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An apparatus and method for welding the gap between two ends of adjacent first and second pipe sections comprising: moving a first consumable electrode along the end of the first pipe section; moving a second consumable electrode along the end of the second pipe section; moving the electrodes in unison in side by side relationship on opposite sides of the gap; applying a first welding current to the first electrode; and, applying a second welding current to the second electrode, separate from the first welding current and, optionally, a mechanism for adjusting the spacing of the electrodes.

A lancing assembly is pivotally coupled to a housing and includes an actuator and a leaf spring carrying a lancet. When the actuator is in its set position, the leaf spring and lancet are in their set position with the leaf spring engaging a catch member of the housing. When the actuator is moved to its actuated position, the leaf spring pivots and deflects against the catch member, thereby storing a drive charge. The leaf spring then releases from the catch member as the stored charge launches the lancet to its lancing position. The leaf spring recharges towards the end of the lancing stroke, which return charge then retracts the lancet back into the housing.

The present invention describes systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.

The invention discloses a wheel-track compound deformation track robot which comprises a machine frame and a spindle installed on the machine frame. Two deformation track wheels capable of being converted between a circle and a triangle and being provided with power devices are installed at two ends of the spindle respectively, two support frames are installed on the front side and the rear side of the machine frame respectively, and follow-up guide wheels are installed at the bottom ends of the support frames. The wheel-track compound deformation track robot has the advantages of moving flexibly, being strong in adapting capability and simple in structure and working stably.

The present invention is directed to a planter with seed meters with accelerator wheel systems. Each accelerator wheel system receives singulated seeds from a respective seed meter and spaces the seeds with respect to each other to correct timing and thus spacing anomalies of seeds being released from seed disks of the seed meters at incorrect seed disk release events and to adjust the velocity of the seeds to correspond to planter travel speed for releasing the seeds to drop straight down onto the field, without a horizontal velocity. Spacing and timing is also improved by reducing delivery variation typically attributable to bounce down a seed tube by instead smoothly rotationally redirecting seeds from a generally downward delivery direction from a seed disk to a generally horizontal delivery direction out of the accelerator wheel system, opposite the tractor and implement travel direction.

The invention discloses a transformable wheel-track hybrid robot which comprises a chassis and an advance driving mechanism. The advance driving mechanism comprises advance power devices, caterpillar track driving wheels and caterpillar track driven wheels, more than three transformable wheel parts are installed on the chassis, each transformable wheel part comprises a transformable wheel rim and a transformation switching mechanism, each transformable wheel rim comprises multiple arc-shaped wheel rim pieces which are connected end to end in a hinged mode to form one wheel rim, the outer sides of the wheel rims are wrapped with caterpillar tracks, and the caterpillar tracks are used for being matched with the caterpillar track driving wheels and the caterpillar track driven wheels to form a caterpillar track driving state. Each transformation switching mechanism comprises more than two spring pulling rods and a transformation power device, each arc-shaped wheel rim piece is correspondingly matched with the telescopic end of one spring pulling rod, and telescoping of the spring pulling rods enables the adjacent arc-shaped wheel rim pieces to displace under the drive of the transformation power devices so as to change the shapes and advance postures of the wheel rims. The transformable wheel-track hybrid robot has the advantages of being simple and compact in structure, flexible in motion mode, good in terrain adaptability capacity and the like.

A mobile robot has a mobile mechanism, a swing mechanism and a control unit. The mobile mechanism is of a coaxial two-wheeled type and controls a forward thrust using inverted pendulum control. The swing mechanism actively swings an upper body laterally with respect to the mobile mechanism. A centrifugal force and a gravitational force act on a center of gravity of the mobile robot. A swing attitude is controlled such that a location of intersection of an extension of a composite vector of the forces acting on the center of gravity of the mobile robot and a ground plane of wheels is kept between left and right wheels.

The light transmitted and reflected by all-dielectric optically variable pigments varies according to viewing angle. The color travel of an all-dielectric optically variable pigment depends on amplitude changes and wavelength shifts in reflectance peaks of the pigment. The width and center wavelength of reflectance peaks can be controlled by selecting the ratio of thicknesses between high-index and low-index layers in a thin film stack. Reflectance peaks can regenerate or become suppressed and shift with tilt angle, thus providing a wide variety of color trajectories.

The light transmitted and reflected by all-dielectric optically variable pigments varies according to viewing angle. The color travel of an all-dielectric optically variable pigment depends on amplitude changes and wavelength shifts in reflectance peaks of the pigment. The width and center wavelength of reflectance peaks can be controlled by selecting the ratio of thicknesses between high-index and low-index layers in a thin film stack. Reflectance peaks can regenerate or become suppressed and shift with tilt angle, thus providing a wide variety of color trajectories.

