164results about How to "Reduce the effects of stress" patented technology

Remote sensing in an environment having temperatures greater than 300° C., using an optical fiber having a core (10), a cladding (20), and a metallic protective coating (30) on the cladding to protect a surface of the cladding, the cladding having a diameter greater than 150 μm, and a thickness of at least 50 μm. The larger diameter cladding means stress from the metallic protective layer can be reduced, giving lower optical loss and better hydrogen protection. A metal conduit (330) encapsulates the sensing fiber, and a pump evacuates the conduit to reduce hydrogen seepage. Ceramic splice protectors are used. OTDR is used to determine differential loss at different locations along the fiber. A reflective element at the far-end of the fiber eases calibration.

A non-invasive component concentration measuring device capable of an accurate measurement by tracking a change in the sensitivity characteristics of a photo-acoustic signal detector to always allow measurement at high-sensitivity frequency, and a method of controlling a component concentration measuring device. The component concentration measuring device is characterized by comprising a light generating means for generating two-wave lights having different wavelengths, a light modulating means for electrically intensity-modulating respective two-wave lights having different wavelengths at the same frequency by an inverse-phase signal, a light outputting means for outputting the intensity-modulated two-wave lights having different wavelengths toward a specimen, and a sound wave detecting means for detecting a sound wave produced in the specimen by output lights.

The invention relates to a semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing and more particularly to a CMOS device with a stress inducing material embedded in both gates and also in the source / drain region of the PFET and varying thickness of the PFET and NFET channel. In one embodiment, the structure enhances the device performance by varying the thickness of the top Silicon layer respective to the NFET or the PFET.

An exemplary piezoelectric device includes a base having a first connection electrode electrically connected to an external electrode. A second connection electrode is connected to the first connection electrode on a first main surface of a supporting member affixed to the base. A third connection electrode, formed on a second main surface of the supporting member, is electrically connected to the second connection electrode. A piezoelectric vibrating piece is affixed to the supporting member by application of an adhesive applied to the third connection electrode. The piezoelectric vibrating piece and includes excitation electrodes. A convexity is located and extends in a designated direction relative to the third connection electrode to prevent applied adhesive from spreading beyond a designated area of the piezoelectric vibrating piece.

The invention relates to a high-pressure natural gas reducing valve which comprises a valve cover, a valve body, a pressure sensing diaphragm, a pressure preset mechanism and a valve-plug mechanism, wherein the valve-plug mechanism comprises a gas-valve connection block in which a valve port and an airflow channel are arranged and a valve clack assembly consisting of a valve-clack rod and a valve-clack ejector rod; the top of the valve-clack rod is provided with a circumferential boss, and the surface of the circumferential boss is provided with a sealing gasket; the valve-clack ejector rod passes through the valve port and is in overlap joint with the pressure sensing diaphragm; the lower part of the valve body is provided with a valve-clack groove, and a valve-clack spring is arranged between the circumferential boss of the valve-clack rod and a rabbet end face of the valve-clack groove; and a cavity is arranged in the valve clack assembly, the valve port is in the shape of cone, and the diameter of the valve port is same as that of the valve-clack rod. The high-pressure natural gas reducing valve has the advantages that because the reducing valve adopts the structure above, the axial pressure of the valve clack assembly is balanced, the pressures on the upper and lower surfaces of the valve clack assembly of the reducing valve are not affected by the pressures on a user side and a storage tank side, thereby eliminating the influence on the outlet pressure of a pressure reducing / adjusting valve when the operating pressure on the storage tank side is changed, avoiding that the valve port always produces pressures on the sealing gasket by the retraction pressure of the pressure sensing diaphragm, and prolonging the service life of the sealing gasket.

Remote sensing in an environment having temperatures greater than 300° C., using an optical fiber having a core (10), a cladding (20), and a metallic protective coating (30) on the cladding to protect a surface of the cladding, the cladding having a diameter greater than 150 μm, and a thickness of at least 50 μm. The larger diameter cladding means stress from the metallic protective layer can be reduced, giving lower optical loss and better hydrogen protection. A metal conduit (330) encapsulates the sensing fiber, and a pump evacuates the conduit to reduce hydrogen seepage. Ceramic splice protectors are used. OTDR is used to determine differential loss at different locations along the fiber. A reflective element at the far-end of the fiber eases calibration.

