Abstract: System and method for generating meta-data for a product is disclosed. An artifact repository stores first artifacts for building the product. The artifact repository stores first meta-data for one or more of the artifacts in the repository. A build manager builds second artifacts for the product from source code and one or more of the first artifacts based on information in a project script. The build manager is adapted to combine the first meta-data for each of the one or more of the first artifacts used to build the second artifact to form second meta-data for each of the second artifacts.

Abstract: System and method for forming a cloud appliance. The system includes a management server, an artifact repository, a continuous integration server, and build managers. The management server includes source code and a project script for forming the cloud appliance. The artifact repository stores artifacts required to build the cloud appliance and artifacts that comprise the built cloud appliance. The continuous integration server manages a build process, unit test process, and deployment process based on the project script. The build managers build the source code for customizing the virtual machine and store the built source code as the second artifacts in the artifact repository. The continuous integration server instantiates the virtual machine from template and customizes the virtual machine to form a customized virtual machine using the artifacts specified in the project script, a customization process for each of the artifacts based on a type of the artifact.

Abstract: System and method for generating meta-data for a product is disclosed. An artifact repository stores first artifacts for building the product. The artifact repository stores first meta-data for one or more of the artifacts in the repository. A build manager builds second artifacts for the product from source code and one or more of the first artifacts based on information in a project script. The build manager is adapted to combine the first meta-data for each of the one or more of the first artifacts used to build the second artifact to form second meta-data for each of the second artifacts.

Abstract: System and method for forming a cloud appliance. The system includes a management server, an artifact repository, a continuous integration server, and build managers. The management server includes source code and a project script for forming the cloud appliance. The artifact repository stores artifacts required to build the cloud appliance and artifacts that comprise the built cloud appliance. The continuous integration server manages a build process, unit test process, and deployment process based on the project script. The build managers build the source code for customizing the virtual machine and store the built source code as the second artifacts in the artifact repository. The continuous integration server instantiates the virtual machine from template and customizes the virtual machine to form a customized virtual machine using the artifacts specified in the project script, a customization process for each of the artifacts based on a type of the artifact.

Abstract: Inspection tool for inspecting micro surfaces such as solder joints of electronic components, weld joints, braze joints, machined surfaces, castings, biological samples, crystals, molded components, fibers, wear analysis, finishes, coatings, and the like, under ambient light conditions. The inspection tool has a low lux video camera mounted on the end of a tool holder. Use of a prism is optional. The inspection tool eliminates the need for external front and/or back lighting when inspecting micro surfaces in low-light conditions. The prism enables simultaneous viewing of objects and surfaces in the direct line of view of the camera lens and at an angle.

Abstract: A soft frozen fruit flavored dairy milk product is disclosed of water, sucrose sugar sweetener, fruit juice and dairy milk of 3 to 5 weight percent dairy milk fat with coalesced fat globules present to enhance the sucrose sugar sweetener, free of added emulsifiers, stabilizers, artificial coloring and without introduction of air in the mix, wherein two separate freezing steps develop a mouthfeel with components of the fruit flavor and coalesced fat globules.

Abstract: A process for producing a soft frozen fruit flavored dairy product is disclosed. The process requires two freezing steps wherein a flavored concentrate mix is frozen before milk fat is added to the mix. The flavored concentrate mix together with the contained milk fat is then frozen again without mixing or stirring to allow ice crystals to form, preferably of small size, to develop a mouthfeel with components of the fruit flavor.

Abstract: A roll-over airbag 10 having an upper fabric panel 15 and a lower fabric panel 20 perimetrically bonded to the upper fabric panel 15. This perimetric joint is reinforced with a lap joint 30 defining a reinforced interior seal. The height and/or thickness of the roll-over airbag 10 can be limited by either selecting a configuration that is self limiting or by limiting the displacement of the upper and lower fabric panels 15 and 20 from one another during expansion of the roll-over airbag 10 by at least one tether member 40 disposed within roll-over airbag 10. Further, a method for producing a flatjoint seam in a roll-over airbag in which the lap joint is sealed flat and steps are taken to prevent the upper and lower portions of the lap joint from adhering to one another.

Abstract: A roll-over airbag 10 having an upper fabric panel 15 and a lower fabric panel 20 perimetrically bonded to the upper fabric panel 15. This perimetric joint is reinforced with a lap joint 30 defining a reinforced interior seal. The height and/or thickness of the roll-over airbag 10 can be limited by either selecting a configuration that is self limiting or by limiting the displacement of the upper and lower fabric panels 15 and 20 from one another during expansion of the roll-over airbag 10 by at least one tether member 40 disposed within roll-over airbag 10. Further, a method for producing a flat joint seam in a roll-over airbag in which the lap joint is sealed flat and steps are taken to prevent the upper and lower portions of the lap joint from adhering to one another.

