Abstract: A multilumen catheter shaft body includes a proximal end segment with a first durometer and a first longitudinal length dimension. A proximal intermediate segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the proximal end segment and includes a second durometer and a second longitudinal length dimension. A distal intermediate segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the proximal intermediate segment and includes a third durometer and a third longitudinal length dimension. A distal terminal end segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the distal intermediate segment and includes a fourth durometer and a fourth longitudinal length dimension. The first durometer is greater than at least the second and third durometers. The fourth durometer is greater than at least the second and third durometers. A plurality of parallel longitudinal lumens extends through the body, providing a structure useful in a cholangioscope or other endoscopic applications.

Abstract: A traction system is provided for a rail draft vehicle including an engine with a driveshaft, at least a pair of rubber-tired traction wheels, and at least one rail guide wheel pressurized relative to the vehicle by at least one fluid-powered cylinder. Included in the system are a programmable processor connected to a driveshaft speed sensor, a rail guide wheel speed sensor, an engine throttle controller, a fluid-powered cylinder controller and a vehicle control panel. The processor is constructed and arranged for automatically adjusting the engine throttle controller in coordination with the fluid-powered cylinder controller for achieving movement of the rail draft vehicle from a dead stop position by increasing applied vehicle weight upon the traction wheels by the at least one fluid-powered cylinder and adjusting engine RPM's until the vehicle begins movement as detected by the rail guide wheel speed sensor.

Abstract: A deposition unit for a thin film deposition system includes one or more of deposition heads and a gas manifold. Each deposition head includes an output face having a plurality of gas openings, a mounting face including a plurality of deposition head gas ports, and connecting gas passages. The gas manifold includes an attachment face having one or more interface regions, each interface region including a plurality of manifold gas ports in positions corresponding to the deposition head gas ports. Each deposition head is fastened to the gas manifold in an interface region with sealing elements positioned between the manifold gas ports and the deposition head gas ports. The mounting face of each deposition head and the attachment face of the gas manifold include alignment features for aligning each deposition head with the interface region of the gas manifold.

Abstract: A steerable-catheter handle includes an outer housing with a multilumen catheter body extending generally distally therefrom. An internal track, including at least one track-defining lateral edge element, is disposed between distal and proximal terminal ends of the outer housing, which also houses a manifold engaged with the catheter body, a working-channel port member in fluid and mechanical communication with at least a first catheter lumen, a vacuum channel port member in fluid communication with at least one catheter lumen via one or both of the working channel port member and the manifold, and a generally proximal catheter port open to the internal track, where a distal endmost portion of the catheter mechanically communicates with one or more control surfaces so that the distal endmost portion of the catheter is deflectable along at least two intersecting axes, and where a portion of the catheter body extends removably through the internal track.

Abstract: A data communications backpack apparatus is disclosed having a backpack carrier. A power supply can be positioned in the backpack carrier. A router device can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the router device in electrical communication with the power supply. An antenna array can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the antenna array in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including one or more cellular antennas and one or more wireless networking antennas. The backpack carrier can include an upper opening extending into a central storage area, a first side pocket, a second side pocket, and a lower compartment positioned below the central storage area. The power supply can be positioned in the first side pocket, the router device can be positioned in the second side pocket, and the antenna array can be positioned in the lower compartment.

Abstract: A flight departure control system comprises a central departure control system and a plurality of local departure control systems arranged at or in proximity of individual airports. Passengers check-in for flights via the central DCS and for each passenger a passenger data message is created and sent to the local DCS to which the flight relates. On detection of a fault condition at the central DCS or in communications with the central DCS, the local DCS assume responsibility for flights departing from the airport at which they are located based on the received passenger data messages and unchecked-in passengers check-in directly with the local DCS.

Abstract: A data communications system is disclosed for a vehicle having an exterior surface and an interior space, the data communications system including a support frame positionable within the interior space of the vehicle. A case is movable between an open and a closed position and includes a mounting system, the case mountable to the exterior surface of the vehicle via the mounting system. The system includes a power supply and a router device communicated with the power supply, one or more of the power supply and the router device mounted to the support frame. An antenna array is mounted within the case, the antenna array communicated with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas.

Abstract: A data communications apparatus including a case. A power supply is secured inside the case. A router device is secured inside the case, the router device selectively receiving power from the power supply. The router device includes at least one cellular gateway for wide area network communication as well as being configured to enable at least one wireless network for local area network communication. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas and at least one wireless networking antenna. The first pair of cellular antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one cellular gateway.

Abstract: An aircraft de-icing system has a nozzle with at least one movable element configured to move between a first position and a second position to change a spraying configuration of the nozzle between a first configuration and a second configuration. The aircraft de-icing system further has at least one storage reservoir configured for containing a de-icing agent and a pump for pumping the de-icing agent from the at least one storage reservoir to the nozzle. The aircraft de-icing system further has a pressurized air source in fluid communication with the nozzle for delivering pressurized air to the nozzle. The nozzle is configured for selectively mixing varying amounts of the pressurized air and varying amounts of the de-icing agent to provide a spray pattern for application on a surface of an aircraft based on a position of the at least one movable element between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A material deposition system for depositing a material on a surface of a substrate includes a deposition head having an output face configured to simultaneously supply a plurality of gaseous materials in a sequence of gas zones. The gas zones include a deposition zone located between first and second inert zones. The deposition zone includes a first reactant zone adjacent to the first inert zone, a last reactant zone adjacent to the second inert zone, and one or more purge gas zones. A motion actuator moves a substrate over the output face with a repeating motion profile that prevents a region of active deposition on the substrate from being exposed to the external environment prior to having achieved a final material deposition amount. The repeating motion profile include a forward motion portion and a backward motion portion which is less than the forward distance by an ooch distance.

