Abstract: The invention provides a safety system for a small arms projectile in which an initiating device is impacted by a firing member in order to detonate a main explosive charge. The system requires the firing member to be retained in a safe position in relation to the initiating device by at least two independent mechanisms. The firing member is initially supported in a forward position, in which it assists in holding the initiator device in a safe condition, and is caused to move rearwardly, through inertia, when the projectile is fired, destroying one of the retaining mechanisms and allowing the initiator device to adopt a primed position in which it can be activated by the firing member which at this time is retained by the other retaining mechanism which is automatically released when the projectile is in flight.

Abstract: A safety device for a construction in which people are able to sit and with which movements can be executed, for example for an attraction for a fairground or an amusement park, comprises a base that can be fixed to the construction, a restraint that at one end is pivotably connected to the base and that can be moved between a lifted-up position such that the person is able to sit down in the construction or to leave the latter, and a safety position in which the person is secured in the construction, as well as locking means for locking the restraint in the safety position. The locking means have a locking component that is located at the end of the restraint that faces away from the end where the restraint is pivotably mounted.

Abstract: An auto rack rail road freight car is provided for carrying low density, relatively high value, relatively fragile lading. The car has a relatively soft suspension and an empty vertical bounce natural frequency of less than 2.0 Hz. The car also has additional ballast to increase the dead sprung weight of the car relative to the weight of the lading. In the embodiments in which multi-unit articulated freight cars are employed, such as for auto rack rail cars, the ballast is located preferentially toward the coupler end trucks. The trucks for the railcar have an increased wheel base and damping located to provide a greater moment arm and bearing face to encourage a higher threshhold for rail car hunting.

Abstract: A method for applying a bond coat on a metal-based substrate is described. A slurry which contains braze material and a volatile component is deposited on the substrate. The slurry can also include bond coat material. Alternatively, the bond coat material can be applied afterward, in solid form or in the form of a second slurry. The slurry and bond coat are then dried and fused to the substrate. A repair technique using this slurry is also described, along with related compositions and articles.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electroless plating liquid which allows a plating rate to be controlled, is not largely influential on semiconductor characteristics, and poses no problem on the health of workers, and a method of forming an interconnection according to a electroless plating process which uses such an electroless plating liquid. The electroless copper plating liquid contains dihydric copper ions, a complexing agent, an aldehyde acid, and an organic alkali. The electroless copper plating liquid is preferably be used in a method having the steps of forming an auxiliary seed layer for reinforcing a copper seed layer in an interconnection groove defined in a surface of a semiconductor device, and performing an electrolytic plating process using the seed layer including the auxiliary seed layer as a current feeding layer, for thereby filling copper in the interconnection groove defined in the surface of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: An anti-corrosive sol-gel that is a combination of an organometallic salt, an organosilane, and a borate, phosphate, or zinc functional component. The organosilane component may be selected from a large group of equivalent compounds but is preferably an alkoxyzirconium salt, and most preferably Zr (IV) n-propoxide. The organosilane may also be selected from a large group of equivalent compounds, but is preferably 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GTMS). Combination of the components takes place in the presence of an organic catalyst, preferably acetic acid.

Abstract: The present invention describes an ink composition comprising a liquid vehicle and a modified colored pigment. The modified colored pigment comprises the product of a colored pigment having at least one leaving group and a treating agent. The modified colored pigments are also disclosed, as are processes for producing them.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition having improved printing performance. The ink composition includes an ink vehicle, from about 0.1 to about 10% by weight self-dispersed ink pigment, from about 0.1 to about 10% by weight dye, a humectant, and a penetrant, wherein the weight ratio of ink pigment to dye ranges from greater than about 0.75:1 to less than about 2.5:1. Such ink compositions exhibit substantially improved permanence, decreased drying time, and high optical density compared to ink compositions containing only ink pigment or dye.

Abstract: Black-dyeing aqueous inks comprising

Abstract: A coating formulation is described in which includes a solvent, a binder, and a metal additive comprising tantalum, niobium, alloys thereof, or mixtures thereof. Also described is a cellulose-based substrate which contains a cellulose-based reinforcing agent, a binder, and a metal additive comprising tantalum, niobium, alloys thereof, or mixtures thereof. Also described is a cement-based or plaster-based substrate containing a cement-based or plaster-based material and a metal additive comprising tantalum, niobium, alloys thereof, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising inorganic solids for use as pigments in paints, papers and plastics.

