Abstract:
A seat assembly for use in an automotive vehicle has a seat cushion including a seat bracket, a seat back including a side bracket, a bushing having an outer ring fixedly coupled to one of the seat bracket or the side bracket, and a free pivot pivotally coupling the seat bracket to the side bracket. The bushing has a passageway extending axially through the outer ring and a plurality of flexible fingers extending inward from the outer ring into the passageway. The free pivot includes a shaft the extending axially through the passageway in the bushing with the plurality of flexible fingers frictionally engaged with the shaft.
Abstract:
A method and system for secure distribution and tracking of information and content of a third party via multiple social networks is described. The invention takes information and content marked to be promoted by a third party using an online application, and distributes and promotes the information to the social networks of everyone who is signed up as an ‘ambassador’ for that third party. When published, the information and content includes a personalized link associated with each ambassador to social network combination. Via the nature of social networks, this information is additionally redistributed into the users who are associated with those ambassadors in their social networks. As those users follow the personalized links back to the promoted information and content, the source ambassador to social network combination gets recorded and statistics about that user's viewing of the information and content are recorded. The online application records relevant statistics that the third party requires, and this information is then compiled into real time reports that detail the path that the promoted information and content traveled to drive users to the promoted information and content, as well as any resultant actions such as pages viewed, purchases made or items downloaded.
Abstract:
A carrier is formed of foldable sheet material, the carrier being usable with a container. The container has a top, a bottom and sides, the top having a handle, and at least one of the sides having a mouth for emptying contents from the container. The carrier includes a bottom, side panels adjoined and connected to the bottom, and a handle panel formed with at least one of the side panels. The handle panel includes a first aperture for fitting over the handle on the top of the container such that at least a portion of one of the side panels of the carrier rests against a side of the container.
Abstract:
A damper assembly includes a damper frame, at least one damper blade, an actuator and a sensor module coupled to a first rotatable damper element. The one or more damper blades are movably attached to the damper frame to at least partially regulate air flow proximate the damper frame. The actuator is configured to control a position of the damper blade. The rotatable damper element is operably coupled between the actuator and the damper blade. The sensor module includes a sensor device operable to determine an air-flow induced force on the rotatable damper element.
Abstract:
A self-assembly method for circuit patterns includes generating a set of tiles, each of the tiles corresponding to a segment of molecules, the set of tiles comprising a set of rule tiles and a set of boundary tiles, each tile having one or more binding regions; assigning a label from a set of labels to each binding region; self interacting, with attractive forces, one or more of the tiles with one or more other tiles among the set of tiles; associating using selective interaction of at least one boundary tile from the set of boundary tiles with at least one rules tile from the set of rules tiles based upon at least a label from the one boundary tile and at label from the one rules tiles; and bonding at least one binding region of the one boundary tile with at least one binding region of the one rules tile.
Abstract:
A method and system for secure distribution and tracking of information and content of a third party via multiple social networks is described. The invention takes information and content marked to be promoted by a third party using an online application, and distributes and promotes the information to the social networks of everyone who is signed up as an ‘ambassador’ for that third party. When published, the information and content includes a personalized link associated with each ambassador to social network combination. Via the nature of social networks, this information is additionally redistributed into the users who are associated with those ambassadors in their social networks. As those users follow the personalized links back to the promoted information and content, the source ambassador to social network combination gets recorded and statistics about that user's viewing of the information and content are recorded. The online application records relevant statistics that the third party requires, and this information is then compiled into real time reports that detail the path that the promoted information and content traveled to drive users to the promoted information and content, as well as any resultant actions such as pages viewed, purchases made or items downloaded.
Abstract:
A portable food dispenser includes one or more containers. A first container is capable of being only partially opened to provide access to food or a second container. The second container includes a cover that can be opened to provide access to food.
Abstract:
A package or container includes a side wall, the side wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. At least one of the inner surface or the outer surface of the side wall may be at least partially coated by a layer of a thermally expandable material. The material may be adapted to be expanded to provide thermal insulation.
Abstract:
A carrier is formed of foldable sheet material, the carrier being usable with a container. The container has a top, a bottom and sides, the top having a handle, and at least one of the sides having a mouth for emptying contents from the container. The carrier includes a bottom, side panels adjoined and connected to the bottom, and a handle panel formed with at least one of the side panels. The handle panel includes a first aperture for fitting over the handle on the top of the container such that at least a portion of one of the side panels of the carrier rests against a side of the container directly opposite to the mouth.
Abstract:
A fluid flow control assembly includes at least one flow control device movably attached to a structure through which fluid flows, the flow control device operable to at least partially regulate fluid flow through the structure. The assembly also includes an actuator, at least one rotatable mechanical element and a sensor module. The actuator is configured to control a position of the at least one flow control device. The rotatable mechanical element is operably coupled between the actuator and the at least one flow control device. The sensor module is coupled to a first of the at least one rotatable mechanical element, and includes a sensor device operable to determine a fluid-flow induced force on the first rotatable mechanical element.