Abstract: An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure is interfaced with one or more workplace, vehicle or home commutering centers, providing extended battery life for wireless devices with enhanced commutering capabilities for using the enhanced power of commutering devices within the inner accessible commutering enterprise structure. An enterprise interlaced integrated fiber, broadband fiber, electronic, and electrical power network comprising an enterprise communications and computing network of conductors, electronic, electrical and mechanical devices, components, appliances, and equipment is accommodated in the interstitial spaces of the ceilings, walls, partitions, columns, and floors of the wired and wireless inner accessible commutering enterprise structure.

Abstract: A floor, ceiling, wall and partition system comprising an array of modular units disposed over a conductor-accommodating supporting layer disposed over a base surface. There are two sets of modular units, both sets being of similar shape and interchangeable with each other, the first set having a plurality of corners and the second set having one or more corners removed to accommodate accessible nodes. The supporting layer supporting modular floor, ceiling, wall and partition units allows the free passage of conductors between adjoining and opposing horizontal and vertical elements, allowing devices located in the horizontal and vertical elements to freely communicate with each other.

Abstract: An array of suspended structural load-bearing modular-accessible-pavers 189 comprising cast plates over a three-dimensional conductor-accommodative passage and foundation grid 161 comprising modular structural plates 162 and structural bearing supports 163, 164 or load-bearing plinths 172. The modular-accessible-pavers 189 have a tension reinforcement layer to enable them to withstand heady loads.

Abstract: Medical diagnostic apparatus suitable for screening use in the detection of deep veinous thrombosis in association with hip joint replacement comprises a thigh cuff (12) inflatable and deflatable to constrict and release venous blood flow in the relevant leg, a processor (10) operable automatically to control deflation of the cuff in a predetermined manner following inflation to inhibit venous flow, and a strain gauge (13) engageable around the leg below the cuff and operable to provide a signal representing venous flow caused by the controlled deflation. The deflation control is preferably effectively instantaneous by way of a solenoid valve (15) of appropriately high air flow capability.

Abstract: A system for separating a portion of a first gas from a gaseous feed comprising a mixture of gases that is intermittently supplied to the system. The system comprises a membrane gas separator having at least one membrane through which the first gas permeates preferentially in comparison to other gases contained in the mixture. The separator is adpated to produce a nonpermeate gaseous product which is discharged from a nonpermeate gas side of the separator and in which the concentration of the first gas is lower than in the feed mixture. The system also includes a mechanism for supplying a gaseous purge stream to the separator when the feed mixture is not being supplied to the system. The concentration of the first gas is lower in the gaseous purge stream than in the feed mixture to purge residual amounts of the first gas contained in the membrane of the separator. The method of separating gases from an intermittently supplied feed is also disclosed.

Abstract: A computer control system, especially a flight control computer system, comprises a series of computer modules operating in parallel and asynchronously to carry out respective parts of an overall control algorithm for a series of items to be controlled, each computer module having a data transmission port connected via a broadcast line to a respective input port of each other computer module so that communication between modules is achieved by any of the modules broadcasting asynchronous data messages onto its broadcast line for the messages to be received by any other modules which require them.

Abstract: An array of gravity-held-in-place-load-bearing-horizontal-modular-accessible-tiles with flexible joints between adjacent modular-accessible-tiles in which the flexible joints are cuttable and reassembleable to provide accessibility to flat conductor cable disposed above or below one or more horizontal-disassociation-cushioning-layers which require flexible joints between adjacent modular-accessible-tiles to be dynamic-interactive-fluidtight-flexible-joints to assemble the modular-accessible-tiles by gravity, friction, and accumulated-interactive-assemblage into a floating finished floor array without adherence to the horizontal-base-surface, wherein the horizontal-disassociation-cushioning-layer provides accommodation to the thickness variations cause by termination and crossing over of layers of flat conductor cables and the horizontal-disassociation-cushioning-layer also provides improved impact sound isolation.

Abstract: A gravity-held-in-place-load-bearing-horizontal-tile-array over a horizontal-base-surface, typically a floor, which comprises an array of rigid tiles set on a horizontal-base-surface. The rigid tiles have edges positioned adjacent to the edges of adjoining tiles in the array, with the array of rigid tiles being separated from the horizontal-base-surface by at least a 1/8 inch thickness of horizontal-disassociation-cushing-layer. The tiles are adhesively joined at their edges to adjacent edges of adjoining tiles with an elastomeric sealant with adhesive properties.

Abstract: A process is described whereby steel wire is made into killed twisted strand or cord having essentially no retained tensile, bending or torsional stresses which comprises twisting a plurality of steel wires to form a strand or cord, austenitizing and simultaneously homogenizing the alloy, quenching the homogenized steel strand or cord along a straight path during martensitic transformation to provide a quenched martensitic structure, essentially to the exclusion of retained austenite and, thereafter, tempering the quenched martensite to provide optimum strength and ductility. The twisted strand or cord resulting from the mechanical and heat treatment possesses nearly optimized strength properties of the alloy employed, while having no retained tensile, bending or torsional stresses and is suitable for application in steel reinforced composite and in particular as tire cord.