Abstract: A fly shield for covering a horse's head to protect the horse from flies or other detrimental which is characterized by a pair of substantial rooms that accommodate the horse's eyes, and a pair of ear-hoods for accommodating the horse's ears in a flexible manner and an adjustable fastening device. Thereby, the disclosed fly shield is able to offer the horse with protection as well as comfort.

Abstract: A filter includes a housing providing an interior. The housing includes an outlet and an inlet arranged radially outwardly from the outlet. A filter element assembly is arranged within the interior and includes a filter media for filtering fluid within the filter. A turbine includes fins arranged axially beneath the inlet within the interior for centrifugally separating debris from the fluid. The turbine is provided by an integrated end disc, end cap and fins, in one example, molded from plastic. Another end disc or end cap is arranged opposite of the turbine and supports another end of the filter media. The end cap includes a circumferential wall that extends outwardly adjacent to the housing. Recesses are provided in the circumferential wall to permit fluid communication between an inlet side of the filter element assembly and a cavity arranged between the end cap and a bottom of the housing.

Abstract: An in-line filter provided with a substantially elongated filter housing (1; 51) in which filtering material (A) is included, the filter housing being provided on a first end with an inflow opening (2) and, on a second, opposite end with an outflow opening (3), while at the inflow opening (2) and the outflow opening (3) fastening means (4-7) are provided for fastening a supply or discharge tube, respectively (8 or 9, respectively), while the fastening means (4-7) are quick-change couplings (4-7), a respective quick-change coupling (4, 5; 6, 7) having a coupled condition and an uncoupled condition, while in the quick-change coupling (4, 5; 6, 7) a shut-off valve (10) is provided which, in the coupled condition, assumes an open position thus allowing gas to pass and which, in an uncoupled condition, assumes a closed position thus not allowing gas to pass.

Abstract: A filter cassette rack and tracks wherein the rack is a three dimensional rectangular rack having at least two opposing open sides, sealing and non-sealing support tracks span the rack providing filter cassette guides and sealing means for a plurality of filter cassettes.

Abstract: A filter cassette having opposing rectangular side panels with at least one pair of filter media containers there between wherein each filter media container has a pair of opposing rectangular end plates and a pair of opposing rectangular media screens, each pair of containers are in a “V” configuration with adjacent end plates having a unitary configuration and at least one media fill aperture for each media container on a non-sealing side of the filter cassette, outermost end plates on a sealing side of the filter cassettes extend between corners of opposing side panels forming a substantially smooth sealing surface, and a fill cap is attached to each unitary pair of end plates having media fill apertures enclosing the media fill apertures.

Abstract: A fluted filter element may include one or more bridging elements to provide resistance to telescoping of the layers of the fluted filter element. The bridging elements are attached to one or both of the filter faces via adhesives, and/or mechanical means, and may also take the form of one or more beads of adhesive applied across one or both ends of the filter element. The adhesive beads may include a flexible element, such as a string, or strip of material embedded in the adhesive bead.

Abstract: A low resistance air filter device comprises a tubular case (2) for at least a filtering element (3) fixed to a lower opening (9) of the case (2). This latter case is provided, at its opposite upper opening (10), of outlet means (8) provided with an outflow opening (7) for the air. The outlet means (8), at the outflow opening (7), are provided of a tubular body protruding toward inside said tubular case (2) and connect in flow communication the inside volume of the tubular case with the outflow opening (7) the same.

Abstract: A block, particularly for filtering particulates present in the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, includes a plurality of flow channels for the gases (14e,14s), each of the channels (14e,14s) being bounded by a side wall (22), a plug (15e,15s) and an opening (19e,19s) terminating outwardly. The block according to the invention is remarkable in that a first portion (34) of the side wall (22) of at least one of the channels (14p,14p?), called the “reinforced channel”, includes a reinforcement compared to the rest of the side wall (22) forming a second portion (36) of the side wall (22), the ratio (R) of the thickness of the first portion (34) to the thickness of the second portion (36), in any transverse plane of section (P), being between 1.1 and 3.

Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system and method enables servicing by a single technician and provides singular location mounting and alignment.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes at least one pillar-shape honeycomb structured body including a plurality of cells partitioned by partitions, and plugs for sealing upstream openings of a plurality of first cells selected from the plurality of cells and for sealing downstream openings of a plurality of second cells selected from the plurality of cells. Each of the plugs is formed of a material having a greater total content of aluminum, iron, boron, silicon, and free carbon than a material forming the honeycomb structured body.

Abstract: A filter (15) has a cylindrical body (15a). The cylindrical body (15a) is formed by laminating a plurality of pattern layers formed into a mesh form by a wire (16) in the radial direction. By repeating the traverse of the wire (16) and the reversal of the traverse direction in one winding end portion (L1) and an other winding end portion (L2), a plurality of turnaround points are set uniformly in the winding end portions (L1, L2). The shortest distance (X) in the circumferential direction between a first turnaround point (B1) of the plurality of turnaround points in the other winding end portion (L2) and a third turnaround point (B3) at which the traverse direction is reversed immediately after being reversed at the first turnaround point (B1) is longer than the shortest distance (Y) in the circumferential direction between the first turnaround point (B1) and a fifth turnaround point (B5) located nearest to the first turnaround point (B1).

Abstract: A riding type mower comprises: a plurality of wheels; a vehicle body supported by the plurality of wheels; a water-cooled engine located in a rear region of the vehicle body; a hood for covering the engine; a driver's seat located forwardly of the hood; a rollover protection frame located between the driver's seat and the water-cooled engine, the rollover protection frame having a pair of right and left support columns spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction; a radiator for the water-cooled engine located between the pair of the support columns of the rollover protection frame.

Abstract: A riding type mower comprises: a plurality of wheels including at least one driven wheel; a vehicle body supported by the plurality of wheels; a driver's seat supported by the vehicle body; a mower unit located below the vehicle body; a suspension mechanism for vertically movably supporting the mower unit from the vehicle body, the suspension mechanism having a restraint member operatively connected to the suspension mechanism; an operation mechanism for operating the suspension mechanism; a stopper for setting a lower limit for a vertical position of the mower unit to define a cutting height by abutment against the restraint member, the stopper is adapted to be rotated to change the lower limit; a lower limit adjustment element located laterally of the driver's seat and rotatable to rotate the stopper; and a linking mechanism for operatively connecting the lower limit adjustment element with the stopper.

Abstract: A radially compressive rope assembly is provided for enabling controlled descent from altitude. The radially compressive rope assembly is comprised of a load-bearing rope core surrounded by a flexible, compressible mantle, capable of recovery after deformation thereof. The flexible, compressible mantle is covered by a flexible sheath, disposed adjacent the outer perimeter of the mantle, which allows a user to slide easily against the sheath down the radially compressive rope assembly while compressing the mantle material through the sheath during descent, resulting in increasing or descreasing the speed of descent.

Abstract: A cord consisting of a core and a sheath is provided, whereby the core contains high-modulus fibres embedded in a matrix and is at least predominantly ensheathed with fibres that form the sheath.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drafting device with twin top front rollers (3, 4) surrounded by aprons (10, 11) in which the aprons are guided around deflection members (9) arranged above the area facing away from the clamping surface of the front roller pair (1/3/4). In order to achieve a low-friction, brake-free and low-wear running of the aprons (10, 11), they are guided with only a slight tension around the deflection members (9). For this, the tendency of the aprons to assume a circular form in the circumferential direction is utilized. This tendency brings about, with the appropriately selected interval between the top front rollers (3, 4) and between the bearing surfaces (12) of the deflection members (9), the low contact pressure on the bearing surfaces striven for and the low tractive tension in the aprons (10, 11) striven for.

