Abstract: A foldable gardening shear may comprise a main body, a pair of handles, and a pair of pivot members. Each of the pivot members has a control unit, a knob, a screw and a pair of covers. The main body comprises a first pivot pin pivotally connect to a pair of cutting members at a middle portion of the main body. Each of the cutting members has a blade formed at an upper portion thereof, and the two blades are configured to couple together to achieve the cutting effect. The present invention is advantageous because the handles can be folded upwardly, which enables the gardening shear to be carried and stored easily; and in the folded position, the handles are respectively located at two lateral sides of the cutting members, which can prevent the blades from hurting the user.

Abstract: An edible herbal formulation which raises the alkalinity of the human body in a short period of time is disclosed. The major ingredient in the formulation is Camptotheca. Additional ingredients that may be included are poria cocos, astragalus membranacaus, ostrea vivularis gould, prunella vulgaris, bombyx mori and phellodendron amurense Rupr. While the herbal formulation may be a mixture containing Camptotheca and all or some of the above ingredients, it is most preferred that the herbal formulation include the three ingredients of Camptotheca, poria cocos and astragalus membranacaus.

Abstract: A spindle speed adjusting device in machining is provided, which may include a plurality of signal detection modules, a signal capturing module and a signal processing module. Each of the signal detection modules may keep measuring the vibration signals in machining. The signal capturing module may capture the vibration signals. The signal processing module may execute a transmissibility analysis to obtain the transmissibility between the signal detection modules, and execute a frequency response fitting according to the transmissibility to obtain a plurality of system dynamic parameters, and then execute a stability lobe diagram analysis to calculate the optimized spindle speed of the machining tool so as to make the machining tool operate at the optimized spindle speed. The signal processing module may repeatedly execute the transmissibility analysis, the frequency response fitting and the stability lobe diagram analysis to keep updating the optimized spindle speed until the machining process ends.

Abstract: A power distribution method is applied to control an energy harvesting system that includes an ambient energy source, an energy storage, a power converting circuit and a control unit. With the power distribution method, the excess power generated by the ambient energy source is transmitted to charge the energy storage through an indirect power flowing path, or the load side is powered by the energy storage through another indirect power flowing path. Therefore, the number of inductor switches of the power converting circuit can be reduced to mitigate switching loss and ensure higher power conversion efficiency.

Abstract: A laser apparatus is provided, which includes an optical reflection and gain unit, an optical modulation unit and a polarizing selection unit. The optical reflection and gain unit includes a gain medium and at least two dichroic surfaces, and is configured to generate a laser beam. The optical modulation unit and the optical reflection and gain unit form a cavity, and the optical modulation unit is configured to adjust phase boundary conditions of the cavity. The optical modulation unit includes portions that respectively correspond to optical phase boundaries in the cavity, so as to allow an optical field in the cavity to pass through the optical modulation unit at least twice. The polarizing selection unit is disposed between the optical reflection and gain unit and the optical modulation unit, and is configured to adjust the polarizing direction of the optical field incident to the optical modulation unit.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a dye-sensitized solar cell is disclosed. The electrolyte includes a solvent being one selected from a group consisting of gamma-butyrolactone (gBL), propylene carbonate (PC) and 3-methoxypropionitrile (MPN), and a polymer mixed with the solvent to form an electrolyte solution, wherein when the solvent is one of gBL and PC, the polymer is one selected from a group consisting of polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyvinyl acetate (PVA), poly(acrylonitrile-co-vinyl acetate) (PAN-VA) and a combination thereof; and when the solvent is MPN, the polymer includes one of a mixture of poly(ethylene oxide (PEO) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), and a mixture of PEO and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence of a reaction mixture in a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The method includes contacting the reaction mixture with EMR frequency absorbing particles formed from a material having a transition metal, transition metal oxide or a transition metal hydroxide, or a nitride, a phosphide or an arsenide of a Group III metal doped with the transition metal or a transition metal oxide, or silicon dioxide doped with the transition metal, transition metal oxide, or transition metal hydroxide; and irradiating the EMR absorbing particles with EMR having a frequency of about 200 kHz to 500 THz to amplify the target nucleic acid sequence, wherein the Group III metal is any one of Al, Ga, and In, and the transition metal is any one of Mn, Fe, Co and Cu.

Abstract: An electric connection is provided, and has a first copper (Cu) layer, a second Cu layer, and a composite metal layer disposed between the first Cu layer and the second Cu layer. The composite metal layer has 0.01 wt. %?gallium (Ga)?20 wt. %, 0.01 wt. %?copper (Cu)?50 wt. %, and 30 wt. %?nickel (Ni)?99.98 wt. %. Moreover, a method of manufacturing the electric connection is provided, and has the steps of: (1) providing a first Cu layer and a second Cu layer; (2) forming a first Ni layer on the first Cu layer; (3) forming a second Ni layer on the second Cu layer; (4) forming a Ga layer on the first Ni layer; and (5) keeping the second Ni layer in contact with the Ga layer and carrying out a thermo-compress bonding therebetween to form the electric connection.

Abstract: An LED module includes a substrate, a first conductive element formed on a top face of the substrate, wherein the first conductive element has a feature to bear at least 0.3 Amps of electrical current passing therethrough and conductive islands formed on a top face of substrate and one of which is electrically connected to the first conductive element. An insulation film is formed on a top face of the first conductive element and at least one patterned second conductive element is formed on the substrate to be electrically connected to the remainder of the conductive islands and crosses over the first conductive element at portions of the first conductive element having the insulation film formed thereon. An LED chip is mounted on the top face of the substrate to electrically connect to the first conductive element, the conductive islands and the patterned second conductive element.

