54 results about "Bearing down" patented technology

The invention is a rod to rod connector that can be used to interconnect two generally parallel spinal rods of a spinal rod and anchor system. The connector comprises a transverse rod and two pairs of clamping bodies, one for each spinal rod. Each pair connects one of the longitudinal spinal rods to the transverse rod in infinitely adjustable angular relationship. One of the two clamping bodies of each pair comprises a C-shaped channel for accepting the spinal rod. The channel is in communication with a slot that defines a hinge. A threaded screw hole passes transversely through the slot and permits a screw to squeeze the hinge, thereby causing the C-shaped channel to close around and clamp the rod. The second clamping body is similar to the first except that there is no slot or hinge and the screw hole preferably is not threaded, but includes a countersink for seating a chamfered screw head. Also, an angular portion of the screw hole intersects the C-shaped channel. The two clamping bodies are aligned with each other so that their screw holes are coaxial so that a single screw can pass through both holes thereby clamping both rods in the C-shaped channels and fixing the angle between the two clamping bodies and, hence, the two rods. The first clamp clamps the spinal rod by squeezing the hinge to cause the C-shaped channel to squeeze around the rod. The second clamp clamps the transverse rod by virtue of the bottom of the screw head bearing down on the transverse rod over the portion of the screw hole that intersects the C-shaped channel.

A fluid tank valve assembly of the type employed for water tanks for toilets has a tank refill valve located atop a fluid inlet supply tube. The refill valve has a lever that is raised and lowered to open and close the valve. An inverted, cup-shaped hood is positioned atop the valve and a float is located about the skirt of the hood and secured thereto by the force of friction. The float can be moved longitudinally along the skirt of the hood in order to vary the water level at which the hood bears down upon the lever arm or is lifted from the lever arm, thereby varying the water level at which the valve is actuated. The valve itself is equipped with a metering pin that is configured to reduce the likelihood of clogging in the longitudinal passage of the core of the valve diaphragm. A unique coupling between the water inlet supply tube and the hollow mount at the bottom of the tank prevents complete separation of the water inlet supply tube relative to the mount, but permits longitudinal adjustment therebetween so as to vary the height at which the refill valve is mounted within the tank.

A housing, particularly for a Light Emitting Diode (LED) or otherwise lamped in-grade or under-water light fixture, is made of ceramic material, such that the housing is not affected by corrosive substances commonly found in soil, masonry, and water that surrounds the installed fixture. The ceramic housing establishes a good conductor of heat and does not conduct electricity. A lens and lens frame are secured to the housing and provisions are made to assure the integrity of the overall assembly even when the light fixture is employed in damp and wet environments and/or where heavy loads can bear down on the lens, such as when the light fixture is embedded in a paved roadway and subjected to vehicular traffic rolling there over.

A drum tuning system which rotates clockwise or counterclockwise to adjust the tension of a drum head fitted over the open end of a drum body. It utilizes a rotating ring having numerous opposing equally spaced vertically projecting tabs along the top of the body's diameter, each with inward facing wheels that ride on the horizontal surface of a separate inner hoop bearing down on the drum head. The rotating actuator ring is fitted with multiple radial cleats projecting from its outside diameter for grasping it. A radius plate having horizontal holes extends from the drum body, and a tool engages the radial cleats on the rotating actuator ring to facilitate rotation. Multiple adjustable eccentric lugs are used to raise and lower the drum camming mechanism in relation to the open end of the drum body where attached. Horizontal projecting links support the drum attached to suspension mounting systems.

A vertically and horizontally adjustable chair armrest is disclosed. The armrest includes an outer shroud, an upstanding support with a central opening and an armrest base. Within the central opening is a guide tube that moves vertically and has oppositely disposed slots. Within the guide tube, but mounted to rotate only, is a rod. At the lower end of the rod is a locking element that extends through the slots in the guide tube. The rod is rotated by a user pivoted lever bearing down on a spring biased activator nut. The nut is keyed to move only in a linear direction but is threaded to engage a mating thread on the rod, thereby causing the rod to rotate. When the locking element is rotated out of engagement with notches in the support opening, the armrest may be adjusted in a vertical direction. Releasing the lever allows the spring to bias the locking element into engagement with the notches to lock the armrest. Horizontal adjustment entails pivoting the armrest from one detent to another within a 45 degree arc.