Abstract: An open-end rotor spinning device comprising a spinning motor rotatable at high speed inside a rotor housing subjected to low pressure and closable by a covering element. A single motor-driven opening cylinder rotates in a opening cylinder housing. An at least two-part fiber guiding channel (18) includes an output-side channel section extending in a channel plate adapter whose installation position in the covering element is specified by its position with regard to the spinning rotor, and an input-side channel section positioned inside the opening roller housing such that the center longitudinal axes of the channel sections are angled relative to one another. The input-side channel section (30) is mounted to enable a limited movement with regard to the output-side channel section (31) of the fiber guiding channel (18).

Abstract: A bipropellant gas generation system comprises a fuel storage assembly, a diluted oxidizer storage assembly and a reaction assembly. The diluted oxidizer storage assembly includes a mixture of an oxidant and a diluent, such as nitrogen or an inert gas. The fuel and the diluted oxidizer are mixed together and reacted within the reaction assembly. The resulting reaction gas is cooled by the diluent, allowing the gas generation system to be operated at a stoichiometric oxidant-to-fuel ratio.

Abstract: A gas turbine, especially an aircraft engine is provided. The gas turbine comprises at least one compressor (15, 16), at least one combustion chamber (17), at least one turbine (18, 19), and at least one generator (20) for generating electrical energy, the or each generator (20) comprising at least one stator (25) and at least one rotor (22). The or each rotor (22) of the or each generator (20) is embodied as a free-wheeling generator turbine that is driven by a gas flow in such a way that it rotates in relation to the respective stator (25) of the respective generator (20) and thus generates electrical energy from the kinetic energy of the gas flow.

Abstract: A gas turbine load control device includes load setting means, first bias setting means, second bias setting means, target output setting means, and so forth. The target output setting means sets up a target output by adding a positive side bias value to a load set value when the load setting means gradually increases the load set value in response to an increase in a requested load set value inputted from requested load setting means. The target output setting means sets up the target output by subtracting a negative side bias value from the load set value when the load setting means gradually decreases the load set value in response to a decrease in the requested load set value.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling an internal combustion engine system. The method comprises supplying a first amount of electric energy to heat to an upstream sensor located in an exhaust gas passage from the internal combustion engine and upstream of an exhaust gas after-treatment device and adjusting an air-fuel mixture supplied to the internal combustion engine based on an output of the upstream sensor during a first engine operating condition, and supplying a second amount of electric energy, which is smaller than the first amount, to heat the upstream sensor and adjusting the air-fuel mixture based on an output of a downstream sensor located in the exhaust gas passage and downstream of the exhaust gas after-treatment device during a second engine operating condition.

Abstract: The output from an air-fuel ratio sensor is corrected using an integral term that is calculated by integrating values of deviation of the output from an oxygen sensor with respect to a reference output that would be obtained when the combustion air-fuel ratio is stoichiometric, when an engine operates with a target combustion air-fuel ratio set to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. A fuel-cutoff prohibition period in which fuel supply cutoff is prohibited is set so that the engine continues to operate with the target combustion air-fuel ratio set to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, until the integral term is updated at least once. The integral term may be updated when a predetermined updating condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A regeneration controller for preventing a large amount of particulate matter from being suddenly burned without increasing the frequency a heating process is performed. The regeneration controller includes an ECU(70) for heating an exhaust purification apparatus to eliminate the particulate matter accumulated in the exhaust purification apparatus when an estimated accumulation amount is greater than a reference accumulation amount. The ECU(70) obtains the estimated accumulation amount by estimating the amount of particulate matter accumulated in the exhaust purification apparatus. Furthermore, the ECU (70) changes modes for heating an exhaust purification apparatus when the regeneration controller is heated and an estimated accumulation amount is within a mode change range.

