Patents Examined by Lawrence Evan
  • Patent number: 4890573
    Abstract: A system for applying one-part thermal-cure material, such as structural epoxy, includes apparatus for heating or cooling the epoxy to a temperature above or below ambient. A spirally coiled tube is suspended within a hollow enclosure by tube end fittings extending from axially opposed ends of the tube. An electrical heater and temperature sensor extend from opposed enclosure ends into the tube coils approximately centrally of the enclosure. The enclosure is filled with a heat transfer fluid that surrounds the coiled tubing. The fluid is connected through an inlet and outlet in the enclosure endwalls for circulation externally of the enclosure through a fluid chiller. A microprocessor-based controller receives input signals from the temperature sensor and a temperature adjustment mechanism, and provides outputs to the heater, chiller and heater-exchange fluid pump and circulation valve, and to alarm mechanisms for indicating a high-temperature or low-temperature alarm condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Technadyne Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Zaber
  • Patent number: 4297972
    Abstract: An apparatus which develops a latent image by transporting a conductive developer material comprising marking particles into contact therewith successive times. During the first contact time, the conductivity of the developer material optimizes development of solid areas within the latent image with marking particles. The last contact time occurs with a developer material having a lower conductivity than the development material employed during the first contact time. In this way, development of lines within the latent image with marking particles is optimized during this latter contact time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen C. P. Hwa