Author: claimsbot

1. A combustor heat shield panel comprising:
an interior surface;
an exterior surface; and
a plurality of non-interconnected cooling gas passageways having inlets on the exterior surface and outlets on the interior surface, the passageways lacking line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along a majority of an area of at least one of the inlet and outlet.
2. The panel of claim 1 wherein the passageways lack line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along an entirety of said area of said at least one of the inlet and outlet.
3. The panel of claim 1 wherein inlet and outlet end portions of the passageways have central axes between 30\xb0 and 70\xb0 of normal to the respective exterior and interior surfaces.
4. The panel of claim 1 formed generally as a frustoconical segment.
5. The panel of claim 1 wherein the cooling gas passageways have discharge coefficients of 0.4-0.7.
6. The panel of claim 1 in combination with a combustor shell having interior and exterior surfaces and a plurality of cooling gas passageways therebetween, the heat shield panel mounted to the shell so that the heat shield exterior surface and shell interior surface are spaced apart and facing each other adjacent the heat shield cooling gas passageways.
7. A method for manufacturing a cooled gas turbine engine component comprising:
forming an inner layer having a plurality of first apertures;
forming an outer layer having a plurality of second apertures; and
securing the inner layer to the outer layer so that the each of the first apertures aligns with an associated one or more of the second apertures to create a non-interconnected, non-cylindrical passageway through the component.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the securing comprises diffusion bonding.
9. The method of claim 7 further comprising:
forming an intermediate layer having a plurality of third apertures and wherein the securing comprises securing the inner layer to the outer layer via the intermediate layer so that the each of the first apertures aligns with an associated one or more of the second apertures and an associated one or more of the third apertures to create the non-cylindrical passageway through the component.
10. The method of claim 7 wherein:
the forming of the inner layer comprises drilling said first apertures; and
the forming of the outer layer comprises drilling said second apertures.
11. A method for manufacturing a cooled gas turbine engine combustor or exhaust component comprising:
providing one or more sacrificial cores for forming a plurality of non-interconnected cooling gas passageways having inlets on a component first surface and outlets on a component second surface, the passageways lacking line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along a majority of an area of at least one of the inlet and outlet;
casting or forging a metal alloy over the one or more sacrificial cores; and
destructively removing the one or more sacrificial cores.
12. A gas turbine engine combustor or exhaust component comprising:
an interior surface;
an exterior surface; and
means providing a plurality of non-interconnected circuitous cooling gas passageways having inlets on the exterior surface and outlets on the interior surface.
13. The component of claim 12 wherein the passageways lack line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along an entirety of said area of said at least one of the inlet and outlet.
14. A gas turbine engine combustor or exhaust component comprising:
an interior surface;
an exterior surface; and
a plurality of non-interconnected cooling gas passageways having inlets on the exterior surface and outlets on the interior surface, the passageways lacking line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along a majority of an area of at least one of the inlet and outlet.
