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A substrate heating apparatus of the present invention, which heats a substrate mounted on a mount table 104 having heating means 108, in a processing vessel 102, includes a supporting part 202 made from a first material to support the mount table, a sealing part 204 made from a second material different from the first material in heat conductivity to seal the supporting part and the processing vessel and a joint part 206 for joining the supporting part and the sealing part in an airtight manner. With the constitution, by selecting the first material and the second material of different heat conductivities properly, it is possible to reduce a heat gradient between the top of the mount table and the bottom of the mount table. As a result, it is possible to shorten a supporting structure for the mount table, in length.

A vehicular steering column of a low tilt type is supported to a body at upper and lower portions thereof to be tilted in whole about a hinge joint located on the lower portion, and more particularly to a shock absorbing steering column is designed to allow a steering column to slide forward when a vehicle driver gets a secondary shock against a steering wheel due to a vehicular collision, thereby absorbing a shock. In particular, the steering column is constructed in such a manner that, in order to absorb a shock in case of the vehicular collision, shock absorbing means is provided to a lower supporting structure of the steering column, and thus an initial shock imposed on the driver can be greatly decreased.

A dual-crankshaft engine is presented. In one embodiment, the engine includes a first crankshaft and a second crankshaft. The second crankshaft is coupled with the first crankshaft such that the first crankshaft and the second crankshaft are horizontally coplanar. The engine further includes a first piston that is operable to reciprocate in a first horizontal cylinder via coupling with the first crankshaft, and a second piston that is operable to reciprocate in a second horizontal cylinder via coupling with the second crankshaft. The second horizontal cylinder is horizontally collinear with and opposing the first horizontal cylinder.

The invention is an improved air rail transit system for passenger transport. The system adopts the structure that L-shaped and Y-shaped supporting arms are arranged along lines to support a guide rail beam at the lower part, a bogie trolley travels in a guide rail, a passenger carriage is positioned below a track, two steel rails are arranged on the upper surface of a track beam in an air track beam box body, and the bogie trolley travels to and fro on the steel rails in the track beam. The invention can effectively reduce fractional resistance, lower energy consumption, and improve comfortable level of passengers; and since the bogie trolley employing steel wheels travels on the steel rails, upper and lower guiding wheels are not needed to be arranged on the bogie trolley, thereby simplifying the mechanism of the bogie trolley and reducing the maintenance workload.

A reducible support system for supporting various items is presented in various embodiments. A reducible support structure, may comprise an operation element which may be attached to an orthogonal element. Limbs, such as a tripod, may be attached to the operation element and a plug element may provide a slide so that the limbs or tripod may open and collapse easily.

The present invention provides an improved self-defined model three-dimensional two-dimensional code generation method and system facing 3D printing. The method comprises: performing meshing and normalization processing of a self-defined model; employing the perspective projection transformation method to map two-dimensional codes to the target area of the self-defined model; performing hollowing operation according to a mapping result, and generating three-dimensional two-dimensional codes with the same hollowing depth at the surface of the self-defined 3D model; simulating a real two-dimensional code image through a physical experiment, and calculating the whole contrast of the three-dimensional two-dimensional codes and the contrast of each black module; optimizing the depth of the three-dimensional two-dimensional code block module according to the simulation result, and generating the three-dimensional two-dimensional codes; inputting the generated 3D model comprising the three-dimensional two-dimensional codes into a 3D printer, employing homogenous materials for printing, and finally outputting a 3D real object with the three-dimensional two-dimensional codes.

A method and apparatus for performing an order change in a corrugator uses a minimum slit head configuration with all slit heads carried on two sides of a single tool support structure. A single robot is operable on the support structure to independently reset the positions of slit heads during a running order to prepare for subsequent order change in a most efficient manner, utilizing order scheduling that eliminates order changes that cannot be formed with the minimum slit head configuration.

An apparatus to monitor the loads and mechanical behavior of subsea longitudinal vertical components of off shore drilling and production platforms (SLVCs) uses sensors attached directly to the tendons by adhesive or by friction mount. The sensors are typically in a sensor ring assembly which is placed around the perimeter of the SLVC. Ruggedized cables carry the sensor reading from the ring assembly to the SLVC working platform and to a control center for monitoring the action and stresses on the tension legs. The system may be deployed on existing SLVCs or may be installed on new construction during initial assembly and installation.

The invention discloses a cylindrical cable net reflection system driven by three telescoping rods, aiming to solve the problems that a reflection system in the prior art is large in intensity and complex in structure. The cylindrical cable net reflection system includes a net surface cable (1), a fastening cable (4), a center column (6), an expandable outer circular ring unit (7), an upper platform (8), the three telescoping rods (10), a lower platform (12), and a support platform (13), a feed source (5) is arranged at the top of the center column, the center column and the outer circular ring are connected through upper and lower support cables (2), an adjusting cable (3) is connected between the net surface cable and the fastening cable to control the deformation of the reflection plane by changing the length, the upper ends of the three telescoping rods are connected with the upper platform through a spherical hinge connection structure (9), the lower end is connected with the lower platform through a revolute pair connection structure (11), and by changing the length of the three telescoping rods, the attitude control of the reflection device is realized. The reflection system is simple in structure, portable and flexible, accurate in attitude control, and can be used for the reflection or convergence of optical and electrical energies.

