Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a first nozzle group including a first and third nozzles which ejects a first liquid; and a second nozzle group including a second nozzle which ejects a second liquid, in which, when an ejection state of the liquid ejected from the one nozzle which belongs to the first nozzle group is abnormal, complementation is performed using complementation modes of a first complementation mode that increases the amount of a liquid to be ejected from the first nozzle instead of allowing the one nozzle to eject the liquid, a second complementation mode that increases the amount of the liquid to be ejected from the second nozzle instead of allowing the one nozzle to eject the liquid, and a third complementation mode that increases the amount of the liquid to be ejected from the third nozzle instead of allowing the liquid to be ejected from the one nozzle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for embedding critical data directly onboard a physical asset is disclosed. Since the critical data and the asset are never separated, accurate and timely data pertinent to the asset travels with it, and may be written, read, and updated. Accurate data collection ensures a digital model/twin of the asset reflects the true physical state of the asset. Data is embedding optically or magnetically and may be read or rewritten so that information about the life/usage of the asset is continually available, right up to the current state.

Abstract: A sublimation printing method on cotton and/or viscose is described comprising the steps of: preparing a piece of laminar substrate, applying (for example) microcapsules onto a side of said piece of laminar substrate, wherein said microcapsules comprise a core of polyester and/or polyamide and/or polyethylene and a shell of cellulose and/or starch, ink-jet printing onto said side of said piece of laminar substrate using sublimation ink, preparing a piece of fabric containing a high amount of cotton and/or viscose, approaching said piece of laminar substrate and said piece of fabric, pressing and heating, and separating said piece of laminar substrate from said piece of fabric; a fabric ready for sublimation printing is obtained if the step of ink-jet printing is not performed.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an inkjet printer capable of reducing yellowing of a coating attributable to clear ink with respect to printing on a print medium with color ink. An inkjet printer (10) having LED lamps (26) for hardening color ink and an ultraviolet lamp (27) for hardening clear ink ejects ultraviolet curing type color ink toward a print medium (90) by inkjet heads (24) for color ink, and radiates ultraviolet light with a wavelength equal to or longer than 365 nm toward the color ink having adhered to the print medium (90) by the LED lamps (26), and ejects ultraviolet curing type clear ink toward the hardened color ink by inkjet heads (25) for clear ink, and radiates ultraviolet light with a wavelength equal to or shorter than 365 nm toward the clear ink having adhered to the color ink by the ultraviolet lamp (27).

Abstract: A metallic decoration method of decorating decoration objects with decoration ink containing a silver ?-ketocarboxylate is shown. This metallic decoration method includes a printing process of performing printing on a decoration object 1 by ejecting decoration ink made by diluting a silver ?-ketocarboxylate with a solvent from an inkjet head 11, and a heating process of heating the decoration object 1 after the printing process, thereby vaporizing the solvent while decomposing the silver ?-ketocarboxylate into metallic silver, thereby forming a metallic decoration layer 2, and in the printing process, printing is performed on the decoration object 1 while the decoration object 1 is heated. In this metallic decoration method, a heating temperature of the decoration object 1 in the heating process is set so as to be equal to or higher than a heating temperature of the decoration object 1 in the printing process.

Abstract: The ink jet recording apparatus includes: transport means that transports paper having a recording surface, on which an image is formed using an aqueous ink, along a transport path; heating means that is provided along the transport path; guide means that is provided along the transport path and supports the paper using a guide surface having suction holes; and suction means that suctions the paper through the suction holes of the guide surface, a suction region and a non-suction region are set when the paper is transported, the suction region in which the paper is suctioned by the suction means is set upstream of a first position of the transport path, the non-suction region is set downstream of the first position, and the first position is set at a position in which a residual water content in the paper is 1.0 g/m2 to 3.0 g/m2.

