61 results about "Southern Hemisphere" patented technology

The invention relates to 'a bark grafting method of apocarya' and belongs to the field of fruit trees and forest tree breeding. The method includes cutting a stock or a lignification branch of the apocarya in vigorous growth to the xylem, conducing inclining cutting on the portion above a cut to form a 45-degree cut, cutting downwards on an edge bark layer of the cut through a stem grafting knife for 3cm with cutting length as 3cm and cutting width determined by scion thickness and conducting scion branch processing and grafting. By means of the method, summer grafting survival rate of scions dormant in winter is greatly improved, the problem of scion grafting survival of ligneous plants like the apocarya which is introduced from the southern hemisphere in summer is effectively removed, and simultaneously grafting period of the apocarya can be prolonged.

The present invention is directed to a passive solar greenhouse for controlling the greenhouse's interior environment and maximizing photosynthetic metabolism within the plants grown therein through regulation of sunlight, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels and methods optimizing plant growth conditions by using passive solar greenhouse of the present invention. Generally the greenhouse has a sloped glazed face which faces substantially true south in the Northern hemisphere and substantially true north in the Southern hemisphere with a predetermined slope angle designed to maximize incident solar radiation (insolation) and increase the interior temperature during the colder months of the year while reducing overheating during the warmer months of the year.

The golf ball 2 has a northern hemisphere N and a southern hemisphere S. The northern hemisphere N is adjacent to the southern hemisphere S across an equatorial line Eq. Each of the northern hemisphere N and the southern hemisphere S has a pole vicinity region 14 and an equator vicinity region 16. Each of the pole vicinity region 14 and the equator vicinity region 16 has a large number of dimples. The dimple pattern of the pole vicinity region 14 includes three units that are rotationally symmetrical to each other about a pole Po. The dimple pattern of the equator vicinity region 16 includes six units that are rotationally symmetrical to each other about the pole Po. The sum (Ps+Pp) of a peak value Ps and a peak value Pp of the golf ball 2 is equal to or greater than 600 mm.

The present invention relates to satellite systems and more particularly, to the provision of a satellite system for weather and climate monitoring, communications applications, and scientific research at higher latitudes, referred to as the circumpolar region and defined here as the area with latitudes greater than 60°, in either the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere. Contrary to the teachings in the art it has been discovered that a satellite system and method may be provided using satellites in 24 sidereal hour orbits (geosynchronous) with inclinations (70° to 90°), orbital planes, right ascensions and eccentricities (0.275-0.45) chosen to optimize coverage of a particular service area located at high latitudes. A constellation of two satellites can provide continuous coverage of the circumpolar region. The satellites in this orbit avoid most of the Van Allen Belts.

A wearable device comprising a display arrangement for displaying moon phases. The image of the one or more moons is provided in the dial and a rotating member is provided above the dial to provide images of a full, waning, new and waxing moon. The device provides for both bi-directional and uni-directional rotation of the rotating member. The device can simultaneously or selectively display moon phases consistent with views from the northern hemisphere and / or southern hemisphere.

In general, a constellation of spacecraft is used to broadcast to a particular region with high angles of view in order to reduce blockage or shadowing. A constellation of a plurality of spacecraft is placed in 24-hour orbits having inclination of about 550, eccentricity of about 0.32, semi-major axis of about 42,000 km, longitude of the ascending node of about 43° East, argument of perigee of about 270°, and longitude of the ground track at maximum latitude of about 7° East. The preferred number of spacecraft ranges from three to six. In a particular application of Digital Audio Broadcast to Europe in some embodiments, the most populous cities are provided with service from no more than about 10° from vertical, and broadcast takes place when the spacecraft are above at least 35° North latitude. The broadcast power is reduced during those portions of the orbit in which the ground track lies in the Southern hemisphere. (146)

Golf ball 2 has numerous dimples 8. Provided that mean diameter of all the dimples 8 is Da, ratio (N1 / N) of number N1 of adjacent dimple pairs having a pitch of (Da / 4) or less to total number N of the dimples is equal to or greater than 2.70. Ratio (N2 / N1) of number N2 of the adjacent dimple pairs having a pitch of (Da / 20) or less to the number N1 is equal to or greater than 0.50. The northern hemisphere N and the southern hemisphere S of this golf ball 2 have a pole vicinity region 20, an equator vicinity region 22 and a coordination region 24, respectively. The pole vicinity region 20 includes 5 units which are rotationally symmetric each other centered on the pole point P. The equator vicinity region 22 includes 6 units which are rotationally symmetric each other centered on the pole point P. The coordination region 24 does not include any unit.