Abstract: A pigment, especially a yellow to red emitting luminescent material, with a host lattice of the nitridosilicate type MxSiyNz:Eu, wherein M is at least one of an alkaline earth metal chosen from the group Ca, Sr, Ba and wherein z=⅔x+{fraction (4/3)}y.

Abstract: A colorant dispersing liquid and an ink composition for ink jet that is made from a colorant dispersing liquid is described.

Abstract: Disclosed are a color fading/discoloration preventive agent containing as its active ingredient a coumarin analog represented by general formula (1) below, a glycoside of that analog, or a plant extract containing the coumarin analog or its glycoside: 1

Abstract: A cement additive composition for preventing discoloration of the surface of concrete, comprising a cement additive (a) and a water-reducing admixture (b), the additive (a) comprising a mixture of compounds represented by the general formula (1):

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nail caring table having a vacuum purifier in which a customer keeps a comfortable posture when a customer's nail is cared or an artificial nail is attached to a customer's nail or in which it is possible to suck a waste and bad smell which occur when caring a customer's nail and attaching an artificial nail to a customer's nail for thereby effectively cleaning the above.

Abstract: A plate-like or block-like material for forming a pallet for loading and unloading, containing a large number of wood chips impregnated with thermosetting resin and joined with each other through the thermosetting resin and thermoplastic resin filling gaps among said wood chips, wherein the volume ratio of said wood chips and said thermoplastic resin is 1:1.

Abstract: A folding work station includes a work surface and a frame supporting the work surface. The frame includes at least one rolling support and is selectively expandable to an open configuration, in which the frame supports the work surface in a working orientation, and foldable to a substantially flat closed configuration having a vertical orientation, in which the frame supports the work surface juxtaposed on the frame. In addition, the work station is movably supported on the rolling support(s).

Abstract: A folding table includes a pair of support pedestals, a longitudinal support rail, a pair of foldable support braces, and a table top. The longitudinal support rail extends in a longitudinal direction, and has opposite rail ends disposed respectively on top of intermediate segments of end rails of the support pedestals. Each of the support braces includes a pedestal connecting portion and a rail connecting portion. The pedestal connecting portion has a first end connected pivotally to a respective one of the support pedestals, and an opposite second end. The rail connecting portion has a first end connected pivotally to the support rail, and an opposite second end connected pivotally to the second end of the pedestal connecting portion. The support rail and the end rails against a bottom surface of the table top.

Abstract: An adjustable height table includes a base frame, a slider frame assembly, a generally planar support surface and a lifting mechanism. The main portion of the base frame is formed by welding three tubular components to form an H-shape. Each of the end portions of the H-shape include a mounting to support a swiveling locking castor. Above each castor there extends from the H-shaped main portion, a vertically extending tubular post. The slider frame assembly preferably includes an H-shaped main portion formed of three tubular members. Four vertically extending hollow tubular column members are attached to the H-frame so that they may telescopingly engage the four vertically extending posts of the base frame. A generally planar support surface is attached to the top of the four vertically extending columns located on the slider frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for closing the open end of a foot on a piece of tubular furniture having a cap (10) for a piece of tubular furniture (20), a butt portion (22), a bottom (24), an inner wall (26), and an outer wall (28). A threaded insert (30), preferably metallic, is molded into bottom portion (24). When inserted into a foot (15) of a piece of tubular furniture (20), inner wall (26) and outer wall (28) engage foot (15) in a two-sided friction fit, and a threaded glide or caster (40) is inserted through foot (15) and threaded insert (30), further securing cap (10) to foot (15) and providing easy movement and leveling of furniture (20).

Abstract: An inflatable snack table formed of heat sealable plastic sheet and shaped as a spherical outer housing, with a base at the bottom and an opening in the top to hold a food container. Within the outer housing is a generally cylindrical inner housing extending between and secured to the top and bottom of the spherical outer housing.

Abstract: A grate furnace with a grate (4) consisting of grate steps (15, 16, 17) composed [lacuna] grate elements lying next to one another, of which grate steps in each case every second grate step (15, 17) in the longitudinal direction of the grate can be driven for carrying out stoking movements and the grate steps (17) in each case lying therebetween can be fixed, has drive devices (18) under the grate, which are in each case arranged in housing chambers (25) and are in this way protected against impairment caused by material falling through the grate.

