摘要:
Pipe articles and methods of forming the same are described herein. The methods generally include providing an ethylene based polymer; contacting the ethylene based polymer with a secondary stabilizer including a diphosphite to form a modified polyethylene; and forming the modified polyethylene into a pipe.
摘要:
Pipe articles and methods of forming the same are described herein. The pipe articles generally include a bimodal polyethylene including a greater amount of high molecular weight fraction than low molecular weight fraction and wherein the pipe article exhibits a critical temperature of less than about 0° C. at 5 bar.
摘要:
Methods of forming pipe articles and pipe articles are described herein. The methods generally include providing a bimodal ethylene based polymer, blending the bimodal ethylene based polymer with up to about 50 ppm peroxide to form modified polyethylene and forming the modified polyethylene into a pipe.
摘要:
A device amplifies light at wavelengths in the vicinity of 1420-1530 nm, using thulium doped silica-based optical fiber. This wavelength band is of interest as it falls in the low-loss optical fiber telecommunications window, and is somewhat shorter in wavelength than the currently standard erbium doped silica fiber amplifier. The device thus extends the band of wavelengths which can be supported for long-distance telecommunications. The additional wavelength band allows the data transmission rate to be substantially increased via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), with minimal modification to the standard equipment currently used for WDM systems. The host glass is directly compatible with standard silica-based telecommunications fiber. The invention also enables modified silicate based amplifiers and lasers on a variety of alternative transitions. Specifically, an S-band thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) using a true silicate fiber host is described.
摘要:
A vehicle having a power unit and a drive train. The drive train is connected to the power unit. The drive train includes a transmission having a shaft and a clutch assembly connected to the transmission. The clutch assembly has a retaining structure and a sleeve. The sleeve is in contact with the retaining structure and the shaft extends through the sleeve. The sleeve includes a body and a ring removably attached to an outer surface of the body. The body has at least one internal substantially cylindrically shaped bearing surface. The body also has an outer surface and a first hardness. The ring has a second hardness different from the first hardness.
摘要:
This invention pertains to a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass fiber and to a fabrication method for making the fiber. The fiber, which is 80-1000 microns in outside diameter, is characterized by a solid glass circumferential region and a structured region disposed centrally within the solid region, the structured region includes a hollow core of 1 micron to several hundreds of microns in diameter surrounded by a plurality of parallel hollow capillaries extending parallel to the core, the core being centrally and longitudinally located within the fiber. Ratio of open space to glass in the structured region is 30-99%. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing a mold, placing chalcogenide micro-tubes around the mold, stacking chalcogenide micro-canes around the stacked micro-tubes, fusing the micro-tubes and the micro-canes to form a preform, removing the mold and drawing the preform to obtain the fiber. In an alternative fabrication method, the fiber is made by extruding flowing chalcogenide glass through suitably made plate to form a preform and then drawing the preform to form the fiber.
摘要:
An apparatus for exercising the muscles of the lumbar region of a subject's back includes a seat, a vertical support member to which the back end of the seat is attached so that the centerline extending from the from the front to the back of the seat forms an angle with the vertical member in the range of 65 to 75 degrees and with the front end of the seat being inclined downward to the surface on which the vertical support member stands, a base attached to the bottom end of the vertical support member, a cylindrical roller pad that is rotatably mounted to the vertical support member at a position above the seat, a knob that is adjustably mounted to the vertical support member, and a hand-held weight which the subject grasps and holds near the subject's body while performing the strengthening exercises. In a first embodiment, these entail the subject sitting on the seat and assuming a first position with subject's upper torso bent over so as to be proximate the thighs and a hand-held weight grasped and held near the subject's chest. The subject then moves to a second position by raising the upper torso while continuing to hold the hand-held weight near the subject's chest and keeping the pelvis and sacrum in contact with the pad. A preferred angular range of motion of the subject's back while so exercising is approximately seventy-two degrees. In a second embodiment, the exercises entail the subject standing with a hand-held weight near the hip and with the sacrum against the knob so as to keep the hips and pelvis from moving while the subject does lateral, upper body bending exercises.
摘要:
The present invention includes an end use article (i.e., an article of manufacture) and a process for making the same, wherein the end use article has a relatively high gloss and exhibits excellent processability over a wide range of processing conditions. The end use article can be formed with glossy polyethylene having an “a” parameter less than or equal to about 0.40, and the glossy polyethylene can be a Metallocene polyethylene. The end use article can have a 60° specular gloss of at least about 40%, or from about 40% to about 80%, or from about 60% to about 80%. The end use article may be pigmented or unpigmented.
摘要:
A process includes the steps of disposing a solid core glass rod at a point removed from hot temperature that can cause crystallization in the core glass rod, disposing a solid clad glass rod at a point removed from the core glass rod; softening to the flowing condition the solid clad glass rod, transferring the softened clad glass to a lower point, the softened clad glass having a central void therethrough, heating the softened clad glass above its crystallization temperature, cooling the softened clad glass to a draw temperature, transferring the solid core glass rod into the central void in the softened glad glass, softening to the flowing condition the solid core glass rod with the heat from the softened and cooled clad glass, and drawing the core/clad, glass fiber by allowing the clad and core glasses to flow in the form of a fiber.
摘要:
Disclosed is a bimodal Ziegler-Natta catalyzed polyethylene, having a density of from 0.930 g/cc to 0.960 g/cc, and a molecular weight distribution of from 10 to 25, wherein an article formed therefrom has a PENT of at least 1500. Also disclosed is a method of preparing a tubular article including obtaining a bimodal polyethylene having a density of from 0.930 g/cc to 0.960 g/cc and a molecular weight distribution of from 10 to 25, and processing the polyethylene under conditions where a specific energy input (SEI) is less than 300 kW·h/ton, and wherein the article has a PENT of at least 1500. Further disclosed is a method for controlling the degradation of polyethylene including polymerizing ethylene monomer, recovering polyethylene, extruding the polyethylene, and controlling the degradation of polyethylene by measuring the SEI to the extruder and adjusting throughput and/or gear suction pressure keep SEI less than 300 kW·h/ton, and forming an article.