Abstract: A carbon steel sheet having high formability due to a microscopic and uniform carbide distribution and having a good characteristic of final heat treatment, and a manufacturing method thereof. The carbon steel sheet having excellent formability includes, in wt %, C at 0.2-0.5%, Mn at 0.1-1.2%, Si at less than or equal to 0.4%, Cr at less than or equal to 0.5%, Al at 0.01-0.1%, S at less than or equal to 0.012%, Ti at less than or equal to 0.5×48/14×[N] % to 0.03% when the condition of B and N is not satisfied, B at 0.0005-0.0080%, N at less than or equal to 0.006%, Fe, and extra inevitable elements; an average size of carbide is less than or equal to 1 ?m; and an average grain size of ferrite is less than or equal to 5 ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed is a card holder that protects credit cards, debit cards, and other types of magnetic cards without causing physical damage to the magnetic stripe or demagnetization thereof. The device contains an aperture, allowing for attachment to a key ring. The location of the key ring holder affords a user the option of attaching a magnetized card to the key ring, thereby allowing the card to rotate into and out of the holder as desired. This improves accessibility for a user when their magnetized cards are required. The holder can optionally include a window on the front for displaying flat articles, such as pictures, calendars, business cards, or advertising materials.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread portion that includes a shoulder main groove and a plurality of shoulder lateral grooves. The shoulder main groove is disposed in the nearest side of a tread edge on the tread portion and extends continuously in a circumferential direction of the tire. The shoulder lateral grooves each extend from the shoulder main groove to the tread edge to form a plurality of shoulder blocks. The shoulder lateral grooves have a first portion extending from the shoulder main groove axially outside the tire and including at angle of not less than 70 degrees and less than 90 degrees with respect to a circumferential direction of the tire, and the second portion extending from the first portion axially outside the tire and inclining in a reverse direction of the first portion at angle of from 40 to 70 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A tire and methods of manufacture thereof comprising a tire body and a metal reinforcing strip comprising at least one metal alloy foil layer to provide puncture resistance, wherein the at least one metal alloy foil layer comprises a spinodal glass matrix microconstituent structure.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a pneumatic tire include a tread portion, a first bead portion and a second bead portion which are axially spaced, a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion and a first and second carcass ply. The first carcass ply includes a main portion which extends circumferentially about the tire from the first bead portion to the second bead portion, a first turned-up portion around the first bead portion and a second turned-up portion around the second bead portion such that the first and second turned-up portions each have an end which terminates along the tread portion. The second carcass ply extends circumferentially about the tire along the first sidewall and along the second sidewall. The second carcass ply has a first end and a second end which terminates in the lower portion of the tire.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire 1, in particular a low aspect ratio super single truck tire 1, comprising at least one pair of parallel annular beads, at least one carcass ply 3 wrapped around said beads, a tread 5, first and second sidewalls disposed between said tread 5 and one of said at least one pair of beads, and a crown reinforcing structure disposed between said at least one carcass ply 3 and said tread 5 in a crown area of said tire 1. In accordance with the invention said crown reinforcing structure comprises a first breaker 9 between the at least one carcass ply 3 and the tread 5, as well as four further breakers 11, 13, 15, 17 comprising at least one pair of working breakers between the first breaker 9 and the tread 5, wherein the first breaker 9 is a split breaker comprising two circumferential strips 9 essentially adjacent to the shoulders of the tire, each strip having an axial width comprised between 50% and 70% of the half tread width.

Abstract: A pneumatic low aspect ratio truck has a crown reinforcing structure 7, the crown reinforcing structure 7 has a first steel belt ply 9 between the at least one carcass ply 3 and the tread 5, a second steel belt ply 11 between the first belt ply 9 and the tread 5, such that the first and the second belt plies 9, 11 form a first pair of adjacent working belts. A third steel belt ply 13 between the second steel belt ply 11 and the tread 5 and a fourth steel belt ply 15 between the third steel belt ply 13 and the tread 5 such that the third and the fourth belt plies 13, 15 form a second pair of adjacent working belts. The crown reinforcing structure 7 additionally has at least one circumferential steel strip 17 between the second and the third belt plies 11, 13, wherein the at least one steel strip 17 is positioned essentially radially underneath a shoulder groove location 19.

