Abstract: A read-while-write magnetic head assembly adapted for use with a recording medium wherein the magnetic head assembly is formed of two transducing head sub-assemblies having a feedthrough shield interposed therebetween and wherein each transducing sub-assembly includes a transducer having a transducing element located on one side thereof and conductive leads extending from a different side thereof, a substrate formed of a material which is highly resistant to being abraded by the recording medium and wherein the substrate has a medium contacting surface and a support surface which extends substantially perpendicular therefrom and wherein the substrate has the transducer rigidly affixed to the support surface with the transducing element of the transducer positioned adjacent the substrate contacting surface, a spacer formed of a material which is highly resistant to being abraded by the recording medium and wherein the spacer has a medium contacting surface which is rigidly affixed in opposed, spaced relationsh

Abstract: A performing artist game, including a game board with a playing surface containing a first space in the form of a five pointed star and a group of second spaces defining a five pointed star in a playing path surrounding the first star, is shown. Points of the first star and second star define a transition path where play is commenced and terminated. The group of second spaces contains indicia indicative of five performing art fields and indicia representing a combination of opportunity and/or calamity to vary the game. Play pieces are used for movement during the game. A chance device is used to randomly determine the number of spaces a play piece is advanced. Audition cards are used which contain a situation side and a team question side. The situation side includes indicia defining a plurality of performing artist roles which correspond to the indicia indicative of performing art fields on the playing path.

Abstract: A catheter formed of a double lumen tubing having at one end thereof a distal tip and at least one opening extending from the interior of one lumen of the double lumen tubing to the exterior thereof and a plurality of second openings located a predetermined distance from at least one opening toward said other end thereof and extending from the interior of the other lumen of the double lumen tubing to the exterior thereof, a bifurcated connector located at said other end of the double lumen tubing, a first elongated tubing member operatively coupled to said bifurcated connector and communicating with said one lumen and a second elongated tubing member operatively coupled to said bifurcated connector which communicates with said other lumen and a balloon surrounding said one end of said double lumen tubing and enclosing said first openings with a removable elongated stylet located in the second passsageway and other lumen, is shown.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head having a substrate, a magnetic head and a superstrate formed of materials which are highly resistive to being abraded by a magnetic media being moved thereacross is shown. The magnetic head includes a bottom pole piece having a front gap section and a rearwardly extending portion positioned at predetermined locations on the substrate. The bottom pole piece forms a bottom support for a coil having a plurality of coil windings. An insulating structure having a thin gap defining section and a thick coil windings enclosing portion is located on the bottom pole piece such that the thin gap defining portion establishes the thickness of a magnetic transducing gap and the thick coil windings enclosing portion encloses and surrounds that portion of the coil windings supported by the bottom pole piece.

Abstract: A means for controllably accelerating a particle of matter having a selected dipole characteristic is shown. The means includes a means for generating an alternating electric field extending a first direction, which varies at a selected frequency and which has a predetermined magnitude which is less than the characteristic field ionization potential limit of a particle. A means for generating an alternating magnetic field is provided. The alternating magnetic field extends in a second direction at a predetermined angle to and crosses and intercepts the electric field to define a spatial force field region. The alternating magnetic field has a frequency which is substantially equal to and is at a predetermined phase angle relative to the alternating electric field and is at a flux density which, when multiplied times the selected frequency, is less than the characteristic field ionization limit of a particle.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head having a substrate, magnetic head components and a superstrate formed of materials which are highly resistive to being abraded by a magnetic media being moved thereacross is shown. The magnetic head includes a magnetic bottom pole piece having a front gap section and a rearward extending portion. A lateral wall layer formed of a magnetic material and of predetermined thickness, has a forward wall section and a rearward wall section which define a coil windings receiving trench adjacent the front gap section of the bottom pole piece layer. The bottom pole piece forms a bottom enclosure for the coil windings receiving trench. A coil having coil windings is formed on the bottom pole piece and the coil windings thickness is less than the thickness of the lateral wall layer.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head having a substrate, a magnetic head and a superstrate formed of materials which are highly resistive to being abraded by a magnetic media being moved thereacross is shown. The magnetic head includes a bottom pole piece having a front gap section and a rearwardly extending portion positioned at predetermined locations on the substrate. The bottom pole piece forms a bottom support for a coil having a plurality of coil windings. An insulating structure having a thin gap defining section and a thick coil windings enclosing portion is located on the bottom pole piece such that the thin gap defining portion establishes the thickness of a magnetic transducing gap and the thick coil windings enclosing portion encloses and surrounds that portion of the coil windings supported by the bottom pole piece.

