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The third edition of this text, formerly known as Principles of Engineering Production, has been thoroughly revised and updated and continues to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the technical considerations for the entire manufacturing process. In keeping with the developments in manufacturing technology, this new edition reflects the major advances in recent years, in particular, looking at the transition to computer controlled machinery and the developments in computer applications.Beginning with specification and standardisation, it analyses the key aspects of the manufacturing process and pays particular attention to the crucial considerations of quality and cost. In addition, the coverage of materials has been extended to account for the increased availability and complexity of non-metals. The addition of a number of case studies, new worked examples and problems, make this text an invaluable introduction to engineering manufacture. It is also a useful and straightforward reference text for the professional engineer.View full description
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With the release of his CD Oohs & Ahhs this month (March 3), Eric Elbogen of the band Say Hi—which has earned acclaim from Rolling Stone and The New York Times—makes the leap from being a DIY musician releasing self-produced albums on his Euphobia label, to a DIY musician signed with local label Barsuk Records. What's surprising about Say Hi is that its full band sound (guitar, bass, keyboards, drum and vocal) is actually the result of one very creative man toiling solo in his
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Fort Wayne, IN—No wonder the colorful florals associated with Vera Bradley keep getting the attention of the suits on Wall Street: on Wednesday, the accessories company posted a 41% jump in its fourth quarter earnings as sales surged in its own stores and online.
For the quarter ended Jan. 28, Vera Bradley reported a profit of $20.1 million, or 50 cents a share, up from $14.2 million, or 35 cents a share, a year earlier. That beat analysts' average estimate expecting earnings of 47 cents a share.
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The present disclosure relates to articles having both retroreflective features and radio frequency-responsive features. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a security tag, adapted for use as a window sticker, incorporating retroreflective features and radio frequency-responsive features suitable for use for fraud resistance and information retrieval.
Vehicle license plates are one typical article commonly used to identify vehicles and the corresponding owners of the vehicles. Vehicle license plates convey a limited amount of information that typically includes a license number and a state, province, or country of registration, as well as whether the owner has a current license plate. License plates typically are formed of a retroreflective sheet and have security features such as a directional image, such as an Ensure™ image available on license plate sheeting from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company of St. Paul, Minn. and sold under the trade designation 3750E. This feature is difficult to counterfeit and facilitates immediate visual verification of finished license plate authenticity.
Radio frequency identification technology, sometimes referred to as RFID technology, has a variety of commercial applications, and is typically used for object identification and tracking from a limited distance. A radio frequency-responsive element can include electronic information identifying the object.
There exists a need to provide additional security and information currently provided by either license plates or RFID technology. Further there exists a need to provide additional protection against fraud or counterfeiting. For example, there exists a need for secure vehicle identification system that conveys an appropriate amount of information and one where it is difficult to use this system with anything but its intended vehicle.
The present disclosure includes a system that provides visual and electronic information in a readily identifiable system. For example, the present disclosure is directed to a combination tag, suitable for use as a vehicle identification window sticker. The combination tag includes a retroreflective article having an optical surface and a radio frequency responsive element. The radio frequency-responsive element includes an antenna and an integrated circuit. The radio frequency-responsive element has information storage and transmission capabilities adapted to enable an interrogation system to obtain information from the radio frequency-responsive element. The radio frequency-responsive element is operably coupled to the retroreflective article. In one example, the tag includes an adhesive disposed on the optical surface and the radio frequency-responsive element. This adhesive can be used to attach the tag to the inside of a vehicle window. In one example, the adhesive is a high strength adhesive that will destroy the radio frequency-responsive element by tearing if someone were to attempt to remove the tag from the window. Information stored in the radio frequency-responsive element can be coordinated with visual information on the retroreflective article to convey an appropriate amount of information and for additional security.
The combination tag of the present disclosure incorporates both a retroreflective article and an element responsive to a radio frequency signal to form a secure vehicle identification system.
Radio frequency-responsive elements can be either active or passive. An active tag incorporates an additional energy source, such as a battery, into the tag construction. This energy source permits active radio frequency-responsive elements to create and transmit strong response signals even in regions where the interrogating radio frequency field is weak, and thus an active radio frequency-responsive element can be detected at greater range. However, the relatively short lifetime of the battery limits the useful life of the tag. In addition, the battery adds to the size and cost of the tag. A passive element derives the energy needed to power the element from the interrogating radio frequency field, and uses that energy to transmit response codes by modulating the impedance the antenna presents to the interrogating field, thereby modulating the signal reflected back to the reader antenna. Thus, their range is more limited. Because passive elements are preferred for many applications, the remainder of the discussion will be confined to this class of element. Those skilled in the art, however, will recognize that these two types of elements share many features and that both can be used in the examples of this disclosure.
