Abstract:
A temperature compensating arrangement in a variable electrical parameter device such as a variable vacuum capacitor which is controlled by a lead screw engaged to an axially translating shaft member. The engagement of the lead screw into the shaft member is through a sleeve insert member. The sleeve insert is threaded to connect to threads inside the control end of the shaft and the lead screw engages interior threads over a relatively small axial length substantially at the innermost end of the insert. Vacuum capacitors are typical of such variable electrical parameter devices. As illustrated, thermal expansion of the shaft is counteracted by expansion of the insert member. The insert member is normally constructed of material having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the shaft and the other structural members tending to increase the capacitor plate mesh with their expansion.
Abstract:
A plug engagement pin provided on each side of the plug connector is inserted into an engagement section of a hook and locked there when the shaft is rotated. The hook is fixed to a rotatable shaft provided for the receptacle connector and includes a projection. If the plug connector is inserted in a slanted state, the projection of the hook prevents the pin from being rotated.
Abstract:
A plug engagement pin provided on each side of the plug connector is inserted into an engagement section of a hook and locked there when the shaft is rotated. The hook is fixed to a rotatable shaft provided for the receptacle connector and includes a projection. If the plug connector is inserted in a slanted state, the projection of the hook prevents the pin from being rotated.
Abstract:
A flexible conduit or sleeve sized for surrounding and supporting a movable wire rope includes an inner core having an opening for receiving the movable wire rope, a plurality of wires disposed about the inner core, and an outer sleeve. The outer sleeve is made from a polymer material having a flame retardant additive that provides sufficient flexibility while also improving manufacturability for use in various applications, such as part of an aircraft seat adjustment mechanism.
Abstract:
A device to detect a rotational run speed of a piece of rotating machinery. The device includes a processor in communication with a magnetic flux sensor, a vibration sensor, and a memory which includes instructions. The processor is configured to receive magnetic flux data and apply a fast Fourier transform to the magnetic flux data to generate transformed magnetic flux data. The processor is configured to determine a prominent fundamental frequency in the transformed magnetic flux data. For an electrical machine, this prominent fundamental frequency corresponds to the synchronous speed or the speed of the stator magnetic field. The processor is configured to receive vibration data and apply a fast Fourier transform to the vibration data to generate transformed vibration data. The processor is configured to determine an isolated frequency focal band based on the prominent fundamental frequency in the transformed magnetic flux data and to determine the rotational run speed of the piece of rotating machinery based on the isolated frequency focal band and the transformed vibration data. By defining a relatively limited frequency band in which only the vibrational peak corresponding to the true rotational speed of the rotor will be located, it can be avoided to erroneously determine the speed based on a harmonic having a large amplitude.
Abstract:
Friction material composition and associated brake pad for vehicles having a reduced or nil tendency to both stiction and creep groan, wherein the composition includes an organic binder; an inorganic filler; a lubricant; hard abrasives having a Mohs hardness of above 7 having exclusively a roundish shape, e.g. consisting in: Alumina, Corindone, Silicon carbide, Tungsten carbide, Zirconium carbide, Zirconium silicate, Boron nitride; soft abrasives having a Mohs hardness of below 7; carbon based materials; and a metal or mixture of metals except Cu, in an amount of less than 7% in volume calculated on the total volume of the composition; the ratio between the hard abrasive rounded and the carbon based materials being 1:3; the ratio between the hard abrasive rounded and the soft abrasives being 1:6; the ratio between the metal or mixture of metals and the carbon based materials being 1:6.
Abstract:
A single-entry screw pump with a housing which has an inlet and an outlet for a medium to be pumped, with two spindles which are rotatably mounted in the housing in slide bearings, the spindles each have a screw thread on their outer circumference between the slide bearings, the screw threads of the spindles engage with one another and convey the medium from the inlet to the outlet, the housing has a sleeve section in which the screw threads of the spindles are positioned, the sleeve section has a suction-side inlet opening and a pressure-side outlet opening, wherein the media flow from the inlet to the inlet opening is guided along the pressure-side slide bearing in a hydraulically equalising manner and from the outlet opening to the outlet along the suction-side slide bearing.
Abstract:
A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.
Abstract:
Technologies are generally described for an acoustic isolator that may be designed to have equal stiffness along all axes. Example acoustic isolator devices may include a symmetrical design, that may be formed by a molding process or plastic or metal, or alternatively by an injection process.
Abstract:
Various residual braking torque indication devices, systems, and methods are described. The devices, systems, and methods can include a sensorized brake pad. An output signal of the sensorized brake pad can be processed to provide an indication of a residual braking torque. The residual braking torque indicator can be calibrated to reference data to provide an actual measurement of the residual braking torque.