15. The panel of claim 14 wherein the passageways lack line of sight clearance between inlet and outlet along an entirety of said area of said at least one of the inlet and outlet.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A computer-implemented system for virtually linking a plurality of unrelated database systems, authenticating core person data input into said plurality of unrelated database systems, and managing through business rules said core person data, the system comprising:
a person data repository for storing the core person data for all persons requiring visibility in any one of said plurality of unrelated database systems wherein said core person data comprises a person name and birth date identifier;
a controller module connected to said person data repository and arranged to apply a set of business rules for restricting access, input, and modification of said core person data by said plurality of unrelated database systems;
an access control module connected between user interfaces of each of said plurality of unrelated database systems and said controller module wherein said access control module monitors said user interfaces for input, querying or modification of said core person data and imposes said business rules when an attempt is made to input, query or modify said core person data, thereby controlling access to the person data repository from any of the plurality of unrelated database systems; and
an authentication module connected to said controller module for authenticating as unique the addition of a person to said core person data by the person name and birth date identifier;
whereby said core person data is authenticated and maintained for said plurality of unrelated database systems as a virtual relational database of the core person data.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein said person data repository comprises a database of said core person data coupled to said controller module.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein said person data repository comprises a relational database comprising at least a subset of databases associated with said plurality of unrelated database systems.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein said authentication module utilizes a search algorithm to determine if said person exists in said person data repository wherein said search algorithm attempts to match said person’s name, birth month and birth day with names and birth data already in the person data repository.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein said search algorithm performs a Soundex search of the name of said person.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein said business rules comprise a set of contextual rules for allowing andor disallowing the access, input, and modification of a component of said person data in said person data repository by a user of any of the plurality of unrelated database systems.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein said access control module comprises a program that is resident in memory containing said user interface for said plurality of unrelated database systems but is apart from said user interface.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein a system interface at each of the plurality of unrelated database systems is coupled to said access control module, said system interface creating a gateway between each of said plurality of unrelated database systems and said person data repository wherein said gateway translates a protocol of each of said plurality of unrelated database systems to a protocol necessary to access, query and modify said person data repository.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein said gateway is based on the CORBA\xaeprotocol.
10. A method for authenticating person data to a plurality of unrelated database systems comprising a plurality of databases, the method comprising:
providing a person data repository for containing the person data for all persons requiring visibility in any of the plurality of unrelated database systems;
providing a controller module for monitoring user interfaces of each of the plurality of unrelated database systems for a request to input new person data into any one the plurality of unrelated database systems;
providing an access control module comprising business rules for receiving a request to input the new person data from the controller module; and
applying the business rules of the access control module to restrict the input of the new person data into the plurality of databases if the new person data matches person data already existing in the plurality of databases;
whereby the person data is authenticated to the plurality of unrelated database systems.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the person data repository comprises at least a subset of the plurality of databases.

1. A rubber crawler for traction of a tracked vehicle, said rubber crawler comprising an endless rubber belt body for revolving around first and second members that are spaced from each other, said belt body bending when revolving around the first and second members, said belt body having a length direction, said belt body comprising an outer peripheral face including a plurality of lugs that protrude outwardly from said belt body, each lug of said plurality of lugs comprising: (i) a tread surface at an outermost end of said lug; and (ii) a sidewall extending outwardly from said belt body to said tread surface, said sidewall comprising a groove extending transversely to said length direction of said belt body, said lug comprising deformable material such that, when said lug bends around a given one of the first and second members, said groove deforms to facilitate removal of soil material contained in said groove.
2. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein said groove is a first groove, wherein said sidewall comprises a second groove extending transversely to said length direction of said belt body and being generally below said first groove, and wherein said deformable material is such that, when said lug bends around the given one of the first and second members, said first and second grooves deform to facilitate removal of soil material contained in said first and second grooves.
3. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 2, wherein said sidewall further comprises a third groove extending transversely to said length direction of said belt body and being generally below said second groove, and wherein said deformable material is such that, when said lug bends around the given one of the first and second members, said first, second, and third grooves deform to facilitate removal of soil material contained in said first, second, and third grooves.
4. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 2, wherein said first and second grooves have a combined height and said sidewall has a height, said combined height of said first and second grooves being substantially equal to said height of said sidewall along at least part of said sidewall.
5. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein said groove has a cross-section which widens in a direction from an interior of said lug towards an exterior of said lug.
6. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein said groove has a cross-section comprising a generally arcuate part.
7. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 6, wherein said cross-section of said groove comprises a generally linear part.
8. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein said deformable material has a hardness between 30 durometer Shore A and 80 durometer Shore A.
9. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein a dimension of said tread surface in said length direction of said belt body is greater than a height of said sidewall.
10. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 1, wherein said sidewall is a first sidewall, said lug further comprises a second sidewall opposite said first sidewall and, when said lug moves from the first member to the second member as said belt body revolves around the first and second members, said first sidewall faces the first member.
