Abstract: A system including multiple bags each having a first adhesive material on a first panel, and second adhesive material on a stepped construction of the bag, and a third section of each bag being free of adhesive, further including a hot air manifold along which the bag is conveyed after the bag has been filled with contents and closed, which heats the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material to their adhesive states; a section of the hot air manifold along which the third section free of adhesive is conveyed, which minimizes adhesive contamination; a blade to bias the stepped construction of the bag to follow along the manifold; and a trailing end of the blade to fold the bag along its third section without displacing or expelling adhesive from the third section, which minimizes adhesive contamination of surfaces of the bag.

Abstract: The film sealing and wrapping machine with a rotary cut and seal jaw is provided. The rotary cut and seal jaw has an internal sliding mechanism which provides for smooth and quiet operation. The rotational speed of the jaw may be varied to increase through put and to provide for a title bag around products. The rotary cut and seal jaw may comprise a seal bar and pressure pad may both be spring loaded to self align the seal bar and pressure pad during the sealing and cutting process. Lastly, a gap defined by a belt disposed upstream and downstream of the seal bar and pressure pad may be mechanically linked to the pressure pad through a control carriage.

Abstract: A multi-cyclone separating apparatus of vacuum cleaner comprises a upstream cyclone forming upstream separating chamber inside, downstream cyclones at least one of which forming downstream separating chamber inside, the upper part of the upstream cyclone chamber is connected with an air inlet passage, said upstream cyclone has a upstream guide air intake inside, the downstream cyclone has a downstream air intake and the downstream cyclone has a downstream guide outlet inside, an air passage is formed between upstream guide air intake and downstream guide outlet which connected with the two. The multi-cyclone separating apparatus also comprises an outer cyclone body, the upstream cyclone is located inside of the outer cyclone body and the entrance of air inlet passage is located at the outer cyclone body or extend to the outside of the outer cyclone body.

Abstract: A filter including a filter housing with a horizontal partition wall dividing the filter housing into a dean-gas chamber and a dust chamber. The filter has an inlet part in open communication with the dust chamber. The inlet part is configured for supplying a dust-containing flow of gas to the dust chamber. The gas flow is conveyed through the filter elements and upwards into the dean-gas chamber where the filtered gas is discharged through a dean-gas outlet. In the filter housing, a cylindrical inner portion is arranged that encircles the filter elements. A round-going inlet part is opposed to the cylindrical inner part. The round-going inlet part has a larger diameter than at least a portion of the filter housing that adjoins the inlet part. Gas flow is divided into an upwardly and downwardly oriented gas flow controlled by arrangement of the cylindrical inner part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flat gasket with filter elements. In order to fulfil the increased requirements with respect to cleanliness, there is an increased demand for the integration of filter elements in flat gaskets. The corresponding filter elements mainly serve for picking of impurities accrued during production as well as other residues circulate via the operational fluids, especially during the initial period of operation of an internal combustion engine or a vehicle.

Abstract: A flat filter element (34), a filter (10), and a support/positioning body (72, 74, 76) are disclosed. The flat filter element (34) includes a filter medium (64) with an inflow-side raw side (62) and an outflow-side clean side (58). An element sealing section (77) surrounds, circumferentially closed, the filter medium (64) on the raw side (62), the clean side (58), or between the raw side (62) and the clean side (58). The element sealing section (77) serves for supporting a sealing device (78) for sealing the raw side (62) relative to the clean side (58) upon arrangement of the flat filter element (34) in a filter housing (12) of the filter (10). At least one support/positioning body (72, 74, 76) can be supported, for positioning and holding at least the sealing device (76) in the filter housing (12), on the one hand at least on the sealing device (78) and on the other hand on the filter housing (12).

Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a flexible cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a fore-and-aft draper and side drapers, with at least part of the draper assembly being rigidly supported on the header frame. A center section of the cutterbar assembly is rigidified so as to be restricted from flexing, while the side sections of the cutterbar assembly flex and follow the changes in terrain.

