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A blood pump comprises a pump housing; a rotor positioned in the housing and comprising an impeller having a hydrodynamic surface for pumping blood; and a motor including a plurality of magnets carried by the impeller, plus a rotor stator, including an electrically conductive coil located adjacent to or within the housing. The impeller comprises radially outwardly extending, bladelike projections that define generally longitudinally extending spaces between the projections. The shape of the projections and the spaces therebetween tend to drive blood in the spaces in an axial direction as the impeller is rotated. The spaces collectively have a total width along most of their lengths at the radial periphery of the rotor, that is substantially equal to or less than the collective width of the projections along most of their lengths at the radial periphery. Thus, the bladelike projections are thicker, achieving significant advantages.

A solid state (light emitting diode) lamp in numerous configurations have improved thermal management by providing a direct thermal pathway from the plurality of LED chips to the threaded screw base (standard 100˜240 VAC lamp socket), or power coupling. The control circuitry is disposed opposite the printed circuit board and LED chips with respect to the heat sink so that the heat sink is interposed between the printed circuit board and the control circuitry. The LED chips are powered using a high voltage / high current configuration. The light radiation pattern is infinitely adjustable (very wide through very narrow) via a system of easily interchangeable lenses. The solid state lamps can be mass produced rapidly at significantly lower cost with very high luminous intensity. ESD protection may be included to protect the LED chips from electrostatic discharge damage.

A resilient skirt assembly is provided, the assembly comprising a skirt panel adapted to connect to a trailer to direct at least a portion of the amount of air on the side of the trailer; and a skirt support adapted to connect the skirt to a trailer, the skirt support having a resilient strut providing lateral support to the skirt panel, the resilient strut allowing substantial lateral pivotal movement of the skirt panel between a skirt panel unloaded position and a skirt panel loaded position. A method of assembling a skirt assembly and a skirt kit are also provided.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a stepping actuator, comprising a suspended membrane comprising a plurality of movable electrodes connected by plurality of spring hinges to a payload platform; and anchors connecting said membrane to a substrate, said substrate comprising a plurality of fixed electrodes; wherein said movable electrodes of said suspended membrane and said fixed electrodes from said substrate form parallel-plate electrostatic sub-actuators.

An armature for an electric motor is constructed from a pair of precision machined copper plates cut in a pattern to produce a series of axially extending surface conductive bands with each band separated from the other by an insulated cutout. The precision machined plates are rolled to form two telescoping, hollow cylinders with each cylinder having a pattern of conductive bands representing a half-electric circuit. The outer surface of the inner cylinder is wrapped with several layers of fiberglass strands for structural stability and insulation. The fiberglass wrapped inner cylinder is telescoped inside the outer cylinder. The outer surface of the telescoped structure is also wrapped with several layers of fiberglass strands for structural stability. The conductive bands from the outer cylinder being the near mirror image of the conductive bands of the inner cylinder are helically coupled to form a complete electrical circuit. The resulting tubular structure is encapsulated in a potting material for further structural stability and insulation. The result is a freestanding ironless core inductive armature coil for a DC motor with brushes. The armature also has a commutator, which is mounted at one end of the coil and is in electrical contact with the helically coupled conductive bands. An insulated flywheel and shaft assembly is mounted inside the coil with the flywheel behind the commutator for motor mounting and operation.

The configurations of an interleaved flyback converter and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed two-phase interleaved flyback converter includes a transformer including a first primary winding having a first terminal, a first secondary winding having a first terminal, a second primary winding having a second terminal, a second secondary winding having a second terminal and a magnetic coupled core device, wherein the first primary, the first secondary, the second primary and the second secondary windings are wound therein, and the first terminal of the first primary winding has a polarity the same as that of any of the first terminal of the first secondary winding, the second terminal of the second primary winding and the second terminal of the second secondary winding so as to eliminate a ripple of a channel current of the converter.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a stepping actuator, comprising a suspended membrane comprising a plurality of movable electrodes connected by plurality of spring hinges to a payload platform; and anchors connecting said membrane to a substrate, said substrate comprising a plurality of fixed electrodes; wherein said movable electrodes of said suspended membrane and said fixed electrodes from said substrate form parallel-plate electrostatic sub-actuators.

This invention discloses a soft joint of a cross-linked polythene cable including an inner semiconductive layer and metal jacket sleeves, in which, two core leads between two cables are welded to form a core connection part, the inner semiconductive layer is combined with a preserved section of the inner screen layer of the cable characterizing in setting a polythene filled vulcanized insulation layer out of the inner semiconductive layer to be fused with the polythene insulation layer of the cable, and wrapping the polythene insulation of the cable with a transition connection section and an outer semiconductive layer combining with the preserved section of the outer screen of the cable is set out of the polythene filled vulcanized insulation layer, two ends of the metal jacket sleeve are welded with the out surfaces of lead protection pipe of the cable and set with slope connection sections.

