Abstract: An elastic sheet structure including a fixing section, a body section perpendicularly connected to the fixing section, an elastic section, and two support sections is provided. The elastic section perpendicularly connects to the body section so that a portion of the elastic section is substantially parallel to the fixing section. Two support sections perpendicularly connect to two opposite sides of the body section. The support sections are supported by the fixing section, and are higher than the body section concurrently with respect to the fixing section. The elastic section is located between and movable with respect to the two support sections, and a top of the elastic section is higher than a top of each support section concurrently with respect to the fixing section.

Abstract: A reinforcement including at least two separate members that are secured to each other. The reinforcement may further include a bonding material that is disposed on at least one of the members and confined within an outer perimeter of the carrier. The bonding material may be configured to secure the carrier to the structure. The two members are secured to each other to permit at least one of translational and rotational relative movement therebetween such that one of the members engages the bonding material, thereby forcing the bonding material beyond the outer perimeter of the carrier.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for applying internal features or complex mechanical structures to a surface of a metal part are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for creating an assembly that includes a substrate and a molded piece involves obtaining the substrate, and forming at least one binding feature on a surface of the substrate. The method also includes molding on a surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate. Molding on the surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate mechanically binds the molded piece to the substrate.

Abstract: A low-melt plastic fastener. According to one embodiment, the low-melt plastic fastener is shaped to include a flexible filament having a first cross-bar at a first end, and a second cross-bar at a second end. The filament, the first cross-bar, and the second cross-bar may be formed from the same material and may be molded as a unitary structure. Preferably, the fastener is molded as part of a length of continuously connected ladder stock. The plastic fastener is preferably made from a formulation consisting of about 60-99%, by weight, of a low-melt polyurethane and 1-40%, by weight, of a styrene acrylonitrile. The formulation is selected so that the filament melts when heated for about 10 minutes at 130-180° C.

Abstract: A soft interior trim component for an aircraft cabin, for example a headboard cover for a lie-flat seat, as a soft layer of foam (24, 124) the front of which is covered by a cover (40). The component is attached to a surface to be covered by attachment means (26, 28-32;126, 129) which enable the component to be easily removed for replacement and/or cleaning. The attachment may comprise a double-sided adhesive tape (26;126) and a series of fasteners (28-32).

Abstract: A seaming area for a woven industrial fabric, a fabric, and a method of providing a seaming area and seam. The fabric comprises at least a first set of warp yarns interwoven with weft yarns, either in a single layer, or multiple layers in which the warp yarns can optionally be stacked. At each seaming area, yarns of a first group pass around and in contact with the fabric edge, and yarns of a second group pass around the fabric edge to form protruding loops. Free ends of the warp yarns are bonded to the fabric body, over warp yarns or weft yarns, or combinations thereof. Opposing fabric ends are brought together, and the loops interdigitated to be joined by a pintle or coil to render the fabric endless. The seaming area and the method provide increased seam strength and reliability, with significant reduction of time and costs of manufacture.

Abstract: A sorbent activation plate having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a plurality of reliefs in the first surface, and a plurality of protrusions on the second surface. The sorbent activation plate is structured to attach to a boiler tube such that the plurality of protrusions contact the boiler tube and offset the second surface from the boiler tube.

Abstract: The padded edge cover has a hemispherical top portion and a cylindrical bottom portion extending from the top portion, the two portions forming a core of cushioning material. Prongs extend from a rear face of the bottom core portion to insert into hollow extruded metal frame members. The padded edge cover is resilient in order to cushion physical contact of personnel with the frame members. The padded edge covers are easily removable from the frame members and can be stored on a metal bracket designed specifically for the covers. Alternative embodiments of the padded edge covers are substantially rectangular and have either prongs or magnetic members to retain the padded covers to the frame members.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing unit having an accommodating portion, and first and second openings communicating with the accommodating portion. A waterproof element is made of a resilient material, and includes a main body that is disposed on the accommodating portion and that has a top face, and a side face extending upwardly from the top face. The electronic component module includes a circuit board and an electronic component. The circuit board has a board bottom face disposed on and abutting against the top face of the main body and covering the second opening, and a board edge abutting against the side face of the main body. An electronic component is attached to the circuit board, extends through the main body of the waterproof element, is disposed inside the accommodating portion, and faces the first opening.

