A needle thread restraining device in a thread cutting sewing machine comprising a needle thread restraining device 18 which is disposed on a needle thread path between a needle take-up mechanism (5) and a needle thread supplying source (6) for setting the tension of the needle thread 4 to substantially zero when the thread cutting mechanism (9) does not operate and to a given value when the thread cutting mechanism (9) operates, and a tension nullification means 31 for setting the tension applied by a tension regulator (10) to a given value when the thread cutting mechanism (9) does not operate and for nullifying the tension applied by the tension regulator when the thread cutting mechanism operates. The amount of the needle thread to be drawn under the work can be set properly and independently, nullifying of the tension set by the tension discs when the sewing thread is cut by the thread cutting mechanism. Accordingly, the needle thread restraining device in a thread cutting sewing machine of the present invention has an effect that the needle thread, which remains at the needle side and the work side after the completion of cutting of the sewing thread, can be set to have the necessary and sufficient length with ease and accuracy irrespective of the kind of works, the state of seams and the kind of needle thread.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a needle thread restraining device in a thread cutting sewing machine.
2. Prior Art
A sewing machine provided with a thread cutting mechanism is defined as a thread cutting sewing machine. In a conventional thread cutting sewing machine, the sewing threads comprising a needle thread and a bobbin thread is cut by a knife under a needle plate on which a work is placed during the time when a needle rises from the surface of the work and moves to an upper stopping position after a series of sewing operations are completed.
It would be ideal if the needle thread which remains at the needle side after the sewing thread is cut by the thread cutting mechanism, has the necessary and sufficient length so as to form a proper seam at the first stitch of the successive start of the sewing operation. If the length of the remaining needle thread is short, there is a possibility that the needle thread comes out of the needle to thereby stop the sewing operation. On the contrary, if the remaining needle thread is long, the end of the needle thread remains long on the first seam of the successive sewing work, thereby deteriorating the quality of the sewn product, which involves the necessity of manual cutting and removing of the end of the needle thread depending on the specification of the sewn product.
To solve such a drawback, an appropriate resistance involved in feeding the sewing thread is applied to the needle thread for drawing an appropriate amount of the needle thread under the needle plate when the needle cutting mechanism operates. A tension regulator or an auxiliary tension regulator is provided as a means for applying such resistance wherein the tension applied by the tension regulator of the sewing machine is nullified during the time when the thread cutting mechanism operates and accordingly a given tension is applied to the needle thread by the auxiliary tension regulator alone to thereby regulate the amount of the needle thread to be drawn under the needle plate. The auxiliary tension regulator is provided between the tension regulator and a spool serving as the needle thread supplying source for always applying the given tension to the needle thread.
However, according to the needle thread restraining device of the conventional thread cutting sewing machine, since the given tension is always applied to the needle thread which is drawn under the needle plate by the auxiliary tension regulator, the tension applied by the auxiliary tension regulator tends to influence unfavorably upon the work depending on the specification of the work. Concretely, it is very difficult to harmonize the balance of the seams between the needle thread with the bobbin thread relating to the tension to be applied to the needle thread with the appropriate length of the needle thread after the sewing thread is cut, which causes the problem in a sewing mill. Particularly, in case of a thin work, the tension applied by the auxiliary tension regulator influences delicately upon the balance of the seams of the needle thread and the bobbin thread.

Needle thread restraining device in a thread cutting sewing machine


Systems, methods, and devices of the present disclosure relate, generally, to compensating for frequency error of a reference signal supplied to a clock-tracking-loop due to temperature. Error characteristics of a crystal oscillator that supplies the reference signal are used to compensate for possible frequency errors. Other systems, methods and devices are disclosed.

One use for phase-locked-loops in wireless communication is to provide a local oscillator up-conversion during transmission and down-conversion during reception. Generally, in a phase locked loop (PLL), the phases of two input signals are compared, and an error signal is produced that is proportional to the difference between their phases. The error signal is low-pass filtered and used to drive a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with an output signal frequency. The output signal frequency may be fed back through a frequency divider as one of the input signals, in other words, a negative feedback loop.
If one of the input signals is a reference signal (i.e., has a frequency that remains substantially constant), and the output signal's frequency drifts from the reference frequency, then the phase error signal will change (e.g., a higher amplitude of a voltage signal), which drives the frequency of the output signal in the opposite direction, reducing the phase difference and the phase error signal. So, the output signal's frequency becomes "locked" to the frequency of the reference signal.
A reference signal may be derived from a signal generated by a crystal oscillator, which generally has characteristics that provide a very stable frequency within certain temperature ranges. However, if a temperature goes outside the operating range of a crystal, then the crystal may begin to exhibit frequency variation, that is, the frequency that the crystal oscillates may vary from its standard or operational frequency (or a range of standard/operational frequency). The magnitude of variance is referred to as the frequency error.
Accordingly, the inventors of this disclosure see a need for techniques, systems, and devices to address the frequency variation of a crystal oscillator due to temperature.

Compensating for frequency variation of a crystal oscillator and related systems, methods and devices


Technologies are provided for validating application models within a database environment. For example, an application model can be provided to a database environment and validated against a meta-schema and/or an application schema stored within the database environment. Successful validation can be required before the application model is allowed to run within the database environment (e.g., before the application model can be stored within the database environment).

Software applications today are frequently based on model-driven approaches. Model-driven approaches can be applied to database systems. For example, applications can be developed for execution within a database environment. However, allowing applications to run within the database environment can be problematic, particularly in situations where the applications have access to critical database resources. For example, if an application is not coded correctly, the application can cause errors within the database environment, which can affect all users of the database environment, which may affect customers, external applications that use the database, etc.
Therefore, there exists ample opportunity for improvement in technologies related to validating application models.

Schema-based application model validation in a database


A chip interposer may include: a first interconnect level including a first pad; and a second interconnect level including a second pad, wherein the second pad may face in the same direction as the first pad.

With the advance of technology, the size (e.g. lateral extent) of chips (or dies) has decreased. Whilst the size (e.g. lateral extent) of a chip may have decreased, the number of interconnects that may, for example, couple (e.g. electrically couple) the chip to a circuit board (e.g. a printed circuit board) has remained stable, and in some examples, has increased. Accordingly, a distance between adjacent interconnects, which may also be referred to as a pitch of the interconnects, has decreased.
The plurality of interconnects that may, for example, couple (e.g. electrically couple) the chip to a circuit board (e.g. a printed circuit board) may be coupled to a plurality of pads that may be provided at a surface of the chip (or die). Consequently, a pitch of the plurality of pads of the chip (or die) has decreased as well. The decrease in the pitch of the plurality of pads of the chip may pose a challenge in packaging the chip (or die). New packaging solutions may be needed.

Chip interposer, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device


A locating apparatus includes a double expanding locating pin and a subplate having both threaded and precision holes, which are sized to accommodate the locating pin. The double expanding locating pin is a cylindrical housing having a first expandable end with a plurality of slots and a tapered portion and a second expandable end with a plurality of slots and a flange. A ball is disposed within the second expandable end and is forced by a set screw against the flange to spread apart wall portions of the cylindrical housing which are positioned intermediate the slots for expanding a lower portion of the locating pin. A cap having a flanged tapered end is threaded into the first expandable end of the cylindrical housing and is seated against the tapered portion of the cylindrical housing for forcing apart the wall portions positioned intermediate the slots for expanding an upper portion of the locating pin. The double expanding locating pin enables the pin to be expanded and secured within holes of two components, such as the subplate and a vise or the like.

The invention relates to precisely positioning two components with respect to one another and, more particularly, to a locating apparatus which secures together the components.
During the machining of a workpiece, the workpiece is held within a vise or other holding device, which is secured to either an adapter plate or directly to a subplate. The base of the vise has holes which may be aligned with holes in the adapter plate or subplate. An alignment pin, which is formed of metal, is inserted through a hole in the vise or adapter plate and a hole in the subplate for accurately and precisely positioning the vise.
Currently, the alignment pin is either a standard dowel pin or a dowel pin having one expandable end. The expandable end is expanded after the dowel pin is positioned within the hole for securing the pin within the hole. The opposite end of the alignment pin may be tapped into a hole and must be precisely sized to provide a secure fit. Removal of the tapped in end of the alignment pin is often difficult.
A locating pin is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,500,079 entitled "Removable and Replaceable Locating Pin for Locating a Workpiece on a Sub-Plate for Machining". The locating pin includes a receiver bushing and a locator pin disposed therein. A plurality of balls are positioned in apertures in the locator pin and may be urged into locking engagement with the receiver bushing. However, only one end of the locating pin is expandable.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,707,419 discloses a fixture key which is slotted to facilitate spreading apart of the portions of the shank intermediate the slots. A ball is positioned within a bore of the shank and is held in position by a screw threadedly secured within the bore. However, the fixture key is only expandable at one end for securing the fixture key within a bore of a plate.
Therefore, what is needed is an apparatus for securing two components together which utilizes means for expanding both ends of a pin for securement of the pin to both components.


Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and computer-readable media for identifying a safe set of resources that can be used for localization of a software product. This identification involves loading and running a base product having one or more calls to an operating system (or an API) to load language specific data. The resource calls are intercepted after the resource is loaded into a resource loader, and information about the resource is captured for analysis. The display of resources is also intercepted to gather data on which resources are displayed and the context of this display. The process involves running automated tests and/or manual tests on the base product in its base language to identify those resources that are most frequently used, least often or never used, and those that are unsafe. These resources so identified are then analyzed to generate a safe secure resource list that can then be used for external localization of the software product.

Software products of all types, whether operating systems or various types of application programs, are frequently provided in multiple "localized", language specific versions. For instance, a software product may initially be developed in a specific language such as English. Once this original, or "base" product has been developed and tested, localized versions, in a language appropriate to the market for which the product is intended, may be developed. For example, a product originally developed in English in the United States may be localized to produce a Japanese language version for sale in Japan. The process of creating a localized version, or translation, is herein referred to as "localization."
A common method of localization is known as internal localization. Internal localization typically involves changing the resources of the original software product to produce the localized version. For example, all of the elements of the user interface, messages, help information, and other language specific parts of the software product are translated and re-built. Since the resources of the software product are revised and rebuilt, testing is required for each internally localized version generated, in addition to the base product. The building of the dynamic link libraries (DLLs) correctly is a complex process for many applications, and the tools involved are often proprietary or secret. Since testing is labor intensive, this method can be extremely expensive. In addition to being expensive, internal localization, due to the long time required to test a software product, results in a very slow delivery of localized versions of software products. This is known as the multiple language user interface (MUI) approach where all of the resources for each language are grouped into resource files. These files are usually stored in a folder named after the language. It is with respect to these needs that the present invention has been developed.

Method and system for automatically identifying and marking subsets of localizable resources


System(s) and method(s) for processing one or more real time data streams captured in a distributed computing environment. In accordance with the system(s) and method(s), a GUI may be provided that enables a user to design a GUI pipeline comprising multiple sub-systems executing logic associated with a plurality of applications. Each of the sub-systems in the pipeline may be configured with different parameters by the user using the GUI. Further, the user may configure to integrate the multiple sub-systems through the GUI. Further, the user may control and/or update the configuration of the logic, configuration of the parameters, and the integration of the multiple sub-systems through the GUI. The updating of the configuration is automatically notified to the running pipeline in real time. Further, the GUT facilitates to monitor performance of the running pipeline in real time.

Real time streaming analytics helps in deriving valuable insights to different enterprises based upon analysis of real time streaming data. The enterprises may take informed decisions based on the insights derived from the analysis of the real time streaming data. As of today, there are two classes of enterprise solutions catering the needs of the real time streaming analytics. The two classes include enterprise systems and open source systems. The open source systems facilitate to use open source technologies such as Apache™ Hadoop® and Apache™ Storm to implement the real time streaming analytics.
However, there are certain technical challenges associated with implementation of the enterprise systems and the open source systems facilitating the real time streaming analytics. For instance, users using these systems may need to be aware about coding aspects of various technologies and underlying infrastructure associated with the implementation of the real time streaming analytics. For instance, in case of the open source systems, the users need to have in-depth knowledge about the open source technologies including Apache™ Hadoop®, Apache™ Storm, Apache™ Kafka, and the like. The users need to write various codes for building topology and/or pipeline. Another technical challenge is to frequently modify the codes and re-configure the underlying infrastructure in case the functionality of any component in the topology or pipeline is to be modified in real time. Further, after modifying the code, the code modified may have to be recompiled so that it can be used for the execution of streaming analytics applications.


A ligature-resistant hinge cap according to certain embodiments is configured for use with a hinge including a pair of leaves and a connecting portion connecting the pair of leaves. The ligature-resistant hinge cap generally includes a body portion comprising a base configured to cover an upper face of the connecting portion, a flange extending rearward from the body portion, a rear side defined by the flange, and a front side opposite the rear side, wherein the front side is sloped.

One danger facing patients and/or residents of hospitals, mental health institutions, juvenile detention centers, and other facilities is the possibility of self-harm. While self-harm can come in many forms, one common form is by hanging oneself via a ligature attached to a sturdy object, such as a door hardware component. Many facilities attempt to prevent this type of self-harm by reducing the number of surfaces to which such a ligature can be attached, for example by providing the hinges of the door with a sloped cap that inhibits ligatures from being wrapped about the hinge. However, many such ligature-resistant caps suffer from drawbacks and limitations, such as by providing one or more anchor points by which a ligature can be hung from the cap. For these reasons among others, there remains a need for further improvements in this technological field.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.


A power source system includes a first power source, a power generator, a first electrical load, a second electrical load, a second power source, and a charge/discharge switch provided between the second power source and the power generator. The charge/discharge switch is controlled into a closed state to electrically connect the power generator to the second power source, when an amount of charge of the second power source is less than a charge request threshold, the power generator is in a power generating state, and an amount of power generated by the power generator is equal to or more than a total power requirement as a total sum of respective amounts of power required by the second power source, the first electrical load, and the second electrical load.

For example, it is known an automotive power source device including a main battery, a battery unit, an alternator, a normal load, three relays, and an emergency load. In such an automotive power source device, the main battery is connected to each of the alternator, the normal load, and the emergency load. The battery unit is connected to the alternator and to the normal load through the three relays. As the three relays, there are a first relay, a second relay, and a third relay. The battery unit is connected to the emergency load through the third relay. The emergency load needs to continue power supply.

Power source control device, battery pack, and power source system


A method, system and computer program product for container image migration service is provided. The method comprises identifying a latest version of a first customer container image stored in a container image repository. The method further comprises determining the latest version of the first customer container image is a migration image from a last version of the first customer container image; determining a set of commands in the Docker file of the last version of the first customer container image that have migrated to a corresponding set of commands in the Docker file of the migration image; identifying a latest version of a second customer container image having at least one Docker file command in common with at least one command in the set of commands; and recommending imminent migration of the second customer container image to include migration of the at least one Docker file command.

The present invention relates to container image maintenance, and more specifically, to a method, product and system for migration of container images in a cloud image repository.
Public cloud service providers usually provide a standard container repository to store different container images. A first tier container image is a service provider container image. The service provider container image may consist of a number of functional layers including a kernel layer, middleware layers and infrastructure software layers. A second tier container image is a customer container image owned by the user of the public cloud service. The customer container image may consist of a number of functional layers including a kernel layer, middleware layers and application layers. The customer container image is dependent on the service provider container image in a sense that the latter is created on the basis of the former.
The service provider container image may be created based on some other functional image called a base image. If the base image is changed, the service provider container image will be updated. Consequently, the customer container image has to be updated accordingly.

International Business Machines Corporation


An apparatus for winding material (such as cable, rope or paper or plastic webs) cable about a small reel from a large supply reel in which the cable is stored in bulk includes two arm units. One arm unit contains a first major arm section. A reel is carried between the distal ends thereof. Each arm unit also contains a minor arm extension. Each arm extension is connected to the major arm section by a vertical pin. There is a base. On that base, there are two upright brackets that are spaced apart. One bracket supports a first major arm section and the second bracket supports the second major arm section. There is a pivot on each bracket so that the major arm section can pivot up and down sort of like a modified teeter totter. Furthermore, the distal ends of the major arm sections can move either closer together or further apart. The inner ends of the major arm sections are connected to minor arm extensions by a vertical pin pivot. A cone is rotatably secured to the distal end of each major arm section. It is between these cones that the reel is supported. A leverage system controls the positions of the distal ends and cones.

This invention relates to an apparatus for unspooling material from a supply spool and respool the material onto distribution reels. By specific example, this invention relates to an apparatus for unreeling cable from a large supply spool and rewinding at least a portion of it onto a smaller distribution reel.
In factories where cable or other lines such as rope, or webs such as paper or plastic sheeting are made, the finished product material is wound onto a large storage or supply spool, e.g. six feet in diameter or larger. These large storage spools can be shipped to any destination required. However, for most of the retail sale of the material which is shipped, it is required that the material be rewound, or respooled, onto a much smaller or retail type spool, e.g. approximately two to three feet in diameter.
It is an object of this present invention to disclose an apparatus for transferring material from a large supply spool to smaller retail type spools.