The invention discloses a system and a method capable of automatically tracking solar radiation, which utilize local geographical information and time domain information, and interactions of the ecliptic plane, the equatorial plane and the horizontal plane to solve the problem of inaccurate tracking in different time domains, different latitudes and longitudes, areas in southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere and the like around the world. Moreover, the system can flexibly follow the direction of intense radiation according to local radiation conditions, and also can be changed into a dynamic sunlight tracking system used for mobile objects and devices to accurately track the sun according to time service information and positioning information emitted by a satellite.

Provided is the moon phase display mechanism to reflect the moon phase difference in vision between the northern and the southern hemisphere of the earth. This invention relates to the moon phase display mechanism that displays the moon phase.The moon phase mechanism consists of two discs ; the top disc (1) called moon dial and the bottom disc (2) called moon display part which are attached concentrically and rotatably each other. The moon dial (1) has two apertures (1a and 1b) so as to reflect the moon phase difference in vision between the northern and the southern hemisphere of the earth.

A lunar phase display mechanism includes an upper disc which is the lunar display disc and a lower disc mounted concentrically to this disc. One of the discs is mounted so that during normal operation of the mechanism that one disc rotates relative to the other disc, and the other disc is mounted in a stationary position during normal operation of the mechanism while this position can be changed by a rotary motion. The gear train driving the rotating disc allows that the direction of rotation of this disc can be reversed so that the different appearance of the lunar phases at the latitudes of the earth and, in particular, in the northern and southern hemisphere can be taken into account in the display.

The invention discloses an accurate steering adjustment method for a photovoltaic solar panel, which comprises the steps of (a) acquiring latitude and longitude coordinate information and current day data information; (b) acquiring local sunrise time and sunset time of the current day according to the latitude and longitude coordinate information and the data information; (c) calculating the time difference between sunrise and sunset according to the sunrise time and the sunset time; (d) acquiring the average angular velocity Y of the sun between sunrise and sunset; (e) enabling the photovoltaic solar panel to face towards the due east, timing from the sunrise time, rotating the angle of the photovoltaic solar panel every 15 minutes with the rotation amplitude being 15*Y at each time, wherein the photovoltaic solar panel rotates clockwise along the horizontal direction if the photovoltaic solar panel is located in the northern hemisphere, and the photovoltaic solar panel rotates anticlockwise along the horizontal direction if the photovoltaic solar panel is located in the southern hemisphere. The method disclosed by the invention is used for solving a problem in the prior art that the orientation of the photovoltaic solar panel is inconvenient to be adjusted, and a purpose of carrying out accurate control on angle adjustment of the photovoltaic solar panel is realized according to local specific sunlight conditions.

The golf ball 2 has a northern hemisphere N and a southern hemisphere S. The northern hemisphere N is adjacent to the southern hemisphere S across an equatorial line Eq. Each of the northern hemisphere N and the southern hemisphere S has a pole vicinity region 14 and an equator vicinity region 16. Each of the pole vicinity region 14 and the equator vicinity region 16 has a large number of dimples. The dimple pattern of the pole vicinity region 14 includes three units that are rotationally symmetrical to each other about a pole Po. The dimple pattern of the equator vicinity region 16 includes six units that are rotationally symmetrical to each other about the pole Po. The sum (Ps+Pp) of a peak value Ps and a peak value Pp of the golf ball 2 is equal to or greater than 600 mm.

The invention provides a 3D embossed globe manufacturing process. For a 3D embossed globe, a southern hemisphere and a northern hemisphere are manufactured separately. The 3D embossed globe manufacturing process comprises the following steps of S1, design; S2, mold opening; S3, molding of a ball bladder; S4, printing of maps; S5, forming of map films; S6, combination of the map films and the ballbladder; S7, embossed molding; S8, edge cutting; and S9, balling. According to the 3D embossed globe manufacturing process provided by the invention, the ball bladder and the map films are manufactured separately; furthermore, bulges are directly formed on the ball bladder; and the map films sleeve, shrink on and cling to the ball bladder so as to form embossed shapes, so that the shrinkage, the situations such as shrinkage, wrinkling and distortion of the map films can be avoided.

