422 results about "Saucer" patented technology

The purpose of the invention is a light aircraft, remotely supplied and remotely controlled, propelled by electrical motors coupled to propellers, this device being able to perform stationary flight and to move in the three space dimensions in a controlled way. The system includes an aircraft (1), a control unit (3) and a handling unit (4). The aircraft comprises four propellers, each of them driven by a electric motor, a gyroscopic device, tilt sensors, a yaw sensor and an extrenal protective body. The invention also describes the method for the fliht closed loop control. The main purpose of this invention is to provide a enjoyable and educative toy, mainly intended for indoor flight. In a variant of the invention, the aircraft is fitted with a miniaturized video camera, in order to perform remote inspections on buildings or elements difficult to access.

A discharge container includes a cylindrical container body with a bottom which includes a support extending upward from a bottom wall along a center axis, and a fixed partitioning plate extending from a region from a peripheral wall to a bottom wall as a base end to partition the inside of the container body in a radial direction; a rotor which includes a cylindrical shaft piece rotatably engaging with the outer surface of the support, and a rotatable partitioning plate extending from the cylindrical shaft piece as a base end to be arranged in a radial direction along with the fixed partitioning plate; and a cylindrical lid with a top which has a top wall having a saucer-shaped upper surface, and a downwardly extending shaft extending downwardly from the lower surface of the top wall and engaging with the cylindrical shaft piece from above such that the downwardly extending shaft cannot rotate therein, the lid covering the cylindrical opening as a lid and rotatably engaging with the cylindrical opening, wherein the edge of the fixed partitioning plate is brought into sliding contact with the cylindrical shaft piece; the edge of the rotatable partitioning plate is formed by a spatula-shaped sliding member made of soft material and is brought into sliding and linear contact with an area from the peripheral wall to the bottom wall of the container body; the lower surface of the top wall is brought into sliding contact with the upper end surfaces of the cylindrical opening and the fixed partitioning plate and brought into contact with the upper end surface of the rotatable partitioning plate; and contents are pressed by relative rotation between the container body and the lid and are discharged through a discharge opening provided on the top wall.

Disclosed are techniques for analyzing waveforms to determine the existence of certain patterns in those waveforms. The existence of certain patterns can be used by investors to make decisions regarding the purchase or sale of stocks. The processes include a determination of the formation of a base, whether the pattern formed in the base is a cup or saucer, whether there is a double bottom in the base, if a base has broken out and if a handle exists on a cup, as well as other patterns.

An active vibration isolating support device for preventing the direct transmission of vibrations from an engine to a vehicle body frame includes an electromagnetic actuator for driving a movable member in a reciprocating fashion to change the capacity of a first liquid chamber. A shaft portion of an armature driven by a coil is supported by a bearing so that it moves along an axis, whereby the size of an air gap can be maintained as small as possible, thereby making it possible to miniaturize the coil. In addition, a connecting rod for connecting the movable member with the armature is supported so as to sway relative to a coil spring and a saucer spring, whereby the vibration of the movable member is prevented from being transmitted to the shaft portion of the armature.

A frustum-shaped toilet bowl (26) includes a reversibly rotable saucer-shaped seal (46), or saucer. The saucer can automatically be rotated upward hermetically to compress closed against a sealing ring (48) that surrounds the outside of the bowl near its bottom outlet (32). The saucer is normally closed to prevent sewer gases from entering a bathroom from an adjoining drain line (36). The closed saucer can retain human waste or test balls in the bowl or, when opened, permits them to free-fall of their own weight into the drain line. The bowl has opposing water outlets (42) which are connected to flushometer valve (34), which is connected to a source of pressurized water. Depressing a button (74) automatically provides a wet spot in the bowl to prevent falling feces from sticking to the bowl. Depressing the button a second time opens the saucer and causes additional water to stagger flush solids while they are moving in the pipe. A two-stage staggered flush propels solids further than releasing the wet spot water and the additional water into the pipe together. A urine flush uses about 250 ml (0.25) gallons and a feces flush about 4.0 liters (1.0 gallon) of water. A 2.00 to 3.00-liter (0.50- to 0.75-gallon) flush carries 100 test balls about 18.2 meters (60 feet) in the drain line.

