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A surgical instrument and method of controlling the surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing and defines a first longitudinal axis. The surgical instrument also includes a firing rod disposed in the elongated shaft and a drive mechanism disposed at least partially within the housing. The drive mechanism mechanically cooperates with the firing rod to move the firing rod. A sensor senses a parameter of light reflected from the surface of the firing rod, which includes markings that change the reflectivity of the firing rod. The measurement unit determines a parameter of the motion of the firing rod, such as the position and speed of the firing rod, based on the sensed parameter of the light reflected from the surface of the firing rod.

A surgical instrument and method of controlling the surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing and defines a first longitudinal axis. The surgical instrument also includes a firing rod disposed in the elongated shaft and a drive mechanism disposed at least partially within the housing. The drive mechanism mechanically cooperates with the firing rod to move the firing rod. A motion sensor senses a change in the electric field (e.g., capacitance, impedance, or admittance) between the firing rod and the elongated shaft. The measurement unit determines a parameter of the motion of the firing rod, such as the position, speed, and direction of the firing rod, based on the sensed change in the electric field. A controller uses the measured parameter of the motion of the firing rod to control the drive mechanism.

A multi-layered belt, in particular a continuous running and / or transport and / or processing belt, includes a traction layer and a functional layer that contains a gel. To reduce the stress placed on the transported goods, in particular persons, the gel is an unplasticized gel and the functional layer consist of a coating containing the interspersed gel. In addition, to a method for producing a belt of this type is provided, in which the gel is poured in a continuous method onto the traction layer and a mixer and delivery unit is guided back and forth in a reversible manner perpendicular to the displacement direction of the traction layer in such a way that a gel layer with a uniform thickness is applied to the traction layer. Furthermore, the use of said belt as a running belt for persons, in particular as a running belt for training and / or fitness equipment is described.

A blood pump (1) comprises a pump casing (2) having a blood flow inlet (5) and a blood flow outlet (6) connected by a passage (7), and an impeller (3) arranged in said pump casing (2) so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (9). The impeller (3) is provided with blades (4) sized and shaped for conveying blood along the passage (7) from the blood flow inlet (5) to the blood flow outlet (6), and is rotatably supported in the pump casing (2) by a first bearing (10) at a first axial end of the impeller (3) and a second bearing (20) axially spaced apart from the first bearing (10). The first bearing (10) comprises a projection (11) extending along the axis of rotation (9) and connected to one of the impeller (3) and the pump casing (2) and a cavity (13) in the other one of the impeller (3) and the pump casing (2), the projection (11) comprising an enlarged portion (12) that engages the cavity (13) such that the first bearing (10) and the second bearing (20) are arranged to bear axial forces in the same axial direction.

A peristaltic pump includes a plurality of effecters, actuated in a periodic manner upon by obstructive forces of a flexible infusion tube so as flow of infusion fluid is provided along said infusion tube, the magnitude of the obstructive forces being dependent upon the displacement of said moving effecters; and a plurality of balancing magnets providing balancing forces upon one or all the moving effecters, the balancing forces at each point along the path of motion of the moving effecters being of approximately equal magnitude to that of the obstructive forces at the point; such that the parasitic output due to work performed against the obstructive forces is approximately zero and yield is maximized.

In an underground exploitation process of a coal mine, the coal recovery rate needs improving, and a roller bit of a coal mining machine is prevented from cutting roof strata as far as possible so as not to damage equipment or even cause accidents, so an interface of a coal layer and a rock layer needs on-line identification. The invention provides a coal-rock interface identification method, a coal-rock interface identification system and a coal-rock interface identification probe. A specific energy-level high-pressure water jet which can penetrate the coal layer but cannot penetrate the rock layer is jetted to the coal layer above a tunnel, different acting forces of reflected flow reflected by the coal layer or the rock layer on a nozzle are sensed in real time, and a controller judges the distance between the upper end of the roller bit of the coal mining machine and the coal-rock interface to realize automatic heightening control of a rocker arm of the coal mining machine so that the coal exploitation process realizes the goals of high recovery rate, low mechanical abrasion rate, automatic operation and the like. The coal-rock interface identification method, the coal-rock interface identification system and the coal-rock interface identification probe provided by the invention have the advantages of low cost, high adaptability, high reliability, intrinsic safety and the like.

