Abstract: A composition and a method for preparing a polymer composite article. The composition comprises (A) a filler in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. The composition also comprises (B) a polymer in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. %. wherein the (B) polymer is selected from polyolefins, polyamides, polyesters, or combinations thereof. Further, the composition comprises (C) an organopolysiloxane in an amount of from greater than 0 to 10 wt. %; the (C) organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydroxyl group and a viscosity of from 1,000 to 60,000 mPa·s at 25° C. The ranges for components (A)-(C) arc based on the total weight of components (A), (B) and (C) in the composition.

Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes a step of providing an oxygen-containing gas having greater than 22 volume percent oxygen and combining the oxygen-containing gas with a fuel to form a combustible mixture. The combustible mixture is provided to an internal combustion engine wherein combustion of the combustible mixture drive the internal combustion engine. An internal combustion system executing the method is also provided.

Abstract: A transmission spectroscopy device can direct light into a sample, and determine properties of the sample based on how much light emerges from the sample. The device can use a cell to contain the sample, so that the size of the cell defines the optical path length traversed by light in the sample. To ensure accuracy in the measurements, it is beneficial to calibrate the device by measuring the size of the cell periodically or as needed. To measure the size of the cell, the device can perform a transmission spectroscopy measurement of a known substance, such as pure water, to produce a measured absorbance spectrum of the known substance. The device can subtract a known absorbance spectrum of the known substance from the measured absorbance spectrum to form an oscillatory fringe pattern. The device can determine the size of the cell from a period of the fringe pattern.

Abstract: A transmission spectroscopy device can direct light into a sample, and determine properties of the sample based on how much light emerges from the sample. The device can use a cell to contain the sample, so that the size of the cell defines the optical path length traversed by light in the sample. To ensure accuracy in the measurements, it is beneficial to calibrate the device by measuring the size of the cell periodically or as needed. To measure the size of the cell, the device can perform a transmission spectroscopy measurement of a known substance, such as pure water, to produce a measured absorbance spectrum of the known substance. The device can subtract a known absorbance spectrum of the known substance from the measured absorbance spectrum to form an oscillatory fringe pattern. The device can determine the size of the cell from a period of the fringe pattern.

Abstract: A transmission spectroscopy device can direct light into a sample, and determine properties of the sample based on how much light emerges from the sample. The device can use a cell to contain the sample, so that the size of the cell defines the optical path length traversed by light in the sample. To ensure accuracy in the measurements, it is beneficial to calibrate the device by measuring the size of the cell periodically or as needed. To measure the size of the cell, the device can perform a transmission spectroscopy measurement of a known substance, such as pure water, to produce a measured absorbance spectrum of the known substance. The device can subtract a known absorbance spectrum of the known substance from the measured absorbance spectrum to form an oscillatory fringe pattern. The device can determine the size of the cell from a period of the fringe pattern.

Abstract: An apparatus for deflecting a spray of wash liquid to a desired location in either a drum or tub of a cleaning appliance along different flow paths and/or flow patterns according to the velocity of the wash liquid.

Abstract: A screening panel and screening arrangement are provided for screening materials. The screening panel includes a peripheral frame having a first side frame member and an opposing second side frame member defining an opening therebetween. Further, the screening panel includes a plurality of spaced elongated screening ribs defining a screening surface of the screening panel. The screening panel includes a one or more sets of screening ribs that extend continuously across at least a portion of the screening surface of the screening panel in a non-parallel direction relative to a flow direction of material in the screening arrangement.

Abstract: A method for deflecting a spray of wash liquid to a desired location in either a drum or tub of a cleaning appliance along different flow paths and/or flow patterns according to the velocity of the wash liquid.

Abstract: A method for deflecting a spray of wash liquid to a desired location in either a drum or tub of a cleaning appliance along different flow paths and/or flow patterns according to the velocity of the wash liquid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for deflecting a spray of wash liquid to a desired location in either a drum or tub of a cleaning appliance along different flow paths and/or flow patterns according to the velocity of the wash liquid.