Abstract: A center knife drive for a sickle of a plant cutting machine having an upwardly facing cover and at least one output element reciprocatingly movable by the drive above the cover for moving a knife of the sickle in a sideward reciprocating cutting action, including at least one cleaning flap in connection with the output element positioned and configured for reciprocating forward and rearward movement thereby, disposed above the cover and configured for cleaning loose material therefrom during the movement and for pushing the loose material from the cover to accommodate upward movement of the drive within a space below or in a floor of the machine, clearing the material from the path of the output element, and improved heat dissipation.

Abstract: Improvements in a crop baling operation in which cut crop material lying on the ground is raked into a windrow picked up and formed into a bale by a baler in a single pass, the improvement comprising incorporating windrow diverting apparatus proximate the baler pickup controllably laterally shifting marginal edge portions of the windrow relative to the path of travel during baling, the apparatus including first and second side delivery raking means located respectively on opposites sides of the elongated drawbar, means movably mounting the extendible and collapsible raking means for movement relative to the baler in directions toward and away from the path of travel and means for selectively controlling movement of the raking means.

Abstract: A windrow merger includes at least one conveyor for transporting material picked up by at least one pickup head member, the at least one pickup head member having a plurality of spaced apart spacers disposed along a length dimension of the at least one pickup head member, and an internal drive assembly disposed within a longitudinal aperture defined internal to the plurality of spaced apart spacers, the drive assembly for imparting a rotational motion to a plurality of tines. A method of forming the windrow merger is further included.

Abstract: A cut resistant yarn includes a core-spun core. A first layer includes a first filament made of a cut resistant material. The first layer is wrapped around the core-spun core in a first direction, A second layer including a second filament is wrapped around the first layer in a second direction that is opposite of the first direction.

Abstract: A power conducting device guides lines, hoses or the like between a stationary connection point and a moving connection point. The power conducting device includes a first line guiding device having a first end link, a second end link, and a section that deflects between the links and is connected to the links. The line guiding device defines a channel for receiving lines, hoses or the like. The power conducting device further includes a first guiding channel, which defines a first inner ring and a first outer ring. The first line guiding device is arranged in the first guiding channel. The first end link connects to the first inner ring and the second end link connects to the first outer ring. At least one second guiding channel defines a second outer ring and a second inner ring. Certain channels can be rotated about a common axis.

Abstract: A round steel chain has chain links articulated to one another, wherein the individual chain links each have opposite chain bends, which are connected to one another by chain legs. At least every second chain link is designed as a flat link, wherein the chain legs of the flat link are flattened at the edges in the cross-section of the chain legs and have a leg width greater than the diameter of the chain bends, such that the areas of the chain legs extending beyond the diameter to the leg width form lateral bulges, which extend up to the chain bends or into the chain bends, and chain bends have thickened sections arranged on the longitudinal outer surfaces of the chain bends.

Abstract: A modular power generation system including a gasification reactor is disclosed for converting fuel, such as, but not limited to, biomass, to syngas to replace petroleum based fuels used in power generation. The system may include a reactor vessel with distinct reaction zones that facilitate greater control and a more efficient system. The system may include a sealing system for a continuous feed system of a gasifier enabling an inlet opening of a feedstock system to remain open yet seal the reactor without a mechanical system. The system may include a syngas heater channeling syngas collected downstream of the carbon layer support and to the pyrolysis reaction zone. The system may also include a syngas separation chamber configured to produce clean syngas, thereby requiring less filtering. The system may further include an agitator drive assembly that prevents formation of burn channels with in the fuel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for determining a target exhaust temperature for gas turbines. In one embodiment of the disclosure, there is disclosed a method for determining a target exhaust temperature for a gas turbine. The method can include determining a target exhaust temperature based at least in part on a compressor pressure condition; determining a temperature adjustment to the target exhaust temperature based at least in part on steam humidity; and changing the target exhaust temperature based at least in part on the temperature adjustment.

