Abstract: A spray paint gun has an air passage interconnecting an air chamber of the gun body and the interior of a paint container, and a valve device for opening and closing the air passage. The gun body has a blind bore connected to the air passage. The air passage has a first section extending from the air chamber to the blind bore, a second section extending from the blind bore to the exterior of a connecting portion, and a third section formed in the wall of a tubular member which is connected to the gun body. The third section of the air passage intercommunicates the second section of the air passage and the interior of the container. The valve device includes a threaded bolt screwed to the blind bore. A threaded rod is threaded through a central hole of the threaded bolt. The threaded rod has a first end connected with a knob and a second end extending out of the threaded bolt into the blind bore of the gun body. The second end of the threaded rod has a central receiving blind hole.

Abstract: A DC brushless motor for use in various kinds of electric appliances comprises a rotor portion, and this rotor portion includes a rotating shaft and a cylindrical permanent magnet which is rotated with the shaft. A stator portion is provided opposite to the rotor portion, and includes an armature which is located at the inner side of the cylindrical permanent magnet so as to be opposite to and coaxial with the magnet. The armature is provided with a plurality of coils on its peripheries, and has an annular shape as a whole. A circuit board is disposed to be substantially perpendicular to the axis line of the rotating shaft, and the armature is supported above the circuit board. The rotating shaft terminates substantially at the middle of the height of the motor, thus leaving a space between the rotating shaft and the circuit board.

Abstract: A method and means for measuring a characteristic, in particular one associated with particle size, of any of the feed, underflow or overflow streams of a hydrocyclone is provided. Information as to the flowrate and density of the feed stream as well as the angle of flare or other related variable associated with the shape of the underflow stream are fed to processing means which applies a formula or algorithm, which is usually empirically derived, to such information to provide a value of the required characteristic. The characteristic may be related to particle size, particle size distribution in any of the streams or the liquid content or the flowrates of solids or liquids in the underflow or overflow. Measurement apparatus comprising a dedicated hydrocyclone is also provided.

Abstract: An object to be inspected is, for example, a medical capsule having differently colored surface areas. A beam splitter divides light reflected by the surface of the object into two parts. Each of the divided parts of the light is passed through an optical filter whose transmission wavelength range is set according to the colors of the object, to adjust the quantity of transmitted light from a high-brightness part of the object surface and the quantity of transmitted light from a low-brightness part of the object surface to a reference level. Image pick-up elements pick up images of the object surface according to the divided parts of the light and provide image signals. One of the image signals is selected and provided outside. Unlike a prior art that adjusts levels of signals by amplifying the signals according to brightness of an inspected object, the method and apparatus of the invention do not involve amplification.

Abstract: A sorting apparatus comprises a register part for holding an input data and a corresponding key, a shift array part for holding data and corresponding keys in a plurality of stages and having a load mode and a shift mode, a comparator part for simultaneously comparing the input data and the corresponding key which are held in the register part with the data and the corresponding keys held in the shift array part and for outputting comparison results, and a controller for controlling the shift array part to the load mode for loading the data and the corresponding key held in the register part and to the shift mode for shifting the data and the corresponding key held in the shift array part depending on the comparison results received from the comparator part so that the data and the corresponding keys are arranged in the shift array part in a sequence dependent on a priority of the keys.

Abstract: A plural nipple poultry watering system assembly combines a structural support, a water tube, plural nipples and catch cups. The watering system is assembled in multiple modules arranged serially in longitudinal alignment to provide watering systems of various lengths. It yields high water flow for maximum growth rate. In addition, the plural nipple poultry watering system can be suspended from a triangular truss system.

Abstract: A compact turbine assembly that may be driven by a variety of compressed fluids, including superheated steam, compressed air, pressurized water, or combustion exhaust gas. The turbine assembly employs a rotor which includes a series of fluid medium-receiving cavities having rounded closed ends. The turbine assembly may include a gap section between the power housing rim and the rotor of the device, in order to maximize use of the enthalpy of the fluid medium to drive the rotor.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a patient for rejection reactions to an implanted organ is provided with an implantable telemetry measuring unit with electrodes that can be implanted in the organ. An electric current is passed through the body tissue via two current electrodes. The impedance of the body tissue through which this current is flowing is determined with two measuring electrodes. Each of the measuring electrodes annularly surrounds one and only one current electrode. The electrodes are embedded in a support element such that they project from this support element only with their front end.

Abstract: A power driven workpiece infeed conveyor supports a honeycomb-stone-honeycomb laminate on edge for feeding to an elevator conveyor in a work station. A fixed rear vertical panel of vacuum pads and a forward movable vertical panel of vacuum pads are separated by a space into which the workpiece is lifted by the elevator conveyor. The forward movable panel is moved rearwardly to cause the vacuum pad panels to engage front and rear surfaces of the workpiece and a source of vacuum is connected to the vacuum pads. The elevator conveyor is then lowered so that the workpiece is supported solely by the vacuum pads. A driven horizontal cutter wire flight then moves downwardly through the entire vertical dimension of the stone slab center portion of the workpiece to cut the workpiece into two stone-honeycomb panels.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus reduces the level of noise escaping therefrom via an opening. The noise is generated from a motor which drives an image forming part in the image forming apparatus, from a radiator fan which radiates heat inside the apparatus to the outside via the opening, and from an exhaust fan which passes harmful air through a filter and then exhausts harmless air to the outside via the opening. The image forming apparatus generates a predetermined sound wave and collides it with the noise so that the predetermined sound wave and noise cancel each other out.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing part for carrying out an image processing for an input image having pixels with multilevel bits supplied by an input unit, the image processing being carried out at a processing level among a plurality of predetermined processing levels, a first detecting part for detecting an edge quantity of the input image, a second detecting part for detecting a screened dot quantity of the input image, and a control part for determining a control index proportional to the detected edge quantity and the detected screened dot quantity, and for supplying the determined control index to the image processing part, so that the image processing part selects a processing level appropriate for the input image from the processing levels in response to the control index, and carries out an image processing for the input image at the selected processing level.

Abstract: A system for demonstrating financial and financially related concepts and displaying financial and financially related information is provided. The system includes a central processing unit for processing financial information and for creating graphic displays from numerical data, a demonstrator station and at least one viewer station. Both demonstrator and viewer stations include display means for displaying financial information in graphic and textual form. The demonstrator station further comprises data entry means for entering alphanumeric data, and input means for inputting signals to direct the display of information on the display means of both the demonstrator station and the viewer station or stations. The graphic information displayed on the viewer station display means is a subset of the information displayed on the demonstrator station displaying means. The system also includes means for generating graphic displays based on entered data.

Abstract: A composite structure with sound-insulating and sound-damping effects for use on the interior surfaces of motor vehicles, comprising at least two groups of coatings resting loosely on one another. In particular, the first group consists of a bottom part (2) free to vibrate and provided with coatings (6) or a finish like that used in modern motor vehicle construction. Preferably the applied second group of coatings consists of an insulating coating (8, 9). This insulating coating can be provided with an additional protective layer (7) and/or a textile or textile-like decorative layer (5). According to the invention, insulating coating (8, 9) exhibits anisotropic air flow resistance. This is achieved in simple fashion by a carrier layer (9) with a geometric structure and a plurality of support 15 elements (13).