Abstract: A warning device for monitoring the rotational speed of a prime mover which includes: a) a converting unit electrically connected to the prime mover for converting a digital signal representative of the rotational speed of the prime mover to an analog voltage; b) a reference unit for providing a specific analog reference voltage corresponding to the digital signal; c) a comparison unit for comparing the analog voltage with the specific analog reference voltage and generating a comparison signal when the analog voltage is not equal to the specific analog reference voltage; and d) an output unit electrically connected to the comparison unit for generating an alarm signal in response to the comparison signal.

Abstract: A clip for supporting the clarifier and the droplines in a wastewater treatment system is disclosed. The clip comprises a pair of parallel main plates separated by a bracing plate. The bracing plate is perpendicular to the main plates and is attached to the ends of each. Attached to the free ends of each of the main plates are a pair of mounting plates. These mounting plates are parallel to the bracing plate. In a preferred embodiment, the main plates each contain a hole. This pair of holes are vertically aligned, and each hole is sized to contain a dropline.

Abstract: A seat adjuster has a first member and a second member, one of which is movable relative to the other. A lock mechanism for locking the seat adjuster includes a conversion mechanism for converting deceleration or acceleration applied to a seat to a thrust force, and a lock unit for locking the seat adjuster by making use of the thrust force when deceleration or acceleration of not smaller than a predetermined value is applied to the seat.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a lock mechanism for locking a seat slide unit on which a vehicle seat is mounted or a seat reclining unit mounted on the vehicle seat. A screw rotatably mounted on an upper rail is in mesh with a nut secured to a lower rail or mounted on a seat back frame. Each of the screw and the nut has a lead angle greater than an angle of friction thereof so that the screw can rotate in response to a load applied to the vehicle seat or a seat back, thus enabling adjustment of the position of the vehicle seat in a direction longitudinally of the vehicle body or that of the angle of inclination of the seat back. If deceleration or acceleration of a value not smaller than a predetermined value is applied to the vehicle seat, the screw is urgently locked to thereby maintain the current position of the vehicle seat or the current angle of inclination of the seat back.

Abstract: To achieve an efficacy of allowing a shaft to spin in high speed without contacting the bearing in which the shaft is seated, a bearing is configured to comprise an inner ring which includes: at least two slant arc surface zones each spaced out from the surface of the shaft with a gap shrinking, in the spinning direction of the shaft, to a thickness approximately equal to a preset minimum value.

Abstract: The stator structure for improving the efficiency of motor is described which includes: a) a ring; b) N pieces of upper salients spacedly connected to the ring and located on a first plane; c) N pieces of lower salients spaced at intervals and located on a second plane; d) N pieces of waist posts arranged between the first and second planes for forming a magnetically conductive path, wherein one end of each of the waist posts is connected to the ring within an interval between two adjacent upper salients and the other end is connected to a corresponding one of N pieces of lower salients located between two adjacent upper salients. Its forming method includes steps of: a) integrally forming a hollow cogged plate consisting of a first ring, N pieces of short and N pieces of long salients alternately connected to the first ring; and b) bending N pieces of long salients to form the stator structure having N pieces of waist posts, N pieces of upper salients, and N pieces of lower salients.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a power supply system with modularized and integrated cable interface configuration for providing power from an external power source to a plurality of subsystems in a personal computer. The power supply system includes a power cable for connecting the power supply system to the external power source. The power supply system further includes an output (O/P) cable having a first end and second end, the O/P cable including a plurality of cable groups wherein each of the cable groups including a subsystem plug module on the first end for connecting to a corresponding PC subsystems. The power supply system further includes an integrated PC receptive module for providing an interface with the O/P cable. The O/P cable further including an integrated O/P cable plug module on the second end for plugging the O/P cable into the integrated receptive module, wherein the integrated O/P plug module being in electric connection to each of the cable groups.

Abstract: A plunger mechanism is disclosed comprising: a plunger slidable in a generally cylindrical body between an extended position and a retracted position. A bush receives the body for relative rotation about the axis. The body and the bush are formed with co-operating means allowing the body to slide axially when the body is in one rotational position relative to the bush and to be locked axially when the body is in another rotational position relative to the bush. A stop member is slidable in the body and biassed in one direction. The stop member is formed with a lug projecting through a slot in the body and into a slot in the bush. The plunger is provided with means for engaging the stop member to slide it in the body against the bias. The slots in the body and in the bush each have a narrow section in which the lug locates when the stop member is in a first position in the direction in which it is biassed.

