Abstract: Provided is an ink-jet printer including a printer head which ejects ink onto a medium while moving relative to the medium in a main-scanning direction, an LED module which exposes the ink ejected onto the medium to light while moving in the main-scanning direction together with the printer head so as to cure the ink, and LED light sources which are provided to the LED module at a position near the medium, which are plurally arranged at least in the main-scanning direction, and which are divided into a plurality of areas in accordance with an arrangement position with respect to the LED module to adjust an amount of light during light emission for each area.

Abstract: A bandgap reference voltage generating circuit for providing a reference voltage is disclosed. The bandgap reference voltage generating circuit includes four-terminal current source circuit, a regulator circuit and a temperature-compensating circuit. The four-terminal current source circuit outputs a first voltage, a second voltage and a first current which are independent of variation of a first system voltage. The regulator circuit receives the first voltage and the second voltage and when the first system voltage is larger than a threshold voltage value, the regulator circuit outputs the reference voltage independent of variation of the first system voltage via voltage-difference between the first voltage and the second voltage. The temperature-compensating circuit receives the first current and compensates a temperature curve of the reference voltage outputted from the regulator circuit.

Abstract: A vacuum drilling system and methods is provided that may utilize both a through tool coolant supply as well as a central vacuum extraction system. The system may include a cutting head provided on a hollow tube and a vacuum source to apply vacuum pressure to the area of the cutting head via one or more chip inlets arranged proximate to the cutting head. Sealed coolant containment channels supply coolant to the area of the cutting head.

Abstract: An improved method and process unit for desalting petroleum crude oils in which a portion of the stable emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel is withdrawn from the desalter and diluted with a liquid diluent, typically oil or water or both to destabilize the emulsion which is then separated into separate oil and water phases.

Abstract: A method for producing a welded joint between a high-strength aluminium alloy with a copper proportion as a first metal and a second metal, in which the welded joint is produced by CMT welding.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film laminate with a thinner thickness having an optical compensation function. According to the present invention is provided an optical film laminate comprising (i) a positive C plate comprising a liquid crystal material having a photosensitive group and (ii) a positive A plate, an optically biaxial plate, or an O plate, these plate comprising a liquid crystal material having a photosensitive group; wherein the both plates are directly bonded with each other to be firmly laminated without adhesive.

Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.

Abstract: A variable-geometry backscatter inspection system has a radiation detector array including one or more backscatter radiation detectors. The position of a second backscatter radiation detector is variable with respect to the position of a first backscatter radiation detector, so that the size of the detector array may be varied by moving the second radiation detector into or out of a predefined alignment with the first radiation detector. The system may include a movable base, and at least one of the detectors is movable with respect to the base. Methods of inspecting an object include forming a detector array by moving a second radiation detector into a predefined alignment with a first radiation detector, illuminating the object with a pencil beam of penetrating radiation, and detecting backscattered radiation with the detector array.

Abstract: The closure element (1) is adapted to be installed in a vessel wall provided with an aperture and has a peripheral flange (2) and a central cover unit (3). The closure element (1) is provided with at least one light source within a predefined zone (35) located in the central cover unit (3) and the light source is confined within the central cover unit.

Abstract: A printing method and a printing system are provided in which a fast printing speed is achieved, a variety of ultraviolet curable inks can be used, and excellent transfer properties to a printing object can be achieved. First, print processing is performed, thereby printing an image on a transfer pad, next, provisional curing processing is performed, thereby provisionally curing an ultraviolet curable ink applied to the transfer pad, next, transfer processing is performed, thereby transferring the ultraviolet curable ink landed on the transfer pad to a printing object, and next, final curing processing is performed, thereby performing final curing of the ultraviolet curable ink transferred to the printing object. In this way, transfer printing of an image to the printing object can be performed by a single transfer. In addition, if the transfer printing is finished, cleaning processing is performed, thereby cleaning the transfer pad.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a base body and a plurality of support bodies that are fixed on the base body and support permanent magnets. The rotor is characterized in that two first support bodies that are located at a distance from one another form a receiving region for a second support body, allowing the first support body to be positively connected to the second support body.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ethylene cracking furnace having a multi-pass radiant coil, comprising at least one radiant section. In the radiant section there are provided with bottom burners and/or sidewall burners, and at least one set of multi-pass radiant coil longitudinally arranged in the radiant section. The multi-pass radiant coil is a four- to ten-pass type radiant coil. At least one tube of the multi-pass radiant coil is arranged to be spatially adjacent to a tube which is not consecutive to said at least one tube. With this arrangement, the thermal radiation influence between tubes with high temperature can be reduced, so that the tubes with low temperature can absorb the radiation heat from the tubes with high temperature. Therefore, the surface temperature of the tubes with high temperature can be reduced, thus extending the lifetime of the radiant coil and the operational cycle of the cracking furnace.