11. A rubber crawler for traction of a tracked vehicle, said rubber crawler comprising an endless rubber belt body for revolving around first and second members that are spaced from each other, said belt body bending when revolving around the first and second members, said belt body having a length direction, said belt body comprising an outer peripheral face including a plurality of lugs that protrude outwardly from said belt body, each lug of said plurality of lugs comprising: (i) a tread surface at an outermost end of said lug; and (ii) a sidewall extending outwardly from said belt body to said tread surface, a maximum dimension of said tread surface in said length direction of said belt body being greater than a height of said sidewall, said sidewall comprising a groove extending transversely to said length direction of said belt body, said lug comprising deformable material such that, when said lug bends around a given one of the first and second members, said groove deforms.
12. A rubber crawler for traction of a tracked vehicle, said rubber crawler being revolvable around a plurality of wheels of the tracked vehicle, said rubber crawler comprising an endless rubber belt comprising an inner side for facing the plurality of wheels and a ground-contacting outer side for contacting the ground, said ground-contacting outer side comprising a plurality of traction lugs that project outwardly and are distributed along a length direction of said rubber crawler, each traction lug of said plurality of traction lugs comprising: (a) a base; (b) a tread surface at an outermost end of said traction lug; and (c) a sidewall extending outwardly from said base to said tread surface and extending transversely to said length direction of said rubber crawler, said sidewall comprising a groove, said groove having a depth measured perpendicularly from an imaginary straight line interconnecting two points of said sidewall which delimit said groove, said traction lug comprising deformable material such that, when said traction lug bends around a wheel of the plurality of wheels, said groove deforms.
13. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein, when said groove deforms as said traction lug bends around the wheel, said depth of said groove decreases and a bottom of said groove moves outwardly.
14. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein, when said groove deforms as said traction lug bends around the wheel, said groove tends to push soil material contained in said groove out of said groove.
15. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein a maximum dimension of said tread surface in said length direction of said rubber crawler is greater than a height of said sidewall.
16. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein said groove is a first groove, said sidewall comprising a second groove extending transversely to said length direction of said rubber crawler and disposed generally below said first groove, said second groove having a depth measured perpendicularly from an imaginary straight line interconnecting two points of said sidewall which delimit said second groove, said deformable material being such that, when said traction lug bends around the wheel, said first and second grooves deform.
17. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 16, wherein said first groove and said second groove are contiguous such that a given one of said two points of said sidewall which delimit said first groove is a given one of said two points of said sidewall which delimit said second groove.
18. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 16, wherein said sidewall has a height and said first groove and said second groove have a combined height which is substantially equal to said height of said sidewall along at least part of said sidewall.
19. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein said groove extends along substantially an entirety of a length of said sidewall.
20. A rubber crawler as defined in claim 12, wherein said sidewall is a first sidewall, said traction lug comprises a second sidewall opposite said first sidewall and, when said traction lug moves from a front wheel of the plurality of wheels to a back wheel of the plurality of wheels as said rubber crawler revolves around the plurality of wheels, said first sidewall faces the front wheel.
21. A crawler for propelling a tracked vehicle on a ground surface, the tracked vehicle comprising a crawler drive arrangement including at least one wheel for imparting movement to said crawler along a drive direction, said crawler comprising an endless belt for mounting on the crawler drive arrangement, said endless belt comprising a body and a plurality of traction lugs projecting from said body, each traction lug comprising (i) a base proximal to said body, (ii) an outermost surface distal to said body and defining a ground-engaging interface between said traction lug and the ground surface, and (iii) a sidewall extending between said base and the ground-engaging interface, said sidewall extending in a direction that is non-parallel to said drive direction, said sidewall including a recess configured to resiliently distort when said traction lug bends around the wheel of the crawler drive arrangement.
22. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein said sidewall defines an angle of at least 45\xb0 relative to a normal to said outermost surface.
23. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein said recess extends longitudinally along a direction that is transverse to said drive direction.
24. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein said recess has a cross-sectional configuration that varies when said traction lug bends around the wheel of the crawler drive arrangement.