Abstract: New compositions for forming films for use in optical devices are provided. The compositions comprise a cellulose and a crosslinking agent dissolved or dispersed in a solvent system. Preferred celluloses are cellulose esters such as cellulose acetates, cellulose triacetates, cellulose acetate phthalates, and cellulose acetate butyrates. Preferred crosslinking agents are triazines such as those derived from melamine and benzoguanamine. The inventive compositions can be used to form, for example, protective and/or compensation films for use in polarizing plates.

Abstract: A transfer substrate includes a light transmissive support substrate; a light-heat conversion layer formed on the light transmissive support substrate; and a transfer layer formed on the light heat conversion layer. The transfer layer is a layer transferred as a luminescent layer of an organic electroluminescent element and is made of a metal complex, a fluorescent luminescent dopant and an aromatic hydrocarbon whose matrix skeleton has four to seven rings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having an air barrier layer, particularly an integral pneumatic tire innerliner, for prevention, or retardation, of air permeation from its inner chamber to the atmosphere through the carcass of the tire. The innerliner is comprised of an annular, cylindrical, hoop of a film having its ends overlapped and heat sealed together. The film is comprised of a continuous thermoplastic polymer phase which contains a dispersion therein of cured rubber domains, particularly cured low unsaturation rubber domains. In one embodiment, one surface of the film contains a thin bonding layer to aid in bonding the film to an unsaturated rubber-containing tire carcass. In one embodiment, the overlapping portion of the ends of the film have a thin rubber layer positioned therebetween.

Abstract: A fluororesin coating layer fusion-bonded directly to a base member or to a rubber layer on a base member can be formed by conducting heating for a significantly short time. A fluororesin-coated roller or belt that has a fluororesin coating layer with few defects and a rubber layer underneath whose thermal deterioration is suppressed is provided. The production method therefor include a step of inserting a base member or a rubber-coated base member including a base member and at least a rubber layer on the outer peripheral surface of the base member into an empty space of a thermally shrinkable fluororesin tube; a preliminary shrinking step conducted according to need; a pressure fusion-bonding step of bringing the base member or rubber-coated base member into contact with a hot plate surface heated to a temperature in a range of 250° C. to 400° C.

Abstract: A method of forming a stereoscopic liquid crystal display comprises providing an LCD panel, the LCD panel having a display area and a non-display area; disposing a lenticular plate on the LCD panel wherein a space is defined between a surface of the LCD panel and a surface of the lenticular plate; forming a seal between the surface of the LCD panel and the surface of the lenticular plate, the seal formed around the perimeter of the display area; forming a hole in the lenticular plate, the hole providing an air conduit that communicates with the space between the surface of the LCD panel and the surface of the lenticular plate; evacuating air from between the space; and filling the hole with a finishing material to maintain the vacuum between the lenticular plate and the LCD panel.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a stretchable composite sheet, the first continuous sheet is stretched while being transported from a first nip area to a second nip area. The first continuous sheet is either a sheet in which stretchability has already been developed or a sheet in which stretchability has yet to be developed. An opening is formed in the first continuous sheet intermittently in the transport direction, while transporting the first continuous sheet from the second nip area to a third nip area after the stretching operation. A second continuous sheet having a lower stretchability than the first continuous sheet is overlapped and adhered to the first continuous sheet in the third nip area.

Abstract: A method for producing a fibre-reinforced plastic component is specified. In a first step, a positive arrangement is produced by fixing at least one reinforcement ready to be used on a positive core. In a second step, fibres are wound around the positive arrangement, concave regions of the positive arrangement that are formed by the reinforcement being spanned by the fibres. In a third step, the entire area of the fibres is pressed onto the positive arrangement in a negative mould. Finally, the component is cured in the negative mould following the introduction of a cross-linking plastic.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for reinforcing a fibre composite component for the aviation and aerospace industry, in which a reinforcing element having a receiving region and a pressure element adapted to the receiving region geometry are provided. The pressure element is inserted into the reinforcing element receiving region. The reinforcing element and the inserted pressure element are fastened relative to one another in a reproducible manner by a reversible fastening device. The fastening device includes a first fastening portion mounted on the pressure element and a second fastening portion which can be mounted on the reinforcing element. The reinforcing element, together with the pressure element fastened thereto, is then applied in a reproducible manner to the fibre composite component to be reinforced, to form a moulding portion. The formed moulding portion is cured to connect the reinforcing element to the fibre composite component.

