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A bladeless fan assembly includes comprising a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage receiving the air flow from the base and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted. The nozzle extends substantially orthogonally about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The depth of the base in the direction of the axis may be no more than twice the depth of the nozzle. The assembly produces an air current without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.

A battery module includes pressure release features (37, 38) for releasing excess pressure in a battery container, a wrap blanket (150) disposed between a module (13) and potting material (152) disposed in a case to secure modules (13) while allowing repair, replacement, recycling and/or reuse of modules (13) and a connector (130).

A connector device includes a plug including a plurality of plug terminals and a socket including a plurality of socket terminals. Ground plug terminals each have a recess on the contact surface, and ground socket terminals each have a dimple on the contact surface thereof. The dimple of the ground socket terminal is elastically urged to the recess of the ground plug terminal for obtaining a firm electric contact between the ground plug terminal and the ground socket terminal.

A rotating cutting apparatus comprising a cutting blade holder with at least one hole on the outside diameter of the cutting blade holder into which cutting blades are inserted and bonded to the cutting blade holder. The cutting blade holder encloses a center hole, so that the rotating cutting apparatus can be mounted to a drive shaft of machinery or secured to a cup that can be mounted to the drive shaft of machinery and driven by the machinery. The cutting blade holder can be made of a less expensive material, with only the cutting blade being made of higher-grade materials that maintains its cutting edge well. Additionally, in some arrangements of the present invention, the cutting blade may be sharpened on two sides so that the rotating cutting apparatus can be used for longer periods of time.

A fishing rod cavity. A top is joined to a bottom by a plurality of columns. An upper end of each column is frictionally disposed within a top cavity; a lower end of each column is frictionally disposed within a bottom cavity. A column cavity sized to admit a fishing rod handle is disposed at an upper end of each column, to hold the fishing rod for rinsing after salt water use. Drains through the bottom allow rinse water to escape out of a cavity in the fishing rod caddy, and also reduce the fishing rod caddy's weight. Alternate embodiments provide slots sized to admit, store, and transport tackle box trays, and a cavity sized to admit a standard bucket. The fishing rod caddy is made of nylon, plastic, or synthetic material to reduce water absorption and help prevent mold growth on the fishing rod caddy.

Provided is an insert type blade assembly of a rotation drum type electric razor, and the insert type blade assembly of the rotation drum type electric razor which includes a main body 10 that has an ON/OFF switch 12 at a front surface thereof; a blade supporting means 20 that is coupled to an upper side of the main body 10 so as to receive a motor 22 driven by the ON/OFF switch 12; a power transmitting means 30 that is downwardly disposed at a side surface of the blade supporting means 20 and provided with a plurality of gears coupled to the motor 22 so as to transmit power; a plurality of blade assemblies 40 that is rotated at a high speed so as to cut body hair by the power transmitted from the power transmitting means 30 and respectively disposed at an upper portion of the blade supporting means 20; a trimmer assembly 50 that is coupled to a lower side of the blade supporting means 20 and provided with has a trimmer disposed at a rear side of the main body 10 so as to be reciprocated left and right by driving force transmitted from the power transmitting means 30; and a cover 60 that is coupled to an upper side of the main body 10 so as to cover the blade supporting means 20 and provided with a protective screen 62 to protect a shaving portion of a user from the blade assemblies 40, wherein the blade assembly 40 includes a rotational shaft 100 which is extended in a length direction; a plurality of rotational blade members 200 which are respectively formed into a cylindrical waterwheel shape having a plurality of blades 220 so as to be coupled to the rotational shaft 100 and in which a coupling protrusion 230 is formed at each end of the blades 220, and the blades 220 are fitted in turn to the rotational shaft 100 in the form of a zigzag shape; a fixing washer 300 which has a plurality of fixing holes 320 corresponding to the number of blades 220 so that the coupling protrusion 230 of the blades 220 of the rotational blade member 200 that is finally coupled to the rotational shaft 100 is inserted therein, and also has a shaft hole 310 which is shaft-coupled to an end of the rotational shaft 100.

