Abstract: Some disclosed golf club heads include body having at least one raised sole portion and a cantilevered ledge extending down around a perimeter of the club head below the level of the raised sole portion. Some disclosed golf club heads include one or more sole openings in the body and a sole insert that is mounted inside the body over the sole openings. The sole can include weight tracks as well, and a rear weight track can extend between a toe side sole opening and a heel side sole opening. A crown insert can also be included that is mounted over an upper opening in the body.

Abstract: An automatic bond redemption apparatus is provided that facilitates the processing and/or redemption of one or more U.S. Savings Bonds with little or no involvement from employees of a financial institution providing the service. Image data acquired from the savings bond is processed in order to determine bond information related to the nature of the bond, the bond information may be used to index one or more valuation databases in order to determine the value of the savings bond.

Abstract: By this invention, The Magnetic Field Power Converter, which we call “Magi”, is disclosed which extracts the potential energy inherent in the atomic structure of it's magnet(s) and transforms it into generated electricity and the kinetic energy and torque of a rotating, integral driveshaft. The “Magi” consists of a unique arrangement of permanent magnet(s) and air-solenoid/electromagnet(s), coupled with a standard automotive battery and unique design “Pulser” electro-mechanical device we have developed. Brief, timed, pulses of direct current, from the battery to the coils of the air-solenoid/electromagnet, thru the “Pulser”, energize the coils. The resulting electromagnetic field repells the permanent magnet causing it and the integral driveshaft it is mounted on to rotate and alternating current to be generated in the coils.

Abstract: This invention discloses a hardware manager and scheduler device which can be implemented within a distributed operating system. The scheduler replaces software synchronization and interaction with two unit-level hardware units that facilitate task scheduling. These units utilize global machine memory to manage scheduling queues using a simple algorithm. The "tasks" managed may be programs requiring execution by a processor, other shared system resources that must be cooperatively scheduled, or input/output queues through system peripheral connections. One unit manages tasks waiting to be executed while the other unit manages tasks which have been completed. Each unit reads and writes pointers to task control blocks stored in a shared memory into and from one or more circular memory queues stored separately in the shared memory. Each queue may correspond to a particular task priority and may be separately managed by the device of this invention.