Abstract: A wire holder includes: a holder body attachable to a tubular body; wire passing holes formed in the holder body; and second locking parts provided on a periphery of the holder body and engageable with respective first locking parts of the tubular body. The holder body is divided along an axial direction of the wire passing holes into holder elements containing at least adjacent first and second holder elements, and is formed by superposing the holder elements. Each holder element includes at least one of the wire passing holes and at least one of the second locking parts. A first dividing surface of the first holder element is provided with a rib extending in the axial direction. A second dividing surface of the second holder element opposing the first dividing surface is provided with a groove with which the rib is engaged by sliding.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a support device configured to support an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first face and a second face including a recessed portion or a projecting portion. The support device includes a first member and a second member. The first member is configured to support the electronic device. The second member is configured to be movable between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position at which the second member is engaged with the recessed portion or the projecting portion to suppress moving of the electronic device, the second position being a position at which the second member is configured to be separated further from the second face and at which the electronic device is configured to be permitted to move.

Abstract: A clamping assembly includes a plurality of clamps for fastening hoses or cables on a frame structure. Each clamp has a cube-shaped body which surrounds a cylindrical hollow space or bore which extends through the body. The body includes a first and a second body part. Each body part has a separating surface on which a semi-cylindrical recess is formed. The body parts are joined to each other at their separating faces by means of a plug connection. Each body has plug pins on at least one side face and plug bores on an opposite side face.

Abstract: A modular retainer assembly for electrical cables is disclosed. The modular retainer assembly includes a base having an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper and lower surfaces of the base define a thickness of the base therebetween. The modular retainer assembly also includes a plurality of divider walls projected outwardly from the upper surface of the base. Each divider wall of the plurality of divider walls define a channel disposed between the divider wall and an adjacent divider wall. Also, each divider wall has a curved profile along a length of each divider wall. Further, a cross section of each divider wall defines a top portion thickness and a bottom portion thickness, the bottom portion thickness of the divider wall being less than the top portion thickness of the divider wall measured at the cross section of the divider wall.

Abstract: An automatic transmission oil filter retainer includes a base portion; a riser portion extending from a side of the base portion; and a retainer portion extending from a side of the riser opposite the base portion and at right angle to the riser portion, the retainer portion extending parallel to and overlaying the base portion. The base portion is dimensioned with a first short side measuring about 0.56 inches, a second short side measuring about 0.5 inches, and a first long side measuring about 1.39 inches. The through-hole has a diameter of about 0.25 inches. The riser portion is inset along a second long side by about 0.06 inches and extends at 90° from the second short side and the second long side by about 0.59 inches. The retainer portion extends at 90° from the riser portion in a direction towards the first long side by about 0.0305 inches.

Abstract: A bracket that includes a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion that form a first angle therebetween. The first portion includes opposing front and rear surfaces and the second portion includes opposing upper and lower surfaces. The first portion includes a fastener opening defined therethrough, the second portion includes an insert feature extending from the lower surface, and the second portion includes at least one adhesive opening defined therethrough.

Abstract: A board mount which can be utilized to position a board relative to a building element. In various embodiments, the board mount can include a holder for receiving at least a portion of a drywall board and, in addition, a flexible member which can be inserted intermediate first and second building elements to retain the board holder relative to one of the first and second building elements. The flexible member can be configured to be deflected, or flexed, between a first configuration and a second configuration when the flexible member is positioned intermediate the building elements. In use, the flexible member can hold the board mount in place while a laborer inserts the drywall board into the board holder. In such circumstances, an additional laborer may not be required to hold the drywall board in position as it is fastened, or otherwise secured, to the frame of the building.

Abstract: A peg hook staple is used in conjunction with at least one peg hook and a perforated wall board so that the at least one peg hook can be firmly secured to the perforated wall board through a first extremity and a second extremity of the peg hook staple. A handle portion of the peg hook staple allows the users to easily install and remove the peg hook staple. The peg hook staple eliminates lateral, upward, and outward movement of the at least one peg hook as a plurality of indentations of the peg hook staple secures the at least one peg hook to the perforated wall board.

