Abstract: An ammunition storage and retrieval system comprises a passive magazine having left and right backs of cells arranged in rows, with each cell accommodating a projectile in vertical, base-down orientation; the cells and cell rows being defined by adjacent pairs of elongated superstructures. A projectile loading head is movably mounted by a traveling beam, in turn, movably mounted by elevated rails, such that the loading head may be translated through a center aisle to address a selected row in either bank and then through the selected row to a selected cell for downloading of a projectile therein. A projectile receiver, dependent from the loading head, includes projectile gripping arms and a projectile lifting foot, which are articulated in coordination with operation of projectile locking members mounted by the superstructures to effect downloading.

Abstract: A level shifting driver shifts a low magnitude logic signal to a high magnitude logic signal while preventing a high supply voltage as associated with the high magnitude logic signal from feeding back into logic devices associated with providing the low magnitude logic signal. An input terminal receives the low magnitude logic signal from a given low voltage logic device. An N-channel MOSFET has its channel disposed serially between the input terminal and an output terminal and its gate coupled to a low supply voltage of the low voltage logic device. A latch network biased by the high supply voltage has one node of its latch coupled to the output terminal for providing an output signal representative of the low magnitude logic signal but of a high magnitude established in accordance with the high supply voltage.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for locating artery stenoses in blood vessels incls providing an array of sensors on skin surface to acquire data for detecting, locating and analyzing energy emissions in three-dimensional objects. The array detects momentum transfer that exists in the object in the form of wave energy, and the detection is designed to occur on the surface of the object, thereby providing a non-intrusive method for locating artery stenoses, with localization of the artery stenoses being achieved through array signal processing by information detected on the surface of the skin with the plurality or array of sensors.

Abstract: There is provided a vibration damping device comprising a flexible body fing an enclosed chamber, a plurality of electrically conductive members located within the chamber and spaced from each other along a common axis, the common axis being parallel to an inside surface of the flexible body. A fluid fills the chamber and is in contact with the flexible body inside surface and exposed surfaces of the conductive members, the fluid being resistant to shear stress when activated by an electric potential. The conductive members are arranged in the flexible body so as to provide an open region bounded at least in part by the conductive members and extending through the flexible body. Wires connected to an electrical power source are provided for electrically energizing the conductive members to create an electric field between each pair of neighboring conductive members and to create an electric field in the open region, thereby activating the fluid in the open region and between each pair of conductive members.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for determining damping coefficients, the met including the steps of providing a damper assembly including a bar of known parameters, and a viscous damper, wherein a first end of the bar is disposed in the viscous damper while the second end of the bar is free, applying a known force to the second end of the bar in a direction toward the first end of the bar, measuring the response function of the assembly, comprising the ratio of the bar acceleration to the applied force, determining the eigenvalues of the response function, and from the eigenvalues computing the damping coefficient of the damper assembly.