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A fiber optic cable enclosure having a rectangular box with a sliding cover and containing a cable reel disposed and supported therein on protuberances projecting from the bottom of the reel with the side panels of the enclosure supported in C section channels for horizontal sliding intermittent reciprocating motion whereby a cable wound on said reel can be extracted and utilized as a jumper cable for establishing emergency connections in a telecommunications network.

A directional coupler with a high coupling per unit area and small variations in characteristic at manufacturing capable of achieving a high directivity easily and an RF circuit module provided with the directional coupler are achieved. A main-line is provided on a front surface of a multi-layer substrate, a ground plane is provided on a back surface of the multi-layer substrate. On an inner layer immediately under the main-line, two lines in parallel with the main-line are provided, and one line is provided on a layer closer to the ground plane than the two lines. By connecting the two lines and the one line with vias, a sub-line with a shape of a winding of a loop is formed. In the sub-line, a main component of a vector vertically penetrating the loop is horizontal with respect to the ground plane.

An apparatus and method for automatically swinging a center pivot, towed implement from one side to the other side of a farm machine. The apparatus includes a Global Positioning System for locating the farm machine and sensors and remote controls for various functions of the machine to check and change the status of each machine function. An on-board computer uses the sensors and the GPS and a previously installed program to automatically determine what portion of the field has been worked and to direct the farm machine to swing the implement from one side to the other as required.

A slide cutter assembly for use in sectioning lengths of a packaging material drawn from a roll. The device includes an elongated and shaped body. A first roll supporting portion is located at a first end of said body and a second roll supporting portion is likewise located at a second end of the body. A cutter assembly extends from a selected lengthwise extending edge of the body and upon which an unwound length of the packaging material comes into contact. The cutter assembly incorporates a traversable blade for sectioning from the roll the length of packaging material. The roll of packaging typically comes in a generally elongated and three-dimensional shaped packaging, the cutter device being constructed so that it may be supported within an interior defined by the packaging and upon first mounting the roll between the first and second roll supporting portions.

A guide wire assembly (1) includes a guide wire (2) having a main body section (22), a front-end angular section (21) and a base-end angular section (23). The guide wire assembly (1) further includes a storage section for storing the guide wire (2) inside a hollow section of a substantially annularly wound pipe body (51). The base-end angular section (23) is arranged so that it is dynamically stabilized in elasticity, in a state in which a bent direction thereof is aligned with a direction of curvature of the pipe body (51). When the base-end angular section (23) passes through the pipe body as the guide wire (2) is delivered from the storage section (5), a state is maintained in which the bent direction of the base-end angular section (23) is aligned with the direction of curvature of the pipe body (51), and the direction of the front-end angular section (21) is maintained at a predetermined direction with respect to the storage section (5).

A flexible conductive ribbon is ultrasonically bonded to the surface of a die and terminals from a lead frame of a package. Multiple ribbons and / or multiple bonded areas provide various benefits, such as high current capability, reduced spreading resistance, reliable bonds due to large contact areas, lower cost and higher throughput due to less areas to bond and test.

An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus includes a signal processor. A fixed unit slidably supports, in perpendicular first and second directions, a movable unit having an imaging device or a hand-shake correcting lens. The movable unit or fixed unit has a magnetic-field change detector which has a horizontal magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a first location and a vertical magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a second location. Another of the movable unit and the fixed unit has a position-detecting magnet unit which faces the magnetic-field change detector. The signal processor outputs a first detected-position signal and a second detected-position signal. The controller calculates the first location for the first detected-position signal and the second location for the second detected-position signal. The controller maximizes a width between minimum and maximum values of the first detected-position signal and between minimum and maximum values of the second detected-position signal.

An apparatus and method for creating a space of defined length, height, width and shape with a guided mill in preparation for receiving a spinal implant or graft of known size and configuration is disclosed.

Disclosed is a pattern coil type vertical vibrator including: a housing; a magnetic circuit unit placed in the internal space of the housing, and including a magnet perpendicularly placed and a yoke for fixedly receiving the magnet therein; spring members provided with upper ends fixed to the housing and lower ends fixed to the magnetic circuit unit for vertically and elastically supporting the magnetic circuit unit; a vibrating unit, including a weight assembled with the yoke of the magnetic circuit unit, vertically vibrated together with the magnetic circuit unit through the spring members; and a pattern coil, printed on an upper surface of a base for closing a lower surface of the housing, to which power is supplied, so that the pattern coil is interlinked with a magnetic field generated from the magnet and generates force just upwardly when the power is supplied to the pattern coil.