Abstract: A cultivating and seeding machine is provided with a seeding unit and a tillage device and/or a land roller. The seeding unit is provided with a seeding actuator, the tillage device is provided with a tillage actuator and the land roller is provided with a land roller actuator. The seeding actuator regulates the sowing depth of the seeding unit, whereas the tillage and land roller actuators regulates the downward pressure of these two implements, respectively. A controller having a memory loaded with information for adjusting the working implements, controls the various actuators in response to these data records.

Abstract: A thread taking-up tool is attached to a needle bar sticking out of a sewing machine head, and its leading end has a plurality of thread holes. The thread holes of the thread taking-up tool are arranged in the lateral direction. A thread handling body has a cam face in the vertical direction. Needle threads from a tension device to needles are controlled by the vertical motion of the thread taking-up tool and the action of the cam face of the thread handling body. When the needles ascend from the lowest position, an endless hook attached to the thread taking-up tool is engaged with the left needle thread between the cam face lower end and the thread hole of the thread taking-up tool. Each thread is handled in with the left needle thread staying at the cam face lower end, so that the needle thread loop at the remotest end is absorbed surely.

Abstract: The present invention, the objective of which is to provide a threading device for embroidery machinery realized in such a way that it performs threading accurately regardless of the type of thread, for embroidery machinery, etc. capable of performing the processing for change of colored thread automatically without intervention of an operator, for example, comprises a needle support mechanism (7), disposed movably facing the hooking member (61a), for preventing deflection of the needle (10), by correcting deflection of the needle (10), when inserting the hooking member (61a) formed in the shape of a hook at the tip of the thread pull-out mechanism (61) in the needle hole (10a).

Abstract: A vehicle or the like, operable in the vicinity of an interface between differentially flowing regions of fluid media, consisting of two fluid-diverting members each acting as an aero/hydrodynamic wing, connected by at least one tether passing through the fluid interface, whereby each member is rendered able to divert each toward the other as well as each aft along the path of the vehicle some of the mass of its surrounding fluid flow; typically, means of controlling at least one wingset in response to its distance from the fluid interface; and typically, means of operation of at least one wingset for control of the course of the vehicle.

Abstract: A personal watercraft includes a hull and an engine. The hull defines an engine compartment and the engine is disposed within the engine compartment. A waterproof electrical component container is disposed in the engine compartment. The container can include two internal compartments, one being more water-tight than the other. The container can also include an aperture defined in one of the external surfaces of the container, through which an electrical component inside the container can be accessed when the aperture is open.

Abstract: A movable bulkhead with a first side and a second side, said first and second sides having upper and lower edges and first and second ends, wherein a first layer with inner and outer surfaces defines at least part of said first side with said outer surface, and a second layer with inner and outer surfaces defines at least part of said second side with said outer surface, an intermediate layer comprised of elastomer being bonded between said inner surface of said first layer and said inner surface of said second layer so as to transfer shear forces between said first and second layers.

Abstract: A trolling motor for a boat includes a motor tube, a steering control, a propulsion unit, a support assembly, and a coupling mechanism. The propulsion unit is coupled to a lower end of the motor tube. The support assembly is coupled to the motor tube and is configured to connect the trolling motor to the boat. The coupling mechanism is coupled to the support, the motor tube and the steering control and is configured to provide a non-uniform steering ratio between the steering control and the motor tube in response to angular displacement of the steering control.

Abstract: Steering compartment equipment for boats fitted with tilt and height adjustable steering wheel, includes a mobile tilt wheel shaft, a fixed control shaft, a universal joint permitting relative offset rotation between the mobile tilt wheel shaft and the fixed control shaft, a base plate secured to a boat dashboard, a gasket arrangement sealing the base plate and fixed control shaft relative to the dashboard, external coverings which protect the equipment against splashes, waves and bad weather, the external coverings including a fixed annular covering protecting parts secured to the dashboard, a mobile annular covering, and an intermediate toroid band shaped seal between the other two coverings and including a lower circular internal recess mounted on a peripheral upper zone of the fixed annular covering, and an inward bendable upper shaping which rests on an outside of a lower zone of the mobile annular covering.

