Abstract: A pad for a rotary-type floor cleaning and/or polishing machine which comprises a generally disc-like member of hair or fiber mat, etc., which has a perimetral (i.e., circumferential) edge with a series of recesses extending generally inwardly and away from the nominal outer circumference of the disc-like member, toward the center part of the latter, to form a plurality of sequentially arranged, outwardly projecting portions between such recesses which are disposed adjacent one another around the circumference of the disc-like member. In various possible embodiments, these outwardly projecting portions define an undulating or scalloped outer periphery, and such portions are preferably of rounded configuration, formed by arcuate or at least partially circular edges which also define the aforementioned recesses. Further, in preferred embodiments, such projecting portions are disposed directly and closely adjacent one another around the entire outer periphery or perimeter of the disc-like pad.

Abstract: A trowel with a handle, having a blade (15) and a mount (2), provided thereon, for the handle (1), the mount (2) is fastened on the blade (15) by a fastening section (4), has a spacer section (3) and is inserted in an opening (6) of the handle (1) by way of an insertion section (5). For more straightforward assembly and production, it is provided that the insertion section (5) is inserted in a radial opening (6) of the handle (1), with the result that a securing pin (8) which is introduced axially into the handle is used to secure the insertion section (5) against being drawn out.

Abstract: A vehicle has a windshield and a hood extending away from the lower edge of the windshield. A modular windshield washing and wiping apparatus, disposed adjacent to the lower edge of the windshield, comprises at least two modules, arranged to be assembled together and to the remainder of the vehicle. One of the modules contains a screen washing liquid so as to act as a reservoir for the latter, while another module carries the screen wiping equipment. One of the modules carries at least one rear view mirror of the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus for converting a conventional hand-held dustpan into a stand-up dustpan having a debris barrier to be used by a standing user, including a hand-held dustpan, an upwardly extending handle and a debris barrier. The dustpan has a pan-shaped base member having a rear wall, two sidewalls and an open front scoop over which debris is swept. The scoop is open at the top, and a handle which has two ends affixedly attached to the base member and extends out from the rear wall to form a U-shaped handle. The upwardly extending handle is attached to the U-shaped handle by a clamping member which snaps onto the U-shaped handle with the upwardly extending handle threaded into a threaded bore provided on the clamping member. The debris barrier has three walls which are respectively positioned parallel to the three walls of the pan-shaped base member of the dustpan.

Abstract: A leaf pick-up and transport bin assembly comprises a truck with a truck box and a trailer with a trailer box pulled behind, a swivel mounting platform between the truck and trailer, a blower operated leaf pick-up machine mounted on the swivel platform whereby its vacuum intake port opening to one side can be rotated so its vacuum intake port faces and opens to the opposite side, a flexible elongated conduit extends from the vacuum intake port to suck in and pick up leaves throughout the area reachable by such flexible elongated conduit, and a rotatable airflow discharge port with a flexible discharge conduit connected thereto which can be rotated to face the truck and truck box in one position and to face the trailer and trailer box when rotated to a second position. The rear wall of the truck box includes an intake aperture to receive the discharge end of the flexible discharge conduit for blowing leaves into the truck box.

Abstract: A castor assembly suitable for use in decks or dollies for moving freight or other heavy items includes a wheel, a carriage on which the wheel bracket is mounted for rotation about a first axis and a bearing enabling the carriage to rotate about a second axis at an angle different than the first axis, the first axis being offset from the second axis. The bearing includes an inner bearing ring and an outer bearing ring movable relative to one another. The inner bearing ring is secured for rotation with the carriage about the second axis. The inner bearing ring is disposed generally concentrically within the outer bearing ring and the carriage is disposed generally concentrically within the inner bearing ring. The inner and outer bearing rings and the carriage together form a substantially planar assembly.

Abstract: A curtain tab carrier assembly includes a rod having a pair of vertical flanges that form a channel therebetween. A guide is configured to slidably engage the pair of flanges along the channel. A carrier is secured to the guide and includes a base having a catch formed therein. A loop extends from the base over the rod. The curtain tab is positioned over the loop and is retained by a fabric retaining clip. The clip is hinged to the base and includes a locking tab formed therein. The locking tab engages the catch when the clip is in a closed position.

Abstract: A handle for a carpet sample board is described comprising two grommets, each with an outer flange to cover the hole cut in the sample board, an arcuate section defining an ovular hand opening and thereby provide a comfortable grip while simultaneously preventing fraying of the hole in the board. The grommets are joined about the hole in the sample board by mating male and female plugs.

