Abstract: A thermal link assembly provides thermal connection between first and second thermally conductive parts. The thermal link assembly is adapted for securing to the first part. The second part is generally disk-shaped and has a peripheral cylindrical surface. The thermal link assembly includes an annular ring made of thermally conductive material. The annular ring is generally in a shape of revolution with respect to an axis. The annular ring includes an annular base portion to be secured to the first part and a series of contact tongues arranged along the base portion. Each contact tongue has a stem and a head. The stem has i) a longitudinal axis extending generally parallel to the axis of the annular ring, ii) a first longitudinal end connected to the base portion, and iii) a second longitudinal end connected to the head. The head has a contact surface to be in contact with the peripheral cylindrical surface of the second part.

Abstract: A high throughput, short batch cycle commercial ice making machine produces commercial ice which resists melting in convenient sizes for mobile food carts, market produce, or fish displays. The machine introduces super-cooled water, that is in a liquid state while exposed to a temperature below freezing, into a batch of pre-formed hollow molds of one or more horizontally oriented ice forming freezing trays oriented horizontally. Using vapor compression refrigeration, the machine produces a plurality of supercooled ice segments in pockets within the freezing tray. The supercooled ice segments are rapidly subjected to a short, temporary contact with a high heat source from a sleeve integral with the freezing tray compartments, along a peripheral bottom surface of the ice segment accommodating freezing tray molds. This temporarily melts a bottom surface of each ice segment, lubricating it and loosening it.

Abstract: A rapid cooling apparatus passing hot exhaust gas in a short time along a flow path formed in a cooling setting with piled up arrangement and having a reduced cross-sectional area of the flow path to reduce the volume thereof so as to cool rapidly to a temperature below a dioxin synthesizing temperature so that dioxins are prevented from generating, characterized in that multistage tube bodies for heat exchange to pass coolant therethrough are arranged in a rapid cooling cylindrical body for passing hot gas such as exhaust gas from an inlet opening to an outlet opening, and the cross-sectional area of the rapid cooling cylindrical body is being reduced gradually in a passing direction of the hot gas.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling the climate within a storage container including at least two cargo areas. The system includes one compressor, one condenser, and two evaporators. Each of the evaporators includes a crankcase pressure regulator, a gas valve and a liquid valve. The crankcase pressure regulators provide a common pressure between each of the evaporators and the compressor regardless of the pressure at the evaporator. A control system selectively actuates the gas and liquid valves according to a predefined control mode to obtain and maintain a desired temperature.

Abstract: A defroster restrains a vane jump that takes place when an evaporator is defrosted in a refrigerant circuit using a so-called internal intermediate-pressure type double-stage compression rotary compressor. The defroster includes a rotary compressor that discharges a refrigerant gas that has been compressed by a first rotary compressing unit into a hermetic vessel and further compresses the discharged intermediate-pressure refrigerant gas, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. To defrost the evaporator, the refrigerant gas discharged from the second rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator without decompressing it by the expansion valve. Furthermore, the refrigerant gas discharged from the first rotary compressing unit is introduced into the evaporator. At the same time, an electromotive unit of the rotary compressor is run at a predetermined number of revolutions.

Abstract: In a vehicle air conditioner, a control unit includes determining means for determining a first start of a compressor for compressing refrigerant in a refrigerant cycle after being mounted on the vehicle, and control means for controlling operation of the compressor so that the compressor is operated for a predetermined time by a rotation speed equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed when the determining means determines the first start of the compressor. Accordingly, breaking-in operation of the compressor can be accurately performed for the predetermined time by an automatic control.

Abstract: The engine drives the generator, which generates electric power. The power drives the compressor. Thus driven, the compressor cools the interior of the refrigerating chamber. When the engine stops, the output of the generator stops is no longer available. Then, the compressor is automatically driven by the power of the storage battery unit.

