Abstract: A user-configurable control palette for the extraction and tagging of highlighted objects where the user performs any desired task upon the objects. A control palette library is provided for the user to save custom palette layouts to and retrieve custom palette layouts from and allow the user to setup standard palettes for specific tasks such as document version control, training documents, interactive tutorials, survey questionnaires, interview forms, and on line testing. The user performs simplified extraction and tagging of highlighted objects from various sources through the control palette, changing each object's attributes such as font type, font style, font pitch, and color, through simple button clicks on the control palette. User defined tags or HTML tags may also be selected by the user to be associated with an object and the user may also specify links back to the source document for future reference.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for revealing the marked structure of a document, e.g. a document written in HTML, such that a person reviewing the document is instructed in the operation and recreation of the document from a casual on-screen review of the document. During operation of the invention, an input file is first read. The file is parsed into markers, e.g. HTML tags, during input. A vector is built of all markers, including the function and location of the markers. For each marker, a glossary is accessed to determine what the marker is and what the marker does. Depending upon the mode of operation selected by the user, the invention can provide a learn mode in which a "mouse-over" trigger is generated for each marked section, e.g. a JavaScript mouse-over, a NetHelp trigger, or layers for each marking; and provide a performance support mode in which display units, e.g. layers, are generated for each marking and displayed for each marking.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement which permits operating characteristic variables such as the crankshaft rotational speed and the content of exhaust gas components to be determined in the workshop. The sensor is mounted so as to be stationary in the exhaust gas system or is only intermittently mounted in this system. According to one arrangement of the invention, the exhaust gas sensor includes a first device which receives the pressure of the exhaust gas of the engine. In this way, the crankshaft rotational speed can be arrived at. A second device is arranged in the exhaust gas sensor which has an output signal which is a measure for the content of an exhaust gas component. A further embodiment of the arrangement of the invention includes an exhaust gas sensor having a first device which is configured as a fault meter, temperature sensor or as a hot wire flow meter. Other devices can be utilized to detect further variables of the exhaust gas and evaluate the same.

Abstract: The device for testing an ignition system of a combustion engine comprises an adjustable load connected in the primary winding of the ignition coil by means of which the stored energy is so long reduced until due to the deficient energy the first ignition slip of the fuel-air-mixture occurs. This reduced energy is compared with the nominal or normal energy required for proper operation of the ignition system and the difference between the two values determines a measure for ignition energy reserve and consequently a measure for the condition of the whole ignition system. The energy reserve is measured selectively always for a part of the ignition system, that means for a cylinder of the engine. For this purpose a selective switch is employed using a scaler fed by pulses derived from the contact breaker and synchronized by a pulse from the part of the cylinder under test produce an output pulse which connects the loading member to the primary winding of the ignition coil.

Abstract: To provide for accurate testing of the performance of automotive vehicles on test stands in which the wheels of the vehicle are in engagement with inertia rollers, the inertia rollers being accelerated through the vehicle wheels by the vehicle engine, and the torque measured, and then decelerated by disconnecting of engine driving power and coasting torque measured, operating parameters related to speed and rate of change of speed are sensed and a speed signal is provided, tractive effort is sensed and a traction signal provided, and the signals are combined to provide an output representative of engine performance, the combined signals being further modified by the output of a correction stage which introduces correction signals such as pressure, ambient temperature, presence or absence of automatic transmission, or the like; the apparatus further comprises selectable switches, for example a speed selector switch, so that measurements can be taken with respect to predetermined design speeds to test performan

Abstract: To prevent contamination of confining surfaces of vessels through which a light beam is passed, the attenuation of which is a measure of the optical transparency of exhaust gases from Diesel engines, transparent disks, such as glass disks, are rotated adjacent the chamber and heated, for example by gas jets or an infrared source to such a temperature that the disk temperature is raised to a level sufficient to burn off any residual deposits left by the gases on the disks, so that the transparency of the disk will not be impaired and adulterate the measuring results.