Abstract:
Apparatus is provided for using a dry process photographic medium of the type described in Copending application Ser. No. 510,153 for recording data. The photographic medium includes an electrically conductive base which responds to electric power to produce developing heat internally. The apparatus of the invention includes electrodes in the form of rods, or rollers, for example, across which the medium is drawn, and electronic circuitry connected to the electrodes for introducing a controlled electric current flow through the base of the medium between the electrodes to develop latent images previously exposed on the medium, by the generation of electric power directly in the base.
Abstract:
A lazy tong or scissor-type of extendible boom structure having one end mounted on a platform. The boom structure can be extended, elevated, and/or rotated independently by drive structure mounted on the platform and a load-carrying basket is mounted on the opposite end of the boom. The boom comprises a pair of parallel lazy tongs, each comprising pairs of beams which are pivoted to one another in scissorlike fashion, the pivoted beams opposite each other on the two lazy tongs forming one ''''bay.'''' Stress transmitting rigid structural cross members are fixed between the inner beams of each bay and similar cross members are nested at interference-free positions and between the outer beams of each bay to balance the torque within the pair of lazy tongs and prevent rotation of the beams and consequent twisting of the extended boom when an asymmetrical load is applied thereto, such as by an off-center load in the platform or basket or by the locating of the platform base in a nonhorizontal plane.
Abstract:
A respiratory gas analyzer is provided in the form of a breath gas measuring instrument and system in which the oxygen uptake in the expired air of a subject, and the oxygen consumption per unit of weight of the subject, are periodically calculated and digitally displayed. A true sample of the expired air is accumulated by gradual extraction within the system of the invention on a periodic basis for gas analysis, and a computer included in the system calculates the oxygen depletion of each total sample to standard temperature and at ambient pressure and provides a digital display of oxygen uptake. An additional computer is included in the system which responds to the compensated oxygen depletion and to the subject''s weight to provide a digital display of the oxygen uptake per unit weight of the subject.
Abstract:
An exercise treadmill is provided for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, which includes, among other features, an eddy-current, variable speed drive to obtain a belt speed range from zero to maximum speed, and a differential drive through a slip clutch to the two rollers imparting motion to the belt. Safety of the subject is enhanced by an electrically non-conductive coating on the handrails to eliminate any possibility of grounding electricity through the patient''s body. Incorporation of a chair as an integral part of the assembly assures a rest place in appropriate proximity to the walking surface. The treadmill walking surface is positioned and maintained at the desired inclination with minimum apparatus load by virtue of locating the fulcrum at approximately the center-of-gravity. The inclination is displayed on a remote control panel which also provides the capability of controlling all functions of the unit.