Abstract: A clamping device includes a rotatable element disposed between a jaw and a jaw support. The rotatable element has a slanting surface, interfacing a roller, and thus is configured to push the jaw toward an opposite jaw of the clamping device when rolling in a clamping direction. An auto lock mechanism is included in the clamping device, which can secure the rotating element for keeping the jaws separated. The auto lock mechanism can be activated or deactivated when the jaws are separated at a maximum or near maximum separation.

Abstract: A silo-mountable rescue assembly for accessing a distressed person in a silo includes a tripod that is configured to couple to a top of a silo so that an apex of the tripod is substantially centrally positioned over an opening in the silo. A block and tackle is coupled to the tripod proximate to the apex. The block and tackle is configured to lower equipment and personnel into the silo to rescue a distressed person in the silo.

Abstract: Provided are a control system for a container crane and a control method for a container crane in which the time necessary for position adjustment between the spreader and the landing surface is reduced and the cargo handling efficiency is improved. A control system of a container crane has a camera, a display device, position acquisition devices, and a control device. Based on the plane positions of a spreader and a landing surface acquired by the position acquisition devices, the control device superimposes, on an image captured by the camera, an indication display from which it is understood that the positions of the spreader and the landing surface have agreed with each other in plan view, and the control device displays a resultant image with the image and the indication display superimposed on the display device.

Abstract: A self-propelling drilling machine includes: an undercarriage. a rotary tower, a mast, a kelly bar supported by the mast, a drilling tool fixed at one end of the kelly bar, and a winch associated with the kelly bar to move the kelly bar upwards or downwards. An electric rotary machine is configured to operate as an electric motor suitable for rotating the winch and as an electric generator during the lowering of the kelly bar that causes a rotation of the winch. The machine includes a power supply unit operatively connected to the electric rotary machine.

Abstract: Distance measurements are performed by a fork pocket detection sensor at a position at which the fork pocket detection sensor faces one of fork pockets and at a position at which the fork pocket detection sensor faces the central position in the horizontal direction between the fork pockets on a pallet side face, and information obtained by combining pieces of distance-measurement information acquired by the distance measurements is compared with information of predefined shapes of the fork pockets, so as to specify the positions of the fork pockets. Hereby, it is possible to accurately detect the positions of the fork pockets without causing a decrease of conveyance efficiency.

Abstract: Embodiments of a personnel basket for attachment to a crane boom include folding sidewall sections; a rear wall connected to the sidewall sections; a front wall in pivotal connection to one of the folding sidewall sections; a floor in pivotal relation to the rear wall; a stalk integral to the rear wall and including a boom connection; and a cam or stop that transmits floor loads to the stalk. Because of the pivotal relationships, the personnel basket is moveable or foldable in a connected or assembled condition between a deployed (unfolded) state and a folded (fully collapsed) state. When in the deployed and folded states, the walls and floor remain connected to the personnel basket, the walls sharing a same orientation, the floor pivoting toward and away from the rear wall between a horizontal and vertical orientation.

Abstract: A controller for use with a machine includes a machine body, and a load handling apparatus coupled to the machine body and moveable by an actuator, wherein the controller is configured to receive a signal representative of the orientation of the load handling apparatus with respect to a reference orientation and a signal representative of a moment of tilt of the machine, wherein the controller is further configured to issue a signal for use by an element of the machine including the movement actuator, which in response to the signal issued by the controller, is configured to restrict or substantially prevent a movement of the load handling apparatus when a value of the signal representative of the moment of tilt reaches a threshold value, the threshold value being dependent on the signal representative of the orientation of the load handling apparatus with respect to the reference orientation.

