Abstract: A pressure transducer structure for a pressure transducer of the type comprising a hollow transducer housing, a thin diaphragm provided in one end of the housing, a plurality of semiconductor strain gauges provided on the inside surface of the diaphragm and an intermediate tie point. The intermediate tie point comprises a small curved flexible nonconductive board which is bonded at both ends to the inside surface of the transducer housing in close proximity to the diaphragm. The intermediate tie point further contains a plurality of conductors for electrically coupling very fine wires from the semiconductors at one end and the conductors of a connecting cable at the other end.

Abstract: A meter box and a uniquely designed cover molded out of a substantially rigid plastic material is disclosed. The meter box comprises an open upper top with an upwardly extending rim member. On the inside surface of the meter box are means for supporting a cover forming a ledge member. The cover is arranged and configured to rest on the ledge confronting the rim of the box so as to substantially close the open top of the box. Disposed on the exterior of the meter box are a plurality of anchor tabs. A horizontal member is disposed between two anchor tabs adjacent the top of the meter box which enables the box to be secured in concrete and the like.The cover may be a substantially round member or may comprise first and second sections and means for rotatably joining the first and second sections together. The first section having outwardly extending protrusions which engage slots on the meter box so as to render the first section substantially immovable therein.

Abstract: A device for detecting both low level and excessively high temperature of oil in an internal combustion engine or other oil container. The device consists of a semiconductive material which exhibits a peak electrical resistivity at a predetermined temperature. The semiconductive material is mounted on the interior bottom surface at the closed end of a metal cup which is suitably mounted and immersed in the fluid whose level and temperature are to be monitored. The semiconductive material is connected in series with a power supply and indicator light. If, at any point over a broad range of temperatures, such as -50.degree. F to +300.degree. F, the level of the liquid drops such that it does not contact the cup sufficiently the normal current flowing in the circuit will heat the semiconductive material past its peak resistivity thereby driving the current in the circuit past the level required to light the bulb and indicate a problem (herein a problem of low level).

Abstract: A random access memory is combined with a programmable logic array to count time pulses within an integrated circuit watch. A master oscillator drives the internal timing clocks and serves as a time standard for a timing and control circuit means which manipulates data within the random access memory. The timing and control circuit may contain a programmable read-only memory so that words stored within the random access memory may be read, and manipulated, in a selected sequence. The programmable logic array increments the word selectively read from the random access memory, compares it to a limit value and generates one or more flags according to the desired data manipulation. Words stored within the random access memory may be selectively displayed by a liquid crystal display or light emitting diode display in a selected format determined by the programmable read-only memory.

Abstract: A diffusion self-aligned, short channel device may be fabricated by ion implantation of an n-type channel region within a p-type substrate. A p-type dopant is then implanted in and driven through a portion of the n-type channel region to form an impurity region. A diffusion self-aligned n-type channel region is then disposed in the p-type impurity region and in the n-type channel region. The method allows for the simultaneous fabrication of a channel implanted MOSFET as well as a standard MOSFET. The resulting diffusion self-aligned, short channel device is a high gain, high speed small device which can be simply combined and fabricated with channel-implanted depletion devices and low body effect devices in an integrated circuit.

Abstract: A system for determining the modal characteristics of a structure in which a plurality of driving signals which have a common preselected frequency and a preselected set of amplitudes and phases corresponding to the estimated parameters of a mode of interest are applied to the structure. The common preselected frequency is in general a complex frequency. The response of the structure to the driving signals are then sensed. Means are provided for receiving the driving signals and the sensed responses, for generating a set of transfer functions characteristic of the structure corresponding to the mode of interest and for obtaining from such set of transfer functions improved estimates of the complex frequencies and complex residues of the mode of interest, that is the damping, frequency, magnitudes and phases of the mode of interest.

Abstract: A touchpad dialer for mobile telephones comprising a touchpad keyboard, a dial pulse relay, a means for converting signals from the keyboard to control signals for the dial pulse relay, a tone start, and a means for actuating the tone start relay before the dial pulse relay is actuated for a predetermined time after the control signals to the dial pulse relay cease. Both the dial pulse relay and the tone start relay are electrically coupled to the control head of a mobile telephone.

Abstract: An intaglio halftone gravure printing plate is made by contact-printing onto a sensitized carbon tissue a contact screen including a grid-like arrangement of minute dark dots each having the shape of a square rounded off at the four corners with the peripheries vignetted and having densities tapering from a maximum value of 3.0 at the center to a minimum value of 0.1 at the periphery, contact-printing a halftone positive onto the carbon tissue, contact-printing a light diffusion sheet and the halftone positive combinedly onto the carbon tissue, and developing the treated carbon tissue on a printing plate for subsequent etching of the cylinder.

Abstract: A damper actuator for use in a ventilation system typically used in an air conditioning system to activate the damper or damper assembly in response to an electrical signal. More particularly, a heat motor rotatably coupled at one end to a lever or lever assembly and rotatably coupled at its other end to a stationary frame. A spring may also be coupled to the lever or lever assembly and to the frame when necessary to provide a force to return the lever or lever assembly to its initial position or configuration. By means of a rotatable coupling at each end of the heat motor, stresses transverse to the longitudinal axis of the heat motor, are substantially eliminated and the operational life of the heat motor is significantly increased.

