Abstract: A hold-down for securing first and second support members in a portion of a building to an anchoring device extending from another portion of the building. The hold-down may include a first flange having securement apertures therethrough configured to receive fasteners adapted to secure the first flange to the first support member. A second flange may have securement apertures configured to receive fasteners adapted to secure the second flange to the second support member. A base may connect the first and second flanges and have an aperture sized and positioned to receive the anchoring device therethrough. The first and second flanges may be configured to be loaded substantially exclusively in tension by the anchoring device.

Abstract: A method and system for installing an insulated concrete wall includes insulation panels placed in an upright manner. Generally T-shaped wall studs are placed next to the insulation panels such that the front section of the wall stud is on the outside of the insulation panels and an anchoring section of the wall stud extends beyond the insulation panels into the gap into which concrete will later be poured. Concrete pouring forms are placed so as to render the gap into which concrete will be poured a desired thickness. The wall stud may also include slots for receiving cross-ties that secure the concrete pouring forms in proper position and retaining nubs that prevent the insulation panels from floating when concrete is poured. Concrete is then poured into the gap, surrounding the anchoring section the T-shaped wall stud.

Abstract: Brick material building element and method of building with the element, wherein the brick material building element includes a base having a length, a first side, a second side, an inner surface, and an outer surface, whereby a width is defined by a distance between the first side and the second side. A longitudinal protrusion is formed on the first side of the base. A longitudinal recess is formed on the second side of the base. A main protrusion extends from the base. The main protrusion has a surface which is shorter than the length of the base. At least one longitudinal through opening is disposed in at least one of the base and the main protrusion. The longitudinal protrusion includes an external shape which is complementary to and adapted to fit within the longitudinal recess of another brick material building element.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive trim component/article. Extrusion is utilized to provide a colored and/or metallized sheet. The sheet is vacuum-formed into a three-dimensionally shaped preform or base structure. At least one mounting structure (e.g., formed by small-scale injection molding tooling) is vibration welded to a surface of the preform in order to form the automotive trim component. The invention is applicable to trim components such as bodyside molding, body panels, wheel covers, pillars, and the like.

Abstract: A wall protector includes a retainer that is adapted to be attached to a building wall and a cover of an impact resistant thermoplastic polymeric material in the form of a thin web of suitable cross-section attached to the retainer portion of the retainer. The cover includes at least one substantially straight portion of substantially uniform cross section along its length and having a face portion overlying the retainer and an integral transition portion that is integral with the straight portion has an end wall that curves smoothly away from the face portion of the straight portion from a rounded juncture with the face portion and overlies and conceals the end of the retainer. The integral transition portion may be configured as an end cap or a wall return piece that forms a transition between the straight portion and a wall surface or as a corner piece that joins sections of wall protectors mounted on walls that intersect at a corner.

Abstract: A system for laying and leveling a tile walking surface, i.e. indoor floor or outdoor patio or pathway, where the system relies upon the use of inserts embedded within the adhesive for securing the tile. A preferred insert is a single plastic member, preferably circular in configuration, and contains plural through openings for receiving and securing the insert into the adhesive. Optionally, removable space dividers may be provided where the space dividers are initially positioned in the openings for spacing adjacent tiles, then removed to allow grouting of the spaces. Alternately, the insert may be a two-piece member that can be vertically adjusted where needed to ensure a level substrate and hence a level walking surface.

Abstract: A medication dispensing apparatus of the present invention contains a plurality of different kinds of medication separately, dispenses the medicament to pack them into package belt, and discharges the package belt. The medication dispensing apparatus comprises a cutting device for cutting the package belt into short package belt including at least one medication package for specified period in accordance with prescription data, a stacking device for stacking the short package belts and a bundling device for bundling the stacked short package belts. According to the medication dispensing apparatus, it is possible to cut off medication packages and empty packages from the package belt automatically and rapidly, reducing medication distributing job in a hospital. The medication dispensing apparatus is applicable to a medicament collecting system comprising a tray feed station, a medication dispensing station and a tray recovering station.