25. A crawler as defined in claim 24, wherein said recess becomes shallower when said traction lug bends around the wheel of the crawler drive arrangement.
26. A crawler as defined in claim 24, wherein said sidewall includes a plurality of recesses, extending side-by-side, configured to resiliently distort when said traction lug bends around the wheel of the crawler drive arrangement.
27. A crawler as defined in claim 24, wherein said cross-sectional configuration of said recess has a portion that is arcuate.
28. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein said traction lug tapers from said base to said outermost surface.
29. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein the ground surface materializes an imaginary ground plane and said recess is located on said side wall such that, when said outermost surface of said traction lug rests on the ground surface, said recess is spaced apart from the imaginary ground plane.
30. A crawler as defined in claim 21, wherein a maximum dimension of said outermost surface in said drive direction is greater than a height of said sidewall.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A non-electrical intermetallic thermal sensor, comprising:
a hermetically sealed housing;
at least one layer of electronegative metal disposed in said housing, wherein said electronegative metal comprises tin (Sn); and
at least one layer of active lithiummagnesium alloy disposed in said housing, wherein each said layer(s) of active lithiummagnesium alloy disposed in abutting interface with each said layer(s) of electronegative metal.
2. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein each said layer(s) of said electronegative metal comprises tin (Sn), each said layer(s) of active lithiummagnesium alloy comprises about 75 weight % to about 99 weight % of Lithium (Li), and about 1 weight % to about 25 weight % Magnesium (Mg).
3. The sensor according to claim 2, wherein each said layer(s) of said electronegative metal comprises tin (Sn), each said layer(s) of active lithiummagnesium alloy comprises about 80 weight % to about 90 weight % of Lithium (Li), and about 10 weight % to about 20 weight % Magnesium (Mg).
4. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said sensors has high trigger temperatures in a range of about 360\xb0 F. to about 430\xb0 F.
5. The sensor according to claim 4, wherein said sensors has high trigger temperatures in a range of about 380\xb0 F. to about 405\xb0 F.
6. The sensor according to claim 1, further comprising at least one diffusion barrier means for inhibiting the diffusion of said active lithiummagnesium alloy layer into said electronegative layer or vice versa.
7. The sensor according to claim 6, wherein said diffusion barrier means is disposed upon a surface of one said layers in abutting contact with a surface of other said layer.
8. The sensor according to claim 7, wherein said diffusion barrier means is an electroplated metal layer that is dissolved by active lithiummagnesium alloy upon melting.
9. The sensor according to claim 8, wherein said electroplated layer includes metal comprising of at least one of copper andor nickel.
10. The sensor according to claim 8, wherein said electroplated layer has a thickness in a range of about 0.0001 to about 0.0002 inch.
11. The sensor according to claim 6, wherein said diffusion barrier means for inhibiting the diffusion of said active lithiummagnesium alloy layer into said electronegative layer is a gaseous layer.
12. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said layer of electronegative metal comprising tin (Sn) is substantially free of impurities.
13. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said layer of active lithiummagnesium alloy is wafer-shaped and said layer of electronegative metal is wafer-shaped.
14. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said layer of active lithiummagnesium alloy and said layer of electronegative metal is wafer-shaped.
15. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said layer of active lithiummagnesium alloy is washer-shaped and said layer of electronegative metal is washer-shaped.
16. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein said housing has a centrally disposed tubular-shaped extension from one end of said housing and a continuous neck transitioning said housing into said extension or jelly roll configuration.
17. The sensor according to claim 16, further comprising a deposit of thermite within said housing extension and in abutment with the last of said layers disposed in the end of said housing adjoining said extension.
18. The sensor according to claim 17, further comprising a thermite trigger pellet disposed between said thermite and the abutting surface of said last layer disposed therein.
19. The sensor according to claim 18, wherein said pellet is composed of metallic selenium.
20. The sensor according to claim 15, wherein stacking of said washer-shaped layers in said housing defines a well.