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A spindle or worm drive for adjusting devices, especially seat adjustment devices, window lifters and sliding roofs, in motor vehicles. The drive includes a fixed spindle or relatively fixed toothed rack which is secured to the second of the two parts. The gear elements are mounted in a housing which includes at least two plates that can be secured to each other by plug-in connectors. The connectors are also configured as supporting joints that absorb the forces of the gear.
1. A drive for motor vehicles comprising:
a guide rail assembly having a first rail and a second rail that are displaceable relative to each other, the first rail and the second rail defining a hollow cavity therebetween;
a threaded spindle fixed on one of the first and second rails;
a gear assembly mounted on the other of the first and second rails, the gear assembly including a spindle nut having an internal thread and external worm wheel teeth, and a drive worm engaging the worm wheel teeth, the internal thread threadedly engaging the threaded spindle;
a gear housing holding the gear assembly, with the gear housing having at least two housing parts fixed against each other;
a holder having a base and two spaced-apart projecting portions extending from the base to form a U-shaped gear socket, the holder fastened on the other of the first and second rails; and
wherein the gear housing and the gear assembly are mounted between the projecting portions of the U-shaped gear socket with the spindle passing through the projecting portions and wherein the holder, the gear housing and the gear assembly are located in the hollow cavity.
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This application is a continuation of allowed U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/980,971 filed Nov. 3, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,143,513 U.S. application Ser. No. 09/647,899 which is a continuation of issued U.S. Pat. No. 7,051,986, issued May 30, 2006, which is a national stage of PCT/DE99/01082 filed Apr. 6, 1999, the disclosures of which are incorporated fully herein by reference.
The invention relates to a spindle or worm drive for adjusting devices in motor vehicles.
From DE OS 17 55 740 a spindle drive is known for an adjusting device on a motor vehicle seat. The vehicle seat is here fixed on two parallel slide rails which run on guide rails mounted on the vehicle floor. One threaded spindle is mounted parallel to each slide rail and is connected rotationally locked to same.
Next to the locally fixed guide rails and fixedly connected to same is a gearing block which holds a spindle nut mounted on the threaded spindle, as well as a drive worm which meshes with the nut. The drive worms of each gearing block are connected to a common drive motor. The gearing block consists of two parts which are screwed together.
If the drive motor is actuated then the spindle nuts are turned through the drive worms. Since the threaded spindle is mounted rotationally secured the threaded spindle and the vehicle seat connected to same are moved relative to the gearing block and thus to the vehicle floor.
The drawback with this solution is that the gearing block is expensive to manufacture. The gearing block itself is too large so that it cannot for example be mounted inside the rails.
From DE 40 21 669 A1 a housing is known for an electric auxiliary drive which has two half shells which are held together by means of elastic detent elements.
From DE 43 24 913 C1 a housing is known for an electric servo drive which consists of a housing shell and a housing cover which on one side are connected together by elastic snap-fit elements and which on the other side are supported against each other through additional supporting areas.
From DE 30 07 102 a device is known for changing the incline of the slats of a slatted blind, and has a rotatable drive shaft, a worm mounted on the drive shaft; a rotatable worm wheel engaging with the worm; an integral housing with two mirror-symmetrical shaped housing parts; a fixed articulated joint which connects the housing parts together so that they can be moved between an opening and a closing position; two bearing parts on each housing part which form a bearing for the drive shaft and the worm, as well as a bearing each as a support bearing for the worm wheel in the closed position of the housing parts; and a device which fixes the housing position secure in its closed position. This device comprises an L-shaped fastening yoke which is connected to the two housing parts by means of a locking bolt and two plug-type connectors. The plug-type connectors thereby serve to fix the housing parts in one plane and the locking bolt serves to fix them perpendicular to same.
