Abstract: An organizer which includes a plurality of holders for holding recording media such as disposable cards. A first holder has a first upper edge and a second holder has a second upper edge and a second lower edge. The second holder is disposed behind the first holder and attached thereto at the second lower edge so that the second upper edge is above the first upper edge. The first holder and second holder are movable with respect to each other about the second lower edge. A method for organizing information includes recording information on a plurality of items of a disposable recording medium in accordance with categories of information, each item corresponding to one category and one subcategory; and arranging those items in the organizer including removing and/or inserting the items.

Abstract: Two embodiments of a connector that can be mated without regard for its orientation are disclosed. One embodiment is mated and demated autonomously as part of a system for recovering, docking with, recharging and re-launching unmanned aerial vehicles. Another embodiment is employed on the decks of vessels to facilitate mating and demating of various equipment providing different functions to reconfigure the vessel. Because both embodiments are configured for connection irrespective of angular orientation over 360°, they are especially suited for harsh environments including autonomous operation, rough seas, darkness and the like.

Abstract: A folding mechanism includes a first folding member having a first beveled joint face provided with a locating hole, and first and second lugs symmetrically provided below the first beveled joint face; and a second folding member having a second beveled joint face internally provided with a receiving space for receiving a locating element and a spring therein. A third lug is provided below the second joint face, so that a shaft may be extended through shaft holes on the first, second, and third lugs. When the first and second folding members are assembled with a right angle contained between them, the locating element is upward projected from the locating hole to hold the two folding members in place; and when the locating element is pushed out of the locating hole, the first folding member can be pivotally turned about the shaft to parallel the second folding member.

Abstract: A coupling assembly includes a body and an insert. The insert is introduced into the body to create fluid tight connection therebetween. Overmold seals can be formed in both the body and the insert. In addition, overmold joints can be formed to attach various components of the coupling assembly. A recessed sealing surface on the insert can be used.

Abstract: A multi-stage fastening structure comprises an extension rod, a plurality of locking devices, and two fastening devices. A lateral retaining plate is formed at each end of the extension rod. A first flange and a second flange having different outer diameters from each other are formed on each of the locking devices. Each of the fastening devices comprises a sliding plate and a fastener. The sliding plate comprises: a locking part formed by bending the sliding plate; a trench formed on the sliding plate; a track mounted on each side of the trench; and a plurality of through holes formed on the sliding plate in front of the trench. The fastener comprises: a slideway on each side; an inward retaining plate on one edge of the fastener; a fingerboard on the other edge of the fastener; and a locking pawl formed on the bottom of the fastener near the fingerboard.

Abstract: The present invention provides a linear locking set screw system capable of rapid linear engagement and disengagement. More specifically, the system utilizes a threaded outwardly expandable set screw and an expander member which are constructed and arranged to thread easily into a threaded aperture while in a first release position and can thereafter be securely locked in place and/or provide a secondary clamping force in a second engaged position. In this manner, the linear fastener system is capable of providing a precise, secure, and reproducible connection between multiple components without the need to apply rotational torque to the assembly.

Abstract: The invention includes a paved surface configured for reducing tire noise and increasing tire traction on the paved surface and to a method and apparatus for manufacturing such a paved surface. The paved surface includes grooves in the traffic bearing surface that are substantially neither transverse nor parallel to the intended direction of traffic.

Abstract: The invention relates to a soil compacting system which comprises a travelling and steerable soil compacting device and a control device. The control device is provided with an area definition device which allows a user to establish an area to be compacted and the area boundaries. A position detecting device detects the actual position of the soil compacting device. A traveler changes the direction of travel of the soil compacting device by presetting a standard value for a travelling movement of the soil compacting device in such manner that the soil compacting device does not travel past the respective area boundary but continues its travel within the area. A path planning device may be provided for fixing a presetting for a travel way which makes sure that the soil compacting device, when keeping to the preset travel way, travels at least once completely across the area to be compacted.

