9073 results about "Front panel" patented technology

A kiosk includes a front panel defining an opening in a body and an interactive screen positioned within the opening. A moisture resistant support structure is disposed between the front panel and the interactive screen. A central processing unit is disposed within the body and the central processing unit is operatively connected to the interactive screen.

An automobile rearview mirror with an LCD display comprises a front panel, a mount, a display unit housed between the front panel and the mount, a front frame, a rear shell, and a mirror. The display unit, the front panel, the mount and the mirror are contained between the rear shell and the mirror. The automobile rearview mirror thereby assembled can be installed at the location of a rearview mirror in an automobile. There are two springs disposed between the mount and the rear shell that provide the force needed to pull down the front panel and the display monitor. The slide motion is further assisted by rail sectors, corresponding slide elements, gear sectors and oil-pressure gear wheels. The automobile rearview mirror is further provided with locking pieces and releases for properly retained the position of the display unit.

A button mounting structure for a car audio system includes a button including a pushing unit having a pushing part which protrudes forward, a locking piece provided above the pushing unit to be spaced apart from the pushing unit by a predetermined interval with first locking recesses provided on both sides of the locking piece, and connecting parts to connect the pushing unit to the locking piece. The structure further includes a front panel having an opening into which the pushing part is inserted, with first locking protrusions provided on opposite sides of the front panel, each of the first locking protrusions comprising an upper thin plate to cover an upper surface of opposite sides of the locking piece, a lower thin plate to cover a lower surface of the opposite sides of the locking piece, and a fitting rib provided between the upper and lower thin plates to engage with an associated first locking recess.

Smoke evacuation apparatus designed to provide safe and efficient filtration and evacuation of smoke plume generated by laser-surgical, electrosurgical, radiosurgical, and electrocautery devices. A filter assembly is removably mounted on a front panel of the apparatus housing and is thus easily accessible from the front side which typically faces the user. The filter assembly at its front is provided with a hose connector to which the suction hose of the system is conveniently attached, and the front of the filter assembly is configured with a symbol, such as a letter or number, that represents an identification of the system supplier or manufacturer, and the hose connector is mounted on that symbol identifier.

An optical fiber enclosure system includes a plurality of integrated optical connector and coupler assemblies. The first optic coupler is integrated adjacent to the ferrule in the connector. In a preferred embodiment, the integrated optical connector coupler is constructed in a compact package such that when installed in the optical fiber enclosure no part of the coupler connector assembly protrudes beyond the footprint of the fiber enclosure and yet maintains an industry recommended minimum bend radius of 1.5 inches on the output cable ports thus allowing the fiber enclosure front panel to close without impinging on the cables of the assembly.

A case for an electronic device such as a tablet computer includes book configuration and stand configuration. In the stand configuration, the back panel of the holder, against which the electronic device is held, is disposed at an incline with respect to the front panel. The stand configuration is achieved through folding seams in the front panel and pockets in the back panel such that the front panel is folded back such that the front panel exterior surface generally faces the back panel exterior surface and respective front panel corners are folded along the folding seams and disposed within the back panel pockets.

A keyboard attached to a personal digital assistant (PDA) set having: a hinge unit including a connector to transfer a keyboard input signal to the PDA, and upper and lower hinge covers; a connection unit placed inside of the hinge unit, and can be attached in the front direction or the back direction to the PDA; and a keyboard body connected with the hinge unit, folded and unfolded about the hinge unit, having a typing board on an upper side and a front panel controller (FPC) keypad to input a key pressed on the typing board. Therefore, the keyboard of the PDA can not only be attached in the front direction or the back direction to the PDA, but also separated from the PDA, thus making the usage and maintenance of the keyboard convenient.

A rack has a frame for supporting one or more electronic components. A front panel and a rear panel are attached to the frame. At least one of the front panel and the rear panel comprises a vent having at least one movable louver configured to vary airflow through the vent.

