Abstract: The present invention relates to an RFID tag having capacitive load, including: an antenna unit, a capacitive load and an RFID device. The antenna unit includes two metal sheets and a conductive substrate, and the metal sheets are disposed at a corresponding position above the conductive substrate and electrically connected to the conductive substrate. The capacitive load is electrically connected to the metal sheets. The RFID device feeds the antenna unit by electrically connecting to the metal sheets or coupling. This dramatically decreases the operating frequency, so the imaginary part of impedance is higher with the same size of the antenna unit, thereby reducing the size of the RFID tag. As a result, the weight is reduced, the manufacture process is simplified and the subsequent structure can be easily adjusted.

Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit (IC) label has an IC chip and is capable of exchanging data with an external reading device without contact. The contactless IC label includes: a transparent label base material; an optical variable device formed on a lower surface of the label base material; a conductive layer bonded to and formed on a lower surface of the optical variable device, and configured to function as an antenna of the IC chip; a connecting layer electrically connected to the IC chip; an insulating layer formed between the conductive layer and the connecting layer, and configured to electrically couple the conductive layer and the connecting layer; and an impedance adjusting unit formed on at least the connecting layer of the conductive layer and the connecting layer, and configured to adjust impedances of the conductive layer and the IC chip.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise systems and methods for using the geographic location of networked consumer electronics devices as indications of occupancy of a structure for purposes of automatically adjusting the temperature setpoint on a thermostatic HVAC control. At least one thermostat is located inside a structure and is used to control an HVAC system in the structure. At least one mobile electronic device is used to indicate the state of occupancy of the structure. The state of occupancy is used to alter the setpoint on the thermostatic HVAC control to reduce unneeded conditioning of unoccupied spaces.

Abstract: A system having: a midplane having air flow channels therein; a disk drive mounted to a first side of the midplane; and a temperature sensors mounted to the midplane. The system includes a pair of electrical chassis connected to a second side of the midplane. A first one of the chassis has therein: a fan; and a fan controller for controlling speed of the fan in response to a temperature control signal. A second one of the chassis has therein: a microprocessor for: detecting temperature signals produced by the temperature sensors; comparing differences between the detected temperature signals; and selecting one of the detected temperature control signal from the compared differences as the temperature control signal. A faulty one of the temperature sensors is detected by: selecting one of the detected temperature control signal as the faulty one of the plurality of temperature sensors from the compared differences.

Abstract: A secondary heating system for heating the interior of a motor vehicle having an independent electrical circuit and coolant pump that utilizes maximum latent heat usage from a shut down engine to conserve fuel. Weight sensors are provided in the seats to detect the presence of a passenger therein and activate said system once the engine is turned off. The secondary heating system of the present invention further includes a periodic shut down at preset intervals to extend battery usage.

Abstract: In a hydronic heating/cooling system, liquid is led along a main supply pipe (1) to a supply manifold (2) and distributed into heating loops (3). The heating loops (3) return to a return manifold (4). At least one of the manifolds (2, 4) has actuators (6) for controlling the flow in the heating loops (3). Actuators with fast operating times are used and valves of the actuators are controlled to close at different times in different heating loops (3).

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus that is a rail anchor comprising a head, a tail, and a belly section. The belly section comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, and two side surfaces. Each side surface comprises a contact-bearing surface area. The head comprises a bend along a length of the head. The tail comprises a notch. Each contact-bearing surface area has a surface area of at least 3 square inches and is adapted to extend at least 1.5 inches downward from the top of a railroad track crosstie along a side of the railroad track crosstie.

Abstract: Methods and devices for emitting volatile materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods and devices for emitting two or more fragrance compositions are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment of a device, the device has a housing, and the housing is supported on an electrical outlet by a plug at least indirectly joined to the housing. The device contains a first volatile composition and a second volatile composition. The first volatile composition is emitted in an alternating period relative to said second volatile composition. In one embodiment of the method, the volatile compositions are alternately emitted during periods that are greater than 15 minutes and less than 2 hours.

