Abstract:
The present invention provides a foldable wing which comprises a wing supporting skeleton, a sliding rail, a skin supporting rib, a skin and a wing movement unit. The wing supporting skeleton comprises a horizontal beam, a longitudinal beam, a wing front edge beam, a wing trailing edge beam, a fixture connector and a sliding block, The wing supporting skeleton is a triangular girder for maintaining planar and sectional shapes of the foldable wing, supporting the skin supporting rib and the skin, and sustaining an aerodynamic load from the skin and a load of a fuselage. After the triangular girder is subjected to a force of the wing movement unit, a shape and an area of the triangular girder are changed so as to achieve folding and unfolding of the foldable wing. A rotocraft and a glider using the foldable wing are also provided.
Abstract:
Certain configurations of optical wireless communication devices that comprise a plurality of narrow beam width light emitting diodes to provide a wide-angle transmitter are described. The transmitter can be used, for example, in optical wireless communication systems. The transmitter can be designed to select one of the light emitting diodes that points towards the receiver for more reliable information exchange or data transmission. The particular light emitting diode used may change as a position of an end user changes.
Abstract:
A method and device for forming a cigarette filter rod. The method is as follows: in a process of continuously conveying forward cigarette filter materials that tend to converge to have a rod shape, multiple granular additives are continuously output in accordance with a certain time interval, and are sprayed into the cigarette filter materials that converge forwards under the action of continuous transporting flows, so that after the cigarette filter materials converge to form a continuous filter rod, multiple groups of additive unit combinations formed of different granular additive units are embedded in an axial direction of the filter rod. With the method and device for forming a cigarette filter rod, a filter rod containing multiple granular additives can be formed in one step; multiple granular additives can be combined and arranged in any way along an axial direction of the filter rod; dosage positions and intervals of various granular additives can be adjusted and changed randomly; a production process is simplified and the production cost is reduced.
Abstract:
A method of depositing contiguous, conformal submonolayer-to-multilayer thin films with atomic-level control is described. The process involves the use of underpotential deposition of a first element to mediate the growth of a second material by overpotential deposition. Deposition occurs between a potential positive to the bulk deposition potential for the mediating element where a full monolayer of mediating element forms, and a potential which is less than, or only slightly greater than, the bulk deposition potential of the material to be deposited. By cycling the applied voltage between the bulk deposition potential for the mediating element and the material to be deposited, repeated desorption/adsorption of the mediating element during each potential cycle can be used to precisely control film growth on a layer-by-layer basis. This process is especially suitable for the formation of a catalytically active layer on core-shell particles for use in energy conversion devices such as fuel cells.
Abstract:
Methods for communicating with an automatic flush valve device. The automatic flush device having a variety of operational modes which can be selected from to control the operation of the device. The communication from the automatic flush device providing a user with information regarding the status of the flush valve device.
Abstract:
An apparatus for testing the air permeability in the thickness direction of a resin matrix composite material layer includes a mold having a cavity and a covering plate, a loading apparatus, a temperature controlling apparatus, a vacuuming apparatus, and a flow detecting element. An air inlet is connected to the flow detecting element, and an air outlet is connected to the vacuuming apparatus. The covering plate has a through-hole with upper and lower ventilation pieces. The loading apparatus addresses the upper ventilation piece. A test specimen is laid flat between the ventilation pieces. Employment of the present invention allows for accurate testing of air permeability of pre-impregnated material in the thickness direction of the resin matrix composite material layer under different pressure and temperature conditions.
Abstract:
A solar cell includes a cathode component, an anode component, sealant for assembling the cathode component and the anode component to form a closed space, and electrolyte accommodated in the closed space, in which the cathode component contains a lower transparent conductive substrate, a nano-oxide semiconductor thin film formed on the lower transparent conductive substrate, and dye attached to a nano-particle surface of the nano-oxide semiconductor thin film; and the anode component contains an upper transparent conductive substrate, and an anode electrode layer formed on the upper transparent conductive substrate, the nano-oxide semiconductor thin film and the anode electrode layer being arranged opposite to each other and contacting with the electrolyte, in which the anode component further contains a CdTe layer which is patterned to have an opening, and the anode electrode layer is located in the opening of the CdTe layer.
Abstract:
Methods for communicating with an automatic flush valve device. The automatic flush device having a variety of operational modes which can be selected from to control the operation of the device. The communication from the automatic flush device providing a user with information regarding the status of the flush valve device.
Abstract:
Problem An object of the present invention is to provide an optical code division multiple access system which is used by many people.Means for Solving The above problem is solved by an optical code division multiple access, OCDMA, system 5 which have a central office 2 comprising a multi-port optical encoder 1, a decode part 4 comprising a decoder 3 for decoding optical code signals from the multi-port optical encoder 1. The multi-port optical encoder 1 transform input optical signals into optical code signals the wavelength of them differs at predetermined amount based on code pattern. The decoder 3 is super structured fiber Bragg grating, SSFBG, which has center wavelength that corresponds to optical code signal.
Abstract:
Data security of a multi-dimensional code system is increased. An optical device is provided with a single input port; a splitter splitting an input light from the input port into a plurality of lights; a plurality of phase shifters each shifting one of the lights split by the splitter; a multi-port encoder/decoder inputting the lights whose phases are shifted by the phase shifters and generating spectral encoded codes; and a plurality of output ports outputting the spectral encoded codes generated by the multi-port encoder/decoder.