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Embodiments of the present invention describe a method for producing gel beads comprising: depositing catalyzed sol droplets comprising a gel precursor into a moving dispensing medium, said medium being immiscible with the sol, and allowing gelation of the sol to occur in the moving dispensing medium thereby producing gel beads. This system utilizes a horizontally flowing dispensing medium where the catalyzed sol droplet is fully formed before deposited therein.

The invention provides a spirally driven walking robot in a pipe, which consists of a power-driven device, a walking guide device and a universal joint (8) connecting the power-driven device and the walking guide device; the power-driven device is formed by a motor (1) driving a circular rotor (5); the outer wall of the circular rotor (5) is respectively provided with three groups of symmetrically distributed wheel carriers (2); each group of wheel carrier (2) is provided with two wheels (3), and the rotating axes of the two wheels forms an acute elevation angle with the axes of the rotor (5); the walking guide device consists of three groups of symmetrically distributed guide wheel carriers (12) which are arranged on the outer wall of a cylinder or a cylindrical body (11); each group of guide wheel carrier (12) is provided with two wheels (10), and the rotating axes of the two wheels is vertical to the axes of the cylindrical body (11); and the wheel carriers (2) on the rotor (5) of the power-driven device and the guide wheel carriers (12) on the cylinder or the cylindrical body (11) of the walking guide device are all floating bodies, and certain radial dilation generated by a spring (9) is used to make all wheels on the wheel carriers (2) and the guide wheel carriers (12) always attach to the inner wall of the pipe. The motor drives the walking robot in the pipe to advance or retreat along the axes direction of the pipe.

Disclosed herein are a robot cleaner that has an improved traveling performance, and a method of controlling traveling thereof. The robot cleaner allows driving wheels, which move the robot cleaner, and a brush unit, which sweeps dust on a floor, to be rotated in the same direction.

A route planning device that is capable of comprehending, in advance, a route clearance at a pass-through point on a planned travel route, includes a global map acquisition unit arranged to generate a global map showing an obstacle area in which an obstacle exists, an extended area generation unit arranged to generate an extended obstacle area and three extended area by extending stepwise an outline of the obstacle area contained in the global map, an integrated map generation unit arranged to generate an integrated map by superposing for integration of the extended obstacle area with the three extended areas; a movable area extraction unit arranged to extract a movable area from the integrated map and thinning the same, and a route planning unit arranged to acquire a route clearance at a sub goal according to the extended areas on the integrated map to which the sub goal on the travel route belongs, upon planning the travel route from the thinned movable area.

The invention provides a flight dynamic information display method, system and equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps that flight information is acquired; a flight display interface with a flight information area is provided, and a take-off information bar, a stopping information bar and an arrival information bar are displayed in the flight information area along the timeaxis in sequence; current flight information is acquired, and flight information which is displayed in the flight information area is updated; whether or not a current flight has a new event of landing preparation or course reversal is judged. According to the flight dynamic information display method, based on the time dimension, all flight states of take-off, arrival, stopping, landing preparation and course reversal in the process are arrayed in sequence, an airport gate, a check counter, a baggage turntable, an exit and predicted take-off/arrival time are integrated, and according to the flying progress, a user can conduct quickly position and focus on the flight dynamic information of an airport according to a used scene; stopping, landing preparation and course reversal data is supplemented, more sufficient data information is provided on a complex flight scene, and the method helps the user to successfully complete travel.

The disclosure relates to a vessel for holding fluid. The vessel has at least one wall defining a mouth, the mouth having an inner surface, an outer surface, an end surface and one or more spouts located at the junction of the inner and end surfaces. At least one of the one or more spouts comprises a recess in the inner surface and an outlet at the end surface, the recess being shaped to transition smoothly from the inner surface to the outlet. The disclosure also relates to a vessel and lid assembly and a pouring attachment for a bottle having the mouth as described above.

A mass transit system includes a plurality of pedestal-mounted rings which provide a support through which a vehicle travels. The pedestals are spaced apart on the ground, but no rail or connecting structure on or above ground is required. An underground conduit carries electrical and communications cable that connects the pedestals together. The rings include a plurality of rollers to drive, guide and stabilize the vehicle at lower speeds. For higher speeds flywheels are mounted on the pedestals. The flywheels are preferably driven by an electrical motor, which engages a friction or clutch plate on the vehicle separate from the rings. The friction plate or linear clutch is mounted separate from the rings on the vehicle and is lowered to engage and disengage the flywheel. The flywheel is also mounted on a shock absorber to smooth the travel of the vehicle.

