Abstract: A system for packaging one or more items includes an order arrangement station where the one or more items can be arranged into a stack with a desired configuration. A dimensioning mechanism determines the outer dimensions of the stack and a converting assembly creates a box template that when erected forms a box that is custom sized to the dimensions of the stack. A crowder assembly holds and maintains the stack in the desired configuration while the box template is at least partially folded around the stack. The box template is secured around the stack in the form of a box.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: The invention relates to a model for teaching in dental disciplines, con-sisting of a structure (1) that reproduces a part of the human or animal stomatognathic system, and which comprises two or more areas (a, b, c, d) with different mechanical properties, differentiated from each other by delimiting the various tissues that they reproduce and/or the natural or affected state of same and/or areas to be removed, which areas have a different density and, optionally, a different colour and/or porosity and/or elasticity and/or flexibility. The structure (1) also comprises compatible means (2) for attaching same to a practice phantom.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.

Abstract: A nozzle including a coupling portion, intended to be coupled to at least two hot gas outlets of a welding tool, and a transition portion, connected to the coupling portion. The transition portion has a first width in the connection between the transition portion and the coupling portion, and has a second width in an end opposite to the connection between the transition portion and the coupling portion, the second width being greater than the first width.

Abstract: A method for radical linear compression of datasets where the data are dependent on some number M of parameters. If the noise in the data is independent of the parameters, M linear combinations of the data can be formed, which contain as much information about all the parameters as the entire dataset, in the sense that the Fisher information matrices are identical; i.e. the method is lossless. When the noise is dependent on the parameters, the method, although not precisely lossless, increases errors by a very modest factor. The method is general, but is illustrated with a problem for which it is well-suited: galaxy spectra, whose data typically consist of about 1000 fluxes, and whose properties are set by a handful of parameters such as age, brightness and a parameterized star formation history. The spectra are reduced to a small number of data, which are connected to the physical processes entering the problem.

Abstract: A trimming and edging device for grass, weeds and the like having a motor within a housing (12) supported by a support member (22) in a first position in which a cutting element (14) sweeps in a substantially horizontal plane and in a second position in which the cutting element sweeps in a substantially vertical plane to the side of a carriage (16) for the device is disclosed. In one arrangement, the support member rotates in a horizontal plane about a bolt and wing nut (20), and the motor housing rotates in a substantially vertical plane about a bolt and wing nuts (24).

Abstract: A carriage for a trimming device for grass, weeds and the like having at least two runners (20 and 22), a grip (24) for gripping a handle pole (26) of the trimming device and holders (28 and 30) affixed to the grip for holding the runners in a spaced apart relationship for supporting the device is disclosed. Opposing grip members (33 and 35) form a channel (42) for receiving the handle pole and two cross channels (34 and 36) for holding the runner holders. One arrangement for use with a trimmer having a skirt includes a substantially horizontal front skirt support connecting the runners together near the fronts of the runners and a substantially horizontal back skirt support connecting the runners near the backs of the runners along with a front clamp and a back clamp for clamping the skirts to the supports.