Abstract: A URL adapter for a Web browser that enables the integration of telephone numbers into a web browser's address line for parsing as a URI. The URL adapter bypasses traditional search hook functions to identify potential telephone numbers. The URL adapter has access to a name server for translating names entered into the browser into telephone numbers. The URL adapter can also parse Web pages to self-identify telephone numbers.

Abstract: A URL adapter for a Web browser that enables the integration of telephone numbers into a web browser's address line for parsing as a URI. The URL adapter bypasses traditional search hook functions to identify potential telephone numbers. The URL adapter has access to a name server for translating names entered into the browser into telephone numbers. The URL adapter can also parse Web pages to self-identify telephone numbers.

Abstract: An operationally improved gas powered metal discharge valve is disclosed having fewer non-welded internal parts to release pressurized gas into a storage vessel containing granular material for the purpose of aiding flow of the granular material from the storage vessel. Structural modification of the valve construction and the physical connection of said valve to the storage vessel are described.

Abstract: A volumetric flow measuring system includes two counter-rotating turbines axially displaced along the flow path. Because the turbines rotate in opposite directions, the net change of the sum of the main and sensor turbine signals due to non-axial or "swirl" components in the flow is zero thus cancelling their effects. In addition, the sensor turbine is operated at a lower speed than the main turbine so that main turbine speed errors due to "slip" (i.e. reduction of turbine speed from theoretical due to restraining torques) are counteracted by an increase in sensor speed. The only error then is the sensor turbine "slip" error which is smaller than the main turbine "slip" error by a factor equal to the ratio of the main and sensor turbine speeds.

Abstract: A portable braille display unit which presents an entire page of braille characters in response to data stored on a storage medium, such as a tape cassette. The display unit is the size of a conventional braille page, and the display unit may be made portable and self-powered. Each braille character is displayed by a braille cell display module in which spring actuated pins are controlled by bimetallic latches. Each module includes six pins which comprise the six dots of each braille cell. To display braille characters, an electrical current is applied to resistively heat selected ones of the bimetallic latches. In response to this current the selected bimetallic latches bend and disengage from the pin, allowing a compressed spring to move the pin upward through the surface plate to display a braille dot. The spring maintains the pin in this position without requiring power from the power supply.