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A hybrid engine having a gas turbine engine and an internal combustion engine, both engines driving a common drive shaft. The compressor delivers compressed air to the combustor and to an inlet of the internal combustion engine, the compressed air picks up heat from the internal combustion engine either from the combustion process or through a heat exchanger, and is delivered to the combustor. When the gas turbine engine is not operating by burning fuel, the heated compressed air from the internal combustion engine is used to maintain the shaft speed sufficient for starting the gas turbine engine without the need to bring the turbine engine up to speed prior to ignition. The apparatus and process of the present invention provides a hybrid engine that is light weight, fuel efficient, and with enough available power for high powered situations.

A method for treating particulate biodegradable organic waste includes sizing the waste and adding a base prior to introducing the waste to a thermal hydrolysis reactor and hydrolyzing the waste at a temperature of about 130° C. or greater and a pressure greater than the saturated water vapor pressure to produce a slurry including solubilized organic material and residual solids. The solubilized organic material is separated from the residual solids using a liquid / solid separator and the solubilized organics are subjected to anaerobic digestion to produce a methane gas. The base is preferably potassium hydroxide (KOH) at a concentration of about 1%. The method may further include preheating the particulate biodegradable organic waste with latent heat of the separated solubilized organic material prior to thermal hydrolysis.

The annular surface between the tubing and casing of an oil or gas well as well as flow conduits and vessels may be contacted with a foamed treatment composition containing a gas, a foaming agent and a treatment agent. The treatment agent may be an inhibitor or removal agent for scales, corrosion, salts, paraffins or asphaltenes. The foam, upon destabilization, renders a thin film of concentrated treatment agent on the external surfaces of the tubing, inside the casing and in the perforations of the oil or gas well or on the flow conduits or vessels.

The invention belongs to the field of materials for removing fluorine in water, and in particular relates to a fluorine-removal adsorption material based on alanate and aluminum-based composite oxide, a preparation method and uses of the same, and a special device for the preparation method. The fluorine-removal adsorption material based on the aluminum-based composite oxide, which is prepared by a heterotopic preparation method or an in-situ preparation method, comprises two parts of an active composition and a porous supported substrate, wherein the active composition is the aluminum-based composite oxide prepared from an aluminum salt solution and an inorganic alkaline solution by chemical reaction; and the aluminum-based composite oxide is loaded on the surface of the porous supported substrate by an in-situ loading method, and the mass ratio of the aluminum-based composite oxide to the porous supported substrate is 0.25-25:100. The fluorine-removal adsorption material based on the aluminum-based composite oxide can be used for the adsorption of fluorine pollutants in the water and particularly common fluorine in underground drinking water sources. In addition, the material can also be used for removing pollutants such as arsenic, iron, manganese, phosphate, and the like in the water.

An apparatus controls flow of a fluid from at least one inlet port to at least one outlet port. A support has a rigid, non-flexible portion, at least one pivotable relatively rigid, non-flexible, folded-back arm portion extending from the rigid portion, at least one surface connected to folded-back arm portion for movement relative to the support, and a rigid, non-flexible force transfer member operably positioned for driving the pivotable folded-back arm portion with a loss of motion of less than 40%. An electrically operated actuator operably engages between the rigid portion and the force transfer member to pivot the folded-back arm portion in response to an electrical activation of the actuator. A manifold includes a fluid passage communicating with at least one valve seat and operably engageable with respect to at least one corresponding valve body for movement between a closed position and an opened position.

A disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit employed during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery performs gas exchange, heat transfer, and microemboli filtering functions in a way as to conserve volume, to reduce setup and change out times, to eliminate a venous blood reservoir, and to substantially reduce blood-air interface. Blood from the patient or prime solution is routed through an air removal device that is equipped with air sensors for detection of air. An active air removal controller removes detected air from blood in the air removal device. A disposable circuit support module is used to mount the components of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit in close proximity and in a desirable spatial relationship to optimize priming and use of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit. A reusable circuit holder supports the disposable circuit support module in relation to a prime solution source, the active air removal controller and other components.

A connection module for use with a test head system is provided, the test head system including a test head for testing devices. The connection module includes a plurality of flexible circuits for transmitting and receiving signals between electronics in the test head and a device to be tested. The connection module also includes connection points on a first end of each of the flexible circuits for connecting the flexible circuits to the electronics in the test head.

The assembly comprises a fixed fork (10) of which the lugs (22, 30) support a rod (60) onto which a spherical ball is slipped (46) about which a cage (44) and a support (42), of the part which is mobile in rotation, swivel. The maintaining of the axial and angular positions of the spherical ball (46) in the fork is ensured, in particular, by a tight fit (A3) which replaces conventional screw and nut systems positioned at the end of the rod and which project disadvantageously.According to the invention, a pair of planar facets which are opposing and in abutment (including 23) carry out a blocking of one of the assembly pieces in rotation.Application to bell cranks for the transmission of movement, in particular in aircraft engines.

