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A battery charging system uses power line carrier communications, for communicating battery state information associated with charging batteries, between a battery charger and a battery management system (BMS) located on the battery or battery pack. The power line carrier includes transmitters and receivers transmitting and receiving battery state information, such as current, voltage and temperature, as digital signals on existing cable conductors located between the battery/battery pack and the battery charger. The battery management system (BMS), which is physically located on the battery pack, receives the information from the power line carrier, in order to measure a variety of parameters relating to charging the battery, which may be a motor vehicle battery or a battery for operating machinery, such as fork lifts, bulldozers and other earth moving and product transportation vehicles.

A method for designing a drill bit in an earth formation, including defining parameters for a simulation of the drill bit drilling in earth formation, where the parameters comprise at least bit design parameters; executing the defined simulation; obtaining radial forces resulting from the executing of the defined simulation; applying a criterion to the obtained radial forces; and adjusting one of the at least bit design parameters in response to the applying of the criteria.

A system according to an embodiment of the invention may include a track and a power supply substantially contained within the track. One or more lamps may be electrically connected to the power supply. The lamp may be an HID lamp, an LED lamp, or a fluorescent lamp. The power supply may be a ballast or a transformer, and may comprise a printed circuit board with electrical power handling components on one side. The system may also include a housing which may surround the power supply.

The present invention relates to a method of uniformly distributing abrasive grits on grinding tools. It can be applied in the cutting, grinding segments of diamond tools, which are typically used in cutting and drilling various hard and fragile materials, such as granite, marble, concrete, asphalt, etc. The present invention provides a template, the template designed based on the arranging requirement of abrasive particles such as diamond grits. The template can adsorb only a single layer of abrasive particles and is then placed onto a sheet, where the diamond grits are pressed into the sheet, with the diamond grits distributed uniformly on the sheet.

The present invention relates to materials used for building products, construction projects, structural objects, mechanical devices and other materials applications. Specifically, the invention concerns composite materials made with reinforcing elements in a binder matrix material. A method of strengthening materials is described that uses high volumes of reinforcing elements, which can be easily dispersed and uniformly distributed, consisting of large diameter fibers, miniature rods or other similar geometric shapes with a diameter or thickness between 0.05 mm and 20 mm where the reinforcements are incorporated either as short, randomly distributed elements or long, continuous aligned arrays.

A coupler knuckle casting having an enhanced bearing surface area and which is utilized in a railway freight car coupler. The coupler knuckle casting includes a tail section, and a hub section. The hub section has a pivot pinhole formed therein. Such pivot pinhole has generally straight cylindrical sidewalls. A front face section is connected to the hub section. Such front face section includes a nose section and a pulling face portion formed inwardly from such nose section. At such least a portion of such front face portion and such nose section includes an enhanced bearing surface area which includes a substantially flat portion disposed substantially in a vertical direction and which is substantially arcuate in a horizontal direction. The substantially flat portion extends for a predetermined distance in the vertical direction and for a predetermined length along the horizontal direction. There is the a transition section joining the tail section to the hub section. Such transition section includes a top metal section and a bottom metal section extending toward each other.

A pulsed voltage surge resistant magnet wire. The magnet wire comprises a conductor and a coat of insulation material superimposed on the conductor. The insulation material is an insulative polymeric material and has a shielding particulate filler material dispersed throughout.

Example embodiments relate to an insert and a method for attaching the insert to a structure. In example embodiments the structure may be comprised of a composite material, a metal, and a ceramic.

The invention relates to a glow plug comprising a housing in which an inner conductor is disposed, a metal sleeve which is inserted into the housing, and a ceramic glow pin which is disposed in the metal sleeve, wherein the two ends of the glow pin protrude from the metal sleeve and the rear end of the pin is connected to the inner conductor, and wherein the metal sleeve has a tapering section at the rear end, the section enclosing a tapering section of the glow pin. According to the invention, the glow pin is pressed into the metal sleeve. The invention further relates to a method for connecting a pin made of functional ceramic to a metal sleeve.

A method of stepping up the speed of a rotary motion from a first speed, supplied to an input shaft (26), to a second speed delivered by an output shaft (28), comprises transmitting said rotary motion from said input shaft (26), via a drive gear (34) of said input shaft (26), the drive gear (34) being helical and having a first helix angle (ψ_in), to a layshaft arrangement, so as to generate a first axial thrust (F1) of the input shaft (26) in a first axial direction; transmitting said rotary motion from said layshaft arrangement, via a driven gear (44) of said output shaft (28), said driven gear (44) being helical and having a second helix angle (ψ_out) that is larger than said first helix angle (ψ_in), to said output shaft (28), so as to generate a second axial thrust (F2) of the output shaft (28) in a second direction, said second direction being substantially opposite to said first direction; and applying said first axial thrust (F1) and said second axial thrust (F2) to the same location of an axially rigid support structure (50), such that said first and second axial thrusts (F1, F2) counteract and at least partly cancel out in said support structure (50).