Abstract: A locking assembly of a retractable handle for wheeled luggage is disclosed. The locking assembly is accommodated between the sliding tube and the support tube. The U shaped locking assembly comprises an upper hollow standing part and a lower pedestal part. The standing part has a pair of projections provided on two opposite sides thereof for being correspondingly secured to the holes of the sliding tube when the sliding tube is inserted into the standing part. It is envisaged that the locking pin is eliminated while the engagement of the sliding tube and the support tube is enhanced as well as the handle operation is more smooth.

Abstract: A retractable handle assembly has a grip device, a button, a U-shaped rod, a hollow driven rod, an inner pipe, an outer pipe, a seat, and a positioning mechanism. The seat has two sleeves and two oblong holes. The grip device has a first grip casing and a second grip casing. An upper end of the hollow driven rod receives an end portion of the U-shaped rod. The hollow driven rod is inserted in the inner pipe. The inner pipe is inserted in the outer pipe. An upper end of the inner pipe is inserted in a lower groove of the first grip casing. An upper end of the outer pipe is inserted in a sleeve of the seat. The positioning mechanism is disposed on a bottom of the inner pipe.

Abstract: A redundant hinge element and a hinge assembly made from the redundant hinge element that are adapted to provide pivotal connection between casings of a notebook computer, laptop computer, handheld computer, palmtop computer, or other appliance.

Abstract: A fitting component for furniture or other elements, having fixing holes to receive fixing screws which are insertable in pre-drilled holes in the furniture element. Each of the fixing screws has a head and a shaft, the head having corrugations or knurls on the underside thereof. The shaft has a threaded section adjacent the head and a thread-free section at the end of the shaft. The thread-free section has a diameter corresponding to a diameter of the pre-drilled holes for pre-fixing of the fixing screws.

Abstract: In a retractable assist grip in which a grip body rotatably supported on a mount is urged into swing motion from the use position to the retracted position, one side surface of a supporting part of the mount is formed integrally with s fulcrum pin extending therefrom. A pin support of a leg of the grip body is journaled on the fulcrum pin. On the other side surface of the supporting part, a recess and a loose-fit pin extending inside the recess from the bottom of the recess are formed coaxially with the fulcrum pin. The leg of the grip body is assembled against relative rotation with a spacer rotatably inserted into the recess and including a pin loose-fitting part for loosely receiving the loose-fit pin therein. A viscidity L is provided between the outer periphery of the spacer and the inner periphery of the recess of the mount, thereby forming a damper.

Abstract: A pod having a novel manual pivoting handle assembly for transporting the pod to and from processing tools in a semiconductor wafer fab. The handle assembly comprises a bracket, a pivoting handle and a spindle. The bracket is a Z-shaped member and includes two D-shaped cut-outs at the top of the bracket and two circular cut-outs at the bottom of the bracket which are placed over T-shaped protrusions and aligned with mounting sleeves located on a recessed area on a pod cover, respectively. Screws fit through the circular cut-outs on the bottom of the bracket and may be threaded into the mounting sleeves on the pod. The bracket includes a mounting boss which is provided for mounting the pivoting handle and includes a notch on the lower portion. The pivoting handle is contoured and held in a manner similar to holding a pistol. The pivoting handle includes grooves on one side for placement of the fingers which facilitates a better grip for the user when transporting the pod.

Abstract: A handle which can be permanently attached to a separate blow-molded plastic container. The handle has a contoured portion which comfortably confronts the palm and fingers of a hand of a person lifting the container. The handle is lightweight, injection molded in simple molds, and stackable in a uniform manner so that a stack of the handles can be efficiently stored, transported, and readily machine fed to automated handle-to-bottle attachment equipment. The handle may also be made from recycled plastic for food application.

Abstract: A textile fiber processing machine includes a device for forming a fiber web from a fiber lap; a device for advancing the fiber web to a web outputting device for discharging the web thereby in a direction of advance; and two cooperating calender rolls defining a nip receiving the web discharged by the web outputting device. The calender rolls are situated immediately adjacent the web outputting device downstream thereof as viewed in the direction of web advance. Further, a heating arrangement is provided for heating at least one of the calender rolls for thermo-bonding the web as it passes through the nip of the calender rolls.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adornment clamping device which is able to secure the adornment to the base of an item. The device has an elongate bar securely connected with the base by means of a neck, an adornment having a through hole defined to allow the elongate bar to be inserted therethrough and having a press fit therewith and a slit defined to communicate with the through hole, such that when the elongate bar extends through the through hole of the adornment, the adornment is able to be secured by the press fit between the protrusion formed on the neck and the slit.

