Abstract: A common module for a double data rate-synchronous II synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRII SDRAM) and a DDRIII SDRAM applied in a computer is provided. The common module includes a first bus, a termination circuit card, a first slot, and a second slot. The first bus transmits a plurality of signals. The termination circuit card comprises a plurality of termination resistors. The first slot is disposed on the common module and coupled to the first bus. The DDRII SDRAM is installed in the first slot. The second slot is disposed on the common module and coupled to the first bus. The DDRIII SDRAM or the termination circuit card is installed in the second slot. When the DDRII SDRAM is installed in the first slot, the termination circuit card is installed in the second slot.

Abstract: A two-piece modular floor tile includes a top member formed from wood or stone, and a support member formed from plastic and wood composite material. Each of the top and support members is of substantially rectangular. The support member is adapted to increase air circulation and decrease moisture accumulation, and does not tend to be damaged by rot and termites. In one embodiment, the support member includes a plurality of parallel longitudinal internal channels. In another embodiment, the support member includes a longitudinal projection at one side and a longitudinal mated groove at the other side. In yet another embodiment, the support member includes a plurality of parallel longitudinal bottom troughs. In a further embodiment, the top member includes a plurality of shaped elements secured together.

Abstract: An optical film including brightness enhancing, diffusion, and splitting layers; multiple optical microstructures being disposed on an upper surface of the brightness enhancing layer; the diffusion layer containing multiple diffusion grains; streams of light upon entering into the optical film delivering diffusion effect through the diffusion layer and provided with different traveling routes through the beam splitting layer to upgrade operation efficiency, create brightness enhancing effect through the brightness enhancing layer, and meet compact design requirements when applied in a backlight unit.

Abstract: An air conducting cover for a server includes a recess portion, a guiding portion, and a connecting portion. The guiding portion upwardly and outwardly extends from an end of the recess portion. The connecting portion horizontally extends from an end of the guiding portion and is attached to the server. The server includes a server motherboard bracket and a server motherboard installed on the server motherboard bracket. The air conducting cover is disposed on the server motherboard bracket and combined with the server motherboard bracket as an airflow channel. The airflow channel is a diverging duct and gradually narrowed from two ends to a middle. Thus, a blowing speed of a cooling air insufflated into the server is accelerated. The air conducting cover can improve heat dissipation efficiency of the server without additional room and will not produce more noise.

Abstract: An automated awning comprises a main shaft connected to a screw rod through a sleeve by a screw means. The screw rod is driven by a motor to activate a first support rod and a second support rod to slide forward or backward sliding motion. A main support bracket is disposed between the main shaft and a second support rod, and a spring is disposed between the main support bracket and the main shaft. There are deep and shallow grooves and a slopped surface within the second support rod; a free rotor and a fixed rotor are inserted therein. A tube body is mounted on a motor mount and enclosing the first support rod. The tube body is then inserted into an outer tube. As the screw rod drives the first and second support rods forward, a gear teeth strip on one side of said first link rod stretches a spring so as to open a sun roof by extending the second main support rod, the second link rod and the third main support rod; the rotors are retained on the slopped surface for fixing the main support bracket.

Abstract: A method for detecting and compensating electrode wear of electric discharge machining (EDM) is disclosed, which comprises the steps of: defining a calibration node; calculating a wear length of a tool electrode by an edge-finding algorithm; using the calculated wear length of the tool electrode as a cut compensation for compensating a machining depth of next new tool electrode replacing the previously machined tool electrode; whereas the machining depth is obtained according to the following formula: the machining depth=designed depth of cut+predicted wear of the tool electrode for machining to desire depth?calculated wear length of the previously machined tool electrode+a through hole offset. With the aforesaid method, the wear of an used tool electrode can be detected automatically for compensating the machining depth of an unused tool electrode without ant additional equipment while achieving accurate machining.

Abstract: An electrochemical discharge machining device includes a base, a sensor disposed on the base, a shaft rotatably disposed on the base, an electrode disposed at one end of the shaft and contacting with a work piece, an isolating element disposed between the sensor and the shaft, and a control module connected to the sensor. Current flows to the electrode via the shaft to machine the work piece, and the force exerted on the electrode by the work piece is transmitted via the shaft and the isolating element to the sensor converting the force into a signal sent to the control module for raising or lowering the base to maintain contact between the electrode and the work piece. The sensor serves as a detecting mechanism to ensure appropriate contact between the electrode and the work piece.

Abstract: A reinforced structural member is disclosed that includes a composite matrix formed of plastics reinforced with wood fibers (or glass fibers) and additives including calcium carbonate and ashes; and a reinforcing element (e.g., aluminum alloy or steel) as skeleton with the composite matrix formed therearound. The structural member has the advantages of being not susceptible to deform due to direct sunlight, and a great increase of structural strength. In one embodiment the reinforcing element has a hollow, axial tube. In another embodiment the structural member is shaped as either a rod or a plate.

Abstract: A light guide plate locating construction includes a frame containing a mask and light tube with the light guide plate mounted at the open end of the mask; light permeating through one side of the light guide plate to project in the anticipated direction; locating holes being disposed at the top of the opening end of the mask; a retainer being inserted into the hole; the retainer including a locating portion and an interfering portion extending from the locating portion to the open end of the mask to hold against the edge of the light guide plate to protect the tube from being hit by the light guide plate.

