Abstract: A disposable insert for use with an adult diaper, said insert having a webbed “T” configuration and a plurality of absorbent pads or batts, one of which is positioned at the lower end of the “T” configuration such that when the insert is placed on the patient wide portion across the patient's abdomen and narrow portion positioned through the patient's crotch, fluid tending to puddle is absorbed without leakage. The insert may be applied to the patient with very little, if any, lifting of the patient required.

Abstract: An automatically inflatable safety collar device comprising a collar made of a "C" shaped control ring resilient rod member, an inflatable rubber tube member surrounding the rod with a first cap attached to one end of said rod and sealing one end of said tube and a second cap with a gas inlet nipple attached to the other end of the rod and sealed to the tube, a generally "C" shaped foamed cushion member of toroidal arc contour hollow through its length split at its inner periphery from inner surface to outer surface and surrounding the tube and a stretchable fabric cover surrounding the cushion, a compressed gas container, a gas release trigger device, a gas transfer pressure line connected between the container and the nipple; and a trigger device operating tether cord attachable to a vehicle.

Abstract: A fast cycle plasticator/injector unit for plastic molding machines having a screw type plasticating extruder for feeding thermoplastic material through a sealed fluid flow path to an accumulator which periodically feeds the thermoplastic material through a sealed fluid flow path to an injector that comprises a cylinder with an inlet and an outlet port and a powered piston valve element disposed for reciprocating axial and rotary motion within said cylinder and having a fluid flow channel along a portion of its length in cooperative structural relationship with said inlet port to provide an open fluid flow channel between the inlet port and the charge chamber of said cylinder when the piston is in a first rotational orientation and to block fluid flow from the inlet port to the cylinder when the piston is in a second rotational orientation.

Abstract: An improved method of cooking and an improved broiler/oven that provides different levels of heat to cook meats or the like at a relatively high heat condition and toast buns or the like, at a relatively lower heat condition. Trays are moved from the front of the oven to the rear at an upper level within the oven and are then lowered and re-directed back toward the front at a lower level while retaining their face-up condition. Heaters are positioned between the two levels such that objects on the trays are heated on one side while being transported toward the rear of the oven and are heated on the other side while being returned to the front.

Abstract: A medical investigative system in which a person interacts with the system to interject information that is utilized by the system to establish non-restricted environmental modeling of the realities of surrogate conditions to be encountered with invasive or semi-invasive procedures. This is accomplished by video display of simulated internal conditions that appear life-like, as well as by display of monitor data including, for example, blood pressure, respiration, heart beat rate and the like.

Abstract: An automated interactive game, instruction and reference system having an optical laser videodisc player unit and using a videodisc record on which are recorded segmented groups of graphic and pictorial video information data interspersed with segmented groups of system control and programming data, a television video display unit, a user command/response unit having user manual input controls of variable functions and variable labelling means therefor to indicate the current function as established by signals from said videodisc record, and control processor means for receiving short segments of programming data from said videodisc record and distributing information signals from said videodisc record to the other units in accordance with said programming data.

Abstract: An arrow tip for use in small game hunting being of a generally frustro-conical shape in the forward portion of its body tapering to a diameter approximately the same as that of said arrow shaft at its rearward end, the forward end of the tip having a cupped configuration with a forwardly directed sharp peripheral cutting edge formed by the convergence of linear tapered internal and external walls and having a flat bottom wall recessed from said cutting edge.

Abstract: Light emitting p-n junction diode elements in the form of small spheres having an outer layer of semiconductor material of one conductivity type and a subsurface layer of semiconductor material of an opposite conductivity type are mounted to one surface of an insulating substrate member in holes of a proper size to allow a portion of each diode element to protrude past the other surface of the substrate; metallic coatings on one surface of the substrate provide electrical contacts to the outer layers of the spheres and metallic coatings on the other surface of the substrate provide electrical contact to the subsurface semiconductor layer of the spheres in an area where the surface layer has been removed.

Abstract: Isolation of integrated circuit components using an insulating substrate (such as ceramic or intrinsic semiconductor) and/or using mesas to separate components laterally and to define passive components.

Abstract: The specification discloses various embodiments of solid state television channel selection systems. The systems provide sequential and/or parallel access of television channels by operation of simple pushbutton or sense touch switches on the control panel of the television set, as well as sequential or parallel access of the channels through operation of remote control units. The selected television channel may be displayed in the parallel access mode by illuminating the actuated parallel access switch, or by the utilization of seven segment numerical displays with either the sequential or parallel access modes. The system enables selected television channels to be skipped during the sequential access mode. The system enables the operator to selectively choose which VHF and UHF channels may be selected by the system.

