Abstract: A beverage-cooling device includes a refrigeration unit, a position unit and a switch unit. The refrigeration unit has a housing with a cavity formed therein and a tube disposed inside the cavity. The tube has an inlet and an outlet both secured to the housing, and the inlet is higher than the outlet. The position unit has a base member connecting to the refrigeration unit, a control member pivoted to the base member, and a securing member adjustably assembled onto the control member. The base member has a passage formed therein to communicate with the inlet of the tube. The control member has a through hole communicating with the passage. The securing member orientates a bottle mouth of a bottle to the control member, wherein the bottle mouth communicates with the through hole. The switch unit is secured to the refrigeration unit and connected with the outlet of the tube.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin-film antenna is disclosed. A substrate is provided and coated with an organic material layer. After both of the substrate and organic material layer have been dried, a conductive layer is formed on both the substrate and the organic material layer. The organic material layer and the layer thereon are then removed so that the remaining conductive layer forms a thin-film antenna.

Abstract: An automatic shoe clearance adjustment apparatus having a ratchet wheel 124b and a driving member 127 comprising a pawl section 127f making a ratchet engagement with the ratchet wheel 124b and an arcuate leaf spring section 127e developing a resilient force for adjusting the automatic shoe clearance adjustment apparatus. The leaf spring section 127e is made of bi-metal. When the temperature of the leaf spring section 127e exceeds the predetermined degree, the arcuate leaf spring section 127e thermo-deflects so as to weaken the resilient force, thereby the automatic shoe clearance adjusting operation is suspended.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-theft device which is a transmission line mounted on an object to be protected against theft, such as a door or a window, wherein a safety system is connected to the elongated metal to supply power to the anti-theft circuit of the elongated metal and to detect and judge the signal of the anti-theft circuit of the elongated metal. When the window or the door is broken, the anti-theft device will be easily torn at the respective apertures. At this moment, the safety system cannot receive the signal from the anti-theft device, so it will identify the intrusion of theft and notify the security or guard. Thereby providing an anti-theft function.

Abstract: A method and a device for safely and efficiently adjusting the height of a manhole freely allowing the addition and removal of a height adjusting member at any position. The method and device may be used for the manhole formed by installing a tubular shaped frame in the ground, installing the removable height adjustment members on the tubular shaped frame, and installing a cover receiving frame on the height adjusting members. In this method and device, a frame is disposed in the upper space of the manhole; the cover receiving frame is raised by the height adjusting member installed on the frame; and the height adjusting members positioned under the cover receiving frame in that state are added or removed.

Abstract: An air packing bag of plastic for shipping or storing goods is disclosed. The bag includes upper and lower sheets, a valve mechanism including upper and lower films and an intermediate heat-proof member, parallel bladders formed by the upper and the lower sheets, the bladders being perpendicular to the valve mechanism, seals each formed between two adjacent bladders, an air passage formed across the bladders for being in communication therewith, the air passage being adjacent the valve mechanism and having an air valve at one end, and coupling points formed on the upper sheet adjacent the air passage. Pressure inside the inflated bladders pushes both the upper and the lower films to urge against an inner surface of the upper sheet for blocking air from leaving the bladders.

Abstract: A process for fabricating non-volatile memory by tilt-angle ion implantation comprises essentially the steps of implanting sideling within a nitride dielectric layer heterogeneous elements such as, for example, Ge, Si, N2, O2, and the like, for forming traps capable of capturing more electrons within the nitride dielectric layer such that electrons can be prevented from binding together as the operation time increased; etching off both ends of the original upper and underlying oxide layers to reduce the structural destruction caused by the implantation of heterogeneous elements; and finally, depositing an oxide gate interstitial wall to eradicate electron loss and hence promote the reliability of the device.