Abstract: An item handling system that sorts and packs items in a storage or shipping receptacle. The system is specifically designed to handle items such as sub-primal cuts of beef or pork or items of like size and weight. The system is adapted to sort items based on product type or based on system capacity. The packing mechanism is adapted to properly orient the item prior to placing the item in the storage or shipping receptacle. The system is specifically adapted to handle cardboard shipping boxes.

Abstract: A film clamping mechanism for use in connection with film wrapping apparatus comprises a pair of film clamping fingers or members which are movable between first and second CLOSED and OPENED states for respectively clamping and releasing a leading end portion of a wrapping film, and between first and second RAISED and LOWERED states for respectively clamping the leading end portion of the wrapping film at the commencement of the film wrapping operation and for maintaining the leading end portion of the wrapping film during the film wrapping operation.

Abstract: Methods of forming a thermoformed recloseable flat package for a pill-like product are provided. A first enclosure portion having a closing member is first operably engaged with a second enclosure portion so as to form an enclosure for containing the product therein. One or more components of a locking mechanism are then formed, following formation of the enclosure, wherein the locking mechanism generally comprises a first component operably engaging the closing member and a cooperable second component operably engaging the second enclosure portion. The components of the locking mechanism are further configured to be separable so as to allow separation thereabout of the closing member from the second enclosure portion to thereby define the recloseable package capable of selectively allowing the product to be extracted from the enclosure.

Abstract: A device and a method for continuously manufacturing foam cushions for packaging purposes. The device comprising a supply station and a foam dispensing station, said supply station being provided for continuously supplying to the dispensing station a web of envelope forming material positioned in a face to face relationship so as to form a folded-over edge. The dispensing station comprising a dispensing member provided for supplying a foaming substance into said envelope forming material. The device further transporting said material through said dispensing station according to a substantially horizontal direction and comprises a guiding and clamping unit provided for guiding said edge along said direction and clamping said material over a predetermined stroke extending from said edge in a direction substantially perpendicular to said direction.

Abstract: A method of producing hinged-lid packets of cigarettes on a continuous automatic machine, whereby a blank is closed about a group of cigarettes, the blank having a longitudinal axis, a rear panel, first tabs connected to the rear panel, and second and third tabs connected to the first tabs; the method providing for feeding the blank continuously along a given path with the axis of the blank crosswise to the path; and folding the first tabs with respect to the rear panel so that the second and third tabs are so positioned as to be intercepted by fixed folding devices located along the path.

Abstract: Method for transferring products from a manufacturing unit to a packaging unit, comprising at least the phases of feeding a determined quantity of said product coming from said manufacturing unit, preventing contact between the product and the external environment, inside a hermetic containment case comprising a sealing opening and, respectively, closing stopper, located in correspondence with a station for filling a first loading device, transferring pneumatically and along a first determined route said full case from said first loading device to a station for receiving a second off-loading device, through first sealed pneumatic transfer means able to connect pneumatically, preventing contact between the case and the external environment, said first loading device to said second off-loading device, off-loading said determined quantity of said product from said case inside said packaging unit preventing contact between the product and the external environment.

Abstract: A packaging device is provided for packaging at least one disc-shaped item such as a recording media together with other materials in a stacked relationship. The packaging device comprises a first member having a center column for its upper portion and a means for receiving and retaining the other materials as its lower portion, which first member is slidably inserted through the opening of and into the chamber of an elongated second member. A cover is provided to close the opening of the second member, thereby sealing the contents of both members. A central support structure for the disc media acts in combination with the annular opening at the center of the disc media so as to allow the disc media to rotate, while limiting the linear movement of the disc media. A method is further provided for packaging such disc-shaped item and other material within the packaging device.

