Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an alumina used for a slurry for reducing unevenness in a surface of a porous membrane. The present invention is an ?-alumina wherein a crystallite size obtained by a Rietveld analysis is not greater than 95 nm, and a lattice strain obtained by the Rietveld analysis is not greater than 0.0020. A BET specific surface area by a nitrogen adsorption method of the ?-alumina is preferably not greater than 10 m2/g. A particle diameter D50 equivalent to 50% cumulative percentage by volume of the ?-alumina is also preferably not greater than 2 ?m.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating body defining a mating space; and a terminal module assembled to the insulating body and having a circuit board and plural mating terminals mounted on the circuit board, wherein: each of the mating terminals has a contact portion extending obliquely backward, a bending portion bent backward from a front end of the contact portion, a connecting portion extending rearward from a rear end of the bending portion, and a mounting portion vertically extending from a rear end of the connecting portion for mounting on the circuit board; and a front end of the circuit board extends forward into the mating space.

Abstract: A secondary battery herein disclosed includes a case main body. The case main body accommodates a power generating element in the inside. The case main body includes a first member and a second member. The first member is bottomed cylindrical and formed from one metal plate by a drawing process. The shape of the second member is cylindrical. The second member is joined in a state fitting the second member to a cylindrical portion of the first member.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a transparent display panel and a display device, used for prolonging the service life of an electroluminescent device in the transparent display panel. According to the transparent display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the transparent display panel is divided into a display area arranged in an array and a light-transmitting area surrounding the display area; the display area comprises a transparent substrate, an electroluminescent device positioned on the transparent substrate, and a light blocking part located on the side of the transparent substrate deviating from the electroluminescent device; the light blocking part is used for blocking light entering from the side of the transparent substrate deviating from the electroluminescent device to irradiate the electroluminescent device.

Abstract: A motor cooling system, a motor stator and a disc motor. The motor cooling system comprises an insulated cooling pipeline (2); the insulated cooling pipeline is mounted on a stator housing, the top surface of the insulated cooling pipeline is lower than or flush with the top surface of a stator iron core, and the bottom surface of the insulated cooling pipeline touches a coil of the motor stator for use in cooling the coil; the top surface of the stator iron core is configured to being arranged relative to a rotor, so that a magnetic field generated by the coil can interact with a rotor permanent magnet. Since the outer bottom surface of the insulated cooling pipeline touches the coil of the motor stator, a liquid coolant in the insulated cooling pipeline can cool the coil by means of heat conduction.

Abstract: A machine for the production of ice cream includes a support body defining a housing compartment, a tub configured to contain the ingredients for the preparation of the ice cream which can be removably inserted in said housing compartment, a cooling circuit, a mixing device configured to mix the ingredients during the ice cream preparation process, a lid and clamping devices.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle power unit as well as a vehicle wheel bearing assembly with a generator which allow a wheel bearing to be easily replaced and thereby can suppress the costs of replacement components. The vehicle power unit includes: a wheel bearing including an outer ring and a hub axle that includes a hub flange and is rotatably supported by the outer ring through a rolling element, the hub flange being configured to be attached with a wheel and a brake rotor of a vehicle; and a motor or a generator including a stator located on an outer periphery of the outer ring and a rotor located on an outer periphery of the stator and attached to the hub axle. The vehicle includes a knuckle provided with a wheel bearing fixing member. The outer ring or the stator is removably fixed to the wheel bearing fixing member.

Abstract: A battery can include a separator, a first current collector, a protective layer, and a first electrode. The first current collector and the protective layer can be disposed on one side of the separator. The first electrode can be disposed on an opposite side of the separator as the first current collector and the protective layer. Subjecting the battery to an activation process can cause metal to be extracted from the first electrode and deposited between the first current collector and the protective layer. The metal can be deposited to at least form a second electrode between the first current collector and the protective layer.

Abstract: Embodiments hereof relate methods of delivering a valve prosthesis to an annulus of a native valve of a heart. A valve delivery system is introduced into a ventricle of the heart via a ventricular wall of the heart. The valve delivery system has a displacement component at the distal portion thereof. The valve prosthesis is in a delivery configuration and the displacement component is in a delivery state in which the displacement component has a first outer diameter. While the valve prosthesis is in the delivery configuration, the displacement component of the valve delivery system is radially expanded into an expanded state in which the displacement component has a second outer diameter greater than the first outer diameter. The valve delivery system is advanced towards the annulus of the native valve of the heart with the displacement component in the expanded state to displace chordae tendineae.