Abstract: A printing device including: a first conveyance path and a second conveyance path configured to conveying print media; a skew correction unit configured to correct skewing of the print medium conveyed along the first conveyance path; and a print unit configured to print on the print medium conveyed on the first conveyance path or the second conveyance path; the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path merging downstream of the skew correction unit; print media conveyed from the second conveyance path.

Abstract: A platen unit of a printer configured to perform printing while nipping and feeding a linerless label using a thermal head and a platen roller, the platen unit includes the platen roller, a downstream-side wraparound prevention member disposed on a downstream side of a feeding direction of the linerless label with respect to the platen roller, the downstream-side wraparound prevention member being configured to prevent the linerless label from rolling up to the platen roller, and an upstream-side wraparound prevention member disposed on an upstream side of the feeding direction of the linerless label with respect to the platen roller, the upstream-side wraparound prevention member being configured to prevent the linerless label from rolling up to the platen roller, wherein the upstream-side wraparound prevention member and the downstream-side wraparound prevention member are rotatably assembled to a roller shaft of the platen roller independently from each other.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a housing having a roll sheet receiving portion; a thermal head printing on a recording paper drawn out from the roll sheet; a platen roller feeding the recording paper and held in abutment against the thermal head; a delivery slot through which the recording paper having been subjected to printing by the thermal head is delivered to an outside of the housing, the delivery slot being formed in the housing; a retaining portion for retaining liquid having entered the housing in an assumed carriage posture assumed as a posture during carriage, the retaining portion being formed below the delivery slot in a gravitational direction; and a flow path for guiding the liquid having entered the housing to the retaining portion.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a base unit that can move in a moving direction and a medium support unit that supports a medium on which printing will be performed and moves in the moving direction along with the base unit by being attached to the base unit. When a position of the medium support unit with respect to the base unit during printing is defined as a base position, the medium support unit is slidable with respect to the base unit from the base position in the moving direction. By employing such a configuration, it is possible to suppress deterioration of work efficiency when setting a medium.

Abstract: A printer is provided with: a feed roller on which an elongated shaped medium is wound in a roll form and from which the medium is unwound and fed in a predetermined transport direction; a printing unit that prints an object to be printed on the medium fed from the feed roller; a take-up roller that takes up the medium printed by the printing unit in a roll form; and a tension applying member that applies a tension to the medium by making a contact with a surface opposite to a print surface of the medium. The tension applying member has a support portion disposed at a center position in a width direction of the medium, and an oscillation shaft extending in the width direction of the medium and adapted to oscillate in contact with the medium. The oscillation shaft is oscillated on the support portion serving as fulcrum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism that improves accuracy for positioning a head relative to a carriage, and easily performs positional adjustment for the head. A carriage unit includes a first carriage structure and a second carriage structure. The first carriage structure includes a first sliding face that can slide along a guide shaft, and a head can be mounted on the first carriage structure. The second carriage structure includes a second sliding face that can slide along the guide shaft, and can hold the first carriage structure to allow positional adjustment for the first carriage structure in a predetermined direction in which a position where the first sliding face contacts the guide shaft is to be shifted.

Abstract: The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a printing system for printing a substrate, in which the printing system can be housed in a gas enclosure, where the environment within the enclosure can be maintained as a controlled printing environment. A controlled environment of the present teachings can include control of the type of gas environment within the gas enclosure, the size and level particulate matter within the enclosure, control of the temperature within the enclosure and control of lighting. Various embodiments of a printing system of the present teachings can include a Y-axis motion system and a Z-axis moving plate that are configured to substantially decrease excess thermal load within the enclosure by, for example, eliminating or substantially minimizing the use of conventional electric motors.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium is provided that is excellent in heat discoloration resistance in the blank portions and in bar code readability. It also has excellent water resistance and printing (recording) run-ability. The thermosensitive recording medium includes a support, a thermosensitive recording layer installed on the support, and a protective layer on the thermosensitive recording layer. The thermosensitive recording layer contains two kinds of electron accepting color developing agents, a sulfonic acid compound and a diphenyl sulfone compound. Both the thermosensitive recording layer and the protective layer contain crosslinking agents, and at least one, and preferably both, of the thermosensitive recording layer and the protective layer contain an ammonium zirconium carbonate as the crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which is able to prevent a heat resistant slipping layer from transferring to a guide roller, etc., and which is able to prevent wrinkles when printing. Disclosed is a thermal transfer sheet including a substrate sheet, a thermal transfer layer disposed on one side of the substrate sheet, and a heat resistant slipping layer disposed on the other side of the substrate sheet via a primer layer, wherein the primer layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing one or more kinds of resins selected from a urethane resin and a polyester resin and a compound having a functional group selected from an epoxy group, a silanol group and a hydrolyzable silyl group.