Abstract: A swivel base for use with a training aid having a top member and a bottom member, the top member for receiving a training aid and the bottom member for receiving a holder or stand. The top member is coupled to a ball bearing and a mounting member fixedly coupled to the bottom member is rotatably coupled to the ball bearing to allow the top member to rotate relative to the bottom member. A locking mechanism which has a locking pin coupled to the bottom member secures the top member in one or more stationary positions.

Abstract: A utility hook supports free-standing objects. The hook includes an arm member having two ends with one end connecting to an open-ended catch and the other end connecting to a shoulder member. A hook member is connected to the arm member via the shoulder member. A band engages with the open-ended catch and has a thickness. The arm member and the hook member are substantially parallel. The open-ended catch has a securing gap disposed between that and the back of the arm member. The securing gap having a distance smaller than that of the thickness of the band.

Abstract: The invention regards an apparatus for mounting a flat screen on a surface wherein the flat screen comprises at least two fixtures. The apparatus comprises, two mounting members adapted to be attached to the fixtures on the flat screen and a wire with one end connected to one of the mounting members and the other end connected to the other mounting member. The mounting members comprise an axle adapted for the wire to be coiled around for changing the length of free wire between the mounting members and retaining means at a radially greater distance from the wire coiled around the axle, adapted to retain the wire hereby preventing uncoiling of the wire.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a folding tray that includes a hygienic surface within the internal portion that is shielded from contamination in a folded configuration. The folding tray includes two symmetrical halves joined by a spine that allows the folding tray to close. The folding tray can include one or more inserted surfaces overlapping at least a portion of the two symmetrical halves on one side of the folding tray. The inserted surfaces can be folded into the folding tray in a folded state. The inserted surfaces can be removable or include a plurality of stacked sheets that are individually removable. The folding tray can be used to isolate materials on the tray from contaminants under the tray, or protect a material beneath the tray from contaminants on the tray.

Abstract: A walker stabilizing platform including a movement restrictor assembly for assisting a user of a walker in transitioning from a sitting position to a standing position wherein the movement restrictor assembly automatically moves from a position of engagement with the walker to a position of disengagement with the walker, and further includes means for allowing the user of the walker to move the movement restrictor assembly from the disengaged position to the engaged position without assistance.

Abstract: Position-indexed storage device comprising a support and a basket installed on the support, the basket comprising a plurality of compartments distributed around a longitudinal axis, the basket comprising a central passage with a longitudinal axis, the support comprising a shaft with a longitudinal axis, the shaft being housed in the passage such that relative displacement is possible between the basket and the support along the longitudinal axis, and mechanical means for displacement of the basket relative to the support by a given angle about the longitudinal axis are supported by the internal surface of the passage and the external surface of the shaft, said mechanical displacement means being actuated in each cycle, each cycle comprising a relative separation or approach displacement along the longitudinal axis of the basket and the support.

Abstract: A vehicle seat slide device includes: an upper rail including a bracket support having side walls and an upper wall connecting upper ends of the side walls; a lower rail supporting the upper rail so as to be relatively movable; and a bracket fixed to the bracket support. A cutout portion open upward is formed in the bracket support, a nut member which can be screwed to a bolt inserted into the bracket support via a terminal of the bracket support is disposed in the cutout portion, the bracket includes first and second vertical walls having an insertion hole into which the bolt is inserted, and which oppose each other, the first vertical wall is fixed to the terminal, and the second vertical wall is arranged inside the cutout portion at a position where the nut member is interposed between the first and second vertical walls.

