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A parallel mechanism is capable of positioning and orienting an end platform with up to six or more degrees of freedom. In preferred embodiments, the mechanism includes six links having a first and second ends. The first end is connected to an end platform for supporting a tool, while the second end is connected to an actuator capable of translating the second end. A rotational drive mechanism may be provided for rotating an object mounted on the end platform at varying orientations of the end platform independently of movement of the end platform as a whole. The links may be curved in order to avoid interference between adjoining links, thereby permitting an increased range of motion and improved dexterity of the mechanism.

The invention discloses tile feeding driving mechanisms, tile feeding assemblies and a mahjong machine. Each tile feeding driving mechanism of the mahjong machine comprises a tile feeding support, a tile storage groove, a tile feeding guide rail, a tile feeding pushing head and a steel wire rope, rolling parts are arranged at the position, close to the corresponding tile feeding guide rail and/or the corresponding tile storage groove, of each steel wire rope, each rolling part is installed on the corresponding tile feeding guide rail or the corresponding tile feeding support in a rotatable mode, the part, located in the corresponding tile storage groove, of each steel wire rope are in rolling contact with the multiple rolling parts, and a gap is maintained between the part, located in the corresponding tile storage groove, of each steel wire rope and the corresponding tile feeding guide rail and/or the side wall of the corresponding tile storage groove. According to the scheme, sliding friction of steel wire ropes in the prior art is replaced with rolling friction of the steel wire ropes, friction resistance in the operation process of the steel wire ropes is greatly decreased, and the situation that the service life and operation stability of the steel wire ropes are influenced due to sliding friction contact between the part, located in the corresponding tile storage groove, of each steel wire rope and the corresponding tile feeding guide rail and/or the arc-shaped bent side wall of the corresponding tile storage groove is avoided.

The invention relates to a method for dosing a volume of liquid (VF) of less than 1 !l that is to be dispensed, by means of a dosing pump, in particular a pipette (2). According to said method, a tip (13) is completely filled with a liquid and contains the liquid (16) to be dispensed at least in the vicinity of its outlet (13a), a volume of gas (VL) is drawn into the tip (13) via the outlet (13a) and a volume corresponding to the sum of the volume of liquid (VF) to be dispensed and the volume of gas (VL) is then supplied to the tip (13) in such a way that the volume of liquid (VF) is dispensed via the outlet (13a) in a contactless manner. The device comprises a plurality of dosing pumps that can be simultaneously actuated, in particular pipettes (2), which can be actuated by an injection plunger (6), in addition to a motor (1), which drives the injection plungers (6) and also a valve (3), which is located between the dosing pump and its respective tip (13) in order to fill each system completely with liquid without any gas.

An apparatus for training on a bicycle connected to the apparatus, so that the bicycle is tiltable in a direction transversely to a plane defined by a frame of the bicycle. The bicycle is elevated to when the bicycle frame is tilted whereby the bicycle frame, by gravity, is biased towards the non-tilted position. A bicycle computer being adapted to collect and/or display course information while the bicycle is not connected to a training device and being adapted to control resistance providing means when the bicycle is connected to the training device. A wheel for training on a bicycle comprising resistance providing means comprising secondary drive means adapted to engage with the force transferring connector of the bicycle so as to apply resistance to rotation from the resistance providing means to the primary drive means of the bicycle.

A hull cleaning robot includes at least one cleaning apparatus for cleaning the hull of a vessel, at least one drive track holding the robot on the hull as the robot maneuvers about the hull, and at least one turbine actuatable by water flowing past the hull for operating the at least one drive track and, optionally, the cleaning apparatus.

Device for carrying out rotablation, comprising a rotablation catheter, an OCT sensor, an IVUS sensor, position sensors and also an image processing unit, which is embodied for the creation of combined 2D or 3D images based on the data of the sensors.

The present invention relates to a ceramic sheet having uniform quality over its entire surface with a decreased number of defects such as foreign matters and flaws. When the ceramic sheet was divided into sections of 30 mm square or smaller, each divided section has 5 or less defects detected based on an image obtained with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera. The present invention also relates to a method of producing the ceramic sheet. In this method, a green sheet or a calcined sheet mainly including spherical ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to less than 5 μm was used as a spacer. By using this spacer, the green sheet for ceramic sheet slides smoothly on the spacer surface when it shrinks in baking, and the friction resistance between the green sheet for ceramic sheet and the spacer is lowered. In this manner, the method of the present invention can mass-produce the above-described high quality ceramic sheets.

The invention relates to a fold-type puncture outfit sealing system. The fold-type puncture outfit sealing system comprises a sealing membrane and a first protection device which are connected; the sealing membrane comprises a near-end opening, a far-end hole and sealing walls extending from the far-end hole to the near end, each sealing wall is provided with a near-end surface and a far-end surface, and the far-end hole is formed by a sealing lip; the first protection device comprises a near-end opening, a far-end opening and a protection wall extending from the far-end opening to the near end, each sealing wall comprises multiple folds which are externally tangent to the sealing lip and transversely and outwards extend, each fold comprises a fold peak, a fold valley and a fold wall extending from the fold peak to the fold valley, and the folds surround the sealing lip and are integrally arranged in a dish-shaped mode; the protection wall of the first protection device comprises folds of which the number is the same as that of the sealing walls and the shape and the size are matched with those of the sealing walls. According to the fold-type puncture outfit sealing system, bent stacking and winding of the protection device and the sealing membrane can be reduced, and then frictional resistance generated after inward turning is decreased.