Abstract: A condenser is provided that makes a liquid droplet of a liquid phase medium drop effectively, the liquid phase medium residing in a lower end opening of a medium passage of the condenser, thereby preventing any degradation in the performance of the condenser. In the condenser, vapor, which is supplied to a cooling pipe (14) connected to cooling fins (16), is cooled, condensed into water, and recovered in a water-collecting tray (21) provided beneath the cooling pipe (14), and a needle-shaped member (24) provided so as to face the lower end opening of the cooling pipe (14) ruptures the droplet that, due to surface tension, resides in the lower end opening of the cooling pipe (14) and makes it drop into the water-collecting tray (21).

Abstract: A process and apparatus for separating the components of a hydrocarbon gas feed stream is disclosed. A multi-component hydrocarbon gas feed stream is contacted with a solvent in an absorber to produce a first overhead stream that is enriched in a first component and a rich solvent bottoms stream that is enriched a second component. The rich solvent bottoms stream is flash vaporized to recover the second component as a second overhead stream and to produce a lean solvent stream that is returned to the absorber. During the flash vaporization process, the rich solvent bottoms stream is contacted with a stripping gas that is a portion of the first overhead stream. This stripping process enhances the recovery of the second component during the flash vaporization.

Abstract: Xenon and/or krypton are recovered from oxygen containing gas, typically derived from liquid oxygen bottoms in a cryogenic air separation plant, by selective adsorption on a Li and Ag exchange zeolite containing 5 to 40% Ag exchange capacity on an equivalents basis, with periodic thermal regeneration of the adsorbent.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a medical identification bracelet is shown and described herein. The apparatus comprises a medical identification tag which is held to a person's body by a jewelry holding means. The jewelry holding means may be a bracelet or a necklace. The jewelry holding means is releasably fastened to the medical identification tag so that the holding means is interchangeable.

Abstract: A jewelry chain section and a method of forming the same having a spiral, twisted appearance, involves the winding of a wire on a support and the controlled manipulation of such wound wire during or after removal from the support. The wound wire comprises individual spirals that are twisted relative to each other, such that the individual spirals appear in a staggered formation, with the appearance of a chain section being varied by the number of spirals that are twisted at a particular time and the extent or angular dimension of the rotation imparted to such spirals.

Abstract: The jewelry pieces (11) are supposed to move relative to the bracelet through the movements of the person wearing the bracelet (1), without disturbing or hindering the person. For this purpose, each jewelry piece (11) is connected to a bearing part (10) which is received displaceably along the bracelet in a guide (7).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for shaping a tubular object made of glass or glass ceramics or any other thermoplastic material, comprising the following method steps:

Abstract: Apparatus (26) and a method for forming heated glass sheets in a heated chamber (22) of a housing (20) includes an upper mold support assembly (28) for supporting an upper mold (38) within the heated chamber for cyclical vertical movement between upper and lower positions. A lower mold shuttle (50) supports a lower mold (36) for movement between an idle position horizontally spaced from the upper mold and a use position below the lower mold. The apparatus also includes a lower mold support assembly (60) to which the lower mold is transferred from the lower mold shuttle (50) to provide support thereof while permitting horizontal alignment with the upper mold upon each cycle of downward movement to form a heated glass sheet between the molds. The lower mold shuttle (50) is supported by vertically movable rollers (70) to provide the transfer between the lower mold shuttle and the lower mold support assembly (60).

Abstract: A glass plate 2 is supported on a heat-resistant fiber sheet 3 stretched on a support base 1A of a carriage 1 without using a ring-shaped holding tool. The glass plate 2 transported on the carriage 1 into a furnace undergoes press working together with the heat-resistant fiber sheet utilizing a press-working mold in the furnace. The glass plate 2 can be bent evenly without leaving any traces on the worked surface of the glass plate.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for producing continuous glass filaments by spinning molten glass through nozzles of a bushing and cooling the thus-spun filaments with fins joined to one or more cooled manifolds and arranged in a proximity of the nozzles. Each manifold is provided at at least three locations thereof with at least one inlet port and at least one outlet port for coolant, respectively, with a proviso that the total number of the inlet and outlet ports is the same as the number of the locations of the manifold. Without using a complex construction, this invention makes it possible to provide the fins with improved durability and to produce the glass filaments with improved quality. In particular, the present invention can be applied to large bushings each of which is equipped with a number of nozzles.

