Abstract: A computer/printer system and method which includes and involves a screen-display device with a display screen, and wherein requests for a document print preview results in the direct and accurate creation by the printer per se of a true preview on the display screen showing how the document will actually look after printing.

Abstract: A method for sealing a liquid container against leakage as a result of container penetration by a striking projectile. The method involves applying to the outside surface of such a container a coating possessing cooperative, penetration-sealing characteristics including (a) elastic elongatability before breakage within a range of about 300-400%, and (b) leakage-liquid-contact swelling, accompanied by leakage-liquid/coating contact-triggered coagulation.

Abstract: A method for applying a plural-layer coating to the outside of a liquid container to act as an anti-leakage barrier in the event of a penetration wound occurring in the container resulting from a penetrating projectile strike, such as a bullet strike. This method includes (a) forming on the outside of such a container, a first layer optimized for providing an elastomeric wound-closure response, (b) forming on the outside of this first layer a second layer optimized for providing combined elastomeric and liquid-imbibing wound-closure responses, and (c) forming on the outside of such a second layer a third, layer optimized in the same manner as the first layer.

Abstract: An armor panel for defeating a projectile strike including (a) a substantially planar core structure having spaced, generally parallel-planar strike and opposite faces, and elongate, circumsurrounding edge structure extending generally normally between these faces to define a perimeter for the core structure, (b) stranded core-wrap structure substantially fully enveloping the core structure, and possessing elongate, tension-load-bearing (TLB) strands which extend at angles relative to one another across the mentioned faces, and substantially parallel to one another in a distribution along the perimeter defined by the edge structure, and (c) a high-elastomeric coating which is distributed over at least those portions of the core-wrap structure which are disposed adjacent the strike face and the edge structure.

Abstract: A distributed printing process which involves intercepting a print-job data stream, dividing that stream into data components on the basis of a pre-assessment made with respect to the availabilities and performance capabilities of plural computing devices and printer resources in a network setting, with divided components being sent for plural-peer-device implementation of at least one of the steps of rendering and rasterizing, and delivering such rasterized/rendered components to one or more selected target printers for printing.

Abstract: A ventilating and particle-filtering airflow methodology for managing the flow of air to the electrical sliding-contact zone of an on-board aircraft (vehicle) electrical generator. Conduit structure collects intaken air during aircraft (vehicle) engine operation, filters this air to capture and prevent the passage of particles, and directs filtered airflow to that brush region through a close-coupled fluid-flow connection which closes upon and substantially isolates (in terms of incoming airflow) that region. Water drainage is provided for in a region near where filtering takes place. The filtered airflow is substantially the only airflow admitted to this protected region.

Abstract: Proposed by the present invention is (a) a method, (b) structure for implementing the method, and (c) a resulting data structure that comes from implementation of the method, relating to introducing various modifications into the image file directory data contents in an otherwise conventional TIFF multi-page document data structure. Modifications are made in order to change the behavior of a printing device which is called upon to print the document, so as to implement rasterization-free, driverless, mulit-selectible-print-option printing of the document.

Abstract: Computer-based, anti-clipping, pre-printing, color-image correction via virtual color-parameter controllers that are provided within the graphic user interface of a print drier. Parameters accommodated include Red, Green and Blue offset, Lightness offset, Gamma and Chroma. Chroma modifications are handled preliminarily by a special mathematical matrix. In one embodiment of the invention, matrix-processed Chroma values are directly inserted into an algorithm, and are then co-processed with other parameter modifications within an anti-clipping, hyperbolic-tangent-function (asymptotic-like) algorithm which implements an asymptotic-like approach toward creating final pixel modification values that avoid range-limit color and/or tone-scale clipping. In another embodiment of the invention, matrix-processed Chroma values are additionally inserted in to such an algorithm as components of a pair of like cubic terms. These cubic terms function to enhance asymptotic behavior of the algorithm in certain situations.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for scanning personnel for the purpose of detecting and identifying certain categories of materials/objects. The invention utilizes stacked-circuit-board tiled assemblies, including one circuit board which carries an array of transmission/reception scanning microwave elements, which elements, during a scanning operation are shifted toward and away successively from a person being scanned. This motion is carried out in a manner enabling detection of peak valley (high and low) values of standing wave reflections, if any, which exist between one of these elements and a region of a person being scanned by the invention. These peak and valley values can be employed, with respect to the magnitude difference between them, to enable “found material/objects” identification.

Abstract: A system for, and a method of, obtaining, for analysis, from a subject internal combustion engine, real-time engine knock data involving assessing, as a positive indication of engine knock behavior, whether the energy-content value represented in at least one selected, knock-relevant frequency-domain spectral bin which is present in a frequency-domain energy-content spectrum derived from acquired engine operating data of a type expected to contain evidence of engine knock behavior exceeds that of a pre-selected energy threshold value.

