Abstract: A turbine blade is provided for use in a gas turbine engine. The turbine blade has a platform, an airfoil radially extending from the platform, and an attachment portion comprising an asymmetric root neck portion having a higher stress side and a lower stress side. The turbine blade may further have additional material and a compound fillet for dispersing strain in a region where the airfoil overhangs the neck portion.

Abstract: A turbine engine nozzle assembly has an upstream flap and a downstream flap pivotally coupled thereto for relative rotation about a hinge axis. An actuator linkage is coupled to the flaps for actuating the nozzle between a number of throat area conditions. First and second mode struts respectively restrict rotation of the downstream flap in first and second directions.

Abstract: A fuel injector has a number of groups of nozzles. The groups are generally concentric with an injector axis. Each nozzle defines a gas flowpath having an outlet for discharging a fuel/air mixture jet. There are means for introducing the fuel to the air. One or more groups of the nozzles are oriented to direct the associated jets skew to the injector axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to various types of garments to be worn by outdoors people such as hunters and fishermen. The garments include stretch fabric portions in strategic locations to provide mobility as well as comfort and thereby allow the wearer to engage in a wide range of activities. The garments having such stretch fabric portions include pants-type garments, bib overall type garments, and coat-type garments and coverall-type garments.

Abstract: A nozzle for use in a cold spray technique is described. The nozzle has a passageway for spraying a powder material, the passageway having a converging section and a diverging section, and at least the diverging section being formed from polybenzimidazole. In one embodiment of the nozzle, the converging section is also formed from polybenzimidazole.

Abstract: A device for simulating a collision of a motor vehicle by a laterally hitting impactor. The device comprises a seat carriage (3) which can be displaced in the transversal direction of the vehicle and on which a seat (5) is mounted, a lateral part carriage (10) on which a lateral part (13) of a motor vehicle body is mounted, and the impactor (20) that acts upon the lateral part (13) and is provided with an acceleration mechanism (21). The seat carriage (3) and the lateral part carriage (10) can be displaced independently of each other. In order to create a testing device which dispenses with the need for expensive and time-consuming preliminary tests to determine the settings for the tests, the impactor (20) is equipped with an acceleration mechanism (21) which can perform both positively and negatively accelerated movements in a controlled manner while an additional impactor (30) is provided that acts upon the seat carriage (3).

Abstract: A DC-DC converter is provided with a control circuit 6 which comprises a drive signal generator 11 for producing on-off signals to a control terminal of a MOS-FET 3 in synchronization with pulse signals VOSC from an oscillator 10; an intermittent controller 12 for producing a control signal VC1 to drive signal generator 11 in response to the level of detection signal from an output voltage detector 5 to convert MOS-FET 3 to the intermittent operation during the light load period; and a power control circuit 16 for ceasing power supply VCC to oscillator 10 in response to control signal VC1 from intermittent controller 12 to stop production of pulse signal VOSC from oscillator 10 for the cessation term of MOS-FET 3 during the intermittent operation.

Abstract: A device for actuating the doors of vehicles, in particular of an aircraft. The device comprises a drive element, which co-operates with a door lock. A lifting motion of a shaft element and a subsequent rotational motion of a follower element are carried out in an actuation device by a drive element.

Abstract: The mold for cooking comprises a base made of a flexible material possessing a side wall having a top end that defines an opening, and rigid reinforcement. The base further comprises a top ring extending radially outwards from the side wall at the opening. The annular reinforcement is fixed to the top ring around its entire periphery and at a predetermined distance from the opening.

Abstract: An induction heating apparatus capable of stably operating at least one switching element contained therein is provided with a control circuit 5 which comprises a resonance waveform detector 6 for detecting a high frequency AC waveform supplied from an inverter circuit 3 to a heating coil 4 to produce a detection signal DS1 corresponding to high frequency AC power waveform; a phase comparator 8 for producing an adjusting signal PH corresponding to a phase difference between detection signal DS1 from resonance waveform detector 6 and drive signal D1 from drive circuit 7; and an addition circuit 13 for superimposing the drive signal D1 from drive circuit 7 on detection signal DS1 from resonance waveform detector 6 to supply to phase comparator 8the superimposed signal on a level same as or over operation threshold value VTH for the phase comparator 8.

Abstract: A position reference system for use with a conveyance, such as an elevator (12). The system includes a code affixed to or embedded within a suspension device or primary motion coupling such as a rope or coated steel belt (16). A reader (28) in a fixed location determines the position of the conveyance.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an apparatus of assembling a capsule for neutron-irradiation experiments. The capsule may contain test specimens to develop nuclear fuel, and may comprise a capsule main body and protection tube that may be assembled and disassembled using separate joining means. The present invention provides a capsule assembling apparatus that may enable safe and easy assembly/disassembly of the capsule placed at a given depth in a working pool through remote working. The capsule assembling apparatus may comprise a base structure loading the capsule main body, a guiding pipe of a given length extending from the base structure to provide a pathway through which the capsule main body is loaded on the base structure, a damper fixing the capsule main body to the guiding pipe, and a coupler coupling the capsule main body with the protection tube.

Abstract: An SPM sensor (1) for a scanning probe microscope with a cantilever (3), a holding element (2) at one end of the cantilever (3) and a sensor tip (4) at the other end of the cantilever (3) and to a method for producing sensors of this type. The electron beam induced deposition (EBID or, shorter, EBD) structure (5) is anchored directly in the substrate of the sensor tip (4). The anchoring of the EBD structure (5) takes place with positive and nonpositive engagement in a hole (6) in the sensor tip (4), which is created by material removal in the substrate of the sensor tip (4). The method comprises the creation of the EBD structure by particle beam induced material deposition in the hole of the sensor tip.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a thin-walled part (33), especially a pipe section. According to said method, the wall (11) of the part (33) is drawn out from a strip (1) of material, an inner contour (17) is cut out, the wall is stretched to size, and an outer contour is cut out of the strip (1) of material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the deposition of protective coatings on complex shaped Si-based substrates which are used in articles and structures subjected to high temperature, aqueous environments comprises a non-line-of-sightprocess, particularly, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process.

Abstract: A pen comprising an applicator tip, a chamber for receiving the applicator tip in a rest position, wherein the chamber has a first through opening through which the applicator tip passes for moving from the rest position into an operative position, and a closure for closing the first through opening. In accordance with the invention the closure is on an outside of the chamber.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing queriable XML compression and queries related to a compressed XML document are disclosed. In the method, information, including at least the frequencies of the respective tags of XML data, the type information of data values and data value-related statistical information is collected. Thereafter, the type information of data values of elements is inferred according to tags using an automatic data type inference engine algorithm. Reverse arithmetic encoding is performed on the tags and paths of elements. The data values are encoded based on the inferred type information.

Abstract: A holding device that can be braced in a surveying machining together with an individual preparation model produced by dental laboratory techniques. The holding device has a mechanically stable frame with bores disposed at a distance (a) to one another, in which at least two holding pins are locked that can be displaced at least in the axial direction (A).

Abstract: A ventilation system providing NBC protection for at least one closed security space and/or protection space with constant slight excess pressure, the ventilation system substantially having an air inlet and air outlet, an explosion protection valve, a prefilter, a filter for suspended matter, an activated carbon filter and an air conveying device for sucking in the air to be purified and for distributing the purified air, and wherein the ventilation system has at least one of the three following built-in elements: an explosion protection valve which is combined with and cooperates with the prefilter; a combined activated carbon filter made of activated carbon which is specifically effective against biological and/or chemical toxic substances, on the one hand and, on the other hand, against radionuclides; and an air pump configured as a double bellows.