阅读说明：本技术 一种用于弓形丝包装生产线的螺旋分丝机构 (Spiral yarn dividing mechanism for arch yarn packaging production line ) 是由 高超 徐本连 于 2020-12-29 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了弓形丝生产技术领域的一种用于弓形丝包装生产线的螺旋分丝机构,包括工作台和输送带,工作台上设有支撑板,支撑板上设有丝杠和料箱,料箱中设有料板和弹簧板,且弹簧板连接有升降组件,本发明通过在料箱中放置弓形丝,弓形丝落到丝杠上,通过转动的丝杠以及螺纹作用,使弓形丝向外移动,并下落到输送带上,丝杠的转动上料和输送带的运动相配合,使弓形丝均匀分布在输送带上,便于后续进行计数包装等；通过升降组件带动弹簧板和料板下移,使丝杠与弓形丝中部接触,并将其相对于料板顶起,从而使弓形丝向外移动,无需人工手动向丝杠上放回弓形丝,上料更加方便。(The invention discloses a spiral wire separating mechanism for an arch wire packaging production line, which belongs to the technical field of arch wire production, and comprises a workbench and a conveying belt, wherein a supporting plate is arranged on the workbench, a lead screw and a material box are arranged on the supporting plate, a material plate and a spring plate are arranged in the material box, and the spring plate is connected with a lifting assembly; the spring plate and the material plate are driven to move downwards through the lifting assembly, the lead screw is in contact with the middle of the arch-shaped wire and jacks up the arch-shaped wire relative to the material plate, so that the arch-shaped wire moves outwards, the arch-shaped wire does not need to be manually and manually placed back on the lead screw, and the feeding is more convenient.)

1. A spiral divides silk mechanism for bow-shaped silk packaging production line, includes workstation (1), its characterized in that: the top of workstation (1) is equipped with conveyer belt (2), is provided with the band pulley group on conveyer belt (2), and one of them band pulley of band pulley group is connected with the motor, the top surface right side of workstation (1) is fixed with vertical backup pad (101), and the left side of backup pad (101) is rotated and is connected with lead screw (3), and the top of lead screw (3) is equipped with workbin (4) of being connected with backup pad (101) top, the left end of lead screw (3) is located the top of conveyer belt (2), and the right-hand member passes backup pad (101) to be fixed with first bevel gear (301), first bevel gear (301) meshing has second bevel gear (302), and second bevel gear (302) are connected with the motor, and the motor is fixed in the right side wall bottom of backup pad (101).

2. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 1, wherein: the left side wall bottom of workbin (4) is equipped with the opening, and the inner chamber right side is equipped with spring plate (401) of L shape, the vertical section left side symmetry of spring plate (401) is fixed with two flitches (402), and establishes to the arc on the upper portion of flitch (402), and establishes to vertical form in the lower part, the vertical section bottom of spring plate (401) is equipped with the pole groove, and the pole groove is located between two flitches (402), there are guide bar (404) along vertical direction sliding connection on the horizontal segment of spring plate (401), and the top of guide bar (404) is fixed with the end plate, and spring plate (401) is passed to the bottom to be fixed with fixed plate (403), and fixed plate (403) and the lateral wall fixed connection of workbin (4), be equipped with the spring between the horizontal segment of spring plate (401) and fixed plate (403), and the right-hand member is connected with lifting.

3. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 2, wherein: the elevating module is fixed with two elevator blocks of spring plate (401) right side end including the symmetry, and the correspondence is provided with two vertical lift grooves on the right side wall of workbin (4), two elevator sliding connection is in the lift groove that corresponds, and outside end is fixed with a horizontally lifter (405) jointly, the lateral surface of lifter (405) is equipped with the spread groove along length direction, and sliding connection has the connecting axle in the spread groove, the outside end of connecting axle is fixed with dwang (406), and the bottom outside of dwang (406) is connected with the motor, and the right side wall fixed connection of motor through support and workbin (4).

4. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 2, wherein: a plurality of limiting blocks (407) are uniformly fixed on the outer side surface of the arc-shaped section of the material plate (402) along the length direction, and a limiting groove is formed between every two adjacent limiting blocks (407).

5. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 4, wherein: the inner chamber upper portion of workbin (4) is equipped with the group material subassembly, and the group material subassembly includes switch plate (5), the bottom surface middle part of switch plate (5) corresponds flitch (402) and establishes to the arc bottom surface, and top one side of switch plate (5) is fixed with slider (502), it is equipped with the spout to correspond on the lateral wall of workbin (4), slider (502) sliding connection in the spout, and one end stretches out the spout to reciprocating screw rod (501) has been cup jointed, reciprocating screw rod (501) are connected with lateral wall dwang (406) of workbin (4), and one end is connected with the motor.

6. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 5, wherein: when the arch wire (6) is placed in the limiting groove between the two limiting blocks (407), the outer side surface of the arch wire (6) is higher than the outer side surface of the limiting blocks (407), and the arc bottom surface of the material poking plate (5) is higher than the outer side surface of the arch wire (6).

7. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 1, wherein: a plurality of cylindrical bumps (206) are uniformly fixed on the conveying belt (2) along the length direction, the belt pulley set comprises a first belt pulley (201), a second belt pulley (202) and a third belt pulley (203), the first belt pulley (201) and the second belt pulley (202) are positioned on the same horizontal plane, the third belt pulley (203) is positioned below the outer side of the second belt pulley (202), the workbench (1) is positioned between the first belt pulley (201) and the second belt pulley (202), two first adjusting wheels (204) are arranged between the second belt pulley (202) and the third belt pulley (203), the first adjusting wheels (204) are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the conveying belt (2) and are in contact with the top surface of the conveying belt (2), the conveying belt (2) between the second conveying wheel and the first adjusting wheels (204) is obliquely arranged, and the conveying belt (2) between the first adjusting wheels (204) and the third belt pulley (203) is horizontally arranged, a second adjusting wheel (205) is arranged between the first belt wheel (201) and the third belt wheel (203), and the conveying belt (2) is positioned below the second adjusting wheel (205).

8. The spiral filament separating mechanism for an arch-shaped filament packaging production line according to claim 1, wherein: the section of the screw thread of the screw rod (3) is triangular, trapezoidal or zigzag, and the screw pitch of the screw rod (3) is gradually enlarged along the advancing direction.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of arch wire production, in particular to a spiral wire dividing mechanism for an arch wire packaging production line.

Background

Dental deformity is an abnormal relationship between the teeth, arch, jaw and craniofacial surfaces, and is a developmental deformity. It can cause morphological and functional abnormalities of the oromandibular system and also can affect the health of the whole body. Most of the dentognathic deformities are caused by congenital genetic factors or acquired environmental factors, such as diseases, bad habits of the oral cavity, abnormal tooth replacement and the like, in the growth and development process of children. In addition, the deformity of the jaw and jaw can be caused by trauma, periodontal disease and other reasons after the growth and development are finished.

With the development of science, the problem of orthodontic treatment of dentognathic deformity is more and more emphasized, and orthodontic materials of teeth are promoted. The correcting arch wire forms a functional part of the corrector, and the arch wire can generate certain and continuous elastic force in the deformation process to effectively help the completion of orthodontics.

The bow wire is usually made of a NiTi alloy, a special alloy with shape memory alloy that can return its own plastic deformation to its original state at a specific temperature. The material has excellent and outstanding functions, the expansion rate is more than 20 percent, the fatigue life can reach 7 times of 1 multiplied by 10, the damping characteristic is 10 times higher than that of a common spring, and the excellent corrosion resistance enables the material to meet the application requirements of various engineering and medical science and become the best medical stainless steel at present. The memory alloy not only has unique shape memory function, but also has the characteristics of excellent wear resistance, good corrosion resistance, sufficient elasticity and the like.

