Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a piston pump assembly comprising a piston with a variable stroke and to a hydraulic braking system comprising the same. The piston pump assembly comprises at least: a rotatable drive shaft defining an axis of rotation of the rotatable drive shaft; a cam disposed on the drive shaft; and the piston biased toward the cam and configured to reciprocate along a piston axis for displacing a hydraulic fluid.

Abstract: A linearly actuated hydraulic piston pump is provided. The pump includes a piston disposed between a first section and a second section of a piston chamber. The pump also includes a control valve having a valve body defining a valve chamber therein. The control valve also includes an inlet port, a first port, a regeneration port, a second port, and a spool. The spool in a first spool position fluidly couples a pressurized fluid source to the first section via the inlet port and the first port, and fluidly couples an accumulator to the second section via the regeneration port and the second port. The spool in the second spool position fluidly couples the first section to a drain via the first port and a drain port, and fluidly couples the second section to the pressurized fluid source via the inlet port and the second port.

Abstract: A pressure-driven metered treating chemistry dispensing pump for a laundry treating appliance having a housing having first, second and third chambers, with the first and second chambers each in fluid communication with the third chamber; a fluid inlet fluidly coupling a first fluid to the first chamber; an outlet fluidly coupled to the third chamber; a piston disposed in the housing; wherein, when the piston moves in a first direction in response to the first fluid entering the first chamber via the fluid inlet, the second chamber decreases in volume thereby ejecting at least some of the second fluid from the second chamber into the third chamber, and when the piston moves in a second direction, different from the first direction, the first chamber decreases in volume thereby ejecting at least some of the first fluid from the first chamber into the third chamber to mix the at least some of the first fluid and the at least some of the second fluid to form a mixture in the third chamber, which can be emitted t

Abstract: An ion pump has an exterior magnet and a chamber wall defining an interior. The interior contains an anode having an exterior surface extending around an axis and defining an opening wherein the axis passes through the opening and a post made of ferrous material, aligned with the axis of the anode and positioned between the exterior magnet and the anode.

Abstract: Poppet valve for a piston compressor, having a valve body with a plurality of inlet ducts, wherein each inlet duct has an inlet section and an outlet section. The outlet section opens into a valve seat, wherein each inlet duct is assigned a closing element and a spring. The closing element can be moved in an axial direction (A) in such a way that the valve seat can be closed by way of the closing element. The spring has a first spring end section and a second spring end section, wherein the spring is arranged in the inlet duct and bears with the first spring end section against and is held on the inlet section of the inlet duct. The second spring end section is connected to the closing element, to bring about a pre-stressing force on the closing element, which pre-stressing force is oriented towards the valve seat.

Abstract: A pump for reducing agents of an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes: a diaphragm carrier; a diaphragm arranged on the diaphragm carrier, the diaphragm having a radially outer collar; and a pump housing configured to secure the radially outer collar of the diaphragm. The radially outer collar of the diaphragm has a reinforcing ring.

Abstract: A piezoelectric blower includes a valve, a housing, a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating plate forms, together with the housing, a column-shaped blower chamber such that the blower chamber is interposed therebetween in a thickness direction of the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate and the housing are formed such that the blower chamber has a radius (a). The piezoelectric element causes the vibrating plate to undergo concentric bending vibration at a resonance frequency (f). The radius (a) of the blower chamber and the resonance frequency (f) of the vibrating plate satisfy a relationship of 0.8×(k0c)/(2?)?af?1.2×(k0c)/(2?), where an acoustic velocity of gas that passes through the blower chamber is (c) and a value that satisfies a relationship of a Bessel function of a first kind of J0(k0)=0 is k0.

Abstract: A positive displacement pump includes at least two pumping chambers and associated plungers. Each plunger is driven by an associated variable speed motor, such as a stepper motor, in a reciprocating motion. The stepper motor varies speed during each stroke of the plunger. A controller controls speed and direction of each stepper motor. Each stepper motor is coupled to a leadscrew having an associated guide rod mounted on the leadscrew to move along the leadscrew as the leadscrew rotates and actuate an associated plunger. The controller varies the speed, displacement and duration of the stepper motors' steps to maintain a constant outflow without pulses.