Abstract: A positive-working lithographic printing plate includes a support having a hydrophilic surface or a hydrophilic layer, and a heat- and/or light-sensitive coating provided including at least two different (ethylene vinyl) acetal copolymer including a plurality of ethylenic moieties A having a structure according to the following formula: wherein R2 and R3 independently represent hydrogen, a halogen or an optionally substituted linear, branched, or cyclic alk(en)yl group, or an optionally substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic group.

Abstract: A high-speed automated assembly system for printed products, especially suited, for example, for printing books on demand. More particularly, at least one robotic processing station, and separate book assembly processing sub-stations, replace a standard bindery equipment in order to improve system flexibility, speed and efficiency.

Abstract: Two book covers are connected to a single spine that is both magnetic and expandable in order to encase a plurality of sections, each of which is composed of a plurality of pages that are grouped by a single magnetic binding strip. The magnetic strip allows for the section to be removed from its original book and collected into a unique organization of several sections, all of which may come from different books and may be securely kept inside a single pair of book covers that has a magnetic spine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a security and/or valuable document containing a polymer layer composite or consisting thereof, said polymer layer composite being formed from a polymer layer partial composite and a polymer cover layer and the polymer layer partial composite and/or the polymer cover layer containing a laser sensitive component, consisting of the followings steps: A) first personalized information is applied to the polymer layer partial composite by means of an inkjet printing method as a colored inkjet printed layer, B) the polymer cover layer is applied to the inkjet printed layer and is joined to the polymer layer partial composite by thermal lamination, and C) second personalized information is inscribed into the polymer layer composite of the security and/or valuable document, obtained in step B), by means of laser engraving. The invention also relates to a security and/or valuable document that can be produced according to said method.

Abstract: An optical product can reproduce a first 3D image of at least part of a first 3D object and a second 3D image of at least part of a second 3D object. The optical product comprises a surface configured, when illuminated, to reproduce by reflected or transmitted light, the first 3D image without reproducing the second 3D image at a first angle of view, and the second 3D image without reproducing the first 3D image at a second angle of view. Each portion of first portions can correspond to a point on a surface of the first 3D object, and comprise first non-holographic features configured to produce at least part of the first 3D image. Each portion of second portions can correspond to a point on a surface of the second 3D object, and comprise second non-holographic features configured to produce at least part of the second 3D image.

Abstract: A security device for security substrates, such as paper used for making security documents, such as banknotes, having anti-counterfeitable features and methods of making are provided. The security device has a carrier of at least partially light transmitting polymeric material. A carrier bears a plurality of first indicia which are easily visible to the human eye. The first indicia are defined by a plurality of smaller second indicia which are less visible to the human eye positioned relative to each other to enable the first indicia to be visualized.