The object of the invention is to develop a gear housing for a spindle or worm drive for adjusting devices in motor vehicles which is cost-effective to manufacture and simple to fit. The gear housing should be small and compact and thus enable installation within the rails while at the same time it has to be ensured that in the event of the gear becoming blocked the vehicle seat can still be moved into a position which enables it to be dismantled.
This is achieved in that the gear elements are mounted in a gear housing which consists of at least two housing plates which are fixed against each other through plug-type connectors wherein the plug-type connectors serve at the same time as supporting connecting joints which absorb the gear forces and to this end are designed correspondingly rigid. In one embodiment, a gear element formed as a threaded spindle is held in at least one holder preferably by at least one ideal break point, and at least one end of the threaded spindle is formed as a positive locking element which can be connected to a rotating tool in order to overcome the ideal break point for the purposes of emergency activation.
The advantage of the invention is that the size of the gear can be reduced significantly compared to similar gears since the plug-type connectors serving to fix the individual housing parts are at the same time also suitable for taking up the gear forces. Thus the use of the gear according to the invention is also possible for motor vehicle seats where the actual seat is mounted on very narrow rails, and/or the possibility becomes available of changing over to narrow rail guides.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention it is proposed to fix the position of the housing plates in relation to each other in all three-dimensional directions through the plug-type connectors. This fixing of the housing plates can be produced for example by staking the material in the area of the plug-type connectors, by laser welding or by casting the plug-type connectors and by sticking the connectors. Further features of the invention relate to a process for assembling the gear housing.
Furthermore it is advantageous if the housing plates are fixed against each other solely at the said plug-type connectors. This produces with the minimum of expense a supporting connection between the individual housing parts; it is not necessary to provide separate fastening means on one side and supporting areas on the other side which serve to absorb the gear forces.
The production of the gear is also possible using a small number of parts. Manufacturing costs are reduced since the housing parts and the tools can be manufactured cost-effectively. After assembling the housing it is not necessary to finish off the housing plates.
The possibilities for use of the gear are wide. Particularly because of its size and low weight it can be used for drives where the use of such gears was hitherto not possible.
The invention will now be explained in further detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings in which:
As can be seen from
The upper frame of the vehicle seat (not shown in further detail here) is fixed on the top rail 3.
Drive shafts 21 and 22 are mounted either side on the drive motor 2. Flexible shafts are preferably used here. These drive shafts 21, 22 produce the connection with a gear 9, the position, construction and functioning of which will be described in detail further on.
The top rail 3 slides directly or through displacement and/or bearing elements (not shown) on a bottom rail 4 which is fixed on the vehicle floor.
In the functioning position of the top rail 3 and bottom rail 4 these rails are held by their contact and/or bearing areas so that a hollow cavity 31 is produced. A threaded spindle 5 is mounted inside this hollow cavity 31 where it is set between holders 6 a and 6 b which are mounted fixed on the bottom rail 4. The connection between the holders 6 a, 6 b is produced through fastening nuts 6 c, 6 d, 6 c′, 6 d′.
The threaded spindle 5 interacts with the gear 9 which is likewise mounted in the hollow cavity 31 and positioned locally fixed in the top rail 3. This arrangement is shown in
In a further design of the bearing of the gear 9 it is provided in the top rail 3 through an extended holder 8′. This holder is shown in
The holders 8, 8′ have in a further embodiment ideal deformation areas 87 a; 87 b which are arranged between the arms 86 a; 86 b of the gear holder 81 and the arms 82 a; 82 b of the holder 8′. These ideal deformation areas 87 a; 87 b can in the simplest design be correspondingly dimensioned welded seams. It is however also possible to use as ideal deformation areas 87 a; 87 b angles or other profiles at this point. All these elements are dimensioned so that they only yield when a predetermined ideal strain is applied and only then is the arm 86 a; 86 b or the gear socket 81 deformed. This then happens so that when a predetermined maximum boundary strain is exceeded the arms 86 a; 86 b swivel sideways and thereby clamp the threaded spindle 5. In the event of a crash this helps to provide additional security for the vehicle seat.
