All The Claims

1. An expanding-controllable airbag system comprising:
a diffuser having at least a gas supply hole, at least a gas discharge hole, and an inflator;
an expansion pressure control member movably disposed with respect to the diffuser and having at least an opening fluidly-communicating the gas supply holes and a closing portion opening or closing the gas discharge holes; and
a guide member connected with the expansion pressure control member, being installed outside of a cushion, guiding the cushion in a predetermined direction by contacting an outside surface of the cushion, and controlling the opening or closing of the gas discharge holes by moving the expansion pressure control member with respect to the diffuser using an external force or an internal force applied while the cushion expands.
2. The expanding-controllable airbag system of claim 1, wherein the external force is applied by an inertia force of a passenger after a collision of a vehicle occurs.
3. The expanding-controllable airbag system of claim 1, wherein the internal force is applied by the cushion as the cushion expands after a collision of a vehicle occurs.
4. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 1, wherein the diffuser has a cylindrical shape, and the gas supply holes and gas discharge holes are axially arranged in a plurality of rows along the circumference of the diffuser.
5. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 1, wherein guide grooves are formed at both distal end portions of the diffuser to receive and movably support both distal end portions of the expansion pressure control member.
6. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 1, wherein the expansion pressure control member is an arc-shaped plate and has a mounting groove to receive a proximate end portion of the guide member.
7. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 6, wherein a protrusion that is inserted in the mounting groove is formed at the proximate portion of the guide member.
8. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 1, wherein an inlet portion of the cushion is connected to the entire edges of the opening of the expansion pressure control member and a mid-portion of the cushion is connected with a free distal end portion of the guide member.
9. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 1, wherein the diffuser is disposed at a bottom in a crush pad and the guide member is disposed adjacent to a rear side of the crash pad.
10. An expanding-controllable airbag system comprising:
a diffuser having at least a gas supply hole, at least a gas discharge hole, and an inflator;
an expansion pressure control member movably disposed with respect to the diffuser and having at least an opening fluidly-communicating the gas supply holes and a closing portion opening and closing the gas discharge holes; and
a guide member connected with the expansion pressure control member, being installed outside of a cushion, guiding the cushion in a predetermined direction by contacting an outside surface of the cushion, and controlling the opening and closing of the gas discharge holes by moving the expansion pressure control member with respect to the diffuser using an external force or an internal force applied while the cushion expands.
11. The expanding-controllable airbag system of claim 10, wherein the external force is applied by an inertia force of a passenger after a collision of a vehicle occurs.
12. The expanding-controllable airbag system of claim 10, wherein the internal force is applied by the cushion as the cushion expands after a collision of a vehicle occurs.
13. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 10, wherein the diffuser has a cylindrical shape, and the gas supply holes and gas discharge holes are axially arranged in a plurality of rows along the circumference of the diffuser.
14. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 10, wherein guide grooves are formed at both distal end portions of the diffuser to receive and movably support both distal end portions of the expansion pressure control member.
15. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 10, wherein the expansion pressure control member is an arc-shaped plate and has a mounting groove to receive a proximate end portion of the guide member.
16. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 15, wherein a protrusion that is inserted in the mounting groove is formed at the proximate portion of the guide member.
17. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 10, wherein an inlet portion of the cushion is connected to the entire edges of the opening of the expansion pressure control member and a mid-portion of the cushion is connected with a free distal end portion of the guide member.
18. The expanding-controllable airbag system as defined in claim 10, wherein the diffuser is disposed at a bottom in a crush pad and the guide member is disposed adjacent to a rear side of the crush pad.

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. An ion acoustic remote substance identification and location system, comprising:
a. an ion acoustic voltage radiation source;
b. means for ionizing an intermediate chemical to produce a probing signal of a desired frequency and amplitude capable of propagating a voltage from said ion acoustic voltage radiation source to a desired target substance to produce non-destructive molecular resonance therein;
c. means to transmit said voltage and said probing signal to a target substance to cause said target substance to undergo molecular resonance and produce a characteristic electrical response signal;
d. an IR detector for detecting said electrical response signal from said target substance, said IR detector includes one or more infrared emitters that produce a beam of IR radiation that is transmitted to a target substance, said outer housing also including an electrode used to detect a response signal from said target substance;
e. a transformer assembly attached to said electrode, said transform assembly includes a metallic outer housing;
f. an artificial grounding device connected to said IR detector and said transformer assembly, said artificial grounding device includes an IR emitter diode that produces a IR signal when a current is applied thereto, said artificial grounding device also including an opaque, insulative shield that is slightly smaller than said outer housing thereby creating a gap through which said IR signal from said IR emitter diode may be transmit to ionize the air; and,
g. means to identify said target substance based on said electrical response signal detected by said IR detector.