Abstract: The flow of exhaust gas flowing through the SCR muffler becomes good, thus improving the efficiency of purging nitrogen oxide (NOx) contained in exhaust gas. Further, vibrations that are caused by vibrations of the vehicle, exhaust gas, and the like, to which a reducing agent, etc., supplying nozzle is subject, are suppressed or reduced, thus improving the efficiency of an SCR catalyst purging nitrogen oxide (NOx) and the durability of the reducing agent, etc., supplying nozzle. The SCR muffler comprises an SCR catalyst 1 for selectively reducing and purging nitrogen oxide (NOx) contained in exhaust gas; an exhaust pipe 2 that allows the exhaust gas to flow into the SCR catalyst; and a reducing agent, etc., supplying means 3 that supplies a reducing agent or a reducing agent precursor to the exhaust gas. A plate 4 having air holes 5 which disperse and make a flow of the exhaust gas uniform is provided downstream of the reducing agent, etc., supplying means and upstream of the SCR catalyst.

Abstract: An exhaust purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a DPNR converter (26), a fuel adding device (46), and an electronic control device (50) is provided. The DPNR converter (26) is located in an exhaust passage (14) of the internal combustion engine (10). The DPNR converter (26) traps particulate matter in exhaust gas. The fuel adding device (46) adds fuel to exhaust as that passes through the DPNR converter (26). The electronic control device (50) estimates a combustion rate of particulate matter in the DPNR converter (26) in a state where the fuel adding device (46) adds fuel to the exhaust gas. Based on the estimated combustion rate, the electronic control device (50) sets a manner of adding fuel by the fuel adding device (46). As a result, the exhaust purifying apparatus suppresses excessive temperature increase of a DPNR converter (26) to which fuel is added.

Abstract: A particulate trap regeneration system is provided, which may include a particulate trap having a filter medium configured to remove one or more types of particulate matter from an exhaust flow of an engine and a regeneration device configured to reduce an amount of particulate matter in the particulate trap, as well as a radio frequency-based particulate loading monitoring system configured to determine an amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter medium. The particulate loading monitoring system may be powered by an energy-harvesting device. The particulate loading monitoring system may include at least one radio frequency probe configured to transmit radio frequency signals of predetermined magnitude and predetermined frequency toward the filter medium and at least one radio frequency probe configured to receive and measure the magnitude of received radio frequency signals that pass through the filter medium.

Abstract: A torque converter 1 is a device for transmitting torque by fluid, and includes a front cover 14, an impeller 18, a turbine 19, and a stator 20. The impeller 18, the turbine 19 and the stator 20 constitute a fluid operating chamber 6 having a torus shape. Flattening (L/D1) is less than or equal to 0.18, wherein D1 is an outer diameter of the fluid operating chamber 6 and L is the axial direction length of the fluid operating chamber 6. In the impeller shell 22, a surface 22a on which the impeller blades 23 are fixed has an impeller straight portion 22b showing a straight line in a cross section. In the turbine shell 25, a surface 25a on which the turbine blades 26 are fixed has a turbine straight portion 25b showing a straight line in a cross section.

Abstract: In a vehicle steering mechanism for motor vehicles, with a steering handle that can be operated by the driver, as well as a positioning assembly coordinated with the steered vehicle wheels, which assembly is effectively connected with the steering handle and by means of which assembly the steered vehicle wheels can be swiveled by additional elements in order to set a specifically desired steering angle, and which positioning assembly is a hydraulic assembly with two hydraulic chambers which are divided by a hydraulic piston and can be stressed by the pressure of a hydraulic pressure source, the hydraulic assembly can be connected with the hydraulic pressure source or with a pressure medium supply container, as the case may be, via a valve unit, and a steering support can be adjusted by means of the valve unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic lift faucet, which is typically comprised of a hydraulic cylinder, a lifting faucet, a lifting piston, a pressure release valve and an accumulator cylinder; wherein said hydraulic cylinder has a inlet approaching to the low end, and is vertically mounted under the working top; said lifting faucet has an outlet at top end, and an inlet built on the middle portion, and is mounted at the inside of the hydraulic cylinder in motion fitting connection, and is attached with a balance weight at the bottom side; said lifting piston is located on the lifting faucet coordinating to the inlet, and is attached with a pressure valve and a restoring spring; said accumulator cylinder mounted below the working top horizontally has a center baffle-plate built on the center having a central hole levelly for a valve stem fitting in, and said valve stem is attached with tow pistons fixed on the both ends respectively and crossly to divide the inside of the accumulator cylinder into thre

