Author: claimsbot

1. A system for cooling heated components in a hot gas path of a turbine, comprising:
at least one liquid source comprising coolant liquid; and
at least one liquid nozzle in fluid communication with the at least one liquid source and operable to deliver the coolant liquid in an atomized form adjacent to at least one heated turbine component positioned in a hot gas path of the turbine;
wherein upon delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to the at least one heated turbine component, at least a portion of the coolant liquid substantially changes phase to a gas.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprises at least one pump for pressurizing the coolant liquid from the at least one liquid source.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a pipe system coupling the at least one liquid source and the at least one liquid nozzle.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein the pipe system comprises a thermal insulation.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the coolant liquid comprises water.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one heated turbine component comprises at least one of a turbine bucket, a turbine wheel, a turbine nozzle, or a turbine shroud.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one heated turbine component comprises a turbine bucket comprising a first side and a second side creating an inner space therein and comprising a plurality of orifices extending through at least one of the first side or the second side, and wherein upon delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to the turbine bucket, at least a part of the gas passes through the inner space and exits out of the inner space to the hot gas path through at least a portion of the plurality of orifices.
8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a purging unit to purge an excess amount of the coolant liquid from the hot gas path.
9. A method for cooling heated components in a hot gas path of a turbine, comprising:
providing at least one liquid source comprising a coolant liquid in fluid communication with at least one liquid nozzle, wherein the at least one liquid nozzle is positioned adjacent to at least one heated turbine component positioned in a hot gas path of the turbine;
atomizing the coolant liquid from the at least one liquid source; and
delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to the at least one heated turbine component;
wherein upon delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to the at least one heated turbine component, at least a portion of the coolant liquid substantially changes phase to a gas.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising pressurizing the coolant liquid from the at least one liquid source by at least one pump.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the coolant liquid comprises water.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising insulating the liquid prior to delivering the coolant liquid adjacent to the at least one heated turbine component.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one heated turbine component comprises at least one of a turbine bucket, a turbine wheel, a turbine nozzle, or a turbine shroud.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one heated turbine component comprises a turbine bucket comprising a first side and a second side creating an inner space therein and comprising a plurality of orifices extending through at least one of the first side or the second side, and wherein upon delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to the turbine bucket, at least a part of the gas passes through the inner space and exits out of the inner space to the hot gas path through at least a portion of the plurality of orifices.
15. The method of claim 9, further comprising purging excess liquid from the hot gas path subsequent to reducing the turbine speed below load.
16. A method for operating a turbine, comprising:
starting the turbine;
increasing the turbine speed to operate at a predetermined load;
atomizing a coolant liquid;
delivering the atomized coolant liquid adjacent to at least one heated turbine component positioned in a hot gas path of the turbine subsequent to increasing the turbine speed to operate at the predetermined load, wherein upon delivering the atomized coolant liquid, at least a portion of the coolant liquid substantially changes phase to a gas;
reducing the turbine speed to operate below the predetermined load; and
purging excess liquid from the hot gas path subsequent to reducing the turbine speed below the predetermined load.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein the coolant liquid comprises water.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the at least one heated turbine component comprises at least one of a turbine bucket, a turbine wheel, a turbine nozzle, or a turbine shroud.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein purging excess liquid from the hot gas path is performed prior to a next start-up of the turbine.
20. The method of claim 16, wherein purging excess liquid from the hot gas path is performed upon a shut-down of the turbine.

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 workpiece ejecting device for a machine tool including a head stock, a spindle installed rotatably at the head stock, a chuck installed at a front end surface of the spindle to clamp the workpiece, a drawing tube installed at the inside of the spindle as a hollow shaft and connected at a front end thereof to the chuck to rotate integrally with the spindle, and a chucking cylinder installed at the head stock so that it can clamp or unclamp the workpiece clamped at the chuck by moving the drawing tube forward and rearward in the axial direction, the workpiece ejecting device comprising:
an ejecting cylinder mounted at one side of the head stock in such a fashion that its center is aligned with the center of the spindle;
an ejecting rod adapted not to rotate and having a length extending from the hollow inside of the drawing tube to a position adjacent to the chuck, the ejecting rod being axially formed at the inside thereof with a fluid passing opening, and being moved reciprocally in the axial direction as a rod for the ejecting cylinder by means of the ejecting cylinder to thereby push the unclamped workpiece from the chuck to the outside; and
a front bearing unit installed between an inner peripheral surface of the drawing tube opposite to the ejecting cylinder and an outer peripheral surface of the ejecting rod so that it can support the rotation of the drawing tube.
2. The ejecting device according to claim 1 wherein the front bearing unit comprises:
A bearing housing inserted into the inner peripheral surface of the drawing tube;
At least one bearing inserted into an inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing and at the same time clamped to an outer peripheral surface of the ejecting rod; and
means for clamping the bearing to the ejecting rod.
3. The ejecting device according, to claim 2, wherein the bearing clamping means comprises:
a spacer for pushing an inner ring of the bearing to a stepped portion of the ejecting rod; and
a lock nut thread engaged with the ejecting rod to clamp a position of the spacer.
4. The ejecting device according to claim 2, wherein an O-ring is installed at an outer peripheral surface of the bearing housing so that it contacts slidably with the inner peripheral surface of the drawing tube to block flowing in of coolant, and an oil seal is installed at an inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing.
5. A workpiece ejecting device for a machine tool including a head stock, a spindle installed rotatably at the head stock, a chuck installed at a front end surface of the spindle to clamp the workpiece, a drawing tube installed at the inside of the spindle as a hollow shaft and connected at a front end thereof to the chuck to rotate integrally with the spindle, and a chucking cylinder installed at the head stock so that it can clamp or unclamp the workpiece clamped at the chuck by moving the drawing tube forward and rearward in the axial direction, the workpiece ejecting device comprising:
an ejecting cylinder mounted at one side of the head stock in such a fashion that its center is aligned with the center of the spindle;
an ejecting rod adapted not to rotate and having a length extending the hollow inside of the drawing tube to a position adjacent to the chuck, the ejecting rod being axially formed at the inside thereof with a fluid passing opening, and being directly connected at the rear end thereof to the front end of a cylinder rod of the ejecting cylinder and moved reciprocally in the axial direction as a rod for the ejecting cylinder by means of the ejecting cylinder to thereby push the unclamped workpiece from the chuck to the outside; and
a front bearing unit installed between an inner peripheral surface of the drawing tube opposite to the ejecting cylinder and an outer peripheral surface of the ejecting rod so that it can support the rotation of the drawing tube.
6. The ejecting device according to claim 5, wherein the front bearing unit comprises:
a bearing housing inserted into the inner peripheral surface of the drawing tube;
at least one bearing inserted into an inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing and at the same time clamped to an inner peripheral surface of the ejecting rod; and
means for clamping the bearing to the ejecting rod.
7. The ejecting device according to claim 5, wherein the bearing clamping means comprises:
a spacer for pushing an inner ring of the bearing to a stepped portion of the ejecting rod; and
a lock nut thread engaged with the ejecting rod to clamp a position of the spacer.
8. The ejecting device according to claim 5, wherein the rear end of the ejecting rod and the rod of the ejecting cylinder are screw-engaged with each other.
9. The ejecting device according to claim 5, wherein a fluid passing opening is formed at the center axis of the ejecting rod and the rod of the ejecting cylinder.