A plasma display device which improves the adhesion rate of a thermal conductive medium. A chassis base is disposed substantially parallel to a plasma display panel. A thermally conductive medium is disposed between the plasma display panel and the chassis base and is closely adhered to both the plasma display panel and the chassis base. An adhesive pad is interposed between the plasma display panel and the chassis base along the edge of the thermally conductive medium and is adhered to both the plasma display panel and the chassis base. The thermally conductive medium includes a plurality of thermally conductive particles of high thermal conductivity.

An optical-lens-set includes a first lens element of positive refractive power, a second lens element of an image surface with a concave portion near the optical-axis, no air gap between a third lens element and a fourth lens element, at least one of an object surface and an image surface of a fifth lens element being aspherical, both an object surface and an image surface of a sixth lens element being aspherical so that the total thickness ALT of all six lens element, the distance TL from an object surface of the first lens element to the image surface of the sixth lens element and total five air gaps AAG satisfy ALT / AAG≤4.5 or TL / AAG≤5.5.

The configurations of an interleaved flyback converter and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed two-phase interleaved flyback converter includes a transformer including a first primary winding having a first terminal, a first secondary winding having a first terminal, a second primary winding having a second terminal, a second secondary winding having a second terminal and a magnetic coupled core device, wherein the first primary, the first secondary, the second primary and the second secondary windings are wound therein, and the first terminal of the first primary winding has a polarity the same as that of any of the first terminal of the first secondary winding, the second terminal of the second primary winding and the second terminal of the second secondary winding so as to eliminate a ripple of a channel current of the converter.

A FinFET device includes a gate dielectric layer on a substrate, a fin on the gate dielectric layer having a middle section and source and drain regions at opposite ends, and a gate structure on the middle section of the fin. The FinFET device also includes a trench in a portion of the source and drain regions and a multi-layered epitaxial structure in the trench. The multi-layered epitaxial structure includes a first epitaxial layer in direct contact with the bottom of the trench, a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, and a third epitaxial layer on the second epitaxial layer. The first epitaxial layer is a carbon-doped silicon layer having a carbon dopant concentration of less than 4 percent by weight, the second epitaxial layer is a barrier metal layer, and the third epitaxial layer is a metal layer.

An electrical power transmission line having at least one electrical cable, a conduit of ferromagnetic material enclosing the electrical cable and having a base and a cover and electrical contact elements for electrically connecting the base and the cover, wherein the electrical contact elements are metal fusion joints or metal resilient members suitable to pierce the ferromagnetic material.

The torque characteristic is improved using a magnetic flux efficiently, and an eddy-current loss generated in a coil is reduced. Moreover, a loss is suppressed even if a metal member having a high thermal conductivity is closely disposed or closely contacted to a coil surface exposed by a variable magnetic field to improve the heat transfer property, thereby improving the cooling capability. A coil assembly for a rotational electric apparatus has first and second coil plates having wiring patterns formed in such a way that conductive coil segments adjoin with each other via slits, magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots formed in the slits and having a wider width than such slits, a coil constituted by the stacked coil plates so that the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots overlap with each other, and a magnetic flux transfer member inserted into the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots of the coil.

The invention relates to an electromagnetic train. The electromagnetic train comprises a line rail, a driving system, a train body, a guiding system and an electromagnetic supporting system. A plurality of long stators are mounted on two sides of the line rail along a driving direction; the driving system comprises the long stators, and the train body comprises train body supporting racks and compartments; the guiding system comprises guiding magnets, guiding rails, guiding air gap sensors and guiding controllers; the electromagnetic supporting system comprises rotors, rotor controllers and train body load sensors, wherein the rotors are located below the long stators, and a small air gap is formed between each rotor and the corresponding long stator and ranges from 2 mm to 6 mm; and the rotor controllers adjust the exciting currents of the rotors in real time, so that the electromagnetic forces generated by the rotors are equal to the train body load. The train body is in contact with the line rail through a supporting skid at the bottom of the train body. According to the electromagnetic train provided by the invention, the air gap sensors are not needed to be suspended, so that the electromagnetic train is small in power consumption, light in self weight, low in cost and simple to control and runs stably.

The torque characteristic is improved using a magnetic flux efficiently, and an eddy-current loss generated in a coil is reduced. Moreover, a loss is suppressed even if a metal member having a high thermal conductivity is closely disposed or closely contacted to a coil surface exposed by a variable magnetic field to improve the heat transfer property, thereby improving the cooling capability. A coil assembly for a rotational electric apparatus has first and second coil plates having wiring patterns formed in such a way that conductive coil segments adjoin with each other via slits, magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots formed in the slits and having a wider width than such slits, a coil constituted by the stacked coil plates so that the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots overlap with each other, and a magnetic flux transfer member inserted into the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots of the coil.