In the market, the arch-shaped wires are not traded according to weight but quantity, so when the arch-shaped wires are packaged, a certain amount of arch-shaped wires need to be put into the same packaging bag; at present, in China, a considerable part of production lines are manually operated in the arch wire packaging process to count and package the arch wires, so that the production efficiency is low; if the arch-shaped wires are packaged in a packaging production line mode, the arch-shaped wires need to be distributed before counting and packaging.

Based on the above, the invention designs a spiral wire separating mechanism for an arch wire packaging production line to solve the problems.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a spiral wire dividing mechanism for an arch wire packaging production line, so as to solve the problems in the background technology.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a spiral divides silk mechanism for bow-shaped silk packaging production line, comprises a workbench, the top of workstation is equipped with the conveyer belt, be provided with the band pulley group on the conveyer belt, and one of them band pulley of band pulley group is connected with the motor, the top surface right side of workstation is fixed with vertical backup pad, the left side of backup pad is rotated and is connected with the lead screw, and the top of lead screw is equipped with the workbin of being connected with the backup pad top, the left end of lead screw is located the top of conveyer belt, the right-hand member passes the backup pad, and be fixed with first bevel gear, first bevel gear meshing has second bevel gear, second bevel gear is connected with the motor, and the motor is.

Preferably, the left side wall bottom of workbin is equipped with the opening, and the inner chamber right side is equipped with the spring plate of L shape, the vertical section left side symmetry of spring plate is fixed with two flitchs, and establish to the arc on the upper portion of flitch, the lower part is established to vertical form, the segmental arc of two flitchs sets up relatively, and the centre of a circle coincidence, the vertical section bottom of spring plate is equipped with the pole groove, the pole groove is located between two flitchs, there is the guide bar along vertical direction sliding connection on the horizontal segment of spring plate, the top of guide bar is fixed with the end plate, the spring plate is passed to the bottom, and be fixed with the fixed plate, and the lateral wall fixed connection of fixed plate and workbin, be equipped with the spring between the horizontal segment of spring plate.

Preferably, the lifting unit includes that the symmetry is fixed with two elevator blocks of spring board right side end, it is provided with two vertical lift grooves to correspond on the right side wall of workbin, two elevator block sliding connection are in the lift groove that corresponds, and the outside end is fixed with a horizontally lifter jointly, the lateral surface of lifter is equipped with the spread groove along length direction, and sliding connection has the connecting axle in the spread groove, the outside end of connecting axle is fixed with the dwang, the bottom outside of dwang is connected with the motor, and the right side wall fixed connection of motor through support and workbin.

Preferably, a plurality of limiting blocks are uniformly fixed on the outer side surface of the arc section of the flitch along the length direction, the outer side surfaces of the limiting blocks are correspondingly arranged to be arc surfaces, the circle center coincides with the circle center of the arc section of the flitch, and a limiting groove is formed between every two adjacent limiting blocks.

Preferably, the inner chamber upper portion of workbin is equipped with the kickoff subassembly, and the kickoff subassembly includes the kickoff board, and the bottom surface middle part of kickoff board corresponds the flitch and establishes to the arc bottom surface, and top one side of kickoff board is fixed with the slider, corresponds on the lateral wall of workbin and is equipped with the spout, and slider sliding connection stretches out the spout in the spout, and one end to the spout has been stretched out to the reciprocating lead screw has been cup jointed, and reciprocating lead screw is connected with the lateral wall dwang of workbin, and one.

Preferably, when the arch wire is placed in the limiting groove between the two limiting blocks, the outer side face of the arch wire is higher than the outer side faces of the limiting blocks, and the arc-shaped bottom face of the material poking plate is higher than the outer side faces of the arch wire.

