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The Marley-wylain Company

Bank of America Corporation

Schneider Electric Industries Sas

Magfusion Inc.

Charles Wheeler

Jun Shen

Meichun Ruan

Darryl M Nielsen

James Alan Monroe

Gregory S Moore

Craig A Froelich

Nyle D LaGrange

Patrick M Sweet

Michael Stark

Daniel Gapastione

Timothy Byrd

Chris Cummins

Darryl N Nielsen

Andrew Smith

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a cleansing farm are presented. A cleansing farm may comprise of a computing device that filters customer requests directed to an organization before they are routed internal to the organization. A cleansing farm may receive customer requests and filter the requests based on a set of filtering rules. The cleansing farm may inspect the customer request in order to determine whether it should be filtered. In an example where the organization is a financial institution, the customer request may include confidential customer information. Accordingly, in this example, the cleansing farm may be administered by an entity that is permitted to access the confidential customer information. A visualization tool may be used to visualize a plurality of customer requests at a cleansing farm and to generate rules for filtering customer requests at a cleansing farm.

Internet cleaning and edge delivery

An apparatus includes an electrical device and a latching micromagnetic switch that controls energy flow through the electrical device. The latching micromagnetic switch includes a cantilever, a permanent magnet, and a coil configured to latch the latching micromagnetic switch in one of two positions each time energy passes through the coil. The electrical device and the latching micromagnetic switch can be integrated on a same substrate. Otherwise, the electrical device and the latching micromagnetic switch can be located on separate substrates and coupled together. The electrical device can be a circuit, a filter, an antenna, a transceiver, or the like.

Apparatus utilizing latching micromagnetic switches

A switch with an open state and a closed state suitably includes a cantilever having first and second states corresponding to the open and closed states of the switch, respectively. The switch may also include a magnet configured to provide an electromagnetic field that maintains said cantilever in one of the first and second states. Various embodiments may also include an electrode or electrical conductor configured to provide an electric potential or electromagnetic pulse, as appropriate, to switch the cantilever between the first and second states. Various embodiments may be formulated with micromachining technologies, and may be formed on a substrate.

Electronically latching micro-magnetic switches and method of operating same

A new optical switch device and method of operating such a device overcomes alignment problems through the use of an optical signal-confining channel that may be embedded so as to confine optical signals in a desired propagation path such that the optical signal's alignment with the output is secured. Small-angle mirrors may be used so as to direct the optical signal into the intended optical signal-confining channels so as to achieve the desired optical switching. The mirrors could be latching micro-mirrors or non-latching micro-mirrors. Such mirrors could be controlled by electrostatic actuation, thermal actuation or electromagnetic actuation, or any other technique.

Optical MEMS switching array with embedded beam-confining channels and method of operating same

A micro magnetic latching device. The device comprises a substrate having a moveable element supported thereon. The moveable element (cantilever) has a long axis and a magnetic material. The device also has first and second magnets that produce a first magnetic field, which induces a magnetization in the magnetic material. The magnetization is characterized by a magnetization vector pointing in a direction along the long axis of the moveable element, wherein the first magnetic field is approximately perpendicular to a major central portion of the long axis. The device also has a coil that produces a second magnetic field to switch the movable element between two stable states, wherein only temporary application of the second magnetic field is required to change direction of the magnetization vector thereby causing the movable element to switch between the two stable states.

Micro-magnetic latching switch with relaxed permanent magnet alignment requirements

A method and apparatus for controlling the coupling of a circuit into a signal path is described. A moveable element is supported by a substrate and has a magnetic material and a long axis. At least one magnet produces a first magnetic field. The first magnetic field induces a magnetization in the magnetic material. The magnetization is characterized by a magnetization vector pointing in a direction along the long axis of the moveable element. The first magnetic field is approximately perpendicular to a major central portion of the long axis. A coil produces a second magnetic field to switch the moveable element between first and second stable states. Only temporary application of the second magnetic field is required to change direction of the magnetization vector, which causes the moveable element to switch between the first and second stable states. In the first stable state, the moveable element does not couple the circuit in series with a signal. In the second stable state, the moveable element couples the circuit in series with the signal.

Components implemented using latching micro-magnetic switches

A switch with an open state and a closed state suitably includes a cantilever having first and second state corresponding to the open and closed states of the switch, respectively. The switch may also include a magnet configured to provide an electromagnetic field that maintains said cantilever in one of the first and second states. Various embodiments may also include an electrode or electrical conductor configured to provide an electric potential or electromagnetic pulse, as appropriate, to switch the cantilever between the first and second states. Various embodiments may be formulated with micromachining technologies, and may be formed on a substrate.

