Abstract: A construction machine includes: a partition member partitioning an accommodation space in an engine compartment into a main chamber and an intake chamber while having an inter-chamber opening; a fan disposed in the main chamber to generate cooling air flowing through an air intake opening, the intake chamber, the inter-chamber opening, and the main chamber in this order by sucking air in the engine compartment in a suction direction; a duct joined to an outer wall to enclose the air intake opening and including an inner peripheral surface enclosing a duct passage leading to the air intake opening and an outer peripheral surface. The duct extends in a duct extension direction different from the suction direction of the fan, disposed in the intake chamber to define a duct surrounding space around the outer peripheral surface of the duct.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides lubricant compositions suitable for use on human tissue and effective to provide multiple sensations sequentially and/or in varying intensities. The lubricants can include a lubricating base and at least two different sensorial agents effective to impart different sensations, such as warming, cooling, tingling, refreshing, and numbing. The lubricants particularly can be suitable for use in sexual experiences so that the imparted sensations can increase and/or improve such experiences. The present disclosure further provides condoms incorporating such lubricant compositions.

Abstract: A transmission-reflection blue phase liquid crystal panel is disclosed. The transmission-reflection blue phase liquid crystal panel comprises an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are arranged facing each other, and blue phase liquid crystal that is arranged between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The upper substrate, on a surface thereof facing the blue phase liquid crystal, is provided with a first electrode base layer which has a plurality of first protrusions, and the lower substrate, on a surface thereof facing the blue phase liquid crystal, is provided with a second electrode base layer which has a plurality of second protrusions. The first protrusions each extend to a position between two adjacent second protrusions, and the second protrusions each extend to a position between two adjacent first protrusions.

Abstract: A method for monitoring capacitance of DC bus capacitor of a power electronic converter is provided, wherein the power electronic converter includes at least one AC/DC conversion circuit and the DC bus capacitor, a power input/output interface of the AC/DC conversion circuit including a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to an AC grid with a frequency of f, the second terminal is connected to the DC bus capacitor, f is any positive real number, and the method includes: measuring a pulsating power with a frequency of 2f flowing through the DC bus capacitor and a voltage on the DC bus capacitor; and calculating the capacitance of the DC bus capacitor based on the pulsating power and the voltage on the DC bus capacitor. An apparatus for monitoring the capacitance of the DC bus capacitor is provided correspondingly.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, a trench isolation layer on the semiconductor substrate and configured to define an active region, and a multi-liner layer on an inside wall of a trench including the trench isolation layer. The multi-liner layer may include a first liner layer on the inside wall of the trench, a second liner layer on the first liner layer, and a third liner layer on the second liner layer.

Abstract: In a golf ball having a core, an outermost layer and an intermediate layer therebetween, the intermediate layer is formed of a thermoplastic resin composition that includes (A) an ionic olefin-methacrylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer, (B) a nonionic olefin-acrylic acid copolymer, (C) an organic acid or a metal salt thereof, and (D) a basic inorganic metal compound, and the outermost layer is formed of a thermoplastic resin composition that includes (a) a specific ionic olefin-unsaturated to carboxylic acid copolymer and (h) a specific ionic olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer. The ratio (tan ?) between the tensile storage modulus (E?) and the tensile loss modulus (E?) in a dynamic viscoelasticity test on the outermost layer-forming resin composition conducted under specific conditions is not more than 0.150.

Abstract: An analog radio over fiber (AROF) wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system and method for reducing adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) in a radio frequency signal provided by an AROF WDM system are provided. The AROF WDM system comprises a plurality of transmitters, a multiplexer, a demultiplexer, a plurality of receivers and a controller. Each transmitter is for receiving a radio frequency input signal and for modulating the radio frequency input signal onto an optical signal to obtain a modulated optical signal. The multiplexer is for receiving each modulated optical signal from the plurality of transmitters and for combining the modulated optical signals into a combined optical signal to be sent a distance over an optical fiber. The multiplexer has a pluralities of passbands with each passband having a center wavelength. The demultiplexer is for receiving the combined optical signal and for separating the combined optical signal back into the individual modulated optical signals.

Abstract: Provided are methods of operating a wireless communication system. The methods include determining first resource mapping patterns of a first physical channel used to generate virtual pilot signals so as to perform downlink channel estimation, based on state information of user equipment (UE) in every first period. The first physical channel is mapped onto resource elements adjacent to resource elements onto which pilot signals are mapped, in a time-frequency resource area (TFRA) of a downlink signal based on the determined first resource mapping patterns. A downlink signal of which resource mapping is completed is then transmitted to the UE.