The two arms 82 a, 82 b of the holder 8′ are angled and have in the angled areas 85 a, 85 b a wider material which substantially fills out the hollow cavity 31. The rigidity of the rail guide, i.e. its resistance to bending, can thereby be improved. The hooked engagement between the top rail 3 and bottom rail 4 remains secure.
Bores 88 a, 88 b provided in the arms 82 a, 82 b serve to centre the holder 8′ relative to the top rail 3, for example through blind rivets (not shown here). The passages 89 a, 89 b formed in the arms 86 a, 86 b increase the critical cross-section of the retaining angle 8′ and help to safely transfer forces in the event of a crash.
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Regarding the method of operation of the device: If the drive motor 2 rotates then it transfers its movement through the drive shaft 21, 22 to the drive worm 91. This transfers its rotary movement to the spindle nut 92. Since the threaded spindle 5 is secured against rotation the gear 9 and thus the top rail 3 connected to same, and including the vehicle seat, has to execute a translation movement (see here
One possible construction of the gear housing 7 according to the invention can be seen from
The opposing housing plates 71 a; 71 b and 72 a; 72 b which belong together are identical in design. Thereby one pair, in the embodiment here the housing plates 72 a; 72 b, have areas formed as webs 76 which are arranged on the edges of the housing plates 72 a; 72 b, thus extend along the plane of the housing plates 72 a; 72 b. The opposite sides 761; 761′ of the webs 76 are aligned either parallel, run conical or have scraper ribs.
Corresponding recesses 75 formed as full-length through openings are arranged in the edge areas of the housing plates 71 a; 71 b transversely to the plane of the housing plates 71 a; 71 b. These recesses 75 have surfaces 751; 751′ parallel to the sides 761; 761′ of the webs 76.
Other possible embodiments of the housing plates are shown in
For assembly the webs 76; 76′, 76″ are pushed into the recesses 75, 75′, 75″. The dimensions of the recesses 75; 75′; 75″ and webs 76′ 76′; 76″ are matched with each other so that after the assembly process either play fitments or press-fit fitments can be formed. After assembly the position of the recesses 75 and of the webs 76 and thus the position of the drive worm 91 relative to the spindle nut 92 are fixed and finally secured by plastically deforming the material in the area of the plug-type connections.
The fitting of the gear housing 7 can be assisted or completely replaced by automatic sequences. This will now be explained below with reference to disc-like housing plates 71 a; 71 b; 72 a; 72 b. The assembly of the L-shaped housing plates 77 and U-shaped housing plates 78 and 79 is carried out in a similar way. To this end the gear elements (drive worm 91, spindle nut 92; discs 95, 96; shaft discs 95′, 96′) including the housing (housing plates 71, 72) are all pre-assembled. This means that the gear elements are inserted in the bearing bores provided for this purpose and the housing plates 71, 72 are pushed together.
This pre-assembled gear 9 is now inserted into a combined holding and staking device which holds the gear 9 around its outer contour. The holder is provided in the direction of the plane of the housing plates 72 a; 72 b wherein the holding forces which engage on the four corners of the housing plate 71 a or 71 b are kept relatively small.
The gear 9 is now moved, preferably by turning the drive worm 91. At least one revolution has to be made. The housing plates 71 a; 71 b; 72 a; 72 b can thus be aligned free of tension. After the completion of this movement the holding forces are intensified so that the gear elements 91, 92 and housing plates 71, 71 b, 72 a, 72 b are held in this position and are prevented from slipping. A staking tool now engages in the area of the plug-type connections, that is into the contact points between the webs 76; 76′ and 76″ and the recesses 75; 75′ and 75″ and then deforms the material plastically at these points. The deformation is carried out so that the material forms undercut sections for example and thus finally fixes the position of the housing plates 71 a; 71 b; 72 a; 72 b relative to each other.
