THEORETICAL TOOTH PROFILE AND ITS SUBSTITUTE CURVE OF THE PINION CUTTER FOR PINHOLES

The formula for the engaging curve of the pinion cutter with pitholes and the formula forthe theoretical tooth profile of the tinion cutter for the generating gearing of pinhoes are developedbased on the engaging theory. The substitute curve of the theoretical tooth profile of the pinion cut-ter is determined by the least square method.

Effects of pinholes on zerooffset of single-axis normal-tracking measurement system

A single-axis normal-tracking measurement system is proposed, which can solve the problem of measuring large curved surface. According to Collins formula, the tilt dependent error of the measurement system is studied, which uses Gaussian beam as the light source. By theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, the influence of the error is presented. The results show that there is the difference between point source and Gaussian beam for differential confocal microscopy. The opti-mal diameter of pinhole can be determined by the mathematical model and the actual parameters of the measurement system. The optimal pinhole diameter of this measurement system is 20 to 35 pm for 633 nm wavelength light source.

Drainage design combining drain holes and pinholes for tunnel boring machine segments subject to high water pressure

Balance of the groundwater and ecology is crucial for controlled discharge.However,regarding the segments of tunnel boring machines(TBMs)under high water pressure,the stability of the lining structure is often reduced by excessive drain holes required to achieve this balance.The large discharge of pinholes can easily have severe consequences,such as the lowering of the groundwater table,drying of springs,and vegetation wilting.Thus,in this study,according to the fluid-structure coupling theory,a new drainage design for TBM segments was developed by considering a mountain tunnel subject to a high water pressure as a case study.The evolution characteristics,including the external water pressure of the lining,discharge volume of the segment,and groundwater-table drawdown,were investigated via numerical modeling with drain holes and pinholes.The results indicated that the optimal design parameters of drainage segments for the project case were as follows:a circumferential spacing angle and longitudinal number on one side of a single ring of 51°and 2,respectively,for the drain holes and an inclination angle and length of 46.41°and 0.25 times the grouting thickness,respectively,for the pin holes.

Suppressing Leakage Currents and Improving Performance of Indoor Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Organic photovoltaic(OPV) devices hold great promise for indoor light harvesting,offering a theoretical upper limit of power conversion efficiency that surpasses that of other photovoltaic technologies.However,the presence of high leakage currents in OPV devices commonly constrains their effective performance under indoor conditions.In this study,we identified that the origin of the high leakage currents in OPV devices lay in pinhole defects present within the active layer(AL).By integrating an automated spin-coating strategy with sequential deposition processes,we achieved the compactness of the AL and minimized the occurrence of pinhole defects therein.Experimental findings demonstrated that with an increase in the number of deposition cycles,the density of pinhole defects in the AL underwent a marked reduction.Consequently,the leakage current experienced a substantial decrease by several orders of magnitude which achieved through well-calibrated AL deposition procedures.This enabled a twofold enhancement in the power conversion efficiency(PCE) of the OPV devices under conditions of indoor illumination.

Dispersion characteristics of clayey soils containing waste rubber particles

The rubber-containing waste materials have been widely used to improve the engineering properties of soils in recent years.Among others,granular rubbers are utilized in various ways to increase the bearing capacity and shear strength and to reduce the settlement and liquefaction potential of soils.The granular rubbers have many advantages such as temperature resistance,flexibility,tear-resistance,non-slip,and thermal and electrical insulation.This study presents the distribution characteristics of five different types of clayey soils with different engineering properties containing waste rubber particles(WRPs).On the other hand,determining and controlling the dispersion characteristics of clayey soils is two significant engineering problems.The study aims to solve these two remarkable and problematic issues in an eco-friendly and safe way.The role of WRP treatment in the investigation of soil dispersion behavior,which can cause dangerous problems such as piping,erosion,and dispersion,reflects the original and different perspectives of this study.Within this scope,geotechnical parameters of the clayey soils were determined.Subsequently,pinhole test,crumb test,double hydrometer test,and scanning electron microscopy(SEM)analysis were performed on the Na-activated bentonite,refined ball clay,Ukrainian kaolin,Avanos kaolin,and Afyon clay samples with different percentages of WRPs(0%,5%,10%,and 15%).Consequently,Avanos and Ukrainian kaolin clays gave the most limited response to the dispersion behavior with the addition of WRP.Also,WRP treatment on the ball clay and bentonite samples showed limited efficiency.Afyon clay,which was defined as dispersive by the three tests that determined its dispersion potential,showed 3 level changes in the pinhole tests and 2 level changes in the crumb tests,and gave the most effective results in terms of WRP efficiency.

