Author: claimsbot

1. A method for heat transfer, wherein the method utilizes a boiler, a two-phase turbine, two-phase separator, and compressorpump, wherein the method has a vapor phase and a liquid phase, the method comprising the steps of:
absorbing ambientnon-ambient thermal energy;
generating a high pressure saturated vapor stream from the boiler;
extracting practical work from the high pressure saturated vapor stream via the associated two-phase turbine;
separating a condensed phase by spraying oil or liquefied methane and scraping liquid droplets from a condensed stream;
covering and preventing the liquid phase from re-evaporating; and,
compressingpumping waste gasliquid phases back into the boiler through at least one compressorpump without loss of heat into a heat sink, wherein the method does not use a cooling condenser.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein a working fluid of the boiler is chosen from the group comprising water, liquefied oxygen, or nitrogen, wherein the working fluid is not a hazardous chemical.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the two-phase turbine comprises a slower-speed turbine of blades with a large surface area.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the slower-speed turbine comprises a high ratio gear reducer to increase speed to a generator and meet the generator’s power generation requirements.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of separating a condensed phase by spraying oil or liquefied methane and scraping liquid droplets from a condensed stream comprises:
separating a condensed phase by spraying oilor liquefied methane, scraping liquid droplets from the condensed phase, and centrifuging.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of compressingpumping waste gasliquid phases back into the boiler through at least one compressorpump without loss of heat into a heat sink comprises:
compressingpumping the gasliquid streams directly back into the boiler separately without discarding heat into the heat sink.
7. A low-temperature heat engine device comprising:
at least one low-temperature liquefied gas boiler;
at least one two-phase turbine;
at least one high ratio gear reducer;
at least one two-phase separator;
at least one gas compressor; and,
at least one liquid pump, wherein the device does not have a cooling condenser.
8. The device of claim 7, wherein the two-phase turbine has a rotation speed of between approximately 120 rpm to approximately 360 rpm.
9. The device of claim 8, wherein the turbine has a large surface area.
10. The device of claim 7, wherein the high ratio gear reducer is connected to the two-phase turbine.
11. The device of claim 7, wherein the high ratio gear reducer is operatively connected between the turbine and a generator to increase speed to the generator.
12. The device of claim 11, wherein the gear reducer and generator rotate at a rate higher than those of the turbine.
13. The device of claim 8, wherein the gear reducer has a ratio of between approximately 1:10 to approximately 1:30.
14. The device of claim 13, wherein the generator has a rotation speed of approximately 3600 rpm.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

I claim:

1. A post level bracket apparatus useful for vertically, horizontally, and diagonally aligning a post or pipe material, comprising:
a) at least one bracket, each bracket bent at a right angle forming a bend vertex and two bracket legs;
b) holding means for adjustably holding a plurality of spirit levels in selected positions relative to said bracket legs, each said spirit level having at least one lengthwise peripheral wall; and
c) adjustable attaching means for attaching said apparatus to a post or pipe material.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein each of said bracket legs defines at least one slot extending along its length.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a structural support rod, having opposite ends, permanently attached to at least two of said brackets at their said vertex in the vicinity of said opposite ends of said support.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said holding means comprise at least one C spring clip having opposed, outward facing C portions connected by a base portion and adapted for releasably retaining one of said spirit levels.
5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said holding means comprises at least one inverted C spring clip having opposed, inward facing C portions, each portion having outwardly extending release fingers, said C portions connected by a base portion, said clip being adapted for releasably retaining one of said spirit levels.
6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said holding means comprises a set of U-bolts secured by wing nuts, and a machined Neoprene insert.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said attaching means is a belt and adjusting buckle.
8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said attaching means is a hook and loop fastener.
9. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said attaching means is a strap and buckle, said strap centrally mounted to said support rod between said opposite ends.
10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said brackets are made of one of thermoplastic and metallic material.
11. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said C spring clip is made of spring steel.
12. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said inverted C spring clip is made of a yieldable plastic or hard rubber material.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said attaching means comprise at least one magnetic strip located along each of said spirit levels.
14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said holding means comprises an attachment block located on each bracket leg and having an upper end wall, a lower end wall, an outer wall, an inner wall, and two side walls and defining an elongated slot extending through said block from one side wall to said other side wall and generally perpendicular thereto, said slot being so configured as to slidably fit over said bracket leg.
15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said holding means further comprises a bracket stop screw extending into said block from said upper end wall for adjustably fixing said block to said bracket leg at a desired position.
16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said holding means further comprises a groove located within said attachment block located along said inner wall and extending perpendicularly between said upper end wall and said lower end wall and so configured as to slidably fit over a peripheral lengthwise wall of said spirit gauge.
17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said groove is T-shaped, having a narrow portion along said inner wall and having a wide portion spaced from said inner wall by the depth of said narrow portion.
18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said groove is rectangular in shape so configured as to slidably fit over a peripheral lengthwise wall of said spirit gauge.
19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein said attaching means is an elastic band having a hook and loop fastener.
20. A post level bracket apparatus useful for vertically, horizontally, and diagonally aligning a post or pipe material, comprising:
a) at least one bracket bent at a right angle forming a bend vertex and having at least one slot along each resulting bracket leg formed thereby;
b) holding means for holding a plurality of spirit level(s) in a selected fixed position relative to said slotted bracket leg;
c) a structural support rod, having opposite ends, permanently attached to each said bracket vertex at a point proximate said opposite ends of said support; and
d) adjustable attaching means for temporarily attaching said apparatus to a post or pipe material.