Abstract: An apparatus for sorting and packaging articles includes: a pair of distributing conveyors which are respectively translated and convey articles; a pair of primary accommodating mechanisms each adapted to accommodate in a row articles distributed and released from each of the distributing conveyors; a pair of standby accommodating mechanisms each adapted to accommodate by types of groups of transferred articles in one or more groups those groups of articles which are each transferred collectively from each of the primary accommodating mechanisms; a pair of transferring mechanisms each adapted to receive the group of articles from each of the standby accommodating mechanisms; and a common filling mechanism for filling the groups of articles received from each of the transferring mechanisms into a predetermined container.

Abstract: A device for the rapid packaging of various meat products includes at least four bagging chutes that are fed by a rotary chute. Once bags located at the bottom of the bagging chute are filled with a meat product, they are placed on a conveyor belt. The device is designed in such a manner so as to prevent meat products from accidentally falling onto the ground and thus wasting.

Abstract: A drawing frame comprising, starting from a main frame (1), a sliding frame consisting of several actuators (20, 22, 23) arranged in a straight position on the elements drawing the sheath (5). The various actuators (20, 22, 23) are guided by slide rails (13, 14) and in particular by a pair of dihedral structures (7) for example, comprising beams (10, 12) and slides mobile by the effect of the various actuators. The drawing frame can advantageously be installed on a machine used for making silos, for sheathing fodder bales for example.

Abstract: A lawn mower including a frame, an engine having an electrical system and attached to the frame, a mower deck assembly connected to the frame and having a rotating blade selectively engaged with the engine, a reversible transmission driven by the engine and having a shift mechanism having forward and reverse positions, a switch in electrical communication with the electrical system and mower deck assembly, and a solenoid attached to the transmission, in electrical communication with the switch, and having a plunger. The plunger has an extended position when the switch is in its first position and the blade engages the engine, wherein the plunger blocks movement of the shift mechanism into its reverse position, and a retracted position when the switch is in its second position and the blade disengages the engine, wherein the plunger does not block movement of the shift mechanism into its reverse position.

Abstract: A hydraulic drive apparatus for powering mechanical components of a pull-type implement, such as a crop harvesting unit, having an elongated extending hitching arm for pivotal attachment to a powered vehicle provided with a power take-off shaft. The drive apparatus includes a hydraulic pump for attachment to the hitching arm, a mechanical drive shaft for operation of the hydraulic pump upon attachment of the drive shaft to the power take-off shaft of the powered vehicle, and connections for hydraulic fluid lines for delivery and return of hydraulic fluid to and from a hydraulic motor for operation of the mechanical components of the pull-type crop harvester. The apparatus may include an articulation assembly to isolate the drive for the pump from movements between the hitching arm and the vehicle.

Abstract: A zero-turning-radius power lawn mower for operation by a standing-occupant includes first and second independently driven and controlled rear drive wheels mounted on separate drive axles. A riding platform for supporting the standing-occupant or operator is located between the first and second rear drive wheels. The rear drive wheels are independently driveable in both the forward and reverse directions at variable speeds so as to allow for substantially zero-radius-turning of the mower about a central turning point. The riding platform is positioned at this turning point so that the standing-occupant remains substantially unaffected by centrifugal force created during approximate zero-radius-turning of the mower thereby allowing the mower to take such turns at higher speeds.

Abstract: A mowing machine having a four-wheel drive mechanism, together with a mowing unit below the machine body. The mowing machine has an engine in front or at the rear of the traveling machine body, a transmission case close to the engine, and the four-wheel drive mechanism for allowing driving front and rear wheels by transmitting drive force from the transmission case to rear and front axle cases, wherein a remote transmission part for transmitting the drive force to the axle case located more remote from the transmission case in the four-wheel drive mechanism is formed in an upwardly bent or curved shape, and a space for placing the mowing unit is provided below the remote transmission part. The mowing unit is provided below the traveling machine body movably upwards or downwards, and an expansion shaft expansible in an axial core direction is used to transmit the drive force from the engine to the mowing unit.