A video screen enclosure is disclosed for housing a flat panel video display unit (“FPD”), comprising a housing and a front panel member joined to the housing with an airtight seal. An environmental control unit (“ECU”) within housing includes means to internally circulate air within said enclosure to maintain a temperature within a range suitable for operation of said display, and a control system to maintain the interior temperature within said enclosure within a selected range suitable for operation of said FPD. The enclosure may form a sealed unit with interior air being recirculated through said ECU, or ambient air may be circulated through the enclosure.

An integrated unit controller / human-machine interface is disclosed which incorporates high-speed redundant control, sequence of events, supervisory control and data acquisition, alarm handling, trending & historian, process graphics and "open" communications in a compact form factor enclosure (the front panel less than 5x6 inches). The unit controller is composed of two primary hardware elements: the controller module (single or redundant) and the palm type computers (P / PC)-based human-machine interface (HMI) with touch screen. The controller covers a wide span of applications, from single process unit control to networked multi-unit management.

An electronic system with multiple printed circuit boards interconnected through a midplane. Connectors are mounted on two sides of the midplane to facilitate connection of daughter cards from both the front and the back of the midplane. For cross-connecting coupling signals between daughter cards mounted to the front and daughter cards mounted to the back of the midplane, connectors mounted to the front and the back of the midplane are overlapped in certain regions. Within these regions, an efficient routing pattern is employed to cross-connect signals from the front of the midplane to the back of the midplane. The routing is achieved in a very small space but provides the desired impedance of the interconnects.

A scan description language (SDL) system and method are provided for managing a scan job. The method comprises: scanning a document at a scanning device; constructing a scan job using SDL commands; partially performing the scan job at the scanning device in response to the SDL commands; and, partially performing the scan job at a node connected to the scanning device in response to the SDL commands. The scan job can be constructed at a scanning device front panel, a connected web page, or a client connected to the scanning device. Likewise, the scan job can be initiated from a front panel of the scanning device, a connected client, or a connected web page. Further, the scan job may be partially performed a locally connected client, a network-connected client, a network-connected server, a locally connected server, another scanning device, or a telephone network-connected client.

A pant-like absorbent garment adapted to easy application and removal has refastenable side seams. The refastenable side seams extend from a waist opening to each of two leg openings between a front panel and a back panel. Each of the refastenable side seams includes a fastening component and a mating fastening component, each of which comprises either a hook material or a loop material. A portion of the mating fastening component can be die-cut in a sinusoidal or other nesting shape. The resulting refastenable seams can be lap seams, dual fastened lap seams, standing butt seams, or dual fastened standing butt seams.

The present invention relates to radiographic imaging apparatus for taking X-ray images of an object. In various two-panel radiographic imaging apparatus configurations, a front panel and back panel have substrates, arrays of signal sensing elements and readout devices, and passivation layers. The front and back panels have scintillating phosphor layers responsive to X-rays passing through an object produce light which illuminates the signal sensing elements to provide signals representing X-ray images. The X-ray apparatus has means for combining the signals of the X-ray images to produce a composite X-ray image. Furthermore, the composition and thickness of the scintillating phosphor layers are selected, relative to each other, to improve the diagnostic efficacy of the composite X-ray image. Alternatively, a radiographic imaging apparatus has a single panel having arrays of signal sensing elements and readout devices and scintillating phosphor layers that are disposed on both sides of a single substrate. The present invention further relates to various embodiments of indirect dual-screen DR flat-panel imager apparatus that provide single-exposure dual energy imaging.

A microprocessor based overcurrent trip unit which generates trip signals as an adjustable function of current and time, has a visual representation of the trip function on a front panel with 2-color LEDs associated with the trip function serving as indicators of trip conditions when red, and of a selected programmable parameter when green. The green LEDs flash to indicate parameter selected for modification in a program mode and illuminate steady in a view mode.