Abstract: A motor system includes at least two motors respectively having an output power and a rotary shaft, wherein at least one coupling is provided to connected the at least two rotary shafts. A detect unit is electrically connected to each of the at least two motors and detects the currents of the at least two motors and forms detecting signals relative to the current value of each of the at least two motors. A control unit is electrically connected to the at least two motors for receiving a controlling signal and the detecting signal for adjusting an output power to the electric actuator.

Abstract: A delivery system for a sensor chip includes a plurality of selectable ports and a two-way pump port selectively connectable to each of the selectable ports. The two-way pump port is configured to allow material to be drawn or delivered from or to the two-way pump port. The delivery system also includes a chamber and a bypass waste channel that is selectively connectable to the two-way pump port. The plurality of selectable ports includes a selectable chamber port connected to the chamber and the chamber has a chamber waste exit. Material may selectively flow through the chamber to a waste collection via the chamber waste exit or flow to the waste collection via the bypass waste channel that bypasses the chamber waste exit.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor; a plurality of slits that are formed in the rotor, the plurality of vanes being respectively inserted into the plurality of slits in a slidable manner; a cam ring that has a cam face on which tip-ends of the vanes slide by the rotation of the rotor; and pump chambers that are defined by the rotor, the cam ring, and an adjacent pair of the vanes. The plurality of vanes have a plurality of first vanes that are formed by applying a DLC coating on a base material and second vanes that are formed such that the base material is exposed, the first vanes being respectively inserted into at least two adjacent slits of the plurality of slits.

Abstract: A pump having a rotor that is rotatable about a rotation axis and comprises a rotor hub and a rotor collar that extends from the rotor hub in the radial direction and encircles it in an undulating manner, and a pump housing which comprises a first axial housing component, a central annular housing component and a second axial housing component, wherein a pump duct is formed in the axial direction by the first and second housing components and in the radial direction by the central annular housing component and the rotor, and also a pump in which the annular pump duct has a constant cross section and connects a first radially external inlet/outlet space to a second radially external inlet/outlet space, and the pump may include a blocking device which is arranged between the first radially external inlet/outlet space and the second radially external inlet/outlet space and which comprises a blocking element which blocks the pump duct in the axial direction on both sides of the rotor collar.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor; a plurality of vanes; a cam ring; a second side plate; a suction port provided in the second side plate, the suction port being configured to guide working fluid to the pump chambers; a pump cover arranged so as to sandwich the second side plate with the cam ring; and a low-pressure chamber formed in the pump cover, the low-pressure chamber having an opening portion communicating with the suction port. The suction port is arranged so as to be shifted towards a forward side of in a rotating direction of the rotor with respect to the opening portion of the low-pressure chamber.

Abstract: A transmission device (1) has a double-flow sliding vane pump (4). Hydraulic fluid is supplied to suction sides (5A, 5B) of the pump (4) through an inlet area (14) from a hydraulic fluid reservoir (11) and from a suction loading (16) via an annular chamber (7) and pump inlets (9, 10). The annular chamber (7) is delimited by the cam ring (6) and a housing (8) enclosing the cam ring (6). A sealing gap (17) extends in the circumferential direction (U) between one of the pump inlets (10) and a circumferential area (44) of the cam ring (6) delimiting the inlet area (14) from the hydraulic fluid reservoir (11). Courses (19, 20) of the inlet area (14) and of the suction loading (16) installed in the transmission device (1) respectively form a first angle (?) and a second angle (?) with the vertical axis (21) of the transmission device (1).

