Abstract: A power driven, telescoping steering column having a tubular outer jacket, a tubular inner jacket, and a tubular intermediate jacket arranged for coaxial telescopic movement relative with one another via actuation of an actuator assembly includes, a mounting device operably coupled against relative axial movement with the tubular outer jacket, with the actuator assembly being coupled to the mounting device without being fixedly connected or attached to the tubular outer jacket.

Abstract: A pen-shaped device has a trigger mechanism placed within a trigger housing, the trigger mechanism being used to puncture an adjacent gas containing ampoule housed in an ampoule receptacle. The trigger mechanism is actuated by a cap, which is connected to a stop (the latter connected to a plunger) of the trigger mechanism. A prong is provided at the bottom of the plunger, enabling the trigger mechanism to puncture the gas containing ampoule. A spring is connected to the trigger housing and provides resistance against actuation, ensuring the gas containing ampoule is not accidently punctured. In order replace expended gas containing ampoule, the ampoule receptacle can be unscrewed from the trigger housing. The expended ampoule can be removed and a new ampoule installed. A clip is connected to the cap, allowing the present invention to be securely carried, primarily by being attached to a pocket.

Abstract: A building side panel assembly, roof panel assembly, and roof beam are provided for modular construction wherein the panel assemblies may be inter-connected by an interlocking means which are located on each of the edges of the panel assemblies. The side panel assemblies are assembled in an edgewise relationship to form a structural barrier such as a wall. The panel assemblies are formed with a hemmed and a non-hemmed leg, wherein the non-hemmed leg of one panel assembly is configured to interlock with a hemmed leg of another panel assembly.

Abstract: A rear pivot mount for the rear axle assembly of heavy vehicles is disclosed and includes a housing, a spindle member attached to the rear axle assembly and disposed within the housing, a sleeve member circumferentially disposed about the spindle member and attached to the housing of the rear pivot mount. The sleeve member is spaced radially from the spindle member to form a first and a second cavity therebetween. A bearing member is positioned in each cavity to allow the spindle member to move or pivot with respect to the housing of the rear pivot mount. A retaining member is attached to the spindle member and is in contact with a bearing member to maintain the bearing members in position. A cover member is attached to the housing to provide a sealed cavity around the spindle member, sleeve member and bearing members.

Abstract: A binary tree protocol (FIG. 6 for example) in which for any given state in the binary tree, the subsequent state for each right substate is determined by applying the same state logic. In the preferred embodiment, (FIG. 6) a subsequent state of state 7, for example, may be state 2, just as the subsequent state of state 5 may be state 3. Since the state logic for the right-most substates is the same as for all other right substates, the concept of a "processing cycle" is eliminated. The protocol continuously moves from state to state (FIGS. 1, 6, 7, 8).

Abstract: A drive axle assembly including a housing structure having a fixed spindle, a nonrotatable spacer ring disposed about the spindle and a drive hub rotatably mounted on the spindle by bearings, one of which abuts the spacer ring. The spacer ring has a brake apply fluid inlet to an interior passage which opens to a first sealed annular cavity between the spacer ring and the hub. The exterior of the spacer ring defines in conjunction with the drive hub a second low pressure cavity therebetween enclosed by a radial face seal having a rotating portion disposed in the hub and a nonrotating portion disposed in the spacer ring. Lubricating and cooling fluid is pumped through the second cavity to cool the face seal and continues through passages in the drive hub to provide a nearly continuous flow to the drive and brake components in the hub assembly.

Abstract: A system for automatically aligning a high power laser. The optical train the high power laser includes an unstable resonator cavity, a two axis, gimballed turning mirror and a extraction mirror. The autoalignment system utilizes a HeNe laser to propagate an alignment beam coaxial with, and prealigned with, the high power beam. The reference beam traverses the same optical path as the main, high power beam, propagating through all of the relay optics of the laser train. This allows angular deviations in the pointing direction of the main beam to be inferred from the angularity of the reference beam. At the downstream end of the laser train, the extraction mirror functions as an optical interface, pointing the main beam in the preferred output direction and extracting the reference beam by means of a central passageway through the extraction mirror. The extracted reference beam is directed on a path incident to a null angle sensor.

Abstract: A sphygmomanometer having an inflatable occluding cuff adapted to be applied to a patient. A pressure transducer is in fluid communication with the cuff so as to produce an electrical analog signal proportional to the actual pressure in the cuff and to superpose electrical pulses on the analog signal in response to pulsations in the patient's blood pressure during cardiac cycles. An analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the pressure transducer to produce a digital representation of the actual pressure then obtaining in the cuff. A pulse detector is coupled to the pressure transducer to detect the superposed electrical pulses. The digital representation produced by the analog-to-digital converter is displayed in response to the first-detected pulse; and the digital representation subsequently produced by the converter is displayed in response to the finally detected pulse, thereby resulting in the display of the patient's systolic and diastolic pressures, respectively.