In order to prevent deformation of the bearing bores 74 a; 74 b of the spindle nut 92 the staking is not carried out over the entire length of the plug-type connections. Staking is only undertaken in the area where influence of the forces on the bearing area of the spindle nut 92 in the housing plate 72 and thus deformation of the bearing bores 74 can be eliminated.
Fixing the housing plates 71 a, 71 b, 72 a, 72 b can also be carried out by welding the material in the area of the plug-type connections through the use of laser technology. A further possibility lies in fixing the position of the housing plates 71, 72 relative to each other by casting the material in the area of the plug-type connections.
Another development of the process lies in turning the gear elements at a higher speed for the purpose of alignment. It is expedient to work with the nominal speed or with a speed of the gear which is faster than this. The gyrating forces which are thereby produced keep the position of the gear elements 91, 92 stable relative to each other during movement so that the position is fixed during movement.
The bearing of the threaded spindle 5 can also be designed so that the holders 6 a, 6 b (see
Obviously the construction of the plug-type connectors is not restricted to the variations illustrated in
One design of the invention consists in providing the bearing of the threaded spindle 5 with an emergency actuation. This is required to allow the threaded spindle 5 to be unturned in the event of a defect in the gear 9. The vehicle seat can thereby also be moved in this case which is necessary if it is to be dismantled since the screw connection between the holder 6 a; 6 b and the bottom rail 4 can be concealed by the top rail 3. If it is necessary to undo the screw connection then the top rail 3 has to be moved relative to the bottom rail 4. For this it is proposed to provide the bearing of the threaded spindle on at least one holder 6 a, 6 b with an ideal break point and to provide the threaded spindle 5 at at least one end with a positive locking element 52 which can be seized and turned by a tool when needed. Such designs are shown in
Welded, stamped or sheet metal nuts can be used as threaded elements 60, producing material or force-locking connections with the material.
A simple variation is shown in
In the event of emergency operation the threaded spindle 5 including the anti-rotation lock 66 is turned which leads to the destruction of the anti-rotation lock 66. The threaded spindle 5 can thereby be moved.
In the event of emergency operation the plastics security member 67 a is forced out so that the threaded spindle 5 can escape into the space which becomes available or, if necessary, can be forced into this space by means of a tool (not shown here). Thus the threaded spindle 5 becomes free and the vehicle seat can be removed without the threaded spindle 5 having to turn.
In order to be able to execute the emergency operation described above (with the exception of the example described in relation to
The use of the gear according to the invention described above is not only restricted to the operation of a threaded spindle 5. The use of a toothed rack is likewise possible.
Through the rotary movement of the drive motor (not shown here) a rotary movement is transferred to the drive worm 91′. This moves the worm wheel 93 and thus the worm 94 which leads to a relative movement between the toothed rack 51 and the gear. With this device it is likewise possible to operate a seat adjustment device or a window lifter or other adjustment devices in a motor vehicle.
If the window lifter motor 15 rotates then the spindle nut is turned through the drive worm (not shown here). Since the threaded spindle 5′ is secured against rotation the fixed unit of gear 9, window lifter motor 15 and window pane 12 must move along the axis of the threaded spindle 5′. The window pane 12 is thereby guided in the guide rails 131, 132.
The use of the invention is not restricted to the examples described above for operating the longitudinal seat adjustment and window lifter drive. It is furthermore possible to use the invention for spindle or worm drives for adjusting the seat height, seat incline, seat cushion depth, seat back and or head restraint.
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The full version of the SAS MOD v1.1 For all reference (Installation, Modifications, Credits etc) check the documentation files. Make sure to read the...
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2009 Pitchfork Readers Poll
By Pitchfork Staff , January 4, 2010
This was our second readers poll, and it was much more comprehensive and detailed than the one we put together at the end of 2008. This time out, we received more than 30,000 ballots. It's always fun for us to see what the readers are into; as you'll see, there's a lot of overlap between the following lists and our big year-end features, which are drawn from polls of our writing staff. And that makes sense-- there's a reason you're visiting Pitchfork. But there are some differences, too, and for us these are especially interesting, giving us some insight into records that we love that didn't necessarily resonate with as many readers, and reader favorites that we never quite warmed to.
