Abstract: Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. One method includes retrieving, by a processor of a seat device of an aircraft coupled to a removable, peripheral bar assembly having a plurality of programmable, light emitting diodes (LEDs), configuration information to operate the LEDs; transmitting, by the processor, one or more commands to the peripheral bar assembly to operate one or more of the LEDs; and operating, by the peripheral bar assembly, the one or more LEDs, in response to the one or more commands to indicate non-verbal communication based on one or more pre-defined communication protocols indicating a seat-by-seat status.

Abstract: Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a front bar housing with a front segment and a rear segment; a rear bar housing with a front segment coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing; and an input/output (I/O) printed circuit board (“PCB”) having an I/O connector. The I/O PCB coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing. The assembly is coupled to a chassis of a display system having a display module, and the I/O connector is coupled to a connector of the display module for enabling an electrical connection between the peripheral bar assembly and the display module.

Abstract: Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a front bar housing with a front segment and a rear segment, and a through slot aligned with a diffuser operationally coupled to a first surface of an I/O PCB having a plurality of light sources emitting light that is transmitted through the diffuser and the slot. The assembly further includes a rear bar housing having a front segment and a rear segment, the front segment of the rear bar housing coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing. A top surface of the peripheral bar assembly is coupled to a bottom of a chassis of a display system having a display module. The assembly configured to provide accent lighting through the slot of the front bar housing.

Abstract: An endoscope includes, in an insertion section, a bending tube covered with a first skin, a flexible tube covered with a second skin, a thread wound around a joining section of the first skin and the second skin, first resin covering the thread and having a modulus of elasticity of 0.5 GPa or more and 5 GPa or less, and second resin covering the first resin, extended from both ends of the first resin respectively to ranges of 100 ?m or more, and having a modulus of elasticity of 0.3 MPa or more and 100 MPa or less.

Abstract: Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a front bar housing with a front segment and a rear segment, and a through slot aligned with a diffuser operationally coupled to a first surface of an I/O PCB having a plurality of light sources emitting light that is transmitted through the diffuser and the slot. The assembly further includes a rear bar housing having a front segment and a rear segment, the front segment of the rear bar housing coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing. A top surface of the peripheral bar assembly is coupled to a bottom of a chassis of a display system having a display module. The assembly configured to provide accent lighting through the slot of the front bar housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a docking cradle assembly for holding a computing device as disclosed herein. The docking cradle assembly comprises a cradle housing; a cover including an opening; and a connector assembly supported by the cover and having a connector positioned within the opening, the connector being rotatable between a first position, a second position substantially perpendicular to the first position, and a subset of positions each between the first and second positions and angularly displaced from the first position, wherein the cover is mountable to a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface angularly displaced from the first mounting surface by rotating the connector to a position suitable for the selected mounting surface in which the connector is inaccessible after the cover is mounted.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a docking cradle assembly for holding a computing device as disclosed herein. The docking cradle assembly comprises a cradle housing; a cover including an opening; and a connector assembly supported by the cover and having a connector positioned within the opening, the connector being rotatable between a first position, a second position substantially perpendicular to the first position, and a subset of positions each between the first and second positions and angularly displaced from the first position, wherein the cover is mountable to a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface angularly displaced from the first mounting surface by rotating the connector to a position suitable for the selected mounting surface in which the connector is inaccessible after the cover is mounted.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a docking cradle assembly for holding a computing device as disclosed herein. The docking cradle assembly comprises a cradle housing; a cover including an opening; and a connector assembly supported by the cover and having a connector positioned within the opening, the connector being rotatable between a first position, a second position substantially perpendicular to the first position, and a subset of positions each between the first and second positions and angularly displaced from the first position, wherein the cover is mountable to a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface angularly displaced from the first mounting surface by rotating the connector to a position suitable for the selected mounting surface in which the connector is inaccessible after the cover is mounted.

Abstract: A lumbar support adjustment system for a chair that allows a user to adjust the lumbar support by moving a handle on the side of the chair back. The lumbar support and handle move along separate tracks that diverge from each other as the lumbar support is adjusted upward. To compensate for this divergence, the system includes a linkage with a joint connected to the handle and another joint connected to the lumbar support. As the lumbar support is adjusted, the linkage and joint system accommodates for the divergence of the tracks to continue transmitting force from the handle to adjust the lumbar support.