Systems and methods for connecting devices via a virtual global network are disclosed. In one embodiment the network system may comprise an endpoint device including a tunnel manager and a first virtual interface, an access point server including at least one tunnel listener and a second virtual interface. One or more tunnels are formed connecting the tunnel managers and tunnel listeners. The virtual interfaces provide a logical point of access to the one or more tunnels.

A sensor pixel and a touch panel using the same are provided herein, wherein the touch panel has m scan lines and n readout lines. The sensor pixel includes a sensing capacitor, a readout transistor, a reset transistor, a base transistor, and a photo transistor. The photo transistor included in the sensor pixel produces a photo leakage current when it is exposed to a light. The light obstruction characteristic of the photo transistor is utilized to detect the locations of the touched sensor pixels. By proper timing control, the present invention not only can be applied to the multi-finger detection, but also is easy to be implemented.

A detachable shield for tactical equipment box has a rectangular form, an outer surface and an opposite inner surface, a long first edge and a second edge, at least two hinges upon the first edge that cooperate with second hinges mounted to a box, a second lock component that cooperates with a prime lock component mounted to a box opposite the second hinges, and a handle joined to the inner surface. The first hinges, handle, and second lock component join to the shield without fracturing it. The first hinges separate from the second hinges so that a law enforcement officer can take the shield from the box for use as protection from projectiles. In an alternate embodiment, the second component joins to the inner surface along with a reinforcing strip along the second edge.

A chemical bath deposition method and a system are presented to prepare different thin films on continuous flexible substrates in roll-to-roll processes. In particular, they are useful to deposit CdS or ZnS buffer layers in manufacture of thin film solar cells. This method and the deposition system deposit thin films onto vertically travelling continuous flexible workpieces delivered by a roll-to-roll system. The thin films are deposited with continuously spraying the reaction solutions from their freshly mixed styles to gradually aged forms until the designed thickness is obtained. The substrates and the solutions are heated to a reaction temperature. During the deposition processes, the front surfaces of the flexible substrates are totally covered with the sprayed solutions but the substrate backsides are remained dry. The reaction ambience inside the reactor can be isolated from the outside atmosphere. The apparatus is designed to generate a minimum amount of waste solutions for chemical treatments.

Multifunctional LED devices and multifunctional LED wireless conference systems are provided. A multifunctional LED device includes LED light source assembly, LED drive and power supply unit, controller unit, audio power amplifier unit, microphone module, wireless transceiver module, speaker unit, and / or audio codec unit. The wireless transceiver module is configured to communicate with each of a smart terminal and a second multifunctional LED device. A multifunctional LED wireless conference system includes at least two multifunctional LED devices and at least one smart terminal to read status of and to remotely control the at least two multifunctional LED devices. The smart terminal communicates with outside terminal(s) to send audio signals from the outside terminal(s) to the multifunctional LED device(s) for broadcasting. Meanwhile, the multifunctional LED devices collect ambient sound and send the ambient sound to the outside terminals via the smart terminal so that wireless conference function can be achieved.

The invention relates to a pneumatic spring percussion mechanism comprising a driving piston moving back and forth in a housing of the percussion mechanism and a percussion piston, wherein a pneumatic spring is configured between the driving piston and the percussion piston. The movement of the driving piston can be transmitted to a percussion piston by means of said pneumatic spring. The driving piston can be driven by an electric linear motor and is connected to an aromatic of the linear motor, forming a single piece therewith. This arrangement makes it possible to eliminate the use of a conventional rotary motor and a crank mechanism to drive the driving piston.

The invention discloses a circuit for measuring phase difference of common-period signals, which comprises 128 IODELAYs (programmable input and output delay units dedicated for Xilinx FPGA), a D trigger, 128 6-digital counters, a logic control circuit and two paths of common-period signals to be measured: the first path of period signals CLK1 and the second path of period signals CLK2. The method provides a method for measuring the phase difference of the common-period signals in high accuracy, which comprises the following steps: the CLK1 is sent to input ends of the IODELAYs and input to a D end of the D trigger after step-by-step delay by the IODELAYs; the CLK2 is input to a CLK end of the D trigger and CLK ends of the counters through a global clock network; and variation of a Q value at an output end of the D trigger is detected, thus obtaining edge coincidence information of the CLK1 and the CLK2 after the delay and achieving the aim of measuring the phase difference of the common-period signals according to the delay amount of the IODELAYs.

