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The device has a coupling arm with head born elastically pref. via a stabilizer joint. The joint transmits traction and pressure forces into the bogie via an outer housing (10) and energy absorption systems (9,11). The systems are switched in series and are located in the housing. One and/or both systems have an irreversibly deformable deformation element (23), e.g. a mechanical shock absorption part. This is e.g. a tube, which is deformed by a nozzle (25) or a pressure ring (21), after a set pressure and/or traction load limit on shear ring (20) and/or pin has been exceeded. -

The Shrouded Vertical Axis Dual-Turbine Generator is a system consisting of a superstructure in the shape of a symmetrical foil, with a vertical axis turbine set into the camber of each side. The leading edge of the superstructure increases the speed of the water or air current passing around the generator. The trailing edge creates a slip stream which reduces turbulence. Shutters on each side of the superstructure control the amount of current in contact with the turbines by sliding forward or rearward to increase or decrease flow to the turbines. The turbines are modular in design and can be customized into longer or shorter turbines, depending on application.

A drive traveling mechanism of a peristaltic pipeline robot mainly solves the problem that existing pipeline internal drive travelling mechanism are lower in driving force and hard to drive robots to run for long distance in pipelines. The drive traveling mechanism of the peristaltic pipeline robot is characterized in that the drive traveling mechanism consists of two crank-and-rocker mechanisms and a worm-and-gear mechanism which share a robot body as a framework, a connecting rod of one crank-and-rocker mechanism is of an elastic connecting rod structure, and the elastic connecting rod penetrates through a rocker which swings around the robot body to be further connected with a gear rotating around the robot body so as to form one crank-and-rocker mechanism. The two crank-and-rocker mechanisms identical in structure are respectively arranged from front to back. When a motor drives the worm to drive the gear to rotate, traveling legs connected to the two crank-and-rocker mechanisms arranged from front to back realize translational motion. The two crank-and-rocker mechanisms serving as components of the drive traveling mechanism are distributed along the radial direction of the worm by 120 degrees and are driven by the same worm. The drive traveling mechanism has the advantages that traveling legs can contact with walls of pipelines sufficiently to generate higher dragging force so that the robot can travel by a long distance in the pipelines.

The invention is an apparatus and method for reducing the drag that a vessel hull experiences when moving through the water by interposing air bubbles between the skin of the hull and the stream of water that the vessel is moving through. The invention delivers compressed air to the bottom of the vessel without the need for a high energy air compressor.

The invention discloses a flexible circuit board, a flexible LED lamp bar and a manufacturing method of the flexible LED lamp bar. The flexible circuit board comprises a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer and a circuit layer. The first insulation layer and the second insulation layer are attached to the two sides of the circuit layer respectively. The first insulation layer and the second insulation layer are respectively provided with a folding portion in the length direction. The folding portion of the first insulation layer corresponds to the folding portion of the second insulation layer in position. The circuit layer comprises a set of power lines and at least one light source line. The light source lines and the power lines are arranged on the two sides of the folding portions in a separable mode. The width of the folded flexible circuit board is smaller, so that more occasions where the flexible circuit board with the smaller width is needed are met, and the power lines and the light source lines are not bent when the flexible circuit board is folded. Due to the existence of the folding portions, folding face layers of the power lines and folding face layers of the light source lines can be prevented from tilting up along the folding portions, the folding face layers of the power lines and the folding face layers of the light source lines are easily attached together, and the wrinkling phenomenon is reduced.

The present invention aims to provide a surface modification method for a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, which can impart excellent sliding properties and excellent durability against repeated sliding motion and can allow the surface to maintain the sealing properties, without using expensive self-lubricating plastics. The present invention relates to a surface modification method for modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer as an object to be modified, the method including: step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points on the object to be modified; step 2 of radically polymerizing a monomer, starting from the polymerization initiation points, by irradiation with LED light at 300 nm to 400 nm to grow polymer chains on a surface of the object to be modified; and step 3 of esterifying, transesterifying or amidating side chains of the polymer chains.

This hybrid drive device separates the lubricant supplied to a clutch and to an electric motor and improves lubrication and cooling of the clutch and electric motor. Lubricant from a clutch lubrication hole (143) and an electric motor lubrication hole (145) and consisting of shaft core lubrication is partitioned by a rotor support member (126). The lubricant which lubricates the clutch (6) and flows out is separated by the cover member (187) and does not flow into the coil end (24a) on one side. The electric motor lubricant is guided to the coil end (24b) on the other side, and, passing through an oil passage (186), is guided to the coil end (24a) on the first side.

A tunable generator has a surface structure for contacting an exterior fluid flow relative to a base structure. The contacting surface structure also has an electrogenerative portion positioned relative to the contacting structure and the base structure. The electrogenerative portion is preferably a piezoelectric or electromagnetic structure, although other types of structures are known within the art. The contacting surface is mechanically coupled to portions of the base structure through one or more elastic elements. The various portions of the base structure can be positioned relative to other base structure portions to alter the elasticity of the system or the tensioning of the elastic elements. The field of flow exerts forces upon the contacting structure which causes movement in the contacting surface structure relative to the base structure through the electrogenerative portion.

The invention discloses an anti-spattering bow fin of a high-speed ship. The anti-spattering bow fin is arranged at the two sides above the water line of the bow of the high-speed ship; the longitudinal view of the anti-spattering bow fin is a streamline structure with closed wings; an inclined angle Alpha is formed by the closed wing closing the bow and the water line plane and the closed wing deviating the bow is parallel to the water line plane. The horizontal view of the anti-spattering bow fin is a streamline closed wing with a main wing bent downward into a side wing; the main wing closing the bow and the side wing form a water inlet; the horizontal width of the anti-spattering bow fin is reduced progressively from the bow to the direction of the stern; the tail end of the side wing is hooked internally to the ship side; and the main wing deviating the bow and the tail end of the side wing form a water spray outlet. The anti-spattering bow fin has low cost and convenient manufacture, can uplift the body of the high-speed ship when in sailing, improves the sailing posture of the ship, reduces soaking area of the ship body, and further reduces the total resistance of the ship body. The anti-spattering bow fin fully utilizes the energy of spattering flow, plays the role of assisting propulsion to the high-speed craft and achieves the purpose of saving energy of the high-speed craft.