Abstract: An apparatus capable of cleaning a material includes pipes arranged in a first barrel; and through holes defined in a second barrel. The second barrel is received in the first barrel. The apparatus further includes a driver comprising a drive shaft, the drive shaft extending through the first barrel and being connected to the second barrel. A fluid container is included store fluid, an air controller is provided air-dry the material. Before washing the material, the second barrel is driven by the driver to cause each of the through holes to disengage from a corresponding pipe. After washing the material, the second barrel is driven by the driver to cause each of the through holes to engage with the corresponding pipe.

Abstract: An apparatus for making an electrode of a dye-sensitized solar cell, includes a dye container, a number of nozzles, a roller and a number of holders. The dye container has a chamber for receiving a dye material, and the chamber has a top wall and a number of through holes formed through the top wall. The nozzles each have an opening facing toward a substrate to be formed into the electrode and configured for jetting a working material to the substrate. The roller rolls the working material on the substrate. The holders are rotatably mounted on the top wall and each hold a corresponding substrate to first receive the working material and then to be submerged into the dye material through one of the through holes of the dye container by rotation, thereby obtaining the electrode of a dye-sensitized solar cell.

Abstract: An optical element includes a transparent substrate and an infrared absorbing layer on an object-side surface of the transparent substrate. The infrared absorbing layer is a thermo sensitive ink printed or deposited on the transparent substrate. The thermo sensitive ink is cured to blue color.

Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a chamber device and a transporting device. The chamber device defines two coating chambers, two parallel coating channels, and a transportation channel communicating with the coating channels. The coating chambers are separated from each other. The coating chambers and the coating channels are alternately arranged. Each coating chamber defines at least one coating slot communicating with the respective coating channel. The transporting device includes a shaft rotatable with respect to the chamber device and a carrying board fixed on the shaft. The shaft is axially movable in the transportation channel. The carrying board is receivable in each of the coating channels for exposing a substrate to the corresponding coating chamber via the associated coating slot. The carrying board is rotatable about the shaft in each of the coating channels and jointly movable with the shaft in and along the transportation channel between the coating channels.

Abstract: A coating holder for holding a plurality of workpieces includes a rotating shaft, a first driving member, a plurality of hanging arms, a plurality of supporting trays, and a plurality of second driving members. The first driving member is configured for driving the rotating shaft to rotate. The hanging arms extend from the rotating shaft. Each hanging arm includes a free end distal from the rotating shaft. The supporting trays are configured for holding the workpieces. The second driving members are fixed in the respective free ends and are connected to the respective supporting trays. The second driving members are configured for driving the supporting trays to rotate.

Abstract: An exemplary method for making a light blocking plate includes the steps of providing a flat plate-like light pervious member; forming a plurality of spaced ceramic power layers on the light pervious member; forming a light blocking layer over the light pervious member and side faces of the ceramic power layers; forming an electromagnetic shielding layer over the light blocking layer; removing top portions of the ceramic power layers with remaining portions of the ceramic power layers thus exposed; and removing the remaining portions of the ceramic power layers.

Abstract: A screen printing machine includes a supporting member, a printing mechanism, and a spraying mechanism. The supporting member includes a supporting surface, a number of cavities defined in the supporting surface to receive a number of substrates, and a number of screens detachably covering the plurality of cavities. The printing mechanism includes a guide plate located above the screens, a sliding device slidably connected to the guide plate, a roller rotatably connected to the sliding device, and a squeegee. The sliding device is configured to drive the roller to roll across and the squeegee to slide across the screens. The spraying mechanism is located at one side of the supporting member for dispensing printing material onto the press roller.

Abstract: A coating device includes a chamber, an evaporative source, a coating holder, and a supporting structure. The evaporative source is positioned at the bottom of the chamber. The coating holder is positioned at the top of the chamber and includes concentric annular parts with different diameters, and drive devices connected to the annular parts correspondingly. The drive devices are configured to move the annular parts along axial directions of the annular parts. Each annular part includes a bottom board defining receiving holes for receiving lenses. The supporting structure is positioned at the top of the chamber and supports the drive devices.

Abstract: A mask for use in an optical evaporation coating includes a main shaft, a number of horizontal rods, a number of pairs of shielding sheets, and a number of adjustment members. The horizontal rods are vertically fixed on the main shaft, and each horizontal has a scale thereon. A pair of shielding sheets is connected to the two ends of each horizontal rod, and can slide along the horizontal rod. The shape of the mask can be accurately adjusted using the adjustment members to ensure masks covered with aluminum foil by different workers have the same shape.

Abstract: An exemplary gas sensing system includes a gas sensing unit, a detecting unit, and a processing unit. The gas sensing unit includes a quartz crystal substrate, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a first activating layer, and a sensor medium layer having adsorption ability and desorption ability to chemical gas. The detecting unit is electrically connected with the first electrode and the second electrode, and is configured for detecting a frequency change of the gas sensing unit before and after adsorbing the chemical gas. The processing unit is electrically connected with the detecting unit, and is configured for obtaining a mass change of the gas sensing unit according to the frequency change.