This is a long feature with a lot of media, so grab a cup of coffee and dig in.
Album of the Year
As with our list, the polling for the top spot wasn't even close: this was Animal Collective's year. Grizzly Bear ranked higher here than it did on our list, but beyond that, the results are pretty similar, give or take a few slots. The biggest difference was Sunset Rubdown at #16, which didn't make our lists this year (we received a lot of mail about that one!).
01. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
02. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
03. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
04. Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
05. The xx: The xx
06. Girls: Album
07. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
08. The Antlers: Hospice
09. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
11. Passion Pit: Manners
12. Atlas Sound: Logos
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
14. St. Vincent: Actor
15. Japandroids: Post-Nothing
16. Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
17. Dan Deacon: Bromst
18. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
19. Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
20. Raekwon: Only Built Cuban Linx... Pt. II
21. Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
22. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
23. Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
24. Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
25. Andrew Bird: Noble Beast
26. The Horrors: Primary Colours
27. Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
28. The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
29. Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
30. Various Artists: Dark Was the Night
31. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
32. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
33. Mastodon: Crack the Skye
34. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
35. Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
36. Morrissey: Years of Refusal
37. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
38. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue
39. jj (Sincerely Yours): jj n° 2
40. Real Estate: Real Estate
Top Metal LPs
The top five selections here all made the top 100 overall, and they were way out in front as your favorite metal albums this year. From Kylesa down, there wasn't nearly as much consensus.
01. Mastodon: Crack the Skye
02. Converge: Axe to Fall
03. Baroness: Blue Record
04. Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
05. Isis: Wavering Radiant
06. Kylesa: Static Tensions
07. Zu: Carboniferous
08. Om: God Is Good
09. Slayer: World Painted Blood
10. Nadja:When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
Top Hip-Hop LPs
This list tracked our year-end list pretty closely, with the major exception of DJ Quik and Kurupt's BlaQKout. We had that at #24 of the whole damn year, and it didn't make your top 10 hip-hop albums, finishing even below Eminem's Relapse. We're pretty confident though that if people knew it was around and gave it a chance, it would have placed much higher.
01. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
02. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
03. Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3
04. Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon: The End of the Day
05. DOOM: Born Like This
06. P.O.S.: Never Better
07. Drake: So Far Gone
08. Brother Ali: Us
09. Eminem: Relapse
10. K'naan: Troubadour
Top Dance/Electronic LPs
For this selection we focused on records that could generally be lumped under the dance end of the spectrum, while steering clear of the lo-fi end of things (Nite Jewel's Good Evening would have finished after Hudson Mohawke if we included it) or vocal-heavy electro-pop (Junior Boys' Begone Dull Care would have won this if that were the case). In cases where the artist in question is a favorite of club DJs (i.e., Basement Jaxx), we made exceptions.
01. The Field: Yesterday and Today
02. Moderat: Moderat
03. The Juan MacLean: The Future Will Come
04. Dâm-Funk: Toeachizown
05. Hudson Mohawke: Butter
06. Basement Jaxx: Scars
07. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas: II
08. Matias Aguayo: Ay Ay Ay
09. Shackleton: Three EPs
10. Zomby: Where Were U in '92?
Top Leftfield LPs
For this chart we focused on the experimental end of the spectrum, including dubstep and post-rock.
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02. Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor
03. Do Make Say Think: Other Truths
04. Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country
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07. Tyondai Braxton: Central Market
08. Black Dice: Repo
09. Various Artists: 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
10. Ben Frost: By the Throat
Song of the Year
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So you all like Animal Collective I guess: Four of the top nine spots went to their songs, with another AC-related track in at #11. Considering that "What Would I Want? Sky" basically leaked right as this poll went live, its placement is particularly staggering. (Other impressive out-of-the-blocks showings: Yeasayer also cleaned up with its shiny new track "Ambling Amp", and Lady Gaga did awfully well with "Bad Romance", a pop track that had yet to peak on the charts.)
