Abstract: A secure cage for use in a manhole for surrounding a splice box in which fiber optic or other cable is spliced together in the development of a telecommunication system for business users. The secure cage includes approximately four panels, hinged together, which may be collapsed to facilitate its locating and storage, and which may be erected, down in the manhole, to enclose each splice box and its spliced cables, segregating the telecommunications for each business user from each other.

Abstract: A cover fitting for connecting more than one raceway includes an L-shaped top having first and second curved grooves extending along the inner surface of the top and a plurality of hooks extending outwardly from the inner surface for engaging a portion of each raceway base. The cover fitting further includes first and second opposing sides extending from the inner surface of the top. The cover fitting can be used with a fitting base received in first and second grooves for situations requiring a specific bend radius, or in applications without a fitting base, where there are no bend radius requirements.

Abstract: An electric installation cable in which the insulated wires forming the core and serving to conduct electricity are bound together as one unit. For the simultaneous, undisturbed utilization of the cable for high frequency signals, the unit is made up of 4 cores (A) bound together to form a star-quad. A shield (3) made up of a plastic film (8) coated on both sides with aluminum is arranged over the cores (A). Tinned copper wires (4) are wrapped around the shield (3) to function as a ground wire (4) and a coat (5) of insulation material is arranged around the tinned copper wires (4).

Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of inner projecting strip portions and a plurality of outer projecting strip portions on inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered portion, respectively. The plurality of inner and outer projecting strip portions respectively extend in an axial direction of the tapered portion and are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The outer projecting strip portions are located opposing to the inner projecting strip portions. A projection amount of the outer projecting strip portions is changed at a contact point. At the contact point, when the grommet is inserted into a through hole, the grommet first contacts an inner peripheral surface of the through hole. The projection amount between the contact point and a large diameter side end of the projecting strip portions is smaller than a second projection amount between the contact point and a small diameter side end.

Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of projecting strip portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tapered portion, extending in an axial direction of the tapered portion and being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The grommet also includes at least one sunken portion, which defines the outer peripheral surface of the tapered portion between adjacent projecting strip portions. The sunken portion includes a groove extending in an axial direction of the grommet.

Abstract: A circuit card for transmitting signals having one or more long and narrow holes in a ground/power supply plane under a pad, which is connected to a pattern, the hole extending in a direction substantially parallel with a direction of the pattern extending away from the pad. The holes are sized and positioned to substantially minimize a mismatch of impedance between the pad and the pattern so that reflection of transmission signals caused by impedance mismatch can be suppressed.

Abstract: A microbeam interconnection method is provided to connect integrated circuit bond pads to substrate contacts. Conductive leads (microbeams) are releasably formed, by a process such as electroplating or vacuum deposition, over a release layer deposited on a ceramic, glass or similar carrier. The microbeam material adheres only very weakly to the release layer. After the inner ends of the microbeams have been bonded to IC bond pads, such as by flip chip bump bonding, and the integrated circuit has been fully tested, the IC is lifted away from the carrier, causing the microbeams to peel away from the release layer. After straightening the microbeams against a flat surface, the outer ends of the microbeams may then be bonded to contacts on an MCM or other substrate. The method permits full electrical testing at speed and high speed bonding. The method significantly reduces mechanical stresses in interconnect bonds and thereby improves integrated circuit reliability.

Abstract: Arrangement for replacing a drilling component in a rock drilling apparatus, which arrangement comprises a component magazine for storing replaceable components required in drilling and means for driving the drilling unit to a predefined position and location relative to the component magazine. The arrangement further comprises a changing unit for moving the components between the component magazine and the drilling unit.

Abstract: A method and a rock drilling apparatus for drilling holes in rock according to a predetermined drilling plan. The method comprises measuring the location of each hole in the rock by inserting a measuring device (11) into the hole, and calculating the deviation of the end of the measured hole from the location determined in the drilling plan. The rock drilling apparatus comprises a measuring device that can be inserted into a drill hole, and means for transferring the measurement values measured by the measuring device to control means of the rock drilling apparatus.