An apparatus for generating a virtual engine sound is provided. The apparatus includes a rotating bracket member that is disposed within a wheel of a vehicle and includes movement space therein, and elastic bodies, each of which has a first end fixed to a substantial rotation center position of the rotating bracket member. In addition, the apparatus includes weight bodies which are fixed to a second end of the elastic body, and are configured to move within the movement space based on a rotation speed of the wheel of the vehicle, and selectively contact the rotating bracket member.

An electrooptic device of the invention is constructed that an electrooptic substance is sandwiched between first and second substrates. The first substrate is overlaid with first displaying electrodes, switching elements which are disposed corresponding to the electrodes, data lines which are electrically connected with the switching elements, and a sampling circuit which includes first conductivity type transistors for sampling and which samples image signals and feeds them to the data lines, the image signals involving polarity inversion with respect to the center voltages of the amplitudes of these image signals. The electrooptic device further includes a gate voltage varying unit which changes the gate voltages of the first conductivity type transistors in response to the polarity inversion of the image signals. Thus, in an electrooptic device, such as a liquid crystal device in which inversion drive is implemented, flickering is reduced as the sampling circuit is constructed of the first conductivity type transistors.

A flexible, pressure-resistant and oil-resistant hose having excellent durability and pressure-resistant properties, light in weight, and low in cost. A flexible, pressure-resistant and oil-resistant hose provided with a soft body section (2) having a substantially flat inner surface, and also with a helical hard core material section (3) provided on the outer surface of or within the soft body section (2) so as to reinforce the soft body section (2), wherein the soft body section (2) consists of an oil-resistant thermoplastic elastomer. The flexible, pressure-resistant and oil-resistant hose can also be configured as follows, for example: a mesh-like section (4) consisting of a large number of reinforcing threads is provided within the soft body section (2) and the hard core material section (3) is helically provided to the outer surface of the soft body section (2); or the hard core material section (3) particularly is constructed from a metal wire, the hard core material section (3) is provided to the outer surface of the soft body section (2), and an outer coating layer (6) consisting of a wear-resistant thermoplastic elastomer is provided to the outer surface side of the hard core material section (3); or the hard core material section (3) is provided within the soft body section (2) and an inner coating layer (7) consisting of an oil-resistant thermoplastic elastomer is provided to the soft body section (2) so as to cover the inner surface thereof.

A surface mount grid array implemented on a PCB (printed circuit board) optimized for trace escape routing for the PCB. The surface mount grid array includes a plurality of connection blocks, with each connection block including an array of pins and an array of vias, wherein the pins and vias are configured to communicatively connect an integrated circuit device to a plurality of traces of the PCB. The connection blocks are disposed in a tiled arrangement, wherein the connection blocks implement a plurality of trace escape channels along connection block boundaries. The trace escape channels are configured for routing traces from inner pins of the surface mount grid array to a periphery of the surface mount grid array.

A dehumidifier comprises a suction unit 45 which humid air 47 is sucked in, a dehumidifying unit 43 having a chiller 56 and for cooling down the humid air sucked in and for dehumidifying by condensing the moisture in the humid air, a discharge unit 46 having a heat radiator 54 and for heating and discharging dry air 49 as dehumidified at the dehumidifying unit, a refrigerant circulating system 44 for cooling down the humid air at the dehumidifying unit and for heating the dry air at the discharge unit, and a heat exchanger 1 for performing heat exchange between the humid air and the dry air as dehumidified at the dehumidifying unit.

In a vehicle ac generator, a rear cover, which is provided to cover a rectifying device, has a cover body and a protecting wall portion. The cover body forms a plurality of air intake openings through which cooling air created by rotation of a rotor is sucked in the generator. The protecting wall portion is integrally formed with the cover body. The protecting wall portion extends from an axial end surface of the cover body in an axially outward direction of a rotation shaft of the rotor, at a position higher than the air intake openings when the vehicle ac generator is mounted on a vehicle. Therefore, it is less likely that foreign materials such as water and oil will enter the inside of the rear cover from the air intake openings.

An operating device for a vehicle door latch comprises an inside handle, a base member fixed to a door, and inside lever connected to the inside handle, a locking lever, a housing, a motor, an output lever, a detected lever coupled to the inside handle and an inside-handle detecting switch. The motion of the inside handle is detected by the inside-handle detecting switch via the detected lever of the device to make the door open or close. Another detecting switch detects motion of a swinging member outside the housing.

