Abstract: An anti-pistoning device includes a body having a wall defining a first cavity and a second cavity, wherein the first cavity is dimensioned to receive an outer sheath of a cable, and the second cavity is dimensioned to receive an inner sheath of a cable.

Abstract: A device, method, and system may remotely monitor one or more subsystems in a terrestrial vehicle. In one embodiment, a method and system may schedule maintenance and order replacement parts after comparing the reported data with threshold data. In one embodiment, stake-holders, law enforcement entities, government agencies, and national security organizations may access the reported data. In one embodiment, a modular device may monitor vehicle subsystems, vehicle environmental data, a driver's heart beat, a driver's eye activity, a driver's head position, vehicle environmental data, and a driver's ID data.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying a type of motion and condition of a user is disclosed. One apparatus includes a motion detection sensor operative to generate an acceleration signature based on sensed acceleration of the user, and a controller. The controller is operative to determine what network connections are available to the motion detection device, match the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with a type of motion of the user, wherein the apparatus distributes at least some of the acceleration signature matching processing when processing capability is available to the motion detection device though available network connections, and identify the type of motion of the user and identify a condition of the user based on the matching of the acceleration signature.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying a type of motion and condition of a user is disclosed. One apparatus includes a motion detection sensor operative to generate an acceleration signature based on sensed acceleration of the user, and a controller. The controller is operative to determine what network connections are available to the motion detection device, match the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with a type of motion of the user, wherein the apparatus distributes at least some of the acceleration signature matching processing when processing capability is available to the motion detection device though available network connections, and identify the type of motion of the user and identify a condition of the user based on the matching of the acceleration signature.

Abstract: Embodiments of an electronic device apparatus are disclosed. One apparatus includes a housing structure having an inner surface and an outer surface. A plurality of electrical feed-throughs extend through the housing structure from the outer surface to the inner surface. Each of the feed-throughs includes an outer surface cross-section and an inner surface cross-section and a pass through cross-section. The pass through cross-section of the feed-through is located at a portion of the feed-through that extends through the housing structure. The outer surface cross-section is located where the feed-through is exposed on the outer surface, and the inner surface cross-section located where the feed-through is exposed on the inner surface. The feed-through cross-section is less than the outer surface cross-section and the inner surface cross-section.

Abstract: A method of identifying a type of motion of an animate or inanimate object is disclosed. The method includes generating an acceleration signature based on the sensed acceleration of the object. The acceleration signature is matched with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with type of motion. The type of motion of the object is identified based on the statistical matching or exact matching of the acceleration signature.

Abstract: A game device for playing lottery-type games of chance includes a component programmed with software for playing one or more games, at least one game having one or more win levels. The component includes a plurality of ports being connectable to a printed circuit board in any of a plurality of configurations. Each configuration corresponds to an associated win level. The device further includes security mechanisms to inhibit a user from determining the configuration prior to the game being played. A method of producing such a game device includes providing a component programmed with software to run the game, and selectively connecting a plurality of ports on the component to a plurality of tracks on the printed circuit board.

Abstract: The remote control unit for an air conditioner having a controller configured to process multiple temperature inputs, to provide a cycle of operation to provide comfort during sleeping, to provide an automatic cycle of operation wherein a burst of cooling air is provided on demand and/or which is configured to receive and respond to remote signals having different protocols. The remote control unit employs a multiple-way arrow icon and redefinable arrow keys associated with the icon, to enable a user to remotely control operation of the air conditioner.

Abstract: A game device, preferably hand-held, has an electronic display pattern generator, a display, and a play button to initiate generation of a game which displays sets of symbols which "rotate" after the manner of a fruit machine and which can be held from "rotating" by a hold button. The device includes the capability of limiting the number of games playable, and a lock button allows a winning display to be locked irrevocably to establish proof of a win.

