The apparatus comprises a bifurcated head rotatably mounted upon a spring loaded arm. The head has two edge plates which can be brought into tangential contact with the periphery of a rotating object. When the head is brought into contact with objects of different diameters, the points of contact with the edge plates progress along location locus lines which, when produced, intersect an an apex. A displacement transducer mounted upon the head has a spring loaded plunger with a probe which is con...

Pipe handling and laying apparatus 1 supports a pipe on holding and a support 2,3 and includes extendible and a retractable gripping member 4 having gripping head 4a. The pipe, supported generally within area A, is brought in end-to-end relationship with another pipe to be joined thereto. Gripper head 4a is introduced into the open end of the second pipe and ram piston P of hydraulic ram H is retracted causing legs L of gripper head 4 to pivot into extended positions to grip the interior wall of...

A self-contained liquid cooled heat sink system disposed in a computer has a plurality of socket portions through which a cooling liquid is pumped. Operating heat from a plurality of heat-generating computer components, representatively circuit board-mounted processor chips, is efficiently transferred to the heat sink system by heat pipe modules associated with the heat-generating components. Each module includes (1) an evaporator plate held in thermal contact with its associated component, (2) ...

A dual shock absorber kit for mounting to the rear end of a vehicle, especially a truck, for better handling of the vehicle when driving. The kit includes first and second pairs of shock absorbers each comprising front and back shock absorbers. First and second axle mounting brackets are also provided for mounting to a rear wheel axle of a vehicle. A cross bar extends between a pair of side rails of a support frame of the vehicle. One end of the front shock absorber of each of the pairs of shock...

In a portable notebook computer a specially designed heat pipe-based heat exchanger assembly is used to efficiently dissipate heat from a processor board in the computer's base housing to ambient air surrounding the computer. The heat exchanger assembly includes a graphite fiber-filled outer heat exchanger body which includes a finned first portion that is exposed to the exterior of the base housing, and a second portion disposed within the base housing and thermally coupled to the processor boa...

A voltage detector circuit (10) for detecting voltage levels of a digital data bitstream has an input terminal (20) coupled to receive the digital data bitstream. A first peak detector circuit (40) coupled to the input terminal detects a positive peak voltage, and provides a first peak signal. A first differential amplifier is coupled to the input terminal and further coupled to receive the first peak signal, for providing a first difference signal. A second peak detector circuit is coupled to r...

Heat generated by a processor within the base housing portion of a notebook computer is received, spread, and dissipated through an exterior wall of the housing by a heat transfer pad structure in which a spaced series of porous plastic tube members, each having a quantity of purified water therein, are individually and sealingly encapsulated in partially evacuated pocket areas formed between two facing sheets of a high temperature polyimide film material. A metal heat receiving block member is ...

An aspect of the present invention is a method for retrieving reliability data in a system. The method includes coupling a device to the system, collecting the reliability data with the device and retrieving the reliability data from the device.

Glasses are described having a frame which accepts a lens. No screws or other fasteners are required. The lens fits within a first and second groove in the frame. A unitary lens design is preferred having a first and second lens portions. The lens can be tinted or clear, can contain corrective or noncorrective optics.

A control mechanism for use with a door closer, comprises a shaft (10), angularly movable between a normal position and a second position, the shaft (10) having a first portion (21a) and a second portion (21b), a brush spring (35) attached to the shaft first portion (21a) to return the shaft to its normal position, and a damping mechanism (36, 38) attached to the shaft second portion (21b) to resist shaft movement to its normal position. The damping mechanism includes a coiled strap-like member ...