Abstract: A funnel is disclosed having an oil bottle securing portion and an adjustable conduit portion. The oil bottle securing portion is an open housing with converging side walls, and an end wall including a bottle securing rectangular groove along an upper edge. Seated within the open housing is a U-shaped stop that receives and abuts the top of a standard oil bottle, such that the neck of the oil bottle passes through the U-shaped stop but the shoulder of the bottle abuts the U-shaped stop. With a lower portion of the oil bottle disposed within the rectangular groove of the end wall and the neck of the oil bottle passing through the U-shaped stop, the oil from the bottle will empty into a frusto-conical reservoir at a first end of the funnel on the opposite side of the U-shaped stop and pass through the adjustable conduit.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for beverage dispensing, and control and management of a beverage dispenser. The beverage dispenser can have an enclosure. The enclosure includes a base section, a control section, and a dispensing section. The base section can be configured to house one or more BIBs, and support one or more beverage containers. The control section can be configured to house a heating device, one or more pumps, control circuits, communication circuits, distribution circuits, and fluid management systems. The dispensing section can be configured to house a computing device, one or more fluid dispensers, and support a brewing or mixing container. The brewing or mixing container can allow for the brewing, mixing, or blending of a beverage that can be dispensed to one or more beverage containers. The beverage dispenser can communicate through a computer network to a management, maintenance, and support portal.

Abstract: A distribution station includes a mobile trailer that has outer walls that enclose at least one interior compartment and the outer walls contain at least an exterior shell and thermal insulation adjacent the exterior shell. There is a pump, at least one manifold fluidly connected with the pump, a plurality of reels, a plurality of hoses connected with different ones of the reels, and a plurality of valves on the mobile trailer. Each valve is situated between the manifold and a respective different one of the reels. A plurality of fluid level sensors are associated with different ones of the hoses. A controller is configured to individually open and close the valves responsive to the fluid level sensors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microelectromechanical microphone package structure which includes a substrate, a metallic cover, an application-specific integrated circuit and a microphone chip. The metallic cover caps the substrate, and a chamber is formed between the metallic cover and the substrate. The application-specific integrated circuit is disposed in the chamber and electrically connected with the substrate. The microphone chip is disposed in the chamber and electrically connected with the application-specific integrated circuit. A filter is disposed between the substrate and the microphone chip and located correspondingly to a sound hole of the substrate, so as to effectively prevent external objects or mists from getting into the chamber through the sound hole, thereby attaining the effect of protecting the microphone chip.

Abstract: A Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structure comprises a MEMS wafer. A MEMS wafer includes a handle wafer with cavities bonded to a device wafer through a dielectric layer disposed between the handle and device wafers. The MEMS wafer also includes a moveable portion of the device wafer suspended over a cavity in the handle wafer. Four methods are described to create two or more enclosures having multiple gas pressure or compositions on a single substrate including, each enclosure containing a moveable portion. The methods include: A. Forming a secondary sealed enclosure, B. Creating multiple ambient enclosures during wafer bonding, C. Creating and breaching an internal gas reservoir, and D. Forming and subsequently sealing a controlled leak/breach into the enclosure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a MEMS package having different trench depths, and a method of fabricating the MEMS package. In some embodiments, a first trench in a first device region, a second trench in a second region, and a scribe trench in a scribe line region are formed at a front side of a cap substrate. Then, a hard mask is formed and patterned over the cap substrate. Then, a stopper is formed by performing an etch to the cap substrate such that a first portion of a bottom surface of the first trench uncovered by the hard mask is recessed while a second portion of the bottom surface of the first trench covered by the hard mask is non-altered to form a stopper within the first trench. Then, a second etch is performed to the second trench to lower the bottom surface of the second trench.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor package substrate that includes a first mounting area for mounting a sensor chip. The sensor package substrate has a through hole formed at a position overlapping the first mounting area in a plan view so as to penetrate the sensor package substrate from one surface to the other surface. The through hole includes a first section having a first diameter and a second section having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. A step part inside the through hole positioned at a boundary between the first and second sections constitutes a second mounting area for mounting an anti-dust filter.