Abstract: A marine pier system employing a payload transport device for transporting persons and material from land to marine craft moored at a distal end of the pier. The payload transport is a movable deck having an electric motor powered by batteries for use in moving the deck and persons/material placed on the deck. The payload transport device is self-contained allowing freedom of movement along a support system eliminating the necessity for decking along the length of the pier. The absence of decking provides a structure upon which wind and wave action and deterioration from sunlight and weathering has little destructive effect, and further allows sunlight to reach the aquatic life below the surface of the water. The movable transport device further permits sunlight to reach all areas of sea grass that are shaded by movement of the transport device to a non-sensitive area when not in use.

Abstract: An improved water retention/detention system is provided which is comprised of a chamber formed by stabilized porous perimeter means and a roof, with support means within the chamber, and a liner effective to prevent particulates from passing into said chamber and porous perimeter means.

Abstract: An icebreaker main body 16 in which an expandable/shrinkable film body 18 is fixed, by fittings, to a wall surface 14 of a canal 10 is provided near a gate. When an ice 36 is formed in the vicinity of the surface of water 34 of the canal 10, air is supplied from a compressor 32 into the expandable/shrinkable film body 18 to inflate the expandable/shrinkable film body 18. The ice 36 is crashed due to a pressure applied from the inflating expandable/shrinkable film body 18, whereby the gate can be opened/closed smoothly.

Abstract: Compositions in accordance with the principles of the present invention comprise a compressed mixture of fibrous organic materials and multi-valent metals used to remove organic chemical contaminants. The compositions are made into a pre-shaped, compressed form used to form a permeable reactive barrier for decontamination of soils, sediments, sludges, and waters containing environmental pollutants. The compressed mixture, comprising the fibrous organic particles and one or more multivalent metallic particles, is formed into reactive pellets, granules, and other pre-shaped structures for use in constructing a reactive barrier, typically for use in a contaminated environment or in an industrial process. By way of example, the pre-shaped structure may be used to construct a reactive barrier to remove halogenated organic chemical contaminants, nitroaromatic organic contaminants, or certain inorganic contaminants from various terrestrial and aquatic based ecosystems.

Abstract: The surface of rock or soil, newly-exposed, for example, by tunnelling, and having the tendency to become friable on exposure to the atmosphere, can be protected by forming thereon a film by the process of combining on the surface at least one coagulable material and a coagulating agent therefor. The preferred coagulable material is an aqueous polymer dispersion, preferably one which has some degree of elastomeric properties, and preferably one which additionally is anionically stabilised.

Abstract: An apparatus for immovably attaching or holding objects to a vehicle, trailer, platform or the like. The apparatus comprises at least two rails. Each rail is fixed and attached to the vehicle or the like, each rail having a channel that runs most of or all the length of the rail. The apparatus further includes at least one attachment device, the attachment device received by the channel of one of the rails, two projections of the rail constraining the attachment device to slide within the rail, whereby the attachment device attaches or secures an object to the rail. The attachment device is made and configured to slide within the one rail, and also configured to be immovably fixed at a desired position within the one rail by operating a locking mechanism that is part of the attachment device. In a preferred embodiment, the locking mechanism comprises cams that wedge against the projections of the rail.

Abstract: A computed tomography assembly is provided comprising at least one clamped imaging component and a clamping fastener having a clamping head attached thereto. A load-sensing washer is positioned between the clamping head and the at least one clamped imaging component and includes a pressure sensor element in communication with a wireless transmitter transmitting a fastener load value. A wireless receiver is adapted to remotely receive the fastener load value and a processor in communication with the wireless receiver includes logic adapted to monitor the fastener load value in real time.

Abstract: A structure having space reserved for gel overflow of an electronic product is provided on a casing of the electronic product. The structure includes a fastening portion and an overflow valley, wherein the fastening portion is used for combining a screwing component to assemble a casing of the electronic product; and the overflow valley is provided in an inner rim of the fastening portion for depositing hot gel therein generated when combining the screwing component. As a result, the interference between the screwing component and the casing can be prevented.

