Abstract: The present invention is a protective sleeve for pickleball paddles that enhances security and facilitates tracking. Most pickleball paddles today lack integrated solutions for preventing loss or theft. This sleeve accommodates a tracking device or GPS tracker, within its durable silicone construction. The design ensures the tracker is securely enclosed while remaining unobtrusive to the player's grip and performance. This innovation lets players quickly locate their paddles if misplaced, lost, or stolen, providing peace of mind and reducing the likelihood of paddle loss.

Abstract: A transfer device is disclosed. The transfer device comprises a transfer rail extending in a longitudinal direction, a carrier movably coupled to the transfer rail in the longitudinal direction of the transfer rail, and a gripper assembly including a gripper module connected to the carrier. The gripper module includes a gripper frame extending in a width direction of the transfer rail and connected to the carrier, a cell mount coupled to an upper face of the gripper frame, and an alignment unit including an alignment body coupled to the gripper frame and an alignment arm movably coupled to the alignment body in at least one of a longitudinal direction or a width direction of the gripper frame.

Abstract: A conduit guide for a conduit laying machine has an arcuate channel and at least two longitudinally spaced apart roller sets rotatably mounted in the channel. Each roller set has an upper bow roller and at least two longitudinally spaced apart lower flat rollers, each roller set having a roller gap between the upper and lower rollers. The arcuate path has a radius that is equal to or greater than a minimum bend radius for the conduit. At least one roller gap adjuster has at least one resilient biasing element that permits increasing the spacings of the roller gaps while biasing the spacings of the roller gaps toward fixed minimum spacings. The guide reduces damage and/or twisting of conduits during a conduit laying operation, especially when laying multiple conduits (e.g., triplex electrical cable) from the same conduit feed passage.

Abstract: A vacuum support system and vacuum support apparatus to support and maintain one or more workpieces via application of negative pressure. The vacuum support system includes a vacuum source and a vacuum support apparatus to support one or more workpieces thereon. The vacuum support apparatus includes a base frame and a cover member supported on the base frame. The base frame has a recessed region for fluidic communication with the vacuum source, and one or more support members arranged in the recessed region. The cover member has a gripping support surface to anchor one or more workpieces thereon via negative air pressure induced in the recessed region by the vacuum source.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a lift pin guide. The lift pin guide includes a cylindrical main section, a flange, a cylindrical recess, a cylindrical extension, and a bore. The flange is disposed at a first end of the cylindrical main section and has a diameter greater than a diameter of the cylindrical main section. The cylindrical recess is formed in a first surface of the flange, the first surface of the flange being opposite the cylindrical main section, and the cylindrical recess having an outer diameter less than the diameter of the cylindrical main section. The cylindrical extension protrudes beyond the first surface of the flange, the cylindrical extension being concentric with the cylindrical main section. The bore is formed through the cylindrical main section and the cylindrical extension.

Abstract: An improved method for producing via a machine an assembled furniture item such as a drawer or box-shaped enclosure from individual panels is described. The method has the steps of holding a first and second panel so that these panels are spaced and parallel to each other; holding a third and fourth panel, in close proximity to the first and second panels, so that the third and fourth panels are spaced apart, parallel to each other, and on planes orthogonal to the lying planes of the first and second panels, and moving the first and/or second panel and/or third and fourth panels so that the edges of the first, second, third and fourth panels contact each other forming the drawer or box-shaped enclosure.

Abstract: Implementations of a substrate carrier may include a frame including an inner perimeter, the inner perimeter configured to be smaller than a perimeter of an organic substrate panel including multiple semiconductor die coupled thereto; and an outer perimeter configured to be larger than the perimeter of the organic substrate panel; wherein an edge of the frame between the inner perimeter and outer perimeter may be configured to rest against the organic substrate panel to prevent warpage during a heating operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for mechanical machining by plastic deformation, comprising: a support unit configured to support a workpiece; a first and a second punch which are opposite and movable to and from the support unit along a direction of action to switch between an operating position in which they exert a pair of compression forces adapted to plastically deform the workpiece and a resting position in which they are spaced apart from the support unit, said pair of compression forces generating a pair of reaction forces opposite to themselves; actuation members adapted to control the movement of the first and the second punch to and from the support unit along a direction of action; a floating element adapted to support the first and the second punch from opposite sides of the support unit along the direction of action and configured to receive said reaction forces.

Abstract: A heat exchanger production line is provided, which includes a support frame, a fin conveying line, as well as a fin storing-fetching device, an end plate mounting device, a pipe inserting device and a nitrogen charging device which are arranged at corresponding positions of the fin conveying line. The fin storing-fetching device is arranged at one end of the fin conveying line. The fin storing-fetching device includes a storing-fetching bracket, a bottom plate, a lifting support plate and a feeding robot. A fin stack is transferred to the fin conveying line by the fin storing-fetching device, is then sequentially conveyed to corresponding stations to be processed along with the fin conveying line, ultimately forming a heat exchanger.

Abstract: A processing machine has a holding unit, which includes a holding surface, a suction valve, an air ejection valve, a water ejection valve, a plurality of suction openings, and a suction-openings suction valve that establishes or interrupts communication between the suction openings and a suction source. An unloading method of a wafer in the processing machine includes a separation step of separating the wafer from the holding surface by closing the suction valve and opening the air ejection valve and the water ejection valve such that a mixed fluid of air and water is supplied to the holding surface, and an unloading step of unloading, from the holding surface, the wafer separated from the holding surface. The separation step includes a drawing step of opening the suction-openings suction valve and drawing the mixed fluid outside of the holding surface.

