6864 results about "Stress concentration" patented technology

A coupling system for connecting a sun gear to a shaft within a planetary gear train, includes a sun gear coupling connecting the sun gear to the shaft. The sun gear coupling has at least one undulant flexible section joined to an inflexible spindle for accommodating misalignment between the sun gear and the shaft. The flexible section comprises a cylindrical ring having a diameter greater than the diameter of the spindle, and joined to the spindle by two longitudinally spaced apart diaphragms. The juncture between the diaphragms, the ring, and the spindle is curved in cross section on an outer side to improve flexibility and minimize stress concentrations, and the inner sides of the diaphragms are straight edges which result in a non-symmetric contour of the diaphragm walls.

An innovative bone anchor and methods for securing connective tissue, such as tendons, to bone are disclosed which permit a suture attachment which lies entirely beneath the cortical bone surface, and wherein the suturing material between the connective tissue and the bone anchor is oriented in a direction generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bone anchor, so that axial pull-out forces exerted on the bone anchor are minimized. The suture attachment to the bone anchor involves the looping of a substantial length of suturing material around a shaft of the anchor, thereby avoiding an eyelet connection which requires a knot and which concentrates stress on a very small portion of the suturing material. Thus, failure rates are greatly decreased over conventional techniques, and the inventive procedures are significantly easier to perform than conventional techniques.

A double shouldered high torque resistance threaded connection for drill stem components having enhanced resistance to torque forces, tensile loads and material stress and fatigue is disclosed. The tool joint is provided with threads having a 75 DEG included angle between the thread flanks thereof and with generally elliptical root surfaces to minimize material stress and fatigue during operation under high torque and high tensile loads. When made up, the double intrerengaging shoulders of the threaded tool joint are in firm face to face engagement permitting torque forces and tensile loads to propagate through the tool joint in a manner that minimizes bending forces and minimizes high stress concentration so that the resulting service life of the tool joint is significantly enhanced.

A preparation (10, 11,12,13) to be fixed to a natural tooth part or tooth, in particular for the replacement of a load-bearing tooth part, is for example a filling for a drilled-out tooth (1), a crown, bridge or prosthesis to be placed on a tooth stub, or a tooth pin to be fixed in a tooth root for fastening an artificial tooth, a bridge or a prosthesis. The preparation has surface regions which consist of a material with thermoplastic properties. The preparation (10, 11, 12,13) is designed in a manner such that it has oscillation properties with such low damping losses that for a liquefaction of the material with thermoplastic properties by way of oscillations there are local stress concentrations required, and in a manner such that such stress concentrations only occur in the region of the preparation surface. The preparation is positioned on a suitably prepared natural tooth part in a manner such that the material with the thermoplastic properties is in contact or may be brought into contact with the dentin surface and / or enamel surface. The preparation is then made to mechanically oscillate and is simultaneously pressed against the natural tooth part, whereby the material with the thermoplastic properties is at least partly liquefied and brought into intimate contact with the dentin or enamel surface in a manner such that after solidification it forms a positive fit and / or material fit connection. Teeth restored with such preparations have a high stability and a long life, which in particular is attributed to the fact that the thermoplastic material, in contrast to cements used for the same purpose, shrinks less and has the ability to relieve internal stress by creeping.

An automatic safe disposable blood sampling device, comprising a case defining an shoot chamber, said shoot chamber being provided with a lancet-exiting hole at a front end thereof; a lancet disposed slidably in said shoot chamber and provided with a puncturing tip at a front portion thereof, said puncturing tip being pointed to said lancet-exiting hole in an alignment manner, a spring disposed at back of said lancet in a shooting direction of said lancet; a locking and shooting structure provided on a side of said lancet and said case along a compression path of said spring, said locking and shooting structure being composed of an elastic arm button on said case and an elastic arm on said lancet, said elastic arm button being an extended structure on a side of said case, a button engaging end of said elastic arm button facing a locking hole provided on a side wall of said case, said elastic arm being another extended structure on a side of said lancet corresponding to said side wall of said case, a free end of said elastic arm being engaged with said locking hole in a locking state, and a root portion of said elastic arm being provided with a notch or a shrink neck oil which stress is easy to concentrate. Since a notch or a shrink neck is provided at the root portion of the elastic arm, the elastic arm disengages from the locking hole after the elastic arm button is pressed, at the same time, the elastic arm is broken to be self-destructed due to the stress concentration on the notch, therefore, the present invention is beyond retrieval after one-off shooting.