An adjustable snow shovel system for facilitating effective removal of accumulated snow has a generally tubular, three-way adjustable shovel frame. The system has a generally tubular, adjustable handle bar horizontally located on the shovel frame. The handle bar is adjustable for facilitating effective removal of accumulated snow. The system has a pivotally adjustable shovel assembly having a first shovel member and a second shovel member. The shovel assembly is generally horizontally located on the shovel frame. The shovel assembly can be affixed into a position having the first shovel member and the second shovel member in-line with one another maximizing a shovel assembly width for facilitating effective removal of accumulated snow. The shovel assembly can be affixed into a position having the first shovel member and the second shovel member located at an angle with respect to one another for facilitating effective removal of accumulated snow.

A towing system, especially useful in wake boarding is described. Using a beam mounted to a tower and a carriage that travels over the beam, a towline attached to the carriage of one variation of the system offers a rider more air time and eliminates certain burdens created with the towline / rope. Further, more room to gain speed and set up for the wake jump, more air and natural feeling during the air time due to the elimination of rope tightening otherwise experienced. A number of other possible system variations and options in addition to the basic beam and carriage configuration are also disclosed. Preferably, the beam and carriage are configured to offer a virtual pivot point for the tow rope that is pushed forward of where the beam is mounted.

A secondary battery and method, with the secondary battery including a can having a polygonal section, and with the can having an opening portion of which one end is opened, and having a short side portion and a long side portion. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly constructed by stacking a negative electrode plate, a separator and a positive electrode plate, with the electrode assembly being wound up in a jelly roll shape, pressed in a predetermined direction, and received in the can. The secondary battery further includes at least one electrode tap connected to a corresponding electrode plate of the electrode assembly and protruded toward an opening portion of the can from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly, at the short side portion of the can.

A traversing circular saw device having a saw blade assembly mounted onto a cradle which can receive a number of logs to be cut into sections. The saw blade assembly includes a circular saw blade mounted onto an extension arm which is contained within an arm sleeve. The width of the cradle is greater than the diameter of the saw blade. The saw blade is extended across the cradle by a piston. One embodiment of the invention includes a charge accumulator for the hydraulic system which can time-delay engagement of the extension means. The system can also include a flow control valve for varying the time delay of the charge accumulator.

A secondary battery and method, with the secondary battery including a can having a polygonal section, and with the can having an opening portion of which one end is opened, and having a short side portion and a long side portion. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly constructed by stacking a negative electrode plate, a separator and a positive electrode plate, with the electrode assembly being wound up in a jelly roll shape, pressed in a predetermined direction, and received in the can. The secondary battery further includes at least one electrode tap connected to a corresponding electrode plate of the electrode assembly and protruded toward an opening portion of the can from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly, at the short side portion of the can.

A universal boxcar is provided with load carrying capabilities of a conventional uninsulated boxcar and temperature ratings of an insulated boxcar. The insulated boxcar may be formed with interior dimensions corresponding generally with interior dimensions of an uninsulated boxcar without requiring the use of high cost, high performance insulation. The insulated boxcar may be formed at a reasonable cost and selling price with increased load carrying capacity, increased service life, and reduced maintenance costs as compared to conventional insulated boxcars.

To provide an internal combustion engine that can generate a strong swirl by increasing the amount of intake air for generating the swirl in a simple structure. In the internal combustion engine provided with a cylinder head formed with an air intake port having first and second ports, when a second intake valve for opening and closing the second port is brought into a halted state by a valve halting mechanism, a swirl is generated by intake air flowing through the first port in a combustion chamber. At a first inlet slot, the line of intersection between a first plane, which is a plan including the first inlet slot and a first orthogonal plane inclines upwardly as it approaches from the position near the outer periphery of the combustion chamber towards a second reference plane, and the first port includes a port section having a passage shape which extends substantially along a perpendicular line orthogonal to a first plane from the first inlet slot towards the upstream by a predetermined length of the passage in a plan view.

