Abstract: Architecture that provides high availability (quick, robust, redundant) data to users by the use of peer-to-peer technology, where the decentralized storage and multi-access paths provide the complete data set without dependence on a specific or pre-defined data source or access paths, including sourcing data from other users of the data applying the large file transfer techniques of file sharing. When a client requests a file the system automatically calculates all the locations of that file, and which is the quickest source to retrieve the file. The client then stores a copy of the file for instant retrieval later and to serve that file out to other clients that request it. A versioning scheme ensures that the only the newest version of files are shared on the network. A machine learning and reasoning component is provided that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that enable various interface applications that more efficiently communicate data to users in an industrial control system. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a base presentation component to display one or more elements of an industrial control environment. Various display items can be dynamically superimposed on the base presentation component to provide industrial control information to a user. In another aspect of the industrial automation system, a location component is provided to identify a physical or a virtual location for a user in an industrial control environment. This can include a context component to determine at least one attribute for the user in view of the physical or virtual location. A presentation component then provides information to the user based in part on the physical or virtual location and the determined attribute.

Abstract: A gas fuel injector includes a first header plate; a second header plate spaced downstream from the upstream header plate; and a plurality of venturi tubes arranged in rows and sealably secured to the first and second header plates. Each of the venturi tubes includes an inlet section, a throat section and an exit. The exit is shaped into a pattern that reduces space between each of the venturi tubes at the exit of each of the plurality of venturi tubes.

Abstract: A folding score having a pair of laterally spaced, parallel scoring grooves which are individually asymmetrical. This invention also relates to a method and apparatus for forming the folding score.

Abstract: A centrifuge concentrator bowl includes a plurality of fluidized recesses at axially spaced positions along the peripheral wall. Each recess is defined by two side walls converging toward a base which has water injection holes for fluidizing materials collecting in the recess. The volume within which collection occurs is defined by a replaceable plastic strip member across the recess spaced from the base so that a water channel is formed inside the bowl between the base of the recess and the strip. Water from the channel is injected through holes in the strip in a generally tangential direction around the recess. The use of the replaceable strip allows the injection openings of the bowl to be tailored to requirements and/or to be cleaned of scale by rapidly removing and replacing the strips in the bowl.

Abstract: A slurry of particulate ore material is concentrated to form a smeltable concentrate on a re-concentrator table arranged to separate concentrate ore at a concentrate discharge from middlings and tailings. The table is set such that the concentrate forms a smeltable concentrate and thus at least the middlings contain significant quantities of the concentrate to be collected. The ore to be concentrated is fed to a feeding system including a bin in batch form and carried from the bin by a screw through a screen to the table. The table is operated in processing of the batch for a first period of time during which both the middlings and tailings are returned to the feeding system for recirculation to the table. The period of time is such that the material is circulated over the table repeatedly to separate out the concentrate.

Abstract: Systems and methods for welding of parts are described. In one embodiment, a method for ultrasonic welding of parts by means of an ultrasonic welding device including at least a generator, a converter, and a sonotrode based on a set curve of a time-dependent welding parameter appropriate to a welding connection meeting set requirements, where the welding duration corresponding to the set curve runs between a starting time t0 and an end time te, wherein during welding of the parts an actual curve of the time-dependent welding parameter is measured, where in the period between t0 and te the actual curve is compared with the set curve and, depending on the existing difference, at least one process parameter affecting welding is altered such that an equalization of set curve and actual curve occurs during further welding.

Abstract: Schemes for ultrasonically connecting electrical conductors are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for ultrasonically connecting electrical conductors can include providing a compaction chamber including a variable cross-section, a bottom bounded by a sonotrode, a first side bounded by a first anvil, a second side bounded by a shaft, and a top bounded by a second anvil disposed on the shaft; disposing the electrical conductors in the compaction chamber opened at the top; displacing the first anvil towards the shaft; displacing the second anvil towards the first anvil; displacing the second anvil towards the sonotrode; and, ultrasonically connecting the electrical conductors.

Abstract: A centrifuge concentrator bowl includes a plurality of fluidized recesses at axially spaced positions along the peripheral wall. Each recess is defined by two side walls converging toward a base which has water injection holes for fluidizing materials collecting in the recess. The volume within which collection occurs is defined by a replaceable plastic strip member across the recess spaced from the base so that a water channel is formed inside the bowl between the base of the recess and the strip. Water from the channel is injected through holes in the strip in a generally tangential direction around the recess. The use of the replaceable strip allows the injection openings of the bowl to be tailored to requirements and/or to be cleaned of scale by rapidly removing and replacing the strips in the bowl.

Abstract: A slurry of particulate ore material is concentrated to form a smeltable concentrate on a re-concentrating mineral table arranged to separate concentrate ore at a concentrate discharge from middlings and tailings. The table is set such that the concentrate forms a smeltable concentrate and thus at least the middlings contain significant quantities of the concentrate to be collected. The ore to be concentrated is fed to a bin in batch form and carried from the bin by a screw through a screen to the table. The table is operated in processing of the batch for a first period of time during which both the middlings and tailings are returned to the feeder for recirculation to the table. The period of time is such that the material is circulated over the table repeatedly to separate out the concentrate. After the first period, for a second period, the table is operated while directing at least the tailings and possibly the middlings to discard so as to reduce the batch sufficiently to receive the next batch.

Abstract: A visor is provided. The visor includes a brim and a coupling mechanism designed to removably couple the visor to a helmet through a vent of the helmet.

Abstract: A received signal is sampled and a mean is calculated. A zero crossing sample is then located and used to locate a starting sample and the samples are read from that point forward, using sampling intervals and mean crossings, to decode the bit stream. Alternatively, first and second derivatives of the signal are calculated. A sign (.+-.) of the first derivative sample at the first zero crossing of the second derivative is used to determine the sign of a sample. The second derivative of the signal is then read, using sampling intervals and the sign of the first derivative, to decode the bit stream. In another alternative, samples are used to calculate a rolling average of the samples. The rolling average of the sample is compared to the sample to determine the logic value of the sample based upon whether the sample is above or below the rolling average.