Abstract: A data communications apparatus is disclosed for providing a data communications network. The apparatus includes a portable carrying case. A power supply is securable inside the case. A router device is securable inside the case, the router device including at least one cellular gateway for wide area network communication and configured to enable at least one wireless network for local area network communication. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least a first pair of cellular antennas, at least two wireless networking antennas, and a satellite antenna. The first pair of cellular antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one cellular gateway, and the at least two wireless networking antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one wireless network.

Abstract: A deposition unit for a thin film deposition system includes a plurality of deposition heads. Each deposition head includes an output face having a plurality of gas slots extending in a cross-track direction. Two of the deposition heads are positioned adjacent to each other in the cross-track direction such that the adjacent deposition heads have abutting ends. The abutting ends of the adjacent deposition heads include interlocking structures having an alternating sequence of protrusions and recesses such that the protrusions on the abutting end of one adjacent deposition head fit into the recesses on the abutting end of the other adjacent deposition head. The gas slots extend into the protrusions on the abutting ends such that in an overlap region, the gas slots of one adjacent deposition head overlap with the gas slots of the other adjacent deposition head.

Abstract: Techniques for configuring and generating an integrated application interface are disclosed. An interface for generating application metadata associating application components and component behaviors may be displayed to a user. The metadata generation interface accepts user input associating an action with an application component. The system generates application metadata, defining application behavior corresponding to the application component, based on the user input. The system may generate a platform interface that integrates the application behavior into a platform interface, based on the application metadata. The system determines behaviors of components of the application by analyzing the application metadata. Based on the application component behaviors, the system renders platform components of the platform interface to integrate the application behaviors into the platform interface.

Abstract: A data communications backpack apparatus is disclosed having a backpack carrier. A power supply can be positioned in the backpack carrier. A router device can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the router device in electrical communication with the power supply. An antenna array can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the antenna array in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including one or more cellular antennas and one or more wireless networking antennas. The backpack carrier can include an upper opening extending into a central storage area, a first side pocket, a second side pocket, and a lower compartment positioned below the central storage area. The power supply can be positioned in the first side pocket, the router device can be positioned in the second side pocket, and the antenna array can be positioned in the lower compartment.

Abstract: A data communications apparatus including a case. A power supply is secured inside the case. A router device is secured inside the case, the router device selectively receiving power from the power supply. The router device includes at least one cellular gateway for wide area network communication as well as being configured to enable at least one wireless network for local area network communication. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas and at least two wireless networking antennas. The first pair of cellular antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one cellular gateway, and the at least two wireless networking antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one wireless network.

Abstract: A spool and gear mechanism for tensioning and manipulating the steering/deflection control wires of a steerable catheter device provides for a desired level of tension that will allow operation of the device without too little or too much tension in those wires. In a wire-tensioning mechanism for a steerable catheter, the mechanism includes at least a first and second steering/deflection control wire each attached to the spool by winding around its own detent-engaged rotatable gear in the spool and extending out through a radial wall of the spool to engage into a steerable catheter body. In a multi-spool system, the wire-tensioning/winding gears of each spool preferably are accessible for adjustment via apertures of an adjacent spool.

Abstract: A spatial atomic layer deposition system is provided to fabricate a compositionally-graded thin film. A mixing system provides a homogeneous gaseous mixture having a controllable ratio of first and second reactive gaseous species. The first and second reactive gaseous species each react with a third reactive gaseous species but do not react with each other. A deposition unit includes first and second reactive gas zones. The homogeneous gaseous mixture is provided to the first reactive gas zone, and the third reactive gaseous species is provided to the second reactive gas zone. The mixing system is controlled to change the ratio of the first and second reactive gaseous species as a function of time as the substrate is moved relative to the deposition unit such that the deposited material has a variable composition as a function of height above the substrate.

Abstract: A compositionally-graded thin film is formed on a substrate by atomic layer deposition. A mixing system provides a homogeneous gaseous mixture having a controllable ratio of first and second reactive gaseous species. The first and second reactive gaseous species each react with a third reactive gaseous species but do not react with each other. A deposition unit includes first and second reactive gas zones. The homogeneous gaseous mixture is provided to the first reactive gas zone, and the third reactive gaseous species is provided to the second reactive gas zone. The mixing system is controlled to change the ratio of the first and second reactive gaseous species as a function of time as the substrate is moved relative to the deposition unit such that the deposited material has a variable composition as a function of height above the substrate.

Abstract: A thin-film optical device is formed on a substrate by atomic layer deposition. A mixing system provides a homogeneous gaseous mixture having a controllable ratio of first and second reactive gaseous materials. The first and second reactive gaseous materials each react with a third reactive gaseous material but do not react with each other. The homogeneous gaseous mixture is provided to a first inlet port, the third reactive gaseous material is provided to a second inlet port, and an inert gaseous material is provided to a third inlet port. The gas flows are directed through corresponding output channels of the delivery head toward the substrate. The mixing system is controlled to change the ratio of the first and second reactive gaseous materials as a function of time as the substrate is moved relative to the delivery head with an oscillating motion such that deposited layers have a varying composition.

Abstract: Illustrated herein is a substantially circular data center including a plurality of machines. The machines are physically grouped into data classification groups. The data classification groups are organized in a radially expanding and circumferential fashion.