Abstract: A multi-port valve includes a valve housing and a valve core. The valve housing comprises a cylindrical main body defining an inner cavity to rotatably accommodate the valve core and a plurality of ports in fluid communication with the inner cavity. The valve core defines a plurality of flow channels, each extending through a sidewall of the valve core to form two opposite open ends. The valve housing is provided with a guider passage, and the plurality of flow channels include a first flow channel, a second flow channel and a third flow channel. The multi-port valve is operable to be switched between a plurality of work modes in response to the valve core rotating to different positions relative to the valve housing. The first flow channel is connected in series with the second flow channel via the guide passage in response to a first work mode of the plurality of work modes.

Abstract: A method for numerical reconstruction and heat transfer characteristics evaluation of a microstructure of thermal barrier coatings containing microcracks includes the following steps: determining a simulation area and size settings, generating random microcracks with different morphological characteristics and placing the microcracks in the simulation area, and determining whether a space occupied by the microcracks reaches a porosity ratio of the preset microcracks, building a general pore model of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) based on the QSGS method, reconstructing true mesoscopic morphologies of the TBCs, determining whether the preset volume fraction has been reached, and building a heat transfer analysis model based on the thermal 1,attice Boltzmann method to calculate heat insulation performance parameters such as temperature distribution, and thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A bubble detection device and a sample processing instrument are provided. The bubble detection device includes a body, a cover and a detection circuit board. The body includes a bottom wall and first and second side walls respectively extending from two sides of the bottom wall. The bottom, first and second side walls define a groove for accommodating a sample pipe of a sample processing instrument, and first and second holes are respectively provided in the first and second side walls to allow light from a light source to pass through the sample pipe. The cover includes a top portion for covering the groove and first and second side portions attached to the body. The detection circuit board includes the light source and a photoelectric sensor and is attached to the body such that they are aligned with the first and second holes respectively to sense intensity of the light passing through the sample pipe. The sample processing instrument includes the bubble detection device.

Abstract: An electric heating device having an air channel includes an upper cover component and a lower shell component. A heater component is arranged in a lower shell of the lower shell component, and includes a heater shell, a heating member and a heating member base arranged in the heater shell. A ventilation portion is arranged at a heating member base to guide an air flow to the heating member, and is matched with a first air inlet on the lower shell and a second air inlet on the heater shell. The air flow is led to the heating member from an outside of the lower shell through the first air inlet, the second air inlet, and the ventilation in sequence.

Abstract: The invention discloses a starch-based multi-channel airflow unit and a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation method of the present invention comprises the following steps: melting a polylactic acid, wherein a temperature of a first temperature control zone is 135° C. to 145° C., a temperature of a second temperature control zone is 175° C. to 185° C., a temperature of a third temperature control zone is 190° C. to 200° C., and a temperature of a fourth temperature control zone is 175° C. to 185° C.; gelatinizing a starch-based material, adding the starch-based material in the third temperature control zone and fully mixing the mixture; adding a polyol in the third temperature control zone, and fully mixing the mixture; and extruding out the mixed material through twin screws, sizing in vacuum, cooling and sizing, and winding and cutting to obtain the starch-based multi-channel airflow unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an adjustable double-slot internal spinal fixation apparatus, including a first base, a second base and a connecting rod. The first base and the second base each contains a U-shaped slot from top to bottom. An inner wall of each U-shaped slot contains inner threads. The connecting rod is disposed along a horizontal direction. The second base contains a long slot along the horizontal direction. One end of the connecting rod is inserted in the first base, and the other end of the connecting rod is inserted in the long slot of the second base. The connecting rod can swing in the long slot. The first base and the second base are capable of relatively rotating on the connecting rod.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an imidazoquinoline substituted phosphoric ester agonist, and a preparation therefor and an application thereof. Specifically, the compounds of the present invention have the structure shown in formula (I), wherein the definition of each group and substituent is as described in the description. Also disclosed in the present invention are a preparation method for the compound and use thereof as a TLR agonist.

