Abstract: A wedge lock for use with a single board computer includes a cooling plate positioned with respect to a printed circuit board (PCB), a clamp device configured to secure the single board computer in an operating environment, and a heat conductance plate positioned along a top surface of the cooling plate and a top surface of the clamp device to facilitate conduction cooling of the PCB.

Abstract: A wedge lock for use with a single board computer includes a cooling plate positioned with respect to a printed circuit board (PCB), a clamp device configured to secure the single board computer in an operating environment, and a heat conductance plate positioned along a top surface of the cooling plate and a top surface of the clamp device to facilitate conduction cooling of the PCB.

Abstract: A circuit card assembly comprises a PCB (1) having first and second opposing major faces with a first pair of elongated edges (4, 5) extending therebetween. Heat management layers are disposed within the CCA and/or PCB (1), which extend to said edges (4,5), and a thermally conductive bar (8) is engaged in a slot (6) provided in each of the elongated edges (4, 5). Each conductive bar (8) extends over at least the thickness of the PCB (1), one face preferably being flush with one of the major faces of the PCB (1) and is thermally connected to the heat management layer(s) by thermal connecting means so as to conduct heat from the or each heat management layer to said bar (8).

Abstract: There is described a non-invasive device designed to assist expectoration pulmonary secretions in humans, particularly in those whose natural exhalation and natural coughing ability are impaired. The device has a valve that opens fully in not more than 10 milliseconds, a pressure sensing means generating a signal indicative of a pressure in the upper part of the subject's respiratory tract, detecting means indicating the imminent collapse of the subject's respiratory tract or a part thereof, and control means opening or closing the valve respectively in response to the signals from the sensing means and the detecting means so as to create supramaximal flows in the respiratory tract in order to stimulate the movement of secretions towards the mouth of the subject.

Abstract: A power control system for the remote control of one or more remote power supply circuits in which a power controller which comprises means for producing an a.c. control signal which is arranged to be transmitted over a single pair of control conductors forming a part of a d.c. isolated control link to remote power supply circuit for the operation thereof, in which variable impedance switching means at the remote power supply circuit modifies the impedance reflected back over the control link to the power controller in accordance with the condition of the power supply switching circuit and in which detector means in the power controller senses changes in the impedance of the variable impedance switching circuit and accordingly provides an indication of the state of the remote power supply circuit.