Author: claimsbot

1. A device comprising:
a conduit connectable to a raceway, wherein the conduit has a hollow body having two opened ends, wherein a permanently formed opening runs along the conduit body between the conduit body ends for the conduit body to receive a jumper from the raceway.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein:
the conduit body has multiple sides, wherein the opening runs along one of the conduit body sides.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein:
the conduit body is cylindrical shaped and has one side, wherein the opening runs along the one conduit body side.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein a jumper in the raceway has a first end, a second end, and a body connected between the jumper ends, wherein:
the opening enables the conduit body to receive a jumper from the raceway upon the jumper body being inserted through the opening without either jumper end being received by the conduit body.
5. The device of claim 4 wherein:
the jumper body is radially inserted through the opening for receipt by the conduit body.
6. The device of claim 1 wherein the conduit is a first conduit, the device further comprising:
a second conduit connected to the first conduit, wherein the second conduit has a different orientation than the first conduit, wherein the second conduit includes a hollow body having two opened ends, wherein a permanently formed opening runs along the second conduit body between the second conduit body ends for the second conduit body to receive the jumper.
7. The device of claim 6 wherein:
the opening running along the first conduit body and the opening running along the second conduit body are aligned with one another.
8. The device of claim 6 wherein:
the orientations of the first and second conduit bodies maintain a minimum jumper bend radius, wherein the radius of any bending of the portion of the jumper received by the first and second conduit bodies and which follows the orientations of the first and second conduit bodies is at least greater than the minimum jumper bend radius.
9. The device of claim 1 wherein:
the conduit is connectable to the raceway without requiring modification of the raceway.
10. A device comprising:
a conduit connectable to a raceway, wherein the conduit includes a hollow body having two opened ends, wherein the conduit body includes two side walls which are separated from one another between the conduit body ends, wherein the conduit body receives a jumper from the raceway upon the jumper being inserted through the conduit body separation into the conduit body.
11. The device of claim 10 wherein a jumper in the raceway has a first end, a second end, and a body connected between the jumper ends, wherein:
the conduit body receives a jumper from the raceway upon the jumper body being radially inserted through the separation into the conduit body without either jumper end being inserted into the conduit body.
12. The device of claim 10 wherein:
the conduit body includes horizontal and vertical orientations, wherein the portion of the jumper received by the conduit body is transitioned by the conduit body through the horizontal and vertical orientations of the conduit body.
13. The device of claim 10 wherein the conduit is a first conduit the device further comprising:
a second conduit connected to the first conduit, wherein the second conduit has a different orientation than the first conduit, wherein the second conduit includes a hollow body having two opened ends, wherein the jumper from the raceway is received by the second conduit body upon the jumper being inserted through the second conduit body separation into the second conduit body.
14. The device of claim 10 wherein:
the conduit is connectable to the raceway without requiring modification of the raceway.
15. An assembly comprising:
at least two conduits connected to one another with one of the conduits being connectable to a raceway containing jumpers, wherein each conduit includes a slit for receiving a jumper from the raceway, wherein the conduits have horizontal and vertical orientations which maintain a minimum jumper bend radius such that a jumper received by the conduit follows the horizontal and vertical orientations of the conduit while having the minimum jumper bend radius.
16. The assembly of claim 15 wherein:
the one of the conduits is connectable to the raceway without requiring modification of the raceway.
17. The assembly of claim 15 wherein:
the slits are configured to enable the conduits to receive a jumper from the raceway without either end of the jumper being received by the conduits.
18. The assembly of claim 15 wherein:
the conduits receive a jumper from the raceway upon the jumper being radially inserted into the conduits through the slits.
19. The assembly of claim 15 wherein:
the slits run axially along the conduits.
20. The assembly of claim 15 wherein:
the slits run along the longitudinally along the conduits.