A spacer member for positioning and retaining steel reinforcing bars in a concrete structural member such as a round-column. The spacer member is defined by a circular, ring-like main body section having a plurality of outer extensions and a plurality of interior projections. Each of the outer extensions has a remote edge adapted to abut the inner surface of a form for the structural member. Each of the interior projections is separated from next adjacent interior projections by a space, into which a reinforcing bar is intended to be inserted. The spaces are provided at least at every 45 degree and 60 degree intervals along the circle formed by the body member. The reinforcing bars are adapted to be securely tied in their respective spaces by means of securing means that is adapted to be wrapped around the bar and around a hook-like formation formed on the interior projection.

Spacer member for reinforcing steel

A beam chair for supporting, positioning and retaining a reinforcement bar is a concrete structural member and, in particular, in a concrete structural member such as a beam or slab. The beam chair is defined by a horizontal support surface which, together with first and second vertical support members, define an open cavity for receiving a longitudinally oriented reinforcing bar and wherein the bar is adapted to be supported by the horizontal support surface. The second vertical support member is provided with an upper side extension having a remote edge. The first and second vertical support members are provided, respectively, with first and second depending members which terminate in lower edges. A lower side extension projects from the second depending member parallel to the upper side extension. The beam chair is adapted to be placed within a form for the structural member by resting the lower edges and the lower side extension upon the bottom surface established for the form, and by placing the outer edge of the upper side extension against the side of the form. A plurality of beam chairs are adapted to be so arranged within the form, whereby they support upon their respective horizontal support surfaces at longitudinally spaced locations a reinforcing bar. The beam chair is adapted to accept a range of different sized reinforcing bars, and is particularly configured to locate the reinforcing bars the requiste distance inside the face of the concrete at the sides and bottom of the structural member.

Beam chair

A steel placement member adapted for supporting and locating a reinforcing steel bar in a concrete structural member formed by placing concrete in an area defined by a horizontal bottom surface and a vertical perimetrical surface. The steel placement member is defined by a tubular body having a channel formed in one end for receiving the end of a reinforcing bar. The opposite end of the tubular body is provided with a plate member lying perpendicular thereto and being adapted to abut the vertical perimetrical surface. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the plate member is provided with a vertically depending arrow member which is adapted to rest against the horizontal bottom surface. The steel placement member, with the plate member abutting the vertical surface and the arrow member resting against the bottom surface, supports the reinforcing bar within the channel and locates the reinforcing bar a desired distance inside the vertical surface and above the bottom surface.

Steel placement member

An electric motor assembly for a submersible pump has a base and an end ring which together directly, flatly engage opposite ends of a lamination stack so that the stack is thus aligned with the base and the end ring. A shell is pressed over the lamination stack and the ends of the shell are roll-formed to grippingly engage shoulders on the base and the end ring while the stack is held in compression. The shell directly engages the outer cylindrical periphery of the laminations to establish a continuous ground path and also to preclude shifting of individual laminations. The base is molded of a synthetic resinous material and directly supports a sleeve bearing, and a plurality of fluid conduits in the base enable passage of coolant to the bearing during operation of the motor. In preferred forms, the base is provided with an edge for directly engaging one end of a series of pump stagings, and the base also has a shoulder for gripping engagement with a complementally formed edge of a pump casing.

Method of assembling a submersible electric motor

A resilient support member for reinforcing steel having first and second legs separated by an open cavity and being normally axially aligned in the inoperative position of the support member. The support member is adapted to assume an operative position by deforming the legs inwardly toward each other around a reinforcing steel bar such that one of said legs is perpendicular to the other and with the reinforcing bar being disposed within the cavity which, in the operative position, is substantially closed around the bar. The support member may be secured in this operative position with the outer ends of the legs abutting the inner surface of the walls of a concrete form.

Support member for reinforcing steel

A submersible pump has a cartridge of pump stages that are compressed between an inlet base and a discharge head as a pump casing surrounding the cartridge is roll-formed to complementally engage shoulders on the base and the head. The inner diameter of the casing presents a slight interference fit with each of the pump stages so that a diffuser on each stage is held in a stationary position during operation of the pump. The casing also provides a plurality of radially inwardly directed forces to maintain the stages in alignment with each other. Complete circumferential contact of the diffuser walls with the interior surface of the casing reduces interstage leaking such that pump efficiency is enhanced.

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Paradise Valley, AZ, United States of America

Charles Wheeler