Abstract: A hydraulic circuit arrangement with a fixed displacement pump driven by an electric motor, a lifting cylinder, a load-holding valve arranged in the line between pump and lifting cylinder, a priority valve, which is acted upon by the pump, being arranged between pump and load-holding valve and distributing the volumetric flow flowing from the pump to the lifting cylinder, on the one hand, and to at least one further consumer of a load-sensing system, on the other hand. In the first of its two extreme positions, the priority valve connects both the lifting cylinder and the at least one further consumer in each case to the pump and, in the second of its two extreme positions, only connects the at least one further consumer to the pump while the lifting cylinder is completely cut off.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device for a working machine includes control valves; hydraulic actuators controlled by corresponding control valves and divided into groups; unified bleed-off valves disposed on discharge lines of first and second hydraulic pumps; central bypass paths provided in the control valves, the central bypass paths of each group being connected in tandem so as to form a central bypass line; and bypass-cutting valves disposed on the central bypass lines, the bypass-cutting valves being automatically switched so as to open the central bypass lines when the unified bleed-off valves are not operated.

Abstract: There is provided an HST in which a hydraulic pump unit operatively driven by a driving power source and a hydraulic motor unit arranged spaced apart from the hydraulic pump unit and operatively driving a driving-wheel are fluidly connected by way of operation fluid lines so as to form a closed circuit; wherein the hydraulic motor unit is provided with motor-side operation fluid passages forming one part of the operation fluid lines; a motor-side charge fluid passage having a first end opened to an outside to form a motor-side charge port and a second end fluidly connected to at lease one of the motor-side operation fluid passages; and a check valve interposed in the motor-side charge fluid passage so as to allow the fluid to flow from the motor-side charge port to the one motor-side operation fluid passage while preventing the reverse flow.

Abstract: In one embodiment according to the invention, there is provided a method for generating electrical energy using a thermal cycle of a working gas. The method comprises using the motion of a piston in a cylinder, containing the working gas performing the thermal cycle, to electromagnetically induce current in an electrical circuit coupled to the cylinder; using the electrical circuit to store the electrical energy, produced by the current induced in the electrical circuit, in an electrical storage device; and using the electrical energy stored in the electrical storage device to electromagnetically provide a motive force to the piston. Cyclically using the electrical circuit to store the electrical energy and using the stored energy to provide a motive force to the piston effect a net positive average power transfer into the electrical storage device over the course of the thermal cycle.

Abstract: A multistage Stirling engine 1 mounted on an automobile provided with an internal combustion engine has two cylinders 4 and 5. Displacer pistons 6 and 7 and power pistons 8 and 9 are slidably fitted in the two cylinders 4 and 5, respectively. The exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine and serving as a heating fluid flows sequentially through the cylinders 4 and 5 to heat helium gas serving as a working fluid of the Stirling engine. The cylinders 4 and 5 are disposed parallel to each other. Heaters 16 and 17, regenerative heat exchangers 18 and 19, and coolers 20 and 21 are installed between the cylinders 4 and 5. The multistage Stirling engine is flat and compact.

Abstract: An actual value of a turbine flow cross section of a turbocharger of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle is set for a change in the load on the internal combustion engine from a larger load value to a smaller load value. The actual value setting of the smaller load value is delayed to a setpoint value that is specified for the smaller load value under stationary conditions. A device controls the progression of the method.

