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An article transport device comprises an endless revolving body that is configured to move along a cyclic path in a substantially horizontal direction; a plurality of article supports each of which supports an article, wherein the article supports move together with the endless revolving body with the supports spaced apart from each other in a traveling direction; a support mechanism for supporting the article supports to the endless revolving body such that the article supports can move between a transport position adjacent the endless revolving body and an away position spaced apart from the transport position; and a guide mechanism for causing at least some of the article supports to move from the transport position to the away position and to move from the away position to the transport position, at an article delivering location or an article receiving location along the cyclic path of the endless revolving body.

The color image sensor generates a color image signal representing a subject and includes an optical substrate and a light sensor. The optical substrate includes spatially-separated imaging elements. Each of the imaging elements is configured to image light of a respective color. The light sensor includes regions of sensor elements disposed opposite respective ones of the imaging elements. The sensor elements in each of the regions are operable to generate a component of the color image signal in response to the light of the respective color incident on them.

A method for making an actuator device includes forming a substantially planar structure having a stage resiliently supported for movement within a plane of the structure, an actuator coupled to an outer periphery of the stage and operable to apply a force acting in the plane and tangentially to the stage when actuated, the actuator comprising a fixed frame and a moving frame resiliently supported for reciprocal movement relative to the fixed frame by a motion control flexure, and an outer frame surrounding and supporting the stage and the actuator. The moving frame is moved to a deployed position that is coplanar with, parallel to and spaced apart from the fixed frame at a selected distance, and the moving frame is then fixed at the deployed position for substantially rectilinear, perpendicular movement relative to the fixed frame.

A mobile radio network comprises a plurality of communication points, each of which are capable of communicating with any other communication point. Each communication point has a proximity sensor, a transmitter/receiver (14), which is able to send signals to and receive signals from the other communication points. Means for controlling the transmitter/receiver and means for storing data to identify the communication points is also described.

In one example, an actuator device useful in, e.g., a camera for, e.g., optical image stabilization (OIS), includes a stage resiliently supported for movement within a plane, three or more actuators, each coupled to an outer periphery of the stage and operable to apply a force acting in the plane and tangentially to the stage when actuated, and an outer frame surrounding and supporting the stage and the actuators.

A manipulator for servicing tubes extending through a tube sheet having three major components: a base member, a block member, and a foot member. The base member has a holder for supporting tooling or inspection devices. The base member also has at least one gripper for releasably gripping a tube extending through the tube sheet. The block member is connected to the base member for linear movement and rotation relative to the base member. The foot member is connected to the block member for linear movement relative to the block member. The foot member has at least one, and preferably two grippers, for releasably gripping a tube extending through the tube sheet. The manipulator supports itself using the two sets of expandable and translatable grippers that anchor into the tube ends and can move from tube to tube by alternately engaging each set of grippers.

A method and apparatus for reducing speckle during inspection of articles used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, including wafers, masks, photomasks, and reticles. The coherence of a light beam output by a coherent light source, such as a pulsed laser, is reduced by disposing elements in a light path. Examples of such elements include optical fiber bundles; optical light guides; optical gratings; an integrating sphere; and an acousto-optic modulator. These various elements may be combined as desired, such that light beams output by the element combinations have optical path length differences that are greater than a coherence length of the light beam output by the coherent light source.

The invention discloses a calibration system of humidity-temperature sensor, comprising a calibration chamber of which the top is provided with multiple to-be-measured sensor sockets for mounting to-be-measured sensors; an environmental chamber arranged below the calibration chamber and comprising a saturated salt solution container that is used for holding saturated salt solution and arranged in the heat transferring medium of a water bath tank, and the water bath tank; a temperature control chamber arranged below the environmental chamber and used for fast heating or cooling the water bath tank; a thermal container which is used for keeping the measurement environment stable and in which the calibration chamber, the environmental chamber and the temperature control chamber are arranged; and a control circuit for controlling the heating or cooling of the temperature control chamber. The invention also discloses a calibration method of humidity-temperature sensor. The invention realizes the calibration of humidity-temperature sensor by the same system, and is compactly structured, simple and practical. The calibration has small time consumption and is convenient for practical operation. The calibrating device of the invention is simple, has small volume, can realize portable measurement, has cheap material and low cost, and can be popularised and applied in large scale.

A power transmission device includes a pair of gear assemblies and an idle. Each of the gear assemblies includes a first gear having continuous external teeth on a peripheral wall and a second gear having continuous external teeth on a peripheral wall. The first gear and second gear are arranged to form a one-way clutch. When the first gear rotates in one direction relative to the second gear, the first gear is not connected to the second gear. When the first gear rotates in the other direction relative to the second gear, the first gear is connected to the second gear. The external teeth of the first gears in the gear assemblies engage each other, and the external teeth of the second gears in the gear assemblies engage the idle gear. One direction output at the second gear is obtained regardless of an input direction at the first gear.

A linear drive portion is fixed to a piston. A nut portion and a screw portion relatively rotate, and a direction of action of driving force is converted between a rotational direction and a linear direction. The piston is installed within a case. The inner circumference of a piston sliding portion fixed within the case slidably supports the outer circumference of the piston. The nut portion is displaced with the piston, and the screw portion rotates in conjunction with a rotational drive portion. The piston is installed so as to be able to slide in the axial direction of the case with respect to the piston sliding portion. The axis of the piston and the central position of the inner circumference of the piston sliding portion are set to be eccentric with respect to the axis of the screw portion and the nut portion.

