Abstract: A sunshade includes a hollow lower rod, a hollow upper rod located above the lower rod, and a tipping device mounted between the upper rod and the lower rod. The tipping device includes a lower connector, an upper connector, a connecting lever, a drive plate, a tensile spring, and a slide. Thus, the sunshade is disposed between an upright state and an inclined state by controlling the lift cord, so that the tipping device is operated easily and conveniently, thereby facilitating the user operating and tipping the sunshade.

Abstract: A rectangular tilt-up concrete tank includes a concrete slab with a metal plate anchored thereto, the metal plate defining at least one substantially linear concrete side wall location. A plurality of preformed concrete side panels each having metal plates attached along a bottom edge and opposing side edges are welded in a liquid-tight weld to the metal plate defining the concrete side wall location and a side metal plate of each side panel is welded to a metal side plate of an adjacent side panel in a liquid-tight weld to define a concrete side wall. Horizontal and vertical post-tensioning sleeves are provided in the side panels for receiving post-tensioning tendons.

Abstract: A stick mounted with casters, a lower end of a stick main body in which extensible vertical rods are connected to both ends of a grip extending in a horizontal direction is connected to a rectangular horizontal loading table. The vertical rods are self-standing through casters fixed at four corners of a lower face of the horizontal loading table, and a bag is detachably attached on the horizontal loading table. The outer diameter of a wheel of the caster is 30 to 60 mm, and the caster is attached to the horizontal loading table such that a rotational shaft can rotate in the horizontal plane. The grip of the stick main body extends along a longitudinal direction of the horizontal loading table. The vertical rods are curved or tilted so that the grip is located at a central section of the horizontal loading table.

Abstract: A internal support structure for a tent having a shell is disclosed. The internal support structure comprises at least one internal support structure configured to provide structural support to the shell, the internal support structure having a pair of gussets each having a member extending from the gussets. The members are configured to engage the shell and provide structural support to the shell. The internal support structure is disposed adjacent to the shell without occupying space in the middle portion of an internal space defined by the shell.

Abstract: The waterproof structure of the present invention comprises a first receptacle 102 which is formed by folding the corner portions of a tent fabric 101 in the inner direction of the tent; a second receptacle 113 which is formed opposite the first receptacle 102 in the contact part where the first floor link 111 which is sewn to the outer wall surface of the corner portion of the tent fabric 101 and the second floor link 112 which is sewn to the outer floor surface meet; a waterproof-coated member 121 fixed firmly to the tent fabric 101 that provides the first receptacle 102 and the second receptacle 113 by a plurality of sewing lines, after both ends are inserted into the first receptacle 102 and the second receptacle 113; and a waterproof tape 103 which is attached to the sewing line 131 sewn to the first receptacle 102 while shielding the inner surface of the tent fabric 101.

Abstract: A mobility aiding device, such as a walker, a wheelchair, a transport chair, a shower seat or a rollator, are used in providing support to injured or ailing persons during activity or movement. A solid two-piece seating platform is provided with a structural support for distributing the weight of the user to the frame. Furthermore, the two pieces of the seating platform are inter-hinged, enabling the entire device to fold up into a storage position. A lock is provided for maintaining the structural support in place, and a handle is provided for facilitating folding the device into the storage position.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic commerce method in which a seller and a purchaser who are members access via Internet to a management server and undergo member authentication.

Abstract: An automated workflow services system can accommodate a wide variety of workflow scenarios. A composition service, a constraint service, and a tracking service can be provided to client programs. The composition service can support client-directed instantiation of actions for activity flows. Activity flows can be based on an activity model, constructed on an ad hoc basis, or a combination thereof. Actions can be added to an activity flow at execution time of the activity flow. The tracking service can track messages to and from the actions.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting supplier instability is disclosed. Warning indicators such as annual warning indicators and early warning indicators are assigned values and analyzed to determine the stability of a supplier. Annual and early warning indicator values are based on supplier data related to profit, financial, quality, cost, delivery, development, management, and sensing data. As a result of the analysis of the annual warning and early warning indicator values, each supplier is assigned a supplier stability measure or level. Suppliers that are determined by the company to be unstable are guided by the company through a recovery process to restore stability. The present invention allows a company to maintain a smooth and stable supply of products, parts, or materials to its business operations.

Abstract: A system and method for matching potential employees with potential employers over a network. Potential employers provide position information for one or more job openings over the network to a employee recruitment, job matching and job placement system. Case workers work with potential employees in assessing the potential employees and providing the potential employee's job qualification information, physical and behavioral health information and social needs over the network to the employee recruitment, job matching and job placement system. The employee recruitment, job matching and job placement system compares the information for the potential employee with the position information for at least one job opening and generates a list of job openings and corresponding matching percentages. A matching percentage is the percentage of the received information from the potential employee matches the position information for a job listing of a potential employer.