Abstract: A two-stage turbocharger system includes an exhaust manifold formed separately from the high-pressure and low-pressure turbine housings. The exhaust manifold defines a bypass passage, and a bypass valve is disposed in the bypass passage for opening and closing the passage. The exhaust manifold also defines an inter-turbine passage. The turbine housings of the high-pressure and low-pressure turbochargers are releasably connected to the exhaust manifold such that exhaust gas received into the exhaust manifold bypasses the high-pressure turbine and flows through the bypass passage to the low-pressure turbine when the bypass valve is in the open position, and the exhaust gas flows through the high-pressure turbine and then through the inter-turbine passage to the low-pressure turbine when the bypass valve is in the closed position.

Abstract: A power generating machine, including a frame with a stand thereon, two racks, two carriages, two branches and two spaced rods wherein horizontal tracks are at two sides of the frame bottom and the racks are at two sides of the stand and an inner post of the rack has a top guide wheel. The two carriages are connected movably at their inner sides with the two racks and have bottom tracks over the corresponding horizontal ones of the frame wherein an elastic member is disposed and moves within the bottom tracks. The two branches are linked at sides of the stand and connected with the carriages by a linking member, and two spaced rods are linked at sides of a crossbar so that when elastic member moves, the moment of force is changed, and the stand will sway if the linking member is pressed.

Abstract: An energy picking-up system by using water of river, lake and sea as low-grade energy source, includes energy collecting device, energy exalting device and radiator in series. The energy collecting device includes a circuit, which is comprised of a heat collector, a low-grade heat exchanger and a diving pump. The heat collector includes a siphon tube, a drain tube and a vacuum equipment. One end of the siphon tube is placed in the heat collecting well that is located near river, lake or sea, and the other end is placed into the water of river, lake or sea. The vacuum equipment is connected with the siphon tube. One end of the drain tube is connected with the outlet of the low-grade heat exchanger, the other end is placed into or onto the water of river, lake or sea. The diving pump is positioned in the heat collecting well, and is connected with the inlet of the low-grade heat exchanger coin.

Abstract: A personal discovery of the numerous performance advantages that will result from the integration of entitled “Limacon of Pascal” planar curve properties inspired the present inventor to begin materializing an extremely efficient means of capturing and processing fluid stream energy. As the development of a new technology progressed the unique traits and properties of additional planar curves, both named and untitled, became evident and viable.

Abstract: Combustion system (10) for a gas turbine equipped with a premixing chamber (12) for air which is mixed with the fuel injected from a series of holes (11) creating a main central flame which is formed in a flame tube (14), the premixing chamber (12) is convergent towards a connection end with a combustion chamber comprising the flame tube (14), the combustion system (10) comprises a series of pilot devices (20) with premixing of the fuel gas, which create a series of corresponding pilot flames suitable for stabilizing the main central flame itself, at the same time reducing the polluting emissions.

Abstract: A combustor includes two or more sets of effusion cooling holes that extend through the inner and outer liners. Each set of effusion cooling holes includes one or more initial rows of effusion cooling holes, one or more final rows of effusion cooling holes disposed downstream of the one or more initial rows, and a plurality of interposed rows of effusion cooling holes disposed between the initial and final rows. Each effusion cooling hole is disposed at a tangential angle relative to an axial line. The tangential angle of the effusion cooling holes in each set of effusion cooling holes gradually transitions from a substantially transverse tangential angle in each initial row to a substantially axial tangential angle in each final row.

Abstract: A steam cycle power plant (10) is provided that may include a steam source generating steam (40), a steam turbine (24) receiving the generated steam and discharging an exhaust steam, a condenser (44) receiving the exhaust steam and an atomizer (60) for injecting water into the exhaust steam downstream of the steam turbine (24) and upstream of a cooling surface of the condenser (44) effective to reduce a backpressure on the steam turbine (24) and improve a heat rate of the steam turbine (24). The atomizer (60) may include a plurality of symmetrical spaced fluid connections (70) and a plurality of atomizing nozzles (62) affixed proximate at least one exhaust end of the steam turbine (24). The power plant (10) may be a combined cycle power plant including a heat recovery steam generator (40) and a gas turbine engine (12).

