Abstract: A self-locking connector is disclosed in which locking of the mating halves of the connector is achieved near or at complete mating of the connector. The locking mechanism comprises a cylindrical locking ring mounted in front of a detent ring which rotates with the coupling nut of the connector. The locking ring is formed with circumferentially extending slots providing narrow strips which are axially resilient. The strips carry locking tabs which are engageable with recesses in the detent ring.

Abstract: A combination tool having a central shaft which may be rotated by a power tool. The shaft has a drill bit mounted in its front end so that rotation of the shaft causes rotation of the bit. The shaft is fitted in the bore of a sleeve or tube, the tube having a nut driver socket head at its front end. By advancing the tube on the shaft, complementary flats on the shaft and in the rear of the tube are mated to couple the shaft to the tube in a driving relation. The tube may be advanced to recess the drill bit within the tube to free the socket for use in a socket driving tool.

Abstract: A formulation for the reduction of amine and ammonia odors of organic waste material comprising spent sulfite liquor containing substantially undegraded lignosulfonates and sugars, to which is added from 1 to 15%, by weight of the total solids content, of acetic acid and from 0.5 to 10 grams, per liter of formulation, of phenolic carbonyl compounds, the formulation having a pH of from 6.5 to 8.0 and preferably having being stripped of dissolved SO.sub.2.

Abstract: The high speed operational recurring signature evaluation provides digital sub-systems including a data compressor and a controller. These subsystems are employed with a portable service processor (PSP) which is a standard piece of test equipment in this art. The controller interfaces with the host logic tester (PSP) to provide the repetitious detail and complex digital control requirements for programming the data compressor in response to digital instructions received from the logic tester. A unique serial data pattern corresponding to a proper signature from a node under test generated in real time at the relatively high operating speed of the board under test is generated by the data compressor.

Abstract: An improved low loss fused biconical taper fiber optic coupler has a biconical taper region where the fibers are fused together and have a deformed zone at their minimum taper region. The deformation of the fibers is in the shape of a ball.

Abstract: An electrical connector endbell in which the endbell housing is slotted so that the cable of the connector may be pushed laterally into the interior of the housing through the slot after the cable has been connected to the contacts in the connector shell. A cover is slidably removable on the endbell housing to close the slot. Screw threads are formed in the interior of the cover and the forward end of the housing for threading the endbell onto the rear of the connector shell.

Abstract: A vibration densitometer including a synchronous detector, a threshold detector, an integrator, an electromagnetic bridge driver, a piezoelectric crystal pick-off, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a phase detector responsive to the crystal output and that of the VCO to control the VCO frequency and/or phase to provide an output signal of a frequency to energize the driver.

Abstract: A swimming pool filtering system of the closed recirculatory type having a series connected strainer, pump and filter is provided with a close coupled pump drive motor having two sets of stator windings for allowing the selection of one of two water circulation rates to achieve more efficient pool water maintenance. A specific circulation rate may be manually selected or periods of selected circulation rates may be automatically programmed using a motor stator that is energized through a timer. Reduced pump speed during periods of little or no use results in substantial energy savings and a reduction of noise pollution during evening hours.

Abstract: There is disclosed a horizontal transversal multiplexer which operates and controls an associative array. The associative array consists of a plurality of processor cells which are arranged in an N X M matrix. The transversal horizontal multiplexer constitutes apparatus which allows great flexibility concerning data flow through the processor cells. The multiplexer includes means for transferring data in a right or a left direction from cell to cell and further includes means for bypassing any cell to increase the flexibility of the associative array. The multiplexer has four signal nodes each providing a single bit path and has control inputs with a left signal node connected to the right signal input of a left neighboring processor cell and with the right signal node connected to the left signal input of a right neighboring processor cell in said array. One of the nodes constitute a data input node and the other node is a data output node.

Abstract: A self-locking electrical connector is disclosed in which a locking ring is mounted in an annular groove in the interior of a coupling nut on the plug of the connector. When the plug is mated with the receptacle, inwardly extending projections on the locking ring ride up over a low-angle ramp on the shell of the receptacle and then snap into a locking groove formed in the receptacle shell behind the ramp to lock the connector members together. The surface of the locking groove next to the low-angle ramp is formed as a high-angle ramp which allows removal of the projections of the ring from the groove when the coupling nut is rotated with high torque to unthread from the shell. In an alternative embodiment, the locking ring is carried by the receptacle shell, and the locking groove and angular ramps are formed on the inner surface of the coupling nut.

Abstract: A fiber optic direct current coupled data transmission link having a response extending to dc by using a dc coupled receiver and a modified frequency response to avoid data width distortion which allows the dc coupled receiver to work over a wide range of input signal levels.

