Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of mounting an assist grip to a body panel and related mounting structure elements that provide a removable attachment between the assist grip and the body panel and that simplify the manufacture of the body panel as well as the assembly and disassembly of the assist grip to the body panel.

Abstract: A pedal apparatus for an automobile comprises a plurality of pedals attached to a bracket fixed to a vehicle body via a plurality of parallel link mechanisms, a connection parallel link mechanism that connects a pair of the plurality of parallel link mechanism, and is provided with a pair of connection portions connecting the both parallel link mechanisms with the bracket, and an adjustment mechanism attached to the bracket, that arbitrarily prescribes the forms of each parallel link mechanism and the connection parallel link mechanism.

Abstract: Process and equipment for the removal of crud from the interface between aqueous and organic layers in SX settlers in which at least one rotatable auger is positioned at or near the interface to remove crud continuously or intermittently from the interface.

Abstract: An improved process for the manufacture of uniform and accurately sized thin metal blades, particularly for Microkeratome blades used in the Lasik eye correction procedure. The steps comprise qualifying raw blades stock with an accurately positioned dowel hole. Once the raw blade stock is qualified, individual blades are stacked one on top of each other via the accurately positioned dowel hole. Multiple raw blades, stacked one on top of another, are clamped. The wire EDM process is then used to cut precise geometries through individual blades, which are accurately stacked one on top of each other. This process is unique in that multiple blades and individual sharp edges are stacked such that all sharp edges have the same leading edge location.

Abstract: A tire plugging device allows a mechanic to pressurize and plug a tire in one operation. This device could also be used in inflating and repairing tires that have multiple chambers that are factory inflated and sealed.

Abstract: A device to retain screws during insertion into an object such as a bone by use of a screw-driver. The device comprises comprising a gripping sleeve the free end of which has a radially expandable portion for receiving the screw and the other end of which has at least one radial bore for movably receiving a locking ball. A safety sleeve is slidingly disposed on an outer surface of the gripping sleeve. The safety sleeve blocks an expansion of the expandable portion when in a position which is toward the free end with respect to the gripping sleeve and releases the expandable portion when in a position which is toward the free end with respect to the gripping sleeve. A handle is axially movable and hold the first locking ball in engagement with an annular groove of the gripping sleeve. A first spring acts between an inner shoulder at the end of the handle portion facing the expandable portion and a radial shoulder of the safety sleeve.

Abstract: A device aids the setter of a cutter head for cutting, e.g., milling or hobbing, of spiral bevel gears to align all rod-shaped blades with their tip cutting edges to an axial height which is as uniform as possible and to move them with their profile cutting edges to a correct radial position in the cutter head so that uniform chip removal can take place. The device has a stable arm which can be moved numerically controlled axially and radially to the cutter head, with positions which are continuously measured and with which each individual blade can be automatically pushed into its chamber in the cutter head. A probe which is connected to the arm measures the axial height of the tip cutting edge of each blade before, during and shortly after each blade is pushed in.

Abstract: A tube squaring machine having an improved feed means and an improved monobloc collet for clamping a workpiece to be machined. A collet mount containing the monobloc collet is mounted on a housing connected to a motor means having a rotatable shaft with a machine tool mounted thereon and positioned relative to the collet to engage tube or workpiece held in the collet.

Abstract: In order to improve a machine tool comprising

Abstract: In order to improve a machine tool for the turning of workpieces with eccentric sections, comprising a tool support, a workpiece spindle which comprises a workpiece chuck, in which the workpiece can be clamped with a variably adjustable eccentricity, wherein the workpiece chuck has a chuck housing, a collet actuation and a collet support arranged in the chuck housing and having a collet held therein, the collet being adapted to be brought into concentric or eccentric adjustable positions relative to the spindle axis, in such a manner that the adjustment of the collet support relative to the chuck housing can be brought about more simply it is suggested that an adjusting element be provided on the machine tool which is movable towards the workpiece chuck for the adjustment or the respective adjustable position of the collet and may be brought into operative connection with the collet support and that in this operative connection the relative movement between the collet support and the chuck housing for alterin

