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A dense phase pump for particulate material includes a pump chamber wherein material flows into the pump chamber under negative pressure and flows out of the pump chamber under positive pressure. A plurality of pinch valves are provided to control flow of material into and out of the pump chamber. The pinch valves are operated independent of each other and of the pump cycle rate. A modular design of the pump is provided.

A method for forming a structure that includes a layer that is removed from a donor wafer that has a first layer made of a semiconductor material containing germanium. The method includes the steps of forming a weakness zone in the thickness of the first layer; bonding the donor wafer to a host wafer; and supplying energy so as to weaken the donor wafer at the level of the zone of weakness. The zone of weakness is formed by subjecting the donor wafer to a co-implantation of at least two different atomic species, while the bonding is carried out by performing a thermal treatment at a temperature between 300° C. and 400° C. for a duration of from 30 minutes to four hours.

A micro-transfer printed intermediate structure comprises an intermediate substrate and one or more pixel structures disposed on the intermediate substrate. Each pixel structure includes an LED, a color filter, and a fractured pixel tether physically attached to the pixel structure. A fractured intermediate tether is physically attached to the intermediate substrate. A method of making an intermediate structure source wafer comprises providing a source wafer having a patterned sacrificial layer including sacrificial portions separated by anchors, disposing an intermediate substrate over the patterned sacrificial layer, and disposing one or more pixel structures on the intermediate substrate entirely on or over each sacrificial portion. Each pixel structure includes an LED, a color filter, and a fractured pixel tether physically attached to the pixel structure to form an intermediate structure.

The clamping system comprises a collar (10) having a band (12) that has two flanks (13A, 13B), between which an inside trough (14) is defined that receives projecting clamping surfaces (1A, 2A) of two tubes (1, 2) to be assembled together. The system further comprises a plurality of individual retaining clips (20) distributed angularly around the first flank (13A), each clip having an inside branch (30) and an outside branch (32) facing each other, and between which the first flank is pinched, and a retaining portion (34) that, in the pre-attached state, is suitable for co-operating with the clamping surface (1A) of the first tube (1), one of the branches carrying a first bearing zone (36) that co-operates with a first bearing surface (13′A) of the collar that faces towards the axis (A) of said collar.

A method for recovering much of the carbon and chlorine value in the heavy ends and other undesired by-products formed during the production of a C3 or higher polychlorinated alkane through the reaction of carbon tetrachloride with an olefine or chlorinated olefine, the improvement comprising the step of first separating the heavy ends and any other higher or lower boiling chlorohydrocarbon impurities from most of the desired product, and subjecting the separated heavy ends and impurities therewith to a high temperature exhaustive chlorination to produce carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloroethene, and minor amounts of hexachlorobutadiene and hexachlorobenzene by-products.

To provide a food chopper of simple design and high performance, a device ( 1 ) for chopping food, in particular pieces of ice, is proposed, said device ( 1 ) including a container ( 2 ) providing a bearing pin ( 20 ) on its bottom ( 21 ) and being divided into an upper processing zone ( 22 ) and a lower collecting zone ( 23 ), said processing zone ( 22 ) accommodating a chopping tool ( 3 ) for reducing the food, said chopping tool ( 3 ) being formed by a rotary cutting blade ( 30 ) and comprising a tool spindle ( 31 ), and in the transition region from the processing zone ( 22 ) to the collecting zone ( 23 ) there being at least partially a sieve ( 32 ) separating the processing zone ( 22 ) from the collecting zone ( 23 ), wherein the lower end ( 310 ) of the tool spindle ( 31 ) is rotatably mounted on the bearing pin ( 20 ). Preferably, a stirring tool ( 34 ) is part of the chopping tool ( 3 ) and is formed by a rotary stirring blade ( 340 ).

A method for thermally treating a semiconductor layer is described. An embodiment of the technique includes implanting atomic species into a first surface of a donor wafer to form a zone of weakness at a predetermined depth that defines the thickness of a transfer layer, bonding the first surface of the donor wafer to a host wafer, supplying energy to detach the transfer layer from the donor wafer at the zone of weakness, and conducting a recovery operation on the transfer layer. The recovery operation is conducted after detachment but while the layer remains in contact with the donor wafer. The recovery operation includes heat treating the transfer layer for a predetermined duration at a recovery temperature that is lower than a re-adhesion temperature at which the transfer layer would re-adhere to the donor wafer, to improve the crystalline quality and the surface roughness of the transfer layer.

An integrated blade cooler for electronic components comprises a blower with a radial impeller and a casing, an electric drive with a magnetic rotor and a stator, and a heatsink with heat-exchanging means and a base providing thermal contact with said electronic component and said heat-exchanging means. The casing of the impeller has an inlet and an outlet; said impeller comprises blades, a backplate disk and an axis of rotation; and the heat-exchanging means of the heatsink clothed in a cover plate with an outflow opening that being coincided with said inlet so that cooling gas flows through said heat-exchanging means, said blower inlet, said radial impeller and said blower outlet in a series way. The stator of the electric drive is made as a part of said casing of the blower so that said outflow opening serves as said inlet, and the radial impeller comprises magnetic means serving as a magnetic rotor of said electric drive. The stator is made as printed circuit board. At least part of said cover plate is made as a part of said casing so that said outflow opening serves as said inlet of the blower. The stator is located perpendicularly to the axis of rotation, and said magnetic means magnetized in the direction parallel to said axis of rotation. The heatsink has a recess on the side of an outflow opening, and the blower is located in said recess.