Abstract: A method for the treatment or prophylaxis of one or more conditions or disorders selected from the group consisting of physiological pain, diarrhea, urinary incontinence, mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction/overdose, lung edema, depressioysema, apnea, cognitive disorders and gastrointestinal disorders, comprising administration to a subject in need of such treatment or prophylaxis, of a diarylmethylpiperazine or piperidine opioid compound.

Abstract: A pre-wash process and apparatus for recycling polymer tubing contaminated with large amounts of organic matter, soil, and so forth. The pre-wash process includes the steps of sizing the contaminated polymer tubing into small pieces, conveying the polymer tubing on a first conveyor into a rotating wash trommel, washing the polymer tubing in the rotating wash trommel, conveying the polymer tubing on a second conveyor through a pre-rinse stage and then into a rotating rinse trommel, rinsing the polymer tubing in the rinse trommel, discharging the polymer tubing from the rinse trommel into a float/sink tank, passing the polymer tubing through the float/sink tank to a third conveyor, and conveying the polymer tubing into a suitable container for delivery to a final wash and pelletizing process. The wash trommel and rinse trommel each comprises a rotating cylinder with internal helical flighting that causes intense rolling and agitation of the polymer tubing.

Abstract: In a single-switch, three-phase DCM boost rectifier, a voltage signal proportional to the inverted ac component of the rectified, three-phase, line-to-line input voltages is injected as a modulating signal into the control circuit to vary the duty cycle of the rectifier within one line cycle. As a result of its generation method, the injected signal is naturally synchronized with the three-phase, line-to-neutral input voltage. In addition, the injection method of this invention does not affect the closed-loop feedback control of the DCM boost rectifier since the injected signal is generated in an open-loop fashion. Three alternative methods to generate the injection signal are described. One method uses three low-frequency, step down transformers in generating the injection signal. The other two methods use operational amplifiers instead of the transformers.

Abstract: A module for use with the circuit breaker, the module being arranged to be mounted on an end of the circuit breaker and to monitor and/or control the circuit breaker and/or an electrical circuit control thereby in use. The module can be active or passive, and, where circuit breakers are ganged in side-by-side relationship, the module can be equal in width to the width of the gang breaker unit to which the module is mounted. The invention also resides in the combination of a module and a circuit breaker.

Abstract: An optical projector is described that orients its optics engine preferably vertically within an enclosure that is higher than it is wide or deep. The invented optics engine uses a prismatic cube for color separation or beam splitting, with the prismatic elements within the cube being secured within a durable frame that mounts the three color light valves, e.g. twisted nematic liquid crystal display (LCD)-type shutters, in a predefined position and orientation relative to the prismatic cube. In order to improve image quality and brightness, especially of the notoriously difficult-to-reproduce green color, red and blue beams are S polarized, as is conventional, but the green beam is P-polarized.

Abstract: A coupling comprising a first member defining a socket, a second number such as a tube defining a spigot inserted into an open end of the socket, and a locking device received within an annular gap defined between an inner wall of the socket and an outer wall of the spigot. The locking device comprises circumferentially spaced load-bearing members, each load-bearing member extending within the annular gap from a first end which is relatively close to the open end of the socket and a second end which is relatively remote from the open end of the socket. Each load-bearing member is resiliently biased such that the first end engages the socket and the second end engages the spigot, and each load-bearing member is dimensioned such that it acts substantially as a beam in compression to resist withdrawal of the spigot from the socket.

Abstract: An uninterruptable power supply device for a motor is disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to, inter alia, methods and compositions for reducing, treating or preventing respiratory depression in an animal, using a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: Ar, G, Z, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are as defined in specification,or a pharmaceutically acceptable ester or salt thereof.

Abstract: A programmable control apparatus for a heating installation of the type that comprises a clock (8) and a processing unit (2) is provided to control one or more heating appliances of the installation according to programming data. The programming data are either programming data stored in the memory of a card (11), of the type that is known as "smart cards." This data is read out when such a card (11) is introduced into a reader (10) of the apparatus. The programming data resident in the processing unit (2) operates the heating system when no card is introduced into the reader (10). The stored programming data can be manually modified only if a card (11), known as a "key card", is introduced into the reader (10).