Abstract: A mailer can include an envelope and an enclosure. A method can include: a) providing a blank with envelope and enclosure portions connected by a joint; b) folding and securing the blank such that the envelope portion forms a pouch, the pouch substantially containing the enclosure portion, the pouch being open at one end and having major surfaces, one major surface including the joint at or adjacent the open end, and another major surface including a closure flap extending from the open end beyond the joint; c) reversibly deflecting the flap away from the joint to thereby expose the joint; d) severing the joint while it is exposed; e) folding the closure flap and securing it to the one major surface to close the pouch and secure the enclosure within the pouch. An apparatus can be configured to carry out the above method.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate generally to relief sculptures, and more particularly to methods of creating relief sculptures, kits for creating relief sculptures, and the relief sculptures themselves. A method may include, for example, contacting a transparent plate and a first surface of a pliable sheet, the first surface of the pliable sheet comprising an image, wherein at least a portion of the image is visible through the transparent plate, applying a sculpting medium to a portion of the transparent plate that corresponds to an image feature visible through the transparent plate, and adhering a second surface of the pliable sheet to the transparent plate, the sculpting medium, or both, such that the image feature corresponds to the sculpting medium.

Abstract: The embodiments herein provide Cannabis plant parts (leaf, bud, flower and the like) by molding. The embodiments also provide Cannabis plant parts (leaf, bud, flower and the like) by molding for fabrication of jewelry and decorative articles. The 3D molded Cannabis bud, the 3D molded Cannabis leaves and the 3D molded Cannabis flower are fabricated from the material selected from a group consisting of plastics, polymers, glass, rubber, precious metals and non-precious metals. The metals are selected from a group consisting of steel, aluminum, precious metals (silver, gold and platinum). The decorative structures fabricated with Cannabis plant parts (leaf, flower, bud and the like) are light lamp, key chain, Christmas ornaments, souvenir, chocolate mold, candy mold, cookies mold and muffin mold. The ornamental structures fabricated with Cannabis plant parts (leaf, flower, bud and the like) are finger ring, earring, chain pendant, bracelet charms.

Abstract: A paint can holder for holding a cylindrical paint can has a rigid frame arranged to be secured to the paint can and a flexible strap member which is supported alongside the rigid frame at one side of the paint can. The flexible strap member is oriented such that the longitudinal direction of the flexible strap member is generally oriented in an upright direction. A hand of a user can be snugly received between the handle and the can while the horizontal orientation of the hand of the user inserted under the vertically oriented strap prevents the strap from falling off the hand of the user without requiring any portion of the paint to be hooked by the fingers or thumb of the user.

Abstract: A tensile element connection, comprising first and second bracing elements and a tensile element having a first portion connected to the first bracing element and a second portion opposed to the first portion and connected to the second bracing element, and an applied tensile load along the tensile element. The tensile element includes a preformed rod that is comprised of reinforcement fibers in a matrix. At a temporarily elevated temperature greater than the service temperature, a localized region of the matrix is in a softened state of increased deformability such that a localized region of the rod is deformed under pressure to include a laterally outwardly projecting engagement surface. The tensile element is comprised of said rod with the engagement surface formed therein and is connected to one of the first and second bracing elements by means of an overlie engagement at the engagement surface to restrain the tension load.

Abstract: A cast wheel having an alloy substrate includes a primary surface and a secondary surface. A first polymeric coating is applied to the primary surface and to the secondary surface sealing the cast alloy wheel within the first polymeric coating. An intermediate polymeric coating is applied over the first polymeric coating. The intermediate polymeric coating is coated with metal using physical vapor deposition with the metal being aesthetically distinguishable from the first polymeric coating. A third polymeric coating is applied over the metal. The third polymeric coating, the intermediate coating and the metal from the primary surface of the cast alloy wheel are removed aesthetically distinguishing the primary surface from the secondary surface. A fourth polymeric coating is applied over the primary surface and the secondary surface.

Abstract: A wheel includes a circular wheel main body and at least one grouser. The at least one grouser is provided along an outer circumference of the wheel main body and has a contact surface capable of drawing a first tangent line. The first tangent line is inclined opposite to a rotational direction of the wheel main body from the center line of the wheel main body.