Abstract: Various embodiments include an exhaust plume mitigation system for a turbine and systems incorporating the exhaust plume mitigation system. In some embodiments, the exhaust plume mitigation system includes: a first conduit fluidly connecting a compressor to an exhaust chamber of the turbine; a first control valve operably connected with the first conduit for regulating flow of compressor air through the first conduit; and a fluid inductor including: a first inlet fluidly connected with the first conduit; a second inlet fluidly connected with ambient; and an outlet fluidly connected with the exhaust chamber.

Abstract: A disclosed lubrication system for a gas turbine engine includes a primary passage defining a flow path for lubricant to a gas turbine engine and a bypass passage defining a flow path for lubricant around the gas turbine engine. The lubrication system further includes a primary lubrication pump including a reduced total flow capacity of lubricant with a reduced bypass lubricant flow relative to the total overall flow capacity.

Abstract: A heat recovery steam generator has a plurality of heat exchangers, including superheaters 28, 30, an evaporator 32 and an economizer 34, disposed in a duct 27 along the flow direction of an exhaust gas 25 from a gas turbine 14, and generates steam by utilizing the exhaust gas 25 from the gas turbine 14. The heat recovery steam generator includes: auxiliary combustors 50, 52, each disposed upstream of one of the heat exchangers, for heating the exhaust gas by means of burners; and an air supply device for supplying air to the burners of the auxiliary combustor 52 from the outside of the duct.

Abstract: A Hall effect thruster includes at least one tank of gas under high pressure, a pressure regulator module, a gas flow rate control device, an ionization channel, a cathode placed in a vicinity of an outlet from the ionization channel, an anode associated with the ionization channel, an electrical power supply unit, an electric filter, coils for creating a magnetic field around the ionization channel, and an additional electrical power supply unit for applying a pulsating voltage between the anode and the cathode.

Abstract: A replaceable thrust generating structure for an air vehicle, which includes one or more mounts, which are attachable to the air vehicle, and a thrust generating structure attached to each of the one or more mounts, and wherein the thrust generating structure includes an NMSET element.

Abstract: The invention provides a mixer for a confluent-flow nozzle of a turbine engine, the mixer comprising an annular cap designed to be centered on a longitudinal axis of the nozzle and having a stationary upstream portion and a downstream portion that is movable in rotation about the longitudinal axis relative to the stationary portion, the movable portion of the cap terminating at its downstream end in inner lobes alternating circumferentially with outer lobes, and means for imparting reciprocating rotary motion to the movable portion of the cap.

Abstract: One embodiment is a unique strategy for raising exhaust temperatures which includes deactivating a first group of cylinders while maintaining a second group of cylinders in a combustion mode and injecting fuel into each of one of the second group of cylinders not earlier than 2 degrees before top dead center (TDC). The strategy also includes passing fuel rich exhaust from the second group of cylinders into an exhaust pathway and oxidizing at least a portion of the fuel rich exhaust in the exhaust pathway. In one form, the oxidizing occurs independent of any catalytic influence. Other embodiments include unique methods, systems, and apparatus for raising exhaust temperatures and/or regenerating one or more components of an aftertreatment system. Further embodiments, forms, objects, features, advantages, aspects, and benefits shall become apparent from the following description and drawings.

Abstract: A method for controlling a particulate matter sensor heater is provided. The method includes operating the heater to burn-off soot accumulated on the sensor; and adjusting the heater level based on sensor output generated during the heater operation. In this way, improved heater control can be achieved using the sensor output already available.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regenerating nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters and to a correspondingly adapted exhaust-gas purification system for lean-burn engines. In particular, the present invention relates to the regeneration of nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters during special driving situations of the vehicle.

