Abstract: Components of crushed fluorescent lamps are conveyed pneumatically from a lamp crusher housing to a cyclonic hopper and enter tangentially into the hopper adjacent its upper end. The components include heavy glass particles and caps which are allowed to drop by gravity into a separator housing where they are separated from each other and discharged into different storage containers. Lighter glass particles and dust are recirculated from the upper end of the hopper back to the crusher housing. A vacuum source draws dust and vapors pneumatically from the bottom of the hopper and introduces them tangentially into a cyclone filter housing where particulate matter is allowed to drop into a dust collector. This vacuum source also draws lighter dust and vapors from the upper end of the cyclone filter housing to a dust and mercury filter. Mounted in the crusher housing is a paddle element which rotates adjacent lamp crusher blades and mechanically sweeps lamp components towards the crusher housing outlet.

Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector comprises a body having a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet and a base comprising a valve seat sealably connected to the body. A disk-shaped armature disposed at the fuel outlet for controlling the flow of fuel has an upper surface and a lower surface that comprises a sealing interface with the valve seat. A ring-shaped flexural element comprising a plurality of spaced flexural legs is in contact with the injector body and the upper surface of the armature and provides a spring bias between the body and armature upper surface. When the injector is closed, spring bias between the body and armature upper surface maintains the armature in a sealing position with the valve seat, and when the injector is open, increased spring bias between the body and armature upper surface impels the armature to return to a sealing position with the valve seat.

Abstract: A vehicle tail light has a housing having a light source chamber and a light window delimiting one side of the light source chamber. A first light source provides a first signaling function and a second light source provides a second signaling function. The first and second light sources are mounted in the light source chamber remote from the light window. A first reflector, having a first horizontal reflection angle, and a second reflector, having a second horizontal reflection angle, are mounted in the housing opposite the light window. The first light source emits light being reflected at the first reflector onto the light window and passing through the light window to the exterior of the tail light. The second light source emits light being reflected at the second reflector onto the light window and passing through the light window to the exterior of the tail light. The second reflection angle is different from the first reflection angle.

Abstract: A method is provided for assembling a pole piece into an internal fuel passage of a fuel injector. The assembly method includes the steps of: (a) providing an endoskeletal injector tube, where the injector tube provides the fuel passage for the fuel injector; (b) forming at least one depression into an outer surface of the injector tube; (c) inserting an injector valve into the injector tube; (d) inserting the pole piece into the injector tube, wherein the pole piece is adjustable thereafter; and (e) affixing the pole piece within the injector tube, where an outer surface of the pole piece is in contact with an inner surface of the injector tube corresponding to the depressions, thereby creating a spring fit between the pole piece and the tube.

Abstract: A fuel injector includes a flexural element connected to a valve armature for restricting radial movement of the armature within a fuel passage. The flexural element is flat and exerts no force on the valve when it is closed but is flexed when the valve is opened and supplements the valve spring force during closing of the valve. The flexural element also is used to set the valve stroke length equal to the element's thickness. A flat tool presses a valve ball into the armature while the ball is seated on a valve seat until the flexural element engages a seat related surface.

Abstract: A fuel injector for an engine includes a continuous endoskeletal injector tube enclosing an imperforate continuous passage for fuel flow from an inlet end to an outlet end of the tube. A valve seat, injection valve, tubular magnetic pole, biasing spring and adjusting sleeve are mounted within the tube, optionally with other elements, all being exposed to fuel in the passage defined by the tube. A solenoid coil and a magnetic body together with mounting components and seals are mounted on the exterior of the tube where they are protected from exposure to the fuel, which is restricted to passage within the continuous tube. The body, pole and armature form a magnetic flux concentrating path operative to attract the armature to the pole and open the valve when the coil is energized. The solenoid coil may be preassembled with its connector in a body forming a separate coil assembly for subsequent installation on the injector tube.

Abstract: An injector fuel injection valve is guided at the lower end by a plastic valve guide mounted in a nozzle containing a valve seat engagable by the valve element. The valve guide includes inwardly protruding annularly spaced ribs having inner guide surfaces and defining spaced flow channels. The guide surfaces engage the circular or spherical exterior of the valve element to guide the element to properly aligned seating against the conical valve seat. The plastic or polymeric valve guide is preferably molded in place within the cup shaped metal nozzle but, if desired, the valve guide may be separately molded and subsequently inserted or snapped in place within the nozzle. A second plastic valve guide may be provided for guiding the upper end of an associated armature.

Abstract: A fuel injector for discharging fuel to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The injector includes a nozzle body having a solenoid actuator, a pole piece with an axial extending fuel passage, a valve assembly including a reciprocably moveable armature operable against the bias of a spring member, a calibration tube extending through the pole piece fuel passage and operable to load the spring, an axially extending, drawn metal fuel tube having a first end defining an injector fuel inlet and a second end in communication with the axially extending fuel passage of the pole piece. The fuel tube includes features which extend radially inwardly in the wall of the fuel tube to define depressions in the outer surface of the wall which function, with a molded composite jacket to deter rotation of the tube.

