5392 results about "Air channel" patented technology

A smokeless pipe comprises a bowl (1), a shank (2), a stem (3) with a bit (4) and an air channel (5) inside of the pipe, which is used for placing a carrier of a nicotine-containing or flavoring agent (10) and a heating unit (7) connected to a power supply (8). According to the invention at least one of elements (7) of a heating unit is arranged in the stem (3) and is shifted to the bit (4). The invention ensures preservation of the health of a pipe smoker while fully simulating the process of smoking.

An air conditioning cooling apparatus and method which includes the steps of supplying cooling air generated from a cooling apparatus into an air passageway formed below a floor; guiding the cooling air within the air passageway into an equipment assembly disposed on the floor through an opening located in the floor; communicating the cooling air introduced into the equipment assembly into a plenum and introducing the air released from within the equipment into the plenum and communicating the released air through the cooling apparatus for cooling the released air. The method permits temperature differential between the air supplied to the air passageway and the air introduced into the plenum from the equipment assembly to be 45.degree. F. to substantially 40.degree. F. so as to reduce the power necessary for operating on the fan of the blowing apparatus. The equipment assembly utilizes an air flow control mechanism so as to substantially evenly distribute cooling air to the equipment.

A hover aircraft employs an air impeller engine having an air channel duct and a rotor with outer ends of its blades fixed to an annular impeller disk that is driven by magnetic induction elements arrayed in the air channel duct. The air-impeller engine is arranged vertically in the aircraft frame to provide vertical thrust for vertical takeoff and landing. Preferably, the air-impeller engine employs dual, coaxial, contra-rotating rotors for increased thrust and gyroscopic stability. An air vane assembly directs a portion of the air thrust output at a desired angle to provide a horizontal thrust component for flight maneuvering or translation movement. The aircraft can employ a single engine in an annular fuselage, two engines on a longitudinal fuselage chassis, three engines in a triangular arrangement for forward flight stability, or other multiple engine arrangements in a symmetric, balanced configuration. Other flight control mechanisms may be employed, including side winglets, an overhead wing, and / or air rudders or flaps. An integrated flight control system can be used to operate the various flight control mechanisms. Electric power is supplied to the magnetic induction drives by high-capacity lightweight batteries or fuel cells. The hover aircraft is especially well suited for applications requiring VTOL deployment, hover operation for quiet surveillance, maneuvering in close air spaces, and long duration flights for continuous surveillance of ground targets and important facilities requiring constant monitoring.

The invention relates to an air channel module and an air channel structure with the air channel module and an air conditioner. The air channel module comprises an air channel main body and a connecting assembly, wherein the air channel main body comprises an air field area in which an airflow air channel is formed, and the airflow air channel is provided with two opposite air outlets; the connecting assembly is arranged on the air channel main body; and a plurality of air channel modules can be connected with each other by virtue of respective connecting assemblies so as to form the air channel structure with a plurality of air field areas. According to the air channel module, different number of air channel modules can form different air channel structures so as to install different number of fan blades, so that the air channel module can be applied to series of products with different heat transfer periods, and the different air channel structures do not need to be independently designed and manufactured according to the products with the different heat transfer periods, so that the design and production cost is effectively reduced, and the production cycle is shortened.

The invention relates to a waveguide manufacturing and a waveguide manufactured with the method, which can be integrated into a circuit structure manufactured with the multilayer ceramic technique. The core part (23, 33, 43, 53a, 53b, 53c) of the waveguide is formed by a unit assembled of ceramic layers, which is limited in the yz plane by two impedance discontinuities and in the xz plane by two planar surfaces (24, 25, 34, 35, 54a, 54c, 55a, 55b, 55c) made of conductive material. The conductive surfaces can be connected to each other by vias made of conductive material (38, 39, 48, 49). The waveguide manufactured with the method according to the invention is a fixed part of the circuit structure as a whole.

A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of "air channels" to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station'a "polling loop". A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop. The ability of a user station to communicate on any unoccupied air channel makes the protocol air-channel agile, while the stability of user station and base station clocks may define air channels, gaps, and minor frames.

Personal body armor has hard armor plates on the front and back of the wearer which extend between a left vest section and a right vest section formed of soft armor. Foam pads are affixed to the interior of the vest sections which space the soft armor and the hard armor plates from the wearer's body and define multiple vertically extending air channels between the wearer and the hard armor plates and the interior of the soft armor The air channels promote ventilation of the armor and cooling of the wearer. For additional comfort, the soft armor is formed of multiple conventional layers of ballistic material and a {fraction (1 / 16)} inch molded plastic layer. The hard armor plates are configured to avoid interference with the usual range of motion of the wearer.

