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A storage system and a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in the storage system are described. The storage system includes a plurality of rails or tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The grid pattern can include a plurality of grid spaces and each stack is located within a footprint of only a single grid space. The load handling device is configured to move laterally on the rails or tracks above the stacks. The load-handling device includes a container-receiving space located above the rails or tracks in use and a lifting device arranged to lift a container from a stack into the container-receiving space. The load handling device has a footprint that, in use, occupies only a single grid space in the storage system.

This patent disclosure is based on silicon instead of LiNbO₃, waveguide chip. The disclosed silicon-based multi-function integrated-optic chip comprises of unique design and fabrication features onto it. First, a unique polarization-diversity coupler is designed and fabricated to couple the external light into the silicon waveguide structure. Then TE mode is guided into a silicon slab waveguide, but TM mode is confined and diverted 90 degree in a silicon carbide structure till the chip edges for TM-mode suppression. Second, a unique two-step (vertical and lateral) taper waveguide region is designed and fabricated to bridge the polarization-diversity coupler output with the input of a multi-mode interferometer (MMI) splitter for power loss reduction. In this configuration, MMI may be a 1×2 or 2×2 structure to divide the input TE mode into a 50/50 splitting ratio output to form a Y-junction. Third, at either end of the Y-junction output, there is a phase modulator to achieve optical phase modulation through various physics mechanisms such as plasma dispersion, electro-optics, thermo-optics, or photo-elastic effect. With this newly-developed silicon-based multi-function integrated optic chip, the size and cost of fiber sensors including FOG's can be greatly reduced.

An iridium oxide (IrOx) nanowire protein sensor and associated fabrication method are presented. The method provides a substrate and forms overlying working and counter electrodes. A dielectric layer is deposited over the working and counter electrodes and contact holes are formed in the dielectric layer, exposing regions of the working and counter electrodes. IrOx nanowires (where 0≦X≦2) are grown from exposed regions of the working electrode. In one aspect, the IrOx nanowires are additionally grown on the dielectric, and subsequently etched from the dielectric. In another aspect, IrOx nanowires are grown from exposed regions of the counter electrode.

A radio frequency (“RF”) harmonic filter circuit as disclosed herein is fabricated using integrated passive device (“IPD”) technology. The RF harmonic filter circuit is configured to provide second, third, and fourth harmonic rejection while providing good input and output impedance matching. The RF harmonic filter circuit employs only one IPD loop inductance (preferably used for a second harmonic resonance circuit), which results in a significant die/package size reduction. The RF harmonic filter circuit also employs a combined circuit that performs input and/or output impedance matching and third harmonic rejection.

An inductor or transformer for mounting on a PCB has a two-part magnetic core structure and at least one coil wound on a bobbin. Each core part has a backwall and an abbreviated outer skirt extending from the backwall and an asymmetric center core element extending from the backwall in the same direction as the outer skirt along a longitudinal axis parallel with the mounting plane and including the centroid of the center core element. The center core element is asymmetric relative to a dividing plane parallel with the mounting plane and including the longitudinal axis, such that a greater portion of the center core element lies on a side of the dividing plane than on an opposite side of the dividing plane. In one preferred form, the center core element has a cross-sectional shape resembling a “D” character turned on its side, or “lazy D” shape.

A continuous oil fryer used to fry food slices, such as potato chips, having an internal oil stripping capability. The fryer accumulates the steam produced by the frying process in a hood and utilizes such steam, after superheating the steam by passing it through a heat exchanger, to strip oil from product immediately upon removal from the hot oil bath by passing the superheated steam through a product bed while on an output conveyor. The superheated steam removes oil from the product on the output conveyor without increasing the moisture level of the product. The fryer therefore accomplishes the same function as a low-oil stripper without increasing the footprint of the frying unit and with less energy.

An electric hair-trimming device includes a body having two opposite ends, two trimming heads mounted to the two opposite ends of the body, and two endcaps that detachably couple to the two opposite ends of the body to cover the two trimming heads. The endcaps each have a generally flat end surface such that the device can be stood upright on either of the endcaps. In an example embodiment, the trimming heads are provided by a nose-hair trimmer and a detail trimmer. And in another example embodiment, the nose-hair trimmer includes a high surface-porosity foil shroud.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for fabricating a Vss line in a memory device, which comprises: forming a plurality of memory cells above a semiconductor substrate, forming a channel between two of the memory cells, forming an oxide/nitride/oxide stack above the memory cells and the channel, removing a portion of the oxide/nitride/oxide stack between the memory cells to expose the semiconductor substrate, removing the oxide/nitride/oxide stack above the gates of the memory cells, forming a plurality of source regions in the substrate between the memory cells, forming a poly-silicon layer above the memory cells and the channel to connect to the source regions, and removing a sufficient portion of the poly-silicon layer to form a Vss line.

The current invention discloses a compact size bubble generating machine. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bubble generating machine comprising a housing having a top opening; a bubble generator positioned inside the housing and adjacent to the top opening; an impeller positioned inside the housing; and a motor positioned inside the housing and operatively coupled to the impeller and the bubble generator, wherein the motor, when actuated, causing the impeller and the bubble generator to rotate simultaneously.

The invention provides a method of patterning flowable material on a surface. The method comprises providing the surface with at least one channel and at least one deposition region connected to the at least one channel, the width of the channel being less than the width of the deposition region, and depositing flowable material in the deposition region such that when the material makes contact with the channel the material is directed into said channel by capillary forces, the receding contact angle of the flowable material in the deposition region being less than 30°.

