Abstract: Light transmission devices, such as lenses and windows for portable electronic devices, are produced using an injection/compression molding technique in which a light transmission device mold includes an integral runner in substantially the same plane and with substantially the same wall thickness as the light transmission device to be produced. The finished light transmission devices are mechanically separated from the molded product. Molding equipment and processes traditionally used to produce information discs can be leveraged to produce light transmission devices. Various processes can be performed to add metallization, coatings, and printing to the light transmission devices.

Abstract: A method of removing ceramic core material from an internal passage of a superalloy airfoil casting using a CNC controlled fluid spray nozzle in a manner that the fluid spray nozzle is caused to laterally scan and/or rotary orbit an area of one or more openings of one or more passages at an exterior casting surface to improve removal of material residing in the passage.

Abstract: A method of removing ceramic core material from an internal passage of a superalloy airfoil casting using a CNC controlled fluid spray nozzle in a manner that the fluid spray nozzle is caused to laterally scan and/or rotary orbit an area of one or more openings of one or more passages at an exterior casting surface to improve removal of material residing in the passage.

Abstract: A wheel, preferably adaptable for use with a skate, is provided having a semi-permanent stiffness-modulating insert. The wheel comprises a toroidal wheel component having a hollow toroidal core which can be filled with a stiffness-modulating material. The wheel is split along a line from the inner circumference of the toroidal wheel component to the inner circumference of the core so as to allow for insertion of the stiffness-modulating material. The toroidal wheel component is preferably molded with the split edges slightly spaced apart from each other. In use the edges are held together in abutment with each other or with a toroidal spacer placed between them, preferably by wheel hubs engaging with each other and with the toroidal wheel component of the wheel.

Abstract: An improved wheel assembly which eliminates "bearing click" is provided with raised, deformable structures placed within a gap between a bearing and fixed structures inside the wheel core. When the bearing is pushed into the wheel to abut at least one such fixed structure, leaving a gap between the bearing and another fixed structure, then tightened mechanically inward into the wheel core, the deformable structure in the gap will be deformed by the bearing as it pushes inward and "cold flow" to form a surface preventing wobbling and "bearing click" when the user presses manually against the wheel hub.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a high dielectric antenna structure. In one embodiment, one or more high dielectric film layers are applied to a dielectric base layer by silk-screening to yield a dielectric structure having a dielectric constant greater than that of the dielectric base layer. After firing, a patch antenna element having a predetermined configuration is disposed on the top surface of the dielectric structure by silk-screening a conductive paste thereupon and firing. A ground plane is disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric structure by silk-screening a conductive paste thereupon and firing. A pre-drilled dielectric base layer may be employed with registered holes defined in the various silk-screened layers to provide access for an RF feed means, or alternatively, a feed hole can be bored through the antenna structure to permit interconnection between an RF feed means and the patch antenna element.

Abstract: Method and structure are disclosed for production of a thick-film antenna. A thick-film microwave patch element (26) is patterned onto one surface of a dielectric substrate (32) and a thick-film reference surface (24) disposed onto the opposite surface. The patch element may be placed in different locations on the substrate relative to the feed hole to adjust the impedance and resonant frequency of the antenna before it has been dried and fired while tuning tabs (30) may abut the patch element for use in adjusting the impedance and resonant frequency of the antenna (20) after it has been dried and fired. In one embodiment, the substrate (24) is a ceramic material having an alumina content of about 96%. A multiple-frequency antenna can be created by stacking patch elements and dielectric layers above the reference surface.