Abstract: The vehicle seat has a seat carrier and an underframe. The underframe comprises two bottom rails, two seat rails, two front supports, and two rear pivoting supports. A buckle of a safety belt is provided. Tensile loads acting on the buckle are transferred into the underframe. The bottom rail neighboring the buckle is provided with a side part that extends upward toward the seat carrier. A slot is configured in this side part and is oriented substantially transversely to a direction of a force acting on the buckle during of a frontal crash. A sliding member is provided and is guided in the slot. A pull-type strap is arranged between the buckle and the sliding member. A connecting rod is arranged between the neighboring rear pivoting support and the sliding member. Whenever the seat carrier is adjusted in height, the neighboring rear pivoting support is pivoted and the connecting rod displaces the sliding member in the slot, causing the buckle to follow the movement of the seat carrier.

Abstract: A system, method, and article of manufacture for adaptive re-mapping of head addresses in a data storage device. A logical address received by the data storage device is converted into a corresponding physical address, such as cylinder or track, read/write head, and sector. The selection of the read/write head is then re-mapped by the data storage device to a more optimal selection. Thereafter, the desired operation can be performed using the physical address including the re-mapped selection of the read/write heads.

Abstract: The seat back frame of a vehicle seat has been formed out of a sheet iron blank into a pressed piece of sheet iron. The seat back frame is provided with a main region and with a border oriented transversely to said main region. The border being composed of merging portions, viz., of a top border, a left and a right bent corner border and a left and a right lateral border. A left and a right stiffening bead is provided, each of which being located both in an upper end region of the corresponding lateral border and in a portion of the main region a) that is directly adjacent said upper end region and that is b) in the neighborhood of the corresponding corner border.

Abstract: The height-adjustable underframe of a vehicle seat has a left and a right couple of rails of a longitudinal adjusting device and a left and a right side part that are each hinge-connected to the corresponding seat rail of the couple of rails by way of a rear and a front pivoting arm on the left and the right side of the vehicle seat. A blocking arm is linked by a lower end region to the corresponding seat rail on the hinge point of a rear pivoting arm. The blocking arm is detachably fixed in proximity to its upper end in a stopping device, which is fastened on the corresponding side part.

Abstract: A step-by-step ratchet mechanism has a mount, a hand lever that is carried on the mount and is pivotal about an axis of the hand lever, and a ratchet that is provided with a toothed set wheel and with an output shaft that is rotatable about an axis of the ratchet in the mount. Two catches are provided, they a) are each hinged on the hand lever and are pivotal around an axis of the catch, b) are each provided with a gear cutting that cooperates with the set wheel, c) are provided with a supporting flank that neighbors an abutment of the mount and d) are provided with a first elastic means that resiliently pretensions the two supporting flanks towards the abutment. Each catch is further provided with e) a pin. The gear cutting is designed as a toothed quadrant with several teeth. Two mean position levers are carried on the mount and are each pivotal about an axis of the mean position levers, one mean position lever being assigned to each catch. The mean position levers are provided with a stop flank.

Abstract: An assembly of a connection end of a heating element and a connector matable therewith includes a heating element having side-by-side-rod sections, a ground strap mounted to the rod elements and a connector mountable to a frame of an electronic device. The connector includes at least two power terminals and at least one ground terminal. The power terminals are receptacles and the rod sections of the heating element include an integral male lead dimensioned to be directly connected to respective receptacle terminals. The ground strap is disposed over the rod sections and is adapted to mate with the ground terminal in the connector.

Abstract: In a disk drive system a servo controller is responsive to a position signal and operative to determine values for servo parameters during each of a plurality of sampling intervals, and is also operative to update a spindle command signal and an actuator command signal during sampling intervals for controlling seeking operations including an acceleration sequence and a deceleration sequence for positioning a head at a target track. The controller is further operative to implement a process of limiting the current drawn by a supply during periods of the deceleration sequence. The spindle command signal is regulated to adjust a spindle current to a reduced value which is less than a nominal value during a spindle energy deferring period while an actuator current exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adjusting device for a vehicle seat with a silent ratchet. The silent ratched includes a first ratchet portion and a second ratchet portion. The first ratchet portion has an inner lining which is defined by a rotating body. The second ratchet portion is a) arranged so as to oppose the first ratchet portion and to be capable of rotating about an axis of the inner lining and b) which carries at least one clamping lever capable of pivoting about an axis of the clamping lever. The clamping lever has a clamping area located in a neighborhood of the inner lining. An actuating device for the clamping lever being provided so that the clamping lever may be pivoted in a controlled manner between a normal clamping position in which the lever is frictionally engaged with the inner lining, a non rotatable connection of the two ratchet portions being provided thereby, and a release position, in which the clamping area is located at a distance from the inner lining.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a push-wire electrical contact. The contact comprises a body, a plurality of arms coupled to said body, said arms having free ends. The arms being positioned such that the free ends of the arms are adapted to receive an electrical wire therebetween, and are spaced apart a distance that is slightly less than the diameter of the wire. The contact may be used with or without a housing that can be positioned over the body and the arms of the contact.