A helical screw lift system for an elevator includes a rigid vertical frame having at least one rigid vertical rail; and a single elongate helical screw having an inclined helical flight. The screw is rotatably vertically mounted to the frame at opposite ends of the screw. A motor mounted to the frame rotates the screw. A carriage is mounted to the vertical rail for vertical translation. An elevator platform is mounted to the carriage. Four wheels are rigidly mounted cantilevered from the carriage. The wheels engage and bear down on the helical flight of the screw for rolling translation therealong when the screw is rotated about its longitudinal axis so as to raise or lower the elevator platform.

A scraping tool for cleaning the grill rods making up the surface of a cooking grill having a handle, a rigid shaft extending therefrom and a scraping blade. The blade in a preferred form is comprised of brass and is die cut from a brass plate, having a thickness of about 1/th inch. The handle has a shape and texture to comfortably fit the hand when gripped to perform the cleaning operation requiring short back and forth strokes while bearing down on the tool and grill surface with a moderate amount of force.

A helical screw lift system for an elevator includes a rigid vertical frame having at least one rigid vertical rail; and a single elongate helical screw having an inclined helical flight. The screw is rotatably vertically mounted to the frame at opposite ends of the screw. A motor mounted to the frame rotates the screw. A carriage is mounted to the vertical rail for vertical translation. An elevator platform is mounted to the carriage. Four wheels are rigidly mounted cantilevered from the carriage. The wheels engage and bear down on the helical flight of the screw for rolling translation therealong when the screw is rotated about its longitudinal axis so as to raise or lower the elevator platform.

A confinement device for a four-legged animal is provided. The confinement device comprises a frame to receive the animal and a floor plate for the rear legs of the animal. The floor plate is arranged such that it is stable only when both rear legs of the animal bear down on the floor plate.

A locking latch used with a telescoping support stand having one or more telescoping sections. Each section includes an inner tubular member with a plurality of positioning holes along its length and an outer tubular member with a latch hole positioned typically near the upper end of the outer member so as to line up in registration with the positioning holes as the inner tubular member is extended out of the outer tubular member. The outer member carries a latch mechanism comprising a latching arm that that has a locking disposition in which the arm extends through the outer member latch hole and one of the inner member positioning holes in registration with the outer member latch hole to hold the inner and outer tubular members in substantially fixed extension with respect to one another. A catch is provided in the form of a notch or a tang that is structured and arranged to prevent the latching arm from being moved out of the locking disposition when the weight of the inner tubular member bears down on the latching arm and to permit the latching arm to be moved out of the locking disposition when the inner tubular member is lifted with respect to the outer tubular member. In another embodiment a tang is provided that catches on a hole in the latching arm to define the locking disposition.

A cavity former 10 for use in forming a cavity in a concrete slab is disclosed. The cavity former comprises a support member which supports the weight of a person standing on the cavity former or of wet concrete bearing down on the array until the concrete has cured sufficiently to support itself. The array is reconfigurable between a compact state for stacking with other similarly configured arrays to facilitate transport and an expanded state to define a volume about which the wet concrete is poured. The cavity former 10 has a cover 34 which is engageable with the array to distribute the weight onto the array elements and prevent wet concrete flowing into the volume defined by the elements in the expanded state.

The invention discloses a method for acquiring information channel reciprocity and controlling information interactively in a frequency division duplex (FDD) heterogeneous network and belongs to the field of wireless communication. The method includes configuring different reciprocity carriers for a Macro cell and a Pico cell and utilizing a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure as the reference to configure the frame structure of a reciprocity carrier wireless frame into an up time slot, a guard interval and a down time slot. The up time slot of the reciprocity carriers bears up pilot signals (SRS) and up control information. The down time slot of the reciprocity carriers bears down control information. When the wireless frame of the reciprocity carrier of the Macro cell or the reciprocity carrier of the Pico cell is the down time slot, the reciprocity carriers are respectively polymerized with down carriers in corresponding cells respectively. When the wireless frame of the reciprocity carrier of the Macro cell or the reciprocity carrier of the Pico cell is the up time slot, the reciprocity carriers are polymerized with up carriers in the corresponding cells. By means of the method, acquired resource of information channel reciprocity of an FDD system is small in expense and is accurate simultaneously, and interaction of the up control information and the down control information in the heterogeneous network is more accurate.

