Abstract: A shift register unit comprises an input subcircuit for driving a first node to be a first level when a scan pulse is of the first level, an output subcircuit for driving an output terminal to be a first clock signal level when the first node is at the first level, a second node control subcircuit for connecting the second node with a second level when either of the scan pulse and the output terminal is of the first level, and connecting the second node with the first level when each of the scan pulse and the output signal is of the second level, a first reset subcircuit for driving the first node to be the second level when the second node is at the first level, and a second reset subcircuit for driving the output signal to be the second level when the second node is at the first level.

Abstract: A shift register, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes an input unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, a voltage gating unit, an output unit, an energy storage unit and a reset unit. The shift register can output dual driving signals with fewer switching elements. When it is applied to the gate driving circuit, the total number of switching elements included in the gate driving circuit can be reduced, the wiring can be simplified, and the area occupied by the gate driving circuit can be decreased, thereby facilitating narrowing to the frame of the display device.

Abstract: A shift register includes an input circuit, a first reset circuit, an output circuit, a second reset circuit and a first pull-down control circuit. The input circuit may control a voltage of the first node according to a reset signal from a reset signal terminal. The first reset circuit may reset the voltage of the first node according to the reset signal from the reset signal terminal. The output circuit may control an output signal of a signal output terminal according to the voltage of the first node. The second reset circuit may reset the voltage of the first node and the output signal according to a voltage of a second node. The first pull-down control circuit may control the voltage of the second node according to the voltage of the first node based on a first auxiliary voltage signal and a second auxiliary voltage signal, wherein a phase of the first auxiliary voltage signal is opposite to a phase of the second auxiliary voltage signal, and each duty cycles is 50%.

Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, and a driving method thereof. By way of a configuration of a fourth reset circuit in the shift register unit, applying an active level of the fourth reset circuit on a first control terminal during an end phase of a duration in which a scan pulse is output at a scan pulse output terminal allows the fourth reset circuit to pull down an amplitude of a voltage of the scan pulse. In this way, angle-cutting of the scan pulse is realized.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a surface-mount laser apparatus. One example apparatus includes an on-chip laser, a passive waveguide, and a waveguide detector. The waveguide detector includes a first ridge waveguide. The on-chip laser includes a second ridge waveguide. The on-chip laser is coupled with the passive waveguide by the second ridge waveguide, and the waveguide detector is coupled with the passive waveguide by the first ridge waveguide.

Abstract: A PAM4 signal generation apparatus is provided. The PAM4 signal generation apparatus includes a DFB, two EA modulators, an SOA, a PSR, a direct-current power source, two electrical-signal generators, and two amplitude-limiting amplifiers. The two electrical-signal generators and the two amplitude-limiting amplifiers are used to generate two NRZ electrical signals respectively, the DFB outputs two optical signals, the SOA amplifies an optical power of one of the optical signals, the two EA modulators use the NRZ electrical signals and the optical signals including “a large signal and a small signal” respectively to generate two NRZ optical signals respectively, and the two NRZ optical signals are multiplexed by the PSR to generate a PAM4 electrical signal. According to this apparatus, a linearity requirement is greatly lowered. PAM4 modulation is performed in an optical domain, and this prevents a PAM4 signal from being generated on an electrical signal.

Abstract: An improved heat exchange system comprising a housing (66) having an upper portion (22), a middle portion (23), and a lower portion (24), a heat exchange conduit (25) transmitting a fluid from a fluid input (26) to a fluid output (27) through the upper zone, the transitional zone and the lower zone, a burner (28) configured and arranged to produce combustion flue gases that can flow through at least a portion of the upper zone, the transitional zone and the lower zone, a baffle (30) disposed in the lower portion of the housing, and a gas flow diverter (40) disposed above the baffle and at least partially in the transitional zone. The gas flow diverter is configured and arranged to divert the flue gas into multiple flow paths.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, including at least two sub-pixel electrodes separated from one another; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, each of the sub-pixel electrodes includes a stem electrode, an outer electrode connected to the stem electrode, a first branch electrode extending from the stem electrode or the outer electrode in a first direction, and a second branch electrode extending from the stem electrode or the outer electrode in a second direction, wherein an angle between the first direction and the second direction is in a range of about 170 to about 180 degrees.

Abstract: A device for producing semi-solid slurry, including a height adjustment mechanism, a position adjustment mechanism, a melt protection mechanism, a support mechanism, a revolving pipe, guide mechanisms, thermally-adapted elastic supports, a driving mechanism of the revolving pipe, and a cooling module. The height adjustment mechanism is a box structure including an upper casing and a lower casing. The position adjustment mechanism includes a stationary rail and a moving rail support, and the stationary rail is fixed on the upper casing of the height adjustment mechanism. The melt protection mechanism includes a seal box including a base plate fixed on the moving rail support. The support mechanism includes a main support frame and an angle adjustment bracket, the main support frame is fixed on the base plate of the seal box, and the angle adjustment bracket is mounted on the main support frame.

