An auto harness integrity tester the components of which are respectively a housing unit protectively holding three male prongs extending from holes in one end thereof adjacent a female socket pocket in this end of the housing unit with wiring running from the prongs, one at a time to one each of three resistors and wiring running from each resistor to one each of three light emitting diodes from each of which a wire leads to a common wire leading to the female socket pocket such that when the i...

Disclosed are integrity-enhanced thermoelectric devices and methods of their preparation. Such devices have the following characteristics: (1) there is, on average, no greater than about 10% incidence of function loss (failure) of the device on application to the device of a substantial impact or distortion force or corrosion exposure, and (2) the device have at least about 85% of the thermal performance of thermoelectric devices without integrity enhancement (i.e., thermal conductivity across t...

A method and composition for preventing a tear, hole or run in hosiery from expanding, wherein the composition comprises: (a) nitrocellulose, (b) resin, (c) dioctylphthalate, and (d) a solvent or solvent mixture.

There is disclosed a method for determining the proper sealing of a hermetically sealed package. The method consists of the steps of providing a pressure source for effecting a movement of air mass, providing an enclosable vacuum chamber suitable for accommodating a hermetically sealed package therein being enclosable in sealing tight engagement. An air flow path is provided from the vacuum chamber to the pressure source, the air flow path having a valve interposed to isolate the vacuum chamber ...

A plurality of parallel compression/decompression units can be tied together to sequentially process equal amounts or sets of data from a stream of data. Hardware in the upper level of each device acts as a demultiplexer to control the acceptance of only its set of data to transfer control to permit the next device to accept data and also stores its set for compaction. Essentially identical hardware in the lower half of each device acts as a multiplexer to control the acceptance of its compacted...

A testing apparatus for determining the integrity of an electrical cable. ccessive portions of electrical cable pass through an aqueous electrolyte with a distance measurement unit providing an indication of the position of a portion of the cable located in the electrolyte. A capacitance measurement unit connects to a selected conductor in the cable and to an electrode in the electrolyte to continuously generate a measured capacitance signal. An X-Y plotter produces an output that displays the m...

A method and system for maintaining database integrity utilizes a LOG file organized into slots with the number of slots never exceeding the largest number of concurrent transactions updating the database.

The main storage, the communication interface portion and the circuit control module hold transmission data in the buffers until completion of the transmission has been confirmed. When a fault has occurred in the current operating system of the duplexed portions in the configuration elements of the host computer and the multi-circuit control unit, the duplexed portions are changed over from the current operating system to the stand-by system. In this case, information for reproducing data that h...

A method and apparatus for monitoring the condition of a ground anchorage including a tendon arranged in a bore in a group formation at a site is characterized by detecting the vibrational response signature of the anchorage to an impulse load. The vibrational response signature to the impulse is recorded and compared with a reference signature from which any changes in the integrity of the anchorage can be determined.

A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising gelatin encapsulating a pharmaceutical composition wherein said composition is at least about 6% (weight %) ethanol and lipid wherein said lipid comprises at least about 60% (weight %) and a method of protecting gelatin from deterioration is disclosed.