A golf club head composed of a forged metal material has a striking surface that is supported by diagonal stiffening regions that extend from a central region of the face toward the heel-sole quadrant, heel-crown quadrant, toe-crown quadrant, and toe-sole quadrants of the face. The diagonal stiffening regions are smoothly contoured to blend into the back surface of the face so as to avoid any stress concentrations. By extending the stiffening regions diagonally from the center of the club face to the four quadrants, a more uniform stress distribution can be obtained and therefore more uniform performance. Additionally, since the diagonal stiffening regions are greater in length than vertical or horizontal stiffening region could be made, the center of the face can deflect a greater amount without exceeding the yield strength of the material and, therefore, there is a more efficient transfer of energy from the club head to the ball.

A laser splitting method for splitting off a segment from an object to be split using a laser beam, includes a surface processing step of processing the object by forming a linear recessed portion in a surface of the object, the linear recessed portion being effective to cause a stress concentration at the surface of the object; an internal processed-region forming step of forming an internal processed-regions at a depth of the object in a line along which a laser beam scans the surface of the object by a relative motion therebetween, the laser beam being converged adjacent the depth, wherein the thus formed internal processed-regions extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of the object; and an external force applying step of applying an external force to the object to form cracks between the recessed portion and the internal processed-regions.

A hardcoat film is provided which can improve surface hardness and, at the same time, can prevent the hardcoat film per se from being damaged by stress concentration and is less likely to be scratched. The hardcoat film comprises: a transparent substrate; and a multi-layer hardcoat provided on at least one side of the transparent substrate, the multi-layer hardcoat layer comprising two or more hardcoats, the modulus of elasticity sigmam of a hardcoat provided closest to the transparent substrate being higher than the modulus of elasticity sigmas of a hardcoat provided as a surface layer.

The invention relates to a coal-gas outburst simulation platform for processing coal-gas outburst simulation researches under different coal bed inclinations, different ground stresses and different gas pressures, and researching the transmission rule and attenuation character of acoustic emission signal in the outburst process. The invention uses a plurality of hydraulic jacks to axially jack coal sample, uses an aeration port to charge gas into the coal sample, and can simulate the protruded stress concentrated zone caused by underground coal face, to simulate the outburst condition of coal and gas. The protruded port of the device via a quick release device can realize mechanical automatic control, to quickly open the protruded port to instantly release pressure at the protruded end and eliminate the effect on the protruding energy by manually opening the protruded port, to simulate on-site protrusion actually.

A valve body and seal assembly comprising a top-stem-guided valve body having at least one cast-in-place elastomeric seal insert in a peripheral seal retention groove and a cast-in-place top guide stem sleeve is made by pouring and curing liquid elastomer in at least one mold comprising the peripheral seal retention groove and the top guide stem. Mold surfaces contacting the poured elastomer are adhesion-inhibiting surfaces which reduce or eliminate background elastomer stress due to shrinkage during curing of the elastomer, and which allow limited relative movement of cast-in-place elastomer with respect to the valve body. Serrations on each of the opposing walls of the seal retention groove are offset to moderate differing stress concentrations in the groove walls.

The present invention may provide various improvements over conventional cross connectors. For example, the present invention may provide various types of Real-X cross connectors, which may have an arch shape X-bridge that curves above the spinal bone segments of the patient. As such, the Real-X cross connectors may be more adaptive to the patient's spinal provide and provide better protect for the patient's the spinal bone segments. Moreover, the Real-X cross connectors may incorporate a complementary pivot joint configuration for smoothening the stress distribution and reducing the stress concentration around the center of the arch shape X-bridge. Advantageously, the complementary pivot joint configuration may enhance the rigidity and stability of the Real-X cross connectors.