Abstract: Tables and chairs comprising at least one surface (A) or part of said table or chair comprising a layer (M) of textile or imitation textile material or paper or cellulose-based material coated by at least one layer of rigid outer transparent or semi-transparent plastic material (P), and wherein said surface (A) or part of said table or chair is obtained by means of injection moulding or by means of injection-compression of the plastic material (P) in moulds having the shape of the surface (A) or part of said table or chair to be produced, in which the layer (M) made of textile or imitation textile material or paper or cellulose-based material has been previously positioned, so that said layer (M) made of textile or imitation textile material or paper or cellulose-based material adheres to the inner surface of said outer transparent or semi-transparent layer (P).

Abstract: Anaerobic adhesive and sealant compositions in film form, film spool assemblies containing such compositions in film form and preapplied versions thereof on matable parts are provided.

Abstract: A coupling element, an injection molding object with the coupling element implanted therein, and an injection mold for manufacturing the injection molding object are provided. The coupling element has two reversely extended fixing ribs. The injection mold has a first mold and a second mold. The first mold has a first molding cavity and two positioning blocks separated by the first molding cavity. The second mold has a second molding cavity. When the first mold and the second mold are shut together and their molding cavities combine to define a closed room, the positioning blocks hold the coupling element by clamping the fixing ribs so the coupling element is suspended in midair of the closed room.

Abstract: A plurality of connecting elements projects from a body's surface. A plurality of indents is defined in the body's surface. Each stem element includes first and second stalks projecting orthogonally from the surface. The first stub includes a pyramidical cap section and at least one generally planar wall. The second stalk is generally parallel to the first stub and spaced apart from the at least one wall, defining a gap therebetween. The second stalk includes a stem projecting from the surface. A lip section extends from a distal end of the stem and protrudes outwardly relative to the stem. An engagement section extends from the lip section. A free end of the engagement section defines a distal end of the second stalk. An outer surface of the engagement section defines a first gradient tapering from the lip section to the distal end of the second stalk.

Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, a digital material comprising many discrete units is used to fabricate a sparse structure. The units are reversibly joined by elastic connections. Each unit comprises fiber-reinforced composite material. Each unit is small compared to the sparse structure as a whole. Likewise, in a sparse structure made from this digital material, the number of types of units is small compared to the total number of units. The digital material is anisotropic. This anisotropy may be due to different fiber orientations within each unit. Furthermore, different units in a single sparse structure may be oriented in different directions and in different, non-parallel planes. In some cases, the digital material is reinforced with carbon fibers, and connections between units are stronger than the units themselves. The small discrete units may be assembled into a strong, lightweight sparse structure, such as an airframe.

Abstract: A protective cover formed substantially of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene yarns and having first and second opposing edges connected by a high shear strength hook and loop fastener system. The high shear strength hook and loop fastener system includes areas of a plurality of high shear strength hooks along opposing edges of the cover and an intermediate disposable strip having a plurality of loops on both sides of the strip configured to be received between the areas having the plurality of hooks. The cover wraps around the sling so that a portion of the first edge and second edge overlap with the intermediate disposable strip to form the releasable connection. When the edges are released, the intermediate strip may be replaced, when worn, by a new intermediate strip with the remainder of the cover and fastener system being reusable.

