of 7.2 to 8.2 ppm / K, a thermal conductivity of 75 W / mK or more, and a 4-point bending strength of 200 MPa or more.

In a device encapsulation method, an organic EL device is formed on a substrate. An encapsulation cap is placed on the substrate to surround the device and thereafter an end face of the cap is welded on at least the substrate. A device package is also disclosed.

A power supply for supplying power to a lamp with functions of dimming, over-current protection, over-voltage protection, arcing protection, and low-temperature start-up is provided. When frequency of the output current exceeds a predetermined value, the power supply is turned off to accomplish a dimming goal and extend lifetime of the lamp. When abnormal statuses such as open-circuited status, short-circuited status, or arcing status occur, a surge current induced by the abnormal statuses may be eliminated to prevent the power supply from being damaged. A high-frequency current detection circuit is configured to detect whether a current supplied to the high-voltage load is a high-frequency current to prevent damage to the electronic elements in the high-voltage load. A current adjusting circuit is configured to adjust an alternating current outputted to a lamp set in response to an environment temperature to supply an adequate alternating current at a low temperature for starting the lamp set.

A knob structure for an electromagnetic oven includes a knob switch assembly. The knob switch assembly consists of a sleeve button, a rotary encoder, a bracket of a display screen, and a control assembly. The knob switch assembly is connected to a printed circuit board through a through hole. A guide rib is disposed around a circumference of the through hole. The display screen with a protection assembly disposed outside is integrated with the knob switch assembly. The guide rib effectively prevents water from entering inside of the electromagnetic oven, lengthens a service life of the electromagnetic oven, and facilitates cleaning. The knob switch assembly integrated with the display screen realizes miniaturization and reduces a cost. The protection assembly ensures a display effect of the display screen.

A self-cleaning air filter has a reasonable structure, including a shell, wherein an air inlet is provided on the shell; an air filter end cap is installed on a top cover at a first end of the shell, and an air bag is fixed in the shell; a filter outlet is provided inside the shell; a main filter element is installed in the shell, wherein one end of the main filter element presses against an external portion of the air bag to form a sealed connection; a space between an external wall of the filter outlet and an internal wall of the shell forms an air channel; an air storage part of the air bag is arranged around the filter outlet; an output of the air storage part of the air bag is connected to an input end of an electromagnetic pulse valve.

The present invention relates to an improvement in the structure of luminous umbrella, using integrated illumination components. The components are ideal for luminous umbrella particularly designed to be used in the evening when visibility is poor, and can be used for other decoration purposes. The integrated illumination components of the present invention are constructed by combining illumination emitter of LED with bases of parts of umbrella, such as linkage members on slip ring, rib members on fixed collar and umbrella handle. When the illumination emitter of LED is mounted on the surface of these parts, the overall umbrella structure can be made smaller and lighter, and the flexibility of light source design can also be maximized. In particular, when base parts with high heat dissipation capability are used as the heat dissipating fins, the full performance of high-brightness illumination emitter of LED can be achieved. The integrated illumination components offer another advantage. With the flexibility of design in the number of illumination emitter of LED and the angle of light projection, the components allow light to be fully projected onto the semi-transparent canopy, which turns luminous umbrella into a lantern with both illumination and warning functions when used at night. Umbrella users thus become obvious objects when walking at night. If color illumination emitter of LED is used, dazzling colored lighting design can be created to the satisfaction of both designers and users, achieving the decorative and aesthetic effect.

A gun drill having excellent cutting efficiency, having high deep-hole drilling efficiency, and having a prolonged blade service life has a cutter head having a coolant discharge port communicating with a coolant supplying path at the distal end face at the distal end of a hollow shank portion having a cutting chip discharge groove, whose section along the lengthwise direction is V-shaped, on the outer surface and having the interior thereof made into a coolant supplying path, wherein a blade portion of the cutter head is made of cemented carbide alloy, and at the same time, the guide pads that are brought into sliding contact with the inner circumference of a cutting bore are composed of a dissimilar material having higher hardness than the cemented carbide alloy.

