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An integrated tool that enables wet chemical processing chambers, lift-rotate units and other hardware to be quickly interchanged without having to recalibrate the transport system or other components to the replacement items. These tools are expected to reduce the down time associated with repairing or maintaining processing chambers and/or lift-rotate units so that the tools can maintain a high throughput. Several aspects of these tools are particularly useful for applications that have stringent performance requirements because components are more likely to require maintenance more frequently, and reducing the down time associated with maintaining such components will significantly enhance the integrated tool.

A barrel assembly for a pneumatic paintball gun includes a barrel body and a barrel insert. The barrel body has a breech end, a muzzle end, and a barrel bore extending longitudinally through the barrel body from the breech end to the muzzle end. The barrel insert has a breech end, a distal end, and an insert bore, and is configured to be removably housed within a breech portion of the bore of the barrel body. The breech end of the barrel body is configured to attach to a breech end of the paintball gun. The barrel insert collaborates with the barrel body to provide a firing bore for the barrel assembly which guides a paintball fired from the breech end of the gun through the barrel and out the muzzle end of the barrel body. The barrel insert can be constructed having a thin, flexible wall so as to permit lateral deformation of the barrel insert. This lateral flexibility enables the insert to dynamically adapt to the shape and diameter of the paintball, thereby increasing the efficiency of the energy transfer from the compressed gas to the paintball.

A modular eyewear apparatus includes a frame member having left and right socket portions each having a generally circular rim defining an interior void, respectively, and being connected by a bridge portion, the left and the right socket portion having a temple connector extending rearwardly from a respective rim. A lens holding member has a pair of adjacent rim sections selectively coupled to the rims of the left and the right socket portions, respectively. The eyewear apparatus includes proximal and distal ends, respectively, each proximal end being selectively coupled to a respective temple connector such that the temple members are interchangeable. The configurations of the selected members themselves enable them to be quickly and efficiently released from an assembly or to be interchangeably arranged into a new assembly as described above.

The invention discloses a charging, exchanging and configuring management networking system of a vehicle power battery, relating to the technical field of battery charging, electronic tag and computer networking. According to physical distribution transportation radius for battery distribution, the supply center (comprising traditional supply systems and supply systems of various renewable energies, such as wind energy, solar energy and the like) of a power grid is provided with hundreds and thousands of large professional battery charging stations (or in charge by battery production enterprises); distributed battery exchange and distribution stations with equivalent amount with the existing gas station are arranged within an irradiation range; according to an identifiable mark on the battery, such as the networking information of an electronic tag (or bar code), and the dynamic requirement on the battery exchange and distribution stations, the battery is transported to the battery exchange and distribution station from a professional charging station of the battery through an optimal path. The invention reduces use, investment and operating cost with a quick, convenient, accurate, safe, environmentally-friendly and optimal economic management mode.

A self-contained mobile sampling and processing facility for use at a mine having at least one blast-hole that forms a blast-hole cone wherein the sampling and processing facility includes at least one primary robotic arm that carries at least one sampling tool, and the primary robotic arm and sampling tool is controlled by robotic arm and sampling tool movement controller means, and the primary robotic arm is capable of self-determining the direction, distance and shape of a nearby blast-hole cone, then subsequently positioning itself so that the sampling tool is able to engage with the blast-hole cone and retrieve a sample from it without significant mixing or stirring the cone, or a localised region of the cone, and then the sample is deposited into the processing facility.

A system for processing semiconductor wafers has process units on a deck of a frame. The process units and the deck have precision locating features, such as tapered pins, for precisely positioning the process units on the deck. Process units can be removed and replacement process units installed on the deck, without the need for recalibrating the load/unload robot. This reduces the time needed to replace process units and restart processing operations. Liquid chemical consumption during processing is reduced by drawing unused liquid out of supply lines and pumping it back to storage.

A user interface provides a financial analysis system for real time monitoring of market conditions for a portfolio of stocks or other financial instruments. The interface presents three unique panels, which, upon selection by the user, provide different representations of data with respect to the portfolio or a selected portion of the portfolio. The user can rapidly cycle among these panels by activating icons. Further, the user can quickly retrieve additional data for a given stock from any of a variety of user-selectable sources by activating additional icons.

An arrangement for clamping a saw blade (12) includes a retaining member (6) on which a blade (12) for clamping can be mounted. The retaining member (6) is lockable in at least two positions such that each of the two positions clamps the blade (12) at a predetermined angle relative to a shaft (2) which drives the saw blade (12).