Abstract: A thermal protection system capable of withstanding impact loads without a detrimental effect to its main function, i.e. a protection of the vehicle from high temperature during re-entry or flight in the atmosphere. The system consists of the outer ceramic matrix composite shield, a ceramic tile sandwiched between the shield and the skin of the vehicle and fasteners joining the system and the protected structure. The ceramic matrix composite fasteners are capable of working in the same high-temperature environment as the rest of thermal protection system. They are also strong and stiff due to the presence of ceramic fibers. Cracks in the outer shield produced by impact cannot propagate into the ceramic tile since the shield and tile materials are discontinuous along the interface. The tile cannot disintegrate from the vehicle since it is pressed to its skin by the outer shield. The system can easily be disassembled for inspection and/or repair.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for protecting living plants from harmful insects by using a sheetlike structure impregnated with an insecticide to cover the surface of the trunk, pseudotrunk, branch, root ball and/or root region of the plant. Additionally provided are living plants whose trunk, pseudotrunk, branch, root ball and/or root region surface is covered with a sheetlike structure impregnated with an insecticide. The invention also relates to a rectangular sheetlike structure impregnated with an insecticide and comprising a fastening means which, following tubular coverage of the surface of trunk, pseudotrunk or branch of a plant, allows a permanent hold thereto. It further relates to a sheetlike structure impregnated with an insecticide, in the form of a perforated sheet which has a continuous interruption between the outer and inner edges. Lastly, it also relates to the use of the sheetlike structure for protecting living plants from harmful insects.

Abstract: A rod for supporting components in a fuselage cell structure, in particular produced with fibre-reinforced composite materials, of an aircraft, in particular for supporting at least one floor frame on at least one annular former and/or at least one further component of the fuselage cell structure. In accordance with the invention the rod is formed, at least in portions, with a metal foam, in particular for the absorption of crash loads. The metal foam can transform, irrespective of its inherent weight, the high mechanical loads produced in the event of an accident into work of plastic deformation at the microcavities within the metal foam. A first variant of the rod is almost completely formed by a metal foam, whereas a second embodiment comprises merely a core made of the metal foam with a relatively small diameter, which core is surrounded coaxially by a support casing and an outer sleeve.

Abstract: Increased impact resistance can be achieved without impairing the comfort when worn. Provided is a head-mounted-display shield attached to a head mounted display including a pair of optical units each having a display device, and a frame that supports the optical units and that is to be mounted to a wearer's head. The head-mounted-display shield includes shield bodies that are composed of an elastically deformable material, that are each separated from an outline of the neighboring optical unit by a space and disposed at a position where the frame does not extend between the shield body and the outline, and that are each disposed at least at a position where the shield body forms a plane across which the corresponding optical unit does not extend; and an attachment section attached to the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are folded sheets of material for use as a structural member and assembly thereof. According to an aspect, a sheet of material defines one or more tabs, slots, and a plurality of fold lines. The fold lines are spaced such that folding the sheet along the fold lines places the slots in substantial alignment for receiving the at least one tab such that a structural member having a web formed in an interior thereof is formed.

Abstract: A riveted union arrangement between parts of composite material in which, in the area of the union, at least one of the parts (11) is a strengthened directionally part whose lay-up comprises ply packets (13, 13?, 13?) with the optimum direction for carrying out the load transmission in the union inserted between at least one continuous ply (15) along said union area, where each of those ply packets (13, 13?, 13?) has a different length, so that said directionally strengthened part (11) be structured in the area of the union in stretches (17, 17?, 17?) with a different number of ply packets (13, 13?, 13?).

Abstract: An improved interactive learning board cover is provided. The improved interactive learning board cover may provide protection to the learning board, whereby the cover may stretch over the entire surface of a whiteboard and may be secured at each of the four corners of the board with a sewn pocket thereby allowing securement of the board without the need for additional handles, straps and/or padding.

Abstract: A cover sheet anchor including a strip of material that is detachably secured to a cover sheet. At least one anchoring layer with a sticky backing is attached to the strip of material, whereby the cover sheet is temporarily anchored to a floor by the anchoring layer.

