Abstract: A novel attachment on a toilet system for a male user to raise a toilet seat (100), by depressing a pedal (30) with a foot and then releasing it, while standing well balanced on his second foot, so that he can urinate comfortably with both feet on the floor; and then to lower same seat (100) by depressing same pedal (30) and releasing it; with all these actions done with no startling noise against the water tank (104) or the toilet bowl rim. The dual operation of the same pedal (30) can provide a timely flushing of the toilet automatically when seat (100) is lowered, without hand touching any part of the toilet system. The attachment can add, with a secondary pedal (140), a hands-free flushing system that can be operated without moving toilet seat (100) when it is already in the lowered position. All manual toilet-system operations are preserved.

Abstract: A novel attachment on a toilet system for a male user to raise a toilet seat (100), by depressing a pedal (30) with a foot and then releasing it, while standing well balanced on his second foot, so that he can urinate comfortably with both feet on the floor; and then to lower same seat (100) by depressing same pedal (30) and releasing it; with all these actions done with no startling noise against the water tank (104) or the toilet bowl rim. The dual operation of the same pedal (30) can provide a timely flushing of the toilet automatically when seat (100) is lowered, without hand touching any part of the toilet system. The attachment can add, with a secondary pedal (140), a hands-free flushing system that can be operated without moving toilet seat (100) when it is already in the lowered position. All manual toilet-system operations are preserved.

Abstract: A device relieves the weight on the thumbrest of a woodwind instrument that does not have a curved neck near the mouthpiece, thereby avoiding muscular strain and soreness in the right hand and thumb of the instrument player without altering negatively the instrument playing in the conventional ways. This device includes a strap 20 that suspends on the player's chest an enclosure 30 housing a constant-force spring 34 coupled with a coil of cord 40 which terminates outside of this enclosure in a snap-hook 60 that is secured onto the thumbrest ring 70 of the instrument. In usual playing positions that point the instrument to the ground, the device creates a physical force component on the thumbrest in line with but opposite to the weight of the instrument on the thumbrest and thus diminishes in a perceivable manner the stress of the instrument weight on the right-hand of the player.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle automatic light control and battery protection having a microcontroller. The novelty rests in obtaining the information on the different positions of the main light switch by sensing the change in voltage at a predetermined end of each of the sensing resistors of predetermined values, said predetermined end being connected to a predetermined contact terminal of a number of pairs of contact terminals of controlled switches which are inserted in series with the light circuits at physical locations predetermined to be convenient for tile installation of the invention on each vehicle. This novelty makes it very inexpensive to provide many beneficial operations in turning off with different delays the head lights, park lights, and dome lights, as well as to provide automatic battery protection against any routinely used lights when they are inadvertently left on, without using any confusing additional switches as in prior art.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle light control circuit having a microcontroller. The novelty rests in obtaining the information on the different positions of the main light switch by sensing the change in voltage at a predetermined end of each of the sensing resistors of predetermined values connected across the terminals of a number of controlled switches which are inserted in series with the light circuits at physical locations predetermined to be convenient for the installation of the invention on each vehicle. This novelty makes it easy to provide many beneficial operations in turning off with different delays the head lights, park lights, and dome lights, as well as to provide automatic battery protection against any routinely used lights when they are inadvertently left on, without using any confusing additional switches as in prior art.

Abstract: A page turning device for a book whereby, after a book has been fixed by a securing means and a plurality of rods rotatably hanging at their top ends around a fixed hanger and positioned in sequence each behind one leaf of said book have been pushed by a pushing means toward the very first present active rod defined as the rod which has been made to be confined by the firm and spatially precise stopping of a first limiting stop means, and the first set of pages has been exposed for reading, the cue for a forward page turning would start the control means toactivate a selecting means to choose said present active rod, thento activate a driving means to act on said selecting means to cause the lower tip of said present active rod to overcome momentarily said firm and spatially precise stopping by said first limiting stop means and to travel along a guiding means past the spine of said book, to push along and to turn a leaf of said book and at the end of its course, to lock open the next set of pages of said boo

Abstract: An ion cyclotron resonance cell has applied thereto an excitation which has a time domain waveform which is the inverse Fourier transform of a frequency domain excitation spectrum which has been chosen by the user to yield selective excitation and/or suppression of ranges of ion mass-to-charge ratios. To minimize the dynamic range of the time domain signal resulting from the inverse Fourier transform, the phases of the various discrete frequency components in the frequency domain spectrum which are used in calculating the inverse Fourier transform are not constant but rather are varied as a function of the frequency of the components. The phase of each component is assigned such that the frequency components in the time domain signal are not all in phase at any point in time, thereby avoiding large magnitude spikes in the time domain waveform. The phases of the various frequency components may follow a non-linear function of the frequencies of the components, such as a quadratic function.

Abstract: An attachment for remote control of a keyboard cmprising a series of selecting elements mounted for movement in a first direction between inoperative and operative positions, each having a series of apertures; a series of push-bars mounted for movement in a second direction, each having an elongated member oriented longitudinally in a third direction; a plurality of push-sticks, each being rotatably linked at one of its ends to one of the elongated members of push-bars and slidably linked at its other end to an aperture of one of the selecting elements; devices for selectively moving the selecting elements and push-bars; a plurality of push-rods mounted for movement in the second direction, each having its lower tip suface bearing on top of the corresponding key, and its upper tip surface being acted upon by the corresponding push-stick in the direction that causes the corresponding key to move from inoperative position to operative position only when the selecting element linked to the push-stick was first m

Abstract: An attachment for an electronic watch worn on a wrist has a plate linked to an electric switch and moving about a support secured at such a location on the watch system that the wrist can be brought about to press said plate against a firm surface for a duration and a number of times to select and cause the displaying of a set of watch data. This firm surface can be anything around the watch wearer's body or parts thereof, but not absolutely a finger on the side of the wrist not wearing the watch.