Abstract: Acupressure clamps include a U-shape band having opposite end portions respectively provided with a pressure applying screw and a spherical counterabutment. The end portions can be parallel with a line of action of the screw extending through the protuberance for application of pressure to precisely opposite portions of a foot or, the end portions can diverge for simultaneous application of pressures along non aligned axes at two locations on a back of a hand. Another device for the leg below the knee or the sole of the foot has a body engaging, arcuate plate carrying a pressure screw and mounted on a fastening strap. A device for the big toe is a socket with a pressure screw and a device for smaller toes is a clip.

Abstract: A housing containing a hand cranked, flywheel type resistance mechanism is mounted upstanding from a base. The base is formed by a housing supporting pillar member from which a thigh brace depends and a lap rest adjustably and releasably secured to extend horizontally from the pillar member by engagement of selected vertically spaced ribs on the pillar and a pillar receiving slot in the slot. The flywheel type resistance mechanism comprises a friction band in encircling frictional engagement with a flywheel thereby to resist rotation thereof. An adjustable band tensioner is provided to adjust the frictional resistance to rotation. A body belt is releasably attached to the pillar to secure the apparatus to a user's waist.

Abstract: A method for removing material from a portion of an edge of a shoe upper folded over the bottom of a shoe, comprises the steps of moving the bottom of the shoe in relation to lateral roughing wheels (15) for roughing the edges according to two different paths and in relation to a first (26) and a second tool (22) for roughing the heel and toe areas. The roughing wheels (15) rotate according to an axis substantially parallel to the length of the footwear to provide a removing action directed towards the inside of the bottom, and are movable along a path comprising a forward stroke and a return stroke which are carried out at different distances towards the inside of the bottom. The first tool and the second tool rotate to provide a removing action directed towards the inside of the bottom along a path substantially parallel to the length of the footwear in respective heel and toe areas.

Abstract: A simulated finger is mounted for unnatural movement on a finger-ring structure so that the simulated finger appears to a casual observer to be the person's natural finger. In different examples, the movements are rotational or axial, and can expose a simulated bone and can be accompanied by appropriated sounds such as screeching or ratchetting. In another example, the simulated finger incorporated a whistle sounded by holding the tip of the simulated finger to the lips and blowing.

Abstract: In a downhole measuring caliper for oil well casings, comprising a circumferential array of radially extensible sensing fingers (30) between upper and lower sets of centralizing arms, the fingers are actuated through integral pre-stressed spring arms (34) engaged with an actuating member on the axis of the instrument; relative axial movement between the array of fingers and the actuating member causes the fingers to pivot into measuring contact with the tube wall. The number of sensing fingers is maximized and maintenance is simplified.

Abstract: A electrical connector assembly comprising first and second, intermatable connector members including respective housings with rows of terminals and rows of ground plate portions extending in spaced apart, side by side relation. Ground plate portions of one connector member include resilient contact portions which are staggered so as to be offset on respective opposite lateral side of a center line of the row thereof and retained in respective housing cavities formed in the housing. A row of correspondingly staggered finger-like projections are provided in the other housing and have guiding and other ground plate supporting portions on respective opposite lateral sides thereof facing in opposite lateral directions and receivable in the respective cavities during movement of the connector members into mating engagement both to support the other ground plate portions in electrical engagement with the resilient ground plate portions and to guide the two housings accurately together.

Abstract: A PGA connector for a microprocessor has a multilayer base board assembly with alternating conductive and dielectric layers of preselected thicknesses through which signal pins, current source pins and a grounding pin extend. The signal pins are insulated from the conductive layers and the current and grounding pin are connected to preselected conductive layers. A series of connecting apertures formed by holes with respective conductive linings extend through the layers at selected locations between pins to interconnect selected conductive layers. The connecting apertures interconnect all conductive layers of the base board or, in another example, alternately positioned connecting apertures interconnect only respective different sets of alternately positioned conductive layers of the base board enabling improved shielding and impedance regulation and matching.

Abstract: An insulation displacement connector for flat cable comprising an insulating housing and one piece terminals, each having a mating contact portion and a slotted plate wire connecting portion joined by a conducting lead portion. All the mating contact portions are mounted in a common plane at the mating face as a row extending transversely of a mating direction and the wire connecting portions are arranged as four rows extending transversely of the cable axis and at predetermined spacings apart in an axially rearward direction.

Abstract: A fuel conditioning device for installation in a fuel supply line of an internal combustion engine comprises a housing having a cylindrical ferromagnetic wall defining a fuel flow path and, in the flow path, a tin alloy body and a magnet adjacent and downstream thereof. The tin body has fins extending perpendicularly from a central diametrical spine and the magnet is diametrically disposed along the housing and has poles on opposite sides which face the housing wall so that substantially all fuel flows between the faces of the magnet and the wall. Apertured distributor plates can be positioned across the flow path to induce turbulence in the fuel thereby improving washing over the alloy.