Abstract: An adhesive structure is provided comprising a surface from which extend substantially cylindrical protrusions comprising a stiff resin having a Young's modulus of greater than 17 MPa. The protrusions are of sufficiently low diameter to promote adhesion by physical attractive forces, e.g., Van der Waals attractive forces, as measured by shear adhesion between the adhesive structure and a target surface. A method for preparing the structure is provided as well as a combination of the adhesive structure and target surface.

Abstract: The inventive subject matter is to provide a device and method to attach a head gear to a surface where said head gear is a replica of a group consisting of a football helmet, baseball helmet, hockey helmet, motorcycle helmet, race car helmet, bicycle helmet, paint ball helmets, lacrosse helmets, and boxing head gear.

Abstract: Provided is a method for generating structural foam having a density in the range of from 0.4 to 0.75 gr/cm3. A gas is generated in a plastic melt under conditions inhibiting bubble formation in the melt. The melt is injected into a mold and the volume of the mold is varied to produce a structural foam having a density in the specified range. Also provided is a sheet of structural foam having a density in the range of from 0.4 to 0.75 gr/cm3 and a panel including a sheet of structural foam. Also provided is a structure including two or more panels. The structure may be, for example, a cabinet, cupboard, shed or piece of furniture.

Abstract: A mat is formed from a first mat section and a second mat section where the second mat section is fastened to the first mat section in a cutout formed in the first mat section. The first mat section can have information placed thereon in one or more areas and can include a carpet-like material on an upper surface of an upper layer. The second mat section can be formed from an absorbent type material and can have information displayed thereon, including information displayed using a dye-sublimation print process so as to provide for multi-color high quality information. The mat is particularly suited for use in boxing rings and the like so as to prevent fluids associated with such activities from coming in contact with the floor of the boxing ring.

Abstract: An interlocking sheet is formed from a resilient, flexible material. The interlocking sheet comprises a plurality of regularly spaced locking members projecting from a first side of the sheet. Each locking member is hollow and an aperture on the second side of the sheet opens into the interior volume of the locking member. Each locking member has a proximal portion adjacent the aperture, a medial portion further from the aperture than the proximal portion, and a distal portion further from the aperture than the medial portion. The maximum width of the medial portion is greater than the narrowest width of the proximal portion, measured in a common direction, and each locking member tapers from the medial portion to the distal portion. The locking members may be elongate linear locking members or discrete legs. A method and apparatus for making the interlocking sheets are also described.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to systems and devices for securing accessories, such as a strap cover. A strap cover may be used with shoulder straps or other carrying straps for backpacks, duffel bags, golf bags, or other containers. A strap cover may be an open sheet with opposite edges that secure to one another around an object, such as a strap, or may be a flattened tubular sleeve that can be passed over an object. A device for securing accessories may have a resilient display panel with a series of accessory attachments or attachment passages. The accessories may comprise any practicable form, with certain accessories having posts with wide flanges extending therefrom that are pushed through the resilient material for capture by the accessory attachment passages.

Abstract: A method of fitting an attachment, or a trim, onto a portion of a profiled strip, or onto a portion of a profiled strip fastened to a periphery of a glazing pane, a fitting operation being carried out by an intermediate fastening device. The intermediate fastening device includes at least one clip including having at least one upstream cooperating part configured to cooperate with the profiled strip and a downstream cooperating part configured to cooperate with the attachment. The method includes fastening the intermediate fastening device onto the profiled strip. The intermediate fastening device includes an upstream cooperating part having a plurality of deformable catching tabs, the tabs being deformed by applying a force to the ends of the tabs toward the material of the profiled strip in two opposed directions so as to penetrate the material of the profiled strip during the fastening.

Abstract: Encapsulated cure systems are provided wherein a curative is incorporated into a solid or semi-solid carrier material whereby mere fracturing or failure of the capsule wall encapsulating such cure systems will not provide for or allow sufficient release of the curative. Also provided are adhesive systems incorporating said encapsulated cure systems.

