A utility pole testing apparatus includes three or more utility poles including a first utility pole, a second utility pole, and a third utility pole, a support line that is stretched between the first utility pole and the second utility pole, and is also stretched between the second utility pole and the third utility pole, a rail extended in a direction that intersects both a direction in which the three or more utility poles extend and a direction in which the support line is stretched between the first utility pole and the second utility pole, and a carriage configured to support the third utility pole, the carriage being movably provided along the rail together with the third utility pole.

A field agricultural machinery test platform, comprising a field soil groove, traveling guide rails, traveling trolleys, a hitch trolley, a hitch device mechanism, and a test system. The two guide rails are provided on both sides of the field soil groove in parallel, and the traveling trolleys are located on the guide rails; a cross beam is provided between the two guide rails, and the two ends of the cross beam are respectively connected to the traveling trolleys; the hitch trolley is provided on the cross beam, and a hitch device is provided on the hitch trolley; the test system is provided on the hitch trolley and the hitch device; a test machine is connected to the hitch device; the test system comprises an image assembly, a force test assembly, and a control assembly which are mounted on the hitch trolley.

A system for simultaneously measuring the indentation hardness properties, span properties, and resilience properties of a mattress includes a first indentation means and a second indentation means, and means for urging the first indentation means and the second indentation means into the mattress with a predetermined force, and also includes laser means for projecting a laser line configured to map, preferably by photographic triangulation, the amplitude, shape, and time-dependency of the resultant deflection of the mattress surface between the first indentation means and the second indentation means. A method for simultaneously measuring the indentation hardness properties, span properties, and resilience properties of a mattress is also provided.

An example hinged device flexible substrate testing system includes: a first plate comprising a first surface configured to hold stationary a first portion of a hinged device under test; a second plate comprising a second surface configured to hold a second portion of the hinged device under test, the second portion of the hinged device coupled to the first portion via a first hinge having a first folding radius; a third plate comprising a third surface configured to hold a third portion of the hinged device under test, the third portion of the hinged device coupled to the first portion via a second hinge having a second folding radius; a first cam follower coupled to the second plate; a first drive arm configured to move the first cam follower to cause the second plate to rotate about a first hinge pivot axis of the first hinge; a first actuator configured to rotate the first drive arm; a second cam follower coupled to the third plate; a second drive arm configured to move the second cam follower to cause the third plate to rotate about a second hinge pivot axis of the second hinge; a second actuator configured to rotate the second drive arm; and a load cell configured to measure first loads on the first plate while the first actuator moves the second plate and to measure second loads on the first plate while the second actuator moves the third plate.

Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative devices, systems, and methods for analyzing occupancy detection sensors. In an illustrative embodiment, a device includes a processor and a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions. The instructions are configured to cause the processor to receive an environmental value, send instructions to apply increasing forces to a seat portion of a seat, magnitude of sequential ones of the forces increasing over time, receive applied force values from a force applicator, receive a seat occupied signal from a seat sensor, record the applied force value associated with the applied force values in response to receiving the seat occupied signal, compare the recorded force value with a threshold force value associated with the received environmental value, and output a signal in response to the comparison.

In a blowout preventer body having a central bore a method of reducing the size and weight of the blowout preventer body while maintaining an acceptable stress level at working pressure comprising machining a portion of the blowout preventer body to proximate the final dimensions, pressuring the blowout preventer body to a higher pressure than the working pressure of the blowout preventer body to yield high stress areas of the blowout preventer body, and relieving the higher pressure from the blowout preventer body such that when the blowout preventer body returns to the non-pressured state the high stress areas will retain compressive stresses and when the blowout preventer body is then pressurized to the working pressure of the blowout preventer body the stresses will be at an acceptable stress level.

A control method of an electromechanical apparatus (10) for installing a plunger tip (31) in a syringe (21), the control method comprising: providing a syringe (21) with at least one opening (22); providing a plunger tip (31) configured for snug insertion in the opening (22); pushing the plunger tip (31) inside the syringe (21), by a pusher rod (60) of the electromechanical apparatus (10), the plunger tip (31) passing through an intermediate cannula element (50); monitoring over time a force exchanged between the plunger tip (31) and the pusher rod (60), providing a force signal (401, 402, 403, 404) by a force detector (61) of the electromechanical apparatus (10); analyzing the force signal (401, 402, 403, 404) to determine an installation status of the plunger tip (31) in the syringe (21).

A system and method for testing the padding of a robotic manipulator includes at least one sensor; a processing unit; and an output unit. The at least one sensor is configured to acquire sensor data of a robotic manipulator. The at least one sensor is configured to provide the sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit is configured to determine information relating to padding applied to the robotic manipulator, wherein the determination comprises a comparison of the sensor data with reference data. The output unit is configured to output the information relating to the padding applied to the robotic manipulator.

An apparatus and method to be used for the automated selection, inspection, analysis, and disposition of tools that are installed on milling drums used by an asphalt milling machine to remove a layer of asphalt from a road surface that is being resurfaced is disclosed. Asphalt milling machines are also known as cold planer, pavement planer, pavement recycler, or roto-mill machines. The disclosed apparatus and method comprises a robot, one or more 3-dimensional scanners, one or more digital 2-dimensional cameras, and a controller. A work surface is provided for where the robot may select a tool to be inspected, place the tool on a rotating pedestal, inspect the tool while rotating the tool to capture all aspects of the tool, perform an analysis on the images captured, and depending on the analysis, classify the tool as reusable, degraded, or scrap.

A system for simultaneously measuring the indentation hardness properties, span properties, and resilience properties of a mattress includes a first indentation means and a second indentation means, and means for urging the first indentation means and the second indentation means into the mattress with a predetermined force, and also includes laser means for projecting a laser line configured to map, preferably by photographic triangulation, the amplitude, shape, and time-dependency of the resultant deflection of the mattress surface between the first indentation means and the second indentation means. A method for simultaneously measuring the indentation hardness properties, span properties, and resilience properties of a mattress is also provided.