Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and method of using an aldimine oxazolidine compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are, individually, a hydrogen atom, a methyl or methylol group, an ethyl or ethylol group, a straight chain or branched chain alkyl or alkanol group, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group, including any of the above groups substituted by nitro, halogen, thiol and amino functional groups, such that when R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are hydrogen atoms, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are not hydrogen atoms, further, R.sub.7 and R.sub.

Abstract: A handlebar stem coupling module for a bicycle which includes a steerer tube, and a handlebar stem having a compression connector formed on one distal end thereof. The handlebar stem coupling module includes an urging sleeve securely mounted between an outer wall of the steerer tube and an inner wall of the compression connector, and an elongated slit laterally defined in the urging sleeve and extending along a length thereof.

Abstract: An integrated needle for use with a permanent pigment applicator device having a fixed needle coupler that is coupled to a needle drive mechanism includes an elongated needle shaft with a fastening head and an attachment piece having an elongated coupling member that is detachably coupled to the needle coupler. The needle is received in a needle chamber of the attachment piece and is securely held in place around the needle fastening head. The integrated needle can be attached to the drive mechanism simply by grasping the attachment piece and coupling it to the needle coupler of the drive mechanism. After each use, the integrated needle can be disposed of and a fresh integrated needle can be attached. In this way, the needle does not have to be handled when it is attached to the applicator device and the needle coupler can be easily removed and thoroughly cleaned in an autoclave.

Abstract: The present invention, called the Application Program Language Translator (APLT), is a method that allows application programs, performing user interfacing, to be presented/displayed in part or in whole in any language in real-time as selected by the user. In a preferred embodiment the invention comprises two processes, the Learn process and the Run process. The Learn process constructs an application specific translation table (ASTT) specifically for the target application. The Run process utilizes the ASTT during the execution of the target application and performs actual translation for the displays. Application programs can utilize graphic user interface (GUI) on graphical operating system platforms, Such as OS/2, Windows and Unix, running on personal computers (PCs) or workstations. Application programs can be a text based application running in a pure text mode operating system platform, such as DOS, OS/2 and UNIX.

Abstract: Provided are epoxy curing agents comprising the reaction product of reactants consisting essentially of an alkylene polyamine having less than about 12 carbon atoms, an aromatic mono-glycidyl ether having less than about 18 carbon atoms, and a diglycidyl ether of an aromatic diol having an average degree of oligomerization of less than about 3.5, wherein the ratio of primary amine equivalents of said alkylene polyamine to the total epoxide equivalents of said aromatic glycidyl ether and said diglycidyl ether of an aromatic diol is not essentially less than one, and the ratio of epoxide equivalents of said aromatic mono-glycidyl ether to epoxide equivalents of said diglycidyl ether of an aromatic diol is greater than one.

Abstract: A screwdriver including a handle, a driving block fastened to the handle at one end, a front cap enclosing and rotatably fastened to the driving block, and a transmission shaft having a ratchet wheel at one inserted into a hole on the driving block and a square tip at an opposite end extended out of the front cap for turning screws, and two stop blocks controlled by rotation of the front cap to simultaneously or alternatively engage the ratchet wheel thus permitting the transmission shaft to be turned by the driving block in both clockwise and counter-clockwise direction, or permitting it to be turned in only a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.

Abstract: An auto-control device including a housing mounted on a lift pump, a sensor mounted within the housing by a locating block to detect the temperature of the lift pump, a spring member fastened to the housing on the inside to give a downward pressure to the sensor, a two-line electric wire having one end welded to two contact legs on the sensor and an opposite end extended out of a wire hole on the housing and connected to the power supply circuit of the lift pump, and epoxy resin filled through the wire hole into the inside of the housing, wherein the sensor automatically cuts off power supply from the lift pump when the temperature of the lift pump surpasses a predetermined high temperature level, or turns on the lift pump when the temperature of the lift pump drops below a predetermined low temperature level.

Abstract: New Ionomer compositions which have improved moldability and improved high temperature behavior are based on ionomer polymerized at normal pressures but lower than normal temperatures. The compositions may be blends with standard ionomer, particularly if the low-temperature-prepared ionomer is prepared at very low temperatures which reduces productivity compared with standard ionomer, or useful alone when prepared at intermediate temperatures.

Abstract: The invention provides a vacuum pencil having an abutment pin which limits the distance the tip of the vacuum pencil can extend past the edge of a wafer thus reducing scratches on the device sides of adjacent wafers. The vacuum pencil has a relatively flat tip connected to a body. The tip has a flat top side for engaging a wafer. The top side of the tip has channels for delivering a vacuum to seal against the wafer against the tip. The top side of the tip also has an pin mounted between the channels and the body. A passage for delivering a vacuum runs through the body and the channel is connected to the channel in the tip. The pin can be a pentagon shaped pin which is about 1 mm high.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an array of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cells having high capacitance stacked capacitors, is accomplished. The method involves forming node contact openings to the capacitor source/drain contact areas of the field effect transistors, and forming the capacitor bottom electrodes using patterned layers of heavily doped and undoped polysilicon. The selective etch property of the heavily doped polysilicon to the undoped polysilicon is used to form bottom electrodes having sidewall spacers extending upward and increasing the effective capacitor area. After doping the bottom electrode by either ion implantation or out-diffusion, the stacked capacitors on the array of DRAM cells is completed by forming an inter-electrode dielectric layer on the bottom electrode surfaces and forming a top electrodes from a patterned doped polysilicon layer.

