Abstract: A hydro-viscous speed regulating device for heavy-load start of a belt conveyor is provided. An input shaft and an output shaft are connected through a spline tube, an inner friction plate set, and an outer friction plate set. The inner and outer friction plate sets are controlled by an inner oil cylinder and an outer oil cylinder respectively. Oil inlet and oil return of the inner oil cylinder and the outer oil cylinder are controlled by an oil inlet valve core and an oil return valve core automatically. During starting process, pressure oil enters into the outer oil cylinder, and pushes the outer friction plate set to be engaged to provide torque required by the output shaft.

Abstract: A tension balance system for steel wire ropes on a friction hoisting driving end of an ultra-deep well includes a friction wheel, left and right guiding wheels, left and right steel wire ropes, left and right adjustment wheels, left and right rewinding wheels, left and right adjustment oil cylinders, a hydraulic pipeline, a pump station, a pipeline switch group, left and right hoisting containers, balance ropes, and reels. The friction wheel is disposed in the middle, the left and right adjustment wheels and the left and right rewinding wheels are circularly distributed around the friction wheel, the left and right guiding wheels, the left and right adjustment wheels, and left and right rewinding wheels are all symmetrically disposed on two sides of the friction wheel; both a quantity of left steel wire ropes and a quantity of right steel wire ropes are even numbers more than 2.

Abstract: Disclosed are an online monitoring system for a crack on a hoist spindle and an operation method thereof. The system comprises: a rope power part, a crack detection part, a wireless transmission part, and a computer. The rope power part comprises two traction ropes, two guide wheels, two stepper motors, and two stepper motor drivers. The crack detection part comprises a spiral tube guide rail, a sliding body, and an ultrasonic generator. The wireless transmission part comprises three zigbee wireless sensing modules. The zigbee wireless sensing modules receive instructions from the computer and transmit the instructions to the stepper motor drivers to control the motors to rotate. The stepper motors drive the guide wheels to rotate to realize the winding of the ropes, so as to pull the sliding body to slide on the spiral tube guide rail. The ultrasonic generator clamped on the sliding body monitors the rotating spindle along the spiral tube guide rail.

Abstract: A self-priming water turbine-driven reel sprinkler irrigation machine includes a framework, a plug board, a reel, a PE pipe, a water turbine driving device, a sprinkler wagon, and a self-priming device. The framework comprises an underframe, a reel support frame, a plug board support frame, and a wheel assembly. A bottom portion of the underframe is provided with an underframe rotary device, and the underframe rotary device comprises a rotary bearing and a chassis support member. An inner ring of the rotary bearing is fixedly mounted to the underframe, and an outer ring of the rotary bearing is fixedly mounted and connected to the chassis support member. A telescopic front support is disposed at a front part of the underframe. The wheel assembly comprises a wheel support beam, a wheel, and a wheel lifting hydraulic cylinder. The self-priming device comprises a water pump, a pumping hose, and a filtering mechanism.

Abstract: A hydro-viscous speed regulating device for heavy-load start of a belt conveyor is provided. An input shaft and an output shaft are connected through a spline tube, an inner friction plate set, and an outer friction plate set. The inner and outer friction plate sets are controlled by an inner oil cylinder and an outer oil cylinder respectively. Oil inlet and oil return of the inner oil cylinder and the outer oil cylinder are controlled by an oil inlet valve core and an oil return valve core automatically. During starting process, pressure oil enters into the outer oil cylinder, and pushes the outer friction plate set to be engaged to provide torque required by the output shaft.

Abstract: A large-tonnage skip anti-blocking system includes a skip, wherein two parallel rows of guide rails are fixed to upper and lower shaft walls of a shaft on two sides of the skip correspondingly, a plurality of pulleys are mounted on the guide rails in a matched mode, impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower pulleys, front plates of the impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower sets of pulleys in the front row, rear plates of the impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower sets of pulleys in the back row, a length of rib plates of the impact plates is greater than a width of the skip, hydraulic cylinder bases and vibration motors are mounted on outer sides of the rib plates at intervals.

Abstract: A reliability robust design method for multiple failure modes of an ultra-deep well hoisting container, including: defining randomness of a structural parameter, a material property, and a dynamic load of a hoisting container, and solving a random response of a structural failure for a random parameter using a design of experiment method; establishing reliability performance functions of each failure modes in accordance with failure criterion of the hoisting container; establishing a joint probability model of correlated failures using a copula theory in consideration of probability correlation between the failure modes; establishing, a system reliability model with failure correlation of the hoister container; establishing a sensitivity model concerning each random parameter for system reliability of the hoisting container; and establishing, in conjunction with an optimization design model, a reliability robust optimization design model for the hoisting container using a joint failure probability and paramet

Abstract: An eccentric swinging stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine includes a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a water turbine gearbox, an eccentric swinging mechanism, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper. The upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. A water turbine is used in the eccentric swinging stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the eccentric swinging mechanism to realize an eccentric swing, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.

Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure is a method of pruning a convolutional neural network based on feature map variation. The present invention enables compression of an entire network by means of removing a portion of filters in a convolutional layer, and such process is called pruning. A main contribution of the present invention is determining a pruning rule for filters in a single convolutional layer according to a feature map variation condition, using the rule to analyze network sensitivity, and pruning the entire network according to the network sensitivity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine, including a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a lifting cylinder, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper, and the upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. Pressurized water is used in the telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the lifting cylinder to realize periodic lifting motion of the piston rod, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.

Abstract: A composite containing hollow ceramic spheres and a preparation method are provided. The composite includes an impact-resistant gradient complex part containing a hollow ceramic sphere complex, prepared by using a 3D printing method and a hollow ceramic sphere-high polymer complex dielectric material obtained in a blending and fusing way. The obtained composite has the characteristics of relatively low density and high strength. The impact-resistant gradient complex part is a layered complex, the composition and properties of the complex may be regulated in a direction vertical to a layer according to a design, for example, mechanical properties of the complex are transitioned from soft to hard to form gradient change by regulating the change of the composition, and meanwhile, the thickness among layers with different properties is accurately controlled as required.

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.

Abstract: Systems and methods for simulating an effect of multiple seismic sources concurrently on a geologic formation are provided. Data is read from a seismic source file that describes at least two seismic source types. The concurrent propagation of acoustic energy from the at least two seismic sources types through the geologic formation is modeled. A seismic output file is then generated.

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display may have main column spacers and subspacer column spacers. The column spacers may have cross shapes formed from overlapping perpendicular rectangular column spacer portions respectively located on a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. The column spacers may have a hybrid configuration in which some of the rectangular portions on the thin-film transistor layer extend vertically and some extend horizontally. Column spacers may be formed from planarization layer material, may be formed from locally thickened portions of a planarization layer, and may have circular shapes.

Abstract: A boat-shaped sprinkler irrigation machine is adapted for large-scale farm irrigation canals, and includes a hull, a traveling propulsion device, a sprinkler irrigation device, and an electric control device. A sprinkler irrigation auxiliary support mechanism is disposed on the hull, and comprises support legs and support roller groups. The support legs are symmetrically disposed on left and right sides of the hull, and top ends of the support legs are mounted on the hull. The support roller groups are mounted on bottom ends of the support legs. The support roller group comprises support rollers. The sprinkler irrigation device comprises a self-priming pump, a sprinkler frame, and a sprinkler gun. The sprinkler frame is fixedly mounted on the hull in a position corresponding to a symmetrical center of the support legs, and the sprinkler gun is fixedly mounted on the sprinkler frame by means of an adjusting assembly.

Abstract: A display may have display layers such as liquid crystal display layers having a liquid crystal layer interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer or organic light-emitting diode layers having organic light-emitting diodes formed from thin-film transistor circuitry. The display layers may be configured to form an array of pixels that display images and may include a polarizer. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the display layers. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may include one or more liquid crystal layers. A first polarizer may be interposed between first and second liquid crystal layers and the second liquid crystal layer may be overlapped by a second polarizer. The first and second polarizers may have pass axes that are aligned with a pass axis of the polarizer in the display layers. One or more liquid crystal layers in the angle-of-view adjustment layer may include dichroic dye.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus stores at least a reference image and performs the following operations: (a) receiving an image, (b) determining a plurality of representative keypoints for the image, such as determining the representative keypoints by a density restriction based method, (c) finding out that a matched area in the image corresponds to a first reference image according to the representative keypoints, (d) determining that a matched number between the representative keypoints and a plurality of reference keypoints of the first reference image is less than a threshold, and (e) storing the matched area in the image processing apparatus as a second reference image.

Abstract: A boat-shaped sprinkler irrigation machine is adapted for large-scale farm irrigation canals, and includes a hull, a traveling propulsion device, a sprinkler irrigation device, and an electric control device. A sprinkler irrigation auxiliary support mechanism is disposed on the hull, and comprises support legs and support roller groups. The support legs are symmetrically disposed on left and right sides of the hull, and top ends of the support legs are mounted on the hull. The support roller groups are mounted on bottom ends of the support legs. The support roller group comprises support rollers. The sprinkler irrigation device comprises a self-priming pump, a sprinkler frame, and a sprinkler gun. The sprinkler frame is fixedly mounted on the hull in a position corresponding to a symmetrical center of the support legs, and the sprinkler gun is fixedly mounted on the sprinkler frame by means of a sprinkler gun adjusting assembly.

Abstract: An eccentric swinging stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine includes a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a water turbine gearbox, an eccentric swinging mechanism, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper. The upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. A water turbine is used in the eccentric swinging stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the eccentric swinging mechanism to realize an eccentric swing, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.