Abstract: An assembly comprises a male component and a female component which connect together to form a mechanical connection, the female component being adapted to at least partially receive an end portion of the male component. The female component has at least one bore which is adapted to receive a clamping pin which can be tightened to clamp the female component around the male component. A guide is provided which is carried by the male component and which defines at least one blocking region and one opening region, the opening region being aligned with the at least one bore in the female component to permit insertion of the clamping pin into the bore when the male component and female component are correctly aligned and the blocking region otherwise preventing insertion of the clamping pin when the male component is inserted into the female component with an incorrect alignment. The guide assists in achieving correct alignment of the male and female components during assembly.

Abstract: An editing process receives a piece of content including at least one item therein, an edit form including at least one control available for receiving an item and for specifying attributes relating to displaying the received item in a page, and a content-control statement specifying for each of at least some items a control from the edit form to be employed to display the item in the page. An editor creates/edits a layout statement specifying each item to appear in the page, including a layout order and any attributes to be applied. The editing process outputs the edited layout statement and edited content. The edited content is an intermediate form of the content based on at least the edit form and the content-control statement, where a transforming process is to produce the page based on the edited content, the layout information, and a pre-selected rendering format.

Abstract: A transforming process receives a selection of a piece of edited content including at least one item and for each item a control for receiving the item and specifying attributes relating to displaying the received item in a page that is to be served to a requester thereof, and also receives a selection of a layout statement specifying each item of the edited content that is to appear in the page, including a layout order of such specified item within the page and any attributes to be applied to such item. Thereafter, the transforming process outputs the page based on the edited content and the layout statement, where the page is in a pre-selected rendering format.

Abstract: Access is restricted to software objects that simulate the operation of electronic devices from register transfer level descriptions thereof. Objects are initially provided in an inaccessible state, typically as object code. A “player” module mediates user access to the simulation object, allowing the user to link to it and otherwise perform the simulation it encodes, but only in response to satisfaction of one or more authorization criteria. The nature of these criteria depend on the reason for the restriction and the party benefited.

Abstract: A print head for a dot matrix printer comprises a housing (1) containing a number of actuators (2) driving a corresponding number of print wires (6). Each actuator (2) includes an actuating coil (11) wound around a yoke (10) fixed to the housing (1) and a pivotable armature (13) adjacent the yoke (10). The armature has one end pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge of rubber or rubber-like elastomeric material (26) and has its other end engaging the head of a print wire (6) so that, upon application of current to the actuating coil the pivotable armature (13) is attracted towards the yoke (10) and pivots about its one end causing its other end to drive the printwire (6) forwards. Preferably the pivoting armature (13) is formed by two separate parts, a soft iron pole piece (20) and an actuating finger (21). Preferably they are connected together by both a spot weld (22) and an adhesive. Preferably each actuator (2 ) also includes an adjusting screw (16) which bears against a damper (15).