Abstract: A condensed water utilization structure is provided for an air conditioning device and includes a driving electric machine, a transmission mechanism coupled to the driving electric machine, a water pumping device, a water spraying tray, and a water collection tray positioned below the water spraying tray. The water pumping device includes a cylinder forming therein a water inlet chamber, a water outlet chamber, and a piston chamber. The piston chamber receives therein a piston coupled to the transmission mechanism. The water inlet chamber and the piston chamber communicate each other through a water inlet piston, and the water outlet chamber and the piston chamber communicate each other through a water outlet piston. The water inlet chamber has a water inlet port in communication with the water collection tray. The water outlet chamber has a water outlet port in communication with the water spraying tray through a pipe.

Abstract: A water feed system usable with a refrigerator having an icemaker and a dispenser, which assures efficient utilization of a storage space. The refrigerator includes a filter to purify water to be fed from an external water source to the icemaker and the dispenser, a water tank in which the water, purified by the filter, is stored so as to be cooled by interior cold air of the refrigerating compartment, and a valve provided at a junction of a hose connecting the filter to the water tank and the icemaker to selectively supply the water, purified by the filter, to the water tank or the icemaker. The filter, the water tank and the valve are received in a case so as to be integrally positioned in the refrigerating compartment.

Abstract: A dispensing system suitable for dispensing ice through the refrigerator compartment door of a bottom-mount refrigerator is disclosed.

Abstract: A heat pump system is provided and may include a compressor, a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with the compressor, a second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger and the compressor, and a flash tank fluidly coupled to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A first conduit may extend between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A valve associated with the first conduit may operate in an open state to permit flow along the first conduit between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger to at least partially bypass the flash tank and may operate in a closed state to prevent flow along the first conduit between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger to direct flow into the flash tank.

Abstract: A split solid adsorption cooling system is disclosed. The split solid adsorption cooling system includes a first adsorption unit, a second adsorption unit, and a shell-and-tube heat exchanger. The first and the second adsorption units are connected to each other via a first pipeline and a second pipeline of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger. While adsorption and desorption take place alternately in the first and the second adsorption units, the temperature of the first and the second pipelines is lowered, thereby decreasing the temperature of water flowing in the shell-and-tube heat exchanger. In addition, the manufacturing costs of the split solid adsorption cooling system can be lowered because the shell-and-tube heat exchanger need not be operated in a vacuum environment. Furthermore, as the shell-and-tube heat exchanger is separate from the first and the second adsorption units, the overall system volume is reduced.

Abstract: Use side heat exchangers, an intermediate heat exchanger that heats a heat medium flowing to the use side heat exchangers, an intermediate heat exchanger that cools the heat medium flowing to the use side heat exchangers, three-way valves that switch between a flow path connecting the intermediate heat exchanger to the use side heat exchangers and a flow path connecting the intermediate heat exchanger to the use side heat exchangers, and three-way valves and bypasses that control the flow rate of the heat medium flowing into the use side heat exchangers are included. When at least one of the use side heat exchangers is switched from a stop state to an operation state or switched to another operation mode, the flow rate of the heat medium flowing into this use side heat exchanger is suppressed, and a change in air output temperature in the use side heat exchangers other than this use side heat exchanger is suppressed.

Abstract: A fast cooling equipment for organic or inorganic vapors that comprises a vertical double-truncated-cone body joined by the apex of both cones, provided with an external refrigeration jacket along its entire length; an upper coverlid placed at the base of the upper inverted truncated cone, provided with a central entrance for the vapors to be condensed with a thermal insulating layer; an annular chamber provided with two or more openings or nozzles from which a cold gas is blown; an annular chamber located below the cold gas chamber; an inner central cone located inside the lower section of the condenser body, provided in turn with an internal cooling system and deflecting baffles located at one or more cone levels and in mutually opposing directions between each successive level; and a lower accumulation section for liquids or other condensable materials, provided with a conventional drain system and a lateral exit for gases and liquids that are separated in a conventional cyclone system.

