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A method of producing an object by successive solidification of layers of a powder material is disclosed. The method provides a preformed base plate having a metal plate with a solidified layer of a powder material formed thereon. Then, successive layers of said powder material are applied and solidified on the solidified layer of the base plate to form the object. In further detail, the method for produces a three-dimensional by providing a support and a preformed base plate having an upper surface for supporting the object. The base plate is removably attached to the support. Means are provided for adjusting the elevation of said upper surface. A layer of the powder material is applied to the upper surface of the base plate. The powder material is solidified at points corresponding to a cross-section of the object by irradiation with electromagnetic or particle radiation. Then, the applying and solidifying steps are repeated for completing the object.

In the present embodiment, in the production of a heat-resistant composite material resulting from impregnating a ceramic fiber preform with silicon carbide, a mixed gas containing starting material gas, an additive gas, and a carrier gas is supplied to a substrate having a minute structure such as a preform stored in an electric furnace, silicon carbide is deposited to form a film by means of a chemical vapor deposition method or a chemical vapor infiltration method, and the film formation growth speed and embedding uniformity are controlled by means of the amount of additive gas added to the starting material gas, the starting material gas contains tetramethylsilane, and the additive gas contains a molecule containing chlorine such as methyl chloride or hydrogen chloride. The film formation growth speed and embedding uniformity of the silicon carbide are both achieved.

Numerous electrochemical fabrication methods and apparatus are provided for producing multi-layer structures (e.g. having meso-scale or micro-scale features) from a plurality of layers of deposited materials using adhered masks (e.g. formed from liquid photoresist or dry film), where two or more materials may be provided per layer where at least one of the materials is a structural material and one or more of any other materials may be a sacrificial material which will be removed after formation of the structure. Materials may comprise conductive materials that are electrodeposited or deposited in an electroless manner. In some embodiments special care is undertaken to ensure alignment between patterns formed on successive layers.

A disposable electrochemical sensor strip is provided. The sensor strip includes an isolating sheet having at least a through hole, at least a conductive raw material mounted in the through hole, a metal film covered on the conductive raw material to form an electrode which comprises an electrode working surface for processing an electrode action, and an electrode connecting surface, at least a printed conductive film mounted on the isolating sheet and having a connecting terminal for being electrically connected to the electrode connecting surface, and a signal output terminal for outputting a measured signal produced by the electrode action.

An improved opaque computer keyboard cover (10) which covers only the three- or four alpha-numeric rows of the keyboard (12). Function and format keys (12) are not covered which provides a one-size-fits-all design. This configuration eliminates the need to order from 3000 various keyboard cover sizes. This cover is for use in keyboarding instruction and prevents peeking to accelerate user memorization. This cover can also be imprinted with a language option layout or Dvorak keyboard layout thus fully conforming the keyboard layout to one of the 60 or so languages available in the computer operating system keyboard preference options.

The showerhead for a CVD apparatus can be easily produced and is capable of forming a film efficiently. The showerhead comprises: a shower plate being made of a metal; and a porous plate contacting a rear face of the shower plate. A plurality of gas diffusion holes are formed in a plate section of the shower plate, which faces a workpiece, and penetrate the plate section in the thickness direction, and the porous plate covers all of the gas diffusion holes.

The invention relates to a continuous oil pipe hanger for a velocity tubular column. The continuous oil pipe hanger comprises a continuous oil pipe, an I-shaped flange, an upper slip assembly, a lower slip assembly, an upper shell, a middle shell and a lower shell, wherein vertically penetrating central holes are formed in the upper shell, the middle shell and the lower shell; the I-shaped flange is fixedly arranged at the top of the upper shell; the continuous oil pipe passes through the I-shaped flange and the central holes of the upper shell, the middle shell and the lower shell in turn; the upper slip assembly is clamped on an inner wall of the central hole of the upper shell; the lower slip assembly is located in the central hole of the middle shell; a connecting pipe sealing set is fixedly arranged on an inner wall of the central hole of the middle shell and the lower side of a hanging supporting sleeve; at least one pair of driving pistons is arranged on the inner walls of the central holes of the middle shell and the lower shell and under the connecting pipe sealing set; an upper oil port and a lower oil port respectively communicated with the driving pistons are arranged on the side walls of the middle shell and the lower shell. The continuous oil pipe hanger has the beneficial effect of capability of hanging the continuous oil pipe.

An attachment structure for a load-bearing fabric including an expandable carrier secured to an un-stretched load-bearing fabric. To attach the carrier to a support frame, the carrier and fabric are stretched together to desired shape and secured to the frame. An indexing system registers the carrier and frame and optionally stretches the fabric a predetermined amount. The carrier and frame can include a lip that flexes in one direction and maintains the fabric in a stretched condition in another. A tool that joins the carrier and frame generally includes a drive roller and a primary roller adapted to move toward one another and join a carrier and the support frame disposed therebetween. The tool may include alignment rollers near the primary and drive rollers to track along and align the carrier and frame.