Abstract: An integrated beam splitter video camera for processing an optical image from an endoscope is shown. The integrated beam splitter video camera includes a housing having a central area which extends therethrough, an optical aperture for passing an optical image to be processed from an endoscope along a predetermined path into the central area of the housing, and a viewing opening for viewing the optical image. A beam splitting surface, located along the predetermined path and within the central area of the housing, receives the optical image and, with a minimum absorption loss in the visible spectrum, transmits a nominal portion of the optical image along a first optical path and reflects the remaining substantial portion of the optical image along a second optical path which is at a selected angle to the first optical path.

Abstract: An ileostomy valve comprising an attachment plate having a central opening passing therethrough which communicates with a support housing is shown. The support housing has an elongated central member which defines a passageway which communicates with the opening in the attachment plate and which terminates at the remote end of the elongated second member. A cover plate has a central drainage opening extending therethrough. The cover plate is positioned contiguous the attachment plate positioning the coacting member to engage and coact with the attachment plate. An elongated flexible tubing member extends through the central drainage opening in the covering plate, through the opening in the attachment plate, through the passageway in the elongated central member to the second opening in the elongated central member.

Abstract: A mobile vertical supporting apparatus for a child having an elongated support frame, an elongated front support leg and an elongated rear support leg is shown. The elongated support frame, front support leg and rear support leg are operatively coupled together and support an axle having two opposed wheel support ends operatively attached thereto. A foot support is operatively attached to and extends between the elongated support frame and a lower portion of the elongated rear support leg and is used to support the feet of the user. A body support section, having a central section and side support sections, is operatively attached to the elongated support frame to provide support to the upper body portion of a vertically positioned user.

Abstract: Apparatus for indexing and accurately registering a selected stabilized mask of a plurality of stabilized masks between a substrate and a source during vacuum deposition wherein the apparatus has a mask supporting frame including a mechanism for supporting at least two stabilized masks each having openings which define a pattern and wherein the at least two stabilized masks are supported in a planar spaced relationship relative to each other and have a preselected spacing between the centers thereof, guide and support rollers operatively coupled to the mask supporting frame for supporting the mask supporting frame for lateral movement along a predetermined path between a first position and a second position wherein the first position indexes one of said two of the stabilized masks between a substrate and a source at a working station and the other of the two stabilized masks at a different location along the predetermined path and wherein the second position indexes the other of the two stabilized masks at th

Abstract: An ultra hypersonic aircraft having aerodynamic heat transferring pipes forming an airframe structure is shown. The heat transformer pipes include a high pressure steam generator located at the forward section thereof and a low pressure steam condensator located at the rearward section thereof. Low pressure water is circulated between the rearward section and the forward section for heat balancing of the air frame structure and for operating the room air conditioning system of an aircraft. A steam pressure reactant turbine, which drives an electric generator, is used as a boundary between the high and low pressure steam sections. The electric generator provided electrical and power supply for the infrared or arc heaters, and electric heaters recessed in the ceiling and wall panels of an acrodynamic lift-thrust generating channel for back-heating of the turbo-ram oval thrust stream in the thrust generating channel of a hypersonic aircraft.