Abstract: A running device for a trailer type machine and in particular a pick-up, arranged at each end thereof. The device includes at least a front wheel (43) and a rear wheel (37) whereof the axles are made integral with at least a frame member (31, 33) linked to the machine body (5) which is mounted rotating relative to the body (5) thereof about an axis (xx′, 23) parallel to that of the wheels (37, 43).

Abstract: An actuating cylinder assembly includes a cylinder adapted to contain a fluid, such as hydraulic fluid or air, a piston shaft movable with respect to the cylinder in response to the removal of fluid from the cylinder and the injection of fluid into the cylinder, and a cylinder stop including a handle portion and a clamping portion releasably engaging the piston shaft, the clamping portion resisting movement of the piston shaft with respect to the cylinder past a selected point. The actuating cylinder assembly used, for example, on a riding lawnmower to set a selected minimum cutting height. Once the cylinder stop is set on the piston shaft, the cutting deck may be raised to avoid obstacles and then quickly lowered to the selected cutting height.

Abstract: A tip for the leading end of a crop divider of a combine corn head comprises a tip body of a durable low friction polymer which covers the snoot of the crop divider to reduce the incidents of clogging of the combine head as the head is advanced through the crop.

Abstract: An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments which are attached and woven onto a frame forming woven panels. Subsequent to the weaving and attachment process, the completed article is placed in an oven to heat set the resulting woven material. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and then heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polymer filaments is achieved by heating to about the softening temperature or above of the polymer material.

Abstract: A fuel nozzle, comprising an inlet for receiving fuel and an outlet for discharging fuel. The outlet intersects a longitudinal centerline of the nozzle and produces a skewed spray pattern. A fuel injector having a fuel nozzle outlet such that a fluid discharged from a swirler produces a crescent-shaped spray pattern in the fuel. A burner section of a gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber and fuel injectors. At least one of the fuel injectors produces a skewed flame pattern in the combustion chamber that overlaps with a flame pattern from an adjacent fuel injector. A method of improving stability of a flame in a burner section of a gas turbine engine in which at least one of the fuel injectors produces a skewed flame pattern in the burner section to create a fuel non-uniformity, the flame pattern also overlapping with an adjacent flame pattern.

Abstract: A thrust reverser system for a jet engine has a thrust reverser sleeve lock, preferably for each thrust reverser sleeve, that provides at least one of the redundant anti-deployment mechanisms of the thrust reverser. The thrust reverser sleeve lock has a lock pin that engages a thrust reverser sleeve when the thrust reverser sleeve is in a stowed position and the thrust reverser sleeve lock is in a lock position to prevent the thrust reverser sleeve from deploying. In an embodiment of the invention, the thrust reverser sleeve lock includes an single-action hydraulically actuated actutor to which the lock pin is affixed, the actuator extending the lock pin through a lock hole in the thrust reverser sleeve when the thrust reverser sleeve is in its stowed position and the thrust reverser sleeve lock is in a lock position.

Abstract: A thrust reverser actuator lock mechanism comprising a rotatable shaft, rotation of which in one direction from a rest position drives an associated thrust reverser from a stowed position towards an operative position in use, retractable abutment means having a rest position abutting an element rotatable with the shaft to prevent rotation of the shaft, resilient means urging said abutment means to said rest position, and, mechanical latch means sensitive to the speed of rotation of said shaft for latching said abutment means in a retracted position against the action of said resilient means when the rotational speed of said shaft exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine (1), especially of a motor vehicle, is described which is provided with a combustion chamber (4) into which fuel can be injected in a first operating mode during a compression phase and in a second operating mode during an induction phase. An exhaust-gas pipe (8) is provided in which a catalytic converter (12) is mounted. The engine (1) is provided with an exhaust-gas recirculation from the exhaust-gas pipe (8) to an intake manifold (7). A control apparatus (18) is provided for controlling (open loop and/or closed loop) operating variables of the engine (1). The exhaust-gas recirculation rate of the exhaust-gas recirculation is controllable (open loop and/or closed loop) by the control apparatus (18), inter alia, in dependence upon the temperature of the catalytic converter (12).