Abstract: Four generic claims, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics and forbidden mechanisms laws merge. Quintessential, core, natural, buried GC aqueducts perimeters heat energy transfer up to insulated globose crown with or without irrigation for mass energy highest conserving combats fluxing ocean levels ‘global warming’ effects, the Earth's surface cooling. Near vacuum, least density globose masses light pushed to infinity, globose-conduits (GC) Sets approach the speeds of light. The GC aqueducts cycle heat energy of subatomic submicroscopic to cosmos mass energy systems, for electro-thermodynamics, electromagnetics perimeters bound universe having buoyancy/density, evaporation, and suction forcing.

Abstract: An advanced Processor coupled the Earth's magma and mantle with magnetic field functions couples mantle quanta masses vital groundwater, polar caps and glaciers, less couples continental waters and oceans, partially decouples atmosphere and least coupled the ionosphere mass and its electrons; crusted mantle boundaries constrain most of heat and electrical energy outflows which slow the Earth's cooling rate and gaseous mass boundaries distending that weaken said magnetic field functions; mass energy highest conserving (MEHC) with Fluid Elements quintessential core natural disposition (QCNDMEHC) functions crucial processes configures complete compliments sealed boundaries longevity energy of distortion and volume changes which permit stratifications gradations forbidden mechanism processes forced plasma fountains outflows; optimally diatomic atmosphere compositions MEHC genres constitute Fluid Elements, Isotopes, and Ions principles, methodologies, innovations, and inventions (FEIIPMII), disclosed sciences appl

Abstract: A faucet for producing a water-fountain for drinking or rinsing a person's mouth. The fountain-faucet comprises a main body and a valve. The main body defines an exterior surface and an outlet water passage located inside the main body. The outlet water passage is in communication with a water outlet. The valve produces a fountain of water when a user puts a finger under the water outlet, which creates a back-pressure sufficient to cause a fountain of water to pass through the valve. The valve is located in the main body and is in operable communication with the outlet water passage and the exterior surface of the main body such that when a person puts a finger under the water outlet a back-pressure causes water to pass through the valve to produce a fountain of water. In another embodiment the valve is preplaced with a conical shaped funnel.

Abstract: An insect repellent scent diffusing apparatus including a container having a bottom wall and a continuous side wall surface extending from the bottom wall. A plurality of apertures are formed in the continuous side wall surface. An element containing insect repellent scent is disposed in the container and configured to diffuse insect repellent scent through the plurality of apertures and into the surrounding atmosphere.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fragrance device for a vehicle capable of supplying plural fragrant ingredients to the inside of the vehicle as being contained in air flow of a vehicle-use air-conditioning device with a simple structure. The fragrance device for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a main body 10 having a fragrance retention container 5, an inlet passage 6, an outlet passage 7, an inlet passage opening/closing door 8 and an outlet passage opening/closing door 9, an actuator 11 fixed to the main body 10, and a cam 14 which rotationally drives a rotary shaft 12 of the inlet passage opening/closing door and a rotary shaft 12 of the outlet passage opening/closing door.

Abstract: A method for masking or modifying the olfactory or gustatory sensation generated in a user by a base product (7) includes releasing an aromatic or fragrant composition over time in a sequenced manner in relation to the release of the base product (7), the aromatic or fragrant composition being housed in at least one rupturable container (5). A device used to implement the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to volatile substance evaporators having a container with wick, and has the object of providing a technique for effectively detecting end-of-life of the volatile substance housed within the container. The volatile substance evaporator is configured for coupling to, and maintaining in a stable position, a container of volatile substance having a wick with a lower end housed within said container and an upper end emerging from the container. The evaporator comprises an infrared light emitter disposed so as to emit a beam of light on said upper end of the wick, in such a manner that a receptor is disposed so as to capture said beam of light reflected by the upper end of the wick.

