The supply of energy in response to thermostat demand, to heating and cooling equipment is reduced by intermittent interruption during demand intervals and prolonged intermittently upon cessation of demand in accordance with the duration of such demand intervals pursuant to memory stored heating and cooling sequences of power interruption cycles. Sensors detect the presence and absence of energy demand to time the duration of the demand intervals and control the intermittent interruption in the ...

A cable management system which provides routing of wired services between service lines (16) and user lines (18). Each service line enters the cable system at a service termination unit circuit card (22) which also holds a portion of a crosspoint switch matrix (126). Each user line enters the system at a line termination unit circuit card (20). The service termination unit circuit cards are all mounted to connectors (36) on a first side of a centerplane board (24) and the line termination unit ...

A diet management device which includes a housing; respective manually actuated detented slide members respectively associated with each of predetermined food groups; and a respective numerical display for each detented slide member for providing numerical indicia as a function of the position of the respective detented slide member. The diet management device further includes for predetermined daily calorie limits respective removable encoded card inserts for cooperating with the slide members ...

A system for leveling energy consumption of loads being controlled by a duty cycle routine, the loads having on times and off times within a predetermined period of time established by the duty cycle routine, the system having a plurality of loads, a communication channel connected to each of the loads, and a controller connected to the communication channel, the controller determining a gap time during which no load is off, the gap time being a function of the period of time, the sum of all of ...

A waste management system, including, a module forming a hollow cover having an open base and with the module including a passageway for receiving medical waste from the exterior to the interior. A disposable container is received within the open base of the module to have the container enclosed by the module. The module is locked in position on a wall mount which fully encloses the disposable container. A key plate is provided for disposition between the locking wall mount and the module to unl...

A power management system is disclosed for providing power to one or more computers having provisions for communication with an external data source. A source of backup power, including a bank of batteries, is provided which is provided to the power bus during a utility power interruption. A microprocessor monitors the utility line and the energy remaining in the batteries and provides data signals to the computer in response to utility power interruption and to predetermined battery energy leve...

A method of providing efficient on-line and interactive application program utilization of an assortment of devices calling for different screen characteristics. An application programmer writes screen definitions for a particular device to be used. These definitions are stored exterior of the application program and are used to define the quantity, order, and placement of the application program's information on the screen. The application program provides services to generate and process each ...

A gage block case includes a plurality of gage blocks mounted within the case, each gage block having opposed gage surfaces with a nominal dimension therebetween and a known deviation from the nominal dimension. Sensors associated with each gage block sense the removal of each gage block from the case. A signal generator provides a distinct signal corresponding to which gage block is removed from the case. A memory stores the known deviation of each gage block within the case. A control unit res...

A management communication terminal is formed by integrating an electronic, raster scanning camera with a personal computer. The terminal has a keyboard, a Winchester disk drive, a telecommunication controller, a cathode ray tube monitor, and a thermographic, raster image printer. Two such terminals define an office information system for the exchange of information produced at the keyboards and by the cameras. In each terminal, the coded data generated at the keyboard and the raster image data ...

A heat management system especially adapted for spacecraft including a first heat exchanger in heat exchange relation with a sink having a widely varying temperature and a second heat exchanger in heat exchange relation with a variable heat load. An equilibrator is provided to maintain respective bodies of heat exchange fluid in the liquid state and in the gaseous state. A first flow path is provided for circulating a mixture of liquid phase fluid and gaseous phase fluid from the equilibrator to...