A terminal insertion guiding apparatus includes an optical fiber sensor adapted to transmit light through a terminal cavity of the housing of a connector, thereby indicating to the operator a cavity into which a wire-crimped terminal is to be inserted. The apparatus is provided with a drive mechanism which drives the optical fiber to move back-and-forth in directions X and Y so as to position the optical fiber sensor correctly below a specified cavity. The drive mechanism is controlled by signal...

An air guiding device for producing a vortical and/or turbulent air flow in an inlet manifold, which device comprises a fixed supporting structure, a plurality of vanes carried by the supporting structure for deflecting an air flow impinging on the device in a first direction, a tab associated with at least one of the vanes for deflecting the air flow in a second direction, the arrangement being such that the air flow impinging on the device is deflected into a vortical and/or turbulent air flow...

A nail guiding and driving tool having a punch slidably disposed within a hollow sleeve. The punch includes a hammer blow receiving body portion containing a pair of relatively large diameter spaced apart end sections which closely fit but slide freely within a large diameter rear end portion of the hollow sleeve joined together by a relatively small diameter mid-section The punch also includes a nail driving portion which closely fits but slides freely within a small diameter forward end portio...

A tire building machine for marking the centerline of a continuous piece of plystock is described as having, (I) a carriage which is movable along a trackway which is normal to the direction of travel of the piece of plystock being marked, (II) a pair of sensors carried by the carriage for monitoring the opposing marginal edges of the piece of plystock, (III) a device centrally disposed on the carriage between the sensors for marking the centerline of the plystock, (IV) a mechanism for adjusting...

A device for guiding an electron beam from an electron gun to a microwave resonator in a microwave source operating according to the gyrotron principle, including a beam duct for guiding the electron beam, wherein the beam duct encloses the electron beam and has an electrically highly conductive surface area. For damping unwanted wave modes inside the beam duct, a plurality of damping openings are provided in the surface area of the beam duct. The characteristic aperture size (a) of the damping ...

A main body of a bearing (12) is guided on a guide rail (10) by at least one rolling-element circuit (14, 16) and receives at one end an end plate (13). A deflection duct (50, 52) is recessed in the end plate and receives a deflection piece (60), which crosses the deflection duct (50, 52). A lubricant-supply system (86) for the rolling-element circuit (14, 16) is provided inside the end plate (13). The lubricant-supply system (86) is partly within a deflection-piece receiver duct (58) which acco...

A system for guiding the blind including at least one receiver/sound generator unit having a built-in sound generator giving information on the destination of the user, and a receiver for actuating the sound generator in accordance with a control signal coming from outside, and a transmitter/control unit carried by the user for producing the control signal. As the user carrying the transmitter/control unit and approaching the destination at which the receiver/sound generator unit is installed, t...

A method of and an apparatus for guiding a microrobot without the necessity of an operator is disclosed. The operation area for the microrobot can easily be enlarged, contracted or changed. Sensors of the microrobot are used to cause the microrobot to react to light, magnetism or sound through an arbitrary passage formed on a surface of a light transmissible base plate, on which the microrobot is moved. The passage is formed by projecting light emitted from a light source through a pattern mask ...

A driverless vehicle is guided along a guideline which is detected on a floor by an optical sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements. A value representing the amount of light received by each of the light receiving elements is composed with a value representing the amount of light received by one or more neighbouring light receiving elements and smoothed to an appropriately large value so that the detection of the guideline may be based on the smoothed value.

A guiding catheter adapted to be passed through the right side of the heart into the pulmonary artery and comprising a catheter body having at least first and second lumens extending longitudinally in the catheter body and a port extending from the first lumen to the exterior of the catheter body. The port is between the ends of the catheter and is in the right heart when the catheter is in use. An elongated stiffening element is locked within the second lumen and extends from a location on the ...