66 results about "Cost competitiveness" patented technology

The present invention is primarily directed to cost-effective systems for using large reflective elements that track the sun on two axes to concentrate solar energy onto a receiver that can convert the sun's optical energy to a form usable for extensive displacement of combustion of fossil fuels. The structures of the tracker frame, tracking mechanism and tracker supports are co-optimized with the optical elements and the receiver for high efficiency, low cost, and ease of assembly, making moderate and large-scale implementations cost-competitive with fossil fuels for peak power, and, with suitable storage, for base-load power and dispatchable peaking power in sunny locations. Improvement to small-tracker two-axis systems and one-axis tracking systems that focus in two dimensions are also included, as are improvements in systems for space-based solar power.

The today's mobile handheld and portable devices become slim and thin while need to communicate with other devices and accessories that are attached or at very short range. The interface (contact based physical connector) becomes a real challenge and unreliable to the consumer that needs to attached and detach its device several times a day.

It is an object of the present invention to provide system and method of replacing a contact based physical interface (connector) with very short range wireless (contactless) interface. This technique is called “contactless virtual connector” or CVC. The method of the present invention is based on a transmission of a very low power and wideband RF signal. The new innovating mechanism replaces the traditional physical connector with new radiated signal technique that consumes very low power and may be cost competitive with the today's physical connectors.

The innovated contactless technology may be used for small flexi-cable replacement in the handheld devices as flip or slider based handheld devices. Although the contactess technique is a wireless based solution, yet, the link may be well secured at the Physical layer when the near-field technique is used.

An object of the invention is to provide a polyvinyl chloride resin-made glove exhibiting an antimicrobial activity both on inner and outer surfaces of the glove which has a simple constitution and is easily fabricated to be cost-competitive. The glove is constituted of a base layer 1 formed of the polyvinyl chloride resin and an antimicrobial agent including layer 2 of which major composition is a polyacrylic resin formed on one of the surfaces of the base layer, no matter what the surface may be the outer one or the inner one of the glove. A base layer thickness of the glove is reduced less than a specified thickness through which the antimicrobial agent can penetrate diffusibly from one of surfaces to the opposite surface of the glove.

The invention provides a manufacturing method for medium chrome ferrite stainless steel. The method consists of the processes of: smelting, continuous casting, hot rolling, coiling, acid pickling, cold rolling, cold coiling annealing and pickling. In the hot rolling process, subjecting a hot rolled black coil to hot rolling at a finishing rolling temperature of 860-1000DEG C, and conducting coiling at 750-850DEG C; after coiling, subjecting the hot coil to heat preservation in a heat preservation pit directly, controlling the temperature of the hot coil sent into the heat preservation pit greater than 750DEG C, slowly cooling a steel coil at a cooling speed of less than 20DEG C/h, taking the steel coil out of the pit when the temperature of the steel coil is lower than 200DEG C, and performing air cooling to room temperature; subjecting the hot rolled black coil to acid pickling directly on a continuous acid pickling line, and removing the surface oxide scale; after acid pickling, conducting cold rolling on the steel coil; carrying out recrystallization and continuous annealing on cold-rolled strip steel; and performing acid pickling to remove the surface oxide scale, and at the same time conducting passivation treatment on the strip steel. The method provided by the invention omits the process of hot coil bell-type furnace annealing, simplifies the process flow, and strengthens the cost competitiveness. Compared with single-stand reversible rolling, cold continuous rolling has the advantages of high production efficiency and low cost.

A navicular structure having a tank structure shared between a tanker and a floating offshore storage structure, and a method for designing a navicular structure; wherein wing cargo tanks (12) and shipboard and ship-bottom sections (13) are provided sequentially toward both outer sides of the ship from middle center cargo tanks (11) in bilateral symmetry in the beam direction, the tanks excluding slop tanks (14) are counted, and the number (Nw) of wing cargo tanks (12) on one side of the ship is set greater than the number (Nc) of center cargo tanks (11). A section placement particularly resistant to shipboard damage is thereby planned with as little increase as possible in the number of costly tanks, i.e., in the surface area of the watertight bulkheads for partitioning the tanks, the tanker remains easy to use, the cost is kept competitive, and the section placement can be used in a floating offshore storage structure. A floating offshore storage structure that has reduced design costs and shortened lead time is provided inexpensively and quickly.