Abstract: A device for producing a sleeve-like label, comprising at least one feeder, designed to feed to at least one forming spindle a portion of heat-shrink film, and elements for wrapping the portion of heat-shrink film around the lateral surface of the forming spindle; elements for detecting the angular position of the free edge of the second longitudinal end of the portion of film wrapped around the forming spindle with respect to an absolute reference system that is jointly connected to the forming spindle; relative movement elements adapted to move the free edge detected by the detection elements to a preset position in order to provide a connecting portion at a preset distance with respect to the free edge, elements being further provided for transferring the sleeve-like label from the forming spindle to a container to be labelled.

Abstract: A draping device for draping a two-dimensional textile semi-finished product includes a first rotationally symmetrical body having a first axis of rotation and a peripheral surface which varies along the axis of rotation. A first drive is configured to rotate the first body about the first axis of rotation so as to deform, via the first body, the semi-finished product.

Abstract: In general, a decorative laminate construction (50, 60) is provided.

Abstract: An multilayer image transfer sheet for non-thermally transferring an image to a receiving object includes, in the following order with respect to each other, a backing sheet; a water-releasable sacrificial layer disposed on the backing sheet; a printed image layer disposed over the water-releasable sacrificial layer; and an adhesive layer disposed over the printed image layer and configured and arranged for permanent attachment of the printed image layer to a receiving object. The printed image layer comprises toner or dye printed using a laser printer, LED printer, or dye-sublimation printer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method for efficiently and stably forming a pattern on a thin-film substrate. A thin-film substrate, a tackiness adhesive sheet for thin-film substrate fixing, and a hard substrate are laminated in this order and a porous base material functioning as a core material of the tackiness adhesive sheet for thin-film substrate fixing has bore holes. Therefore, even if preliminary heating and drying is not applied, air bubbles are not generated between the thin-film substrate and the tackiness adhesive sheet for fixing during pattern formation on the thin-film substrate. This makes it possible to stably and efficiently form a pattern.

Abstract: A method of reducing fuel vapor permeation through a multi-layer tank includes providing a multi-layer overlay onto at least a portion of a structural layer of the multi-layer tank. The multi-layer overlay preferably comprises at least one structural layer composed of a polymeric material that is compatible with one or more of the polymeric structural layer(s) of the multi-layer tank. The multi-layer overlay further comprises at least one barrier layer composed of a vapor barrier material resistant to hydrocarbon permeation therethrough. The multi-layer overlay may be secured to the multi-layer tank by, for example, applying a suitable amount of heat and pressure thereto or by molding the multi-layer overlay to the tank body during a tank forming process.

Abstract: A buffer assembly includes a buffer body and an adhesive layer on the buffer body. The buffer body includes a buffer portion and a mounting portion surrounding the buffer portion. The adhesive layer includes a first adhesive portion and a second adhesive portion surrounding the first adhesive portion. The first adhesive portion and the second adhesive portion respectively correspond to the buffer portion and the mounting portion. A first cutting line is disposed between the buffer portion and the mounting portion such that the mounting portion is separable from the buffer portion along the first cutting line. A second cutting line is disposed between the first adhesive portion and the second adhesive portion such that the second adhesive portion is separable from the first adhesive portion along the second cutting line. The second cutting line superposes the first cutting line.

Abstract: To mount electronic components with different types of electrodes en masse on a substrate, the present invention comprises a heating section that heats an electrode of a first electronic component and an electrode of a second electronic component among the plurality of electronic components; a heat releasing section that releases heat from the electrode of the first electronic component and the electrode of the second electronic component; a first thermally conductive member disposed between the electrode of the first electronic component and the heating section or the heat releasing section; and a second thermally conductive member disposed between the electrode of the second electronic component and the heating section or the heat releasing section. The first thermally conductive member and the second thermally conductive member have different amounts of heat transfer per unit time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing fiber-reinforced flat semifinished products (3) based on a polyamide matrix, comprising the following steps: (a) saturation of textile structures (15) with a mixture comprising molten lactam, catalyst, and optionally activator, (b) cooling of the saturated textile structures (25), and (c) finishing of the cooled textile structures to give the fiber-reinforced flat semifinished product (3). The invention further relates to a process for producing a component made of the fiber-reinforced flat semifinished product.