Abstract: A wheel for a roller coaster or other amusement ride vehicle includes a self-contained illumination system. The wheel comprises a hub through which an axle is disposed, a web extending from the hub and including a plurality of apertures, and an annular seat at a periphery of the web for receiving a tire thereon, the annular seat cooperating with the hub and the web to define an annular cavity. A PCB is disposed in the annular cavity and has a plurality of LEDs aligned with the plurality of apertures on the web. A permanent magnet generator within the wheel powers the PCB and the LEDS, the generator completely confined to the interior of the wheel.

Abstract: A caster yoke for use in the manufacture of a set of wheeled caster assemblies wherein each caster assembly of the set of caster assemblies is capable of having unique functional capabilities relative to each other caster assembly of the set arising from different combinations of caster components (selected from a set of pre-determined of caster components) being mountable on each respective caster yoke of the set of wheeled caster assemblies. To this end, the caster yoke is provided with all of the mounting features necessary to selectively mount all of the respective caster components of the pre-determined set on the caster yoke, such that the same form of caster yoke may be used without modification as a mounting frame to create a set of caster assemblies having different functionalities, significantly reducing design, production and inventory costs for the set of caster assemblies.

Abstract: A method of assembling a wheeled package includes providing a package having an exterior surface with at least one cavity, and inserting a retractable caster assembly at least partially into the cavity. The retractable caster assembly includes a frame and a caster wheel assembly with a wheel and two guide members configured to be movable along slots within the frame so that: when the caster wheel assembly is at a first end of the slots the wheel is in a retracted position substantially within the cavity; and when the caster wheel assembly is at a second end of the slots the wheel is in an extended position extending from the cavity.

Abstract: To obtain a front axle frame having a high degree of strength appropriate to heavy load tasks, without resulting in a decrease in productivity or a drastic rise in costs. In a tractor that includes a front axle frame supporting a front axle case, the front axle frame is configured by a cast metal member having a support portion on a bottom of the front axle frame, the support portion supporting the front axle case.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes:a ring member (14) including an inner cylinder (12) externally covering an attachment body (11) to be attached to an axle and an outer cylinder (13) surrounding the inner cylinder (12) from a tire radial outer side; a plurality of connecting members (15) arranged along a tire circumferential direction between the inner cylinder (12) and the outer cylinder (13) and connecting the two cylinders to each other; and a tread member (16) made of vulcanized rubber and located on a tire radial outer side of the outer cylinder (13), wherein at least one part of the outer cylinder (13) and the plurality of connecting members (15) are integrally formed of a synthetic resin material, and an adhesion layer (25) containing an epoxy-based adhesive agent is located between the tread member (16) and the outer cylinder (13) having an amino group in a surface thereof.

Abstract: In a tire in which thickness from a boundary B between a cap layer 22 and a base layer 21 to a tire reference contour line L is thicker in a center land section 30 than in a shoulder land section 40, the center land section 30 and the shoulder land section 40 project to an outer side further than the tire reference contour line L, a thickness of the cap layer 22 in a projecting state is thicker in the center land section 30 than in the shoulder land section 40, and the shoulder land section 40 projects the most in a region A between a central position of the shoulder land section 40 in a tire width direction and a position on a main groove side therefrom by ¼ of a length of the shoulder land section 40 in the tire width direction.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a first stereoscopic sipe has a fixed sipe width over a sipe depth direction, a second stereoscopic sipe has large width portions having a sipe width wider than a sipe width of the second stereoscopic sipe on a surface of the tread rubber in the inside of the tread rubber, in a vehicle inner side region of the tread rubber disposed on an inner side when the pneumatic tire is mounted on the vehicle, a total of surface lengths of the first stereoscopic sipes is larger than a total of surface lengths of the second stereoscopic sipes, and in a vehicle outer side region of the tread rubber disposed on an outer side when the pneumatic tire is mounted on the vehicle, a total of surface lengths of the second stereoscopic sipes is larger than a total of surface lengths of the first stereoscopic sipes.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a tread rubber includes a vehicle inner side region, a vehicle outer side region, first stereoscopic sipes, and second stereoscopic sipes. The first stereoscopic sipe has a sipe wall surface of a shape bent in a sipe width direction as viewed in cross section perpendicular to a sipe length direction, the first stereoscopic sipe having a fixed sipe width over a sipe depth direction. The second stereoscopic sipe has large width portions having a sipe width wider than a sipe width of the second stereoscopic sipe on a surface of the tread rubber in the inside of the tread rubber. Rubber hardness of the tread rubber in the vehicle outer side region is larger than rubber hardness of the tread rubber in the vehicle inner side region. Accordingly, it is possible to enhance dry steering stability performance while suppressing lowering of ice braking performance.