Abstract: A heater control device of an oxygen concentration sensor is provided in which even in a case where an internal combustion engine is automatically stopped by idle stop control after cold start-up, it is possible to start energization of a heater at an appropriate time.

Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device includes at least a housing and a second exhaust gas treatment unit which is disposed at a distance from the housing and extends into the housing. The housing has an opening that is disposed laterally relative to the second exhaust gas treatment unit and extends laterally at least across 50% of the second exhaust gas treatment unit which extends into the housing. A motor vehicle having the exhaust gas treatment device is also provided.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting movement into energy, comprising a buoyant or floating body fully (1,9,11) submerged in a fluid medium. The buoyant body is supported in the fluid by a buoyancy or similar force acting in a first direction. A connecting or mooring line connects the buoyant body (1,9,11) to a pivot point displaced from the buoyant body in the direction from which the buoyancy or similar force acts on the buoyant body, and formed by a counter-weight (2). The apparatus also includes at least one power or energy take-off line (3) separate from the connecting or mooring line to convert movement of the buoyant body into energy.

Abstract: A generator includes: a housing defining a chamber; a fan in fluid communication with the chamber, wherein the fan is oriented to draw a partial vacuum in the chamber; a pipe including a first opening and a second opening, wherein the first opening is in fluid communication with the chamber and the second opening is in fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere, such that when a partial vacuum is drawn in the chamber a partial vacuum is drawn within the pipe; a plurality of turbine blades within the pipe configured such that airflow from the second opening towards the first opening flows across the plurality of turbine blades to cause the turbine blades to rotate; a rotating element driven into rotational movement by the rotation of the turbine blades; and an electro-magnetic generator configured such that the rotating pipe is a rotating element within the electro-magnetic generator.

Abstract: A power regeneration device for an operating machine has a hydraulic cylinder and a return line through which fluid returning to a tank flows when the hydraulic cylinder contracts. The return line branches into a plurality of hydraulic lines through a branching part and includes a regeneration line that which leads returning fluid to the tank via a hydraulic motor to which a generator is connected. A control valve line is connected to the branching part and leads the returning fluid to the tank via a control valve. An electricity storage device stores electric power generated by the generator, and an electric amount detector detects the electric amount of the electricity storage device. A flow rate calculator calculates the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the regeneration line and the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the control valve line depending on an electric amount signal.

Abstract: A hydraulic system for a construction machine is disclosed, which can prevent off-course travel of the machine when a combined operation of a traveling device and a working device such as a boom is performed.

Abstract: A hydraulic drive device for a hydraulic excavator, includes: a first hydraulic pump; a first boom directional control valve and a second arm directional control valve which are connected in parallel to the first pump; a second hydraulic pump; and a second boom directional control valve and a first arm directional control valve which are connected in parallel to the second pump; wherein: the hydraulic drive device also includes: a third hydraulic pump; a third boom directional control valve connected to the third pump and controlling the flow of pressure oil supplied to a boom cylinder; and a third arm directional control valve connected in tandem with the third boom directional control valve and controlling the flow of pressure oil supplied to an arm cylinder.

Abstract: An actuator having a housing, a connecting element, a shape memory element which changes shape when heated, a heating element and a heat conducting element. The shape memory element is configured in substantially elongate form and is arranged in the housing such that it displaces the connecting element when it changes shape. The heating element, when activated, heats the shape memory element. The heat conducting element is in contact with the shape memory element at least some of the time, at a contact surface which is larger than 0.1 times the total surface of the shape memory element. While in contact with the shape memory element, the heat conducting element bears at least partially displaceably against the latter and has a free surface which is not in contact with either the shape memory element or the heating element that is at least 1.6 times larger than its contact surface.