Abstract: A thermally conductive sheet 10 comprises a polymer matrix 12 and an anisotropic filler 13, and the anisotropic filler 13 is oriented in a thickness direction. The anisotropic filler 13 is exposed on the surfaces 10A, 10B of the thermally conductive sheet 10, and the anisotropic filler 13 which is exposed is disposed in such a way as to fall down in a proportion of 3.5 to 45%.

Abstract: A top toy is used in a game table including a guide member having a guide surface on which first teeth are formed at an equal interval. The top toy includes a shaft part, a body being configured on the shaft, and a trunk part being configured on the shaft. The shaft includes second teeth that are engageable with the first teeth on an outer periphery thereof.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for the production of formulations of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). In some embodiments, the disclosure provides an automated medicine formulation system comprising a portable and self-contained API formulating apparatus where the API and excipients are formulated to make a drug product meeting drug quality and safety specifications. The automated formulation system produces liquid formulations including, for example, injectable and intravenous medicines. The systems are capable of producing a plurality of individual sterile injectable doses of drug comprising a specific API and excipient(s), which can be formulated on demand in a GMP and FDA acceptable manner.

Abstract: Retinal imaging systems and related methods employ a user specific approach for controlling the reference arm length in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging device. A method includes generating a signal indicative of a position of a feature of a user's head relative to an OCT imaging device. A user specific reference arm adjustment length range for the user within a reference arm adjustment length range of the OCT device is determined based on the signal. A reference arm length adjustment module is controlled during an imaging of the retina to vary a reference arm length of the OCT imaging device within the user specific reference arm adjustment length range to identify an imaging reference arm length for which an OCT image detector of the OCT imaging device produces an OCT signal corresponding to the retina of the user.

Abstract: A method for controlling gas dynamic cold spraying, the method including providing a particle jet by using an accelerating nozzle, according to a first set of operating parameters, illuminating the particle jet with illuminating light pulses, capturing one or more images of the particle jet by using an imaging unit, and determining one or more velocity values by analyzing the captured images, wherein the method includes providing two or more sequences of illuminating light pulses during an exposure time period of a single captured image.

Abstract: A method of designing an optimized seawater pumping apparatus, using a computer in a system in which a seawater pumping apparatus including a pumping pipe and a well disposed to surround a lateral surface of a land-buried portion of the pumping pipe is installed to reduce seawater intrusion in a land in which an aquifer with a seawater-fresh water boundary surface is formed, includes applying an optimization algorithm to initial condition data of the aquifer to generate n decision variable sets of the seawater pumping apparatus, applying an underground water flow model to each of the n decision variable sets to generate n prediction results of change in the seawater-fresh water boundary surface, calculating a performance evaluation value of each of the n prediction results, and selecting a decision variable set having a maximum performance evaluation value, where n is an integer and equal to or greater than 2.

Abstract: A preparation method of a rhodium octanoate dimer includes the following steps: (1) mixing RhCl3 with an alkali metal octanoate uniformly to get a first solution; (2) adding a reductant into the first solution obtained from step (1), and heating for reflux reaction to get a second solution; (3) adding the second solution obtained from step (2) into deionized water while hot, continuing to stir, and performing a suction filtration to get a crude product; and (4) performing a primary washing, a secondary washing, a filtration, and a drying on the crude product obtained from step (3) to get a rhodium octanoate dimer as a green solid.

Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a vented lower-body garment that includes a plurality of panels that extend at least partially across a back aspect of a first leg portion and a second leg portion, around a medial aspect of the first leg portion and a second leg portion, and at least partially across a front aspect of first leg portion and a second leg portion. Respective edges of the panels overlap each other to form vent openings that facilitate the flow of air into and out of the garment.

Abstract: A resist underlayer composition includes (A) a polymer including a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, or a combination thereof; (B) a polymer including a structure in which at least one moiety represented by Chemical Formula 3 or Chemical Formula 4 and a moiety represented by Chemical Formula 7 are bound to each other; and (C) a solvent:

Abstract: A system for optimizing a cleaning process of a food processing machine having at least one sensor and a computing device having at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that is communicatively coupled to the food processing machine and a data store and computer-executable instructions stored thereon including executing instructions by the at least one processor to cause the computing device to perform actions including: receiving, by the computing device, data from the at least one sensor; processing, by the computing device, the data from the at least one sensor; and displaying, by the computing device, processed sensor data as a first metric relating to at least one cleaning step of a selected cleaning session of the food processing machine compared to an average first metric of the at least one cleaning step of a plurality of past cleaning sessions of the food processing machine.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a comestible loader with flatteners that pivot and translate. One of the methods includes receiving, by a comestible loader, a comestible through an opening defined in a loader frame of the comestible loader and onto a surface; and pivoting and translating a first flattener and a second flattener to a pre-press position to permit the first flattener and the second flattener to position the comestible approximately at a target position on the surface.