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An interior rearview mirror assembly for vehicles incorporates a rearview mirror mount, a rearview mirror, and a rearview mirror support. The support is pivotally attached to the mirror mount by a first pivot element, and to the rearview mirror by a second pivot element. The mirror mount, support, a rearview mirror housing, and the pivot elements are each formed by molding from polymeric material having a respective color. In various embodiments, the colors may all be substantially the same, such as black, gray, tan, brown, burgundy, green, or another color, or may be different. In one form, the rearview mirror housing includes at least one electrical accessory. Electrical conductors may extend through the pivot elements and mirror support to the rearview mirror housing to provide an electrical connection for the electrical accessory to the vehicle electrical system. The pivot elements preferably include ball pivot members and sockets on various of the mirror mount, support and rearview mirror housing, and may include surfaces for enhanced frictional resistance to pivotal movement. In one form, the rearview mirror mount preferably includes receiving members which release the assembly from a windshield attachment member when sufficient force is applied such as upon impact.

PCT No. PCT/DE95/01059 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 2, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 2, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 1, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/07044 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996A pipe joint with a sleeve element and with a spigot element configured to be threadedly connected together to collectively absorb the load experienced by the joint over the threaded sections of the sleeve and spigot. By suitably selecting the leads and tooth gaps in the sleeve or spigot, it is possible for the guide flank at one thread end to be braced against the load flank at the other thread end thereby effecting maximum bracing at the edges of the thread and decreasing toward the thread center.

The invention relates to a hydro-oscillator for well drilling. The hydro-oscillator consists of a hydraulic driving assembly, a fixed valve assembly, a bottom assembly and a vibrating pipe nipple, wherein the vibrating pipe nipple is connected with the hydraulic driving assembly; a rotor is connected with a vibrating valve; the fixed valve assembly is arranged on the bottom assembly; and a power shell is connected with the bottom assembly. A drilling fluid is used for driving the rotor to rotate, and the rotor is used for driving the vibrating valve to vibrate, so that flow holes of the vibrating valve and a fixed valve are staggered with each other, and simple harmonic pressure waves are modulated and are upwardly transmitted to a disc spring for driving the vibrating shell to perform continuous simple harmonic vibration in the axial direction, so that the friction resistance between a drilling column and a well wall is improved effectively, and the drilling speed is increased; and meanwhile, pressure waves are downwardly transmitted to drill bit jet flow, so that periodic change of rock breaking pressure is facilitated, and rocks are crushed effectively. The hydro-oscillator has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience for operating, safety, reliability, low pressure drop, high adaptability, no influence on the drilling tool structure and the like, and plays an important role in increasing the drilling speed and reducing cost.

The invention relates to a dental x-ray device comprising a mobile support structure for a system that can be displaced to produce x-ray photographs and also comprising a fixed support structure. The mobile support structure is displaceably mounted on the fixed support structure by one or more bearings. The device is provided with adjustment elements for the displacement of the support structure parallel to the bearing surface, in addition to a drive for carrying out a rotation of the support structure about an axis that is perpendicular to the bearing surface. The bearing elements are configured in such a way that they can be displaced on the bearing surface in every direction parallel to the bearing surface and can carry out a rotation about an axis that is perpendicular to the bearing surface.

Portable power driven rope climbing apparatus having a motor driving a gear reduction mechanism which drives a pulley wheel securing a rope extending thereabouts. A rope output guide member is provided for maintaining the rope in engagement with the pulley wheel an attachment mechanism for attaching an external load. The attachment mechanism comprises a rope entry guide member for supporting a rope as it enters the apparatus, so as to provide a fulcrum point about which the mass of the apparatus exerts a first moment. The attachment mechanism further comprises a seat member for supporting the load. The seat member is held remote from the main body such that the load, when mounted thereon exerts a second, opposed moment about the fulcrum.

A method for improving hydraulic fracturing creates coated proppants containing one or more chemical constituents bonded to a substrate and introduced into the fracturing fluid itself. The substrate that eventually acts as a proppant may be sand, ceramic, resin coated sand, and other materials. Typically, the materials that are coated as powders adhered to the substrate may include friction reducers, biosides, oxygen scavengers, clay stabilizers, scale inhibitors, gelling agents, or the like. By adhering solid materials to a substrate 12 by a binder 14, a single, solid, granular material may be maintained onsite, requiring reduced footprint, reduced mixing and may introduce almost instantaneously into a fracturing flow stream all the necessary chemical constituents, which will eventually become mixed. The result is reduced time, energy, manpower, equipment, and space at the sight, while reducing the environmental impact of transportation, spills, hydrocarbon use, and the like.