Abstract: A surface mount electrical connector having lead portions of first and second series of terminals extending in alternating closely spaced parallel relation across a circuit board from a rear face of a connector housing. The lead portions have transverse soldering portions on respective free ends and the lead porions of the second series are longer than those of the first series and the lead portion of each series are of equal length so that the soldering portions of the first and second series are located in first and second rows with the first row being closer to the housing than the second row. The soldering potions of the first row have respective upstanding heater engaging portions so that the heater can be brought into engagement therewith without interfering with adjacent lead portions or with soldering portions of the other row.

Abstract: A film circuit connector in which respective conductive tracks in film contact areas on front, mating faces are pressed together into electrical connection between side walls of a metal channel-section receptacle spring and a compressible elastomeric plug spring which engage respective rear faces of the films, the compressible plug spring providing a counter-force to the receptacle spring force, accommodating any variations in receptacle spring force arising longitudinally thereof, ensuring constant contact force between all tracks. Tabs for anchoring and grounding the receptacle spring to the circuit board are struck out and bent down from opposite walls of the receptacle spring, enabling electrical shielding of contact areas. Linking portions of conductive tracks connecting the mating contact portions on the front face of the film to board connecting portions, are formed on the rear face of the film for electrical and mechanical protection and may be insulated on all sides.

Abstract: A flexible cable connector has an insulating housing with cable receiving cavities opening at respective mouths to respective opposite faces of the housing. Rows of electrical contacts are mounted in respective cavities and first and second, cable clamping sliders are latched by locking arms on opposite ends thereof to respective opposite ends of the housing with central cable pressing portions entering respective mouths. The locking arms on the same slider are offset to extend in different levels or planes so that the arms can move past each other along the end of the housing in a cable insertion direction from a cable admitting to a cable clamping position without interfering with each other.

Abstract: Connector members have respective film circuits with contact bumps of male and female sets or other complementary configurations and are brought into electrical connection by butting engagement. An elastomer underlies the bumps and is compressed by the engagement to provide contact pressure. The contact bumps of each female set are three or four in number arranged to form a triangular or square ring for engagement with a single male bump to provide a self-centering action. The male contact bump can be elongate so as to bridge completely across the ring. In other examples, both complementary contact bumps are elongate and extend in transverse directions on respective film circuits so that they are brought into transverse engagement, accommodating slight misalignment. Alternatively, instead of a bump configuration, a female member is formed by an aperture in a insulating layer of one film circuit overlying a conductive path and receiving a contact bump of the other film circuit.

Abstract: An electrical connector of the zipper type comprises first and second connector members with respective rows of contact elements and insulating elements which are brought into intermeshing relation when the connector members are closed together. The contact elements are located in a mold as stamped and formed contact strips and in-molded with a carrier of resilient insulating material, which also covers one side of each contact element in insulating relation, to provide an elongate connector member which can be handled as only a single piece.

Abstract: A connector for mounting an LGA device on a circuit board comprises a film contact having electrode bumps on inner ends of respective conductive paths at predetermined spaced apart locations corresponding to respective locations of the individual electrode lands on the LGA device and is clamped extending across a central cavity defined between housing base and frame members. A flat elastomeric biassing pad having a series of upstanding, closely spaced resilient projections is retained by the base member in the cavity with the projections supporting spaced apart locations of one surface of the film contact while a cover member retains the device in the cavity in the frame member with the respective lands thereof pressed against respective electrode bumps, compressing the biassing pad to assure sufficient contact pressure. The cover member has a camming detent which progressively engages the device during closing, moving the device across the film contact with a wiping action.

Abstract: A connector comprises a housing having a cable receiving cavity with a cable admitting mouth; a row of contacts in the housing cavity, each having parallel arms providing between them a cable receiving gap adjacent the mouth, and a contact protuberance on one arm protruding into the gap adjacent the mouth; and a slider with a pressing portion extending along the cavity through the cable receiving gaps. The slider is movable between a cable admitting position remote from the mouth and a cable connecting position adjacent the mouth, forcing the cable into electrical connection with the protuberances.

Abstract: A wrist restrainer includes a wrist band and a resilient, one piece restraining plate with one end tightly connected thereto and the other end extending along the back of a wearer's hand to prevent outward pivotal movement of the hand at the wrist while permitting lateral movement. The restraining plate can be bent inwardly to press against the back of the hand. A wrist restraining glove including a hand receiving portion, with or without fingers, and a wrist band, has a resilient restraining plate extending from the knuckle end through the wrist band. The restraining plate is either entirely integrally joined to the glove or integrally joined only to the wrist band and loosely received in a pocket on the back of the glove.