Abstract: A coal formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to a pyrolysis temperature. A pressure within a majority of a selected section of the formation may be controlled and/or maintained to alter a composition of the produced mixture.

Abstract: The transformable vehicle comprises a central chassis assembly having first and second distal ends with an axis passing therebetween, a first wheel assembly mounted to the first distal end, and a second wheel assembly mounted to second distal end. A multifunction transformable vehicle comprising at least two configurational states: a stowed state and a transformed state. In the stowed state, the transformable vehicle comprises a compact structure suitable for storage, transport or deployment. During transition from the stowed state to the transformed state, the first and second wheel assemblies move longitudinally outward along the axis to reveal the central chassis assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle, particularly a wheelchair, comprises a wheelchair frame, an electronic control unit and at least two driving wheels, wherein at least the first driving wheel includes a device for manually applying a drive force and at least the second driving wheel is adapted to be driven via a drive unit having an electric motor. The electronic control unit is adapted to detect the distance covered by the first driving wheel due to rotation of said first driving wheel and to drive the drive unit having an electric motor of the second driving wheel depending on the distance covered by the first driving wheel for turning the second driving wheel.

Abstract: In a driving system comprising an engine, a plurality of motor-generators and a plurality of coaxial differential mechanisms, rotating output axes of the plurality of motor-generators are disposed parallel to and opposite to a rotating output axis of the engine. The coaxial differential mechanisms are arranged between the engine and the motors. The coaxial differential mechanisms are disposed so that straight lines passing through rotating axes of at least two of the coaxial differential mechanisms are parallel to each other, and the output power of the engine is transmitted to the coaxial differential mechanisms through gears. It is possible to provide a small sized and high productive driving system.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a front vehicle body construction which can facilitate the attachment of a reinforcing plate to a dash panel for an automobile, and can improve the shock absorbing performance and NVH performance without the increase in the number of parts and the manpower for assembling. This object can be achieved by the means described below.

Abstract: A traction unit capable of traversing and turning on surfaces that include compound curves like the surface of a sphere or are inverted like a ceiling. The traction unit includes a plurality of trucks operable to propel the unit across a surface and a plurality of adherence members operable to releasably secure the unit to the surface. In operation, the adherence members cyclically attach to and release from the surface as the trucks propel the unit across the surface. Within each cycle, after the unit has traveled a predetermined distance relative to an attached member, the member releases the surface and reattaches to the surface at a different point.

Abstract: A selection device for setting the driving speed of a vehicle is provided having an operating element, a control device, which is connected with the operating element and coupled with an engine control and which is designed so that, upon activation of the control, the vehicle speed will be regulated automatically, whereby at least two vehicle speed values can be marked on a display. These values can be initiated by using the operating element. In addition to the vehicle speed values, a pointer is indicated on the display. The pointer can be moved by using the operating element. In a programming operating mode of the control unit, the set vehicle speeds or the vehicle speeds to be set can be set and erased by use of the pointer. In a driving speed control operating mode of the control unit, the set vehicle speeds can be activated by the use of the pointer.

Abstract: An engine half-trolley (10) of simplified structure for industrial vehicles set at the side of a vehicle chassis and comprising a casing (12) from which there comes out at least one wheel hub (13) for a respective wheel (14), an input shaft (17) to said half-trolley (10) being connected to a differential (16) of the vehicle, in the said half-trolley, between the input shaft (17) and the wheel hub (13), there being provided, in succession, two bevel-gear pairs (18, 19; 21, 23) housed in an arm (15, 115) forming part of the casing (12), in which at least one bottom area of the arm (15, 115), for attachment to the wheel hub (13), has ample bevels (26).

Abstract: An electric power steering device comprises: a generally tubular casing fixedly attached to a vehicle body; an electric motor provided in the casing and having a hollow rotor shaft; a steering gear portion provided to a portion of the casing that is displaced from an axially middle portion of the casing; a steering force transmitting rod coaxially received in the hollow rotor shaft so as to be moveable in an axial direction and connected to a steering shaft via the steering gear portion; and a drive force converter provided between the electric motor and the steering force transmitting rod to convert a rotational movement of the electric motor into an axial movement of the steering force transmitting rod, wherein the electric motor is displaced from the axially middle portion of the casing in a direction away from the steering gear portion and the drive force converter is located on a steering gear portion side of the electric motor.