Abstract: A reversing fiber placement head that is capable of bidirectional fiber placement on an application surface includes a feed mechanism for delivering fiber along two feed paths that are in a V-shaped orientation relative to one another. A pressure tip assembly including a compaction roller receives fiber from the two feed paths and applies the fiber to an application surface. A shifting mechanism shifts the pressure tip assembly from a first position on the fiber placement head to a second position on the fiber placement head to move the compaction roller along a linear path relative to the fiber placement head, allowing the compaction roller to change its direction of rotation in order to apply fiber to the application surface in opposite directions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel thermoplastic profile roofing strip and an apparatus for welding the thermoplastic profile roofing strip to a thermoplastic roofing membrane.

Abstract: Fire retardant materials arc provided that contain carbon nanotubes and particles capable of endothermically reacting when exposed to elevated temperatures. The carbon nanotubes may be a buckypaper. Methods also are provided for making a fire retardant material and for improving the fire retardation capabilities of a material.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to vacuum processing chambers having different pumping requirements and connected to a shared pumping system through a single foreline. In one embodiment, the vacuum processing chambers include a high conductance pumping conduit and a low conductance pumping conduit coupled to a single high conductance foreline. In another embodiment, a plurality of unbalanced chamber groups may be connected to a common pumping system by a final foreline.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus capable of more accurately controlling plasma. The plasma processing apparatus includes a shower head provided within a processing chamber, in which a substrate accommodated therein is processed, to be faced to a mounting table for mounting the substrate and supply gas from a plurality of gas discharging holes provided on a facing surface that faces the mounting table toward a substrate in a shower pattern; a plurality of exhaust holes that passes through a surface located at an opposite side to the facing surface of the shower head; a circular plate-like body that is disposed parallel to the opposite surface in a exhaust space that communicates with the exhaust holes distributed at the opposite surface and made of a conductive material; and a moving unit configured to move the plate-like body to change a distance between the exhaust holes and the plate-like body.

Abstract: Various implementations of hybrid ceramic faceplates for substrate processing showerheads are provided. The hybrid ceramic showerhead faceplates may include an electrode embedded within the ceramic material of the faceplate, as well as a pattern of through-holes. The electrode may be fully encapsulated within the ceramic material with respect to the through-holes. In some implementations, a heater element may also be embedded within the hybrid ceramic showerhead faceplate. A DC voltage source may be electrically connected with the hybrid ceramic showerhead faceplate during use. The hybrid ceramic faceplates may be easily removable from the substrate processing showerheads for easy cleaning and faceplate replacement.

Abstract: A surface wave plasma generating antenna serves to generate a surface wave plasma in a chamber by radiating into the chamber a microwave transmitted from a microwave output section through a coaxial waveguide including an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The surface wave plasma generating antenna is formed in a planar shape and has a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction, and each joint portion between two adjacent slots in the circumferential direction is overlapped with at least one of the slots in a diametrical direction.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a first ground member provided in processing chamber in such a way that at least a portion of the first ground member is exposed to a processing space, wherein the first ground member forms a ground potential; a second ground member provided in an exhaust space of the processing chamber to face the first ground member in such a way that at least a portion of the second ground member is exposed to the exhaust space, wherein the second ground member forms a ground potential; and a ground rod that moves up and down between the first and second ground members and contacts any one of the first or second ground member to adjust a ground state of the first or second ground member.

Abstract: The substrate supporting table includes a supporting plate that supports a substrate, a peripheral wall that encompasses a flow path of a coolant under the supporting plate and has an upper end enclosed by the supporting plate, a lower cover that encloses a bottom portion of the flow path and encloses a lower end of the peripheral wall. The substrate supporting table further includes a coolant supplying component that supplies a coolant through an upstream input of the flow path, a discharging component that discharges the coolant through a downstream output of the flow path, and a partition disposed between a supplying hole of the coolant supplying component and a discharging hole of the discharging component. A gap is formed between the partition and the bottom portion of the flow path.

