Abstract: Operations, such as data processing operations, can be improved by applying clustering and statistical techniques to observed behaviors in the data processing operations.

Abstract: There is herein described a load measuring system. More particularly, there is described a load sensor and panel comprising at least one of said sensors for measuring and/or monitoring a load and/or distribution of a load.

Abstract: Operations, such as data processing operations, can be improved by applying clustering and statistical techniques to observed behaviors in the data processing operations.

Abstract: Operations, such as data processing operations, can be improved by applying clustering and statistical techniques to observed behaviors in the data processing operations.

Abstract: A method for providing a financial instrument includes determining an initial account balance associated with a financial instrument based upon an initial deposit amount, wherein the financial instrument includes an account with an account balance that changes over time. The method further includes establishing a first guarantee of a protected value, the protected value including at least an amount based upon the initial account balance growing at a minimum growth rate for a defined period of time or until one or more defined events occur, whichever is sooner; and establishing a second guarantee that a beneficiary may periodically receive a transfer of an amount of money for the life of a designated party, wherein the amount comprises a percentage of the protected value at the time of a particular event, provided that the amount may vary based upon withdrawals from the account in excess of a first particular limit.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine generally includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The turbine can include an integrated manifold comprising a plenum defined by a manifold disposed in connection with a divider plate and opposite a shielding plate comprising a plurality of apertures. The integrated manifold also includes a means for integrally mounting the manifold to the turbine. During operation of the gas turbine engine, a quantity of working fluid enters the integrated manifold and circulates throughout the plenum and shielding plate, and enters the turbine through the apertures to actively control clearances between turbine engine components.

Abstract: A stator assembly for a rotary machine having an array of wall segments for bounding a working medium flow path is disclosed. Various construction details which provide a sealing structure for the segments are developed. In one detailed embodiment, a removable seal retainer for a seal chamber bounded by wall segments traps a resilient seal member in the seal chamber. In one particular embodiment, a modular subassembly for the engine is an outer air assembly disposed in a fixture as the subassembly is assembled.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for differential spectral interferometry comprising providing an interferometer comprising a light source; employing an element to provide a dithered relative phase shift between target and reference arms of the interferometer, detecting output from the interferometer, demodulating signals received from the detector at different multiples of the dither frequencies, generating more than one real-valued interferograms from demodulated signals, and using the real-valued interferograms to obtain the complex spectral interferogram.

Abstract: An embodiment generally relates to a permanent magnet rotor arrangement. The arrangement includes a rotor having a plurality of apertures, a plurality of pole pieces, a plurality of wedges, and a plurality of permanent magnets. Each magnet is held substantially secure against the rotor by a two pole pieces of the plurality of pole pieces and an associated wedge from the plurality of wedges. Each pole piece is connected to the rotor by a fastener pulled through an associated aperture.

Abstract: In the embodiments described in the specification, a permanent magnet machine includes a stator having windings which intercept flux received from peripheral pole pieces in a rotor generated by permanent magnets disposed between the pole pieces. In order to control the flux passing through the stator windings, flux shunts are provided between the pole pieces and a winding on the core of each flux shunt generates flux in the shunt in proportion to current supplied to the winding so as to decrease the flux from the magnets which can be diverted from the pole pieces through the shunt. Current is supplied to the flux shunt windings in accordance with the instantaneous difference between the wave shape of the output from the machine and a desired wave shape stored in a control unit. An encoder supplies a signal to the control unit indicating the instantaneous position of the rotor with respect to the stator.

Abstract: In the embodiments described in the specification, a permanent magnet machine includes a stator having windings which intercept flux received from peripheral pole pieces in a rotor generated by permanent magnets disposed between the pole pieces. In order to control the flux passing through the stator windings, flux shunts are provided between the pole pieces and a winding on the core of each flux shunt generates flux in the shunt in proportion to current supplied to the winding so as to decrease the flux from the magnets which can be diverted from the pole pieces through the shunt. Current is supplied to the flux shunt windings in accordance with the instantaneous difference between the wave shape of the output from the machine and a desired wave shape stored in a control unit. An encoder supplies a signal to the control unit indicating the instantaneous position of the rotor with respect to the stator.