Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring tire pressurization state in a tire has a magneto-mechanical pressure sensor in or on the tire and an electromagnetic excitation system. The electromagnetic excitation system is for interrogating the magneto-mechanical pressure sensor. The apparatus also has a receiver. The receiver is for receiving information from the electromagnetic excitation system. The apparatus also has a data interpretation system for translating the received information into the tire pressurization state. The data interpretation system is connected to a display. The display communicates the tire pressurization state to an operator.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring tire pressurization state in a tire has a magneto-mechanical pressure sensor in or on the tire and an electromagnetic excitation system. The electromagnetic excitation system is for interrogating the magneto-mechanical pressure sensor. The apparatus also has a receiver. The receiver is for receiving information from the electromagnetic excitation system. The apparatus also has a data interpretation system for translating the received information into the tire pressurization state. The data interpretation system is connected to a display. The display communicates the tire pressurization state to an operator.

Abstract: A novel non-scald mixing valve is provided of the type that utilizes a pressure-balancing piston to sense a change in the set flow conditions and automatically open or closes orifice to compensate for the change, the valve being characterized by the use of ceramic valving elements to provide both the valve shut-off function and the temperature-ratioing function. The ceramic valving elements fulfill the requirement that the positive shut-off function must be accomplished up-stream of the sensing pressure-balancing piston in order to avoid the use of check valves in the hot and cold water supplies.

Abstract: Optical detecting and ranging equipment of high information gathering and processing capacity employs a pulsed coherent source illuminating with each pulse a line field of view. An optical receiver monitoring the entire field of view has a scanner that causes reflections received at different times to be recorded at correspondingly different coordinates.

Abstract: A blood analysis system comprises a plurality of flow through measuring chambers, each of which has an associated measuring electrode system for producing an output signal as a function of a parameter of the blood sample in its measuring chamber; and a control device which in a first condition places the measuring chambers in fluid communication with the system inlet and in a second condition isolates the chambers to that the electrode systems may be calibrated concurrently and independently of one another