577 results about "Appliance component" patented technology

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 wearable device has a carrier having an aperture. A device has a USB connection and a protrusion wherein the protrusion is received in the aperture to connect the device to the wristband. The device is a USB type device having athletic functionality. The device may further be configured to receive calibration data such that a measured distance may be converted to a known distance based on athletic activity performed by a user.

Computer analysis is made of individual patient related data in order to select standard or pre-manufactured orthodontic appliances or appliance components (10) that are most likely to provide orthodontic treatment suitable for the individual patient. This analysis can be made by the software of a custom orthodontic appliance designing system, without actually manufacturing the custom appliance. Geometric parameters (21-24, 28, 29) of a custom designed appliance may be compared with corresponding parameters of alternative standard appliances or appliance components so that the closest standard component can be used. The custom appliance can be designed to accommodate the geometries of one or more appliance components. Where custom mounting instructions that modify otherwise standard installation of an appliance or component will render the standard component more compatible with a custom appliance design, such instructions are provided to the orthodontist along with the selection. The invention is most useful in selecting orthodontic brackets, or combinations of standard brackets and standard archwires.

Processing techniques for various surface mount modular components provide various structures for single device components (10) and multiple device components (FIGS. 6 and 7) suitable as character displays. The technique beings with a slab of substrate material 12 patterned on both sides. Plated through holes (33, 43) connecting back side terminals (19, 20) to front side connective strips (22, 24) are formed. Devices (15, 16) are mounted to land areas (13, 34) and wire bonded to connecting pads (14). The front side is coated with epoxy to encapsulate the devices in a layer having an outer surface formed into optional lenses (262, 263). The slab is then separated to provide the modular components.

The invention relates to a network system of at least two appliances, each appliance configured to perform a cycle of operation on an article, and each appliance having its own software architecture. An embedded virtual router enables communication among appliance components independent of the architecture of the software.

The invention provides an air purifier. The air purifier comprises a shell (10) and a purification component (30) arranged in the shell (10). The air purifier further comprises a movable lateral wall (20) fixedly connected with the purification component (30). The air purifier effectively resolves the problems that in the cleaning, assembly and disassembly process of an air purifier in the prior art, as an electric appliance component in the air purifier is damaged easily, the performance of the whole air purifier is affected.

A distributed control system for local or remote control of equipment. The distributed control system provides a communication bridge through a local control panel between a non-real-time network, and a real-time network, such as a controller area network. Both soft real-time and hard real-time networks are suitable, but hard real-time is preferred. Multiple distributed control units are used to control various equipment components. The distributed control system may be applied in any environment. The distributed control system may be applied to a skid-mounted coiled tubing unit.

According to one embodiment, the present technique provides a medical device component having an RF tag that is configured to provide information regarding the medical device component. Particularly, the RF tag may contain and provide information regarding maintenance, installation, and manufacture of the medical device component. Indeed, the exemplary embodiment of the present technique may facilitate the development of an “as built” or hardware configuration of the medical device through the use of RF tags. Advantageously, the medical device may be surveyed by activating the RF tags, which contain and transmit information regarding the various components in the medical device.

A network system for an appliance has communication among components with a message protocol that includes a flag set to bind individual messages together for a complete snapshot of the state of an appliance component.

A three-dimensional printing system and equipment assembly for the manufacture of three-dimensionally printed articles is provided. The equipment assembly includes a three-dimensional printing build system, an optional liquid removal system and an optional harvester system. The build system includes a conveyor, plural build modules and at least one build station having a powder-layering system and a printing system. The equipment assembly can be used to manufacture pharmaceutical, medical, and non-pharmaceutical/non-medical objects. It can be used to prepare single or multiple articles.

Tracking and monitoring athletic activity offers individuals with additional motivation to continue such behavior. An individual may track his or her athletic activity by utilizing a wearable device assembly configured to monitor various aspects of athletic performance. In some embodiments, the wearable device assembly may comprise a USB-type device having athletic functionality and configured to transmit to and/or receive data from an external computing device.

An integrated data center method and system combines a storage controller and one or more appliances onto a computer platform. Storage controller component executes on the hardware of a computer platform and has exclusive access to a first storage controller host bus adapter coupled to a storage shelf having one or more storage devices. The method and system provisions a virtualized instance of the hardware from the computer platform to deliver application services from an appliance component. The appliance component may share the processing resources from the computer platform through multiple different virtual machines. With respect to storage, aspects of the present invention exclusively associates an appliance host bus adapter from the computer platform to the appliance component. In addition, aspects of the present invention also provide control of the appliance host bus adapter to the appliance component passing through the virtualized instance of the hardware. To access the storage devices, the appliance host bus adapter and corresponding appliance component are coupled with a second storage controller host bus adapter associated with the storage controller component. Aspects of the present invention enable the access to the storage controller component and storage devices from each appliance host bus adapter. This enables applications associated with the appliance component to perform storage operations on the storage devices at a high throughput even though the applications are executing within a virtualized instance of the hardware.

