Abstract: Joined automobiles are disclosed. Two separate joinable automobiles, each with its own control system, powertrain, and interior space, can be joined by means of built-in retractable coupling systems, providing a single joined automobile with a contiguous inner space, two powertrains which can be used singly or together, and two control systems. The coupling systems can be used by putting the automobiles in proximity to each other and engaging them, and/or disengaging them for separate use.

Abstract: A tool for removing a tankless water heater inlet filter includes a base portion having a hexagonal shape and size configured to be engaged by a socket. The tool also includes a head portion coupled to and aligned with the base portion and configured and sized to fit inside a filter cap of the tankless water heater inlet filter, wherein the inlet filter is for installation in a tankless water heater inlet line and has an engagement device along an inner periphery. In addition, the tool includes at least one reciprocal engagement device of the head portion configured to engage with the engagement device of the filter cap and as a result of rotating the base portion causes the inlet filter to rotate.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an elbow-shaped duct manufacturing apparatus in which the height of a forming section is easily adjusted as a duct vane forming part has an up and down detachable structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a profiled strip (1) comprising: a first longitudinal side (2A), provided with first male connecting means and a second longitudinal side (2B) situated opposite the first longitudinal side (2A) and provided with first female connecting means, which profiled strip (1) is furthermore provided, on a first end side (3A), with second male connecting means and is provided, on a second end side (3B) situated opposite the first end side (3A), with second female connecting means, wherein said connecting means are suitable for connecting the longitudinal sides (2A, 2B) and/or the end sides (3A, 3B) of adjacent profiled strips (1, 1?) to each other, wherein the method comprises the following steps: supplying a panel-shaped profiled section made of plastic; sawing the profiled section produced to the desired length; performing one or several milling operations in order to produce at least one foldable flexible projecting element (6a) on the first end side (3A) of

Abstract: A dental prosthetic positioning assembly comprises an occlusal assembly and a maxillary arch subassembly. The occlusal assembly includes a maxillary tray configured to be formed in a patient's maxillary alveolar ridge, wherein the maxillary tray comprises a occlusal rim component. The occlusal assembly further includes a carriage frame component composed of biocompatible magnetic metal material anchored to the maxillary tray. The maxillary arch subassembly comprises a plurality of prosthetic maxillary teeth components magnetically anchored to the occlusal rim component. The carriage frame component is moveable with respect to the maxillary tray. The prosthetic maxillary teeth components are individually moveable with respect to each other to achieve a desired dental positioning.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for assembling an inside mirror for a vehicle, the system including a plurality of robots each having at least one of a vision measurement unit, a fastening unit, and a gripper configured to grip an inside mirror for a vehicle, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of robots to measure a first mounting surface of a windshield glass and a second mounting surface of the inside mirror, move the inside mirror so that the first and second mounting surfaces are attached to each other while overlapping each other, and fasten the inside mirror and the windshield glass in a state in which the first and second mounting surfaces are attached to each other.

Abstract: An method for assembling a pump section of a fluid pump is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a pump inlet plate and a pump outlet plate, wherein the inlet plate includes an inlet plate slot and the outlet plate includes a complementary outlet plate slot; feeding a metal wire from a supply of metal wire to a straightener; pulling the metal wire through the straightener to reduce a bend in the metal wire; guiding the metal wire to one of the inlet plate and outlet plate; causing the metal wire to be inserted into the slot of the said one of the inlet plate and outlet plate; and cutting the metal wire at a desired length such that a portion of the cut wire remains extending from said slot. A pump section formed by the method and a fluid pump including the pump section are also disclosed.

Abstract: An extruder screw-handling device for handling a screw of a food or land-or-sea-animal-feed extruder, the device being suitable for fully extracting an extruder screw from an extruder barrel, wherein the device has a horizontally arranged top section, a locking screw assembly and a guiding element. The present invention is furthermore related to a method of extracting an extruder screw from a food or land-or-sea-animal-feed extruder using the device.

Abstract: Devices (10) for burnishing a surface (111, 112) on an object (108) includes a body (11) having a passageway (25), an accumulator piston (65) mounted on the body for sealed sliding movement within the passageway, a coarse adjustment screw (13) mounted on the body, a resilient member (14) acting between the coarse adjustment screw and the accumulator piston, a lever (12) mounted on the body, a chamber (32) communicating with the accumulator piston, an actuator piston (78) mounted on the body for sealed sliding movement within a cylindrical opening (41) toward and away from the rearward portion (48) of the lever, and a roll (15) rotatably mounted on the forward portion (49) of the lever. The devices are adapted to be mounted on a machine tool (105) and moved toward the object to burnish the surface with controllable force along the required length of the surface.

Abstract: A method of using a masking device to mask a portion of a gas turbine engine component for an electroplating process is provided. The masking device includes a main body having sidewalls, a removeable coverplate having an end plate and one or more locking tabs, a fastener located at least partially within the main body, and a shank engaged with the fastener. The method includes placing the gas turbine engine component through an opening in the main body such that the component is held within the main body by a retention slot. The method includes sliding the one or more locking tabs of the removeable coverplate through the opening in the main body such that the removeable coverplate covers the opening of the main body. The method includes securing the one or more locking tabs in one or more relief slots in the sidewalls of the main body.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an article, the article has a body having: a first face; and a first bevel surface extending from the first face. A plurality of first channels along the first bevel surface extending from the first face. A ceramic coating is along the inner diameter surface and the first bevel surface. Each of the first channels are machined in the body by plunging a rotating bit into the first surface and drawing the rotating bit down the bevel surface. The coating is thereafter applied.