Abstract: A connector 20 for disk-shaped batteries 102 includes a housing 22 with a battery receiving cavity 38, first and second pairs of side walls 30, 34 and first and second terminal-receiving slots 40, 54 for receiving respective terminals 66, 84 therein and located between the side walls of the first and second pairs respectively. Each side wall 30, 34 includes an inwardly directed retention flange 32, 36 respectively for securing the battery 102 in the housing 22. The base 24 includes a plurality of board standoffs 62 of sufficient length to permit portions of the connector base 24 to be flexed downwardly toward a circuit board 108 a sufficient distance to move the retention flange 36 of one of the side walls 34 outwardly thereby releasing the battery 102 from said connector 20.

Abstract: A connector 20 for disk-shaped batteries 90 including a housing 22 with a battery receiving cavity 48, opposed end walls 30 having spring arms 32 that extend outwardly from the cavity 48 for retaining the battery 90 in the housing 22, and terminals 50 connector 20 is adapted for receiving a battery in a horizontal orientation. The lower and upper terminals 52, 54 are disposed in respective terminal receiving passageways 36, 42 of the housing 22 with spring arm contact sections 60 opposing each other along the housing side walls 24,28 and with surface mountable connecting sections 70 of both the terminals 52,54 extending outwardly from the housing base 34 at spaced locations for electrical connection to pads on a circuit board.

Abstract: A thermostat housing which provides a protective enclosure for electronic components of a thermostat assembly comprises a base, a terminal block removably attached to the base, and a cover. The terminal block provides an interface between the electronic components of the thermostat assembly and wires of a building climate control system. The terminal block can be replaced as an individual unit in the event it becomes damaged or defective.

Abstract: A method for detecting an diagnosing faults in printed circuit boards. Emissivity data and thermal image data of the various components of the board are obtained. The emissivity data is used to correct the thermal image data. The corrected data is converted to device space data, which is then input to a previously trained neural network. The output of the neural network indicates the location of the fault. The method includes an improved method for obtaining an emissivity map and a method for providing suitable neural network input.

Abstract: Polyol polyesters are purified by a process comprising bleaching with a specific silica gel and/or heat treatment and removal of volatile products by steam deodorization. Any steam deodorization is at reduced temperatures or in admixture with triglycerides to minimize thermal degradation of the polyol polyesters.

Abstract: A well service valve used primarily for the injection of closely controlled batches of well treating fluids into low pressure formations utilizes a biased one-way flow valve in a tubing string to hold the treating fluid in the column until the tubing is pressurized to open the valve and expose flow ports in the wall of the tubing to the formation. A partial pressure-balancing of the flow valve allows the use of a lower biasing force in the flow valve, thereby greatly increasing the reliability and useful life of the valve.

Abstract: A method of injecting fluids into underground formations such as oil wells, and particularly advantageous for treating low-pressure formations having bottomhole pressures below normal tubing hydrostatic pressure, utilizes the steps of lowering into the borehole a tubing string, locating near the formation to be treated a partially pressure-balanced valve adapted to support a column of fluid in the string of tubing, and applying pressure to the column of fluid in the tubing to inject fluid through the valve and into the formation.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector assembly is disclosed for terminating multiple conductor cable and, in particular, tri-lead cable. The connector assembly includes a housing having mating top and bottom members molded from rigid insulator material and joined together along one edge by a hinge of resilient insulating material. The housing members define therebetween a pair of contact cavities and at least one cable entry passage leading to the cavities. Top and bottom contacts are inserted into the contact cavities of the respective housing members with portions of the contacts exposed to make an insulation piercing connection with the respective conductors of the cable. Both contacts have opposite end portions adapted to mate with further electrical terminating means. The contacts within the mated housing members can also be probed for electrical continuity.

Abstract: A well service valve used primarily for the injection of closely controlled batches of well treating fluids into low pressure formations utilizes a biased one-way flow valve in a tubing string to hold the treating fluid in the column until the tubing is pressurized to open the valve and expose flow ports in the wall of the tubing to the formation. A partial pressure-balancing of the flow valve allows the use of a lower biasing force in the flow valve, thereby greatly increasing the reliability and useful life of the valve.

Abstract: A power cord connector is disclosed for detachably connecting an electric power cord to an electrically operated device, which can include all types of appliances, tools and the like. The connector is used to connect a single power cord with any number of separate devices and provides a fast and positive bayonet type locking and unlocking engagement therewith. The connector also provides strain relief for the power cord and guards the cord and extensions against sharp bends and high stress flexing. The connector is polarized and can be adapted for multi-wire configurations. The receptacle portion of the connector can be formed integral with the device, formed as a separate drop in member, or formed for panel mounting.