Abstract: The invention is a hunter's personal safety game pack and method of making it. The game pack is especially designed for the wild turkey, with a bloodproof bottom pouch, a No-See-Um mesh drawstring bag top, and a shoulder harness. The wild turkey is a large bulky bird, weighing approximately 10 kilograms. It is cumbersome and messy, a burden to carry without a game pack. Carrying a wild turkey using one hand in the traditional over-shoulder position puts the hunter in a very dangerous situation. Carrying his gun with one hand is not recommended for safe gun handling; the exposed turkey on his back invites other hunters to shoot at the turkey and possibly shoot the otherwise successful turkey hunter in the back or head. Perhaps even more important, Lyme ticks may be transferred from turkey to hunter, with risk of the disabling and sometimes fatal Lyme disease. The taken turkey must cool quickly to avoid spoilage. The No-See-Um mesh top permits cooling ventilation without permitting any ticks to pass.

Abstract: A remotely controllable single/triple reflection glare-deflecting vehicle mirror provides remote control directional adjustment to an appropriate view, and also provides for easy and reversible toggling between single-reflection viewing and triple-reflection viewing. The mirror view adjustment is by remote control cables, selectively manually powered or powered by small linear motors. This view adjustment is maintained even during periods when glare conditions require that the wedge mirror be moved to anti-glare position, which is also done by remote control. The motor-powered version permits easy toggling from anti-glare triple-reflectivity to glare-susceptible single-reflectivity or back, by a tap switch. The manual-powered version permits easy toggling from anti-glare triple-reflectivity to glare-susceptible single-reflectivity or back, by a simple in-out motion of a glare control knob on the joystick used for view adjustment.

Abstract: A novelty soap bar surrounds a supercompressed sponge novelty item which pops out when significant use of the soap provides a path for water entry which triggers a surprise expansion of the supercompressed sponge novelty. The supercompressed sponge novelty item, or plurality of novelty items positioned together or separately, pops out when the enclosing soap shell becomes sufficiently thin to permit moisture to enter and expand the supercompressed sponge novelty item. The supercompressed sponge novelty item is encapsulated in a slow-soluble or non-soluble soft easily-abradable encapsulent to prevent moisture from expanding the novelty item during manufacture or shelf life.

Abstract: This patterning system has the ability to uniformly image a mask onto a substrate having nonlinear exposure characteristics, has large-area exposure capability, and comprises: (a) a stage system capable of synchronously scanning a mask and a substrate in one dimension, and when not scanning in that dimension, capable of moving them laterally in a direction perpendicular to the scan direction so as to position the mask and substrate for another scan partially overlapping the preceding scan, thus exposing the full substrate in an overlapping scan-and-repeat fashion; (b) an illumination system capable of illuminating on the mask a region of a predetermined multisided shape which has at least one of its sides curved, the curvatures of said curved sides being so determined that adjacent scanning exposures are compensated in their overlap regions for the nonlinear response characteristics of the substrate so as to provide uniform cumulative response; (c) a projection assembly capable of imaging the illuminated regi

Abstract: The invention is a document security system characterized by a data substrate having photographic or printed information on a base print, and also having a personalized polarization-altering overlay sealed to the base print and encoded with additional coded information readable under the influence of a polarizing viewer. The low-security information, such as name, social security, account number and photograph, are printed on a card to form the base print. Additional information of greater security, which may be a bar code or alphanumeric characters, is imprinted in the polarization-altering overlay by an appropriate physical process, such as radiation exposure or thermal, chemical or mechanical treatment, which optically modifies localized regions of the overlay.

Abstract: A window operator, located at one side of the window, opens or closes the sash without jamming. The operator includes three structural extrusions:the track, of rectangular cross-section;the traveler, of H-cross-section; andthe crank housing, of seven-sided cross-section.The track is roughly equivalent to the window opening height in length, and has a longitudinal gap with smoothed edges. The crank housing, open at the base, has two sides angled to the vertical so as to present parallel faces for mounting the crankshaft, and has three screw bosses. The track has locating holes providing a location at the top for an idler pulley, has an interior side routed out at the base to accept the sprocket, and has an exterior location at the base for a sprocket shaft bearing. A sprocket shaft and sprocket are mounted within the track. A toothed belt about the sprocket and the idler pulley is driven by a sprocket shaft and is attached to a polyvinyl chloride H-cross-section traveler captured by the gap in the track.