The invention discloses a tungsten trioxide nano-film with photocatalytic performance, and a preparation method thereof. The tungsten trioxide nano-film is characterized in that a WO3 nano layer with a WO3 nano structure is grown on a WO3 crystal seed layer, and the WO3 nano structure is shaped like a two-dimensional flying saucer including a middle main sheet and a nano-column. The preparation method of the tungsten trioxide nano-film comprises the steps of preparing a tungsten acid crystal seed layer precursor solution, preparing FTO (Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide) conductive glass with the crystal seed layer, preparing thermal tungsten acid solvent precursor solution, and finally performing hydrothermal synthesis to obtain the tungsten trioxide nano-film. According to the tungsten trioxide nano-film with photocatalytic performance, and the preparation method thereof, the specific surface area of the WO3 nano layer can be effectively enlarged; the efficiency of photocatalytic water splitting can be improved, the performance of photocatalytic water splitting in a photoelectric chemical pool is excellent, and excellent chemical stability can be achieved, the preparation method is simple, and the low-cost and large-scale application can be realized.

A vehicle seat which has a container holder that is not disfigured when subjected to load is provided. The vehicle seat comprises a seat body and a cup holder attached to a side of the seat body. The cup holder comprises a base member, a saucer member of which a base edge portion is turnably supported to a lower portion of the base member, engaging claws formed on the saucer member, and engaging tips which hold the saucer member in an approximately horizontal position by engaging with the engaging claws. When the engagement between the engaging claws and engaging tips is released by an accidental load, the saucer member turns downward. The abutment of the front edge portion of the saucer member with the floor of the interior stops the turn. A lower edge portion of the side of the seat body is provided with a projection.

A plant growing kit, primarily for growing climbing plants such as tomatoes, is contained in a flat box approximately the shape of a pizza box. In preferred embodiments three legs are included, broken down into sections in the box and directable into a sturdy tripod, over which a flexible vine-attachment element, such as a wire or thin tubular member or plastic coil, is assembled preferably in a tapered helical configuration. Also in the box is a basket, in flattened condition but erectable into a deep configuration and with provision for attachment to the legs, near their bottom ends, the basket being configured to contain a bag of soil, which may remain in the bag. The consumer provides drainage holes in the bag and an opening at top for the plants to grow and to climb up on the tripod and vine-attachment element. With a water-catching saucer under the bag and basket, the directed plant growing assembly can be placed in any desired location, including inside a building.

In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a saucer apparatus, comprising: a drainage container, for storing water drained from a soil container; and a conveying mechanism, for conveying the drainage container from a first state in which the drainage container is deployed underneath the soil container, thereby allowing accumulating drained water, and a second state in which the drainage container is deployed apart of the soil container, thereby allowing emptying water stored in the drainage container, and vice versa. The soil container may be is embedded into the apparatus, or comprise means for holding the flowerpot above the apparatus or on the apparatus, such as grill. According to one embodiment of the invention, the conveying mechanism conveys the drainage container linearly.

The invention discloses a flying saucer type photovoltaic cell panel cleaner and a cleaning method thereof, which belong to the field of remotely controlled flying cleaning. The flying saucer type photovoltaic cell panel cleaner comprises a cleaning system, a power system, a control system, a flying system, a communication system and a remote control system; the flying system, the cleaning system, the power system, the control system and the communication system compose a control and actuation mechanism, i.e. a cleaner host, the remote control system composes a remote control mechanism alone, signals are transmitted and received between the remote control system and the cleaner host through wireless communication modules in signal transceiver ports, the remote control system is utilized to set a route and transmit control signals, and the cleaner flies to a target cleaning position (i.e. a photovoltaic cell module to be cleaned) to perform corresponding action to fulfill a sweeping, sucking or wiping process. The flying saucer type photovoltaic cell panel cleaner has a simple structure, is convenient to maintain, is low in cost, and can conveniently clean solar photovoltaic cell panels placed at high positions.

The invention discloses a flying saucer type aircraft, which has a segment-shaped airframe, a telescopic empennage, two engines that are arranged at the two sides of the airframe and can rotate around the vertical plane, a vertical ejector and a horizontal ejector that control the flying position, a super-large screen, a complete flying control system and a weapon control system. The aircraft can take off or land vertically and can realize highly difficult movement like the rise or fall or hard braking in the air, suspension in the air, left or right rotation in situ in the air, left or right vertical spiral lift and so on. The aircraft is large in carrying capacity, low in fuel consumption and is easy to become invisible. The invention is suitable for a fighter-bomber, a transporter and is especially suitable for a carrier-based aircraft; also the aircraft can be taken as a safe sightseeing plane.