Abstract: An adjustment device for a carrier plate which can be pivoted about two mutually orthogonal axes and is configured to receive a motor vehicle mirror, includes one motor per axis for moving a non-rotatably and non-tiltably guided linear drive, which is in engagement via a socket with a joint ball on the carrier plate, and a funnel-shaped hub provided with a hollow shaft. A hollow spherical segment of the funnel-shaped hub engages, by spring tabs, in a depression in the form of a hollow spherical segment in the carrier plate, and a spherical segment of the carrier plate is axially elastically clamped in a hollow spherical segment of a housing for drive trains of the two linear drives, thereby locking the hollow shaft on the housing.

Abstract: A versatile handrail and toeboard safety system that provides flexible solutions for the implementation of improved construction site safety barriers using specialized brackets to mount standard wooden members. The brackets of the handrail and toeboard safety system is formed of multiple orthogonally arranged plates creating spaces to receive and secure wooden construction members as a handrail for personnel safety in addition to a toeboard for equipment and materiel safety. The parallel plates are formed with several mounting points for wooden members and several mounting points for anchoring the bracket to a base floor. The brackets are formed to withstand a minimum two-hundred (200) pound force exerted at the top of a forty-five (45) inch tall handrail attached to the anchored bracket. The brackets provide the versatility to be used in various system arrangements and the expeditious setup and removal of the handrail and toeboard safety system.

Abstract: The cane clamp is a device for securely clamping a walking cane to a table, chair or any conventional, sturdy surface that is up to five inches thick. The cane clamp consists of a body configured to securely hold a tubular device such as a walking cane, a bracket which provides two planar contacts to a projecting surface, and a constant force spring which provides a third planar contact to a projecting surface. The end of the constant force spring is attached between the body and the bracket, and may be opened easily by a user, preferably with a single finger.

Abstract: In an arm support apparatus, a grippable member is connected to a longitudinal mount and is located such that a part of the grippable member is grippable by a hand of an arm when a part of the arm is mounted on the longitudinal mount. The hand is located to be closer to the first end of the longitudinal mount than to the second end of the longitudinal mount. A second limiter limits movement of the part of the arm mounted on the longitudinal mount in both a first direction and a second direction. The first direction is away from the second end of the longitudinal mount in the longitudinal direction. The second direction is parallel to the lateral width of the longitudinal mount and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A vibration damping device including: first and second mounting members; a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the two members; and a bracket member fit into the first mounting member. A projecting part projects outward from a circumference of the first mounting member, and includes a locking groove whose inner surface is covered by a rubber coating layer and has a locking part on its side wall inner surface. An engaging projection projecting from the bracket member is fit into the locking groove, and a projection tip surface of the engaging projection is abutted on a bottom wall inner surface of the locking groove. A side surface of the engaging projection is locked to the locking part so as to constitute a positioning member that positions the first mounting member and the bracket member to each other.

Abstract: Various examples are provided for pillar array photo detectors. In one example, among others, a photo detection system includes an array of substantially aligned photo sensitive nanorods extending between first and second electrodes, and a plurality of resistance monitoring circuits coupled at different positions about the circumference of the electrodes. In another example, a photo detector includes first and second electrodes, and an array of substantially aligned photo sensitive nanorods extending between the substantially parallel electrodes. Light passing through an electrode excites electrons in the photo sensitive nanorods that are illuminated by the light.

Abstract: An A/D converter includes a comparator configured to compare an input voltage and a reference signal changing monotonically with respect to time and output a comparison result signal indicating a comparison result, a pulse signal generation circuit configured to generate a pulse signal in accordance with the comparison result signal, a counting unit configured to receive a first clock signal, and to count the first clock signal from a start of changing a level of the reference signal to when a level of the comparison result signal is changed, and a latch unit configured to latch the pulse signal at a timing which is defined by a plurality of clock signals including a second clock signal in phase with the first clock signal and a third clock signal having a different phase from that of the second clock signal.