Abstract: A sandblasting apparatus includes a chamber defining a cavity, a support assembly received in the cavity, a first and a second sandblasting assemblies. The support assembly includes a number of pairs of elongated support plates for holding a plate-shaped workpiece therebetween. The support plates are moveable along a vertical direction and a first horizontal direction. The first sandblasting assembly is configured for spraying sand downwardly toward the plate-shaped workpiece so as to cut the plate-shaped workpiece into a number of workpiece strips. The second sandblasting assembly is configured for spraying sand toward the workpiece strips along a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction so as to cut the workpiece strips into workpiece blocks.

Abstract: A cutting device includes a fixing plate, a revolving cylinder, an annular cutting blade, and an ejection bar. The fixing plate defines a first through hole. The revolving cylinder is threadedly engaged in the first through hole and defines a second through hole. The cutting blade defines a third through hole and is attached to the revolving cylinder. The revolving cylinder is rotatable relative to the fixing plate to move the cutting blade between an extended position and a retracted position. In the extended position, the cutting blade cuts a surface of the workpiece to create a round blind crack in the surface thereof, a portion of the workpiece being surrounded by the blind crack. In the retracted position, the cutting blade is moved away from the workpiece. The ejection bar is configured for pushing the surrounded portion out of the workpiece.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing coating material includes a crucible having a cylindrical receptacle for receiving coating material, a drive member having a drive shaft, and a cover coupled to the drive shaft. The cover has a flat surface. The drive shaft is configured to drive the cover to rotate thereabout between a closed position where the cover covers the receptacle and the flat surface presses against the coating material to flatten the coating material, and an open position where the cover is moved away from the receptacle.

Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a first coating device, a number of second coating devices and a number of substrate holders. Each of the substrate holders is rotatable relative to the first coating device and the second coating devices such that one of two opposite holding surfaces of the substrate holder alternately faces the first coating device and the second coating devices.

Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a housing, a sputter mechanism, an evaporation mechanism, and a workpiece transport assembly. The housing defines a receiving space. The workpiece transport assembly includes a fixing plate, a first transport member, and a first shaft. The fixing plate is secured to the housing via the receiving space and divides the receiving space into a sputter chamber and an evaporation chamber. The sputter mechanism is mounted in the sputter chamber, and the evaporation mechanism is mounted in the evaporation chamber. The fixing plate defines a through hole. The sputter chamber communicates with the evaporation chamber via the through hole. The first transport member is configured to transport at least one workpiece. The first shaft is secured to the first transport member and rotatably mounted to the housing.

Abstract: A composite coating apparatus includes a main body, two carrying boards, and two actuators. The main body defines a first chamber and a second chamber with a separating board intervening therebetween. The separating board defines a coating opening intercommunicating with the chambers. The carrying boards are received in the first chamber and rotatably connected to the separating board at two sides of the coating opening. Each carrying board defines a receiving groove for holding a substrate. The actuators are configured for driving the carrying boards to rotate between a first coating position, in which the substrate is exposed to the second chamber for a first coating process carried out in the second chamber via the coating opening, and a second coating position, in which the substrate faces away from the separating board for a second coating process carried out in the first chamber.

Abstract: A film coating holder includes a top cover, a plurality of annular parts, and a plurality of connecting pieces. The top cover defines a plurality of first holes for receiving workpieces therein. The plurality of annular parts is stacked on each other with progressively increasing radiuses. Each of the plurality of annular parts defines a plurality of second holes for receiving the workpieces, and the top cover is positioned on the annular part with a minimum radius. The plurality of connecting pieces connects the annular part with the minimum radius to the top cover and connects each two adjacent annular parts together.

Abstract: A lid includes a first surface defining a cavity, a first joint defining an inlet, a second joint defining an outlet, a center hole communicating with the inlet, a circular channel communicating with the outlet and extending along a periphery of the first surface, and a number of branch channels radially extending from the center hole to the circular channel. The first surface includes a screen plate retained within the cavity, capable of letting the side-effect particles adhere thereon. Each of the plurality of branch channels communicates with the center hole and the circular channel, allowing liquid of a predetermined temperature to circulate within the lid.

Abstract: A coating system includes a housing, a coating umbrella, a rotatable assembly, a lift driver, a solvent storage chamber, and a jet device. The housing includes a block dividing the housing into a coating chamber and a painting chamber. The coating umbrella is configured for receiving a number of workpieces. The rotatable assembly is connected to the coating umbrella to drive the rotatable assembly to rotate. The lift driver lifts the rotatable assembly to switch the position of the coating umbrella between the coating chamber and the spray painting chamber. The solvent storage chamber is configured for storing paint solvent. The solvent storage chamber communicates with the painting chamber. The jet device is received in the solvent storage chamber, and communicated with the painting chamber to spray the paint solvent onto the workpieces.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing coating material includes a crucible having a receptacle for receiving coating material, a drive member having a drive shaft, a cover coupled to the drive shaft, and a flame nozzle opposing the receptacle. The cover includes an inner chamber, a first through hole and a number of second through holes. The first through hole and the second through holes communicate with the inner chamber. The cover has a flat surface with the second through holes exposed at the flat surface. The drive shaft drives the cover to rotate between a closed position where the cover covers the receptacle and the flat surface presses against the coating material to flatten the coating material, and an open position where the cover is moved away from the receptacle. The flame nozzle sprays flame from the second through holes through the first through hole to heat the coating material.