Abstract: An electric motor is controlled according to an operation of a brake pedal connected to an input rod to drive a ball-screw mechanism through a transmission mechanism, thereby propelling a primary piston and a subpiston to generate brake hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder. The brake hydraulic pressure in the master cylinder is received with an input piston and transmitted to the brake pedal through a plunger rod and the input rod. The input rod and the plunger rod are tiltably connected, through a ball joint, and the plunger rod is axially slidably guided by a guide part of a rear cover. Thus, a lateral force acting on the primary piston or the subpiston is reduced to prevent an increase in sliding resistance and degradation of sealing performance.

Abstract: A method for operating a compressor, which supplies an internal combustion engine that is assigned to the compressor at its output end with air compressed to a boost pressure, in which the boost pressure is reducible by releasing the compressed air at least partially via a pressure release valve. The air released via the pressure release valve is used for driving a compressor wheel of the compressor.

Abstract: Artificial aspiration methods and systems for increasing engine efficiency and or power. The methods include determining an engine operation status, determining an artificial aspiration goal value based on the engine operating status, determining an artificial aspiration system configuration based on the artificial aspiration goal value and the engine operating status, and configuring the artificial aspiration system to obtain the determined artificial aspiration system configuration. The system includes a plurality of sensors for sensing characteristics of an operating engine, and an artificial aspiration control unit comprising a processor connected to receive the sensed characteristics of the engine.

Abstract: An engine exhaust gas treatment system includes an oxidation catalyst, a NOX adsorber, and a turbine. The oxidation catalyst and the NOX adsorber are fluidly connected to an exhaust manifold of the engine. The turbine is fluidly connected to, and downstream of the oxidation catalyst and the NOx adsorber.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a cooling structure for a bearing housing for a turbocharger, the cooling structure being configured so that the cooling structure is manufactured with improved productivity, the occurrence of heat soak-back is reduced, and the cooling structure has improved cooling performance. The cooling structure is configured to cool both a bearing housing 13 and a bearing 52 by cooling water flowing through an annular cooling water path 13f formed in the bearing housing 13, and is provided with: a water path inlet 13h for supplying the cooling water and a water path outlet 13j for discharging the cooling water, which are provided in the bearing housing 13 so as to communicate with the annular cooling water path 13f and a partial partition 14a in the bearing housing 13 to partially close a water path which forms the shortest route between the water path inlet 13h and the water path outlet 13j.

Abstract: A combined thermodynamic system for the production of mechanical power. The system comprises a gas turbine and a turbomachinery driven by the gas turbine. The system further comprises a thermodynamic organic Rankine cycle with a turboexpander. A heat transfer arrangement transfers heat from exhaust combustion gases of the gas turbine to the thermodynamic organic Rankine cycle, wherein heat is converted into mechanical power used for driving a driven a turbomachine.

Abstract: An electric generating system employing a nuclear reactor to heat feedwater prior to fossil fueled boiler and superheater sections to economically produce electricity with reduced greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for matching the output of a steam turbine (2) to a changed load, in particular for the short-term matching of the output of a power plant steam turbine (2) to changed network loads within the context of primary control. The control system according to the invention is characterized by a heat store (33) which, when there is an increased volume of steam tapped off from the steam turbine (2) under a correspondingly reduced load, extracts heat from the steam and which, when there is a reduced quantity of steam tapped off from the steam turbine under a correspondingly increased load, gives up heat to a steam/feed water circuit supplying the steam turbine (2).

Abstract: An exhaust gas collection system for capturing the exhaust gas emitted by auxiliary engines, auxiliary boilers and other sources on an Ocean Going Vessel (OGV) while at berth or at anchor, so that these gases may be carried to an emissions treatment system for removal of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. The exhaust gas collection system includes a diverter to redirect the exhaust gas normally carried by exhaust pipes to the OGV's stack for release to the atmosphere, to an exhaust gas treatment system. The emissions treatment system may be land-based, water-based, or on the OGV. When the emissions treatment system is land-based, water-based, the exhaust gas is carried to a connection location that accessible by a ducting system to carry the exhaust gas to the emissions treatment system. The exhaust gas collection system preferably includes parallel-flow ducts and a manifold to combine the parallel-flows into a single duct for more convenient routing through the vessel.

