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A storage/buffering system for the stocking and/or buffering of substrate and/or substrate carriers in a process environment includes a 6-axis robot. An end-effector is connected with the robot providing an additional one degree of freedom and a mechanism for grabbing and moving of substrate and/or substrate carriers. The robot is mounted in an inverted orientation to a removable service cart for easy removal of the robot to a service area in the event of breakdown. The robot receives commands from a programmable controller connected to control the robot and configured to direct the arm of the robot through a set of movements. Product is loaded in and out of the system through I/O load ports. Product is stored inside the storage/buffering system on a plurality of storage locations, each with product presence/absence detect sensor. The robot can alternatively be mounted directly to the storage system enclosure structure.

The invention relates to a variable-frequency power source based on the control of a digital signal processor, which comprises a switch power source module, a control circuit, a circuit for isolating and shaping pulse-width modulating signal, IPM inverting circuits, a circuit for detecting and protecting busbar voltage, a rectification input slow-start circuit, a communication circuit, an interface circuit for isolating and inputting parallel signals and an human-computer interface circuit for displaying the key. The invention adopts the structure of a single digital signal processor (DSP) coupled with the double IPM inverting circuits, provides two paths of independent variable-frequency power sources for two sets of asynchronous motors at the same time and carries out independent speed regulations to the two sets of asynchronous motors. The variable-frequency power source of the invention has the advantages of small volume, low power consumption, high reliability and being convenient for bulk production, etc., and adopts an appropriate switch frequency and an advanced voltage space vector pulse width modulation algorithm (SVPWM), thereby lowering the noise during the operation of the asynchronous motors and increasing the voltage utilization rate, with obvious effect on energy saving.

A sealing apparatus for use with a door which swings over a threshold and has a door lower end, a door face and a door frame, for closing the gap between the door lower end and the threshold, includes a mechanism mounting member; a substantially horizontal gate member for closing the gap; a slide bar positioned above and substantially parallel with the gate member, the slide bar having a protruding end extending laterally from the door toward the door frame to abut the door frame as the door is closed; structure for guiding the slide bar to move laterally relative to the door and to the mounting member; a leaf spring having a leaf spring first end and a leaf spring second end and a leaf spring central segment, the leaf spring first end being engagingly fitted to the slide bar and the leaf spring second end being engagingly fitted to the gate member, where the leaf spring central segment is resiliently pivotable upwardly and laterally to vertically displace the gate member relative to the slide bar; structure for guiding the gate member to move up and down relative to the door; so that closing the door causes the door frame to depress the slide bar protruding end, thereby sliding the slide bar horizontally in one lateral direction and causing the leaf spring to pivot to an increasingly vertical orientation and to thereby lower the attached gate member to make sealing contact with the threshold.

The invention relates to a control circuit for a direct current motor with a reverse pole protection device, which is connected to the electric circuit of the electrolytic capacitor and the free-wheeling diode in order to reduce losses in the reverse pole protection device.

An ignition system for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition transformer with two primary windings. The ignition system is designed to generate, for a given ignition event, a unipolar current through the secondary winding by way of a control circuit that is configured to first energize and deenergize the first primary winding to establish a first electrical arc across the spark-plug electrodes and, when the current in the secondary winding reaches, or drops below, a current threshold, repeatedly energizes and deenergizes the second primary winding to establish a plurality of second current pulses across the electrodes in order to maintain the burn phase.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medium-voltage flexible alternating current power transmission and distribution and power electronic control of power systems, and particularly relates to a coordinated control device and method for an MMC (modular multilevel converter) type unified power quality conditioner. The coordinated control device comprises the MMC type unified power quality conditioner and a coordinated controller thereof, common direct current is allowed to run in a voltage reducing manner by limiting active current component maintaining common direct current voltage stable in three-phase current of an outlet of an MMC on a parallel side, the current of a secondary side of a series coupling transformer and system current are limited within the safety running range of the conditioner, and voltage sag amplitude which can be compensated by the conditioner is improved. According to the coordinated control method, the UPQC (unified power quality conditioner) can fully function in comprehensive treatment process, and reliable running of the MMC on the series side of the UPQC is ensured to a large extent. The coordinated control method is simple and reliable in design, applicable to UPQCs with different device parameters and adaptable to change of load capacity.

