Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer for a boat. The stabilizer includes a flywheel, a flywheel drive motor configured to spin the flywheel about a spin axis, an enclosure surrounding a portion or all of the flywheel and maintaining a below-ambient pressure or containing a below-ambient density gas, a gimbal structure configured to permit flywheel precession about a gimbal axis, and a device for applying a torque to the flywheel about the gimbal axis. The flywheel, enclosure, and gimbal structure are configured so that when installed in the boat the stabilizer damps roll motion of the boat. Preferably, the flywheel drive motor spins the flywheel at high tip speeds.

Abstract: Anti-fouling coating composition containing high amounts of zinc, and novel methods of applying melt compounded anti-fouling coating compositions to components by heat fusion techniques. The components that can be treated include fresh water or salt water exposed components that are prone to biomass and fouling buildup. The marine exposed components can include running gear components, such as but not limited to, propellers, rudders, struts, shafts, bow thrusters, boat hulls (fiberglass or metallic) and the like.

Abstract: A bipolar transistor is provided which is of high reliability and high gain, and which is particularly suitable to high speed operation. The bipolar transistor operates with high accuracy and with no substantial change of collector current even upon change of collector voltage. It also has less variation than conventional bipolar transistors for the collector current while ensuring high speed properties and high gain. In one example, the band gap in the base region is smaller than the band gap in the emitter and collector regions. The band gap is constant near the junction with the emitter region and decreases toward the junction with the collector region. A single crystal silicon/germanium is a typically used for the base region.

Abstract: An inspection item displayed on a liquid crystal display is inspected through a mobile inspection terminal in the state that the inspection screen is displayed. A time necessary to the inspection is measured as an actual inspection time. On the completion of inspection on one inspection screen, the measured actual inspection time is compared with the upper limit value and the lower limit value of a standard inspection time received from a server, and when the actual inspection time deviates from the upper limit value and the lower limit value, a warning is issued by displaying an inspection time warning dialog on the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A method for injecting fluid into meat products comprises taking a plurality of hollow fluid injection needles having sharpened discharge ends, and connecting the needles to a source of pressurized liquid; penetrating the sharpened ends of the needles into the product and thence withdrawing the same while discharging fluid into the product and vibrating the needles for a period of time while they are within the product to enlarge the size of a penetration hole within the product caused by the penetration of the needles to a size greater than the size of the needles to create at least a partial space around the needles to permit fluid from the needles to migrate into the spaces around the needles. The needles have a roughened outside surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and methods for a conduit, such as an implantable conduit for a vessel. The conduit may comprise a main member and a side branch member. The conduit may be implanted with the side-branch member initially disposed within the main member. When positioned, the side-branch member may then be extended from within the main member and into a vessel side-branch, The materials for the conduit may include circumferentially distensible and/or low recoil materials.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sealant dispenser for more precisely dispensing a sealant onto a substrate, and a control method thereof. The sealant dispenser includes a stage on which a substrate is mounted; a nozzle for dispensing a sealant while making a relative motion with the substrate; a syringe coupled to the nozzle, for storing the sealant; and a distance sensor installed on both sides of a lower portion of the syringe, for measuring a vertical distance between a principal plane of the substrate and an outlet of the nozzle. According to the principles of the present invention, because the nozzle and the syringe have substantially the same central axis, the response speed of the sealant to be dispensed is increased and the start point and the end point of paste pattern are more precisely dispensed. Also, by minimizing the distance between the nozzle and a measuring point provided by the distance sensor, it becomes possible to dispense the sealant at higher precision.

Abstract: Aircraft arresting beds constructed of cellular concrete at ends of runways may be subject to damaging effects of jet blast phenomena. Arresting units resistant to such effects are described. A block of compressible material, such as cellular concrete, provides compressive failure characteristics suitable for arresting travel of an aircraft overrunning a runway. Relatively thin frangible material positioned above the block provides a stronger, more damage resistant surface, while still readily fracturing in an arresting incident. Intermediate material, such as a foam layer, positioned under the frangible material may be included to provide a protective cushioning effect by mitigating transmission of external phenomena forces to the block. A fastening configuration at least partially enclosing other portions of the arresting unit provides a stable unified composite, without destroying desired compressive failure characteristics of the unit.

Abstract: An onboard fuel separation apparatus separates a material fuel (gasoline) into a high-octane fuel having a higher octane value than the material fuel and a low-octane fuel having a lower octane value than the material fuel using a separation membrane which selectively allows high-octane value components (such as aromatic components) permeate through the membrane. The apparatus increases the ratio of the amount of the high-octane value components permeating through the membrane to the amount of the high-octane value components contained in the material fuel by, (A) Controlling the temperature of the material fuel supplied to the membrane (B) Increasing partial pressure of the low-octane value components on the high-octane fuel side of the membrane and removing volatiles from the permeate, and (C) Bypassing volatiles in the material feed around the membrane.