Abstract: A class-D RF power amplifier (PA) architecture with duty cycle control has improved power efficiency while suppressing even-order harmonics. An inductor and capacitor (LC) low pass filter (LPF) can also be integrated on-chip to further suppress harmonics and provide impedance transformation between the PA and load. This eases the design for customers and reduce their bill of materials cost. The LPF can also match the PA to the load impedance to improve efficiency. The harmonic levels can also be controlled by adjusting the duty cycle of the PA output.

Abstract: A digitally modulated polar power amplifier uses a thin-oxide amplifying transistor with a protection diode. The polar power includes a driver amplifier in a driver stage that can receive a phase-modulated signal with a constant envelope and amplify the signal for the output stage, which includes only a single thin-oxide transistor, leading to improved efficiency over systems that require a thick-oxide transistor. A protection diode can be added between the output of the polar power amplifier and the supply voltage to limit the output to the sum of the supply voltage plus the forward voltage of the diode. Amplitude modulation can be achieved through dynamically turning on and off the digital power amplifier via an amplitude control word (acw) input signal.

Abstract: Semiconductor chips are made increasingly smaller, thanks to improved design techniques and process scaling. Sometimes the bottleneck is not the chip itself but the package size due to many necessary pins. To help reduce the number of package pins, the chip should use less pins by sharing or reusing pins if possible. Therefore, single-ended RF input/output is used for transceiver, and the same pin is shared between RX and TX. A receiver (RX)-transmitter (TX) impedance co-matching method uses multiple bondwires for transceivers sharing one input/output (I/O) pin between RX and TX. The RX input impedance and TX output impedance are transformed closer to each other or even to the same impedance, which makes it possible to get the best RX and TX performance with just one matching network. The chip area is also saved without using on-chip inductors.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an adjustable double-slot internal spinal fixation apparatus, including a first base, a second base and a connecting rod. The first base and the second base each contains a U-shaped slot from top to bottom. An inner wall of each U-shaped slot contains inner threads. The connecting rod is disposed along a horizontal direction. The second base contains a long slot along the horizontal direction. One end of the connecting rod is inserted in the first base, and the other end of the connecting rod is inserted in the long slot of the second base. The connecting rod can swing in the long slot. The first base and the second base are capable of relatively rotating on the connecting rod.

Abstract: A transverse shift screw tail, a transverse adjustable spinal screw, and an implantation method. The screw comprises a screw tail and a screw seat, the screw seat has a rod groove used for placing a connecting rod, which is recessed downwards from the top of the screw seat and radially penetrates the screw seat, a bottom of the rod groove is a curved surface adapted to an outer circumferential surface of the connecting rod, and the rod groove is provided with a locking thread fit with a locking bolt. The screw tail comprises a fixing column capable of being screwed into a vertebral body and a platform located at an end portion of the fixing column, the platform is provided with the installation head used for connecting with the screw seat, and an eccentric distance is provided between a center of the installation head and an axis of the fixing column.

Abstract: A cholinergic deep brain stimulator is provided that can be used to increase brain acetylcholine levels. This increase in acetylcholine levels improves cognition and may be used to remediate disorders in which cognitive loss is a prominent symptom including Alzheimer's Disease, vascular dementia, traumatic brain injury, or drug addiction.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to perform iterative decoding of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes based on selecting a lambda number of minimum values. In one aspect, an LDPC decoder, includes: means for sorting a plurality of incoming messages of a check node according to magnitudes of the incoming messages; means for identifying a predetermined number of unique message magnitudes from the incoming messages; and means for computing outgoing messages for a subset of the plurality of incoming message, where the messages of the subset have different magnitudes larger than the predetermined number of unique message magnitudes but the outgoing messages are computed to have the same magnitude. In at least one embodiment, the decoder further includes means for computing outgoing messages that have magnitudes equal to any of the predetermined number of unique message magnitudes. In general, the magnitudes computed for all outgoing messages may not necessarily be the same.