Abstract: An apparatus for frequency-modulating telecommunication carriers with baseband signals includes an arrangement for generating two quadrature-related baseband signals in two separate channels, wherein each of the quadrature-related baseband signals is a sinusoidal function of the instantaneous angle of the message signal to be transmitted. The apparatus further includes an arrangement for producing a frequency-modulated carrier from the quadrature-related baseband signals, this arrangement including a device that provides two quadrature-related carrier-frequency waveforms, two mixing devices each for individually mixing one of the quadrature-related carrier-frequency waveforms with one of the quadrature-related baseband signals in one of the channels, and a combining device which combines the output signals from the two channels into a single frequency-modulated carrier-frequency output signal.

Abstract: A clean-in-place pump is disclosed in which the hub of the impeller extends into a pocket in which particles from the fluid being pumped may become entrapped. Axial slots in the drive shaft of the impeller create turbulence within the pocket to dislodge the particles. Back vanes on the impeller and passages through the impeller vane mounting disc cooperate to cause fluid to circulate through the pocket to flush out the particles.

Abstract: A sealing element for a cylinder-and-piston unit, especially a dust boot of a disc-brake actuating unit, includes an annular deformable portion of an elastically deformable material, and an annular connecting portion of a resilient material which is permanently sealingly connected to the inner region of the deformable portion and mounts the same on a protruding annular portion of the piston which extends out of the cylinder, by clampingly engaging such protruding portion. The connecting portion is substantially U-shaped in axial section and includes an outer ring, an inner ring and an interconnecting web extending between the outer and inner rings. The inner ring converges in the direction of introduction thereof into the annular protruding portion of the piston and carries oppositely and outwardly oriented lugs which engage behind an internal bead of the protruding portion of the piston. A brake shoe has a clip with several prongs which engage behind the inner ring of the connecting portion.

Abstract: A multiwinding inductor is disclosed which inductor is employed in a power control circuit. The power control circuit is of the type having a transformer which has a center tapped primary winding coupled to and associated with a plurality of secondary windings. The primary winding of the transformer is switched by means of switching devices during a power control operation. The inductor has a first winding in the primary which winding has one terminal coupled to the center tap and a second terminal coupled to a generator and a filter arrangement. Another winding of the inductor designated as a free wheeling winding is in series with an auxiliary impedance and has one terminal coupled to the common terminal of the switching devices and a second terminal coupled through a rectifier to the generator. At least two additional windings of the inductor are coupled to suitable rectifier circuits associated with the secondary windings of the transformer.

Abstract: A coding and decoding arrangement situated between and connected to digital and analog telecommunication lines includes a plurality of signal processing components which are arranged in respective receive and transmit paths and which process incoming digital signals and convert them into analog signals, and convert outgoing analog signals into digital signals and process the latter. A plurality of multiplexers is provided, each arranged ahead of one of the components in the respective receive and transmit path, and having respective test paths connected thereto. The multiplexers can be switched by control signals such as to selectively form test routes through the arrangement, each test route including a different combination of the components, so that testing signals can be sent through such components via the test routes for testing the performances of such components.

Abstract: An improved circuit for performing high speed arithmetic computations is described, and includes a mechanism for dynamically deleting faulty data bits in a configuration for minimizing propagation delay paths. The invention is particularly applicable to an associative processor wherein the data word length and rate of flow of data may vary from one instruction to the next. In accordance with the invention, data propagation delay time is minimized as is the number of required circuit interconnections, thereby making the invention easily manufacturable on an LSI chip. The advantages of the circuit design are multiplied in an associative processor, since such processors are highly reconfigurable and must be able to exclude unwanted bits from an arithmetic operation, to change data word sizes and to delete failed bits.

Abstract: A solenoid having one or more windings, a plurality of alternate windings of which are connected in electromagnetic field bucking relationship. An alternative construction utilizes layers of bifilar windings. A first winding of each bifilar winding pair in a first layer is adapted to procduce a field to buck the field of a second winding in the same bifilar winding pair.

Abstract: An insulation displacement connector is disclosed which is particularly adapted for use with flat cable having closely spaced conductors. The termination end of each contact in the connector is formed by slitting the contact body and then offsetting the arms formed by the slit in opposite directions. Each conductor of the flat cable is pushed between the offset arms of a corresponding contact. A cap is mounted over the rear of the connector. Cavities in the cap having inclined walls engage the free ends of the resilient arms of the contacts urging them inwardly toward each other to ensure that a high strength connection will be maintained between the contacts and the conductors.

Abstract: An electrical connector in which one connector member contains a grounding ring having a wall of "C"-shaped configuration in longitudinal section. When the mating halves of the connector are interengaged, the shell of the other connector member slides into the grounding ring deflecting the inner peripheral wall thereof outwardly. The ring provides a windowless EMI/RFI grounding shield for the connector.