Abstract: A motor allowing multiple degrees of output freedom is disclosed. The motor includes a stator having an interior surface forming at least a portion of a sphere or curved surface and first and second substantially orthogonally positioned stator coils wound on the interior surface. A rotor is fixed to an output shaft and movably supported adjacent the stator with an air gap disposed between the rotor and the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets disposed thereon and is movable along the interior surface in directions defining at least first and second degrees of freedom. Upon energization of the first stator coil, a first magnetic field is established to force at least a first one of the magnets and the rotor in a direction in the first degree of freedom. Upon energization of the second stator coil, a second magnetic field is established to force at least a second one of the magnets and the rotor in a direction in the second degree of freedom.

Abstract: Apparatus particularly useful in aircraft for moving a container from a supporting surface on a lower level, e.g., cargo hold, to a higher level, e.g., passenger compartment, via a vertical lift shaft, includes: a lift member in the vertical lift shaft, a displaceable suspension member suspended from and below the lift member and displaceable in a horizontal direction from a normal position in precise alignment with the vertical lift shaft; and a spring urging the displaceable suspension member to its normal position.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for filling one or more containers with flowable material such as cereals, grain or rice. Flowable material is transferred via a material guide into filling stations. The material guide or the filling stations can be moved between a first position in which all the flowable material input is guided into the first container, and a second position in which all the flowable material input is guided into the second container. At intermediate positions between the first and second positions, the flowable material input is divided between the first and second containers. The proportion of flowable material entering each of the containers is varied to enable a nearly full container to be topped up to the desired level while maintaining control over the flow and at the same time rapidly filling another container. The filling stations, at which the containers are located, may be positioned in various configurations.

Abstract: The acid catalyzed—effluent refrigerated alkylation of hydrocarbons in a shell and bare tube type alkylation reactor is improved by providing the bare tubes with internal inserts capable of increasing turbulence and mixing of refrigerant within the tubes whereby heat transfer in the process is enhanced.

Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder with pressure intensifying function, has an oil-filled hydraulic pressure cylinder which is filled with oil and tightly sealed. A gas-filled gas spring is charged with gas and tightly sealed. By means of gas spring, oil in oil chamber of hydraulic pressure cylinder is pressurized to a pressure level higher than the gas pressure in gas actuating chamber of gas spring. This results in a strong pushing force being generated via output piston of hydraulic pressure cylinder.

Abstract: An OLED device having pillars, wherein the pillars serve to pattern a conductive layer during deposition. The profile of the pillars covers the edges of at least one functional layer to protect it from exposure to potentially deleterious substances.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing semiconductor nanoparticles having a monodispersed distribution of particle sizes and the semiconductor nanoparticles produced by the same, which were insufficient in conventional reversed micelle methods. This method for producing semiconductor nanoparticles comprises steps of: forming semiconductor nanoparticles in the reaction field in the micelle or in the reversed micelle; and regulating the particle size of the semiconductor nanoparticles by size-selective photoetching, wherein the reaction field in the micelle or in the reversed micelle serves also as the dissolution field for ions that are produced when the semiconductor nanoparticles are subjected to size-selective photoetching. In this method, particle sizes of the semiconductor nanoparticles are regulated by adjusting the size of the dissolution field for ions and regulating the reactivity of size-selective photoetching.

Abstract: The gas-dynamic pressure wave machine is intended for supplying charge air to an internal combustion engine and comprises a rotor (40) with cells (41), a low pressure fresh air inlet channel, a high pressure charge air channel leading to the internal combustion engine, a high pressure exhaust gas channel (31) coming from the internal combustion engine, and a low pressure exhaust gas channel (35), the low pressure exhaust gas channel (35) and the high pressure exhaust gas channel (31) being enclosed in a gas enclosure (34), and the low pressure fresh air inlet channel and the high pressure charge air channel being enclosed in an air enclosure, and the high pressure exhaust gas channel being provided on the rotor side with a widened portion (53).

Abstract: Continuous seat adjustment apparatus is used in conjunction with a seating device including a track assembly having an inner track and an outer track longitudinally movable on the inner track. The apparatus includes a pair of opposed jaws mounted on the outer track for pivotal movement between first and second orientations. Each of the jaws defines an opening with the inner track longitudinally extending therethrough. The jaws frictionally engage the inner track in the first orientation to substantially prevent longitudinal movement along the inner track and the jaws release the inner track in the second orientation to allow continuous longitudinal movement along the inner track. A spring device is affixed to the pair of opposed jaws to provide a bias on the jaws tending to move the jaws into the first orientation and an adjustment member is provided for moving the jaws against the spring bias from the first orientation to the second orientation.