An optoelectronic modulator is based on the concentration of an electron beam from an electron gun by a tapered cavity, which sides are photosensitive and change the electrical conductivity under the illumination of light (electromagnetic radiation). The light modulation causes the corresponding changes in the current transported across the walls of the cavity. The remaining part of the electron current exits the cavity aperture and forms an amplitude-modulated divergent electron beam.

Numerous applications require high brightness, high frequency electron sources. Those include military, aerospace, communications and other commercial industries. Advances in modern technology require higher performance of electron sources that can be used for generation of powerful microwave radiation. One of the ways to achieve a high-brightness electron beam with desired parameters is to use a photocathode irradiation technique. However, this method produces low electron currents (emittance), much lower than that of thermionic cathodes, which limits a range of possible applications.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,313,072 describes an electron gun in which the electron beam is modulated by laser pulses illuminating a photocathode. Electrons are generated by the photocathode, and the electron current is limited by the performance and properties of the photocathode, resulting in current density that is usually low. U.S. Pat. Publication No. US2002/0053867 A1 discloses a separate cathode for emitting electrons and an electron beam guidance cavity for concentrating electrons, which uses an insulating material around the cavity exit aperture such that the insulating material is a coating (e.g., MgO) having certain secondary electron emitting properties. The output current density J of such an electron source depends on the diameter (area) of the exit aperture, thus making it possible to obtain high values of J with small apertures. However, it is difficult to achieve high frequency modulation of the beam using this approach. The thermal spread of electron energies will limit the cut-off frequency in case of thermionic cathodes. The problem with using cold cathodes in this application is the cathode-to-grid capacitance, which leads to a low input impedance at higher frequencies.


An infusion beverage brewing system includes a container and an infuser. The infuser is positioned in a liquid, such as hot water, and has an infusing chamber for containing infusible materials, such as tea leaves. A plunger includes a piston with a peripheral seal and flap valves. After a brewing time has elapsed, an individual pushes on an operator to move the piston past a perforated wall portion of the infusing chamber. When the piston reaches a solid wall portion at the bottom of the infusing chamber, the flap valves open to allow liquid to escape. However, small apertures aligned with the flap valves prevent the passage of the infusible material. Consequently the infusible material is isolated from the liquid when the piston reaches a solid bottom wall portion of the infusing chamber.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention generally relates to infusion beverage brewing systems and more specifically to coffee makers and tea makers.
2. Description of Related Art
A wide variety of products are available for making beverages such as coffee or tea. Basically, the brewing process involves bringing a liquid, such as hot water, into contact with an infusible material, such as ground coffee or tea leaves. This process infuses the water with the essence of the infusible material to produce a beverage.
In one category of such systems, particularly adapted for making coffee, an infusible material, such as ground coffee, is placed in an enclosed volume. Heated liquid is directed through the infusible material emerging as the beverage. A receiver, such as a coffee pot, accumulates the beverage. In another category, to which the application is applicable, the liquid and material to be infused are placed in a pot and allowed to steep for a brewing time. After that brewing time expires, the beverage is supposedly ready for consumption. If the beverage is allowed to continue to steep beyond the brewing time, the quality of the beverage can degrade. Typically the individuals characterize the beverages steeped for too long a period to be "too strong" or "bitter." This problem has resulted in an effort to control the brewing time with particular emphasis on different approaches to terminating any significant interaction between the infusible material and the beverage after the brewing time.
For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,632,194 (1996) to Lin discloses an infusion beverage brewing system with a beaker and an inner cup for containing boiling water and tea leaves. During the brewing time a ball valve seals an aperture through the bottom of the inner cup. At the end of the brewing time, the inner cup is elevated from its normal position in the beaker. This releases and opens the ball valve so the beverage transfers into the beaker. In this particular approach, the displacement of the ball from its seat establishes a passage through which the beverage passes. If the passage is sufficiently large, the beverage can entrain tea leaves as it transfers into the beaker. Further, this approach requires an individual to hold the inner cup away from the beaker until such time all the beverage transfers into the beaker.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,635,233 (1997) to Levinson discloses a plunger-strainer or "french press" coffee maker. The infusible material and liquid are placed in a container. Then a plunger assembly with a lid is inserted into the beaker. After the brewing time, a plunger assembly is moved in an up and down motion but generally downward for sweeping the material into a volume below the plunger. The plunger includes a foam filter disk which is pushed through the infusible material and forms a closed volume at the bottom of the container for the infused material. However, this material is not impervious to liquid and acts as a filter. Thus, liquid can contact the infusible material and brewing can continue even after the infusible material is confined to the closed volume.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,979,299 to (1999) to Hornsby also discloses a plunger-filter infusion device with a container and a plunger with a resilient plunger head that slides within the container. A cup-like insert is placed in the base of the container with the infusible material. Heated water is poured into the container and after an appropriate brewing time the plunger is slid into the container until it engages the insert. As a result, the infusible material is confined by the plunger head in the insert. Both the plunger head and insert can be removed after the brewing time elapses. The plunger requires specific sealing structures (not shown) that accommodate the difference in diameters between the container and the insert in order to prevent the escape of the infusible material past the periphery of the plunger head.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,478,586 (1995) to Connor discloses a french press-type system characterized by an operation that differs from normal french press operations. In the Connor patent the plunger head is positioned at the bottom of a container during the brewing time. Then the plunger is lifted through the beverage to lift the infusible material to the top of the container. This system relies on peripheral sealing between the plunger and container to prevent the escape of infusible material back into the beverage as the plunger is withdrawn.
In U.S. Pat. No. 6,422,131 (2002) to Brady the plunger in a french press coffee maker includes a filter element that permits the flow of liquid through the plunger without allowing the passage of the infusible material therethrough. A buffer element is situated above the plunger. The buffer element is closely spaced to the plunger. When the plunger is fully depressed, the buffer element decouples the flavored beverage from the infusible material to minimize interaction between the beverage and the material below the plunger after the brewing time has elapsed.
A marketed Bodum Assam brewing apparatus includes a cylindrical insert that is located in a container and has a solid wall portion at the bottom and a perforated intermediate wall portion. As the plunger passes through the insert, it forces the infusible material toward the bottom and eventually captures it in a closed volume at the bottom of the insert. This approach, however, relies upon the effectiveness of a peripheral seal that contacts the interior portion of the cylindrical insert. When the insert passes the solid wall portion, a significant hydraulic pressure can be produced below the insert and force the seal to open. Opening the seal allows at least some of the infusible material, such as tea leaves, to escape back into the beverage.
As will now be apparent, each of the foregoing examples of infusion beverage brewing systems is subject to one or more disadvantages. Some, such as the systems disclosed in the Yin and Hornsby patents, are made with extra elements that complicate the use of the apparatus either by requiring extra parts or specific operations. Others such as the Bodum system and systems disclosed in the Connor and Brady patents provide an apparatus that still allows material to escape into the beverage thereby to continue to brew beyond the desired brewing time. What is needed is an infusion beverage brewing system in which the infusible material can be fully isolated from the beverage after the brewing time elapses thereby to avoid continued interaction between the beverage and the infusible material that could otherwise degrade the quality of the beverage.