Abstract: An energy absorbing termination post padding for hockey rinks includes a corner shaped foam pad configured to absorb impacts from sports play such as hockey. Energy absorbing foam panels may include a rigid foam alone or in combination with a relatively softer foam or impact layer.

Abstract: To implement replenished-air ventilation of a passenger cabin of, for example, an aircraft, an inner wall cladding (12) with integrated replenished-air inlets (18) is proposed. For this purpose, the inner wall cladding (12) has sandwich boards (30) which are constructed from a first top layer (32) facing the passenger cabin (10), a second top layer (34) facing away from the passenger cabin (10) and a sandwich core (36) arranged between the first top layer (32) and the second top layer (34), the sandwich core (36) being designed to be at least partially air-permeable, and the first top layer (32) having at least one air-permeable portion (38).

Abstract: A set of nano/micro structured objects capable of interlocking with each other comprises a first part and a second part. A plurality of protrusions arranged in a matrix are disposed on a surface of a base plate of the first part. A plurality of microcavities arranged in a matrix are formed on a corresponding surface of the second part. The cross-sectional areas of a portion of each of the protrusions and microcavities decrease toward the base plate. A plurality of nano-scaled needle-shaped objects are formed on an outer sidewall of each of the protrusions or on an inner sidewall of each of the microcavities. When the two parts are combined, each of the protrusions is inserted into one of the microcavities, and the needle object of the protrusion bunts an inner sidewall of the microcavity, or the needle object of the microcavities bunts an outer sidewall of the protrusion.

Abstract: A fastening member used for, e.g., a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The fastening member extends in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction and has a lateral centerline. The fastening member comprises a base panel and a shaped tab extending laterally from the base panel. The shaped tab has a longitudinal centerline, a lateral centerline, a distal portion and a proximal portion. The shaped tab has a contour edge comprising a shaped upper edge and a shaped lower edge. The shaped upper edge and the shaped lower edge are symmetric with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the shaped tab when relatively shifted in the longitudinal direction and are asymmetric with respect to the lateral centerline of the fastening member.

Abstract: A fastening member used for, e.g., a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The fastening member extends in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction and has a lateral centerline. The fastening member comprises a base panel and a shaped tab extending laterally from the base panel. The shaped tab has a longitudinal centerline, a lateral centerline, a distal portion and a proximal portion. The shaped tab has a contour edge comprising a shaped upper edge and a shaped lower edge. The shaped upper edge and the shaped lower edge are symmetric with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the shaped tab when relatively shifted in the longitudinal direction and are asymmetric with respect to the lateral centerline of the fastening member.

Abstract: A fastening member used for, e.g., a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The fastening member extends in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction and has a lateral centerline. The fastening member comprises a base panel and a shaped tab extending laterally from the base panel The shaped tab has a longitudinal centerline, a lateral centerline, a distal portion and a proximal portion. The shaped tab has a contour edge comprising a shaped upper edge and a shaped lower edge. The shaped upper edge and the shaped lower edge are symmetric with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the shaped tab when relatively shifted in the longitudinal direction and are asymmetric with respect to the lateral centerline of the fastening member.

Abstract: Composed element including at least two panel-shaped elements, which each have an edge zone in which coupling means are present in the form of a profiled part respectively extending in the longitudinal direction of the respective edge zone, as well as each including an end face extending transversely to the respective edge zone, wherein said profiled parts allow coupling the panel-shaped elements together in an interlocking manner, wherein at least one of the panel-shaped elements includes an arrangement which hides from view at least a portion of the profiled part formed at the pertaining edge zone at the location of the end face.

Abstract: An ice skate scabbard assembly or kit including a traction device attached to the bottom of an ice skate scabbard allowing for a wearer to walk onto ice while wearing the scabbard and to provide increased traction/friction, such that the wearer of the ice skate scabbard assembly will not fall while walking onto the ice. The assembly has at least one ice skate scabbard, at least one traction device and at least one attachment element for attaching the at least one ice skate scabbard to the at least one traction device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides ornamental items used to compliment, adorn, decorate or accessorize personal items such clothing, apparel, shoes, purses, backpacks, scarves, belts, headwear, etc., wherein the ornamental items are magnetically attachable to such personal items.