Abstract: A process is provided for chemically modifying a dual-layer hollow fibre, wherein the fibre comprises a first layer consisting essentially of a polyimide and a second layer consisting essentially of a polymer which is substantially unaffected by the chemical modification process. The process comprises contacting the polyimide layer with a polyamine. In addition, a process is provided for chemically modifying a polyimide membrane in general, using a process which comprises contacting the membrane with an alcoholic solution of an aliphatic-aromatic polyamine.

Abstract: A method of stuffing natural casings with emulsion involves slidably mounting a collar element on the stuffing tube of the machine adjacent an end of the stuffing tube opposite to the discharge end thereof. The collar is slidably advanced towards the discharge end of the tube to telescope the casing into a shirred condition while leaving a non-shirred portion downstream thereof. The non-shirred portion of the casing is progressively advanced while the casing is filled with emulsion from the tube. A sensor is placed in the proximity of the non-shirred portion of the casing to detect whether shirred or non-shirred casing is present. The sensor is connected to a controller so that the collar will be advanced to slide the casing material on the tube when the non-shirred casing is detected, and the advance of the collar is stopped when shirred casing material is detected. A machine includes the foregoing components to accomplish the method.

Abstract: A method for rapid loading of casing-bearing sleeves on the stuffing tube of a sausage machine, provides for placing the preloaded sleeves on a feeder mechanism and selectively and sequentially moving the sleeves into registering position with the discharge end of an emulsion stuffing tube; sequentially moving the stuffing tube into each of the sleeves and extruding emulsion through the stuffing tube into the casing mounted on the sleeve until the sleeve is slidably removed from the tube caused in part by the movement of emulsion entering the casing. The apparatus has a fixture suitably movably mounted on the machine with a plurality of preloaded sleeves thereon for sequential movement for selective alignment of the sleeves with the stuffing tube for sequential filling of the casings with emulsion.

Abstract: A test-assisting device (BOST device) is provided in the vicinity of a testing circuit board that transmits signals to and receive signals from a semiconductor integrated circuit to be tested, and the D/A converter circuit for testing, the A/D converter circuit for testing, the measured-data memory, and the analyzing portion of the test-assisting device are carried by separate circuit boards.

Abstract: The relay system obtains voltage and current values from a power line and uses a first sampling element to sample the voltage and current values at selected intervals of time. The resulting sampled signals are used for power system-wide protection, control, monitoring and metering. The sampled signals are then resampled at a rate which is a selected multiple of the power system frequency. The results of the resampling are used by processing circuitry for protection functions including fault determinations.

Abstract: An actuator rod (17) for a turbocharger pressure control assembly comprises a first elongate portion (17a) defining a first rod end and a second portion (17b) defining a second rod end. The first and second portions are pivotally joined to one another to allow a degree of relative pivotal motion therebetween in at least one plane perpendicular to the axis of said elongate first portion (17a).

Abstract: Disclosed is a single wafer LPCVD apparatus. The single wafer LPCVD apparatus comprises: a vacuum chamber having an upper part sealed by a quartz dome, the vacuum chamber receiving a single wafer loaded therein; a bell jar having a dome-shaped inner wall, covering the quartz dome, and spaced by a selected interval from the quartz dome; a dome-shaped plasma electrode established between the bell jar and the quartz dome; an RF power supply for applying an RF power to the dome-shaped plasma electrode; a thermally insulated wall provided on the entire inner wall of the bell jar; a sheath heater having a heater wire and an insulator for covering the heater wire, the sheath heater being attached and established to a surface of the adiabatic wall in a shape of a coil; and a cooling pipe established in a wall of the bell jar. Temperature uniformity within the vacuum chamber is enhanced and the manufacture of a high-temperature heater for hot processing is unnecessary.

Abstract: A method for determining a property of an unknown material including the steps of determining the IR spectrum of the unknown material, fitting the IR spectrum to a linear combination of known spectra in a database, wherein a database includes spectra of reference materials whose assay properties are known, and determining the property of the unknown material from the assay properties of the reference materials.

Abstract: This machine is a cell for bulk palletizing a load such as the packaging of containers (bottles). The machine comprises a tier building system, a bulk load and dunnage supply systems. The cell also includes a programmable robot with cantilevered arm including an effector for transferring pallets, tiers of bulk product, tier sheets and top frames to the load build area. The effector includes an inverted drawer, suction means, pallet gripper means and top frame grippers for doing the transferring.

Abstract: A liquid spray device, comprising a container (1), a spray injection nozzle (2) for injecting oil spray into the container (1), a spray feeding path (5) for feeding oil spray in the container (1) to the outside of the container (1), oil (11) stored in the container (1), a gas exhaust port provided in the oil (11) by discharging gas into the oil (11), whereby the flow velocity of the oil spray in the spray feeding path can be increased and the amount of oil spray can be increased because an internal pressure of the container can be increased and an oil spray different from the oil spray from the spray injection nozzle can be produced.