Abstract: A swivel/quick release device having a shaft adapted to receive a load at one end operated associated with a bearing means at its other end; a housing in which said shaft is slidably mounted.

Abstract: A floating platform for recovery of oil and gas from offshore oil and gas fields supports one or more decks above the water surface to accommodate equipment for drilling and processing oil, gas and water recovered from the oil and gas field. The platform includes a central column having a portion substantially below the water surface, and including a portion which extends above the water surface. The central column includes a base node and a plurality of pontoons extending outwardly therefrom and is anchored to the seabed by one or more tendons secured to the pontoons and to the seabed. Ballast modules fixedly or removably secured to the base node and/or the pontoons accept solid or liquid ballast for lowering the vertical center of gravity of the platform.

Abstract: The beach anchor is used by being pushed into the sand on shore. Being lightweight it is easy to carry and easy to store. A ten year old child can do the installation of the beach anchor into the sand.

Abstract: A foot brace system for use with a watercraft includes an elongated track, configured to be coupled to the watercraft, and a carriage. The track has the first one of a detent and a detent engaging surface. The carriage has a brace, which is slidably coupled to the track, and a retaining member that is carried by and pivotably coupled to the brace. The brace has a foot rest surface, and the retaining member has the second one of the detent and the detent engaging surface. The second one of the detent and the detent engaging surface pivots between a first position, in which the detent and the detent engaging surface are in engagement locking the carriage to the track, and a second position, in which the detent and the detent engaging surface are out of engagement allowing the carriage to be moved relative to the track.

Abstract: A low centroid canoe seat support is provided which is mountable to a canoe and that receives a boat seat having standard three-quarter inch post pin. The canoe seat support holds the weight of the boat seat and a canoe rider in a position below the gunwales of the canoe and above the hull of the canoe, thus providing stability and reducing the likelihood of a capsizing event. Moreover, because the canoe seat support is compatible with standard post boat seats, the apparatus allows the rider to customize the canoe to meet his or her individual comfort and mobility needs.

Abstract: A tire pressure gauge is provided. The tire pressure gauge is mounted on a rim of a wheel or on a hub of the wheel. An interconnection is made to the valve stem of the wheel. The interconnection includes a tap that directs pressure from the interconnection via a tube or conduit to the gauge. The interconnection can provide continuous pressure to the gauge or can be actuated by the movement of an operator at a predetermined inspection time. The gauge can be mechanical or electronic.

Abstract: A simultaneous toasting device comprising a vertical support member having depending therefrom a filament, the filament having attached thereto a sounding element.

Abstract: A critical temperature warning apparatus and method to monitor the thermal history of a product such as a memory card. The apparatus comprises a critical temperature indicator, which is externally attached to a product to be monitored. The indicator indicates if the product has experienced a critical temperature. The critical temperature indicator may comprise a patterned array of wax, the wax having a melting point equal to the critical temperature. If the pattern of wax has been destroyed leaving a molten wax residue, then this indicates that the product has experienced a critical temperature. The critical temperature indicator may also include thermographic inks for indicating that a critical temperature has been experienced.

Abstract: A rotary direction indicator provided for use with a rotating element which causes the rotation of an associated member. The rotary direction indicator has an internally compliant body fixed in a normal to a central axis which has formed thereon a pair of arrows which appear to be three-dimensional moving in a clockwise direction. One of the three-dimensional arrows appears to plunge into the surface of the body while the other of three-dimensional arrows appear to rise out of the surface of the body thereby providing a visual indication of a correspondence between the direction of rotation of the rotary element and the movement of the associated member.

Abstract: A method for reducing the concentration of near-surface bubbles in a quartz crucible suitable for growing monocrystalline silicon ingots by the Czochralski method is provided. The method comprises etching the inner surface of the crucible, preferably with an acidic solution, to substantially eliminate or reduce the concentration of near-surface bubbles from the inner surface of the crucible.

Abstract: A method for the production of a single crystal has the single crystal crystallizing from a melt and being subjected to a rotation with an alternating rotation direction. The single crystal is periodically rotated through a sequence of rotation angles, and the rotation direction is changed after each rotation through a rotation angle of the sequence, with a change of the rotation direction defining an inversion point on the circumference of the single crystal. There is at least one recurring pattern of inversion points created, in which the inversion points lie distributed on straight lines that are aligned parallel with the z-axis and are spaced apart uniformly from one another.