Abstract: An acyloxylation catalyst is obtained by loading (a) a first component containing at least one element of Groups 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Periodic Table, (b) a second component containing an element which is at least one element of Groups 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Periodic Table and which is different from the element of the first component, and (c) a third component containing an element which is a component that produces a precipitation-starting pH below the precipitation-starting pH of the first component and second component and which is different from the elements of the first component and second component, onto (d) a support. A catalyst is obtained that can be used to efficiently carry out acyloxylation for economical production of acyloxylated compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a malfunction diagnostic apparatus for an evaporated fuel purge system in an internal combustion engine, capable of detecting abnormalities such as looseness or clogging in the purge line between a purge valve and an engine intake passage. An electric pump 14 is turned on when a purge valve 5 is in a closed state and a selector valve 20 is in an open state. After the lapse of a given time period Tref, a load-current initial value I1 of the electric pump 14 is detected at the moment switching the selector valve 20 to a closed state. After the lapse of a given time period Tpump, the purge valve 5 is switched to an open state, and a load-current final value at the moment after the lapse of a given time period Tpurge. As in the curve A, when a load current final value I2A is equal to or less than the load current initial value I1, it is determined that the gaseous communication state in the purge line between the purge valve 5 and the intake passage is normal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a malfunction diagnostic apparatus for an evaporated fuel purge system in an internal combustion engine, capable of detecting abnormalities such as looseness or clogging in the purge line between a purge valve and an engine intake passage. An electric pump 14 is turned on when a purge valve 5 is in a closed state and a selector valve 20 is in an open state. After the lapse of a given time period Tref, a load-current initial value I1 of the electric pump 14 is detected at the moment switching the selector valve 20 to a closed state. After the lapse of a given time period Tpump, the purge valve 5 is switched to an open state, and a load-current final value at the moment after the lapse of a given time period Tpurge. As in the curve A, when a load current final value I2A is equal to or less than the load current initial value I1, it is determined that the gaseous communication state in the purge line between the purge valve 5 and the intake passage is normal.

Abstract: In a multiple function type differential pressure sensor including a semiconductor chip having a differential pressure detector for detecting a differential pressure, temperature detector for detecting a temperature, and static pressure detector for detecting a static pressure provided on a semiconductor substrate of a single chip, two or more pairs of differential pressure detectors means are incorporated, and a difference between outputs of the two or more pairs of differential pressure detectors is fetched out.

Abstract: An interlocking device includes two opposed racks having intermeshable teeth, respectively, a guide surface disposed on one of the opposed racks, a guide, and a resilient retainer holding the guide against the guide surface for sliding movement of the guide relative to the guide surface. The guide and the guide surface cooperate with each other to provide an arrangement wherein when the one rack is pressed against the other rack, the guide comes into engagement with the other rack and the guide surface slides on the guide, causing meshing engagement of the teeth of the one rack with the teeth of the other rack.

Abstract: A coupling for a vehicle steering unit includes a first linking section including two leg portions extending from a hub portion and a second linking section including two wings extending from and integrated to the hub portion and protrusions on the wings pierced with holes for the passage of a tightening bolt for tightening the wings to bear radially on a shaft. The wings are terminated at a longitudinal slot extending substantially in parallel to an axis of rotation of the coupling. This longitudinal slot is wide enough to allow the passage of the shaft.

Abstract: A tilting and/or telescopic steering column assembly includes a mounting bracket fixed to a vehicle body, a movable bracket supporting a steering column, a clamping bolt passing through bolt holes of the mounting bracket and movable bracket, and an operating lever for clamping the movable bracket immovable between the left and right side walls of the mounting bracket by turning a clamping nut on the clamping bolt. For tilting and/or telescopic adjustment, the bolt hole of at least one of the mounting and movable brackets is elongated, and fringed with a toothed portion. A lock member is mounted on the clamping bolt, and is formed with a toothed portion for engaging with the toothed portion of the elongate hole. In one practical example, the bolt holes are both elongated and fringed with a toothed portion, and the lock member comprises of a first member for engaging with the toothed portion of the mounting bracket and a second member for engaging with the toothed portion of the movable bracket.

Abstract: In a multiple function type differential pressure sensor including a semiconductor chip having a differential pressure detector for detecting a differential pressure, temperature detector for detecting a temperature, and static pressure detector for detecting a static pressure provided on a semiconductor substrate of a single chip, two or more pairs of differential pressure detectors means are incorporated, and a difference between outputs of the two or more pairs of differential pressure detectors is fetched out.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor pressure sensor having a glass base and a metal base bonded together satisfactorily so that a silicon diaphragm may not be affected by residual strain, and an intelligent differential pressure and pressure transmitting device employing the semiconductor pressure sensor.The semiconductor pressure sensor comprises a silicon diaphragm (1) provided with a strain-sensitive element, a glass or ceramic base (2) bonded to the silicon diaphragm (1), and a metal base (4) bonded to the glass or ceramic base (2) with a bonding glass (3). The thermal expansion coefficient of the metal base (4) at a temperature corresponding to the strain point of the bonding glass (3) is not greater than that of the glass or ceramic base (2).

Abstract: A multi-function differential pressure sensor includes a semiconductor chip, a stationary base having a joining portion joined to a thick wall portion of the semiconductor chip, and a housing joined to the stationary base. The semiconductor chip is provided with a differential pressure detection unit, a static pressure detection unit, and a temperature detection unit. The joining portion of the stationary base is not thicker than the semiconductor chip. The stationary base has one or more thin wall portions located, in a plan view, within a circular pressure sensitive diaphragm of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A differential pressure transmitter for detecting a difference between a pressure of a first detection fluid in a first pressure-receiving chamber and a pressure of a second detection fluid in a second pressure-receiving chamber, including a first diaphragm for sealing the first detection fluid, a second diaphragm for sealing the second detection fluid which is installed almost in parallel to the first diaphragm, a first isolation chamber communicated to the first pressure-receiving chamber, a second isolation chamber communicated to the second pressure-receiving chamber, a third diaphragm installed between the first and the second chambers and in a direction different from those of the first and second diaphragms, and a differential pressure detection sensor installed on and connected to at least one of the first and the second isolation chambers.