The invention discloses a durable power distribution automatic cabinet, which comprises a cabinet body, wherein the bottom of the cabinet body is provided with a supporting plate; the middle of the upper surface of the supporting plate is provided with a placement groove adaptive to the cabinet body; the bottom end of the cabinet body is arranged in the placement groove; the bottom of the supporting plate is fixedly provided with supporting rods which are evenly distributed; the bottom of the supporting rod is fixedly provided with an embedding plate; the bottom of the embedding plate is fixedly provided with spacing columns which are in annular array distribution; and a division plate is fixedly installed in the cabinet body and independently segments the inner cavity of the cabinet body into a first wiring chamber and a second wiring chamber. One side of the cabinet body is provided with a regulation box, so that temperature in the cabinet body can be lowered when the durable power distribution automatic cabinet is used, heat generated in the working process of an electric appliance component in the cabinet body is emitted, and a situation that the operation of equipment is affected since the heat is accumulated in the cabinet body is avoided so as to be favorable for prolonging the service life of the equipment.

A door latch device for a domestic electrical appliance, in particular for a dishwasher, has a frame (10) provided or to be provided on a first component of the domestic appliance, a latching unit (28) arranged so it can be displaced relative to the frame between an open position and a latched position for engagement with a closure system of a second component of the domestic appliance that can be moved relative to the first appliance component and is to be locked with respect thereto, and a latching spring assembly that pre-tensions the latching unit and which in the open position of the latching unit forces the unit into engagement with a blocking surface (24) that blocks relaxation of the latching spring assembly. According to one aspect of the invention a control member (52) that is separate from the latching unit and arranged so it can be moved relative thereto is provided, comprising an application system (64) for an actuating portion of the second appliance component and comprising an impact system for a block-cancelling effect on the latching unit. According to a further aspect the latching unit is formed by a one-piece latching body on which, in addition to a latching system (38) for engagement with the closure system of the second appliance component and a blocking system (50) for engagement with the blocking surface (24), supporting surfaces for the latching spring assembly are also arranged.

Toroidal transformer and inductor configurations are described that allow for greater heat transfer away from internal device components. The inventive transformer allows for higher thermal and electrical efficiency, as well as for more efficient use of expensive components, such as copper wire. In one embodiment, a toroidal transformer provides access for cooling air by forming the primary winding from a single layer of thick wire and a secondary winding of few turns such that most of the primary winding is exposed to air flow. In another embodiment, a heat sink is positioned between the core and primary windings to conduct heat away from the transformer.

The invention provides a glass fiber reinforced daiamid resin composition, which has excellent thin-wall forming property and surface appearance, and is applied to thin-wall portable electronic appliance components or computer frame components. The glass fiber reinforced daiamid resin composition is formed in combined with 50 to 150 parts of glass fiber by weight relative to 100 parts of daiamid resin composition by weight containing 90% to 99% of daiamid resin by weight and 1% to 10% of acid modified styrene elastomer by weight, the daiamid resin is combined with 20% to 60% of daiamid 66 resin by weight, 20% to 40% of daiamid 12 resin and 20% to 50% of amorphous daiamid resin by weight, and the total dose is 100% by weight.

The invention provides a dielectric-capacitance testing method of the deformation degree of a transformer winding, belonging to the technical field of test of electric appliance components. The deformation degree of the transformer winding is judged by testing the variation of the dielectric loss and capacitance of the transformer winding. The invention has the advantages that shortage of the prior art is overcome, the deformation degree of the transformer winding is judged by testing the variation of the dielectric loss and capacitance of the transformer winding, the deformation degree of the transformer winding can be accurately judged by an overall dielectric-capacitance method or an interphase dielectric-capacitance method or by complementation and confirmation therebetween so that the repair the operating state of the transformer can be timely and accurately monitored, normal and safe operation of the transformer is ensured, and the working quality and the efficiency of the transformer are improved. The method is particularly suitable for testing the deformation degree of the transformer winding with the voltage of 110kV or above.

A conveyor chain that enables magnet pieces for attracting and retaining articles conveyed on the chain. The magnet pieces are incorporated into synthetic resin link modules without changing a predetermined chain width and dimensioning of other device components. A large number of link rows consisting of a number of synthetic resin link modules are connected together so as to have a predetermined chain width W. At least some of the synthetic resin link modules have magnet storing blind holes which open in the chain width direction from link side surfaces such that a magnet piece can be insertably stored in the magnet storing blind hole and securely enclosed by the link side surface of an adjacent synthetic resin link module in the chain width direction.

The invention discloses a rotating base of an industrial robot. The rotating base of the industrial robot comprises a fixing seat, a supporting seat, a clamping groove, buckles, a water tank, a wateroutlet pipe, a water inlet pipe, a clamping hole, a supporting frame, balls, a rotating shaft, a bearing, a sliding groove, vent holes, a fixed base plate, bolts, a water pump, a cooling pipe, a ventilation groove, a motor, an exhaust fan and a guide pipe. The rotating base of the industrial robot has the beneficial effects that the water pump is arranged in the water tank, the water pump is connected with the cooling pipe through the water inlet pipe, so that the water pump can be used for pumping cooling liquid in the water tank into the cooling pipe, the cooling pipe tightly attached to theouter wall of the clamping groove is used for cooling the clamping groove, and it can be avoided that high heat energy generated by long-time work damages electric appliance components; the exhaust fan is arranged in the fixing seat, so that external air can be sucked through the exhaust fan and enters the clamping groove through the vent holes and the ventilation groove, and upwards moving airflow blows waste clamped into a gap between the clamping groove and a robot body out.