The invention provides marine LED navigation lights which performs primary restriction on angle of light emitted from an LED through forming a shielding component by LED modules and performs secondary restriction on angle of the light emitted from the LED through forming a locking part at a housing, so that collision between ships can be prevented without breaking through International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at sea. Furthermore the invention provides the marine LED navigation lights which have advantages of high impact resistance, long service life, remarkable power and maintenance cost reduction and cost competitiveness improvement through replacing existing incandescent lamps by LEDs. The marine LED navigation lights provided by the invention comprise the components of: a housing which accepts a main board in the internal space; a plurality of LED modules which are arranged on a main substrate and is provided with a plurality of LEDs for emitting light; and a cover which covers the upper part of the housing, wherein the LED module comprises the following components: a heat radiating board which is internally provided with a central hole; LEDs which are formed outside the heat radiating board and are used for emitting light; and heat radiating fins which are formed in the central hole of the heat radiating board and are used for radiating heat transmitted from the LEDs.

Disclosed is a decoration film using natural cork materials which has cost competitiveness over the conventional real wood parts and can be manufactured in an open skin type by implementing natural wooden feature on the surface. Methods of manufacturing the decoration film are also disclosed. In particular, the decoration film using natural cork materials includes: a base material layer as the bottom layer; a middle layer bonded onto the base material layer; and a cork layer that is the top layer bonded onto the middle layer. The middle layer of the decoration film includes a bottom bonding layer, a non-woven fabric layer bonded onto the bottom bonding layer, and a top bonding layer bonded onto the non-woven fabric layer.

The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a TFT substrate structure, which includes sequentially forming a first passivation layer, a planarization layer, and a first transparent conductive film and then first subjecting the first transparent conductive film to patterning to form a first pixel electrode and thereafter, a photolithographic process is applied to the planarization layer for exposure and thus forming a first via located above and corresponding to a drain terminal, followed by using the planarization layer as a self-aligning mask to apply dry etching to the first passivation layer for etching to form a second via that corresponds to the first via, whereby residues of the first transparent conductive film in the first and second vias can be effectively prevented and product yield is enhanced. Further, on mask can be saved to prevent reduction of aperture ratio caused by misalignment thereby improving the production efficiency, reducing production cost, and increasing cost-related competition power of products.

The invention provides a MDC-based capacity management design method and belongs to the field of MDCs (modular data center), communication rooms and the like. The design method uses an IPMI intelligent platform management interface, a distributed processing framework, a message queue, a Web 3D engine, a JS language, HTML5 and C ++, runs a main program by using a standardized interface mode, simplifies a debugging workload in a system docking process, achieves automatic interface data filling and automatic capacity verification by a service-oriented design mode, and defines data addition, deletion and modification operations of an operation flow. The modular design mode can improve the operating efficiency of a data center capacity management system, can support the centralized management mode of multiple MDCs, and provides an advanced, stable and cost-competitive design method for the rack-based capacity management of the data center for a server.

The invention discloses a display cabinet which comprises a cabinet body, a glass door, a water collection tank and an air outlet cover. The cabinet body is provided with a refrigeration chamber and a compressor cabin, wherein the bottom surface of the refrigeration chamber is provided with a water outlet hole communicated with the compressor cabin, and the front side of the compressor cabin is provided with an opening. The glass door is connected with the cabinet body so that the refrigeration chamber can be opened and closed. The water collection tank is arranged in the compressor cabin and located below the water outlet hole. The air outlet cover is arranged at the opening and provided with a flow passage opposite to the glass door, and the flow passage is communicated with the water collection tank. According to the display cabinet, the flow passage is arranged at the position, opposite to the glass door, of the air outlet cover so that condensed water generated by the glass door can be guided into the water collection tank, the condensed water of the glass door can be processed on the condition that the number of glass layers of the glass door is not changed, and cost competitiveness of the display cabinet is improved. Meanwhile, potential safety hazards to a user due to the fact that the glass door is too heavy are also avoided.