A medical device having a lubricious coating on at least a section of the medical device, and a method of coating a medical device, the lubricious coating being a network of a hydrophilic compound cross-linked to itself and interlocked with a network of a cross-linked polymerized multifunctional monomer or polymer. The coating can include one or more agents which provide enhanced adhesion of the coating on the device, or which provide faster hydration of the coating and/or improved lubricity. Additionally, the lubricious coating can be provided with one or more therapeutic or diagnostic agents, and in one embodiment the agent elutes relatively quickly in a concentrated release from the lubricious coating upon hydration of the coating.

Expandable medical implants for supporting bone structures may include a first member and a second member. The second member may be configured to receive the first member and may be moveable along the longitudinal axis relative to the first member. One of the first and second members may include a plurality of teeth and the other of the first and second members may include at least one tooth. At least a portion of one of the first and second main bodies may be elastically deformable to selectively engage and disengage the at least one tooth and the plurality of teeth. At least one tooth and the plurality of teeth may be shaped to deform the elastically deformable portion when both increasing and when decreasing the overall implant height by moving the second member relative to the first member along the longitudinal axis.

An object of this invention is to provide such a welded structure of and welding method for two metallic parts fitted together at a tubular section in a high-pressure fuel supply pump, that enables rapid joining of both metallic parts by staking (press-fitting included), screw fastening, and/or laser welding, offers high welding strength and sufficient fluid sealability, and keeps the metallic materials free from thermal changes in composition. Solution: While an electric current is supplied to any one of the welding connection surfaces formed between a pump housing and cylinder in a high-pressure fuel supply pump, between the pump housing and an installation flange, between the pump housing and an intake or discharge joint, between the pump housing and a pulsation-absorbing damper cover, between the pump housing and a relief valve mechanism, and between the pump housing and an electromagnetically driven intake valve mechanism, the particular two sections are pressed against each other to generate, along the connection surface, a plastic flow not causing melting or fusion due to heat, and form a diffusion-weld region at the connection surface by using the plastic flow and the application of the pressure.

A medical patient transfer handcart is composed of a main body with lift mechanism and universal castors, and a transversely movable plate mechanism with dual-layer structure consisting of cloth reel and its frame end jointer holder, clutch gear, and upper and lower movable clothes (or plates).

A sheet feeder includes a support plate inclined backward and a feed roller for feeding one by one the sheets of paper stacked on the plate. A first support surface and a second support surface are formed at or near the bottom of the plate to support the front ends of the sheets. The second surface is lower in frictional resistance than the first surface. The second surface can be moved by an operating lever between a first position, where it is protruded from the first surface toward the sheets, and a second position, where it is retracted from the first surface away from the sheets. If the sheets are relatively rigid, their front ends are supported by the second surface in the first position, and they can therefore be fed smoothly.

A light attachment that can be readily mounted on a variety of tools and tool support fixtures and other support structures includes a light portion supported on a mounting portion by a flexible gooseneck cable. The mounting portion includes a housing that defines a male-female attachment element configured to slidingly mate with a complementary attachment element formed on the body of the power tool. In a preferred embodiment, the attachment element has a dovetail shape for sliding engagement within a complementary shaped notch in the body of the tool. The housing contains a power source for the light portion. The light portion incorporates an on-off switch that is actuated by rotating a component that is threadedly engaged within the housing. The housing supports a printed circuit board to which the power supply wires are attached. The circuit board also carries a spring contact switch element that completes an electrical circuit to energize the light portion when the spring contact is pressed against the circuit board. Power is supplied through the circuit board and switch to an LED light element. The LED is disposed within the housing so that the rotatable component can push the base of the LED into the spring switch to close the electrical circuit.

A hinge for anchoring and folding on a small pintle which has a diameter between 3 and 7.9 mm to form a stepless swiveling and anchoring by increasing the friction resistant force to counter the torque. It includes a maneuvering structure which has a rotary member and an anchor member that form a rotational displacement on a contact surface therebetween that can be swiveled and anchored in a stepless manner and latched on a fixed location for closing. A braking structure is provided that has braking elements and washers to increase the friction resistant forces so that the small pintle has adequate friction resistant forces to anchor a display device after unfolding. The maneuvering structure has anchor elements and retaining troughs of different sizes that cannot be coupled with each other when the display device is unfolded and swiveled to 180 degrees to maintain the original friction resistant forces so that the display device may be anchored at any angle after unfolded.

