Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein facilitate interactions with a user interface in 3D environment in which a user interface element is moved based on a user movement in a way that the user interface element appears to lag behind or follow a portion of the user (e.g., the user's fingertip). The user interface element may be moved in a way that it converges with and thus catches up to the portion of the user. Such convergence may be based on the speed of the movement of the portion of the user. No convergence may occur when the portion of the user is not moving or is moving below a threshold speed. When the portion of the user is moving (e.g., above a threshold speed), the user interface component may converge with the portion of the user and the rate of convergence may be increased with faster speeds.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for displaying a selection refinement user interface object in an object within a three-dimensional environment, wherein the selection refinement user interface object indicates a location in the object at which the computer system performs a selection operation in response to further user input. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for activating a selection refinement mode in the three-dimensional environment during which an interaction point for a selection operation is movable based on movement of a hand of the user of the computer system.

Abstract: End caps for printing substrate rolls that are configured to engage with a print roll retaining mechanism of a printer in order to regulate total web tension of a printing substrate during a printing operation are shown and described. Each of the end caps has a cylindrical body including an attachment mechanism for attaching the end cap to the printing substrate roll; a continuously curved outer wall longitudinally aligned with the cylindrical body and configured to define a first component of the total web tension; and a central protuberance that is concentric with the continuously curved outer wall and longitudinally aligned with the cylindrical body, an outer face of the central protuberance being extended beyond an outer lip edge of the curved outer wall, the central protuberance configured to define a second component of the total web tension.

Abstract: Printer head shuttles configured to control contact pressure of one or more printer head assemblies against a printing substrate and an underlying platen during a printer operation are shown and described. The printer head shuttles include a shuttle guide and a shuttle main body having one or more printer head assemblies. Each printer head assembly includes an axel attached to the shuttle main body, an assembly main body pivotably attached to the axel, a mounting plate attached to the assembly main body, a printer head attached to the mounting plate, and a drive mechanism for pivoting the head assembly between a substrate compressing position and a substrate non-compressing position.

Abstract: A thermal printer, when operating under battery power, has an internal or battery ground. Static electricity is typically generated during normal operation of the printer. At least one static electricity discharge member is positioned in contact with a major surface of printing substrate at a location downstream from the location at which a thermal print head transfers ink from an ink transfer ribbon to the substrate. The at least one static electricity discharge member is electrically coupled to the internal ground so as to discharge static electricity build up that can otherwise damage electronic components of the printer.

Abstract: A multi-channel signal acquisition probe has a ribbon cable with ganged coaxial signal cables. The coaxial signal cables are separated into individual cables at one end of the ribbon cable. A junction box is mounted the ribbon cable with the individual cables extending through apertures in a front face of the junction box. An electrically conductive terminal is disposed in the junction box and extends into openings in opposing sides of the junction box. The electrically conductive terminal is electrically coupled to each outer shielding conductor of the signal cables. The free ends of each of the individual signal cables has a probing head. A terminal connector is disposed on the other end of the ribbon cable.

Abstract: A multi-channel signal acquisition probe has a ribbon cable with ganged coaxial signal cables. The coaxial signal cables are separated into individual cables at one end of the ribbon cable. A junction box is mounted the ribbon cable with the individual cables extending through apertures in a front face of the junction box. An electrically conductive terminal is disposed in the junction box and extends into openings in opposing sides of the junction box. The electrically conductive terminal is electrically coupled to each outer shielding conductor of the signal cables. The free ends of each of the individual signal cables has a probing head. A terminal connector is disposed on the other end of the ribbon cable.

Abstract: An optical fiber harness has a unitary plastic body that is formed into a substantially circular member and a straight member. The straight member intersects the circular member forming a chord through the circular member. At least a first attachment member extends from the straight member for securing the optical fiber harness onto a circuit board. Tabs extend outward from the circular member for receiving an optical fiber.

Abstract: An optical fiber harness has a unitary plastic body that is formed into a substantially circular member and a straight member. The straight member intersects the circular member forming a chord through the circular member. At least a first attachment member extends from the straight member for securing the optical fiber harness onto a circuit board. Tabs extend outward from the circular member for receiving an optical fiber.