The invention relates to a complex amplitude object reconstruction device based on the optical scanning holographic technique. The complex amplitude object reconstruction device comprises a difference frequency laser coherent unit, a two-dimensional scanning unit, a photoelectric information receiving and processing unit and a computer reconstruction complex amplitude unit; the reconstruction of the complex amplitude object is realized based on the difference frequency scanning technology which is simpler and easy to realize when being compared with the conventional coherent optical scanning holographic technique. The complex amplitude object reconstruction device can be applied to the field of biology microscope, particularly to the field of transparent or weak-absorption biological sample detection, has the advantage of being superior to other biological imaging techniques, can realize coherent-imaging on the premise of ensuring the imaging resolution, can further obtain more information of the sample related to the refractive index, thereby being quite good in the application prospect in biomedicine.

A simple attachment for a reciprocating tool that will effectuate the ability to do a flush cut in an inexpensive and simple manner which is neither too rigid, nor not rigid enough. This is effectuated by providing an insert which fits into the reciprocating tool in the same fashion as a regular blade. The present invention then offsets the placement of a blade, sander, file, or other tool by as many inches as wished by the user. The blade, sander, file, or other tool is held rigid through the use of a 45 degree bracket spanning the distance from the original plane to the offset plane, or via a single or compound trapezoid design.

An adjustable mount (2) for a camera, comprising a base (6) for mounting to an object in a fixed position and a body (4) that is removably connected to the base (6), the base (6) defining a horizontal plane for the adjustable mount (2), and wherein, when the body (4) is connected to the base (6) in use, the body (4) is rotatable about a vertical axis passing through the base (6) and a mounting portion (32) of the body (4) is pivotable away from the horizontal plane so as to enable adjustment of an orientation of a camera supported on the mounting portion (32).

The assembled comb-type bridge extension joint has a extension amount of 20-150 mm and is especially suitable for use in large highway bridge, sea-crossing bridge and city viaduct of extension amountover 160 mm. It includes two rubber plates in two ends, comb palte and anchor mechanism connected to form an integral. The comb plate consists of matched and toothed fixed board and moving board, theanchor mechanism has support tray fixed to the embedded bars, and the extension is completed by the moving comb board. The comb boards as wearing parts are easy to replace in maintenance.

There is provided a device (1) and a method for forming book blocks (21) with two by two glued internal pages comprising a transfer drum (2) formed by two wheels (3, 4) with a plurality of curvilinear pockets (7), respectively spaced by a tooth (8) and respectively adapted to receive a sheet (11), partly pre-folded, with forward folding (19) of a current of sheets (11) reaching substantially horizontally and tangentially in a plane (H) passing through the port ( 10) of the pockets (7) in the upper part of the wheels (3, 4), as well as an opposite extraction table (12) and associated front- wise to the wheels (3, 4) and penetrating therebetween with an abutment projection (13) for the extraction of the sheets (11) from the pockets (7), the sheets being pushed forward in succession on said table (12) in a substantially vertical position one against the other by the sheet (11) and tooth (8) respectively following in the direction of rotation; (F1) of the drum (2).

The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method for providing robotically assisted surgery that involves the removal of bone or non-fibrous type tissues during a surgical procedure. The system utilizes a multi-axis robot having a reciprocating tool that is constructed and arranged to remove hard or non-fibrous tissues while leaving soft tissues unharmed. The multi-axis robot may be controlled via computer or telemanipulator, which allows the surgeon to complete a surgery from an area adjacent to the patient to thousands of miles away.

The invention discloses a plastic electric-spraying throttle valve body assembly, comprising a throttle valve body (1), a throttle valve spindle (2), a throttle valve piece (3), a torsion spring (4), a swing frame (5), a position sensor (6), a stepping motor (7), a flange plate metal insert (10), an idle screw mounting hole metal insert (11), stepping motor and position sensor mounting hole metal inserts (12), a card (14) and an idle adjusting screw (17), wherein a main channel (8) and an idle side channel (9) are arranged inside the throttle valve body (1), and a base of the throttle valve body (1) is provided with a flange plate (18). The plastic electric-spraying throttle valve body assembly has the beneficial effects that the defect of easy deformation of the main channel of the plastic throttle valve body can be effectively overcome, the fast interchange of a metal throttle valve body assembly and a plastic throttle valve body assembly in the process of assembly and after-sale maintenance of an engine is realized, and the leak problem of the side channel of the throttle valve body caused by different coefficients of thermal expansion is solved.

An adjustable ornamental hair restraining apparatus and method adjustably restrains portions of the hair while displaying an interchangeable ornamental member. The apparatus and method utilizes a toggle fastener, having a toggle closure and a bar to releasably couple the ends of the elastic strap around at least a portion of hair. The toggle fastener provides a simple mechanism that can be easily secured around the hair to enable quick styling and adjustments of the hair while also offering customizable looks. Additionally, style disruption, discomfort, hair loss, and damage are minimized. An interchangeable ornamental member displays from the apparatus to enhance the appearance of the head. The bar passes through an opening in the toggle closure and rotates to extend generally in a plane perpendicular to the opening for forming a locked position. A base joins with the bar or toggle closure. The ornamental member attaches to the base.