Abstract: A scene measurement assembly includes a first illuminator assembly having multiple grids of coplanar illuminators, a first system-on-chip light sensing device having sensors disposed to receive reflected light emitted by the first illuminator assembly, a second illuminator assembly having plural grids of coplanar illuminators, each of the plural grids of coplanar illuminators being disposed in different planes relative to each other, and a second system-on-chip light sensing device that receives reflected light emitted by the second illuminator assembly. Each of the multiple grids of coplanar illuminators of both illuminator assemblies is disposed in different planes relative to each other. The first and second system-on-chip light sensing devices each have a sampling rate of greater than 10,000 frames per second relative to performing on-chip image data processing. The system-on-chip light sensing devices are each disposed at a scene to be measured at locations having different perspectives of the scene.

Abstract: A method for sensing using a multi-band photovoltaic detector, the method including biasing the photovoltaic detector using a bias voltage at a mid-point of a detector substrate bias voltage range, selecting a first band of the multi-band photovoltaic detector, sensing a first current from a first diode of the multi-band photovoltaic detector, the first diode being associated with the first band, selecting a second band of the multi-band photovoltaic detector; and sensing a second current from a second diode of the multi-band photovoltaic detector, the second diode being associated with the second band.

Abstract: A photodiode architecture comprises first, second, and third independent photodiodes, and a shared electrode. The first, second, and third photodiodes are each connected to respective sources of bias voltage and to a common shared electrode, whereby the photodiode architecture comprises at least one of a shared anode and shared cathode photodiode architecture. The photodiode architecture selectively reverse biases the first, second, and third photodiodes so that, during operation, at least one of the first, second and third photodiodes is always operating in a photoconducting mode, to enable capture and storage of charge from any photodiode in the architecture operating in photoconducting mode. Advantageously, the first photodiode can be configured to respond to a first wavelength of light and at least one of the second and third photodiodes can be configured to be responsive to a respective second or third wavelength of light shorter than the first wavelength of light.

Abstract: A counter includes a buffer unit and a ripple counter. The buffer unit generates at least one least significant signal of a count by buffering at least one clock signal until a termination time point. The ripple counter generates at least one most significant signal of the count by sequentially toggling in response to at least one of the least significant signal. The counter performs multiple data rate counting with enhance operation speed and reduced power consumption.

Abstract: A method for measuring flicker value of a liquid crystal module and related device are proposed. The method includes: providing flicker images to a liquid crystal module; applying a measure unit to scan the liquid crystal module to convert luminance of the liquid crystal into voltage signals to obtain analog luminance signals of the liquid crystal module; receiving the analog luminance signals from the measure unit and converting the analog luminance signals of the measure unit into digital luminance signals; performing Fourier transformation of the digital luminance signals to obtain magnitude of specific frequency wave; obtaining flicker value of the liquid crystal module through the magnitude of specific frequency wave. By using the present invention, the common voltage signal applied on the liquid crystal module is adjusted based on the flicker value of the liquid crystal module measured in real time. Therefore quality of liquid crystal module products is raised.

Abstract: A system for continuously monitoring a laser beam includes a photodiode sensor mounted adjacent to a laser beam optical path. A laser beam optical path analysis module connected to the photodiode sensor and adapted to receive, analyze and report the sensor output from the photodiode sensor.

Abstract: A distributed sensing apparatus and system including one or more optical fibers disposed in a channel on the surface of a central member. A layer of film adhesive is disposed between the central member and a sheath. The film adhesive is circumferentially wrapped around the central member prior to arranging the sheath around the central member. The film adhesive is then cured and expanded to firmly attach the optical fiber to the sheath.