Abstract: A multi-stage pumping system that can take liquid CO2, that has been extracted from the air by a new technology called “Tree”, chill and compress it into a torpedo shaped chamber to form a slug of dry ice. The slug is then ejected to be sequestered at the bottom of the oceans. The deep ocean surrounds the CO2 dry ice with so much pressure that sublimation cannot occur and the dry ice remains solid for eons of time. This CO2 will not contribute to global warming. Nor will it dissolve into the ocean.

Abstract: A system comprising an array of structures in a flowing fluid environment, the array comprising at least 3 structures; and vortex induced vibration suppression devices on at least 2 of the structures.

Abstract: An energy-efficient method of recovering carbon dioxide (CO2) in a high-pressure liquid state from a high-pressure gas stream. The method includes cooling, condensing, and/or separating CO2 from a high-pressure gas stream in two or more separation zones and further purifying the resulting sub-critical pressure liquid CO2 streams in a third purification zone to thereby provide purified CO2. The purified liquid CO2 may be pumped to above the critical pressure for further utilization and/or sequestration for industrial or environmental purposes.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for separating at least part of a gaseous product from a feed stream which comprises contaminants. The process comprises: 1) providing the feed stream; 2) cooling the feed stream to a temperature at which a slurry stream is formed which comprises solid contaminant, liquid phase contaminant and the gaseous product; 3) introducing the slurry stream as obtained in step 2) via a plurality of tangentially directed inlet means into an upper part of a separation device, thereby creating a swirl of the slurry stream which allows at least part of the gaseous product to flow upwardly and solid contaminant and liquid phase contaminant to flow downwardly; 4) removing at least part of the gaseous product from the upper part of the device; and 5) removing a stream comprising liquid phase contaminant from a lower part of the device.

Abstract: A gemstone arrangement that allows ambient light entering a primary gemstone through a pavilion to be directed out a crown at a desired location and angle is described. Ambient light is directed by at least one complementary gemstone comprising a crown and a pavilion. The complementary gemstone is orientated is a position near the primary gems such that light enters and exits the complementary gemstone through the crown or pavilion and is directed into the pavilion of the primary gemstone. Because of the selection and orientation of the complementary gemstone, ambient light directed by the complementary gemstone intersects the crown of the primary gemstone at an angle of incidence equal to or less than the critical angle for internal reflection and exits the primary gemstone. This gemstone arrangement can amplify the amount of light observed by a viewer from specified locations and angles of the crown of the primary gemstone.

Abstract: The present invention significantly modifies “The Overflow Process”. It includes a method and apparatus for measuring glass flow rate and maintaining a constant glass flow rate. It also embodies design features and methods that support and stress the forming apparatus in a manner such that the deformation that results from thermal creep is corrected, thus minimizing the effect of the thermal creep on the thickness variation of the glass sheet. The present invention also embodies design features that change the process from a single step (combined flow distribution and cooling) to a two step process; step one being flow distribution and step two being cooling.

Abstract: A scoring device is described herein that applies a constant force while scoring a piece of material so that there is a consistent score quality (or vent depth) within the scored piece of material. In one embodiment, the piece of material is a bowed shaped glass sheet that is supported by a conformable nosing device which has been configured to have a bowed shape that substantially matches the bowed shape of the glass sheet.

Abstract: Isopipes (13) for making glass sheets using a fusion process are provided. The isopipes are made from alumina materials which have low levels of the elements of group IVB of the periodic chart, i.e., Ti, Zr, and Hf, as well as low levels of Sn. In this way, the alumina isopipes can be used with glasses that contain tin (e.g., as a fining agent or as the result of the use of tin electrodes for electrical heating of molten glass) without generating unacceptable levels of tin-containing defects in the glass sheets, specifically, at the sheets' fusion lines. The alumina isopipes disclosed herein are especially beneficial when used with tin-containing glasses that exhibit low tin solubility, e.g., glasses that have (RO+R2O)/Al2O3 ratios between 0.9 and 1.1, where, in mole percent on an oxide basis, (RO+R2O) is the sum of the concentrations of the glass' alkaline earth and alkali metal oxides and Al2O3 is the glass' alumina concentration.