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll, a suction section, a discharge section, and an electric motor. A sliding surface of a scroll is formed outside a wrap with a depression section depressed with respect to a sliding surface and a flange section elevated with respect to the depression section. The flange section is a remaining region in a protruding region disposed outside a referential perfect circle, the remaining region being other than a region continuing to an end of an involute curve of a scroll formed with the flange section, the referential perfect circle having a radius set to a distance between the center of the scroll formed with the flange section and the end of the involute curve. The scroll compressor enhances reduction of the sliding loss with a simple structure and reduction of the refrigerant leakage loss in the entire compression chambers.

Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that may include a first wrap, and a second wrap engaged with the first wrap and coupled to be eccentric to a center of rotation of a rotational shaft to form a compression chamber, moving toward a central portion, together with the first wrap while performing an orbiting motion with respect to the first wrap. A height of at least one of the first wrap or the second wrap may be formed to have at least two inclination machining amounts which decrease toward the central portion, and the inclination machining amount of the central portion may be larger than the inclination machining amount of an edge portion or a wrap rigidity at a specific section, thereby preventing frictional loss or abrasion of the wrap and breakage of the wrap.

Abstract: A compressor provided with a compressor element, a motor configured to drive said compressor element and an electronic pressure switch. The electronic pressure switch includes a pressure sensor; a current sensor; a microprocessor unit including a first input port and a second input port; a first communication unit; and a second communication unit. The electronic pressure switch includes a housing. The microprocessor unit, the pressure sensor, the current sensor, the first communication unit and the second communication unit are integrated in said housing.

Abstract: An oil circuit for lubrication and cooling of an oil-free compressor with an oil reservoir and a rotary oil pump to drive oil to the compressor element and/or the motor via an oil pipe. The rotary oil pump has a rotor mounted on a rotation shaft, and is driven by the motor of the compressor. The oil circuit is provided with a bypass pipe and a pressure-actuated bypass valve which guide a portion of the oil back to the oil reservoir without this portion of the oil passing through the compressor element and/or the motor during its way back to the oil reservoir. The oil circuit is further provided with an oil cooler in the bypass pipe. The bypass valve is in the oil pipe.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dampener that can eliminate or reduce noise from fluid flow, where the fluid has been accelerated by equipment. A typical kind of equipment that may do such a thing is a pneumatic blower, which takes in ambient air and discharges the air at a higher velocity. The discharged fluid may be passed through the dampener, which includes a noise-absorbing spool structure and a reflective head. Noise that is not absorbed by the noise-absorbing spool structure may be reflected back on the direction of the noise-absorbing spool structure. The combination of noise absorption with noise reflection can result in the dampener efficiently dampening noise with comparatively little adverse effect on fluid flow.

Abstract: An inlet panel for a supercharger comprises a first portion, the first portion comprising one of a perforated material, a micro-perforated material, and a mesh layer. The inlet panel also comprises a second portion, the second portion comprising a recess and an axis. The recess is bordered in part by a side wall and a back wall. The first portion is offset from the back wall in the axial direction. The side wall has an edge located a distance away from the back wall in the axial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor device for a vacuum distillation plant for substance mixtures that polymerize and/or decompose readily, in particular acrolein, in which plant an intermediate product formed in a preliminary stage is delivered by means of a pump into a vacuum distillation column (37). The invention is characterized in that the pump is a hermetically sealed centrifugal pump (31) having a magnetic coupling, and in that a pressure holding control valve (34), which is configured to adjust the throughput of the centrifugal pump (31) to a predetermined value, is provided between the centrifugal pump (31) and the vacuum distillation column (37).

Abstract: A compressor system includes; a compression section that sucks and compresses gas; a rotor that includes the compression section; a gas bearing that supports the rotor; a dynamic-pressure generating gas supply system that supplies, to a gas supply port for dynamic pressure of the gas bearing, bleed gas from the gas pressurized by the compression section; and an external gas supply system for static pressure that supplies, to a gas supply port for static pressure of the gas bearing, external gas from outside of the compression section. The dynamic-pressure generating gas supply system and the external gas supply system for static pressure respectively include paths that are independent of each other to the gas bearing. The gas supply port for dynamic pressure and the gas supply port for static pressure are independent of each other.