A mounting system (100) for a turbocharger (106, 108) in an internal combustion engine includes a support base (110) having a top surface (134) configured for receiving the turbocharger and a recessed bearing surface (150) disposed on the turbocharger. The mounting system (100) also includes at least one bridging clamp (112) connected to the support base (110). The bridging clamp (112) includes a flange (120) having at least one wing (130, 132) that bears down on the bearing surface (150) of the turbocharger (106, 108).

A caster assembly that can be used with furniture to support the furniture and to make the furniture mobile. The caster assembly has a housing with a stem that extends upwardly to be attached to the particular piece of furniture. Within the housing is a plurality of spherical rollers that are supported within the housing so as to be rotatable about their center points and therefore can rotate in any direction as the furniture is moved. In the preferred embodiment, there are three spherical rollers that are all equidistant from the center line or longitudinal axis of the stem so that the weight of the furniture that bears down upon the stem is supported equally by the spherical rollers contacting the floor. As a further feature, a glide cup is provided that can be readily attached and detached from the bottom of the housing and, whet attached, the glide cup covers the spherical rollers and presents a flat, planar surface that contacts the floor.

The measuring device is composed of mechanical part, pneumatic control and electric part. The mechanical part includes centre shaft connecting down end with lifting mechanism, air mainshaft and babber matching up with standard ring or bearing to be measured. The working platform has centre hole with its down end face connected to upper ring of air floating-thrust bearing. The bearing down ring is connected to down end of connecting ring having retainer ring on it. The displacement transducer passes through inner hole of the connecting ring to contact with standard ring or end face of inner ring at bearing to be measured as its upper end is connected to electric part or indicating meter.

The invention provides a curved-surface grid trash remover with adjustable grid bar intervals and belongs to the technical field of water pollution treatment. The trash remover mainly comprises a main scraper, a grid, quadrilateral telescopic frames, push rods and hinges. The grid is an arc-shaped curved surface, the concave surface of the grid serves as an upstream side to bear down on currents, the upstream side and the downstream side of the grid are fixed to rotary shaft positions of the quadrilateral telescopic frames respectively through the hinges, and the ends of the quadrilateral telescopic frames are connected with motors through the push rods. Equal-range adjustment of the grid bar intervals is achieved through synchronous telescopic motion of the quadrilateral telescopic frames of the upstream side and the downstream side, and then the grid intercepting efficiency is adjusted; the grid rotates through non-synchronous telescopic motion of the quadrilateral telescopic frames, and then water storage is achieved. The curved-surface grid trash remover is simple in principle, reasonable in structure, reliable in running and high in practicality, and has grid intercepting and water storing functions.

A commercial modular solar racking system, with the capability to be assembled in several configurations, which when assembled, creates a adaptable, size variable, solar panel supporting infrastructure, with a rapid assembly time. The said modular system can be adapted, to construct a perimeter wind lift-dampening fence around the deployed array. This modular rack array for supporting solar panels includes solar panel hold down clips; a longitudinal support rack which is securable to a roof and which has two longitudinal sides with solar panel support ledges on both sides and hold down clip receiving recesses located between each row of support ledges the arrangement enabling a single solar panel to be supported by two parallel support racks and additional panels to be supported by an additional support rack with the panel hold down clips being arranged to be secured to the support racks by clipping into the receiving recesses in said support racks and bearing down on the upper side of the solar panel edges so that two parallel edges of said solar panel are held between the hold down clips and the support ledges of said support racks. The invention also provides a residential modular racking system for pitched roofs, with the capability to incrementally adjust to suit any large PV panel size. The system is based on four, quarter size racks sliding into each other providing the variability. Each support module for supporting solar panels on pitched roofs has connection projections on two adjoining sides and on the two opposed adjoining sides are complementary connection recesses so that the modules are interconnectable.

