853 results about "Land area" patented technology

A process for cultivating photosynthetic microbes comprising Closed Systems for continuous cultivation and Open Systems for batch cultivation, in which (a) the Closed System Area occupies no more than 20% of the Total Land Area of the cultivation facility; (b) batch cultures in the Open Systems are initiated with an inoculum from the Closed Systems containing a cell biomass of no less than 5% of the carrying capacity of said Open System; (c) the doubling rate of said photosynthetic microbe is no less than once every 16 hours; and (d) the residence time of the batch culture in said Open System is no more than a period of 5 days.

A putter type golf club head having a frontal face formed with ball striking, land areas in a repeating pattern between the toe and heel and complimentary recesses between the land areas. The land areas are smaller than the recesses at the midpoint of the striking face and are progressively larger away from the midpoint on the face providing a progressively larger ball contact area the further the land area is displaced from the midpoint of the striking face.

A coupling and accessory system for an electronic device includes an enclosure configured to encompass at least a portion of the electronic device. The enclosure includes a land area having a magnetically active region or a magnetically attractive region. A coupling device also has a magnetically active region or a magnetically attractive region, such that the enclosure and the coupling device are magnetically attracted and attached to one another when the enclosure is brought into close association with the coupling device. The coupling device may further include at least one enhanced engagement feature for inhibiting mutual sliding or rotation between the coupling device and the enclosure during magnetic attachment of the one to the other.

The invention provides a household garbage processing method, comprising the following processing steps which are technique process of sorting, high-temperature and high-pressure hydrolysis and hydrothermal oxidation of organic substances, composting with organic substances, fuel brick production with non-recoverable and combustible substances, building material production with inorganic substances, plastic grain production, recyclable substances recycling, waste gas processing, sewage water processing and thermal power supply, etc. The household garbage processing method of the invention hasthe advantages of occupying little land area and having short processing time, pollution avoidance, low running cost, effective processing of noxious gas, high product quality, high-efficiency and environmental protection, and can be widely used for the processing of household garbage in various regions.

An insurance product comprises a crop risk insurance policy component that insures against risk of loss for at least drought. An endorsement assembly is associated with the crop risk insurance policy component. The endorsement assembly comprises a grower compliance requirement, a right of payment, and ancillary terms and conditions. The grower compliance requirement requires a grower to comply with a qualified crop input plan for a particular crop in a field. The right of payment is contingent upon a first yield per unit land area of the particular in the field less than second yield per unit land area of a geographic area by more than a threshold amount. The geographic area covers a greater area than the field and is representative of at least one of the soil characteristics and the climate associated with the field. The right of payment is contingent upon compliance of the grower with the ancillary terms and conditions.

The present invention relates to the collection of food and energy production units with attendant processing units into an integrated system capable of substantially boosting the efficiency and economics of food and energy production while greatly reducing the impact on the environment. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the system and process further includes sufficient land area for crop production and uptake of nutrients and water.

The invention relates to a tool used in an insulation brick manufacturing process, in particular to a production line for self-insulation building blocks, which comprises a stirring machine. The production line is characterized in that automatic metering devices are arranged on a feeding port and at the bottom of the stirring machine, a production track capable of automatically conveying molds isdisposed below a distributing port of the stirring machine, a stripper is further arranged on the production track and is spaced from the stirring machine by a proper distance, a return track and a track leading into a maintenance area are respectively disposed on two sides of the other end of the stripper, the return track sequentially penetrates through a cleaning area, an oil injection area and a core setting area, a link plate machine is arranged at the other end of the maintenance area, and a manipulator is disposed at the other end of the link plate machine. The production line is high in production efficiency and annual yield, occupied land area and workshop investment are reduced, operating expense is saved, and the production line can operate continuously.