The technology described herein provides a combination beverage cooler and car seat cooler for simultaneously cooling food, beverages, and the like and cooling an unoccupied car seat. The combined cooler includes an insulated container having a back panel and a front panel opposite one another, a left side panel and a right side panel opposite one another and extended between the back and front panels, the back, front, left, and right panels integrally formed with a bottom panel, thereby defining an interior cavity for receipt of an at least one item to cool, and a sealable lid being sealable with the back, front, left, and right panels and hingedly connected to the rear panel and an insulated cover for thermally protecting an unoccupied car seat, the cover having a flexible thermal barrier and being foldably attached to the insulated container to provide a combined beverage cooler and car seat cooler.

A security case for small valuables, comprises an arm strap for extending and detachably securing around an arm, a first pocket attached to the strap intermediate to the ends thereof, the pocket having a pliable first back panel and a transparent front panel secured together along side and bottom edges forming an envelope type first pocket, and a second pocket formed of a shell of pliable material, the shell formed of a second back panel, an enlarged front panel, the panels secured together along common side edges and a bottom edge thereby forming at least one receptacle having a top opening and a cover flap for covering said opening, the second pocket hinged along a side edge to one side edge of the first pocket and having releaseable securing members along the other side edge releaseably securing the second pocket over the first pocket.

The present invention, in the preferred embodiment, is a surgery recovery brassiere which resolves many of the problems faced by women who have undergone breast surgery and particularly, mastectomy. The present invention comprises front panels, prosthesis panels, rear panels, torso band, straps, drain tube apertures and fluid collection storage pouch.More specifically, two front panels each comprise a cup portion and a conforming portion. The prosthesis panels are attached to the rear facing of the cup portion of the front panel to form enclosed pockets to hold one or two prosthesis. Each of the two rear panels are joined at one end to the front panels and extend to meet the opposing rear panel at a back closure. The free end of each of the front panels meet to form a front closure. Straps extend from the top of the front panel to the top of the adjacent rear panel. The torso band extends around the lower edge of the surgery recovery brassiere to form an almost continuous strip of material along the lower edge of the front and rear panels.The surgery recovery brassiere further accommodates post-operative surgical drainage systems composed of one or more drain tubes and associated fluid collection bulbs. The position of drainage tube apertures, generally located proximate to the joint between the front and rear panels, allow drainage tubes to protrude from the chest wall, through the apertures and into the collection storage pouch. Tab closures allow the wearer to secure the drainage tubes within the aperture to further reduce movement of the tubes and disturbance of the drainage system. The storage pouch provides pockets with elastic top entry so that collection bulbs are within easy, convenient reach for emptying lymphatic fluids and other waste materials. The upper edge of the storage pouch releasably attaches to the torso band with a hook-and-loop fastener system.

A communication system and a family of methods for remote access to personal television service are disclosed. According to this invention, a remote personal TV service center provides centralized program guide information. A user may access to the personal TV service center through a digital video recorder which is connected to the personal TV service center via telephone modem or a network server. A user may access to the personal TV service center through a remote computer terminal or a personal digital assistant which is connected to a computer network. The user selects program events and programs the digital video recorder by using a graphical user interface installed in the front panel of the digital video recorder in case of local programming, or using a similar GUI which is incorporated into the Web pages presented to remote users by a Web server in case of remote programming. The media stream stored in one digital video recorder may be transferred to another digital video recorder. For data security protection during data transfer, all communication are authenticated and encrypted.

A supporter for a clothes washing machine and a clothes drying apparatus for smoothly sliding a drawer in and out of a case regardless of temperature change by improving the structure of the drawer to be installed in the case. The supporter includes a case to support a clothes washing machine or a clothes drying apparatus and a drawer to be inserted into the case. The drawer includes a main body having an accommodating space, slide rails to be coupled with lateral sides of the main body, a connecting member to connect and support the slide rails, and a front panel to be coupled with a front side of the main body. The slide rails and the connecting member include first screw holes, and the main body further includes bosses at the lateral sides and the rear side of the main body. The bosses include second screw holes corresponding to the first screw holes. The connecting member and the main body include a position determining hole and a position determining protrusion at respective rear central portions. Fixed rails for sliding the slide rails are fixed to the inside of the lateral sides of the case.