The present invention relates to a method for forming a three-dimensional article through successively depositing individual layers of powder material that are fused together so as to form the article, the method comprising the step of heating a first portion of a support surface while depositing a layer of powder material on a second portion of the support surface.

The welding apparatus and associated method are provided. The welding apparatus includes a welding tool for forming a weld joint along the surface of at least one workpiece. The welding apparatus also includes a compression tool for selectively inducing a layer of residual compressive stress in at least a portion of the surface of the weld joint and the surface of the at least one workpiece to thereby improve the material properties of the workpiece, including corrosion resistance and fatigue strength.

The object of the present invention is to provide a solid-state imaging device equipped with a color filter which is highly durable, inexpensive to manufacture, and adaptable to the scaling down of pixels, and a camera using the solid-state imaging device. The solid-state imaging device includes a photodiode, and a metal optical filter formed above the photodiode, which allows light of a desired wavelength to be transmitted. The metal optical filter is made of a metal thin film in which plural cylinder-shaped apertures are periodically arrayed. The size of each of the apertures is smaller than the desired wavelength, and an inter-aperture distance between a predetermined aperture and an aperture adjacent to the predetermined aperture is shorter than the desired wavelength.

An apparatus is described for producing a three-dimensional object from a powder material which includes powder particles and which is solidifiable by exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus includes a support having a substantially plane support surface for supporting said object, an applying device for applying a layer of the powder material to the support surface, a radiation device for selectively exposing the powder material to electromagnetic radiation at places corresponding to the object and a discharge electrode for generating an electric field for reducing charge differences on the powder particles.

Ultra fine and nanometer powders and a method of producing same are provided, preferably refractory metal and ceramic nanopowders. When certain precursors are injected into the plasma flame in a reactor chamber, the materials are heated, melted and vaporized and the chemical reaction is induced in the vapor phase. The vapor phase is quenched rapidly to solid phase to yield the ultra pure, ultra fine and nano product. With this technique, powders have been made 20 nanometers in size in a system capable of a bulk production rate of more than 10 lbs / hr. The process is particularly applicable to tungsten, molybdenum, rhenium, tungsten carbide, molybdenum carbide and other related materials.

Methods of making medical devices, such as stents, having a surface and a coating layer disposed on a portion of the surface are described herein. The coating is formed by applying a coating composition to a portion of the surface of the medical device and then at least partially drying the coating composition substantially simultaneously with the application of the coating composition. The process may be repeated until a desired amount of the coating composition is applied to the surface of the medical device. This method allows for a more efficient and effective method of applying a coating composition to a medical device such as a stent. Also disclosed is a system for making a coated medical device.

Provided is a heating element using carbon nanotube including a heat-resistant member having a heat-resistant characteristic, a carbon nanotube coating layer formed on at least one surface of the heat-resistant member, and a pair of electrodes electrically connected to the carbon nanotube coating layer and inducing heating of the carbon nanotube coating layer when connected to power. The manufactured in a simple process of coating a heat-resistant member with carbon nanotube, relatively reduce the overall manufacturing time, easily change the shape and specifications, and have a heating efficiency higher than that of a heating element having a different shape and material.

The invention discloses a thermoelectric power station automatic control system based on artificial intelligence. It includes dispersible control system, virtual DCS simulation system, program controlling system, monitoring information system and malfunction diagnosing and optimizing controlling system; the dispersible control system is connected with the virtual DCS simulation system and program controlling system; the program controlling system process the operating parameters of every machine group transmitted by dispersible control system, and at the same time transmits data to monitoring information system to display, then transmits malfunction diagnosing and optimizing controlling system to have equipment state monitoring, malfunction diagnosing and forewarns. The invention gathers automatic control, optimizing operation, security monitoring and malfunction diagnosing and forecast. It can improves the automated management level of the thermoelectric power station operation, and enhances enterprises' benefit. It has great economic and applied value in the producing process automatic control of the thermoelectric power station.

A chip with increased impact resistance, attractive design and reduced cost, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A semiconductor integrated circuit is formed on a large glass substrate, and a part of data of a ROM included therein is determined by an ink jet method or a laser cutting method. Accordingly, the cost can be reduced without requiring a photomask, resulting in an inexpensive ID chip. Further, depending on the application, the semiconductor integrated circuit is transposed to a flexible substrate, thereby an ID chip with improved impact resistance and more attractive design can be achieved.

A pre-solder structure on a semiconductor package substrate and a method for fabricating the same are proposed. A plurality of conductive pads are formed on the substrate, and a protective layer having a plurality of openings for exposing the conductive pads is formed over the substrate. A conductive seed layer is deposited over the protective layer and openings. A patterned resist layer is formed on the seed layer and has openings corresponding in position to the conductive pads. A plurality of conductive pillars and a solder material are deposited in sequence in each of the openings. The resist layer and the seed layer not covered by the conductive pillars and the solder material are removed. The solder material is subject to a reflow-soldering process to form pre-solder bumps covering the conductive pillars.