Preferably, a plurality of cylindrical protruding blocks are uniformly fixed on the conveying belt along the length direction, the belt pulley group comprises a first belt pulley, a second belt pulley and a third belt pulley, the first belt pulley and the second belt pulley are located on the same horizontal plane, the third belt pulley is located below the outer side of the second belt pulley, the workbench is located between the first belt pulley and the second belt pulley, two first adjusting wheels are arranged between the second belt pulley and the third belt pulley, the first adjusting wheels are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the conveying belt and are in contact with the top surface of the conveying belt, the conveying belt between the second conveying wheel and the first adjusting wheels is obliquely arranged, the conveying belt between the first adjusting wheels and the third belt pulley is horizontally arranged, a second adjusting wheel is arranged between the first belt pulley and the third belt pulley, and the conveying belt is located below the second adjusting wheels.

Preferably, the cross section of the screw thread of the lead screw is triangular, trapezoidal or zigzag so as to better drive the arch-shaped wire to advance, and the screw pitch of the lead screw is gradually enlarged along the advancing direction so as to accelerate the arch-shaped wire along the advancing direction, thereby improving the dispersibility of the arch-shaped wire.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

according to the invention, the arch wire is placed in the material box and is placed on the screw rod, the arch wire is moved outwards under the action of the rotating screw rod and the threads and falls onto the conveying belt, the rotating feeding of the screw rod is matched with the movement of the conveying belt, so that the arch wire is uniformly distributed on the conveying belt, and the subsequent counting and packaging are facilitated;

according to the invention, the spring plate and the material plate are driven to move downwards by the lifting assembly, so that the lead screw is contacted with the middle part of the arch-shaped wire and is jacked up relative to the material plate, and the arch-shaped wire moves outwards without manually and manually putting back the arch-shaped wire on the lead screw, so that the feeding is more convenient;

the arch wire moves along with the lead screw and is separated from the material plate, then the lifting assembly drives the spring plate, the material plate and other structures to move upwards, and then the arch wire is added to the material plate, so that the feeding of the material box is completed while the lead screw rotates for feeding.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of the bin according to the invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the construction of the spring plate of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the construction of a flitch of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the connection of the lifter bar and the rotatable bar of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the setting member of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of the striking plate according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a limiting block according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the conveyor belt of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a bump according to the present invention.

In the drawings, the components represented by the respective reference numerals are listed below:

1-a workbench, 101-a support plate;

2-conveyor belt, 201-first pulley, 202-second pulley, 203-third pulley, 204-first regulating wheel, 205-second regulating wheel, 206-lug;

3-a feed screw, 301-a first bevel gear, 302-a second bevel gear;

4-a material box, 401-a spring plate, 402-a material plate, 403-a fixing plate, 404-a guide rod, 405-a lifting rod, 406-a rotating rod and 407-a limiting block;

5-a kickoff plate, 501-a reciprocating screw rod, 502-a slide block;

6-bow shaped filament.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without any creative work based on the embodiments of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Example one

Referring to the drawings, the present invention provides a technical solution: the utility model provides a spiral divides silk mechanism for bow-shaped silk packaging production line, comprises a workbench 1, the top of workstation 1 is equipped with conveyer belt 2, be provided with the band pulley group on the conveyer belt 2, and one of them band pulley of band pulley group is connected with the motor, the top surface right side of workstation 1 is fixed with vertical backup pad 101, the left side of backup pad 101 is rotated and is connected with lead screw 3, and lead screw 3's top is equipped with the workbin 4 of being connected with backup pad 101 top, lead screw 3's left end is located the top of conveyer belt 2, the right-hand member passes backup pad 101, and be fixed with first bevel gear 301, first bevel gear 301 meshing has second bevel gear 302, second bevel gear 302 is connected with the motor, and the motor is fixed in the.

The section of the screw thread of the screw rod 3 is triangular, trapezoidal or zigzag so as to drive the arch-shaped wire to advance better, and the screw pitch of the screw rod 3 is gradually enlarged along the advancing direction so as to accelerate the speed of the arch-shaped wire along the advancing direction, thereby improving the dispersibility of the arch-shaped wire.

