971 results about "Steep slope" patented technology

A method and apparatus is disclosed for adjusting the track density over the disk radius by changing the slope of spiral tracks used to servo write a disk drive. A plurality of spiral tracks are written to the disk wherein each spiral track comprises a high frequency signal interrupted at a predetermined interval by a sync mark. A slope of the spiral tracks over a first radial segment of the disk is substantially steeper than the slope of the spiral tracks over a second radial segment of the disk. The head internal to the disk drive is used to read the spiral tracks in order to write product servo sectors to the disk to define a plurality of data tracks. The steeper slope of the spiral tracks over the first radial segment causes a track density of the data tracks to be lower over the first radial segment compared to the track density of the data tracks over the second radial segment.

The invention relates to the technical field of mining safe engineering, and particularly to a stability monitoring method for a cold high-altitude steep slope. According to the stability monitoring method, through field engineering geology, hydrogeology survey, engineering geological rock quality evaluation and rock mechanical parameter determining, the lithologic condition, the rock structure, the hydrogeology condition, the slope shape, earthquake parameters, explosion parameters and the like of the slope are determined. Slope stability analysis and a treatment strategy measure are performed. Furthermore a comprehensive monitoring system and a slope instability criterion are established.

A touch panel-including illuminator having: a light pipe made of a transparent plate-like material having an upper surface, a lower surface and at least one incidence side surface, the upper surface being provided with light output means through which light incident on the incidence side surface is made to emerge from the lower surface; a light source disposed on the incidence side surface of the light pipe; an adhesive layer; and a touch panel bonded to the upper surface of the light pipe through the adhesive layer; wherein the light output means are constituted by fine grooves which are disposed discontinuously, each of which is made of a concave portion, and each of which is shaped like an approximate triangle in section; and wherein each of the fine grooves has an optical path changing slope and a steep slope.

A coating composition useful for building materials products, especially roofing surfaces, is provided. The coating composition provides durable exterior protection to surfaces that it applied to, and it has intumescent and reflective properties. The coating composition includes a mixture of a polymeric binder, at least one intumescent agent, a polymeric carrier and a pigment. The pigment is present in the coating composition in amount that is capable of providing a coating that has an initial energy efficiency rating greater than or equal to 0.65 for a low-sloped roof, or an initial energy efficiency greater than or equal to 0.25 for a steep-sloped roof. The coating composition has a solids content from about 30-80% of which 0.5-35 wt. % is the intumescent agent.

A semiconductor light emitting device which includes at least one concave on a light extraction surface opposite to a surface on which a semiconductor stack comprising a light emitting layer between a n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer is mounted. The concave has not less than two slopes each having a different slope angle in a direction that a diameter of the concave becomes narrower toward a bottom of the concave from an opening of the concave and a slope having a gentle slope angle is provided with irregularities and a slope having a steep slope angle is a flat surface.

A cover system is provided for waste sites and environmental closures, in which the cover system comprises a synthetic grass and an impermeable geomembrane that can be applied without the use of heavy earthwork equipment as temporary or final cover to control odors, erosion, gas migration and contaminate migration. The invention allows installation on very steep slopes and does not require the use of an extensive anchoring system to resist wind uplift or slope failure.

The invention relates to a restoration method for a damaged ecosystem in a steep-slope area in a water-level-fluctuating zone of a reservoir. The method comprises the following steps:when the impounded water level is at the lowest point, cleaning the upstream slope in the water-level-fluctuating zone, and manually tamping; digging planting holes at the top of the slope, and planting Chinese red pines and the like to form a multifunctional protective forest belt; digging planting grooves and planting holes within the range of the water-level-fluctuating zone, laying jute geotextile, planting vetiver within the range with the water-level-fluctuating depth of 2m to form a hedgerow; and mixedly planting vetiver and wire grass within the range with the water-level-fluctuating depth of 2-10m to form a combined vegetation slope restoration belt. The protective forest belt, the hedgerow and the combined vegetation slope restoration belt form a three-dimensional restoration space together, thereby ensuring that plants can take roots and restore in the steep-slope area in the water-level-fluctuating zone. By restoring the vegetation in large area, the invention effectively reduces the overland flow and the soil erosion, and improves the fertility and the properties of the soil, thereby restoring the damaged ecosystem. The invention has the advantages of convenient construction and less investment, can not be easily damaged by water, and is applicable to the water-level-fluctuating zone of a reservoir with large water-level-fluctuating range and precipitous topography.

