Abstract: A fuse with an improved arc elimination performance is provided while an increase in the total length of the fuse element is prevented. A fuse 500 includes a fuse element 100 including at least one fusing portion 120 between terminal portions 110 on both sides. The fuse element 100 includes curved portions 130, which are hollowed, at positions adjacent to the fusing portion 120. An arc-eliminating material 140 is fastened in hollowed portions 131 of the curved portions 130.

Abstract: Devices and methods include a Coriolis flow meter including a first and second manifolds made from a polymer material. Each manifold includes a respective tubular port extension extending outward from a surface of the manifold. A flow-sensitive tube made from the polymer material is attached at a first end to the first tubular port extension and attached at a second end to the second tubular port extension. An isolating structure is clamped around a portion of the first tubular port extension and positioned adjacent to the surface of the first manifold. The isolating structure is made from a second material different from the polymer material.

Abstract: A lightweight portable heating device consisting of a container assembly and lid assembly that house a tub assembly for the purpose of heating liquids and food submerged in aforementioned liquids by means of a multi-fuel burner. Container assembly provides for several structures that improve ergonomics and handling of the lightweight portable heating device. For instance, container assembly includes an integrated handle that surrounds the container assembly proximate the top portion of the container assembly and is molded into the container assembly. Integrated handle allows for the ease of moving of the lightweight portable heating device by personnel. Proximate the bottom of container assembly are lifting handles that enable the lifting of the device above shoulder level while also functioning as a tie down point.

Abstract: A flow sensor includes a flow tube in a form of a tube and a support cast around the flow tube. The support clamps the flow tube and the flow tube extends through the support. The flow sensor is formed by placing the flow tube in a tube cavity of a casting mold and pouring or injecting a liquid resin into a support cavity of the casting mold. The support is formed around the flow tube from solidifying the liquid resin in the support cavity of the casting mold. A temperature of the casting mold during formation of the support does not exceed a threshold temperature to avoid deformation of the flow tube. The flow sensor can also include at least one memory chip that stores calibration information associated with the flow sensor and connectors that allows a controller to read the calibration information from the memory chip.

Abstract: An integrated railway movement dispatching and train operation control method, comprising: sensing in-transit information of a signal system; constructing an integrated railway movement dispatching and train operation control minimum system; optimizing a time-saving train driving strategy online; optimizing a multi-train driving strategy in a virtual formation mode; and generating an integrated railway movement dispatching and train operation control adjustment solution.

Abstract: A robotic system which includes a fluid controller, an arm portion, and a soft end effector apparatus coupled with the fluid controller and the arm portion. The soft end effector apparatus includes a base constructed and arranged to mount to the arm portion, a set of wrist assemblies coupled with the base, and a set of finger assemblies coupled with the set of wrist assemblies. Each wrist assembly of the set of wrist assemblies (i) couples with a respective finger assembly and (ii) provides movement to that respective finger assembly relative to the base during actuation of that wrist assembly and during independent actuation of that respective finger assembly in response to control from the fluid controller. Along these lines, the fluid controller may individually provide pressurized fluid to each wrist assembly and each finger assembly when controlling interaction between the soft end effector apparatus and an external object.

Abstract: In a urea synthesis process, temperature distribution in a submerged condenser is reduced. The process includes: synthesizing urea from NH3 and CO2 to generate a urea synthesis solution; by heating the solution, decomposing ammonium carbamate and separating a gaseous mixture containing NH3 and CO2 from the solution to obtain a solution higher in urea concentration than the solution obtained in the synthesizing; with use of a submerged condenser including a shell and tube heat exchange structure including a U-tube, absorbing and condensing at least a part of the gaseous mixture in an absorption medium on a shell side, and generating steam on a tube side with use of heat generated during the condensation; and recycling at least a part of liquid, obtained from the shell side, to the synthesizing, wherein water is supplied to the tube side of the condenser at a mass flow rate that is three times or more of the steam generation rate.

Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of process industry, and discloses a modeling method, a generating method, a device and a medium of a link unit. The modeling method comprises the following steps: build an inlet pipeline model; build an outlet pipeline model; build a functional equipment group model to obtain a digital model of a link unit, wherein the functional equipment group model comprises at least one functional equipment, and the types of functional equipment include at least one of the following: a buffer, a stirrer and a pressurizer, and whether each functional equipment is connected to a communication pipeline is controlled by a equipment regulator. The present disclosure can be used to integrate pipelines, buffers, stirrers, pressurizers, regulators, etc. between processes. The structured link unit greatly simplifies the building process of complex production system models.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for modeling a digital model of a production system, wherein the method comprises: dividing a process flow of the production system according to the process to obtain a plurality of process units to be constructed and link units; determining the process relationship between the process units, and constructing a digital model architecture, a flow model and an environment model; and constructing a digital model corresponding to the system flow according to the digital model architecture, the flow model and the external environment. With the solution of the present disclosure, it is able to realize the modeling of the process flow for complex production systems and improve the process control efficiency of the production system.

Abstract: A system includes one or more processing circuits and memory storing instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more processing circuits to receive a building dataset comprising an architectural drawing of a building and metadata, model the building dataset by generating building properties of a building space based on the building dataset, determining building equipment based on the building properties and the building dataset, and generating, in a graphical representation of the building displayed on a user device, a space placement block of the building equipment, wherein the space placement block is an interactive graphical representation of the building equipment that is modifiable within the graphical representation of the building, and remodel, based on a modification of the space placement block, the building dataset by updating at least one of the building properties or building equipment to encode the modification of the space placement block into the building dataset.