Abstract: A device and a method for detecting ammonia, especially for detecting an NH3 slip emission in a catalytic converter arrangement, a gas, especially an exhaust gas of a lean-mixture-driven internal combustion engine, being supplied to an SCR catalytic converter via a first gas supply device, and ammonia being supplied via a second gas supply device. The device includes a first arrangement, especially an oxidation catalytic converter, which prior to the supplying of the gas to the SCR catalytic converter, initially at least substantially oxidizes the oxidizable gas components contained in the gas. Emerging gas from the SCR catalytic converter is analyzed by a second arrangement, especially a gas sensor, with respect to the oxidizable components contained in it. The gas sensor may detect oxidizable gas components, including in a non-selective manner, and is connected via a processing unit and a control unit to a dosing system, which regulates the supply of ammonia.

Abstract: A platinum group metal three-way conversion catalyst composition containing a high temperature catalytic component and a low temperature catalytic component has each catalytic component present as separate distinct particles in the same washcoat layer. The catalyst composition is prepared from a washcoat slurry containing a high temperature catalyst support material, and a low temperature catalyst support material, each support material being of sufficiently large particle size so as to prevent each support material forming a solution or a sol with the liquid medium of the slurry. The platinum group metal or metals can be impregnated into each support material either after formation of the washcoat on a non-porous refractory, metallic or palletized substrate or before forming the washcoat slurry.

Abstract: A method and a system for treating an internal combustion engine exhaust gas using a hydrocarbons as fuel. The internal combustion engine exhaust gas contains particulates and toxic substances. Such particulates and toxic substances being liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and Nox. The system uses carbon dioxide to interact with the exhaust gas. The carbon dioxide is stored within a container at its triple state. The carbon dioxide and the exhaust gas are conducted through an emission exchanger. The exhaust gas is scrubbed or cleaned by the carbon dioxide and the hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, Nox, and particulate emissions are carried away by a carbon dioxide gas stream. The cleaned exhaust gas can be discharged into the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide gas stream can be cleaned by passing the same through separator components which remove the pollutants therefrom.

Abstract: A device and a method for exhaust gas purification in a combustion engine comprises an arrangement (30) for recirculating exhaust gases from the engine (1) to an air intake (2) thereof. An exhaust gas purification arrangement (31) is adapted to convert constituents in the exhaust gases to less environmentally hazardous substances. A filter arrangement (32) comprises at least one filter (33) adapted to liberate the exhaust gases from particulate constituents. This filter (33) is adapted to purify EGR-exhaust gases only. According to another aspect of the invention, 2 the filter (33) is aged in heat transferring relation to at least one convener unit (34) of the exhaust gas purification arrangement so as to receive, from the convener unit, a heat addition to promote regeneration of the filter by combustion of paniculate constituents deposited therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a double pipe exhaust manifold having an inner pipe, a mesh spacer member applied to the outer periphery of the inner pipe, and an outer pipe being disposed around the outer periphery of the mesh spacer member in a state that the outer pipe is axially slidable at least to the inner pipe, wherein the outer pipe is divided into two pipe members, and one side end of one of the divided pipe members is put on the corresponding one of the other of the divided pipe members as radially viewed, and the other side end of the divided pipe member is put on the corresponding one of the latter divided pipe member, and the overlapping portions are welded together.

Abstract: The invention creates a vehicle pneumatics overpressure regulating circuit 1 of a supply device of a pneumatic consumer 5 in a vehicle with an operating pressure. The overpressure circuit 1 has a compressed air source 3, which furnishes compressed air for the consumer 5; a pressure switch 8, by means of which the compressed air source 3 is turned on and/or off to supply the consumer 5 with compressed air; and a supply line 4, by way of which compressed air can be carried from the compressed air source 3 to the consumer 5. The pressure switch 8 can be subjected to a measured pressure via a pneumatic measurement line 7, which is separate from the supply line, and this measured pressure characterizes a state of the operating pressure of the consumer. As a result, extremely precise regulation of the requisite operating pressure is successfully achieved.