The invention concerns a method for reducing mechanical oscillation in a wind power plant which comprises a plurality of rotor blades, a wind turbine drive train and a generator, wherein the rotor blades are rotatably connected to the generator by the wind turbine drive train. The method comprises the steps: mathematically modeling the dynamical response and / or transfer function of a group of rotatable parts of the wind power plant, the group of rotatable parts comprising at least the wind turbine drive train, and determining dynamical response and / or transfer function of the group; in operation of the wind power plant, determining a first parameter characteristic of the mechanical oscillation at a first location, controlling the operation of at least one rotatable part in response to the dynamical response and / or transfer function of the group and at least the first parameter. In effect, resonance induced mechanical wear is reduced which leads to an increased life time of the wind power plant.

A coupling device for attaching the external hearing aid part to the skull bone anchored part in a bone conducting hearing aid apparatus. The retaining force in the coupling device is substantially established with a permanent magnet. The bone anchored part and the external hearing aid part include a magnetic part.

An image stabilized digital image capture device, comprising an image sensor for capturing a digital image; an optical system for imaging a scene onto the image sensor; an image stabilization system; an exposure control system; a memory system; and a processor. The processor is used to perform the steps of determining exposure settings using the exposure control system; selectively engaging the image stabilization system responsive to whether the determined exposure settings satisfy a predefined condition; capturing a digital image of a scene using the image sensor and the selectively engaged image stabilization system; and storing the captured digital image in the memory system.

The invention discloses an intelligent elevator and belongs to the intelligent control field of the elevator, and the elevator can automatically call, cancel stoppage and give an alarm when people is trapped in an elevator due to a fault. Upon a controller of a fingerprint access control machine judges out correct fingerprint information and gives out an opening command, the fingerprint information is transmitted to a data analyzing module through a 3G communicating module, the data analyzing module transmits the existing employee work floor information corresponding to the fingerprint information to a main elevator controller through RS 232 serial ports, when the employee work floor is more than one, the elevator controller gives out the command to start 'up and down keys' outside the elevator and related 'floor keys' inside the elevator for intelligent calling, and the employee can cancel calling and select the floor by again pressing the keys. A displayer is added with a sign of 'a surplus effective load for the elevator' and pressure sensors are arranged outside and inside the elevator, thereby avoiding the phenomenon of 'nobody enters into the elevator under stoppage', 'the elevator still stops in capacity load', ' the elevator still stops in idle load and without calling', and ' the elevator cannot give the alarm when people is trapped'.

The invention relates to a universal servocontrol platform device for a motor-operating mechanism of a high-voltage switch apparatus and a control method; the device comprises an operating mechanism, a main loop and a control loop, wherein, the input terminal of a signal pretreatment circuit in the control loop is connected with a voltage mutual inductor and a current mutual inductor, for measuring the voltage and the current of a power network. The control method for the device comprises the step of calculating optimal contact speed via values of the voltage and the current acquired by the power network to control the operation of the contact. The invention has the advantage that the values of the voltage and the current of the power network are used for calculating an optical speed curve in a DSP chip, a switch on / off speed is compared with the optical speed curve while being regulated and controlled in order to regulate the on / off speed for minimizing an impact on the switch, optimizing the speed, reducing the generation of electric arcs, decreasing mechanical abrasion, promoting the switching effect and saving electric power. Meanwhile, a variety of operating mechanisms can be replaced mutually on the inventive operating platform, thus saving the manufacturing cost, simplifying the operation and saving labor force and material resource.