Arrangement for use for seismic surveys of geological formations in a seabed, where a plurality of such arrangements, which are provided with sensor units 26, are placed on the seabed for collecting pressure waves and shear waves reflected from the geological formations. There exist arrangements for transferring seismic data to a surface receiver placed on a vessel, an offshore installation, or an onshore installation. Each sensor unit 26 is held by a carrier 10 and is connected to a cylindrically skirt-shaped structure 19 adapted to be led down into the seabed, and each sensor unit 26 comprises at least one geophone. The carrier 10 comprises a holder 12 for the cylindrically skirt-shaped structure 19, which structure 19 shall penetrate down into the seabed, as this holder 12 is adapted to be moved between a lower position and an upper position, to be able to be mechanically released from the skirt-shaped structure 19.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a sensor arrangement as indicated in the introduction of claim 1, for use on the seabed. Such sensor arrangements may be used, permanently or temporarily installed on the seabed, for surveillance of petroleum reservoirs and adjacent well systems.
The invention also relates to a method for the installation and moving of seismic sensor arrangements on the seabed.
2. Description of Related Art
To be able to perform seismic surveys of formations below the sea, a plurality of sensor nodes are placed on the seabed, preferably in a regular disposition. These sensor nodes must be in contact with a solid medium, leading to requirements for the deployment operation. From Norwegian Patent Application No. 20025896, an arrangement is known, in which to each sensor node is connected a remotely operated control and registration unit for telemetric transmission of data to a control center, which is arranged in an above-water receiver.
In another embodiment, on the same basis, the registered data is transferred by either picking out the storage medium physically, or by transferring the data on the storage medium through a temporary, externally connected cable connection. The sensor arrangement is run by an internal battery, and the time reference for the seismic measurements is an internally arranged clock, with very good long term stability.
For the deployment of a plurality of such sensor nodes, each sensor node is provided with a handle or a bracket that can be grasped by the gripping means of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) or a remotely operated tool (ROT). Each sensor node, with appurtentant control and data registration unit (CDU), is then lowered down onto the seabed with a crane. In good conditions, the surface vessel can control the position of the deployment with an accuracy of within a few meters. An ROV is then used, primarily for moving the sensor node from a parked position on the CDU to a free position on the seabed. The ROV may possibly be used to correct the position of the sensor arrangement, and to release the crane attachment. In this operation, the ROV may be used to arrange the sensor node in the correct position. This solution may function well for installations with a limited time duration, in the order of one month, but it becomes less feasible when substantially longer installation times are required. Typical areas of application for such seismic sensor installations may be the monitoring of oil and gas reservoirs over time (e.g. 10–15 years), including well paths during drilling and operation.
An available method for realizing such a "permanent" seismic sensor installation is to dig one or more sensor cables down into the seabed. Via a system of connection cables, the cable installation is provided with time reference, instructions, and energy. Collected data from each individual registration unit in the cable is led through common lines, up to a centrally placed data storage medium, normally placed above the sea surface. The embedment process is necessary to achieve good acoustic coupling between sensors and seabed, prevent unwanted relocation due to hydrodynamic influence, as well as to protect the cable against damages from, for instance, trawling or any other external influence. The embedment process typically consists of forming kilometers of ditches in the seabed, into which the cable strings are placed. This may represent substantial and lasting environmental interventions in the seabed biotope, and require the use of large, energy consuming, and air pollutive equipment during the embedment process. The cost associated with the embedment will typically be in the same order of magnitude as the value of the entire cable installation. The cables cannot be laid over existing obstructions on the seabed or in areas where future underwater installations are planned. Furthermore, it turns out that in practice, it is difficult to maintain/repair the buried parts of the cable system without having to dig them out again. A cable system which is not maintained will typically detonate within a few years due to electric failure and water intrusion. Depending on the type of failure in the cable, the failure may have consequences for parts of the cable that are downstream in relation to the position of the failure. If one, on the other hand, moves a cable to the surface for maintenance and repairs, it will be a challenge replacing it later in the exactly same position as before, and with the same acoustic coupling to the seabed as the original coupling. Both factors are particularly important, for instance, for observing small changes in the reservoir characteristics through time. It will also imply substantial risk of damaging cables that must be raised up again.
From US patent publication U.S. Pat. No. 6,474,254 (WesternGeco, 2002) it is known to deploy cables with attached sensors in a network on the seabed, but this requires the application of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and provides no possibility for the repair of individual sensors.
From NO patent publication 168622 (Den norske stats oljeselskap, 1991), a seismic cable arrangement is known, where a series of torpedo-shaped sensor arrangements are attached to a signal cable. These arrangements are deployed in a pattern on the seabed by means of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This solution has not proven to be satisfactory from a deployment and application point of view.
From NO Patent Application 20025831 (Institute Francais du Petrole, 2003) a system for seismic data collection is known, where sensor arrangements are placed onto the seabed by releasing them, allowing them to free fall, resulting in torpedo-shaped penetration down into the seabed. This equipment does not satisfactorily provide the possibility for the placement in a substantially permanent network of sensor arrangements with a cable connection to the individual units. Neither does this provide satisfactory possibilities for maintenance and repairs.

Sensor arrangement and method for the installation and moving of this


A liquid cooled wax mold includes a generally rectangular two-part heat transfer member formed by separable metal plates. One of the plates includes elongated parallel vertically-extending heat transfer bars or fins defining parallel liquid coolant flow passages. The coolant flow passages interconnect spaced apart liquid coolant distribution and collection passages which are, respectively, connected to coolant inlet and discharge passages. A dam is interposed between the coolant collection passage and the discharge passage to provide for purging air or coolant vapor from the coolant flow circuit. Elongated circular cross section seal strips are disposed in grooves formed in one of the plate members to provide a fluid-tight assembly of the heat transfer member. Mold endwall and bottomwall members are secured to the heat transfer member by socket head machine screw fasteners. Locating shoes on the endwall members align the mold with an adjacent mold in a molding apparatus wherein the molds are stacked side-by-side to form open-top mold cavities. Opposed support handles are mounted on the mold endwall members, respectively.

In the manufacture of industrial and food grade wax and similar substances, it is conventional practice to form the wax in generally rectangular slabs or blocks having a weight of about ten to twelve pounds, for example, whereby these slabs or blocks may be shipped to end-users of the wax such as manufacturers of milk and other food containers, candles, chewing gum and adhesives, for example. The wax slabs or blocks are typically formed in molds which are stacked in a side-by-side manner in a molding machine for receiving molten wax and whereby the wax slabs may be released from the molds after the wax has solidified and cooled to a temperature which will permit handling and shipping.
In order to improve the efficiency and speed of the molding process, wax molds are preferably cooled by a liquid coolant, including water or a mixture of water and other coolant fluids, such as ethylene glycol, for example. One problem associated with prior art liquid cooled wax molds pertains to the non-uniform cooling effect resulting in unacceptably long periods of time during which the wax slabs must be kept in the mold. The non-uniform cooling of the wax slabs also tends to produce distorted and non-uniform slab shapes and weights or, hardened wax sticking to the mold. Moreover, non-uniform heat transfer between the wax and the mold causes stresses to be imposed on the mold and boiling of the mold coolant, both often resulting in damage to the mold structure and leakage of coolant from the flow passages in the mold.
Still further, there has been a desire to provide wax molds which are constructed to facilitate easy cleaning and replacement of worn or damaged parts, when necessary, without replacing the entire mold structure itself. Solutions to the above-mentioned problems as well as the provision of certain desirable features have been achieved with an improved liquid-cooled wax mold in accordance with the invention.

Magnum Machine and Manufacturing Company


A vehicle-use resin cover including: a resin cover main body configured including an opening, and anchoring portions formed at locations running along a peripheral edge of the opening; a resin cap member, which is mounted in the opening and is configured including a cap main body that covers the opening, and anchored portions, which are provided to an outer peripheral portion of the cap main body so as to correspond to the anchoring portions and are anchored by the anchoring portions; a recessed portion, which is formed at the peripheral edge of the opening and is in communication with the opening at the cap member side of the recessed portion, and through which a leading end of a tool for removing the cap member is insertable; and a marker portion provided to the outer peripheral portion of the cap main body at a position facing the recessed portion.

Technical Field
The present invention relates to a vehicle-use resin cover.
Related Art
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (JP-A) No. 2008-137567 describes an invention relating to an attachment structure of a cap for a resin cover. In the attachment structure of the cap for the resin cover, a resin cover main body disposed on the vehicle side is provided with a recessed portion for mounting a cap member similarly made of resin, and an anchor hole is formed to a bottom wall of the recessed portion. An anchored portion of the cap member is thereby anchored at the anchor hole of the cover main body, enabling the cap member to be fixed to the recessed portion when attaching the cap member.
A groove portion for removing the cap member is formed to a peripheral edge of the recessed portion. This enables the anchored portion of the cap member to be detached from the anchor hole of the cover main body when removing the cap member, by inserting a tool into the groove portion for removing the cap member of the cover main body, and employing the tool as a lever. The related art described in JP-A No. 2008-137567 thereby enables workability when attaching and removing the cap member to be secured.
However, in the related art described in JP-A No. 2008-137567, there is no marker on the cap member to indicate the attachment direction. Thus the position of the anchored portion of the cap member and the position of the anchor hole of the cover main body need to be visually checked before attaching the cap member, thus the working time becomes longer. Moreover, if the checking of the position of the anchored portion of the cap member and the position of the anchor hole of the cover main body was neglected, it is conceivable that the anchored portion of the cap member could be damaged due to incorrect assembly.


A method of specifying components in order to design and evaluate a weld gun configuration. A visual representation of the type of welding gun to be designed is provided along with a plurality of menus with user selectable options, such as dimensional specifications. Available options are offered in each of the menus that are available for the welding gun to be designed and non-available options are so indicated. A user selects an option from one of the menus, triggering calculation of new design values. User selection also initiates determination and display of newly available or newly non-available options resulting from the user selection. In addition, a weld gun parameter specification system is described that includes a parameter database, a computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for performing a method of weld gun parameter specification and an output component.