Abstract: This illumination system produces a light beam of selected cross-section shape and uniform intensity, which emits self-luminously into a selected numerical aperture, by: providing a non-uniform, non-self-luminous laser light beam; configuring the beam to eliminate the non-uniformities near the beam periphery; providing the semi-uniform light beam to a light gate; providing also a lamp light beam with optics and infra-red trap; gating selectively the laser light beam or the lamp light beam to a light beam characterization subsystem; configuring the selected semi-shaped semi-uniform non-self-luminous light beam to provide a selected shaped semi-uniform non-self-luminous light beam; focusing the selected shaped semi-uniform non-self-luminous light beam, with a focal length related to the selected numerical aperture, onto the input plane of a total-internally-reflective beam-shaper-uniformizer, causing multiple reflections within the uniformizer and overlapping of different parts of the beam with one another, the

Abstract: This invention relates to office workstations, and particularly to a revolutionary electronic office workstation combining user access to communication, entertainment, record keeping, computation, environmental control, writing and miscellaneous functions. The workstation acts as a desk when viewscreen and keyboard are retracted and covered by a built-in retractable cover. When directed by embedded computer or manually, the workstation repositions the viewscreen to a preselected operational attitude. The operational attitude may vary between horizontal and slightly past vertical. The workstation includes embedded appliances such as copier, printer, facsimile, personal computer and future optional appliance connections, with central control unit and buses for power, data, communications, control and other functions. Embedded appliances do not require individual covers or individual power supplies, and accordingly there is no maze of cables in view.

Abstract: Alternately stacked radial-pole stator and spacer laminations provide a simple linear actuator, in which alternating layers form magnetic teeth in the axial direction. The spacer laminations are non-ferromagnetic or dimensionally spaced from the flux path. The stator laminations have radially extending pairs of poles, forming a central hole which may be filled and ground smooth along with the spacers, forming smooth pole faces upon which the armature may slide.Flux paths are coplanar with stator laminations, thus making each lamination completely independent. Electromagnetic force increases linearly as stator laminations are added. The stacked stator laminations have pole faces each having a finite pole face flux capacity; related armature rings can be mounted on a nonmagnetic support tube and made as light as possible so long as each ring is of sufficient cross-sectional area to carry half the pole face flux capacity.

Abstract: Table lookup for an N.times.N image on an M.times.M 2D array is speeded by enhancing an address word to access table entries greater in number than the address word bit structure normally permits. This is done by organizing a 2D array (M.times.M) as a 8-interconnected array, decomposing the N.times.N array into N/M.times.N/M subimages, and generating and enhancing dichotomy windows of size K.times.K at the subimage level as table lookup addresses. For arbitrary combinations of M, N and K, the address word is broken into two dichotomies, and each dichotomy is altered by incrementing and decrementing. This provides multi-bit addressing for sufficient table entries to carry out in a single cycle the complex table lookup required for processing a multi-bit (i.e., 3.times.3) window. The output of a programmable logic array accesses four quadrants of memory. The current pixel number CPN is made available from the computer control.

Abstract: Cumulative translational sweeps are used to shape geometric objects in a computer model, and they permit display of the resulting changes in shape in the object modelled, and control of processes involving the object modelled. If the geometric object is polyhedral, the cumulative translational sweeps, by creating additional facets, effect selective rounding along model edges and around model vertices. This permits computer modelling of the growth of layers, encompassing in addition to flat surface growth, growth with rounding around corners and over obstacles. Such growth occurs in the manufacture of semiconductors. Modelling a change in a solid structure in stages of growth (or shrinking) and of rounding, as might take place during processing of integrated circuits is achieved by controlled sweep sequences that sweep the structure a finite number of times in accordance with a rayset and stipulated parameters of shape, balance, convexity/concavity, degree of faceting, and memory limitation.

Abstract: Equipping individual processing elements with an instruction adapter provides an array processor with adaptive spatial-dependent and data-dependent processing capability. The instruction becomes variable, at the processing element level, in response to spatial and data parameters of the data stream. An array processor can be optimized, for example, to carry out very different instructions on spatial-dependent data such as blank margin surrounding the black lines of a sketch. Similarly, the array processor can be optimized for data-dependent values, for example to execute different instructions for positive data values than for negative data values. Providing each processing element with a processor identification register permits an easy setup by flowing the setup values to the individual processing elements, together with setup of condition control values.

