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An article of footwear including an upper formed of a flexible upper material and a sole formed of a flexible sole material, wherein the sole is rolled, folded, or collapsed onto itself to reduce the volume of the article of footwear. The article of footwear in a collapsed state can then be packaged in a container. This container can be dispensed by a vending machine in a convenient urban area.

The present invention is directed to a method of and a mold for arranging features on a substrate to replicate the features with minimal dimensional variability. The method includes arranging features on a layer to minimize thickness variations in the layer that are attributable to density variations of the plurality of features on the layer. The features are transferred into an underlying substrate. It is believed that by forming the features so as to define a uniform fill factor in the layer, the thickness variations may be reduced, if not abrogated. To that end, one method in accordance with the present invention includes forming a flowable material on the substrate. Thereafter, a plurality of features is formed in a region of the flowable material. The plurality of features are arranged to provide a substantially uniform fill factor in the region.

An electric or power rotational tool including a driving switch of a push operating system that switches the electric motor ON when the rotational tool contacts a work object such as a screw, etc. and is displaced by being pressed, and a driving switch of a lever operating system that switches the electric motor ON when a switch lever installed in the grip portion of the electric rotational tool is displaced by being pressed. Each of the driving switches is constructed by a combination of a magnet and a magnetic sensor, and the magnetic sensor is connected to the power circuit of the electric motor, so that either one of operating systems is selected; and the driving of the electric motor is initiated by switching the power circuit ON through a magnetism sensing action of the magnetic sensor of the selected operating system.

A motion platform system includes a support and a motion platform supported by the support and rotatable about a plurality of bearing axes. The motion platform is further rotatable with respect to the support about at least one axis that is offset from the plurality of bearing axes. The motion platform may include an intermediate frame supported by the support, where the intermediate frame is rotatable about a first bearing axis with respect to the support. The motion platform may further include an inner frame supported by the intermediate frame, where the inner frame is rotatable about a second bearing axis with respect to the intermediate frame. Rotations of the inner and intermediate frames about the first and second bearing axes facilitate rotation of the inner frame with respect to the support about at least one axis offset from the bearing axes.

An antenna for broadband satellite communication including an array of primary horn antenna elements which are connected to one another by a waveguide feed network.

An elevator system includes an elevator hoistway defined in a surrounding structure, such as a building. An elevator car and counterweight are located in the hoistway. A drive motor and associated drive sheave are disposed at a bottom portion of the hoistway. The drive motor is coupled to the elevator car and the counterweight via at least one flat rope for moving the elevator car upwardly and downwardly along the hoistway.

A positive-displacement rotary pump comprising a pair of meshing gears (13, 14) or rotors, consisting of a driving gear and a driven gear, contained in a shell (10) having an output opening and an intake opening for a fluid. The gears (13, 14) include shafts (23, 24) which are supported by bushings (15a, 15b) having two faces (17a, 17b) which are subjected, in use, to pressures which bring about an axial load on the bushing itself, wherein the resultant of the axial loads (S′, S″) on the two bushings has a predetermined direction so as to move the bushings (15a, 15b) and the gears (13, 14) as a whole into close abutment with a predetermined reference plane (VI—VI).

An oscillating piston machine comprises a plurality of pistons which are arranged in a housing, rotate together in the housing about an axis of rotation which is essentially central in the housing and is fixed to the housing, and execute reciprocating oscillating movements about a respective oscillation axis as they rotate in the housing, in each case two adjacent pistons executing oscillating movements in opposite directions. The housing is of spherical construction on the inside, the oscillation axes of the pistons being formed by a common oscillation axis which run essentially through the center of the housing.

The invention relates to a metal-plastic hybrid support structure applicable to a dashboard support of a vehicle, wherein the hybrid support structure comprises a metal tubular body (10) having a closed cross section profile and suitable length to be assembled between two elements of a frame of an automotive vehicle, a plurality of projecting metal fastening elements (14) distributed along said metal tubular body (10) and fixed thereto, and a plastic body defining a plurality of plastic functional elements (11, 12) overmolded on different separate regions of the metal tubular body (10), each plastic functional element (11, 12) embedding at least one of the projecting metal fastening elements (14). In one embodiment, the projecting metal fastening elements (14) are stems with outer screw threading.

Disclosed herein is a hanger with a foldable/removable hook, of the type that is made up of an arched body and a projecting crook-shaped hook, provided with a base, which allows the removably hooking of said hook on said body, as well as a rotation thereof, with reference to the position of normal use thereof, from vertical to horizontal and vice versa, i.e. from perpendicular to parallel with respect to the arched body. In addition, when said hook is raised, so as to allow the hanger to assume a normal configuration, it has the same mechanical resistance of a common hanger with fixed hook.

Before being processed, bulk material is dried in a storage container. A drying medium such as air is passed through the bulk material for drying. The drying medium heats the bulk material and removes moisture at the same time. For dehumidifying the drying medium, a dehumidifying unit with a Peltier device is provided whose cold side and whose hot side are positioned within the flow path of the drying medium. The drying medium loaded with moisture is passed across the cold side and dehumidified. The hot side of the Peltier device is used to preheat the dehumidified drying medium.

An electric toothbrush includes a rechargeable energy store which is arranged in an inner space in the body of the toothbrush. The inner space is sealed by a primary sealing element against splash water and other detrimental influences. At least one contact element for an external power supply unit produces an electrically conductive connection to the energy store. The contact element is located either within the inner space, the primary sealing element being removable for charging purposes, or outside the inner space, in which case it is optionally protected by an additional secondary sealing element. The invention also relates to a process for producing such a toothbrush.

A method is provided for producing a diffusion alloyed powder consisting of an iron or iron-based core powder having particles of an alloying powder containing Cu and Ni bonded to the surface of the core particles, comprising providing a unitary alloying powder capable of forming particles of a Cu and Ni containing alloy, mixing the unitary alloying powder with the core powder, and heating the mixed powders in a non-oxidizing or reducing atmosphere to a temperature of 500-1000° C. during a period of 10-120 minutes to convert the alloying powder into a Cu and Ni containing alloy, so as to diffusion bond particles of the Cu and Ni alloy to the surface of the iron or iron-based core powder. The alloying powder may be a Cu and Ni alloy, oxide, carbonate or other suitable compound that on heating will form a Cu and Ni alloy. Preferably, the total content of Cu and Ni is at most 20 wt %, the particle size distribution of the Cu and Ni alloying powder is such that D50 is less than 15 μm, and the ratio Cu/Ni in wt % is between 9/1 and 3/1. The compacted and sintered parts produced from the diffusion alloyed iron-based powder present a minimum of variation of dimensional change from component to component.

A bioresorbable implant and associated method for use in conjunction with septoplasty procedure comprises a thin, at least partially flexible mesh sheet constructed with struts of material intersecting at points defining openings entirely through the mesh sheet, and wherein the sheet defines a plane with opposing side surfaces. A plurality of projections extend away from the sheet on both side surfaces thereof. The openings through the mesh sheet have minimum dimensions in the range of 2 to 8 mm, and the projections have a length in the range of 1 to 5 mm. The openings in the mesh sheet may define regular polygons, whereby the struts may have minimum dimensions in the range of 2 to 8 mm. The projections may extend from the intersections of the struts, directly from the struts, or both from the intersections and the struts. A method of performing septoplasty in accordance with the invention is also disclosed.