Electrical resistance welding guns are used in a wide variety of applications, such as the assembly of sheet metal parts to form an automobile body. These welding guns typically include a pair of electrodes and a mechanism for supporting the electrodes and bringing the electrodes into close proximity to create a weld.
Welding guns come in a wide variety of styles, and their design is often application-specific. For example, one style of welding gun is referred to as a "scissors" gun. A scissors gun has a pair of arms that are joined together at one of their ends. An electrode is supported at the other end of each of the arms and the arms can be pivoted relative to one another so as to bring the electrodes into close proximity, or to separate them between welding operations. Within the basic style of a scissors gun, wide variations in design are possible. The gun may be designed to mount to any of a variety of fixtures, or to a robot. The mount may be provided on the top, the bottom, the front, the rear, or either side. Various different designs of actuators may be used for moving the arms relative to one another. In some designs, one of the arms remains stationary with respect to the mount, and in others both arms move. The arm interconnection is typically referred to as a "yoke" portion. The yoke portion may be of different sizes so as to alter the spacing between the arms. The lengths of the arms may also be varied as well as the type of electrode. Various electrode types have different shapes to accommodate different applications. In addition to the above, the relative sizes and positions of virtually every component on the weld gun may be altered to suit a particular application.
Traditional welding guns are usually custom manufactured for their intended application. The welding arms, yokes, and pivots are often custom configured and may be part of a custom casting, including the arms, yokes, pivot supports, and actuator arms. Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 6,596,958, the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference, provides a modular welding gun design that improves on the prior art. As described in more detail in the incorporated patent, the modular welding guns are assembled from various modular components that allow specific designs to be assembled from various more standardized parts.
With either traditional welding gun designs or Applicant's improved modular designs, significant effort is typically required to specify and design the welding guns for specific applications. The customer must specify their mounting design, the physical configuration and dimensions for the gun, the performance requirements, and other factors. The manufacturer then needs to design a gun that meets the customer's requirements, taking into consideration stress loads, actuator size and output, force at the electrode tips, and other factors. Often, the manufacturer and customer must also consider the total weight of the gun and the position of its center of gravity. In light of this, there is a need for an improved method of specifying and designing welding guns.

Method of specifying and designing welding guns


A sanitary device for washing private parts of a person sitting on a toilet bowl includes a first nozzle positioned within the toilet bowl and having a main passage and an auxiliary passage. The main passage has at least one main aperture and the auxiliary passage has at least one auxiliary aperture, the main and auxiliary apertures being located at a distal end of the first nozzle and being directed to a private part of a person sitting on the toilet bowl. A second nozzle is positioned within the toilet bowl and has a third passage having at least one third aperture located at a distal end of the second nozzle and being directed to another private part of a person sitting on the toilet bowl. A regulating device is fluidically disposed between a supply of water under pressure and each of the main passage, the auxiliary passage and the third passage for establishing a variable degree of fluid communication between the water supply and at least one of the main, auxiliary and third passages.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a sanitary device and in particular to a sanitary device in which two different water ejecting patterns are obtained.
1. Description of the Related Art
In a conventional device of this kind, for example as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid Open Print No. Hei 6-88370 published without examination on Mar. 29, 1994, a nozzle is formed with a main passage and an auxiliary passage which terminate at a main aperture and an auxiliary aperture, respectively. The main passage is directly connected to a water supply via a flow regulating valve. The auxiliary passage is in fluid communication with the main passage via a solenoid valve. When an amount of water under a relatively high pressure is desired, the water is supplied to the main passage only by closing the solenoid valve. Conversely, when an amount of water under a relatively low pressure is desired, the water is supplied to the main and the auxiliary passages by opening the solenoid valve. In addition, adjustment of the amount of the water for user comfort is performed by operating a regulation valve. Thus, control of the water is shared by two parts or elements, so that the number of parts is increased and assembly of the device is complex.


In a method of obtaining an improved perceived color transient, an artificial transient signal is inserted (50) into a luminance signal (Yin) when it is detected (10, 20, 30) that there is an edge in a chrominance signal (Cin) in the absence of an edge in the luminance signal (Yin).

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining a perceived color transient improvement, and to a television receiver incorporating such an apparatus.
2. Description of the Related Art
U.S. Pat. No. 5,012,331 discloses a video enhancement apparatus for a graphics encoder which extracts "sine-squared" (haversine) pulses representing absolute values for the derivatives of R-Y and B-Y color-difference "sine-squared" transitions; multiplies by offset, sign-inverted luminance, and adds the luminance-weighted "sine-squared" pulses to the composite video as color enhancement signals which exceed the NTSC-legal chroma bandwidth but are within the NTSC-legal luminance bandwidth. The pulses augment luminance during chroma transitions, restoring luminance contributions from chrominance which are lost when chroma subcarrier rise times and bandwidth are limited by NTSC broadcast requirements. This is desirable because NTSC-defined colors with a low luminance (Y) component derive relatively more of their visible brightness from chrominance components. Chrominance subcarrier rise time limiting therefore visibly darkens color transitions with low luminance more than color transitions involving relatively high luminance. The resulting augmentation of luminance during color transitions sharpens the apparent resolution on television receiver or monitor cathode ray tubes without extending chrominance bandwidth requirements necessary to prevent chrominance-luminance crosstalk.
European Patent Application EP-A-0,621,732, corresponding to U.S Pat. Nos. 5,663,769 and 5,621,480, discloses an image correction circuit having a variable gain amplifier for amplifying an extracted high-frequency component of a luminance signal in such a manner that the gain thereof is increased when detected color density is high, and is reduced when the detected color density is low, and a slice circuit for slicing the outputted amplitude of the variable gain amplifier at a prescribed value, wherein a corrected luminance signal is obtained by combining an image quality correction signal outputted from the slice circuit with the luminance signal to be corrected.


A weatherstrip assembly 8 for a window 6 includes a weatherstrip 20 with a backing strip 20 with pile fibers 22. The weatherstrip 20 is retained in a channel 10 of window 6. The channel 10 has a flexible wall 14 that is resilient and temporarily deformable to expand the cross-sectional area of channel 10 while the weatherstrip 20 is inserted into channel 10.

The present invention relates to weatherstrip assemblies, and, in particular, to weatherstrip assemblies which are used on windows and doors.
The invention is suitable for use with prime windows or doors as well as storm windows and storm doors. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention is useful for other weatherstripping purposes.
Weatherstripping acts as a barrier or seal against the elements and prevents wind, rain and other elements from passing into a structure. This prevention is achieved through the use of an impervious barrier in the weatherstrip. A typical approach to solving problem of mounting a weatherstrip on a window or door structure has been to provide a channel in the periphery of the structure and an insertable strip that is retained in the channel. Early examples of such strip and channel combinations are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,224,047 and 3,226,190. More recent attempts at solving this problem have relied upon a flexible weatherstrip that can be deformed in order to insert it into a channel defined by relatively rigid structural members. So, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,690,038, there is a shown weatherstrip member C with a cavity D. The weatherstrip member C is of flexible material and flanges 18 and 20 can be manipulated to temporarily reduce the size of the cavity D so that the weatherstrip member C may be inserted into a slot 10. Still others have provided lines of weakness along the backing strip member which can also assist in temporarily deforming the flexible weatherstrip or insertion into a T-slot. See, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,458,450.
It is a feature of this invention to provide an improved weatherstrip which in operation does not require a rigid channel member for retaining the flexible backing member.
It is a feature of the invention that the weatherstrip assembly includes a channel member for retaining the backing member and that the channel member has a flexible structure for temporarily altering the cross-sectional area of the retaining channel in order to accommodate a backing member having a rectangular cross-sectional area, and preferably, a square cross-sectional area.
The weatherstrip assembly of the invention has an elongated channel defined by a base and a pair of walls extending from the base and spaced apart. The channel defines a rectangular cross-sectional area with an opening opposite the base. At least one of the walls of the channel is resilient and flexible for temporarily expanding the cross-sectional area of the channel in order to permit a weatherstrip member to be inserted into or removed from the channel. The weatherstrip member includes a backing strip of rectangular cross-sectional area which is sufficiently large enough to fit snugly against the base and wall members of the channel. The backing strip has a row of pile fibers that extend longitudinally along its backing strip and project from the backing strip and through the opening of the channel.
Each wall of the channel has a lip and each lip is disposed at the opening of the channel. The lips extend toward one another and partially across the channel. The lips retain the backing strip in place by bearing against its upper surface. The lips are spaced far enough apart so that the pile fibers affixed to the upper surface of the backing strip project through the lips and out of the channel.
It is also envisioned that the invention may be incorporated into channels having more traditional T-slot cross sectional areas. In this case, the backing strip may be provided with a plurality of nubbins. The nubbins are distributed longitudinally along the length of the backing strip member and extend laterally from the backing strip. They extend far enough into the cross bar portion of the T-slot so that the lips of the T-slot overlap the nubbins and thereby retain the backing member in the T-slot.


