Abstract: A toy wherein remote objects are moved in response to the rotation of a steering wheel. A first embodiment has a pulley keyed to the shaft of the steering wheel, a second pulley journaled in the base of the toy and a belt therebetween. A drive arm arranged to snap into a slot on the side of a toy vehicle is affixed to the second pulley whereby its rotation will cause the drive arm and the vehicle to rotate. The drive arm includes a hinged center portion to permit vertical movement of its end in addition to the horizontal movement.In a second embodiment a ninety degree sector is secured at one apex to the steering wheel shaft, the sector being restrained to rotate only about ninety degrees before being returned to its original position. A rigid link has one end attached to a further apex of the sector and the other to a ratchet arm secured to a center post in the base of the toy. Also secured to the center post for rotation thereon is a ratchet wheel to which the drive arm is fixed.

Abstract: Action figures or super hero types of dolls wherein actual and realistic combat confrontations between hero and enemy can take place, the figures taking the shape of human beings, animals, robots or the like. A super hero doll or action figure carrying a simulated weapon such as a laser gun, the weapon having a retracted projectile therein with a spring force applied thereto, the projectile being held in place by a latching member on the gun. A trigger is positioned in the body of the action figure which, when moved by the finger of the player in a forward direction, rotates the latch which is pivotally mounted on the gun. This removes the latching action on the projectile and permits the spring member, which was in compressed condition, to expand and move the projectile outwardly. A flange is provided on the projectile to contact a lip at the end of the gun barrel and prevent the projectile from leaving the gun in the form of a free flying missile or the like.

Abstract: A substrate and method of manufacture wherein a substrate is molded from particulate material wherein grooves on and through the body are formed during substrate molding and prior to sintering. The substrate includes all buss structure molded therein. Cooling of chips is provided by providing a heat sink in grooves formed within a substrate and beneath the chips. Microcircuits are formed by disposing on the substrate and interconnecting via buss structures on the substrate various semiconductor dies with encapsulation of some or all of the substrates and components thereon, if desired. In addition, connection from the board to external circuits is available by means of an edge connector.

Abstract: A system of tracking the sun each day of the year with compensation for changes in time of sunrise and time of sunset as well as sun declination on a day to day basis, declination being under control of a crank that makes one revolution per year. The equation of time is under control of a cam that also revolves once a year and resets the clock to reflect solar rather than mean solar time in order to properly follow the sun. The position of sun acquisition and loss are a function of the declination and the time is a function of the clock corrected via the cam for equation of time. Thus, when the declination is reset each day, it sets the position of acquisition and loss while the clock, now set for the change due to the equation of time, determines the time of acquisition and loss.

Abstract: A shatter-proof safety cover for the casing of an auxiliary brake mechanism mounted on trucks or trailers, is provided. The cover fits about the casing containing the auxiliary brake operating mechanism and which is subjected to the same air pressure as primarily employed for operating the brakes. The cover is removably retained on the casing by chains or other devices temporarily secured to some stationary part of the vehicle and prevents portions of the casing from flying about and injuring maintenance personnel if the casing had previously been weakened due to exposure to the elements.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a closed circuit refrigerator having both rapid heating/defrost and cooling rates for the cryosurface and which operates on a continuous basis. The system is based upon a refrigeration process of the type which employs compression of a mixture of vapor refrigerant components with partial condensation and partial evaporation with steps of intermediate cooling and at least partial phase separation. The evaporator of the refrigeration system is placed in a vacuum system as a "Meissner" coil. The cryosurface has, thermally coupled thereto, both a defrost tube and an evaporator tube, the defrost tube carrying refrigerant fluid therein at raised temperature when made operational during a defrost cycle and the evaporator tube carrying low temperature refrigerant fluid therein when made operational during a cool down operation. Appropriate valves determine the refrigerant fluid both, i.e., through cooling heat exchangers or through a heating heat exchanger.

Abstract: An electronic amplifying apparatus intended for sound reproduction and for music instrument amplification wherein two parallel amplifiers, working simultaneously, each in a different class of operation, are fed from a single driver or signal source and whose outputs are combined. In the preferred embodiment at least two pairs of push-pull vacuum tubes are required and they are arranged so that one pair operates Triode Class A while the other pair (or pairs) operates Pentode Class AB (or Class B). The circuit can then be optimized so that the desirable sonic characteristics of Class A Triode operation are imparted into the Class AB (or Class B) Pentodes which actually produce all or nearly all of the power. The output power waveform has the high power and efficiency typical of Class AB (or Class B) Pentode operation but without the detrimental sonic side effects, namely, there is the complete absence of crossover or "notch" distortion, and there is a "soft" gradual onset of clip.

Abstract: A substrate and method of manufacture wherein a substrate is molded from particulate material wherein grooves on and through the body are formed during substrate molding and prior to sintering. The substrate includes all buss structure molded therein. Cooling of chips is provided by providing a heat sink in grooves formed within a substrate and beneath the chips.