In an ink jet ink containing a pigment, a binder resin, water, an organic solvent, and a surfactant, the surface tension of the ink is in a region defined by γ₀−γ_x≧1.0 (γ₀: surface tension before evaporation, γ_x: surface tension at an evaporation rate X %) when the evaporation rate X of the ink is in a range of 0<X(%)≦20; the ink jet ink contains two or more organic solvents; and the content of an organic solvent of which the sum ΣSP of the hydrogen bonding term and the polarity term of the solubility parameter is 8 to 18 MPa^1/2 is 30 mass % or more and less than 95 mass % of the total amount of the organic solvents; and the content of the surfactant is less than the critical micelle concentration of the surfactant.

The present invention relates to high-pressure rotary spraying and core inserting process to form pedestal pipe. The pedestal pile consists of core pile, column and pile depestal. The cylindrical or turned frustum-shaped core pile may be prefabricated reinforced concrete pile, in-situ deposited pile or other pile in different cross section shapes. The pile pedestal below the core pile has diameter greater than that of the core pile. The column has circular, semi-circular of fan-shaped cross section. There may be several auxiliary core piles around the main solid or hollow core pile and several rings in relatively great diameter around the column. The present invention has reasonable design, compact structure, high friction resistance, and wide application in building engineering, bridge engineering, civil engineering, water engineering, etc.

A fuel holding device is secured to a vehicle by means of straps and brackets, which sits on a system of gaskets to prevent longitudinal sliding and rotation. A gasket system for preventing longitudinal sliding is disposed circumferentially around the tank body, and between the tank body and a circumferential bracket system that includes a U-shaped strap and an L-shaped bracket. The gasket system comprises a wedge-shaped base and a slider portion, with the U-shaped strap secured around the slider portion. A system for preventing rotation of a fuel-holding device has a circumferential wedge gasket segment, or a corrugated segment, positioned at a gap between the U-shaped strap and the L-shaped bracket.

A magnetic recording medium including at least a disk substrate 1A, a magnetic recording layer 5 formed with a predetermined concavo-convex pattern on the disk substrate 1A, and a non-magnetic layer 6 filled into concave portions of the concavo-convex pattern, so as to have data track regions 20 and servo pattern regions 21. Due to the existence of concaves and convexes in the surface of each data track region 20, the foregoing problem is solved. On this occasion, arithmetical mean deviation of the assessed profile Ra of the surface of each data track region 20 is preferably not lower than 0.3 nm. The difference in surface level between each concave and each convex existing in the surface of the data track region 20 is preferably not larger than 6 nm.

A method for improving the performance of fracturing processes in oil production fields may rely on polymer coated particles carried in the fracturing fluid. The particles may include heavy substrates, such as sand, ceramic sand, or the like coated with polymers selected to absorb water, increasing the area and volume to travel more readily with the flow of fluid without settling out, or allowing the substrate to settle out. Ultimately, the substrate may become lodged in the fissures formed by the pressure or hydraulic fracturing, resulting in propping open of the fissures for improved productivity.

Stiffness-treated honeycomb sandwich structures which exhibit reduced core crush and/or reduced void content are provided. Additionally, stiffness-treated prepreg plies which exhibit increased frictional resistance when disposed on other prepreg plies are also provided. Further, associated starting materials and methods are provided.

A closure panel assembly (10) includes a fixed panel (12) defining an opening (14), a pair of guide rails (16,18) disposed on opposite sides of the opening, and a sliding panel (26) supported by the guide rails for movement between a closed position over the opening and an open position. Cooperating surface features (46,48) on at least one guide rail and the sliding panel engage one another when the sliding panel is moved to the closed position, to laterally displace the sliding panel toward the fixed panel and thereby compress a seal (44) disposed therebetween. Additional surface features (54) on the guide rail similarly engage the sliding panel's surface features to displace the sliding panel toward the fixed panel when the sliding panel is in a partially-open position, to thereby at least partially compress the seal and create a frictional drag on the sliding panel resisting further movement.