The invention relates to a dispensing valve (2) for dispensing fluid from a container, comprising a central member (20) provided with a flexible membrane (22) having at least one slit (23), a flange (40) surrounding the central member for attaching the valve to the container and connecting means for connecting the central member to the flange, which connecting means comprise a material hinge (25). The valve is deformable from a closed position to a dispensing position upon application of pressure to the fluid in the container. The central member is further provided with a support (26) for the flexible membrane, which support is more rigid than the flexible membrane and extends towards the container in the secured position of the dispensing valve, wherein the material hinge directly couples the support to the flange.

The embodiments disclose an attachable battery base module configured for powering at least one attachable application module coupled to the attachable battery base module, wherein the attachable battery base is configured for powering the at least one attachable application module, a heating module attachment with a temperature control module coupled to the attachable battery base module configured for heating and/or boiling a liquid, a cooling module attachment with the temperature control module coupled to the attachable battery base module configured for cooling a liquid and wherein the temperature control module includes a temperature maintenance mode, wherein the temperature maintenance mode is configured for maintaining a preset, predefined or user preselected desired temperature when the desired temperature is reached.

The invention relates to an intelligent home furnishing system which comprises an intelligent home furnishing host which comprises an AV (audio-visual) array, a control module and an intelligent gateway; a plurality of regional terminal modules connected by a five unshielded twisted pair (UTP) and the intelligent home furnishing host; a plurality of control modules with different buses and connected to the terminal modules and various controlled equipment connected to the control modules; and a plurality of DVD (digital versatile disc), set-top boxes, cameras, MP3 or other audio/video equipment connected to the intelligent home host. After being subject to AV array switch and signal modulation, the audio/video signals of the audio/video equipment are transmitted by the five UTP. In the invention, an integrated design of four functions comprising integrated intelligent control, audio-video sharing, background music and security monitoring is used, so the system has the advantages of simple and reliable design, good performance and strong compatibility.

The invention provides a method and a device for avoiding forgetting children in a vehicle. The method is characterized in that: a detector is utilized for detecting the vehicle-starting signals and the trip-finishing signals; and combined with the judgment of a driver, the information on the existence of a child will be transmitted to a central processing unit (CPU) for treatment. If there is a child in the vehicle, the CPU will send an instruction for movement to the preventing device, thereby adopting actions to avoid forgetting the child in the vehicle. The device of the utility model comprises a power supply, a vehicle starting test apparatus, an inquiry unit, a trip-over test device, a preventing device, and a central processing unit (CPU). The device helps avoid forgetting children in the vehicle.

The power feeding equipment (PFE) includes a laser energy delivering power supply (LEDPS), a CT energy taking power supply (ETPS) connected to LEDPS in parallel, and a unit for monitoring and controlling working conditions of parallel circuit between LEDPS and ETPS. The function for monitoring and controlling the parallel circuit realizes automatic switching between LEDPS and ETPS based on actual working conditions. Being independent on working conditions of circuitry of high voltage / super voltage transmission, PFE can supply power for high voltage / super voltage transmission continuously. PFE also includes an energy storage unit in use for making smoothly and seamlessly switching between LEDPS and ETPS for load. Features of PFE are: long continuous service life, and lower cost.

The invention discloses an ultra wide band rejection filter based on loading of multiple step impedance resonators. The ultra wide band rejection filter comprises a double-faced copper-clad microstrip board. One end of a uniformity impedance resonator is connected with one end of an input end feeder line and one end of a first high impedance connecting line respectively, and the other end of the uniformity impedance resonator is open. The thin end of a microstrip line of the first step impedance resonator is connected with the other end of the first high impedance connecting line and one end of a second high impedance connecting line respectively, and the wide end of the microstrip line is open. The thin end of a microstrip line of the second step impedance resonator is connected with the other end of the second high impedance connecting line and an output end feeder line, and the wide end of the microstrip line is open. According to the ultra wide band rejection filter based on loading of the multiple step impedance resonators, the characteristic impedance of the uniformity impedance resonator and the two step impedance resonators is adjusted, so that the stop band range of the band rejection filter is greatly expanded.