As shown in
The antenna geometry and properties depend on the desired operating frequency of the radio frequency-responsive portion of the tag. For example, 2.45 GHz (or similar) radio frequency-responsive elements would typically include a dipole antenna, such as the linear dipole antennas (not shown), or folded dipole antennas (not shown). A 13.56 MHz (or similar) radio frequency-responsive element would use a spiral or coil antenna 24. In either ease, the antenna 24 intercepts the radio frequency energy radiated by an interrogation source. This signal energy carries both power and commands to the tag. The antenna enables the radio frequency-responsive element to absorb energy sufficient to power the IC chip and thereby provide the response to be detected. Thus, the characteristics of the antenna must be matched to the system in which it is incorporated. In the case of tags operating in the high MHz to GHz range, an important characteristic is the antenna length. Typically, the effective length of a dipole antenna is selected so that it is close to a half wavelength or multiple half wavelength of the interrogation signal. In the case of tags operating in the low to mid MHz region (13.56 MHz, for example) where a half wavelength antenna is impractical due to size limitations, the important characteristics are antenna inductance and the number of turns on the antenna coil. For both antenna types, good electrical conductivity is required. Typically, metals such as copper or aluminum would be used, but other conductors, including magnetic metals such as permalloy, are also acceptable. It is also important that the input impedance of the selected IC chip match the impedance of the antenna for maximum energy transfer.
A capacitor 30 is often included to increase the performance of the marker. The capacitor 30, when present, tunes the operating frequency of the tag to a particular value. This is desirable for obtaining maximum operating range and insuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The capacitor may either be a discrete component, or integrated into the antenna as described below. In some tag designs, particularly tags designed to operate at very high frequencies, such as 2.45 GHz, a tuning capacitor is not required. The capacitor is selected so that, when coupled to the inductance provided by the antenna, the resonant frequency of the composite structure, given by:
In operation, as shown in
The interrogation source 302 transmits an interrogation signal 310, which may be selected within certain known frequency bands that are preferred because they do not interfere with other applications, and because they comply with applicable government regulations. When the radio frequency-responsive element receives an interrogation signal it transmits its own response code signal 312 that is received by the antenna 304 and transmitted to detector 306. The detector decodes the response, identifies the tag (typically based on information stored in a computer or other memory device 308), and takes action based on the code signal detected. Various modifications of the illustrated system are known to those of skill in the art including, for example, using separate antennas for the interrogation source 302 and the detector 306 in place of the single antenna 304 that is illustrated.
The retroreflective article 40 is one example of several forms of microsphere type retroreflectors suitable for use in the tag 38. In the example, the retroreflective article 40 includes an enclosed monolayer of optical spheres 46, which in the example are formed from glass, that are coated in a spacing resin 48 comprising, for example, polyvinylbutyral or polyester. A specular reflector layer 50 underlies the spacing resin 48. The reflector layer 50 can comprise opaque materials such as silver, aluminum, chromium, nickel, or magnesium or a transparent high-index reflector layer such as bismuth, trioxide, zinc sulfide, titanium dioxide or zirconium oxide, or multilayer reflectors. Light enters the retroreflective article 40 through the spacing resin 48 and is focused by the microspheres 46. Light is then reflected by the reflector layer 50 back through the microspheres 46 and spacing resin 48 toward the light source.
Variations on the microsphere type retroreflective article are contemplated. For example, the optical spheres can be partially embedded within a spacing resin and coated with a bead bond layer such that the spacing resin is between the reflector layer and the bead bond layer. The bead bond layer can contain a colored pigment that gives the retroreflective article a colored appearance in ambient light and a different appearance, such as silver, in retroreflected light. Another variation of the retroreflective article includes an exposed monolayer of microspheres.
The cube corner retroreflector 55 can be formed from a suitable thermoplastic material such as vinyl, polycarbonate, acrylate or other material, or can be formed by curing a material such as urethane, epoxy, polyester, and acrylate ologomers or monomers. Cube corner elements 56 typically have three mutually perpendicular faces that cooperate to retroreflect light toward the light source. In the example shown, the retroreflector 55 is a monolithic member including the cube corner element 56. Alternatively, the cube corner elements can be attached to a backing to form the retroreflector. In this case, the cube corner elements may be formed of a material other than the material used to form the backing. The retroreflector 55 can include an overlay (not shown) attached to the optical surface 64. The overlay can be formed of an acrylate or a polyethyleneterephalate/co-polyethyleneterephalate laminate. The adhesive 68 would be applied to the overlay.
In the example shown, the retroreflective article 54 includes a specularly reflective layer 70 attached to the cube corner elements 56. The reflective layer 70 can be formed from the same materials used to form the reflector layer 50 in FIG. 5. Light entering the cube corner retroreflector 55 from the optical surface 64 is specularly reflected off of the three mutually perpendicular faces of the cube corner element 55 and returned toward the light source.
In the example shown, the specularly reflective layer 70 is formed of a material that will detune the radio frequency-responsive element 58 if the radio frequency-responsive element is placed too close to the retroreflective article 54, i.e., the cube corner elements 56 are metallized. Accordingly, the radio frequency-responsive element 58 is spaced apart from the retroreflective article 54 a sufficient distance so as not to substantially effect the performance of the radio frequency-responsive element 58.