Abstract: A carrying sled capable of conversion into a beach umbrella. The carrying sled includes a rigid dish-shaped member with wheels or rails on the dish convex surface. An annular flexible material is secured to and along the outer edge of the dish and includes a draw string positioned around and secured in the outer edge of the flexible material for drawing up the flexible material when desired. Pockets are formed at the outer edges of the flexible material for receiving a spoke disposable therein and passing through a tunnel member on the convex side of the dish for maintaining the flexible material in an outwardly extending position from the edge of the dish. A pole member is secured to the center portion of the concave side of the dish, at the pole either being of the telescoping type or formed by plural interconnecting pole members. In the case of the latter, the remaining ones of the interconnectable members are secured to the concave side of the dish when not in use.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a protective device for an electronic instrument wherein input and output lines to and from the instrument are always isolated from calibration input and output terminals. This is accomplished by placing reed switches on or closely adjacent the non-magnetic instrument front panel, the switches being arranged to connect one of the input lines and terminals to the instrument circuitry while disconnecting the others therefrom, this being accomplished under control of a magnet placed adjacent the switches during a calibration procedure. The switches are further arranged to short circuit the output test terminals in the unenergized switch state to prevent insertion of unwanted signal current or voltage in that state.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the manufacture of footwear with direct molded elastomeric soles wherein the last is built up in the center region to provide a sole which appears thick externally, yet is thin and relatively lightweight in its center region. The last includes grooves over the region of the stitches securing the upper to the welt to seal and waterproof the footwear in the region of the stitches by permitting the sole material, when molding takes place, to flow over the stitches.

Abstract: A system for cooling a substrate via a continuous enclosed path within the substrate that passes closely adjacent heat producing components on or adjacent the substrate. According to a first embodiment, heat, where located on the substrate, is transmitted to a heat sink in the vapor phase by a change in phase of a liquid in the path to a vapor, thereby creating little change in temperature from heat source to heat sink and maintaining the substrate and components at substantially the same substantially constant temperature. According to a second embodiment, heat is removed by a circulating conductive liquid in the continuous enclosed path which takes up heat at the sources and removes the heat at a sink in the path.

Abstract: A method of forming electrically conductive paths within grooves formed in a substrate wherein the width of the grooves is of the same order of magnitude as the thickness of an electrically conductive layer deposited on the substrate and in the grooves. The substrate with grooves therein is exposed to a medium whereby electrically conductive material from the medium deposits substantially uniformly on all surfaces of the substrate which are exposed to the medium. In this way, the build-up of conductive material in grooves will take place along the side walls as well as the bottom of the grooves. If the layer is of substantially the same order of magnitude as the width of the groove (about one half the groove width or greater), the grooves will fill up with conductive material. The remainder of the substrate will ultimately provide a substantially flat conductive layer on the substrate surface.

Abstract: A wire bonding capillary of a hard, normally electrically non-conductive material wherein surfaces of the capillary are coated with a thin electrically conductive material for protecting the capillary bonding face from spark erosion damage and reduction in carbon-like material build-up inside the inner taper of the capillary bore by conduction of current from an electronic flame-off (EFO) torch through a low resistance path to ground.

Abstract: A rotating die system for cold forming of sheet metal wherein a male die rotates relative to both an hydraulically supported resilient diaphragm backing the sheet metal blank and the driving force on the male die. The male die is pivotly connected to both a draw ring and the transmitted driving force. A sheet of metal to be formed is held in place on the upper surface of a draw ring die over a forming aperture. The male die is caused to rotate within the aperture against the sheet metal to accomplish the desired forming.

Abstract: A method of forming electrically conductive paths within grooves formed in a substrate wherein the width of the grooves is of the same order of magnitude as the thickness of an electrically conductive layer deposited on the substrate and in the grooves. The substrate with grooves therein is exposed to a medium whereby electrically conductive material from the medium deposits substantially uniformly on all surfaces of the substrate which are exposed to the medium. In this way, the build-up of conductive material in grooves will take place along the side walls as well as the bottom of the grooves. If the layer is of substantially the same order of magnitude as the width of the groove (about one half the groove width or greater), the grooves will fill up with conductive material. The remainder of the substrate will ultimately provide a substantially flat conductive layer on the substrate surface.

Abstract: Ductility is controlled by controlling the size of the particles of particulate material and/or the degree of sphericity of the particles, the smaller and/or more spherical the particles, the greater the ductility of the material. The material has preferably spherical pores, preferably hermetic, with a controlled ratio of pore volume to material volume to provide the property of compressibility. The particulate material itself must have the capability of becoming ductile. The ratio of pore volume to total volume of the material is controlled by particle size, sintering profile the property of the material and the initial volume loading of the pre-sintered part (i.e. the ratio of binder to particulate material). Some materials which are not ductile in and of themselves can be formed into ductile and/or compressible materials in accordance with the system of the present invention.

Abstract: A toy push type vehicle with front and rear doors, each door being individually operated either by a handle thereon or by a push down projection on the bus roof whereby objects, such as figures of humans with an annular groove in the base region thereof, are forced into the vehicle upon movement thereof by means of the open front door and vehicle forward movement. The object moves along a slot disposed between the rear and front doors and within the vehicle which is of slightly greater width than the width of the groove in the object base region. The object has sufficient length beneath the groove to be in contact with the floor upon which the vehicle is being pushed. In this manner, the object slides along the slot within the vehicle toward the rear door due to friction between the object and the floor. Because the slot extends from the front door to the rear door, the object will move toward the rear door and be stopped at either the rear door or by another figure between the object and the rear door.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a self-organizing control of advanced turbine engines wherein thrust is controlled and thrust specific fuel consumption (TSFC) is minimized by control of the fuel flow rate as well as optimization of system geometric parameters. The controller computes the net thrust error by comparing commanded thrust with an inferred or calculated thrust measurement.