Abstract: A method of forming an acoustic transducer comprises providing a substrate and depositing a first structural layer on the substrate. The first structural layer is selectively etched to form at least one of an enclosed trench or an enclosed pillar thereon. A second structural layer is deposited on the first structural layer and includes a depression or a bump corresponding to the enclosed trench or pillar, respectively. At least the second structural layer is heated to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the second structural layer causing the second structural layer to reflow. A diaphragm layer is deposited on the second structural layer such that the diaphragm layer includes at least one of a downward facing corrugation corresponding to the depression or an upward facing corrugation corresponding to the bump. The diaphragm layer is released, thereby forming a diaphragm suspended over the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of providing a structure having two electrodes connected by nanowires, exposing the structure to an analyte that can adsorb onto the nanowires, and passing an electrical current through the nanowires to heat the nanowires to desorb the analyte. Also disclosed herein is an apparatus having the above structure; a current source electrically connected to the electrodes, and a detector to detect the analyte.

Abstract: The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for producing carbon and syngas from carbon dioxide (CO2). The system includes a first reactor (7) for producing solid carbon (15) from a feed including CO2 and a volatile organic compound such as methane (1), and a second reactor (20) for producing syngas. Reactions in the first reactor (7) are conducted in a limited oxygen atmosphere. The second reactor (20) can use dry reforming, steam reforming, and/or partial oxidation reforming to produce the syngas (22).

Abstract: Method for the preparation of synthesis gas combining electrolysis of water, tubular steam reforming and autothermal reforming of a hydrocarbon feed stock.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a control method for a process to convert bisulphide to elemental sulphur in an aqueous solution comprising sulphide-oxidising bacteria wherein the process is controlled by applying a potential between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode or between the anode electrode and the reference electrode of an electrochemical cell resulting in a current between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode, measuring a current as measured by an electrochemical cell and adapting the process in response to the measured current. The process to convert bisulphide may comprise the following steps: (a) contacting bisulphide with oxidised sulphide-oxidising bacteria in the aqueous solution and elemental sulphur, (b) oxidizing the reduced sulphide-oxidising bacteria, (c) using the oxidised sulphide-oxidising bacteria obtained in step (b) in step (a) and (d) isolating elemental sulphur from the aqueous solution obtained in step (a) and/or step (b).

Abstract: A wet process phosphoric acid production method comprises digesting phosphate-containing ore in a slurry comprising sulfuric acid, whereby phosphoric acid and calcium sulfate crystals are formed; and separating the phosphoric acid from the calcium sulfate crystals; wherein a defoamer and a poly(carboxylic acid), or salt thereof, having a weight-average molecular weight of less than 1,000,000 grams per mole (g/mol), are added to the slurry. The poly(carboxylic acid) can be a poly(acrylic acid), or salt thereof, and the defoamer can be a dialkyl sulfosuccinate salt and an aliphatic alcohol or a fatty acid ester. The method enhances separation of phosphoric acid from calcium sulfate crystals in wet process phosphoric acid production by any one of increasing the volume average particle size of the calcium sulfate crystals, increasing filtration rate, and reducing foam formation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube product comprising: blending an unaligned carbon nanotube material with solid solvent particles; activating a nanotube solvent by liquefying the solid solvent particles; producing a nanotube dope solution by mixing the nanotube solvent and the unaligned carbon nanotube material; forming a carbon nanotube proto-product by extruding the nanotube dope solution; and forming an aligned carbon nanotube product by solidifying the carbon nanotube proto-product.

Abstract: A material, a process for forming a biocidal material, and an article of manufacture. The material includes a particle and first and second functionalities bound to first and second faces of the particle. At least one of the first and second functionalities are biocides. The process includes forming colloidosomes having particles with exposed first faces partially embedded in a wax droplet. The process also includes selecting first and second functionalities, wherein at least one of the first and second functionalities are biocides, and binding the first functionalities to the first faces of the particles. Further, the process includes removing the particles from the colloidosome, and binding the second functionalities to the second faces. The article of manufacture includes a polymer matrix, particles, first functionalities bound to first faces of the particles, and second functionalities bound to second faces of the particles.