Abstract: A silicon single crystal is produced by crucible-free float zone pulling, has a diameter of at least 200 mm over a length of at least 200 mm and is free of dislocations in the region of this length. A silicon wafer is separated from the silicon single crystal by a process for producing the silicon single crystal. The silicon single crystal is produced by crucible-free float zone pulling in a receptacle, in which an atmosphere of inert gas and nitrogen exerts a pressure of 1.5-2.2 bar, the atmosphere being continuously exchanged, with the volume of the receptacle being exchanged at least twice per hour. A flat coil with an external diameter of at least 220 mm is inserted in order to melt a stock ingot. The single crystal is pulled at a rate in a range from 1.4-2.2 mm/min and is periodically rotated through a sequence of rotation angles.

Abstract: A method for the non-photochemical laser induced nucleation in which short high-intensity laser pulses are used to induce nucleation in supersaturated solutions including protein solutions. The laser induces nucleation only in the area where the beam is focused or passes through, resulting in fewer nuclei than would be achieved by spontaneous nucleation. In addition, the laser reduces nucleation time significantly.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures are provided with high quality epitaxial layers of monocrystalline materials grown overlying monocrystalline substrates such as large silicon wafers by forming a compliant substrate for growing the monocrystalline layers. An accommodating buffer layer comprises a layer of monocrystalline oxide spaced apart from a silicon wafer by an amorphous interface layer of silicon oxide. The accommodating buffer layer is lattice matched to both the underlying silicon wafer and an overlying monocrystalline material layer. With laser assisted fabrication, a laser energy source is used to preclean the accommodating buffer layer, to excite the accommodating buffer layer to higher energy to promote two-dimensional growth, and to amorphize the accommodating buffer layer, without requiring transport of the semiconductor structure from one environment to another.

Abstract: A method for making a free-standing, single crystal, gallium nitride (GaN) wafer includes forming a single crystal GaN layer directly on a single crystal LiAlO2 substrate using a gallium halide reactant gas, and removing the single crystal LiAlO2 substrate from the single crystal GaN layer to make the free-standing, single crystal GaN wafer. Forming the single crystal GaN layer may comprise depositing GaN by vapor phase epitaxy (VPE) using the gallium halide reactant gas and a nitrogen-containing reactant gas. Because gallium halide is used as a reactant gas rather than a metal organic reactant such as trimethygallium (TMG), the growth of the GaN layer can be performed using VPE which provides commercially acceptable rapid growth rates. In addition, the GaN layer is also devoid of carbon throughout. Because the GaN layer produced is high quality single crystal, it may have a defect density of less than about 107 cm−2.

Abstract: A crystal puller for growing monocrystalline silicon ingots includes first and second electrical resistance heaters in the crystal puller in longitudinal, closely spaced relationship with each other to radiate heat toward the ingot as the ingot is pulled upward within the housing. An adapter mounting the heaters may also be provided for adapting existing crystal pullers to incorporate the heaters.

Abstract: A coating liquid application apparatus capable of automatically and properly applying to a printed surface of a print medium a coating liquid, such as coating materials that improve weatherability of the printed surface. For that purpose, the apparatus includes a pair of rollers in rotating contact with both surfaces of the print medium, one of the rollers in contact with a printed surface of the print medium being used as an application roller and a coating liquid supply member to supply the coating liquid stored in a coating liquid reservoir to the application roller.

Abstract: The subject invention pertains to a method and device for producing large area single crystalline III-V nitride compound semiconductor substrates with a composition AlxInyGa1-x-y N (where 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, and 0≦x+y≦1). In a specific embodiment, GaN substrates, with low dislocation densities (˜107 cm2) can be produced. These crystalline III-V substrates can be used to fabricate lasers and transistors. Large area free standing single crystals of III-V compounds, for example GaN, can be produced in accordance with the subject invention. By utilizing the rapid growth rates afforded by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) and growing on lattice matching orthorhombic structure oxide substrates, good quality III-V crystals can be grown. Examples of oxide substrates include LiGaO2, LiAlO2, MgAlScO4, Al2MgO4, and LiNdO2. The subject invention relates to a method and apparatus, for the deposition of III-V compounds, which can alternate between MOVPE and HVPE, combining the advantages of both.

Abstract: A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels.