Abstract: Systems, including devices and methods, for infrared imaging, and more particularly to systems for infrared imaging.

Abstract: An infrared (IR) camera and associated electronics including power are systems, including devices and methods, for infrared imaging that can be switched or reprogrammed to produce or display at least two images associated with at least two temperature ranges.

Abstract: A color balancer composition achieves a change in tone or hue on a vehicle painted surface as needed to achieve an acceptable color fade to match an adjacent area. The composition is composed of a clear coat, a toner or colorant, and a reducing agent. The color balancer composition is formed by mixing these three parts. In one implementation, one part of the colorant is blended with about 100 parts of the clear coat, and then the resulting blend is combined at about 4 parts by volume of the reducing agent with one part of the colorant-clear coat mixture. The ratios can be varied.

Abstract: An infrared (IR) camera and associated electronics including power are integrated into portable, self-contained, vision-enhancement apparatus useful in environments of dense air-borne particulate and thermal extremes such as encountered in fire fighting situations, in accordance with the invention. The IR camera is integral with a self-contained power supply so that the system is portable and requires no umbilical cord or other external connections. The camera includes an imager that is preferably an un-cooled focal plane array, and associated imaging, storing, processing and displaying electronics that are cooled in the extreme thermal environment using an integral plural phase heatsink.

Abstract: A head-up display, an IR camera and associated electronics including power are integrated into portable, self-contained, wrap-around, face-worn vision-enhancement apparatus useful in environments of dense air-borne particulate and thermal extremes such as encountered in fire fighting situations, in accordance with the invention. Reflective and opaque lenses are provided at approximately eye level for IR, vision display and blinding purposes, respectively, to produce a clear bright picture of a scene otherwise obscured by darkness or obscurants. The IR camera is integral with wrap-around system along with a self-contained power supply so that the system is portable and requires no umbilical cord or other external connections. An optical axis of the IR camera and an axis describing the user's virtual line of sight through the viewing eye converge at a nominal arm's length in front of the user's viewing eye, e.g. 3 feet away.

Abstract: A radiation detector with temperature readout has a multicolored LED display divided into segments of zero degrees to 9 degrees centigrade colored green, 10 degrees to 19 degrees centigrade in yellow, and 20 degrees to 100 degrees centigrade in red. Alternatively, two red segments are provided for ranges of 20 degrees to 64 degrees centigrade and 65 degrees centigrade and above, respectively. The radiation detector is automatically zeroed at ambient upon use and provides a readout of temperature rise above ambient throughout a scan of a subject. In one design, only one LED for each segment of the display is illuminated at a time. An audible signal is sounded at an increasing pulse frequency as the display is illuminated from the green segment to the red segment of measured temperature rise above ambient with a constant tone for temperature rises above about 20 degrees centigrade. In an alternative design a timing circuit allows the detector to self operate for a predetermined length of time.

Abstract: A method for surface treating a continuous flow of workpieces includes the steps of fluidizing a stationary bed of surface treating media, aggitating the fluidized bed of surface treating media to create a scrubbing action to the surface treating media, submerging the workpieces to be treated in the stationary, fluidized, aggitated media bed subjecting the workpieces to the scrubbing action of the media, holding the submerged workpiece stationary within the fluidized, aggitated bed of surface treating media, releasing the hold on the workpiece, and removing the workpiece from the bed of surface treating media.

Abstract: A method for surface treating a continuous flow of workpieces includes the steps of fluidizing a stationary bed of surface treating media, aggitating the fluidized bed of surface treating to create a scrubbing action to the surface treating media, and moving the workpieces to be treated through the stationary, fluidized aggitated media bed subjecting the workpieces to the scrubbing action of the media. Further, an apparatus for surface treating workpieces which includes a trough for containing a bed or pool of surface treating media, a force vibration generating device for imparting a reciprocating force, having at least a vertical force vector, to the trough and, therefore, to the surface treating media contained in the trough, and a means of conveying the workpieces to be treated continuously through the trough and, therefore, through the media.

Abstract: A radiation detector with temperature readout has a multicolored LED display divided into segments of zero degrees to 9 degrees centigrade colored green, 10 degrees to 19 degrees centigrade in yellow, and 20 degrees to 100 degrees centigrade in red. Alternatively, two red segments are provided for ranges of 20 degrees to 64 degrees centigrade and 65 degrees centigrade and above, respectively. The radiation detector is automatically zeroed at ambient upon use and provides a readout of temperature rise above ambient throughout a scan of a subject. In one design, only one LED for each segment of the display is illuminated at a time. An audible signal is sounded at an increasing pulse frequency as the display is illuminated from the green segment to the red segment of measured temperature rise above ambient with a constant tone for temperature rises above about 20 degrees centigrade. In an alternative design a timing circuit allows the detector to self operate for a predetermined length of time.