Abstract: A switching element, a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The switching element includes: a base substrate; a first thin-film transistor (TFT), disposed on the base substrate; and a second TFT, disposed on the first TFT, wherein the first TFT includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and the first TFT and the second TFT share the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes a plurality of main pattern illumination parts, a plurality of main image-capturing parts and a control part. The main pattern illumination parts obliquely emit grating pattern lights toward a measurement target in different directions. The main image-capturing parts image-capture grating pattern lights that are emitted from the main pattern illumination parts and obliquely reflected by the measurement target. The control part produces a three-dimensional shape of the measurement target using grating pattern images captured from the main image-capturing parts. Thus, accuracy and precision of measurement may be improved.

Abstract: The present utility model provides a direct-drive system for a passenger transportation apparatus, and a passenger transportation apparatus having same. The direct-drive system comprises: a motor comprising a motor output shaft, for providing power; a main drive shaft for transmitting the power to a passenger transportation portion of the passenger transportation apparatus; and a gear box comprising an input end connected to the motor output shaft and an output end connected to the main drive shaft respectively, and being used for transmitting the power, provided by the motor, to the main drive shaft, wherein the gear box comprises a plurality of gear pairs, and each of the gear pairs has a progressively decreasing gear slope along the direction from the input end of the gear box to the output end thereof. The reliability of the entire set of direct-drive system is greatly improved.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a display method. The array substrate comprises a display region provided with a plurality of data lines therein and a wiring region around the display region and provided with a plurality of leading wires therein. The plurality of leading wires are connected with the plurality of data lines respectively in a one-to-one correspondence way. The plurality of leading wires comprise a plurality of first leading wires and a plurality of second leading wires insulatively arranged in different layers. The plurality of first leading wires and the plurality of second leading wires comprise at least one pair of overlapped first and second leading wires to which data signals having the same polarity are input.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and discloses an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device, for reducing the light leakage of a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel regions arranged in arrays on a base substrate, two adjacent ones of the pixel regions having a signal line arranged therebetween, and the pixel regions and the signal line having a gap therebetween, wherein the array substrate further comprises at least one light-leakage-proof electrode arranged to be insulated from the pixel regions and the signal line, and the vertical projection of the light-leakage-proof electrode on the base substrate at least covers a portion of the vertical projection of the gap on the base substrate. The present invention is applicable in the field of display technology.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprises providing a wafer comprising an insulator layer positioned between a top semiconductor layer and a base semiconductor layer, patterning the top semiconductor layer to simultaneously define a waveguide and a first etch mask window for forming a fiber-guiding v-groove that substantially aligns to an axis of optical signal propagation of the waveguide, removing a first portion of the top semiconductor layer to form the waveguide according to the patterning, removing a second portion of the top semiconductor layer to form the first etch mask window according to the patterning, and forming the fiber-guiding v-groove according to the first etch mask window.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) ?-lactam antibiotics and (b) a metallo-?-lactamases (MBLs) inhibitor. The inhibitor relates to Bi(III) compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present patent also provides methods of making Bi(III) compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also provided is a method for treating MBLs-producing bacterial infection using a metal replacement mechanism.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-capacitance touch structure, a touch panel and a display device. The self-capacitance touch structure comprising a plurality of self-capacitance touch electrodes arranged in an array, the self-capacitance touch electrode comprising a main body portion and a side wing portion protruding from at least one side of the main body portion, wherein at least one recess is formed between the side wing portion and the main body portion, the side wing portion of at least one self-capacitance touch electrode in at least one row extends into the recess of a self-capacitance touch electrode, adjacent to the at least one self-capacitance touch electrode, in another row.

Abstract: A refractive lens for displaying three-dimensional images (3D) comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, and a refractive layer configured between the first substrate and the second substrate and configured as a plurality of lens units of the refractive lens. The refractive lens is capable of being coupled to a first display panel having a pixel unit pitch A and a second display panel having a pixel unit pitch B to display the 3D images, the pixel unit pitch A being different from the pixel unit pitch B. Each lens unit of the refractive lens has an equal length p, and p is a common multiple of 2*A and 2*B. Each lens unit of the refractive lens is driven by a same driving voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to chemical compounds, methods for their discovery, and their therapeutic and research use. In particular, the present disclosure provides compounds as therapeutic agents against bacterial infections (e.g., biofilms). The present disclosure also provides topical formulations for use in methods for treating bacterial infections.

Abstract: A shift register and driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The shift register includes an input unit, a reset unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, a first output unit, a second output unit, a first signal output end and a second signal output end. Potential of the first signal output end is controlled by use of the input unit, the reset unit, the first control unit and the first output unit, and potential of the second signal output end is controlled by use of the input unit, the reset unit, the second control unit and the second output unit. The first control unit and the first output unit, the second control unit and the second output unit are utilized for controlling and sharing the input unit and the reset unit so that function of two shift register units are realized.