The invention provides a set top box with a WIFI (Wireless Fidelity) module. The set top box comprises a set top box body, wherein an external USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface, a functional press key, a power supply indication lamp, a signal locking indication lamp and an SD (Secure Digital) card reader socket are arranged on a front panel of the set top box body, wherein heat dissipation holes are arranged in side plates of two ends of the set top box body; an output interface, a user interactive interface and a three-network fused interface are arranged on a rear terminal board of the set top box body; the set top box body is internally provided with a main control circuit; the main control circuit comprises a main chip, a WIFI module, a demodulator, a TS (Transport Stream) demultiplexing device, a multimedia decoder, a multimedia encoder, a flash memory, an inner memory and an input / output control circuit. According to the set top box disclosed by the invention, network transformation cost is saved and a plurality of networks are fused and accessed; meanwhile, a television program is played and Internet is accessed or three-screen interaction is realized; and after an intelligent terminal passes through WIFIAP (Wireless Fidelity Access Point) authentication in real time, the intelligent terminal can be subjected to intelligent interaction with the set top box; and the invention provides a more flexible and humanized operation manner for users.

According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic device, such as a tablet PC for example, is designed with a housing and a cover configured for attachment to the housing. The housing includes a front panel and a back panel having a base unit with a recess to receive a stylus pen to operate as a leg to maintain the housing in an upright position. Alternatively, the housing may include a control button to receive a stylus pen so that the combination operates as an input device similar to a joystick.

A two or more chambered airbag provides much improved safety and / or performance. A modified single chamber airbag can be used as the primary chamber of the two-chamber airbag. A piece of fabric of appropriate size is sewn to the inside or outside surface of the front panel of the primary chamber to create the secondary chamber. One or more apertures are opened between the primary and secondary chambers. In order for the secondary chamber to inflate properly, the tethers of the primary chamber are shortened to 50% to 80% of their original length. The size or location of the tether sewing to the inner surface of the front panel of the primary chamber is also adjusted to create a desired shape of the secondary chamber when deployed.

An interchangeable handbag system includes a stand alone foundation handbag having an inner storage accommodating surface and an outer decorative surface. The foundation handbag may have regions, such as a hollow interior, front panel, a rear panel and a bottom panel connected by at least one edge to form a hollow container open at a top end thereof. Alternately the foundation handbag may be a simple flexible open-top container with a closed bottom, where the hollow interior, front and rear regions are part of the continuous container. The handbag system includes one or more reversible and / or non-reversible outer slip covers that fit over the foundation bag in a nested arrangement. The slip covers may fit over all and / or alternately a portion of the foundation bag and / or another slip cover. The slip covers and foundation bag are connected by one and / or multiple fastening structures.

An operation device is provided with an outer support section 1c which projects towards an outer face of a button 1, an inner support section 1e which projects towards an inner face of said button 1, a maintaining section 5b which is provided on a decorative front panel 5 and which maintains said outer support section in free rotation, a maintaining section 3a which is provided on a button depression member 3 and which maintains said inner support section 1e in free rotation and a flange 1b which is provided continuously on the outer edge of the aperture of the button 1. Thus it is possible to provide a smaller device than the conventional example while maintaining the rigidity of the outer support section 1c. A smaller button 1 and smooth see-saw operation can be realized as well as reductions in escaped light.

A two or more chambered airbag provides much improved safety and / or performance. A modified single chamber airbag can be used as the primary chamber of the two-chamber airbag. A piece of fabric of appropriate size is sewn to the inside or outside surface of the front panel of the primary chamber to create the secondary chamber. One or more apertures are opened between the primary and secondary chambers. In order for the secondary chamber to inflate properly, the tethers of the primary chamber are shortened to 50% to 80% of their original length. The size or location of the tether sewing to the inner surface of the front panel of the primary chamber is also adjusted to create a desired shape of the secondary chamber when deployed.