The invention provides a numerically controlled groove milling machine capable of automatic material conveying and automatic detection, which includes a double vibrating plate feeding machine, a sound insulation cover, a support frame, a foot seat, a double-station workpiece inner hole through-gauge detection mechanism, and an electrical cabinet. Adjustable base, milling power head with lifting adjustment, workpiece feeding tube, workpiece clamping mechanism, machine base, feeding port, copper chip box, lifting base, double-station servo turntable mechanism, conveyor belt feeder, workpiece hydraulic pressure Cross-feed slide table, double-station waste unloading mechanism, waste box and double material channel selection unloading mechanism. The workpiece hydraulic cross-feed slide table of the present invention specifically adopts a cross dovetail groove slide table, which has a simple structure and is easy to maintain; the milling groove power head with lifting adjustment specifically adopts the front two and rear two bearings with the same shaft diameter and the lifting adjustment power head, which has high rigidity. The shaft end is thickened to prolong the service life.

A pad retention device for a brake calliper for a disc brake for a vehicle comprises four spaced elongate cylindrical abutment pins (11) to (14) dispersed at spaced intervals around the periphery of the pad (10). The pins comprise two leading edge pins (11) and (12) and two trailing edge pins (13) and (14). Pin (13) is disposed adjacent the upper leading edge and a further pin (15) provides a centre locating and retaining pin which extends through an aperture (16) in the back plate of the pad. A cantilever spring (17) is mounted on pin (15) and pin (13). In use the spring (17) bears down on the pad (10), using pin (13) as a reaction point and centre locating and retaining pin (15) as a pivot, on the trailing edge side of the pin (15). This in turn tends to rotate the pad in an anticlockwise direction reducing or eliminating pad to abutment pin air gaps and therefore pad rattle and pad knock. This arrangement also provides improved squeal noise resistance.

The invention provides a battery connector which is arranged in a battery room of an electronic device and is correspondingly contacted with a battery to produce the electrical communication. The battery connector comprises an insulating body base, a plurality of terminal holding grooves which integrally extend from the insulating body base and are vertically arranged in parallel and a plurality of elastic terminals, wherein at least a part of each terminal extends out of the terminal holding groove. The invention is characterized in that at least one L-shaped buffering component which is integrally molded with the insulted body base is formed between the adjacent terminal holding grooves of the insulating body base, the L-shaped buffering component is permitted to incline on the fixed point during stressing, and a contact head which protrudes outwards is formed at one end that bears down on the battery; when no battery is positioned in the battery room, the elongation quantity that the contact head of the L-shaped buffering component protrudes outwards is more than the elongation quantity that the elastic terminal exposes out of the terminal holding grooves, so as to ensure that the battery firstly contacts the contact head for providing buffering when the battery impacts on the battery connector, so that the battery impaction force that all elastic terminals withstand can be reduced.

The invention provides a marking head and a marking device using the same, capable of easily exchanging a keeping tool joint part, keeping the free rotation state of a keeping tool and keeping the state of the keeping tool joint part of fixing the keeping tool, fixing the keeping tool joint part along the preset direction to form a marking groove. The marking head 10 comprises: a cutter wheel 11 bear down on a fragile material to form the marking groove; a keeping tool joint part 12 for mounting the cutter wheel 11 on the direction of the marking groove to rotate; a keeping tool 13 for keeping a rotation axle 12a of the keeping tool joint part 12 along the direction approximately vertical to the surface of the fragile material. The keeping tool 13 comprises: a rotation stop means for stopping the rotation of the rotation axle 12a of the keeping tool joint part 12; a rotation switch means for switching the rotation stop means to switch the rotation stop state of the rotation axle and the rotation free state of the rotation axle.

A one-handle valve cartridge has a low point of contact for installing the valve cartridge in a valve body. A retention nut bears down on the low point of contact to secure the valve cartridge in thevalve body.