A class-D amplifier circuit (30; 30′) providing improved open-loop error for base-band frequencies, such as the audio band, is disclosed. The amplifier circuit (30; 30′) includes a comparator (35) for generating a pulse-width-modulated output signal that is applied to an output power stage (37). An LC filter (32) is at the output of the power stage (37). The amplifier circuit (30; 30′) includes a loop filter having multiple feedback loop paths, with at least one feedback loop path coupled to the output of the power stage (37), and optionally, at least one feedback loop path coupled to the output of the LC filter (32). The transfer function (Hmae(s)) of the loop filter has a real part that has a much steeper slope (on the order of 80 dB / decade) at frequencies above the pulse-width-modulation switching frequency than the slope of its magnitude characteristic at frequencies below this switching frequency.

The invention discloses step-type fish passage facilities suitable for the steep slope of a high dam and a control method, and relates to intersection fields of aquatic engineering and hydraulic engineering, in particular to a fishway building suitable for the steep slope of the high dam and a fish passage control method. The fishway in the invention is a step-type fishway building established onthe steep slope of the dam body, which is combined by step-type relays of a plurality of rectangular pools, and also comprises a fish passage monitoring system, a computer automatic control system, anoverflow water fish luring device in the fishway and a fish luring device of inlet and outlet of the fishway. The invention can lead the migratory fish to pass the dam timely without injure of the migratory fish and has the outstanding features of low physical ability consumption, no inverse effects on gonadal development, high automatic degree, relative shorter fishway (steep slope) and saving investment and the like, thus fundamentally changing the defect that other structural types of fishway pass through the high dam.

A method of applying a laminate composition containing a whitening pigment during manufacture of modified bitumen roll roofing membranes, is provided. The laminate composition is heat activated providing greater adherence to surfaces that it applied to, and greater reflective properties. The laminate has an initial energy efficiency rating greater than or equal to 0.65 for a low-sloped roof, or an initial energy efficiency greater than or equal to 0.25 for a steep-sloped roof.

A demodulation circuit for an Amplitude Shift Keyed (ASK) modulated signal includes an envelope detector, an alternating voltage amplifier, a differentiator circuit, and a comparator having a hysteresis connected in series. The envelope detector produces an envelope signal from the received ASK signal. The amplifier blocks the DC component of the envelope signal and amplifies AC components of the envelope signal to obtain a steeper slope of the rising and falling edges. The differentiator circuit then processes the transition edges to provide a differentiated signal having positive and negative electrical pulses. The comparator converts the pulses into a binary data stream which corresponds to the transmitted data stream. The combination of the differentiated signal and comparator having a hysteresis enables better stability and sensitivity of the ASK demodulation circuit.

A power axle for assisting an automotive vehicle in ascending and descending steep slopes and grades includes an electromagnetic motor mounted to one floating axle of the vehicle, a junction box mounted to and electrically connected to the electromagnetic motor, a DC / AC power inverter mounted to the cab interposed between and for electrically interconnecting the vehicle's battery to the electromagnetic motor for powering the motor from the battery and control switches mounted on the dashboard and which include an on / off switch and a speed control dial for regulating and controlling the interaction and engagement of the electromagnetic motor with the floating axle of the vehicle.

The invention provides a dam slope deformation monitoring system and method. According to the monitoring system, an unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry system is utilized to monitor dams in the whole reservoir area, and an encrypted monitoring area with large deformation quantity and large digital elevation difference (a steep slope) is determined; in the encrypted monitoring area, a ground-based interferometric radar measurement system is utilized to determine a first level key area with larger deformation quantity; in the first level key area, a ground-based three-dimensional laser radarsystem is adopted to select a second level key area with larger deformation quantity, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is adopted in the second level key area to determine a key monitoringparticle with high deformation speed, and a micro core pile is utilized to monitor and forewarn the collapse process of the key monitoring particle area. According to the dam slope deformation monitoring system and method, precise positioning of the collapse position of the dams in the whole reservoir area and integrated monitoring and early warning of space, air and ground are achieved through time seamless monitoring from slow to fast to the instant of collapse and full coverage monitoring from large area to small area to particle and from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space variation.

Disclosed are low power electronic devices configured to exploit the sub-threshold swing, unidirectional tunneling, and low-voltage operation of steep slope-tunnel tunnel field-effect transistors (TFET) to improve power-conversion efficiency and power-efficiency of electrical systems incorporating the TFET as an electrical component to perform energy harvesting, signal processing, and related operations. The devices include a HTFET-based rectifier having various topologies, a HTFET-based DC-DC charge pump converter, a HTFET-based amplifier having an amplifier circuit including a telescopic operational transconductance amplifier, and a HTFET-based SAR A / D converter having a HTFET-based transmission gate DFF. Any one of the devices may be used to generate a RF-powered system with improved power conversion efficiencies of power harvesters and power efficiencies of processing components within the system.

