Abstract: An armature-based suction device comprising a convex surface on one side of the device when the device is not in use. A concave surface is located on an opposite side of the device when the device is not in use. The concave surface has a matte finish. The concave surface comprises a perimeter located on an outer edge of the concave surface where the perimeter is non-occlusive when the device is sealed onto a native surface. An annular square-shouldered cross-sectional recess located adjacent to the perimeter. The recess has a main flat surface that is at an acute angle to the concave surface, where the recess is non-occlusive when the vacuum seal is sealed onto a native surface. At least one annular band of soft, resilient, sticky, solid, and non-flowable material is located on the annular square-shouldered cross-sectional recess, and where the device is reusable.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a brace being mounted on a person's body part and having a hard fitting surface. The apparatus also includes a load device, a support, a securing member, a brake, a switch device, and a soft film. The load device has a hard receiving surface receiving the fitting surface of the brace. The support movably supports the load device. The securing member secures the fitting surface to the receiving surface and enables the load device to move and follow movement of the person's body part and the brace against resistance applied from the support. The brake limits movement of the load device. The switch device switches operation modes of the apparatus, at least, between a free mode and a limiting mode. The soft film is arranged between the receiving and fitting surfaces for smooth movement of the person's body part on the load device in the limiting mode.

Abstract: A pipe supporting device includes a support portion for supporting a hydraulic pipe along an axis of the hydraulic pipe extending along a length of a boom, and a weld portion to be connected with an outer surface of the boom by fillet welding. The weld portion has a plurality of peripheral surfaces, the plurality of peripheral surfaces including: a pair of opposite perpendicular standing surfaces and extending in a direction substantially perpendicularly intersecting a first stress direction along the axis of the hydraulic pipe; and a pair of oblique standing surfaces extending from respective leading ends of the pair of opposite perpendicular standing surfaces to join each other. Each of the oblique standing surfaces extends in a direction oblique to the first stress direction and joins the corresponding one of the perpendicular standing surfaces at an acute angle.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a device, an adjustable swivel mount, and a method are provided. The apparatus includes a bracket (106) and a shaft (108) pivotally coupled therewith. The apparatus also includes a first adjustment knob (143), with rotation of the first adjustment knob causing the shaft to pivot about a first axis (Y). The apparatus further includes a swivel bracket (144) coupled with the shaft, and a first paddle (128) coupled with the swivel bracket. The apparatus further includes a second adjustment knob (136), with rotation of the second adjustment knob causing the first paddle to pivot about a second axis (X). The apparatus also includes a mount (100) coupled to the first paddle and configured to couple to the device. Pivoting the first paddle about the first axis causes the mount to pivot about the first axis, and pivoting the first paddle about the second axis causes the mount to pivot about the second axis.

Abstract: A clamp is provided that allows for easily and securely mounting an object such as a PV panel to a rail having an internal recess or channel. The clamp utilizes one or more splice bars that extend into a recess of a rail that supports a PV panel. In one arrangement, the splice bar is inserted through an end of the rail into the recess such that a portion the splice bar extends beyond the end of the rail. A sliding clamp body engages lateral edges of the slice bar to, in one embodiment, compress a PV panel against a surface of the rail. The sliding clamp body may be affixed to the splice bar to secure the panel.

Abstract: A support rack includes a base, and two supporting units. Each of the supporting units includes a support seat. The support seat of each of the supporting units is pivotally connected with the base and extends downward. The support seat of each of the supporting units includes a pivot end pivotally connected with the base, and a mounting portion located opposite to the pivot end. The pivot end of the support seat of each of the supporting units is pivotable relative to the base to adjust the distance between the mounting portions of the supporting units.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solar array structure that includes a first vertical column having a first height and a second vertical column having a second height, the second height being taller than the first height. The solar array support structure further includes a first horizontal beam attached to and extending across a top of the first vertical column and a second horizontal beam attached to and extending across a top of the second vertical column. The solar array support structure further includes at least one solar panel attached above the first horizontal beam and the second horizontal beam in a plane that extends between the first horizontal beam and the second horizontal beam. Finally, the solar array support structure further includes a telescopic wind brace extending between an upper portion of the first vertical column and a lower portion of the second vertical column.

Abstract: A vibration isolator with zero stiffness whose angle degree of freedom is decoupled with a spherical air bearing has a main body, in which a sleeve and a lower mounting plate, a piston cylinder and the sleeve are both lubricated and supported with air bearing surfaces respectively, and the angle degree of freedom between a upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate is decoupled with a spherical air bearing; a position close-loop control system comprising voice coil motors, displacement sensors, limit switches, a controller and a driver is introduced, and the relative position between the upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate is precisely controlled.

Abstract: A cable protector including a conduit having a top channel having at least one engaging edge and a bottom channel having at least one engaging edge adapted to be removably coupled to the engaging edge of the top channel. The pair of removably coupled engaging edges includes an outer portion having a profile including a projection extending from a step to a tip and an inner portion having a profile including a locking step. When urged against the inner portion, the outer portion is slidingly coupled to the inner portion until the step becomes locked in the locking step to form a cavity within the conduit to accommodate the cables. When pulled from the inner portion, the outer portion is slidingly decoupled from the inner portion after the step becomes dislodged from the locking step to provide access to cables disposed within the cavity.

Abstract: A magnetically suspended and plane-drove vibration isolator with zero stiffness comprises an upper mounting plate, a lower mounting plate and a main body. A sleeve of the main body is lubricated and supported against the lower mounting plate by a magnetically suspended planar motor. A piston cylinder fitted in the sleeve is lubricated against the sleeve by a cylindrical air bearing surface. The angle degree of freedom between the upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate is decoupled by a spherical air bearing. A position close-loop control system is formed to precisely control the relative position between the upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate.

