Abstract: A method and system pertaining to a digital virtual sponsor to facilitate behavioral health and wellness of a user is provided. The method includes receiving an input from the user requiring assistance for a behavioral health issue, analyzing the input from the user by using an emotion recognition process to generate data associated with the user, storing the data associated with the user for access at a later time, providing the user with an instruction to complete a task as part of a program to facilitate the behavioral health and wellness of the user on a basis of the data associated with the user, and receiving an indication that the user completed the task to indicate an adherence to the program by the user.

Abstract: Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating a digital virtual sponsor are disclosed. One of the methods includes receiving an inquiry from a person struggling with addiction. The inquiry is analyzed to determine a response category. At least one appropriate response to the inquiry is determined based on a scripted interaction associated with the response category and a response machine learning model. The at least one response to the inquiry is provided to the person struggling with addiction.

Abstract: An air purification apparatus has an inner housing with an air inlet and an air outlet. Preferably the inner housing is fabricated as a one-piece molded plastic structure. A filter is mounted within the inner housing. A blower is mounted within the inner housing for drawing air in through the inlet, through the filter and out through the outlet. An outer housing is secured substantially about the inner housing with portions thereof spaced from the inner housing and having an air inlet and an air outlet communicating respectively with the air inlet and the air outlet of the inner housing. In the preferred embodiment, the outer housing is fabricated as a one-piece structure of molded plastic material, with integrally molded vertical reinforcing ribs, stackable detents on the top and the bottom of the housing, and a recessed integral ring about the outlet for storing an electrical cord. Closures are provided for the inlet and the outlet of the outer housing to seal the housing when the apparatus is not in use.

Abstract: An air purification system for use with an air conditioning apparatus which includes an air circulation system having supply air flow to a given area and return air flow for drawing air from that area. The air purification system includes an inlet and an outlet. A conduit communicates the inlet with the air circulation system for drawing therefrom a portion of the air passing therethrough. A conduit communicates the outlet with the air circulation system downstream of the inlet for returning the portion of the air back to the circulation system after it has passed through the air purification unit. A superheating conduit also communicates between the inlet and an exhaust of the air conditioning apparatus, such as the chimney of a furnace.

Abstract: A cable-entry seal for a multicontact seismic cable connector consists of a cable anchor molded near an end of a multiconductor cable and a sphincter grommet. A compression sleeve, urged by a gland nut axially compresses the sphincter causing it to expand radially to form a water tight seal. A rotatable locking cam has a spiral slot lined with a low friction material to lock a pair of cable connectors together.

Abstract: An optical telemetric system for use in seismic exploration consists generally of a recorder, a plurality of transceivers, and a like number of cable sections interconnecting each transceiver in parallel with others and the recording unit. A fiber optic transmission channel is provided within each cable section and is interconnected by an optic-fiber delay loop within each transceiver, thus providing a contiguous, optically-continuous data and control channel. Within each transceiver, a logic circuit and associated data acquisition unit is optically coupled to the data and control channel so as to bidirectionally receive signals from, and transmit signals to the recorder. The logic circuit of each transceiver also is able to measure the strength of a received signal propagating in the data and control channel, and if necessary, augments the signal in the original propagation direction.

Abstract: A dual-mode vibrator for alternately injecting P-waves and S-waves in the earth including a hydraulically driven shaker assembly, a ground-contacting base plate, and a jacking means for raising and lowering the base plate relative to a vehicle. The shaker assembly is supported above, and coupled to the base plate by a supporting means. The supporting means has a first configuration for coupling the shaker assembly to the base plate for generating P-waves and a second configuration for pivotally coupling the shaker assembly to the base plate and to a rigid member associated with the vehicle for injecting S-waves.

Abstract: An apparatus for preventing thermally-induced stress fatigue in a vibrator support housing consists of a stress compensator that absorbs thermal dimensional changes between major structural components made of dissimilar materials. The stress compensator consists of a hydraulic clamp wedged between the free end of a vibrator actuator piston shaft and the supporting housing. Actuated by the substantially-constant system hydraulic pressure, the hydraulic clamp maintains a substantially constant clamping force between the actuator piston shaft and the supporting housing. Thermally-induced stresses are absorbed by the hydraulic system.