The invention discloses a train energy-saving operation target speed curve optimization method comprising the following steps that S1, an optimization target is divided into multiple modes based on a hierarchical optimization method, and a mode switching relationship between any two adjacent modes is calculated based on a mode switching satisfaction area; S2, the speed value of a first constant speed mode and the speed value of the switching point of switching to a braking mode from a first coasting mode are calculated according to the mode switching relationship; S3, the position coordinates of the switching point of switching to the first coasting mode from the first constant speed mode are reversely calculated based on a two-way iterative method; S4, an initial target speed curve is obtained; S5, as for any one steep slope section, the part corresponding to the steep slope section in the initial target speed curve is optimized based on an average speed equivalent method; and S6, the target speed curve is optimized based on a multi-target satisfaction optimization method. Energy saving performance, punctuality, stability and safety of train operation can be effectively enhanced by the optimization method.

A coating composition useful for building materials products, especially roofing surfaces, is provided. The coating composition provides durable exterior protection to surfaces that it applied to, and it has reflective properties. The coating composition includes a mixture of a polymeric binder, a polymeric carrier and a pigment. The pigment is present in the coating composition in amount that is capable of providing a coating that has an initial energy efficiency rating greater than or equal to 0.65 for a low-sloped roof, or an initial energy efficiency greater than or equal to 0.25 for a steep-sloped roof.

A cover system is provided for waste sites and environmental closures, in which the cover system comprises a synthetic grass and an impermeable geomembrane that can be applied without the use of heavy earthwork equipment as temporary or final cover to control odors, erosion, gas migration and contaminate migration. The invention allows installation on very steep slopes and does not require the use of an extensive anchoring system to resist wind uplift or slope failure.

A class-D amplifier circuit (30; 30′) providing improved open-loop error for base-band frequencies, such as the audio band, is disclosed. The amplifier circuit (30; 30′) includes a comparator (35) for generating a pulse-width-modulated output signal that is applied to an output power stage (37). An LC filter (32) is at the output of the power stage (37). The amplifier circuit (30; 30′) includes a loop filter having multiple feedback loop paths, with at least one feedback loop path coupled to the output of the power stage (37), and optionally, at least one feedback loop path coupled to the output of the LC filter (32). The transfer function (Hmae(s)) of the loop filter has a real part that has a much steeper slope (on the order of 80 dB / decade) at frequencies above the pulse-width-modulation switching frequency than the slope of its magnitude characteristic at frequencies below this switching frequency.

The invention discloses a multi-objective optimization method for operation of a heavy-load train. The method comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring to-be-optimized section data, wherein the to-be-optimized section data includes a locomotive, vehicle information, marshalling information, line data, line speed limit, time table data and the like; S2, initializing a weight set of an objective function, and the relevant data in the step S1; S3, performing numerical solving for train operation optimization of all long and steep slope sections in a to-be-optimized line range to obtain an energy-saving optimization curve; S4, for multi-objective balance adjustment of a non-long and steep slope, comprehensively utilizing a quadratic programming model and a weight self-adaptive adjusting method, thereby obtaining a stable and energy-saving optimization curve meeting operation indexes; S5, for curve results solved in the steps S3 and S4, performing transition connection meeting the operation stability of the train; and S6, outputting a complete train speed optimization curve. The method has the advantages that on the basis of safety and on-time, stable and energy-saving operation global optimization of the heavy-load train in the whole process including the long and steep slope and the non-long and steep slope is realized.

A fuel injector system 10 calculates a first derivative filtered signal and a second derivative filtered signal from an unpowered spool valve coil signal. When the spool valve 16 reaches the end of travel, either open or closed position, a flat slope f is generated on the falling edge of the bell shaped signal. The second derivative provides a readily apparent determination of when the steep slope occurs. A comparator 62 thereby need only determine when the second derivative is zero to identify that the spool valve has reached the end of travel.

A method for gear selection during driving of a vehicle in a heavy uphill drive condition, said vehicle comprising an engine (1), an automated mechanical transmission (9), a clutch (3), a control unit (45) for receiving input signals including signals indicative of vehicle speed, engaged ratio of said transmission, rotational speed of said engine, rotational speed of a input shaft and displacement of a throttle control (48) for engine torque request, and for processing said signals in accordance with programmed logic rules to issue command output signals to said engine (1), to said transmission (9) and to said clutch (3).; When sensing a heavy uphill drive condition a target gear is determined for said uphill drive condition, said target gear being the highest possible gear with lowest possible gear ratio where the vehicle, in view of at least current circumstances, will be at least theoretically able to hold a constant vehicle speed or accelerate at least slightly, and where further selection of downshifts will be adapted so that no lower gear than said target gear will be selected and engaged.

