Abstract: A printer including a portable information processing portion located on the face of the printer, a paper accomodating portion located on the back of the information processing portion and capable of accomodating thermosensible printing sheets of standardized size, and a printing mechanism portion located adjacent to a side of the information processing portion is provided. With such a structure, a printer which allows for a large printing area while being as almost the same size of PDA and is suitable for portable use can be provided. Moreover, by employing a thermal head for printing on the thermosensible sheets, a space required for consumables such as ink is eliminated. As a result, a practically portable printer can be provided.

Abstract: The internally threaded coupling ring or nut of a conventional rotational coupling system is replaced with a multi-tined locking ring that traverses the threads in an axial direction and locks onto the external threads of the mating half. The tines are positioned such that the forces are evenly distributed around the connector periphery and an anti-decoupling sleeve is extended over the tines and arranged such that, when the sleeve is in a first position, tangs extending inwardly from the tines are prevented from escaping the threads of the externally threaded mating half, and such that the sleeve may be pulled in an axial direction to permit the tines to more easily clear the threads and thereby facilitate decoupling.

Abstract: When an underground pipe carrying a fluid, such as a buried water-pipe, develops a leak the leak must first be located before it can be repaired. One common location method makes use of the fact that the leaking fluid often creates a noise, typically a hissing sound, which is transmitted through the ground, and although rapidly attenuated can be heard with suitable highly sensitive ground microphones and is therefore useful to field crews as a means of locating leaks. Unfortunately, the sound levels can be grossly distorted by underground heterogenities, and can easily be confused or even swamped by other sound sources above ground, and in general ground microphones used like this do not seem to be effective.

Abstract: A fiber optic connector system is made up of a socket contact and a pin contact arranged to be installed in a cylindrical multiple contact connector, each contact including a fiber optic connector that has been terminated to a ribbon cable and captured between two halves of a cylindrical contact body, the socket contact being spring loaded to provide an engagement force between the two contacts when assembled into a housing. The pin and socket contacts may be installed in a wide variety of connector housings configured to receive cylindrical contacts, including the MIL-C-38999 family of connector shells, utilizing existing coupling and mounting arrangements, with the optional addition in the plug connector of a torsion spring biased shutter arranged to shield the ends of the fibers before coupling, and which is moved by a cam surface in the receptacle connector of the fiber optic connector system to uncover the ends of the fibers during coupling.

Abstract: This invention concerns a luminescent optical memory material and method of forming this material, including the encoding of information by a photographic process. The method involves the use of silver halide crystals of a defined size range, with the optional use of sensitizers, emulsion stabilizers, and other agents followed by the absorption of luminescent dyes on the developed silver particle to form a luminescent optical memory system. The method involves synthesis of a photographic emulsion with silver halide crystals of a defined size range, applying photographic emulsion to a substrate, exposing to light photochemical treatment and a process of transformation of the silver particles formed in the places exposed by light into luminescent particles. The method involves obtaining a multi-layer luminescent material for a three-dimensional optical memory devices.

Abstract: Wavefront aberrations in an eye are detected by illuminating the retina, receiving the light reflected by the retina and using a Hartmann-Shack detector or the like to detect the aberrations. The illuminating light is applied to the eye off of the optical axis of the eye. Light reflected from the cornea and light reflected from the retina travel in different directions. The former can be blocked with a stop, while the latter is passed to the detector.

Abstract: An upper tool holder apparatus in a press brake includes: a holder main body having an upper tool supporting section for supporting an upper tool a lower portion of the holder main body and further having a mounting; an upper tool clamp supported to the holder main body having an engagement projection at the bottom end of the upper tool clamp which is engaged with a drop-prevention groove provided in the upper tool; a pressing section provided on a lower portion of the upper tool clamp; clamping force applying means for applying a clamping force which clamps the upper tool by pressing an upper portion of the upper tool clamp; clamp operating means for transmitting the clamping force from the clamping force applying means to the upper tool clamp and for releasing the clamping force; and a wedge piece, which is engaged with the drop-prevention groove provided in the upper tool, provided on an upper portion of the engagement projection provided on the lower portion of the upper tool clamp, a force being applied

Abstract: An instrument for operating on anatomical tissue includes a barrel having at least one shaft. An end is offset from the shaft. In an insertion position, the end effector is confined within the diametrical dimension of the barrel at a distal end thereof. After insertion, the end effector can be manipulated to extend beyond the diametrical dimension of the barrel to provide a large working span in which tissue can be manipulated.

Abstract: A fiber optic cable is terminated to a ferrule in a conventional fashion, polished and completed as would ordinarily be done, but the entire assembly or at least the termination/connector portion is coated with a conformal coating such as MIL-I-46058 XY conformal coating, also known as Parylene. The conformal coating provides an effective moisture barrier without restricting the flexibility of the cable. In addition, the conformal coating protects the polished connector/terminus interface, in case of a butt joint connection, protecting it from damage prior to installation, at which time the conformal coating on the mating face can easily be peeled off because of the polished condition of the mating face.

