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Southwest Research Institute

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Albert J Parvin

Takashi Sato

Hegeon Kwun

James Crane

Ronald Herbert Peterson

Erika Christine Laiche

Rolf Glauser

William R Meredith

Annette Johnson Meredith

Tadashi Yamane

Yasuhiko Katsube

A structure and system are described which include the use of a combination container for sequentially dispensing multiple fluids onto a removable applicator device. A preferred application of the invention is with the sequential dispensing of a quantity of disinfecting solution over a toothbrush, followed by the dispensing of a measured quantity of toothpaste onto the toothbrush. The device is constructed in a double walled cylindrical (circular or non-circular) configuration with a hollow plunger component coaxially positioned within the cylindrical walls. Beneath the plunger component is contained a quantity of disinfectant solution such that when the plunger is directed downward the disinfectant solution is forced upward between the walls of the double walled container and through dispensing ports directed into the interior where the applicator is positioned. The contained motion of the plunger component downward under the directed force of the applicator brings the base of the hollow plunger into contact with the base wall of the container and causes the collapse of the hollow plunger. A second liquid/gel contained within the hollow plunger is then directed up and out of its enclosed volume through ports aligned with the applicator. The design is intended to accommodate a wide variety of compounds and applicators. Wherever the dispensing of two different compounds (liquids/gels) is required in a sequential manner, the present invention finds applicability.

Container for sequentially dispensing multiple fluids onto an applicator device

An economical, flexible, magnetostrictive sensor for use on planar and/or curved structural surfaces, for guided-wave volumetric inspection of the structure. The flexible plate MsS probe includes a flexible strip of magnetostrictive material that is adhered to the base of a flat, flexible, conductor coil assembly. The conductor coil assembly has a core that is composed of a thin flexible strip of metal, a layer of an elastomeric material, and a thin permanent magnet circuit. The flexible core is surrounded by a flat flexible cable (FFC) that is folded and looped over the layers of the core. The exposed conductors at the ends of the FFC are shifted from each other by one conductor and joined so that the parallel conductors in the FFC form a flat, flexible, continuous coil. The entire probe assembly may be bent to match the curved contours of the surface of the structure under investigation.

Flexible plate magnetostrictive sensor probe for guided-wave inspection of structures

A nondestructive inspection apparatus is designed to inspect components in a small gap of a structure. A main bodyof the nondestructive inspection apparatus is positioned on a spray line headerconnected to a thermal sleevewithin a cooling water inlet nozzle, and fixed to a core spray lineby vertically clamping the core spray linewith fixing unitsat the position where the thermal sleeveto be inspected is located. Scannersinsert a tape probehaving an inspection headinside an annular gapformed between the thermal sleeveand the cooling water inlet nozzlein an axial direction. The scannersare guided by guide railsto move the tape proveso that the inspection headcan move in the circumferential direction of the annular gap

Nondestructive inspection apparatus

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Albert J Parvin