The present invention provides a joining structure capable of greatly improving the proof stress and the fatigue property by alleviating the stress concentration and residual stress caused by welding heat at one or both ends of a tabular member.In the present invention, one or both ends 4 of a tabular member 3 such as a reinforcing rib, fixed to the surface of a structural member 1 in the direction of the principal stress of the structural member 1 so as to protrude in the shape of T, is / are bent in a direction deviating from the direction of the principal stress and, by this, the rigidity at the end(s) 4 of the tabular member 3 decreases and the stress concentration is alleviated. It is preferable to bend one or both ends of a tabular member 3 in the shape of an gradual curve and to the extent that each bent end is formed at a right angle to the direction of the principal stress. The tabular member may have the shape of a flat plate, or it may be bent so that it has the shape of U or V as a whole. Further, the tabular member may be welded to a structural member or formed as an integral part of a structural member.

A valve body and seal assembly comprising a valve body having one or more peripheral integral seal retention grooves and one or more peripheral single-durometer and / or dual-durometer elastomeric seals, each seal being cast-in-place in an integral seal retention groove having adhesion-inhibiting surfaces and offset circular serrations of predetermined height on opposing groove walls. Adhesion-inhibiting surfaces reduce or eliminate internal elastomer stress due to curing of cast-in-place elastomeric seals. Serrations on each of the opposing groove walls are offset to accommodate differing stress concentrations in the walls. Opposing groove walls diverge peripherally. Offset serrations result in decreased metal fatigue from impact and bending stress. Offset serrations also improve valve sealing and increase valve service life by maintaining correct seal position on the valve body while minimizing background stress in the seal elastomer(s). Valve service life is also increased by appropriate choice of differing elastomer compositions for dual-durometer seals.

Disclosed herein is a middle- or large-sized battery pack having a plurality of battery cells, which can be charged and discharged, stacked one on another with high density and electrically connected with each other. When the battery cells swell due to abnormal operation of the battery pack or degradation of the battery pack caused by the charge and discharge of the battery cells for a long period of time, stress is concentrated on a predetermined region of the battery pack due to the change of thickness of the swelling battery cells, whereby the physical change of the battery pack is caused, and the disconnection of an electrically connecting member of the battery pack is mechanically accomplished by the physical change of the battery pack. Consequently, the battery pack according to the present invention provides high safety.

An LED (Light-Emitting Diode) lamp bank is primarily formed with a plurality of LED lamps, a soft substrate, conduction wires, and soft vinyl. Two ends of each LED lamp bank are provided with female socket holes to connect with male connection terminals serially. A hard protective sheet is located at a position of the soft vinyl where each LED lamp is located, such that shear force of the soft vinyl at the location of the LED lamp can be increased, and an ill condition of fracture caused by stress concentration at the location of the LED lamp can be effectively prevented when the LED lamp bank is bended.

A cross-connector system for connecting two rods of an implantable vertebral rod system utilizes relatively low-stress concentration contact areas between the connector elements and the rods. The cross-connector system includes a two-piece, elongated member (100) that is adjustable lengthwise and has, at each end, hook-shaped ends (103, 112) which each cooperate with a rotatable, eccentric cam plug (117, 126) having a curved surface (118, 128) that engages and secures a rod to the hook-shaped end in a manner that optimally distributes load to minimize stress concentrations.

A floating foundation for wind turbines is disclosed, where the foundation essentially comprises at least three submerged buoyancy bodies connected to the lower end of the tower of the wind turbine at a common node member situated well above the surface of the sea. The buoyancy bodies are connected to the node member by means of relatively thin leg sections, whereby wave load on the foundation is reduced. By applying the foundation according to the present invention, stress concentrations and torques in the node member are reduced, whereby it becomes possible to apply a relatively lightweight and hence cheap node member. The overall weight of the construction is thereby reduced and hence the volume of the buoyancy bodies necessary to counteract the overall weight of the construction.