Abstract: A cutting frame for holding an object to be sliced into two pieces. The object, such as a bagel, has a bottom surface, a peripheral edge, and a top surface. The cutting frame has a base which holds a support stem, which in turn holds a ring shaped guide member. The guide member has a knife blade guide slot extending through it to guide a knife downwardly through the guide member and through a bagel or other object held in the guide member. The process of using the cutting frame includes holding a bagel against a closed side of the compartment formed within the guide member so that the user's fingers press the bagel against the closed surface of the compartment. A knife is then placed in the knife blade guide slot and drawn back and forth downwardly through the bagel to form an accurate slice parallel to the bottom of the bagel. The guide blade knife slot extends completely through the guide member so that the bagel is always cut into two separate pieces.

Abstract: Woodworking machines are disclosed having cutting tools adapted to cut workpieces. The machines include a safety system adapted to detect one or more dangerous conditions between a person and the cutting tool, and to stop movement of the cutting tool upon detection of the dangerous condition. At least part of the safety system is housed in a removable cartridge.

Abstract: Woodworking machines including cutting tools and motors adapted to drive the cutting tools are disclosed. The machines also include a detection system adapted to detect a dangerous condition between the cutting tool and a person, and a reaction system adapted to perform a specified action upon detection of the dangerous condition. The machines further include a control system adapted to test the operability of at least a portion of the detection system and/or the reaction system. The control system is adapted to disable the motor if the tested portion is inoperable.

Abstract: Cutting machines with high-speed safety systems, and firing subsystems used in high-speed safety systems, are disclosed. The cutting machines may include a detection system adapted to detect a dangerous condition between a cutting tool and a person. A reaction system performs a specified action, such as stopping the cutting tool, upon detection of the dangerous condition. A fusible member or explosive may be used to trigger the reaction system to perform the specified action. A firing subsystem may be used to fuse the fusible member or fire the explosive upon detection of the dangerous condition.

Abstract: An electric power tool has a motor-driven circular tool that can be clamped by means of a clamping device. A mechanical braking device (2) serves to brake the tool. A safety element (4) prevents improper handling of the electric power tool. In a safety position, the safety element (4) prevents the motor from being turned on and activates the braking device (2). In a release position, the safety element (4) allows the motor to be turned on and the braking device (12) is released. An additional locking mechanism prevents that a clamping lever, needed to actuate the clamping device, can be actuated in the clamped state in the safety position. In the release position of the safety element, the locking mechanism is unlocked.

Abstract: Woodworking machines are disclosed having a blade adapted to cut workpieces, and an actuating mechanism operable to move the blade toward the workpiece. The machines also include a detection system configured to detect one or more dangerous conditions between a user and the blade, and a reaction system configured to stop the movement of the blade toward the user upon detection of a dangerous condition by the detection system.

Abstract: A positioned sensing device measures and/or calculates the lateral position and movement of a saw blade. These measured and calculated values are used to automatically alter the work-feed rate and/or saw blade rim speed either up or down as sawing conditions change within the work piece or between different work pieces.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photographic web cutter device for cutting a web of photographic paper prints, a so called batch, related to a plurality of customer orders, including magazines for the web or batch, a cutter portion and a control portion, and according to the invention said control portion controls the cutting operation by means of control data so that cut parts of the photographic web can be assigned to a related customer order.

Abstract: A punch for piercing sheets of paper has a waste receptacle which has an increased volume and which can be easily removed without removing the punch. The punch includes a base and operation stands that support a handle to be pulled towards the base. Pipe rod blades are depressed by pulling the handle toward the base to pierce the paper sheets and thus create punch waste. An opening for discharging the punch waste is provided on a side of each of the operation stands above the pipe rod blades. A waste receptacle for collecting the punch waste is provided on the base so that the waste receptacle communicates with the opening.

Abstract: A trimming apparatus for metal strip has trimming heads on opposite sides of a turntable along each edge of the strip so that the trimming heads can be rotated into the trimming position or into the maintenance and blade-replacement positions. On each of the turntables as well a scrap-strip cutter is associated with the respective trimming head and the scrap-strip cutters are disposed diagonally opposite one another across the turntable and each trimming head and its scrap-strip cutter on one side of the turntable is connected to a clutch half on the opposite side of that turntable so that the scrap-strip cutter and the trimmer are driven by a common drive.