Abstract: The invention is a sealing device for connecting together at least first and second portions of a container, the second portion having first and second surfaces and an edge therebetween. The sealing device includes a first half of a hook and loop type fastener assembly, the first half having an adhesive coating for attaching to the first portion of the container. The device also includes a strip having first and second sections, the first section in the form of a forked end with first and second legs. The first and second legs include an adhesive coating for attaching the legs to the first and second surfaces, respectively, with the edge therebetween of the second portion of the container. A second half of a hook and loop type fastener assembly is mounted on the second section of the strip attachable to the first half of the hook and loop type fastener.

Abstract: An article includes a mating surface fastener portion attached to a surface. The mating surface fastener portion has a land and a plurality of tapered elements and is capable of reattachably and matingly intermeshing with a fastener portion of another article to fasten the respective articles. The fastener portions have a predetermined disengagement pressure for a given engagement pressure. The surface to which the land is attached is at least semi-rigid. The means for attaching has a compliance that is no greater than 0.381 cm. Also, the fastener portions can have a predetermined disengagement pressure for a given engagement pressure; for an engagement pressure of no more than 689,500 N/m2 the fastener portion has a disengagement pressure of at least 137,900 N/M2.

Abstract: A clip for a test telephone has a hook part and a gate part which pivots to open and close the mouth of the hook part. In the open position it enters a slot in the hook part. The hook part has an offset coupling portion for pivotable connection to the gate part and to the telephone casing. The casing has a channel in which the clip is mounted so as to be pivotable to a use configuration in which the mouth of the hook part is aligned with the adjacent surface of the casing so an object to be hooked can slide relative to the casing and into the clip.

Abstract: A locking device for a child seat includes slant faces, and a clamping unit having a tiltable clamping roller and a knob for tilting the roller. The slant faces may be formed on a base back of the child seat. A shoulder webbing is inserted between the roller and the slant face, and the clamping roller is tilted so that the webbing is clamped by the roller. The roller is positioned by a spring. The locking device can lock the shoulder webbing when a child seat is mounted either on a left vehicle seat or a right vehicle seat.

Abstract: A customized design on its external surface. The invention also discloses a method for decorating the external surface of a casket to produce such custom designed surface. In the method of this invention, a substrate material is cut into panels that have shapes that correspond to the sections of the casket surface. This substrate shape will enable the substrate panels to fit exactly over the casket surface sections. A custom design is digitally imaged onto the substrate panels. Each panel contains a portion of the overall design. The interior side of each substrate panel is provided with an adhesive material to affix the panels to the casket surface. These substrate panels exhibiting portions of the overall design are applied sectionally to the casket surface in a manner to provide a seamless image, thereby creating an external casket surface having a custom appearance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head includes the following steps, wherein the ink jet head is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers arranged continuously, ink feed means for feeding ink into these pressure chambers, and ink ejecting means for ejecting ink from each pressure chamber via a nozzle, so as to feed and eject ink by a change in volume of each pressure chamber. First, a first metallic film is formed on both surfaces of at least one wall composing the pressure chamber perpendicular to an arranging direction of the plurality of pressure chambers, wherein the at least one wall is one wall of a piezoelectric element deformed when a voltage is impressed. Then, the first metallic film formed on one of the both surfaces of at lest one wall is removed to form an exposed surface of the wall of the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a resonance element includes the steps of preparing a multilayered body having a plurality of piezoelectric layers and a plurality of inner electrodes laminated to each other, forming an insulating film on one surface of the multilayered body at exposed portions of the inner electrodes, the insulating film having a plurality of openings constituting substantially parallel rows which are substantially parallel to the laminating direction of the multilayered body, forming an outer electrode on substantially the entire surface on which the insulating film is formed, forming a plurality of grooves on the surface on which the outer electrode is formed and cutting the multilayered body substantially parallel to the grooves, wherein a first group of the openings in a first of the rows are disposed on every alternate exposed portion of the internal electrodes, and a second group of remaining openings in a second row adjacent to the first row are disposed on each of the remaining alternate ex

Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing an optical fiber cable that includes a metal tube (3) in which at least one optical fiber (2) is arranged in a viscous plastic mass, which apparatus includes a device continuously forming a metal strip (5) into a slit tube, a welding device (7), and a charging tool with at least one tube (22b) whose one end projects into the slit tube (22b), whereby the tube introduces the optical fibers (2) into the metal tube (3), the one tube (22b) has an indentation (22d) on its surface facing the welding device (7), which is covered toward the top and thus forms a channel (22f), and a coolant gas or protective gas is directed through this channel (22f).

Abstract: An object, e.g. a piston or a fluid medicament, is inserted into a tubular syringe body centered on a syringe axis and having a pair of ends by an apparatus having a support movable axially forward toward and axially rearward away from the body and a tube extending along a sleeve axis generally parallel to the syringe axis, having a rear end fixed in the support and a front end fittable inside the syringe. A centering sleeve is formed centered on the sleeve axis with a generally frustoconical centering surface engageable with the rear body end surrounding the tube. This sleeve is displaceable axially on the support between a front position with the centering surface projecting axially forward past the tube front end and a rear position with the tube front end projecting axially forward past the centering surface. The support is displaced axially forward toward the body and thereby engages the centering surface coaxially with the body rear end.

