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An integrated tool that enables wet chemical processing chambers, lift-rotate units and other hardware to be quickly interchanged without having to recalibrate the transport system or other components to the replacement items. These tools are expected to reduce the down time associated with repairing or maintaining processing chambers and / or lift-rotate units so that the tools can maintain a high throughput. Several aspects of these tools are particularly useful for applications that have stringent performance requirements because components are more likely to require maintenance more frequently, and reducing the down time associated with maintaining such components will significantly enhance the integrated tool.

A cartridge for chromatography separations comprises a housing; at least a first and a second chromatography column at least partially passing through the housing, each chromatography column comprising a first and a second end fitting operable to connect the chromatography to external tubing of a chromatography system. Connection fittings protruding outside of the housing at each end of each column enable fluidic connection to a chromatograph plumbing system and / or mass spectrometer detector. The cartridge may comprise heaters and temperature sensors and optional sensors to monitor fluid flow rate or pH. A passive identification feature, e.g., a barcode or RFID module may identify the cartridge and its associated chromatography methods to external software. Further, an on-board memory module and controller chip may be used to actively record computer-readable module information, including module history information, the information transferable through a standard interface, such as a universal serial bus (USB) port.

A data structure for a decentralized ledger interchange object includes: a first data field containing an identifier for an item; a set of second data fields linked to the first data field, each second field containing one of a set of time periods; a set of third data fields, each third data field linked to a corresponding second data field, each third data fields containing a requested quantity of the item for a corresponding time period; and a set of fourth data fields, each fourth data field linked to the corresponding second data field, each fourth data field containing a committed quantity of the item for the corresponding time period. The decentralized ledger interchange object can used in a computer system, a computerized method for time-based manufacturing, a computerized method for time-based pricing and other systems, devices and methods.

A barrel assembly for a pneumatic paintball gun includes a barrel body and a barrel insert. The barrel body has a breech end, a muzzle end, and a barrel bore extending longitudinally through the barrel body from the breech end to the muzzle end. The barrel insert has a breech end, a distal end, and an insert bore, and is configured to be removably housed within a breech portion of the bore of the barrel body. The breech end of the barrel body is configured to attach to a breech end of the paintball gun. The barrel insert collaborates with the barrel body to provide a firing bore for the barrel assembly which guides a paintball fired from the breech end of the gun through the barrel and out the muzzle end of the barrel body. The barrel insert can be constructed having a thin, flexible wall so as to permit lateral deformation of the barrel insert. This lateral flexibility enables the insert to dynamically adapt to the shape and diameter of the paintball, thereby increasing the efficiency of the energy transfer from the compressed gas to the paintball.

A modular eyewear apparatus includes a frame member having left and right socket portions each having a generally circular rim defining an interior void, respectively, and being connected by a bridge portion, the left and the right socket portion having a temple connector extending rearwardly from a respective rim. A lens holding member has a pair of adjacent rim sections selectively coupled to the rims of the left and the right socket portions, respectively. The eyewear apparatus includes proximal and distal ends, respectively, each proximal end being selectively coupled to a respective temple connector such that the temple members are interchangeable. The configurations of the selected members themselves enable them to be quickly and efficiently released from an assembly or to be interchangeably arranged into a new assembly as described above.

The invention discloses a charging, exchanging and configuring management networking system of a vehicle power battery, relating to the technical field of battery charging, electronic tag and computer networking. According to physical distribution transportation radius for battery distribution, the supply center (comprising traditional supply systems and supply systems of various renewable energies, such as wind energy, solar energy and the like) of a power grid is provided with hundreds and thousands of large professional battery charging stations (or in charge by battery production enterprises); distributed battery exchange and distribution stations with equivalent amount with the existing gas station are arranged within an irradiation range; according to an identifiable mark on the battery, such as the networking information of an electronic tag (or bar code), and the dynamic requirement on the battery exchange and distribution stations, the battery is transported to the battery exchange and distribution station from a professional charging station of the battery through an optimal path. The invention reduces use, investment and operating cost with a quick, convenient, accurate, safe, environmentally-friendly and optimal economic management mode.

