Abstract: A coolant groove-type internal combustion engine has a cylinder block that includes a frame having at least one longitudinal surface and a lateral member transverse to the longitudinal surface, the lateral member defining a coolant passage therethrough, wherein the lateral member also defines at least one cylinder opening and a groove coolant port extending from the coolant passage to the cylinder opening. A cylinder liner includes a cylindrical member, defining an elongated cylinder bore. The cylinder member has an outer surface that has a diameter that allows the cylindrical member to be fitted into the cylinder opening so as to form a coolant jacket between the outer surface of the cylindrical member and the longitudinal surface. The outer surface of the cylindrical member includes an upper portion that plugs the groove coolant port.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of enrolling potential system users for a biometric system for identity verification. Potential system user information is entered into the system, either by the user or a system operator, and is stored as a partially-enabled user record. The user of a partially-enabled user record fully enables the record by presenting information previously stored in the user record and presenting the remainder of user information necessary to complete record activation. Enrollment data is used to authenticate the system user's identity and authorize related transaction accesses in a biometric system for identity verification.

Abstract: A coolant groove-type internal combustion engine has a cylinder block that includes a frame having at least one longitudinal surface and a lateral member transverse to the longitudinal surface, the lateral member defining a coolant passage therethrough, wherein the lateral member also defines at least one cylinder opening and a groove coolant port extending from the coolant passage to the cylinder opening. A cylinder liner includes a cylindrical member, defining an elongated cylinder bore. The cylinder member has an outer surface that has a diameter that allows the cylindrical member to be fitted into the cylinder opening so as to form a coolant jacket between the outer surface of the cylindrical member and the longitudinal surface. The outer surface of the cylindrical member includes an upper portion that plugs the groove coolant port.

Abstract: A floss blowing and heat dissipating apparatus for high speed circular knitting machines includes an annular duct located beneath a circular frame plate and an airflow generator to generate pressurized air. The annular duct has a passage inside and an air intake connector located thereon communicating with the passage, and a plurality of air vents close to a cylinder and straddle seats communicating with the passage. The airflow generator generates the pressurize air which is delivered to the air intake connector through an air directing hose so that the passage delivers the pressurized air to the air vents to eject the pressurized air forcefully towards the straddle seats, the cylinder and needles of a circular knitting machine where the floss is most likely to accumulate to carry away the floss. It also can reduce the temperature generated by the friction between needle troughs and needles to achieve optimal cooling effect.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of biometric-based identity verification for authorizing financial transactions between a consumer and a merchant, said system comprising distributed processing to facilitate biometric matching and various types of financial transactions to facilitate said system's integration into current financial networks. System users register at least one biometric identifier, personal and/or business identity-verifying data, and financial account information. A user presents a biometric sample obtained from the user's person and the user's system ID number to conduct financial transactions. This data is used to authenticate the user's identity and authorize transfer of funds from the user's registered financial account to the designated recipient's account by matching the presented transaction biometric with at least one registered biometric template and without the use of a man-made financial account token or identity token.

Abstract: A system for the authentication by a card-issuing financial institution of identifying information of a card-holding user of a public data network. The system includes a secure data entry device connected to the public data network and a gateway device connected to the public data network and to a private data network used for transmitting messages between financial institutions wherein. The secure data entry device enables the user to enter identifying information of a card issued by the card-issuing financial institution, and means for transmitting transmits the identifying information in a secure manner over the public data network to the gateway device. The gateway device transmits the identifying information to the card-issuing financial institution and receives an approval response from the card-issuing financial institution over the private data network. The approval response provides authentication of the identifying information by the card-issuing financial institution.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a doffing apparatus of a high-speed high-stand fabric take-up device, which is applicable to a fabric take-up device having a higher fabric-storage volume. The doffing apparatus has safety pins and control handles in the side-frame casings of the fabric take-up device. Via shifting the control handles to change the relative positions of the safety pins, the safety pins can be inserted into the rod shafts of the fabric-winding rod so that the coupling between the drive wheels and the rod shafts can be enhanced and the safety of a fabric-winding operation can be promoted. Further, hydraulic cylinders are installed between the side-frame casings of the fabric take-up device and the support brackets sustaining the fabric-winding rod. Via the hydraulic cylinders providing a buffer force for the support brackets, the support brackets can rotate and descend slowly, and the safety of a fabric-doffing operation can be promoted.

Abstract: A method and system for processing negotiable economic credits (e.g., cash, credit card, enterprise incentives/award such as frequent flier miles, etc.) through a hand held device. Credits are storable in the form of credit data in a credit database associated with a point of sale and/or hand held device. Credit is retrievable from the credit database, in response to synchronizing a hand held device, such as a PDA, wireless PDA, paging device, cellular telephone, or other hand held computing device, with the point of sale. Credit data may be transferred to/from the hand held device, thereby permitting a user to maintain and manage enterprise credits based on the credit data, utilizing the hand held device. In one embodiment, when a particular number of enterprise credits have been earned, the user may utilize such credits to receive price discounts on enterprise products or services, or awards of such products or services.