The present invention provides a socket. A tubular body has a first end has a through hole, an internal wall of the through hole, a receiving groove formed in the internal wall of the through hole and at least one bead aperture perforated through the tubular body and communicated with the receiving groove. A spiral spring is disposed in the receiving groove and has an axis and a plurality of elastic coils extending along the axis. At least one bead body is disposed in the bead aperture and abutted by the elastic coils of the spiral spring, and hence the bead body is partially protruded out of the bead aperture. Therefore, when assembled to or combined with a wrench, the socket can fixedly connect with the wrench; hence, the socket can achieve excellent rotation effect when the wrench rotates the socket.

Provided is a backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source and a light conversion layer. The light source is disposed at one side of the light guide plate. The light conversion layer is disposed over the light guide plate. The light conversion layer includes an optical composite material including 0.1 wt % to 15 wt % of a luminescent material and 85 wt % to 99.9 wt % of a resin material. The resin material includes 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a surfactant having a thiol group.

The present invention provides a sealing structure for a bipolar plate of a fuel cell. The sealing structure includes a plurality of bipolar plates and a gas guidance and reaction layer. A gas channel is placed laterally onto the bipolar plate corresponding to the gas guidance and reaction layer. A gasket is located between a bipolar plate and the gas guidance and reaction layer. A permeable portion is formed on the gasket corresponding to the gas channel. A concave surface is placed laterally on the bipolar plate corresponding to the gas guidance and reaction layer for mating with the gasket. When the bipolar plate, gas guidance and reaction layer and gasket are fastened, the deformation amount of the gasket is accurately controlled through the height limitation of the concave surface.

A graphite crucible (2) for retaining a quartz crucible (1) has a graphite crucible substrate (3) as a graphite crucible forming material, and a coating film (4) made of a carbonized phenolic resin and formed over the entire surface of the graphite crucible substrate (3). The phenolic resin is impregnated inside open pores (5) existing in a surface of the graphite crucible substrate (3). The coating film (4) may be formed only within a portion of the graphite crucible in which SiC formation can occur easily, not over the entirety of the surface of the graphite crucible. For example, it is possible to deposit the film only on the entire inner surface of the crucible. It is also possible to deposit the film only on a curved portion (sharply curved portion) of the inner surface, or only on a curved portion and a straight trunk portion.

In a pulse width modulation (PWM) control device and driving method, the PWM control device includes a PWM device, for providing a plurality of PWM signals; and a controller electrically connected to the PWM device and a plurality of driving circuits, for controlling PWM signals to arbitrarily enable or disable the plurality of driving circuits according to load capacity; wherein when driving circuits are damaged, the controller disables the damaged driving circuits and replaces the damaged driving circuits with the other driving circuits.

A lighting device includes a light bar, two reflective covers and a reflective plate. The two reflective covers respectively connected to two opposite long sides of the light bar. The reflective plate is positioned at the light output side of the light bar. The reflective surface of the reflective plate faces the light output side of the light bar. The reflective plate has a wavelength conversion layer positioned on the reflective surface thereof. The light bar emits a first wavelength light, and a portion of the first wavelength light is converted by the wavelength conversion layer into a second wavelength light which is reflected by the reflective plate to the two reflective covers, while the remaining non-converted first wavelength light is reflected by the reflective plate to the two reflective covers and mixed with the second wavelength lights to give a light with a predetermined spectrum.

A pallet comprising at least three upper carrier plates (3) and at least three carrier supports (5), in which the bottom of each upper carrier plate (3) is provided with first snapping portions (11) in an array manner, the top of each carrier support (5) is provided with first snapping grooves (4), and the upper carrier plates (3) are snapped with the first snapping grooves (4) on the top of the carrier supports (5) through the first snapping portions (11), and which reduces space occupation and facilitates storage and transportation.

