Abstract: A modular jack comprises a dielectric frame, a daughter board having a RJ45 connector and a transformer mounted thereon, a stacked USB connector, and first and second shields enclosing the frame and the daughter board. The daughter board provides a grounding pad on a surface thereof on which the RJ45 connector is mounted. The stacked USB connector has a grounding shell mounted on a rear portion thereof. The stacked USB connector and the RJ45 connector together with the daughter board and the transformer are secured in the frame with the grounding pad of the daughter board electrically connected with the grounding shell of the stacked USB connector.

Abstract: An improved rear derailleur for changing the gear ratio of a bicycle is disclosed. It includes a fixed member, a movable member, a parallelogram mechanism connecting the fixed member with the movable member, and a cable adjusting screw which is screwed to a screw socket fixed on the fixed member. The cable adjusting screw is connected to a first end of a cable, wherein the cable has a second end fixed to a movable member. The cam member comprises a guiding surface for guiding the cable between the cable adjusting screw and the movable member. The guiding surface of the cam member is structured substantially coinciding a portion of a fictitious circle centered at a rotating pin which connects an outer linkage of the parallelogram with a second end of the fixed member.

Abstract: A new type of the compact freewheel body for bicycle includes a freewheel casing, a ball seat, a hub, two rows of steel balls, an adjusting ring and a clutch located in the hub. The ball ring at the top of a convention freewheel casing is moved to the bottom to become a ball seat. The distance between two rows of steel balls is increased. The freewheel body can be made more compact. Smaller gear seat may be used and thus increasing the speed ratio and improving mechanical strength of the gear set. The wobbling of the freewheel can be effectively reduced to make the freewheel running and gear shifting smoother and more reliable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bicycle speed change lever apparatus which is mounted near the handlebar of a bicycle. A lever apparatus is used for pushing a ratchet member, allowing the ratchet member to produce a positive or negative rotation, which further drives a cable-pulling member, thus allowing the cable to be tightened or relaxed by the cable-pulling member to accomplish an in or back shift. A position maintaining mechanism is also provided for effectuating the shift change, and the cable is allowed to maintain a certain amount of tension. The speed change lever apparatus eases the shifting operation and makes the in shift or back shift more precisely controlled.

Abstract: A gear shifting device for a multi-speed bicycle includes a sleeve member having a flange to one side of which a drum housing is connected and to another side of which a rotary grip member is connected by means of a locking and returning device. A ratchet wheel is put over and around the sleeve member within the drum housing, a transmission steel cord reel is connected to one side of the ratchet wheel and is fixed to the sleeve member by a pullback spring. Two ratchet pawls are separately pivotally connected to the rotary grip member and the sleeve member, each having a pawl spring fixedly connected thereto to cause a pawl end of each ratchet pawl to normally contact the ratchet teeth of the ratchet wheel. A lever member is used for pushing the ratchet pawls is located within the drum housing and has a push lever extending through a slot formed on the drum housing and two projections for pushing the two ratchet pawls.

Abstract: A speed indicator for bicycles for indicating the shifting action of the bicycle and a speed sign at each state of shift includes a driving wheel driven by a takeup reel of a shifting device, a resilient strip driven by the driving wheel, and a track along which the resilient strip may displace. When the resilient strip displaces along the track, a shift sign pre-formed on the resilient strip may be shown through an indicating element provided on the track. The resilient strip may be adapted for use in vertically or horizontally oriented tracks of any construction, and their assembly is easy. The driving wheel further includes a compensation mechanism for ensuring clear indication of the indicated sign on the resilient strip.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rotary shifter of a bicycle including: a fixing seat mounted on the handlebar of the bicycle; a rotary lever mounted on the fixing seat on an identical shaft axis as the handlebar; a drag member for driving a derailleur cable to enable a derailleur to change gears; a limit member for driving the drag member to engage in linear movement within a specific stroke; a rotary member for being driven by the rotary lever; a screw driving member located on the rotary member for driving the drag member to engage in linear movement along the specific stroke; a locating mechanism for locating the rotary member at an angular position corresponding to each gear of the derailleur; and an over shift device for enabling the drag member to produce extra displacement necessary for over shift of the derailleur to change gears.

Abstract: A multiple sprocket assembly for use in a bicycle comprising: (1) at least a large sprocket wheel and a small sprocket wheel, each of the large and small sprocket wheels having a plurality of teeth on an outer edge thereof, and the large sprocket wheel having more teeth than the small sprocket wheel; (2) each of the sprocket wheels being adapted to engage with a chain guided by a derailleur; the chain comprising a plurality of rollers connected in series by link plates. The multiple sprocket assembly is characterized in that the small sprocket wheel has at least two consecutive teeth, each with a portion of its side surface trimmed off, and the large sprocket wheel has at least three consecutive teeth each also with a portion of its side surface trimmed off, so as to avoid interference between the link plates and the large sprocket when the chain is being shifted from the small sprocket to the large sprocket.

Abstract: A heat-sealable, oil-resistant, static-dissipative packaging composite consisting essentially of 95.5-97.5 wt % ionomer and 4.5-2.5 wt % electroconductive carbon powder having a surface area of 1000-1500 m.sup.2 /gm and a pore volume of 480-510 ml/100 gm. The composite is useful for protective packaging of electrostatic sensitive electronic components and assemblies.