Abstract: A car tyre having a tread that extends in axial direction for a width the tread including a central portion arranged across an equatorial plane, and two lateral portions opposed with respect to the central portion. The central portion is separated from the lateral portions of the tread by two circumferential grooves. The circumferential grooves have a width greater than about 6 mm. The central portion extends in axial direction for a width less than 20% of the width of the tread and includes a plurality of first sipes. Each lateral portion has a width greater than 30% of the width of the tread, and each lateral portion includes, furthermore, a plurality of transversal grooves. The transversal grooves of a lateral portion include at 1east a first inclined length that extends from a zone proximal to the respective circumferential grooves, moving away from the equatorial plane. The first inclined length has an inclination ??60° with respect to equatorial plane. Each lateral portion includes a plurality of sipes.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a bead part having a bead core, and a carcass layer folded around the bead core in the bead part. The bead part includes a bead inner-face part defined as a region at an inner side of the carcass layer in a tire width direction and at an outer side of a bead toe in a tire radial direction, a bead base part defined as a region at an inner side of the carcass layer in the tire radial direction and at an outer side of the bead toe in the tire width direction, and a high-hardness rubber layer having hardness higher than hardness of the bead base part and provided in at least a part of the bead inner-face part.

Abstract: Edge separation in a turned-up end portion (5E) of a carcass ply (5) is suppressed. In a pneumatic tire comprising a bead core (4) embedded in a bead portion (3) and a carcass ply (5) turned up and locked around the bead core (4), a rubber sheet (10) is prepared using a wet masterbatch containing natural rubber and/or polyisoprene rubber and carbon black, and the rubber sheet (10) is arranged on at least one of front and back sides of the turned-up end portion (5E) of the carcass ply (5).

Abstract: A run-flat tire comprises a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions, and a carcass ply extending between the bead portions. The sidewall portions are each provided therein with a sidewall reinforcing rubber layer having a crescent-shaped cross sectional shape and disposed on the axially inside of the carcass ply. The sidewall portions are each provided in the axially outer surface thereof with a rim protector which projects radially outward most on the radially outside of the radially inner edge of the sidewall reinforcing rubber layer. The bead portions are each provided therein with an axially inside core and an axially outside core between which each radially inner edge portion of the carcass ply is secured. When measured along a normal line drawn normally to the carcass ply from an apex of the rim protector, the thickness of the sidewall reinforcing rubber layer is in a range of from 29% to 35% of the thickness of the tire.

Abstract: A rotary joint assembly including a rotating portion. The rotating portion includes an annular body and a pair of annular sealing members. Each annular sealing member of the pair of annular sealing members is attached to a side of the annular body. An air passageway is formed in the annular body. The rotary joint assembly also includes a non-rotating portion. The non-rotating portion has a non-rotating portion air passageway formed therein. The non-rotating portion air passageway is in fluid communication with the air passageway formed in the annular body. A pair of annular air seal members are provided between the rotating portion and the non-rotating portion. Each annular air seal member of the pair of annular air seal members contacts a sealing surface of one of the annular seal members to provide a seal around an interface between the air passageway formed in the annular body and the non-rotating portion air passageway.