The invention discloses a high-speed and low-speed frequency modulation resource coordination control method considering energy storage system SOC. The control method comprises the steps of establishing a main control region in an AGC system; establishing a generator set and an energy storage system control model in the main control region, and dividing a high-speed frequency modulation group anda low-speed frequency modulation group; obtaining real-time measurement data from an SCADA system; calculating control deviation of an original region; calculating a high-speed frequency modulation resource energy storage system control instruction according to the original ACE and by considering the energy storage system SOC and the maximum allowable charging / discharging power; performing correction and filtering processing on an ACE control signal in the low-speed frequency modulation group, and calculating the regulation requirement of the low-speed frequency modulation group; generating control instructions of respective control objects; and performing verification and correction on the control instructions of respective control objects and issuing to a station terminal. By increasingchances and depth of the energy storage system in power grid frequency modulation participation, the regulation actions of the conventional low-speed generator set can be reduced, the mechanical lossof the conventional generator set is lowered, and power generation economic efficiency is improved.

A sensing system senses whether or not a lock's bolt (140), e.g. deadbolt, is aligned with a hole (150) which the bolt is to engage in the locked state. In electronic locks, the bolt is not driven into the hole until the sensing system indicates that the bolt is aligned with the hole. Another sensing system senses the position of the bolt and / or a dead-latch bar (1310). This sensing system is spaced from the bolt's end engaging the hole in order not to interfere with the alignment sensing. The two sensing systems are used to determine whether the lock is locked or unlocked. A magnet system provides alignment assistance to align the bolt with the hole before the bolt is driven into the hole. Position encoding for lock and non-lock devices, and other features and embodiments are also provided.

A magnetic pulse welding (MPW) or forming (MPF) device is provided having a split coil design, thereby facilitating the opening and closing thereof. As such, part / workpieces can be readily loaded and unloaded with respect thereto. This ability to easily load and unload parts is considered critical to the successful application of MPW technology to mass production environments. The open / split coil design includes a plurality of independent induction coil sections, allowing the device to be quickly opened / closed for loading / unloading of workpieces therewithin.

An imaging system comprising a parabolic reflector having a base and defining a first axis, a light source disposed proximate the base essentially along the first axis, an imaging device comprising a zooming lens having a second axis, the imaging device being disposed in front of the light source along the first axis such that the second axis and the first axis are essentially coincident.

The invention relates to a fuel cell based hybrid power system for utilizing the waste heat of an internal combustion engine and belongs to the technical field of vehicle hybrid power. A fuel reformer is arranged on an exhaust pipe of the internal combustion engine, fuel is reformed by using the waste heat of exhaust gas, the generated reformed hydrogen rich gas is used as the fuel of a fuel cell, and electric energy which is generated by the fuel cell is stored in a storage battery, so the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can be recovered; meanwhile, a motor or a generator is arranged at an output shaft end of the internal combustion engine and used for recovering the brake energy of a vehicle in a running process, and the brake energy is also stored into the storage battery; and furthermore, by the adoption of the motor or the generator, the internal combustion engine can be automatically started or stopped, and auxiliary power is supplied under specific working conditions. The system can effectively utilize the waste heat of the exhaust gas and the brake energy of the internal combustion engine, the idling condition of the internal combustion engine can be eliminated, and the fuel consumption and harmful emission of the internal combustion engine can be reduced.

The invention discloses a method for synthesizing N-benzyl maleimide from an immobilized supported acid catalyst and belongs to the synthesis technical field. The method comprises the following steps: soaking silica gel, a molecular sieve, aluminum trioxide and acidic resin or an active carbon carrier in an acid solution in equal volume, drying the mixture to obtain a supported catalyst and putting the supported catalyst into a stainless steel net; adding aniline and maleic anhydride into a benzene, toluene or xylene solvent and acidylating, stirring and heating the mixture to obtain the N-benzyl maleimide acid solution; then adding the N-benzyl maleimide acid solution, a polymerization inhibitor and the supported catalyst into a dehydration reactor for dehydration cyclization, reducing the pressure to remove the solvent and obtain the N-benzyl maleimide crude product, and recrystallizing in the solvent to obtain the N-benzyl maleimide. The invention has the advantages of high yield of N-benzyl maleimide, low content of waste acid, few production flows, low cost and little discharge of acid-containing waste water; moreover, as the catalyst is immobilized, the invention simplifies the replacement of the catalyst, reduces the mechanical abrasion of the catalyst and prolongs the service life of the catalyst.