Abstract: A high-throughput method for identifying single crystal hexagonal-SiC off-axis surfaces that support surface chemistries and kinetics to selectively produce various epitaxial growth modes of the metastable 3C-SiC polytype is provided. In execution of the aforementioned method, the present invention also encompasses the use of a single crystal hexagonal-SiC domed substrate, and a method for manufacturing thereof. Said method for screening silicon carbide growth surfaces is comprised of: fabrication of a silicon carbide domed substrate; forming a step-terrace growth surface on the domed surface of said silicon carbide domed substrate by hydrogen etching; performing silicon carbide deposition upon said growth surface, thereby creating an silicon carbide epitaxial domed wafer; and characterization of said silicon carbide epitaxial domed wafer. Silicon carbide deposition upon a silicon carbide domed growth surface allows for the modulation of the supersaturation ratio under a single set of growth conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a melt electrospinning device. The melt electrospinning device includes a melting unit, a spinning unit, an electrostatic generating unit, a collection unit, and a sealed cavity. A lining of the melting unit is made of a material having a melting point greater than 500° C. The spinning unit is connected to the bottom of the melting unit and includes a spinneret made from a conductive material having a melting point greater than 500° C. The melt electrospinning process is performed in the sealed cavity. The present disclosure further provides a melt electrospinning method.

Abstract: A technique for varying buoyancy of an apparatus includes providing a substrate configured to produce gas on demand when exposed to a liquid, exposing the substrate to such liquid, and capturing the gas produced by the substrate to increase the buoyancy of the apparatus within a fluid. In some examples, the liquid and the fluid contain the same material, such that gas may be produced using fluid already in the environment.

Abstract: A flow measurement system includes two or more flow sensors that may operate simultaneously and a plurality of connected flow paths for flow of fluids. Each flow sensor is positioned along a different flow path of the plurality of connected flow paths and includes at least one flow tube and a support that clamps the flow tube. The flow tube of each flow sensor has a different resonant frequency so that cross-talk between the flow sensors can be reduced or eliminated. In some embodiments, the flow tube of each flow sensor has a different tube length, wall thickness, material, and/or weight. The flow measurement system can also include one or more pumps for pumping fluid into the flow sensors and a dampener arranged between a pump and a corresponding flow sensor for mitigating interference on the flow sensor from operation of the pump.

Abstract: An on-vehicle device is provided with a fuse. A plurality of terminals each have a long-plate shape and are aligned with each other. A fusible portion is connected to two of the plurality of terminals. A housing covers a part of the plurality of terminals and the fusible portion and has heat resistance equal to or higher than 300 degrees. Current flows through the fusible portion. The fusible portion is blown out in the case where the temperature of the fusible portion exceeds a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A treatment method and apparatus is provided to effectively use a combustible waste such as waste plastic, waste tires, rice husk, wood shavings, PKS, RDF and sludge while maintaining stable operation; to improve the combustion efficiency of a fossil fuel such as coal and coke; and furthermore to reduce the NOx concentration in a cement kiln exhaust gas. An apparatus 1 for treating a combustible, the apparatus comprising: a mixer 3 for mixing a combustible C with a preheated raw material R2, which has a temperature of 600° C. or higher and 900° C. or lower and which is drawn from a preheater cyclone of a cement burning device 10, to gasify the combustible; and a feeder 5 for feeding the gasified combustible and the preheated raw material (mixed raw material M) to a region from an inlet end 13a of the cement burning device to a calciner 12.

Abstract: Therefore, the invention of the present application provides a fuse in which a position and a posture of a fuse element are easily stabilized and which is easily assembled, and a method for manufacturing the fuse. A fuse including a fuse element having a fusing portion; and a casing accommodating the fusing portion; where the fuse element has a long shape extending in a longitudinal direction of the casing and at least two or more fuse elements are provided; the fuse element has one end portion side coupled to each other by a coupling portion; a first holding portion that holds the fuse element is provided in one opening of the casing; and a locking portion that locks the coupling portion of the fuse element is provided in the first holding portion.

Abstract: A high-throughput method for identifying single crystal hexagonal-SiC off-axis surfaces that support surface chemistries and kinetics to selectively produce various epitaxial growth modes of the metastable 3C-SiC polytype is provided. In execution of the aforementioned method, the present invention also encompasses the use of a single crystal hexagonal-SiC domed substrate, and a method for manufacturing thereof. Said method for screening silicon carbide growth surfaces is comprised of: fabrication of a silicon carbide domed substrate; forming a step-terrace growth surface on the domed surface of said silicon carbide domed substrate by hydrogen etching; performing silicon carbide deposition upon said growth surface, thereby creating an silicon carbide epitaxial domed wafer; and characterization of said silicon carbide epitaxial domed wafer. Silicon carbide deposition upon a silicon carbide domed growth surface allows for the modulation of the supersaturation ratio under a single set of growth conditions.

Abstract: A method for monitoring and safety evaluation of a dam body defect of a check dam is provided, including steps of: obtaining multi-source remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, ground monitoring data and sensing images through a three-dimensional data network; identifying the sensing images through an R-CNN algorithm and a Fast R-CNN based on the UAV data and check dam body database to determine check dams having defects and types of defects, defect data and position data; performing classification statistics of the check dams having defects according to the types of defects; building a three-dimensional model of the dam body safety evaluation standards for check dams after classification according to the position data and the ground monitoring data; input the defect data in a check dam safety performance evaluation module to obtain simulation data; and completing the evaluation according to the simulation data and the three-dimensional model.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fuse that can be easily manufactured and has an improved yield. A fuse includes an input terminal portion, a bus bar portion through which a current input from the input terminal portion flows, and a terminal portion connected to the bus bar portion through a fusible portion, where a fusible portion unit including the fusible portion and the terminal portion is provided in plurals, each of the fusible portion units is a separate body from the bus bar portion and is individually attached to the bus bar portion.