Abstract: Disclosed is an equipment identification system, the equipment preferably, although not exclusively, in the form of a truck, the system comprising a sensor located on the truck, the sensor configured to sense movement of the truck and generate movement data associated with the truck; a transmitter configured to transmit truck identification data associated with the truck and the movement data; a receiver in communication with the transmitter, the receiver configured to receive the truck identification data and the movement data from the transmitter; and a management system in communication with the receiver, the management system configured to identify the truck and also determine whether the truck is currently being loaded by an excavator based on the truck identification data and the movement data.

Abstract: For determining the load of an excavator bucket, or optionally of another holding region, a measurement step and an evaluation step are carried out. In the measurement step, the position of a load surface is determined by a noncontact distance-measuring device and, in the evaluation step, a load volume is determined from the position of the load surface and the position and shape of the excavator bucket or of the holding region. For determining the position of the load surface, at least one two-dimensional matrix with distance values is created by means of a distance-measuring camera. For determining the position of the excavator bucket, the distances to at least three points of the excavator bucket, in particular to points on the upper bucket edge, optionally to marked points are determined using the distance-measuring apparatus for determining the surface.

Abstract: For determining the load of an excavator bucket, or optionally of another holding region, a measurement step and an evaluation step are carried out. In the measurement step, the position of a load surface is determined by means of a noncontact distance-measuring device and, in the evaluation step, a load volume is determined from the position of the load surface and the position and shape of the excavator bucket or of the holding region. For determining the position of the load surface, at least one two-dimensional matrix with distance values is created by means of a distance-measuring camera. For determining the position of the excavator bucket, the distances to at least three points of the excavator bucket, in particular to points on the upper bucket edge, optionally to marked points are determined using the distance-measuring apparatus for determining the surface.

Abstract: A winged vehicle includes an elongated fuselage, and a wing mechanism affixed to the fuselage. The wing mechanism has a wing-support-body track affixed to and extending lengthwise along the fuselage, a translating wing-support body engaged to and translatable along the wing-support-body track, and exactly two deployable cantilevered wings. Each deployable cantilevered wing has a wing pivot mounted to the translating wing-support body so that the deployable cantilevered wing is pivotable about the translating wing-support body. The two deployable cantilevered wings are each pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position. An actuation mechanism is operable to controllably move the translating wing-support body along the wing-support-body track and to controllably move the two deployable cantilevered wings between the stowed position and the deployed position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel class of halide-based framework solids based on a Zn.sub.n Cl.sub.2n parentage, as zeo-types are related to Si.sub.n O.sub.2n. These materials, referred to as halo zeo-type materials, constructed from Lewis acidic and redox active tetrahedral building blocks, should augment the size and shape selectivity characteristics of zeolites. One example of these materials, compound CZX-1, has the formula ?NH(CH.sub.3).sub.3 !CuZn.sub.5 Cl.sub.12. Another example of these materials, compound CZX-2, has the formula ?NH.sub.2 (CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3).sub.2 !CuZn.sub.5 Cl.sub.12. Compound CZX-3 has the formula ?H.sub.2 N(CH.sub.3).sub.2 !.sub.n ?Cu.sub.n Zn.sub.6-n Cl.sub.12 !, wherein n may be 1 or 2. Compound CZX-4 has the formula ?A!.sub.n ?Cu.sub.2 Zn.sub.2 Cl.sub.7 !, wherein A may be H.sub.3 NCH.sub.3.sup.+ or Rb.sup.+. The invention also relates to colloidal suspensions which may utilize the halide-based compounds.