Abstract: In order to so improve a cutting machine comprising a machine frame, an anvil roller rotatable on the machine frame about an axis of rotation and having an anvil surface, a cutting tool mounted on the machine frame for rotation about an axis of rotation, with a cutter interacting with the anvil surface and with supporting rings which are held on the cutting tool and support it relative to the anvil roller with their supporting ring surfaces and/or vice versa, that the quality of the cutting effect can be maintained even when the cutter becomes worn, it is proposed that the diameter of the supporting ring surface of each supporting ring be adjustable by radial stretching of the supporting ring within the range below an elastic expansion limit of its material by means of an expansion device.

Abstract: Woodworking machines are disclosed having cutting tools for cutting workpieces. The machines include a detection system adapted to detect one or more dangerous conditions between a person and the cutting tool. The machines also include at least one brake component adapted to engage and stop movement of the cutting tool, and an actuator adapted to move the brake component into contact with the cutting tool at a high acceleration when the detection system detects the dangerous condition between the person and the blade.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a punch for punching a workpiece. In particular, the invention relates to a punch including a base to stably support the punch and a support member configured to accommodate and locate the workpiece in a punching position. The support member is preferably movably connected to the base and preferably includes at least one punch member configured and operably associated with the support portion to punch the workpiece in the punching position upon an actuation movement of the support member with respect to the base. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a punch having a paper tray oriented at an angle with respect to the base to support a sufficient portion of a sheet of paper to prevent an unsupported portion from falling over and withdrawing from the support portion. In particular, the paper tray and punch mechanism are oriented to expel paper chips such that the chips are visible to an operator as they are punched.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a printer such as an electronic cash register used for POS, particularly relates to a printer provided with a cutter for cutting recording paper in arbitrary length or cutting recording paper with a part left after cutting and the above printer is provided in that the dispersion of force required for tearing off recording paper is reduced, a torn trace of a left part after cutting of recording paper looks nice and in addition, the position of a left part after cutting of recording paper can be arbitrarily set respectively without increasing the size in the direction of the width of recording paper.

Abstract: A machine for cutting stacked sheet material and like comprising a frame supporting the apparatus, and first and second guideways having first and second fixed guideway members mounted on the frame in a laterally spaced apart relationship, and first and second movable guideway members movably supported by the first and second fixed guideway members and oriented to shift vertically. A knife holder is connected with the first and second movable guideway members adjacent opposite sides thereof, and is configured to be shifted vertically. An actuator is operably connected between the frame and the knife holder for selectively shifting the knife holder vertically. A knife is connected with the knife holder, and includes an edge sharpened for cutting the sheet material when the knife holder is shifted vertically. A pivot bearing rotatably connects the knife holder with at least one of the first and second movable guideway members to facilitate cutting the sheet material.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting ceramic green bodies is constructed by; a travelling path for travelling a ceramic green body; supporting beds for supporting the ceramic green body arranged on the travelling path with a constant interval; a pair of first arm and second arm arranged movably in a travelling direction of the ceramic green body, which are provided at both side ends of the travelling path; a first drive portion and a second drive portion for moving the first arm and the second arm respectively upward or downward, which are provided to the first arm and the second arm respectively; a fire wire for cutting the ceramic green body extended between the first arm and the second arm; a first fine wire supporting portion and a second fine wire supporting portion for moving the fine wire for cutting the ceramic green body from one side to the other side with a constant tension, when the fine wire traverses the ceramic green body by moving the first and second arms in a cutting direction of the ceramic gree

Abstract: A grossing board for preparing gross tissue samples having relatively uniform thickness features one or more tissue-receiving depressions and one or more knife-guiding members. The bottom surface of a tissue-receiving depression is essentially parallel to the upper, cutting surface of the grossing board, and the knife-guiding members are configured to guide the pathologist's knife so as to ensure cuts that are parallel to the bottom surface of the tissue-receiving depression, thereby yielding gross tissue samples of desired reproducible, uniform thickness.