A filter includes three separate conical filter elements each of which is supported on top of a support element. Each of the support elements has a substantially conical portion for location of a filter element. The conical portion is in turn mounted on a substantially cylindrical portion. The surfaces of the conical filter elements are each preferably orientated at an angle of 35° to the base of the cone and each filter element preferably mounted with a clearance of 25 mm between it and the conical support. The uppermost filter element preferably has a 1mm mesh, the middle filter element preferably has a 50 micron mesh and the lowermost filter element preferably has a 1 micron mesh. The middle and outermost cylindrical portions have apertures through them adjacent their open ends. A funnel is mounted above and substantially co-axial with the filter elements. The inner surface of the funnel carries a series of or ridges which extend arcuately inwards and downwards within the funnel in the anti-clockwise direction (for operation in the Southern hemisphere) when viewed from the inlet end of the funnel. A distributor cone is mounted above the funnel, with the axis substantially co-axial with the axes of the funnel and the filter elements and with its periphery terminating within the catchment area of the funnel.

The invention discloses a forming process of a plastic terrestrial globe. The forming process comprises the following forming steps: S1, printing a map; S2, printing an adhesive; S3, forming blister locating holes; S4, blistering a plastic film to form a hemisphere plastic film; S5, stamping the edge of the hemisphere plastic film level, and stamping a round opening right in the middle part; S6, injecting a hot melting plastic at high speed from the round opening by using an injection molding head of an injection mold, enabling an injected plastic to rapidly fit with the hemisphere plastic film, tightly bonding through the adhesive; S7, mutually adhering two hemisphere plastic casings to form a plastic terrestrial globe casing; S8, installing a terrestrial globe bracket in round openings of the two hemisphere plastic casings, and making the terrestrial globe. A southern hemisphere map film and a northern hemisphere map film are firmly bonded with the plastic, the map films do not falloff easily and are not torn off easily, the southern hemisphere map film and the northern hemisphere map film are put in a plastic mold and are accurately located, cutting leftover materials like a peak is not needed after injection molding is finished, the injection molding is convenient and even, and a terrestrial globe bracket mounting hole is not additionally formed after the injection moldingis finished.

A golf ball 2 includes a large number of dimples 10 on a surface thereof. The surface has a northern hemisphere N and a southern hemisphere S. Each of the hemispheres has a high-latitude region 14, a mid-latitude region 18 and a low-latitude region 16. The high-latitude region 14 has a latitude range of 40° or greater but 90° or less. The mid-latitude region 18 has a latitude range of 20° or greater but less than 40°. The low-latitude region 16 has a latitude range of 0° or greater but less than 20°. The number of planes that can divide a dimple pattern of the hemisphere so that divided dimple patterns are mirror symmetry to each other is one. Neither a dimple pattern of the high-latitude region 14 nor a dimple pattern of the low-latitude region 16 is rotationally symmetrical.

The invention discloses an odor-resistant floor drain with a rotational flow floating ball. The odor-resistant floor drain is used for draining of places such as residences, hotels and public washrooms. The upper plane of an upper casing of the floor drain is provided with a plurality of water inlet holes which are bent in the horizontal direction and twisted in the vertical direction, the water inlet holes in a first embodiment are integrally twisted towards the inner side in the radial direction, the bending direction of the water inlet holes in a second embodiment is a clockwise direction, and a twist angle alpha is 8-10 degrees. A flow deflector bent in the horizontal direction is arranged above the bottom surface of a lower casing, a water outlet hole of the lower casing is provided with a solid floating ball capable of floating up and down, and a sealing device is disposed between the water outlet hole and the floating ball. The bent type water inlet is adopted, rotary water flow can be generated, the overflowing speed is accelerated, and the drainage speed is improved. According to characteristics that water flow vortexes rotate anticlockwise and rotate clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere respectively, the two different embodiments are adopted, and the product designed according to the technical scheme can be applied to different territories of the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere.

The present invention is directed to a golf ball comprising of non-concentric arcs defining a non-planar parting line on its spherical surface resulting in having a large size disparity between non-circular dimples in one hemisphere and adjacent non-circular dimples from the opposing hemisphere. The parting line is produced by a pair of adjacent non-circular dimples, wherein μd indicates the average non-circular dimple diameter and N indicates dimples from the Northern hemisphere and those from the Southern hemisphere are indicated by S. A large disparity may be created, if the following condition is satisfied:μd(N)μd(S)>1.25orμd(N)μd(S)<0.80.

The present invention is directed to a golf ball comprising of non-concentric arcs defining a non-planar parting line on its spherical surface resulting in having a large size disparity between dimples in one hemisphere and adjacent dimples from the opposing hemisphere. The parting line is produced by a pair of adjacent dimples, wherein D indicates dimples and N indicates dimples from the Northern hemisphere and those from the Southern hemisphere are indicated by S. A large disparity may be created, if the following condition is satisfied:D(N)D(S)>1.25orD(N)D(S)<0.80.