Abstract: Coating compositions are described in which the film-forming material consists of (a) 30-85% by volume of disperse particles of size 0.01-20 microns, of which not less than 50% by volume are non-crosslinked polyester microparticles, and (b) 70-15% by volume of a liquid continuous phase of viscosity 0.1-20 poise which is curable to a film-forming polymer by means of an autoxidative (i.e. air-drying) mechanism, the particles (a) being stably dispersed in the liquid (b) in a deflocculated state by means of an amphipathic steric stabilizing agent; the liquid continuous phase is composed of an autoxidizable derivative, such as a drying-oil fatty acid ester of a polyol in conjunction with a coreactive liquid such as an acrylic or methacrylic ester of a higher alcohol or a polyol.

Abstract: A coating composition is provided in which the film-forming material consists of (a) 30-85% by volume of disperse phase particles of size 0.01-20 microns, of which not less than 50% are polymer microparticles, stably dispersed in (b) 70-15% by volume of a liquid continuous phase which is capable of curing by a condensation polymerization reaction, the total volume of components (a) and (b) being 100% and the disperse phase being capable of taking part in the curing reaction. The composition can have a very high solids content and makes possible the production of thick films free from surface shrinkage.

Abstract: A dispersion of a condensation polymer in an organic liquid medium in which the polymer is insoluble is prepared by heating in the liquid medium one or more appropriate reactants one of which is present in the liquid disperse phase of an emulsion of which the continuous phase is constituted by the said liquid medium, in the presence dissolved in the liquid medium of a single-chain polymeric material of molecular weight between 1000 and 20,000 which carries at least one reactive group capable of taking part in the condensation polymer-forming reaction.

Abstract: Coating compositions are described in which the film-forming material consists of (a) 30-85% by volume of disperse particles of size 0.01-20 microns, of which not less than 50% by volume are cross-linked polymer microparticles, and (b) 70-15% by volume of a liquid continuous phase of viscosity 0.1-20 poise which is curable to a film-forming polymer by means of an autoxidative (i.e. air-drying) mechanism, the particles (a) being stably dispersed in the liquid (b) in a deflocculated state by means of an amphipathic steric stabilizing agent. Typically, the polymer microparticles may be composed of a cross-linked polyester and the liquid continuous phase of a drying-oil fatty acid ester of a polyol, optionally in conjunction with a coreactive liquid such as an acrylic or methacrylic ester of a higher alcohol or a polyol.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a stable dispersion in an organic liquid of particles consisting of (a) a polymer insoluble in the liquid and formed by polymerization of monomer(s) at least one of which is solid at the polymerization temperature and (b) sub-particles of a solid modifying agent for the polymer, the process comprising dispersing the solid monomer and the modifying agent together in the liquid in the presence of a specified dispersing agent so as to form a stable dispersion of solid particles not larger than 50.mu., and heating the dispersion together with any other monomers required, so as to bring about polymerization, in the presence of a specified stabilizing agent for the polymer formed. The functions of dispersing agent and stabilizing agent may be combined in a single substance.

Abstract: A process is described for the production of a stable dispersion of a copolymer, in particular of a copolyester, copolyamide or copolyesteramide, in a non-solvent organic liquid. The process involves the steps of (1) dispersing two or more comonomers, each of which is capable of undergoing homopolymerization and is solid at the copolymerization temperature, in the liquid with the aid of a defined monomer-stabilizing agent and so as to produce monomer particles no larger than 50.mu., and (2) heating the dispersion so obtained so as to bring about copolymerization, in the presence of a defined polymer-stabilizing agent. The copolymers so produced are believed to be different in structure from those obtained from the same comonomers by melt or solution copolymerization.

Abstract: A flexible sheet material provided with a flexible coating of an organic material which is curable on exposure to actinic light to produce a less flexible coating on the sheet. The coated sheet is rolled up for storage in the absence of actinic light such that when the sheet is unrolled and attached to a wall or other surface so exposing the coating to actinic light, a less flexible coating on the sheet results.