Abstract: An automatic assembly apparatus or robot holds a pin in an instrumented gripper, moves open loop to the "detection region" in which airflow forces, primarily lateral forces, in the vicinity of the hole may be dependably sensed. Relatively large lateral airflow forces in the detection region are sensed and the pin is moved toward the hole. The airflow forces exhibit an abrupt force change as the pin reaches the insertion point within the "capture region" of the hole defined by the mechanical chamfer or significantly extended as a result of the virtual chamfer of airflow through the hole. The insertion point is the point where lateral X,Y force vectors balance to a null, where Z force readings change from complex X,Y,Z force vectors to simple Z force vectors.

Abstract: The trajectory of an electromagnetic actuator is adjusted by pulse-width-modulating feedback control of the waveform which energizes the coil. As applied to actuators for impact printing, the objectives of the control scheme are to regulate the armature's time of flight and its velocity at impact, in spite of disturbances, thereby to provide higher-quality printing at increased speed. Each actuation is produced by energizing the coil with a series of pulses. Regulation is accomplished under microprocessor control by measuring the state variables of the system--armature position, armature velocity, and coil current--at the beginning of each pulse, comparing these measurements to ideal values, and modulating the width of the pulse as a function of the errors. In general, the appropriate functional relationship between the measured errors and the pulse-width modulation is nonlinear, and is different for each pulse in the series. Systematic means for determining these relationships are given.

Abstract: Using a smooth laminated armature assembly, with a ferromagnetic double-helix stator shaft, provides an economical radial pole linear reluctance motor requiring no external armature bearings. The stator shaft has a double-helical screw tooth pattern cut into its surface. Spaces between screw threads are preferably filled with low permeability material. The armature assembly has radial pole laminar plates, separated by identically configured laminar spacers, separated by an insulating layer, which provides eddy current isolation, physical stability and original adjustment of laminations for overall accuracy to linear positioning, despite tolerances in the individual laminar plates. Each laminar plate has a number of inwardly projecting teeth centered about the internal channel. These internal teeth and the double helix screw teeth on the stator shaft provide flux paths through the stator.

Abstract: Testing of integrated circuit process intermediates, such as wafers, dise or chips in various stages of production (test chips) is facilitated by a nonintrusive, noncontact dynamic testing technique, using a pulsed laser, with laser light modification to increase photon energy through conversion to shorter wavelength. The high energy laser light excites electron emissions to pass to the detection system as a composite function of applied light energy and of dynamic operation of the circuit; detecting those emissions by an adjacent detector requires no ohmic contacts or special circuitry on the integrated circuit chip or wafer. Photoelectron energy emitted from a test pad on the test chip is detected as a composite function of the instantaneous input voltage as processed on the test chip, in dynamic operation including improper operation due to fault.

Abstract: A two-lever electromagnetic print actuator having a pivoted bellcrank armature and an end-pivoted print hammer is urged to free-flight by energy transfer at an energy transfer contact surface. The armature pivot, print hammer pivot and energy transfer surface are aligned in sequence and substantially coplanar. This converts input energy to optimum print velocity with minimum wear. In operation, energizing a coil attracts the armature to the stator, imparting energy to an energy transfer surface on an energy transfer armature leg. The energy transfer surface moves in an arc, delivering energy to a related energy transfer surface on the print hammer. The print hammer goes into pivoted free-flight when the armature strikes a stop pad. There is mimimum sliding, and thus minimum wear, between the energy transfer surfaces of the print hammer and armature as they both move in arcs of similarly convex circles which remain tangent at their contact point.

Abstract: Contactless probing of an integrating circuit is carried out by flooding the surface of the integrated circuit with pulsed ultraviolet laser light, causing photoelectron emission as a function of the potentials at micropoints on the integrated circuit, converting this two-dimensional electron pattern into a corresponding relatively long duration pattern of luminescence by a luminescent target, and reviewing the result by video/computer scanning. Separate embodiments allow testing either in vacuum or in air, with or without insulating passivation layers present on the chip. The result is a contactless oscilloscope which monitors instantaneous voltage (logic states and AC switching waveforms) for a full two-dimensional array of micropoints simultaneously. A chip with test points and appropriate windows for laser activation and luminescent targeting can be specially designed for optimal testing.