Abstract: A system for the alignment and orientation of disc-like objects having transport means to move the object gently onto a turntable and against an arcuate resilient stop to a centered position on the turntable; an array of non-contact sensors is advanced toward the rotational axis of the turntable until one of the sensors detects the edge of the object; the turntable is rotated until the sensors detect an indexing flat on the object; the sensor arrays advance and the turntable rotated until the sensors indicate the desired alignment and orientation of the object has been achieved. Logic circuitry controls the sensor and turntable positions automatically in response to signals received from the sensors.

Abstract: A shunt regulator circuit having a reference voltage generator in which the collector currents of a pair of transistors are adjusted by the ratios of their load resistances to produce a temperature coefficient equal and opposite to the temperature coefficient of third transistor; a proportional sample of the output voltage is compared to the temperature stable reference voltage to adjust the shunt current to maintain the output voltage constant.

Abstract: A JK flip-flop circuit comprising four multiple input gates having each output fed back to an input to each gate of an opposite pair of said four gates; a clock pulse shaping circuit is provided when triggering clock pulses are to be of unknown shape or duration or when the clock pulses to be supplied are of a duration longer than twice the propagation delay time of the slowest gate of the circuit.

Abstract: An improved braking system comprising inlets imbedded flush with an air track surface with the elongated portions thereof parallel to the direction of wafer travel. The inlets are connected to a controlled vacuum source preferably by means of pressure regulating passageways communicating with both ends of each inlet. When vacuum is applied to the inlets, a traveling wafer passing over and substantially covering the elongated inlets is pulled uniformly and evenly down by vacuum action, so that substantially the entire bottom surface of the wafer contacts the track simultaneously. Thus, the wafer comes to rest at a single position within the braking station, irrespective of the original direction of wafer travel.

Abstract: A received radio signal is demodulated by applying it to a coherent demodulator loop for detection of a modulated input signal. The loop has a variable gain control capability. A gain control voltage dependent upon variations of amplitude of the input signal is then generated and is applied to control the gain within the loop.In one aspect, a received radio signal is demodulated by multiplying the signal with a local oscillator signal to produce two product voltages the first of which reflects exponential (EM frequency or phase) variations and may reflect amplitude variations in said radio signal and the second of which reflects only amplitude variations.

Abstract: An N-bit programmable divider comprising N "T" flip-flops, N load gates, N-2 enable gates, an output JK flip-flop and a least-significant-bit input inverter; the least-significant-bit flip-flop being enabled by Q of said output flip-flop, the second-least-significant-bit flip-flop being enabled by Q of said least-significant-bit flip-flip, each of said remaining T flip-flops being enabled by NORed Q outputs of all less-significant-bit flip-flops, said output flip-flop having a J input only when the outputs of said N T flip-flops are indicative of a count of 2 and having a K input only with a Q output of said output flip-flop; the divider being loaded by application during Q of the output flip-flop of the complement of the least-significant-bit signal to the clear of the least-significant-bit T flip-flop and higher-significant-bit signals to preset of respective higher-significant-bit T flip-flops.

Abstract: An improved TTL coupling transistor structure wherein a pair of lateral extensions of the base region and overlying opposite type conductivity low resistivity regions provide a pair of resistance-distributed diode elements interconnecting the base and collector regions and acting to control undesirable currents in the device.

Abstract: A plural bit-stage synchronous counter/divider wherein each bit-stage comprises four multiple-input inverting gates in flip-flop configuration with the output of the first and second gates connected to one of the multiple inputs of the third and fourth gates respectively, one of the inputs of each of said first and second gates connected to a clock pulse line, the outputs of said third and fourth gates connected to a second input of said multiple inputs of each of said second and fourth gates and of said first and third gates respectively and third inputs of said multiple inputs of said third and fourth gates connected to clear and preset lines respectively and a clock pulse generator means providing clock pulses of a length between one and two times the propagation delay period of the slowest of said gates.

Abstract: The specification discloses various embodiments of solid state television channel selection systems. The systems provide sequential and/or parallel access of television channels by operation of simple pushbutton or sense touch switches on the control panel of the television set, as well as sequential or parallel access of the channels through operation of remote control units. The system enables selected television channels to be skipped during the sequential access mode. The system enables the operator to selectively choose which VHF and UHF channels may be selected by the system.

Abstract: The specification discloses various embodiments of solid state television channel-number display systems for use with television channel selection systems. The systems provide channel-number dislay with selection systems providing sequential and/or parallel access of television channels by operation of simple pushbutton or sense touch switches on the control panel of the television set, as well as sequential or parallel access of the channels through operation of remote control units. The selected television channel-number may be displayed in the parallel access mode by illuminating the actuated parallel access switch, or by the utilization of seven segment numerical displays with either the sequential or parallel access modes. The system enables selected television channels to be skipped during the sequential access mode. The system enables the operator to selectively choose which VHF and UHF channels may be selected by the system with display of the channel-number of the selected channel.