A tubular linear motor for electrical discharge machine generally comprises: a stator, a forcer, a set of coils and a hollow central shaft. The forcer is mounted onto the hollow central shaft, the forcer and the hollow central shaft are slidably disposed at the axial center of the stator, the set of coils is disposed in the stator (or in the forcer). After the coil is powered, the forcer will be driven to reciprocate along the central shaft by the electromagnetic force produced by the set of coils. The central shaft can be interiorly provided with wires, and thus, both the production cost and installation space of the linear motor of the present invention can be substantially reduced.

The invention relates to a water treatment method, particularly a method for removing organic pollutants in water by ferrate reinforced ozone oxidation, which aims to solve the problem of high ozone addition amount due to great influence by background components and low effective concentrations of ozone and hydroxy free radicals in the existing ozone-oxidation-process exposed water. The treatment method comprises the following steps: adding ferrate into source water containing organic pollutants to perform preoxidation treatment, stirring to react, introducing ozone, and continuing stirring to react, thereby removing the organic pollutants in water by ferrate reinforced ozone oxidation, wherein the ferrate is one or mixture of potassium ferrate and sodium ferrate. The ferrate is used as a strong oxidant, has a co-oxidation action with ozone, and reduces the trapping consumption of the background component for ozone and hydroxy free radicals. Compared with the oxidation by single ozone, the pollutant removal rate is enhanced by 30-50%, and the ozone addition amount is decreased by 20-50%.

The present invention relates to a tarpaulin shelter with collapsible doorframes, it includes doorframes, the lower end of which is connected to the base and the upper end is connected with corner joint and cross beam, characterized in that the doorframe includes at least three upright poles, in which at least a set of x-scissor member are arranged between the middle upright pole and each side upright pole, said scissor is composed of two cross rods of which the middle portions are mutually hinged together. One end of each cross rod is hinged with the fixing collar of the corresponding upright pole; the other end is hinged with the movable collar corresponding to upright pole. Due to the fact that each cross rod can rotate around its middle portion and the corresponding movable collar and fixed collar, thereby when the upright pole is pulled through the rotation of the cross rod and the shifting movement of the movable collar on the upright pole, the distance between upright poles can be changed, thereby when package is made, the volume is smaller, and it is convenient in transportation and storage. When the use is needed, stretching and collapsing is convenient and rapid. To this end, the plug-in locating mode is used to achieve the purpose of rapid assembling. The present invention features simple structure, good practicality, therefore its use is worth to be widespread in the structure of tarpaulin shelters.

The present invention provides a framework configuration of a computer host, framework configuration of a computer host, which comprises: a mainframe, having a bottom plate on it's bottom portion; a motherboard, positioned above the bottom plate of the mainframe, having at least a CPU slot and a power input outlet thereon; a storage device holder, stacked over a space that is above the motherboard for positioning a storage device; and a cover, for covering over the mainframe.

A siphon jet toilet for supplying flush water in a storage tank by using the head pressure thereof is disclosed. The siphon jet toilet has a toilet main unit furnished with a bowl portion, a rim water spout, a drain trap passage for expelling waste using siphon action, a jet water spout opening formed at a position opposite the inlet of the drain trap passage, a rim water channel for supplying flush water to the rim water spout opening, and a jet water channel for supplying flush water to the jet water channel. The jet water channel includes a plurality of branched water conduits, a merging portion for causing flush water from the plurality of branched water conduits to merge and swirl toward the jet water spout opening and a flow aligner for aligning the flow of flush water merged in the merging portion. The merging portion including an outer wall portion formed in essentially a straight line so that flush waters in the outer region of the swirl collide head-on and an inner wall portion on which a bent portion is formed so that flush water in the inner region of the swirl flows smoothly toward the jet water spout opening.

A method for treating particulate biodegradable organic waste includes adjusting the pH as necessary to provide an acidic pH prior to introducing the waste to a thermal hydrolysis reactor and hydrolyzing the waste at a temperature of about 130° C. or greater and a pressure greater than the saturated water vapor pressure to produce a slurry including solubilized organic material and residual solids. The solubilized organic material is separated from the residual solids using a liquid / solid separator and the solubilized organics are subjected to anaerobic digestion to produce a methane gas. The method may further include preheating the particulate biodegradable organic waste with latent heat of the separated solubilized organic material prior to thermal hydrolysis.

The invention provides a skylight spectrum stimulating method based on artificial light source. The skylight spectrum stimulating method includes the following steps: (1) calculating spectrum characteristics of skylight by utilizing a moderate spectral resolution atmospheric transmittance code (MODTRAN) radiation transmission model; (2) choosing a metal halide light source as a main stimulating light source of the skylight spectrum within the range of 400nm-2500nm; (3) analyzing similarities and differences of the metal halide light source spectrum and skylight spectrum; (4) using a large-power solid lighting element light-emitting diode (LED) as the spectrum compensation light source within the range of 400nm-600nm; and (5) choosing corresponding optical filters to revise the metal halide light source spectrum within the range of 600nm-2500nm. Compared with the like systems, the skylight spectrum stimulating method can achieve full-spectrum skylight stimulation within the range of 400nm-2500m with low cost and is suitable for research of skylight lighting environment in an optical remote sensing physical or semi-physical simulation system.