A hinge for automatically-closing a door which opens in both directions with a shock absorbing function, which allows installation on a door which opens in both directions and is opened inward and outward, including a cylinder 2; an operating rod 3 attached to one end of the cylinder 2 so as to be rotatable and restricted from moving in the longitudinal direction; two substantially V-shaped grooves 33 provided on an outer periphery of the operating rod 3 in the cylinder 2 so as to oppose to each other; two spheres 55 provided so as to engage the substantially V-shaped grooves 33 and disposed so as to oppose to each other; an upper piston 5 engaged with the spheres 55 and moved in the cylinder 2 in the longitudinal direction in conjunction with the movement of the spheres 55 with respect to the substantially V-shaped groove 33; a compression coil spring 4 disposed between the upper piston 5 and an upper end portion of the cylinder 2 and configured to urge the upper piston 5 to the other end side of the cylinder 2; and a fluid pressure shock absorbing mechanism configured to absorb a shock caused by the movement of the upper piston 5 to the other end side with a liquid pressure.

A travel control apparatus (140) includes a acquisition unit (141), which acquires information on a target track through which a vehicle (M) will pass in the future, a parameter determiner (142), which determines a parameter by which a track model defined by one or more parameters coincides with a track acquired by the acquisition unit, and a steering controller (143), which feedforward-controls steering of the vehicle on the basis of at least the track model defined by the parameter determined by the parameter determiner, wherein the parameter determiner determines the parameter on the basis of a direction of a change in the degree of separation between the track model and the target track with respect to a change in the parameter.

A roller assembly for a horizontally opening retractable screen has a flexible screen with upper and lower toothed edges. Upper and lower guide tracks each have an elongate retaining channel in which an upper and lower edge of the flexible screen is received. The assembly comprises a roller onto which the flexible screen is rolled when the screen is open and from which the flexible screen is unrolled. A guide arrangement is associated with the lower end of the roller that guides the lower toothed edge of the screen into the elongate retaining channel of the lower guide track. The guide arrangement defines a guide passage having an exit aperture through which the lower toothed edge passes during unrolling that communicates with the lower guide track retaining channel, wherein the toothed edge is retained from being pulled out of the exit aperture as it passes therethrough.

This application relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring of conduits, especially oil or gas pipelines, as an object such as pipeline pig moves within the conduit. The method comprises monitoring at least part of a conduit (206) using a fibre optic (202) distributed acoustic sensor (204) as the object (208) passes along the conduit. The acoustic signals detected from at least one sensing location (203) as the object moves along the conduit are analysed so as to discriminate acoustic signals received at said sensing location from different locations. The method allows the contributions to the acoustic signal at a given sensing portion from different locations to be separately identified, and can allow the detection of the location of acoustic sources along the conduit even if the source is outside the section of conduit which is monitored. The method provides a method of leak detection that can extend the monitoring of the pipeline beyond the location of the optical fibre.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of mobile robots, and discloses a robot obstacle avoidance method and device, a robot and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: detecting an obstacle in a current detection range, and generating current obstacle point cloud data; acquiring stored historical obstacle point cloud data; and establishing a navigation map by utilizing the current obstacle point cloud data and the historical obstacle point cloud data, determining position information of the obstacle according to the navigation map, and planning a navigation route. According to the method, the obstacle which can be detected by the robot exists in the navigation map of the robot, the obstacle in the blind area detected by the robot at the current moment also exists in the navigation map of the robot, and the robot can be effectively prevented from being scratched according to the navigation route planned by the established navigation map.

A bearing assembly is disclosed that 410 includes at least one ball track having a load bearing portion, a return portion and a turnaround portion interconnecting the load bearing and return portions. A plurality of bearing balls are disposed in the ball tracks. At least a portion of the ball tracks are configured for unguided recirculation of the bearing balls. The bearing assembly may include a pair of ball tracks separated by a center rib. In an alternate embodiment, the bearing assembly includes at least one island disposed in at least a portion of the ball tracks. The islands facilitate recirculation of the bearing balls in the ball tracks. In another alternate embodiment, a bearing assembly is provided that includes a rail. A bearing carriage is configured to move along the rail. At least one ball track is disposed adjacent the rail and the bearing carriage. The ball tracks include a load bearing portion, a return portion and a turnaround portion interconnecting the load bearing and return portions. A plurality of bearing balls are disposed in the ball tracks. The ball tracks are configured for unguided recirculation of the bearing balls. The bearing assembly may include at least one insert having at least a portion of the ball tracks formed therein.