Abstract: There is disclosed a pneumatic booster having a vacuum chamber connected to an intake pipe of an engine. An air outlet of an ejector is connected to the intake pipe through a vacuum control valve, and an air inlet of the ejector is connected to an air cleaner. A vacuum pick-up port of the ejector is connected to the vacuum chamber of a booster body. The vacuum control valve comprises a control chamber and a control piston, and the negative pressure in the booster is introduced into the control chamber and acts on the control piston. When the negative pressure in the booster is insufficient, the control piston acts to open the control valve and a negative pressure is supplied from the ejector to the vacuum chamber. When the negative pressure in the booster is sufficiently high, the control piston acts to close the control valve and stops the operation of the ejector, thus reducing an effect of the ejector with respect to an air/fuel ratio of the engine.

Abstract: An electrically controlled hydraulic actuating system includes a servocontrol including a cylinder, a piston dividing the cylinder into two chambers each provided with a hydraulic connection port, a control valve connected to a hydraulic circuit. A two-way hydraulic pump is driven in rotation by an electric motor driven by power electronics. A switching device allows the connection ports of the chambers to be connected either to the control valve or the pump. The switching device connects the hydraulic connection ports both to the control valve and the pump, so as to allow the servocontrol to be supplied the sum of the hydraulic power delivered by the hydraulic circuit and the hydraulic power generated by the pump actuated by the electric motor.

Abstract: An hydraulic power system having a reversible motor operating a pump to deliver liquid under pressure to operate an actuator mechanism, where the motor is submerged within the liquid inside a reservoir. Flow direction of the liquid is controlled by alternating the direction of rotation of the motor and pump.

Abstract: A variable geometry nozzle suitable for a radial turbine in a turbocharger for an internal combustion engine. The turbine inlet, turbine outlet or both include a vane assembly having a housing and an adjustable cartridge movable in the housing. Each cartridge has vanes having a plurality of vane sections. Each vane section provides a vane geometry different than the vane geometries of the other vane sections.

Abstract: A fresh air amount of an engine (1) is controlled by a variable nozzle (53) of a turbocharger (50). A controller (41) calculates an open loop control value of a drive signal of a variable nozzle (53) based on the running state of the engine (1). A target intake fresh air amount of the engine (1) is calculated based on the running state, and a processing value obtained by smoothing the target intake fresh air amount value is calculated (S132). A feedback control value of the drive signal is calculated so that a real intake fresh air amount coincides with the processing value (S367). The variable nozzle (53) is controlled based on the open loop value and feedback control value. By using the processing value as the target value of the feedback control, unstable factors in feedback control resulting from the time delay from operation of the variable nozzle (53) to change of the intake fresh air amount aspirated by the engine (1), are eliminated.

Abstract: An engine-turbocharger unit for a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, having an internal combustion engine; a decompression brake device; and a turbocharger in turn having a variable-geometry turbine driven by the exhaust gas from the engine, and a compressor driven by the turbine and connected at the outlet to an intake manifold of the engine; the unit also has a throttling device located on the outlet side of the turbine and settable between a fully-open attitude and a closed attitude; the variable-geometry turbine and the throttling device are jointly controlled, thereby allowing independent control of the exhaust manifold pressure of the combustion engine and of the expansion ratio of the turbine.

Abstract: A control strategy for a gas turbine engine which exchanges future lifetime of the engine for present thrust. Gas turbine engines, such as those used in aircraft, sometimes incur damage, as when they ingest birds, or are struck with ballistic objects fired by an enemy. The invention detects the damage, and invokes a control strategy wherein the engine is operated in a more harsh manner, thereby sacrificing a significant part of the remaining lifetime of the engine, in order to obtain thrust currently.