The present invention provides a turbine blade having a revised under-platform structure including a unique coating combination that reduces mechanical stress factors within the turbine blade. The turbine blade includes a platform with an airfoil extending upwardly from the airfoil and a root portion extending downwardly from the platform. Two suction side tabs extend a first distance outward from a suction side of the root potion. Two pressure side tabs extend outward from a pressure side of the root portion. One of the two pressure side tabs extends outward a distance similar to the first distance, however, the other of the two pressure side tabs extends outward a distance much smaller than the first distance, which reduces stresses acting on the turbine blade. In addition, a plurality of coatings are systematically applied to the turbine blade to further reduce mechanical stress factors and improve cooling.

A method of manufacturing a reflection type mask blank by forming a multilayer reflection film reflecting exposure light on a substrate and forming an absorber layer absorbing the exposure light on the multilayer reflection film includes a step of forming, between the substrate and the multilayer reflection film, a stress correction film opposite in direction to film stress of the multilayer reflection film and smaller in absolute value than the film stress of the multilayer reflection film, a step of heat-treating the stress correction film, and a step of heat-treating the multilayer reflection film.

An integrated circuit capable of operating despite a profile shift is disclosed. Overlay marks on the integrated circuit are surrounded by a trench that tends to relieve the effect of a profile shift caused by stress applied to the integrated circuit. The position of the overlay marks tends, therefore, not to be affected by the stress.

A thermal type flow sensor measures a flow rate of a fluid by means of a heat resistive element having a temperature dependency. The sensor is comprised of: plural heat resistive elements used for a flow rate measurement; and a driver circuit for controlling a current applied to these heat resistive elements to cause their heating. The driver circuit is configured to sense a resistance change of a lower-temperature side heat resistive element among the plural heat resistive elements and to control the current to be applied to the plural heat resistive elements in accordance with a sensed value of the lower-resistance's variation.

A plurality of flat tubes formed as a tube having notches by linearly cutting upper and lower parts from a hollow flat circular doughnut shape are stacked to structure a tube laminate. It is attached to a case so that a notch aligns with the notch and faces upward by an exhaust inflow end plate and that a notch aligns with the notch and faces downward by an exhaust outflow end plate. A cutoff valve is provided at an exhaust outflow end of an exhaust communication tube passing through the center of the tube laminate by heat insulation. While an internal combustion engine is warming up, the cutoff valve is closed to cause the exhaust to flow in gaps of the respective flat tubes from upward to downward as a whole and also a heat exchange medium is caused to flow in the respective flat tubes from downward to upward as a whole to have heat exchanged between the exhaust and the heat exchange medium to recover the exhaust heat.

A method of manufacturing a reflection type mask blank by forming a multilayer reflection film reflecting exposure light on a substrate and forming an absorber layer absorbing the exposure light on the multilayer reflection film includes a step of forming, between the substrate and the multilayer reflection film, a stress correction film opposite in direction to film stress of the multilayer reflection film and smaller in absolute value than the film stress of the multilayer reflection film, a step of heat-treating the stress correction film, and a step of heat-treating the multilayer reflection film.

The invention provides a system for respiratory pharmacology test and a chamber device that enables respiratory pharmacology test on particular large animals under unanesthetized, unrestrained state, with easy acclimatization and reduced effect of stress, and a method for conducting safety pharmacology studies on the same large animal individual. The chamber device of the invention includes animal cage 10 and transparent chamber 20, which includes first and second compartments 21 and 22 separated by partition plate 23. The compartment 21 has a door and ventilation connection port 26, and the compartments 21 and 22 are provided with communication pipe 29 having opening 29a for introducing ambient air. The device of the invention has ventilation connection port 26 in a side face of the chamber 20, and communication pipe 29 for introducing air on the top face of the chamber 20, so that, with the cage 10 placed in the compartment 21, air flow through the compartment 21 is maintained constantly and allowed to communicate through the cage 10.

A circuit including at least one low voltage input, at least one high voltage output, and a field transistor having a source, a drain and a control region. The circuit may comprise a high-voltage amplifier. In this embodiment, an electrical connection between the high-voltage output terminal and the field transistor control region, and an electrical connection between the input terminal and a second transistor. Various embodiments of the field transistor are described.

The invention discloses a gas meter sealing detecting method and a detector thereof. The detector includes a sealed container, a cylinder, a cover plate, a block water sealing mechanism, an air flow guide pipe and an air flow detection opening; during detection, a gas meter to be detected is put into the sealed container; the orifice of the gas meter to be detected is sealed and connected with the air flow detection opening arranged out of the sealed container; and then the sealed container is sealed and pumped vacuum; finally the air flow detection opening observes the pressure changes in the meter, compares with a standard meter and judges the sealing. The invention puts the detected meter into the vacuum sealed container with certain pressure, manufactures a relatively vacuum environment out of the gas meter to be detected to observe the pressure changes in the gas meter, so as to judge the leakage of the detected meter. The invention makes use of the temperature transmission between the vacuum isolated detected meter and the outside environment, so as to reduce the influence of the temperature on the pressure with small temperature influence and high detecting precision, and the quality of the gas meter is not influenced by the detection.