Abstract: A plurality of via-holes are formed in panel-shaped glass, and a plurality of via-holes are formed in two bases. Then, the panel-shaped glass is interposed between the two bases, positions of a plurality of the via-holes of the bases and a plurality of the via-holes of the panel-shaped glass are aligned, wires made of a conductive material are penetrated, and the wires between the two bases are stretched. Then, the panel-shaped glass is heated to a point higher than a softening point of the glass, the wires between the bases are buried by the glass, and the glass is cooled to form a glass ingot having the buried wires. Then, the ingot is sliced to form a glass substrate, the glass panel is polished to expose the wires on front and rear surfaces as the through electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a glass substrate with through electrodes, the method including: a wire stretching process in which a plurality of conductive wires are stretched in parallel between upper and lower bases; a wire burying process in which a plurality of the wires between the bases are buried by glass; an ingot formation process in which a glass ingot having the buried wires is formed by cooling the glass; a slicing process in which a glass panel is formed by slicing the glass ingot; and a polishing process in which a plurality of the wires are exposed on front and rear surfaces of the glass panel to provide the through electrodes.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a glass molding which can manufacture a glass molding having a high precision optical surface. An apparatus for manufacturing a glass molding has a lower die which receives molten glass, and an upper die which conducts pressure molding of the molten glass supplied to the lower die in conjunction therewith, wherein the upper die has a first molding surface which transfers the optical surface, a second flat molding surface provided around the periphery of the first molding surface, and a third molding surface provided around the periphery of the second molding surface and tilting relative to the central axis of the upper die passing through the center of the first molding surface to spread in the direction of the lower die.

Abstract: A method includes forming a glass ribbon by heating and softening a glass plate preform and drawing the glass plate preform to a predetermined thickness in a heating furnace; and performing coring on the glass ribbon in order to form circular substrates in a straight line along a longitudinal direction of the glass ribbon.

Abstract: A knitting device (10) comprising a needle bed (12) and knitting tools (16), wherein the needle bed (12) is designed so as to be without joints and seams in view of the configuration of its channel walls (18, 19) as well as perpendicularly to the floor (23) of the channel through the base body (20) of the needle bed (12). The channel depth of the individual guide channels (13, 14, 15) is preferably less than three times the channel width. Consequently, in particular in the case of extremely fine needle divisions, the resultant channel walls (18, 19) are robust and stable and can be subjected to a hardening or coating treatment. The reduced overall weight, the smaller friction surfaces, and the sturdier design of the knitting device enable the operation at greater knitting speeds and with greater rotational accelerations, in particular in reciprocating mode, and an overall savings of lubricants and energy.

Abstract: A washing machine is disclosed. The washing machine includes a washing tub, a motor to rotate the washing tub, and a driving unit that drives the motor using a pulse width modulation (PWM) scheme, mixes a three-phase PWM scheme and a two-phase PWM scheme in a common operation mode, and drives the motor using the mixed PWM scheme. Therefore, the washing machine can reduce increase of temperature of an inverter controlling the motor during the operation time of the washing machine.

Abstract: A washing machine with a removable basket that comprises a fixing structure of the tank that has a frame (10) provided with orthogonal projections (11) on the base, including springs (30) on the upper edges and shock-absorbers (40) on the lower edges; a tank (20) that has, in the intermediary region of the surface, a ring (201) that connects the springs (30), said tank (20) having the base provided with a bearing (21) fixed, on the external extremity, onto a moving pulley (22) actuated by a motor (23), the motor and an electric pump being fixed at the base of the tank (20); a structure for supporting the basket (50) is arranged in the inner portion of the tank (20), said supporting structure (50) having a set of arms that follow the shape of the tank (20), with the arms being centrally joined on an axis (51) attachable to the bearing (21) of the tank (20) and attached directly to the mechanical set of the washing machine, and a removable basket (60) arranged in the inner portion of the tank (20) and fixed, on

Abstract: A laundry machine is disclosed. The overall weight of the vibrating system provided in the laundry machine according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be reduced and the vibration of the drum may be stabilized by new means for adding weights. In addition, the front of the drum may be prevented from falling downward because of the introduction of laundry.