Abstract: A self-standing bag is made of two similar side wall sheets disposed in an opposing relation and a bottom wall sheet having two edges thereof heat-fused with the lower edges of the two side wall sheets and being folded along a central folding line into the interspace between the two side wall sheets to have an inverted V-shaped cross section, each of the two lateral edges of the bottom wall wheet being recessed from the lateral edges of the side wall sheets, whereby two lateral edges of the two side wall sheets are mutually joined directly, when subjected to heat-fusing operation, to form two-ply lap joints. The invention also provides method and apparatus for automatically producing the bag. SPThis application is a Divisional of Ser. No. 601,506 filed Aug. 4, 1975, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,980,225.

Abstract: A method for forming a narrow gap in a material in which a first masking layer and a second masking layer are disposed on a layer of material and are selectively removed to expose a portion of the surface of the material. A third masking layer is then disposed on the material. The first and third layers and the material are then selectively etched to form such narrow gap. The portions of the material separated by the gap may be used as MOS integrated circuit gates and a gate may also be formed in the gap by first depositing an insulating layer in the gap and then filling the gap with a conductive material.

Abstract: The cutting angle or cutting depth of the blade of an earth-moving equipment such as a bulldozer is adjusted by a hydraulic pressure cylinder and the supply of pressurized liquid to and from the hydraulic pressure cylinder is controlled in accordance with the running speed of the bulldozer. In addition, the rate at which the cutting depth of the blade of the earth-moving equipment is adjusted is inversely proportional to the speed of the earth-moving equipment.

Abstract: In a brake for bicycles including brake shoes having brake blocks and secured by a threaded fastening member to brake arches so that the brake blocks are engageable with and disengageable from the rim of a wheel, a device for adjustably or shiftably supporting the brake shoe on the brake arch. A convex portion and a concave seat for receiving the convex portion are provided between the brake shoe and the brake arch, such that when the fastening member securing the brake shoe to the brake arch is loosened, the brake shoe is shiftable to position the brake block properly with respect to the wheel rim by virtue of cooperation of the convex portion and the concave seat. After the brake shoe has been adjusted to place, the fastening member is tightened up, whereby the brake shoe is fastened to the brake arch, with the concave portion and the seat fitted together face-to-face.

Abstract: A lock assembly having special utility for locking sliding doors and the like is disclosed. The lock assembly comprises a cylinder lock having a rotor case and a rotatable rotor disposed therein. The rotor has pin members configured such that upon insertion of an associated key into the rotor, the pin members retract and the rotor is rendered selectively rotatable in the rotor case. A movable runner is coupled to the rotor and a hook member is coupled to the runner such that when the runner is moved from the unlocked position to the locked position, the hook moves into a "deadlock" zone. A driver member is also connected to the runner to aid it in moving from its locked position to the unlocked position and vice versa.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises at least two spaced parallel discs having a relatively small thickness and mounted on one rotary shaft, and an intermediate disc having a relatively large thickness and mounted on the other shaft between the discs of small thickness. The two shafts are spaced from each other and the discs having small and large thicknesses have diameters such that the peripheral portions of the discs overlap one upon the other to form intersections therebetween on the rear and front sides. The yarn to be twisted is threaded through an intersection on the rear side, about the periphery of the intermediate disc and then through an intersection on the front side.

Abstract: A motionless mixing device for mixing fluidic materials such as liquid, gas, wet and dry powders, etc. employing a generally horizontal cylindrical housing with an inlet at one end and an outlet at the opposite end. A plurality of spaced-apart mixing elements are positioned in the housing to form a mixing device, each of mixing elements being inclined transversely of the longitudinal axis of the housing at a linear edge thereof in the direction of the flow of the fluidic materials flowing through the housing, one end of each said mixing element in the radial direction of the housing being fixedly disposed in the inner wall of the housing, a suitable space being formed between another end of each said mixing element and the adjacent inner wall thereof so that materials trapped by said element are permitted to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A golf putting aid adapted to be placed between the golfer's legs comprising a rigid member having at least one pair of opposed concave side surfaces and an opposed pair of concave end surfaces for engaging the legs to maintain the legs in a plurality of substantially fixed positions to steady the golfer's stance and reduce body sway.

Abstract: An illumination panel for the enhancement of image brightness of a liquid crystal display for a watch or similar device is disclosed. The panel has an internal light source with a suitably shaped and reflectorized coating to substantially direct internal and external light in the desired direction. More particularly, a transparent layer or member with an internal light source mounted at one end is selectively coated with a metallic reflecting material to reflect light from the internal source and from external sources through a crosshatched surface or a matte finished window on the surface of the member. The window may be defined by the reflectorized coating. The member is mounted adjacent to the exterior surface of the bottom substrate of the liquid crystal display. Diffused light is transmitted from the internal light source of the illumination panel through the bottom substrate of the display.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of carbonitriding an iron-containing article. The method comprises the steps of subjecting the article to a carbonitriding atmosphere which atmosphere contains ammonia and an oxygen-containing organic solvent. The ratio of the oxygen atoms to the carbon atoms in the solvent is from about 0.5 to 1.5; and maintaining the article in the carbonitriding atmosphere until at least the surface of the article has increased its carbon and nitrogen content a predetermined amount.Inasmuch as the carbonitriding treatment of the instant invention has a propensity to produce "HCN" which is well-known noxious gas, as well as NH.sub.3 and CO, it is also within the method of the instant invention to mix the gases used initially to contact the iron-containing article with a fuel gas and remove such a mixture of gases from the furnace where the mixture is subsequently burned thereby decomposing and detoxifying the HCN contained in the exhaust gas.

Abstract: A high speed buffer circuit having an input and complementary outputs includes a pair of feedback transistors for shortening the response time of the output signals at the complementary outputs and a capacitive load at each output for delaying the effect of the output signals on the feedback transistors.