The invention relates to a ducted single-propeller saucer-shaped unmanned aerial vehicle which is characterized in that the upper end part of a landing gear is fixed with a duct, the upper end part of the duct is provided with a frame, the middle part of the frame is provided with a power plant arranged along the central axis of the duct, fuel tanks are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the power plant above the frame, the power plant is connected with a propeller arranged at the upper part in the duct by a propeller shaft, swirl-reducing fixed control surfaces which are uniformly and circumferentially arranged are installed between the inner wall at the lower part of the duct and the outer wall of a main hold, the vertical front and back ends at the bottom of the duct are symmetrically provided with a group of air flow nozzle rudders respectively, the lateral left and right ends at the bottom of the duct are symmetrically provided with a group of air flow nozzle rudders respectively, avionics are arranged in the duct, and an autopilot is installed in the main hold. The invention is economical and practical and has the advantages of compact structure, reasonable design, very good concealment, high flight efficiency, fuel saving, convenient maintenance and strong adaptability. In addition, the invention can take off and land vertically, hover, whirl and fly with low noise at any place.

The invention relates to a flying saucer type helicopter utilizing active airflow to generate lifting power. As everyone knows, the asymmetric airflow on the upper surfaces and lower surfaces of wings can generate lifting power, however for both a fixed wing aircraft and a propeller-driven aircraft, the wings move, the air is motionless, and airflow is passively generated. According to the invention, an opposite approach is chosen. Specifically, the wings are fixed, actively generated airflow flows through the upper surfaces of the wings, an air pressure difference is manufactured between the upper surfaces and lower surfaces of the wings so as to generate the lifting power, thus realizing a safe and simple aircraft that can achieve vertical take-off and landing, hovering, level flight and pivot steering. The appearance of the aircraft is similar to a flying saucer. By adjusting the angle between the airflow direction of the aircraft's upper surface and the radial direction, spin of the fuselage can be controlled, and by adjusting the flow velocity distribution of the front, back, left and right directions, the inclination direction of the aircraft body can be changed to realize level flight and direction control. The novel aircraft not only has all the advantages of traditional helicopters, but also has the characteristics of simplicity, compactness, safety, stability and the like, and is an ideal solution to one-man aircrafts and unmanned reconnaissance aerial vehicles.

The invention discloses a saucer-shaped aircraft, which belongs to the field of aviation. The saucer-shaped aircraft comprises a brushless direct current motor (5), a screw propeller (2), a steering engine (12), a battery (7), a guide vane set (13) comprising guide vanes (3) and a culvert body (1), wherein the screw propeller (2) is fixed to the brushless direct current motor (5). The saucer-shaped aircraft is characterized by also comprising a fixing block (6), a direction control rudder (4) and a control rudder connecting frame (8), wherein the brushless direct current motor (5) is connected with the upper surface of the fixing block (6); one end of each of the guide vanes (3) is connected with the fixing block (6), and the other end of each of the guide vanes (3) is connected with the inner surface of the culvert body (1); the battery (7) is fixed on the lower surface of the fixing block (6); the direction control rudder (4) is formed by bending a rectangular plate in the directions of two parallel edges of the rectangular plate; and the control rudder connecting frame (8) is fixed to the culvert body for supporting the direction control rudder. The saucer-shaped aircraft has the advantages of stable flying, easiness for operation and control, stable hovering and superior performance in tasks such as air photography and air detection.

A manhole cover is made of a fiberglass reinforced saucer-like shell that is filled with concrete. The interior surface of the shell is rough and the shell has a maximum thickness of 5 mm. An adhesive agent may be provided between the base and the filling, to obtain a reliable bond between base and filling. The concrete for the filling may be pure mineral concrete. One or more lifting handles are embedded in the filling. To this end, a recess for each handle is formed in the filling. The ends of the handle are embedded in the concrete and the lifting portion of the handle is curved upward and is held in the recess such that there is a space between the curved portion and the bottom of the recess, so that the handle may be easily grasped.