A wind power plant for producing electrical energy on a large scale, comprising a base, a housing, rotatable on said base around vertical axis. A wind tail, attached to the housing, rotate the housing toward direction of the wind, utilizing the power of the wind, and produces additional tunnel suction to the flow of the wind from front side to back side of the housing. A plurality of turbines, equipped with rotors with wide blades, is mounted inside the housing one above another. Deflectors cover from the wind the front side of the rotors above their axis of rotation while computer controlled governors are covering the remaining front side of the rotors below their axis of rotation, keeping steady the speed of rotation of the rotors. Working surfaces of turbines are covered from heavy snow and during the storm and protected from birds. Power plant saves the area of occupied land, utilizing higher speed of wind on higher elevations. It has an attractive aesthetic view and can be a landmark for the location where it is built.

The invention relates to an in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system for an urban river water body. The in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system is capable of effectively preventing the problems of unqualified fluvial cross section water body and aquatic ecosystem damage and further improving the landscape effect. According to the technical scheme adopted by the invention, the method is as follows: close-to-nature riverside buffer zones are constructed on side banks of a river reach from upstream to downstream; the river reach, at which the close-to-nature riverside buffer zones are positioned, is internally and sequentially provided with a pretreatment unit, a first ecological floating bed unit, a first ecological filtration dam unit, an aquatic plant unit, a second ecological floating bed unit, a second ecological filtration dam unit, a biomembrane-enhanced purification unit including a plug-flow aeration unit, a habitat improvement unit and an aquatic organism functional group construction zone from upstream to downstream. The in-situ biological-ecological recovery integrated system does not need to occupy land area except for a riverway, is stable in treatment effect, does not influence drawing off of floodwater in the riverway, can be used for solving the problems of unqualified fluvial cross section water body and aquatic ecosystem damage and improving the landscape effect, and has great economical and social benefits.

A pneumatic tire capable of preventing clogging of a groove on a tread to improve snow performance and mud performance is provided. The pneumatic tire includes a tread having a land area such as a block and a rib sectioned by a groove formed on a tread surface, and an edge disposed on a side of the land area, which edge extends from a land surface to a groove bottom and projects into the groove. The edge has a bent portion having an obtuse angle and thus is step-shaped in the depth direction of the groove.

The invention discloses a method and an apparatus for treatment of a concentrated reverse osmosis drainage through coupled forward osmosis and reverse osmosis. The method comprises the following steps that: a raw forward osmosis solution directly enters into a forward osmosis assembly, a concentrated reverse osmosis drainage is used as a driving solution for forward osmosis, water of the raw forward osmosis solution permeates a membrane, the concentrated reverse osmosis drain is diluted and then mixed with raw reverse osmosis water, then flows through a high-pressure pump and enters into a reverse osmosis assembly as inflowing reverse osmosis water, water penetrating to one side of the driving solution from the raw forward osmosis solution is recycled through reverse osmosis, and the concentrated reverse osmosis drainage is circulated as the driving solution for forward osmosis. The apparatus comprises a first feed pump, a second feed pump, the forward osmosis assembly, the high-pressure pump and the reverse osmosis assembly. According to the invention, the utilization rate of the concentrated reverse osmosis drain can be increased; pollution of the concentrated reverse osmosis drainage to the environment can be reduced; the method and the apparatus can also be used for liquid concentration and desalination, producing significant economic values; and the apparatus provided by the invention has the advantages of a small occupied land area, a compact structure, simple operation, low running cost and low energy consumption.

The invention belongs to the field of the crane machinery, in particular relates to a hoisting mechanism, which comprises an upright post, wherein, the outer side of the upright post is provided with a rack; the direction of the rack is paralleled to the axis direction of the upright post; the upright post is also provided with a transmission device; the transmission device can move along with the limited direction of the rack, and the transmission device is provided with a bracket. Through the technical proposal, the upright post with a rack is adopted as a supporting element and a guiding element; when in use, the upright post fixes the working platform that is required to be supported and leveled on the bracket, and then the transmission device drives the bracket to move along with the limited direction of the rack, thereby completing the hoisting of the working platform and adjusting and leveling the working platform; therefore, the hoisting mechanism has simple structure, simple and convenient operation, and occupies less land area, and is safe and reliable.

