442 results about "Reduced height" patented technology

An compact and rugged antenna system particularly suited to direction finding includes a plurality of antenna arrays for receiving respective frequency bands and colocated on a mast with separation between antenna arrays along the mast. The mast includes a coil wound of an insulator and functioning as a loaded inductor to shift the mast resonance out of the frequency band of the antenna system. A VHF dipole array having elements shaped to reduce scattering to UHF and SHF arrays is supported on movable arms which allow retraction that reduces height and provides mechanical protection to one or more other arrays as well as damping against vibration by contacting the mast with shaped portions of the dipole elements. The bowtie elements of the UHF array are angled at a central region to optimize array diameter at low UHF frequencies. A finned RF electronics housing is preferably provided which reduces solar loading and dissipates heat from antenna electronics. Asymmetrically keyed fittings are provided to permit accurate antenna system, array and element positioning and replaceable components and wiring, both internally and externally of the housing, is held in position to allow field repairs without recalibration.

A surgical spine implant comprises a solid wedge shape device body is such that said polygonal shape with decreased height posterior and several surfaces that contours to the anatomy of the spine intervertebral space without complex machining across radiuses. The diminished height posteriorly provides for the angulations necessary to accommodate and ensure maintenance of the normal spinal alignment resulting in posterior extension angulations. The device provides ease of application of bone grafts. Such as for impaction of cancellous bone grafts after placement of the device and narrow posterior aspect easily directs grafts. This minimizes the problem of bone grafts hanging up behind the device either to the right or the left of the medial or lateral, which prevents the displacement of the device or prominence of the bone grafts near the spinal canal. The recess hole in the device accommodates a holding insertion tool and ease of bone graft packing “fill” to ensure a tight fit and immobile the attachment of the disc to the lower vertebrae.

A spindle motor for use in a disk drive having a rotatable head stack assembly. The spindle motor has a spindle motor hub. The spindle motor further has a magnet radially attached about the spindle motor hub. The spindle motor further has a spindle motor stator. The spindle motor has a stator rim. The spindle motor stator further has a plurality of stator teeth arrayed about and internally extending from the stator rim. The stator teeth are sized to fit about the magnet in operable communication therewith for rotating the spindle motor hub. The stator teeth have laminate layers. The stator teeth have a least one reduced height stator tooth having fewer laminate layers than a remainder of the stator teeth. The reduced height stator tooth is positionable adjacent the head stack assembly for allowing the head stack assembly to pivot over the reduced height stator tooth.

A dishwasher rack includes foldable tines adapted to be retained in one or more positions between an upright position and a lowered position. The lower ends of the tines in each set are fixed relative to one another, while the upper ends of the tines can be spaced progressively farther apart from one another as the tines are folded from the upright position to the lowered position. Therefore, a dinner plate or other tall object supported by the tines will be tilted progressively farther from a vertical plane as the tines are folded toward the lowered position.

A frame for a ball catching and delivery head for use in, for example, the sport of lacrosse comprising a frame having a scoop, a base and spaced lateral sidewalls therebetween defining the periphery of a ball receiving and delivery face. Each of the lateral sidewalls includes a flex region which is more elastically compliant and resilient than the remainder of the frame. In one embodiment, the flex regions define regions of the sidewalls comprised of a material which is more flexible than the material comprising the remainder of the frame. In another embodiment, the flex regions are defined by springs incorporated into the sidewalls. In a further embodiment, the flex regions are defined by regions of the sidewalls of reduced height and cross-section. In a further embodiment, the sidewalls comprise separate, pivotable aft and fore frame/sidewall members.

A radial power combiner/divider capable of a higher order (for example, N=24) of power combining/dividing and a 15% bandwidth (31 to 36 GHz). The radial power combiner/divider generally comprises an axially-oriented mode transducer coupled to a radial base. The mode transducer transduces circular TE01 waveguide into rectangular TE10 waveguide, and the unique radial base combines/divides a plurality of peripheral rectangular waveguide ports into a single circular TE01 waveguide end of the transducer. The radial base incorporates full-height waveguides that are stepped down to reduced-height waveguides to form a stepped-impedance configuration, thereby reducing the height of the waveguides inside the base and increasing the order N of combining/dividing. The reduced-height waveguides in the base converge radially to a matching post at the bottom center of the radial base which matches the reduced height rectangular waveguides into the circular waveguide that feeds the mode transducer.