Abstract: A shift lever apparatus for use in bicycles comprising first and second ratchet wheels and first and second switch levers, all of them being mounted on a main shaft. The first and second switch levers contain first and second ratchet pawls for engaging with the first and second ratchet wheels, respectively. The first and second ratchet wheels are connected to a cam via a gear set so as to cause the cam to rotate in forward and reverse directions, respectively. The outer periphery of the cam consists a plurality of spiral sectors, each of which having monotonically increasing radius, alternated with a plurality of circular sectors, each of which having constant radius.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for heating never-dried para-aramid fibers containing 20 to 200 wt % water, based on dry polymer weight to form a fiber having a modulus of greater than 800 gpd while retaining a high tenacity. The fibers are heated in one or more microwave resonant cavity applicators to a temperature of 250.degree. C. to 425.degree. C. and preferably 270.degree. C. to 310.degree. C. while under a tension of 0.2 to 10 grams per denier. The preferred para-aramid is poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide). Fibers having a density of less than 1.43 g/cc can be made; and fibers having moduli greater than 1100 gpd can be made.

Abstract: A rectangular microwave resonant cavity applicator comprising two spaced-apart, cavity-containing sections is disclosed for heating a product web. Each section has a planar peripheral lip which faces the other and the sections are spaced apart by a distance "d". The lips have arrays of ferrite segments mounted on their surfaces which serve to limit radiation of microwave energy from the open space between the sections, through which the product web passes.

Abstract: Packages prepared from a flexible static charge-dissipating structure comprising a substrate film, a coating layer of heat sealable thermoplastic matrix containing micron sized particles of a silica containing material surface coated with antimony-containing tin oxide crystallites, and optionally a thin layer of metal, provide excellent static charge protection to sensitive electronic components.

Abstract: A composite material useful for controlled generation of heat by absorption of microwave energy is disclosed. The material comprises a dielectric substrate, e.g., polyethylene terephthalate film, coated with a mixture of an electrically conductive metal or metal alloy in flake form in a thermoplastic dielectric matrix, e.g., a polyester copolymer. In a preferred embodiment, the coating of flake/thermoplastic is applied so as to yield an isotropic coating with good heating performance reproducibility. The use of circular flakes with flat surfaces and smooth edges contributes substantially to good heating performance reproducibility.

Abstract: A heat shrinkable film is useful for packaging and for cooking a food item in a microwave oven is provided, which comprises a layer of flexible, heat resistant, microwave transparent base film which exhibits shrinkage of at least about 10% when heated unrestrained to 100.degree. C. for 5 seconds, and a layer of microwave susceptor material extending over the base film in an amount sufficient to cause the film to heat under microwave cooking conditions to provide browning or crisping of the food item.

Abstract: A package for cooking a waffle in a microwave oven is provided, comprising a microwave transparent tray about 28 to 38 mm deep, a lossy susceptor film lid having defined reflectance and absorbance, placed about 3 to about 10 mm over the waffle, providing means for moisture to escape. The waffle is coated with an edible food conditioner, to provide improved microwave susceptibility to the surfaces of the waffle. The waffle may be cooked alone or in the presence of a sausage side dish.

Abstract: New composite materials useful for wrapping food items to be cooked by microwave energy comprise drapable, liquid permeable, woven or non-woven, fibrous dielectric substrates, which substrates, or fibers of which substrates, are coated and/or imbibed with one or more susceptor materials. The composite materials, when wrapped around a food item to be cooked by microwave energy, enhance the browning and/or crispening of the items.

Abstract: New composite materials useful for wrapping food items to be cooked by microwave energy comprise a dielectric substrate substantially transparent to microwave energy which substrate is coated and/or imbibed with one or more microwave susceptor materials, the type and amount of said susceptor material or materials being adequate to allow said materials to absorb a portion of both the electric and the magnetic field components of said microwave energy and convert said energy to heat to rapidly brown or crispen the surface of the food item adjacent thereto without substantially impeding the ability of the microwave energy to penetrate the susceptor material and cook the food item.

Abstract: A serpentine microwave applicator for drying aqueous coatings on polymeric webs. Successive waveguides are coupled by enlarged, inverted, rectangular apertures. With such apertures, normal changes in load have minimal adverse effects on energy utilization.

Abstract: A proteinaceous mass of fungal mycelial fibers is treated by rapid dielectric heating to reduce the moisture content by from 8 to 40 weight percent to give a product with a solids level of 30 to 70 weight percent, and preferably a solids level of 40 to 60 weight percent. The initial proteinaceous mass may be pretreated such as by aqueous thermal shock to reduce the nucleic acid content, before it is formed into fiber bundles of from 0.2 to 1.0 mm. in diameter, and having an average length to diameter ratio of greater than 20. These bundles are interconnected by groups of hyphae or by single hyphal with average diameter of from 0.004 to 0.01 mm. and length to diameter ratio of from 10 to 1000. The dielectric heating process puffs and crosslinks (heat sets) the product which then may be further dried such as in a hot air oven to reduce the moisture content of the mass to the desired level below 10 weight percent. The product is rehydratable to 1 to 5 and preferably 1.5 to 3.