A hybrid disc whose ROM grooves are less than 170 nanometers deep, and whose pre-recorded ROM data pits are more than 350 nanometers or less than 250 nanometers deep, as measured from the effective land level. The ROM pits may be pre-recorded in ROM grooves that are shallower than the ROM pits, where the ROM pits are narrower, of equivalent width or up to approximately 10% wider than the ROM grooves, respectively measured at half-depth, although the transverse extent of the ROM pits will not typically exceed that of the ROM grooves. The ROM lands intervene between consecutive ROM pits, whether or not a ROM groove is provided. In the preferred embodiment, one beam of a dual beam apparatus records the ROM pits, while the other beam records the R-band pre-grooves, and also records the ROM groove, if present. In most embodiments a thermal mastering process provides smooth feature surfaces to facilitate replication of the hybrid disc masters. The berms normally forming at the radial extremities of the pits and grooves in the masters, by thermal expulsion processes, may be reduced or eliminated by methods taught.

Of the type constituted by a laminar body, based on a paper-aluminium composition which shapes a cone (5) coincident in form and dimensions with the cone biscuit which it shall hold in its interior, having on its closing edge (6) a seam (8) of angular configuration, so that in the area immediately above this seam a tab for tearing (10) is configured which is recessed with respect to the closing edge (6). The vertex (11) of said angular seam (8) constitutes a guide which facilitates the tearing of the wrapping. Optionally, the laminar body which configures the cone (5) can come with a circumferential cutting line (15) located below the pulling flap (13), defining a tear line for the wrapping in the operation of opening the same, emerging from that circumferential cutting line (15) another cutting line (18) parallel and next to the adhesive strip (17), the purpose of this second cutting line (18) being to interrupt a possible de-layering between the paper and the aluminium, during the opening operation.

The present invention relates to an injection stretch blow-molded transparent container, consisting essentially of bi-oriented polypropylene, which is filed with a gas-releasing liquid composition. The present invention also relates to the use of such container in view of containing gas-releasing liquid composition.

The drum coater comprises a substantially cylindrical drum (11) with a peripheral wall and a substantially horizontal axis of rotation. The method comprises providing a coating zone within the drum, feeding tablets into the drum, spinning the drum containing the tablets at a rotational speed such that a substantially annular bed of tablets is created, providing means for creating a cascade (19) of tablets at least in a part of the coating zone and spraying the tablets in the coating zone.

The invention discloses a rotor part of a variable-frequency motor, and the variable-frequency motor. The rotor part of the variable-frequency motor comprises a rotor iron core, a rotor magnet, a first rotor end plate and a second rotor end plate; a magnet groove is arranged in the rotor iron core; furthermore, the magnet groove is one selected from a first groove and a second groove; the rotor magnet is one selected from a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet, and installed in the magnet groove; a limiting lug boss for blocking the rotor magnet is arranged on the first rotor end plate, wherein the rotor magnet respectively has a first projection or a second projection on the first rotor end plate when the rotor magnet is the first permanent magnet or the second permanent magnet; and the limiting lug boss is arranged in the overlap area of the first projection and the second projection. By means of the rotor part of the variable-frequency motor in the embodiment of the invention, the first rotor end plate having the above structural form is designed, so that the application range of the first rotor end plate can be enlarged; therefore, the material number can be reduced; and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

An expansion mounting sleeve includes a forward tapered cylindrical body formed by stamping a material strip, and the cylindrical body defines an internally threaded tapered bore. A plurality of engaging teeth having different heights and shapes are formed to project from the cylindrical body. After the sleeve has been driven into or mounted in a hole formed on a wall, a ready-made bolt having length, size, and screw threads matching the threaded bore of the cylindrical body may be screwed into the bore and thereby expands the tapered cylindrical body of the sleeve, causing the engaging teeth to move outward to tightly engage with the wall in the hole and firmly hold the expansion mounting sleeve in place in the hole. A method of forming the expansion mounting sleeve is also provided.

A method for producing an electrode having an electrically conductive current collector layer having a terminal region for connection to an electrical power circuit, in which to improve the electrical discharge via the terminal region, the current collector layer has at least one structural element having an electrical conductivity that is increased compared to the current collector layer, through which structural element the electrical resistance between a point on the current collector layer and the terminal region is reduced, the method including: providing at least one free-standing active material foil; providing an electrically conductive layer on at least one surface of the active material foil, the electrically conductive layer being formed immediately on the surface of the active material foil to form the current collector layer; and connecting an electrical terminal region to the electrically conductive layer to enable connection to an electrical power circuit.

