3830 results about "Knuckle" patented technology

An antenna system (200,400,500,600) for use within a communication device (100) is disclosed. The communication device (100) including a signal source (260,425,635), a main housing (105) and a movable flip housing (110) moveably coupled to the main housing (105) through a hinge assembly (125). The hinge assembly (125) being comprised of a hinge shaft, a first knuckle (805) coupled to one side of the hinge shaft, and a second knuckle (810) coupled to an opposing side of the hinge shaft. The antenna system (200,400,500,600) includes at least one of the knuckles of the hinge assembly (125).

A transaction terminal includes a housing, an elongated finger recess defined by the housing, and a finger scanner sensor disposed in the recess. The elongated finger recess may include a length of at least approximately a two knuckle distance. An outer surface region of the housing and the finger recess may define a web receiving area adapted to receive a web of a hand. The transaction terminal can include a card cavity formed integral with the elongated finger recess.

The present invention provides an electric-driven vehicle, which comprises a supporting platform and an upright tube, wherein the supporting platform has first and second ends and a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the first and second ends, the upright tube is fitted at the first end of the supporting platform and operatively connected with the supporting platform, a handle frame is provided on a top end of the upright tube. The electric-driven vehicle further includes two driving wheels operatively mounted at opposite sides of the first end of the supporting platform, at least one steering wheel operatively mounted on a bottom of the second end of the supporting platform, a driving means for the driving wheels, and a power supply means mounted on the bottom of the supporting platform and electrically connected with the driving means. The present invention also provides a support platform structure for an electric-driven vehicle, which comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion having sleeves for operatively mounting the driving wheels, and a first side; the second portion having a steering knuckle for operatively mounting the steering wheels, and a second side corresponding to the first side; the first side and the second side are connected via a connecting member, and at least one of the first side and the second side can rotate about the bond-linkage element.

A collapsible container has four panels that fold down on a base for storage. The base has slide sockets with vertical slots. Front and rear panels pivot on the base with slide hinges received in the slide sockets. The panels are able to slide up and down. A hinge pin has a narrowed waist portion to engage a latch. Left and right panels pivot with snap hinges received in snap sockets on the base. Trunnions, disposed in the snap sockets, are eccentric to increase or decrease the backlash between the snap hinge and the snap socket as the panels pivot. The left and right panels have edge pockets that receive edge fingers on the front and rear panels to hold the container open. The front and rear panels each have an access opening with access doors. Links pivot the access doors on two hinge rods. Locking members wedge the hinge rods in the hinge knuckles. The base has feet with bumper plates having flanges that prevent the container from shifting on an adjacent lower stacked container.

Triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having a set of top MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of top CMD yarns to form at least part of a top fabric layer and a set of bottom MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of bottom CMD yarns to form at least part of a bottom fabric layer are provided. These fabrics further include a set of stitching MD yarn pairs. The stitching MD yarns that comprise each such pair weave in both the top fabric layer and the bottom fabric layer such that at locations where the first yarn in the pair weaves in the top fabric layer the second yarn in the pair drops down into the bottom fabric layer. In embodiments of the present invention, each stitching MD yarn may also be woven so as to form side-by-side machine direction knuckles on the bottom surface of the bottom fabric layer with a bottom MD yarn. In other embodiments of the invention, at least some of the top CMD yarns that the stitching MD yarns of the stitching MD yarn pairs pass over immediately before dropping down into the bottom fabric layer have a larger diameter and/or a higher modulus than the remainder of the top CMD yarns.

A method of manufacturing and a papermaker's or industrial fabric, such as a dryer fabric for the dryer section of a paper machine, includes the application of a polymeric resin material onto preselected locations on the backside of a base substrate using a piezojet array which deposits the polymeric resin material in droplets having an average diameter of 10μ (10 microns) or more to build up discrete, discontinuous deposits of the polymeric resin material having a height of about 0.5 mm at the preselected locations. The preselected locations may be the knuckles formed by the interweaving of the yarns making up the fabric. The purpose of the deposits is to separate the backside of the dryer fabric from a surface, such as that of a dryer cylinder or turning roll, to enable air trapped between the dryer fabric and the surface to escape in lengthwise and crosswise directions parallel to the surface, instead of being forced through the fabric, possibly causing “drop off”. The polymeric resin material is set by means appropriate to its composition, and, optionally, and, if necessary, may be abraded to provide the deposits with a uniform height above the surface plane of the base substrate.