The invention provides a water-soluble inorganic zinc-rich paint and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dropwise adding aluminum-modified silica sol into potassium silicate solution with low modulus, so as to obtain a high-modulus potassium silicate solution as a binder; and adding a catalyst, a siloxane oligomer and a modifier to ensure that the high-modulus potassium silicate solution are uniform in size distribution, and does not have gelatinization reaction for a long time, wherein after the high-modulus potassium silicate solution and a zinc powder mixture are stirred uniformly, the zinc-rich paint has the advantages that reaction rates of all parts of a coating are uniform, and no stress concentration phenomenon exist. Proved by experiments, the zinc-rich paint provided by the invention has no gel after being stored for 90 days at 50 DEG C, the thickness of a film formed once can reach 200 mu m, no cracking or bubbling phenomenon exists, construction can be carried out after the treatment level of the steel surface reaches Sa2, and the salt fog resistance of the coating can reach 10000 hours.

A coupling system for connecting a sun gear to a shaft within a planetary gear train, includes a sun gear coupling connecting the sun gear to the shaft. The sun gear coupling has at least one undulant flexible section joined to an inflexible spindle for accommodating misalignment between the sun gear and the shaft. The flexible section comprises a cylindrical ring having a diameter greater than the diameter of the spindle, and joined to the spindle by two longitudinally spaced apart diaphragms. The juncture between the diaphragms, the ring, and the spindle is curved in cross section on an outer side to improve flexibility and minimize stress concentrations, and the inner sides of the diaphragms are straight edges which result in a non-symmetric contour of the diaphragm walls.

The present invention generally relates to a simple and cost effective device and method for mounting and supporting solar panels. A solar panel according to the present invention is supported from the backside via a plurality of elongated support members. The elongated support members may have open V-shaped or W-shaped arrangements and may be adhered to the solar panels through strong, flexible glue or double-sided tape that withstands significant environmental loads, such as wind uploading, yet remain flexible enough to minimize stress concentrations in the solar panels. The support members may be attached to a solar panel by a support member attachment module incorporated into an automated solar panel production line. A plurality of solar panels may be field mounted to a solar panel support structure having one or more piles or the like with at least a lower and upper transverse support rails spanning the plurality of solar panels.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to concentrating solar radiation using an assembly of at least one clear and one reflective film that inflates into a shape reflecting parallel rays of light to a concentrated focus in the interior or immediate proximity of the assembly. Embodiments of the present invention can be assembled in a substantially flat stack with bonds or welds between the films, compatible with conventional high-throughput film manufacturing processes. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention may employ external circumferential rings or a “harness” assembly to support and point the balloon against wind forces and the like without severe stress localization. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention may also employ film attachments to facilitate feedthroughs, reduce stress concentrations, and modify the inflated shape. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention may also employ film modifiers, including laminated films, adhesives, printing, etc. to facilitate installation, feedthroughs, and other functions.

A method for treating an area of a semiconductor wafer surface with a laser for reducing stress concentrations is disclosed. The wafer treatment method discloses treating an area of a wafer surface with a laser beam, wherein the treated area is ablated or melted by the beam and re-solidifies into a more planar profile, thereby reducing areas of stress concentration and stress risers that contribute to cracking and chipping during wafer singulation. Preferably, the treated area has a width less than that of a scribe street, but wider than the kerf created by a wafer dicing blade. Consequently, when the wafer is singulated, the dicing blade will preferably saw through treated areas only. It will be understood that the method of the preferred embodiments may be used to treat other areas of stress concentration and surface discontinuities on the wafer, as desired.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a barrier film, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The barrier film comprises a first organic film layer and a second organic film layer, a first groove is formed in the first organic film layer, at least one inorganic film layer is arranged on the first organic film layer, the first groove is filled with the inorganic film layer, and the thickness of the inorganic film layer is smaller than or equal to the depth of the first groove; the second organic film layer is arranged on the inorganic film layer and is a flattened layer. Due to the fact that the thickness of the inorganic film layer is smaller than or equal to the depth of the first groove, an inorganic layer is discontinuous and does not located in the same layer, the phenomenon of stress concentration can be avoided in the bending process, and the risk that the inorganic layer is cracked is lowered.