The invention discloses a robot walking outside a pipeline, which consists of a power driving device, a walking guide device and an elastic element assembly (11) connected with the walking guide device. The power driving device is a rotary body consisting of a cylindrical body (1) and a cylindrical driving main body (4) through a rolling bearing (3), the inner wall of the cylindrical body (1) is fixedly provided with more than one motor (2), and a motor shaft is parallel to the axis of the cylindrical body (1) and is provided with a gear (6); one end of the inner wall of the cylindrical driving main body (4) is fixedly provided with an annular gear (5) which is engaged with the gear (6), the inner wall of the cylindrical driving main body (4) is provided with a group of driving wheels (8), and the rotating axes of the driving wheels (8) and the cylindrical driving main body (4) form an acute angle; and the inner wall of a cylindrical guide main body (12) of the walking guide device is provided with at least more than two groups of guide wheels (14), and the rotating axes of the guide wheels (14) are mutually vertical to the axis of the cylindrical guide main body (12). Both a mounting frame (7) and a guide wheel carrier (13) are floating bodies, and an elastic element (15) is used for producing a certain radial expansion amount so that the driving wheels (8) and the guide wheels (14) are attached to the outer wall of the pipeline (10) all the time. After the driving of the motor, the motor can advance or retract along the axis direction of the pipeline, and can be used for operations such as outer pipe quality detection, maintenance, repair and the like of various pipelines and stayed bridge cables.

The invention discloses an abnormal flight aircraft path and passenger journey automatic recovery system and method, and the system and method automatically achieve the rescheduling of an aircraft path and a passenger journey when an abnormal flight occurs through a computer and an optimization technology. The system comprises a system data input module, a system parameter management module and arecovery result output module of a client, and a passenger cost estimation module, a flight cost estimation module, an aircraft path recovery module and a passenger journey recovery module of a server. The invention further provides an abnormal flight aircraft path and passenger travel method based on the optimization model. According to the system and the method provided by the invention, the traditional low-efficiency mode of manually adjusting the aircraft path and the passenger travel is avoided, the rescheduling of the aircraft path and the passenger travel is automatically and quickly realized, the flight delay and the flight cancellation are reduced, and the smooth travel of passengers is ensured.

A ceiling transport vehicle in which articles may be transferred precisely while allowing its travel portion to travel smoothly along a set travel path is provided. The ceiling transport vehicle has a pair of guiding bodies which guide the travel portion along a set travel path by contacting each of right and left lateral sides of a guide rail with a pair of contacting members that are supported by the travel portion such that the contacting members can be moved away from each other and moved toward each other in a lateral width direction. The ceiling transport vehicle also has a switching portion for moving each of the pair of contacting members away from each other and toward each other to switch between a holding state and a holding release state.

A modular plastic conveyor belt, formed of successive rows of assembled injection molded modules connected by laterally-extending pins, has arched tops in each module row and increased depth in the laterally-extending spine of the belt. The belt structure enables the modular plastic belt to be retrofitted in a spiral system normally carrying a steel conveyor belt. In one embodiment the arched-top module rows, having a greater depth than normal, are accommodated on a small-diameter roller, by forming a generally cylindrical undercut at the bottom of each module row, reducing the distance of protrusion outwardly from the roller. The arched-top configuration lends itself not only to transfer of articles as the conveyor passes over the sprocket for a roller, but also the provision of increased beam depth at the center of the module, with lower profiles at the extremities of the link ends.

The present disclosure relates to an autonomous cruise control apparatus and a control method thereof. An embodiment provides an autonomous cruise control apparatus including: a sensing module configured to detect an object adjacent to the vehicle; a vehicle movement distance calculation unit configured to calculate a vehicle movement distance for moving the vehicle to the left or right using a preset method; and a control module configured to perform a control operation to move the vehicle by the vehicle movement distance when movement of a following vehicle behind the vehicle by a preset width or more is detected by the sensing module. Therefore, an emergency vehicle may be allowed to smoothly travel during autonomous cruise control by detecting travel of the emergency vehicle and creating a travel path for the emergency vehicle.