Abstract: A torque detecting apparatus including, for each of an input shaft 23 and an output shaft 18 that are connected with a torsion bar 5, detecting means 1, 2 for detecting regions of a plurality of targets 7, 9 arranged so that the regions to be detected change periodically and continuously with rotation of rotors 6, 8, for detecting a torque applied to the input shaft 23, based on a difference between the detected regions resulting from twist of the torsion bar 5.

Abstract: A speaker cabinet has front and back walls and side walls defining a sound chamber, and a location for supporting at least one speaker in one of the walls. Thin metallic stress elements extend between and are connected to selected pairs of walls, and are loaded undertensile stress so as to tune them to desired resonant frequencies. The tuned stress elements vibrate in response to excitation by sound waves emitted from the speaker, thus producing additional sound which enhances the sound from the speaker. Tensioning means provide for selectively adjusting the tensile stress and resonant frequencies of the stress elements and, consequently, the character of the sound produced by vibration of the stress elements.

Abstract: An adjustable muffler system for a combustible engine including a muffler adapted for connection with an exhaust pipe of an engine, a blocking tube configured to be removably inserted within the muffler, and latch means adapted to removably secure the blocking tube within the muffler. In other embodiments, the blocking tube can include various holes or slots and may be telescoping or fabricated from multiple pieces.

Abstract: A noise attenuation panel used to attenuate noise in aircraft engines includes a cellular core and a facing sheet formed with an array of holes. The holes are laser drilled to provide: (i) hole size variation over the facing sheet; (ii) non-circular hole cross section; (iii) polygonal hole cross section; (iv) hole locations not contiguous with walls of the cellular core; and (v) inclined holes passing through the facing sheet in a direction inclined to the normal to the facing sheet.

Abstract: A tree stand which includes an upper section, middle section, lower section and a pair of tensioner cable units. The upper section provides standing room and seating for the user of the tree stand. The lower section and the middle section support the upper section in the air and against the tree. The lower section and the middle section include a pair of side rails with ladder rungs attached between the side rails. The ladder rungs allow access by the user to the upper section by climbing the ladder rungs. The ladder also provide structural support to the middle section and the lower section. The tensioner cable units provide tension to hold together the upper section, middle section and lower section.

Abstract: A device for use for quickly and safely exiting a structure, such as a burning building. The device of the invention comprises a generally rectangular body that is hollow and fits inside the stud spacing of a structure. The body is positioned below a window and secured to the structure. A flexible ladder is secured through the body to the studs of the structure with the flexible ladder being stored within the body. The ladder can be fabricated from chain, rope or other flexible material and has cross bars for ladder rungs. Spacers behind the rungs keep the rungs spaced out from the wall. A cover plate overlays most of the rectangular body leaving an opening in the rectangular body for the ladder to be moved from a storage position within the body to a use position. A trim cover closes the opening when the device is in the storage position.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a frame having versatility, superior in assembling performance, easy to be assembled and disassembled, easy to handle and not restricted by the place for custody, as well as a prefabricated scaffolding, a shoring, or a support beam, which is very economical.

Abstract: Device for lubricating a power gearbox which has variable orientation, particularly for a convertible tilt-rotor aircraft.

Abstract: A lubricating apparatus, for a friction engagement element that engages a rotatable member with a case includes a hub connected to the rotatable member, friction members disposed between the hub and the case, a hydraulic servo for engaging the friction members, and an oil passage for supplying lubricant from the case to the friction members. A discharge opening of the oil passage is formed at a position which is radially inward of the friction members and which is axially to a side of the friction members. The discharge opening is directed toward the friction members. A weir member for restricting escape of lubricant in the axial direction through a gap between the hub and the friction members is provided at the other axial side of the friction members. Therefore, the axial escape of lubricant exiting the friction members can be prevented by a non-contact leakage restriction that does not cause drag resistance.