To obtain a thermoelectric module substrate of which reliability such as stress relaxation is improved without damaging the performance as a thermoelectric module such as heat conductivity to provide a thermoelectric module excellent in reliability by using such a substrate. Thermoelectric module substrates of the present invention each comprises a synthetic resin layer including fillers having good thermal conductivity; and a copper-metalized layer or layers, or a copper layer at least including copper plate or copper layers which is or are formed on one face or both faces of the synthetic resin layer. Further, in the case where contents volume percentage of fillers within the synthetic resin layer is expressed as A (%), the thickness of the synthetic resin layer is expressed as B (μm) and the total thickness of the copper layer is expressed as C (μm), the thermoelectric module substrate is formed so as to have the relation expressed as (C / 4)−B≦65, A / B≦3.5, A>0, C>50 and B≧7.

The invention discloses a device and method for manufacturing a non-woven fabric by mixing a melt-blown subject as a carrier and short cut fibers. According to key points of the technical scheme, the non-woven fabric comprises a melt-blown device and a feeding device. The melt-blown device comprises a traction air flue and a spinneret plate located at one end of the traction air flue. The traction air flue is located on one side close to the feeding device, the feeding device comprises a sealed storage tank, one end of the sealed storage tank close to the spinneret plate is provided with a feeding port, a damping device is arranged at the position of the feeding port, and the feeding device further comprises a pressurization device which pushes ultra short fibers to flow to the feeding port, so that the ultra short fibers overcome resistance of the damping device to be squeezed out of the sealed storage tank. The device achieves the effects that product process requirements are met, the working environment can be ensured, and the cost is low.

A semiconductor structure less affected by stress and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor chip. Stress-sensitive circuits are substantially excluded out of an exclusion zone to reduce the effects of the stress to the stress-sensitive circuits. The stress-sensitive circuits include analog circuits. The exclusion zone preferably includes corner regions of the semiconductor chip, wherein the corner regions preferably have a diagonal length of less than about one percent of the diagonal length of the semiconductor chip. The stress-sensitive analog circuits preferably include devices having channel lengths less than about five times the minimum channel length.

The invention provides a device and a method for synthesizing ammonia by utilizing renewable energy sources, and relates to the technical field of ammonia synthesis. The device provided by the invention comprises an energy microgrid 1, a water electrolysis hydrogen production device 2, an air separation device 3, a first buffer tank 4, a first compressor 5, a second buffer tank 6, a third buffer tank 18, a heat exchanger 7, a reaction tower 8, a first adsorption column 17, a second adsorption column 11, a third adsorption column 20, a first flash tower 10, a second flash tower 14, a third flash tower 15, a liquid ammonia pump 16, a second compressor 12 and valves. According to the invention, the energy microgrid is used for providing a renewable energy source for hydrogen production by water electrolysis and nitrogen production by air separation, then the prepared hydrogen and nitrogen are mixed and then subjected to a synthetic reaction, and the generated high-temperature outlet gas is subjected to adsorption separation again after flash evaporation, condensation and separation, so that ammonia is obtained. The method can realize production of carbon-free ammonia, and the method combining adsorption separation and condensation separation can improve the nitrogen-hydrogen conversion rate and the ammonia synthesis rate in the ammonia synthesis reaction.

A pressure measuring System (11, 111, 211) is described comprising a sensor assembly (13, 113, 213) and a vessel adapter (17, 217), with the sensor assembly defining a compartment (19, 119, 219, 220), comprising a measurement port (29, 129, 229, 230), an actuator (21, 121, 221, 222) for enabling and disabling pressure transmission across the measurement port, and at least one pressure sensor (23, 123, 223, 224, 225) for measuring a pressure in the compartment relative to a reference pressure, and the vessel adapter defining a fluid chamber (47, 247, 248), said chamber being in pressure connection with the compartment by means of said measurement port, and characterized in that in-between the compartment and the fluid chamber at least one membrane (15, 215) is located which separates the medium in the compartment from the medium in the fluid chamber. The pressure measuring System is used to measure the pressure of a medium in a vessel adapter relative to a reference pressure. In a further embodiment the pressure measuring System is adapted to measure the differential pressure of a medium flowing through a vessel adapter with a flow restrictor.