Abstract: An inner barrel shaft seal mounting structure of a washing machine comprises an inner barrel flange and an inner barrel shaft which are arranged at an inner barrel bottom, wherein the upper end part of the inner barrel shaft is a flange structure, the inner barrel flange is connected with an inner barrel shaft flange, and a composite sealing gasket is arranged between the inner barrel flange and the inner barrel shaft flange, the composite sealing gasket comprises a metallic framework and a rubber gasket which are combined into one piece through vulcanization. According to the scheme, the composite sealing gasket is of an annular flat structure and is provided with a bolt through hole, an inner teeth, a positioning structure and an annular convex rib. The scheme has functions of gasket and seal, and can bear a relatively high radial force and a relatively high axial force.

Abstract: A Siraitia grosvenorii extract preparation method is provided herein that removes an agrochemical selectively and efficiently from a Siraitia grosvenorii extract containing the agrochemical. The method further comprises collecting with high yield a Siraitia grosvenorii glycoside, a substance useful as a sweetener component.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit light having a wavelength less than or equal to a predetermined level; a waveguide plate having a slope pattern that allows the light emitted from the light source to be output to a left side or a right side about a vertical direction of an optical axis of the light source; and a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels comprising a white sub pixel configured to transmit the light output from the waveguide plate.

Abstract: Six through holes are formed in pinion gear supporting portions of two input plate members working as a carrier that supports pinion gears of a rotary inertia mass damper. The two input plate members are opposed to each other in such a manner that the through holes are aligned with each other. The through holes support the pinion gear. The input plate members are coupled with each other by means of rivets passing through the through holes located on both sides of the through holes. This configuration ensures strength (rigidity) of the carrier, suppresses deformation of a planetary gear, and improves meshing accuracy of gears.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first alignment film. The first alignment film is formed by photoaligning the first alignment film material, where the data line serves as a first photoaligning reference object. The second substrate includes a second alignment film. The second alignment film is formed by photoaligning the second alignment film, where a line connecting at least two minor spacers serves as a second photoaligning reference object.

Abstract: A method and a device for encoding and decoding intra prediction are disclosed. An image decoding method for performing intra prediction comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including data on prediction modes of a current block and a block adjacent to the current block; extracting the data from the received bitstream so as to confirm the prediction mode of the adjacent block; determining whether a boundary pixel within the adjacent block can be used as a reference pixel for the current block in consideration of the prediction mode of the adjacent block; obtaining the reference pixel of the current block according to the determined result; generating a prediction block predicted in the frame on the basis of the obtained reference pixel; and decoding the current block by using the generated prediction block.

Abstract: Disclosed is an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel, and a driving method. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units, which is arranged in a pixel matrix; and a plurality of data lines, which is arranged to run through the pixel units. With respect to each of the data lines inside of boundary data lines of the pixel matrix, two pixel units electrically connected thereto in sequence are located in adjacent rows and at adjacent columns in the pixel matrix. The array substrate improves an aperture ratio of the pixel unit, which contributes to improvement of the quality of images.

Abstract: A reactive power compensation apparatus includes one or more phase clusters each comprising a plurality of cells, and a controller controlling the one or more phase clusters. When at least one cell in a specific phase cluster among the one or more phase clusters is faulty, the controller controls a voltage of each cell in each of the remaining phase clusters except for the specific phase cluster to be controlled, using a modulation index.

Abstract: An eyeball optical measurement apparatus includes a light radiating unit that radiates light toward an anterior chamber of an eyeball of a measurement subject; a light receiving unit that receives the light that has passed through the anterior chamber; an eyeball observation unit that observes an optical path relative to the eyeball while the light is radiated from the light radiating unit; and a controller that controls the light radiating unit so as to change a position at which the eyeball is irradiated with the light on the basis of a result of the observation of the eyeball by the eyeball observation unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are a substrate processing apparatus and a substrate processing method. The substrate processing apparatus includes an emissivity setting unit to which emissivity at a liquid chemical which is brought into contact with a substrate or emissivity at an interface at which the substrate and the liquid chemical are in contact with each other is input, a radiant energy input unit to which radiant energy radiating from the liquid chemical or the interface is input, and a calculation unit that calculates a calculation temperature of the liquid chemical or the interface based on the emissivity and the radiant energy.

Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a method for manufacturing the display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and an organic layer and a passivation layer arranged above the base substrate. The base substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. Each of the organic layer and the passivation layer is arranged in both the display region and the non-display region. A groove is arranged in the organic layer and the passivation layer in the non-display region, the groove penetrates the organic layer and the passivation layer and is of a closed pattern surrounding the display region. The groove is to be filled with a sealing material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode package which includes two oppositely disposed substrates, a containment region formed between the two oppositely disposed substrates, for accommodating an organic light emitting diode, and a blocking member provided around the containment region, for stopping an unwanted fluid. The blocking member is connected to one of the two substrates, and extends into a corresponding groove which is provided on the other substrate. The organic light emitting diode package is able to ensure good luminance quality of an OLED contained therein.