Abstract: A bolt coupling device which has a body with a chamber, an inlet and an outlet. The coupling device includes a coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism includes a threaded surface along a bolt receiving channel. The coupling device includes a spring member that urges the threaded surfaces toward a first axis, and a cam member between two coupling segments which is rotatable. The cam member separates the first and second coupling segments to increase the dimension of the bolt receiving channel to selectively engage and disengage a bolt. The cam member can be positioned along a second axis which is parallel to the first axis or perpendicular to the first axis.

Abstract: A locator/fastener has a first outer member with a precision-machined external body portion, a retention head protruding from a first end, and a multi-diameter throughbore. A fastener, which may take the form of a cap screw, floats in the throughbore of the locator with the threaded portion protruding from a second end of the locator. A receiver has an internal precision-machined surface which contacts the precision-machined body portion of the locator and a threaded bore which receives the protruding fastener. By separating the locating and fastening functions, a quick connect disconnect device is created which does not bind or gall. A hangar system allows a sub-base plate to be attached to a base using the locator-fastener disclosed herein.

Abstract: A self-drilling fastener capable of connecting two or more structural members of a construction under high loads.

Abstract: An anti-disengaged screw device includes a stem member and a nut member. The stem member is composed of a screw rod section and a disk head and a plurality of exertion wedges are disposed on the disk head as an exertion point of a torsion force. The nut member provides an axial hole and a deep countersink for the screw rod section passing through the axial hole and the disk head being received in the countersink. A lock configuration is formed between the circumference of the countersink and the exertion wedges for being inserted and turned with a key arm, which providing wedge recesses and an annular lock head corresponding to the lock configuration, such that it is capable of preventing from being inserted in and turned with an ordinal tool directly and protecting the screw device from being disassembled.

Abstract: A fastener that may be used in the construction of pallets is disclosed. The fastener includes a head having a head diameter, a single elongate shank having a nominal shank diameter, and a plurality of rings extending outwardly from the shank. Each ring has a crest and a root, with the crest being located closer to the head than the root. The fastener has a bending yield strength of about 100 ksi or greater, and a length of between about 0.5 inch and 1.75 inches. The ratio of the head diameter to the nominal shank diameter is between 2.70 and 3.37, and the plurality of rings are formed so that an average outer diameter of the crests of the rings between a middle ring and the head is greater than an average outer diameter of the crests of the rings between the middle ring and the tip.

Abstract: A storage and retrieval system includes a plurality of individual storage units stacked in multiple columns. Each storage unit includes wheels which engage a track for selective movement along the track. Vertical and horizontal actuators are used to move the storage units in sequence. Preferably, the actuators are power-driven, and control circuitry is used to coordinate the movement of the actuators.

Abstract: A rail car loading apparatus includes a flat bed rail car attachable at a front end thereof to a rear end of an adjacent rail car. A front wheel set is mounted under the front end of the flat bed rail car to support the front end of the flat bed rail car on track rails, and a rear wheel set is mounted under a rear end of the flat bed rail car to support the rear end of the flat bed rail car on the track rails. The flat bed rail car is movable from a transport position wherein a top surface thereof is substantially horizontal, to a loading position wherein the top surface thereof is inclined downward from the front end thereof to the rear end thereof. The rear wheels can slide forward to allow the rear end to drop down to the loading position.

Abstract: A system and method for cargo handling is provided. The system includes a transport vehicle including a cargo bay capable of housing a plurality of cargo containers, and a loading dock for coupling to the cargo bay. The system also includes at least one railcar and pylons positioned along a floor of the cargo bay. A predetermined number of pylons are operable to elevate and lower a cargo container within the cargo bay. The present invention also provides a railcar for transporting cargo containers, as well as an apparatus for positioning at least one cargo container within a transport vehicle. The present invention also provides a system for aligning a loading dock and a transport vehicle that includes a mechanism for adjusting the height of the transport vehicle or loading dock, or a plurality of engagement members that are capable of aligning the loading dock and transport vehicle.

Abstract: A conveyor trailer includes a trailer and a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes one or more belts movably mounted in the trailer. At least one bulkhead is connected to the belts. The bulkhead includes a drive assembly. At least one drive element is mounted in the trailer and is configured to engage the drive assembly to move the bulkhead and the belts connected thereto forwardly and/or rearwardly in the trailer.