Abstract: Barrier structure placeable as an anti-fuel-leak coating on the outside surface of a liquid container. This coating includes a first-type layer structure formed of a high-elongation-capable elastomer which also is capable of imbibing container leakage liquid, and of swelling in the process, and a second-type layer structure disposed adjacent one side of the first-type layer structure, composite in nature, and possessing bead-like components entrained in the same elastomer employed in first-type layer structure, with these entrained components structured also to be imbibers of leakage container liquid, and to expand on imbibing such liquid. Also disclosed is methodology which involves applying to the outside surface of such a container a coating possessing cooperative, penetration-sealing characteristics including (a) elastic elongatability before breakage within a range of about 300–400%, and (b) leakage-liquid-contact swelling, accompanied by leakage-liquid/coating contact-triggered coagulation.

Abstract: A data management method and system for expediting the flow and handling of print data from a creation source to one or more printers. Data in a stream is examined in light of assessed available and capable printers, and is block boundaried accordingly to divide the stream appropriately into compressed and uncompressed data blocks. This activity, which occurs upstream from where rasterization occurs, and which results ultimately in the handing off of data to printers on a block-by-block basis, minimizes data traffic volume and increases data flow speed.

Abstract: A ventilating and particle-filtering airflow system, and related methodology, for managing the flow of air to the brush region of an on-board aircraft (vehicle) electrical generator. Conduit structure collects intaken air during aircraft (vehicle) engine operation, filters this air to capture and prevent the passage of particles, and directs filtered airflow to that brush region. Water drainage is provided for in a region near where filtering takes place. The filtered airflow is substantially the only airflow admitted to this region.

Abstract: A column/beam interconnection employing angular connectors which wrap complementarily around an outside corner in a column. Each connector includes, on each of two, next-adjacent column faces, a cantilever-projecting deflectable tab which is nominally spaced from another, confronting tab that belongs to a next-adjacent connector. These confronting, spaced tabs freely receive between them the end of the central web in an I-beam, and when clamplingly secured to such a web, deflect under spring resistance to introduce useful compressive forces through the associated connectors into the associated column. The proposed connector arrangement allows, with respect to the placement of a beam for connection to and between a pair of next adjacent columns, for the vertical shifting of the beam into proper place for connection of its central web to and between pairs of spaced tabs, without any need for any lateral shifting of the columns to allow for insertion of the beam between the columns.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for compressing compound images of the type containing text, graphics and photographic imagery. This method and apparatus offer significant simplicity and computational efficiency by progressing fundamentally through a first processing phase, wherein an original compound image is first separated into (1) a foreground (text and graphics) layer, and (2) a more pixel-complicated background (photographic imagery) layer, all based upon a simple region-growing segmentation algorithm, and then a follow-up phase which involves individual and differentiated compression of the two segmented layers. Simple regional boundary encodation is employed for the foreground layer, and a lifting-scheme-modified ASWT algorithm is employed for the background layer.

Abstract: A document printing system and methodology wherein plural, potentially useable printers are reviewed in a preliminary discovery process to assess (1) which ones are currently available for use, and (2) of these, which have the best-suited operational characteristics relative to a particular printing job. The latter “collection” of printers is then treated as a cluster to which a scanned document is appropriately sent for implementation of that job.

Abstract: A building foundation anchoring and interface system for receiving supporting the base of an upright structural column. This system and interface includes an open-topped bucket-well structure which is embedded in a foundation, and which is sized so as to permit the received base of an inserted column to be adjusted laterally, in a multidirectional sense, vertically angularly, and axially rotationally, and with substantial clearance, so as to enable easy correct positioning of a column. Poured into the bucket-well structure after the same has received the base of a column is an appropriate fluid-flowable, hardenable, bulk anchoring material, such as conventional building grout material. An opening may be provided in the wall of the base of a column so that such flowable material flows into the interior of a column, as well as into the space between the outside of the column's base and the inside of the receiving bucket-well.

Abstract: A shock-load G-force minimizing seat structure and injury-minimizing methodology wherein the seat structure responds principally in non-springy compression, rather than in spring-loading bending, to vertically directed shock loads. The seat structure features an anti-springy frame structure which supports a thin and very lightweight seat cushion support spanner web formed preferably of a non-stretchy material, such as a material made out of elongate carbon-fiber strands.

Abstract: Column/I-beam interconnect structure including an attaching plate joined to an I-beam end. This plate possesses, along its lateral margins, angularly oriented upper and lower through-passages, each characterized with a reception axis, and designed to receive, along that axis, portions of a hex nut-and-bolt set which is used to clamp together two adjacent, angularly related attaching plates. The socket portions, or outer chambers, of the through-passages are formed with spaced and generally parallel-planar upper and lower surfaces which act in these socket portions to restrain a received hex nut against rotation about its own rotational assembly axis which, in the socket portion, is coincident with the socket portion's reception axis.

Abstract: Wear-replaceable resilient cover structure, or jacket, for the known-diameter cylindrical surface of an elongate, known-length anvil roll in a veneer clipper. The cover structure includes an elongate, internal, tubular, cylindrical armature having inside and outside diameters which are each larger than an anvil roll's surface's known diameter, and an elongate, tubular, cylindrical resiliency sleeve which embeddedly receives, and is stabilized by, the armature. The sleeve possesses inside and outside diameters which are, respectively, less than and greater than those of the armature, and the sleeve's inside diameter is sized to promote non-bonding, resistive slide-on/slide-off fitment of the armature-stabilized sleeve relative to a clipper anvil roll's cylindrical surface.