Abstract: A preparation at least useful as a bone implant is provided, which contains a solid component including a lithium compound and a calcium compound. The preparation shows an anti-bacterial ability in comparison with a preparation contains the calcium compound but free of the lithium compound.

Abstract: A network topology system having a plurality of nodes for data exchange is provided, with the number of said nodes being N. The nodes are sequentially connected to form a ring communication configuration. N is an even integer. The i-th node of said nodes connects to the [(i+m) mod N]-th and [(i+p) mod N]-th nodes according to a connection rule. The j-th node of said nodes connects to the [(j?m) mod N]-th and [(j+p) mod N]-th nodes according to the connection rule. i and j are non-negative integers and are less than N. m and p are integers and not larger than N. Here, i and m are odd numbers, and j and p are even numbers.

Abstract: A bonding material (10) of the present invention includes an amorphous silver film (12).

Abstract: A foldable gardening shear may comprise a main body, a pair of handles, and a pair of pivot members. Each of the pivot members has a control unit, a knob, a screw and a pair of covers. The main body comprises a first pivot pin pivotally connect to a pair of cutting members at a middle portion of the main body. Each of the cutting members has a blade formed at an upper portion thereof, and the two blades are configured to couple together to achieve the cutting effect. The present invention is advantageous because the handles can be folded upwardly, which enables the gardening shear to be carried and stored easily; and in the folded position, the handles are respectively located at two lateral sides of the cutting members, which can prevent the blades from hurting the user.

Abstract: The invention discloses a positioning light beam emission system, a method and an indoor positioning system. A positioning space includes a plurality of positioning sub-spaces. A plurality of positioning light beam emission devices are fixed at predetermined positions in the plurality of positioning sub-spaces, respectively, and the positioning light beam emission devices are used for emits, in a sweeping manner,ing positioning light beams toward the respective positioning sub-spaces in which they are located with a predetermined emits, in a sweeping manner,ing cycle and at a predetermined angular velocity. The positioning light beam has a linear cross section and is rotated about a emits, in a sweeping manner,ing rotation axis, and the emits, in a sweeping manner,ing rotation axis is not perpendicular to an extending direction of the linear cross section.

Abstract: An image processing method includes the following steps. An original image is read, and the original image includes a red channel layer, a green channel layer and a blue channel layer. A processing is performed on the red channel layer, the green channel layer and the blue channel layer, respectively, to get a derived red channel layer, a derived green channel layer and a derived blue channel layer. And the derived red channel layer, the derived green channel layer and the derived blue channel layer are combined to form a new image. The processing includes the following steps. Gradient-variations of a plurality of directions of a region are calculated. An average of the gradient-variations is calculated. A calculating procedure is provided to decide diffusion-coefficient equations of the directions, and each of the diffusion-coefficient equations is substituted into an anisotropic diffusion equation.

Abstract: A fuel-saving device for treating a fuel includes at least one pyroelectric element to be in contact with the fuel. The at least one pyroelectric element includes a high molecular polymer substrate and a plurality of polarized pyroelectric particles dispersed in the polymer substrate. The polarized pyroelectric particle has infrared absorption peaks at wavenumber ranging from 430 cm?1 to 980 cm?1 and from 1600 cm?1 to 2700 cm?1.

Abstract: A system for sensing glucose concentration is provided and includes following components. A light source generates a light beam. The system may include a polarization state generator (PSG) for changing the polarization of the light beam, and then the light beam is emitted to a biological tissue. A polarization state analyzer (PSA) receives the light beam reflected from the biological tissue, and the received light beam is used to calculate Stokes vectors. A Mueller matrix is calculated according to the Stokes vectors. In some embodiments, the system includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) in which the light beam is sensed by a detector for calculating the Mueller matrix. An optical rotation angle and a depolarization index are calculated in accordance with the differential Mueller matrix formalism. The glucose concentration is calculated in accordance with the optical rotation angle and the depolarization index.

Abstract: A network topology system comprises a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes having a set of connection rules which is built by the steps of: generating a series of prime number differences; generating a series of communication strategy numbers; extracting as many terms as the number of connecting nodes from a recursive sequences to serve as an index series; generating a series of connection strategy numbers by extracting the Nth terms from the series of communication strategy numbers, wherein N stands for each number of the index series; and generating a series of connecting nodes numbers by calculating the sum of each odd number and each term of the series of connection strategy numbers so as to build the connection rules for each odd-numbered node to connect the nodes numbered in corresponding with the numbers of the connecting nodes number series.

Abstract: A pair of gardening shears include a first driving arm, a jaw member pivotally connected with the first driving arm, a second driving arm pivotally connected with the first driving arm, a first handle mounted on the first driving arm, a second handle mounted on the second driving arm, and a locking unit mounted on the first handle. Thus, the jaw member is pivotally connected with the first driving arm by the first bolt, and the second driving arm is pivotally connected with the first driving arm by the second bolt, so that the jaw member and the second driving arm have different fulcrums to construct a multi-lever structure so as to perform the cutting action smoothly in an energy-saving way.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum (Al) paste. The Al paste has low cost and high conductivity. An Al powder having a wide range of particle size distribution and an increased solid content are used to solve the problem of multiple pores. A rupture mechanism of alumina is fully used for sintering to improve contacting internal liquid Al with each other for forming conductive paths. With coordination of sufficient liquid glass powder, all ruptured surface of the Al powder is coated to inhibit exposed liquid Al from oxidation on contacting air. The problem of low conductivity of Al paste is thus radically solved.