Abstract: IFN-alpha mutants are obtained by substituting Cys for Tyr at position 85 or 86 in existing IFN-alpha. Their polyethylene glycol derivatives with high in vitro antiviral activity and prolonged in vivo half-life are also provided, wherein a polyethylene glycol moiety is covalently bound to the free Cys residue of an IFN-alpha mutant. The preparation methods of PEG derivatives of IFN-alpha mutants and medical compositions comprising the derivatives are also provided. The test results showed that the IFN-alpha mutants of the present invention are ready to prepare and have high activity; their polyethylene glycol derivatives have extended lifetime in the body and low clearance rate.

Abstract: The invention regards a manifold for fluids, comprising a housing (10) with a center axis (11) and a number of fluid apertures (12,13) through the walls forming the housing (10) and a fluid diverter system (20), comprising a fluid diverter element (25) mounted in the system (20) selectively rotating around an axis, comprising an axial outlet (27) and an inlet (26) which may be positioned in connection with one fluid aperture (12,13) in the housing. The fluid diverter system (20) is axially insert able into the housing (10) and further comprises a ring element (21), with an outer configuration complementary to an inner configuration of the housing (10), which ring element (21) is positioned around the fluid diverter element (25) and connected to the fluid diverter element (25), and which ring element (21) comprises fluid apertures (22A,B) corresponding to the fluid apertures (12,13) in the housing.

Abstract: A subsea pipe connection assembly has a first flange, a nut magazine positioned against a side of the first flange and having a plurality of nuts therein corresponding to the plurality of holes of the first flange, a second flange having a plurality of holes in alignment with the holes of the first flange, and a plurality of studs extending through holes of the first and second flanges such that the nuts in the nut magazine are affixed to the ends of the studs. A sleeve is affixed to and extending from the second flange. An ROV-delivered frame can be supported on the sleeve of the pipe such that a torquing tool connected to the frame can apply torque to a nut on the stud. The sleeve has a guide surface thereon so as to direct the torquing tool to nuts on the plurality of studs.

Abstract: In a process for preparing a high activity, large crystal ZSM-5 type zeolite in the absence of a template, a reaction mixture can be prepared comprising water, a silica source having a surface area less than 150 m2/g, an alumina source, seeds, a source of an oxide of an alkali metal, M, and a source of gluconic acid or salt thereof, Q, wherein the mixture has a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio?40. The reaction mixture can be heated to a crystallization temperature from about 100° C. to 200° C. for a time sufficient for crystals of ZSM-5 to form Crystals of ZSM-5 can then be recovered from the reaction mixture which crystals can have a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio?40 and a majority of which crystals can have at least one crystalline dimension of at least about 2 ?m.

Abstract: An automotive bumper assembly and compression member for use therein. The assembly including a compression member has a first compressible region that contacts an outwardly oriented facing surface of a bodyside outer element and a second compressible region composed of a foamed polymeric material that rests in contact with an inwardly oriented surface of an outer bumper cover member. The first and second compressible regions each exhibit compressibility values with the compressibility value of the second compressible region being greater than the compressibility value of the first compressible region.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention relates to a method of synthesizing a crystalline molecular sieve having an MSE framework type, the method comprising crystallizing a reaction mixture comprising a source of water, a source of an oxide of a tetravalent element, Y, selected from at least one of silicon, tin, titanium, vanadium, and germanium, optionally but preferably a source of a trivalent element, X, a source of an alkali or alkaline earth metal, M, a source of a first single-nitrogen-containing cyclic ammonium organic cation, Q1, and optionally a source of a second multiple-nitrogen-containing organic cation, Q2, which can include multiple-nitrogen-containing monocations and/or multiply ionic species containing two or more ammonium cations in the same molecule.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a card-type composite interface structure comprising at least an integrated circuit module and a carrier: the carrier's height exactly matches a card reader's height and a composite connector's metal contacts are securely and electrically connected to a card reader when the carrier with the integrated circuit module mounted is inserted into a card reader; a support pad which is removed out of the carrier and toward the carrier's lower surface has its length exactly matching the height of a USB port in one computer in order to reliably sustain a supporting segment and make the composite connector's metal contacts electrically connected to the USB port when a driven structure is shifted to a default direction under effect of a user's force.

Abstract: A separation apparatus using a membrane for diafiltration, which provides precise fractionation of a target substance by monitoring and regulating permeability of the target substance based on measurement values and analytical values indicating separation status, such as physical values and concentration of a permeate liquid, a circulating liquid and an internal circulating liquid in a membrane device. A diafiltration process including adding a cleaning liquid to an treating liquid which contains multiple target substances and extracting a target substance into the permeate liquid supplied from a membrane separation apparatus to fractionate the target substance from other target substances remaining in a residual liquid.