Abstract: The application discloses an adjustable head stack comb having adjustable first and second comb plates. The adjustable comb plates include at least one tooth segment which cooperatively form a comb having at least one tooth. The first and second comb plates are adjusted to adjust dimensions of the at least one tooth cooperatively formed by the tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. In the embodiments disclosed, a relative position of the first and second comb plates is adjusted to adjust a thickness dimension of the at least one tooth formed by the at least one tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. Also in illustrated embodiments, the comb plates are cooperatively adjusted to adjust an elevation or z-height of the at least one tooth of the comb.

Abstract: A wireless water flow monitoring and leak detection system and method are provided. The system includes a base station, a memory, and a central processing unit configured to control the operation of the system and to analyze stored data. A plurality of highly-sensitive wireless flow sensor nodes are each installed individually on a supply line of a water fixture in a facility having a plurality of water fixtures. The wireless flow sensor nodes can periodically read and store a data point corresponding to either a flow condition or a no flow condition occurring at the water fixture. A plurality of coordinator nodes are configured to wirelessly relay data between the plurality of wireless flow sensor nodes and the base station. The base station is configured to determine based on an analysis of the stream of data points whether a leak exists in any of the water fixtures, and if a leak is determined to exist, a maintenance alert is generated.

Abstract: An improved fiber optic tap monitor has characteristics that are flatter over the wavelength range of interest. The polarization dependence of the characteristics of the tap monitor is reduced, and the package for the tap monitor is smaller. The tap monitor reduces the amount of light reflected back to the source. The tap monitor is also assembled in a manner to improve temperature stability, so that its characteristics over a range of temperatures are more nearly constant.

Abstract: An adjustable head stack comb is disclosed. The adjustable head stack comb includes first and second adjustable comb plates including at least one tooth segment which cooperatively form a comb having at least one tooth. The first and second comb plates are adjusted to adjust dimensions of the at least one tooth cooperatively formed by the tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. In the embodiments disclosed, a relative position of the first and second comb plates is adjusted to adjust a thickness dimension of the at least one tooth formed by the at least one tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. Also in illustrated embodiments, the comb plates are cooperatively adjusted to adjust an elevation or z-height of the at least one tooth of the comb.

Abstract: An improved fiber optic tap monitor has characteristics that are flatter over the wavelength range of interest. The tap monitor includes a filter that reflects a major fraction of the light from a first fiber to a second fiber. A photodetector located behind the filter detects the light transmitted by the filter. The reflectance spectrum of the filter is selected to compensate for nonuniformities in the detection response characteristic of the photodetector over the wavelength range of interest, so that the overall response of the tap monitor is relatively flat.

Abstract: An improved fiber optic tap monitor has characteristics that are flatter over the wavelength range of interest. The polarization dependence of the characteristics of the tap monitor is reduced, and the package for the tap monitor is smaller. The tap monitor reduces the amount of light reflected back to the source. The tap monitor is also assembled in a manner to improve temperature stability, so that its characteristics over a range of temperatures are more nearly constant.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for washing cloth items in an automatic washer is provided wherein the automatic washer includes a wash basket defining a wash chamber and an impeller located within the bottom of the wash chamber. The method includes loading cloth items into the wash chamber and then supplying a quantity of wash liquid into the wash chamber sufficient to moisten the cloth items but insufficient to cause the cloth items to lose frictional engagement with the impeller as the impeller oscillates. The impeller is oscillated to apply a drag force to the cloth items in contact with the impeller such that the cloth items in contact with the impeller move angularly along an arc-like path. Angular movement of the cloth items disposed along the bottom of the wash chamber beyond the outer periphery of the impeller is impeded such that relative angular motion is created between the cloth items disposed along the periphery of the impeller and the cloth items disposed immediately above the impeller.

Abstract: A modified mixing-type condensation nuclei counter for measuring the size and number of small particles is presented. A gas stream is saturated with respect to a working fluid. The saturated gas at a first temperature is mixed in a growth chamber with a sample gas at a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature. The mixture of the saturated gas and the sample gas at different temperatures results in supersaturation of the mixed gas with respect to the working fluid. Particles in the sample gas act as nucleation sites for condensation of the working fluid. The particles are thus grown to a larger size and therefore are more easily measured by known light-scattering particle detection methods. The efficiency of the supersaturation process is made even more efficient by cooling the growth chamber to a third temperature which is lower than the second temperature or by turbulently mixing the saturated gas and the sample gas.