Abstract: A fixing bolt for a stationary member, the bolt extending through and fixing a plurality of stationary members in a multistage centrifugal compressor, includes a head portion, a columnar portion connected to the head portion, and a threaded portion connected to the columnar portion. The columnar portion includes one or more large diameter parts and a plurality of small diameter parts, the one or more large diameter parts each corresponding to a position of an antinode of a primary vibration mode of the fixing bolt for the stationary member, or to the position of the antinode of the primary vibration mode and positions of antinodes of a secondary vibration mode of the fixing bolt for the stationary member, and each of the plurality of small diameter parts having a diameter smaller than each of the large diameter parts.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, and procedure for controlling a fan module. The system comprises a chassis having a backplane, at least one fan module arranged in the chassis, and a profile switch. In one embodiment, the profile switch is arranged in the chassis. Each fan module includes at least one fan and a fan module controller arranged to receive a control signal from a shelf controller. The profile switch is arranged to signal the fan module controller so as to control the at least one fan based on operating profiles corresponding to selected switch positions of the switch.

Abstract: A rotary compressor system includes a compressor housing that includes a compressor motor that draws in fluid from a suction side. The fluid is compressed within a compression chamber and discharged through a discharge side. The compression chamber is disposed between the suction side and the discharge side. An overload-protection switch is electrically coupled in series with the compressor motor and is adapted to cut power to the compressor motor responsive to an overload event. A solenoid valve is fluidly coupled between the compression chamber and a location upstream of the suction side and is electrically coupled in series with the overload-protection switch. An interruption of electrical current to the compressor motor also interrupts electrical current to the solenoid valve, which opens the solenoid valve to equalize pressure between the suction side and the discharge side.

Abstract: A blower motor assembly includes a blower wheel and a motor. The blower wheel includes an integrally formed hub. The motor includes a shaft rotatable about an axis. The hub presents a radially inner hub surface that at least in part defines a hub opening. The inner hub surface defines an inner cross-sectional dimension. The shaft is axially received within the hub opening, such that the blower wheel is supported by the shaft for rotational movement. The shaft includes a toothed region defining a plurality of arcuately spaced apart teeth. Each of the teeth includes a cutting edge. The teeth present an outer cross-sectional dimension that is great than the inner cross-sectional dimension of the inner hub surface, such that the cutting edges of the teeth cut a plurality of grooves in the inner hub surface as the shaft is axially received in the hub opening.

Abstract: A turbomachine, in particular a jet engine of an aircraft, with a rotor device and a stator device, wherein a sealing appliance is arranged preferably in the radial direction between the rotor device and the stator device, with the sealing appliance having a support arm that extends substantially in the axial direction and is connected to the rotor device in a torque-proof manner. The support arm has a sealing lip on the side that faces towards the stator device, and has a covering overlap with an adjoining surface of the rotor device at its inner side. At least one cooling air opening is arranged in the surface of the rotor device in an area of the covering overlap of the support arm of the sealing appliance with the rotor device.

Abstract: An electric submersible pump having a housing with side walls and at least one stackable diffuser residing within the housing. The stackable diffuser can have a diffuser side wall forming an annular gap between the outer surface of the diffuser side wall and the inner surface of the housing side wall. A filler can be provided within the annular gap to prevent recirculation and/or rotation of the diffuser within the housing. Additionally or alternatively, an O-ring can be disposed within the annular gap to prevent recirculation and/or rotation of the diffuser within the housing.