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

What is claimed is:

1. An unmanned helicopter for making a flight autonomously,
the unmanned helicopter comprising:
altitude control device for giving a command of a collective pitch rudder angle based on the deviation between a fed-back altitude and an altitude command and the deviation between a fed-back climb rate and a climb rate command;
position control device for performing position control based on the deviation between a fed-back position and a position command with respect to a horizontal position and the deviation between fed-back speed and a speed command;
attitude control device for performing attitude control of an airframe based on the deviation between a fed-back attitude angle and an attitude angle command; and
takeoff device, upon reception of a takeoff start command from the ground, for causing the airframe to takeoff and climbing the airframe to a first altitude while increasing the collective pitch rudder angle without performing the altitude control of the altitude control device and then causing the altitude control device to start the altitude control.
2. The unmanned helicopter as in claim 1, wherein
the takeoff device suppresses the position control and the attitude control, when climbing the airframe to the first altitude.
3. An unmanned helicopter for making a flight autonomously,
the unmanned helicopter comprising:
altitude control device for controlling a collective pitch rudder angle based on a rudder angle command calculated based on the deviation between a fed-back altitude and an altitude command and the deviation between a fed-back descent rate and a descent rate command;
position control device for performing position control based on the deviation between a fed-back position and a position command with respect to a horizontal position and the deviation between fed-back speed and a speed command;
attitude control device for performing attitude control of an airframe based on the deviation between a fed-back attitude angle and an attitude angle command; and
descending device for stepwise changing descent rate command of the altitude control device for causing the airframe to descend to a second altitude and giving a descent rate command smaller than the descent rate command to the second altitude to the altitude control device for causing the airframe to descend from the second altitude to the ground.
4. The unmanned helicopter as in claim 3, wherein
the takeoff device suppresses the position control and the attitude control, when causing the airframe to descend from the second altitude to the ground.
5. The unmanned helicopter as in claim 3, further comprising:
landing determination device for determining that the airframe lands if the rudder angle command which is less than a predetermined value continues for a predetermined time.
6. A takeoff method of an unmanned helicopter comprising:
a first climbing step of climbing to a first altitude while increasing a climb rate without performing altitude control; and
a second climbing step of climbing while performing altitude control from the first altitude.
7. The takeoff method of an unmanned helicopter as in claim 6, wherein
position control of an airframe on a horizontal plane and attitude control of the airframe are suppressed in the first climbing step.
8. A landing method of an unmanned helicopter comprising:
a first descending step of stepwise decreasing a descent rate and descending to a second altitude; and
a second descending step of descending from the second altitude to the ground at a descent rate smaller than the descent rate in the first step.
9. The landing method of an unmanned helicopter as in claim 8, wherein
position control of an airframe on a horizontal plane and attitude control of the airframe are suppressed in the second descending step.
10. A landing method of an unmanned helicopter comprising:
changing a collective pitch rudder angle based on a rudder angle command calculated based on the deviation between a fed-back altitude and an altitude command and the deviation between a fed-back altitude change rate and an altitude change rate command,
descending, and
determining that the helicopter lands, if the rudder angle command of a predetermined value or less continues for a predetermined time.

