Abstract: A shaker assembly for shaking a tested component. The shaker assembly permitting a vibration to be induced within the tested component, such as for use in measuring operating characteristics of the tested component.

Abstract: A seating surrogate suitable for use in seat testing operations, such as but not limited to those associated with vehicle seat testing and non-vehicle seat testing. The surrogate may include a back form and a buttock form to mimic a human back and buttock. The forms may be operable connected to be simulate actual human interaction with a tested seat.

Abstract: A shaker assembly for shaking a tested component. The shaker assembly permitting a vibration to be induced within the tested component, such as for use in measuring operating characteristics of the tested component.

Abstract: A new and unique LED-based floodlight is provided having an LED light module and a control module. In operation, the LED light module responses to one or more control signals from the control module, and provides an LED array of light having a broad beam pattern from side-to-side with a selected lamp color, brightness, or some combination thereof; while the control module responds to one or more user inputs from a user, and provides the one or more control signals for operating the LED array module in order to provide the LED array of light having the broad beam pattern from side-to-side with the selected lamp color, brightness, or some combination thereof. The broad beam pattern of the LED array of light effectively has a lumen output of about 200 lumens that is equivalent to a 35 watt halogen floodlight output of the same angle.

Abstract: A fixed income securities trading framework for facilitating the negotiation and exchange of fixed income securities over an open network between a plurality of participants wherein, the trading framework comprises: a bond network having a search engine, a rule datastore, a pricing engine, a transaction engine and a fixed income securities database comprised a plurality of bids and offers; a pair of participants where at least one participant is a liquidity provider; and a datastore; wherein at least one of the search engine and the transaction engine correlates criteria defined by one of the participants to the bond database as requested by the participant and where at least one of the search engine and the transaction engine interact with the rules datastore on each of the participant request within the bond network; and wherein the bond network enables the participants to transact against one of a bid or offer posted in the fixed income securities database so as to facilitiate the exchange of fixed income