1. A method for providing a client with a reliable connection to a host service, the method comprising:
establishing, by an agent of a client, stored in memory, a first connection between the client and a first protocol service, stored in memory, using a first protocol communicated over a transport layer protocol, the first protocol being an application level tunneling protocol for encapsulating a plurality of secondary protocols, the agent configured to encapsulate a second protocol within the first protocol and communicate to a host service, stored in memory, using the second protocol;
establishing a second connection between the first protocol service and the host service using one of the plurality of the secondary protocols;
maintaining a queue of data packets most recently transmitted via the first connection on at least one of the client and the first protocol service; and
upon failure of the first connection:
maintaining the second connection;
continuing to maintain the queue of data packets most recently transmitted via the first connection; and
establishing a third connection between the client and the first protocol service using the first protocol.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting at least one of the queued data packets via the third connection.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising closing, by the client or the host service, a first session established with the second protocol.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining, by the first protocol service, the first connection with the client established with the first protocol.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the agent comprises one of an Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client or a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first connection between the client and the first protocol service is established via an intermediary node.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising compressing communications at a level of the first protocol.
8. The method of claim 1 further comprising encrypting communications at the level of the first protocol.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transport layer protocol is Transport Control Protocol (TCP).
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the second protocol comprises one of: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Oscar and Telnet.
11. The method of claim 1 comprising the steps of:
closing connections established with the second protocol; and
maintaining the first connection established with the first protocol.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein the first connection is secure and comprising the steps of:
establishing a second connection between the first protocol service and the host service;
communicating between the client and the host service via the first connection and the second connection;
interrupting the second connection;
establishing a third connection between the first protocol service and a second host service without interrupting the first connection; and
communicating between the client and the second host service via the first connection and the third connection.
13. A system for providing a client with a reliable connection to a host service, the system comprising:
a first protocol service, stored in memory, configured to establish a first connection with the client using a first protocol communicated over a transport layer protocol, the first protocol being an application level tunneling protocol for encapsulating a plurality of secondary protocols, establish a second connection with the host service, stored in memory, using a second protocol, and, upon failure of the first connection, maintain the second connection and accept a third connection from the client;
an agent of a client, stored in memory and configured to encapsulate the second protocol within the first protocol and to communicate to the host service using the second protocol;
the host service configured to accept the second connection with the first protocol service and, upon failure of the first connection: maintain the second connection,
wherein the first connection and the third connection are each established using a first protocol, the first protocol for encapsulating the plurality of secondary protocols, and wherein at least one of the client and the first protocol service is further configured to maintain, before and upon failure of the first connection; a queue of data packets most recently transmitted via the first connection.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein the client is further configured to transmit at least one of the queued data packets via the third connection.
15. The system of claim 13 wherein the first protocol service is further configured to transmit at least one of the queued data packets via the third connection.
16. The system of claim 13 wherein the agent comprises one of an Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client.
17. The system of claim 13 wherein the first connection between the client agent and the first protocol service is established via an intermediary node.
18. The system of claim 13 wherein the client agent compresses communications at a level of the first protocol.
19. The system of claim 13 wherein the client agent encrypts communications at the level of the first protocol.
20. The system of claim 13 wherein the first protocol is Transport Control Protocol (TCP).
21. The system of claim 13 wherein the second protocol comprises one of the following: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Oscar and Telnet.
22. The system of claim 13 wherein the connection established with the second protocol is closed and the connection established with the first protocol is maintained.
23. The system of claim 13 further comprising a second host service communicating with the client via the first connection and a third connection, the third connection established between the first protocol service and the second host service without interrupting the first connection and interrupting the second connection, the second connection established between the first protocol service and the host service and the client communicating with the host service via the first connection and the second connection.

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. In an apparatus for the water-jet treatment of a textile web,
a perforated drum having an outer surface;
a coarse-mesh screen overlying the outer surface; and
a fine-mesh tube overlying the coarse-mesh screen and having annularly continuous filaments shrunk so as to press the coarse-mesh screen against the outer drum surface.
2. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the outer surface, screen, and tube are all generally cylindrical and coaxial.
3. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein the tube has warp and weft filaments spaced at about 0.2 cm.
4. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein the shrunk continuous filaments are warp filaments and the screen has weft filaments extending generally axially of the drum.
5. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the drum forms the last treatment stage of a web-structuring system.
6. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the fine-mesh tube is a weave of warp and weft filaments having a diameter between 0.15 mm and 0.2 mm and a spacing of 25 to 45 filamentscm.
7. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1, further comprising:
a nozzle beam directing a plurality of high-pressure jets of water at the drum, the web being treated passing over the drum, in engagement with the fine-mesh tube, and between the beam and the drum.
8. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the fine-mesh tube has filaments of a thermoplastic homo- or copolymer.
9. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the fine-mesh tube has warp filaments that are the annularly continuous filaments and also has metallic weft filaments.
10. The water-jet web-treatment apparatus defined in claim 1, further comprising
another screen between the fine-mesh tube and the coarse-mesh screen.