Abstract: A vehicle taillight has a housing and a light-transmissive cover for closing off the housing. At least one light source is located within the housing for emitting light through the light-transmissive cover. At least one light-guiding member is positioned within the housing between the light source and the light-transmissive cover. The light-guiding member consists of light guide material and reflects light emitted by the light source onto the light-transmissive cover.

Abstract: As each tube is fed into the feed chute of a fluorescent lamp tube crusher, and regardless of the size of the tube, a sensor switch in the chute immediately sends a count signal to an associated tube counter, and also produces an inhibit signal which prevents a second count signal from being applied to the counter for a predetermined interval of time that is greater than the time it takes to grind up a tube of a first size and that is less than the time it takes to crush a tube of larger size. If at the end of the interval a tube of larger size is still being crushed, a second count signal is applied to the counter.

Abstract: A purge control device for an evaporative control system comprises a single housing having two solenoid actuated valves controlling parallel orifices leading from an inlet chamber to an exit flow path. The two solenoid valves have different sized orifices to provide different flow capacities. Purge flow is controlled by an electronic control module which regulates the duty cycle of the solenoids. Each valve receives its own signal so that the flow through the orifices is individually controlled.

Abstract: A device for detecting a malfunction of the evaporative control system comprises a two-way flow device in the atmospheric air vent of the evaporative canister with a sensor to detect whether fluid is flowing through the canister during selected operating conditions.

Abstract: An override function for an automatic temperature and/or air flow controller is achieved with an individual, at least partial closing of outlet nozzles of a ventilation system independent of the controller the outlet nozzles are in the middle plane in the inside of the motor vehicle and controlled by way of a regulating device. The regulating device is additionally set as a function of a condition of an adjustable control mechanism device which is assigned to each of the outlet nozzles for the manual, at least partial, blocking of the outlet nozzles. A rotary control knob is respectively integrated into each of the outlet nozzle housings as the adjustable control mechanism, and has an assigned set potentiometer with a variable setting range including a first setpoint for automatic operation control and an override control range with a variable setpoint for the correspondingly variable blocking condition of the outlet nozzles.

Abstract: A vapor storage canister has an improved carbon bed loading pressure maintenance mechanism. A pressure plate is driven up indirectly, through a threaded shaft turned by a radially wound spiral spring, rather than by an axially compressed helical spring. This takes better advantage of the space available between the carbon bed and the lower end of the canister.

Abstract: A mixed hardware register and memory architecture is provided by the present invention to maintain the advantage of variable length stack frames while eliminating the requirement for a stack pointer. The invention includes a global register bank and a stack register bank with two independent address means for addressing the global and stack register banks. Registers are provided as temporary memories for the source operand and destination operand, and a second data path is provided for transfer of data words directly from memory to the local and global registers. The frame pointer is incorporated as a portion of the status register present in the global register bank. Storage of the status register on a call instruction and restore of the status register in a return instruction automatically stores the frame pointer providing the elimination of a hardware register and one cycle in both call and return instructions over prior art devices.

Abstract: A method of controlling instructions in a data-processing system, wherein instructions including branching instructions pointing to an instruction address defining a branch address are loaded in sequence in response to a loading indicator that is always increased by no more than a prescribed difference in relation to an instruction address (BRA) that is constantly to be increased in accordance with one program runthrough and ahead of the instructions address, from instruction addresses in a main memory (MEM) into an instruction buffer memory (IBUF) and addressable therein by an instruction address.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for the transmission of a refresh signal to a semiconductor memory connected with a central computer bus with predetermined transmission priority, the refresh signal and a refresh repeat signal which determines the chronological transmission of the refresh signal, being transmitted to the memory by a central processing unit at a predetermined priority in relation to other aggregates connected to the computer bus. According to the invention, the refresh repeat signal is split into at least two chronologically successive signals during the first component signal, and the refresh signal is transmitted to the computer bus during transmission of the first component at low priority, transmission of the refresh signal not being possible during the first component, and the refresh signal being placed on the computer bus on a higher priority during the second component signal.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a linearizer circuit capable of substantially replicating a non-linear waveform on a piece-wise linear basis by providing a pair of circuits, one capable of reducing the slope of an output circuit curve when a predetermined output level has been reached and the other capable of increasing the slope of an output circuit curve when a different predetermined output level has been reached. Such circuits are cascaded in required order and with predetermined slope parameters to replicate a non-linear curve on a piece-wise linear basis.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a protective device for an electronic instrument wherein input and output lines to and from the instrument are always isolated from calibration input and output terminals. This is accomplished by placing reed switches on or closely adjacent the non-magnetic instrument front panel, the switches being arranged to connect one of the input lines and terminals to the instrument circuitry while disconnecting the others therefrom, this being accomplished under control of a magnet placed adjacent the switches during a calibration procedure. The switches are further arranged to short circuit the output test terminals in the unenergized switch state to prevent insertion of unwanted signal current or voltage in that state.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a self-regulating hydrant which is characterized by a mechanism which automatically alters the flow of fluid through a valve seat in response to changes in ambient temperature. A temperature-responsive member, operatively coupled to a valve plug, is used to control the position of the plug relative to a valve seat. As the temperature of such member changes, its dimensions change. Such dimensional changes are preferably amplified and used to move the plug relative to the valve seat to control the rate of fluid flow through the valve seat.