The invention discloses a four-beam laser three-dimensional imaging optical system based on a coaxial three-mirror-anastigmat afocal telescope. The four-beam laser three-dimensional imaging optical system is characterized in that: four paths of laser are scattered through a target surface, enter a novel coaxial three-mirror-anastigmat afocal telescope receiving system via four off-axis viewing fields respectively, are reflected through viewing field reflection mirrors, and adopt color separation filters for separating wave bands; and a laser receiving channel can achieve signal acquisition of laser echoes, and an area array imaging channel can achieve shooting of a laser footprint two-dimensional space target, thereby achieving multi-beam laser three-dimensional imaging. The four-beam laser three-dimensional imaging optical system solves the difficulty that multi-beam laser reflection loops share one receiving telescope in the existing laser active detection technology, the large viewing field coaxial three-mirror-anastigmat afocal telescope is adopted, the laser receiving channel and the area array imaging channel are combined by utilizing the off-axis viewing fields, and at least four beams of laser beam echoes can be measured on the layout.

The invention relates to an active sludge floatation thickening device and method for a membrane biological reaction tank process. The device is provided with a flocculation reaction tank, a floatation tank and a water storage tank, wherein a blender, a sludge feeding port and a doser are arranged in the flocculation reaction tank; the floatation tank is provided with dissolved air release regions and floatation regions separated by half weirs, a sludge discharge trough and a sludge scraper, and a sludge collection pipeline is arranged at the bottom of the floatation tank; and the water storage tank is connected to the back side of the floatation tank, and is provided with a level regulator and a quick air-dissolving device. The method comprises the following steps: 1, controlling the discharge amount of surplus sludge; 2, adding a flocculant; 3, mixing the flocculated sludge with the air-dissolved water to form adhesions; 4, regulating surface solid loads in the floatation regions; 5, discharging clear solutions in the floatation regions; and 6, discharging the sludge. The invention is applicable to activated sludge thickening treatment in the membrane biological reaction tank process, and has the advantages of simple structure, reasonable design, convenient operation process and favorable effect.

A machine for filtered coffee, having an upper body, inside which a filter-carrier for the coffee and a tank for the water are housed, both accessible through a window. The machine comprises a shutter able to be moved slidingly with respect to said upper body between an open condition and a closed condition of said window and vice versa, so as to selectively allow complete frontal access to said filter-carrier and to said tank, through said window, leaving free frontal access to the filter-carrier and to the water tank. The machine further comprises a pivoting opening which opens frontally with respect to a user and allows access to said tank, when said shutter is in the open condition, for conveying water to the tank without moving said tank from the machine.

The invention provides a frequency conversion power module of an all-in-one machine of an explosive-proof frequency conversion motor. The frequency conversion power module comprises a rack, an IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Translator) element, a direct current capacitor, a rectifier diode, a composite low-induction busbar, an alternating current laminated busbar, a drive circuit assembly, a control circuit assembly, a water-cooled heat sink, a discharge resistor, a soft high pressure water intake pipe, and a high pressure water exhaust pipe. A core element of a frequency converter core is a water-cooled power module integrated by the frequency conversion power module, and has a high power density. The core element can be disassembled entirely, and is convenient to maintain and replace in a mine. The frequency conversion power module is different from the prior art in that components in the power module are arranged in a distributed mode, and are not convenient to maintain and replace in the mine when the power module breaks down. According to the water-cooled heat sink, high pressure water drawn from the ground can be directly applied to carrying out the water cooling heat dissipation, thereby replacing the prior art that an independent set of circulating cooling water device is required in the mine. According to the frequency conversion power module, the cost is reduced, and the area and the volume of the equipment in the mine are saved. The power module provided by the invention is convenient to maintain and replace.

A shaped charge casing 1 designed to be nested to reduce overall volume, which benefits storage or carriage. A lid portion 5 is connected at 8 to a body portion 9 by means of a screw thread. A shaped charge liner 12 can be positioned onto lip 11. The lid portion 5 and body portion 9 can be separated to allow filling or unpacking of explosive material.

A brace stand and an electronic device for using the same. The brace stand and the electronic device for using the same comprise an electronic device, a brace structure and a base. The electronic device has a housing at the back side. The top end part of the brace structure connects to the back side housing and the bottom end part connects to the base. The base has a tail portion including a hook, wherein the base is able to rotate between a brace position and a folding area. While the base is located in the folding area, the hook fastens to the back side housing.