An air delivery system may include a housing, a first liquid-to-air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE), and a desiccant storage tank. The housing includes a supply air channel and an exhaust air channel. The first LAMEE may be an exhaust LAMEE disposed within an exhaust air channel of the housing. The exhaust LAMEE is configured to receive the outside air during a desiccant regeneration mode in order to regenerate desiccant within the exhaust LAMEE. The desiccant storage tank is in communication with the exhaust LAMEE. The exhaust LAMEE is configured to store regenerated desiccant within the desiccant storage tank. The regenerated desiccant within the desiccant storage tank is configured to be tapped during a normal operation mode.

A combination pressurized airflow and thermal cutting tool constructed as a dual-use thermal airflow tool for directed heating and drying of a specific area in surgical procedures, such as, by way of example, in eye cataract surgery where it is primarily used for needs related to the operation of a thermal cutting tool. The thermal airflow tool comprises a probe having an elongated, hollow body adapted to provide electrical power to a burning ring formed at a distal end thereof, and an air channel for conducting pressurized airflow to the distal end of the probe, with at least two apertures radially disposed at the distal end of the probe. The thermal airflow tool is in physical and electrical connection with an air pressure unit and thermal power unit, respectively, for directing and concentrating at least one of the pressurized airflow and heat at the distal end of the thermal airflow tool onto a surgical area when electrical power is applied to the thermal airflow tool.

The invention provides a channeling preventing and plugging agent and a construction method for controlling plugging and sealing channeling by utilizing the channeling preventing and plugging agent. The channeling preventing and plugging agent comprises a high-temperature-resistance pre-plugging agent serving as a pre-posed pre-plugging plug, an enhanced gel plugging agent serving as an intermediate enhanced plug and a high-strength resin plugging agent serving as a postposed sealing plug. The channeling preventing and plugging agent has the characteristics of high temperature resistance, long-term stability, good plugging performance and the like. The invention further provides a construction method for controlling plugging and sealing channeling by utilizing the channeling preventing and plugging agent. The method has a simple constructing process, and can be used for constructing after the channeling preventing and plugging agent is directly prepared on the spot. The channeling preventing and plugging agent can be used for effectively solving the adverse impact of the steam / air channeling phenomenon of a heavy oil thermal production well on production, and has an important effect on prolonging the production cycle of a heavy oil well and improving the recovery efficiency.

A high speed connector includes a plurality of terminal assemblies in which two columns of conductive terminals are supported in an insulative support body, the body including an internal cavity disposed between the two columns of conductive terminals. The terminals are arranged in horizontal pairs, and the internal cavity defines an air channel between each horizontal pair of terminals arranged in the two columns of terminals. The terminals are further aligned with each other in each row so that horizontal faces of the terminals in the two rows face each other to thereby promote broadside coupling between horizontal pairs of terminals.

Apparatus and method embedding a camera in a street light includes structure and / or function whereby the street light, comprising has a first compartment having an LED array configured to illuminate an area beneath the street light. A second compartment is coupled to the first compartment and has a camera directed toward the area beneath the street light. The second compartment has a window covering the camera such that the camera can receive light from area beneath the street light, but passers-by do not see the camera. A third compartment is coupled to the second compartment and is configured to attach the street light to a vertical support. A passive air channel is disposed between the first compartment and the second compartment, and is configured to direct air from beneath the street light to the top of the street light. Preferably, the power supply for the LED array is disposed in a compartment different that the first compartment. An anti-glare device is preferably mounted to a bottom of at least one of the first compartment and the second compartment, and is configured to shield the camera from light glare and / or reflections from the LED array.

A method for reading and tracking radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the presence of a noisy air channel is provided. In accordance with the method, a binary tree data structure is used to characterize a plurality of RFID tags, each of which is associated with a unique identification (ID) number. During communication between a tag reader and one or more RFID tags, the tag reader traverses the binary tree, eliminating tags from communication until one tag with a unique ID number is isolated and verified. As the binary tree is traversed, counters associated with each node in the tree are incremented based on tag matches, such that, over time, counters associated with nodes in tag-populated branches will tend to have a high value and counters associated with nodes in unpopulated tree branches will tend to have low values. Where the read process is subject to noise and the tag reader is forced make a decision at a branching node, the tag reader makes a branch prediction based on the current value of the node counters associated with each of the possible alternative branches.