Abstract: A silicon photonic photodetector structure, a method for fabricating the silicon photonic photodetector structure and a method for operating a silicon photonic photodetector device that results from the photonic photodetector structure each use a strip waveguide optically coupled with a polysilicon material photodetector layer that may be contiguous with a semiconductor material slab to which is located and formed a pair of electrical contacts separated by the polysilicon material photodetector layer. Alternatively, the pair of electrical contacts may be located and formed upon separated locations of the polysilicon photodetector layer.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for estimating a parameter of interest of a volume of an earth formation. Methods may include correcting a measurement relating to the parameter of interest by a downhole tool using at least one correction model determined from a plurality of predefined models. The at least one correction model may be determined based on an estimated borehole standoff of the tool from the borehole wall that is associated with the measurement. Correcting the measurement may include determining a correction factor using the correction model and applying the correction factor to the measurement. Each of the plurality of predefined models may be associated with each of a plurality of standoff bins, wherein each of the plurality of standoff bins is defined as a mutually exclusive interval of distance values from the downhole tool to the borehole wall.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for evaluating an earth formation intersected by a borehole. The method includes using a first radiation responsive component to detect gamma rays having an energy below a threshold energy; using a second radiation responsive component configured to detect gamma rays that traverse the first radiation responsive component; generating a reduced-Compton gamma ray spectrum by generating an anticoincidence gamma ray spectrum indicative of the gamma rays detected by the first radiation responsive component and the gamma rays detected by the second radiation responsive component. The anticoincidence gamma ray spectrum represents those gamma rays of the gamma rays detected by the second radiation responsive component that are not detected in coincidence with the gamma rays detected by the first radiation responsive component.

Abstract: RF generators including active devices driving series resonant circuits are described. The series resonant circuits include a self-resonant dual inductor. The RF generators can be used to drive capacitive loads.

Abstract: Spectrometers including integrated capacitive detectors are described. An integrated capacitive detector integrates ion current from the collector (220) into a changing voltage. The detector includes a collector configured to receive ions in the spectrometer, a dielectric (228), and a plate (232) arranged in an overlapping configuration with collector on an opposite side of the dielectric. The detector also includes an amplifier (226).

Abstract: Systems and methods are used to analyze a sample using variable mass selection window widths. A tandem mass spectrometer is instructed to perform at least two fragmentation scans of a sample with different mass selection window widths using a processor. The tandem mass spectrometer includes a mass analyzer that allows variable mass selection window widths. The selection of the different mass selection window widths can be based on one or more properties of sample compounds. The properties may include a sample compound molecular weight distribution that is calculated from a molecular weight distribution of expected compounds or is determined from a list of molecular weights for one or more known compounds. The tandem mass spectrometer can also be instructed to perform an analysis of the sample before instructing the tandem mass spectrometer to perform the at least two fragmentation scans of the sample.

Abstract: The number of atoms present in an ion of a molecule is identified using a mixture of different forms of the molecule. A mass spectrometer analyzes a mixture of at least two forms of the molecule using one or more ion scans producing a mass spectrum. The first form of the molecule includes a first combination of isotopes of one or more elements. The second form of the molecule includes a second combination of isotopes of the one or more elements. A first peak and a second peak that differ in mass by a multiple of a mass difference between the first combination of isotopes and the second combination of isotopes are located in the mass spectrum. The number of atoms of the one or more elements present in an ion of the molecule is identified from a mass difference between the first peak and the second peak.

Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma source having multiple gases in the plasma chamber provides multiple ion species to a focusing column. A mass filter allows for selection of a specific ion species and rapid changing from one species to another.

Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for calibrating the mobility axis of an ion mobility spectrum and determining the mobility characteristic of ion species from an ion mobility spectrum, in particular for calibrating the drift time axis of an ion mobility spectrum acquired by a drift type ion mobility spectrometer (IMS). An ion mobility spectrometer uses an ion source that comprises a first ionization region which is fluidly coupled to a sample source, a second ionization region which is spatially separated from the first ionization region and fluidly coupled to a calibrant reservoir, and electrical means for controlling the transfer of sample ions from the first region into the second ionization region or into a third region of the ion source wherein the third region is fluidly coupled to the first and second ionization region and located closer to a mobility analyzer than the first and second ionization region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mass spectrometry and infrared spectrometry and in particular, to a method of providing highly resolved infrared spectra of mass-selected, complex (e.g., biopolymer, polypeptide, organic chemical, an organometallic compound, a carbohydrate, a polynucleotide or oligonucleotide compound) ions to be obtained in a general fashion.