Abstract: A device is disclosed including a wear ring made with thermoplastic material formed as a hollow cylinder with an inside diameter and an outside diameter. The hollow cylinder may have multiple holes through at least a portion of the thermoplastic material from the inside diameter towards the outside diameter. The multiple holes may be passages between the inside diameter and the outside diameter that allow fluid under pressure to pass between the inside diameter and the outside diameter through the multiple holes.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine may have a fan section that includes a variable pitch mechanism for changing the pitch of fan blades. The gas turbine engine may include a fan hub that is rotatable about an engine central longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine and a blade receiver that is for holding a fan blade and that is rotatably coupled to the fan hub and may be rotatable about a radial axis of the gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may include a spring element disposed between the fan hub and the blade receiver to bias the blade receiver radially outward and an annular retaining ring may be disposed around the radial axis and between the fan hub and the blade receiver to limit radially outward movement of the blade receiver to prevent the blade receiver from decoupling and disengaging from the fan hub.

Abstract: Provided are a centrifugal compressor gas-supplementing structure and a compressor using the foregoing gas-supplementing structure. The centrifugal compressor gas-supplementing structure includes a annular gas-supplementing passage (6) for introducing supplemented gas into a gas passage (5) of a compressor, and an airflow-guiding assembly is provided in the annular gas-supplementing passage (6). The gas-guiding assembly is used for adjusting a direction of the supplemented gas flowing into the gas passage (5), so that an angle between a direction of the supplemented gas flowing into the gas passage (5) and a direction of an airflow in the gas passage (5) falls within a preset range, and a turbulence loss generated when the two passages of gas merge is avoided to the greatest extent, thereby improving cycle efficiency.

Abstract: A compressor assembly of a turbocharger can include a compressor housing that includes a compressor wheel space and a diffuser section that extends from the compressor wheel space to at least one volute; a dual-faced compressor wheel disposed at least in part in the compressor wheel space where the dual-faced compressor wheel includes a first compressor wheel face and a second compressor wheel face oriented back-to-back; and a diffuser section divider disposed at least in part in the diffuser section where the diffuser section divider includes a first side that defines in part a first diffuser that includes a first set of vanes associated with the first compressor wheel face and a second side that defines in part a second diffuser that includes a second set of vanes associated with the second compressor wheel face.

Abstract: A power source integrated vacuum pump configured such that a pump main body and a pump power source device are integrated together, comprises: a substrate which is provided at the pump power source device and on which an electronic component is mounted; a cooling device having a cooling surface fixed in contact with the substrate; and a heat insulating member having a smaller coefficient of thermal conductivity than that of a material forming the cooling surface and covering a cooling surface region to which the substrate is not fixed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a radial turbo compressor (TCO) including at least one impeller (IP) at least one casing (CS), the impeller (IP) is rotatable about an axis (X), the casing (CS) comprises an inlet (IL) upstream of the impeller (IP), the inlet (IL) comprising an inlet flange (IF) to be mounted to a process gas pipe (PGP), the casing (CS) comprises an outlet (OL) down-stream of the impeller (IP) comprising an outlet flange (OF), the casing (CS) comprises an outlet volute (VL) extending about the axis (X) downstream of the impeller (IP) and upstream of the outlet (OL), and the radial turbo compressor (TCO) comprises a drive unit (DRU) driving the impeller (IP) and being mounted to the casing (CS).

Abstract: An air mover comprising a housing with a top portion is disclosed. A mounting bracket is recessed into the housing through the top portion of the housing. The mounting bracket comprises a plurality of top chords intersecting at a first portion of an inner web and a plurality of bottom chords intersecting at a second portion of the inner web. The mounting bracket also has a base plate coupled to the plurality of bottom chords. A motor is coupled to the base plate of the mounting bracket. An impeller is coupled to the motor. The air mover further comprises a housing cover that has an inlet ring positioned on the top portion of the housing. The housing cover is coupled to the mounting bracket via the mounting flanges and a portion of the inlet ring protrudes into the impeller inlet inside the housing.