A thermal module includes a substrate and a heat pipe integrally embedded in the substrate by insert molding technique. An end of the heat pipe protrudes laterally out of the substrate. The heat pipe includes a tube, a wick structure attached to an inner surface of the tube and a working fluid filled in the tube. A method for manufacturing the thermal module includes following steps: providing a tube with a wick structure attached to an inner surface thereof, an end of the tube being open; placing the tube into a mold; injecting a molten metal into the mold to form a substrate with the tube being integrally embedded in the substrate and the open end of the tube protruding laterally out of the substrate; filling a working fluid into the tube via the open end; sealing the open end of the tube.

An electromagnetic brake (20), in particular for an electric drive is provided, having a brake body (3), which is provided with a sleeve-shaped permanent magnet (4), an electromagnet (5) with an exciting coil (6), an external ring in the form of an external pole and an internal ring (8) in the form of an internal pole, wherein an armature disc (12) rotatably connected to a shaft is attractable against the brake body (3) or the external or internal ring surfaces by the permanent magnet (4) force acting against a return spring force. When the exciting coil is powered, the permanent magnet (4) magnetic field is compensated in such a way that the armature disc (12) is lifted up from the brake body (3) by the spring force, thereby allowing the brake to be released. A radial cross-sectional dimension or cross-sectional thickness d of the permanent magnet (4) is smaller than the axial dimension thereof and a spatial arrangement, viewed in the axial direction, is provided between the armature disc (12) and the exciting coil (6) in the area radially external with respect to the exciting coil (6) or the housing thereof.

In a rotary electric machine, each stator coil includes a bobbin that is fitted to one of teeth of a stator core and a phase coil is wound around the bobbin. Each bobbin includes a bobbin terminal for connecting opposite ends of the phase coil. A stator housing includes an insert mold and a plurality of stator terminals embedded in the insert mold to be connectable to an outside electric device. Each stator terminal has a first contact portion and each bobbin terminal has a second contact portion in contact with the first contact portion when the stator core is accommodated in the stator housing.

The invention provides a split type water jacket with a diversion water tank and an assembly method. The split type water jacket with the diversion water tank comprises an inner arc half water jacket, an outer arc half water jacket, a sealing element, a fastening element and a positioning pin group; wherein the water jacket are two separated bodies by using the centerline of a crystallizer cylinder as a dividing line; an angular water path, a side surface water path and an arc surface water path are arranged in each separated body; an inner cavity of each water jacket is provided with ribs; a diversion water tank is formed between every two adjacent ribs; and crisscross rib plates are distributed at the outer side of the water jackets. When the water sleeves are assembled, the inner arc half water jacket, an outer arc half water jacket are combined according to design dimensions firstly and then are integrally processed; after being processed, the inner arc half water jacket, an outer arc half water jacket are assembled in a crystallizer; combining surfaces are sealed; positioning pins are arranged between the combining surfaces for positioning; and bolts are arranged between the combining surfaces for fastening. According to the split type water jacket, the controllability of cooling water joints is structurally ensured; the deviation between the center of a circle of a copper pipe circular arc and the center of a casting machine can be avoided; the heat exchange effect of the water joints is beneficial for improving; and the production and operation cost is reduced.

An automotive alternator is disclosed which includes an annular core disposed to surround the radially outer peripheries of all magnetic pole claws of magnetic pole cores. The annular core has, on an outer surface thereof, a plurality of protrusions, a plurality of recesses, and a plurality of slopes. Each of the protrusions is so provided as to be coincident with a corresponding one of the magnetic pole claws of the magnetic pole cores in the circumferential direction of a rotary shaft. Each of the recesses is alternately formed with the protrusions so as to be coincident with a corresponding one of air gaps formed between the magnetic pole claws of the magnetic pole cores in the circumferential direction. Each of the slopes is inclined to the radial direction of the rotary shaft and connects a circumferentially adjacent pair of one of the protrusions and one of the recesses.

The invention discloses an electronic component. The electric component is characterized by comprising an inner core and an outer wrapping layer, wherein the inner core is located in the outer wrapping layer; the inner core comprises a combination of a coil winding and a coil and a combination of print circuits and further comprises a main body and an electrode formed due to the fact that an extending portion from the main body is connected with a terminal through welding or point welding; the outer wrapping layer is formed in the mode that the inner core is compressed to be embedded in a pulpy mixture material in a squeezing forming mode or a casting mode or an embed casting mode so that the pulpy mixture material tightly wraps the inner core and heating curing is carried out, and the surface of the outer wrapping layer is sleeved with a metal shell or a plastic shell. The electronic component and the manufacturing method have the advantages that manufacturability and performance are improved.