A system and method that controls the evacuation of fluid from a sea vessel and configured to prevent turning off the bilge pump during periods of water sloshing. The invention provides a control unit that is adaptable to any size vessel or bilge pump based on a learned experience gained by sensory information.

A system and method that controls the evacuation of fluid from a sea vessel and configured to prevent turning off the bilge pump during periods of water sloshing. The invention provides a control unit that is adaptable to any size vessel or bilge pump based on a learned experience gained by sensory information.

A non-conductive composite insert is provided between conductive portions, useful, for example, in downhole EM telemetry applications as an external “gap sub” in a drill collar, or as a sonde-based internal gap. In a preferred embodiment, the composite is made from a glass-fiber reinforced plastic, and separates non-magnetic conductive portions made from stainless steel. The composite insert provides a slanted or tapered transition into the conductive portions at either or both ends of the insert. The transitions on the composite insert may comprise one or more tapered surfaces, which may be male or female in configuration with respect to matching transitions on the conductive portions. The transitions may be bonded together by adhesive, or alternatively may be threaded.

A method of stepping down the speed of a rotary motion from a first speed, supplied to an input shaft, to a second speed delivered by an output shaft, comprises transmitting said rotary motion to said output shaft, via a driven gear of said output shaft, the driven gear being helical and having a first helix angle, from a layshaft arrangement, so as to generate a first axial thrust of the output shaft in a first axial direction; transmitting said rotary motion to said layshaft arrangement, via a drive gear of said input shaft, said drive gear being helical and having a second helix angle that is larger than said first helix angle, from said input shaft, so as to generate a second axial thrust of the input shaft in a second direction, said second direction being substantially opposite to said first direction; and applying said first axial thrust and said second axial thrust to the same location of an axially rigid support structure, such that said first and second axial thrusts counter-act and at least partly cancel out in said support structure.

An adhesive composition containing an aqueous butadiene polymer latex, and an acid scavenging compound, wherein the adhesive comprises essentially no phenolic resin or methylene donor compounds. The aqueous covercoat adhesive is particularly well suited for rubber to metal bonding applications. The adhesive have shown excellent adhesion to a number of compounds but perform best on natural rubber compounds and prefer higher cure temperatures to lower cure temperatures. Further, the formulation has been developed without the need for a methylene donor such as 2-polyoxymethylene dimethylether (gamma POM).

Disclosed is a gusset plate connection with sliding end plates for a buckling-restrained brace, including central plate (1), first rib plate (2), second rib plate (3), horizontal end plate (4), first horizontal tie plate (5), second horizontal tie plate (6), bolts (7) and unbonding layers (8). Horizontal end plate (4) is perpendicular to the central plate (1) and fixedly disposed on a lower end surface of central plate (1). First horizontal tie plate (5) and second horizontal tie plate (6) are both disposed on an upper surface of horizontal end plate (4) and are located at two sides of central plate (1), respectively. Unbonding layers (8) are each disposed at a bottom surface of horizontal end plate (4), between horizontal end plate (4) and first horizontal tie plate (5), and between horizontal end plate (4) and second horizontal tie plate (6). The components are connected by means of bolts (7).

Disclosed is a process for the manufacture of a catalyst-coated membrane-seal assembly, including:

• • (i) providing a carrier material;
  • (ii-i) forming a first layer, the first layer being formed by:
    • (a) depositing a first catalyst component onto the carrier material such that the first catalyst component is deposited in discrete regions;
    • (b) drying the first layer;
  • (ii-ii) forming a second layer, the second layer being formed by:
    • (a) depositing a first seal component, such that the first seal component provides a picture frame pattern having a continuous region and void regions, the continuous region including second seal component and the void regions being free from second seal component;
    • (b) depositing a first ionomer component onto the first layer, such that the first ionomer component is deposited in discrete regions; and
    • (c) drying the second layer.

The fatigue cracking machine for circumferential notched tensile (CNT) specimens is a device for pre-cracking a CNT specimen prior to SCC testing. The machine uses a specimen holding cylinder attached to the shaft of a motor by a coupling, the holding cylinder being rotatably mounted in a bearing mounted in a bearing support fixed to a platform. The machine also uses a load cylinder rotatably mounted in a load bearing supported in a load fork, the load fork having a shaft adjustably mounted in a bearing support block. A dial indicator is fixed to a post rigidly mounted on the platform with the indicator's plunger bearing against the load bearing. An adjustment bolt bears against the end of the load fork shaft to displace the load bearing, applying a bending force to the specimen while it rotates, the displacement being measured by the dial indicator.