Abstract: A plastic body incorporating a flate base, with a top side and a bottom side, is encompassed by a rim perpendicular on it. A pair of rectangular prolongations extends from a side of flat base. Each rectangular prolongation terminates into a downwardly extending end, bent back at 90 degrees and provided with a tapered plate, inwardly directed for tangentially contacting an interior of a gutter. A cantilever bar, having a bent longitudinal axis of symmetry, is located at midway between the pair of rectangular prolongations. A slanted, ribbed plate extending transversally at the bottom end of cantilever bar is adapted to tangentially contact a gutter, respectively a curvilinear external surface of the latter. A tubular housing projecting perpendicularly out of the bottom side of the flat base is used for inserting a pole for positioning and anchoring the gutter-anchored structure.

Abstract: A cable clamping arrangement for securing one or more cables to a submerged hull surface of a ship. The cable clamping arrangement includes a plurality of powerful magnetic clamping devices for attaching signal carrying cables to a submerged ferrous submerged hull surface. The cable clamping devices each have a low-profile and are dome shaped to reduce hydrodynamic interference when the ship is travelling at operational speeds. The clamps are equipped to grip a cable in a desired path at a desired tension, thereby increasing the ability to maintain the cable in a fixed manner on the surface while the ship is operating.

Abstract: A magnetically suspended vibration isolator with zero stiffness whose angle degree of freedom is decoupled with a joint ball bearing has a main body, in which a sleeve and a lower mounting plate are supported with a magnetically suspended thrust bearing, a piston cylinder and the sleeve are lubricated and supported with a cylinder air bearing surface, and the angle degree of freedom between a upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate is decoupled with a joint ball bearing; a position close-loop control system comprising voice coil motors, displacement sensors, limit switches, a controller and a driver is introduced, and the relative position between the upper mounting plate and the lower mounting plate is precisely controlled.

Abstract: A cradle head is provided, applicable to a tripod, including a fixing base, a clamping device and a position adjustment assembly; wherein the fixing base engaged to the tripod; the clamping device being for clamping a portable electronic device; the position adjustment assembly including a carrier element and a sliding element; both the clamping device and the sliding element being installed on the carrier element and located on same side of carrier element; the sliding element able to slide along the carrier element without disengaging from carrier element; the sliding element partially extending from the carrier element to couple with fixing base; the clamping device installed at the carrier element in a rotatable manner; the sliding element adjustable with respect to the fixing base so that the center of mass of portable electronic device falling within a range covered by fixing base when clamped by the clamping device.

Abstract: To provide a vibration isolation device capable of preventing the sealing performance in liquid filling work from deteriorating and capable of simplifying maintenance of apparatuses in relation with the liquid filling work. A liquid chamber is filled with liquid from a through hole through a nozzle. A seal section is vulcanizingly formed in the periphery on one end side of the through hole. Because the seal section interferes with a nozzle and is elastically deformed, the sealing performance in pouring in the liquid can be secured. Also, because the seal section is arranged for every vibration isolation device, maintenance of a liquid filling device can be simplified compared with a case the seal section is arranged in the liquid filling device.

Abstract: In a structure for fixing a foreign object detection sensor, a foreign object detection sensor, which detects a foreign object by being elastically deformed by external force applied by the foreign object detection, is fixed to a plastic bracket. A support portion projects from the outer peripheral surface of the foreign object detection sensor. The bracket has a penetration portion through which the support portion is passed. The foreign object detection sensor and the support portion inserted through the penetration portion clamp the bracket from opposite sides of the extending direction of the penetration portion.

Abstract: A loading mechanism of a storage device for accommodating a hard drive has a loading body and a second supporting arm. The loading body includes a loading base, a first supporting arm extending from one end of the loading base, and an assembling part provided on the loading base. The second supporting arm is laterally and slidably connected to another end of the loading base, and is disposed correspondingly to the first supporting arm. One end of the second supporting arm includes a stand disposed on the loading base and a sliding member disposed on the stand. The sliding member has an elastic engaging part being able to detachably connect to the assembling part. Therefore, the goal of quickly replacing hard disk without using any screws can be achieved.

Abstract: Mounting apparatuses, electronic device holders, and components of electronic device holders are shown and described herein. A mounting apparatus is removably connected to an object and the electronic device holder. The electronic device holder is configured to hold an electronic device and has one or more of an adaptor, a movable stand, and one or more portions of a backside thereof that are either clear or removed. The adaptor is removable from the electronic device holder for removal and replacement thereof with one or more additional, different adaptors.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting accessories includes a base that has a mounting surface and at least one aperture. The apparatus further includes a mounting mechanism coupled to the mounting surface of the base, with the mounting mechanism being connectable with a mountable accessory. Further, the apparatus includes at least one resiliently bendable support coupled to the base via retractable engagement with the at least one aperture.

Abstract: A holding device for a tool contains a body, a base, and a limiting mechanism. The body includes an accommodating chamber, a side lid for covering the accommodating chamber, and at least one stop extension extend outwardly from a bottom end of the body. The base includes a fitting seat, at least one locking tab disposed on two sides of the fitting seat and movably corresponding to the at least one stop extension, and a driving insertion arranged on a top end of the fitting seat and inserting into the accommodating chamber. The limiting mechanism includes a confining block connecting with the driving insertion and includes a limitation groove defined on the side lid of the body. The limitation groove has a limiting section formed therein and has an expansion section formed on an open segment of the limiting section.