01. Animal Collective: "My Girls"
02. Grizzly Bear: "Two Weeks"
03. Dirty Projectors: "Stillness Is the Move"
04. Phoenix: "1901"
05. Animal Collective: "What Would I Want? Sky"
06. Grizzly Bear: "While You Wait for the Others"
07. Girls: "Lust for Life"
08. Animal Collective: "Brother Sport"
09. Animal Collective: "Summertime Clothes"
10. Phoenix: "Lisztomania"
11. Atlas Sound [ft. Noah Lennox]: "Walkabout"
12. Bat For Lashes: "Daniel"
13. Grizzly Bear: "Ready, Able"
14. Jay-Z [ft. Alicia Keys]: "Empire State of Mind"
15. Bon Iver: "Blood Bank"
16. Animal Collective: "In the Flowers"
17. Girls: "Hellhole Ratrace"
18. xx: "Crystalised"
19. Japandroids: "Young Hearts Spark Fire"
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Zero"
21. Passion Pit: "Little Secrets"
22. The Flaming Lips [ft. Karen O]: "Watching the Planets"
23. The Antlers: "Two"
24. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: "Young Adult Friction"
25. Animal Collective: "Bluish"
26. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Heads Will Roll"
27. Yeasayer: "Ambling Amp"
28. Washed Out: "Feel It All Around"
29. Dan Deacon: "Snookered"
30. Camera Obscura: "French Navy"
31. Dirty Projectors and David Byrne: "Knotty Pine"
32. Passion Pit: "The Reeling"
33. Julian Casablancas: "11th Dimension"
34. Neon Indian: "Deadbeat Summer"
35. Atlas Sound: "Shelia"
36. Fuck Buttons: "Surf Solar"
37. Andrew Bird: "Anonanimal"
38. Arctic Monkeys: "Cornerstone"
39. Lady Gaga: "Bad Romance"
40. Sunset Rubdown: "Idiot Heart"
Top Chart Pop Songs
Looks like Gaga owned it as far as chart pop. Her three best singles made your top 100-- well ahead of the next track in this vein: Shakira's "She Wolf". And apparently not everyone found Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" annoying (more on that later).
01. Lady Gaga: "Bad Romance"
02. Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
03. Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
04. Shakira: "She Wolf"
05. Beyoncé: "Halo"
06. Maxwell: "Pretty Wings"
07. The-Dream: "Rockin' That Shit"
08. Taylor Swift: "You Belong With Me"
09. Beyoncé: "Sweet Dreams"
10. Black Eyed Peas: "I Gotta Feeling"
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A helicopter flew into a crane on a 600ft tower block in central London today and cartwheeled on to the street in a hail of wreckage and blazing aviation fuel.
Two people died and 15 were injured after the copter's rotor blades hit the crane cab. Debris crashed down on Wandsworth Road, 20 yards from Vauxhall station as thousands of commuters made their way to work.
Cars were set on fire as the fuel poured down a road and there were reports of people shouting for help. A motorcyclist was unable to brake in time and rode into the flames.
Witness Craig Marchland said: "People were screaming. It was madness, absolute madness. There was smoke to the eyeballs. The explosion was like a bomb. There were three cars on fire. One was completely disintegrated, you couldn't see it at all."
Another said of the helicopter: "There was a loud crack and it came spinning out of control towards us. Nobody would have got out of there alive."
Commander Neil Basu of the Met Police said: "It was something of a miracle that this was not many, many times worse." There were dozens of trains in the area each packed with upwards of 800 passengers. Dense smoke drifted across the tracks and train drivers hit the brakes because they could not see.
