Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving fabrication data from an additive manufacturing system during fabrication of an object by the additive manufacturing system. The fabrication data is collected by a sensor associated with the additive manufacturing system during the fabrication of the object. The method further includes generating a digital representation of the fabrication data. The method further includes adjusting, based at least in part on the digital representation, an aspect of the additive manufacturing system. The method further includes implementing the adjusted aspect during the fabrication of the object by the additive manufacturing system.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method may be described for cleaning jewelry and precious items. The method may use an automated cleaning machine and submerge a basket constructed for holding jewelry in a bath of cleaning solution; soak jewelry in the basket for a predetermined time; automatically draining the cleaning solution after the predetermined time; and subsequent to the draining of the cleaning solution, automatically rinsing the jewelry at least one time in the basket with water heated to at least close to the boiling point.

Abstract: When fueling ones car the Gas Lee Holder is taken either from the inside of the fuel door, by use of magnetic force, or from the wallet, depending on which of the two available Gas Lee Holders one is using. The Gas Lee Holder is then placed between the lever and the inner handle of the gas pump. The Gas Lee Holder is held in place by its rubber stoppers placed on either end where the contact points are located. In doing so the lever is held in the on position until one is done fueling ones tank. The Gas Lee Holder is then stored again either on the inside of the fuel door using the magnet, or the inside the wallet.

Abstract: A method and a system for implementing a burner for burning ignitable gas mixed with air for providing heat. Pressurized ignitable gas and forced air are conducted from inside a distribution chamber through minor and major channels running through a burner head of the burner. A mixture of the ignitable gas and the forced air is ignited in at least one of the minor channels, and the ignited mixture is mixed with an inhomogeneous mixture of non-ignited ignitable gas in a flame stabilization chamber of the burner. An air rich mixture is forced in the at least one minor channel wherein at least one spark plug is installed in an extension void associated with an at least one minor channel but remote from the flame stabilization chamber, for igniting the air rich mixture into an ignition flame, which will ignite a flame in the flame stabilization chamber.

Abstract: A method and a system for implementing a burner for burning ignitable gas mixed with air for providing heat. Pressurized ignitable gas and forced air are conducted from inside a distribution chamber through minor and major channels running through a burner head of the burner. A mixture of the ignitable gas and the forced air is ignited in at least one of the minor channels, and the ignited mixture is mixed with an inhomogeneous mixture of non-ignited ignitable gas in a flame stabilization chamber of the burner. An air rich mixture is forced in the at least one minor channel wherein at least one spark plug is installed in an extension void associated with an at least one minor channel but remote from the flame stabilization chamber, for igniting the air rich mixture into an ignition flame, which will ignite a flame in the flame stabilization chamber.

Abstract: An instrument chassis is disclosed. The chassis includes a housing with a front opening in a first loading plane, and instrument receiving slots located in the housing. These slots are engageable to printed circuit cards inserted through the front opening. The chassis also includes first and second power supplies. The first power supply is electrically coupled to a first set of instrument receiving slots, and the second power supply is electrically coupled to a second set of the instrument receiving slots. Thus a first set of the printed circuit cards may maintain electrical and mechanical separation and isolation from a second set of the printed circuit cards.

Abstract: A disposable cartridge assembly for a surgical stapling instrument wherein an anvil carrying component comprises constituent anvil elements articulated with respect to each other and presenting an annular anvil surface. A biasing element is provided for biassing the elements into a retracted position wherein the anvil surface has a first diameter. A locking element is provided for releasable interengagement with the anvil elements so as to maintain them in an expanded position against the biassing force wherein the anvil surface has a second larger diameter and so as to lock said elements against relative displacement, the arrangement being such that upon disengagement of the locking element from the anvil elements, the latter are displaced under the biassing force into the retracted position.

Abstract: A disposable cartridge assembly for a surgical stapling instrument wherein an anvil carrying component comprises constituent anvil elements articulated with respect to each other and presenting an annular anvil surface. A biasing element is provided for biassing the elements into a retracted position wherein the anvil surface has a first diameter. A locking element is provided for releasable interengagement with the anvil elements so as to maintain them in an expanded position against the biassing force wherein the anvil surface has a second larger diameter and so as to lock said elements against relative displacement, the arrangement being such that upon disengagement of the locking element from the anvil elements, the latter are displaced under the biassing force into the retracted position.

Abstract: A closed-cycle heat engine consists of a gas-filled heat-insulated cylinder and a reciprocating piston. The cylinder space between the cylinder head and the piston face contains a spiral in the shape of flat interconnected discs, whereof the outermost disc at each end is heat-conductively attached to the cylinder head and the piston face respectively. About 10% of the discs at both ends of the spiral are of high heat-conductive material and about 80% of the discs inbetween are of a low heat-conductive sheet material. The cylinder head is permanently heated to a high temperature, and the piston is permanently cooled to a low temperature; the gas in the cylinder is alternately cooled and heated by the shifting movement of the discs, which are alternately closely packed adjacent the piston at the end of the compression stroke, and adjacent the cylinder head at the end of the expansion stroke. This shifting between the end positions is performed by an alternately directed gas stream.