A diving apparatus includes a pump that is actuated by muscular force. Diving weights are fastened to a fresh-air tank by surface zip fasteners. A traction element lies between the pump and the diver's limbs and to which it is attached a quick-release device. A float is surrounded by a net, the float having a seat located below the surface of the water and each of the straps, which are used to fasten the fresh-air tank to the diver, has at least one quick fastener which can be opened by the diver.

The invention relates to a diving apparatus for supplying a diver with breathing air, having a float on which a fresh air line leading from the air atmosphere to the diver is fitted, having a pump which is to be actuated by muscular force and by means of which the diver conveys fresh air via the fresh air line into a fresh air tank which can be worn and fastened on the body of the diver, having a first valve in the fresh air line between the fresh air tank and the air atmosphere, which prevents backflow of the fresh air into the air atmosphere, having a breathing air line which is connected with one end to the fresh air tank, having a mouthpiece which is arranged at the other end of the breathing air line, having a second valve, which is arranged on the breathing air line between the fresh air tank and the mouthpiece, having at least one pulling means, which is actuated at least with a leg or arm and permits the actuation of the pump by the leg or arm movement, and having diving weights which serve to compensate the buoyancy.
Diving apparatuses of this type have already been disclosed in European Patent Application EP 0 297 416. Diving apparatuses of this type are used now and then by sport divers. However, experience has shown that such equipment can give rise to a risk not to be underestimated, particularly for the inexperienced user. Since the diver cannot move in the water independently with such equipment, but always has to be connected via a fresh air line to a float located on the water surface, the likelihood of failure of the vital system components is relatively high. Unforeseeable circumstances such as, for example, kinking of the fresh air line harbor a multiplicity of risks. Consequently, increased safety requirements are to be placed on diving apparatuses of the type mentioned at the beginning.
In the case of diving apparatuses as already known in the prior art, cutting off the fresh air supply can have fatal consequences even at a shallow diving depth. The diver, who is generally neutrally buoyant at a specific depth, first registers the cutting off of the fresh air supply when attempting to breath in after breathing out has already been performed. If it is no longer possible at this instant to breath in, the diver lacks the buoyancy from the breathing air and begins to sink, in particular when the fresh air tank is already filled with water. Such a not unlikely situation is heightened by any amounts of water possibly sucked into the lungs. The average user easily panics in such a dangerous situation because he is greatly circumscribed in his freedom of movement owing to the pulling means and apparatuses fitted on his body.
In addition to the risk from external circumstances that can affect individual components of the equipment, the diver is likewise endangered from simply becoming tired when diving with this equipment. Since a pump movement is required for virtually each breath, diving in this way can be very strenuous. Even at a depth of a few meters, each breath is accompanied by the exertion of a knee bend such as would be executed on land. At greater depths, movement is comparable to a knee bend on land with added weights. Without knowledge of the relevant physical relationships, the normal user easily underestimates this exertion and risk. To make matters worse, there is also a rise in the oxygen requirement with increasing effort. If, for example, the diver does not know that the physical effort for providing the fresh air increases with increasing depth, it can easily happen that the user will gain depth in a brief moment of rest and no longer be capable of carrying out the next pumping movement. As a rule, the diver will just have breathed out in this phase, and so will easily panic. In conjunction with the equipment fastened on his body, there is an increase in the risk of a panic reaction, the more so since carrying out a swimming movement is greatly impaired. Should the diver manage nonetheless to force his way to the surface for safety, he will be completely exhausted. Possibly is lacking in the even the strength to hold on for a relatively long time to the float, mostly a signal buoy.
A further disadvantage of the equipment already known is that the pump is connected to a limb that actuates the pump. The pump is normally actuated via a leg movement, the feet being arranged in stirrups. However, the feet can easily slip from these stirrups during bending of the legs. The consequence is failure of the oxygen supply. In such a situation, reapplying the stirrups to the feet is virtually ruled out, because the diver is firstly no longer getting air and, secondly, is hampered by the fresh air tank, which is located on the chest, as a rule.
Numerous risks proceed from the already known diving apparatus operated by muscular force. A widespread use of this diving technique has so far been opposed by the severe safety shortcomings.


An electronic component includes a main body section having a plurality of surfaces and a terminal portion that is disposed in the main body section and that is fitted to a terminal fitting. A housing member includes a first housing chamber that guides and accommodates the main body section and a second housing chamber that accommodates and holds the terminal fitting. The terminal portion includes a base end and a fitting portion that extends from a protruding tip of the base end and that is fitted to the terminal fitting. The fitting portion extends from the protruding tip of the base end, along a side surface of the main body section with a gap from the side surface, without causing an extending tip to protrude beyond the deep surface.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electronic component assembly structure for mutually assembling an electronic component, a terminal fitting of an electrical wire, and a housing member accommodating the electronic component and the terminal fitting therein and an electrical junction box having the assembly structure.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, a vehicle such as an automobile is equipped with an electronic component module in which various electronic components are assembled. Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2010-221787 discloses a configuration of an electrical junction box (junction box) including a relay module to control connection between a power supply device and an electric component.
FIG. 19 illustrates a configuration of a relay module according to the related art. Such a relay 90 includes a relay body 91 formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape and plural plate-like relay terminals 92 protruding in a straight line shape from one surface (bottom surface) of the relay body 91. Such a type of relay 90 is assembled into a resinous holding member 95, which holds a terminal fitting 94 connected to an electrical wire 93, to constitute a relay module. The relay module is assembled into an electrical junction box. A spring portion 96 to which the relay terminal 92 is fitted is formed in the terminal fitting 94. The relay 90 is held by the holding member 95 by inserting and fitting tips of the plural relay terminals 92 into and to the spring portions 96. FIG. 19 is basically a longitudinal-sectional view of the relay module according to the related art and illustrates only the relay body 91 in a side view.
In the relay module according to the related art illustrated in FIG. 19, the relay terminals 92 protrude from a bottom surface 91a of the relay body 91. Accordingly, in assembling the relay 90 into the holding member 95, it is necessary to position the relay terminal 92 with respect to the terminal fittings 94 and to insert and fit the tips of the relay terminal 92 into and to the spring portion 96. However, since the gravitational center of the relay 90 is located in the relay body 91, the relay 90 is likely to be inclined. In addition, since the terminal fittings 94 into which the relay terminals 92 are inserted are smaller than the relay 90, it is difficult to position the relay 90 such that the relay terminals 92 are inserted in an appropriate insertion direction into the terminal fittings 94. When the relay terminals 92 are fitted to the spring portions 96 of the terminal fittings 94, the relay terminals 92 are covered with the relay body 91 and enter blind spots and it is thus difficult to visually check a state such as a position or an inclination of the relay terminal 92 at the time of fitting. In this way, workability for assembling the relay 90 into the holding member 95 is poor and there is demand for improvement thereof.

Electronic component assembly structure and electrical junction box


An apparatus caused to: in respect of video imagery of an event at which one or more commenting users are present and have submitted comments, a location of the or each of the one or more commenting users visible in the video imagery; based on a current view of the video imagery provided for display to a user and at least one comment having location information associated therewith indicative of one or more of (i) the location, at the time of making the comment, of the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event, (ii) a location, at the event, specified by the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event; provide for display of the comment overlaid over the current view of the video imagery, the comment displayed in the current view of the video imagery at a position that corresponds to the location information.

While watching a live event audience members or other people present at the event may wish to comment on the event. It may be desirable to present those comments to a user watching live or recorded video imagery of the event.
The listing or discussion of a prior-published document or any background in this specification should not necessarily be taken as an acknowledgement that the document or background is part of the state of the art or is common general knowledge. One or more aspects/examples of the present disclosure may or may not address one or more of the background issues.