Abstract: There is provided a contacting device (1) for chip cards, preferably for SIM cards, comprising a base (2), a slider (12) arranged at the base (2) and being movable with respect to the base (2), the chip card (4) being slidable between an insert/removal position and a reading position by means of said slider, and means (7, 22) for inhibiting removal of the slider from the contacting device (1). Preferably, the slider (12) is slidably mounted to the base (2) and is in abutting engagement with an abutment in the insert/removal position such that the slider (12) cannot be removed from the contacting device (1), i.e. the slider (12) cannot be moved beyond the insert/removal position. Thus, the contacting device does not comprise any loose parts that could get lost.

Abstract: A forming method of forming a plate-shaped workpiece using a female tool having a concave section of a desired shape and a male tool which matches with the female tool, includes the following steps: providing an elastic punch in a cylindrical holder provided in the male tool; pressurizing and compressing the elastic punch relatively by a pressuring member; pressing the holder against the workpiece by means of one portion of the elastic punch; and projecting one portion of the elastic punch from the holder so as to deform a portion of the workpiece to be processed according to the shape of the concave section of the female tool so that the workpiece is formed in a state such that the workpiece is nipped pressingly between the female tool and the holder.

Abstract: The invention refers to an electrical connector, in particular for connecting a receptacle (squib) to an electrical control unit for restraint systems in motor vehicles.

Abstract: A carton assembly for dispensing product members such as spools of wire and other rollable products having circular ends of the same diameter. The carton comprises a bottom, forward and rearward end walls, two side walls and a closable top. Within the carton each side wall has associated therewith one upper guide member, at least one intermediate guide member and a lower guide member. The guide members of one wall are mirror images of the corresponding guide members of the other side wall and are correspondingly positioned with respect to their respective side walls. The intermediate and lower guide members provide narrow sloping edges in parallel spaced relationship which maintain the product members in a row made up of zig-zag row segments, one above the other. The carton has a dispensing opening in its forward wall through which the forwardmost and lowermost product member can be extracted.

Abstract: A pre-twisted cable pair and a method for processing such pairs into an electrical cable having improved electrical and mechanical properties is disclosed. At least one insulated wire for transmitting electrical signals is pre-twisted prior to pairing with another insulated wire. As the pre-twisted wires are paired by a conventional double-twist machine which imparts back-twist, the detrimental electrical effects caused by irregularities in the individual wires are cycled over a very short distance, resulting in a cable pair having lower structural return loss, near-end crosstalk, and insertion loss than wires paired without any pre-twist. These pre-twisted wires may be united into a jacketed electrical cable by a continuous-extrusion jacketing process in which an optimal dielectric constant is maintained around each individual cable pair.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a shell, an insert arranged at least partially inside the shell, a contact supported by the insert, and a removable pin for connecting the contact to an inside surface of the shell. The connector is assembled by mounting the ground contact in the insert so that the a receiving hole in the insert is aligned with the pin receptacle on the ground contact. The pin is the slid through the pin receiving hole and into the pin receptacle before the shell is slid over the pin so that the pin abuts an inside surface of the shell and connects the contact to the shell.

Abstract: A variable attenuator includes a rotatable actuator and cam arrangement arranged to vary a length of an air gap between ends of fibers in a transmission line. The cam arrangement includes a cylindrically shaped cam member having an end surface cut to fit a curve representing normalized attenuation-to-gap-length data, the cam follower(s) being fitted in a sliding member that holds the end of the optical fiber and moves it relative to a fixed end of another fiber connector member. The cam surface includes multiple identical cam surface sections extending less than 180° around the cam to define movement of the cam follower(s) and the sliding member between a maximum position and a minimum position.

Abstract: A battery connector connects two wires to a battery post. The battery connector includes two identically formed L-shaped conductors electrically insulated from one another by an insulator. Each of the conductors comprises a split ring portion for making good mechanical and electrical contact with a battery post and a crimping portion for electrically connecting a wire to the conductor. The conductors and insulator are assembled and held together by cooperating and mating components.

Abstract: The invention concerns a pumping installation designed for being mounted in an oil well extending from the surface to a layer of oil-bearing rock, comprising a pipe column at the lower end of which is mounted a pump, a joint, mounted in the well around the pipe column and delimiting a chamber at the lower end of the well, in which is arranged a pump. The installation further comprises a hydro-ejector, in the pipe column, including a lower pressure zone opening into the upper end of the chamber.

Abstract: An implanted defibrillator provides a device-implemented method of delivering cardiac pacing, cardioversion and defibrillation therapies in selective response to dysrhythmia detection of an implant patient's cardiac signal. The patient's heart rate is sensed, and cardioversion/defibrillation therapies are delivered by the device by producing electrical shocks of adjustable energy level for application to the patient's heart in response to applicable detected levels of pathologic accelerated heart rate. A match between the generated cardiac pacing rate and the contemporaneous hemodynamic needs of the implant patient under conditions of rest and physical activity is optimized by sensing periods of patient physical activity and rest and generating a signal representative thereof to control the cardiac pacing rate accordingly and according to the extent of activity by means of an accelerometer mounted on hybrid electronic circuitry of the device.