Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine includes a housing, a front cover, a rear cover, and a rotor. The rotor contains 2 or more pair of radially arranged, synchronously geared, crank shafts. The main journal of every other crankshaft has a timing gear at one end and a drive gear at the other. The timing gears mesh with a stationary sun gear fixed to the front cover. The rotor contains radial cylinder bores, each with a piston and connecting rod operably connected to each crankshaft. An output shaft with a sun gear pierces the center of the rotor and meshes with the drive gears. The rotor revolves around the output shaft within the housing which contains ports for intake, fuel delivery, spark, and exhaust. The crankshafts rotate at twice the rate of the rotor, thus producing four piston strokes per revolution of the rotor.

Abstract: A mechanism for the support or suspension of a tubular member having a pair of mounting brackets including pivotally mounted receivers to threadingly engage a pair of threaded rods, a pair of threaded rods, a pair of supporting shoes, and a circumferential clamping mechanism to bind the shoes around the tubular member it is supporting. The mounting brackets may be configured to engage and rigidly clamp to universal strut channel. Threaded rod of desired length is installed at one end to the pivotally mounted receiver of the bracket and the other end to the support shoe. Fine elevation adjustment is achieved by adjusting the engagement between the threaded rods and shoes or adjustment of the span between brackets. The mechanism offers broad installation flexibility while minimizing supply side costs associated with packaging, inventory, warehousing, and transportation.

Abstract: A hull fairing system for a water craft with a retractable drive mechanism including a vertically disposed deployment well integrated into the hull of the watercraft, a retractable drive mechanism, and a hull fairing matching the lower contour of the hull. The deployment well may incorporate draft to allow for a tight fit with the contour matched hull fairing when the drive mechanism is deployed and a loose fit through the retracted range. Further, the composition of the contour matched hull fairing may be of a suitable compliant material such as elastomeric compounds to provide an improved fit when deployed. The hull fairing itself is vertically constrained to the drive mechanism and travels up and down with it. The hull fairing need not be rotationally constrained and may therefore accommodate steerable lower propulsion units.

Abstract: A transmission for a human-powered vehicle. The transmission has a primary system that includes a transmission case, a crankshaft with cog, a pair of receiver cranks, a pair of connecting rods, a pair of oscillating driver cranks, and a pair of pedals. A secondary biasing system is engaged with the primary system to provide a favorable torque around dead centers of the primary system. The transmission 150 may be configured to transmit power by driveshaft, chain, or belt to drive a wheel or propeller. In a watercraft application, an operator alternatingly applies force to a pair of pedals while seated close to the floor of a kayak 145. Power from the transmission is transmitted through a steerable lower gear case 134 via a propeller to propel the craft. The operator maneuvers the craft by means of a control lever 135 operably connected to the lower gear case by cables 136.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing software resources such as machine learning/artificial intelligence models. The system includes a number of components that provide versioning services to both software resources and to data sets. A data storage component also addresses storage/retrieval functions for the system. A user interface element is also present to provide users with both a GUI and a command line interface. An assessment element assesses user selected software assets for project inclusion, with the assessment being based on good software development principles and practices. Once a project of selected software assets has passed the assessment stage, the software assets are pipelined for execution by an execution unit. The outputs of the execution unit are sent to a data output module automatically populates predetermined and preconfigured templates with the outputs to produce reports. The outputs may be final outputs or they may be intermediate results produced by the software assets.

Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting operating parameters of at least one pipelined software asset. Within a pipelined environment, an agent software asset is inserted immediately preceding a software asset whose operating parameters are to be adjusted. The agent software asset receives data and/or data sets from a user and such data and data sets are inserted/used by the software asset. The agent software asset also allows for a reporting of the output of other software assets to thereby provide users with intermediate outputs from the pipelined environment.

Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting operating parameters of at least one pipelined software asset. Within a pipelined environment, an agent software asset is inserted immediately preceding a software asset whose operating parameters are to be adjusted. The agent software asset receives data and/or data sets from a user and such data and data sets are inserted/used by the software asset. The agent software asset also allows for a reporting of the output of other software assets to thereby provide users with intermediate outputs from the pipelined environment.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing software resources such as machine learning/artificial intelligence models. The system includes a number of components that provide versioning services to both software resources and to data sets. A data storage component also addresses storage/retrieval functions for the system. A user interface element is also present to provide users with both a GUI and a command line interface. An assessment element assesses user selected software assets for project inclusion, with the assessment being based on good software development principles and practices. Once a project of selected software assets has passed the assessment stage, the software assets are pipelined for execution by an execution unit. The outputs of the execution unit are sent to a data output module automatically populates predetermined and preconfigured templates with the outputs to produce reports. The outputs may be final outputs or they may be intermediate results produced by the software assets.