A system and method for sensing position of an oscillating moving element. The inventive position sensor includes a first arrangement for sampling the position of the element at first positions thereof and providing samples in response thereto and a second arrangement for calculating other positions of the element using the sample of the first position. In the illustrative application, the first arrangement includes an LED and a photodiode and the moving element is a piston of a long-life cryogenic cooler. A processor receives samples from the photodiode and solves an equation of motion therefor. The equation of motion is P(t)=A·sin(ωt+θ)+B, where P(t)=the position of the element; A=position waveform amplitude; B=position waveform DC Offset; ω=angular frequency of operation; t=time; and θ=position waveform phase.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to long-life cryogenic coolers. More specifically, the present invention relates to position sensors used in linear-oscillating, closed-cycle cryogenic coolers.
2. Description of the Related Art
For certain applications such as space infrared sensor systems, a cryogenic cooling subsystem is required to achieve improved sensor performance. Numerous types of cryogenic cooling subsystems currently exist, each having relatively strong and weak attributes relative to the other types. Some space cryocoolers, for example, offer efficiency, operational flexibility and vibration performance at the expense of increased mass and volume relative to other available systems.
Long-life linear-oscillating cryogenic coolers are often designed for lifetimes of well over 10 years under continuous operation. These cryocoolers are not only expected to reliably provide effective cooling for many consecutive years, but are expected to very precisely control the temperature of their cold sinks by actively and precisely varying the stroke characteristics of their internal operating elements. These long-life cryocooler systems therefore include active reciprocating-element position feedback. The stroke amplitude and offset of the various reciprocating elements must be monitored and controlled so that the moving elements do not overstroke and therefore physically impact other parts of the cooler during operation. Such an overstroke or impact can mechanically damage the moving elements and their flexure suspension system, as well as create large amounts of vibration and shock forces that many systems (to which the cryocoolers are attached) are simply unable to tolerate.
The long-life nature of these designs requires that these position measurements be zero-contact so that no friction exists and no contaminants are generated. The sensors used to take these measurements are often a significant portion of the total cryocooler system size, require significant amounts of support electronics, and are usually very expensive.
A variety of sensors have been used in the past to make zero-contact measurements of oscillating element stroke amplitude and phase. Most notably, Linear-Variable Differential Transformer (LVDTs) sensors, capacitive sensors, and eddy-current sensors have been used. Generally the sensors provide accurate, continuous position feedback with zero contact. The continuous-feedback nature of these devices implies significant mechanical and electronic complexity; LVDT sensors are very large, expensive, and require significant drive and demodulation circuitry. While capacitive and eddy-current sensors are somewhat smaller, they require specialized demodulation circuitry and are also expensive in small quantities.
The inclusion of position feedback sensors in the various cryocooler mechanisms has the effect of increasing the total cryocooler package size and mass.
Hence, a need remains in the art for a system or method for sensing the position of moving components of long life cryogenic coolers.

Noncontinuous resonant position feedback system


The invention relates to a cap designed to be coupled to the neck of a container. The cap comprises an inner body and an outer body coupled around the inner body, the rotation of the outer body causing same to move in an axial direction with respect to the inner body. The inner body comprises a peripheral skirt having a lower part split into a plurality of feet. The feet comprise outer surfaces that form a frustoconical shape with a sloped generatrix converging upwards, and inner surfaces with projections that delimit a circular hollow. The cap also comprises a sealing device for preventing the rotation of the outer body with respect to the inner body.

Various types of plugs are presently known for closing the container tips, such as cork plugs, plastic material plugs and also lids or lids in the form of a metal material bowl; wherein said latter cup shaped plugs include a front ring or disc of elastic material that is in contact with the mouth of the container to ensure the sealing of said container.
Currently, when a bottle or container is opened with the plastic cap for the first time, a sealing ring is separated by breaking point portions joining said sealing ring to the plastic cap.
Said sealing ring is then held next to the neck of the bottle, and said sealing ring is held separated from the cap, indicating that the bottle has been opened.
Plastic plugs in the market function with an internal thread, while other safety plugs (for corrosive liquids, for example), including a thread; so that when a turn is made and simultaneously pressed on the tee a portion of the cap assembly opens the bottle releasing its mouth.


A power skinning knife having a single substantially disc shaped blade driven in continuous unidirectional rotary motion with a pair of blade shields on opposite sides of the blade covering most of the blade and exposing only a limited depth arcuate cutting region of the blade between the perimeter of the shield and the cutting edge. The blade is driven by a pneumatic motor that is geared to turn first and second toothed pulleys connected by a toothed belt. The blade may be circular or lobed and mounted concentrically or offset to provide either a smooth or pulsing cutting action. The tool may also include a wiping element which removes debris from the blade edge before it enters the tool housing and a steeling element which can be actuated by the operator's thumb while the tool is being used to sharpen the blade.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to power skinning knives for removing the hide of animals during meat processing. More specifically, this invention relates to pneumatically powered skinning knives which use a disc-shaped rotating cutting blade.
2. Description of Related Art
Modern power skinning knives used in meat processing operations are commonly based upon a design in which a pair of disc-shaped toothed blades are driven in opposed cutting oscillations, with the teeth on the blades cutting in scissors fashion. A pair of pushrods mounted on an eccentric shaft drive the blades oppositely. As one blade turns clockwise the other turns counterclockwise until the teeth on one blade pass the teeth on the adjacent blade. The blades then reverse, with the total rotation angle of each blade being only a few degrees. The drive mechanism is operated by a pneumatic motor mounted in the handle of the tool.
This basic configuration has been developed and improved over time resulting in a tool which is reliable, easy to use and easy to maintain. An example of a tool with this general configuration is found in U.S. Pat. No. 5,122,092 issued Jun. 16, 1992. Earlier versions of skinning knives with this counter-oscillating toothed blade design are seen in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,901,400; 3,739,474; 3,435,522; 4,368,560; 3,176,397; 3,073,027; 2,974,413 and 2,751,680.
An alternative, but less popular, design also uses a pair of toothed blades, however, instead of counter-oscillating, the blades counter-rotate. As the blades move continuously in opposite directions, the teeth repeatedly pass each other, again acting in scissors fashion. This closely related competing design is exemplified in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,165,833 and 3,277,572.
Importantly, tools with the scissors cutting action have a good cutting "feel" for the operator, allowing him to rapidly guide the tool between the hide and the carcass without damaging either. This "feel" is better than is obtained with the smooth blade of a simple unpowered skinning knife which may inadvertently penetrate the hide or quickly cut too deep, removing valuable meat from the carcass.
Although both of these powered knife configurations are generally successful, they have certain similar problems. The first is that the toothed blades of these designs are relatively difficult to sharpen and expensive to make and replace. The cost and difficulty is compounded by the fact that there are two blades to be sharpened.
A disadvantage in the counter-oscillating design, although that design has proven to be more successful than the counter-rotating design, is that due to the small angle of rotation of the blade, the front of the blade does most of the work. This wears the front of the blade prematurely and requires that the blade be rotated or resharpened frequently.
The counter-oscillating design also has a difficulty in that it induces some vibration into the tool due to the oscillating mass of the pushrods. Although these oscillations can be minimized with careful design, as was done in the design in U.S. Pat. No. 5,122,092, they cannot be completely eliminated.
The present design addresses these problems, and in doing so provides other advantages that are not found in the prior art. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a power skinning knife with a blade that distributes its wear uniformly over its cutting edge.
Another object of the invention is to provide a power skinning knife in which the blade can be easily sharpened while it is being used.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a power skinning knife in which the blade is relatively inexpensive to manufacture and to replace.
A further object of the invention is to provide a power skinning knife with a single blade instead of dual blades.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a power skinning knife with reduced vibration as compared to counter-oscillating designs.
Another object of the invention is to provide a power skinning knife with good cutting feel and cutting depth control to prevent inadvertent deep cuts into the carcass or cuts through the hide.

Power skinning knife with unidirectional rotating blade


The aqueous permanent shaping composition has a pH of 6.5 to 9.5 and contains water, from 3 to 28 percent by weight of one or more mercaptoethylamines of the formula I EQU HS--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --NR.sub.1 R.sub.2 (I),. wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, a straight or branched chain alkyl, hydroxyalkyl or polyhydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents a cyclohexyl group, a furfuryl group, a straight or branched chain hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a polyhydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; or wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together with the nitrogen atom form a five or six membered ring containing, or not containing, another heteroatom and the five or six membered ring is substituted with a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group or with one or two alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, polyhydroxyalkyl or alkoxycarboxyl groups having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; or at least one physiologically compatible salt thereof; and one or more additive ingredients, which can be a surfactant or emulsifier, alcohol, sugar, solvating agent, stabilizer, buffer substance, perfume oil, dyestuff, hair conditioning or care ingredient.