Abstract: Methods and systems for performing mass spectrometry of analytes labeled with isobaric tags are provided herein. In accordance with various aspects of the applicants' teachings, the methods and systems can enable enhanced discrimination between an analyte of interest and one or more interfering species when using isobaric tagging techniques.

Abstract: A charged particle beam device (1) includes a charged particle optical lens barrel (10), a support housing (20) equipped with the charged particle optical lens barrel (10) thereon, and an insertion housing (30) inserted in the support housing (20). A first aperture member (15) is disposed in the vicinity of the center of the magnetic field of an objective lens, and a second aperture member (15) is disposed so as to externally close an opening part provided at the upper side of the insertion housing (30). Further, when a primary charged particle beam (12) is irradiated to a sample (60) arranged under the lower side of the second aperture member (31), secondary charged particles thus emitted are detected by a detector (16).

Abstract: sampling device including a Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) fiber optic probe and methods of using the device are provided. The sampling device performs both NIRS data collection and physical sample collection. The sampling device operates by inserting the device into a powder or blend to be sampled, collecting a sample within the sample chamber in the device, and performing NIRS analysis of the sample within the sample chamber.

Abstract: An infrared sensor includes a heat sensing element in which a first electrode, a dielectric film, and a second electrode are sequentially laminated; and an electric charge detection device. The dielectric film represents antiferroelectricity and has a spontaneous polarization in a predetermined measurement environment. The electric charge detection device calculates an amount of relaxation current flowing by a change of the spontaneous polarization, and senses heat of the heat sensing element based on temperature dependence of the amount of relaxation current.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring polysorbates, such as polysorbate 80, using Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR).

Abstract: A system includes a sensor body that has a folded optical waveguide configured in a “U” shape, wherein the waveguide is configured to convey infrared energy from one end of the waveguide to the other end of the waveguide.

Abstract: Provided is a measuring apparatus, including: an irradiation unit configured to irradiate an object to be examined with an electromagnetic wave, the object to be examined being brought into contact with a window member; a sensing unit configured to sense the electromagnetic wave from the object to be examined that is brought into contact with the window member; and a dielectric constant adjusting unit configured to change a dielectric constant of the window member.

Abstract: A method for measuring the presence or absence of an object to be measured in a specimen or the quantity thereof. The method includes filtrating the object to be measured from the specimen using as a physical filter, a void-arranged structural body having a plurality of void portions penetrating in a direction perpendicular to a primary surface thereof so as to hold the object to be measured by the void-arranged structural body; irradiating an electromagnetic wave on the void-arranged structural body holding the object to be measured; and detecting characteristics of an electromagnetic wave scattered by the void-arranged structural body.

Abstract: A system includes a sensor configured to sense an environmental condition. The sensor includes an input/output (I/O) reconfiguration system. The sensor further includes a plurality of I/O connectors configured to interface with at least one external system, wherein the I/O reconfiguration system is communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of I/O connectors and is configured to derive a sensor function based on an indication received via the at least one of the plurality of I/O connectors, and wherein signals derived by the sensor based on the sensor function are provided via the plurality of I/O connectors.

Abstract: A method for preparing a bismuth iodide article includes heat-treating bismuth iodide at a temperature less than the melting point of bismuth iodide in an atmosphere containing iodine.

Abstract: A structure includes multiple electromagnets with sub-100 micrometer feature size. Each electromagnet includes a substrate defining multiple filled trenches with conductive fillers, a first isolation layer disposed over the conductive fillers such that a portion of each conductive filler is exposed by the first isolation layer, a core disposed over the first isolation layer, and a second isolation layer covering the core. The second isolation layer has a top surface, and winding interconnects extend from a plane defined by the top surface of the second isolation layer to the conductive fillers such that each winding interconnect contacts one of the conductive fillers on a portion exposed by the first isolation layer. A conductive layer includes upper connectors to electrically connect winding interconnects positioned on opposite sides of the core. The trenches, winding interconnects, and upper connectors are electrically connected to form windings around the core.