Abstract: The device, system and process of the present invention greatly reduces the time and space necessary to assemble a wire harness enables efficient manufacture of wire harnesses and cable assemblies. The present invention comprises at least a wire or cable viewer module, a machine vision and optical character recognition module, one or more receptacles designed to receive and hold in place a wire harness or cable assembly connector, having multiple pin-hole cavities illuminated by a light source to identify a cavity for wire or cable insertion. Moreover, the present invention may further comprise a portable, computer-implemented system capable of executing a series of automated process steps designed to identify wire and cable markings and guide the error-free insertion of identified wires and cables into wire harness connector pin-hole receptacles for assembly of a wire harness or cable assembly.

Abstract: Fiber reinforced hollow microspheres made from dispersed particle film forming compositions including fibers, dispersed particles, a binder, a film stabilizing agent, a dispersing agent and a continuous liquid phase. Porous and non-porous fiber reinforced hollow microspheres can be made. The fiber reinforced hollow microspheres have walls with voids which are interconnected to each other and to the inner and outer wall surfaces, and the fiber reinforced hollow microspheres can be used as membrane substrates in selective separation processes and in biotech processes. The fiber reinforced hollow microspheres can be used as supports for catalysts and as enclosures for catalysts, adsorbents and absorbents. The fiber reinforced hollow microspheres can also be used as filler materials and as proppants for increasing gas recovery from gas wells.

Abstract: Fiber reinforced hollow film forming material microspheres 17 made from a fiber and film forming material composition are described. The fiber reinforced hollow microspheres 17 are used to make shaped and molded articles and to make insulation materials. The fibers can be made from ceramic materials, glass, metal, metal glass and plastic. The reinforcing fibers can be one-half to five microns in diameter and five to one hundred microns in length.

Abstract: A method providing for the non-wetting of predetermined portions of articles exposed to molten filler metals during soldering or brazing operations wherein predetermined areas of said elements are provided with a layer of chemical vapor deposited titanium carbide with an overlayer of titanium nitride or with a layer of titanium diboride to resist wetting of the coated areas by the filler metals. Articles coated by the non-wetting titanium compounds include circuit board support brackets and other elements used in immersion soldering machines, and heating elements for soldering operations such as soldering tips for various types of heated soldering tools and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming dense protective coatings of co-deposited aluminum oxide and titanium oxide on wear surfaces. The coating is formed by simultaneously reacting an aluminum halide gas and a titanium halide gas with water vapor on a surface maintained at a temperature of about 900.degree. to about 1250.degree. C. Reaction conditions are maintained to assure mixing of the titanium halide gas with the other reactants only in the reaction zone and compositions of the reactant gases are limited to produce a coating comprising alpha alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) with about 2% to about 10% hexagonal alpha titanium oxide (Ti.sub.2 O.sub.3) dispersed in the alumina matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming dense protective coatings of co-deposited aluminum oxide and titanium oxide on wear surfaces. The coating is formed by simultaneously reacting an aluminum halide gas and a titanium halide gas with water vapor on a surface maintained at a temperature of about 900.degree. C to about 1250.degree. C. Reaction conditions are maintained to assure mixing of the titanium halide gas with the other reactants only in the reaction zone and compositions of the reactant gases are limited to produce a coating comprising alpha alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) with about 2% to about 10% hexagonal alpha titanium oxide (Ti.sub.2 O.sub.3) dispersed in the alumina matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite coating for wear surfaces comprising a layer of vapor deposited titanium nitride overlying a layer of titanium carbide. The composite coating is formed by successive chemical vapor depositions of titanium carbide and titanium nitride on a heated substrate.