Micro-Sized Pinhole Inspection with Segmented Time Reversal and High-Order Modes Cluster Lamb Waves Based on EMATs

Pinhole corrosion is difficult to discover through conventional ultrasonic guided waves inspection,particularly for micro-sized pinholes less than 1 mm in diameter.This study proposes a new micro-sized pinhole inspection method based on segmented time reversal(STR)and high-order modes cluster(HOMC)Lamb waves.First,the principle of defect echo enhancement using STR is introduced.Conventional and STR inspection experiments were conducted on aluminum plates with a thickness of 3 mm and defects with different diameters and depths.The parameters of the segment window are discussed in detail.The results indicate that the proposed method had an amplitude four times larger than of conventional ultrasonic guided waves inspection method for pinhole defect detection and could detect micro-sized pinhole defects as small as 0.5 mm in diameter and 0.5 mm in depth.Moreover,the segment window location and width(5-10 times width of the conventional excitation signal)did not affect the detection sensitivity.The combination of low-power and STR is more conducive to detection in different environments,indicating the robustness of the proposed method.Compared with conventional ultrasonic guided wave inspection methods,the proposed method can detect much smaller defect echoes usually obscured by noise that are difficult to detect with a lower excitation power and thus this study would be a good reference for pinhole defect detection.

Ultrafast two-dimensional x-ray imager with temporal fiducial pulses for laser-produced plasmas

It is challenging to make an ultrafast diagnosis of the temporal evolution of small and short-lived plasma in two dimensions. To overcome this difficulty, we have developed a well-timed diagnostic utilizing an x-ray streak camera equipped with a row of multi-pinhole arrays. By processing multiple sets of one-dimensional streaked image data acquired from various pinholes, we are capable of reconstructing high-resolution two-dimensional images with a temporal resolution of 38 ps and a spatial resolution of 18 μm. The temporal fiducial pulses accessed from external sources can advance the precise timing and accurately determine the arrival time of the laser. Moreover, it can correct the nonlinear sweeping speed of the streak camera. The effectiveness of this diagnostic has been successfully verified at the Shenguang-II laser facility,providing an indispensable tool for observing complex physical phenomena, such as the implosion process of laser-fusion experiments.

A Novel Method of Testing Aspherical Surface

A set-up based on a special shadow method, pinhole method, was made and some experiments were done. The results show that this novel method is simple, easy to operate,and suitable for testing large aspherical surfaces quantitatively.

Development and application of an online pinhole detector for cold-rolled strips

An online pinhole detector based on the photoelectric inspection of cold-rolled steel strips was introduced. Pinhole detection is important to guarantee the quality of cold-rolled steel strips. The detector here was developed independently by Baosteel,and is designed based on the principle of photoelectric transfer. Typically, an inspection light source is installed above the steel strip to be inspected, and a photoelectric receiver is installed beneath the steel strip. The pinhole detector consists of a super-bright LED light source and a photoelectric receiver, which is composed primarily of photomultipliers. The super-bright LED light source illuminates the strip surface, and the light that permeates from pinholes is detected and amplified by a photoelectric receiver. The photomultiplier transforms the detected light into an electrical signal ,which is later recognized and classified by a signal-processing circuit and collected by a data-acquisition card. The detector can accurately track the strip edge and shield the strip edge from outside light. As a result,this system can detect a pinhole in the strip edge with a small blind zone on the edge. Most importantly, the detector exhibits good inspection accuracy and can accurately detect a pinhole with a diameter of 15 μm.

Novel mechanism for boring non-cylinder piston pinhole based on giant magnetostrictive materials

To bear more loads for heavy truck pistons, the shape of heavy truck piston pinhole is often designed as noncylinder form. Current methods cannot meet the needs for precision machining on non-cylinder piston pinhole （NCPPH）. A novel mechanism based on giant magnetostrictive materials （GMM） is presented. New models are established for the servo mechanism, GMM, and magnetizing force of the control solenoid to characterize the relationship between the control current of the solenoid and the displacement of the giant magnetostrictive actuator （GMA）. Experiments show that the novel mechanism can meet the needs to perform fine machining on NCPPH effectively.