An apparatus to monitor the loads and mechanical behavior of subsea longitudinal vertical components of off shore drilling and production platforms (SLVCs) uses sensors attached directly to the tendons by adhesive or by friction mount. The sensors are typically in a sensor ring assembly which is placed around the perimeter of the SLVC. Ruggedized cables carry the sensor reading from the ring assembly to the SLVC working platform and to a control center for monitoring the action and stresses on the tension legs. The system may be deployed on existing SLVCs or may be installed on new construction during initial assembly and installation.

The invention discloses an engine, a combustion assembly of the engine and an integrated designing and manufacturing method for the combustion assembly. The combustion assembly comprises a flame tubeand nozzles; the flame tube comprises a main body; a combustion chamber is formed in the main body; through holes are formed in the main body and enable the combustion chamber to communicate with theoutside of the flame tube; the combustion chamber comprises a head part and a tail part which back onto each other; gas enters the flame tube from the head part and the through holes and flows out ofthe flame tube from the tail part; the nozzles are arranged on the head part; and the nozzles and the flame tube are integrally manufactured through an additive manufacturing technology. According tothe engine, the combustion assembly of the engine and the integrated designing and manufacturing method for the combustion assembly, the combustion assembly of the engine is integrally designed and manufactured by utilizing the additive manufacturing technology, the flame tube and the nozzles are fused into a whole, the structure of the combustion assembly can be simplified, supporting and connecting structures among components of the combustion assembly can be reduced, machining can be facilitated, weight reduction can be facilitated, the reliability can be improved, and the machining and maintenance cost can be lowered.

An apparatus to monitor the loads and mechanical behavior of tendons for a tension leg platform (TLP) uses sensors attached directly to the tendons by adhesive of by friction mount. The sensors are typically in a sensor ring assembly which is placed around the perimeter of the tension leg. Ruggedized cables carry the sensor reading from the ring assembly to the TLP working platform and to a control center for monitoring the action and stresses on the tension legs. The system may be deployed on existing TLPs or may be installed on new construction before while on land.

The invention belongs to the technical field of vehicles, and discloses a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery pack comprises a battery shell; the battery shell is internally provided with a first battery module, a second battery module, first supports and a supporting rib assembly; the second battery module is arranged below the first battery module and is at least partially overlapped with the projection of the first battery module in the height direction; the first supports are arranged on the two sides of the first battery module in the length direction, and the first supports are connected to the first battery module and the second battery module correspondingly and can abut against the side face of the first battery module and the side face of the second battery module correspondingly; the supporting rib assembly is arranged in the first supports and used for restraining deformation of the first supports. The supporting rib assembly is arranged in the first supports, the strength and rigidity of the first supports are improved, the risk that the first supports deform is reduced, and thus the stability of the whole structure is guaranteed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of aero-engine manufacturing, and discloses a wheel disc and an air compressor comprising the same. The wheel disc comprises a wheel disc body; a pluralityof main vanes and a plurality of sub vanes are arranged on the wheel disc body; the wheel disc body is of an integral structure; the wheel disc body is of a hollow structure; the hollow structure comprises a communication ring component which is arranged along the periphery of the wheel disc body, a main pipeline component which is arranged in the axial direction of the wheel disc body and a subpipeline component which is arranged in the radial direction of the wheel disc body; a plurality of first powder discharging holes are formed in the top end surface of the wheel disc body; a pluralityof second powder discharging holes are formed in the bottom outer side of the wheel disc; and the first powder discharging holes, the main pipeline component, the communication ring component, the sub pipeline component and the second powder discharging holes communicate with one another. The invention further provides the air compressor comprising the wheel disc. The wheel disc body is of the integrated structure, so that production procedures are simplified, and a production cycle is shortened.

The invention is a base module for a starting apparatus of sport-purpose flatwater boat competitions, comprising a longitudinal holder arranged crosswise to the direction of motion of the boats, a level adjustment unit, a dynamic stabilizer, and a remote controlled start permitting unit having a mechanical drive unit. According to the invention, the longitudinal holder (2) is made of one or more rigid, hollow pipe or profiled bar.

The invention provides an integrative photovoltaic building solar panel. The solar panel comprises three parts, including a photovoltaic layer, lithium battery contravariant units and a foaming pinchplate layer, wherein the photovoltaic layer is a photovoltaic battery array of a solar silicon panel layer; each lithium battery contravariant unit comprises a lithium storage battery, a controller, an inverter, an AC distributor, a monitoring system, a DC load and an AC load which are connected by a circuit and manufactured into a cylindrical structure, and the cylindrical structure is filled ina preset hollow part of the foaming layer; the aggregate of the foaming pinch plate layer is a metal pinch plate structure of which the middle is foamed by perlite, and a plurality of cylindrical hollow parts for placing the lithium battery contravariant units are prefabricated inside the metal pinch plate structure. The photovoltaic solar panel for a building can furthest concentrate spaces, be used for generating electricity on site and reduce expenses and energy consumption in the transportation process of current, thereby avoiding additionally occupied precious building spaces for placinga photovoltaic array panel and realizing the integration of building structures, thus the photovoltaic solar panel can be applied to apricus walls or ceilings of buildings.