Abstract: There are provided a transfer jack (6, 102) which is structured so that when a loop retaining portion (48, 122) is advanced to an advanced position over a needle bed gap (42) between front and back needle beds (2a, 2b), the loop retaining portion can be held in such a manner as to swing between its raised position and its lowered position; transfer jack holding means (64, 110) for holding the loop retaining portion in its raised position at least as high as a level to avoid interference with knitting members arranged on the needle beds (2a, 2b) while the needle bed is racked, when the loop retaining portion (48, 122) of the transfer jack (6, 102) retaining a loop (36) thereon is in the advanced position; and transfer jack controlling means (82) for controlling the transfer jack holding means to selectively hold the loop retaining portion (48, 122) of the transfer jack (6, 102) in its raised position and release it from its held state.

Abstract: When a first knitted fabric (6) and second and third knitted fabrics (4, 5) sandwiching the first knitted fabric (6) therebetween are knitted and then loops of final courses of the second and third knitted fabrics (4, 5) are laid over loops of the first knitted fabric (6) at side ends thereof sequentially from one side thereof closer to the first knitted fabric (6) toward the other side, to join together the first knitted fabric and the second and third knitted fabrics (4, 5), the second knitted fabric (4) and the third knitted fabric (5) are held on different needle beds arranged in front and back, respectively, and the first knitted fabric (6) and the third knitted fabric (5) are both shifted toward the second knitted fabric.

Abstract: A linking method including the steps of opposing knitted fabrics to be linked to each other, stretching the opposed knitted fabrics in a course direction, stretching the opposed knitted fabrics in a wale direction, picking up an image of linking loops of each of the stretched knitted fabrics, detecting the positions of the linking loops based on a multiple gray-scale image, inserting a point needle through each of the linking loops, sewing a linking loop in the vicinity of an edge of each of the knitted fabrics, and linking together the linking loops other than the sewn linking loop by using the point needle; and an apparatus for linking knitted fabrics.

Abstract: The invention is aimed to provide a double knitted fabric wherein a stitch loop portion of a linking yarn is not jutted forth from the surface of the webs, and characteristic of touch, texture and so forth peculiar to a material of a web-forming yarn on the surface is not impaired, providing good decency, capable of decreasing density of the linking yarn and reducing weight, preventing rubbing sound, and also bringing out proper compressive strength, elasticity in the direction of thickness. To provide these features, in the double knitted fabric comprising of the front and rear webs (1), (2) and the linking yarn (3) linking both webs, the linking yarn (3) is knitted in two-needle stitch, or in combination with two-needle stitch and one-needle stitch, on at least one of the front and rear webs.

Abstract: A knitted mesh fabric including an open framework of longitudinally and transversely extending knitted threads, and a plurality of resiliently, longitudinally extendible threads laid in the open framework in at least one direction. The open framework is contracted in the at least one direction when the resiliently extendible threads are in a relaxed or non-extended condition, whereby the open framework can be extended in the at least one direction causing the resiliently extendible threads to resiliently extend and the fabric to resiliently stretch.

Abstract: The nature of this invention is a secure, anti-theft, tamper resistant locking device for 5th wheel type trailer hitch pins.