Abstract: An illumination system for an escalator handrail is disclosed. The illumination system comprises a rechargeable power source and a light source. The rechargeable power source is recharged by a charging circuit which receives power from one or more magnetically coupled charging stations. The light source emits light into an optic fiber or another light carrying and dispersing element. The optic fiber is selected to disperse light from its sides and thereby appears to be illuminated. In another embodiment, the power source powers an array of LEDs, which may display a pattern or design. In another embodiment, the illumination system includes a luminescent message formed with luminescent material. The luminescent material is energized using light sources contained within the escalator. The system may have a protective shell to protect its components from the pressures of pinch rollers and other mechanical elements of a typical escalator.

Abstract: The elevator communication system generally provides a computer device installed in an elevator cab. The computer device receives information content from several sources, including a networked server system. The server system communicates information to the computer device for presentation to passengers in the elevator. The computer device is also connected to an elevator controller so that the computer device can present information based on information received from the elevator controller.

Abstract: A shoe clearance over-adjustment prevention apparatus employable to various types of automatic shoe clearance adjustment devices and drum brakes and designable to have a common thermo-sensitive member suitable for mass production. The thermo-sensitive member 60 is sandwiched between the strut 20 and the brake lever 30 to cause a functional engagement, and if the brake temperature reaches a predetermined value or range, the strut 20 is pushed toward the brake shoe 12 so as to disable the automatic shoe clearance adjustment operation.

Abstract: A dynamic damper mounted on a rod-shaped oscillating member is disclosed which includes: a cylindrical metallic mass member formed of sintered metal or forging and disposed radially outwardly of the oscillating member; two elastic support members formed on axially opposite sides of the metallic mass member to elastically support the metallic mass member; and an elastic covering layer integrally formed with the elastic support member and fixed in close contact with the substantially entire area of the surface of the metallic mass member. The metallic mass member has bevels in the form of tapered cylindrical surfaces formed at radially inner edges of axially opposite end faces of said metallic mass member, respectively. Each of the bevels extends over a corresponding one of the axially opposite end faces and an inner circumferential surface of the metallic mass member to thereby chamfer the corresponding one of the radially inner edges.

Abstract: An automatic stroke adjustment device for a brake actuator having clutch rings (240, 340, 440, 540, 546, 640) making an irreversible screw engagement relatively rotatable for the amount of exceeding the backlash by releasing the clutch engagement to rotate when exceeding the backlash of reversible screw engagement and maintaining the clutch engagement when in releasing the brake actuator while the brake actuator is in an active state to improve the processability, reduce the weight, and prevent overadjustment of the shoe clearance during the thermal expansion of the brake drum.

Abstract: A vibration damper, particularly a mono-tube vibration damper, has a cylinder in which a piston rod is arranged together with a piston so as to be axially movable, wherein the piston divides the cylinder into two work spaces filled with a work medium, the vibration damper having at least one deaerating device at the outer surroundings of the vibration damper for the areas filled with the work medium.

Abstract: A joint member for selectively joining first and second members, said joint member comprising a first coupling member comprising a volume of field responsive material and a second coupling member comprising a field generating member for selectively applying a field across the field responsive material, the joint member also comprising means for selectively moving the field responsive material toward and away from the field generating means.

Abstract: There are provided a synchronizing system which synchronizes two relatively rotating rotary bodies with each other by frictional forces generated between friction discs, such that a larger torque can be transmitted between the rotary bodies as an input torque becomes larger, and a transmission torque control device for the synchronizing system. In order to transmit torque between an input shaft and a gear member, the synchronizing system which connects the input shaft and the gear member with each other while synchronizing them urges a blocking ring toward the gear member by using a synchronizing spring, when a sleeve is caused to slide toward the blocking ring by an actuator.