The invention relates to a human motion capture device which comprises motion measuring units, a motion parameter estimation unit, an initialization unit, a display estimation unit and an overall integration unit; the motion measuring units are attached on all the limbs of a human body and are used for measuring the motion data and the environmental data of all the limbs; the motion parameter estimation unit deducts the motion parameters and the environmental parameters of all the limbs, and when in deduction, a self-adaptive anti-interference three-dimensional angle estimation method is adopted to deduct the three-dimensional angle values of all the limbs; the initialization unit is used for receiving and integrating the motion parameters and the environmental parameters of all the limbs, and deducting the initial operation parameters of the human body motion capture device; the displacement estimation unit is used for receiving and integrating the motion parameters and the environmental parameters of all the limbs as well as the initial operation parameters of the human body motion capture device, and deducing the displacement of the human body relative to the ground; and the parameters and the displacement of the human body relative to the ground are finally integrated together by the overall integration unit, so that the position and the gesture of the overall motion of the human body are worked out and output.

An organic light-emitting device has a color modulation layer. The organic light-emitting device comprises a substrate, a first electrode positioned on the substrate and a second electrode positioned on the first electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is transparent. An organic functional layer having at least an emission layer is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A color modulation layer formed by a laser-induced thermal imaging method is positioned on a surface opposite to a surface adjacent to the emission layer of the transparent electrode, wherein the color modulation layer is at least one of a color filter and a color conversion medium.

An organic light-emitting device has a color modulation layer. The organic light-emitting device comprises a substrate having a red pixel region, a green pixel region, a blue pixel region and a white pixel region. First electrodes are positioned on the red, green, blue and white pixel regions of the substrate, respectively. A second electrode is positioned on the first electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a transparent electrode. An organic functional layer is interposed between the first and the second electrodes, where the organic functional layer has an emission layer emitting white color light. Color modulation layers for red, green and blue colors formed by a laser-induced thermal imaging (hereinafter, referred to as LITI) method are positioned on a surfaces opposite to a surfaces adjacent to the emission layer of the transparent electrodes of the red, green and blue pixel regions, respectively. Wherein the each color modulation layer has at least one of a CF and a CCM.

By filling a predetermined amount of conductive paste into an opening for forming a through hole or a VH formed in a resin insulating layer of a circuit board, and pressurizing the filled conductive paste under the condition of reduced pressure, removing air bubble strapped in the conductive paste.

The present invention provides a dispersant and foaming agent combination that is useful in the production of gypsum wallboard and other aqueous cementitious products, a method of forming a gypsum wallboard and a gypsum wallboard. The dispersant in the combination according to the invention is a naphthalene sulfonate-aldehyde condensate alkali salt polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 17,000 to about 47,000. The alkali is preferably an alkali metal and / or an alkaline earth metal. The aldehyde is preferably formaldehyde. The foaming agent used in the combination according to the invention is a soap, preferably an alkali salt of an alkyl ether sulfate and / or an alkyl sulfate. The combination of a high molecular weight dispersant and a foaming agent produces a gypsum wallboard core effect that more efficiently entrains air (i.e., creates void space), thereby lowering overall board weight without detrimentally affecting strength. A gypsum wallboard formed using the dispersant and foaming agent combination according to the invention exhibits a higher nail pull value than gypsum wallboard formed using a conventional dispersant and a foaming agent at the same solids loading ratio.

A plurality of stretches of laser weld are executed on a structure to be welded by means of a device for focusing and orientation of the laser beam, which is associated to a component element of a manipulator robot. The focusing head is kept in the proximity of, but not closely adjacent to, the different areas to be welded and can consequently follow a simplified path, whilst the device for orientation of the laser beam aims the latter on the different areas of the structure to be welded, so that the speed of travel of the laser beam spot along the longitudinal direction of the weld stretch is independent from the speed of travel of the robot end element.

A frame structure for solar cell module, in which each of the four sidebars that constructs the frame structure is comprised of a bottom, a first vertical wall, a second vertical wall, a first horizontal wall and a second horizontal wall. Substantially, the present invention provides a a frame structure constructed using parts of different curvatures, that is capable of preventing any filling material from overflowing on the front side of a solar cell element during the integration of the solar cell element and the front structure, without having the so-constructed solar cell module to be processed by an additional machining process for processing the overflowed filling material after the integration, and thus not only the sidebars of the frame structure can be prevented from being broken by the stress resulting from the machining process, but also the manufacturing time required for the consequent solar cell module can be reduced.

The present invention is directed to an improved method for supporting an object made by means of stereo lithography or any other rapid prototype production method. The generation of the support begins by determining the region that requires support in each layer of the object and defines a number of support points in this region. In a next step, a support mesh is generated connected to the object using these support points. The present invention also discloses different techniques that reduce superfluous edges to further optimize the support mesh. Finally, a support is generated from this support mesh. The present invention may facilitate the generation of supports data by employing more automation and less user analysis.

Novel injectable depot compositions are provided comprising at least one active agent(s) optionally with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient(s) in the form of a multi-component system preferably comprising at least two components which when administered to a subject in need thereof forms an in situ gel depot or implant at the site of injection upon contact with body fluids. Also described are process for preparation of such compositions and method of using such compositions.