The invention relates to an air buffer having an automatic seal body air shutting-off and locking device and a making method thereof. The air buffer comprises a seal body composed of a continuous film coil and comprising two pieces of external film and two pieces of internal film, a plurality of equidistant heat-resistant nodes made from heat-resistant material are coated on the top of the internal surface of one internal film, and hot seal nodes are arranged at the positions at the same height as the heat-resistant nodes of one external film, and hot seal transversal lines are employed to divide the seal body into aerating channel regions and air storing columns, the aerating channels join the air storing columns through the hot seal lines, an internal film with heat-resistant nodes is arranged on the external film to make the internal film and the external film unjoined to form a sole channel air inlet. When aerating, the air channel portions of the two pieces of external films will expand to draw the internal films joined therewith, thus to allow all the air inlets along the air channels to open indirectly. In this way, a plurality of seal bodies are needed to be aerated, the air inlets are shut off and the air inlet paths are locked after aerating, thereby the air buffer having dual air shutting-off functions and durable seal performance.

A high speed connector includes a plurality of wafer-style components in which two columns of conductive terminals are supported in an insulative support body, the body including an internal cavity disposed between the two columns of conductive terminals. The terminals are arranged in horizontal pairs, and the internal cavity defines an air channel between each horizontal pair of terminals arranged in the two columns of terminals. The terminals are further aligned with each other in each row so that horizontal faces of the terminals in the two rows face each other to thereby promote broadside coupling between horizontal pairs of terminals. A dielectric insert is provided between the columns of terminals to thereby influence the broadside coupling between pairs of terminals.

A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove including an exposed perforated palm area (12) and a few cushioning pads (16, 18) surrounding said palm area, said cushioning pads (16, 18) being closedly spaced from one another so as to define at least a few air channels being formed radially therebetween, said air channels for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from said perforated palm area, each one of said air channels (20, 22) destined to be narrower than the diameter of the bicycle handlebar so that the bicycle handlebar cannot close said air channels upon the hand globe hand engaging the bicycle handlebar.

The invention relates to an air-guide member (100) for guiding an air flow (AF) in the food preparation chamber of an apparatus using the air flow (AF) to prepare food ingredients. The air-guide member (100) comprises a plurality of air-deflecting arms (101) arranged symmetrically and extending in a horizontal plane (P) between an inner part (IP) and an outer part (OP) of the air-guide member (100). The air-deflecting arms (101) comprises a first surface (S1) being inclined with a positive angle compared to the horizontal plane (P), and a second surface (S2) being inclined with a negative angle compared to the horizontal plane (P). The air-deflecting arms (101) is such that the second surface (S2) of a given air-deflecting arms (101) and the first surface (SI) of an air-deflecting arms (101) consecutive to the given air-deflecting arms (101) intersect to form a concave air channel (AC) extending between the outer part (OP) and the inner part (IP). This allows directing the air flow upwards and more evenly between the outer part and the inner part of the air-guide. The food ingredients can thus receive a flow of hot air having a more uniform air pressure distribution, which results in a more even cooking of the food ingredients.

As to a heat sink manufacturing method of a plasma display apparatus according to the present invention and the manufacturing device, a widthwise direction air channel and a lengthwise direction air channel are formed through a extrusion and a rolling processing to facilitate a processing with a continuous extrusion and rolling processing. Accordingly, the productivity is notably improved.

A three-dimensional (3D) chip stack structure and method of fabricating the structure thereof are provided. The 3D chip stack structure includes a plurality of vertically stacked chips which are interconnected and bonded together, wherein each of the vertically stacked chips include one or more IC device strata. The 3D chip stack structure further includes an air channel interconnect network embedded within the chip stack structure, and wherein the air channel interconnect network is formed in between at least two wafers bonded to each other of the vertically stacked wafers and in between at least two bonded wafers of the vertically stacked wafers at a bonding interface thereof. In addition, the 3D chip stack structure further includes one or more openings in a peripheral region of the chip stack structure that lead into and out of the air channel interconnect network, so that air can flow into and out of the air channel interconnect network through the one or more openings to remove heat from the chip stack structure.

