Abstract: Disclosed is a device for insertion and removal of a circuit board into a mating connector positioned within a housing, the device having a first end for pivotal engagement with the circuit board and adapted to mate with a front surface of the housing when the circuit board to which the device is pivotally engaged begins to engage the connector, and a second end disposed longitudinally from the first end and adapted with a latch for releasably mating with a protrusion on the board such that when the board is engaged with the connector the second end becomes releasably mated to the protrusion thereby latching the board to the connector.

Abstract: An antenna is positioned relative to one or more other components within a metal or alloy case member/back cover assembly of an electronic timepiece having a radio communication function to facilitate reception of radio waves by the antenna, and/or to reduce negative effects on the signal reception ability of the antenna caused by one or more other components. Thus positioning the antenna improves its reception, while the external appearance of the timepiece can be maintained or enhanced by using metal or alloy for the case member/back cover assembly.

Abstract: A time display device which utilizes light beams to display time is disclosed. The time display device at least comprises a timetable panel, an illuminant module, a counter unit, and a control unit. When the counter unit sends a counting result to the control unit, the control unit controls the illuminant module to respectively emit three color light beams projected on the timetable panel through the shielding of at least one shielding structure to form three color image areas with different distances to represent a second, a minute and a hour corresponding to the counting result.

Abstract: An electrical adapter (16) for receiving a male plug (10) having male plug electrical contacts (30) and having a broken latching tab (12), the male plug (10) being constructed to be received in a receiving unit (18) in a plugging fashion. The adapter (16) also comprises a female end (20) for electrically receiving the male plug (10) and a male end (22) for electrically connecting the adapter (16) to the receiving unit (18) in a plugging fashion.

Abstract: A ground hardware (26) is crimped to the shield layer (34) of a shield cable (30). A contact spring (6) is put in the a cord tube (5). By connecting the cord tube (5) to the plug shell (2), the contact spring (6) is brought into contact with the ground hardware (36) to electrically connect the shield layer (34) to the plug shell (2).

Abstract: A customizably configurable electrical connector for electrically connecting a plurality of electrically conducting members through at least one electrically conducting ground plate. The ground plate is defined by a plurality of substantially parallel elongated, bendable fingers. Each finger is spaced from every other finger in the ground plate and may be independently bent toward the electrically conducting members to make electrical contact therewith. Preferably, the electrical connector includes a pair of ground plates oriented substantially in parallel, such that the fingers of each ground plate may be bent inwardly towards the opposite ground plate to both electrically and mechanically secure an electrically conducting member therebetween.

Abstract: A modular connector comprises an insulating housing (100) having a plugging portion for plugging with a mating connector, a plurality of contact elements (201-208) supported by the insulating housing, the contact elements each having a contact section (201a-208a) arranged in the plugging portion, an intermediate section (201B-208B) secured to the insulating housing, and a connection section (201C-208C) extending from the intermediate section, a pair of the contact elements (201, 208) on opposite ends being twisted to intersect each other in the intermediate sections, the other pairs of the contact elements (202-207) being arranged such that the distance between adjacent contact elements decreases in the intermediate sections and increases in the connection sections.

Abstract: An electrical plug connection has a first plug part having first contact elements and a second plug part having second contact elements. The plug parts being moved in a common plane toward one another until a contact position is reached in which the contact elements establish electrical contact with one another. A wire spring is mounted on the second plug part and has at least one spring leg that is moved from an initial position by the movement of the first plug part relative to the second plug part into a locking position in which the spring leg locks the first plug part and the second plug part in the contact position. The spring leg is a freely projecting spring wire and has a free end. The second plug part has a guide member for the free end of the freely projecting spring wire. The guide member is comprised of a first portion extending parallel to the moving direction and a slanted second portion slanted outwardly away from the second plug part.

Abstract: A gas powered fishing pole having a conventional reel and rod and a gas powered projection device having a firing chamber with an external end from which a projectile with a hook or lure attached is fired. The improvement comprising a gas projection device that is no more than one half the length of the fishing rod, yet in which the gas charge is generated by manual operation of a lever actuated piston mechanism and wherein the projection device is secured to a fishing rod by a plurality of attachment means, but in which no more than one such means is attached in proximity to the external end of the firing chamber.

Abstract: An electrical connector has an insulating housing from a rear face of which extends a series of contact leg portions for connection to a series of conductive paths of a circuit board by a surface mount technique and a contact aligning member comprising a cover plate extending transversely from an upright wall having a bottom edge formed with a series of grooves at the same pitch as the conductive paths with respective, downwardly opening, divergent contact leg portion receiving mouths. Side walls extending rearwardly from opposite ends of the body have wall guiding surfaces intersected by a stop groove which receives a detent formed on an upright edge of the wall in a snap action when the contact aligning member is inserted downwardly between the side walls so that the respective contact leg portions enter the respective grooves, thereby being located at the same pitch as the conductive paths and in a common circuit board engaging plane.