Abstract: A security lock for a computer having a wall (42) with a rectangular or circular hole (43; 44) therethrough comprises a body (11) to which a security cable (16) is secured, the body having a push button lock (18) therein, activation of the lock causing a pair of retention arms (24) to move linearly apart against spring means (35; 50). The arms have hook-like terminal portions (33) at the exterior of the body (11) and activation of the lock after the portions (33) have been passed through the hole (43; 44) causes the arms to move apart so that the portions (33) locate “behind” the hole, thereby securing the security lock to the computer. The security lock has is body (11) secured against rotation relative to the lock (18), with the body and lock being freely rotatable relative to the retention arms.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a storm door with a mortise lock that includes a lock body having opposed side plates and a cam in between the side plates, the cam being in operative interaction with a dead bolt assembly. The mortise lock body also includes one or more stops to limit the rotation of the cam and prevent a lockout situation. A thumb turn button and key cylinder are secured to opposite escutcheon plates. A spindle traverses from the key cylinder through the cam through hole and terminates in the mounting slot of the thumb turn button. Rotation of either the thumb turn button or the key cylinder turns the spindle and actuates the cam that actuates the dead bolt assembly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a storm door with a mortise lock that includes a lock body having opposed side plates with a dead bolt assembly and a live bolt assembly intermediate the side plates wherein a key cylinder is separate from the cam. A thumb turn button and key cylinder are secured to opposite escutcheon plates and the cam is separately secured between the side plates of the mortise lock body. The key cylinder includes one or more key pins in the key cylinder housing and preferably in the decorative portion thereof. A spindle traverses from the key cylinder through the cam through hole and terminates in the mounting slot of the thumb turn button.

Abstract: A heavy duty steering wheel securing anti-theft device. Embodiments are described herein that also protect any air bag contained in the steering wheel.

Abstract: A heavy duty steering wheel securing anti-theft device. Embodiments are described herein that also protect any air bag contained in the steering wheel.

Abstract: An anti-theft device for securing a steering wheel of a vehicle. The anti-theft device includes at least one bracing member adapted to be positioned over a portion of a steering column and over a portion of the steering wheel. A column engaging member is detachably engageable with the bracing member to, in combination with the bracing member, form a linkage adapted to substantially surround the steering column in an installed configuration. A locking mechanism is adapted to detachably lock the anti-theft device in the installed configuration.

Abstract: A tubular lock can be directly actuated and unlocked by a key and comprises an inner lock assembly mounted to an inner side of a door and an outer lock assembly mounted to an outer side of the door. The inner lock assembly comprises an inner handle for turning a driving wheel of a latch assembly to thereby retract a latch bolt. The outer lock assembly comprises a lock and an actuating member operably connected between a drive member and a lock core of the lock. The driving wheel can be driven by an actuating tube of the drive member to thereby retract the latch bolt.

Abstract: A security system for a storage container including a latch assembly disposed on an interior side of a door for latching the door in a closed position with the storage container. A plurality of reciprocating latch elements are included in the latch assembly for latching the door in a closed position with the storage container. A latch actuator included in the latch assembly moves the latch elements to latch the door. A master lock assembly controls operation of the latch actuator by having a first locking part of the master lock assembly interlocking with a second locking part carried by an elongated shaft connected to an operator on the container exterior. A tamper-resistant control blocks access to the master lock assembly from outside the storage container whereby access to the container interior is prevented when the latch assembly is closed and the master lock assembly is in an engaged position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lock arrangement having a lock (14) and including a first locking means (52) adapted to operate said lock to lock and unlock said lock and a second locking means (68) including a member (32) movable between a first and a second position wherein when said member (32) is in the first position the lock is locked and when in said second position the lock is unlocked. Generally the first locking means (52) is key operated and the second locking means (68) is driven by an electric motor(72). The first locking means (52) can operate said lock independently of said member (32) and regardless of its position and when used to lock or unlock the lock can decouple through a clutch mechanism (80) the second activation means (68) form controlling the lock.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus to create a pre-established textured surface on a workpiece. The pre-established textured surface includes an average roughness and a non-directional lay pattern being formed to a controlled width.

Abstract: A hemming unit may include a hemming tool, an actuator for moving the hemming tool, and a link mechanism connecting the actuator and the hemming tool. Therefore, the hemming tool can be moved by the actuator by means of the link mechanism to perform a hemming operation. A hemming apparatus may include at least one hemming unit, a workpiece support for supporting a workpiece during the hemming operation, and a workpiece holder for holding the workpiece in position relative to the workpiece support during the hemming operation.