Abstract: This wicking apparatus includes a liquid reservoir, a wick holder, and a wick. The wick holder has a top part for fitting on the reservoir neck and a bottom part for insertion into the reservoir opening, the top part being plate-formed with a central opening, and with two peripheral projections that are spaced apart and that extend downward from the plate towards the reservoir body, projections for contacting inner and outer walls of the reservoir neck, and a second projection for contacting an outer wall of the reservoir neck, the bottom part having wick supporting arms that extend downwards and have flexible end portions projecting inwardly towards the centre of the reservoir opening. The wick is step-shaped with a larger diameter part, and a smaller diameter part; the interface between them defines a shoulder which is supported and held in place by the flexible end portions of the supporting arms.

Abstract: A watertight fragrance dispensing device for ejecting fragrance as a spray of droplets, the device including: a spray head for ejecting fragrance from the device; a liquid reservoir arranged to provide the fragrance to the spray head, wherein the reservoir includes a primary reservoir (31), a secondary reservoir (34), and a capillary liquid feed (33) connecting the liquid reservoir to the spray head, wherein the device further includes a bottom housing; and electronic control means arranged in the bottom housing for controlling the dispensing of fragrance from the device, wherein the secondary reservoir is disposed in the primary reservoir and is in direct contact with the capillary liquid feed, wherein the secondary reservoir is smaller than the primary reservoir and contains a unit dose of fragrance to be ejected from the device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of perfumery and more precisely it concerns a device, and the consumer articles associated therewith, for dispensing an active composition into the surrounding space. The device includes an assembly containing a reservoir holding the active liquid to be diffused into the surroundings and a wick-/emitting member structure composed of a wick member and an emitting/diffusion member, the latter having an evaporative surface to be directly exposed to the surrounding space when the device is activated, the assembly being housed in a casing or carried by a supporting frame, the device further including a pivoting member fixed on the casing or on the supporting frame to allow a swinging motion of the assembly and thus forced evaporation of the active volatile whenever desired.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention employ insect-attracting liquid mixtures, solid mixtures, liquid solutions, and solid solutions that include two or more insect-attracting substances or compounds with different physical characteristics that lead to multi-component plumes comprising component plumes with different radii and multiple chemical gradients. Additional embodiments of the present invention include multi-component insect-attracting substances that effectively target two or more different types of insects that together comprise a target group of insects, and additionally target a particular sex, in certain embodiments, or both sexes, in other embodiments, of the target insects. Many of the insect-attracting-substance embodiments of the present invention, upon controlled vaporization or release, create a multi-component, three-dimensional plume that leads insects to the source of the plume along multiple chemical-concentration gradients.

Abstract: A nozzle body (1) for a liquid droplet spray device is disclosed, wherein the nozzle body is arranged to receive a liquid substance from the liquid droplet spray device, wherein the nozzle body includes: (a) a substrate (2), and (b) a plurality of traversing output nozzles (4, 24, 34) formed in the substrate (2, 22, 32) for ejecting liquid as a low pressure mono-dispersive droplet spray, wherein each traversing output nozzle is arranged to receive the liquid such that the liquid may be expelled from the nozzle body by traversing the output nozzles, wherein the output nozzles (4, 24, 34) have straight and parallel side-walls that have a near vertical profile. The output nozzles are arranged in the substrate such that the density of the output nozzles increases from the center towards the edges of the substrate.

Abstract: A device for emitting volatile compositions comprising a capillary element, a channel in fluid communication with the capillary element, an emitting orifice having a forward tilt from about +5 degrees to less than about +90 degrees, and a decoupled piezoelectric actuator for emitting the volatile composition through the emitting orifice. In some embodiments, the device is a plug-in air freshener and reduces surface deposition and improves scent noticeability through improved containment of perfumes during the rest period.

Abstract: A device for scattering confetti. The device may include a body, a container, coupled to the body, and having confetti disposed therein, and at least one retaining structure for maintaining the device in a hand of a person. A portion of the body may be disposed in the palm of the hand, while one or both of the body and the container may further include at least one component for releasing confetti from the container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter case for a shower having a function of adjusting a quantity of outflow of a filling material, the filter case including: a cylindrical body having a predetermined length and one end portion opened, for containing a filling material into the interior thereof; and an outflow quantity-adjusting means having a fixing part having one or more communicating holes adapted to communicate with the interior and exterior of the body, the fixing part being fitted to one end portion opened of the body and a rotating part having a discharge hole formed at the inside thereof in such a manner as to be passed through the upper and lower surfaces thereof, the rotating part being screw-coupled to the inner periphery of the fixing part so as to block the communicating holes of the fixing part.