Abstract: A warning control unit of this tire air pressure monitoring device starts giving a driver a tire air pressure fall warning when a tire air pressure is equal to or lower than a first threshold. The warning control unit stops the warning when the tire air pressure becomes equal to or higher than a second threshold that is set based on a tire temperature in a case where the warning is being given. The warning control unit uses a constant value unrelated to a detected tire temperature as the first threshold, and uses a value obtained by adding a variable value, which is obtained by adding a positive constant value to a value that increases as a temperature difference obtained by subtracting a tire temperature at the time of the issuance of the warning from a current tire temperature increases, to the first threshold, as the second threshold.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump chamber with shape memory for pressure adjustment in tires is provided and which is part of the tire or is adjacent to the tire wall or is a part of a vehicle wheel, in particular for tires with an inner tube, e.g. bicycle tires.

Abstract: A latch and fail-safe mechanism suitable for use with an industrial cart, dolly, trailer or other types mobile platforms or carriers. According to an embodiment, the latch comprises a housing or enclosure, a latch mechanism, a hitch hook and a fail-safe mechanism. The housing includes a back-plate configured to attach the latch to a mounting bracket or frame plate on the cart. The latch mechanism is operatively coupled to the hitch hook and configured to bias the hitch hook in a closed or engaging position. The fail-safe mechanism is operatively coupled to the hitch hook and configured to bias and maintain the hitch hook in the closed position in the event of failure of the latch mechanism.

Abstract: A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a robotic work tool (100), said robotic work tool (100) comprising two front wheels (130) and a chassis (140), wherein said robotic work tool is characterized in that the two front wheels (130) are arranged on a beam axle (145) being pivotably arranged to the chassis (140).

Abstract: Systems and method for assigning vehicle suspension dynamics are disclosed. Control signals that correspond to a current driving dynamic of a suspension system of a vehicle are generated. A vehicle state associated with the generated control signals is computed and a non-traditional suspension mode is selected. Based on the computed vehicle state and the selected suspension mode, a suspension height of the vehicle is adjusted.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining whether or not ground contact loss is imminent for wheel of a vehicle, the vehicle including a vehicle body having a vertical extension in a vertical direction, the wheel being allowed to be subjected to a relative vertical displacement, in the vertical direction, in relation to the vehicle body, the vehicle further being such that a maximum value of a vertical displacement of the wheel relative to the vehicle body is limited to a relative vertical displacement limit; the method including determining an actual relative vertical displacement of the wheel relative to the vehicle body, determining a limit margin as the difference between the actual relative vertical displacement and the relative vertical position limit, and determining that ground contact loss is imminent for a wheel if the limit margin is within a predetermined vertical threshold range.

Abstract: A compressed-air supply system for operating a pneumatic installation includes a reservoir, a number of bellows, a pressure-air feed to which a charging assembly having a compressor is connected on a pressure-medium feed side, a pressure-air connection to the pneumatic installation, a venting connection to the environment, a pneumatic main line between the pressure-air feed and the pressure-air connection, a vent line between the pressure-air feed and the venting connection and a changeover valve associated with the pressure-air feed and configured to be controlled by pressure air in such a way that the pressure-air feed is open or can be opened via the changeover valve to the main line. A flow pressure at the pressure-air feed can be generated by the charging assembly to the main line.

Abstract: The sway bar linkage connects a sway bar with a control arm of a vehicle suspension system. The linkage includes a fastener and a plurality of bushings disposed between the fastener and the sway bar and between the fastener and the control arm. At least one of the bushings is constructed as a single piece of material, presents an outer surface, presents an inner bore which extends along an axis for receiving the fastener, and presents a plurality of pockets. The pockets are spaced radially between the inner bore and the outer surface for allowing the bushing to more easily deflect and absorb energy while transferring forces between the sway bar, fastener and control arm.