Abstract: Silica particles having a BET surface area from 0.1 to 7 m2/g, a pack density from 35 to 55 lb/ft3, an Einlehner abrasion value from 8 to 25 mg lost/100,000 revolutions, a total mercury intrusion pore volume from 0.7 to 1.2 cc/g, and a stannous compatibility from 70 to 99%, are disclosed, as well as methods for making these silica particles.

Abstract: A method for synthesizing a mordenite (MOR) molecular sieve with a modulatable location and distribution of B acid sites, and a product thereof and the use thereof. Provided is a method for synthesizing a mordenite MOR molecular sieve with acid sites located at an 8-membered ring “side pocket” in communication with a 12-membered ring pore channel in the presence or absence of an inorganic base. The method includes introducing an additional reagent and an optional fluorinating reagent which have different structures and charge densities into a synthetic gel, and the B acid sites of the obtained MOR zeolite are located at an 8-membered ring “side pocket” in communication with a 12-membered ring pore channel A catalyst product obtained exhibits an excellent performance in terms of adsorption and catalysis. The synthesis method has broad industrial application, particularly being applied to catalysts for the carbonylation reaction of dimethyl ether.

Abstract: The zeolite UTD-1 may be formed under hydrothermal synthesis conditions using a directing agent that does not include a metal atom therein. Methods for synthesizing the zeolite UTD-1 may comprise: combining at least a silicon atom source and a directing agent having a structure of in an aqueous medium; forming the zeolite in the aqueous medium under hydrothermal synthesis conditions, such that the zeolite has a framework silicate with a cationic portion of the directing agent occluded within pores or channels of the framework silicate; and isolating the zeolite from the aqueous medium. The zeolite has a powder x-ray diffraction pattern with at least the following 2?scattering angles: 6.0±0.12, 7.6±0.1, 14.66±0.15, 19.7±0.15, 21.27±0.15, 22.13±0.15, 22.61±0.15, and 24.42±0.10 for a borosilicate form zeolite, or 6.0±0.12, 7.6±0.15, 14.55±0.15, 19.64±0.15, 21.01±0.20, 21.90±0.20, 22.34±0.20, and 24.38 ±0.20 for an aluminosilicate form zeolite.

Abstract: Techniques for growing crystalline calcium carbonate solids such that the crystalline calcium carbonate solids include a volume of 0.0005 mm3 to 5 mm3, include a slaker to react quicklime (CaO) and a low carbonate content fluid to yield a slurry of primarily slaked lime (Ca(OH)2); a fluidized-bed reactive crystallizer that encloses a solid bed mass and includes an input for a slurry of primarily slaked lime, an input for an alkaline solution and carbonate, and an output for crystalline calcium carbonate solids that include particles and an alkaline carbonate solution; a dewatering apparatus that includes an input coupled to the crystallizer and an output to discharge a plurality of separate streams that each include a portion of the crystalline calcium carbonate solids and alkaline carbonate solution; and a seed transfer apparatus to deliver seed material into the crystallizer to maintain a consistent mass of seed material.

Abstract: A method for preparing zinc sulfide particles is described which comprising the steps (i) preparing a mixture of zinc mineral and elemental sulfur, (ii) milling the mixture obtained in step (i), and (iii) annealing the mixture obtained in step (ii) at a temperature ranging from 300 to 500° C. to obtain zinc sulfide particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dielectric ceramic material for resonators, filters, and oscillators being used in a wireless communication system and, most particularly, to a Ba(Mg0.5W0.5)O3-type high frequency dielectric ceramic material having an appropriate dielectric constant and a high quality factor in a high frequency band and a method for preparing the same. For this, Ba(Mg0.5W0.5)O3 has been chosen as a material having excellent high frequency dielectric properties. At this point, an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal element partly substitutes Barium (Ba), and, for compensation, a metal of a +3 oxidation state is added quantitatively in the place of Magnesium (Mg). Accordingly, a high frequency dielectric ceramic material compound having a high quality factor and a stable temperature property is prepared. When needed, a metal of a +5 oxidation state may be further added quantitatively in the place of Tungsten (W).