Abstract: Multiple OSI TP service requests to which a particular AP-CRM interface call is mapped, and which are normally processed as individual events by an OSI TP protocol machine that conforms to the OSI TP Protocol Specification, are concatenated and processed by a modified OSI TP protocol machine as a single, atomic event. In this manner, performance and throughput are increased, while still maintaining conformance with the OSI TP Standard. Processing of OSI TP service requests will thus be optimized for the particular AP-CRM interface that the distributed transaction processing system supports. A new CRM-OSI TP programming interface is provided in place of the standard XAP-TP programming interface. The new interface maps each service of the particular AP-CRM interface to a respective, single service request of the new interface. Each service request of the new interface represents a concatenation of the OSI TP services to which the corresponding service of the particular AP-CRM is normally mapped.

Abstract: An improved disc-type ground tillage implement for tilling ground. The implement has a frame connectable to a towing machine and having multiple pairs of gangs of blades connected to the frame. The frame is supported by a plurality of wheels which may be used to raise and lower the implement in relation to the ground. Each of the pairs of blade gangs includes a front and a rear gang, there being a pair of outer right blade gangs, at least one pair of center blade gangs and a pair of outer left blade gangs. The front and the rear gangs of the outer right and the outer left gang pairs converge as they extend out away from the left-right center of the frame and the outer left and outer right gangs are non-continuous with a center gang pair.

Abstract: A two component connection system consisting of a female connector and a male connector. The female connector consists of three components joined together with a bolt. First is a cup that has the same inner and outer diameters as the tubing that forms the rest of the inner conductor. Second is a bushing stepped diametrically in three places. The first step accepts a standard anchor insulator. The second step is the same diameter as the outside of the inner conductor tubing. The third step has a diameter that allows it to fit snugly inside of the inner conductor tubing. The male connector consists of a cylinder with a bushing on one end that allows it to be assembled to inner conductor tubing and a diameter on the other end with a tandem pair of glands for watchband style springs that fits inside of the female connector cup. The cup of the female connector is fixed in position relative to the outer conductor by the captured anchor insulator.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided to restore eyelid function in a patient unable to voluntarily raise an eyelid. The apparatus includes a spiral torsion spring and pulley arrangement mounted in a housing that is implanted in the superior portion of the orbit of the eye. A wire connects the pulley to the eyelid. A spiral torsion spring provides the necessary spring force in tension to overcome the weight of the eyelid and draw the eyelid open. The natural muscles of eye closure are, however, sufficiently strong to overcome the spring tension thereby paying out wire from the pulley and closing the eye so as to provide normal blinking function. A position setting gear allows the biasing force of the spring to be selectively reduced sufficiently to allow the eye to remain closed for sleep or at other desired times. A method of treating ptosis is also disclosed.

Abstract: A broadcast antenna that generates circularly polarized waves and comprises a pair of conducting arms having portions forming a normal mode helix with one arm interrupted by an insulator to permit the connection of an internal feed line.

Abstract: The invention is a water well surge block for agitation of particles in water wells. The surge block utilizes a novel one way valve comprising a shaft in connection with a rigid perforated cylinder having an upper and lower surface and a flexible membrane that overlies the upper surface of the membrane. As the surge block moves downward in the well or wellbore the membrane flexes away from said cylinder during downward movement of the block in order to permit the one way flow of fluid upward. The membrane closes against the cylinder to prevent the flow of water as the block moves upward.

Abstract: A multiple implement to tractor hitch assembly. A horizontally disposed elongated first beam is horizontally curved and connected intermediate its ends by a tongue with a tractor drawbar for horizontal pivoting movement of the first beam about the vertical axis of its tongue connection for positioning implements when connected with respective parallel end portions of the beam in a tandem or laterally spaced soil working position by a power cylinder extending between the first beam and the tongue. A second substantially identical beam is hingedly connected in tandem by one of its ends to the trailing end of the first beam for vertical pivoting movement of the beams about the horizontal hinge connection. An agricultural implement is connected with the beams at their hinged connection and with the respective other end of the respective beam.

Abstract: A rail mounting assembly is disclosed including clip members which is some cases have formable portions for effecting engagement with a base plate to retain the clip member in position on a crosstie with the base plates on opposite sides of the rail being connected by an anchor means extending internally of the crosstie. Another aspect of the invention involves clip members and base plates having engageable serrated surfaces clamped together by a bolt received in a threaded anchor in a concrete crosstie so that loosening and subsequent tightening of the bolt permits the adjustment of the clip members with respect to the radial base flange and another embodiment in which a clip is held in position by a bolt in the anchor member in the crosstie with the clip having a coined surface canted at an angle to accommodate rail tilt and sawtooth serrations engaging the bolt head for preventing loosening of the bolt member.