One specific application of this embodiment is: put bow-shaped silk 6 in workbin 4, when needs are to corresponding equipment material loading, put lead screw 3 through artifical manual or corresponding structure with bow-shaped silk 6 on, the starter motor, through the transmission of first bevel gear 301 and second bevel gear 302, make lead screw 3 rotate, bow-shaped silk 6 falls on lead screw 3 after, through the screw action on the lead screw 3, slowly outwards move along with lead screw 3's rotation, and when moving the tip of lead screw 3, fall on conveyer belt 2, carry to corresponding equipment department through conveyer belt 2, and the rotation material loading of lead screw 3 and the motion of conveyer belt 2 cooperate, make bow-shaped silk 6 evenly distributed on conveyer belt 2, be convenient for follow-up count packing etc..

Example two

The structure of this embodiment is basically the same as embodiment one, the difference lies in, workbin 4's left side wall bottom is equipped with the opening, and the inner chamber right side is equipped with the spring plate 401 of L shape, spring plate 401's vertical section left side symmetry is fixed with two flitches 402, and the upper portion of flitch 402 establishes to the arc, the lower part is established to vertical form, the arc section of two flitches 402 sets up relatively, and the centre of a circle coincides, spring plate 401's vertical section bottom is equipped with the pole groove, the pole groove is located between two flitches 402, there is guide bar 404 along vertical direction sliding connection on spring plate 401's the horizontal segment, the top of guide bar 404 is fixed with the end plate, the bottom passes spring plate 401, and be fixed with fixed plate 403, and fixed plate 403 and the lateral wall fixed connection of workbin 4, be equipped with the spring between spring plate 401's horizontal segment.

Lifting unit is fixed with two elevator blocks of spring board 401 right side end including the symmetry, it is provided with two vertical lift grooves to correspond on the right side wall of workbin 4, two elevator block sliding connection are in the lift groove that corresponds, and the outside end is fixed with a horizontally lifter 405 jointly, the lateral surface of lifter 405 is equipped with the spread groove along length direction, and sliding connection has the connecting axle in the spread groove, the outside end of connecting axle is fixed with dwang 406, the bottom outside of dwang 406 is connected with the motor, and the motor passes through the right side wall fixed connection of support and workbin 4, it supplies dwang 406 motion to reserve between the lateral wall of support and workbin 4 sufficient space, avoid the support to cause the hindrance to the motion of dwang 406.

The arch wire 6 is placed on the material plate 402, when the material needs to be loaded, a motor of the lifting assembly is started, the rotating rod 406 is made to rotate, the lifting rod 405 is moved downwards under the action of the connecting groove and the connecting shaft, the spring plate 401 and the material plate 402 are driven to move downwards through the lifting block, the lead screw 3 is positioned in the rod groove at the bottom of the spring plate 401 and is in contact with the middle of the arch wire 6 and jacks up relative to the material plate 402, then the lead screw 3 rotates to drive the arch wire 6 to move outwards, move out of the material box 4 through an opening in the left side wall of the material box 4, then gradually separate from the lead screw 3 and fall onto the conveying belt 2, and the material loading is completed;

when the arch wire 6 moves along with the lead screw 3 and is separated from the material plate 402, the lifting rod 405 drives the spring plate 401, the material plate 402 and other structures to move upwards through the rotation of the rotating rod 406, and then the arch wire 6 is added on the material plate 402, so that the feeding of the material box 4 is completed while the lead screw 3 rotates for feeding.

EXAMPLE III

The structure of this embodiment is basically the same as the second embodiment, and the difference lies in, evenly is fixed with a plurality of stopper 407 along length direction on the segmental arc lateral surface of flitch 402, and stopper 407's lateral surface corresponds and establishes to the cambered surface, and the centre of a circle coincides with the centre of a circle of flitch 402 segmental arc, is equipped with the spacing groove between two adjacent stopper 407.

The inner chamber upper portion of workbin 4 is equipped with the kickoff subassembly, and the kickoff subassembly includes kickoff 5, and the bottom surface middle part of kickoff 5 corresponds flitch 402 and establishes to the arc bottom surface, and top one side of kickoff 5 is fixed with slider 502, corresponds on the lateral wall of workbin 4 and is equipped with the spout, and slider 502 sliding connection is in the spout, and one end stretches out the spout, and has cup jointed reciprocal lead screw 501, and reciprocal lead screw 501 is connected with the lateral wall dwang 406 of workbin 4, and one end is connected with the motor.