Abstract: A cable flushing lateral is inserted into a guide tube or conduit through which a cable is to be payed out. The flushing lateral is in the form of a pipe within a pipe with a cylindrical space formed between the pipes. The inner pipe is connected to the upstream side of the guide tube and the outer pipe is connected to the downstream side of the guide tube. The upstream end of the outer pipe has a Y-connection to which a water source is connected such that water under pressure may enter the space between the pipes. The inner pipe has an open nozzle termination at its downstream end and the outer pipe is closed against the inner pipe at its upstream end. The cable to be payed out extends through the guide tube and flushing lateral. The pressure and velocity of the water flowing through the cylindrical space between the inner and outer pipes become uniform. As the water flows past the end of the nozzle, a uniform flow of water surrounds the cable.

Abstract: A gravity motor using the potential energy of an initial mass located at a relative height. This potential energy can be converted into kinetic energy. This gravity motor comprises a storage bin (26) able to contain a quantity of fragmented material (39) and having a base (28) with a first chute (30) to take the fragmented material (39) out of the base (28), a second chute (34) with an exit (58) and a guiding cylinder (32) of the exit (58), a wheel (60) with vanes (61) that rotate a rotor (46). While rotating, each vane (61) can collect a volume of the fragmented material (39) and act as a torque around a central axis, thus causing the rotation of the wheel around the central axis, at a velocity corresponding to the kinetic energy of the volume of the fragmented material (39). The rotor (46) comprises means for articulated fastening to a machinery part.

Abstract: A surface micromachined Counter-Meshing Gears (CMG) discrimination device which functions as a mechanically coded lock. Each of two CMG has a first portion of its perimeter devoted to continuous driving teeth that mesh with respective pinion gears. Each EMG also has a second portion of its perimeter devoted to regularly spaced discrimination gear teeth that extend outwardly on at least one of three levels of the CMG. The discrimination gear teeth are designed so as to pass each other without interference only if the correct sequence of partial rotations of the CMG occurs in response to a coded series of rotations from the pinion gears. A 24 bit code is normally input to unlock the device. Once unlocked, the device provides a path for an energy or information signal to pass through the device. The device is designed to immediately lock up if any portion of the 24 bit code is incorrect.

Abstract: The grease coupling of this invention is made from three elements that are conventional and readily available: a nut; an externally threaded tube; and a grease fitting. These three elements are integrated to define an effective grease coupling to lubricate a steering cable that extends through an outer sheath from the steering wheel to the outboard motor of a boat. The method of making the grease coupling enables a competent mechanic to custom-make an efficient grease coupling, and also minimizes the cost of mass producing the grease coupling.

Abstract: A transmission shift rail comprising a control rail and a shift fork are provided. The shift fork is not translated when the control rail is translated in a first shift plane. The shift fork is translated when the control rail is translated in a second shift plane. The shift fork is translated when the control rail is rotated to the first shift plane.

Abstract: A system for preventing release from an underground storage tank from further migrating into surrounding geological formations and groundwater of a surrounding underground storage tank field includes a low permeable layer surrounding the tank field and a set of horizontal pipes positioned above and below the underground storage tank above the low permeable layer within underground storage tank field. The horizontal pipes include two portions including a lower portion installed below the underground storage tanks and an upper portion installed above the underground storage tanks. An air blower injects air in the lower portion of the horizontal pipes for providing air flow which passes through the formation of the underground storage tank to strip out volatile and semi-volatile components of any release from the underground storage tanks when there is a small release from the underground storage tanks.

Abstract: A roadway marker comprises a solid body member having a lower generally planar surface configured to be adhered directly to a roadway surface. The marker is injection molded as a one-piece structure from a closed-cell foam thermoplastic material using a chemical blowing agent. The bottom surface of the body member may be formed with slight recesses or protrusions such that the entire bottom of the marker fills with adhesive when the marker is installed. Thus, maximum adhesive surface area is provided between the marker and the roadway surface. Further, the closed-cell foam construction creates a marker body which is strong, economical to mold and which does not shrink after molding.

Abstract: A chain and sprocket system includes a plurality of chain assemblies and phased or offset sprockets. The individual chain assemblies are interconnected by a retention bracket to form a single composite chain assembly.

Abstract: A fixed chain guide for absorbing vibrations during running of a chain is composed of a shoe in sliding contact with the chain and a plate base supporting the shoe. The plate base is secured to a mounting surface by two mounting seats integral with the base plate. The mounting seats are formed by bending them in opposite directions along bend lines, to have the seats in an essentially common plane but extending in opposite directions from the bottom edge of the base plate. The base plate is punched out of sheet stock in such a way that failure will not occur at the respective bend lines of the mounting seat by forming the ends of the bend lines so that there is a shear surface on the outside of the bend and a rupture surface on the inside of the bend. Punching the stock originally produces a shear surface adjacent one surface of the stock at the ends of one of the bend lines and a rupture surface adjacent the other side of the stock.

Abstract: A driving device (actuator) 10 includes a driving shaft 16 which is Linearly driven in the axial direction by a piezoelectric element 15 and two disks 18a and 18b which are made of an elastic material and fixed to a rotary shaft 17. Peripheral portions of the two disks 18a and 18b vertically hold the driving shaft 16 between them so as to be frictionally coupled with the driving shaft 16 by their elastic forces. When the driving shaft 16 is linearly driven in the axial direction by the piezoelectric element 15, the peripheral portions of the two disks 18a and 18b receive a force in the tangential direction and rotate around the rotary shaft 17.