Abstract: A fan structure includes a frame body and a fan impeller. The frame body has a base seat and an annular wall. A bearing cup upward extends from a center of the base seat. At least one groove is annularly formed on inner wall face of the annular wall. The fan impeller is pivotally disposed in the bearing cup and has a hub and multiple blades outward extending from the hub. Each blade has an end edge. At least one protrusion section outward protrudes from the end edge into the groove. According to the design of the fan structure, the protrusion section can destroy the production of the vortex of the blade of the conventional fan so as to greatly minify the strength of the vortex. Therefore, the structure of the sound field of the vortex is changed so that the noise of the fan structure is lowered.

Abstract: An axial fan for a cooling fan module, includes a hub having a front wall configured to be connected to a rotor of an electric motor at a plurality of connection points, and a side wall from which a plurality of blades extend. At least one opening is formed in the front wall of the hub and between at least one of the connection points and the side wall. The at least one opening comprises a curved portion extending in a circumferential direction with respect to an axis of the hub.

Abstract: A compressor assembly includes a shaft and a compressor wheel that is supported on the shaft. The compressor assembly also includes an electric motor with a stator and a rotor. The electric motor is configured to rotate the shaft and the compressor wheel. The compressor assembly additionally includes a housing assembly configured to house the stator, the rotor, and at least part of the shaft. The housing assembly includes a first member and a second member. Moreover, the compressor assembly includes a dampener disposed between the first member and the second member of the housing assembly. The dampener is configured to elastically deform to provide dampening of a force transferred between the first member and the second member of the housing assembly.

Abstract: An accumulator capable of suppressing collision of a metal bellows with a pressure vessel. A partition unit 300 includes: a tubular metal bellows 310, one end of which is side fixed to a pressure vessel 200 and which expands and contracts according to pressure in a fluid chamber and pressure in a gas chamber; and a bellows cap 320 which is fixed to another end side of the metal bellows 310, the partition unit 300 further including: a seal member 330 which is provided between the bellows cap 320 and a port 221 and seals a working fluid on the side of the fluid chamber via the metal bellows 310 when the metal bellows 310 contracts; and a sliding unit 350 which is fixed to the bellows cap 320 and slides in an expansion/contraction direction of the metal bellows 310 relative to a stay 400.

Abstract: A hydraulic system and a method comprising a linear actuator 23 for generating discrete sum forces, chambers A-D for generating discrete force components, at least two charging circuits 3,4 configured to maintain predetermined pressure levels of hydraulic fluid, independent control interfaces 9-16 configured to open and close connections of the first and second charging circuits to the chambers, and an electronic control unit 50 for controlling the control interfaces. At least two control interfaces are proportional valves which are used as shut-off valves and are independently switchable to the open and closed positions in a controlled manner. Moreover, non-throttled control and secondary control are implemented in the hydraulic system and the method.

Abstract: A valve assembly has a valve housing with a hole therein. A valve spool is slidably received directly into the hole of the valve housing with no sleeves or seals interposed therebetween. Preferably, the valve housing and valve spool may be made from hardened stainless steel, preferably hardened 440C stainless steel. Preferably the manifold block has integrally formed manifold section and valve housing section.