1. A set-top box, comprising:
a memory;
a receiver interface to receive a broadcast signal;
an output interface to send the broadcast signal to a display device;
a closed-captioning decoder to access closed-captioning information including closed-captioning information from the broadcast signal and to produce an American standard code for information interchange character stream;
a uniform resource locator processor to extract uniform resource locator data from the character stream and to store the uniform resource locator data in the memory;
a second processor to process the uniform resource locator data from the memory, the second processor to generate a web page comprised of one or more selectable links organized in one or more categories by date, wherein a check box is associated with each of the one or more selectable links, and wherein the web page includes a first selectable option to enable each selectable link associated with a checked check box to be added to a uniform resource locator address book and the second processor to send the web page with the one or more selectable links via a local area network to a device coupled to the set-top box by the local area network in response to a request received from the device, wherein the request is sent in response to user input that requests web sites obtained from the broadcast signal, and wherein the device is different than the display device; and
a web server to provide the web page to a network interface in response to a request received from the network interface.
2. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the memory includes a database and wherein the uniform resource locator data is stored in the database.
3. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the web server is adapted to interact with software of a user device to display the web page on the user device.
4. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the uniform resource locator data is organized by a program identifier related to the broadcast signal.
5. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a computer.
6. The set-top box of claim 5, wherein the computer is a laptop computer.
7. The set-top box of claim 5, wherein the computer is a tablet computer.
8. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile device.
9. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a personal digital assistant.
10. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the web server is adapted to provide a user interface to configure user settings of the set-top box.
11. The set-top box of claim 10, wherein the user settings include a particular user setting to have the web page delivered automatically by the web server in response to an addition of new uniform resource locator data from the character stream.
12. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the web page includes a second selectable option to enable each selectable link associated with a checked check box to be deleted from the uniform resource locator data.
13. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the uniform resource locator processor parses the character stream to extract the uniform resource locator data.
14. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the web page comprises two or more category headings, wherein each category heading corresponds to a particular day.
15. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein a particular selectable link is a link to public service announcement information.
16. The set-top box of claim 1, wherein the closed-captioning decoder is configured to provide the closed-captioning information to the output interface.

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. An in-plane switching liquid crystal display device, comprising:
first and second substrates;
a plurality of data lines on the first substrate;
a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines on the first substrate, perpendicular to the data lines;
a plurality of pixel areas on said first substrate defined by the data and gate lines;
data electrodes and common electrodes alternately formed in each of said pixel areas, the data electrodes having a first transmittance area and the common electrodes having a second transmittance area, wherein at least one of the data and common electrodes, exclusive of outer electrodes of the pixel areas, is shielded, and wherein the first transmittance area equals the second transmittance area; and
a liquid crystal layer between said first and second substrates.
2. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein the data electrodes and the common electrodes are on the same layer.
3. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display device of claim 1, further comprising at least one light shielding layer on the first substrate to overlap with at least one outermost electrode in each pixel area, wherein the at least one outermost electrode is at least one of the data electrodes and common electrodes adjacent to at least one of the data lines.
4. An in-plane switching liquid crystal display device, comprising:
first and second substrates;
a plurality of pixel areas on said first substrate;
data electrodes and common electrodes alternately formed in each of said pixel areas and patterned to have the same light transmitting area according to applied voltage, wherein at least one of the data electrodes and common electrodes, exclusive of outer electrodes of the pixel areas, is shielded; and
a liquid crystal layer between said first and second substrates.
5. The device of claim 4, wherein said data electrodes and said common electrodes are formed on the same plane.
6. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display device of claim 4, further comprising at least one light shielding layer on the first substrate to overlap with at least one outermost electrode in each pixel region, wherein the at least one outermost electrode is at least one of the data electrodes and common electrodes.