Abstract: An HVLP spray system and toolbox design offers a fully integrated system that is durable on the jobsite, has internal storage for all basic tools needed to do the job and offers integrated user features specific to the application.

Abstract: In a fitting process, a first pipe made of metal and a second pipe made of metal are fitted together such that an outer wall of the first pipe and an inner wall of the second pipe are opposed to each other. In a preheating process, the pipes are heated such that temperature of a fitting surface converges at a first temperature, which is lower than melting points of the pipes. In a welding process, the second pipe is irradiated with a laser to heat the pipes such that the temperature of the fitting surface converges at a second temperature, which is equal to or higher than the melting points; a vicinity of the fitting surface is melted to produce a weld penetration part; and the pipes are joined together to form a pipe joint product. An output and irradiation time of the laser in the welding process are set, so that the second temperature becomes such a temperature that a leading end of the penetration part is located within thickness of the first pipe.

Abstract: A showerhead (10) with an outlet defined by an inwardly facing first sharp edge (44) surrounded by an outwardly extending first surface (46). The first surface (46) is angled in the opposite direction to that of water (Sr, Se) leaving the outlet.

Abstract: A method of making frac sand having a selected grade from a naturally occurring, mined sand having a SiO2 content of at least about 80 percent and having a particle size range where the maximum particle size is less than about 8.

Abstract: The present invention is a process for efficiently milling particles to a predetermined particle size and/or particle size distribution. The process includes feeding a fluid dispersion containing particles to be milled into a chamber. The process also includes contacting a fiber milling assembly in said chamber with said particles. Further, the process includes milling said particles for less than or equal to 40 minutes.

Abstract: Hazardous waste sanitation and removal devices are described that include: a) a unitary shredder system, b) a transport system, a pre-treatment system or a combination thereof, comprising a reciprocating operation system, c) a treatment system, d) a dewatering system, a desolutionizing system or a combination thereof, and e) a collection system for disposal.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a shredder for super absorbent polymer that comprises: an inlet portion for feeding a plate-shaped super absorbent polymer; a pulverizing portion for pulverizing the super absorbent polymer fed through the inlet portion; and an outlet portion for discharging the pulverized super absorbent polymer from the pulverizing portion. The pulverizing portion comprises: a rotary drum to which a plurality of rotary blades are attached; at least fixed blade for pulverizing the super absorbent polymer in cooperation with the plural rotary blades; and a housing for holding the rotary drum and the at least one fixed blade. Each rotary blade has a shape of polygon with at least one vertex having an acute angle of at most 45°. The present invention is also to provide a preparation method for super absorbent polymer using the shredder for super absorbent polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to brush cutters and baling machines and methods of operation therefor, and more specifically, to an apparatus and a method for brush cutting and baling wood chips formed during land clearing activities. The apparatus includes a vehicle having front and rear ends. A brush cutter is carried at the front end of the vehicle. The brush cutter has a housing and a brush cutting head mounted for rotation within the housing. The brush cutting head has a support body and a plurality of cutting teeth mounted thereon. The cutting teeth are capable of reducing brush to wood chips and cutting debris when the brush cutting head is actuated. The brush cutting head is operable to take up at least some of the wood chips and cutting debris into the brush cutter housing while the cutting teeth are reducing brush to wood chips and cutting debris. The apparatus is further provided with a bale forming apparatus coupled for towage to the rear end of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention describes a fiber based milling device for milling particles. The fiber based milling device includes a milling chamber with an inlet and an outlet, and also at least one fiber assembly. The fiber assembly contacts a particle to be milled in the milling chamber. Also disclosed is a method for milling particles by contacting the particles to be milled with a fiber assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shredder having a device located at least partially between a shredder mechanism and an output side of the shredder housing to disperse any accumulation of shredded materials at least adjacent the output opening, as well as remove shredded materials caught in or near the cutting assembly. One device is a movable device positioned between a shredder mechanism and the output side of the shredder housing that is configured to pivot about an axis in an oscillating manner. Another device includes a fan mechanism for blowing and moving shredded materials through a passageway in the shredder housing and towards an outlet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shredder including a detector having a first contact member on one side of the shredder's throat and a second contact member on the other side. The contact members extend into the throat and are independently moveable relative to one another to enable insertion of an article into the throat. The article can move the contact members relative to one another by a combined amount. The shredder may prevent its motor from driving its cutter elements if it determines that the combined amount of independent relative movement correlates to a thickness that is equal to or greater than a predetermined maximum thickness. In an embodiment, the contact members may include binary switches. The contact members aid in controlling and/or reducing flutter and wrinkles when articles are fed into the shredder.