The present invention relates to a ceramic heat exchange plate and a ceramic heat exchange core assembled thereby. The ceramic heat exchange core comprises sealing strips, and the ceramic heat exchange plate. A plurality of ceramic heat exchange plates A and a plurality of ceramic heat exchange plates B are alternately superimposed. Side sealing strips are arranged inside top linear sealing grooves of the ceramic heat exchange plates A and bottom linear sealing grooves of the ceramic heat exchange plates B. Side sealing strips are arranged inside top linear sealing grooves of the ceramic heat exchange plates B and bottom linear sealing grooves of the ceramic heat exchange plates A. A plurality of ceramic heat exchange plates A, a plurality of ceramic heat exchange plates B and a plurality of sealing strips are assembled to form a ceramic heat exchange core. The ceramic heat exchange core is integrally sintered.

A lined sleeve for tube welding is in the form of an inner tube including a first protruded portion and a second protruded portion. The first protruded portion and the second protruded portion are respectively received in two ends respectively of two tubes to be welded together. The inner tube further includes a recessed portion between the first protruded portion and the second protruded portion.

A device absorbs shock in a pneumatic tool containing a body, a cylinder, a valve unit, a piston member, plural buffer springs, and multiple fitting sleeves. The body includes a grip and a fitting sleeve fitted with the grip. The fitting sleeve has a chamber, a close face formed on a first end thereof, and an opening formed on a second end thereof. Each fitting sleeve is hollow and includes a limitation length forming along a hollow extending direction and shorter than a largest length. Multiple positioning sleeves are defined between a close face of the fitting sleeve and an abutting portion of the cylinder, and the multiple positioning sleeves are hollow so as to accommodate plural buffer springs. Because the limitation length is shorter than the largest length, the plural buffer springs extend out of the multiple positioning sleeves respectively.

A valve for liquids includes a main body and an upper lid or a connector. The main body is provided with a flow passage, an annular connecting circumference, an opening surrounded by the annular connecting circumference, and at least a metal ring integrally wrapped in the annular connecting circumference. The upper lid or the connector is provided with an annular connecting circumference having at least one metal ring integrally wrapped in it. Therefore, after having the main body combined with the upper lid or the connector, the valve can withstand comparatively large fluid pressure so as to prolong service life and be used to a wider application.

The invention discloses an LED bulb having a light guide body, including a bulb holder, a bulb shell, a luminous body, a power source, a connector, and a light guide body. The connector is fixedly connected to the bulb holder, the bulb shell is fixed on the connector, the luminous body and the power source are located in the bulb holder, the luminous body and the power source are connected by using a wire, a lower end of the light guide body is plugged with the connector, and a bottom of the light guide body is in contact with the luminous body, where the light guide body is engraved with glyphs. The LED bulb having a light guide body of the invention can both provide light and have a decorative effect.

A breathing apparatus structure with a two-stage reduced-pressure spare air bottle head is provided, which includes an air bottle head mounted at an outlet end of a spare air bottle and an inhalation mouthpiece, so as to provide an air at a suitable pressure to a diver or drowning person for emergency use. The air bottle head is sequentially provided with an air bottle head switch, a high pressure reducing valve, and a low-pressure valve connected in series on an air passage thereof. Thus, an air leakage of a high-pressure air in the air bottle can be avoided when the high-pressure air is not used, and the service life of elastic elements of the low-pressure valve can also be prolonge

An actuating device comprises an LED actuating module. Said LED actuating module comprises a micro-programmed control unit (MCU), an actuator, a VF-value detection module, a PN-junction temperature acquisition module and an LED lamp unit. The MCU determines the current value matched with the LED lamp unit based on the VF value detected by the VF-value detection module and the temperature value detected by the PN-junction temperature acquisition module, and then determines the width of the PWM pulse output to the actuator according to the current value, and the actuator actuates an LED to operate at the matched current value.