Abstract: Provided is a pitch feed mechanism which is capable of performing an accurate, high-speed pitch feed of an original fabric having unevenness on a surface thereof in a sticking operation of an insulating tape.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels, includes building, on a toroidal support, a carcass structure including at least one carcass ply associated, at axially opposite end edges thereof, with annular anchoring structures, the building step of the carcass structure includes forming at least one reinforcing structure, operatively associated with the annular anchoring structures through deposition on the toroidal support of at least one reinforcing element along a predetermined curvilinear deposition path. The deposition of the at least one reinforcing element includes the steps of: cutting to size a piece of at least one reinforcing continuous band-like element fed by a feeding device along a predetermined feeding direction, deforming the piece obtained according to the curvature of a deposition part of the deposition path intended to receive the piece, and depositing the deformed piece at the deposition part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for turning up a tyre-building part on a tyre-building drum using a roller lever. In order to produce a device for turning up a tyre-building part on a tyre-building drum, by means of which the tyre-building part is turned up without defects, in particular an unintended crease formation in the lateral wall, according to the invention the roller lever (5) comprises a lifting roller (7) on the side thereof directed towards the drum axis (3) of the tyre-building drum (2), opposite which a ramp-shaped component (12) is arranged. As the tyre-building part (1) is turned up, the roller lever (5) is raised by means of the lifting roller (7) to a pre-position, wherein, as the roller lever (5) is lifted to the pre-position, the crimping roller (6) is spaced in such a way that the crimping roller (6) is substantially exclusively in contact with the tyre-building part (1) and the roller rolls along the tyre-building part (6).

Abstract: A locking spacer for use with a tire building drum is disclosed. The locking spacer includes an arcuate panel having an outer surface, an inner surface, opposite first and second curved side surfaces, and opposite first and second straight end surfaces. The panel is sized and shaped to span between and extend along the opposing inner surfaces of the segments. A first fastener is disposed along the first side surface and is configured to secure the first side surface to a first of the pair of segments, and a second fastener is disposed along the second side surface and is configured to secure the second side surface to a second of the pair of segments. The first and second fasteners limit movement of the first and second side surfaces in relation to the segments along a radial direction of the tire building drum.

Abstract: A tire mounting and demounting machine includes a turntable that holds a lower rim portion of a wheel in a detachable state and rotating the wheel about a vertical rotation axial line, a bead guiding member that guides lower and upper bead portions of a tire to fit the lower or upper bead portion to an upper rim portion of the wheel and guides the upper bead portion of the tire, which is fitted to the upper rim portion of the wheel, to be demounted from the upper rim portion, and a bead roller having a pressing surface extending in a direction going away from the rotation axial line, that presses the upper bead portion of the tire mounted on the wheel from above by the pressing surface at a location on a downstream side from the bead guiding member in a rotating direction of the turntable.

Abstract: A double shade includes a head rail, at least one end cap having an end panel disposed with the head rail and a bracket arm extending from the end panel, a first window treatment being disposed with the head rail, a second window treatment being disposed with the bracket arm, and a clip engaged with the first window treatment and the second window treatment. A double shade includes a head rail extending between first and second ends, first and second end caps including respective end panels mounted with the first and second ends of the head rail and respective bracket arms extending from the end panels, a cellular shade mounted with the head rail, and a roller shade extending between first and second ends respectively mounted with the bracket arms of the first and second end caps, wherein the cellular shade is independently movable relative to the roller shade.

Abstract: A sectional door for controlling the access opening to a compartment, includes: a fixed portion including two pairs of vertical guides extending in a direction substantially parallel to a respective shoulder of the opening; and a movable portion including: a leaf having a lower panel and an upper surrounding panel, extending over the entire width of the leaf and having its lateral sides in sliding engagement along a respective side guide; a pair of side support arms each having one end thereof articulated in correspondence to the top of a respective pair of vertical guides and the other end thereof pivoted in correspondence to an intermediate zone of a respective lateral side of the upper panel; and articulated and slidable connection elements between the lower panel and the upper panel, whereby the lower and upper panels are movable between a closed, and an open position.

Abstract: An improved removable curtain is described. One embodiment includes a curtain comprising an upper section; and a lower section, wherein at least one of the upper section or the lower section has anti-microbial properties, and wherein the lower section is connected to the upper section with a quick change mechanism such as a zipper or snaps. The anti-microbial properties of the curtain may be from anti-microbial fibers incorporated into the curtain, from an anti-microbial coating, or from both.

Abstract: An improved Air Traffic Control Tower cab window shade system is presented, utilizing a faster motor than in prior art ATCT applications. The present invention's motor operates at 80 rpm and raises the shade material at 9.62 inches per second on a 2.3-inch diameter roller tube. This allows an average 8 foot high shade to fully raise in 10 seconds. The shade is half raised in about 5 seconds. The improved speed is due to a spring box at the bottom end of the shade, providing constant tension to the shade and permitting the shade to be retracted safely at higher speed without risking scratching the cab window glass.

