Abstract: A pet litter box and a control method of a pet litter box are provided. The pet litter box includes: a base and a box body, where the base is provided with a chamber; a top side of the base is provided with a base opening; the box body is provided in the chamber; and the base includes a shell bottom opposite to the base opening and a shell wall provided in a peripheral direction of the shell bottom.

Abstract: Cooling by a twist-untwist process, by a stretch-release process for twisted, coiled, or supercoiled yarns or fibers, and methods and systems thereof. High mechanocaloric cooling results from release of inserted twist or from stretch release for twisted, coiled, or supercoiled fibers, including natural rubber fibers, NiTi wires, and polyethylene fishing line. Twist utilization can increase cooling and cooling efficiencies. A cooler using twist insertion and release can be shorter and smaller in volume than a cooler that requires a large elastomeric elongation. The cooler system can be utilized in mechanochromic textiles and remotely readable tensile and torsional sensors.

Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated diaphragm pump, comprising a first stop plate (1), a foaming member (2), a valve plate (5), a diaphragm (7), and a motor (10), wherein the foaming member (2) comprises a gas-liquid mixing tank (21) and a foaming cavity, and an outlet of the gas-liquid mixing tank (21) is in communication with the foaming cavity for mixing a gas and a liquid and foaming same by means of the foaming cavity. The integrated diaphragm pump has the advantages of being high in integration and small in size.

Abstract: Superelastic conductive fibers, and more particularly, sheath-core fibers for superelastic electronics, sensors, and muscles, and a process for fabricating of highly stretchable sheath-core conducting fibers by wrapping fiber-direction-oriented conductive nanofiber sheets on stretched rubber fiber cores.

Abstract: Cooling by a twist-untwist process, by a stretch-release process for twisted, coiled, or supercoiled yarns or fibers, and methods and systems thereof. High mechanocaloric cooling results from release of inserted twist or from stretch release for twisted, coiled, or supercoiled fibers, including natural rubber fibers, NiTi wires, and polyethylene fishing line. Twist utilization can increase cooling and cooling efficiencies. A cooler using twist insertion and release can be shorter and smaller in volume than a cooler that requires a large elastomeric elongation. The cooler system can be utilized in mechanochromic textiles and remotely readable tensile and torsional sensors.

Abstract: Superelastic conductive fibers, and more particularly, sheath-core fibers for superelastic electronics, sensors, and muscles, and a process for fabricating of highly stretchable sheath-core conducting fibers by wrapping fiber-direction-oriented conductive nanofiber sheets on stretched rubber fiber cores.