The invention discloses a hub motor driving device, which comprises a transmission hub, a speed reducer and a driving motor, wherein the transmission hub is arranged on a hub, a speed reducer casing of the speed reducer is arranged on a suspension of a vehicle, a motor front end cap of the driving motor is fixedly arranged on the speed reducer casing to seal the speed reducer, a motor shaft of the driving motor is connected with an input shaft of the speed reducer, and an output shaft of the speed reducer is connected with the transmission hub. The device has the advantages that a large amount of transmission parts of the traditional vehicle is saved, the structure of the vehicle is simpler, a plurality of complicated driving methods can be realized, the device is suitable for a plurality of new energy vehicle techniques, and the energy consumption and the mechanical abrasion are reduced.

The invention discloses a primary frequency modulation control method and system for a wind power plant. A wind power plant power distribution strategy by using overspeed load shedding control is used. The method comprises the steps that: after a wind power plant receives a system scheduling instruction, power requiring load shedding is calculated according to wind speed information fed back by all wind turbine generators, a power reference value and a load shedding control mode are distributed to all single machines, rotor kinetic energy of the wind turbine generators is stored to the maximumextent, and the frequency dynamic characteristic of a system is improved; and a variable parameter control strategy is utilized in frequency modulation control, the control strategy can ensure that afan can release the maximum standby power in the frequency modulation process, and the recovery speed after frequency drop is increased. It is guaranteed that each fan sufficiently releases standby power in the frequency modulation process, and a frequency steady-state value is effectively increased. The change of an inertia control coefficient can effectively improve the recovery speed of the frequency.

An inlet guide vane for a compressor is provided. The inlet guide vane is adjustable to modify gas flow properties in the compressor, wherein electroactive polymers are arranged in the inlet guide vane such that the shape of the inlet guide vane is adjusted in a specified manner upon applying a voltage to the inlet guide vane.

A direct replacement impeller hub for the torque converter of an automatic transmission and a method of repairing an impeller assembly utilizing the replacement impeller hub to provide increased service longevity. In the present impeller hub the geometric roundness characteristic of the impeller hub is controlled to an exacting tolerance during the manufacturing process in accordance with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) definitions to provide a close tolerance fit within a mating bearing sleeve. The present impeller hub is also finish ground in accordance with ANSI definitions to reduce surface friction and to provide an optimal sealing surface for engagement with a radial seal, which is disposed about the impeller hub sealing it to prevent contaminants from entering the hydraulic pump of the transmission. The present impeller hub also includes additional structural features such as fillet radii machined on selected features to facilitate assembly of the torque converter.

The invention provides an upslope travelling control method and system for an automobile. The upslope travelling control method for the automobile comprises the following steps that a transmission control unit acquires the longitudinal inclination angle information of the automobile; the transmission control unit judges whether the automobile is in upslope travelling according to the longitudinal inclination angle information; if yes, the slope correction torque of an engine is calculated according to the longitudinal inclination angle information and is transmitted to an engine electronic control unit; and the engine electronic control unit acquires torque required by users, and controls the output torque of the engine according to the required torque of users and the slope correction torque. Through the adoption of the upslope travelling control method for the automobile disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the output torque of the engine can be controlled effectively, the operations of frequently stepping on an accelerator pedal and shifting between gears by the users are reduced, the controllability of the automobile is improved greatly, the mechanical wear of the automobile is reduced, and the driving experience of the users is improved.

A method for the transmission of electrical, pneumatic, or hydraulic energy between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, coupled thereto, for example a tractor vehicle and a trailer and an energy transmission system. The aim of the invention is development of a method and an energy transmission system permitting an operationally-secure driving condition over a long period even with a partly or completely damaged plug coupling system. Said aim is achieved by means of, amongst other things, a method whereby the energy in the energy distribution line is introduced from the energy supply line in a controlled manner.