An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface, for example a touch pad or touch screen. The user interacts with the touch-sensitive surface, producing touch interactions. The resulting actions taken depend at least in part on the touch type. For example, the same touch interactions performed by three different touch types of a finger pad, a finger nail and a knuckle, may result in the execution of different actions.

Disclosed is an articulated artificial finger assembly, which can be controlled by the remaining portion of an amputated finger. An adjacent finger is used to manipulate the device when no finger is present. When the stump or adjacent finger begins to bend at the first knuckle, the rest of the device will react to the movements and articulate in the natural manner of a human finger. There are two embodiments shown which, can accommodate a variety of cases. The first embodiment relates to an amputated finger with a portion of the finger remaining. The second is used when a total finger is absent. In either case, the first embodiment uses a ring that is placed over the remaining stub of the finger and the second embodiment a ring is placed over an adjacent finger. The ring, in either embodiment, actuates upper and or lower actuation drives, which are reciprocally and transversely attached to a pivoting block. The pivoting block is fastened to an adjustable middle phalangeal section. The transversely connected upper and lower actuation drives cause the middle phalangeal section to curl under when articulated. The middle phalangeal section is comprised of two main body parts. The first is an outer phalangeal section and the second phalangeal section is placed inside the outer phalangeal section and fastened thereto. A forward fingertip section is pivotally fastened to a forward end of the inner phalangeal section. A forward end of the upper actuating drive is pivotally connected to the forward fingertip section. A supple cover is placed over the device once it is assembled. An inner supple cover is inserted into the device and sealed along the edges of the outer supple cover. To complete the device a screw is inserted into the fingertip, passing through the supple cover and is then hidden by an artificial fingernail placed thereon.

The invention relates to domain of special purpose vehicle and especially to a separate four-wheel steering device of vehicle and controlling means, which is mainly used in steering system of special purpose vehicle to guarantee steering behavior. The device comprises steering knuckle arm, steering hydraulic cylinder, electro-hydraulic proportional control valves, and accumulator, easing valve, hydraulic pump, clarifier and electronic control system. The invention is characterized in that every wheel is controlled by independent oil-hydraulic cylinder, electronic control system comprises steering emulator, signal processor and measuring apparatus of displacement line and hydraulic pump driven by engine in steering hydraulic system controls hydraulic cylinder of steering system via electro-hydraulic proportional control valves of steering system. Hydraulic cylinder connects with linear movement pickup to feed variable of displacement line of hydraulic cylinder back to CPU. System adopts closed-loop control. Control circuit equips system failure diagnosis element to realize alarm when system steering error occurs and steering mode switching control unit to complete steering mode switching of vehicle.

A monitor support assembly having an internal cable raceway. The support assembly includes a pole mount that can be secured to a desk or table top or to a vertical wall or furniture panel, a rotatable knuckle joint at the upper end of the pole mount, and a quick-release mount for a monitor or other peripheral device. The assembly may also include nonarticulatable and vertical members, connected to each other and to the pole mount with knuckle joints that include internal sleeves. One or more cables, with plugs attached, can be inserted into the cable raceway and joints without disassembling the monitor support. The assembly may have interchangeable parts to provide different lengths for the nonarticulatable and vertical members.

A strut suspension can include a shock-absorber/spring assembly having a lower portion mountable at one end to an upper portion of the steering knuckle. A transverse link can be connectible to the steering knuckle at a location opposite from the shock-absorber/spring assembly. A rocker arm can be supportable for pivotal movement from the vehicle body and can be pivotally connectible to the shock-absorber/spring assembly from the steering knuckle. A push rod can be pivotally connectible to the rocker arm and can extend between the rocker arm and the transverse link. The upper end of the shock-absorber/spring assembly can be connected to either an inboard or outboard portion of the rocker arm, while an upper end of the push rod is connected to the other of the outboard or inboard portion of the rocker arm.