Abstract: An IoT water purification system includes a water purification device and a cloud management device. The water purification device includes a filter element, a water tank, a water quantity sensing circuit, a filter element sensing circuit, and a water purification side wireless transmission circuit. The water quantity sensing circuit measures a current storage quantity of the drinking water to generate respective water quantity information. The filter element sensing circuit measures a water quality of the tap water to generate water quality information. The cloud management device includes a cloud wireless transmission circuit and a cloud processing circuit.

Abstract: A chemical feed control device controls feeding of a chemical into a water system of a plant. A water quality index-obtaining unit obtains a water quality index value for each of a plurality of disruptive factors of the water system. An environmental data-obtaining unit obtains environmental data related to the plant. An operational data-obtaining unit obtains operational data related to the plant. A determination unit determines a feed amount of each of a plurality of chemicals acting on at least one disruptive factor and having components different from each other with respect to the water system based on the water quality index value, the environmental data, and the operational data such that the water quality index value for each of the disruptive factors approximates a water quality target value for each of the disruptive factors.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for cleaning brine solution are provided. In particular, one or more embodiments comprise a brine cleaning system that includes a brine cooker, a brine filter, and a brine storage unit. The brine cooker heats a dirty brine solution to separate the dirty brine solution into a liquid portion and a solids portion. The brine filter is coupled to the brine cooker to receive the liquid portion and the solids portion from the brine cooker and then substantially remove the solids portion. The brine storage unit is coupled to the brine filter to accumulate the liquid portion once the solids portion have been substantially removed by the brine filter. This allows for more efficient and environmentally friendly use of brine solution in the curing of animal.

Abstract: Systems and methods related to desalination systems are described herein. According to some embodiments, the desalination systems are transiently operated and/or configured to facilitate transient operation. In some embodiments, a liquid stream comprising water and at least one dissolved salt is circulated through a fluidic circuit comprising a desalination system. In some embodiments, a portion of the desalination system (e.g., a humidifier) is configured to remove at least a portion of the water from the liquid stream to produce a concentrated brine stream enriched in the dissolved salt. In certain cases, the concentrated brine stream is recirculated through the fluidic circuit until the concentrated brine stream reaches a relatively high density (e.g., at least about 10 pounds per gallon) and/or a relatively high salinity (e.g., a total dissolved salt concentration of at least about 25 wt %).

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a device for disinfecting a fluid, having a container; a reactor space which is arranged in the container and is configured to receive a fluid to be disinfected, which enters the reactor space via an inlet thereof and can leave it via an outlet of the reactor space; and a UV irradiation device having light-emitting UV diodes, with which UV light rays for disinfecting the fluid in the reactor space can be irradiated; wherein the reactor space in the container is formed having a flow path in a flow tube surrounded by a container wall and the light-emitting UV diodes are arranged distributed on the container wall in the region of the flow tube along the flow path in order to irradiate the UV light rays on the flow path. Furthermore, a device for disinfecting a fluid is provided.