The present invention concerns compositions for the permanent shaping of hair containing a mercaptoethylamine and/or one of its salt as keratin reducing agent and to a method for permanent shaping of hair using these compositions.
The well-known classical technique for performing a permanent shaping of hair is based on two treatment steps. In the first step the cystine-disulfide bridges of the hair keratin are opened by action of a composition (shaping composition) containing a reducing agent. Then the hair is put in the desired shape. In a second step cystine-disulfide bridges are again closed using a fixing composition, i.e. a composition containing an oxidizing agent.
Thioglycolic acid, for example as its ammonium or monoethanolamine salt, is employed as a classic permanent wave reducing agent, as shown by the German Pioneer Patents 948 186 and 972 424. Additional conventional reducing agents include inorganic sulfites, 2-mercaptopropionic acid(thiolactic acid), 3-mercaptopropionic acid, certain mercaptocarboxylic acid esters, cysteine and derivatives of these compounds.
These reducing agents however have a series of disadvantages. In spite of their sufficient action alkaline preparations based on mercaptocarboxylic acids produce hair damage, which manifests itself in multiple hair strand breaks. Many times these compositions also load the scalp skin in an undesirable manner.
Finally an intensive perfuming of the product is subsequently required because of the unpleasant smell of the reducing agent used. One can solve several of the above-mentioned problems by using 2-mercaptopropionic acid(thiolactic acid). Generally the thiolactic acid is characterized by a weaker shaping action than the generally used thioglycolic acid.
The mercaptocarboxylic acid esters, which allow hair shaping also at lower pH values, are not satisfactory in regard to their skin compatibility and their sensitization risk. Instead of the mercaptocarboxylic acid esters mercaptocarboxylic acid amides, such as thioglycolic acid amide or alkyl- and/or hydroxyalkyl-substituted amides, have also been used. These latter compounds are disclosed in International Patent Application WO-A-91/10421 and European Patent Application EP-A-0 455 457. These materials have, a comparatively good shaping power also at reduced pH values, like the carboxylic acid esters, however are still more criticized than the esters in regard to their sensitizing action. Mercaptoethylamines and their salts, in which the nitrogen atom is substituted with two equal straight or branched chain alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, are already disclosed in German Patent Application 195 03 131.

Hair shaping compositions containing mercaptoethylamines and methods for the permanent shaping of hair using same


This wireless communication terminal can reduce power consumption required for channel change, and a channel information output unit detects communication channel information included in information represented by a signal received through an antenna and outputs the communication channel information. A wireless communication unit has a first operation mode and a second operation mode having relatively higher operational power consumption than the first operation mode, and transmits communication data to an external terminal through the antenna using a communication channel represented by the communication channel information output by the channel information output unit when the wireless communication module operates in the second operation mode.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal.
Priority is claimed on Japanese Patent Application No. 2011-242135, filed on Nov. 4, 2011, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the medical and healthcare fields, efforts are actively being made to effectively use biological data stored, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, or the like. Such biological data is collected from the surface of a human body or the inside of the body using a terminal having a variety of sensors. Also, the biological data collected by the terminal is transmitted to and stored in the storage device. When the storage device that stores biological data is used, if the terminal and the storage device are connected by a wired cable in order to transmit biological data, actions of a patient are limited. For this reason, it is preferable to configure the terminal to transmit biological data using wireless communication such that a patient can carry the terminal. Such needs are great in the medical field, in particular, implantable medical devices.
However, in such a wireless communication system, data is transmitted wirelessly, and thus there is a case in which communication errors occur due to various kinds of interference. For such a case, an interference avoidance technique in which a wireless communication system selects and uses channels that do not interfere with each other from among a plurality of channels is under examination. For example, a wireless communication system in which a storage device scans a plurality of channels in sequence to search for a response from a terminal and change a channel is known (for example, Published Japanese Translation No. 2010-521223 of the PCT International Publication).


Method of gaining secure access from a host (13) to Intranet resources provided by at least a content server (18) in a data transmission system wherein the host is connected to the content server through a gateway (17). Such a method consists in generating and sending at predetermined transmission instants from either the host or the gateway verification messages wherein each verification message contains a signature which depends upon the data exchanged between the host and the gateway since the preceding verification message, the host and the gateway also called peer devices having at their disposal same algorithm defining which of them sends a verification message at each of the predetermined instants.

The Internet Protocol (IP) basically operates with small portions of data called packets containing a header that contains the destination address and the source address. The IP protocol being connectionless, the routers of the network route packets based on the destination address without considering the source address.
However, the handling of the source address by unauthorized people can create a problem which is known as "spoofing" which is the number one problem with Internet. Indeed, to gain access to some resources, intruders create packets with spoofed source IP addresses. Such packets can be routed through filtering firewalls if they are not configured to filter incoming packets whose the source address is in the local domain. It is important to note that this attack is possible even if no reply packets can reach the intruder. Configurations that are potentially vulnerable include routers to external networks that support multiple internal interfaces, routers with two interfaces that support subnetting on the internal network, proxy firewalls where the proxy applications use the source IP address for authentication, and routers or gateways accessing internet with tunneling to an internal network.
Network administrators have the option to use source address filtering on their routers with the aid of anti-spoofing filters. However, these filters have some limitations depending on the type of spoofing and network implementation.
One of the best known dangers of spoofing is the use of spoofing in combination with sniffing in order to perform an attack where the sniffed data are used to generate a response that is based on the spoofed address translation in order for the machine of the spoofer to make the target believe that it is the entity which is trying to contact.
An example of spoofing combined with sniffing is Domain Name Server (DNS) spoofing wherein a DNS server accepts and uses incorrect information from a host that has no authority to provide such this information. Such an attack may cause users to be directed to wrong internet sites or e-mails being routed to non-authorized mail servers.
Another significant spoofing type is used with Address Recognition Protocol (ARP). In the ARP spoofing, hackers can discover active devices on a local network segment by sending a simple series of ARP broadcasts and incrementing the value of the target IP address field in each broadcast packet to find the hardware address of a destination. This spoofing method is similar to DNS spoofing, but applies only one layer and is used in lower layers in the TCP/IP stack, and may be used on switched networks as well. With this method, the attacker can convince any host or router that it is the host or router on the local network that it should forward its IP packets to the attacker. This method is now commonly used for sniffing switched networks. Before communicating with a host, an IP device must obtain the hardware address of the destination host or the next-hop router along the path to the host. ARP cache poisoning is one of the most efficient attacks in directly manipulating the cache of a target device in order to either add a new entity in the table or update an existing entity. This allows for different attacks such as the interception of all flows from one device to another device. This attack is more commonly known as the "man in the middle" attack.
There are several solutions enabling to protect a network against spoofing attacks. One of these solutions is illustrated in FIG. 1 which describes the environment from a host 13 to a server 18 through a secure tunnel. The secure tunnel uses the standard IPsec for tunneling and encryption over an unsecure network NET 10 between two peer routers R1 14 and R2 15. Host 13 can reach the router 14 via LAN 11. The content servers such as server 18 are reached through another LAN 12. Authentication is performed through a portal or a gateway GW 17. When authentication is performed, the gateway provides access to server S 18. It must be noted that network 10 can be either the Internet or an Intranet network.
In the environment illustrated in FIG. 1 sharing the same IPsec tunnel, there is a need for user authentication. Many solutions exist for this authentication, but none that can simply verify that no host IP address spoofing is performed during the connection. The technique based upon Secure Socket Layer (SSL) provides this authentication and some anti-spoofing mechanisms thanks to the keys being used.
SSL is the standard method sharing secret by using public and private keys. Since the host and the gateway are using the same secret key for encrypting and decrypting their information, they can have a certain comfort in knowing this information cannot be intercepted and decoded by a third party. But this depends on whether the encryption is strong or weak and the protection provided by SSL is not sufficient for preventing some attacks.
Furthermore, such a secure solution like SSL has performance drawbacks and security limitations as well as being designed primarily for web server access. SSL includes encryption whereas the remote access generally provides also encryption thanks to IPsec. The SSL encryption cannot be removed. Moreover, SSL includes also the encapsulation which is therefore done twice if there is an IPsec tunnel. So, using this existing mechanism does not help to reduce the overhead and the encryption processing of the system.
FIG. 2 describes an alternate solution applied to the same network system as the one illustrated in FIG. 1. Such a solution, using standard protocols such as IPsec AH or 802.1x as an access control method (ACTL) between host 13 and router 14, offers the host authentication but not the user authentication. Since hacking a PC password is easy, this solution is not very secure since no user authentication is performed. Both mechanisms need router capability to do that, which means that the same administrative entity should have administrative control over the router and the hosts and activate function. Therefore, such an alternative is complex to implement and provides insufficient security.

Method of gaining secure access to intranet resources