Abstract: An input chamber receives runoff water to be cleaned. Part of the way up the chamber wall is a restricted outlet which feeds a system for cleaning the water. At a still higher elevation another opening allows runoff water to flow to another cleaning system. Near the top of the chamber is an outlet pipe. A vertical baffle in front of the outlet cleans water that flows under the baffle on its way to the outlet. When the incoming flow rate is very high, water passes over the baffle to the outlet.

Abstract: An input chamber receives runoff water to be cleaned. Part of the way up the chamber wall is a restricted outlet which feeds a system for cleaning the water. At a still higher elevation another opening allows runoff water to flow to an extended detention chamber. Near the top of the chamber is an outlet pipe. A vertical baffle in front of the outlet cleans water that flows under the baffle on its way to the outlet. When the incoming flow rate is very high, water passes over the baffle to the outlet.

Abstract: An exercise machine designed to exercise the upper body, focusing particularly on the core abdominal muscles but also on the arms, shoulders and chest. The machine comprises a structural frame with an adjustable seating mechanism, a handlebar and one or more position-adjustable targets against which a user throws a weighted ball. The machine provides two modes of exercise. In the seated mode the user exercises the abdominal muscles by rocking the body while seated in the flexible, adjustable-resistance, back-supported seating mechanism. The back support element of the seating mechanism is adjustable into a flat position, effectively converting the seat into a bench. In bench mode, the user, laying face up on the bench and holding onto the handlebar for stability, exercises the lower abs by performing leg-raising crunches. The machine is designed to be uniquely stimulating and fun to use. It may be folded compactly for storage.

Abstract: A clamp for connecting together a set of structural bars having a body defining at least one pair of prismatic guides for positioning one of the bars within the clamp and a locking mechanism for securing the bars inside the guides. The body is defined by four sheet metal plates arranged parallel and facing each other in pairs of two, each pair of two arranged perpendicular to the other such that each pair is connected to the other collectively along four parallel edges of the body. The prismatic guides are each defined by a pair of aligned seats formed along respective sides of each pair of facing plates.

Abstract: The invention is a device and method in a high-pressure chromatography system, such as a supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) system, that uses a pump as a pressure source for precision pumping of a compressible fluid. The preferred exemplary embodiment comprises a pressure regulation assembly installed downstream from a compressible fluid pump but prior to combining the compressible flow with a relatively incompressible modifier flow stream. The present invention allows the replacement of an high-grade SFC pump in the compressible fluid flow stream with an inexpensive and imprecise pump. The imprecise pump becomes capable of moving the compressible fluid flow stream in a precise flow rate and pattern. The assembly dampens the damaging effects of an imprecise pump, such as large pressure oscillations caused by flow ripples and noisy pressure signals that do not meet precise SFC pumping requirements.

Abstract: To keep a printing paste, which is most influential to a printing performance, always in a uniform state, carry out printing at a high accuracy and in a stable manner, and use an expensive paste with no waste, there is provided a printing paste automatic supplying apparatus which supplies a predetermined amount of printing paste (5) by charging the printing paste (5) in a printing paste supply bag (15) and pressurizing the printing paste (5), provided with a mechanism for opening and closing a printing paste supply port (7) by bringing a printing paste supply plate (6) having the printing paste supply port (7) into contact with the back surface side of a squeegee (4) and vertically moving them, and further provided with a scraper (9) which scrapes up the printing paste on a screen printing plate (3).

Abstract: In a machine for forming articles of sheet material, an orderly succession of flat blanks is fed along a forming path on a roller conveyor having powered rollers equally spaced with a given spacing; on the roller conveyor, the blanks are maintained contacting the rollers by idle-wheel pressure devices, and are deformed by folding devices; the pressure devices and folding devices being fitted to respective gantry-type frames having respective removable cross members, and which can be set to a number of predetermined reference positions and locked in such positions releasably with respect to the roller conveyor; and a continuous guide and slide adjusting assembly being interposed between each frame and the respective pressure devices and folding devices to adjust the position of the devices on the roller conveyor as a function of the shape and size of the blanks.

