A multiconductor shielded connector is disclosed in which a flexible, compressible double bushing is used between the connector half shells and the multiconductor cable. The double bushing comprises an outer bushing dimensioned to grasp the outer jacket of the cable at the exiting end of the connector. A concentric, longitudinally offset inner bushing is inserted under the shielding (braid or foil) and mates with ridges on the inner surface of the half shells to form a tight, continuous radiatio...

A multiconductor shielded connector is disclosed in which a flexible, compressible double bushing is used between the connector half shells and the multiconductor cable. The double bushing comprises an outer bushing dimensioned to grasp the outer jacket of the cable at the exiting end of the connector. A concentric, longitudinally offset inner bushing is inserted under the shielding (braid or foil) and mates with ridges on the inner surface of the half shells to form a tight, continuous radiatio...

An image processing system is disclosed in which the various image processing circuits are arranged in a pipeline such that the output of each circuit is passed on to the next circuit in the pipeline without storing the data between circuits of the pipeline. The individual processing circuits are program-controlled by a common controller in order to properly synchronize various operations such as scanning, compressing, expanding, rescaling, windowing and rotating. The rescaling operation is carr...

A collapsible protective carton of corrugated cardboard is constructed from either one or two blanks and contains a suspended product protecting cradle dividing the carton interior into upper, lower, and central compartments. The central compartment is the primary product holding compartment, while the upper and lower compartments provide both protection against crushing and potential additional storage space for flat items such as instruction manuals or computer disks. At each end of the carton...

A vaginal speculum is disclosed in which a ratcheted linear motion of a thumb pad is translated into a complicated linear, rotational and retractive motion of the speculum paddles to provide anatomically correct motions for dilation of the vagina and the cervix without complicated two-handed adjustments of the speculum. Cam follower pins follow the contours of a cam slot to translate the linear motion into the required complicated motions of the speculum paddles. The ratchet permits easy locking...

A direct current to direct current converter utilizes a MOSFET half-bridge configuration in which the inherent magnetizing and leakage inductances of the transformer are used as the only inductances in the frequency-determining circuit. Diodes are used to limit the voltages across the capacitor of the frequency determining circuit and hence limit the short circuit and open circuit characteristics of the converter. A self-starting circuit insures that the circuit will start up when initially ener...

A packet communications network is adapted for efficiently handling of multi-priority traffic (such as multi-media traffic) by defining an access algorithm that not only ensures the requested loss probabilities for both priorities of traffic, but also optimizes the bandwidth required to carry both priority classes. A buffer having a properly sized occupancy threshold admits high priority traffic if there is room in the buffer, but admits lower priority traffic only if the buffer occupancy is bel...

A management system for local area networks ensures selected levels of quality of service to all transmission requests submitted to the management system. This management system is attached to the network and receives requests from all other stations on the network to reserve facilities for a particular quality of service data stream. An allocator in the management system determines if the requested facilities are available and, if so, reserves these facilities for the requesting station. If the...

A portable wet paint brush holder which is formed by a substantially rectangular bottom panel, vertical front and rear walls, and substantially rectangular side walls forming an enclosure with a top opening for receiving the brush portion of a conventional paint brush having the handle extending in an upward direction. One of the side walls of the holder is substantially vertical, but the other is outwardly inclined from the vertical at the bottom by an acute angle of the order of thirty degrees...

An electronic equipment cabinet is shown having an integrated cover panel which provides a plurality of connector receptacle positions to which outside equipment may be connected. Connector contacts are snap locked into the receptacle positions. The connector receptacle contacts are automatically bridged when the mating connector plug is removed to short circuit the connector contacts. L-shaped bridging contacts maintain positional stability while L-shaped connector contacts permit direct insert...