Provided is a spherical polyhedron division structure of a golf ball where dimples are arranged to have a well-defined symmetry and a dimple pattern. In the spherical polyhedron division structure, wherein an arbitrary point on a surface of a spherical body constituting a golf ball is defined as a pole, a great circle dividing the spherical body into a northern hemisphere and a southern hemisphere with respect to the pole as a reference point is defined as an equator, the surface of the spherical body is divided into six areas formed by segments connecting the pole and points obtained by dividing the equator in units of 60°, each area is divided into spherical polygons formed by four spherical rectangles and two spherical triangles having sides with different lengths, and the spherical polygons arranged in different adjacent areas are symmetric with each other.

A paper globe used in teaching, in primary and middle school, wherein the globe is all made from paper, characterized in that the production at least comprises a, selecting the paper as face paper and linear paper, b, drawing southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere on the face paper, c, producing the mould for shearing the face paper, d, shearing the face paper, e, producing the mould for shearing the liner paper at the same time of step c, f, shearing the liner paper, g, producing a hemisphere mould and a convex mould with the step c and e, h, extruding the face paper and the liner paper into hemisphere shape, I, combing southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere into a globe, j, matching the globe with a support, k, obtaining final product. The invention has low cost, environment friend, simple process, hand-operation, saved power, time and force, semi-mechanical operation, reduced production time, improved working efficiency and reduced cost, compared with traditional paper globe.

Moon phase display mechanism including a control wheel driven by a movement, which control wheel drives a moon phase disc behind an aperture in a dial, and this mechanism includes: coaxial, superposed and permanently driven in opposite directions, a first phase indicator wheel carrying a first heart cam, and a second phase indicator wheel carrying a second heart cam, and this control wheel includes means for guiding a double lever comprising two arms, only one of which arms is arranged, at any time, to cooperate in contact with one of these second and first heart cams, each to display the moon phase visible in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, and to allow the moon phase disc to pivot in the appropriate direction for this hemisphere.

Golf ball 2 has a northern hemisphere N above the equatorial line 16, and a southern hemisphere S below the equatorial line 16. Each of the northern hemisphere N and the southern hemisphere S has a pole vicinity region 18, an equator vicinity region 20 and a coordination region 22. The pole vicinity region 18, the equator vicinity region 20 and the coordination region 22 have numerous dimples 8, respectively. The dimple pattern in the pole vicinity region 18 includes multiple units that are rotationally symmetric each other centered on the pole point P. The dimple pattern in the equator vicinity region 20 includes multiple units that are rotationally symmetric each other centered on the pole point P. Number of the units in the pole vicinity region 18 is different from number of the units in the equator vicinity region 20. The dimple pattern in the coordination region 22 cannot be comparted into multiple units that are rotationally symmetric each other centered on the pole point P.

Provided is a plastic tellurion production technology by which a plastic sphere and a PVC film map are firmly adhered. Maps of southern and northern hemispheres are printed on a PVC plastic sheet with thickness of 0.2-0.3. PVC map membranes of the southern and northern hemispheres are molded via hot blister. Then the PVC map membranes of the southern and northern hemispheres are placed in a plastic mould, and plastic shells of the southern and northern hemispheres are formed via plastic injection. After that the finished product of a plastic tellurion is assembled by the additionally arranged a hemisphere splicing ring, a bracket and a pedestal. The operation method has advantages that the sphere and the PVC maps are firmly adhered, the structure is compact, color is vivid, the service life is long without mildew, etc. so that manufacturing mechanical degree is high, large-scale production of the plastic tellurion can be met and labor efficiency is greatly enhanced.

A golf ball 2 includes a core 4, a mid layer 6 and a cover 8. The golf ball 2 further includes a large number of dimples 10 on a surface thereof. The surface has a northern hemisphere N and a southern hemisphere S. Each of the hemispheres has a high-latitude region 14, a mid-latitude region 18 and a low-latitude region 16. The number of planes that can divide a dimple pattern of the hemisphere so that divided dimple patterns are mirror symmetry to each other is one. Neither a dimple pattern of the high-latitude region 14 nor a dimple pattern of the low-latitude region 16 is rotationally symmetrical. A product THm of a thickness and a hardness for the mid layer 6, and a product THc of a thickness and a hardness for the cover 8 satisfy the following mathematical formula.THc−THm≦50