Abstract: A heat dissipation element which can be shaped as a flat plate for transfer of heat to the opposite side of a mounting channel in a chassis for holding circuit cards. Circuit cards are typically held in place in channels in a chassis by an expansion type retention device. The circuit cards also include a heat frame for collecting the heat produced by the card components and channeling the heat from the card through the heat frame to the chassis. The retention device presses the heat frame in to thermal contact with one side of the channel. The heat dissipation plate is held in thermal contact with the other side of the channel, providing a second additional heat path to channel heat away from individual components, the circuit card and/or the heat frame.

Abstract: An idle speed control apparatus which improves freedom of selection in an opening degree characteristic of a throttle valve is structured such that an intake passage of a throttle body is opened and closed by a throttle valve, a cam lever is attached to one end of a rotatably supported link shaft, a link lever is attached to another end of the link shaft, a slider of a stepping motor is connected to the link lever, a cam portion of the cam lever is connected to a roller of the throttle valve lever, linear motion of the slider is transmitted to the link shaft via the link lever to rotationally displace the link shaft, rotation of the cam lever is transmitted to the throttle valve lever, and the throttle valve opens an idling opening degree corresponding to the rotation of the stepping motor.

Abstract: A lamp shade which can be folded to reduce its size for shipping, display and storage, having an upper ring, a lower ring, and a number of supports interconnecting, separating and supporting the upper and lower rings. In one embodiment, the supports are separate trapezoid-shaped single piece supports which are disconnected from the rings for collapsing the lampshade. In another embodiment, the supports are separate U-shaped single piece supports which are disconnected from the rings for collapsing the lampshade. In another embodiment, the supports are U-shaped single piece supports loosely attached to the upper ring of the lampshade at the center of each support and which are disconnected from the lower ring for collapsing the lampshade.

Abstract: To improve freedom of mounting to a motor cycle, a tandem valve type throttle body is provided with a throttle valve (4) in the downstream side of an intake passage (2) and a sub throttle valve (9) in the upstream side thereof, a sub throttle valve shaft (8) is rotated by a motor (M), a sub throttle valve lever (10) and a throttle valve lever (5) are connected by a transmission member, the shaft (8) and a sensor rotor (TA) of an opening degree sensor (T) are energized in the opening direction of the shaft (9) by a rotor spring (TC), a link lever spring (14) pressing the transmission member (12) in one direction is energized in the closing direction of the valve (9), and torque is set so as to cancel spring forces applied to the shaft (8) by both the springs (TC), (14).

Abstract: A throttle opening degree sensor with an excellent mounting property to a small and middle size motor cycles, and with a less manufacturing cost of a throttle body including a throttle opening degree sensor, constituted such that a casing (5) has a single mounting flange portion (5B) extending in a direction (C) orthogonal to a longitudinal axial line (B—B) of a rotor (6) in one side surface (5A) side thereof, a single mounting hole (5C) is pierced to extend through the mounting flange portion (5B), a guide tube portion (5D) is formed to protrude coaxially with the longitudinal axial line (B—B) of the rotor (6) and a seal ring (7) is arranged in an outer periphery thereof in one side surface (5A) of the casing (5), one side surface (5A) of the casing (5) is arranged on the throttle body (1), the guide tube portion (5D) is inserted into and arranged within a tube portion guide hole (1C) formed coaxially with a throttle shaft (3) mounting the throttle valve (4), and the casing (5) is engaged by screwing with th

Abstract: One or more heat pipes are connected between a component on a circuit card and the frame of a circuit card assembly for transfer of heat to the frame of the circuit card assembly. Circuit cards are typically held in place in channels in a chassis by an expansion type retention device. The circuit cards also include a heat frame for collecting the heat produced by the card components and channeling the heat from the card through the heat frame to the chassis. The retention device presses the heat frame in to thermal contact with one side of the channel. Heat collector can be attached to the heat generating components of a circuit card between the heat pipe and the component to provide improved thermal transfer. A number of heat collectors with pairs of heat pipes extending in opposite directions from the collector to the frame can be used to allow the heat pipes to effectively dissipate heat form the circuit card assembly regardless of the orientation of the circuit card assembly.