Abstract: A gyratory crusher including a crusher head on which a first crushing shell is mounted, a frame on which a second crushing shell is mounted, the first and second crushing shells forming a crushing aperture. A drive device is adapted to rotate an eccentric to which the crusher head is so connected as to be caused, during rotation of the eccentric, to perform a gyratory movement for crushing of material which is introduced into the crushing aperture. A dust seal is adapted to seal a gap between the frame and a fastening portion situated close to the crusher head. The dust seal includes a seal bellows and a seal slide ring. The seal slide ring is connected sealingly to a lower portion of the seal bellows and has a lower slide surface adapted to slide along, and to sealingly abut, with a substantially vertical abutment pressure determined by the inherent weight of the seal slide ring and by the influence of the seal bellows, against an upper slide surface provided on the frame.

Abstract: An adaptable multi-grater set has a special wing configuration that allows it to be attached on different bowls and stewpots. The multi-grater set has side-accessories, such as the wings which can be put on an axis, a scale part, mini bowls, and different grater blades/slicers which can be fixed on the wings.

Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, a housing chamber is provided integrally at an axial-direction end portion of the spool, and opens to an outer-side in a radial-direction of the spool. A lock plate is housed in the housing chamber, and a side surface of the housing chamber is engaged with the lock plate at a predetermined occasion, and rotation of the spool in a drawing-out direction is regulated. An opening-side end portion of the side surface is arranged at a position away from a slit in a circumferential-direction of the spool. Thus, a wall part passing the side surface and being along the axial-direction becomes larger, so strength of the spool can be enhanced. Further, an outer-side of the housing chamber in the axial-direction is closed, so strength of the housing chamber can be enhanced, with the result that the strength of the spool can be further enhanced.

Abstract: In an insertion hole formed in an adapter, a side wall which presses an insertion piece of a stopper with an urging force of a spiral spring has a wall surface parallel to a virtual straight line passing a center of the adapter and positioned on the virtual straight line. Thus, a direction which the wall surface of the side wall presses the insertion piece of the stopper is along a facing direction which the side wall and another side wall face each other, and is not inclined outward in a radial direction of the adapter with respect to the facing direction. Thereby, a pressing force applied from the wall surface of the side wall to the insertion piece of the stopper does not cause the insertion piece to be extruded from the insertion hole. Thus, insertion state of the insertion piece to the insertion hole can be satisfactorily maintained.

Abstract: A webbing retractor includes a retracting shaft; a lock member regulating the rotation of the retracting shaft in the pulled-out direction; a rotating body connected to the retracting shaft; a rotation detecting member that is relatively displaced with respect to the rotating body by inertial force, by which rotation of the rotating body in the pulled-out direction is regulated, and by which the lock member is actuated; and a regulating member having an engaging portion that engages with the rotation detecting member because of the rotation of the rotating body in the retraction direction.