Abstract: Safety devices for scissor lifts comprise a block, a bracing structure, and an actuator. The block is configured to be fixed relative to a base of the scissor lift. The actuator is configured to selectively translate the bracing structure between a braced position, in which the bracing structure is operatively positioned between the block and a support leg of the scissor lift, and a retracted position, in which the bracing structure is not positioned between the block and the support leg of the scissor lift.

Abstract: A toe kick plate is configured to couple to an appliance. The toe kick plate is defined between a top side, a bottom side, a front side, a back side, a first side, and a second side. The toe kick plate includes a first aperture and a second aperture through the toe kick plate from the front side to the back side. The first aperture is positioned proximate the first side of the toe kick plate and the second aperture is positioned proximate the second side of the toe kick plate. When mounting the toe kick plate to the appliance, the first aperture of the toe kick plate is configured to receive a protrusion from the appliance, and a fastener extends though the second aperture of the toe kick plate into a fixing hole of the appliance.

Abstract: A system for automated mounting and dismounting of at least one cutting insert on a tool body with a screwing tool is provided. The cutting insert includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a circumferential side surface connecting the top and bottom surfaces, and a through hole extending from the top surface to the bottom surface for receiving the shaft of a fastening screw. A carrier device is arranged to pick up and release the cutting insert with the fastening screw. The carrier device has a body having a front surface, a rear surface, a circumferential side surface connecting the front and rear surfaces, and a channel extending from a front end opening in the front surface to a rear end opening in the rear surface. A method for automated mounting of a cutting insert with a fastening screw on a tool body is also provided.

Abstract: The present application relates to a pressing device, and more particularly to a pressing tool for pressing a first workpiece against a second workpiece. The pressing tool includes a first jaw and a second jaw rotatably connected to the first jaw, one end of the first jaw being formed with a first pressing end, the first pressing end including a pressing post and a fixing post arranged on the pressing post, the fixing post being used for positioning the first workpiece, and the pressing post being used for pressing the first workpiece against the second workpiece. One end of the second jaw is formed with a second pressing end, a position of the second pressing end is directly opposite to a position of the first pressing end, and the second pressing end includes a first positioning structure; and the pressing tool further includes a positioning portion.

Abstract: A secondary battery electrode production system comprises a transfer portion configured to transfer an electrode, wherein the transfer portion is divided into a first area for unloading the electrode and a second area for loading or holding the electrode, the transfer portion comprises a suction driving portion, a suction plate, a belt moving along the suction plate, and a plurality of suction blocks coupled to the belt, the suction plate comprises a plurality of first flow paths partitioned from each other, each of the suction blocks comprises a second flow path and a first hole connected to the second flow path, the belt comprises a second hole aligned with the first hole, and among the plurality of suction blocks, the first hole of the suction block positioned in the first area communicates with any one of the plurality of first flow paths.

Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. A face portion of a golf club head includes a maximum thickness portion including a maximum thickness of the face portion, a minimum thickness portion including a minimum thickness of the face portion, and a back side having first, second, third, and fourth quadrants. The portion of the maximum thickness portion in the first quadrant transitions to the minimum thickness portion along a thickness gradient extending between the maximum thickness portion of the first quadrant and the minimum thickness portion. The portion of the maximum thickness portion in the fourth quadrant transitions to the minimum thickness portion along a thickness gradient extending between the maximum thickness portion of the fourth quadrant and the minimum thickness portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: An aligner station includes an aligner stage configured to support a carrier of a process kit ring. The aligner stage is configured to rotate to correct an alignment of the carrier and of the process kit ring supported by the carrier relative to a target orientation. The aligner station further includes a lift mechanism configured to lift the process kit ring from the carrier. The aligner stage is further configured to rotated while the process kit ring is lifted from the carrier by the lift mechanism to align the carrier with respect to the process kit ring. The lift mechanism is further configured to lower the process kit ring back onto the carrier that is aligned with the process kit ring.

Abstract: A hardfacing metal composition and method of restoring worn work string tubing by application of a hardfacing metal to the worn regions of the work string tubing.

Abstract: A kit for removably attaching a string of lights to a roofline, the kit comprising: first magnets of a first magnetic force; screws configured to pass through apertures of corresponding first magnets to fasten the corresponding first magnets to respective points on the roofline; metal tabs configured to magnetically couple to the first magnets; rings configured to secure respective metal tabs to the string of lights; and a pole configured to hoist the string of lights to the roofline, wherein the pole includes a second magnet on a distal position on the pole that magnetically couples to the metal tab when raising the string of lights to the roofline, wherein the second magnet has a lower magnetic force than the first magnet.

Abstract: A clamp-shaped substrate deposition holding apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus may include a first semi-circular member and a second semi-circular member. A second semi-circular member distal end may be pivotally attached to a first semi-circular member distal end, which may enable the first and second semi-circular members to move between a closed position and an open position. The apparatus may further include a first holding arm disposed on a first semi-circular member proximal end and a second holding arm disposed on a second semi-circular member proximal end. A first holding arm longitudinal axis and a second holding arm longitudinal axis may be disposed at a predefined angle relative to each other when the first and second semi-circular members may be in the closed position. The apparatus may further include first and second gripping pads disposed on first and second semi-circular member interior surfaces.