Abstract: A rotary joint, including: a hydraulic follow-up mechanism and a rotary transmission mechanism. The hydraulic follow-up mechanism includes a cylinder body, a valve sleeve, a valve core, a valve body, a left end cover and a right end cover. The rotary transmission mechanism includes a tray, a stabilizing ring, a follow-up disk, a torque transfer disk and a stable supporting wheel mechanism. The left end cover and the right end cover are arranged at the left and right ends of the cylinder body, respectively. The valve body is concentrically mounted in a cylindrical hollow chamber of the cylinder body. The output shaft at the right end of the valve body projects out of the right end cover. The right end of the valve core is provided with a valve core torque transfer shaft extending rightwards through the right end of the valve body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system which comprises: a plurality of flow valves on channels of reaction fluid, which are i) in a closed position or ii) in an open position; a plurality of control pipes connected to a source of control fluid and to a respective control pipe, all or part of the flow valves switching to the closed position when the pressure of the control fluid in the control pipe drops below a predetermined threshold; a discharge pipe connected to the control pipes, in order to discharge the control fluid from the control pipes; a safety device connected i) to each control pipe and ii) to the discharge pipe and configured to have, selectively: i) a service configuration, wherein the control fluid flows to each control pipe, thus opening each flow valve, and ii) a safety configuration, wherein the control fluid is discharged through the discharge pipe, thus closing each flow valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a damping device, particularly for damping or avoiding pressure surges such as pulses, in hydraulic supply circuits, preferably in the form of a silencer, comprising a damping housing which surrounds a damping chamber (19) and has at least one fluid inlet (11) and at least one fluid outlet (13) and a fluid receiving chamber (19) which extends between said fluid inlet (11) and fluid outlet (13), wherein, during operation of the device, a fluid flow crosses the damping chamber (19) in a through-flow direction (15), coming from the fluid inlet (11) in the direction of the fluid outlet (13), and wherein at least parts of the fluid receiving chamber (19) extend in at least one extension direction transversely with respect to the through-flow direction (15). The invention is characterised in that the fluid receiving chamber (19) immediately adjoins the fluid inlet (11) and the fluid outlet (13) and is delimited by at least one yielding wall part (4).

Abstract: Flow conditioners are provided including a face having at a plurality of openings therein and an elongated body coupled to the face, each of the plurality of openings having a corresponding shaft on the elongated body. The flow conditioner is configured to be positioned in a meter such that water flows into the meter through the plurality of openings in the face of the flow conditioner and through the corresponding shafts on the elongated body to condition the flow through the meter. The presence of the flow conditioner in the meter improves a measured flow rate at flow rates less than 1.0 gallon per minute (GPM). Related systems are also provided.

Abstract: An article includes a molded plastic body that is comprised of a main body portion and a locator pin that projects from the main body portion. The locator pin includes a base at the main body and a pin that extends from the base and has a tip end. The base and the pin are of different sizes so as to form a ledge that faces away from the main body portion. The pin includes a parallel-sided portion that is located within a zone that starts at the base and terminates short of the tip end.

Abstract: A stress-engineered frangible structure includes multiple discrete glass members interconnected by inter-structure bonds to form a complex structural shape. Each glass member includes strengthened (i.e., by way of stress-engineering) glass material portions that are configured to transmit propagating fracture forces throughout the glass member. Each inter-structure bond includes a bonding member (e.g., glass-frit or adhesive) connected to weaker (e.g., untreated, unstrengthened, etched, or thinner) glass member region(s) disposed on one or both interconnected glass members that function to reliably transfer propagating fracture forces from one glass member to other glass member. An optional trigger mechanism generates an initial fracture force in a first (most-upstream) glass member, and the resulting propagating fracture forces are transferred by way of inter-structure bonds to all downstream glass members.

Abstract: A rod bracket is provided and includes a bracket base, wherein the bracket base defines a plurality of bracket mounting cavities and includes a base front, a base rear, a base top and a base bottom, a bracket arm having a bracket arm length and a curtain rod cradle securely associated with the bracket base via the bracket arm, wherein the plurality of bracket mounting cavities communicate the base front with the base rear and are configured at an angle of between about 30° and 60° relative to a horizontal plane, and wherein the bracket base defines a first bracket base rear opening, and wherein the ratio between the bracket arm length and the distance between the first bracket base rear opening and the base bottom is about 1:1.

Abstract: An elastic clamp is for coupling props to beams. The clamp includes a minimum of two elastic wings able to hold and exert pressure on opposite lateral faces of the beam to be supported by the prop. The clamp allows the prop to be retained in a place selected along the beam to be supported, and prevents the prop from falling and rotating sideways.

Abstract: A side member (example of second member) having a hollow shape is inserted into holes formed in a cross member (example of first member) (member insertion step). The cross member and the side member are joined by caulking by expanding an insertion portion of the side member from the inside of the insertion portion (caulked junction step). The insertion portion of the side member is a portion inserted into the cross member.