Abstract: An airfoil array is disclosed. The airfoil array may include an endwall, and a plurality of airfoils radially projecting from the endwall. Each airfoil may have a first side and an opposite second side extending axially in chord between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoils may be circumferentially spaced apart on the endwall thereby defining a plurality of flow passages between adjacent airfoils. The airfoil array may further include a convex profiled region extending from the endwall near the leading edge of at least one of said plurality of airfoils, and a concave profiled region in the endwall near a middle of at least one of said plurality of flow passages.

Abstract: A fuel injection device (110) for a turbine engine, the device comprising a pilot injector opening out into a venturi (120) and an annular row of multipoint injection orifices (136) opening out axially in a downstream direction and radially outside the venturi, the venturi being connected at its downstream end to a separation wall (140), the device being characterized in that the outer peripheral edge (142) of the separation wall has a diameter (B?) greater than the diameter of the annular row (A) of injection orifices, whereby the separation wall forms a thermal protection screen for these orifices against heat radiation coming from the chamber.

Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a turbine engine, the chamber including an annular row of fuel injectors including heads engaged in fuel injection systems mounted in openings in the chamber end wall, each injector head including at least one fuel-passing helical channel for causing fuel to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the head, and each injection system including at least one swirler including air-passing channels of sections with axes that are inclined relative to the plurality axis of the swirler at an angle that is substantially equal to a helix angle of the helical channel, to within ±10°, and are oriented in a same direction as the channel about the longitudinal axis of the swirler.

Abstract: A casting, mold and method for producing a casting are disclosed. The casting may have an area of small thermal mass and an area of large thermal mass. The method may comprise providing a casting having a work product and an appendage engaged to, and suspended over, the work product between the area of small thermal mass and the area of large thermal mass, and controllably cooling the work product using the appendage.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a structure having an exterior surface. A cooling hole extends from a cooling passage to the exterior surface to provide an exit area on the exterior surface that is substantially circular in shape. A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section. A combustor is provided between the compressor and turbine sections. A component in at least one of the compressor and turbine sections has an exterior surface. A film cooling hole extends from a cooling passage to the exterior surface to provide an exit area that is substantially circular in shape. A method of machining a film cooling hole includes providing a component having an internal cooling passage and an exterior surface, machining a film cooling hole from the exterior surface to the internal cooling passage to provide a substantially circular exit area on the exterior surface.

Abstract: A system includes a turbine combustor containing a first wall portion disposed about a combustion zone, a second wall portion disposed about the first wall portion, and a plurality of vanes disposed within an annulus between the first and second wall portions. The plurality of vanes is configured to swirl air flowing within the annulus.

Abstract: A disclosed accessory drive system provides for the reduction in the overall diameter of the outer nacelle by splitting the number of accessory components between a first gear box mounted within the outer nacelle and a second gearbox mounted to the core engine. The first gear box mounted to the fan case of the gas turbine engine drives a first plurality of accessory components. The second gear box mounted to a core engine case of the gas turbine engine drives a second plurality of accessory components.

Abstract: A fuel heating system for a power plant includes an exhaust structure having an interior region for receiving an exhaust gas therein. Also included is a fluid injection arrangement comprising a first fluid duct for transferring a fluid, the first fluid duct extending at least partially throughout the interior region of the exhaust structure for heating the fluid. Further included is a heat exchanger for receiving the fluid and a liquid fuel, the fluid heating the liquid fuel during passage of the liquid fuel through the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An example method of allocating power within a gas turbine engine includes driving an off-take power delivery assembly using a first amount of power from a spool, the first amount of power corresponding to an off-take power requirement of a gas turbine engine; and driving the spool of the gas turbine engine using a second amount of power, wherein a ratio of the first amount of power to the second amount of power is greater than or equal to 0.009.