1999 results about "Material flow" patented technology

A high performance capability assessment model helps a postal industry business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the postal industry business can achieve the clarity, consistency, and well-defined execution of core processes that reduce inefficiencies and waste that result from unnecessary process complexity and exceptions. In addition, the high performance capability assessment model helps the postal industry business to identify specific areas in which improvements may be made and understand how to make the improvements, and establishes levels of capability along the way to reaching an ultimate capability goal.

The invention provides a method for producing aluminum oxide and co-producing active calcium silicate through high-alumina fly ash. The method comprises the following steps that: the high-alumina fly ash firstly reacts with a sodium hydroxide solution to carry out pre-desilication to obtain a liquid-phase desiliconized solution and a solid-phase desiliconized fly ash; lime cream is added to the liquid-phase desiliconized solution to carry out a causticization reaction, the resulting solid phase is active calcium silicate which is prepared through carrying out filter pressing, flash evaporation and drying to obtain the finished product; limestone and a sodium carbonate solution are added to the desiliconized fly ash to blend qualified raw slurry, then the blend qualified raw slurry is subjected to baking into the clinker, the liquid phase generated from dissolution of the clinker is a crude solution of sodium aluminate; the crude solution of the sodium aluminate is subjected to processes of first-stage deep desilication, second-stage deep desilication, carbonation, seed precipitation, baking and the like to obtain the metallurgical grade aluminum oxide meeting requirements. According to the present invention, the defects in the prior art are overcome; purposes of less material flow and small amount of slaggling are achieved; energy consumption, material consumption and production cost are relative low; extraction rate of the aluminum oxide is high; the calcium silicate with high added value is co-produced; the method provided by the present invention can be widely applicable for the field of chemical engineering.

A dispenser is provided for delivering a controlled quantity of a granular material. The dispenser includes a container assembly, a diffuser and a metering cup. The container includes a reservoir which supports a disposable cartridge of granular material. The cartridge is supported in the reservoir so as to define a passageway therebetween. A nozzle is defined for the outflow of material from the cartridge. The diffuser is disposed on one end of the container and includes a plurality of apertures. The metering cup is disposed on the opposite end of the container and has an open end adapted to receive granular material. Adjustment of the axial spacing between the nozzle and metering cup varies the quantity of granular material collected in the cup. The granular material is dispensed by inverting the container to a second orientation, such that material flows out of the metering cup, through the passageway and out of the diffuser. The nozzle may serve as a piercing mechanism for opening the disposable cartridge upon its insertion into the reservoir.

A vibratory separator (in one aspect, a shale shaker) and methods for using it, the separator in certain aspects having a base, a basket movably mounted on the base, screen apparatus on the basket, material flowing onto the screen apparatus for treatment, at least a portion of the screen apparatus not inclined downhill (e.g. said portion horizontal or uphill), electromagnetic vibratory apparatus connected to the basket for vibrating the basket and the screen apparatus, driving apparatus for driving the electromagnetic vibratory apparatus, and control apparatus (on-site and/or remote) for controlling the driving apparatus and the electromagnetic vibratory apparatus; the material, in one aspect, being drilling fluid material with solids therein.

The invention provides a refinement production system and a production method based on RFID and bar code fusion, wherein an RFID electronic tag is bound on the goods in process, the RFID electronic tag or a bar code can be selected randomly to be bound on the components and parts, thus being capable of effectively controlling production cost, being beneficial to carry out real time and effective collection on the information of goods in process and components and parts simultaneously, realizing accurate synchronization of material flow and information flow, and providing a possibility for therealization of refinement production for enterprises. The production method in the invention comprises the following steps: 1) binding the RFID electronic tags on the goods in process which enter a production line, and binding the bar codes or the RFID electronic tags on the components and parts; 2) when the components and parts which are pasted with bar codes or bound with the RFID electronic tags are on the production line, collecting the information of the components and parts to match with the information of the goods in process, and binding the information of components and parts with theinformation of the goods in process after matching successively; and 3) when the products are finally off the line, collecting the RFID electronic tag information which is bound on the goods in process and printing manufacturer certificates and bar codes.

