Abstract: A controlling passenger is provided with an actively overridable system for enabling and disabling selected air bags. The system further includes visual feedback of the current operational status of the respective air bags. The visual feedback is displayed in a spatial pattern that replicates the spatial positioning of the individual air bag locations within the vehicle.

Abstract: An electronic hand-held resistor value decoding calculator is disclosed. The calculator includes a keypad comprising a keypad housing and an array of ten manually operated keypad switches for receiving input signals. Each of the keypad switches has a numeral from zero through nine associated therewith and is uniquely colored so as to correspond to the colors of the International Resistor Color Code. The calculator also includes an ALU operatively connected to the keypad switches for performing mathematical calculations on the input signals for determining the value of a resistor. A display is operatively connected to the ALU for displaying the computational result of the mathematical computations on the input signals. The keypad switches are adapted to receive three input signals, each of the input signals being a single keystroke and each of the keystrokes representing a single color band on the resistor.

Abstract: An improved, releasable fastener having molded interlocking male and female elements suitable for plastic bag closures, and the like, incorporates ramp surfaces in operative association with one of the elements, typically the female element, to facilitate alignment and closure.

Abstract: In abstract a preferred embodiment of this invention is a modular baseboard and shoe molding assembly which can be sold as a unit, can be handled as a unit, cut and trimmed as a unit and when installed has adequate flexibility to contour and conform to variations in the ambient structure.