5221 results about "Retaining wall" patented technology

Single and multiple retaining wall blocks and block systems are disclosed. The blocks are provided with a face connection system which includes at least one front lip extending from a top surface of the block and a bottom channel formed into a front face and bottom surface of the block. The front lips have a length which is less than the width of the blocks.

A system for managing and securing product and deterring theft in a retail setting includes a system that resides either on a standard retailer shelf or may be a stand-alone system. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of shelves and product dividers positioned between the shelves and extending from the front edges of the shelves toward the rear of the shelves. Front retaining walls are positioned at the front edges of the shelves and are configured to have a height that inhibits access to products on the shelves. Individual retaining tabs of varying height may be added in front of rows of taller product to inhibit access to these products. In an embodiment, rigid or moveable barriers may be positioned above retaining walls that further restrict access to the products. With the invention, the “sweeping” of numerous products by a thief is deterred. In another embodiment, an alert device may be configured to detect and monitor movement of the moveable barriers and may provide an alert signal corresponding to the management of product on the shelf or corresponding to a potential theft situation. In an embodiment, the alert device may communicate with a security camera to monitor the vicinity and provide a notification to the potential thief that his actions are being monitored and recorded, or provide a notification to store computer, pager, cellular telephone, or the like.

A retaining wall block (1) has parallel top and bottom faces (2, 3), a front face (4), a rear face (5), first and second side wall faces (6, 7) and a vertical plane of symmetry (S) extending between the front and rear faces (4, 5). The block (1) is formed as a body portion (8) including the front face (4), a head portion (9) including the rear face (5) and a neck portion (10) connecting the body portion (8) and the head portion (9). The body, head and neck portions (8, 9, 10) each extend between the top and bottom faces (2, 3) and between the first and second side wall faces (6, 7). An opening (13)′ extends through the neck portion (10) from the top face (2) to the bottom face (3), dividing the neck portion (10) into first and second neck wall members (14, 15) extending rearwardly from the body portion (8) to the head portion (9). First and second pin holes (16 and 17) are each disposed in the body portion (8) and open onto the top face (2) for receiving a pin (50, 51) with a free end of the pin protruding beyond the top face. First and second pin receiving cavities (18, 19) are each disposed in the body portion (8) and open onto the bottom face (3) for receiving the free end of a pin (50, 51) received in a pin hole (16 and 17) of an adjacent block (1) disposed therebeneath so as to interlock the blocks (1) with a predetermined setback. The neck wall members (14, 15), pin holes (16 and 17) and pin receiving cavities (18, 19) are positioned such that a first plane (P1) extending parallel to the plane of symmetry (5) passes through the first pin receiving cavity (18), first pin hole (16) and first neck wall member (14) and a second plane (P2) extending parallel to the plane of symmetry (5) passes through the second pin receiving cavity (19), second pin hole (17) and second neck wall member (15).

The invention discloses an organic light-emitting display panel and a display apparatus. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a display area and a non-display area, wherein the display area comprises a substrate, a driving circuit layer and an light-emitting device layer disposed on the driving circuit layer; and the non-display area comprises a retaining wall arranged to encircle the display area, the retaining wall comprises at least one support layer, a barrier layer disposed on the support layer and multiple projections formed on the barrier layer, and the multiple projections are successively arranged along a direction away from the display area. The organic light-emitting display panel further comprises a packaging layer which covers the display area and the surfaces of a part of the projections. According to the invention, through designing the multiple projections at the top end of the retaining wall, the edge of the packaging layer can be sealed only by use of one retaining wall, the frame width of the display panel is reduced, the multiple projections generate deformation to make up for slits when being extruded by a mask, through the multiple projections, diffusion paths of reaction gas during deposition are also increased, diffusion can be ended in the multiple projections, and a shadow effect is eliminated.

A retaining wall block system having multiple sizes and shapes of blocks with differently dimensioned, interchangeable front and back faces. The blocks are used to construct an irregularly textured wall having a weathered, natural appearance. Multiple channels in the lower face of the block are used to engage pins in pin-receiving apertures to form an attachment system. Horizontal reinforcing members are also used in the channels and vertical reinforcing members are used in cores of adjacent blocks for reinforcing a wall. Reinforcing geosynthetic materials can also be firmly held in a wall by means of the pins or by connectors adapted to fit in the block channels.

A wall block having a block body having opposed front and rear faces, opposed first and second side walls, and opposed and substantially parallel top and bottom faces, one or more pin holes that open onto the top face of the block, and one or more lugs that extend from the bottom face, each lug having a back surface that extends contiguously from the rear face of the block. A corner block for use with the wall block. A retaining wall comprising a plurality of wall blocks including at least one lower course and at least one upper course.

The invention discloses a flexible organic light emitting diode display panel, a display device and a fabrication method of the flexile organic light emitting diode display panel. The flexible organic light emitting diode display panel comprises a substrate, an organic light emitting device, a package thin film and at least retaining wall structures and also comprises an organic dielectric layer, wherein the substrate contains a display region and a non-display region, the organic light emitting device is arranged on the display region of the substrate, the package thin film covers the organic light emitting device and comprises an organic layer and at least one inorganic layer, the at least two retaining wall structures are arranged on the non-display region of the substrate, two adjacent retaining wall structures are arranged at intervals, the at least one part of retaining wall structures are covered by the package thin film, and the organic dielectric layer is arranged between the at least two adjacent retaining wall structures, is arranged on the substrate and is covered by the at least one inorganic layer. Since the inorganic layer and the organic dielectric layer are filled between the retaining wall structures, the stress generated by the inorganic layer during bending for many times can be effectively absorbed by the organic dielectric layer, and a crack is prevented from being generated between the retaining wall structures.