Plate elements, a plate configuration, and associated system for thermomechanical refining of wood chips wherein destructured and partially defibrated chips are fed to a rotating disc primary refiner, where opposed discs each have an inner band pattern of bars and grooves and outer band pattern of bars and grooves, such that substantially complete fiberization (defibration) of the chips is achieved in the inner band and the resulting fibers are fibrillated in the outer band. One embodiment is directed to a pair of opposed co-operating refining plate elements for a flat disc refiner wherein the bars and grooves on each of the inner bands form an inner feed region followed by an outer working region, the bars and groove on each of the outer bands form an inner feed region followed by an outer working region, and the gap and/or material flow area formed when the plates are placed in front of each other increases between the inner working region and the outer feed region.

Multiple Views of an Industrial Plant are graphically displayed and viewed. A graphical user interface displays the views in corresponding panes or windows of the graphical user interface. The views, being graphical representations of systems of the Industrial Plant, are coupled by a coupler according to a predetermined relationship between the underlying systems of the Industrial Plant represented by the coupled views. The coupler automatically refocuses the panes to display different views of the Industrial Plant based on a selection of an object in any of the panes or on a manual refocus of one view and on the predetermined relationship for coupling the views. The Coupled views represent different domains of the Industrial Plant or Industrial Network e.g. real-time monitoring and operation, configuration, debugging, maintenance, scheduling, asset management, documentation, training, simulation, physical construction, material flow monitoring, programming, interconnecting function blocks, performance analysis. The analysis may be provided at different points in time (now, past, predicted future) and with a different spatial focus (parts, whole). Coupling different views greatly reduces handling effort for building and operating Industrial Plants.

The invention discloses a micro-crack self-repairing microcapsule, which comprises a capsule core and a capsule wall, wherein the capsule core comprises the following ingredients in part by weight: 10 to 60 parts of isocyanate derivative, 0.1 to 10 parts of capsule core diluent and 2 to 40 parts of cosolvent; and the capsule wall comprises ingredients with the following mol ratio: urea: formaldehyde solution, prepolymer=1: (1.0-4.0): (2.0-6.0), wherein the prepolymer is formed from the ingredients with the mol ratio: isocyanate derivative: cyclohexanone: chain extender=1: (2.0-5.0): (0.3-3.0). The invention also discloses a micro-crack self-repairing anti-corrosion coating utilizing the capsule. The micro-crack self-repairing microcapsule is free from additionally adding a repairing catalyst or an initiator, can realize completely automatic repairing function, can be widely applied to the protection field of a metal surface coating in a wet environment, and solves the problems that the contact probability between functional filling material flowing into cracks in the intelligent anticorrosion coating and the catalyst or the initiator is small.

There is provided an apparatus which can simplify, expedite and enhance the segregation of undesirable particles from desirable particles in a multiple-layer flow wherein the desirable and undesirable particles are randomly intermixed with each other. This is accomplished by a stepwise reduction of the thickness of the flow to thus locate all or nearly all undesirable particles at or close to the exposed sides of the resulting relatively thin flow so that the undesirable particles can be readily detected and segregated from the thin flow. The stepwise reduction of thickness of the original flow is effected by a cascade of successive accelerating conveyors including a first conveyor which receives successive increments of the original flow from a vibratory trough, and a faster second conveyor which receives successive increments of the accelerated flow from the first conveyor and cooperates with an overhead conveyor to define a channel for advancement of the repeatedly accelerated original flow into the range of instrumentalities for detection and segregation of undesirable particles.