The invention discloses a distributed secondary frequency modulation control method considering energy storage, and belongs to the technical field of power grid secondary frequency modulation power generation. An inferiority index function based on the charge and discharge power offset and the state of charge offset is established for the condition of secondary frequency modulation having participation of energy storage, and the inferiority index function based on the power offset is established for the condition of secondary frequency modulation having participation of the conventional motorset. The consistency variable of a frequency modulation power supply is determined by the partial derivative of the inferiority index function relative to the power offset, and then the secondary frequency modulation demand quantity is allocated according to the proportion of the maximum power offset of the frequency modulation power supply relative to the total frequency modulation power of the system. Minimization of the power offset and the state of charge offset acts as the consistency variable of the target iterative update frequency modulation power supply, and the rapidity of energy storage frequency modulation response is fully utilized so that accurate tracking of the system ACE signal can be realized, the power grid frequency modulation capacity can be enhanced and the system robustness can be enhanced.

The invention discloses an escalator or automatic sidewalk driving device, comprising a permanent-magnetic synchronous motor and a transmission device; the transmission device comprises a primary gearbox and a secondary gearbox; an output shaft of the secondary gearbox is axially connected with a main transmission shaft. The secondary gearbox adopts a crossing engagement type of a spiral bevel gear pair structure and transmits the output torque of the primary gearbox. The solar wheel shaft of the primary planetary gearbox has the same axis as the central shaft of a driving motor; the output axis line of the secondary gearbox is vertical to the axis line of the solar wheel shaft, so as to lead the primary planetary gearbox and the secondary gearbox to be installed, debugged and dismounted in a fission way and lead the driving device to be connected at the end side of the main transmission shaft of a step chain wheel. The escalator driving device of the invention adopts a two-step full-gear transmission structure, has little mechanical abrasion, long service life and high transmission efficiency, and realizes the effects of escalator driving multi-item efficacy energy saving.

The invention discloses a method for cultivating mechanized transplanted seedlings of rice by use of an organic medium production line in a gutter-connected plastic greenhouse. The method comprises the following steps of 1), arrangement of cultivating seedling materials, namely a medium, a seedling disk, a dome-shaped steel-structure plastic film gutter-connected glasshouse facility, and a finishing seedbed; 2), seed treatment, namely choosing seeds, soaking the seeds and accelerating germination; 3), medium treatment and disk loading, namely firstly loading a bottom-layer medium, then seeding, finally covering the seeds with the medium and watering; 4) seeding and bud promotion, namely seeding dry rice and bud rice in each disk, stacking the disks and promoting bud, moisturizing, warming, arranging the disks, and performing atomizing spray, wherein the disk stacking height is 20 layers; and 5) seedling stage management, namely attentively managing the temperature and moisture and controlling diseases. The method has the advantages of good technical effect, obvious social benefit and prominent economical and ecological benefits and the like, and the method has preferable popularization prospect.

The invention relates to a full-automatic cutting machine of numerical controlled valve, which comprises a machine body, a feeding mechanism, a positioning mechanism, a geared head, a knife rest mechanism, a pushing mechanism and a numerical controlled electric box. The positioning mechanism utilizes a rigid ball base rotary positioning head and a positioning fixture at the end face of a valve disk part in the geared head to realize the full length cutting processing of the valve, and utilizes a flexible ball base rotary positioning head and a positioning fixture at the conical surface of the valve disk part in the geared head to realize the L-check size grooving processing of the valve. The rigid and flexible ball base rotary positioning heads overcome friction between workpieces and a positioner, eliminate the influences of the flat beat of the valve on positioning precision and the length precision of the processed valve reaches + / - 0.025mm. The cutting machine has simple structure, convenient operation and high full-automatic processing efficiency, is applicable to the full length cutting and grooving of the valve, and can be expanded to use the conical surface of the valve to position and process a sandwich groove of a lock and chamfer the end face of a valve rod; therefore, the full-automatic cutting machine has a wide application prospect.

A starting device for an internal combustion engine, especially that of a motor vehicle, comprises:a stator, or inductor, comprising an inductor coil (5), said inductor coil comprising at least first (43), second (41) and third (42) windings that are all electrically connected in parallel;a rotor associated with said stator and having a longitudinal axis;a starter element that can be rotated by the rotor; anda contractor designed to supply power, in a prerotation first phase, only to the first winding (43) of the inductor coil and, in a full-speed second phase, following the first phase, to the first, second and third windings (41, 42) of the inductor coil.