Abstract: In one form, one or more micropumps and optical micro-detectors are on a substrate, ideally many per square centimeter, each detecting fluid moved by its pump. A second form has many waveguides and, intersecting each, a fluid chamber controlling radiation in the guide; the device is best immersed in a fluid that moves in and out of chambers, intercepting radiation to yield position data—transmitted e.g. wirelessly for external reception. The device can be a chip in a live creature (e.g. implanted, or in blood); data go to a wireless receiver. Each guide ideally couples to a radiation source and detector. In a third form a membrane deflects a radiation-interacting fluid in a plenum; liquid moves between the plenum and a tube. The plenum cross-section is many times the tube's; radiation in the tube is monitored. Deflected liquid in the tube controls specimen movement to and from the tube.

Abstract: In one form, one or more micropumps and optical micro-detectors are on a substrate, ideally many per square centimeter, each detecting fluid moved by its pump. A second form has many waveguides and, intersecting each, a fluid chamber controlling radiation in the guide; the device is best immersed in a fluid that moves in and out of chambers, intercepting radiation to yield position data—transmitted e.g. tirelessly for external reception. The device can be a chip in a live creature (e.g. implanted, or in blood); data go to a wireless receiver. Each guide ideally couples to a radiation source and detector. In a third form a membrane deflects a radiation-interacting fluid in a plenum; liquid moves between the plenum and a tube. The plenum cross-section is many times the tube's; radiation in the tube is monitored. Deflected liquid in the tube controls specimen movement to and from the tube.

Abstract: A gap in an optical guideway is occupied, when the switch is in its diverting condition, by a quantity of air or other gas. To change the switch to its through condition, an actuator forces a column of liquid against the gas to compress (and thereby displace) the gas in the gap with the liquid. The actuator includes a preferably wide reservoir of the liquid and a diaphragm which is flexed to force the liquid up the column against the gas. When the actuator is deactivated the compressed gas forces the column of liquid out of the gap to return the switch to the diverting condition.

Abstract: A rotor for a high speed generator is constructed of a plurality of laminations and interlamination disks, which are disposed between each of the laminations. A coil support assembly is disposed within each of the rotor interpole regions and is secured to the interlamination disks.

Abstract: A gap in an optical guideway is occupied, when the switch is in its diverting condition, by a quantity of air or other gas. To change the switch to its through condition, an actuator forces a column of liquid against the gas to compress (and thereby displace) the gas in the gap with the liquid. The actuator includes a preferably wide reservoir of the liquid and a diaphragm which is flexed to force the liquid up the column against the gas. When the actuator is deactivated the compressed gas forces the column of liquid out of the gap to return the switch to the diverting condition.

Abstract: An automated information processing system for collecting and analyzing transactional information pertaining to recycled beverage containers. The automated information processing system includes a first client, a second client, and a server, each system component being in communication with other components of the system via a connection to the Internet. The first client is a dedicated for use by a government agency and is specially programmed for producing reports, graphs, and charts of collected data. The second client is specially programmed for processing and managing recycling data generated at a certified recycling establishment. The server is specially programmed for providing a central depository for collection and storage of data produced by the information processing system.