Abstract: A system pattern-based speech recognition, e.g., a hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech recognizer using Viterbi scoring. The principle of minimum recognition error rate is applied by the present invention using discriminative training. Various issues related to the special structure of HMMs are presented. Parameter update expressions for HMMs are provided.

Abstract: An edge board connector includes a housing and two terminal pins each of which is formed from an elongated sheet metal and each of which has a back section and a curved movable section that are integrally formed with each other end to end. Each of the back sections abuts against the inner surface of a side wall of the housing and has an intermediate portion which is split to form a mounting leg that extends out from the housing. Each of the movable sections has a positioning part abutting against the middle wall unit of the housing, and a curved acting part having an intermediate portion which is split to form an elongated and arched clamping sheet that has two ends integrally formed with the remaining portion of the acting part and that extends into the card chamber in the housing at a middle portion thereof. The curved distal end portion of each of the acting parts abuts against the inner surface of the side wall of the housing so as to position the pins in the housing.

Abstract: A suitcase includes a rectangular suitcase body with a vertical side wall and a horizontal bottom wall, two roller assemblies disposed on the suitcase body and located at a corner between the side and bottom walls of the suitcase body, and a handle assembly disposed on the suitable body. Each of the roller assemblies includes a roller seat mechanism fixed on the suitcase body and has a shaft hole unit formed through the roller seat mechanism, a rotating shaft that extends through the shaft hole unit of the roller seat mechanism, and a roller sleeved rotatably on the rotating shaft. The suitcase body further includes a flexible long wire positioned on a peripheral portion of the vertical side wall of the suitcase body and has two end portions located between the bottom and side walls of the suitcase body, and a horizontal short wire positioned between the bottom and side walls of the suitcase body and between the two end portions of the long wire in alignment with the rotating shafts.

Abstract: A page turning device for use with any bound pages such as books, music scores, or binders, which have small ferrous elements (14) attached to the edge of each page. The device uses a motorized arm (16) with a magnetic tab (17) mounted on the end to engage individual pages and turn them in either the forward or reverse direction. The magnetic tab (17) is raised during a page turn, but rests in a downward position between page turns so as to not interfere with manual manipulation of the pages. The device further incorporates foot actuated user switches (12,13) which control the mode of operation and cause the device to turn a page in the appropriate direction.

Abstract: A set of golf clubs including a golf club comprising a head and a shaft, wherein the head has an extension and the shaft is joined to the extension and extends therefrom at a shaft tip, the shaft tip having a diameter of 0.370-0.4 inch and the head is approximately 220 cc or greater.

Abstract: An aldimine oxazolidine compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are, individually, a hydrogen atom, a methyl or methylol group, an ethyl or ethylol group, a straight chain or branched chain alkyl or alkanol group, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group, including groups substituted by nitro, halogen, thiol and amino functional groups, such that when R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are hydrogen atoms, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are not hydrogen atoms; m and n are integers of one to five; and X is zero or a --R.sub.9 --Y--R.sub.10 -- group, wherein R.sub.9 and R.sub.

Abstract: An inversion practice exerciser includes a base member including a horizontal beam and two side beams each attached to one distal end of the horizontal beam. A pair of handgrip members are each mounted on a corresponding one of the two side beams. A pair of upright members are mounted on the base member and each includes a lower post and an upper post pivotally engaged with each other. A pair of shoulder supporting members are each mounted on a corresponding one of the two upper posts and each have a buffer pad mounted thereon. A pair of buffer pads are mounted around an upper end portion of a corresponding one of the two upper posts.

Abstract: A reusable connector adapter for coupling any fiber optic transmittable laser source to a fiber optic laser delivery device, the laser source having a laser energy output port. The adapter allows the use of a variety of different laser sources with a variety of different fiber optic laser delivery devices. The adapter maintains the fiber optic laser delivery device adjacent to the laser energy output port such that the laser energy to be transmitted is communicated efficiently to the fiber optic laser delivery device. The adapter further comprises a laser interlock deactivation means such that if a laser source has a mechanical, electrical or optical interlock system, the adapter will function to deactivate the interlock system. Furthermore, the adapter also comprises a plurality of optical barriers to prevent the unintended transmission of laser energy when, for example, the fiber optic laser delivery device has not been installed or has not been installed properly.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic device includes an organic insulating layer of a raised shape and a soft magnetic alloy thin film covering the organic insulating layer. The soft magnetic alloy thin film has a composition which varies to provide a magneto-striction distribution such that magnetostriction is positive or negative in a top region and negative or positive in a bottom region of the raised shape whereby the device has uniaxial anisotropy in a desired direction.

Abstract: An improved roller conveyer for conveying objects is disclosed. It comprises: (a) a fixed conveyer section having first parallel frames supported on upright stands and a plurality of first parallel rollers mounted between the first parallel frames of the fixed conveyer section; (b) a power drive for rotating the first parallel rollers of the fixed conveyer section when conveying objects; (c) a liftable conveyer section having second parallel frames and a plurality of second parallel rollers mounted between the second parallel frames of the liftable conveyer section.