Control of Pinhole Defects Formation in Semi-flexible Coaxial Cable by Vertical Tin-Plating Process

Holistic tin-plating on the outer conductor is one of the key processes in the manufacture of semi-flexible coaxial cable, which is widely applied to the third generation (3G) mobile communication system. However, in the traditional horizontal tin-plating process, disadvantages such as the pinhole defects and low productivity effect cannot be avoided. In this paper, a vertical tin-plating process was proposed to reduce the pinhole defects and improve the tincoating quality. Compared with the traditional horizontal tin-plating process, the immersion length was reduced from 300-400 mm to 10-100 mm and the tin-plating time was reduced from 7 s to 3 s in the proposed method. The experimental results indicate that immersion length and time are key parameters for the tin-plating quality. With this new tin-plating process, the experimental results show that the pinhole defects can be eliminated effectively by controlling the immersion depth below 100 mm and tin-plating time at 3 s. The thickness of tin-coating increased from not more than 5 μm to 12.3 μm with the proposed vertical tin-plating process. Meanwhile, the thickness of the intermetallic compounds (IMCs) layer between the tin-coating and copper wires was reduced from 3.26 μm to 0.62 μm if the immersion time decreased from 30 s to 1 s. Besides, a self-developed flux, which possesses a boiling point or decomposed temperature of active components over 300℃, exhibits a better efficiency in reducing the pinhole formation.

MICRO-COURSE OF CAVITATION EROSION

By cavitation tests and scanning electron microscope （SEM） microanalysis, the micro-appearance of cavitation samples is studied. It is the first time that the micro-appearance of metals is pursued successfully. According to the changing course of the micro-appearance of metals, the damaging course of cavitation erosion is determined. The destructive way of collapsing bubbles on the metal surface is known. Firstly cavitation pinholes appear on the metal surface, then cracks generate and grow under the action of collapsing bubbles. When cracks connect each other, small pieces are removed from pinhole wall and pinholes develop into cavitation pits. When the previous surface is removed completely, new pinholes are produced again on the new surface. A pinhole is the result of the powerful striking of a micro-liquid jet ejected by a large collapsed bubble near the surface. At some stages, cracks grow in the way of fatigue. The corrosion phenomenon is observed during the cavitation erosion. The cavitation pattern can be used to explain the cavitation pregnancy and the changing regulation of sample surface.

Spatial resolution and image processing for pinhole camera-based X-ray fluorescence imaging: a simulation study

Spatial resolution and image-processing methods for full-field X-ray fluorescence(FF-XRF)imaging using X-ray pinhole cameras were studied using Geant4simulations with different geometries and algorithms for image reconstruction.The main objectives were:(1)calculating the quantum efficiency curves of specific cameras,(2)studying the relationships between the spatial resolution and the pinhole diameter,magnification,and camera binning value,and(3)comparing image-processing methods for pinhole camera systems.Several results were obtained using a point and plane source as the X-ray fluorescence emitter and an array of 100×100 silicon pixel detectors as the X-ray camera.The quantum efficiency of a back-illuminated deep depletion(BI-DD)structure was above 30%for the XRF energies in the 0.8–9 keV range,with the maximum of 93.7%at 4 keV.The best spatial resolution of the pinhole camera was 24.7μm and 31.3 lp/mm when measured using the profile function of the point source,with the diameter of 20μm,magnification of 3.16,and camera bin of 1.A blind deconvolution algorithm with Gaussian filtering performed better than the Wiener filter and Richardson iterative methods on FF-XRF images,with the signal-to-noise ratio of 7.81 dB and improved signalto-noise ratio of 7.24 dB at the diameter of 120μm,magnification of 1.0,and camera bin of 1.

Improvement of Camera Calibration Accuracy Based on Periodic Arrangement Characteristics of Calibration Target Pattern

Conventional camera calibration that employs calibration targets is a commonly used method to acquire a camera’s intrinsic and/or extrinsic parameters. The calibration targets are usually designed as periodic arrays of simple high-contrast patterns that provide highly accurate world coordinate system points and the corresponding image pixel coordinate system points. The existing pixel coordinate extraction algorithms can reach a sub-pixel level; however, they treat each single pattern in one image as an independent individual, which makes it difficult to further improve extraction accuracy. In this paper, a novel method is proposed by utilizing the periodic arrangement characteristics of the calibration target pattern as a global constraint to improve the calibration accuracy. Based on a camera’s pinhole model, the intersection point of two fitted curves is used as an optimized pixel point to replace the initial one. Following the pixel coordinate optimization procedures, experiments were performed using real data from a 3D laser line scanner and a dynamic precision calibration target. Our results show that the relative errors of camera homography matrix elements obtained by the proposed optimization method were reduced compared with the commonly used method. The average coordinate measurement accuracy can be improved by nearly 0.05 mm. It is shown that the proposed optimization method can enhance the camera calibration accuracy, especially when the extracted pixels are of poorer precision. © 2017 Tianjin University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Detailed characterization of polycapillary focusing x-ray lenses by a charge-coupled device detector and a pinhole