Abstract: A premix burner arrangement with catalytic combustion provides a fuel/air mixture to a combustion chamber of a gas turbine arrangement. The premix burner arrangement includes a premix burner, at least one fuel addition unit, and air inlet openings arranged in such a way that at least one of gaseous and liquid fuel can be mixed with combustion inlet air inside the premix burner to form a fuel/air mixture. The fuel/air mixture exits from the premix burner downstream in the direction towards a combustion chamber positioned after the premix burner arrangement and can be ignited inside the combustion chamber. A catalyzer unit is provided before the entrance of the fuel/air mixture into the combustion chamber. Part of the fuel/air mixture can be introduced into and passed through the catalyzer unit before the catalyzed part of the fuel/air mixture flows together with the remaining portion of the fuel/air mixture into the combustion chamber.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the cooling of the casing (1) of the turbines (2, 3) of jet engines, in which cooling air is diverted from a bypass flow and supplied to the outer side of the casing via an inlet duct (8) provided with a shut-off element (5). According to the present invention, the cooling air is supplied to a first chamber (6) in which it is divided by volume. One portion of the cooling air is issued to the casing (1) via orifice holes (10), while another portion is ducted via several tubes (9) to a second chamber (7) which annularly encloses the casing (1) in the area of a low-pressure turbine (3).

Abstract: An improved thermoelectric power generation system utilizes rotary thermoelectric configurations to improve and increase thermal power throughput. These systems are further enhanced by the use of hetrostructure thermoelectric materials, very thin plated materials, and deposited thermoelectric materials, which operate at substantially higher power densities than typical of the previous bulk materials. Several configurations are disclosed.

Abstract: A spaced saving fruit chiller is adapted to be mounted under a covered or horizontal surface or placed in a corner on a counter. The interior of the container is cooled by a forced air flow utilizing a Peltier thermoelectric device, one wall of the container forming a wall of the air flow duct system and containing both the air inlet holes to the container and the air outlet holes from the container into the duct system.

Abstract: A cryogenic cooling system is configured to control the flow of a heat transfer fluid through a remote thermal load, such as a superconducting magnet or rotor. The cryogenic cooling system includes a refrigerator including a cryogenically cooled surface and a cryogenic fluid transport device disposed for circulating a heat transfer fluid between the cryogenically cooled surface and the remote thermal load. The cryogenic fluid transport device advantageously serves as device for providing the necessary mechanical force necessary to move the heat transfer fluid from the cryogenically cooled surface (e.g., end of a cryocooler) to the remote thermal load. Thus, unlike conventional cooling arrangements the heat transfer fluid does not require a phase change.

Abstract: A frozen beverage machine includes a mixing block having a plurality of inlets and an outlet coupled to a freezing chamber. The freezing chamber has a drain valve and a dispensing valve coupled thereto. Beverage ingredients are pumped into corresponding ingredient inlets of the mixing block such that the ingredients are mixed in the mixing block to form a product mixture, and the product mixture flows from the mixing block outlet into the freezing chamber. The freezing chamber and the mixing block are refrigerated. The product mixture is drained from the freezing chamber via the drain valve, and a cleaning solution is pumped into a cleaning solution inlet of the mixing block and into the freezing chamber. The cleaning solution is drained from the freezing chamber via the drain valve.

Abstract: If a refrigerant leaks from an interior heat exchanger, an outside air mode is switched ON, and a first bypass channel is opened to supply air, not having passed through the interior heat exchanger, to a passenger compartment through a defroster opening portion, while also supplying air, having passed through the internal heat exchanger, to the passenger compartment through a foot opening portion. Consequently, air having passed through the first bypass channel and thereby containing a considerable quantity of outside air free from the leaked refrigerant is supplied to the upper side of the passenger compartment, while air having passed through the interior heat exchanger and thereby containing the leaked refrigerant is supplied to the lower side of the passenger compartment, which makes it possible to prevent driver inhalation of the refrigerant.

Abstract: Device for detecting a risk of misting of a motor-vehicle window, and installation including such a device. Measurements are taken and associated with chosen models giving access to an average temperature (on the surface) of the window, for instance the windscreen, and to a dew temperature of the air in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. A comparison between the two temperatures represents a risk of misting of the window.