Aiming at the problems that time and labor are wasted when female and male silkworm eggs with different egg colors are separated and the requirement of production of silkworm seeds on time schedule is difficult to meet, the invention provides an instrument for automatically and accurately separating female and male silkworm eggs at a high speed, and the instrument is labor-saving and ensures thatthe silkworm eggs are not damaged. The separator for female and male silkworm eggs, provided by the invention, takes the characteristic that different sexual silkworm eggs have different egg colors as a design characteristic for recognizing and distinguishing the female and male silkworm eggs and focuses on overcoming the physiological property of the silkworm eggs that the silkworm eggs is not favorable for mechanical and automatic control. Through applying technologies such as turnplate type obliquely scraping egg transportation, and the like and using devices such as a single-channel prearranged counting and number control egg supply device, a multi-channel coil shunting and spaced radiation state sorting device, a respectively independent color sensor photoelectric recognition and electromagnetic egg pocketing device separation device, an obliquely scrapping, egg collecting and separately storing device and the like, high-speed and precise female and male silkworm egg separation is realized, the purposes of not damaging the silkworm eggs and maintaining the activity of the silkworm eggs are achieved, and labor is also greatly reduced.

The invention relates to an electric cooker and an automatic reminding control method thereof. The electric cooker comprises a cooker body, a cooker cover and a tank, and further comprises a weighing device, an uncovering state detecting device, a temperature detecting device and an operating panel which are electrically connected to a single chip microcomputer, wherein the single chip microcomputer is additionally electrically connected to a reminding device. The electric cooker, when used, can conduct automatic reminding control firstly and sequentially judge whether food materials are added by a user or not, the covering/uncovering state of the electric cooker, the temperature state of the food materials and a user operating state so as to determine the situation of the food materials cooked in the electric cooker, then the use state of the electric cooker can be determined once again by the user and reminding information can be also transmitted so as to remind the user to start the electric cooker when the use state conforms to requirements. According to the technical scheme, the electric cooker disclosed by the invention is delicate in design thinking and is simple and reliable in design scheme.

The invention discloses a hydraulic support remote control system based on EtherCAT. The hydraulic support remote control system based on EtherCAT comprises a physical layer, a dielectric layer and a system control layer. The physical layer comprises a coal cutter, hydraulic supports and a scraper conveyer, wherein the coal cutter, the hydraulic supports and the scraper conveyer are arranged on a working fully mechanized face. The hydraulic supports are provided with a plurality of hydraulic cylinders and sensors. The dielectric layer comprises a plurality of solenoid valve sets, data collectors and operating panels. Each solenoid valve set, each data collector and each operating panel correspond to one hydraulic support in the physical layer. The system control layer comprises two master controllers, a plurality of I/O controllers and an EtherCAT bus used for transmitting very long instruction control words of the hydraulic supports, and the two master controllers and the I/O controllers are connected through the EtherCAT bus. The hydraulic support remote control system based on EtherCAT ensures real-time performance of remote control, provides big data transmission, and is low in development difficulty and high in reliability.

The invention provides a low-cost primary/standby hot switching system and method based on gateway. The method comprises the following steps: the first switch equipment and the second switch equipmenthave the same configuration and running state, and communicate with the VRRP equipment through a virtual network interface; the VRRP equipment communicates with the external system equipment throughan external access interface; in the initialization, the roles of the first switch equipment and the second switch equipment are set as the standby equipment, when a voice signaling message from the external system equipment is received through the VRRP equipment, the switch equipment sets its own as the primary equipment; when a synchronization message from the external system equipment is received through the VRRP equipment, the switch equipment sets its own as the standby equipment; the VRRP equipment performs the primary/standby hot switching control of a network layer to realize the virtualization of the network layer, thereby enabling the primary equipment and the standby equipment to only present the virtual network interface for the external. The low-cost primary/standby hot switching system provided by the invention avoids the complex modification at the core network side, realizes the low cost of the design and the realization of the primary/standby hot switching scheme.

The invention relates to a device (1) for protecting an electric installation against overvoltage comprising at least one protection component (10) provided with means for connecting to said electric installation, means for disconnecting the protection component (10) therefrom which are movable from a closed position to an open position, thereby forming an interstitial space (11) between the disconnecting and connecting means in such a way that an electric arc is formed therein. The inventive device is characterised in that it is provided with means (50) which approaches said electric arc from at least two different directions in order to reduce the cross-section thereof. Said invention is used for protecting against overvoltage.