Abstract: A method to autonomously determine a destination in navigation system is disclosed. The system is preconfigured with all the routes that a vehicle takes. The system constantly checks if the vehicle takes known routes. After finding out that the vehicle has been taken a known route, a final destination is determined.

Abstract: A crack in a cooling system may be sealed by the direct addition of dry or powder sodium silicate or a glycol based slurry of sodium silicate. The sodium silicate may be used in conjunction with an inert bulking agent, such as a cellulosic material. The sealant composition may further contain a metal which is non-reactive with sodium silicate. The method has particular applicability in the treatment of cracks in the cooling systems of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: An improved empirical model-based surveillance or control system for monitoring or controlling a process or machine provides adaptation of the empirical model in response to new operational states that are deemed normal or non-exceptional for the process or machine. An adaptation decision module differentiates process or sensor upset requiring alerts from new operational states not yet modeled. A retraining module updates the empirical model to incorporate the new states, and a pruning technique optionally maintains the empirical model by removing older states in favor of the added new states recognized by the model.

Abstract: An improved empirical model-based surveillance or control system for monitoring or controlling a process or machine provides identification of transitions between operational states. Empirical model-based estimates generated in response to receiving actual operational parameters are compared using a global similarity operator to the actual parameters to indicate whether the process or machine is operating in a stable state, or is in transition from one state to another.

Abstract: An improved empirical model-based surveillance or control system for monitoring or controlling a process or machine provides adaptation of the empirical model in response to new operational states that are deemed normal or non-exceptional for the process or machine. An adaptation decision module differentiates process or sensor upset requiring alerts from new operational states not yet modeled. A retraining module updates the empirical model to incorporate the new states, and a pruning technique optionally maintains the empirical model by removing older states in favor of the added new states recognized by the model.

Abstract: The present invention is a file installation system for sequentially displaying bitmap images on an end-user's system during file installation by sequentially retrieving computer files from a computer-usable medium and installing or displaying files stored on a distribution media disk to an end-user's system. The system includes an input for inputting an install command, a disk drive for retrieving a setup file from the distribution media disk in response to the input install command, a memory for storing the retrieved setup file, and a processor for retrieving the setup file from memory and executing the setup file.

Abstract: A method of distributing files onto a computer-usable storage medium based on a user's selection of at least one file from a file library comprising executable and nonexecutable files. The method includes a first displaying step for displaying (1) the file library and (2) at least one file storage designation area having a predetermined size which is representative of a computer-usable storage medium having the predetermined size. A second displaying step displays, in response to a user's input, which includes selection of at least one file in the file library, a file attribute option, which includes file installation options, and an assigning step assigns, in response to a user's selection of at least one file installation option, at least one file attribute to a selected file which corresponds to the at least one file installation option.

Abstract: A package for multiple articles such as trigger sprayers. The articles are placed adjacent each other and secured against an upright backing member. The backing member has an aperture formed by cutting and folding a flap of the backing member material. The aperture serves as a finger hole for carrying the package while the flap serves as a spacer for separating the adjacent articles. In one embodiment a shrinkband is wrapped around the articles and the backing member to secure the articles to the backing member with the uppermost edge of the shrinkband remaining below the finger hole. In an alternative embodiment a shrinkwrap encases the articles and backing member to secure the articles to the backing member. An access hole may be cut in the shrinkwrap around the finger hole in the backing member if use of the finger hole for handling the package is desired.

Abstract: The invention provides a method that can be used online in a continuous printed circuit soldering process to measure and control the composition of soldering fluxes, in particular low-solids fluxes that utilize a solvent with a specific gravity close to the specific gravity of the flux composition. Samples of the flux are analyzed by ultra-violet absorption to determine solvent content and, based on this analysis, make up solvent is added to the flux composition to maintain a steady state composition.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the batch preparation of sample aliquots by solvent extraction and separation of soluble species from sample comprising nonsoluble particulate, which comprises a receptacle which defines a sample receiving space into which a measured amount of sample is placed, a fluid-permeable filter which is remote from and communicates with the sample receiving space, means to add a metered quantity of solvent to the sample receiving space, means to supply pressurized gas to the sample receiving space to slurry the solvent with the sample, means to invert the receptacle to position the slurry into filtering contact with the filter, and means to collect a sample aliquot comprising the filtered liquid phase of the slurry.