Abstract: A light assembly for a vehicle includes a light bar and a projector. The light bar configured to be connected to the vehicle. The projector is rotatably connected to the light bar. The projector is rotatable relative to the light bar.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system includes a light assembly and an electronic controller. The light assembly includes one or more lights configured to illuminate an external area that is in a vicinity of the vehicle. The electronic controller is programmed to receive a battery status signal from a battery of the vehicle. The electronic controller is further programmed to control the light assembly to illuminate the one or more lights to display a status of the battery when the vehicle is in a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition is at least one of a condition in which a remote electronic device is within a vicinity of the vehicle, a condition in which the vehicle has transitioned from a locked state to an unlocked state, and a condition in which the vehicle is about to be transitioned from the locked state to the unlocked state.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system includes a light assembly and an electronic controller. The light assembly includes one or more lights configured to illuminate an external area that is in a vicinity of the vehicle. The electronic controller is programmed to receive a battery status signal from a battery of the vehicle. The electronic controller is further programmed to control the light assembly to illuminate the one or more lights to display a status of the battery when the vehicle is in a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition is at least one of a condition in which a remote electronic device is within a vicinity of the vehicle, a condition in which the vehicle has transitioned from a locked state to an unlocked state, and a condition in which the vehicle is about to be transitioned from the locked state to the unlocked state.

Abstract: The invention discloses and claims five different embodiments of a plural chambered dispensing tube assembly that prevents products separated by tube chambers from mixing prior to being dispensed by providing a seal at the dispensing end. The seal is an integral part of the tube assembly.

Abstract: The invention discloses and claims five different embodiments of a plural chambered dispensing tube assembly that prevents products separated by tube chambers from mixing prior to being dispensed by providing a seal at the dispensing end. The seal is an integral part of the tube assembly.

Abstract: A variable entry power supply cord-connector. The supply cord-connector has a rounded cord portion coupled to a connector portion. The cord portion is adjustable to a first entry position, a second entry position, and a third entry position. The connector portion has a hollow axial cord channel. The connector portion further defines a hollow transverse cord channel. The connector portion further defines a transverse groove and slot. The axial cord channel intersects the groove and slot. The transverse cord-channel also intersects the slot. A user can pass the cord portion through the groove and slot, thereby changing the entry position of the cord portion. The cord portion, when in its first entry position, extends into the axial cord channel. The cord portion, when in its second entity position, extends into a first exterior opening of the transverse cord channel. The cord portion, when in its third entry position, enters into an opposite second exterior opening of the transverse cord channel.

Abstract: An electrical appliance or tool having a pre-assembled electrical contact carrier on one end thereof. The carrier has a flex strain relief surrounding one end of the power cord. A flange is connected to the strain relief and is sized to contact the exterior of the appliance or tool to hold the power cord on to the appliance or tool. A retaining head is attached to and spaced from the flange to be located in the interior of the appliance or tool. The retaining head has at least a pair of electrical contacts which can be mechanically and electrically connected to corresponding lead wire contacts. The invention also concerns the pre-assembled power cord electrical contact carrier.

Abstract: A method of atomic scale fixation and immobilization of plutonium to provide a durable waste product. Plutonium is provided in the form of either PuO.sub.2 or Pu(NO.sub.3).sub.4 and is mixed with and SiO.sub.2. The resulting mixture is cold pressed and then heated under pressure to form (Zr,Pu)SiO.sub.4 as the waste product.

Abstract: A cable assembly for connecting a connector shell to a mating connector, the assembly having an electrical connector and a cable which are interconnected to form the assembly comprising: a cable shield for covering the cable along its entire length; a first molded housing for covering the connector to cable interface and for providing a substrate for the cable shield; a second molded housing for covering the first molded housing and for locking the cable assembly to the mating connector; and a third molded housing for securing the cable and the connector to cable interface to the second molded housing.

Abstract: A modular assembly is provided for use in frame structures which are assembled by joining frame members to connector or fitting members to allow such structures to be easily and quickly assembled and disassembled without the need for a separate assembly tool. In the assembly the frame member telescopically engages the fitting member and both members are constrained from relative rotational and translational movement by a resilient retainer. The retainer has a general spring-like band configuration which includes a backbone portion having two open extending ends. The retainer is flexed over one of the joined members and its backbone engages at least one half of the perimeter of that member. The installed and tensioned length between the two retainer ends is greater than the length between the same ends in a free state, thereby clamping the structural members together. An alignment pin extends radially inwardly from the retainer backbone and engages both members to lock the retainer in place.

Abstract: There is disclosed a microprocessor-controlled peristaltic pump for use in a portable continuous insulin infusion device. The peristaltic pump is configured with a removable cover comprising a part of the pump housing surrounding a pump rotor, and holding a delivery tube between the cover and the rotor. The removable cover combines with a reservoir and the delivery tube to constitute a pre-filled disposable package facilitating installation and removal of the insulin in the device. A microprocessor controls the number of times the rotor turns during a cycle. This operation allows the microprocessor to automatically compensate for different diameter delivery tubes, as well as to allow the physician to vary the on/off time of the pump to administer different dosages.

Abstract: A safety device for a drilling rig of the type wherein a drill-carrying cradle is caused to move upwardly or downwardly on a tower by a chain which traverses sprockets at opposite ends of the tower. Shock loads and vibration cause premature failures in the chain when withdrawing a drill string as the cradle is pulled upwardly on the tower. The present invention minimizes shock loads on the chain to minimize the possibility of a chain failure and, at the same time, prevents a fall of the cradle and drill carried thereby if the chain above it should break, this latter function being accomplished with the use of spring-loaded toothed dogs on the cradle which engage the tower and prevent movement of the cradle in the event of a chain failure.

Abstract: The inventive orienter is used in the output path of a vibratory feeder for axially orienting uniform cylinders. It includes a tube having a side opening spaced from the input end and extending axially along a portion of the tube so cylinders that are not axially oriented fall through the side opening and down to a lower region of the feeder. The tube is rotationally oriented for positioning the lower edge of the side opening relative to a vertical plane through the axis of the tube so that the axially oriented cylinders move along the tube while overhanging the lower edge, and cylinders not axially oriented slide toward the bottom of the tube and fall over the lower edge and through the side opening. The tube preferably has a top opening at the input end, and the top opening preferably overlaps with the side opening so that relatively tall cylinders can enter the input end of the tube standing up and be rejected when they enter the side opening region.