Abstract: A grease trap for separating waste from waste water that includes grey water and FOG includes a tank having a bottom and an interior volume. An inlet invert in the tank has a discharge end for discharging waste water into the tank, and an outlet invert in the tank has a drain end for removing grey water from the tank. A first baffle across the interior volume below the discharge of the inlet invert and above the drain end of the outlet invert has a hole allowing grey water to descend through the hole to a path under the first baffle to the drain end of the outlet invert. A second baffle across the interior volume above the discharge of the inlet invert has a hole allowing FOG to float through the hole in the second baffle to collect above the second baffle.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a ligated metal-organic framework (MOF) for use in removing both anionic and cationic species from a liquid or liquid stream. The present invention also provides methods for placing the MOF on a substrate to form a MOF-containing product that can be used in the removal of certain species from a given fluid. The MOF may be a Zr-based MOF, such as NU-1000, for removal of certain anions, such as oxy-anions, or having an attached thiosulfonyl-thiol (—SO2—S—R2—SH, where R2 is an alkyl group) ligand for complexation with certain cationic species in addition to the anions. The substrate may be any substrate to which a given MOF may be attached, including inert polypropylene polymer resin beads, a macroscopic fabric such as a mesh material or mesh filter, and a molecular fabric.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating a spent ion exchange resin, the apparatus including: a graphite reactor for receiving a spent ion exchange resin including a radionuclide-containing ion exchange group therein; a graphite heater for heating the spent ion exchange resin; an inert gas injection tube for injecting an inert gas into the graphite reactor for drying and carbonizing the spent ion exchange resin; and a halogenation gas injection tube for injecting a halogen-containing gas or a halogenation compound gas into the graphite reactor for halogenation of a compound derived from the radionuclide-containing ion exchange group, and to a method for treating a spent ion exchange resin, the method including steps of (A) drying a spent ion exchange resin including a radionuclide-containing ion exchange group; (B) producing a compound derived from the radionuclide-containing ion exchange group by separating the radionuclide-containing ion exchange group from the dried spent ion exchange res

Abstract: A membrane distillation device, provided with a membrane distillation module including a plurality of hydrophobic porous hollow fiber membranes, and a condenser for condensing water vapor extracted from the module. The average pore diameter of the porous hollow fiber is 0.01-1 ?m. The filling ratio of the porous hollow fiber of the membrane distillation module is 10-80%, and the pressure condition for the membrane distillation is equal to or greater than 1 kPa and equal to or less than the saturated vapor pressure of water at the temperature of the water being treated.

Abstract: A fast acting water purification system containing a source of silver ions which is suitable for use in personal or household water containers, where the non-potable water may contain halides or other materials that limit the solubility of silver in the non-potable water, with the purification agent including a source of silver ions and a compound containing a hydantoin ring increase the presence of silver ions in the non-potable water to a level sufficient to quickly kill harmful microorganisms in the non-potable water without the need to add additional biocides to the non-potable water or pretreat the non-potable water.

Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and can soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for removing nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage by using sponge iron and activated sludge are disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a raw tank, a pH adjusting tank, a primary SBBR reactor, a secondary SBBR reactor, an intermediate tank, and a discharge tank; by modification of sponge iron, preparation of composite filler, sludge inoculation and domestication, and sewage treatment, an effect of simultaneous denitrification and dephosphorization is achieved in one reactor using the combined action of sponge iron and activated sludge with high nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a filtration system and process that enhances mineral removal from sludge through a novel recirculation and mixing apparatus. In one example, the system may include a filter configured to remove minerals from sludge, a pump configured to move the sludge towards the filter, a pre-filtering system configured to add an agent into the sludge prior to the sludge making contact with the filter, a drainage collection system including one ore more reservoirs configured to collect water drained during and/or after the filtering and feedback the drained water to the pump, and valving configured configured to mix the drained water with the sludge to generate a mixture which is moved by the pump towards the filter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a boron containing glass, comprising melting raw materials including boron compounds in a submerged combustion melter (11), withdrawing flue gases from said melter and recovering heat from said flue gases in appropriate heat recovery equipment prior to release into the environment.

Abstract: A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a curved glass thermal forming device and method. The curved glass thermal forming device includes a furnace body having a feed port and a discharge port, wherein the furnace body includes a heating segment, a forming segment and a cooling segment, a rotary table capable of rotating and used for circularly conveying glass to the heating segment, the forming segment and the cooling segment in sequence is arranged in the furnace body, a plurality of female dies for carrying glass are arranged on the rotary table so as to cooperate with a male die in the forming segment to perform press fit forming on the glass.