A processes for adhering a vulcanized rubber to a vulcanized rubber or an unvulcanized rubber. Adhesion of vulcanized rubbers to each other is conducted by using at least one of the vulcanized rubbers before vulcanization thereof according to steps of: (1) laminating a sheet material which can easily be peeled from a surface of a rubber after vulcanization to a rough surface of the rubber before vulcanization, (2) vulcanizing a resultant laminate, (3) removing the sheet material from the vulcanized laminate immediately before adhesion of the vulcanized rubber in the laminate to another vulcanized rubber, and (4) adhering the vulcanized rubbers to each other according to a method of adhesion. The adhering of the vulcanized rubbers to each other is also conducted by using a rubber composition for adhesion inserted between the vulcanized rubbers without procedures using the sheet material. An unvulcanized rubber is used in place of another vulcanized rubber in the process for adhering a vulcanized rubber and an unvulcanized rubber to each other. A rubber composition for adhesion which contains sulfur in an amount greater than that of the vulcanized rubber may be used in the method of adhesion. Various types of rubber products, such as a large size rubber weir, a steep slope conveyor belt, a rubber gasket used for a joint portion of immersed elements for an immersed tunnel, and a retreaded tire, can be produced by using the processes for adhering.

A system and method are provided for automated control of application of fluid to a surface. A surface map is annotated with shapes designating zones for spraying, and excluding others. A control system in a vehicle uses the annotated map and GPS to assist the operator of the vehicle avoid spraying on excluded zones, and provides a record of the spraying operation including locations sprayed and fluid spray rates. The control system operates valves to control spraying from a container on the vehicle, based on several parameters, so as to avoid spraying excluded zones and steep slopes, to avoid overlaps, and to limit fluid spray rates below pre-determined maximums. The system further assists the operator by providing a visual guide on a display. A kit can be provided to retrofit a vehicle for landspraying.

The invention relates to an appliance for the disabled, in particular to a wheelchair type stairs-climbing vehicle. The wheelchair type stairs-climbing vehicle consists of a seat part, a front vehicle part and a rear vehicle part, wherein the seat part comprises a seat, an absorber, a speed adjustment handle and a forward / backward switch, which are mutually connected; the front vehicle part comprises a front wheel, a front frame, a wheel steering mechanism, a footrest, a first motor, a second motor, a first worm mechanism, a second worm mechanism, a lithium battery, a slide mechanism, a rubber bumper guard wheel, an inclination control mechanism and a clutch switch, which are mutually connected; and the rear vehicle part comprises a rear frame, a rear wheel mechanism, a chain, a rear wheel shield, a shield connecting rod and a clutch, which are mutually connected. The wheelchair type stairs-climbing vehicle has the characteristics of simple structure, convenient use, independent and relaxed driving by a user and free walking up and down stairs, steps, steep slopes and on flat ground under the condition of no help from other people, low manufacturing cost, high safety and the like. The invention also relates to an inclination switch of the inclination control mechanism.

A screw conveyor apparatus including a ribbon screw (4) provided in a cylindrical casing (1). The ribbon screw (4) has rotation rings (12) attached to an intermediate portion thereof. Outer peripheral supporting sections (11) are provided for rotatably supporting the corresponding rotation rings (12) on the casing (1). This configuration prevents the ribbon screw (4) from being bent or expanded under a load of conveyed materials, thereby enabling the materials to be conveyed along a steep slope up to a high portion.

The present invention provides a screw, comprising a screw head having a drive recess and a screw shank having threads and being integrally formed with the screw head, wherein the drive recess includes a plurality of engaging grooves equiangularly radiating from an axis of the screw in plan view, a bottom face of each engaging groove having a steep slope, which is near to the screw shank, and a gentle slope, which is far from the screw shank, for enlarging the engaging area of the engaging grooves.

At the light emission surface of at light-guiding plate, a first and second grooves are formed. Each of the first grooves has a pair of slope parts, and each slope part has an easy slope and a steep slope. The second grooves intersect the first grooves at predetermined angles. Each of the second grooves has a pair of slope parts, and each slope part has an easy slope and a steep slope. With the first grooves and the second grooves intersecting each other, at the light emission surface, a plurality of minute prisms are formed in flat quadrangular pyramid shapes to be dented toward the surface opposite to the light emission surface of the light-guiding plate.

Electrical measures of resistivity and permittivity of engine lubricating oil are gathered continuously under normal vehicle engine operating conditions and combined into a composite parameter, the aggregated electrical measure, which, is indicative of engine oil condition and when plotted over the useful life of the oil displays a first linear slope anticipatory of the end of oil life followed by a second, steeper slope indicative of the end of oil life. An algorithm, implementable in an on-vehicle computer, to reliably detect these features is described.