A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided in which the presence of workers in a long highway construction zone is monitored and the electronically-controlled posted speed limit is adjusted in accordance with the detected presence of workers in the immediate area. In an example, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners or readers are strategically placed in a construction or working area. Such RFID reading devices may be embedded, for example, in construction speed limit signs. The displayed speed limit is controlled by the detected proximity of construction workers wearing RFID-embedded clothing, for example, such as safety vests or helmets. The speed limit sign includes logic to display one of many possible speed limit displays based on the nearest, and / or the number of RFID signals detected in a given area. Vehicular traffic is thereby enabled to travel faster through construction zones where no workers are present and, when appropriate, traffic is slowed when workers are present within a given proximity of the RFID reading devices.

A self-propelled transport aid for wheeled structures is advantageously provided. The transport aid generally includes a chassis, a lift assembly operatively supported thereby, and preferably a wheel capturing apparatus operatively united with the lift assembly. The wheel capturing apparatus has a first configuration for receipt of a wheel upon a wheel landing of the apparatus, and a second configuration for retention of the wheel received upon the wheel landing in the first configuration, wherein the first configuration of the wheel capturing apparatus is associated with a down position thereof. Alternate means for receiving and retaining a portion of a wheeled structure are further disclosed.

An apparatus and method are disclosed for pre-concentrating gaseous vapors for analysis. The invention finds application in conjunction with, e.g., analytical instruments where low detection limits for gaseous vapors are desirable. Vapors sorbed and concentrated within the bed of the apparatus can be thermally desorbed achieving at least partial separation of vapor mixtures. The apparatus is suitable, e.g., for preconcentration and sample injection, and provides greater resolution of peaks for vapors within vapor mixtures, yielding detection levels that are 10-10,000 times better than for direct sampling and analysis systems. Features are particularly useful for continuous unattended monitoring applications.

A mid-sized firefighting and fire rescue vehicle capable of accessing a range of off-road wildland environments that is also “street legal” for rapid on-road transportation. The vehicle is configured to be outfitted as needed with any of a variety of different firefighting or fire rescue systems packaged as removable modules, fixed in place in the bed of the vehicle. The vehicle achieves stability and ruggedness through the use of three military type axles, two of which (the rear axles) are both drive axles. The vehicle is further configured with an open bed structured to receive, position, and retain an integrated, modularly structured, firefighting or fire rescue system in such a manner as may be switched out with alternate systems as required for the type of service into which the vehicle is called. The vehicle has a narrow gauge (width) that allows it to access remote and obstructed areas but is still large enough to adequately carry personnel and equipment safely to and from most wildland fire environments. The bed of the vehicle utilizes a quick load and unload system that includes either rails or alignment guide posts in a manner that allows the user to quickly change the vehicle's primary function.

A medium of interest is interrogated according to ultrasound elastography imaging. A preliminary elasticity-spatial-map is formed. This map is calibrated against a reference elasticity-spatial-map that comprises an array (232) of different (240) elasticity values. The reference map is formed to be reflective of ultrasonic shear wave imaging of a reference medium. The reference medium is not, nor located at, the medium of interest, and may be homogeneous. Shear waves that are propagating in a medium are tracked by interrogating the medium. From tracking locations on opposite sides of an ablated-tissue border, propagation delay of a shear wave in the medium and of another shear wave are measured. The two shear waves result from respectively different pushes (128) that are separately issued. A processor decides, based on a function of the two delays, that the border crosses between the two locations. The calibrated map is dynamically updated and may include post-ablation border expansion (346) and time-annotated previous stages (344, 348).

The invention is a kind of variable structure leg and wheel type detecting robot, which uses variable parallelepiped car body, uses electric engine to drive the car body to be widened or be narrowed; the invention uses running mechanism of leg and wheel transition, the four legs can extended fully, becomes foot walking detecting robot, the four legs can be folded according to a definitive method, it is deformed into wheel detecting car. The invention combines the deformation of the car, the change of car height and the inversion of the leg and wheel, it has several change modes. The invention combines deformable and height adjustable car, foot walking mechanism, wheel running mechanism.

An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 130 or a comparison unit 320 compares the traveling speed information estimated by the estimator with a threshold defined as a value of traveling speed information for achieving a desired level of communication quality which varies depending on the traveling speed. A selector 150 or a selector 340 selects an applicable frequency band in response to a result of comparison.

The present invention relates to a vehicle railway tunnel vault geological radar continuous detection system. The system comprises an engineering vehicle, a workbench, a hydraulic elevating platform, a tunnel section laser detection mechanism, a vault brace rod mechanism and a vault radar antenna detection mechanism. A brace rod main body in the vault brace rod mechanism has two brace rod arms, the two brace rod arms are connected through a brace rod arm regulation pin shaft, and the hydraulic elevating platform and a brace rod driving motor are employed to drive the two brace rod arms to realize two-degree-of-freedom elevating and rotation to allow a radar antenna in the vault radar antenna detection mechanism at the top end of the brace rod main body to be extended into all the gaps between the inner wall of the tunnel vault and a contact net and scan each area of the vault required being detected to allow the detection blank area of the tunnel vault to be reduced to nearly zero. The system performs cooperation motion among mechanisms when detection, the radar antenna can avoid obstacles such as the contact net and the like, the frequent and rapid elevation of the vault brace rod mechanism and the like is reduced, the control is simple, the reliability is high, the continuous detection is realized, and the detection efficiency and the quality are improved.