Abstract: Adapter faceplates that are mountable in an out of the way condition or are removably mounted with the adapter faceplates including a latch member that can be rotated from a latched condition to an unlatched condition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system of shaft sealing for a turbine engine. Carbon-ring seals placed on pressurized bearing compartments are adapted to operate on ceramic runners which are cooled by lubricating fluid. The runners are closed at one end so that fluid does not enter an interface between the runner and the seal. The seal is held in place in a cylindrical seal housing with an inwardly projecting seal retention wall. An internally cooled seal housing is provided having an enclosed annular cooling groove is formed in the wall. Fluid is circulated through the groove to provide cooling of the seal housing and the carbon-ring seal. The circulated fluid is provided from the same source as fluid that is circulated to lubricate bearings on the engine. However, a separately controlled fluid delivery system is employed so that a rate of flow of fluid to the seal housing can be specifically controlled.

Abstract: A cooled shroud assembly for a gas turbine engine having a longitudinal centerline includes at least one arcuate shroud segment surrounding a row of rotating turbine blades. The shroud segment has a forward flange, an aft flange defining an axially-facing aft edge, and an inwardly-facing flowpath surface, and the shroud segment lacks cooling holes for cooling the aft flange or the aft edge. At least one stationary turbine nozzle is disposed axially next to the shroud segment and includes an airfoil-shaped airfoil and an arcuate outer band disposed at a radially outer end of the airfoil and positioned axially adjacent to the shroud. At least one cooling hole is formed in the outer band in fluid communication with a source of cooling air. The cooling hole is positioned so as to direct a flow of cooling air against the shroud segment.

Abstract: A stator assembly for a rotary machine having an array of wall segments for bounding a working medium flow path is disclosed. Various construction details which provide a sealing structure for the segments are developed. In one detailed embodiment, a removable seal retainer for a seal chamber bounded by wall segments traps a resilient seal member in the seal chamber. In one particular embodiment, a modular subassembly for the engine is an outer air assembly disposed in a fixture as the subassembly is assembled.

Abstract: An air induction system for an engine having an improved mechanism for control of an intake door. The system includes a housing having an opening for receiving intake air. A power activated door is pivotable between a closed position wherein the opening is closed and an open position wherein intake air may enter through the opening. Linkages operatively connect an actuator cylinder to the door. The linkages are configured such that movement of the cylinder produces a corresponding rotation of the door which is non-uniform across the cylinder's range of motion. The linkages include first and second bellcranks mounted for pivotal motion, and a link which interconnects the bellcranks. Movement of the cylinder at a first position causes pivoting of the door, while movement at a second position causes substantially no pivoting of the door.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing for axially mounting a rotor of a gas turbine. Said bearing comprises a bearing body that is disposed stationary relative to the position of the rotor, a hydraulic piston arrangement which is accommodated by the bearing body, and a hydraulic system that is fluidically connected to the hydraulic piston- arrangement. In order to create a bearing which also absorbs bearing forces that occur due to high dynamic thrusts of the rotor while ensuring secure mounting of the rotor, a diaphragm is mounted between the hydraulic piston arrangement and the hydraulic system.

Abstract: An apparatus for stabilizing a shaft in an essentially horizontal position while an anchoring object at one end of the shaft is replaced without removal of an object at the opposite end of the shaft that would otherwise tend to destabilize the shaft from its essentially horizontal position includes a half-spool member configured to clamp above and around the shaft to resist torque around the rotor, under supports configured to attach to the half-spool member and clamp an underside of the shaft below the half-spool member, and a hydraulic or mechanical brake configured to resist torque on the shaft when the brake is engaged.

Abstract: A gas turbine, with a fixed inner housing, arranged concentric to the rotor, with a through flow of working medium, is disclosed. The housing comprises at least two serial rings with an annular gap left-between two directly adjacent rings, whereby an annular sealing means is arranged in at least one peripheral groove for sealing the annual gap. According to the invention, a sealing means is provided which permits a greater movement of both components forming the gap, whereby the annual gap is formed by partly overlapping rings, running against the flow direction of the working fluid in the radial sense and the front most of the two rings, in the sense of the flow direction, comprises a locating annular surface for the sealing means embodied as an annular spring element on which the spring element rests under tension such as to seal the annular gap.