A self-contained mobile sampling and processing facility for use at a mine having at least one blast-hole that forms a blast-hole cone wherein the sampling and processing facility includes at least one primary robotic arm that carries at least one sampling tool, and the primary robotic arm and sampling tool is controlled by robotic arm and sampling tool movement controller means, and the primary robotic arm is capable of self-determining the direction, distance and shape of a nearby blast-hole cone, then subsequently positioning itself so that the sampling tool is able to engage with the blast-hole cone and retrieve a sample from it without significant mixing or stirring the cone, or a localised region of the cone, and then the sample is deposited into the processing facility.

A personal transport device including a transportation attachment, a foot platform situated above the transportation attachment and at least one fastener connecting the foot platform to the transportation attachment. The foot platform has two parallel extending surfaces supporting a user's foot so that the longitudinal axis of the user's foot can be positioned roughly perpendicular to the direction of travel of the transportation attachment The transportation attachment can be wheels, skates or even skis.

A user interface provides a financial analysis system for real time monitoring of market conditions for a portfolio of stocks or other financial instruments. The interface presents three unique panels, which, upon selection by the user, provide different representations of data with respect to the portfolio or a selected portion of the portfolio. The user can rapidly cycle among these panels by activating icons. Further, the user can quickly retrieve additional data for a given stock from any of a variety of user-selectable sources by activating additional icons.

The invention relates to the technical field of automobile refueling, in particular to an intelligent full-automatic refueling robot and an intelligent full-automatic refueling system. The intelligentfull-automatic refueling robot comprises a mounting cabinet, a manipulator, an automatic outer cover opening mechanism, an automatic inner cover spinning mechanism, a quick change male joint and a plurality of quick change female joints. The quick change male joint is arranged on the manipulator and is connected to or separated from the quick change female joints, so that the manipulator can be selectively connected to the automatic inner cover spinning mechanism or oil guns corresponding to different oil products. The intelligent full-automatic refueling system comprises an oil supply machine, an oil gun, a visual recognition device, a controller and the intelligent full-automatic refueling robot. The intelligent full-automatic refueling system needs not to be watched by specially-assigned persons, so that the staff cost is saved. The intelligent full-automatic refueling robot can clamp and replace the oil guns quickly and open the inner cover of a refueling port more easily, so thatthe refueling efficiency is improved greatly and dangerous accidents caused by manual operation mistakes are avoided greatly.

A simple attachment for a reciprocating tool that will effectuate the ability to do a flush cut in an inexpensive and simple manner which is neither too rigid, nor not rigid enough. This is effectuated by providing an insert, which fits into the reciprocating tool in the same fashion as a regular blade. The present invention then offsets the placement of a blade, sander, file, or other tool by as many inches as wished by the user. The blade, sander, file, or other tool is held rigid through the use of a 45 degree bracket spanning the distance from the original plane to the offset plane, or via a single or compound trapezoid design.

An interchangeable modular insert for a electric stringed instrument is mounted in a cavity cut into the rear of the instrument. The rear insertion module provides rapid exchange of electronic components of different manufacturers. Placement of a module into the instrument automatically positions the module and electrically connects the same with the module being retained in the guitar body by a threaded fastener.

The invention relates to a complex amplitude object reconstruction device based on the optical scanning holographic technique. The complex amplitude object reconstruction device comprises a difference frequency laser coherent unit, a two-dimensional scanning unit, a photoelectric information receiving and processing unit and a computer reconstruction complex amplitude unit; the reconstruction of the complex amplitude object is realized based on the difference frequency scanning technology which is simpler and easy to realize when being compared with the conventional coherent optical scanning holographic technique. The complex amplitude object reconstruction device can be applied to the field of biology microscope, particularly to the field of transparent or weak-absorption biological sample detection, has the advantage of being superior to other biological imaging techniques, can realize coherent-imaging on the premise of ensuring the imaging resolution, can further obtain more information of the sample related to the refractive index, thereby being quite good in the application prospect in biomedicine.

A simple attachment for a reciprocating tool that will effectuate the ability to do a flush cut in an inexpensive and simple manner which is neither too rigid, nor not rigid enough. This is effectuated by providing an insert which fits into the reciprocating tool in the same fashion as a regular blade. The present invention then offsets the placement of a blade, sander, file, or other tool by as many inches as wished by the user. The blade, sander, file, or other tool is held rigid through the use of a 45 degree bracket spanning the distance from the original plane to the offset plane, or via a single or compound trapezoid design.