A vehicle wheel rolling bearing has a sealing device integrated with a magnetic encoder. A semi-float type bearing apparatus has said rolling bearing which can protect a magnetic encoder and improve the sensing ability of the detecting sensor. The rolling bearing has an inner member with a wheel hub having a wheel mounting flange and an inner ring formed with inner raceway surfaces. An outer member is formed with double row outer raceway surfaces opposite the inner raceway surfaces. Double row rolling elements are between the raceway surfaces. Sealing devices include an inboard sealing device with an annular seal fitted on the outer member. A pulsar ring is mounted on the inner member and has an encoder mounted on a cylindrical holding portion. The encoder is arranged opposite to the annular seal. The encoder includes magnetic poles formed by magnetic powder with alternating polarity along its circumferential direction. A detecting sensor passes through the cylindrical portion of the seal and opposes the encoder. A predetermined air gap is kept between the encoder and detecting sensor.

The invention relates to a magnetic trigger mechanism at least comprising a yoke having an armature opening, in which yoke an armature is placed, which armature is coaxially surrounded by at least one section of the coil body having at least one excitation coil and which is acted on by the force of a preloaded spring element and which remains in a first end position due to the magnetic retaining force of a permanent magnet when current is not flowing through the excitation coil, the permanent magnet being arranged in the area of the first end of the armature together with a base extending between the armature and the permanent magnet, and the second end position of the armature being achieved by means of a brief flow of current through the excitation coil together with the accompanying lowering of the magnetic retaining force and the spring force, which is effective then. The invention is characterized in that the first end of the armature, which first end faces away from the armature opening, is guided in the coil body in a centered manner, and the second of the armature, which second end faces the armature opening, is likewise guided in a centered manner by means of a centering ring centered in the coil body, the highly permeable centering ring lies against the yoke at the armature opening and can move radially relative to the yoke, the base is centered in the coil body, the centering ring together with the coil body ensuring that the armature lies flat in the area of the first end without tipping and always guaranteeing maximum retaining forces due to the armature lying flat, the spring element having a larger diameter than the armature, and the magnetic flux commutating upon triggering from a series connection to a parallel connection.

The invention relates to a valve (1), comprising a body (2), within which a needle (3) moves, which can rest with sealing against a seat (23), fixed to the body (2). The needle (3) is magnetically coupled to an actuator body (5), across a closed and a magnetic chamber (4) provided with several magnets (52) between which magnetic bodies (53) are interspersed. The needle (3) has no magnets and is provided with ribs (36) made from a magnetic material. According to the invention, an improved magnetic coupling may be achieved, whereby the thickness and the relative separation of the ribs (36) are largely equal to the thickness (e53) and the relative separation (l52) of the magnetic bodies (53).

An improved electric solenoid for providing linear mechanical actuation. The outer polepiece of the solenoid is provided with an axial, self-lubricated, non-magnetic bearing for closely supporting and centering an actuating shaft extending coaxially from the solenoid armature. Preferably, the radial tolerance between the diameters of the bearing inner bore and the shaft is as small as in practically possible without inducing drag of the shaft in the bearing, permitting reduction of the air gap between the armature and the polepieces to a minimal thickness. Preferably, the armature is axially tapered to avoid contact of the armature with the polepieces as a result of residual tolerances between the bearing and shaft. A significant increase in actuating force is realized in comparison with a prior art solenoid, and the improved solenoid may be used in any desired orientation.

An optical interposer comprising: (a) a substrate having a planar surface: (b) at least one groove defined in the planar surface and extending from an edge of the substrate to a terminal end, the groove having side walls and a first facet at the terminal end perpendicular to side walls, the facet having a first angle relative to the planar surface, the first angle being about 45 degrees; and (c) a reflective coating on the first facet.

Deformation and vibration of claw magnetic poles in rotor are reduced. A rotor includes: a rotor coil 15 for generating a magnetic flux by applying a current; a pole core comprised of a first pole core body 19 and a second pole core body 20 that are disposed so as to cover the rotor coil 15, each being provided with claw-shaped claw magnetic poles 21, 22 engaging with each other; and a magnet assembly 25 composed of a magnet 23 for reducing leakage of magnetic flux and a magnet-holding member 24 for supporting the magnet 23 on the claw magnetic poles 21, 22. Center of gravity 25G of the magnet assembly 25 is located on the base part side nearer than the center of the claw magnetic poles 21, 22.