Abstract: A fuel injector comprises a peripheral atomisation system having a plurality of fuel ejection orifices distributed at regular intervals along the circumference and an annular air eddy deflector, comprising air ejection channels such that, for each fuel ejection axis defined by an ejection orifice, there is a corresponding air ejection channel of which at least the radially most internal part has a median substantially intersecting this fuel ejection axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquified gas cryostat which comprises inner and outer walls defining an evacuated housing; a multilayer insulation positioned between the inner and outer walls; and at least one radiation shield circumscribing the inner wall between the inner and outer walls so as to extend over an area of the inner wall which is contacted and cooled by liquified gas in the cryostat when in use, wherein the radiation shield comprises a plurality of rods which are thermally conducting and electrically insulating when the cryostat contains liquified gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device (1) for cooling an item to be cooled, especially for use in the examination, handling and processing of cryogenic samples. The device includes a cooling compartment (3) for receiving the item to be cooled, an inner wall defining the cooling compartment (3), an outer wall, a space between the outer wall and the inner wall, and a coolant feed line (11) for feeding a coolant. According to the invention, the coolant feed line (11) leads into the space between the inner wall and the outer wall and feeds the coolant into the space, the inner wall being permeable for the coolant.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for rapidly cooling prepared food uses a novel combination of cold fluid recirculation and vibration to rapidly cool prepared food in a manner that is cost-effective and easy to practice. One embodiment of an improved rapid food chiller includes a tank for holding ice water or another cooling fluid, baskets for holding standard restaurant pans containing prepared food, a pump for circulating the cooling fluid around the outside of the restaurant pans, and a vibrator for vibrating the cooling fluid and the prepared food.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a pleasant sleep driving mode including a parameter changing unit (142) for independently changing the respective values of plural parameters for determining a variation pattern of the set room temperature, and a controller (42) for receiving the changed parameters from the parameter changing unit (142) and controlling the operation of the air conditioner according to the pleasant sleep driving mode having the variation pattern of the set room temperature determined by the changed parameters.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling the temperature of a process tool uses the vaporizable characteristic of a refrigerant that is provided in direct heat exchange relation with the process tool. Pressurized refrigerant is provided as both condensed liquid and in gaseous state. The condensed liquid is expanded to a vaporous mix, and the gaseous refrigerant is added to reach a target temperature determined by its pressure. Temperature corrections can thus be made very rapidly by gas pressure adjustments. The process tool and the operating parameters will usually require that the returning refrigerant be conditioned and processed for compatibility with the compressor and other units, so that cycling can be continuous regardless of thermal demands and changes.

Abstract: A heat integration system for removing heat of reaction from an EC-1 Reactor and generating Chilled liquid for use by one or more Consumer Units, in a catalytic process for producing EC from EO for conversion into MEG wherein the system comprises an EC-1 Reactor Cooler suitable for removing heat from an EC-1 Reactor, an Intermediate Loop which is in communication with the Reactor Cooler and with an absorption Refrigeration Unit, and which is suitable for conducting Intermediate liquid therebetween, the absorption Refrigeration Unit being suitable for generating Chilled liquid, and a Chilled liquid loop suitable for conducting Chilled liquid generated in the absorption Refrigeration Unit for use by one or more Consumer Units, the system being such that the absorption Refrigeration Unit uses heat generated in the EC-1 Reactor to generate Chilled liquid for the Chilled liquid loop and Consumer Unit(s), wherein the system additionally comprises a Shutdown Cooler having an independent cooling source which is suita

Abstract: A shield for an evaporator assembly is configured to be attachable to a coil slab of a multi-poise coil without requiring the use of any fasteners. The shield comprises a first extension member, a second extension member, a bottom member disposed between the first and second extension members, and a lip member extending from the extension member. The first extension member is configured to be positioned on an inner surface of the coil slab. The lip member is configured to be positioned on an outer surface of the coil slab.