An adjustable mount (2) for a camera, comprising a base (6) for mounting to an object in a fixed position and a body (4) that is removably connected to the base (6), the base (6) defining a horizontal plane for the adjustable mount (2), and wherein, when the body (4) is connected to the base (6) in use, the body (4) is rotatable about a vertical axis passing through the base (6) and a mounting portion (32) of the body (4) is pivotable away from the horizontal plane so as to enable adjustment of an orientation of a camera supported on the mounting portion (32).

There is provided a device (1) and a method for forming book blocks (21) with two by two glued internal pages comprising a transfer drum (2) formed by two wheels (3, 4) with a plurality of curvilinear pockets (7), respectively spaced by a tooth (8) and respectively adapted to receive a sheet (11), partly pre-folded, with forward folding (19) of a current of sheets (11) reaching substantially horizontally and tangentially in a plane (H) passing through the port ( 10) of the pockets (7) in the upper part of the wheels (3, 4), as well as an opposite extraction table (12) and associated front- wise to the wheels (3, 4) and penetrating therebetween with an abutment projection (13) for the extraction of the sheets (11) from the pockets (7), the sheets being pushed forward in succession on said table (12) in a substantially vertical position one against the other by the sheet (11) and tooth (8) respectively following in the direction of rotation; (F1) of the drum (2).

The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method for providing robotically assisted surgery that involves the removal of bone or non-fibrous type tissues during a surgical procedure. The system utilizes a multi-axis robot having a reciprocating tool that is constructed and arranged to remove hard or non-fibrous tissues while leaving soft tissues unharmed. The multi-axis robot may be controlled via computer or telemanipulator, which allows the surgeon to complete a surgery from an area adjacent to the patient to thousands of miles away.

The invention discloses a plastic electric-spraying throttle valve body assembly, comprising a throttle valve body (1), a throttle valve spindle (2), a throttle valve piece (3), a torsion spring (4), a swing frame (5), a position sensor (6), a stepping motor (7), a flange plate metal insert (10), an idle screw mounting hole metal insert (11), stepping motor and position sensor mounting hole metal inserts (12), a card (14) and an idle adjusting screw (17), wherein a main channel (8) and an idle side channel (9) are arranged inside the throttle valve body (1), and a base of the throttle valve body (1) is provided with a flange plate (18). The plastic electric-spraying throttle valve body assembly has the beneficial effects that the defect of easy deformation of the main channel of the plastic throttle valve body can be effectively overcome, the fast interchange of a metal throttle valve body assembly and a plastic throttle valve body assembly in the process of assembly and after-sale maintenance of an engine is realized, and the leak problem of the side channel of the throttle valve body caused by different coefficients of thermal expansion is solved.

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for coupling a direct current (DC) pre-charging circuit to a motor drive. In one embodiment, an industrial automation device may include an enclosed module that may include a pre-charge circuit. The pre-charge circuit may pre-charge a direct current (DC) bus. Further, the DC bus may couple to an inverter. The enclosed module may also include a power input that may couple the pre-charge circuit to a DC power source and an electrical output structure that may couple the pre-charge circuit to the inverter. Additionally, the pre-charge circuit may be removeably coupled to the inverter and the DC power source via a sliding action of the enclosed module.

The present invention includes a fixture for securing a work piece to a support surface at a machining workstation comprising a base attachable to the support surface and having at least one undercut edge, and, a work piece holder engaging the at least one undercut edge of the base, spaced apart from the support surface, and having moveable work piece attaching jaws.

An adjustable ornamental hair restraining apparatus and method adjustably restrains portions of the hair while displaying an interchangeable ornamental member. The apparatus and method utilizes a toggle fastener, having a toggle closure and a bar to releasably couple the ends of the elastic strap around at least a portion of hair. The toggle fastener provides a simple mechanism that can be easily secured around the hair to enable quick styling and adjustments of the hair while also offering customizable looks. Additionally, style disruption, discomfort, hair loss, and damage are minimized. An interchangeable ornamental member displays from the apparatus to enhance the appearance of the head. The bar passes through an opening in the toggle closure and rotates to extend generally in a plane perpendicular to the opening for forming a locked position. A base joins with the bar or toggle closure. The ornamental member attaches to the base.