One embodiment of an apparatus and method for treating agricultural animal wastewater that costs less to build, is easy to operate, and requires little energy input. The method employs natural systems for wastewater treatment; an initial anaerobic digestion treatment followed by batch floating aquatic plant treatment. The batch floating aquatic plant treatment of effluent and subsequent batch discharge provides increased control of the treatment process. Opportunistic collection and use of biogas and floating aquatic biomass results in additional benefits. The apparatus reduces the cost and land area required for the system by subdividing a lagoon into an anaerobic digestion treatment zone below the apparatus and a floating aquatic plant treatment zone above the apparatus. In addition, the apparatus is disposed in the lagoon in such a way that it facilitates the collection of biogas evolving from anaerobic digestion treatment beneath the apparatus by diverting it to areas to be collected.

In a system and method of navigating an agricultural vehicle on a land area, at least part of the land area is imaged in real-time from above to provide a sequence of images showing the vehicle and at least one landmark. Positions of the vehicle on the land area are identified from the sequence of images by image processing, to provide vehicle data based on the identification of the positions of the vehicle. Furthermore, a position of the at least one landmark on the land area is identified from the sequence of images by image processing, to provide landmark data based on the identification of the position of the at least one landmark. A path of the vehicle across the land area is controlled based on the vehicle data and the landmark data.

A system and method for automatically increasing a capacity of a virtual space in a virtual world. It is determined if an allowable number of avatars are currently in the virtual space, and a capacity of the virtual space is increased when the allowable number of avatars are currently in the virtual space. The capacity of the virtual space may be increased by spawning a replicate new virtual space. The capacity of the virtual space may also be increased by expanding a size of the virtual space. The virtual space may include any type of virtual space such as for example, a store, a business, an arena, a building, a land area, a room, etc. The allowable number of avatars may be a maximum avatar capacity for the virtual space, or may be an ideal avatar capacity for the virtual space.

The disclosed water-drop aeration biopretreatment-ultrafiltration combined purification technique for drinking water comprises: first, building the multistage water-drop aeration biopretreatment device; then, pumping the raw water once to remove the most ammonia nitrogen by cascade water-drop oxygenation and biological contact oxidation pretreatment and convert the micro dissolved organic into microbe cell; filtering by the protective porous ceramic-aggregate pond; followingly, leading into the ultrafiltration membrane module to reduce the micro organic, ammonia nitrogen, particulate matter, most seston, colloid, and bacteria till meeting the drinking water quality standard. This invention belongs to green technique without coagulant or chlorine, reduces cost and land area, and has wide application for small-scale drinking water treatment.

A process for making an embossed web. A precursor web is provided between a forming structure and a compliant substrate. The forming structure has a plurality of discrete protruded elements and lands completely surrounding them. Pressure is provided between the compliant substrate and the forming structure to conform the precursor web to the forming structure to form the embossed web. The resulting embossed web has a plurality of discrete extended elements completely surrounded by land areas.

The invention discloses a processing method of waste well impoundment, which is characterized by the following: elevating well water to the ground through pump; injecting into path below well through drug pond with oxidizer, neutralizer and flocculant; removing oil, iron and acid; circulating water partially; filtering; proceeding electric dialysis; sterilizing; fitting for agriculture, industry and living water grade by grade.

The invention belongs to the technical field of mine geological monitoring, and discloses a non-fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle airborne radar mine mining land change monitoring system and method.The system comprises a non-fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle for loading a lidar, a lidar GPS receiver, an inertial navigation system, a laser transceiver, a static GPS receiver and a control and a post-processing system, and comprises inertial navigation control software, LIDAR data acquisition software, trajectory calculation software, point cloud data calculation post-processing software and point cloud post-processing software. Through acquisition of two or more periods of point cloud data of the non-fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle airborne radar, changes of mine surface geomorphological height differences in different time periods are formed, a new mine mining land area and elevation change monitoring technology is provided, surface elevation changes such as a mine open mining pit, a slag disposing area and mining subsidence are grasped, and scientific basis is provided for mine geological environment control, land reclamation and development, use and planning.