Abstract: A driving device includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a gear train connected to the rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical housing and an endcap mounted to an end of the housing; The gear train includes a gear mechanism with at least one stage, which includes a ring gear, a sun gear, planetary gears and a carrier. The ring gear is directly engaged with the endcap, which limits the position of the planetary gears of the gear train in an axial direction of the gear train.

Abstract: A power strut for a vehicle lift gate, has a driver sleeve, a lead screw sleeve, a lead screw and a spring mounted in the lead screw sleeve. A gear reduction mechanism and a motor assembly are mounted in the driver sleeve for driving the lead screw. The motor assembly has a magnet mounting bracket fixed to the driver sleeve and a rotor disposed in the magnet mounting bracket. An end cover and multiple permanent magnets are fixed to the magnet mounting bracket. Each of the magnets is positioned between a corresponding pair of adjacent connecting portions and contacts an inner surface of the driver sleeve, thereby the driver sleeve provides a magnetic path between the magnets.

Abstract: A driving device includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a gear train connected to the rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical housing and an endcap mounted to an end of the housing; The gear train includes a gear mechanism with at least one stage, which includes a ring gear, a sun gear, planetary gears and a carrier. The ring gear is directly engaged with the endcap, which limits the position of the planetary gears of the gear train in an axial direction of the gear train.

Abstract: A power strut for a vehicle lift gate, has a driver sleeve, a lead screw sleeve, a lead screw and a spring mounted in the lead screw sleeve. A gear reduction mechanism and a motor assembly are mounted in the driver sleeve for driving the lead screw. The motor assembly has a magnet mounting bracket fixed to the driver sleeve and a rotor disposed in the magnet mounting bracket. An end cover and multiple permanent magnets are fixed to the magnet mounting bracket. Each of the magnets is positioned between a corresponding pair of adjacent connecting portions and contacts an inner surface of the driver sleeve, thereby the driver sleeve provides a magnetic path between the magnets.

Abstract: A flow meter is powered by a loop power supply which supplies a supply voltage. A load is powered by a load voltage and includes at least a processor for calculating a flow rate, an ultrasonic transducer power circuit, and an ultrasonic transducer receiving circuit. A power regulating circuit is disposed between the loop power supply and the load. The power regulating circuit includes a power converter responsive to the supply voltage to vary the load voltage in response to a control signal, a safe storage device between the converter and the load for storing power when not needed by the load and for delivering power to the load when required by the load, and a control subsystem for providing the control signal to the converter based on the setting of the loop power supply by the load. A power management subsystem is configured to detect the load voltage and to reduce the power consumption of the load at one or more predetermined set points.

Abstract: A system for assaying a fluid sample for one or more types of analytes, which employs at least one class of finely divided polystyrene spheroidal particles, each class being limited to a predetermined specific narrow range of particle diameters, the particles of each such class being coated with a specific reactant unique for that class. After the coated particles are mixed with the sample to specifically react to form conjugates of the particles and any of the analyte present, the mixture is irradiated with bursts of ultrasound swept over a range of frequencies resonant to the expected conjugate sizes. The presence of the conjugates and therefore the analyte is detected directly by measuring any selective absorption or scattering of waves of frequencies to which the conjugates are resonant.