Abstract: An oscilloscope that is capable of displaying simultaneously multiple waveforms representing time evolution of a signal during respective acquisition intervals acquires waveform data using a first set of acquisition parameters and generates a display based on that waveform data. If the display includes a waveform that is visually distinct from other displayed waveforms, the user selects a feature that distinguishes the visually distinct waveform from other displayed waveforms. The oscilloscope automatically derives updated acquisition parameters that discriminate between the selected feature and other features of the displayed waveforms. The oscilloscope then acquires waveform data using the updated acquisition parameters and generates a display based on that waveform data.

Abstract: A valve for controlling flow of fluid through an aperture in a barrier comprises a valve body including a pin and having a continuous sealing surface surrounding at least one opening through the valve body, and a diaphragm of resilient material. The diaphragm has an opening surrounded by an inner margin and is disposed with the pin extending through the opening and with a main surface presented towards the continuous sealing surface of the valve body. The inner margin of the diaphragm is in a state of tension around the pin of the valve body, whereby the diaphragm is prestressed to a condition in which the main surface of the diaphragm engages the sealing surface of the valve body.

Abstract: A clay composition comprises, in parts by weight on oxide basis, 10-15% Al2O3, 50-85% SiO2, 0-12.5% B2O3 and 10-20% metal oxides of the form RO or R2O.

Abstract: A skin patch includes first and second layers of material and a telesensor sandwiched between the first and second layers. The first layer has a coating of skin-compatible adhesive material on its face that is remote from the second layer.

Abstract: A cylinder lock includes a turnable lock cylinder located inside a lock body and a set of code locking discs located inside the lock cylinder. Each locking disc has a key opening and is turnable in the lock body in a first turning direction from an initial position to an opening position by application of turning force to a counter surface bounding the key opening. The key opening of at least a first code locking disc is bounded by at least two discrete counter surfaces. A key is insertable in the lock when the locking discs are all at the initial position. The key has a set of combination surfaces corresponding respectively to the locking discs, for engaging a counter surface of each locking disc and applying turning force thereto when the key is inserted in the lock and is turned in the first turning direction, so that the locking discs are turned in the first turning direction to their respective opening positions.

Abstract: A pin card for mounting in a test head of a semiconducter integrated circuit tester to implement test channels of the tester includes contact pins connected to terminals of respective test channels. Each contact pin has a free end for engaging a load board. A conductive switch element is displaceable between a first position, in which the switch element is electrically isolated from one or more of the contact pins, and a second position, in which the switch element is in electrically conductive contact with one or more of the contact pins.

Abstract: Air laden with biodegradable volatile organic compounds is passed sequentially through a first filter bed containing a biologically inert filter media, a second filter bed containing a biologically active filter media, and a third filter bed containing a biologically inert filter media. Water is present in the biologically active filter media and the biologically inert filter media. Water that drains from the second filter bed is collected and supplied to the first filter bed. Water that drains from the third filter bed is collected and recirculated to the third filter bed.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit tester includes a housing having a tester interface area, a guide structure in the housing and defining an engagement axis that intersects the tester interface area, and a circuit board structure fitted in the guide structure in a manner allowing movement of the circuit board structure relative to the housing along the engagement axis. The circuit board structure has a tester interface that is exposed exteriorly of the housing at the tester interface area. An attachment mechanism releasably engages a test board having a test board interface and secures the test board against movement along the engagement axis in a direction away from the tester interface area. When the test board is secured to the housing by the attachment mechanism and the tester interface is not engaged with the test board interface, the circuit board structure may be urged to move along the engagement axis to force the tester interface into engagement with the test board interface.

Abstract: A guide insert is provided for engagement with an edge connector receptacle including a housing having an insertion face and defining a slot for receiving a card edge inserted into the slot along an insertion axis. The guide insert has a body portion that fits over the insertion face of the housing and is formed with first and second aligned slot-form apertures for providing access to first and second segments respectively of the slot defined by the housing. A tab projects from the body portion of the guide insert between the first and second apertures for entering the slot when the body portion engages the insertion face of the housing. The tab has two opposite faces presented towards two opposite sides respectively of the slot.

Abstract: First and second successions of data words, each data word including multiple payload data bits, a data block bit (C) and a block character (SOB) having a first state to indicate start of a sequence of data block bits and otherwise having a second state, are processed by detecting as a first event occurrence of the block character of the first succession of data words in the first state and as a second event the next succeeding occurrence of the block character of the second succession of data words in the first state, wherein the second event is delayed by a time Tz relative to the first event, reading the data block bits from successive data words of the first succession and generating a succession of delayed data block bits of the first succession of data words, delayed by the time Tz relative to the payload data bits of the first succession of data words.

Abstract: Constituent pieces of a structure to be welded are arranged in a desired configuration on a support surface and are welded together at a plurality of weld points to form the welded structure. At least one image of the arrangement of the constituent pieces on the support surface is recorded and the positions of the weld points are determined from the image(s). The welding of the constituent pieces is controlled on the basis of the determined positions of the weld points.

Abstract: A modulation analyzer includes a smoothing processor which processes the coordinates of symbol landing points to generate a curve that optimally fits the landing points under a selected criterion.

Abstract: A plurality of image sensors are tested concurrently by supplying light emitted by a light source to a first integrating sphere having an input port that receives the light emitted by the light source and having an output port providing output light. The output light of the first integrating sphere is spatially divided to provide a plurality of divided lights and the plurality of divided lights are supplied to a plurality of second integrating spheres respectively, each second integrating sphere having an input port that receives a divided light and an output port providing an output light. The output lights of the second integrating spheres are directed onto active regions of respective image sensors.

Abstract: A padlock including a lock body (1), a lock shackle (2) movable between locking and releasing positions, and, inside the lock body, bolt means (5) for securing and releasing the shackle (2) in its locking position, and a cylinder lock mechanism (3) for controlling the bolt means (5). The cylinder lock mechanism (3) is replaceably mounted in a separate casing-like fixing unit (6), which is detachably fixed to the lock body, (1). The fixing unit (6) has inner guiding surfaces (6c), which correspond to the outer shape of the cylinder lock mechanism (3, 3′, 3″), to provide both radial and axial support for the cylinder lock mechanism (3, 3′, 3″).

Abstract: Audio data of at least two audio data groups is embedded in an ancillary data space of a serial digital video data stream by multiplexing the audio data groups to provide a serial multi-group audio data stream, and inserting the serial multi-group audio data stream into the ancillary data space of the serial digital video data stream.

Abstract: A routing switch includes a first router module having N1 signal input terminals, M1 signal output terminals, an expansion input terminal and an expansion output terminal and including a core for routing a signal received at any one of the N1 signal input terminals selectively to any one or more of the output terminals and for routing a signal received at the expansion input terminal selectively to any one or more of the N1 signal output terminals. The router further includes a second router module having N2 signal input terminals, M2 signal output terminals, an expansion input terminal and an expansion output terminal and including a core for routing a signal received at any one of the N2 signal input terminals selectively to any one or more of the output terminals and for routing a signal received at the expansion input terminal selectively to any one or more of the M2 signal output terminals.