Abstract: A toothbrush device includes a detachably attached toothbrush head. The device includes a handle having a compartment therein for storing replacement toothbrush heads. The handle has a first section and a second section detachably connected together to form the compartment. The replacement toothbrush heads are detachably secured to the second section of the handle. The user can detach the second section from the first section to access the replacement toothbrush heads such that the user can replace the toothbrush head in the toothbrush head holder with a replacement toothbrush head, when desired.

Abstract: A toothbrush device includes a detachably attached toothbrush head. The device includes a handle having a compartment therein for storing replacement toothbrush heads. The handle has a first section and a second section detachably connected together to form the compartment. The replacement toothbrush heads are detachably secured to the second section of the handle. The user can detach the second section from the first section to access the replacement toothbrush heads such that the user can replace the toothbrush head in the toothbrush head holder with a replacement toothbrush head, when desired.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method implemented by computer for manipulating a sentence expressed in natural language comprising the determination of one or more destination locations in an initial sentence in response to the selecting of one or more words, said destination locations or “ghost locations” being determined by syntactic analysis of the sentence. Various developments include the display of the destination location or locations in response to the selecting of the word or words, and the display of one or more suggestions of words corresponding to the one or more ghost locations. Semantic validations by logical verification, by similarity and by graph analysis are described. System aspects are described, including the employment of a touch-sensitive tablet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modular construction system comprising a system in which the carcass results from the juxtaposition and/or stacking assembly of a plurality of prefabricated units (1), each of said units (1) including a framework made up of the juxtaposition in coaxial alignment of multiple elements forming a frame (2), spaced two-by-two and assembled by means of bottom girders (30) and top girders (31). The top or bottom girders (30, 31, 34) of each units run along the outside of the frames (2), and each of said girders (30, 31) is designed to be securable to the equivalent girder (30, 31) of a juxtaposed unit (1); while each of the top girders (31) is designed to be capable of being shared by two stacked units (1) and of forming a bottom girder thereof.

Abstract: The compound t-butyl (S)-8-bromo-11,12,13,13a-tetrahydro-9-oxo-9H-imidazo[1,5-a]pyrrolo[2,1-c][ 1,4]benzodiazepine-1-carboxylate of the formula ##STR1## can be used for the preparation of medicaments for the treatment of sleep disorders and also as a medicament for the treatment of sleep disorders.

Abstract: A tile for use in constructing an entrance mat. The tile has a flat base and low walls surrounding the base for retaining water on the base. Scraper means are provided on the base for scraping snow, water and/or slush off the feet of people using the mat. Means are provided on each wall for use in connecting the tile to an adjacent tile. A plurality of the tiles are connected together to form a mat. Means are provided in each wall of a tile for directing water out of the tile when it reaches a certain level. The invention is also directed toward a mat made up of a plurality of the tiles.

Abstract: The floor mat comprises a main portion for lying flat on an automobile floor and an upwardly inclined portion for lying on an inclined surface within the automobile, such as behind the pedals. The main portion includes a centrally disposed downwardly recessed area forming a pan having a floor and surrounding sides for catching fluid. A plurality of ridges, having a triangular cross-section, rise vertically from the floor of the pan for holding pants and the like above fluids caught in the pan. The forwardly extending portion includes ribs which extend in the longitudinal direction of the mat for channeling fluids backward into the pan. Additional ribs are formed on the forward portion which are inclined downwardly and inwardly for channeling fluid away from the edges of the mat toward the center of the mat.

Abstract: In order to transfer long vehicles upon a ground surface and more particularly railway carriages or wagons, use is made of platforms which glide over the ground by means of fluid cushions and which carry track sections for receiving vehicle wheels. Two or more such platforms which are movable independently of each other, are mutually positioned so that the respective track sections are in extension of each other and are assigned to the vehicle front wheel system and to the vehicle rear wheel system respectively, each platform being independently lockable with the vehicle.