A method to measure the detailed performance of polycapillary x-ray optics by a pinhole and charge coupled device(CCD)detector was proposed in this study.The pinhole was located between the x-ray source and the polycapillary x-ray optics to determine the illuminating region of the incident x-ray beam on the input side of the optics.The CCD detector placed downstream of the polycapillary x-ray optics ensured that the incident x-ray beam controlled by the pinhole irradiated a specific region of the input surface of the optics.The intensity of the output beam of the polycapillary x-ray optics was obtained from the far-field image of the output beam of the optics captured by CCD detector.As an application example,the focal spot size,gain in power density,transmission efficiency,and beam divergence of different parts of a polycapillary focusing x-ray lenses(PFXRL)were measured by a pinhole and CCD detector.Three pinholes with diameters of 500,1000,and 2000μm were used to adjust the diameter of the incident x-ray beam illuminating the PFXRL from 500μm to the entire surface of the input side of the PFXRL.The focal spot size of the PFXRL,gain in power density,transmission efficiency,and beam divergence ranged from 27.1μm to 34.6μm,400 to 3460,26.70%to 5.38%,and 16.8 mrad to 84.86 mrad,respectively.

Research of Point Diffraction Interferometer for the Measurement of Laser Beam

Laser beam measurement using point diffraction interferometer（PDI） is studied by modeling and the factors that influence the measurement accuracy are investigated.First,zernike polynomial is used to fit aberrated wavefront and the behavior of pinhole＇s diffraction with different aberrated wavefront is analysed.The following essential work on the PDI sensor is to get balance between intensity of the spherical reference wave and test wave.Then the optimum parameters for the model are obtained：wavelength of laser is 1 024 nm;pinhole＇s diameter is 2 μm;size of the focus spot is 20 μm;if gold（Au） is chosen as layer on film,its thickness should be 0.05 μm.The optimization results are only suited to the current PDI system,but the method presented is applicable to other configurations of high-accuracy PDI design.

Analysis of point defects in automobile sheet coating

The analysis of the point defects is an important method to solve the problem. Typical point defects distinguished as pinholes or bumps in automobile sheet coating were investigated in the present study. Cross-sectional images of pinholes in prime coating or top coating show that they were caused in the same way by fractures in base steel or a zinc alloyed layer. Furthermore,the formation of the defects is inferred,along with the specific painting process. The analysis also shows that bumps frequently occurred in the e-coating layer were mainly caused by contamination.

Microperforate (Pinhole) hymen and infertility;a rare case report

Inroduction Female genital tract anomalies may have a devastating impact on the potential for sexual activity and fertility. Microperforate (pinhole) hymen is one of them. Microperforate hymen can lead to infertility, primary amenorrhea, acute or chronic pelvic pain, abnormal vaginal bleeding, dysuria, pollakiuria or a foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Aim We aim to report a patient who had intercourse problems and infertility complaints later found to have a microper-forate hymen. Discussion Pinhole opening of hymen may permit passage of fluids. Consequently spontaneous pregnancy can occur rarely. A few reports showed pregnancies with intact hymen without penetration of penis. But in general patients have fertility problems. Conclusion The results of the surgery are similar in all techniques and the particular surgical centre will have its own preference of which technique it prefers since after diagnosis definitive treatment is surgical and effective. Failure to manage these patients correctly may have long-term sequelae for their psychological, sexual and reproductive health.

Study of Supper Resolution Processing Methods for Thick Pinhole Image

An image super resolution reconstruction method was used to improve the spatial resolution of the thick pinhole imaging system and to mitigate the limitations of the image spatial resolution of the hardware of the image diagnostic system. The thick pinhole is usually applied into the diagnostics of the high energy neutron radiation image. Due to the impacts among its energy flux, spatial resolution and effective field of view, in dealing with the large area radiation source, the spatial resolution of the thick pinhole neutron image cannot meet the requirements for high precision modeling of the radiation source image. In this paper, the Lucy-Richardson image super resolution reconstruction method was used to simulate the thick pinhole imaging and super resolution image reconstruction. And the spatial resolution of the image could be increased by over three times after the image super resolution reconstruction. Besides, in dealing with the pseudo-noise, plum blossom shape appeared in the image super resolution reconstruction. The analysis of the source of the pseudo-noise was made based on the simulation of the image reconstruction under various conditions according to the characteristics of the thick pinhole image configuration.