An adapter for attaching to an earphone includes a sleeve capable attaching the adapter to the earphone and an ear portion including a tubular sidewall having a first end attached to the sleeve and a second end opposite the first end. In one embodiment, the tubular sidewall includes an outer surface and a plurality of fins extending outwardly from the outer surface. In another embodiment, the tubular sidewall has an inner surface defining an air channel extending through the sidewall, and the inner surface has a twin cone shape including a converging cone portion extending from the first end and a diverging cone portion extending from the converging cone portion to the second end. In one embodiment, the adapter includes both a plurality of fins, and a twin cone air channel.

There is an accurate pressure-controlling electric rice cooker, which contains an inner pot inside pot body crust, and the inner pot is connected with electric plate, and there is a resilient seal ring between the inner pot and pot cover. Between the crust and the inner pot there is a middle pot; between the crust and the middle pot there is a heat-insulating layer. The electric rice cooker has a pressure switch, which contains an air duct or air channel connected with inner pot chamber. The other end of the air duct or air channel is communicated with a pressure membrane case, in which there are movable membranes that are joined with push rod. On the other side of the push rod there is a movable contact spring, which connects with an unmovable contact spring, and both the two contact springs couple with main controlling electric of electric rice cooker separately. This invention has simple and reasonable structure, its pressure controlling is accurate, safety degree is high, and after cooking it can exhaust quickly and safely, discharge pressure in blocked style, and its heat insulation effect is good, heat conductivity is high and is energy saving.

An improved inlet silencer / filter for an oxygen concentrator includes a HEPA filter and an adjoining chamber for receiving air flow from the HEPA filter. The chamber is surrounded on one face by the HEPA filter, and by sound absorbing padding on at least 4 other faces. Air is forced from the HEPA filter, through the open chamber and then through the sound absorbing padding by a flow restrictor plate. Air flows from here through air channels and into an open chamber leading to an outlet from the air silencer / filter.

Isolation IR heat lamp module and method of firing multi-zone IR furnaces for solar cell processing comprising lamps disposed in individual parallel channels in a reflector / insulator body to provide a cooling air channel surrounding each tube; the channels are covered with IR-transmissive plate material to isolate each lamp from adjacent lamps and the process zone. Cooling air is exhausted and recycled upstream for energy conservation. Lamp spacing can be varied and power to each lamp individually controlled to provide infinite control of temperature profile in each heating zone. For a spike zone, and in combination with downstream quench control and annealing zones, steep heating and cooling curves with very short dwell (sharp) peak temperature profiles permit faster throughput due to operation of the lampsm at essentially 100% rated capacity, at a 2× or greater heating and throughput rate without compromising lamp life, while producing solar cells with improved output efficiency.

A protective structure for use in a surgical environment includes a face shield formed as a transparent tube to extend around the wearer's head and a cloth head covering extending above and around the face shield, with a viewing aperture being formed in the head covering to extend in front of the wearer's face, and with the head covering being attached to the face shield around the viewing aperture. A support structure extends from a rear portion of the face shield to a front portion thereof, forming an air channel through which air is moved by an internal fan between an air inlet aperture in the head covering at the rear of the support structure and an air outlet at the front of the support structure above the wearer's face.

In accordance with non-limiting examples, a nebulizer includes a main body comprising an air channel section and further comprising a mixing chamber and a venturi positioned to be placed within the patient's oral cavity and configured to receive medicine and air and mix the medicine and air within the mixing chamber and receive the air flow through the venturi and cause the medicine entering the mixing chamber to be atomized by the action of air flowing through the venturi. An air flow sensor is associated with the main body and configured to measure the air flow created by the patient's one of at least inhaling and exhaling air.

A disk drive baseplate includes a raised major surface oriented essentially parallel to the disk, a recessed major surface, and a boundary contour between the raised major surface and the recessed major surface. In one embodiment, the baseplate further includes an air channel adjacent to and at least partially outboard of the raised major surface, wherein the air channel includes the recessed major surface.

A convertible shoe having a shoe body and a shoe sole. An air channel formed in said shoe sole including pressurized air inlet and air exhaust. An elongated pocket or multiple individual pockets in the bottom of the shoe sole and along said air channel. A flexible wall portion between said air channel and pocket that expands into the pocket(s) upon pressurization of said air channel. A protrusion affixed to said flexible wall portion and which extends out of said pocket and into engagement with a support surface when said air channel is pressurized.