Abstract: A covering module for installation on a subsurface and for attachment to additional modules to form a finished decorative surface is provided. The covering module comprises a decorative covering that is detachably or permanently attached to an anchor sheet. The covering module is configured so as to expose a joining region of the decorative covering and a joining region of the anchor sheet.

Abstract: A firestop article for fire stopping an opening in a floor or wall includes a firestop material, an enclosure surrounding the firestop material, and an attachment surface provided on the outer surface of the enclosure that allows the article to be repeatably connected to and removed from a mating surface.

Abstract: Methods and systems including an engageable material with a lane of plastic resin extending across an interface of first and second ends of an article, wherein the plastic resin is bonded to the first and second ends such that the first and second ends are joined by the resin; and an array of fastener elements extending from one side of the plastic resin. The fastener elements include engageable heads on stems integrally formed with the lane of the plastic resin such that the two ends releasably engage the engageable material to secure the article.

Abstract: A laminated loop tape for a hook-and-loop fastener. The tape has a nonwoven textile support layer having an inner face, printing on the inner face, an at least partially transparent knitted cover layer having an inner face bearing on the support-layer inner face and an outer face provided with loops, and adhesive between the inner faces adhering the layers to each other.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a conveniently-hung towel comprising a towel body (1) and a hanging body (2) which is arranged on the upper end of the towel body (1), wherein a buckling device which enables the upper end and the lower end of the hanging body to be buckled together, is arranged on the hanging body (2). The towel can be hung on various handles through the buckling device, such as an oven handle, a cross bar, or an annular towel support. The towel has the characteristics of convenient use, beautiful appearance, sanitation, and low manufacturing cost.

Abstract: A guard for structural members is disclosed. It can reduce worker injury with a thin sheet metal or plastic, broadly U-shaped guard plate attached to a structural support through attachment to a pair of clamps, each with a primary and a secondary threaded clamp jaw. The attachment between the guard plate and pair of clamps may be via a slotted intermediate structure. The primary jaws have a swivel pad end while the secondary clamps have a pointed, cone-shaped end. It is used in wind turbine towers to protect workers on a fixed ladder from hitting interior flanges as they climb up and as they climb down.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly of several sheet pile walls and at least one pair of connecting profiles (10, 20) with uniform cross section viewed along the longitudinal direction to connect two sheet pile walls (90, 94). In this assembly (100), the first of the two connecting profiles (10) possesses a base attached to the first sheet pile wall (90), a neck strip projecting from the base in a predetermined direction, and a head strip of larger cross section on the free end of the neck strip for engagement with a claw strip partially surrounding the head strip. The second of the two connecting profiles (2) possesses a base attached to a second sheet pile wall (90) and a claw strip to secure a head strip.

Abstract: A protective cover for lining one or more edges of an undermount sink is provided. The protective cover has a means for removably attaching the cover to one or more interior ledges of the countertop adjacent to one or more sides of the sink, and is formed of a pliable material such as vinyl. In one embodiment, the protective cover is shaped to protect the edge of the countertop adjacent to the sink, without means for attachment to the countertop.

Abstract: A shielding device is provided with a shielding element, which can be used for the thermal and acoustic shielding of components in a combustion engine. The mounting of the shielding device is such that thermal, acoustic and vibration transmission from hot, loud and vibrating components in the engine compartment or underbody area to a vehicle body is isolated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a removable sheathing apparatus comprising a covering member with a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is removably attached to the second edge by a connector. The apparatus also comprises a first shape retaining member which is attached to a third edge of the covering member. Further included is at least one support member movably extending away from the third edge of the covering member. Also provided is a corresponding method of sheathing a pole utilizing the removable sheathing apparatus.