1. A controller of a leg type moving robot for causing the leg type moving robot equipped with a plurality of legs extended from a body thereof to perform an operation of moving an object, the controller comprising:
a desired motion state amount determining means which sequentially determines a desired motion state amount, which is a desired value of a motion state amount of an object on an object dynamic model showing a relationship between a force acting on the object and a motion of the object, on the basis of at least a moving plan of the object;
a desired action force determining means which sequentially determines a desired action force between the robot and the object, which is a desired value of a force acting between the robot and the object, such that the motion state amount of the object on the object dynamic model follows at least the determined desired motion state amount;
a desired moving position determining means which sequentially determines a desired moving position of the object as an output of the dynamic model by inputting the determined desired action force between the robot and the object into the object dynamic model;
a controlling means which controls an operation of the robot on the basis of at least the determined desired action force between the robot and the object and the determined desired moving position;
an actual moving position grasping means which grasps an actual moving position, which is a real moving position of the object; and
a motion manipulated variable determining means which determines a motion manipulated variable of an object on the object dynamic model on the basis of a difference between the grasped actual moving position and the determined desired moving position such that the difference approximates zero,
wherein the desired moving position determining means determines the desired moving position while correcting the motion state amount of the object on the object dynamic model on the basis of the determined motion manipulated variable.
2. The controller of a leg type moving robot according to claim 1, comprising: a disturbance force estimating means which sequentially estimates a disturbance force other than a force acting on the object from the robot in a force acting on the object; and a moving plan correcting means which corrects the moving plan on the basis of a change in the estimated disturbance force.
3. The controller of a leg type moving robot according to claim 1, comprising: a disturbance force estimating means which sequentially estimates a disturbance force other than a force acting on the object from the robot in a force acting on the object, wherein the desired motion state amount determining means determines the desired motion state amount on the basis of at least the moving plan and the estimated disturbance force.
4. The controller of a leg type moving robot according to claim 2, wherein the disturbance force estimating means is a means for estimating the disturbance force on the basis of the determined desired action force between the robot and the object and the moving velocity of the object on the object dynamic model.
5. The controller of a leg type moving robot according to claim 3, wherein the disturbance force estimating means is a means for estimating the disturbance force on the basis of the determined desired action force between the robot and the object and the moving velocity of the object on the object dynamic model.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A solenoid valve comprising:
an opening and closing valve that is a solenoid-operated valve and includes a first valve element, wherein a first valve seat is disposed in a first valve chamber, into which fluid is supplied, and the first valve element is seatable against and is liftable away from the first valve seat to close and open a valve hole communicated with the first valve chamber;
a flow quantity adjusting valve that is a pressure-operated valve and includes:
a second valve element that adjusts a flow quantity of the fluid, which flows through a second valve chamber that receives the fluid from the first valve chamber through the valve hole, in response to an amount of stroke of the second valve element relative to a second valve seat disposed in the second valve chamber during a valve opening time of the opening and closing valve; and
a spring that urges the second valve element toward a valve opening side in an axial direction of the second valve chamber; and