When the arch wire 6 is placed in the limiting groove between the two limiting blocks 407, the outer side surface of the arch wire 6 is higher than the outer side surface of the limiting blocks 407, and the arc bottom surface of the switch plate 5 is higher than the outer side surface of the arch wire 6, when one arch wire 6 is located in the limiting groove, other adjacent arch wires 6 can only be located on the outer side surface of the limiting blocks 407 and cannot be limited by the limiting groove, when the arch wire 6 on the outer side surface of the limiting blocks 407 is toggled through the switch plate 5, the arc bottom surface of the switch plate 5 only can be in contact with the arch wire 6 on the limiting blocks 407 and cannot be in contact with the arch wire 6 in the limiting groove, so that the arch wires 6 are sequentially toggled into the limiting groove.

After the arch-shaped wires 6 are placed on the material plate 402, the reciprocating screw rods 501 drive the sliding blocks 502 and the material shifting plate 5 to move, the arch-shaped wires 6 on the material plate 402 are sequentially shifted into the corresponding limiting grooves, so that the arch-shaped wires 6 are uniformly distributed on the material plate 402 at intervals, the arch-shaped wires 6 are matched with the rotation of the follow-up screw rods 3, the intervals cannot be distributed on the conveying belt 2, the feeding is carried out, the arch-shaped wires are uniformly dispersed on the conveying belt 2, and the problem that the arch-shaped wires 6 do not have intervals after falling on the conveying belt 2 due to too dense distribution of the arch-shaped wires 6 is avoided.

Example four

The structure of the embodiment is basically the same as that of the first embodiment, except that a plurality of cylindrical bumps 206 are uniformly fixed on the conveyor belt 2 along the length direction, the pulley set comprises a first pulley 201, a second pulley 202 and a third pulley 203, the first pulley 201 and the second pulley 202 are positioned on the same horizontal plane, the third pulley 203 is positioned below the outer side of the second pulley 202, the workbench 1 is positioned between the first pulley 201 and the second pulley 202, two first adjusting wheels 204 are arranged between the second pulley 202 and the third pulley 203, the first adjusting wheels 204 are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the conveyor belt 2 and are in contact with the top surface of the conveyor belt 2, the conveyor belt 2 between the second conveyor wheel and the first adjusting wheels 204 is obliquely arranged, the conveyor belt 2 between the first adjusting wheels 204 and the third pulley 203 is horizontally arranged, and a second adjusting wheel 205 is arranged between the first pulley 201 and the third pulley 203, the conveyer belt 2 is located below the second adjusting wheel 205, so that the conveyer belt 2 can be connected with the first belt wheel 201 and the second belt wheel 202 at the same time, and the conveyer belt 2 on the upper side cannot contact with the conveyer belt 2 on the lower side, wherein a supporting frame fixed with the bottom surface or corresponding equipment is arranged at the position of the conveyer belt 2, and each belt wheel and adjusting wheel in the belt wheel set are rotationally connected with the supporting frame.

Because the shape of the arch wire 6 and the turning direction of the lead screw 3 are consistent, when the arch wire 6 falls on the conveyor belt 2, the leaning direction of the arch wire 6 is approximately the same, and after the arch wire 6 uniformly falls on the conveyor belt 2, the arch wire 6 is positioned at the corresponding lug 206 and gradually moves to the inclined section of the conveyor belt 2 along with the movement of the conveyor belt 2, so that the arch wire 6 falls on the lug 206, and the orientation of the arch wire 6 and the distance between the adjacent arch wires 6 are further adjusted.

In the description herein, references to the description of "one embodiment," "an example," "a specific example" or the like are intended to mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended to be illustrative only. The preferred embodiments are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.