Molds and processes that permit high-speed, mass production of retaining wall blocks having patterned or other processed front faces, as well as retaining wall blocks formed by such processes. The invention permits the front face of the block to be impressed with a pattern or otherwise directly processed, to allow the formation of pre-determined block front faces, while at the same time facilitating high-speed, high-volume production of blocks. Pre-determined front faces can include front faces having pre-determined patterns and textures, front faces having predetermined shapes, front faces made from different material(s) than the remainder of the block, and combinations thereof.

The present invention provides methods and apparatus in which a surgical retractor comprises a plurality of mechanically coupled tissue retaining walls that are guided into position along one or more guides previously implanted into the patient. The walls are preferably coupled by pivots, so that separating some of the walls from one another opens an operating space. There are preferably two guides, which are driven or screwed into the pedicles of vertebrae, or other bone. Since practical considerations will usually mean that the guides are completely parallel to one another, the retractor has oversized channels to receive the guides. The channels are best disposed in a frame, which also serves to hold lock the walls apart. Various convenience features are contemplated including a web disposed between the walls, which expands as the walls are separated. Also contemplated are projections from near the bottoms of one or more of the walls, which can alternatively or additionally help to hold the underlying tissue in place.

The invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel, comprising a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer, wherein, the liquid crystal layer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; the first substrate comprises a bottom material, an alignment film and a plurality of retaining walls; the bottom material is defined with a display area and a surrounding non-display area, the alignment film is arranged in the display area; the plurality of retaining walls are arranged in the surrounding non-display area; moreover, the heights of the plurality of retaining walls are greater than the height of the alignment film; a pollution source is blocked outside of the display area by the retaining walls after the friction alignment action of the alignment film, thereby preventing the pollution source from falling into the display area and avoiding the display detects such as group gray spots or light spots of the liquid crystal display panel. Therefore, the display quality and the practicability of the liquid crystal display panel are greatly improved.

An artificial disc having a pair of opposing plates for seating against opposing vertebral bone surfaces, separated by at least one spring mechanism. The preferred spring mechanism is at least one spirally slotted belleville washer, and in some embodiments the belleville washer is also radially thinning or thickening. Various illustrated embodiments use two washers or one washer. For double washer embodiments, the wide ends of the washers seat against respective opposing plates, in some embodiments each being maintained thereagainst by a retaining wall and ring or a circular recess and retaining shield. For single washer embodiments, the narrow end of the washer can be modified to have a curvate socket for rotatably mounting onto a semispherical protuberance extending from one of the plates.

A three-dimensional printer (1) includes a material supply device (3) that supplies material powder to a table which is movable vertically, a powder retaining wall (26) that surrounds the table and retains the material powder, a material-recovery bucket (30) that accommodates excess material powder and impurities discharged from the powder retaining wall, an impurity removing device (43) that removes the impurities from the material powder, and a material drying device (47) that dries the material powder. The material powder from which the impurities have been removed and which has been dried is returned and recycled to the material supply device.

A ball chair with a retaining device has a seat (10), a spherical cushion (20) and two retaining pieces. The spherical cushion (20) rests on the seat (10). The two retaining pieces are selective retaining rods or retaining walls and are respectively attached to a rear end and a front end of the seat (10). Thus, the spherical cushion (20) is held between the two retaining pieces and firmly secured on the seat (10) to keep the spherical cushion (20) from falling off the ball chair.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional reinforced rigid-soft composite ecological retaining wall and a construction method. The retaining wall is characterized by comprising an upper portion soft ecological retaining wall body and a lower rigid retaining wall body, wherein the upper portion soft ecological retaining wall body and the lower rigid retaining wall body are connected through anchor bars. All layers of filling materials of the upper portion soft ecological retaining wall body are connected through connecting buckle parts, and water draining pipes, the connecting and fixing ends of horizontal ribbing bodies and inclined tie bars are evenly arranged on the lower rigid retaining wall body. A wall heel of a foundation of the retaining wall extends backwards to the edge of a stable soil body, vertical reinforcing piles are arranged at the bottom of the retaining wall, the horizontal ribbing bodies are laid in the filling materials behind the retaining wall, the wall toe of the retaining wall is filled back with a wall foot pressing soil body, and vertical ribbing bodies are vertically arranged at the connection position between the filling materials behind the retaining wall and an original soil body. The retaining wall structurally combines the advantages of a rigid retaining wall and the advantages of a soft retaining wall, achieves ecological slope protection, reduces pressure of soil behind the retaining wall, enhances structural integrity and has good technical and economical benefits.

A humidity regulating unit including a heating element housed inside a covering that has a porous retaining wall through which water does not pass but steam or gas passes. In one embodiment, the covering has several bulges along the circumference of the heating element that protrudes outward from the outer surface of heating element to form several water routes along the outer surface of heating element. The covering and the outer surface of heating element are bonded between adjacent water routes so that the outer surface of heating element is used as part of the wall of the water routes. As a result, the size of heating element does not restrict making the cross section of each water route as small as possible, and even if the covering breaks, the amount of water leaking from the humidity regulating unit is minimized.

A masonry block that may be used in construction of block walls particularly retaining walls for retaining soil and preventing soil erosion. A masonry block having at least one body with a front face, back face, a pair of sides extending therebetween a top face and a bottom face, defining a block having six major surfaces. One of the sides has an opening therethrough that is in communication with a cavity extending inwardly in relation to the body. The cavity is sized and configured to receive at least a portion of a hand therein to provide structure for easily grasping and lifting the block. The centerline of the cavity extends from the opening inwardly so that the angle between the centerline and the portion of the side adjacent to the opening is less than 90 degrees, so that the cupped fingers of a user may be received therein.