Abstract: A bushing for a variable-pitch vane pivot in a turbomachine, the bushing being for mounting in a recess in a ring of the turbomachine, the recess being of a shape that is substantially complementary to the shape of the bushing, the bushing comprising a body that is substantially tubular having a longitudinal axis, and at least three branches extending radially outwards relative to the longitudinal axis of the tubular body, and axially over the full height of said tubular body, said branches being distributed in substantially equidistant manner around the circumference of the tubular body.

Abstract: The attachment according to the invention of a labyrinth seal support (7) to a turbine engine shaft (9) by means of axial bolts (95), said axial bolts also securing a device (93) for driving the turbine module with said shaft, holes (91A) for extracting the drive device (93) with respect to the shaft being provided on the shaft, is characterized in that the labyrinth seal support (7) is tightened onto the shaft (9) into the zone of the extraction holes (91A) by means of tightening screws (100) introduced into the extraction holes (91A).

Abstract: A water pump includes an impeller provided on an end of a rotational shaft supported on a body through a bearing, a mechanical seal provided between the impeller and the bearing, a draining hole guiding a coolant leaked from the impeller side to a reservoir provided at a bottom of the body via the mechanical seal, a vapor outlet provided above the reservoir for establishing communication between the reservoir and the atmosphere, and the draining hole opening to the reservoir at a lower level than the vapor outlet. An axis of the reservoir is offset from a vertical plane which passes through an axis of the rotational shaft.

Abstract: An axial turbine includes a plurality of stages each comprising a plurality of stationary blades arranged in a row along the turbine circumferential direction and a plurality of moving blades in a row parallel to the stationary blades, each of the moving blade being disposed downstream of a respective one of the corresponding stationary blade in a flow direction of a working fluid so as to be opposed to the corresponding stationary blade. Herein, each of the stationary blades is formed so that the intersection line between the outer peripheral portion of the stationary blade constituting a stage having moving blades longer than moving blades in a preceding stage and a plane containing the central axis of the turbine, has a flow path constant diameter portion that includes at least an outlet outer peripheral portion of the stationary blade and that is parallel to the turbine central axis.

Abstract: A rotor for use with a fluid flow generator or reactor, said rotor being rotatable about a central axis of the rotor and having a at least one vane arranged, in use, to induce a generally axial fluid-flow into the central axial region of the rotor and an outward flow from the central axial region of the rotor to the outer periphery of the rotor, wherein the at least one vane comprises a vortex generator adapted to accelerate the fluid away from the central axis of the rotor in a vortical motion.

Abstract: An outer shape of a section in the longitudinal direction at a leading edge of the strut is an aerofoil whose thickness is gradually increased along a flow direction of the combustion gas to prevent reduction of turbine efficiency caused by a shock wave generated at the strut of the exhaust diffuser.

Abstract: An air diffuser for a motor-fan unit having reduced blade passage frequencies, and reduced noise generation, includes a baffle plate, external vanes, internal vanes, diffuser ports, and a central opening. The baffle plate of the diffuser is made integral with the internal and external vanes, such that any leaking, rattling, or pure tone noise that may be generated from air movement over the surface of the diffuser are prevented or reduced. Additionally, the number of internal and external vanes provided by the diffuser is that equal to a prime number, thus resulting in a reduction of harmonic and pure tone noise generated during the operation of the motor-fan unit.

Abstract: A device and method for generating a vortex within an air conduit of an internal combustion engine as well as a method of manufacturing such a device. The device focuses a portion of the air flowing into an air conduit into a number of tightly focused air streams tangent to a circle located concentrically within the lumen of the air conduit at a point downstream from the device. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the device contains a number of blades which are formed into tightly curled, open, truncated cone shapes (i.e. open frustroconical shapes) where the circumference of the curvature of the blade is smallest where the air first meets the blade and increases continuously across the width of the blade. In the preferred embodiment, the blades have rounded edges and extend only partway into the center of the device and are separated from each other by gaps.