a housing that reciprocatably receives the first valve element in the first valve chamber and reciprocatably receives the second valve element in the second valve chamber, wherein:
the housing includes:
a first housing that is placed on a radially outer side of the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber in a radial direction, which is perpendicular to the axial direction; and
a second housing that is loosely fitted into a radially inner side of the first housing and forms the first valve chamber, the second valve chamber and the valve hole in an inside of the second housing; and

one of the first housing and the second housing includes a spring seat, at which an end of the spring is held or secured.
2. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, comprising a solenoid that includes a coil, which generates a magnetic force to magnetically attract a plunger toward a valve opening side of the first valve element when the coil is energized, wherein the first valve element is connected to the plunger in a manner that enables integral movement of the first valve element and the plunger.
3. The solenoid valve according to claim 2, wherein:
the solenoid and the first housing include a first annular step and a second annular step, respectively, which are opposed to each other in the axial direction while the first annular step and the second annular step are spaced from each other by a predetermined axial distance; and
the second housing is clamped and is held between the first annular step and the second annular step.
4. The solenoid valve according to claim 2, comprising a solenoid case that receives the solenoid.
5. The solenoid valve according to claim 4, wherein:
the first housing includes:
a first peripheral wall, which is configured into a tubular form and surrounds the second housing in a circumferential direction; and
a connecting portion, at which the first housing is connected to the solenoid case;

the second housing includes a second peripheral wall that is configured into a tubular form and is fitted into the first peripheral wall to surround the first valve chamber in the circumferential direction; and
the second peripheral wall has a first seal material, which is configured into an annular form and is held between an inner peripheral surface of the first peripheral wall and the second peripheral wall to limit leakage of the fluid from the first valve chamber to an outside of the first peripheral wall through a gap formed at the connecting portion.
6. The solenoid valve according to claim 4, wherein:
the second housing forms the first valve chamber between the second housing and the solenoid case and also forms the second valve chamber between the second housing and the first housing;
the second housing includes a limiting wall that is configured into an annular form and limits a maximum amount of stroke of the second valve element; and
the valve hole extends through the limiting wall and communicates between the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber.
7. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, wherein:
the first housing includes:
a first peripheral wall, which is configured into a tubular form and surrounds the second housing in a circumferential direction;
a first flow passage, which is placed on an upstream side of the first valve chamber in a flow direction of the fluid; and
a second flow passage, which is placed on a downstream side of the second valve chamber in the flow direction of the fluid;

the second housing includes a second peripheral wall that is configured into a tubular form and is fitted into the first peripheral wall to surround the second valve chamber in the circumferential direction; and
the second peripheral wall has a second seal material, which is configured into an annular form and is held between the second peripheral wall and an inner peripheral surface of the first peripheral wall to limit leakage of the fluid from the first valve chamber to the second valve chamber or the second flow passage.
8. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, wherein during the valve opening time of the first valve element, the amount of stroke of the second valve element is changed according to balance between a pressure of the fluid, which is guided from the first valve chamber into the second valve chamber through the valve hole, and a spring force of the spring, and the second valve element adjusts the flow quantity of the fluid, which passes through the second valve chamber, according to a change in the amount of stroke of the second valve element.
9. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, wherein the second valve element includes:
a tubular wall that opens at one side where the second valve chamber is placed, wherein a pressure chamber is formed in an inside of the tubular wall; and
a pressure receiving wall that closes an opposite side of the tubular wall, which is opposite from the one side of the tubular wall where the second valve chamber is placed, wherein the pressure receiving wall receives a pressure of the fluid guided into the second valve chamber.
10. The solenoid valve according to claim 9, wherein:
the first housing includes:
a first flow passage, which is placed on an upstream side of the first valve chamber in a flow direction of the fluid; and
a second flow passage, which is placed on a downstream side of the second valve chamber in the flow direction of the fluid;

the tubular wall of the second valve element includes a plurality of lateral holes, each of which opens in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction; and
the pressure receiving wall includes a restriction hole that restricts the flow quantity of the fluid, which flows from the second valve chamber toward the second flow passage.
11. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, wherein the first housing includes a guide that supports the second valve element in a manner that enables reciprocation of the second valve element in the axial direction of the second valve chamber.
12. The solenoid valve according to claim 1, wherein:
the first housing includes:
a first flow passage, which is placed on an upstream side of the first valve chamber in a flow direction of the fluid; and
a second flow passage, which is placed on a downstream side of the second valve chamber in the flow direction of the fluid; and

the second housing is inserted and is placed between the first flow passage and the second flow passage in the first housing.