Abstract: It is disclosed a cement paint comprising a pigmenting substance (2), a cement binder (6) and a fluidizing liquid (4) and further comprising: a calcareous aggregate (7) including calcareous granules of calcium carbonate CaCO3 having maximum sizes smaller than 100 microns, a vitreous aggregate (8) including vitreous granules having maximum sizes smaller than 100 microns, and a photocatalyst (9) adapted to oxidize polluting substances in the presence of light and air.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus is provided comprising: a stage, including three or more pads formed on a surface of the stage, the pads forming an invisible plane and capable of supporting a panel to be measured; a movable measuring stylus, having a tip, the measuring stylus being movable between an initial position, through an insertion region, and a measuring position; a spring, the spring being disposed to apply downward force upon the measuring stylus so that the measuring stylus presses against the panel; a lever, movably mounted on said base, capable of moving the measuring stylus between the initial position, through the insertion region, and the measuring position; and a means for measuring the difference between the height of a tip of the measuring stylus in the measuring position and the height of the invisible plane.

Abstract: A manifold is connected between an extruder and the associated die assembly to supply plastic flow to the die. The output from the extruder is split into multiple passages in which each manifold passage supplies plastic flow to an extrusion passage within the die assembly. An adjustable throttle valve is positioned within each manifold passage to regulate the flow volume through the manifold passage, thereby controlling the output of the die assembly.

Abstract: A method of and system for analyzing image data representative of a sequential set of images of a spray plume, each of the images being representative of a density characteristic of the spray plume (i) along a geometric plane that intersects the spray plume, and (ii) at a predetermined instant in time, that in one aspect comprises sequentially displaying the set of images so as to exhibit a time evolution of the spray plume along the geometric plane. The invention may further integrate the set of images so as to exhibit a time-average representation of the images. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a general purpose computer executing software that receives and sequentially displays the set of images so as to exhibit a time evolution of the spray plume along the geometric plane, and provides a user interface for measuring one or more spray plume parameters associated with the spray plume within one or more of the images.

Abstract: The invention compensates or normalizes for the non-linear oscillation speed of the spool in a fishing reel through use of a special shaped guide slot. The guide slot can be shaped through combining a number of curves into the length of the slot. In particular, for each end of the guide slot there is contained a curvature section, such that both ends of the guide slot are curving toward the spool side in one design or away from the spool in the other design. This general shape of the guide slot improves the contact position between the pole and the level wind bracket, and also compensates for the non-linear speed of the spool. The shape of the guide slot also reduces the wobbling or jiggling that occurs during operation of the reel when compared to conventionally designed reels.

Abstract: In a chemical decontamination method of chemically decontaminating radioactive nuclides from a metallic material, oxalic acid and hydrazine are injected as a reductive decontaminating agent into water that is in contact with the metallic material. Injection of the hydrazine is stopped after a cation resin arranged in a circulation line connected to the metallic material breaks, and at least the oxalic acid and the hydrazine in the reductive decontaminating agent are decomposed using a decomposing catalyst.

Abstract: A wafer load lock and linear delivery system including within a load lock vacuum chamber a paddle cantilevered from a trolley traveling on a single rail extending on a lateral side of the wafer end of the paddle while it is retracted into the load lock chamber. The trolley is magnetically coupled to an external mechanical drive through a vacuum wall of the vacuum chamber which drives the wafer on the paddle into an attached processing chamber. A single wafer may be loaded onto the paddle through a door in the vacuum wall. Alternatively, a cassette of wafers may be loaded into a cassette station opposite the processing chamber. One end of the paddle removes a wafer from the cassette, and a hand off station moves the wafer to a second end of the paddle, which then moves it into the processing chamber.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a test method for the electrical characteristics of the bumps on wafer. That is, the bumps on the scribe lines and the bumps on the neighbor chips are in the status of electrical connections, therefore the electrical characteristics of the bumps on the neighboring chips could be verified by utilizing a probe to touch the bumps on the scribe lines. Because the bumps on the neighboring chips are not really contacted with the probe, the intact profile of the bumps on the neighboring chips certainly keeps the same.

Abstract: A flip chip package with a thermometer comprises a chip, a substrate, and a thermocouple. The chip has an active surface and a plurality of bumps disposed on the active surface. The substrate defines a region for disposing the chip, and comprises a plurality of bump pads disposed on the region, corresponding to the bumps, and electrically connected to the bumps. Each of the thermocouples comprises a thermal contact which is disposed between the substrate and one of the bumps of the chip.

Abstract: Novel oil-in-oil emulsions and methods of lubrication using the same are provided. The lubricants are stable emulsions of carrier fluid and high viscosity fluid that display superior properties related to lubricating film thickness and reduced shear strength.

Abstract: A flow distributor for mounting in an inlet of a heat exchanger includes a nose cone and one or more diverting rings. The nose cone is aerodynamically shaped to divert impingent gas flow around the nose cone. A first diverting ring is spaced outwardly from the nose cone and can be oriented such that at least a portion of the gas flow diverted by the nose cone is redirected into the wake of the nose cone. A second diverting ring can be spaced outwardly from the first diverting ring and can be oriented to divert gas flow impingent thereon. Struts connect the nose cone and one or more rings. Refractory on the wall of the inlet is shaped to reduce the recirculation at the outer perimeter thereof. The flow distributor is installed in the inlet with refractory to achieve substantially equal flow across the tube sheet of the heat exchanger.