Abstract: Rings having holes with a centerline offset from the centerline of the outer diameter, or other diameter piloting feature of the ring (i.e., non-concentric rings) may be used to align rotating components within their static components. Two non-concentric rings may be used to support a bearing that contains a shaft there through to allow for maximum offsets between a desired centerline of the rotating component and an actual, assembled centerline of the rotating component. Adjustment of the rotor centerline relative to the static structure centerline may be obtained without disassembly of the rotor assembly or static structure assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic core used in the manufacture, by lost wax casting, of a turbomachine blade with cooling cavities and a squealer, comprising at least one main core, wherein the main core (10) comprises an element (10B) shaped so as to constitute the squealer and an element (10SB) shaped so as to constitute at least one cavity beneath the squealer, the two elements leaving between them a space (13) shaped so as to constitute, at least in part, the bottom wall of the squealer. In particular, the elements (10B and 10SB) are joined together by ceramic rods (TG).

Abstract: A wall in which there is formed at least one cooling channel, said wall being cooled by cool air flowing in the channel, the channel comprising a hole and a diffusion portion, the hole opening out at one end into the inside surface of the wall, and at its other end into the diffusion portion where it forms an orifice, the diffusion portion flaring around said orifice and opening out into the outside surface of the wall, the diffusion portion having a bottom whose front end is substantially plane, sloping, and extending in front of the orifice, and also having a margin extending behind, round the sides, and in front of the orifice, said margin joining the sides of the front end. A method and an electrode for making such a cooling channel. A turbomachine blade presenting such a wall.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a portable multimedia player which comprises a panel, a base, and an electric swiveling mechanism for two axes combining the panel and the base. The electric swiveling mechanism further comprises a first swiveling mechanism and a second swiveling mechanism for controlling yaw and pitch swiveling, respectively.

Abstract: A pump/flow guide is positioned in a gas turbine engine and attached to a transition duct to face a turbine disk. The pump/flow guide provides a smooth path for guiding purge flow to resist the ingestion of hot gas. One leg of the pump/flow guide extends radially outwardly and contacts the radially inner section of the transition duct that forms a “fish mouth.” Spaced tabs on the pump/flow guide receive bolts to secure the pump/flow guide to the transition duct. The pump/flow guide thus provides a relatively smooth flow passage for purge gas flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the checking of turbomachine blades having a profile comprising a centerline, a suction face, a pressure face, a leading edge and a trailing edge, consisting in: measuring geometrical coordinates of a plurality of points located on the profile of at least one blade section; calculating at least one aerodynamic parameter of the blade section as a function of the measured coordinates; verifying whether the value of the calculated aerodynamic parameter departs from a validity range defined by a value of the nominal aerodynamic parameter of a reference blade and an associated tolerance; and validating the blade if the value of the aerodynamic parameter falls within the validity range or rejecting the blade if the value of the aerodynamic parameter lies outside the validity range. The present invention also relates to a computer program, which can be loaded directly into the memory of a computer, intended to implement the method according to the invention.

Abstract: A wind turbine includes a tower and a generator on the tower. The generator includes a rotor with at least one assembled blade. The assembled blade includes at least an inner piece, an outer piece, and a joint configured for assembly and disassembly of the inner piece and said outer piece. The outer piece is configured to provide passive load alleviation.

Abstract: A turbomachine blade presenting a free end having an end wall from which there projects a rim, the rim comprising a first fraction starting from the trailing edge of the blade and running along the suction side of the blade to a connection zone, and a second fraction of closed outline connected to the first fraction at the region of said connection zone. Said second fraction extends the first fraction, running along the suction side of the blade, along the leading edge of the blade, and then returning to the connection zone. The invention is applicable to high pressure turbine blades of a turbojet.

Abstract: A trailing edge cap for a blade includes a body configured to mount on at least two differently at least one of sized and shaped blades such that the body at least partially covers an original trailing edge portion of the blade. The body has a body edge portion for forming a new trailing edge portion of the blade when the body is mounted on the blade.