Abstract: A tiltable double-layered fabric blind is provided, which includes a double-layered fabric, composed of transparent front and rear sheets and a plurality of opaque spacer veins, with a horizontal bar mounted to a lower end of the fabric, a rotator having a coupling pipe and a driving body mounted to one side of the coupling pipe, the coupling pipe being combined with the double-layered fabric, an angle regulator having a rotating pipe and a rotating body, the rotating pipe having a friction member, which makes one layer of the double-layered fabric brought into close contact with the circumference thereof, a connection plate having a protrusion, which is coupled through the rotator and the angle regulator, and control cords mounted on one side of the rotator and the angle regulator.

Abstract: A pull bar device includes a pull bar unit that is adapted to be connected to a shade member, and that has a hole-defining surface portion defining an engagement hole that is adapted to be engaged removably with a hook member, and a cushion unit that is connected to the pull bar unit, that is exposed from the engagement hole, and that is adapted for biasing resiliently the hook member to abut against the hole-defining surface portion.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing paper or the like, in which cationic polymer microparticles comprised of polyacrylamide and a fine-particle inorganic component are added to the paper pulp following the final shearing step and prior to the headbox, whereupon the paper pulp is subjected to dehydration while forming sheets, followed by sheet drying, a polymer mixture comprising a linear cationic polymer and a linear anionic copolymer, whose overall ionicity is anionic, is additionally added immediately prior to the headbox.

Abstract: A method of continuously casting steel including steps of forming a casting pool of molten steel comprising a carbon content of less than 0.5% by weight on casting surfaces of a pair of internally cooled casting rolls having a nip formed between them, counter rotating the casting surfaces of the casting rolls toward each other to produce a cast steel strip moving downwardly away from the nip between the casting rolls, guiding the cast strip through a first enclosure adjacent the casting rolls as the strip moves away from the casting rolls, the first enclosure having a reducing atmosphere containing carbon monoxide and optionally hydrogen of at least 0.1%, establishing the reducing atmosphere in the first enclosure to control ingress of atmospheric air so as to maintain said atmosphere with a CO to CO2 ratio of at least 1.5 during steady state operation.

Abstract: An air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE) for cooling process fluids used in an industrial process. In one embodiment, the ACHE is configured as a forced-draft ACHE. A support structure supports the forced draft ACHE above grade. A tube bundle is supported by the structure and is configured to receive process fluids used in an industrial process. A plenum is connected to the support structure, positioned beneath the tube bundle and configured to direct air-flow through the tube bundle. A fan is supported by the support structure and positioned beneath the plenum. Rotation of the fan produces an air-flow that is directed through the tube bundle by the plenum. A fan drive system is supported by the support structure, positioned beneath the fan and comprises a permanent magnet motor comprising a motor casing, a stator and a rotatable shaft, the rotatable shaft being connected to the fan.

Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system is provided that includes two or more heat exchangers configured in a non-stacked arrangement, where separate air inlets corresponding to each of the heat exchangers allow a direct intake of ambient air. Active louver systems consisting of sets of adjustable louvers and a control actuator are used to control and regulate air flowing directly into one or more of the heat exchangers, where the adjustable louvers are either adjustable between two positions, i.e., opened and closed, or adjustable over a range of positions. Air ducts may be used to couple the output from one heat exchanger to the input of a different heat exchanger.

Abstract: A shroud is used to encompass a space heater ordinarily used within a tent or shelter. The shroud allows the space heater to be used outside the tent or shelter. The shroud is made from a series of components and is readily disassembled to allow compactness for storage or moving. The shroud is positioned over the space heater and ambient air is drawn into the spaces between the shroud and the heater where the air is heated by the heater. The heated air leaves the shroud through a duct when extends to the tent or shelter sought to be heated.

Abstract: A heat dissipating device includes a heat sink, two support arms, two securing units, four first fasteners, and four second fasteners. The two support arms are attached to the heat sink. Each of the support arms defines a groove and a first slot. Each of the securing units includes a sliding arm and a fixing arm. The sliding arm defines a receiving recess and a second slot. The fixing arm defines a third slot. The sliding arm is configured for moving the fixing arm toward or away from the heat sink to align the third slot with mounting holes of a motherboard. The first fasteners fix the two fixing arms on the circuit board. The second fasteners are engagingly received in the communicating first and second slots to fixedly attach the two sliding arms to the two support arms.