Abstract: A neuromodulation therapy is delivered via at least one electrode implanted subcutaneously and superficially to a fascia layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. In one example, an implantable medical device is deployed along a superficial surface of a deep fascia tissue layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to the nerve through the deep fascia tissue layer via implantable medical device electrodes.

Abstract: A neuromodulation therapy is delivered via at least one electrode implanted subcutaneously and superficially to a fascia layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. In one example, an implantable medical device is deployed along a superficial surface of a deep fascia tissue layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to the nerve through the deep fascia tissue layer via implantable medical device electrodes.

Abstract: An electric motor is tested by sensing the phase of an alternating current waveform to be applied to the motor, and applying the waveform to the motor in response to the phase of the waveform reaching a preselected value to start the motor. The voltage and current are sampled at predetermined times measured from the application of the waveform to the motor until a predetermined number of voltage and current samples are obtained. Parameter samples are generated from the voltage and current samples, the parameter being a function of the applied voltage and current. The parameter samples are compared with a previously obtained set of reference parameter sample values, the reference sample values having error limits for each reference sample value. The motor is rejected if at least a predetermined number of the parameter samples fall outside the error limits for those particular samples.

Abstract: Apparatus for and method of die casting a part with a particulate inert filler material (e.g., sand) substantially uniformly dispersed through the casting thereby to decrease the amount of metal required to die cast the part.

Abstract: An electric motor in which concentricity between stator and rotor is maintained solely by frictional forces between radial faces of the motor's end shields and radial faces of the stator. The motor is assembled by positioning the rotor in the stator by shims in the air gap. End shields are mounted on the rotor shaft, with radial portions of the end shield in face-to-face abutment with a face of the stator. Short through-bolts extending through the radial faces of the end shields and through the stator are tightened sufficiently to maintain the air gap between stator and rotor during shipment and use of the motor. Self-aligning bearings compensate for any lack of squareness between the stator's bore and its end faces. Special patterns on the end shield faces abutting the stator facilitate repair and reassembly of the motor.

Abstract: An electric motor in which concentricity between stator and rotor is maintained solely by frictional forces between radial faces of the motor's end shields and radial faces of the stator. The motor is assembled by positioning the rotor in the stator by shims in the air gap. End shields are mounted on the rotor shaft, with radial portions of the end shield in face-to-face abutment with a face of the stator. Short through-bolts extending through the radial faces of the end shields and through the stator are tightened sufficiently to maintain the air gap between stator and rotor during shipment and use of the motor. Self-aligning bearings compensate for any lack of squareness between the stator's bore and its end faces. Special patterns on the end shield faces abutting the stator facilitate repair and reassembly of the motor.

Abstract: A stator core lamination and a rotor core lamination for a dynamoelectric machine are formed from the same lamination blank. The stator core lamination has a series of operations performed on it, preferably during the punch press manufacture of the laminations. Those operations enable a stator core, formed from the stator laminations, to receive a rotor core, formed from the rotor laminations, without any machining steps being performed on either core in order to accomplish the reception. The stator lamination includes a yoke section having a central rotor receiving bore opening formed in it. A plurality of slots extend radially outwardly from the bore opening. That area of the lamination between adjacent slots define a plurality of stator teeth. The teeth include a root section attached to the yoke and a stem having an inboard face delimiting the bore opening. The yoke and teeth initially lie in and define a first physical plane area.

Abstract: An electric motor having a laminated stator core, a pair of formed end shields cemented to the stator core, and a rotor journaled in the end shields is provided with mounting tabs for the end shield pair that mate or intermesh with one another when positioned properly with respect to the stator core. Pairs of oppositely opposed mounting tabs, in their intermeshed position, define an opening through the tabs from the exterior to the interior surface of the tabs. An adhesive injected through the opening defined by the tabs spreads smoothly between the stator core and the interface of the tabs, and between the oppositely opposed ends of the tabs.

Abstract: A molded part, which in the preferred embodiment, comprises a plastic switch enclosure, has openings formed in it for receiving terminal elements of the switch. The openings are defined by side walls along the material thickness of the enclosure. The side walls are constructed so that they are a portion of a conic section. Each conic section has at least one line segment parallel to a line segment of the conic section delimiting the oppositely opposed side wall of the openings. The line segments are located at and define the smallest width size of the opening, all other portions of the walls defining an opening size of greater width. Consequently, the conic section and line segment pair effectively provide a no-draft, close tolerance opening through the enclosure.