Abstract: A heat tolerant and isolation zipper comprises: two cloth strips made of combustion proof polyester fiber; two teeth strips made of combustion proof polyester fiber; each cloth strip being combined with a respective teeth strip; a zipper seat at a lower side of one teeth strip; a zipper sheet engageable to the zipper seat and at a lower side of another teeth strip so that the two cloth strips are combined. The polyester fiber is polyethylene terephthalate. In the manufacturing process, the PET is added with non-halo phosphorous-reacted and combustion-proof copolymer with high molecular chemical process so as to have the function of heat tolerance and combustion proof. The teeth strip is made by injection of PET or formed by Nylon wires.

Abstract: An installation to upgrade light source efficiency includes a dimmer disposed to the backlight module at where in relation to the route the light from light source travels; and the dimmer is related to an optical structure that is totally permeable and/or reflects light to upgrade light source efficiency and more effectively distribute streams of light emitted by the light source by eliminating those dim and dark belts found between any two neighboring light sources in a more active and initiative means to solve problems of lower light source efficiency and creating those dim and dark band as found with the prior art.

Abstract: A locating device and method therefore for a first and a second parts of a backlight module by having, for example, a metal back plate or a metal reflection layer and a plastic frame secured to each other and made an integrated party without relying upon any other assembly part, e.g., a screw, or an assembly structure, e.g., an opening and a locking hook, thus to shorten assembly process and to improve assembly strength between the metal back plate or the metal reflection layer and the plastic frame.

Abstract: A programmed electrode wear compensation device and method for 3D EDM scanning apparatus has a compensation device which receives raw data about a working path of a working apparatus from a CAD/CAM device, calculates therefrom compensated data which take into account electrode wear and transmits the compensated data to a control device which controls the working apparatus, so that smoothness and shape of a machined surface are maintained during electric discharge.

Abstract: A light guide plate locating construction includes a frame containing a mask and light tube with the light guide plate mounted at the open end of the mask; light permeating through one side of the light guide plate to project in the anticipated direction; locating holes being disposed at the top of the opening end of the mask; a retainer being inserted into the hole; the retainer including a locating portion and an interfering portion extending from the locating portion to the open end of the mask to hold against the edge of the light guide plate to protect the tube from being hit by the light guide plate.

Abstract: A brightness enforcement diffusion construction includes a transparent substrate made of plastic material e.g., PET, PMMA, MS, PS or PC, a diffusion layer disposed on one side of the light coupling or illuminating surface of the substrate, and brightness enforcement layer disposed on the other side; the diffusion layer contains multiple diffusion and/or acrylic particles to refract streams of light for producing diffusion results while enforcing the brightness of the streams of light that pass through the brightness enforcement layer.

Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes two heat sinks (30) mounted on two electronic components (16) which is mounted within a server (10), two fans (40) mounted on a mounting plate (14) of the server facing the heat sinks for blowing cooling air to the heat sinks, and a fan duct (20). The fan duct includes a top plate (24), a pair of side plates (22) extending from opposite sides of the top plate, a pair of partition walls (26) extending from a middle portion of the top plate, and a stop wall (264) connected between ends of the partition walls. The fan duct is hermetically connected to the mounting plate and the bottom plate thereby cooperatively forming a sealed passage therebetween. The passage includes an inlet (28) adjacent the fans and two separate outlets (29) between the side plates and the partition walls respectively for accommodating the heat sinks therein.

Abstract: An air conducting cover for a server includes a recess portion, a guiding portion, and a connecting portion. The guiding portion upwardly and outwardly extends from an end of the recess portion. The connecting portion horizontally extends from an end of the guiding portion and is attached to the server. The server includes a server motherboard bracket and a server motherboard installed on the server motherboard bracket. The air conducting cover is disposed on the server motherboard bracket and combined with the server motherboard bracket as an airflow channel. The airflow channel is a diverging duct and gradually narrowed from two ends to a middle. Thus, a blowing speed of a cooling air insufflated into the server is accelerated. The air conducting cover can improve heat dissipation efficiency of the server without additional room and will not produce more noise.

Abstract: A programmed electrode wear compensation device and method for 3D EDM scanning apparatus has a compensation device which receives raw data about a working path of a working apparatus from a CAD/CAM device, calculates therefrom compensated data which take into account electrode wear and transmits the compensated data to a control device which controls the working apparatus, so that smoothness and shape of a machined surface are maintained during electric discharge.

Abstract: A stand post includes an outer tube defining an inner space therein and having upper and lower open ends that define respectively upper and lower openings in the outer tube, a rigid inner tube disposed in the inner space, defining a wire-passage therein for passage of a conductive wire therethrough, and having upper and lower threaded ends, a filler filling in an annular gap between the inner and outer tubes, and upper and lower cap units that are mounted respectively on the upper and lower open ends of the outer tube and that engage threadedly and respectively the upper and lower threaded ends of the inner tube.

Abstract: A tool box includes a left cover and a right cover which are pivotably connected on the left sidewall and the right sidewall respectively. The left cover, the right cover, the left sidewall and the right sidewall each have grooves defined in an inside thereof so that a first layer and a second layer connected by two rods are movably received between the left cover, the right cover, the left sidewall and the right sidewall by engaging protrusions on the first layer and the second layer in the grooves. The grooves each have two recesses defined in an inside thereof so that the protrusions can be shifted into the recesses to set the first layer and the second layer in position. Casters are connected to an under side of the tool box and allow the tool box to be moved in a convenient way.