Abstract: A facility for mounting an electronic component includes a first circuit board having of mounting apertures. A mounting element is associate with each aperture, and includes a boss defining a bore. The boss has a first surface contacting a major surface of the first circuit board, and a second surface opposite the first surface. A pin is received in the bore, and has a lower portion protruding from the first surface of the boss and into one of the apertures. The pins lower portion definves a spece to capture a portion of the first circuit board. A fastener connected to the pin may generate compression between the spece and the boss to secure the board, and a corner-shaped protrusion on the second surface may constrain the corner periphery of a second board resting on the second surface, with the fastener also securing the second board against the boss.

Abstract: An electrical signal interconnect assembly has first and second high speed coaxial interconnects with each interconnect having a male and female side. One of the male and female side of the first interconnect is floatably mounted on the assembly with the other side mounted on an electrical instrument. The second coaxial interconnect is mounted on a mechanical alignment facility having coarse and fine mechanical alignment portions with the coarse mechanical alignment portion including a closely mating pocket and body. One of the male and female side of the interconnect is mounted on the pocket with the other side mounted on the body. One of the pocket and body is mounted on the interconnect assembly and the other of the pocket and body is mounted on the electrical instrument. A coaxial cable electrically connects the two coaxial interconnects together in the interconnect assembly.

Abstract: An electronic interconnect adapter for a bulkhead mounted high speed coaxial interconnect has a rotatable coupling bushing with a central bore. One side of the bushing has an axially extending flange disposed around the bore with the flange having a threaded interior surface that threadably mates with a threaded exterior surface of the female side of the coaxial interconnect. The opposite side of the bushing has an axially disposed cavity with a diameter greater than the central bore forming a shoulder within the cavity. A male side of the interconnect has a flange radially extending from a shield contact with a mating member extending through bore. A radial slot is formed in the cavity adjacent to the shoulder that receives a retaining member that captures the flange between the shoulder and the retaining member to secure the male side of the high speed coaxial interconnect to the coupling bushing.

Abstract: A facility for mounting an electronic component includes a first circuit board having of mounting apertures. A mounting element is associated with each aperture, and includes a boss defining a bore. The boss has a first surface contacting a major surface of the first circuit board, and a second surface opposite the first surface. A pin is received in the bore, and has a lower portion protruding from the first surface of the boss and into one of the apertures. The pin's lower portion defines a space to capture a portion of the first circuit board. A fastener connected to the pin may generate compression between the space and the boss to secure the board, and a corner-shaped protrusion on the second surface may constrain the corner periphery of a second board resting on the second surface, with the fastener also securing the second board against the boss.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle mountable on and positionable within a substrate has an electrically conductive element that includes a conductive member with deformable electrical leads extending therefrom. The deformable electrical leads have first and second portions with the first portion extending outward from the conductive member and the second portion being adjacent to and approximately parallel with the conductive member. A body of electrically insulating material encapsulates the conductive member about the exterior surface of the conductor with the electrically insulating material having an exterior surface on which is formed support ribs and alignment ribs with the support ribs providing initial support for the electrical receptacle over an aperture formed in the substrate and the alignment ribs providing positioning alignment of the electrical receptacle within the aperture of the substrate.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a female portion defining a bore having an aperture, and a male portion having an elongated member sized to be received in the bore. The female portion has a first flexible contact and an electrically isolated second rigid contact. The male portion has a first flexible contact and an electrically isolated second rigid contact. The connector may be a banana connector with a barrel spring providing conventional contact, and a separate contact at the tip of the male portion.

Abstract: An animal trap for small animals, such as mice, rats, squirrels, and the like, the trap includes an enclosure over which is arranged a bait compartment with two oppositely-facing tilting bottom panels, each panel being mounted on a pivot in the bait compartment with a base edge having a counterweight, a magnetic means, and a spring mechanism on one side of the pivot positioned proximate to the pivot and with a facing distal edge on an opposite side of the pivot and spaced from the pivot. Two ramps arranged on opposite sides of the bait compartment lead from a ground surface to the base edges of the tilting bottom panels to provide an apparent continuous passage through the animal trap. The counterweights balance the panels, the magnetic means is adapted to retain the panels in a horizontal position with a predetermined force, and the spring mechanism is constructed to return the panels to the horizontal position after tilting.

Abstract: A portable rodent exterminator for transporting and/or exterminating rodents collected in container-type traps designed to couple to the exterminator during transfer, the exterminator is comprised of a container having a removable top, a retractable divider plate, a storage chamber below the divider plate, and a viewing window in the side of the container for viewing the transfer and extermination process.