Abstract: A slide hammer puller for car-body sheet metals of a vehicle in the invention has a driven rod, a slide hammer and at least one pulling member. A shank body of the driven rod with a stop portion disposed at a proper position of the shank body corresponding to a hammer face of the slide hammer is extended through the slide hammer and combined with the pulling member at one end of the shank body. Place the pulling member on a dent of a car-body sheet metal and fill hot-melt adhesives between the pulling member and the dent. After the adhesives get dry, strike the slide hammer toward the stop portion to make the driven rod have backward pulling movements to force the pulling member to pull the dent outwardly to its normal smooth position, thereby the dent can be repaired without disassembling interior parts and accessories of a vehicle.

Abstract: A timing calibration system for an adjustable delay time of a delay module for an electronic circuit is provided. The system includes a control delay module including at least one calibration delay module, the control delay module having a second delay time. The system also includes a timing module associated with the control delay module, a comparison module associated with the timing module and an adjustment module for the delay module. The timing module measures the second delay time, the comparison module compares the second delay time with a desired delay time and produces a comparison result and the adjustment module calibrates the adjustable delay time utilizing the comparison result.

Abstract: A method and system for expelling test sample-volumes from luggage/packages includes, in one form, a set of superposed or otherwise cooperating belt conveyor (16, 24) and a cooperating biohazard detection system (14). Luggage articles (L) or packages to be inspected are moved by the belt conveyor (18) and subject to a momentary compressive force to reduce the internal volume of the luggage article or package sufficient to expel some of the interior air within the luggage article or package. The biohazard detection system (14) samples some of the air expelled from the interior of the luggage article (L) and subjects that air sample to various test of undesired or prohibited materials.

Abstract: A gas chromatography system having a computer-controlled venting valve system that delivers pressurized pulses to a column junction point of two series-coupled columns having different stationary-phase chemistries and a method of using the same. Each pressurized pulse causes a differential change in the carrier gas velocities in the two columns, which lasts for the duration of the pressurized pulse. Whereby, the pressurized pulse selectively increases the separation of a component pair that exhibits separation at the exit of the first column, but otherwise co-elutes from the column ensemble.

Abstract: A system for detecting reverse rotation of a 4-cycle, internal combustion engine with three or more cylinder for an outboard motor mounted on a boat, whose output is connected to a propeller such that the boat is propelled forward or reverse. In the system, it is determined whether a counted value of crank angle signals generated once every 30 crank angles is a multiple of a predetermined number (e.g., four in six cylinders), when the cylinders are identified and it is determined that engine rotates reverse when the counted value is determined to be not the multiple and the engine is immediately stopped. With this, it becomes possible to accurately detect the reverse rotation of the engine and prevent its further reverse rotation.

Abstract: A system for detecting malfunction of an equipment such as an alternator or a hydraulic switch that is connected to an internal combustion engine and generates an output. In the system, it is discriminated periodically for a predetermined period of time whether the output of the equipment is within a predetermined range, a number of times that the output of the equipment is discriminated to be out of the predetermined range is counted; and the equipment is determined to have malfunctioned when the count is equal to or greater than the reference value. With this, it becomes possible to detect the malfunction of the equipment accurately.

Abstract: A system detecting leakage of an internal combustion engine having a secondary air passage, bypassing a throttle valve, at an air intake pipe connecting to the intake manifold and a secondary air control valve which regulates opening of the secondary air passage. In the system, when the changes in the absolute manifold pressure and the atmospheric pressure before and after the engine starts rotation, are small, it is determined that the intake manifold may possibly leak and should be monitored. Specifically, the opening of the secondary air passage is changed and the changes in the pressure, etc., before and after the opening is changed, are calculated and based thereon, it is determined whether the intake manifold, in fact, leaks. With this, it becomes possible to detect intake manifold leakage accurately with a simple configuration.

Abstract: To provide a failure diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas recirculation system which is capable of eliminating the influence of various disturbance factors that vary the suction air pressure, diagnosing a failure of the exhaust gas recirculation system on the basis of the suction air pressure, and preventing wrong diagnosis. A failure diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas recirculation system consists of a fresh air pressure estimating means 2911 for calculating an estimated fresh air pressure inside a suction pipe from the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, an actual EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) gas pressure estimating means 2914 for estimating an EGR gas pressure on the basis of a measured suction pipe pressure detected by a suction pipe pressure detecting means 2911 and an estimated fresh air pressure calculated above, and a failure judging means 2910 for judging the failure on the basis of the estimated EGR gas pressure and the detected operating condition.