Vauxhall Tube and rail stations were evacuated over Vauxhall Bridge to Pimlico. Traffic along the whole of Millbank and both sides of the river was jammed and commuters were forced to make their way to work on foot. No pedestrians were allowed across Vauxhall Bridge.
The twin-engine Agusta 109, which was not carrying any passengers, clipped the crane at just before 8am. The two dead were the pilot and a person on the ground who is thought to have been struck with blazing debris.
The pilot was named this afternoon as Captain Pete Barnes, 50, who is believed to be married with children. He had over 25 years' experience and was working for Surrey-based firm Rotormotion which carried VIP guests and has also worked flying helicopter on films including James Bond and Saving Private Ryan.
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The helicopter was on a scheduled flight from its base in Redhill in Surrey to Elstree to undertake a chartered flight. A spokesman for the London Heliport at Battersea said it had received a request from Heathrow air traffic control to accept the helicopter, whose pilot had asked to be diverted due to bad weather.
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Eyewitness Michael Gavin was standing at Vauxhall station facing the tower block when he heard a loud bang. He told BBC News: "The top of the crane was obscured by fog so I didn't see the impact. But I heard a bang and saw the body of the helicopter falling to the ground along with pieces of the crane and then a large plume of smoke afterwards."
Another said: "I heard a helicopter and looked up but didn't think anything of it as we see a lot round here. But then it hit the crane and there was a massive bang. It was making a terrible noise and then got lower and lower before crashing. It was really frightening and terrible to see. It was like something out of a film."
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PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual machine backup and recovery, and innovator of virtualization monitoring solutions, announced today record revenue for 2012 with a 34 percent annual growth – surpassing its 5,000th customer. In addition, the company was just ranked as one of the "Top 15 Most Growing Storage Start-Ups in 2012" by StorageNewsletter.com.
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"This past year was a whirlwind with the release of new virtual backup and monitoring solutions, the development of a worldwide partner program and unprecedented customer adoptions," said James Legg, CEO, PHD Virtual Technologies. "With the addition of various board members and a solid executive team, we are poised for future growth and well positioned going into 2013."
PHD recently launched its PHD Virtual Backup 6.1 providing customers with the scalability and flexibility they need and makes the backup process easier to manage and more efficient, while also providing fully recoverable data at a moment's notice.
"We've been dealing with ever shrinking backup windows for a while now," said Keith Beatty of Kansas City Life Insurance Company. "I found PHD Virtual which seamlessly deployed in our virtual infrastructure, providing fast, reliable backups, at a price that didn't break the bank!"
"Providing an enterprise-level backup solution for the virtual environment at a reasonable cost requires more than just setting prices low, the architecture must support those lower costs. Using a VM-based virtual backup appliance, PHD Virtual saves on hardware and licensing costs up front and as the environment scales," said Eric Slack, Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland. "It reduces operational costs by simplifying the infrastructure and providing several restore options. Leveraging multiple data reduction technologies also helps minimize storage and networking costs and when you add other features like support for multiple hypervisors, data verification and replication, PHD Virtual is a solution that must be considered."
"Over this past year we have also invested in our marketing efforts to help support customer growth and requests for easier access to free products. In response to these requests, we've recently launched our new website, which has been redesigned to provide the best information and resources to arm our partners, prospects and customers with the information they need 24/7 to make informed product decisions," continued Legg.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Nov. 28, 2014 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,251
Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,338
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,676
The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,500
How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,348
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 27, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,695
The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 27, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,313
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,253
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 27, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,270
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,545
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,521
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,417
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,353
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,264
"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,215
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,647
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,741
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,637
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,770
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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NAPA (AP) - James Barrett, a vintner whose chardonnay beat the French in a 1976 tasting that propelled California wines to international prominence, has died. He was 86.
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - The last airworthy B-29 bomber made a landing at a fog-shrouded Southern California airfield, where it will be on display as part of an exhibition of vintage aircraft.