Abstract: A holder for a jig saw. The jig saw holder has a pair of opposing support members movably attached to the base member such that the support members can be moved toward or away from one another. Each support member has a jig saw receiving surface for receiving a first portion of the base of a jig saw. The support members are spaced apart from each other so as to define a region for receiving a blade of the jig saw when each jig saw receiving surface receives a corresponding portion of the base of the jig saw. The jig saw holder also includes a pair of adjustable members. Each adjustable members is movably attached to a corresponding support member adjacent to the jig saw receiving surface of that support member. Each adjustable member and the corresponding jig saw receiving surface cooperating to define a jig saw base receiving region for receiving a portion of the base of the jig saw. The position of each adjustable member is adjustable so as to vary the size of the jig saw receiving region.

Abstract: There is disclosed a damper for a grand piano, which is simple in construction and can be manufactured at reduced costs by reducing the number of components, the number of assembling steps, and the number of adjustment operations. A damper for a grand piano moves out of contact with strings in a manner interlocked with operation of a damper pedal, to thereby create a damper pedal effect. A plurality of damper levers each have a rear end portion thereof pivotally mounted to the damper rail and each extend forward. Each damper head is connected to the upper side of a corresponding one of the plurality of damper levers and brought out of contact with a corresponding one of the strings as the corresponding damper lever moves upward. A lifting rail is arranged below the plurality of damper levers, for pivotally moving the plurality of damper levers upward simultaneously by being pushed upward when the damper pedal is operated.

Abstract: A handy method of editing and reproducing musical performance data. The musical performance data divided into a plurality of sections is edited. Blocks B1, B2, B3 and B4 representative of sections are displayed continuously coupled to each other. A block B is selected by using a pointer P of a mouse. An end of the selected block B (a partitioning position relative to an adjacent block) is dragged with the pointer P to change the length of the selected block (section). At the same time, the length of the adjacent block is automatically changed. In order to facilitate to locate the partitioning position of the block before alteration of the length, an icon is displayed at the original partitioning position. In reproducing the performance data, a start position change switch is activated to move a grid pointer GP to the start of music to reproduce the performance data to the end thereof, if the section is not selected.

Abstract: There is provided a thin tuning device equipped with jacks for inputting or outputting a signal, the tuning device employs a main body case, a back case, and a printed board as parts of the components of the jacks so that the thickness of the jacks and of the tuning device can be reduced.

Abstract: An electromagnetic Humbucker Pick-up for stringed musical instruments is disclosed. The device is a former (7) with two coils of wire (3) & (4) wound on having a common axis perpendicular to a set of ferrous strings (13), the first coil of wire (3) is directly beneath the strings (13), the second coil of wire (4) is beneath the second coil of wire (3). Two permanent magnet means (1) & (2) generating opposing magnetic fields (5) & (6). The first permanent magnet means (1) is magnetically polarized in the opposite direction to that of the second permanent magnet means (2). The two permanent magnet means (1) & (2) are situated across and down the center of the former. (7) The first permanent magnet means (1) is in the center of the first coil of wire (3) and the second permanent magnet means (2) is in the center of the second coil of wire (4).

Abstract: An electric double-bass is broken down into a trunk, a detachable framework assembled with the trunk, coupling units provided between the trunk and the detachable framework, accessory parts, strings stretched over the trunk and an electric sound generating system for generating electric tones like acoustic tones of a double-bass, and any resonator is formed in the electric double-bass, wherein a string player disassembles the detachable framework from the trunk for storing the electric double-bass in a case, thereby enhancing the portability of the electric double-bass.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a method for manufacturing a three dimensional structure employing the principle of braid composition to compose a three dimensional X confounding section (a 3X confounding structure, a 4X confounding structure, a 6X-3X confounding structure) and a manufacturing apparatus for a three dimensional structure which is applicable to the method. A method for manufacturing a three dimensional structure with a linear structure 1 pulled out individually from a plurality of bobbin carriers 2, comprising the steps of: supporting said plurality of bobbin carriers transferably and loadably; and moving the bobbin carrier so that linear structures from at least three directions are joined to converge at intervals in a composing direction and diverge in at least three directions.