An inlet is adapted to receive pressurized gas from a CO₂ gas cartridge. A variable compression member has a normal height, under normal operating temperature conditions, adapted to provide a normal compressive force between the gas cartridge and the inlet to effectively seal the gas cartridge to the inlet. The variable compression member also has a reduced height, under heightened temperature conditions, adapted to provide a reduced compressive force between the gas cartridge and the inlet to allow pressurized gas to escape between the gas cartridge and the inlet. A seal member is compressed between the gas cartridge and the inlet. The inlet may be part of a pneumatic dispensing device. The gas inlet is in fluid communication with a gas enclosure to enable pressurized gas delivered through the inlet to provide a dispensing force on a product cartridge to cause dispensing of the viscous product.

A support assembly capable of being raised and lowered on a mast and configured in a compact, volumetrically efficient conformation lending architectural significance to the appearance of the support assembly when used to mount a plurality of luminaires or other apparatus intended for use in a location above a surface, such as the surface of the earth, the invention permits remote latching and unlatching of the support assembly through use of an improved latching mechanism having dimensions permitting housing of the latching mechanism within an enclosure of a reduced height, thereby lending an esthetically pleasing appearance to a mast-mounted support arrangement relative to prior art assemblies intended to perform similar functions.

Guided bulk acoustic wave devices and method for manufacturing guided bulk acoustic wave devices are provided. A guided bulk acoustic wave device includes a resonator structure with a piezoelectric layer, an electrode layer for exciting guided bulk acoustic waves and a wave guide layer. The thickness of the piezoelectric layer is less than or equal to 50 μm.

A drum type washing machine has axially-extending lifters arranged around an inner peripheral surface of a rotating tub which is upwardly inclined to allow easy laundry loading and unloading. The lifters each have a height gradually reducing to correspond to the inclination angle of the rotating tub from a rear end of the rotating tub to a front end thereof. Each lifter has, at its top portion, a wave-shaped structure including crests and valleys alternately arranged at a certain pitch. Each of the crests and valleys has water spray holes. The lifter includes at least one partition plate which divides the interior of the lifter into at least two chambers. Accordingly, wash water raised by each lifter is uniformly sprayed throughout the length of the lifter.

A pickup bed support structure that includes longitudinally extending frame rails to which transversely extending beams used to support the truck bed box are assembled. The beams are received below a top surface of the frame rails by forming notches or holes in the frame rails into which the beams are inserted. Alternatively, notches or holes may be provided in the transversely extending beams that receive the longitudinal extending frame rails. One method of manufacturing a pickup truck bed support structure is disclosed in which holes are provided in the longitudinally extending frame rail that receive the transversely extending beam that support the pickup truck bed. An alternative method is also disclosed in which notches are formed in the frame rails that receive the beams that are welded to the frame rails prior to assembling the pickup truck bed to the beams.

One method includes forming first sidewall spacers adjacent opposite sides of a sacrificial gate structure and a gate cap layer, removing the gate cap layer and a portion of the first sidewall spacers to define reduced-height first sidewall spacers, forming second sidewall spacers, removing the sacrificial gate structure to thereby define a gate cavity, whereby a portion of the gate cavity is laterally defined by the second sidewall spacers, and forming a replacement gate structure in the gate cavity, wherein at least a first portion of the replacement gate structure is positioned between the second sidewall spacers. A device includes a gate structure positioned above the substrate between first and second spaced-apart portions of a layer of insulating material and a plurality of first sidewall spacers, each of which are positioned between the gate structure and on one of the first and second portions of the layer of insulating material.

A flash-memory-drive card has a Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector. The card has a printed-circuit board (PCB) that fits into a perimeter frame that surrounds the edges of the PCB. Metal or plastic upper and lower covers are snapped onto the frame to encapsulate the PCB. The USB connector can be a Full USB connector plug that extends from the perimeter frame and has a centerline approximately matching the PCB centerline for a balanced design, or can be a slim or reduced-height USB connector plug that has a frame closure bar that fits inside closure fittings on the perimeter frame. The USB connector can also be made from a frame extension that has four frame slots through the frame. The PCB has four PCB fingers that are inserted through the frame slots during assembly so that the PCB fingers fit within depressions in the frame extension to form the USB connector plug.