MAN SHOT IN MODESTO: MODESTO - A man was shot while in his car in a west Modesto neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
LA COUNTY SHERIFF WANTS $900M JAIL: LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sheriff Lee Baca plans to ask Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday to consider replacing the violence-plagued Men's Central Jail with a facility that could cost more than $900 million.
HESPERIA (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on Monday demanded that San Bernardino County school district officials step in to end discrimination against gay students by teachers and administrators at a district high school.
EUREKA (AP) - Mendocino County officials and the U.S. attorney for Northern California may be trying to reach an out-of-court settlement in a long-running dispute over records from the county's medical marijuana program, a lawyer in the case said Monday.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The body of a convicted graffiti tagger has been found over the weekend and police believe he fell to his death after spray-painting a bridge.
SF SUPE SEEKS ANTI-ABORTION PROTESTER BUFFER ZONES: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco supervisor wants to create a 25-foot buffer zone around Planned Parenthood and other clinics that are the target of anti-abortion protesters.
PASADENA (AP) - After recovering from a computer problem, the Mars rover Curiosity is sidelined again, further delaying the restart of science experiments.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California could be restarted safely and run at full power, but the risk of a breakdown would increase to vexing levels after 11 months, a report concluded Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California State University plans to spend the projected $125.1 million in extra state funding for the 2013-14 academic year to expand enrollment and online courses, boost employee salaries and pay for increased energy and health benefit costs, officials said Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Federal officials on Monday charged the former head of the nation's largest pension fund and one of his business associates with falsifying documents and other charges in a long-running influence peddling and bribery investigation.
MARYSVILLE (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether a faulty steering wheel caused a California raceway crash that killed two people, including the young cousin of the teenage driver, officials said Monday.
RICHMOND (AP) - Authorities have released the name of a man who was shot to death outside a Bay Area Rapid Transit station last week, but police are still looking for one or two men believed to be the shooters.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A defense attorney told a Los Angeles jury Monday that the missing wife of a man slain a quarter century ago could be the real killer, rather than the Rockefeller impostor now on trial.
REDWOOD CITY (AP) - A Northern California man convicted of torturing and killing a puppy in front of his 4-year-old daughter has been sentenced to three years in jail.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation Saturday that would have given the University of California and California State University systems a $100 million financial boost.


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By Matthew Bates 03/09 Updated: 03/09 15:49
A SEX attacker was tracked down after his 'courageous' victim bit and broke his finger.
Tony Jones, from Eastern Green, grabbed a university student from behind in De Montford Way, Canley.
The woman, in her 20s, was pinned to the floor during the attack but bravely fought back and chomped down on Jones' finger during a struggle.
A tiny drop of blood from the bite was found on her jacket and after analysis showed up his DNA, he was arrested four days later.
At Coventry Crown Court on Friday he was jailed for two-and-a-half years and placed on the sexual offenders for a decade.
Jones, 43, claimed his finger - which was fractured and needed pins inserting to correct it - had been trapped in a car door.
But when police presented him with DNA evidence from the August 4 attack he immediately admitted sexual assault and later pleaded guilty at court.
Detective Sergeant Jim Edmonds said: "The victim showed great courage to fight back and did exactly the right thing in contacting police immediately so we were able to seize all forensic opportunities.
"She told how she'd bitten the man during the struggle so we sent her clothing off for fast-track forensic analysis that revealed a tiny drop of blood on the back of her jacket and allowed us to make a swift arrest."
He said he was satisfied with the prison sentence and added: "His inclusion on the sex offenders list will allow public protection specialists to monitor him, place restrictions on his behaviour and help ensure he doesn't re-offend.
"This was a nasty incident but thankfully attacks of this nature by strangers happen very infrequently in the area.
"Should they occur, though, we have a team of public protection detectives who prioritise the investigation, whilst specialist officer are available to support victims.
"In this case the rapid submission of forensic evidence, plus securing CCTV and witness evidence, led to an early arrest. It was a great team effort and has ensured that a dangerous man has been taken off the streets."
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