Abstract: A belt used in conjunction with at least one pulley, said belt capable of cooperating with an oppositely facing endless belt to contact and convey articles, said belt comprising:

Abstract: The present invention provides a switch device which can reduce a switching sound (an impinging sound) at the time of manipulation with a constitution of a click mechanism which uses a spring member having a projection which is brought into slide contact with a cam surface formed of plateaus and valleys. The switch device includes a manipulating member having a cam surface which is formed of plateaus and valleys arranged contiguously and alternately and a spring member having the projection and generating a click feeling when the projection is brought into slide contact with the plateaus and the valleys of the cam surface. The spring member is provided with an auxiliary spring which is brought into slide contact with the manipulating member corresponding to the slide contact of the projection with the plateaus and the valleys of the cam surface. An auxiliary spring receiving portion with which the auxiliary spring is brought into slide contact is formed in the vicinity of the cam surface.

Abstract: A method of producing a negative electrode for a lithium secondary cell having thin films of lithium and a sulfide-based inorganic solid electrolyte is provided. In the method, are used a negative electrode base material and an inorganic solid electrolyte source material respectively placed in closed containers. The base material has a surface of lithium metal. The base material and the source material are respectively taken out from the closed containers in a chamber space, which is substantially inactive to lithium and which is insulated from air and provided adjacent to a thin film deposition system. The base material and the source material are transferred into the thin film deposition system without being exposed to the air. In system, the source material is used and a thin film of an inorganic solid electrolyte is formed on the base material. The base material having the thin film is transferred, without being exposed to the air, into a chamber space, which is substantially inactive to lithium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for executing a plasma-based sputtering method, such as for example a PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) method. In a process chamber (1), a plasma (2) is produced in order to accelerate ionized particles, carried away from a sputter target (21), through the plasma (2) towards a substrate (3), using an electrical field. In the process chamber (1), between the plasma (2) and the substrate (3) a magnetic field component (6) is produced that is situated parallel to a substrate surface (5). Through the magnetic field component (6), the angular distribution of the ionized particles is deflected from its flight path perpendicular to the substrate surface, so that impact angles are produced that have a greater angular scattering.

Abstract: A sputter source has at least two electrically mutually isolated stationar bar-shaped target arrangements mounted one alongside the other and separated by respective slits. Each of the target arrangements includes a respective electric pad so that each target arrangement may be operated electrically independently from the other target arrangement. Each target arrangement also has a controlled magnet arrangement for generating a time-varying magnetron field upon the respective target arrangement. The magnet arrangements may be controlled independently from each others. The source further has an anode arrangement with anodes alongside and between the target arrangements and/or along smaller sides of the target arrangements.

Abstract: A manufacturing method and apparatus of strongly alkaline ionized water exceeding pH 12.0 by electrolysis of water. As an electrolysis solution supplied to a cathode cell of an electrolytic bath, alkaline ionized water produced in the cathode cell is used, and an operation, in which the alkaline ionized water produced in the cathode cell is circulated and supplied to the cathode cell and is subjected to application of electrolytic voltage, is repeated, so that a cation is accumulated to increase the pH value. As a method for circulating and supplying the alkaline ionized water produced in the cathode cell to the cathode cell, a circulation container bath is used, and the circulation container bath and the cathode cell of the electrolytic bath are connected via a circulating line containing a circulating pump. The circulation container bath has a withdrawing system containing a water collecting device for withdrawing alkaline ionized water having a desired pH value to the outside.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a sputtering target which comprises sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide, TiOx, where x is below 2 having an electrical resistivity of less than 0.5 ohm.cm, optionally together with niobium oxide, which process comprises plasma spraying titanium dioxide, TiO2, optionally together with niobium oxide, onto a target base in an atmosphere which is oxygen deficient and which does not contain oxygen-containing compounds, the target base being coated with TiOx, which is solidified by cooling under conditions which prevent the sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide from combining with oxygen.

Abstract: A sensor (1) for measuring O2 concentrations in liquids (2) has a working electrode (3), with a counterelectrode (4) and with a reference electrode (5), wherein the working electrode (3) and the counterelectrode (4) are in contact with the liquid (2). The reference electrode (5) is separated from the liquid (2) by a diaphragm (6). The reference electrode (5) measures a polarization voltage effectively acting at the working electrode (3) and is connected to a potentiostat regulating the potential between the working electrode (3) and the counterelectrode (4). The reference electrode (5), the working electrode (3) and the counterelectrode (4) are arranged coaxially to one another, wherein the working electrode (3) and the counterelectrode (4) are arranged around the reference electrode (5).