Abstract: A thin film transducer having a substrate, a first and second pole piece formed of a selected magnetic material and terminating in a gap, a coil positioned between the first and second pole pieces and a magnetically conductive layer formed of a material having selected chemical, magnetic and physical properties and having a known magnetic saturation flux density and being positioned contiguous at least one of the first pole piece and second pole piece and rearward of the edges forming the gap to conduct magnetic flux in parallel to the pole pieces and to increase and concentrate the magnetic flux density at the edges of the first and second pole piece defining the gap is shown.

Abstract: A support member for use in a support system wherein the support member is positioned under a beam of a structure is shown. The support member includes a planar base and a bottom member operatively coupled to the planar base. The bottom member has a vertically extending portion defining a thrust bearing member receiving cavity. A raised locking boss is attached to the planar base and is positioned adjacent the vertically extending portion within the thrust bearing member receiving cavity. A support member which has a planar support plate is passed through the vertically extending portion of the bottom member into mating position with the raised locking boss to lock the same in position and to prohibit rotation thereof about an axis passing perpendicular to the plane of the planar support plate. The support member includes a vertically extending support shaft which is affixed to the planar support plate and includes first coacting surface located around the periphery thereof.

Abstract: An electromechanical translation apparatus comprising a driven member which is adapted to be incrementally moved in a selected direction, and a piezoelectric multiaxis micropositioner adapted to produce incremental movement of the driven member in the selected direction wherein the micropositioner includes a mounting means, at least one piezoelectric driver assembly having a housing, an engaging member formed of a hard material having a selected driving end at one end thereof and a driven end at the other end wherein the engaging member's one end is positioned to selectively engage and translate said driven member in response to a driving force, and at least three piezoelectric driver elements positioned between the driven end of the engaging member and the housing wherein the piezoelectric driver elements are positioned in a spaced, angular relationship to the others and wherein each piezoelectric driver element is capable of separately responding to an electrical signal having a predetermined frequency and

Abstract: A calibrating apparatus adapted to be inserted into and proceeded within the stomach of human body which includes a single-lumen tubing terminating in a proximal portion and a distal tip each of which have an orifice and wherein the single-lumen tubing has a first opening extending therethrough which is located at a selected distance from the proximal portion and a second opening which extends therethrough and which is located a predetermined distance from the distal tip, an elongated, thin-walled sensor having a circular-cross section and a cavity within the interior thereof and which is operatively coupled in a sealing relationship to the distal tip wherein the thin-walled sensor is capable of having its cross-sectional diameter varied in response to a force applied to the exterior of the sensor to vary the pressure of a fluid within the cavity, a balloon surrounding the exterior of said single-lumen tubing at the preselected location which encloses the second opening and an elongated tubing member which ex

Abstract: A combined foot massage and support having a base support including a base plate having a substantially planar surface and a second opposite surface wherein the base plate has a circular shaped opening located centrally therein, a pair of substantially planar side support members each of which terminate in a first support end and a second support end wherein the first support end of each of the side support members includes a member defining a substantially planar support surface and the second support end of each of the side support members are located opposite the first support end and includes a ramp support surface having a slope which approximates the ergonomic design angle for a human user in a sitting position, a plurality of massage assemblies mounted axially on and rotatable about the center support wherein the center support members are mounted in an arcuate, spaced parallel alignment the spaced parallel planar side support members above the base support and a rotatable disc positioned in the circul

Abstract: A combined foot massage and support having a base support including a base plate having a substantially planar surface and a second opposite surface, a pair of substantially planar side support members each of which terminate in a first support end and a second support end wherein the first support end of each of the side support members includes a member defining a substantially planar support surface and the second support end of each of the side support members are located opposite the first support end and includes a ramp support surface having a slope which approximates the ergonomic design angle for a human user in a sitting position, a plurality of massage assemblies mounted axially on and rotatable about the center support wherein the center support members are mounted in an arcuate, spaced parallel alignment the spaced parallel planar side support members above the base support and a pivotal base plate which is adapted to be engaged and pivoted by at least one foot of a user is shown.