Abstract:
A torque converter for a vehicle includes a front cover integrally formed with a boss to which a crank shaft of an engine side is connected, an impeller connected to the front cover to rotate together with the front cover, a turbine disposed facing the impeller, a stator disposed between the impeller and the turbine to convert flow of oil directed from the turbine, a lockup clutch mechanism for directly connecting the engine to the turbine. A blade of the impeller and/or the turbine is provided with inner and outer projections coupled to shell and core of the impeller and/or the turbine. Each of the inner and outer and inner projections includes a base located on a slit formed on the shell/core and an extending section extending from the base, the extending section being bent after penetrating the slit.
Abstract:
A direct liquid feed fuel cell system includes fuel cells including an electrolyte membrane, a plurality of cathode electrodes formed on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane, and anode electrodes formed on a second part of the electrolyte membrane; and a high concentration fuel storage unit and a low concentration fuel storage unit which are separated from each other and store a liquid fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell. The liquid fuel in the low concentration fuel storage unit is supplied to the anode electrodes wherein the liquid fuel in the low concentration fuel storage unit is supplied to the anode electrodes when pressure is applied to the low concentration fuel storage unit, such as when the direct liquid feed fuel cell system having the low concentration fuel storage unit is mounted on an electronic device.
Abstract:
A water recovery system of a direct liquid feed fuel cell and a direct liquid feed fuel cell having the water recovery system. The water recovery system in which water produced at a cathode electrode of a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) is recovered to supply to an anode electrode, the water recovery system includes: a first member located on the cathode electrode and a first supporting plate that supports the first member; and a second member located on the anode electrode and a second supporting plate that supports the second member, wherein the first member and the second member are connected to each other through a slit formed in an electrolyte membrane of the MEA. The direct liquid feed fuel cell having the water recovery system can be used, for example, in a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC).
Abstract:
A monopolar membrane-electrode assembly, including an electrolyte membrane having a plurality of cell regions and at least one opening associated with each cell region, a plurality of anode current collecting bodies and a plurality of cathode current collecting bodies respectively formed at the cell regions on both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane, each current collecting body including a current collector collecting the currents on the cell regions, and a conductor connected to a side of the current collector, respective ends of the conductors of corresponding anode and cathode current collecting bodies being connected through the corresponding openings in series, and a plurality of anodes and a plurality of cathodes respectively formed on the anode current collecting bodies and the cathode current collecting bodies.
Abstract:
A fuel delivery apparatus for a direct liquid feed fuel cell is provided. The fuel delivery apparatus includes a plate stack formed by a one or more double-sided plates positioned between opposing end plates. Both sides of the one or more double-sided plates, and the interior side of each end plate, may include one or more microchannels that extend between, and link, an inlet port with an outlet port. The length of the microchannels is chosen to be less than the height of a predetermined meniscus so that liquid fuel propelled by capillary force forms a meniscus that stands proximate the interface between the ends of the microchannels and the outlet port. A heater may be located at the upper ends of the microchannels around the plate stack, to vaporize the liquid fuel at the meniscus.
Abstract:
An apparatus for measuring a methanol concentration is provided. The apparatus is located in a pipe which supplies liquid fuel to the anode of a direct liquid feed fuel cell, and may include a vertical supporting beam located in the pipe; a horizontal plate located on the supporting beam and having an upper surface with a predetermined roughness; and a sensor fixed to a side of the supporting beam, which generates an electrical signal through a transformation of the supporting beam resulting from variations in a viscosity of the liquid fuel running through the pipe.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for estimating a frequency offset using a preamble signal having a periodically repeated structure. According to the apparatus and method, the sum of or the difference between an input signal and a delay signal is calculated without obtaining a simple correlation value between the input signal and the delay signal, and then a correlation value between a calculated signal and the delay signal is obtained. Accordingly, the implementation complexity of the circuit and the power consumption are reduced, and thus, the battery cycle of a terminal provided with the frequency offset estimating circuit can be increased.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a microfluidic bio sample processing apparatus including a processing module configured for processing the bio sample and having a hole through which the processed bio sample, a solution for processing the bio sample or both flow, a board having a flowing channel connected with the hole so as to allow the bio sample, the solution for processing the bio sample or both to flow between processing modules and a bonding feature for bonding the processing module with the board. The processing modules are configured to be assembled and/or disassembled onto or from the board so that the processing apparatus is adapted to various kinds of bio samples having different processing steps.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for high speed rerouting in a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) network which can minimize a packet loss and enable a fast rerouting of traffic so as to protect and recover a multi point to point LSP occupying most LSPs in the MPLS network. The method for high speed rerouting in a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) network, the method comprising the steps of controlling a traffic stream to flow in a reverse direction in a point where a node or link failure occurs by using a backup Label Switched Path (LSP) comprising an Explicitly Routed (ER) LSP having a reverse tree of a protected multi point to point LSP and an ingress LSR through an egress LSR.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing biodegradable microspheres containing physiologically active agents. Particularly, the present invention relates to the process comprised the following steps (1) to prepare a polymer solution containing physiologically active agents wherein a biodegradable polymer is dissolved in a water-soluble organic solvent and physiologically active agents are dissolved or suspended to it; (2) to form a O/O type emulsion by emulsifying the polymer solution into a water soluble alcohol which contains an emulsion stabilizer; and (3) to extract the organic solventS and alcohol by adding the emulsion into a neutral or an alkaline aqueous solution to educe the microspheres. The process of the present invention is effective for producing the microspheres having a uniform size which arm congenital to a living body and has an excellent inclusion efficiency. So, the microspheres prepared by the process of the present invention are used for a drug delivery system.