Abstract: A laundry machine is disclosed. A laundry machine includes a tub (120) to hold water therein, a drum (320) provided in the tub (120), a shaft (351) connected to the drum (320), passing the tub (120), a bearing housing (400) secured to the tub (120), the bearing housing (400) supporting the shaft (351) and a motor (M) rotating the shaft (351), and a water seal (10) provided between the tub (120) and the bearing housing (400) to maintain gas tight of the bearing housing (400) and of the shaft (351). As a result the laundry machine may improve capacity of the tub (120) and maintain gas tight of the tub (120) efficiently.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry machine having an increased wash capacity. The laundry machine includes a cabinet, a tub connected to vibration sources through a vibration transmission blocking member, a drum rotatably provided in the tub, a suspension unit to substantially damp and support the vibration sources, and ball balancers, each of which includes a race, balls contained in the race, and an oil filing the race, provided on the drum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry machine for treating laundry. One embodied laundry machine may have an opening in the rear of the tub. A flexible material is connected between the drive assembly and the rear opening of the tub for sealing therebetween. The flexible material allows the drive assembly to move or vibrate relatively to the tub. The flexible material may be referred to as a flexible sealer.

Abstract: A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine may include a cabinet, a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub, and a driving motor positioned at a rear side of the drum for generating a driving force that rotates the drum. The washing machine may also include a supporting plate to rotatably support a rotational shaft extending between the motor and the drum, and a plurality of supporters connected between the supporting plate and the cabinet. Such an arrangement may increase washing capacity by increasing a diameter of the drum without increasing an external size of the cabinet.

Abstract: A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine may include a cabinet, a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub, and a driving motor positioned at a rear side of the drum for generating a driving force that rotates the drum. The washing machine may also include a supporting plate to rotatably support a rotational shaft extending between the motor and the drum, and a plurality of supporters connected between the supporting plate and the cabinet. Such an arrangement may increase washing capacity by increasing a diameter of the drum without increasing an external size of the cabinet.

Abstract: A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine may include a cabinet, a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub, and a driving motor positioned at a rear side of the drum for generating a driving force that rotates the drum. The washing machine may also include a supporting plate to rotatably support a rotational shaft extending between the motor and the drum, and a plurality of supporters connected between the supporting plate and the cabinet. Such an arrangement may increase washing capacity by increasing a diameter of the drum without increasing an external size of the cabinet.

Abstract: A drum-type washing machine is disclosed, in which bearings are received in the bearing housing assembly. The bearing housing assembly may include a support portion coupled to a motor, and a coupling portion connected to a damper bracket.

Abstract: A drum-type washing machine is disclosed, in which bearings are received in the bearing housing assembly. The bearing housing assembly may include a support portion coupled to a motor, and a coupling portion connected to a damper bracket.

Abstract: A drum type washing machine has a cabinet forming an outer appearance of the washing machine, a tub fixed inside the cabinet for storing the washing water, a drum disposed in the tub and having both side surfaces supported by the cabinet to be rotatable and an inlet through which laundries come in/go out on a circumferential surface thereof, and a driving motor fixed on one side surface of the drum to rotate the drum. Washing capacity can be increased while maintaining the entire size of the washing machine by increasing a diameter of the drum without increasing the size of the cabinet, and the entire size of the washing machine can be compacted by minimizing the installation space of the driving motor.