Abstract: A combined toxic gas sensor and an oxygen sensor includes a sensor body 1 with a top plate 2 provided with a toxic gas diffusion barrier 3 leading to a chamber 7 from having an outlet aperture 5 registering with the diffusion barrier 6 of the oxygen sensor.

Abstract: A multi-layer gas sensor element is described which comprises a solid electrolytic member, a substrate, and a porous member, wherein each of the substrate and the porous member has a thickness larger than that of the solid electrolytic member with respect to a lamination direction; the substrate and the porous member face each other and sandwich the solid electrolytic member; a ceramic component constituting the substrate in the highest volume percent is the same as the ceramic component constituting the porous member in the highest volume percent thereof; and the volume percent (R2) of the ceramic component contained in the porous member is 80% or more the volume percent (R1) of the ceramic component contained in the substrate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for microfluidic processing by programmably manipulating a packet. A material is introduced onto a reaction surface and compartmentalized to form a packet. A position of the packet is sensed with a position sensor. A programmable manipulation force is applied to the packet at the position. The programmable manipulation force is adjustable according to packet position by a controller. The packet is programmably moved according to the programmable manipulation force along arbitrarily chosen paths.

Abstract: In a method for controlling sample introduction in microcolumn separation techniques, more particularly in capillary electrophoresis (CE), where a sample is injected as a sample plug into a sampling device which comprises at least a channel for the electrolyte buffer and a supply and drain channel for the sample. The supply and drain channels discharge into the electolyte channel at respective supply and drain ports. The distance between the supply port and the drain port geometrically defines a sample volume. The injection of the sample plug into the electrolyte channel is accomplished electrokinetically by applying an electric field across the supply and drain channels for a time at least long enough that the sample component having the lowest electrophoretic mobility is contained within the geometrically defined volume. The supply and drain channels each are inclined to the electrolyte channel. Means are provided for electrokinetically injecting the sample into the sample volume.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for discriminating matter utilizing dielectrophoresis combined with magnetophoresis. A sample having one or more constituents is injected into an inlet port of a chamber. A carrier medium flow is initiated at the inlet port to establish a flow within the chamber. A dielectrophoretic force is generated to act on the constituents of the sample. A magnetophoretic force is generated to act on the constituents of the sample. The dielectrophoretic force and magnetophoretic forces are balanced to position the constituents within the chamber. The constituents are then collected at one or more outlet ports of the chamber according to the dielectric and magnetic characteristics of the constituents. The constituents may be collected as a function of time-of-exit from the chamber and/or position within the chamber.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for cell isolation and analysis. Cells are introduced into a dielectrophoretic prefilter including one or more trapping electrodes configured to trap at least a portion of the cells with a dielectrophoretic force. The cells trapped from the prefilter are directed into a dielectrophoretic field-flow fractionation separator coupled to the prefilter. The cells are discriminated by balancing a dielectrophoretic force (and optionally a magnetophoretic force) with a gravitational force to displace the cells to positions within a velocity profile in the separator. At least a portion of the cells are trapped as a function of the cells' time of emergence from the separator with two or more spiral electrode segments coupled to the separator.

Abstract: A method of electroless plating for processing a plating surface to form a barrier layer being capable of uniformly forming a barrier layer and reducing the consumption of a processing solution, comprising a step of feeding a processing solution used in at least one of the pre-processing steps of the electroless plating and the electroless plating step to the plating surface for puddling treatment, or, using a processing solution at least containing, with respect to one mole of a first metallic material supplying a main ingredient of the barrier layer, three or more moles of a completing agent and three or more moles of reducing agent and having a pH value adjusted to 9 or more and stored in an atmosphere of an inert gas or ammonia gas, and a corresponding electroless plating apparatus.