Abstract: The compound accelerometer is made by combining two simple accelerometer units. The simple accelerometer units consist of a hollow container closed at each end by a piezo-electric transducer. The two transducers are oppositely polarized and are selected to have a desired combined series capacitance value. The container is partially filled with a volume of heavy liquid and the accelerometer is excited. During excitation, the output voltage is continuously measured and the volume of liquid is microadjusted until the output voltage equals a prescribed level. The outputs of the individual transducers are measured, the residual voltage difference is tabulated and the dominant transducer is identified. Two simple accelerometer units having the same residual voltage difference are secured together with the dominant transducers facing oppositely with respect to each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compound accelerometer that is maximally sensitive to a desired acceleration vector to the exclusion of orthogonal vectors. The compound accelerometer is made by combining two simple accelerometer units. The simple accelerometer units consist of a hollow container closed at each end by a piezo-electric transducer. The two transducers are oppositely polarized and are selected to have a desired combined series capacitance value. The container is partially filled with a volume of heavy liquid and the accelerometer is excited. During excitation, the output voltage is continuously measured and the volume of liquid is microadjusted until the output voltage equals a prescribed level. The outputs of the individual transducers are measured, the residual voltage difference is tabulated and the dominant transducer is identified.

Abstract: An air gun of the reciprocating shuttle type includes a split-ring sleeve valve that is expandable against the inner wall of a firing chamber. The sleeve valve encircles the shuttle body. The shuttle body and the sleeve valve include a set of air release orifices that are alignable with a corresponding set of air exhaust ports of the firing chamber.

Abstract: A cross country vehicle for seismic exploration is provided wherein a first drive means, such as wheels can be conveniently interchanged, in the field, for a second drive means having a different configuration such as endless tracks. The interchange is enabled by use of a pre-existing lifting means associated with a seismic acoustic source.

Abstract: A data processing system having an architecture that will allow high-speed direct device-to-device data transfers without the necessity of first detouring the data through a computer memory. The system consists of a host computer and a remote signal processing subsystem connected thereto. A Direct Device Access Bus and a plurality of data processing devices are provided. A controller associated with a Signal Processing Subsystem supervisor, selectively interconnects desired ones of a set of data processing devices via the Direct Device Access Bus to provide direct communication between the selected devices within a set. Several sets of devices can be serviced concurrently by the technique of dynamic time slot allocation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for the production of pure hydrogen-containing crude gas. The apparatus, in the event of an interruption in power, is easily and rapidly purged of hydrogen.

Abstract: A geophone marsh case, for use in wetlands, contains a geophone. An electric cable delivers geophone signals to the outside world and provides a means for pulling an emplaced geophone from the mud. The cable is anchored to the marsh case both internally and externally in order to preserve the integrity of a water seal that surrounds the cable in the cable entry port of the marsh case.

Abstract: A power stage servo valve for a seismic vibrator includes a stationary orifice plate defining a plurality of valve ports having a first shape. A rotary orifice plate, abutting the stationary orifice plate, defines a like plurality of valve ports that have a shape different from the valve ports in the stationary orifice plate. The configuration and shape of the rotary valve ports is such that the valve opens more quickly than it shuts off when the plate is rotating continuously in one direction at a desired angular velocity.

Abstract: A robust air gun fire time sensor consists of a housing to which is secured a protruding nonmagnetic internal barrel having a bore. The bore is closed at one end by a magnetic end cap defining an air chamber and the bore is in fluid communication with the firing chamber of an air gun. A generator coil surrounds the barrel. A bar magnet is floatingly mounted inside the bore and is urged against a shoulder formed in the end cap. When the air gun is charged with compressed air, some of the air becomes entrapped in the air chamber. When the air gun is fired, the entrapped compressed air in the air chamber pushes the bar magnet away from the shoulder. The collapsing magnetic field creates a transient electric pulse in the generator coil.

Abstract: A data processing system having an architecture that will allow high-speed direct device-to-device data transfers without the necessity of first detouring the data through a computer memory. The system consists of a host computer and a remote signal processing subsystem connected thereto. A Direct Device Access Bus and a plurality of data processing devices are provided. A controller associated with a Signal Processing Subsystem supervisor, selectively interconnects desired ones of a set of data processing devices via the Direct Device Access Bus to provide direct communication between the selected devices within a set. Several sets of devices can be serviced concurrently by the technique of dynamic time slot allocation.

Abstract: A data telemetric system consists of a pair of optical fibers, each having an associated electrically conductive member. One of the fibers is a reference fiber and the other fiber constitutes a data transmission fiber. A light beam, from a source such as a laser, is launched from one end into both fibers. A signal transfer sensor is non-invasively coupled to the data fiber and applies forces to that fiber that are related to data signals thereby to modulate the light beam therein. A comparator at the other end of the pair of fibers compares variations in a characteristic of the modulated beam with corresponding characteristics of the reference beam to decipher the transmitted information. Means are provided in the signal transfer sensor for inductively sensing control and power signals transmitted through the electrically conductive member.