A material forming tool and a method for forming a material is described and which includes a shank portion; a shoulder portion which releasably engages the shank portion; a pin which releasably engages the shoulder portion, and wherein the pin defines a passageway; and a source of a material coupled in material flowing relation relative to the pin and wherein the material forming tool is utilized in methodology which includes providing a first material; providing a second material, and placing the second material into contact with the first material; and locally plastically deforming the first material with the material forming tool so as mix the first material and second material together to form a resulting material having characteristics different from the respective first and second materials.

The invention provides a Yunjie mill. The Yunjie mill adopts a Yunjie mill main engine composed of a shell body, a rotor with a powder mill and a grading function and an inner circulating pipe, so that materials are pulverized and dried at the same time in a high-speed circulating flowing process in an inner circulating channel composed of an inner circulating pipe, a pulverizing impeller, a spacebetween the pulverizing impeller and an inner wall of a barrel body and the like; a wall remaining problem of the inner circulating channel is solved by utilizing an impact effect of a high-speed material flow; the wall remaining problem of an outer circulating channel is solved by controlling the moisture content of materials, discharged by the main engine, through a grading impeller; the defects of equipment in the inventive patent 2015110139212 are overcome and a method and a product of the inventive patent 2015110139212 are economically realized; the invention provides an application method of the Yunjie mill, so that the drying and pulverizing problem of high-moisture and high-viscosity materials including vegetable materials, meat, liquid materials and the like is solved; a solutionwith good economical efficiency is provided for processing feed and preparing a medicine which takes a volatile component as a functional component.

This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a power generating system particularly suitable for field use in remote locations, which is fuel-efficient, relatively quiet, tolerant of dust, capable of operating on low-grade logistics and diesel-like fuels and capable of generating between 500 W and 2 KW of continuous electrical power. This generating system employs a two-cycle MICE generator having a piston that operates within a cylinder, and an interconnected, axially moving piston shaft that oscillates an alternator coil within a magnetic core. The piston shaft is attached to, and resisted by, the free end of a strong spring with a second, opposing end fixed to the MICE casing. To control operation of the MICE generator a clipper circuit is employed with a set threshold to resolve peaks and an adjustable harshness for applying load to the coil based upon an amps/volt harshness setting. The engine can also be controlled dynamically throughout the cycle using the added feedback from the proportional and integral elements of a PID controller in conjunction with an energy dissipating and/or storing circuit to load the coil. The dynamic control can be based on a switching power supply implementation. Various engine operating parameters can be derived from coil voltage, current and resistance, and used to control and/or monitor the engine's performance.

A syringe comprising a chamber and material transfer portion with a cavity in communication with an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion includes an inlet valve means for controlling material flow therethrough, and the material transfer portion includes a control valve operable between a first position to control the inflow of material from the inlet portion to the material container portion, and a second position to control the flow of material from the chamber to the outlet portion, and the outlet portion includes a releasable lock means for allowing discharge the material through the outlet portion.

A liquefied gas treatment system includes: a first stream of boil-off gas, which is generated from the liquefied natural gas in the cargo tank and is discharged from the cargo tank; a second stream of the boil-off gas, which is supplied as fuel to the engine in the first stream; and a third stream of the boil-off gas, which is not supplied to the engine in the first stream. The first stream is compressed in a compressor and is then branched into the second stream and the third stream. The third stream is liquefied by exchanging heat with the first stream in a heat exchanger, so that the boil-off gas is treated without employing a reliquefaction apparatus using a separate refrigerant.

A dense phase pump for particulate material includes a pump chamber wherein material flows into the pump chamber under negative pressure and flows out of the pump chamber under positive pressure. A plurality of pinch valves are provided to control flow of material into and out of the pump chamber. The pinch valves are operated independent of each other and of the pump cycle rate. A modular design of the pump is provided.

In one aspect of the invention, an integrated bio-object microfluidics chip includes a fluidic network having a plurality of inlets for providing a plurality of fluids, a plurality of outlets, a bio-object chamber for accommodating at least one bio-object, a plurality of fluidic switches, and one or more pumps, coupled to each other such that at least one fluidic switch operably and selectively receives one fluid from a corresponding inlet and routes the received fluid, through the one or more pumps, to the bio-object chamber so as to perfuse the at least one bio-object therein, and one of the downstream fluidic switches selectively delivers an effluent of the at least one bio-object responsive to the perfusion to a predetermined outlet destination, or to the at least one fluidic switch for recirculation.

