Abstract: A spring induction heater assembly is shown and described. The device has a quench tank incorporated into the design. A motor and drive mechanism provide rotation of a spring about one axis from a first position used for loading, to a second position for heat treatment with an induction coil and a third position where the spring is released dropped into a quench tank. Another rotational system is operational to rotate the spring on a spindle in the second or horizontal position while the spring is located between at least two legs of an induction coil. The induction coil provides even heating to the spring coils thereby providing desired changes to the material properties. The quench tank can have an automated system to remove the springs from the quench tank.

Abstract: An annotation channel is added to an ECG printout to graphically display the temporal relationship between P, QRS, and T waves. The annotation channel displays similar waves from different ECG channels at vertically adjacent locations so an operator can quickly verify that ECG numerical data generated by the ECG system is derived from ECG signals with reasonably detected onset and offset reference locations. To further simplify wave correlation, a set of reference identifiers are generated along a vertical line at the beginning of the first wave. The reference identifiers provide individual reference points that graphically identify time shifts between the different starting points of each recorded wave.

Abstract: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine includes a main body including a timing bore, a timing plunger disposed in the timing bore, an electronically-operated solenoid valve assembled to the main body, a nozzle having a needle bore and an injection needle disposed in the needle bore which needle is operable under certain conditions to lift so as to initiate fuel injection. Disposed between the main body and the nozzle member is a one-piece adapter which is designed to include an axially-extending metering bore and a needle spring cavity. A metering plunger is disposed within the metering bore and a biasing spring is disposed within the needle spring cavity. At the base of the needle spring cavity is a button which serves as a direct abutment interface between the top of the needle and the bottom of tile biasing spring.

Abstract: A portable data acquisition unit which features a sample order register which sets addresses in a multiplexer unit allowing one out of many electrical signals connected to the multiplexer to pass through at one time. The selected electrical signal is a sample which is transmitted to an A-to-D converter so that a digital signal is generated and passed to a communications port and then to a remote host device. A clock pulse increments the next address in the sample order list to the multiplexer to establish the next signal sample to be transmitted to the host device. At the host device, the original electrical signals may be reconstituted. For example, the electrical signals may be physiological signals derived from transducers associated with an EKG. The host device may be a remote EKG apparatus.

Abstract: An adaptable programmable calculator employs modular read-write and read-only memories separately expandable to provide additional program and data storage functions within the calculator oriented toward the environment of the user, and an LSI NMOS central processing unit, which includes the capability of bidirectionally transferring information between itself and various input/output units. The input/output units include a keyboard input unit having a full complement of alphanumeric keys, a magnetic tape cassette reading and recording unit capable of bidirectionally transferring programs and data between the calculator and a magnetic tape, a 32-character solid state output display unit capable of displaying every alphabetic and numeric character.

Abstract: An adaptable programmable calculator employs modular read-write and read-only memories separately expandable to provide additional program and data storage functions within the calculator oriented toward the environment of the user, and an LSI NMOS central processing unit, capable of handling sixteen-bit parallel binary operations, binary-coded-decimal arithmetic, sixteen-bit parallel input/output operations, two-level interrupt from up to sixteen input/output devices, and a direct memory access channel.