Disclosed herein is a sample collection apparatus. The sample collection apparatus includes a self-sampling pad and a cell fixing container, wherein the sample collection pad includes a filter unit, the structure and material of which are such that cells, viruses and DNAs contained in vaginal secretions can be efficiently absorbed and attached to the filter unit and can be efficiently detached from the filter unit in a cell preserving solution after the filter unit is removed and put into the cell preserving solution. Thus, the filter unit includes at least one adsorbent layer which is formed of a hydrophobic material having low fineness and high resilience.

The present invention provides an electronic circuit, a method of driving the electronic circuit, an electro-optical device, a method of driving the electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving yield or aperture ratio by reducing the number of transistors to be used. A pixel circuit can include a driving transistor, a transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. Furthermore, a driving-voltage supplying transistor is connected between a first power source line, which supplies a driving voltage to drive the driving transistor, and a voltage supply line extending in a row in the direction of the pixel circuits provided at the right end side of an active matrix part.

A light emitting apparatus includes a substrate, at least one light emitting device and a protective layer. The substrate has a surface formed with a structure for increasing light emitting efficiency. The light emitting device is disposed on a predetermined position of the substrate. The light emitting device emits lights and the lights are reflected and concentrated to project out by the structure of the substrate. Thus, the light emitting efficiency is improved.

An improved ergonomic seatbelt system includes a spool bracket, a longitudinal belt wound about and within the spool bracket. The first and second longitudinal ends of the belt present folded sections. The improved ergonomic seatbelt system provides improved comfort and safety to a passenger. The seatbelt does not require multiple components, thereby reducing cost and simplifying the manufacturing method of the seatbelt. The improved spool design reduces the overall diameter of the wound belt, thereby improving packaging characteristics to fit the spool into a b-pillar or a seat system.

The present invention discloses a multiple star wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network system using a wavelength assignment method. In a multiple star wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network system using a wavelength assignment method according to the present invention, only one WDM-PON system can provide services for a plurality of subscribers who is distributed in a wide range of area through multiple starring, by setting one or more band for transmitting up-stream signals as an up-stream basic band and one or more band for transmitting down-stream signals as a down stream basic band, respectively, and by dividing each of the up-stream basic band and the down stream basic band into a plurality of wavelength sub-bands and assigning the divided sub-bands to different areas using a wavelength division multiplexer/de-multiplexer which splits a band into two or more sub-bands.

This invention is for a hybrid vehicle operated by fuel with a high-ethanol content, which synergistically combines independent sources of ethanol power to move toward renewable and environmental-friendly fuel to replace gasoline. The vehicle combines one or more electric motors powered by Direct-Ethanol Fuel-Cells (DEFCs) using either HYPERMEC™ or a similar-type catalyst, with 2 of the 4 Preferred Embodiments provided for the ethanol hybrid also including a flexible-fuel engine. The electric motors powered by DEFCs in all the Preferred Embodiments are coupled with energy-storage systems which can independently operate the motors. For 4-wheel vehicles, all of these embodiments can be operated either in 2 or 4-wheel mode for engagement of the transmission, for either the electric motor or for the engine in Preferred-Embodiments 1 and 2, and for either of the electric motors in Preferred-Embodiments 3 and 4.

The present disclosure provides a node connection method and a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system comprises a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers. A server comprises a mapping table. The node connection method comprises: recording node information and a mapping relationship between nodes in the mapping table; visiting, by a client, a service side of the distributed computing system based on the node information; acquiring a target node corresponding to the node information in the mapping table; and connecting, by the client, to the target node. The present disclosure may simplify a system structure of the distributed computing system, reduce the system management cost, and improve the working efficiency of the client in the system and the master-slave changing speed in each server.

In order to obtain a composite separation membrane which has excellent chemical resistance, separation performance and water permeability at the same time, the present invention provides a composite separation membrane comprising a separation function layer on a porous supporting membrane, characterized in that the separation function layer contains at least a polymer of a polyhedral silsesquioxane represented by the following general formula (a) and a hydrophilic monomer.