The invention discloses a method of hydrogenating liquefied petroleum gas to prepare ethylene cracking feed, which is provided with two reaction sections. Reaction material cooling operation is carried out between the two reaction sections, the mixture of C4 fraction raw material and hydrogen is cooled after passing through the first reaction section, then enters the second reaction section, non-precious metal hydrofining catalysts are arranged in the two reaction sections, and a reaction material flow switching device is arranged between an inlet and an outlet of the two reaction sections to change the sequence of the reaction material flow entering the two reaction sections. The method disclosed by the invention solves the problem that the olefin content does not reach the standard due to thermodynamic control factors, simultaneously the catalysts are entirely fully utilized, and the operating cycle can be prolonged.

A method and apparatus is disclosed that determines the density of a material flowing through a Coriolis flow meter The density is used to infer the pressure of the flowing material. The inferred pressure may be used to correct for the secondary pressure effect in the Coriolis flow meter or may be reported to an external device.

The invention discloses material fluid deformation disturbance effect experimental system and method. It includes dead load loading system realized by loading system, crankshaft force enlarging device, and force transmission connecting rod, disturbance loading system realized by impact and blasting disturbance loading devices, confining pressure loading system realized by tri-axial pressure tank includes closed box set ring capsule. The material fluid deformation disturbance effect experimental system can realize uniaxial and tri-axial fluid deformation experiences, uniaxial and tri-axial fluid deformation disturbance experiments for the testing specimen. It has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, precise testing, suiting for various materials testing specimen to do fluid deformation disturbance experiment, especially for rock testing specimen.

An apparatus and method for joining adjacent members, wherein the members are placed in an overlapping layered relationship. The members are clamped between a die and a blank holder. Once clamped, a clinching operation is performed on the members to create at least a partial bond between them. In addition to the clinching operation, a level of vibrational energy is imparted to at least one of the members to reduce clamping force requirements, promote material flow and deformation and provide increased joint strength.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling material handling systems, such as vacuum-based semiconductor handling systems. In embodiments a central software controller recognizes the addition of a component to the system, such as the addition of a process module or robotic handling facility, and can optimize material flow based on the new component. In embodiments the system may include software for visualizing and optimizing the flow of materials and/or the configuration of the system.

A dispenser adapted to dispense sheet material therefrom is provided and includes a housing having an exit port configured to support a centerflow roll of sheet material therein. The dispenser also includes a first tubular member and a second tubular member, and the sheet of material flows over at least a portion of both the first and second tubular members on a circuitous path to the exit port.

The invention discloses an assembly line production scheduling method and system. The method comprises the steps of production scheduling, tracking, feedback and adjustment. According to production scheduling, site configuration and production process information of a product production assembly line is acquired to form an initial allocation recommendation. According to tracking, the production data of the assembly line is acquired in real time, and the processing capacity of each site on the assembly line is analyzed and measured based on dependency. According to feedback, based on the analysis of the processing capacity of each site, specified deliveries completed within specified delivery expectation according to the current production allocation scheme is predicted; a site processing task is coordinated through a feedback control method; a production adjustment recommendation is generated; and feedback control is carried out on assembly line resources and site configuration. According to adjustment, the allocation of production line material flow and process sites is adjusted according to the production adjustment recommendation acquired in the step of feedback. According to the invention, production planning is scientific, and production resource configuration scheduling ensures balance between internal processes and processes.