Abstract: An automatic firearm with a bolt assembly which is moveable along a bolt assembly motion path between a closed position and an open position, a magazine which advances cartridges by spring force across the bolt assembly motion path into this motion path, and a lock which only allows the first cartridge of magazine to advance into the bolt assembly motion path when the bolt assembly is situated in or near its open position, is disclosed. The lock is preferably created by a plate that extends parallel to the bolt assembly motion path and is mobile in its direction of extent, is pushed between the first cartridge and the bolt assembly motion path, and holds back the cartridge until the bolt assembly has reached or almost reached its open position.

Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster (10) comprises a control valve (22) for controlling a pneumatic pressure difference, a force input element (24) for actuating the control valve (22), a force output element (38) for transmitting the braking force, a reaction disk (34) made of elastomeric material disposed between the force output element (38) and the force input element (24), and a device, which is disposed between the reaction disk (34) and the force input element (24) and acts upon the reaction disk (34), for varying the force transmission ratio between force input element (24) and force output element (38) in dependence upon the force exerted on the force input element (24). For a less expensive design and greater ease of assembly, the device for varying the force transmission ratio is designed as a preassembly unit in the form of a cartridge (30), which after preassembly is insertable into the control valve (22).

Abstract: A single-headed piston type swash plate compressor able to prevent wear of a coating when using a swash plate having a coating on a swash plate substrate to improve the slidability and in turn able to exhibit greater durability, wherein the swash plate is comprised of a swash plate substrate made of a ferrous material and a coating formed on at least one compression chamber side for improving the slidability with the ferrous material and wherein at least one shoe is comprised of a shoe substrate made of an aluminum-based material having a specific gravity smaller than that of the ferrous metal and coatings formed on the surfaces of the shoe substrate for improving the slidability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cylinder block which can reduce the vibrations and noises produced from the engine at high temperatures and has a light weight, as well as a method of making such a cylinder block. Specifically, the cylinder block of the present invention comprises a main body (5, 21) of the cylinder block, a bearing (11, 17) attached to the underside of the main body (5, 21), and a crankshaft supported rotatably in a bearing section (13, 25) formed by the underside of the main body (5, 21) and the bearing (11, 17). In this cylinder block, an aluminum alloy layer (33) is formed in the sliding portion of the bearing section (13, 25), the region adjacent to the aluminum alloy layer (33) consists of a composite material (35), and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the composite material (35) is lower than that of the aluminum alloy layer (33) formed in the sliding portion.

Abstract: A cushion ring 26 enters the inner circumference of a cushion seal 34 near the end of a piston stroke, the cushion seal 34 being free to displace by a certain amount in the axial direction of a piston rod 23 in a cylinder head 28, and exerts a cushion effect by restricting oil flow from an oil chamber 24 in a cylinder tube 21. A spacer 35 is disposed on the inner side of this cushion seal 34 in the axial direction, and is free to displace by the same amount as the cushion seal 34. When the cushion effect is produced, the spacer 35 comes in contact with the cushion seal 34 to interfere with the vibration of the cushion seal 34.

Abstract: A swash plate type hydraulic pump and a swash plate type hydraulic motor in formed in combination to reduce the amount of oil leakage and to increase efficiency in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. A hydrostatic continuously variable transmission including a swash plate type hydraulic pump, a swash plate type hydraulic motor, and a hydraulic closed circuit disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic pump is integrally combined with the hydraulic motor by an output shaft press-fitted in a cylinder block B in which pump cylinder bores and motor cylinder bores are formed in parallel to the output shaft. The diameters of back portions of the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore are larger relative to the diameters of entry portions to the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore. Wherein a press-fitting portion is not provided at the contact portions inside the entry portions with the output shaft.

