A toy utilizing bubbles in liquid comprises a vessel to be charged with a liquid keeping an air layer at the top and to be sealed, a bubble generating member, and in-liquid movable members moved by bubbles rising in the liquid in the vessel.

There is provided an actuator utilizing a piezoelectric transducer that is structured in small size by feeding the electrical power to the internal surface to the piezoelectric transducer formed in the cylindrical shape. The electrodes are formed to both front and rear surfaces of a sheet type piezoelectric element and this element is wound in the cylindrical shape. The cylindrical material is normalized under the predetermined temperature and a voltage is applied across the electrodes for the p...

The invention relates to compositions and methods for decoding microsphere array sensors.

The invention provides a computer with refrigeration. The computer has a housing, a processor, a refrigeration loop and a fan. The processor is located within the housing at a location distant from an air inlet into the housing. The refrigeration loop includes a compressor, a condenser, and expansion valve and an evaporator located in line one after the other. The evaporator is near the air inlet. The fan causes movement of air through the housing. The air passes over the evaporator to cool the ...

Liquid, low viscosity, graft polyols comprising the liquid reaction product of a vegetable oil or unsaturated fatty carbon compound having at least eight carbon atoms, at least one hydroxyl group, and at least one double bond, said compound having other than terminal unsaturation a cyclopentadienyl compound and a terminally unsaturated monomer having at least one hydroxyl group, when cured with a polyisocyanate, melamine, or formaldehyde compound, or when esterified with a polybasic acid composi...

A method is provided for utilizing sensible heat energy supplied by a high-temperature heating fluid, employing a multi-component working fluid thermodynamic cycle, wherein a solution rich in a lower boiling component is heated in a vapor generator in counter-current heat exchange with the heating fluid to produce a vapor-fluid mixture which is separated in a rectifier into a lean solution and a vapor mixture; the enthalpy of the vapor mixture is optionally increased in a superheater by counter-...

An apparatus utilizing charged particles comprises a means for generating charged particles which are irradiated on the surface of a material and a means for generating plasma in the neighborhood of the surface of the material. The plasma generated by the plasma generating means can neutralize incident charge, to prevent an accumulation of the charge on the surface of the material.

A game or training device for developing manual dexterity of the sense of touch of individuals, particularly sightless individuals which comprises a hollow container having two open opposed ends with a partition interposed, said partition having apertures matching the shape of blocks which the user touches and manipulates through the apertures without the use of eyesight.

The disclosure hereof calls for the shearing of a thin film dispersion of magnetic particles. Magnetic fields, selectively perpendicular to the plane of shear or the direction of shear, control the degree of clumping experienced by the dispersion particles.

A pillow adapted to provide yieldable support of controllable softness and thickness is fabricated of thermoplastic sheet material in a manner whereby a central air compartment is surrounded by a continuous liquid compartment, each compartment being provided with valve means. The pillow may be fabricated by the interbonding of four rectangular pieces of thermoplastic sheet material. When empty of air and liquid, the pillow occupies little storage space.