A hydraulic press unit has a fixed part and a movable part. The movable part is moved relative to the fixed part by a hydraulic piston and is moved back into a starting position by a return spring. In addition, the return motion is actuatable as a function of a predetermined applied pressure by activation of a return valve. A control valve is provided which, in addition to the return valve, opens a hydraulic-medium outlet when in its open state and has a hydraulic-medium inflow side and a hydraulic-medium outflow side. In order to configure the hydraulic press unit, when the return valve opens, the control valve is acted on by the pressure of the returning hydraulic medium on the inflow and outflow sides, the pressure being lower on the inflow side due to throttling.

The present invention describes systems and methods for applying or dispensing surgical prep solution. The applicator system includes a spreader element and a container of surgical prep solution. The spreader element includes a body with an orifice covered by a pad. The orifice is in fluid communication with a passage through an elongated stem connected to the body. The container may be collapsible with only limited recovery. The spreader element may include a receptacle for receiving the container.

A method and apparatus for positioning and supporting the work platform of a mobile workover rig is disclosed. The work platform of the preferred embodiment of the present invention utilizes a unique support structure and automated positioning system for positioning the work platform at the desired height above the wellhead equipment. The preferred embodiment of the present invention utilizes a specialized automated “pinning” system that secures the work platform at the desired height. Additionally, the present invention utilizes one or more support cylinders to position and support the work platform in the horizontal position over the wellhead equipment. The automated positioning and pinning system of the present invention is a unique system that significantly reduces the time required to position the work platform of a mobile workover rig in the operating position, as well as significantly reduces the risk of injury to rig personnel assisting in the positioning operations.

A self-propelled transport aid for wheeled structures is advantageously provided. The transport aid generally includes a chassis, a lift assembly operatively supported thereby, and preferably a wheel capturing apparatus operatively united with the lift assembly. The wheel capturing apparatus has a first configuration for receipt of a wheel upon a wheel landing of the apparatus, and a second configuration for retention of the wheel received upon the wheel landing in the first configuration, wherein the first configuration of the wheel capturing apparatus is associated with a down position thereof. Alternate means for receiving and retaining a portion of a wheeled structure are further disclosed.

A planter includes seed meters with accelerator wheel systems. Each accelerator wheel system receives singulated seeds from a respective seed meter and spaces the seeds with respect to each other to correct timing and thus spacing anomalies of seeds being released from seed disks of the seed meters at incorrect seed disk release events. Each accelerator wheel system adjusts and to adjust the velocity of the seeds to correspond to planter travel speed for releasing the seeds to drop straight down onto the field, without a horizontal velocity. Seeds are rotationally redirected from a generally downward delivery direction from a seed disk to a generally horizontal delivery direction out of the accelerator wheel system, opposite the tractor and implement travel direction.

An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 130 or a comparison unit 320 compares the traveling speed information estimated by the estimator with a threshold defined as a value of traveling speed information for achieving a desired level of communication quality which varies depending on the traveling speed. A selector 150 or a selector 340 selects an applicable frequency band in response to a result of comparison.

A road-rail crane includes a crane undercarriage with spreadable outriggers hinged to the undercarriage; a crane superstructure connected to the crane undercarriage with freedom of rotation, the luffing boom of the crane being mounted on the superstructure; and rail traveling gear attached to the crane undercarriage for rail travel. The crane undercarriage and the crane superstructure can be carried temporarily as a single transportable unit by a road transport means, which can be removed and then replaced by the rail traveling gear, which can be connected to the crane undercarriage, after the crane undercarriage has been supported and raised on the spread-out outriggers.

A ground engaging track for a vehicle has a continuous loop or endless belt body portion having an exterior surface to engage the ground and an interior surface including driven members. The driven members are configured to be engaged by a drive sprocket to rotate the body portion to move the vehicle.

An autonomous driving device for a vehicle includes: an actuator; and an electronic control unit configured to detect presence or absence of a driver, generate a first travel plan for causing the vehicle to travel autonomously, and generate a second travel plan by adding, to the first travel plan, a restriction including at least one of a lane change restriction and a vehicle speed restriction. The electronic control unit is configured to perform manned autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel autonomously, by using the actuator, with the driver in the vehicle according to the first travel plan when the presence of the driver is detected, and perform unmanned autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel autonomously, by using the actuator, with the driver not in the vehicle according to the second travel plan when the absence of the driver is detected.