289 results about "Tight frame" patented technology

An inspecting device is used in limited space. The inspecting device includes a mirror and a frame. The frame includes a back plate and a rim extending from the back plate and converging. Thus, the periphery of the mirror is firmly held with the rim of the frame. Moreover, a buffering space is defined between the periphery of the mirror and the rim of the frame.

A collapsible hunting blind is provided having a primary frame, a panel, an image of a game animal, and a secondary frame. The primary frame has a folded position and an unfolded position. The panel is supported by the primary frame and has a front surface, a rear surface, and an outer periphery. The panel is supported by the primary frame between the folded position and the unfolded position. The image of a game animal is provided on the front surface. The secondary frame communicates with the panel and is configured to hold the primary frame and the panel in the unfolded position.

This invention is mainly to provide a dental x-ray clamping device with a multi-orientation support made up with an attachable ring pivot and a supporting-frame pivot, which is designed for an all-purpose modulized raying clamp with simplified members in design, in which the ring pivot is provided with a pivoting ring, while the supporting-frame pivot is provided with a pivoting supporting bite frame, and only the supporting bite frame is pivoted to an opening side of a supporting orientation and combined with the ring pivot easily pivoting at a required angle of rotation so as to be located at an orientation so that the center of the ring aligns with that of the opening side of the supporting bite frame and further that the x-ray operation can be performed at the case of the teeth diagnosis or the endodontic treatment using each orientational support on the teeth.

A linguistic segmentation tool (115) includes an acoustic feature extraction component (302) and a lexical feature extraction component (311). The acoustic feature extraction component (302) extracts prosodic features from speech (e.g., pauses, pitch, energy, and rate). The lexical feature extraction component (311) extracts lexical features from a transcribed version of the speech (e.g., words, syntactic classifications of the words, and word structure). A language model is constructed based on the lexical features and an acoustic model is constructed based on the acoustic features. A statistical framework combines the outputs of the language model to generate indications of potential linguistic features.

A side frame for a loudspeaker rigging system has a frame structure mountable to the side of a loudspeaker, and links associated with the frame structure for linking together the corners of the frame structures of vertically adjacent side frames. The links associated with each side frame structure include a pivot link and splay adjustment link, each of which has a top extended end and a base end with a seating edge. Guide channels, which are located in the top corner regions of the frame structure to receive the base ends of a pivot link and splay adjustment link associated with a vertically adjacent side frame, have seating surfaces that conform to the seating edges at the base ends of the pivot and splay adjustment link. When base ends of these links seat in the guide channels, pin holes in the base end of the links self-align with pin holes in the corners of the frame structure for easy insertion locking pins. The extended end of the splay adjustment link further includes at least two, and preferably an array of pin holes which can selectively be matched with one pin hole within a row of pin holes in a bottom corner region of the side frame to permit adjustments of the splay angle over a range of angles. Suitably, two rows of pin holes are provided in the top extended end of the splay adjustment link to permit multiple and incrementally small splay angle adjustments. In the preferred embodiment, the frame structure is comprised of an assembly of parts comprised of a center core structure sandwiched between two side plates.

In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a unified software framework or architecture for distributed coordination of wireless devices and radios, referred to as Layer 2.5 Software MAC (or ‘SoftMAC’), which resides between the standard 802.11 MAC layer (Layer 2) and IP layer (Layer 3) to regulate and control the amount of traffic (both real-time and “best effort”) delivered to 802.11 MAC DCF interfaces. The software based design can be ported to different OS platforms and systems and is capable of handling new hardware interfaces and MAC mechanisms (e.g., 802.11e) with only a software upgrade. The invention thus provides a natural way to make end systems support coordination of different radios of device(s), achieving better performance. Advantages of the 2.5 layer software MAC in accordance with the invention include: (a) there are no hardware constraints; (b) heterogeneous wireless / radio support is provided at the 2.5 layer; and (c) an evolutionary and extensible solution with the ability to support future wireless MAC / PHY chip combinations.