In some examples, the adhesive placed on the optical and exposed surfaces is a high strength adhesive and attached directly to the antenna of the radio frequency-responsive element. The antenna will become torn and thus destroyed if someone were to try to remove the antenna from the inside of a vehicle window. In another example, a release agent can be placed on various locations of the antenna or the high strength adhesive and used in combination with the high strength adhesive. When removal is attempted, differential release caused by including the release agent will cause the adhesive to be in release causing more tearing of the antenna. One variation of this example is to use two or more adhesives on the radio frequency-responsive element, where each adhesive has a different strength or adhesion value. Destruction of the antenna provides for increased security. (If this additional security is not required, the radio frequency-responsive element including the exposed surface can be encased in a polymeric material and attached to the tag such that the adhesive does not directly contact the radio frequency-responsive element.)
For additional security, the tag 10 can include other coated or uncoated visual information. For example, the retroreflective article 12 can include a holographic layer, or a retroreflective article can be directionally imaged or included with a floating image as now known in the art. Another example is to use the data in the radio frequency-responsive element 14 as an encrypting code to information on the tag such as a bar code or a dot code. One example of a dot code is by Veritech, Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif. The combination would provide for the dot code on each tag to be different so that a fraudulent method of decoding one tag would not work for other tags. One skilled in the art can recognize that the visual information on the tag such as a dot code can be used to decode information in the radio frequency-responsive element as well.
Various modifications and combinations of the embodiments disclosed will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and those modifications are intended to be within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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College football: Groins, grease among most memorable Utah-USU matchups
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
From "groin-gate" to greased jerseys to outrageous officiating, the Utah-Utah State football games played in Logan have produced some memorable games over the years.
Here is a look at five memorable games in the history of the Utah-Utah State rivalry played in Logan:
Aug. 31, 1996 — Utah State 20, Utah 17
Utah had won eight straight games against the Ags going back to 1987, tying the longest streak in the rivalry. There was little reason to think the Utes wouldn't win again coming into the season opener off a 7-4 season and a 40-20 thumping of the Aggies in Salt Lake City and as Western Athletic Conference favorites.
The Aggies meanwhile, had gone 4-7 in John L. Smith's first year in Logan.
However, the Aggies were plain tired of losing to the Utes and, behind Abu Wilson's 144 yards rushing, they knocked off the highly-favored Utes, who wouldn't lose again until November.
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala, who had rushed for 180 yards against the Aggies the year before, gained only 49 yards in the defeat. He later revealed that he was grabbed in the groin by Aggie defenders while on the ground at least five times in the game.
"I couldn't even stand up straight by halftime, it hurt so bad," said Ma'afala.
Smith's reaction to the whole thing?
"This isn't figure skating," he said.
Zebras steal show
Nov. 12, 1983 — Utah State 21, Utah 17
Utah coach Chuck Stobart called this game "the worst rape ever committed in college football history" in a postgame rant about the officiating.
The Utes were whistled for a school-record 21 penalties (still a Ute record) for 171 yards and Stobart felt several penalties killed the Utes' momentum and changed the outcome of the game. In one stretch, Utah had five penalties called in a seven-play stretch and when no penalty was called, the P.A. announcer joked, "There was no penalty on that play." Later Stobart said, "I knew it was bad when the announcer started making fun of the officials."
Late in the game, the Utah defense had apparently held the Aggies deep in their own territory, but the Utes were called for a dead-ball personal foul for piling on. Instead of being faced with a 4th-and-10 and punting, the Aggies had new life and, three plays later, Marc White got loose for a 62-yard run that won the game.
Stobart, who hardly came up for air in his postgame tirade, shouted, "That wasn't even a football game, it was a joke."
Greased jerseys
Oct. 4, 1980 — Utah 23, Utah State 19
This game is remembered as much for the "greased jerseys" as much as the final outcome, which saw Utah eke out a victory after getting bombed the year before at home.
With just 11:26 remaining in the first quarter, the game was halted because Utah's defensive players complained their hands were slipping off the USU players' jerseys. The Utah State linemen had to change their jerseys before the game could continue.
Utah coach Wayne Howard was upset, saying, "They can't do that — it's illegal. That's not how you're supposed to play football. I've never seen anybody use Vaseline on their jerseys before."
Utah State coach Bruce Snyder didn't deny the jersey greasing and said afterwards, "I take full responsibility. It's my program and the bottom line lies with me, even if I didn't know it had snowballed into something like this."
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Nov. 11, 1972 — Utah State 44, Utah 16
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Roma's Alessandro Florenzi says that the League table sometimes lies ahead of the capital clash against Lazio.
Lazio are fifth in the standings and two points clear of sixth-placed Roma, but Florenzi has his eyes on an overtaking manoeuvre this weekend.
"The table says that Lazio are the superior team right now, but I think we are better and we can take the game," the Italian Under-21 international noted.
"We're going into the derby in good shape and it will certainly be a great game. We've played some great football, we just have to do so for the whole 90 minutes."
Florenzi won't need motivating for the Stadio Olimpico clash given that he is a Roman and a Roma fan from birth.
"This is a very significant match for me," he added. "I'm from this city and I feel this game more than other players who are from elsewhere – but they will be just as fired up as me."
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