1. A magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine comprising:
a body having an elongated bar shape with a top wall and four subtending side walls with an elongated open top channel formed in said top wall as a recessed portion relative to the plane of said top wall;
a first portion of said recessed portion is an open top cartridge channel with a longitudinal bottom wall, two opposed upstanding longitudinal side walls, and two opposed generally horizontal flanges spaced apart from said bottom wall that extend the length of said side walls;
a first side wall and a first flange of said two side walls and said two flanges are structured to form a first groove with said bottom wall sized to receive a cylinder casing of a cartridge on an end portion thereof, and a second side wall and a second flange are structured to form a second groove with said bottom wall sized to receive a bullet of said cartridge on an end portion thereof;
a second portion of said recessed portion is an open top magazine cavity with a bottom wall and three upstanding side walls that are spaced apart to receive a designated size magazine for retention by said three side walls and a follower projecting member attached to one of said two opposed upstanding longitudinal side walls adjacent a juncture of said magazine cavity and said cartridge channel;
said follower projecting member is disposed to fit between opposed retaining clips of said designated size magazine to partially depress a follower; and
said cartridge channel at a first end has an inclined portion sloped from said top wall to said bottom wall of said cartridge channel.
2. The magazine loader as in claim 1 wherein:
a lower recess channel is formed in said bottom wall that is the length of said bottom wall; and
said magazine cavity bottom wall and said cartridge channel bottom wall have a generally rectangular aperture formed therein at an end of said lower recess channel.
3. The magazine loader as in claim 1 wherein said two horizontal flanges project outwardly from said two opposed side walls above said bottom wall of said first portion approximately one half inch.
4. The magazine loader as in claim 1 wherein said two opposed upstanding longitudinal side walls of said first portion are an elongated, parallel straight form.
5. The magazine loader as in claim 1 wherein:
two side walls of said three upstanding side walls are opposed, spaced apart, and curved;
an end wall of said three upstanding side walls is disposed between said two side walls opposed to said juncture; and
wherein said end wall has an access recess portion.
6. A method for loading cartridges into a magazine using the magazine loader as in claim 1 comprising:
attaching a strip of sticky tape material to a plurality of cartridges that are aligned side-by-side with the casings and the bullets of each of said cartridges adjacent and aligned;
moving the plurality of cartridges with the tape strip to the inclined portion of the magazine loader;
sliding the plurality of cartridges down the inclined portion of the cartridge channel to position the plurality of cartridges in the grooves in the cartridge channel; and
pulling the plurality of cartridges using the tape strip into the magazine and removing the tape strip over the top of the magazine.
7. The method as in claim 6 wherein the tape strip is applied to each casing for attachment.
8. The method as in claim 6 wherein said plurality of cartridges is disposed in rows in a body of packing material.
9. The method as in claim 6 wherein said plurality of cartridges is disposed in rows of cartridges in an ammunition container.
10. The method as in claim 8 wherein a second strip of sticky tape material is attached to said plurality of cartridges opposed to said strip of sticky tape.
11. The method as in claim 6 wherein inserting a designated size magazine against an end wall of said magazine cavity causes a friction force between said designated size magazine closed end and said end wall based on said follower spring force against said follower projecting member.

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

1-10. (canceled)
11. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor comprising a conically designed inner element (4) and a conically designed outer element (8), whose longitudinal axes (X1, X2) run at an angle to one another and intersect at a point, wherein the pump or compressor includes at least two sections (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) in the axial direction, wherein a part (4b) of the inner element (4) located in a second section (2b) is arranged rotated with respect to a part (4a) of the inner element located in a first section (2a) about the longitudinal axis (X1) of the inner element (4), and
a part (8b) of the outer element (8) located in the second section (2b) is arranged rotated with respect to a part (8a) of the outer element (8) located in the first section (2a) about the longitudinal axis (X2) of the outer element (8).
12. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein the pump or compressor comprises more than two sections (2a-2d), wherein in two sections (2a, 2b) adjacent to one another the part (4b) of the inner element (4) located in the second section (2b) is arranged rotated with respect to the part (4a) of the inner element located in the first section (2a) about the longitudinal axis (X1) of the inner element.
13. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein the parts (4a-4d) of the inner element (4) are rotated to one another by a different angular magnitude than the parts (8a-8d) of the outer element (8).
14. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein a helical contour (6) on an outer periphery of the inner element (4) has the same pitch in all sections (2a-d) of the pump or compressor.
15. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein a helical contour on an inner periphery of the outer element (8) has the same pitch in all sections (2a-2d) of the pump.
16. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein the part (4b) of the inner element (4) located in the second section (2b) is rotated relative to the part (4a) of the inner element (4) located in the first section (2a) by an angle:
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17. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein adjacent ends of two parts (4c-4d) of the inner element (4) adjacent to one another are designed such that the largest cross-sectional area of the smaller part is situated completely within the smallest cross-sectional area of the larger part.
18. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein adjacent ends of two parts (4c-4d) of the inner element (4) adjacent to one another are designed such that a maximal radius (20) at an end-side of a part (4c) situated in the second section (2c) is smaller than a minimal radius (22) at an end-side of a part (4d) situated in the first section (2d).
19. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein a spacer element (18), which keeps the two parts (4b, 4c) distanced in the direction of the longitudinal axis (XI), is arranged between two adjacent parts (4b, 4c) of the inner element (4).
20. A Moineau pump or Moineau compressor according to claim 1, wherein the inner element (4) is designed as one piece over the at least two sections (2a-2d).