Abstract: In a webbing retractor, when a V gear has been rotated in a withdrawal direction following a spool and a W pawl has been relatively displaced with respect to the V gear by inertial force, the rotation of the V gear is regulated and a lock plate regulates the rotation of the spool. A first center-of-gravity adjusting hole and a second center-of-gravity adjusting hole are disposed in the W pawl, and the sensitivity of detecting the inertial force is adjusted as a result of a center-of-gravity position of the W pawl being adjusted. The first center-of-gravity adjusting hole and the second center-of-gravity adjusting hole are disposed away from an outer peripheral surface of the W pawl, so the center-of-gravity position of the W pawl becomes adjustable without having to change the outer peripheral shape of the W pawl.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spool for winding fine metal wire on, comprising a core and two flanges coupled to either end of said core, wherein the outer side of each of said flanges comprises multiple debossed areas that extend radial from said core and are evenly distributed around said core. The debossed areas reduce the spreading of the flanges when winding fine metal wire on.

Abstract: One example embodiment relates to a method of navigating an object. The method includes detecting when the object accelerates through the speed of sound and maneuvering the object based on when the object accelerates through the speed of sound. Another example embodiment relates to a system for navigating an object. The system includes a detector within the object. The detector determines when the object accelerates through mach one. The system further includes a guidance system within the object. The guidance system adjusts the flight of the object based on data received from the detector.

Abstract: The aircraft includes at least one engine suitable for propelling the aircraft in flight, at least one motor of an undercarriage, and automatic means arranged to cause the aircraft to taxi under drive directly from the engine, while simultaneously using the motor for taxiing, other than during takeoff or landing.

Abstract: An aircraft engine assembly including an annular load-transfer structure surrounding the central casing and being mechanically connected to a plurality of substantially planar structures arranged externally with respect to the plurality of substantially planar structures, and biasing it at a plurality of load application points. At least one connecting rod is associated with each of the load application points, the connecting rod being positioned tangentially with respect to the casing, and including an inner end connected to this casing, and an outer end connected to the structure so that it has extending through it an imaginary plane in which the annular structure is located and extends through the load application point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a stiffening transverse internal rib for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: the production of a rib preform by superplastic forming having an outline of a broadly quadrilateral shape, and a central opening (52) traversing this preform; the division of the preform into two parallel straight-line segments (56, 60), which are diagonally opposed, causing the separation into two half-parts (46a?, 46a?) of the rib preform; and fishplating of the two rib preform half-parts (46a?, 46a?) by bolting.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a group of transverse internal stiffening ribs (46) for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: production, for each rib (46), of a given rib preform (46a) by superplastic forming; and in respect of at least one of the ribs (46) of the group having a smaller size than that of the preform (46a), division of the latter into four preform parts (56a-56d) each incorporating one of the four corners of the quadrilateral formed by the preform, followed by the joining of the four parts to one another so as to obtain the rib.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft with a surveillance system characterised in that the direction of flight towards a target is achievable by shifting the centre of gravity of the vehicle towards the target. The centre of gravity is shifted towards the target by pointing the surveillance system at the target.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an actuator control apparatus, comprising primary control means for producing a control signal used to control an operation of an actuator in accordance with an instruction signal indicative of an operation of the actuator, secondary control means for producing a control signal in accordance with the instruction signal; and switching means for selectively switching one of the primary control means and the secondary control means to the other, and in which the secondary control means is less in the number of functions than the primary control means, and each of components constituting the secondary control means is easier in fault verification than a component constituting the primary control means the most difficult in fault verification among all of components constituting the primary control means.

Abstract: A circumferential stiffener configured for a fuselage of an aircraft includes a web disposed at an angle to a normal axis of the circumferential stiffener, at least one inner flange, at least one outer flange and an integral angle profile configured for connection to a skin section of the fuselage.

Abstract: A pressure bulkhead for a fuselage of an aircraft is configured for bounding a fuselage interior relative to an external environment. The pressure bulkhead includes a flat skin configured to span a cross-section of the fuselage and having a cavity disposed at a core region of the skin. The core region is radially bounded by a ring element. A plurality of radial stiffeners extend on the skin and provide stabilization of the skin. Each radial stiffener is fixed at an end to the ring element. A reinforcement element extends over the ring element.