Abstract: A method of forming a vacuum insulated structure includes providing a structural envelope an insulating cavity defined within the structural envelope. An expanding device is attached to opposing outer walls of the structural envelope and the interior cavity is expanded by pulling the opposing outer walls away from one another to define an expanded state. An insulating material is disposed within the insulating cavity to occupy substantially all of the insulating cavity in the expanded state. Gas is expressed from the insulating cavity to collapse the structural envelope to a final state and a final interior volume that is less than the expanded interior volume. The final state of the structural envelope defines a densified state of the insulating material within the insulating cavity. The vacuum port is then closed to hermetically seal the insulating cavity.

Abstract: The process of forming a blowable flexible innerduct contains the steps of forming an inner innerduct structure comprising at least one inner longitudinal chamber, where the at least one inner longitudinal chamber comprises an inflatable tube and forming a textile. Concurrently forming an outer innerduct structure from the textile having at least one outer longitudinal chamber and inserting at least one inner longitudinal chamber into at least one of the outer longitudinal chambers. The inflatable tube has a wall thickness of less than about 0.5 mm. The inner longitudinal chamber alone has an air permeability of less than about 1 cfm, outer longitudinal textile chamber alone has an air permeability of greater than about 100 cfm, and the outer and inner longitudinal textile chambers together have an air permeability of less than about 1 cfm.

Abstract: A counterflow heat transfer system comprises a heat exchanger and a flow controller arranged to convey a first fluid through the heat exchanger in a first flow direction and a second fluid through the heat exchanger in a second counterflow direction. The heat exchanger comprises at least one first thermally conductive tube conveying the first fluid and at least one second thermally conductive tube conveying the second fluid. The first and second tubes are wound around one another and in contact with one another in an entwined tubular arrangement.

Abstract: A ballistic panel formed with a ballistic material, the panel comprising: a panel with a filled void; wherein the filled void is filled with a ballistic replacement material; and wherein the filled void exhibits ballistic properties equivalent to the ballistic panel formed with the ballistic material; wherein the ballistic replacement material and the ballistic material comprise between about 1121 kg/cubic meter (about 70 pounds per cubic foot) and about 1442 kg/cubic meter (about 90 pounds per cubic foot); and wherein the ballistic replacement material and the ballistic material comprise: about 1 part by mass Portland cement; about 0.5 to 1.5 part by mass fine aggregate; and about 0.0005 to 0.05 part by mass air entrainment additive; about 0.005 to 0.15 part by mass fiber; about 0.005 to 0.05 part by mass aluminum hydroxide and about 0.005 to 0.05 part by mass calcium phosphate.

Abstract: The invention is generally a nasal pharyngeal and oral swab that may be mass-produced via three-dimensional (3D) printing. To achieve the right materials for 3D printing the swabs, exemplary embodiments employ a set of materials that result in a rigid structure that has bendable properties (at least in the neck or stem region of the swab), but more rigid and bridle properties at a breakpoint of the swab. In exemplary embodiments, this may be achieved by constructing the device of a first photosensitive material that is generally soft and bendable when cured, and a second photosensitive material that is generally rigid and brittle when cured, wherein the soft bendable material comprises of about 70% to 90% of the photosensitive composition used to 3D print the swab, and the rigid and brittle material comprises of about 30% to 10% of the photosensitive composition used to 3D print the swab.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cold expansion device (36) for work hardening a through bore (34) in a turbine engine part (32), comprising at least one chuck (38) supporting a burnisher (40) and a means (41) for pushing the chuck (38) in an axial direction, and is characterised in that it comprises at least: —a tubular guide (42) configured to guide the burnisher (40) to the bore (34), —a first magnetic attachment means (51) arranged at a free end (44) of the chuck (38), —the burnisher (40), comprising a work surface (46) and an end (48) comprising second magnetic attachment means (49) complementary to the first magnetic attachment means (51), and in that the axial pushing means (41) is configured to push the burnisher through the bore (34) until it emerges from stud bore.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a rotary driving tool for handling closure elements on vehicle containers for holding operating fluids, which are fed into the respective circuits and containers of the vehicles in the manufacturing process of the vehicles on assembly lines of the automotive industry by robot-based assemblies arranged on the assembly line from filling systems via connecting lines and adapters, wherein the robot-based assemblies are displaceable in operation between a home position and a filling position and have at least one robot arm. It is the problem of the disclosure to create such a rotary driving tool that enables automated handling of the closure elements even in confined or poorly accessible installation spaces.

Abstract: A method for achieving a target joint preload includes identifying a thread pitch of a first fastener element used to secure two components together. The first fastener element is passed through the two components and a second fastener element is threaded onto the first fastener element. A tightening torque is applied to the second fastener element, which is measured as the trial tightening torque. A loosening torque is applied to the second fastener element, which is measured as the trial removal torque. A required tightening torque that is required to be applied to the second fastener element to achieve the target joint preload is calculated using only the thread pitch, the trial tightening torque, the trial removal torque, and the target joint preload.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing optical scanning systems by which plural optical scanning systems with different effective scanning widths can be manufactured by changing a polygon mirror alone is provided. The method includes the steps of designing a first scanning optical system using a first polygon mirror corresponding to a first value of effective scanning width; designing a second scanning optical system provided with a second polygon mirror corresponding to a second value of effective scanning width, the second value being smaller than the first value, wherein a reference point of deflection is located at the position of the reference point of deflection of the first scanning optical system; and adjusting a size and a position of the scanning lens so as to adjust a lateral magnification in a cross section in the sub-scanning direction of the imaging optical system.