In combination with a railway freight car coupler. A coupler has a knuckle side, and includes a knuckle, knuckle pin, and an apparatus for automatically pivoting and maintaining the knuckle full open position. The improvement comprises a coiled torsion spring which is capable of continuously exerting a predetermined force. A sleeve in combination with a flange is secured to the bottom end of the knuckle pin for attaching the torsion spring onto the coupler head. A support member is attached to the knuckle and cages one arm of the torsion spring which exerts a continuous force on the knuckle to rotate and maintain the knuckle full open position. A compression spring may be employed in place of the torsion spring in combination with a locking mechanism which, rigidly secures the knuckle and knuckle pin therebetween to prevent independent movement.

The invention relates to a multi-mode identity authentication device based on the biological characteristics of fingers, which comprises a finger vein image collection module, a finger knuckle stripe image collection module, a fingerprint image collection module, a finger induction switch, an embedded type start of conversion pulse (SOC) authentication module, a control box, an input/output interface and a power supply module; the modules, the finger induction switch and the input/output interface are all installed on the control box, the finger vein image collection module, the finger knuckle stripe image collection module and the fingerprint image collection module are connected with an image input interface of the embedded type SOC authentication module so as to realize the collection of the biological characteristics of veins, finger knuckle stripes and fingerprints, and the finger induction switch is connected with a GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) interface of the embedded type SOC authentication module so as to realize the detection of the placement of the fingers; and the power supply module is connected with each module so as to provide a power supply required for working. The invention relates to a multi-mode identity authentication method based on the biological characteristics of the fingers, which comprises characteristic registration and characteristic comparison comprising nine steps respectively. According to the multi-mode identity authentication device and the method based on the biological characteristics of the fingers, the safety of identity identification is effectively enhanced. The multi-mode identity authentication device and the method based on the biological characteristics of the fingers have extensive application prospect.

An elongate engagement tool that has engagement elements located on a distal end of a first rod, a handle on the proximate end of second rod, a controller on the handle to control the engagement elements, and a linkage between the controller and engagement elements to control the engagement elements is disclosed. The rods are connected together by a locking hinge. A locking pin is received by the knuckles of the hinges has a plurality of axial segments. The profiles of the axial segments alternate from round disks to aster shaped disks that closely fit into the apertures formed by the knuckles. When the locking pin is moved to a first locked position where the aster shaped profiled sections are aligned with the apertures in the corresponding knuckles to the hinge is locked. Movement of the pin to a second free position where the round axial sections are aligned with the apertures in the knuckles provides for limited rotational movement.

Apparatuses, processes, and systems for implementing techniques for determining characteristics of a papermaking fabric. The techniques include forming a representation of a portion of the surface of the fabric, with the representation showing the knuckles and pockets in the surface. The representation can be formed, for example, in pressure measurement film, in wax paper, or as a photograph. An image is generated from the representation, and the image is analyzed to determine characteristics of the surface of the fabric, such as knuckle sizes and pocket sizes. The depth of pockets in the fabric can also be determined. The techniques can be used in processes for analyzing wear of a fabric, and for obtaining a fabric for making a paper product with a particular three-dimensional structure.

An anthropometric multi-finger hand of robot is composed of palm, the first and the second knuckles of thumb and forefinger, and the first and the second joints of thumb and forefinger. The said palmand knuckles are hollow for installing joint and motor driver in them. Its advantages include fewer number of drivers, easy control small size, light weight and several actions.

A solid-state roller on a pointing device with enhanced features. The solid-state design described herein allows the sensor to be placed on any shape of surface, such as one that has curvature in two directions. In one embodiment, a trench or downward curve contains sensors for detecting finger movement. The user's finger can thus bend about a knuckle in a curved motion to activate the sensor, requiring little or no movement of the finger up and down. The solid-state sensors can be of one of a number of designs. In one embodiment, multiple electrodes are contacted by a finger as it moves. Each electrode is coupled to a capacitive detection circuit, for detecting the change in capacitance as the electrode is contacted by the finger.