Microfluidic devices are disclosed for carrying out cyclic or iterated reactions such as PCR, LDR, and other cyclic or iterated reactions. A microchannel forms a closed loop, through which a reaction mixture may be thermally cycled an arbitrary number of times. Flow is preferably mediated primarily by electrokinetics. Multiple temperature zones may be employed along the course of a single microchannel loop, for example for PCR. Embodiments may be compact, automated, fast, and operable in continuous-flow mode. Real-time reaction monitoring may optionally be used.

A sheet folding path for performing folding processing on a sequentially fed sheet to carry to the downstream side is made small and compact. An apparatus for performing folding processing on a sheet from a carry-in entrance 2 to guide to a carrying-out exit is provided with a first transport path 4 for guiding a sheet from the carry-in entrance to the carrying-out exit without performing folding processing, a second transport path 5 for performing folding processing on a sheet from the carry-in entrance 2 to guide to the carrying-out exit, folding processing means 8 disposed in the second transport path 5 to fold the sheet from the carry-in entrance 2, and control means for controlling driving of sheet transport means disposed in the first transport path 4 and the second transport path 5. Then, the second transport path 5 is configured so that a path end portion 5b for positioning the sheet from the carry-in entrance in a folding position 8x of the folding processing means 8 and the first transport path cross each other.

The present invention discloses a drainage stirring device and polishing equipment. The drainage stirring device includes a process tank, a liquid storage tank, a stirring tube and a transport pump. The stirring tube is located in the process tank and the stirring tube is provided with injection holes. An inlet of the transport pump and the process tank are connected in a way of controllable on-off; an outlet of the transport pump and the stirring tube are connected in a way of controllable on-off; and the inlet and / or outlet of the transport pump tank and the liquid storage tank are connected in a way of controllable on-off. According to the drainage stirring device, proper control of the continuity between transport pump and stirring tube, process tank and the liquid storage tank not only can achieve stirring function, but also can achieve one of the drainage function and liquid function; compared with the three pumps for realizing the agitation, draining and liquid inlet functions in the prior art, the invention eliminates one or two pumps in the three pumps, thereby saving equipment costs, and reducing equipment land occupation.

An electrical component for surface mounting, such as a DC-DC power converter includes a body portion including one or more surface mounting pins to connect the body portion to a circuit board, and first and second circuit boards including respective circuit elements mounted thereon. The first and second circuit boards are mounted on the body portion, such that sides of the first and second circuit board on which the circuits are mounted face the interior of the device and the reverse sides of the first and second circuit boards define an exterior surface of the component. In this way, no separate housing for the component is required. The size of the electrical component can therefore be kept small, and protection provided to the circuit elements by the reverse side of the circuit board.

A headache-relieving device is provided including a device body having a first side, a second side and, preferably, a connecting portion connecting the second side to the first side. A hand space is formed between the first side and the second side allowing a user to insert his or her hand. A pressing element is provided on the second side. The pressing element is configured to apply pressure against a pressure point of a user's hand positioned in the hand space. The device provides an effective, drug-free and risk-free headache relieving device which is easy to carry and store, and can be conveniently and easily turned to in the event of a headache.

A recording plate or film loading device for use with an image recording scanner. The device comprises a platen (6) arranged at an angle to the horizontal and onto which a plate or film is manually placed. A loading mechanism includes one or more first pusher members (12) cooperating with the platen to push a plate or film to an output position. A centering mechanism includes a pair of second pusher members (13) movable laterally with respect to the platen (6) to centre a plate or film on the platen.

The invention discloses a method and a device for cleaning residual bi-anode electrolyte. After being fixed by virtue of a pellet rack, a to-be-cleaned residual bi-anode carbon block is directly cleaned. In the cleaning process, the to-be-cleaned residual bi-anode carbon block needs to be detached from a conveying device, and the to-be-cleaned residual bi-anode carbon block does not need to be re-hung on a catenary mechanism after the cleaning is completed, so that the equipment occupied rate is reduced, labor intensity of workers is reduced, cleaning time is shortened, cleaning efficiency is improved, and a beneficial guarantee is provided to automatic production of cleaning work. Furthermore, dust pollution above the ground can be reduced.

A focusing and leveling device calculates an amount of defocus and/or tilt of a substrate and includes an illumination unit, projection-side mark plate with projection-side slit mark, projection-side imaging group, deflection prism, beam splitter, detection unit and signal processing unit. A light beam emitted from the illumination unit passes through the projection-side mark plate and is trimmed into a probe beam directed by the projection-side imaging group onto a substrate surface. The prism deflects the probe beam reflected by the surface of the substrate for a first time so that it is incident on the substrate surface and reflected for a second time onto the projection-side imaging group. The beam splitter directs the probe beam that travelled through the projection-side imaging group onto the detection unit. The signal processing unit calculates the amount of defocus and/or tilt based on a measurement spot detected by the detection unit.

The invention discloses a production machine of a flannelette winding drum. The production machine comprises a rack, an unwinding device, a gluing device, a cutting device, a receiving device, a coiling device and a paper feed releasing device; the gluing device comprises a glue tank arranged above the rack in a spanned manner, two through holes are symmetrically formed in the side wall of the glue tank, the through holes are arranged in the length direction of the glue tank and located at the bottom of the side wall of the glue tank, a partition board capable of horizontally sliding in the glue tank is arranged in the glue tank, bumps are symmetrically arranged at the bottom of the partition board and extend into the through holes in a sliding fit manner, and a grinding mechanism is arranged on one side, not contacted with the glue, of the partition board. With adoption of the structure, paper grinding and gluing are completed synchronously, so that production efficiency is increased.Besides, the grinding mechanism is arranged in the gluing device, so that space occupied by the production machine is greatly reduced, benefits per mu of enterprise space are increased, and the production machine is worthy of popularization.