Abstract: A method of producing a capillary tube from glass includes zonally softening a tubular preform having an outer diameter DOD, an inner diameter DID and a diameter ratio Drel—with Drel=DOD/DID—in a heating zone heated to a draw temperature Tdraw and drawing off continuously from the softened region a capillary strand having an outer diameter dAD, an inner diameter dID and a diameter ratio drel—with drel=dOD/dID—at a draw speed vdraw and cutting the capillary to length therefrom. For cost-effective production of a thick-walled capillary by drawing from a preform without strict requirements for the geometry and dimensional accuracy of the preform, the capillary bore is subjected in the heating zone to a shrinkage process based on the action of draw temperature Tdraw and surface tension, such that the diameter ratio drel of the capillary strand is adjusted to a value greater than the diameter ratio Drel of the preform by at least a factor of 5.

Abstract: An ultrathin chemically toughened glass article has a thickness of no more than 0.4 mm. In order to improve the sharp impact resistance, the glass article has a breakage height (given in mm) of more than 50 multiplied by the thickness (t) of the glass article (given in mm). Further, it has a breakage bending radius (given in mm) of less than 100000 multiplied by the thickness (t) of the glass article (given in mm) and divided by the figure of the surface compressive stress (in MPa) measured at the first surface.

Abstract: Chemically toughened glass is provided that has a depth of compressive stress for potassium of at least 4 ?m and at most 8 ?m; a compressive stress at a depth of 30 ?m due to sodium exchange of at most 200 MPa and a minimum amount of at least 90 MPa where the thickness is 0.5 mm, at least 100 MPa where the thickness is 0.55 mm, at least 110 MPa in where the thickness is 0.6 mm, at least 120 MPa where the thickness is 0.7 mm, and at least 140 MPa where the thickness is 1 mm; a ratio of sodium exchange depth, in ?m, to the thickness, in mm, that is greater than 0.130; and a normalized integral of tensile stress that is a storable tensile stress of at least 20.6 MPa and at most 30 MPa.

Abstract: The invention concerns an automotive glazing comprising (i) at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient comprised between 5 m?1 and 15 m?1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm and having an external face and an internal face, and (ii) an infrared filter. According to the present invention, an infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm, and preferably in the wavelength range from 750 to 1000 nm, is placed on the internal face of the glass sheet in a zone free of the infrared filter layer.

Abstract: A low-E coating has good color stability (a low ?E* value) upon heat treatment (HT). Thermal stability may be improved by the provision of an as-deposited crystalline or substantially crystalline layer of or including zinc oxide, doped with at least one dopant (e.g., Sn), immediately under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer of or including silver; and/or by the provision of at least one dielectric layer of or including an oxide of zirconium. These have the effect of significantly improving the coating's thermal stability (i.e., lowering the ?E* value). An absorber film may be designed to adjust visible transmission and provide desirable coloration, while maintaining durability and/or thermal stability. The dielectric layer (e.g., of or including an oxide of Zr) may be sputter-deposited so as to have a monoclinic phase in order to improve thermal stability.

Abstract: A plate-like chemically strengthened glass having a compression stress layer on the surface of the glass, wherein the compressive stress value (CS0) at the glass surface of is 500 MPa or more, the plate thickness (t) is 400 ?m or more, the compressive stress depth of layer (DOL) is (t×0.15) ?m or more, the compressive stress values (CS1) and (CS2) when the depth from the glass surface is ¼ and ½, respectively, are 50 MPa or more, m1 expressed by {m1=(CS1?CS2/(DOL/4?DOL/2)} is ?1.5 MPa/?m or more, m2 expressed by {m2=(CS2/(DOL/2?DOL)} is 0 MPa/?m or less, and m2 is less than m1.