Abstract: A ring mechanism for retaining loose-leaf pages including a housing, hinge plates, and ring members mounted on the hinge plates for retaining pages on the mechanism. An actuating lever is pivotally mounted on the housing for engaging the hinge plates and pivoting them to selectively move the ring members between an open position and a closed position. A travel bar is operatively connected to the lever for selective movement between a position in which locking elements of the travel bar block the pivoting movement of the hinge plates and a position in which the travel bar allows the hinge plates to pivot. The lever is configured to deform when pivoting the hinge plates to close the ring members to delay movement of the travel bar and locking elements to the blocking position from the onset of pivoting motion of the hinge plates.

Abstract: A ring binder mechanism includes a housing, a ring support, and rings for holding loose-leaf pages. Each ring includes a first ring member and a second ring member that are moveable between a closed position and an opened position. An actuator is mounted on the housing for moving the ring members from the closed position to the opened position. A travel bar has at least one locking element and is moveable between a locked position wherein the ring members are locked in the closed position and an unlocked position wherein the ring members are capable of being moved to the opened position. An intermediate connector operably connects the travel bar to the actuator. A biasing member is engageable with the intermediate connector and at least one of the travel bar and actuator for biasing the travel bar toward the locked position.

Abstract: An OCB mode liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixel regions includes a first substrate, a second substrate, dot liquid crystal polymer patterns and an OCB liquid crystal material. The first substrate has a first alignment treated layer thereon, the second substrate has a second alignment treated layer thereon, and the dot liquid crystal polymer patterns are on the first alignment treated layer and the second alignment treated layer. Each of the dot liquid crystal polymer patterns has an area between 1˜225 ?m2. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate, and the OCB liquid crystal material is between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing and driving an optically compensated birefringence (OCB) mode liquid crystal (LC) panel is provided. In the method, the OCB LC panel is applied which is characterized that a closed structure region with HAN, VA or Bend property is around a display region of the OCB LC panel. Thereafter, the OCB LC panel is driven by a mode of multistage voltage variation. The mode of multistage voltage variation includes applying a high voltage to LC molecules in the OCB LC panel for transferring them to a bend or a VA state, decaying the high voltage to a low voltage above a bend state holding voltage of the OCB LC panel, and turning off the voltage to zero so as to maintain the configuration of LC molecules in the OCB LC panel in a ?-twist state.

Abstract: A ring mechanism for retaining loose-leaf pages comprises a housing, hinge plates, and ring members mounted on the hinge plates for retaining pages on the mechanism. An actuating lever is pivotally mounted on the housing for engaging the hinge plates and pivoting them to selectively move the ring members between an open position and a closed position. A travel bar is operatively connected to the lever for selective movement between a position in which locking elements of the travel bar block the pivoting movement of the hinge plates and a position in which the travel bar allows the hinge plates to pivot. The lever is configured to deform when pivoting the hinge plates to close the ring members to delay movement of the travel bar and locking elements to the blocking position from the onset of pivoting motion of the hinge plates.

Abstract: A ring mechanism for retaining loose-leaf pages comprises a housing, hinge plates, and ring members mounted on the hinge plates for retaining pages on the mechanism. An actuating lever is pivotally mounted on the housing for engaging the hinge plates and pivoting them to selectively move the ring members between an open position and a closed position. A travel bar is operatively connected to the lever for selective movement between a position in which locking elements of the travel bar block the pivoting movement of the hinge plates and a position in which the travel bar allows the hinge plates to pivot. The lever is configured to deform when pivoting the hinge plates to close the ring members to delay movement of the travel bar and locking elements to the blocking position from the onset of pivoting motion of the hinge plates.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a display substrate is provided. A substrate is provided first. After that, an alignment film coating and an alignment treatment are performed to the substrate, and a layer of photoreactive monomer material is coated on the surface of the substrate after the alignment treatment. Thereafter, the layer of photoreactive monomer material is selectively irradiated by UV light in an exposed region, and the layer of photoreactive monomer material in an unexposed region is removed for liquid crystal molecules to have different pretilt angles in the exposed region and the unexposed region.

Abstract: A ring mechanism comprises a housing, hinge plates, and ring members mounted on the hinge plates for retaining pages on the mechanism. An actuating lever is mounted on the housing for engaging the hinge plates and pivoting them to selectively move the ring members between an open position and a closed position. A travel bar is provided to block unintentional pivoting movement of the hinge plates when they are in the closed position. The lever pivots in a direction from one lateral side of the housing toward the other lateral side of the housing, i.e., about an axis that is oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the housing and that extends upwardly relative to the housing. A ramped surface on the lever, e.g., a helical surface or a cam surface, engages the hinge plates to drive them to their open configuration.

Abstract: A ring mechanism for retaining loose-leaf pages comprises a housing, hinge plates, and ring members mounted on the hinge plates for retaining pages on the mechanism. An actuating lever is pivotally mounted on the housing for engaging the hinge plates and pivoting them to selectively move the ring members between an open position and a closed position. A travel bar is operatively connected to the lever for selective movement between a position in which locking elements of the travel bar block the pivoting movement of the hinge plates and a position in which the travel bar allows the hinge plates to pivot. The lever is configured to deform when pivoting the hinge plates to close the ring members to delay movement of the travel bar and locking elements to the blocking position from the onset of pivoting motion of the hinge plates.

Abstract: A ring binder mechanism includes a housing, a ring support, and rings for holding loose-leaf pages. Each ring includes a first ring member and a second ring member that are moveable between a closed position and an opened position. An actuator is mounted on the housing for moving the ring members from the closed position to the opened position. A travel bar has at least one locking element and is moveable between a locked position wherein the ring members are locked in the closed position and an unlocked position wherein the ring members are capable of being moved to the opened position. An intermediate connector operably connects the travel bar to the actuator. A biasing member is engageable with the intermediate connector and at least one of the travel bar and actuator for biasing the travel bar toward the locked position.

Abstract: A method for producing an animal feed has the steps of: cultivating funguses including actinomycess, deotrichum candidum, cellulose mono-saturated bacteria, lactic ferments, phycolmycete, protist, tirchoderma, saccharomyces cerevisiae, candida utilis, and aspergillus niger; producing fermenter by cultivating funguses to be fermented and then drying the cultivated funguses, and then by mixing the cultivated and dried funguses with sodium chloride, catalyzer and calcium oxide; mixing the produced fermenter with a raw material for the animal feed, the raw material being a mixture of one or more of grain, stem of field crop, power of plants, feces of livestock, waste of industrial ferments; and putting the mixture of the raw material and the fermenter in a sealed container, the sealed container being formed of different types of plastic film in multiple layers, and has a check valve formed on one side.