Abstract: A fabric winding machine is installed on a circular knitting machine to wind and collect an annular fabric knitted by the circular knitting machine. It has a fabric splitting mode and a fabric non-splitting mode according to the characteristics of the fabric material. The fabric winding machine includes a fabric directing means on which an arched bracket or a fabric extending bracket can be installed respectively corresponding to a fabric splitting mode or a fabric non-splitting mode. The fabric in the two modes can be collected on a fabric collection rod through different fabric winding paths. By switching the two modes the large size fabric winding machine does not have to be disassembled in response to the fabric of different characteristics.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for implementing a sequence for sales and provision of information at a retail establishment or in a similar area where a local radio communication is established between a central computer unit (30) and mobile terminals (20), equipped with bar code readers. For implementation of the sequence, the unit (30) first receives an initiation order from a terminal (20), transmitted via a telecommunication network via a second unit (40) at a service provider. The telecommunication is then disconnected, and local radio communication is employed for the communication between the customer's terminal and the shop's unit (30). A unique identification is created for the sequence, and a registration list is established associated with the sequence. The unit (30) further receives data input by means of the bar code reader in the terminal (20), comprising information (101) concerning each item.

Abstract: A system and method of providing employers with an accessible system and convenient method for tracking the work of mobile workers. By obtaining customer biometric data upon the initiation and conclusion of a work session, an employer may ensure that a customer is billed for an appropriate amount of time.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine provides sinkers that are moved in an inclined manner in the sinker troughs to position yarn laps and prevent the sinkers from hitting yarn feeding plates. The sinker has a nose section to hold the yarn laps at a horizontal high point to prevent the yarn laps from slipping, and has a throat section which has a horizontal first end surface and a belly section with an inclined second end surface in order to keep the knitting needles and sinkers moving smoothly during a knitting operation. The yarn feeding plate has a dodging edge on a distal end, the dodging edge being formed in a shape corresponding to the movement track of the sinker and having a slanted surface at the front end thereof, so as to avoid hitting the sinker when the sinker is moved in the sinker trough in an inclined manner.

Abstract: A goal end board of a soccer playing table has its inner side formed with a recessed arc-shaped wall. Thus, when a football bumps against the inner side of the goal end board and rebounds, the football can be guided by the recessed arc-shaped wall to run inside the soccer playing table, not to bounce out.

Abstract: A yarn clamp assembly of a knitting machine uses a wrap knitting method to knit a fabric having a side of a loop surface or a cut pile surface, and the base yarn of the base fabric forms two fixing loops fixed onto the wool yarn of the loop or the wool yarn during repeated knitting processes, so that the loop or the wool yarn will not be loosened easily from the base fabric due to the fixing effect of the two fixing loops.

Abstract: A superheated vapor generator has a tubular, vertically extending container with closed ends. A high frequency induction heating coil is wound around the container. A heating medium is placed in the container and is made from material heatable by electromagnetic conduction. A number of vapor passages extend through the heating medium longitudinally of the tubular container. The tubular container has a heating section with the heating coil and a non-heating section under the heating section. Material for superheated vapor is supplied through a supply passage from a position above the heating medium to the non-heating section. A passage structure is provided in the non-heating section for flow of material supplied through the supply passage therethrough into the vapor passages of the heating medium. A discharge passage is formed above the heating medium. A discharge passage is formed above the heating medium for discharging superheated vapor.

Abstract: A knitting machine for manufacturing plush fabrics includes latch-less cylinder needles in a cylinder, latch needles located on a needle dial and a cutting unit. The loop formed by a plush thread can be directly knitted in a fabric formed by ground threads to form a longer plush on the fabric surface. By changing the dimension of the needle dial, the interval of the peripheral edge of the needle dial and the cylinder needle can be increased so that the plush thread held on the hook of the cylinder needle can be stretched by the latch needle to become a longer loop. Finally, the loop is severed by the cutting unit to form a plush fabric of a longer plush.

Abstract: A yarn guide of a knitting machine assists a knitting machine to weave a fabric having a yarn ring surface and comprised of a base yarn for forming a base fabric and a wool yarn for forming a yarn ring surface. A needle disc is shifted to enter the wool yarn and the base yarn respectively into a yarn hooking section and a first yarn hooking position of a needle latch. The needle disc continues shifting such that the base yarn is entered into a second yarn hooking position of the yarn hooking section. A knitting needle includes a yarn guide plate on a side so that the first yarn hooking position continues pressing the base yarn by the yarn guide plate. The second yarn hooking position drives the base yarn to weave the wool yarn into the base fabric under a counter wrap knitting status.