Abstract: A contact sensor assembly includes a sensor comprising a plurality of sensing areas, a plurality of non-sensing areas, and a connector coupled to the plurality of sensing areas. The contact sensor assembly also include an outer cover positioned over the sensor. The outer cover has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface includes a plurality of raised portions and at least one corner section. The at least one corner section of the inner surface of the outer cover is reinforced so that the corner section has a greater stiffness and the corner section corresponds to at least one non-sensing area of the sensor.

Abstract: A contact sensor assembly includes a sensor comprising a plurality of sensing areas, a plurality of non-sensing areas, and a connector coupled to the plurality of sensing areas. The contact sensor assembly also include an outer cover positioned over the sensor. The outer cover has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface includes a plurality of raised portions and at least one corner section. The at least one corner section of the inner surface of the outer cover is reinforced so that the corner section has a greater stiffness and the corner section corresponds to at least one non-sensing area of the sensor.

Abstract: A fuel cell system having a fuel cell generator and a fuel cartridge that is removably attachable to the fuel cell generator is disclosed. The fuel cartridge includes a housing having a port, a normally closed valve disposed in the housing that gates fuel emerging from the port, the valve having a poppet that modulates opening of the valve, the poppet having a control surface. The fuel cell generator has a moveable pintle coupled to the poppet, and the moveable pintle is operative over a range of motion which causes the poppet to move between a closed state and at least one open state.

Abstract: In the manufacture of a high capacity data storage device having multiple surfaces for recording information, the yield of the manufacturing process is improved by providing the storage device with a spare surface. If a recording surface is found to be totally defective, or, substantially worse than the other surfaces, as determined by the manufacturing testing procedures, that surface is, by means of a remapping table, logically retired and the information intended for the defective surface is stored on the logically reallocated spare surface.

Abstract: Compliant linkage apparatus for providing, in a single stage, three degrees of freedom in a single plane, the apparatus comprising an upper plate, a lower plate under the upper plate, sliding means for allowing the upper and lower plates to slide relative to each other in X, Y, and theta, and orientation means for causing the plates to attract each other in a particular orientation to resiliently resist relative lateral and rotational displacements of the plates.

Abstract: Apparatus for loading and unloading wafers including a support structure having associated with it a predetermined wafer engagement position at which wafers can be engaged by the processing machine, a temporary storage device mounted on the support structure for storing a wafer in position for pick up, the flat surfaces of the wafer being parallel to an X-axis and perpendicular to a Z-axis, a first wafer engagement member for carrying the wafer on the first engagement member between the temporary storage device and the engagement position, a first X-direction mover mounted on the support structure and operable to move the first engagement member parallel to the X-axis, a second wafer engagement member for carrying the wafer on the second engagement member between the temporary storage device and the engagement position, a second X-direction mover mounted on the support structure and operable to move the second engagement member parallel to the X-axis independent of the first engagement member, a Z-direction m

Abstract: Pivoting a beam of light in one axis about a remote point by providing means for laterally translating the beam and a pivotal reflector and providing control means responsive to the pivotal position of the reflector to cause the means for laterally translating to translate the beam the amount necessary to cause the light beam from the reflector to be reflected to the remote point.