Abstract: A trolling assembly, adapted to be connected to a fishing boat by a tow line so that the assembly is drawn behind the boat and laterally to the course of the boat allowing a plurality of trolling fishing lines from the boat to be connected to spaced points on the connecting lines, employs three substantially identical planer boards. Each board is an elongated, flat rectangular and has a central slot. A pair of extending arms are pivotally joined to the slots within each board so that arms may be positioned in extending position wherein the boards are parallel to one another and spaced from one another, or a collapsed position in which the arms lie substantially within the slots and the opposed surfaces of the three stacked boards abut one another.

Abstract: A fish catching device comprising a pointless non-piercing fish hook having a hinged lever that closes over the lure, driven by the biting force of the fish, is disclosed. The device closes and holds the fish by its mouth with a tongs-like action.

Abstract: In an installation for the manufacture of hot-rolled steel strip from continuously cast stock, a caster for the continuous casting of the stock into steel strip, a furnace positioned for receiving the strip after it leaves the caster and containing at least two winding/unwinding mandrels each placed in first and second proximate locations, respectively, the first mandrel is placed in the first location adapted to receive and wind the strip into a coil, transport devices are provided for transporting the coil and first mandrel from the first location to a second location and the second mandrel from the second location to the first location; the strip is unwound from the first mandrel in said second location and then fed to a mill. Alternative embodiments include vertical or horizontal movement of the mandrels, more than two mandrels, devices for driving the mandrels at different speeds, cutting means, clamping devices, furnace heating devices, dividing shears and descaling.

Abstract: A collapsible crabpot structure having four generally rectangular side frames, with a V-shaped reinforcing structure extending across each side frame. Hinge structures at each of eight corners of the crabpot structure, each hinge structure having an outwardly located protective structure to prevent impact damage thereon from external impact forces, as well as preventing excess torsional or bending stress on the hinge members of an erect crabpot structure during use. The protective structures are formed at least in part by extensions of primary frame members.

Abstract: An enhanced fishing lure is disclosed for attaching a bait to a fishing line, comprising a lure head having a front aperture for enabling the fishing line to extend therethrough. The lure head has an insert cavity communicating with the front aperture. A lure insert comprises an insert portion with a first and a second panel extending from the lure head and the lure insert, respectively. At least one locking pin is secured to one of the first and second first and second panels for cooperating with at least one locking aperture defined in the other of the first and second panels. A restrainer is secured to the lure insert for restraining the movement of the fishing line relative thereto. The locking pin extends through the bait for restraining the movement of the bait relative thereto.

Abstract: A pressure-casting machine that contains a delivery system, which comprises: a molten metal pouring pipe made of a refractory, having a length of at least 4 m and an outside diameter of at least 350 mm, and arranged such that an upper end thereof is attached substantially vertically from below to an opening in a bottom wall of a mold for a pressure-casting machine, and a lower end thereof extends through a lid of a closed vessel arranged below the mold and is immersed into molten metal received in a ladle arranged in the closed vessel. The molten metal pouring pipe comprises at least two pipe sections connected to each other in series and in a liquid-tight manner by means of a threaded joint, tapered surfaces provided with screw threads of which have an inclination angle within a range of from 2.0.degree. to 15.0.degree. relative to the center axis of the molten metal pouring pipe.

Abstract: A polar motion bond head for bonding semiconductor devices includes voice coil motors for providing positioning motion to the bond head, and a vision system that has an optical path that allows the camera to see all polar positions with the image staying on the camera centerline.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for marking green sand molds are proposed, in which the surface of the sand is individually marked by means of an identification once compacting of the molds in the mold cavity has taken place, in such a way that the marking is transferred from the surface of the sand to the casting by the casting operation.

Abstract: A method to superplastic form sandwich structures is provided. A series of worksheets are joined together at selected locations through the use of partial penetration welding. The worksheets are subsequently superplastic formed in order to form a sandwich structure. The method allows a different number of worksheets to be used at different points throughout the sandwich structure. This results in a sandwich structure with a different internal reinforcement at different locations in the sandwich structure. In the preferred embodiment, a wing is fabricated from a series of worksheets partial penetration welded together using a laser. The worksheets are superplastic formed to producing a wing with a different internal reinforcement at two or more locations in the wing.

Abstract: An anti-corrosive battery terminal including a terminal block provided on its undersurface with a socket adapted to receive a battery post; a grease fitting, with check valve, mounted on the top of the terminal block and communicating with the socket for injection of grease therein; and one or more screw clamps for attaching the terminal block to the post. The screw clamps also double as terminal contact posts for attachment of electrical wiring.