Abstract: A light source structure includes a guidelight plate, a visible-light member disposed on at a first side of the guidelight plate, and an infrared-radiation member disposed on a second side of the guidelight plate. Whereby the visible-light member and the infrared-radiation member reveal a surface of a predetermined object, and provide revealed images that is capable of combining as a complete image. According to particular locations of the visible-light member and the lighting components, the light source structure is thin and cheap, with an additional benefit with high uniformity thereof.

Abstract: A drum brake device prevents shoe clearance over-adjustment by using a thermo-sensitive member with a lower leg opening force and provides a smaller thermo-sensitive member with a lower cost. A portion between both ends of the brake lever (50) in a direction of crossing the shoe return inhibitor (61) engages with one end of the shoe return inhibitor (61) automatically restricting the return position of the pair of brake shoes (20) and (30); the proximate portion (50a) of the brake lever (50) is pivotally supported on the brake shoe (20); and the free end (50b) of the brake lever (50) is supported at an end nipple (54) of a brake cable (52) via the thermo-sensitive member (73).

Abstract: The composite elastic yarn may be made from a wide, stretchable textile fabric or stretchable knitted fabric. A composite elastic yarn is obtained by drawing an elastic yarn 11 at a first draft rate to prepare a precursor composite elastic yarn with an inelastic yarn 31 and further drawing the precursor composite elastic yarn at a second draft rate of a value smaller than that of the first draft rate to make a composite with the removable inelastic yarn 31; and stretchable textile fabric and stretchable knitted fabric fabricated using this composite elastic yarn.

Abstract: A programmable gain current amplifier is provided, including a transistor pair, a plurality of differential pairs, and a control device. The transistor pair receives an input current. Each differential pairs connecting with each other in parallel is connected to the transistor pair to form a differential current mirror for amplifying the input current. The control device adjusts the output polarity of the current mirror, thereby obtaining a predetermined gain between the output of the current mirror and the input current. Therefore, amplification of the input current at a programmable gain is realized.

Abstract: An optical monitoring apparatus based on the scanning of the gain profile of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) and applied in a wavelength division multiplexing network has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The EDFA with an injected saturated tone can provide variable gain or loss profile by controlling the pump power. The components used in the present optical monitoring apparatus for use in a wavelength division multiplexing network are easily available and cost-effective, valuable for monitoring frequency and power of a WDM optical communication system, and capable of greatly enhancing resolution of monitoring frequency spectrum for the optical fiber network system.

Abstract: A terminal structure of a socket has two abutting contact surfaces on a terminal to form an acute angle to become a guiding mechanism to couple and contact with a pin of a chip easier and more accurately, and reduce faulty coupling of the pin and prevent the pin and terminal from deformation, fracturing or defective contact caused by tilting of the pin during insertion. The terminal structure of a socket may be applied on SMT and DIP applications, and is adaptable to pin slots of various shapes, and provide improved common sharing capability and applicability, and may be fabricated at a lower cost.

Abstract: This brake hydraulic control actuator increases ability to reserve the leaked brake fluid and degree of freedom for the structural layout in the actuator body. The bottom surface of the actuator body (10) having the cylinder bores (43) of the low pressure reservoirs (40) and (41) thereon is closed and sealed by the pot plate (20), and the pocket (23), which projects toward the direction to depart from the bottom surface, is formed in the pot plate (20).

Abstract: A hybrid clean-energy power-supply framework integrates a fuel cell, solar cell, and wind energy, applies a max power tracking rule, raises the output power of a solar cell and wind energy to supply a power load and transfer the surplus electrical energy to a water-electrolyzing apparatus for producing hydrogen and oxygen, and provides a fuel for a fuel cell power generating system. Furthermore, the present invention utilizes features of each clean-energy power generating system, depends on the powerful calculation capacity of a central processing unit to monitor and dispatch each power generation and supply system, and thus ensures the reliability of supply power and reduces the power generation cost. Such a framework can selectively grid-connect with the utility power or run as a stand-alone power supply system and has a mechanism for preventing the island effect.