A power take-off support portion, including a shaft hole and an outer side surface formed around the shaft hole, is formed on a transaxle housing. The outer side surface of the power take-off support portion is shaped to fit a power take-off casing supporting a power take-off shaft in a first direction. A power take-off casing includes a power take-off main casing member and a base casing member joined to each other. The base casing member is formed with an inner side surface and an outer side surface. The inner side surface and the outer side surface of the base casing member are shaped so that the power take-off shaft supported by the power take-off main casing member is oriented in a second direction different from the first direction when the inner side surface of the base casing member is fitted to the outer side surface of the power take-off support portion, and the outer side surface of the base casing member is fitted to the inner side surface of the power take-off main casing member.

The invention relates to a method and a device for joint denitrifying by denitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation embedding particles, and belongs to the field of sewage. The method comprises the following steps of respectively embedding a WPU (water-borne polyurethane) material by separated denitrification bacteria and anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria, putting the denitrification embedding particles into a flow-separated ball, putting anaerobic ammonia oxidation embedding particles into a Pall ring or into water in a floating state, and setting the denitrification embedding particles and the anaerobic ammonia oxidation embedding particles into an incomplete mixing state. The device comprises a water bath constant-temperature system, a sealing device, the flow-separated ball, the Pall ring and the like. The method and the device have the advantages that after embedding of the denitrification bacteria and anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria, the influence to the activity is avoided, the amounts of the denitrification bacteria and the anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria in the system are increased, the loss of bacteria amounts is reduced, the problems of slow growth of the anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria and stricter growth environment requirement in an anaerobic ammonia oxidation technology are solved, and the denitrifying efficiency of the system is improved by combining a nitrifying mode; the two types of embedding are set into the incomplete mixing state in the device, and respective feeding ratios can be flexibly adjusted according to the water quality.

This invention relates to automobile high voltage DC insulation monitor circuit, wherein two input ends are connected to the high voltage output end; one end of the filter is connected to ground and the two output ends of the filter are connected to the two input ends of the protector; two output ends of the protector are connected to the two input ends of amplifier; output end of the amplifier is connected to the other end of the voltage comparing circuit; one end of the high voltage is connected to the one end of the division circuit and the other end of the division circuit is connected to the input end of the voltage comparing circuit.

A vibration isolating functional member 16 is formed of an inner cylinder 1, an outer cylinder 2, and a vibration isolating rubber 3. Thereafter an end face of a flange 10 of the outer cylinder 2 is joined with a bracket side connecting surface 15 of a bracket 4 and the joint portion thereof is laser welded. In this time, the outer peripheral end face of the flange 10 as the joining portion projects toward a position apart from the vibration isolating rubber 3 such as giving no thermal influence to the vibration isolating rubber 3. This position to give no thermal influence to the rubber is determined by an experiment based on a welded material, thickness thereof, laser welding conditions (such as melting depth, output power and welding speed), surface temperature limit of the rubber and so on.

An implantable unit includes fluorescent sensor molecules, each of which includes a binding site for an analyte, a donor fluorophore, and an acceptor fluorophore; and a first light source. An external system includes an external reading unit, which includes a light sensor; and a processor, which is configured to (i) during a first time period: (a) drive the first light source to generate light having a first illumination peak wavelength appropriate for excitation of the donor fluorophore, and (b) receive, from the light sensor, a first measurement of the fluorescent light emitted from the acceptor fluorophore, (ii) during a second time period: (a) drive a second light source to generate light having a second illumination peak wavelength appropriate for direct excitation of the acceptor fluorophore, and (b) receive, from the light sensor, a second measurement of the fluorescent light emitted from the acceptor fluorophore, and (iii) calculate the concentration of the analyte based on the measurements.

A lifting arrangement for a wheel shaft of a vehicle operates on a wheel shaft that is movably suspended in a vehicle frame structure through one or more stay devices. The stay devices are articulatedly connected to the frame structure through at least one frame connection, and to the wheel shaft by at least one shaft connection. A lifting device is arranged in connection with the frame structure and the stay device to raise the wheel shaft in a vertical direction relative to the frame structure when actuated. The stay device provides a compact mechanism to permit the vehicle axle to be lifted, while preserving room for other vehicle components.

The invention provides a magnetic field generator. The magnetic field generator comprises at least two magnetism-conductive pole heads provided with pole head ends respectively, at least one magnetic source and at least one magnetism-conductive magnetic yoke, wherein the at least two magnetism-conductive pole heads are placed in such a mode that the pole head ends are opposite to each other, and air gaps are formed between the pole head ends; the at least one magnetism-conductive magnetic yoke is used for conducting magnetic fields generated by the at least one magnetic source to the at least two magnetism-conductive pole heads so as to generate magnetic fields in the air gaps; and the at least one magnetic source can rotate relative to the at least one magnetism-conductive magnetic yoke, and when the at least one magnetic source rotates from a first position to a second position, fluxes conducted in the at least one magnetism-conductive magnetic yoke are different in size.