Abstract: To provide a failure diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas recirculation system which is capable of eliminating the influence of various disturbance factors that vary the suction air pressure, diagnosing a failure of the exhaust gas recirculation system on the basis of the suction air pressure, and preventing wrong diagnosis. A failure diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas recirculation system consists of a fresh air pressure estimating means 2911 for calculating an estimated fresh air pressure inside a suction pipe from the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, an actual EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) gas pressure estimating means 2914 for estimating an EGR gas pressure on the basis of a measured suction pipe pressure detected by a suction pipe pressure detecting means 2911 and an estimated fresh air pressure calculated above, and a failure judging means 2910 for judging the failure on the basis of the estimated EGR gas pressure and the detected operating condition.

Abstract: A force detecting load cell, which is designed to be a direct replacement for existing anchor pins, is used as the load-bearing member and measuring and diagnostic device in brake systems. The working dimensions of the cell and the parts replaced are the same, except that the cell has short zones of decreased diameter so that strains are concentrated in these zones. Electrical strain gages are positioned within these zones with connections to exterior measuring and monitoring instrumentation. The arrangement and orientation of the gages in the concentrating zones permit measurement of the applied brake loads both as to magnitude and direction, which the vehicle having the brake system is being operated and moving, i.e., being driven.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the volume of a fluid passing through a container comprises container motion detection means which detection means is operable to detect motion of the container, and processing means operable to determine the volume of fluid flowing through the container, based on output of the container motion detection means.

Abstract: A float-type liquid level gauge assembly is provided for measuring the level of a liquid in a tank. The liquid level gauge includes a gear housing for efficiently coupling the gears and accurately assembling and aligning certain components; a movable pivot arm assembly supporting a float arm assembly; and a gear on the pivot arm assembly coupled with a pinion gear located in the gear housing. The pinion gear has a shaped passageway which accepts a similarly shaped drive shaft. A single piece magnetic cap, which defines a bore correspondingly shaped to accept the shaped drive shaft such that it will not rotate relative to the drive shaft, is installed on the drive shaft. The drive shaft and the magnetic cap each include a positioning feature, such that when the positioning feature of the drive shaft engages the positioning feature of the magnetic cap, the magnetic cap is properly aligned with a magnet in a dial assembly.

Abstract: An accelerometer. A silicon wafer is etched to form a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a resilient coupling between, the fixed and movable portions generally arranged in the plane of the wafer, the mass of the movable portion being concentrated on one side of the resilient coupling. One of the fixed and moveable portions of the silicon structure includes a first electrode. The other of the fixed and moveable portions includes a second electrode oriented parallel to the axis of acceleration, and an electrically-conductive layer electrically connected as a third electrode coplanar and mechanically coupled with the second electrode. The second and third electrodes are arranged in capacitive opposition to the first electrode, the capacitance between the first electrode and third electrode increasing as the movable portion moves in a direction along the axis of acceleration relative to the fixed portion and decreasing as the movable portion moves in an opposite direction.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor includes a piezoelectric single-plate having a weight part and a detection part. The piezoelectric single-plate is, for example, an X-cut plate of LiNbO3.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of measuring the mass of a test specimen located in a microgravity environment. The test specimen is attached to the free end of a cantilevered spring for joint vibration. The natural frequency of vibration of the spring and specimen are measured. The spring constant is calculated and compared with known masses having the same frequency and spring constant. When a match is found, the mass of the test specimen is known.

Abstract: A method of identifying a rotating bearing defect comprising the includes of: measuring the vibration of the rotating bearing to obtain a waveform signal; filtering the waveform signal to remove unwanted signal frequencies; enveloping the filtered waveform signal to obtain an enveloped low frequency time waveform; and synchronizing the enveloped low frequency time waveform to the running speed of the rotating bearing to obtain a time synchronized waveform.