(R¹SiO_1.5)_n(R²SiO_1.5)_m  General Formula (a)

(In the formula, R¹ includes a polymerizable reactive moiety; R² represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, which may be substituted; and n and m each represent an integer satisfying n≧2 or m≧0, with n+m being 8, 10 or 12.)

A liquid crystal display device includes at least: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source provided on a back side of the liquid crystal display panel; and a frame accommodating the liquid crystal display panel and the light source and having an upper opening and a lower opening in an upper portion and a lower portion of the frame, respectively. The liquid crystal display panel includes a TFT substrate provided on a side of the light source, a CF substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, a thin film driving circuit formed on the TFT substrate for driving the liquid crystal layer, and a front polarizing plate provided on a front surface of the CF substrate and having an overhanging portion overhanging from a periphery of the CF substrate. The front polarizing plate covers the upper opening of the frame and the overhanging portion is fixed to an upper end surface of the frame.

A receiver apparatus includes a band-pass filter having a variable frequency band coupled to a node for receiving a received signal including a plurality of channels to output at an output node thereof a limited-band signal made by limiting a frequency band of the received signal to a frequency band of a desired channel, a frequency conversion unit coupled to the output node of the band-pass filter to output at an output node thereof an intermediate frequency signal made by converting frequencies of the limited-band signal, and a control unit configured to adjust an intermediate frequency of the intermediate frequency signal by controlling the frequency conversion unit in response to at least one of a signal speed and a channel frequency interval of the received signal.

A diaper alarm system, comprising: at least a diaper, and an alarm system. Wherein, in each diaper is provided with a sensor and a transmitter. Said sensor and said transmitter are located inside said diaper, said sensor is printed on a urine-gathering region and an excrement-gathering region inside said diaper, such that the sensor is connected to the transmitter wirelessly, thus said sensor is able to utilize said transmitter to send out detection signals. Said alarm system includes a receiver, which is connected to said transmitter through transmission of telecommunication signals. On receiving a detection signal by said receiver, said alarm system will determine whether to send out an alarm based on said detection signal.

An article of a base metal alloyed with an alloying element is prepared by mixing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of a base metal and a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound of an alloying element to form a compound mixture. The base metal is nickel, cobalt, iron, iron-nickel, or iron-nickel-cobalt. One or more of the alloying elements are thermophysically melt incompatible with the base metal. The method further includes chemically reducing the compound mixture to a metallic superalloy, without melting the metallic superalloy, and thereafter consolidating the metallic superalloy to produce a consolidated metallic article, without melting the metallic superalloy and without melting the consolidated metallic article.

A reference current source circuit includes a reference voltage generating module, a voltage buffer, an equivalent resistance, a filter capacitor, a current mirror module and a reference current outputting terminal. The voltage buffer includes an operational amplifier and a first FET. The current mirror module includes a second FET and a third FET. The equivalent resistor includes an oscillator, a fourth FET, a fifth FET and a capacitor connected to the fourth FET and the fifth FET. The oscillator is for generating a clock signal whose frequency is related to a charging and discharging capacitor in the oscillator to control charging and discharging of the capacitor in the equivalent resistance. The reference current outputting terminal is for outputting a reference current only related to a capacitance ratio of the capacitor to the charging and discharging capacitor. A reference current source system is further disclosed.

A work piece conveyor whose structure is simplified and downsized with the intention of achieving cost reduction, an improved degree of freedom in setting a motion pattern and improved productive efficiency. The workpiece conveyor is such that a cross bar carrier for supporting a cross bar provided with vacuum cups is movably attached, through a linear movement mechanism, to a feed lever which is oscillating-driven along a workpiece conveying direction, thereby making the relative distance between the center of oscillation of the rocking element and the cross bar variable.

A system and method for providing cost estimation in performing a work project on communications infrastructure may include accessing a first data record generated by a first software tool, where the first data record includes data that specifies a work project on communications infrastructure. A second data record utilized by a second software tool may be populated utilizing the data of the first data record. A data set that is related to a combination of a first data element and a second data element of the first data record may be accessed. Using the second software tool, the data set may be presented to a user in a selectable format to enable the user to select a third data element from the presented data set, where the third data element may be used to estimate a cost for performing the work project. A cost estimate based on the third data element may be generated and presented to the user using the second software tool.