A foldable barbecue grill is provided herein. The barbecue grill mainly contains a bottom shelf with wheels, a pair of side racks, diagonal brackets, and a barbecue stove. The legs of the side racks are hinged to the four corners of the bottom shelf. Foldable diagonal brackets are configured between the bottom shelf and the legs of the side racks. A number of locking members are configured between the barbecue stove and the side racks to join them together. By releasing the locking members, the barbecue stove could be separated from the side racks. Then, the diagonal brackets are disengaged so that the side racks are retracted and rest on the bottom shelf Then, the separated barbecue stove could be placed on top of the folded side racks so that the entire barbecue grill, with its significantly reduced height, could be easily stored for later use.

A computer enclosure for enclosing electrical devices comprises a chassis having a bottom panel and a pair of side panels with a reduced height portion adjacent to a rear panel. The rear panel includes a wing fixedly attached to the reduced height portion and is coplanar to the side panel. The reduced height portion defines a recess. A spring latch extends downward and outward from the wing portion of the rear panel. A cover is detachably assembled to the chassis having a top panel and a pair of side panels corresponding to the side panels of the chassis. The cover includes a latch plate received in the recessed portion of the reduced height portion and engaged with the spring latch and a hook is interlocked to a planar portion of the reduced height portion when the cover is assembled to the chassis.

A compressed air stream is cooled to a temperature suitable for its rectification within a lower pressure heat exchanger and a boosted pressure air stream is liquefied or converted to a dense phase fluid within a higher pressure heat exchanger in order to vaporize pumped liquid products. Thermal balancing within the plant is effectuated with the use of waste nitrogen streams that are introduced into the higher and lower pressure heat exchangers. The heat exchangers are configured such that the flow area for the subsidiary waste nitrogen stream within the higher pressure heat exchanger is less than that would otherwise be required so that the subsidiary waste nitrogen streams were subjected to equal pressure drops in the higher and lower pressure heat exchangers. This allows the higher pressure heat exchanger be fabricated with a reduced height and therefore a decrease in fabrication costs.

A syringe assembly including a needle cannula having a five-beveled point and a needle shield formed of a styrene block poly(ethylene/butylene) thermoplastic elastomer which significantly reduces needle penetration force and may reduce the cycle time for gas sterilization. The multi-beveled needle cannula point includes a primary bevel, a pair of tip bevels and a pair of middle bevels each intermediate the primary bevel and a respective tip bevel, wherein the angles of rotation of the primary bevel and the intermediate bevels are substantially equal resulting in reduced heights of intercepts between the bevels, therby reducing needle penetration force. The needle shield maintains the sharpness of the needle cannula during application, sterilization and removal of the shield and it is believed that the needle shield will also reduce the cycle time of gas sterilization as compared to rubber needle shields and vulcanizate thermoplastic elastomers.

The invention discloses a flat-type automobile wiring harness fastener, which is provided with an integrated fastener body at the upper part and an elastic chuck at the lower part, wherein wire harnesses are fastened in the fastener body, the elastic chuck is clamped in a clamping hole on an automobile body stamping part; the fastener body is a flat rectangular frame, the center of the flat rectangular frame is provided with a transversely penetrated fastening space, the upper frame bar of the flat rectangular frame is an outward lifting buckle bar capable of rotating around a connecting part, one end of the outward lifting buckle bar is connected with the top end of the frame bar at one side of the flat rectangular frame, while the other end thereof is provided with a barb which is matched with the barb correspondingly arranged in an opposite direction on the frame bar at the other side of the flat rectangular frame for mutual fastening. The invention has simple structure and convenient use, can reduce height space needed by passing wire harnesses via fastening wire harnesses passing narrow regions into a flat shape so as to achieve the functions of smooth wiring and fixation, thereby ensuring wire harness performance and effectively controlling the cost of wire harnesses.