A sliding bearing (1) includes an upper casing (3) which is made of polyacetal resin as a synthetic resin, has an annular surface (2), and serves as a first bearing body; a second bearing body (5) which is made of a synthetic resin, is superposed on the upper casing (3) so as to be rotatable about an axis (O), and has an synthetic resin-made annular surface (4) opposed to the annular surface (2); and a synthetic resin-made annular sheet (6) which is interposed between the annular surfaces (2) and (4) and slidably abuts against at least one of the upper casing (3) and the bearing body (5).

The invention relates to a dual-pulse hydraulic oscillator for well drilling, and belongs to the technical fields of petroleum and natural gas exploration and well drilling tools. The dual-pulse hydraulic oscillator consists of an oscillation short section assembly and a power short section assembly, and is characterized in that the oscillation short section assembly consists of a spline mandrel, a connection sleeve, a pressure converter, an oscillation shell and the like; the power short section assembly comprises a pressing sleeve and a turbine shaft; a sealing piece is mounted between the spline mandrel and the connection sleeve; the connection sleeve is connected with the oscillation shell; the lower end of the turbine shaft is connected with the power short section assembly; the pressing sleeve at the upper end of the power short section assembly is connected with the oscillation shell; the lower end of the pressing sleeve is connected with a power shell; the turbine shaft is mounted at the center of the power shell; a straightening bearing, a turbine stator, a turbine rotor, two groups of movable valves and fixed valves, a sleeve, a flow division ring, a flow division sleeve and a thrust bearing are mounted on the turbine shaft in sequence from top to bottom. Radial swinging is avoided; under low flow, higher axial vibration with higher frequency can be realized; the friction resistance is low, so that effective drilling pressure is increased, and the mechanical drilling speed is increased.

The invention provides a supersonic condensation and cyclone separation device, which leads air flow to generate powerful rotation in a blade-guiding manner at an entrance; then, a laval nozzle is used for coordinating with the separation device to lead the air flow to reach a supersonic speed and reduce temperature thereof greatly, thus condensing components with higher dew points and achieving the separation between the gas phase and the liquid phase under the action of the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the air flow; and a highly-efficient liquid trap and a cyclone-recovering booster are arranged at the tail part of the nozzle. Compared with the existing supersonic separating device, the supersonic separation device of the invention has higher efficiency of separation and cyclone recovery under the same working conditions of low flow rate, for the device has the advantages that the flow channel of the device in a high-speed flow field area is smooth, the fractional resistance of the wall surface is low and the device is provided with the cyclone recovering booster suitable for the conditions of low flow rate. Since quite a lot of inland gas fields has low single-well flow rate in China, the device of the invention has wide application prospect in the field of natural gas treatment for the inland gas fields in China.

Technology for supporting personal sports performance moves from laboratory to field use only as and if instrumentation is designed both to meet its specific function(s) and to least hinder the athlete's performance. Even a standard wristwatch degrades an athlete's optimal motions when an athlete reads it while training or competing. This invention details a casing and strap (more specifically said casing's and strap's interacting shapes' and attachments' form, lie, and linkage), and controls, for a display for monitoring/sensory and/or feedback/reporting sports instrumentation, which meet both the sports instrumentation's and athlete's functional needs, as the casing and strap place the display and control diagonally across yet flush with the athlete's forearm.

A substrate storage container which includes: a front-opening box type container body for storing a multiple number of substrates in alignment therein; a door for opening and closing the open front of the container body in a sealing manner; and inner-pressure adjustment devices attached to the mounting ports in the container body and the door for adjusting the pressure inside the container body closed with the door. The inner-pressure adjustment device is configured of an elastic attachment cylinder, a filter support structure fitted into, and protected by, the attachment cylinder and a multiple number of filters held inside the filter support structure. Since the inner-pressure adjustment device can be set by mounting an attachment cylinder of a simple structure by use of elastic deformation to the attachment hole, which is provided for the container body and/or the door, there is no need of forming screw holes which need time and effort.

The invention relates to a device for reducing guiding zone friction in high pressure formation of tubular material. It comprises dies, left punch head, right punch head, right round body on the right end face of the left punch head with right guiding ring slot, so does the right punch head, with gaps between the die, left punch head and the right punch head. It can eliminate the high touch pressure zone of the tubular end and the die guiding zone inner wall, reducing the friction resistance to improve production efficiency and die durability, and lowered requirement for tonnage.

A sliding bearing (1) includes an upper casing (3) which is made of polyacetal resin as a synthetic resin, has an annular surface (2), and serves as a first bearing body; a second bearing body (5) which is made of a synthetic resin, is superposed on the upper casing (3) so as to be rotatable about an axis (O), and has an synthetic resin-made annular surface (4) opposed to the annular surface (2); and a synthetic resin-made annular sheet (6) which is interposed between the annular surfaces (2) and (4) and slidably abuts against at least one of the upper casing (3) and the bearing body (5).

A waste storage device includes a container (21) in which a cassette (1) is mounted. Tubing (2) is pulled through the center of the cassette (1) to store packages (35) separated by twists. The cassette (1) is rotated relative to the container (21) to provide the twists between packages (35) by virtue of a rotatable disk (100) and user grip portion (102). The package is gripped against rotation by a gripper diaphragm (120) and is guided towards a wall of the container by a guide diaphragm (122) to prevent untwisting between packages.

The object of the present invention is to provide a frictional resistance reducing vessel and method of reducing the frictional resistance of a hull that are able to effectively conserve energy consumed during operation by reducing frictional resistance at a low level of energy consumption. In the present invention, a negative pressure region (51), which is at low pressure relative to a gaseous space, is formed in the water accompanying operation of a hull (30), and together with bubbles being guided to this negative pressure region (51) in the water from the gaseous space, the state of this negative pressure region (51) is changed based on changes in vessel velocity.