Abstract: A washing machine having a detergent feeding apparatus to stably feed a required amount of liquid detergent based on the amount of laundry in an automated manner. The washing machine includes a cabinet defining an external appearance of the washing machine, a drum placed in the cabinet, a detergent box connected to the drum, a liquid detergent reservoir placed below the detergent box and to store liquid detergent therein, and a detergent feeding apparatus connected to the detergent box and the liquid detergent reservoir and to feed the liquid detergent stored in the liquid detergent reservoir to the detergent box. The detergent feeding apparatus includes a cylinder which the liquid detergent is introduced into or discharged from, and a pressure regulating unit connected to the cylinder and to introduce the liquid detergent into the cylinder or discharge the introduced liquid detergent from the cylinder.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a system for securing a device. The system comprises a securing mechanism with a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is configured to be inserted through an opening in a device and the second end is configured to be trapped by the opening. The system also comprises a locking mechanism configured to lock to the first end of the securing mechanism.

Abstract: Condo Smart Cart System is designed for consumers who desire a secure, convenient storing method for carts. Using a key or an identification card, this system will not allow any person besides the owner to access the cart. This product is ideal for storage in apartment or condo parking garages.

Abstract: A lock structure for an electrical device is provided. The lock structure includes a rotatable fastener, a lock body, an operation device, and a housing. The lock body is disposed at least partially in the housing, connected with the operation device, and includes or couples with a driving portion. When the lock body is operated to achieve an unlocked state, the lock body allows the driving portion to move the rotatable fastener. At the same time, the operation device achieves an operable status in which the operation device can move driving portion to change the orientation of the rotatable fastener, resulting in the connection/detachment of the lock structure and the electronic device. When the lock body is in a locked state, the movement of the driving portion is restricted and the operation device is not operable to directly or indirectly rotate the rotatable fastener, resulting in the secure connection of the lock structure and the electronic device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lock for a sliding door. The lock includes a locking assembly, a controlling plate, and a locking dish. The locking assembly includes a locking module, a reverting module, and a housing with a panel. The driving module drives the locking module to extend out of the panel. In the embodiments, the locking assembly can be driven to extend out of the panel to be used as a handle, thus, a door utilizing the lock can be drawn or pulled the locking module.

Abstract: An electric lock includes an outer door housing, nexus, inner door housing, and a latch bolt. The outer lock housing is arranged to an outer side of a door. The nexus is connected to the outer door housing. The inner door housing is connected to the nexus and arranged to an inner side of the door. The latch bolt is connected to a latch bolt retaining unit of the nexus. An actuator of the nexus will extend a guiding block and a protruded block to engage the outer handle to the nexus for opening the door while user inputting a correct password to the electric lock. The door can be opened by a proper key also. The nexus will be isolated from the outer handle to prevent damage to the nexus while a user does not have a right key and password to the electric lock.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic lock which achieves improved productivity while maintaining the performance of waterproofness for an internal electronic circuit of an insertion portion for a mechanical lock. Specifically provided is an electronic lock provided with a portable machine (1) which contains an electric circuit that locks and/or unlocks a door by communicating with the outside wirelessly, and a mechanical lock which is attachable to and detachable from the portable machine (1) and mechanically locks and/or unlocks the door.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of apparatus, methods, and systems for securing electronic articles, such as computers, for theft deterrence or prevention. In one embodiment, a body is provided, which is secured to an intermediary structure. The intermediary structure is, in turn, secured to the electronic article. The body may be configured as a mass such that it is of sufficient weight, shape, and/or size to allow for deterring theft. In some embodiments, the system is configured to render inaccessible, or at least impede access to, at least one piece of fastening hardware between the intermediary structure and the body and/or between the intermediary structure and the electronic article, thereby further deterring theft.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of uniformly heating, rheologically softening, and thermoplastically forming metallic glasses rapidly into a net shape using a rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) tool in combination with an electromagnetic force generated by the interaction of the applied current with a transverse magnetic field. The RCDF method utilizes the discharge of electrical energy stored in a capacitor to uniformly and rapidly heat a sample or charge of metallic glass alloy to a predetermined “process temperature” between the glass transition temperature of the amorphous metal and the equilibrium melting point of the alloy in a time scale of several milliseconds or less, at which point the interaction between the electric field and the magnetic field generates a force capable of shaping the heated sample into a high quality amorphous bulk article via any number of techniques including, for example, injection molding, dynamic forging, stamp forging, and blow molding in a time scale of less than one second.