Embodiments of a micro-vitreoretinal trocar blade may have a top surface and a bottom surface that converge to form cutting edges. Each of the top surface and bottom surface have a large rounded apex to maximize the area of the blade. Each surface also has concave regions that may form the cutting edges. Advancing the MVR trocar blade into tissue causes the tissue to contact the apexes of the top and bottom surfaces. The apexes draw the tissue into contact with the cutting edges. The cutting edges incise the tissue such that the incision is sized to accommodate a trocar cannula. The geometry of the top surface and bottom surface ensure that the features of the blade do not protrude radially outside of the diametral envelope of the shaft.

The present invention provides an easy and quick assembled and removable rack system which can have the length and width of the system adjusted. The rack system can be assembled in numerous configurations to carry various load sizes and objects. The inventive rack system includes an expandable front brace, an expandable left and right-side frame, an expandable rear brace, expandable left and right support rails, where the expandable support rails have an inner opening for receiving an inner support rail for added support when the left and right support rails are extended. The inner support rails also have an inner opening for receiving a left and right extension arm which fits inside the inner rail opening and the extension arms can be extended from the rear of the frame for added length and support when carrying longer items of for pulling out a portion of the deck panels to create a work surface area off the back of the truck or rack system. The support rails are configured to support removeable panels for providing a deck. The deck is formed from a plurality of expandable deck panels which can have the widths or length adjusted to accommodate the vehicle size. The deck panels are received by the top edge on the left and right support rails.

A mobile cleaner includes a body and a sweep module. The body has an installation space within the body and an insertion opening exposed to the underside of the body. The sweep module is detachably assembled to the installation space through the insertion hole. The sweep module includes a dust housing and an agitator. The dust housing includes a collection space for collecting the foreign material from the surface and a storage space where the foreign material is stored. The agitator is rotatably assembled to the dust housing and is configured to direct the foreign material from the surface to the collection space.

This invention relates to a convertible vehicle having a movable roof supported by lateral linkage parts. An inner lining or headliner faces the passenger compartment when the roof is closed. The outer transverse margins of the headliner extend below and contact lateral sections, which also serve as carriers for seals for the side window panes.

A method is provided for decompressing an image originally compressed using a known compression technique. An original compressed image file is defined by a plurality of locations that correspond to image data. A set of smooth test images is created by iteratively applying a plurality of different size PIXON® kernels to each location of a starting image beginning with a smallest size kernel. Each smooth test image is compressed using the known compression technique, then compared against the original compressed image at each location of the image to determine a goodness-of-fit of the compressed smooth test image to each location of the original compressed image file. For each location, the smooth test image that has the largest size kernel that passes a pre-determined goodness-of-fit criterion is selected for a given location of the decompressed image. A compression method utilizes the PIXON® method for optimization of knot points within an image. The optimized knot points are used to interpolate image intensity between the knot points.

A surface wave component contains at least two interdigital transducers having natural unidirectionality, disposed on a piezoelectric crystal substrate, which form a transducer pair consisting of transmission transducer and reception transducer. The transducers consist of an interdigital electrode structure having prongs and bus bars, and have opposite forward directions. At least two of the prongs form a transducer cell that has at least one excitation center for exciting an electrical potential wave and at least one reflection center for reflection of electrical potential waves, The transducer cells consist of two prongs having the same width, having a distance between the prong centers equal to half the length of a transducer period, whereby the electrode structures of the two transducers consist of the same material, but have different layer thicknesses.

A tube system for ventilation with an outer tube (1) and with an inner tube (3) arranged non-centrally in the radial direction in the interior of the outer tube (1) is shown and described. The coaxial type tube system may be provided for ventilation and for medical applications. The flow resistance for the gas is minimized by the inner tube (3) being designed such that it is linearly in contact with an inner wall (35) of the outer tube (1).

A surface wave component contains at least two interdigital transducers having natural unidirectionality, disposed on a piezoelectric crystal substrate, which form a transducer pair consisting of transmission transducer and reception transducer. The transducers consist of an interdigital electrode structure having prongs and bus bars, and have opposite forward directions. At least two of the prongs form a transducer cell that has at least one excitation center for exciting an electrical potential wave and at least one reflection center for reflection of electrical potential waves, The transducer cells consist of two prongs having the same width, having a distance between the prong centers equal to half the length of a transducer period, whereby the electrode structures of the two transducers consist of the same material, but have different layer thicknesses.

Disc brake for a heavy vehicle having a disc-shaped rotor consisting of a cast iron alloy and a calliper supporting a brake lining which is intended to be pressed against the said rotor during braking.