Abstract: An apparatus includes an electrode assembly comprising a carriage having a plurality of electrode holders, the electrode holders being respectively configured to detachably receive a plurality of electrodes, the electrodes include a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrodes are configured for rough machining a workpiece by electric discharging or wire electric discharging to remove material from the workpiece, the second electrodes are configured for finish machining the rough machined workpiece by electric discharging to remove material from the rough machined workpiece.

Abstract: An ultrasonic roller burnishing system comprises a roller and a controller. The roller is configured to be pressed against a surface of a workpiece to a pressing depth, roll on the surface at a feed rate, and vibrate at an ultrasonic frequency under a back pressure. The roller is pressed and rolled by a motion unit which is driven by a drive motor. The vibrating of the roller is driven by an ultrasonic vibration unit with an input current inputted thereinto. The controller is configured to adjust at least one of the pressing depth, the back pressure, the input current and the feed rate based on an expected residual compressive stress and a real time output power of the drive motor, to generate a residual compressive stress in the workpiece which is in an expected range predetermined based on the expected residual compressive stress.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a stretch removable adhesive tape comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane film having a unique combination of properties leading to a unique stretch removal profile.

Abstract: A discharge protection circuit has a cell combination with more than one cell, a power supply circuit, an output circuit, a MCU chip, a voltage detection circuit, a NTC circuit, a current detection circuit, a drive circuit and a drive switch. The power supply circuit, the output circuit and the cell combination form a series connection and the MCU chip forms an electrical connection with the voltage detection circuit, the drive circuit and the current detection circuit, respectively, with the voltage detection module being electrically connected with the cell combination and the NTC circuit respectively. A control method includes enabling a discharge procedure of the discharge protection circuit to discharge with a power quantity 0.2 times nominal power quantity each hour. In this procedure, the MCU chip is cyclically dormant to reduce the control power dissipation and improve discharge quantity while achieving discharge protection of the battery pack.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an extrapolation method of low rotational speed characteristics of a compressor, which is suitable for acquisition the low rotational speed characteristics of a gas turbine on the ground or an aircraft engine, the extrapolation method takes into account an application condition of a similarity principle and specialties of the low rotational speed operation condition of the compressor, and comprises modifying exponents of the similarity principle to obtain the optimal exponents by an optimization algorithm, and applying a coefficient fitting method for a variable operating condition calculation of the gas turbine to the extrapolation of low rotational speed characteristic of the compressor to obtain the low rotational speed characteristic.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an electrode assembly comprising a carriage having a plurality of electrode holders, the electrode holders being respectively configured to detachably receive a plurality of electrodes, the electrodes include a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrodes are configured for rough machining a workpiece by electric discharging or wire electric discharging to remove material from the workpiece, the second electrodes are configured for finish machining the rough machined workpiece by electric discharging to remove material from the rough machined workpiece.

Abstract: A packet transmission method and an apparatus pertain to the field of network technologies. The method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, a source IP (Internet Protocol) address in a to-be-transmitted packet and N IP addresses of the terminal device, where N is an integer, and when the source IP address in the to-be-transmitted packet is different from any one of the N IP addresses of the terminal device, determining that the source IP address in the to-be-transmitted packet is forged, and prohibiting transmitting the to-be-transmitted packet. The application can solve the problem that a virus such as Trojan in the terminal device may be prevented from forging a source IP address of another device to randomly transfer an attack packet in the network to improve network security.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a stretch removable adhesive tape comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane film having a unique combination of properties leading to a unique stretch removal profile.

Abstract: A discharge protection circuit has a cell combination with more than one cell, a power supply circuit, an output circuit, a MCU chip, a voltage detection circuit, a NTC circuit, a current detection circuit, a drive circuit and a drive switch. The power supply circuit, the output circuit and the cell combination form a series connection and the MCU chip forms an electrical connection with the voltage detection circuit, the drive circuit and the current detection circuit, respectively, with the voltage detection module being electrically connected with the cell combination and the NTC circuit respectively. A control method includes enabling a discharge procedure of the discharge protection circuit to discharge with a power quantity 0.2 times nominal power quantity each hour. In this procedure, the MCU chip is cyclically dormant to reduce the control power dissipation and improve discharge quantity while achieving discharge protection of the battery pack.