The invention pertains to the protection of spectacles arms and relates to a protection member for a spectacles arm comprising an elongated tubular envelope (54) sealed against chemical agents, having an open end and having an essentially flat shape in the plane of a hook-shaped spectacles arms. The envelope (54) includes, at a location corresponding to the position of the bend of a hook-shaped spectacles arm, a device (62) preferably for folding about a transverses axis and for reducing at said location the distance between the inner edge of the bend of the spectacles arm and the edge of the member provided on the side of the bend interior. Application in hairdressing facilities.

A used large-size photomask substrate having a patterned light-shielding film is recycled by (i) removing the light-shielding film from the used substrate to provide a photomask-forming glass substrate stock, (ii) resurfacing the glass substrate stock by sand blasting, (iii) repolishing the resurfaced glass substrate stock to yield a regenerated glass substrate stock, (iv) applying a light-shielding film onto the regenerated glass substrate stock to yield a regenerated photomask-forming blank, and (v) processing the light-shielding film of the blank into a pattern corresponding to the desired exposure of a mother glass, yielding a regenerated photomask substrate.

Irregularly shaped particles of foamed cellular polystyrene having a relatively large surface area produced by comminuting preformed solid blocks or other shapes of molded expanded polystyrene foam articles are spread on floating marine oil spills to agglomerate the oil and maintain it on the surface pending removal, thereby avoiding contamination of the submarine environment. The particles can be distributed in a dry state or mixed with a liquid to facilitate controlled spreading of the lightweight particles.

A roller type one-way clutch includes an outer race in which at least one pocket having a cam surface on an inner periphery thereof is formed, an inner race which is spaced away from the outer race on an inside diameter side in a radial direction and which is relatively rotatably disposed concentrically with respect to the outer race, a roller which is disposed in the pocket and which engages with the cam surface to transmit a torque between the outer race and the inner race, a spring which is disposed between the outer race and the roller in the pocket and which urges the roller in a direction in which the roller engages with the cam surface, and a side plate secured to be in contact with one end surface in an axial direction of the outer race. The side plate has a non-circular shape, the one end surface in the axial direction is annular, and at least a portion of the one end surface in the axial direction of the outer race is exposed in a state in which the side plate is secured.

A method for thermally treating a semiconductor layer is described. An embodiment of the technique includes implanting atomic species into a first surface of a donor wafer to form a zone of weakness at a predetermined depth that defines the thickness of a transfer layer, bonding the first surface of the donor wafer to a host wafer, supplying energy to detach the transfer layer from the donor wafer at the zone of weakness, and conducting a recovery operation on the transfer layer. The recovery operation is conducted after detachment but while the layer remains in contact with the donor wafer. The recovery operation includes heat treating the transfer layer for a predetermined duration at a recovery temperature that is lower than a re-adhesion temperature at which the transfer layer would re-adhere to the donor wafer, to improve the crystalline quality and the surface roughness of the transfer layer.

A claw pole type motor includes a rotor having a magnet arranged on an outer circumferential surface thereof and a stator including an annular iron core and an annular coil received within the iron core. The iron core includes a yoke portion opened in an inner circumferential surface opposite to the rotor, a plurality of upper claw-shaped magnetic poles and a plurality of lower claw-shaped magnetic poles which are arranged along an inner circumferential surface of the annular coil. The upper / lower claw-shaped magnetic poles are curved to extend axially downwardly / upwardly from an upper / lower inner edge of the yoke portion, respectively. The upper and the low claw-shaped magnetic poles are alternately arranged along a circumferential direction of the iron core. The yoke portion has cutout portions formed in non-magnetic path regions which do not include magnetic paths through which magnetic flux flows between neighboring claw-shaped magnetic poles across the annular coil.

A hybrid disc whose ROM grooves are less than 170 nanometers deep, and whose pre-recorded ROM data pits are more than 350 nanometers or less than 250 nanometers deep, as measured from the effective land level. The ROM pits may be pre-recorded in ROM grooves that are shallower than the ROM pits, where the ROM pits are narrower, of equivalent width or up to approximately 10% wider than the ROM grooves, respectively measured at half-depth, although the transverse extent of the ROM pits will not typically exceed that of the ROM grooves. The ROM lands intervene between consecutive ROM pits, whether or not a ROM groove is provided. In the preferred embodiment, one beam of a dual beam apparatus records the ROM pits, while the other beam records the R-band pre-grooves, and also records the ROM groove, if present. In most embodiments a thermal mastering process provides smooth feature surfaces to facilitate replication of the hybrid disc masters. The berms normally forming at the radial extremities of the pits and grooves in the masters, by thermal expulsion processes, may be reduced or eliminated by methods taught.

This insulating complex is made of a block of foam of the PE, PP, PET type having density of between 10 and 150 kg / m3 and has, starting from a plane zone, a series of symmetrical hollow and relief shapes forming alternating and complementary male parts and female parts suitable to allow mating, by superposition, with another complementary complex in such a way as to form a compact solid section and quadrangular assembly.

The invention relates to an air distribution duct (2) integrated in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle comprising at least one rigid hollow crossmember (1) that reinforces the structure of the vehicle, characterized in that the duct (2) is made by extrusion and is placed in the crossmember (1) at a distance from the inside wall of the crossmember.