The invention relates to a semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing and more particularly to a CMOS device with a stress inducing material embedded in both gates and also in the source / drain region of the PFET and varying thickness of the PFET and NFET channel. In one embodiment, the structure enhances the device performance by varying the thickness of the top Silicon layer respective to the NFET or the PFET.

A measurement method and a biosensor apparatus using a resonator with which it is not necessary to agitate a sample solution in a cell and even if the amount of the sample solution is very small the influence of pressure waves is greatly reduced and extremely easy and accurate measurement is possible. In a method of the kind wherein a sample solution is brought into contact with one side of a resonator having first and second electrodes on opposite sides of a crystal plate and an a.c. signal is applied across the first and second electrodes and a frequency change of the resonator is measured from a relationship between the frequency of the a.c. signal and an electrical characteristic of the resonator, the resonator is made to oscillate at an N-tuple harmonic (N=3, 5, 7 . . . ) as the frequency change is measured.

The invention provides a system for respiratory pharmacology test and a chamber device that enables respiratory pharmacology test on particular large animals under unanesthetized, unrestrained state, with easy acclimatization and reduced effect of stress, and a method for conducting safety pharmacology studies on the same large animal individual. The chamber device of the invention includes animal cage 10 and transparent chamber 20, which includes first and second compartments 21 and 22 separated by partition plate 23. The compartment 21 has a door and ventilation connection port 26, and the compartments 21 and 22 are provided with communication pipe 29 having opening 29a for introducing ambient air. The device of the invention has ventilation connection port 26 in a side face of the chamber 20, and communication pipe 29 for introducing air on the top face of the chamber 20, so that, with the cage 10 placed in the compartment 21, air flow through the compartment 21 is maintained constantly and allowed to communicate through the cage 10.

An integrated circuit capable of operating despite a profile shift is disclosed. Overlay marks on the integrated circuit are surrounded by a trench that tends to relieve the effect of a profile shift caused by stress applied to the integrated circuit. The position of the overlay marks tends, therefore, not to be affected by the stress.

The present invention relates to a method for weighing an electrode submerged in the charge of an electric smelting furnace. The electrode is moved in vertical direction at least once, whereafter the electrode is lifted and the weight of the electrode is registered shortly after the electrode has been lifted.

The invention provides a GOA circuit. The GOA circuit comprises multiple GOA structural units which are in cascade connection, and a single-stage GOA structural unit dependents on an Nth GOA structural unit; the Nth GOA structural unit comprises an upward-pull control circuit, an upward-pull circuit, a downlink circuit, a downward-pull circuit, a downward-pull maintenance circuit and a bootstrap capacitor; source electrodes of thin film transistors T42 and T32 in the downward-pull maintenance circuit are connected so that direct-current low-voltage signals can be converted into first reverse clockwise signals, source electrodes of thin film transistors T43 and T33 are connected so that the direct-current low-voltage signals can be converted into second reverse clockwise signals, potentialsof the first reverse clockwise signals and the first clock signals in the downward-pull maintenance circuit at each moment are different, and potentials of the second reverse clock signals and secondclock signals in the downward-pull maintenance circuit at each moment are different. The GOA circuit can effectively solve the problem of forward deflection of threshold voltages of the thin film transistors in the downward-pull maintenance circuit in the single-stage GOA structural unit, and accordingly the reliability and stability of the GOA circuit are improved.

An active matrix liquid crystal display having improved reliability. Pixel regions and a peripheral driver circuit are integrally packed on the display. TFTs forming the peripheral driver circuit are located inside a sealing material layer on the side of a liquid crystal material, thus protecting the peripheral driver circuit from external moisture and contaminants. This enhances the long-term reliability of the peripheral driver circuit. Pixel TFTs are arranged in pixel regions. The leads going from the TFTs forming the peripheral driver circuit to the pixel TFTs are shortened. This results in a reduction in the resistance. As a result, the display characteristics are improved.

A drag reduction method and apparatus for reducing aerodynamic pressure drag associated with a vehicle in motion by use of grit, grit tape, or other turbulator to increase the momentum of boundary layer flow over a vehicle. A turbulator, such as grit tape, can be attached to the smooth external body surface of the vehicle to improve upon a vehicles fuel economy. The turbulator associated with the grit material reduce the effects of the pressure drag by creating a turbulent boundary layer over the surface of the vehicle that moves a separation point from a laminar flow to a turbulent flow backwards along the vehicle. The reduction in pressure drag reduces the overall energy needed to move the vehicle through the air, which improves upon the fuel economy of the vehicle.