The invention is a process and a system for identifying the risk areas in a manufacturer's logistic processes and for allocating responsibility for product unit failure to discrete events in the products' lifetimes. The system comprises one or multiple abuse sensors that are co-located with the product units or their containers, one or multiple readers for capturing sensor data, a data transfer utility for dispatching the recorded data to a database and an analysis module. The analysis module aggregates data across the product units returned to the manufacturer, measures the risk of product failure due to specific events of interest in the products' lifetime and estimates the associated costs.

A device for detection and determination of a composition of a bulk material, has an image recording unit, at least one control unit, at least one memory unit, and a selection unit to enable a qualified determination to be made, during a transfer of a crop material flow into a container of an agricultural harvesting machine, of a composition of a crop during processing of the crop material, so that adjustment parameters of working assemblies of the agricultural harvesting machine are changeable during the processing of the crop material, wherein the image recording unit has at least two image detectors for recording images or image series of the crop material flow at equidistant intervals or permanently, wherein one of the image detectors is disposed substantially perpendicularly to a top side of a surface of the crop material flow emerging from a grain elevator head or a discharge chute, and another one of the two image detectors is disposed substantially perpendicularly to an underside of a surface of the crop material flow.

A system and method for making ultrafine particles are disclosed. A high temperature plasma is generated at an inlet end of a plasma chamber into which precursor materials are introduced. A converging member is located adjacent an outlet end of the plasma chamber. During operation, a substantially constant pressure and/or material flow pattern is maintained to reduce or eliminate fouling of the system.

The invention discloses a method for absorbing and separating refinery catalytic dry gas by adopting oil. The method comprises the following steps of: absorbing a C2 fraction and heavier components in the compressed and cooled catalytic dry gas in a main absorption tower by using a C4 fraction containing normal butane, 1-butylene and 2-butylene as an absorbent, sending a tower kettle material flow of the main absorption tower to a desorption tower for processing and obtaining reclaimed C2 concentrated gas from the top of the desorption tower. By using the method, because the absorption temperature is high, ethylene and propylene are not needed for refrigerating a compressor and an expander, and the method has low energy consumption, less investment and simple operation.

The invention discloses a residual oil hydrotreating method. According to the method, under hydrotreating conditions, a residual oil raw material and hydrogen pass through at least 4 reactors connected in series in order, all the reactors except the last one are provided with a protective agent and a demetallization catalyst, and along the material flowing direction, the ratios of the protective agent and the demetallization catalyst decrease gradually in the downstream reactors. After the equipment operates for 700-4000h, shunt operation is carried out. The feeding amount of a first reactor is reduced or maintained constant. The feeding amount of each reactor between the first reactor and the last reactor is increased, and the increased residual oil raw material is injected at the inlets of the middle reactors. Compared with the prior art, the method provided in the invention can obviously prolong the operation period of residual hydrogenation equipment, and make the effective utilization rate of the catalyst and the equipment running time achieve consistency, thereby enhancing the equipment running efficiency and improving the economical efficiency.

The invention relates to a molding device of glass molding articles. More specifically, the molding device of the glass molding articles comprises a pre-heating mechanism contacted with a mold body in a non-load state for pre-heating, a discharge cooling line provided with a cooling water line is formed at an outlet side of a molding chamber, the cooling time in the molding chamber is shortened, the whole molding period time of glass with a curved surface portion is further shortened, a plurality of suction holes into which vacuum pressure flows are formed at the bottom of a lower mold of the mold body, vacuum pressure absorption materials flowing into the suction holes are employed during molding motions, the glass with the excellent curved surface portion is molded, an inlet side of the molding chamber is provided with a vacuum mechanism for vacuum treatment of the mold body, and the molding device can be applied to the molding of infrared glass optical lenses.

A system and method that facilitates e-commerce volume pricing is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, the system includes an offers and orders component that receives and aggregates orders for a product from a plurality of buyers. The system also includes a logistics component that determines a shipping price for the product for a subset of the plurality of buyers. The shipping price is determined at least in part upon the subset of buyers sharing a shipping method. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which buyers within an aggregated purchasing group may be subject to different pricing structures for the same product.