Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle includes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) location system in a manufacturing environment. The method includes determining, when a key cycle transition condition of the vehicle and a vehicle gear transition condition of the vehicle are satisfied, a location parameter of the vehicle using an auxiliary location detection system, where the location parameter includes a location of the vehicle, identification information of the vehicle, and a timestamp of the vehicle. The method includes determining a vehicle time period based on the location parameter and a previous location parameter of the vehicle and validating a manufacturing routine of the vehicle when the location parameter satisfies a location condition and the vehicle time period satisfies a time condition.

Abstract: In one general embodiment, a system includes a working fluid operable to be circulated through a working cycle. The working cycle includes one or more expander-generators driven by the working fluid to generate electrical power at a first condition; an evaporator heat exchanger; and a condenser heat exchanger. The system includes power electronics thermally coupled to a heat exchanger and adapted to convert the electrical power at the first condition to electrical power at a second condition; and a conduit in fluid communication with the working cycle and the heat exchanger. The conduit is adapted to circulate the working fluid through the heat exchanger such that heat generated by the power electronics is transferred to the working fluid.

Abstract: An attachable and removable Light Emitting Diode array adhesively adhered to the top edge surface of a stringed instrument fretboard and fretboard. The device uses independently wired electronically driven (LED's) positioned at or near each standard embedded fret location marker and functions as an optical data display system when wired to an electronic audio signal processing device power source that may be mounted inconspicuously on the neck or body of an instrument. Located in such close proximity to the musician's eyes, the intensity of the display array's bright emissions of light allows for high visibility of the reference data under all light conditions. The array's extremely small size and unobtrusive shape does not obstruct the movement of the fretting hand, and the device does not modify, damage, or de-value the original condition of the instrument.

Abstract: An attachable and removable Light Emitting Diode array adhesively adhered to the top edge surface of a stringed instrument fretboard and fretboard. The device uses independently wired electronically driven (LED's) positioned at or near each standard embedded fret location marker and functions as an optical data display system when wired to an electronic audio signal processing device power source that may be mounted inconspicuously on the neck or body of an instrument. Located in such close proximity to the musician's eyes, the intensity of the display array's bright emissions of light allows for high visibility of the reference data under all light conditions. The array's extremely small size and unobtrusive shape does not obstruct the movement of the fretting hand, and the device does not modify, damage, or de-value the original condition of the instrument.

Abstract: An assembly of stacked rings is provided to form the cylindrical section of a combustor such as used in a gas turbine engine. Each ring is force-fitted into its adjacent ring and joined to it, as by brazing, to form a unitary structure. The rings are configured to assure proper alignment when fitted together and provide a space for holding brazing material immediately adjacent to the mating surfaces to be joined so that the brazing material, when fused in a vacuum furnace, flows evenly between the surfaces. To assure proper distribution of the brazing material when fused, one of the mating surfaces may be upset, as by knurling, to a dimension assuring a light force-fit of the parts to be joined. Each ring also includes a shaped portion projecting into the interior of the assembly for directing cooling air, introduced through the side walls of the rings, along the interior surfaces of the assembly to protect it from high temperature gases generated by combustion of fuel within the combustor.

Abstract: An economical process for making a molten ferrous alloy containing from about 5.0% to about 30.0% by weight chromium and from 0% up to about 25.0% by weight nickel. The process comprises four basic operations:1. partially reducing chrome ore and iron ore and (depending upon the type or reducing process used) converting the ores before, during or after the reducing step into an appropriate physical form for charging into a submerged-arc furnace;2. preparing a charge consisting primarily of the reduced chrome and iron ores (preferably still hot from the reducing step) and smelting and reducing this charge by the submerged-arc process in a first vessel to yield an unrefined chrome alloy high in carbon and silicon;3. transferring the molten alloy from the first vessel to a second vessel and directing gaseous oxygen thereagainst to reduce the carbon and silicon content thereof; and4.