Abstract: An embodiment method for reading a BIOS includes receiving a reset signal of a processor, and generating a first start address or a second start address according to the reset signal, and reading a BIOS in a storage chip according to the first start address or the second start address. The first start address corresponds to a storage address of a primary BIOS stored in the storage chip, and the second start address corresponds to a storage address of a backup BIOS stored in the storage chip. When reading the BIOS, the processor may generate the first start address or the second start address according to the reset signal, so as to read the primary BIOS or the backup BIOS, which may improve universality of BIOS reading.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a processor for quantizing multi-gradation image data with regard to each of R, G and B to convert it into pseudo halftone output image data. First, the processor performs a first quantization for deciding a dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] with respect to an observed pixel of the multi-gradation image data with regard to blue. After that, the processor performs a second quantization for deciding the dot appearance pattern of green with respect to the observed pixel so as to make an anti-correlation with the dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] decided by the first quantization.

Abstract: An image processing method, for extracting a base component from image data including a detailed component and the base component, containing the steps of extracting the base component by application of an edge preserving filter to the image data; and correcting the portion, of the extracted base component, corresponding to a predetermined frequency component of the original image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a processor for quantizing multi-gradation image data with regard to each of R, G and B to convert it into pseudo halftone output image data. First, the processor performs a first quantization for deciding a dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] with respect to an observed pixel of the multi-gradation image data with regard to blue. After that, the processor performs a second quantization for deciding the dot appearance pattern of green with respect to the observed pixel so as to make an anti-correlation with the dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] decided by the first quantization.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an arithmetic processing section for quantizing multi-density level image data and converting the image data into digital halftone image data for outputting. The arithmetic processing section is configured to create a plurality of quantized patterns to determined a dot occurrence information sequence, based on a given initial quantized pattern, such that anti-correlation is increased with respect to the dot occurrence information sequence for a pixel that has already been quantized; to add the plurality of quantized patterns to form a dither mask; and to quantize the multi-density level image data by using the dither mask.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a rubber-tyred gantry crane using city electric supply as its power source, comprising a gantry, a feed circuit and a plurality of electromotors, said plurality of electromotors being provided at appropriate positions of the gantry and being powered by the feed circuit, wherein the feed circuit is connected with the city electric supply via a cable. The RTG further comprises a cable reel disposed on one side of the gantry, and said cable is wound around the cable reel, with one end of the cable being connected to the feed circuit of the RTG and the other end of the cable going into a cable socket on the ground through a cable lead disposed on a saddle girder of the gantry under the cable reel, and extending along the cable socket to be connected with a joint box for city electric supply disposed at an end terminal of the cable socket. When the RTG travels, the cable reel pulls up and takes off the cable according to the distance between the RTG and the joint box.

Abstract: An energy-saving control system of rubber-tyred container gantry crane, wherein the diesel engine-electric generator set is controlled to stop when the crane is idle, and a storage device is utilized to supply power to an auxiliary system of the crane, the system comprises: a monitor unit, a charger, a super capacitor, a capacitor monitor module and an inverter. A charge signal is transmitted by the monitor unit when the crane being at an idle state is decided, the charge signal is received by the capacitor monitor module thereby a charge start signal is transmitted to control the charging of the super capacitor by the charger; the diesel engine-electric generator set is controlled to stop or to slow down when the super capacitor has been fully charged being detected by the monitor unit, the super capacitor is used for supplying the power to the auxiliary system of the crane, the direct current of the super capacitor is converted by the inverter to alternating current for supplying the auxiliary system.

Abstract: An image processing method, for extracting a base component from image data including a detailed component and the base component, containing the steps of extracting the base component by application of an edge preserving filter to the image data; and correcting the portion, of the extracted base component, corresponding to a predetermined frequency component of the original image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a processor for quantizing multi-gradation image data with regard to each of R, G and B to convert it into pseudo halftone output image data. First, the processor performs a first quantization for deciding a dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] with respect to an observed pixel of the multi-gradation image data with regard to blue. After that, the processor performs a second quantization for deciding the dot appearance pattern of green with respect to the observed pixel so as to make an anti-correlation with the dot appearance pattern C(B)i,j[k] decided by the first quantization.