Abstract: To provide a piezoelectric speaker in which a breakdown of an electric lead terminal due to a large amount electric current flow is prevented an electric accident due to hand touch to an electrode and a frame is prevented, the precision of position and shape of the electrode formed by masking is enhanced, and the generation of buzz sound that becomes noise is prevented, side frames fixing side ends of a vibrating diaphragm are sectioned into upper and lower plates by the side ends formed in a corrugate shape, and a vibrating diaphragm supporting portions of the upper and lower plates are formed in the same corrugate shape as that of the side ends so that the side ends are clamped by the vibrating diaphragm supporting portions in the state of the corrugate shape of the vibrating diaphragm being maintained, and partitioning plates are inserted between the side frames to partition crests and troughs of the vibrating diaphragm.

Abstract: To keep a printing paste, which is most influential to a printing performance, always in a uniform state, carry out printing at a high accuracy and in a stable manner, and use an expensive paste with no waste, there is provided a printing paste automatic supplying apparatus which supplies a predetermined amount of printing paste (5) by charging the printing paste (5) in a printing paste supply bag (15) and pressurizing the printing paste (5), provided with a mechanism for opening and closing a printing paste supply port (7) by bringing a printing paste supply plate (6) having the printing paste supply port (7) into contact with the back surface side of a squeegee (4) and vertically moving them, and further provided with a scraper (9) which scrapes up the printing paste on a screen printing plate (3).

Abstract: The present invention provides an artificial joint which can be rapidly, securely and easily fixed while being suited to an inner surface of a bone marrow hole by a novel structure absolutely different from the conventional one. An artificial joint is provided with a stem base portion (10) in which a desired head (2) and a desired socket (5) are in slidably contact with each other in a freely bending manner, stems (9, 16) are fitly attached to free ends of the head (2) and the socket (5) respectively, and the respective stems (9, 16) have therein locking screws (14) freely screwing to move along axial directions thereof, and a pair of stem pieces (15) having an elasticity provided to protrude on both front portions of the stem base portion (10), and the locking screws (14) are forcedly inserted within the stem pieces (15) so as to expand them outward, thereby making them tightly contact with and fix to inner surfaces of bone marrow holes (19, 21).

Abstract: A tracking tag worn by an individual which cooperates with a monitoring center to monitor the location of individuals. The tracking tag has a number of location determination features, including GPS and cellular geolocation methods. The tag includes a processor, flash memory, a wireless modem, a GPS receiver and tamper detection components. The tags of the system provide location information to the monitoring center on a regular periodic basis. The monitoring center maintains historical data of tag location correlated with tag positional information from both the GPS and cellular systems to enhance the verification of real-time positional information as it is received in real time from the tags. The system allows for a complex set of permissible and impermissible activities for the tag wearer and provides for detection and notification of violations.

Abstract: To prevent a fuel liquid surface within a float chamber from rising when a liquid surface change occurs to make a float rotate so that a float valve opens a valve seat hole, a first float (F3) is arranged in one outer side from one end (F4) of the bearing portion (F1) and in one side (B), one end (F4) of the bearing portion (F1) and the first float (F3) are connected by a first connecting arm portion (F6), a second float (F7) is arranged in another outer side from another end (F8) of the bearing portion (F1) and in one side (B), another end (F8) of the bearing portion (F1) and the second float (F7) are connected by a second connecting arm portion (F19), a first buffer rib (F12) is integrally formed between an outer side surface (F6A) of the first connecting arm portion (F6) and another side surface (F5) of the first float (F5), and a second buffer rib (F13) is integrally formed between an outer side surface (FIOA) of the second connecting arm portion (F10) and another side surface (F9) of the second float (F7

Abstract: A system for collection of liquid phase sample fractions from a supercritical fluid chromatography system is disclosed. The system has different ways of gathering the liquid phase into a collection chamber and provides for automated removal of liquid phase from a collection chamber into separate collection container. A separate pressure scheme is invoked upon the collection chambers to move liquid phase out of a chamber and into the separate collection container. In addition, the invention provides a renewal system for the collection chambers where each chamber returns to an uncontaminated stated by washing with a cleaning solution after removal of collected liquid phase. Spent cleaner from a chamber is purged using the pressure system into a waste stream for disposal.

Abstract: A ready to fly airplane formed from plastic with an upper portion and a lower portion which are joined together and covered with a thin film. Supporting structure is formed within the upper portion and the lower portion. The horizontal tail surfaces may pivot about a horizontal plane when controlled by an external control. A method of manufacture is described.