Abstract: Plastic zone extrusion may be provided. First, stock may be placed in a chamber. Then frictional heat may be generated within the stock to heat the stock to a plastic zone of the stock in the chamber. The stock may then be extruded through an orifice in the chamber after the stock is at the plastic zone.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for moving a wire along its own axis against a high resistance to its motion causing a substantial uniaxial compression stress in the wire without allowing it to buckle. The apparatus consists of a wire gripping and moving drive wheel and guide rollers for transporting the moving wire away from the drive wheel. Wire is pressed into a peripheral groove in a relatively large diameter, rotating drive wheel by a set of small diameter rollers arranged along part of the periphery causing the wire to be gripped by the groove.

Abstract: A bending device is provided with a bending mechanism, a fixing table, an articulated robot, and a control unit. Control performed by the control unit includes a bending/movement control in which a workpiece is moved by clamping the workpiece by the bending mechanism and moving the bending mechanism by the articulated robot, and the workpiece is bent by the bending mechanism while the workpiece is being moved.

Abstract: A blank cut from a strip of hardenable hot-formed steel is heated in a furnace to a temperature which is smaller than an Ac3 transformation point in an iron carbon diagram. A first region of the blank is then heated in a conductive heating station to a temperature above the Ac3 transformation point and subsequently hardened in a hot forming and hardening tool to produce a steel part with at least two microstructured regions of different ductility.

Abstract: A stamp includes a metal supporting layer, a pattern forming layer and an adhesive layer. The metal supporting layer has a first thermal conductivity. The pattern forming layer is disposed on the metal supporting layer and has a surface with a molding pattern formed thereon. The adhesive layer is disposed between the metal supporting layer and the pattern forming layer to couple the pattern forming layer to the metal supporting layer, and has a second thermal conductivity lower than the first thermal conductivity. Thus, strength of the stamp may be improved, and deformation of the stamp during the process of manufacturing a light guide plate may be reduced or prevented.

Abstract: A heating system can include certain pressure sensitive features. These features can be configured to change from a first position to a second position based on a pressure of a fuel flowing into the feature. These features can include, fuel selector valves, pressure regulators, burner nozzles, and oxygen depletion sensor nozzles, among other features.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that include adjusting a pressure level of a sample gas in a testing chamber, for example, using a pressurized inert reference gas, and determining a composition of the adjusted sample gas. By adjusting the pressure level of the sample gas, the composition of the sample gas may be determined more accurately than otherwise possible. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.

Abstract: [Objective] To provide a gas sensor in which the insulation among conduction members is stably secured through stable maintenance of the insulation property of a separator provided within a sheath, whereby a normal output can be obtained from a detection element. [Means for Solution] Coating layers 64 and 69 of fluorine or a fluorine compound are formed on the surface of a separator 60 (a front separator 61 and a rear separator 66) of an NOx sensor. The coating layers 64 and 69 have water impermeability and water repellency. Even in the case where moisture contained in the atmosphere within a sheath 30 forms dew on the surface of the separator 60, the coating layers 64 and 69 having water impermeability prevent soaking of moisture into the separator 60, to thereby secure the insulation property of the separator 60.

Abstract: A particulate matter detector of the present invention has an electrode portion, a signal measuring portion, and a calculation portion and further has a measurement signal memory portion for memorizing the values of the measurement signal measured by the signal measuring portion, a signal judgement portion for judging the necessity of correction by comparing a calculated amount of change with a value of a background signal noise after calculating an amount of change between values of the consecutive measurement signals of 10 or less samples memorized by the measurement signal memory portion, and a correction portion for correcting the value of the measurement signal, if the calculated amount of the change shows a decrease of at least twice the value of the background signal noise, by adding the decrease value to the value of the measurement signal where the decrease is confirmed.