Abstract: A hydraulic device is disclosed for operating a sliding selecter shaft, in particular a gearbox for motor vehicles, with a bore made in a wall of a gearbox housing for accommodating a plastic piston, which is actively connected to the sliding selecter shaft and which delimits a pressure chamber and, under hydraulic pressure, radially guides and axially displaces the sliding selector shaft. The piston has a body and a guide section consisting of plastic, via which the piston is guided directly at the bore, designed as a non-reinforced and unlined cylinder bore, in the wall of the gearbox housing, consisting of a light metal alloy. This creates control device, which is of a much simpler, and more compact design compared with prior art.

Abstract: A piston for the variable delimitation of a pressure chamber in a housing of a hydraulic cylinder, in particular a clutch master cylinder for motor vehicles, has a main section on which a running surface is provided for a sealing element on the housing side. The sealing element seals a pressure chamber in an operating position of the piston. The piston also has an after-running device, which, in a normal position of the piston, connects the pressure chamber to an after-running area. The after-running device is made separately from the main section and is connected without play to the main section to form the piston. As a result, a piston that is easy to manufacture is created and which, with reference to the after-running device, has an improved functionality compared with prior art.

Abstract: A method for producing high capacity gas-storage microporous sorbents involves precursor carbonization under relatively severe heat-treatment conditions, normally followed by activation using a cyclic chemisorption-desorption process.

Abstract: A process for removing at least one compound selected from acetic acid, acetate esters and aldehydes from a gaseous fraction comprising carbon dioxide and such compounds. The process comprises the steps of (a) scrubbing in a scrubber at least part of the gaseous fraction to remove the acetic acid, acetate esters and/or aldehydes and (b) removing carbon dioxide from the scrubbed product of step (a) by absorption in aqueous potassium carbonate and wherein in step (a) the gaseous fraction is scrubbed with water and acetic acid. The process may be used to remove acetate esters such as vinyl acetate and ethyl acetate and aldehydes such as acetaldehyde.

Abstract: The present invention provides to a method for removing sulfuric acid mist which comprises bubbling a gas containing sulfuric acid mist into an absorbing solution through a gas diffuser having pores with an average pore diameter of about 1,000 &mgr;m or less. This method allows simple and highly effective removal of sulfuric acid mist.

Abstract: A powered low restriction air precleaner device and method for centrifugally ejecting heavier-than-air particulate debris from debris laden air for providing for a combustion engine air intake, an engine air cooling system, or a cab air intake system, for example. The device employs a fan located in the device for drawing debris laden air into the air precleaner device. The debris laden air is spun in the air precleaner device to form a rotating flow pattern that stratifies the debris laden air with the most massive particles of debris in the outermost orbits of the rotating flow pattern of debris laden air. Debris from the rotating flow pattern is ejected from the device for cleaning the air, which is flowed to an air outlet of the device for supplying the cleaned air.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved debris collection apparatus that utilizes a toroidal vortex within the apparatus housing to establish a pressure differential between the outside of the device and the inside. This system and its derivatives are essentially closed systems-there is no constant intake and exhaust of fluid. Included in the debris collection apparatus is a compaction means that captures debris caught in the toroidal vortex flow, and deposits it in a desired chamber.

Abstract: Novel air purification devices are disclosed. Preferred devices comprise air inlets and outlets separated by a significant distance and at least one filter. Other preferred devices comprise a radiation source and at least one filter. Also disclosed are novel methods of purifying air.

Abstract: The invention provides a supported metal membrane which contains a metal membrane on a support surface of a porous membrane support. The supported metal membrane is obtainable by applying the metal membrane to the support surface of the membrane support, wherein the pores in the membrane support are sealed, at least in the region of the support surface, prior to applying the metal membrane and are opened by removing the auxiliary substance only after applying the metal membrane.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage and release apparatus is provided with a heat exchanging portion provided with hydrogen storage alloy containers, a heat exchanger body in which the heat exchanging portion is received so that a heat gas or coolant is introduced and discharged, and a hydrogen-travelling passage connected to the containers so that hydrogen can move to the containers. The heat exchanging portion is provided so that the heat exchanging efficiency on the heat gas discharge side of the heat exchanging portion is made higher than that on the heat gas introduction side thereof.