Abstract: A rivet setting tool provided with a threaded bolt or drift for engaging a nut of the rivet. The rivet has a thin walled sleeve portion which is to be deformed during setting of the rivet and forms a flange. The rivet setting tool is driven with decreasing force during the working stroke of the rivet setting tool. In a first embodiment, a toggle lever arrangement having a pair of hand levers and a pair of linking levers is used to produce a decreasing force during the working stroke. In a second embodiment, a pneumatic cylinder cooperates with spring means in order to produce a force during the working stroke which is decreasing.

Abstract: A pulling device for removing gears, bearings, sprockets, etc. from the shafts on which they are mounted is disclosed. The pulling device comprises a housing, a laterally movable shaft received within the housing, and a pressure transmitting member interposed between the laterally movable shaft and the housing. The pressure transmitting member is rotatable by means of handles attached to a torque ring mounted on the end thereof. By rotating the pressure transmitting member, the laterally movable shaft, which does not rotate, moves laterally with respect to the pressure transmitting member within the housing of the pulling device. Jaws are attached at substantially equal angular increments to a collar which surrounds the housing and the ends of the jaws engage the underside of the part or component being removed.

Abstract: A retainer for removably holding an elongated item to a larger member including the following features: a closed-loop band having elasticity for arrangement around a periphery of the larger member; and a loop for retaining the elongated item, wherein first and second ends of this loop protrude from a wall of the band. Also, a retainer including the band and a looped portion (integrated with the band) that has a taper angled to guide an end of the elongated item into the loop to be retained thereby. The band may have an outwardly-facing grip surface against which the elongated item can lean. The loop/looped portion, whether it has a taper, can have gripping teeth or suitable textured surface. A system comprising a retainer with its band arranged around the periphery of a larger member.

Abstract: A sheet of material formed about a flower pot to provide a decorative cover wherein a portion of the sheet of material near an outer peripheral surface thereof extends above an upper end of the flower pot and such portion is crimped to assist in holding the sheet of material formed about the flower pot. The crimping is accomplished by forming overlapping folds in the crimp portion of the sheet of material or by connecting the crimp portion to a portion of the flower pot by way of a bonding material or by way of a drawstring or ribbon or by way of reinforcing members in the sheet of material or by way of a shrinkable material formed in the sheet of material for example.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for positioning tooling for operation on a curved workpiece wherein a gantry beam assembly having a movable head assembly thereon carrying tooling is pivotally connected on a pivot axis to a pair of spaced apart pedestals each having a longitudinal axis disposed substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis and wherein the workpiece is supported on a fixture between the pedestals and so that the gantry beam assembly extends along the workpiece. The pivot axis of the gantry beam assembly is moved along the longitudinal axes of the pedestals, the pivot axis of the gantry beam assembly is moved along a path substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the pedestals and the head assembly is moved along the gantry beam assembly. The foregoing operations move the head assembly relative to the workpiece enabling the tooling to perform operations thereon.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an insulating unit includes the steps of: providing a pair of sheets and a substrate; forming the substrate into at least one spacer section having a base and a pair of outer legs connected to the base, the spacer section having a surface designated as a supporting surface; providing a bead on the supporting surface, the bead provided on the supporting surface includes a moisture pervious adhesive having a desiccant therein and assembling a spacer frame that includes the at least one spacer section and the sheets provide an insulating unit having the pair of sheets in a fixed relationship.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing an Al—Si alloy for use in a vehicle propeller shaft is provided. The Al—Si alloy manufacturing process includes the steps of heating and melting Al—Si alloy where Si contains 13-40 weight percentage (wt %) of the whole alloy, to thereby prepare melt, maintaining the melt at 700-900° C. and then spraying an high pressure inert gas to the melt and rapidly solidifying the same to thereby obtain a forming body, and extruding the forming body at 400-550° C. The physical properties of the Al—Si alloy manufactured by a spray forming process is at least similar to that of the vehicle propeller shafts which have been already known, and also spotlighted as new alloy compositions which can replace the conventional propeller shaft material.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine constructed for speed and accuracy of manufacturing has a stator core constructed of 90° symmetrical stator laminations and the windings have differing numbers of poles which overlap in slots of the stator core are wound of the core formed by the laminations in unique fashion. The rotor bars of the machine are skewed to optimize performance of the machine when in the form of a single phase induction motor. Magnet wire leads of the windings are connected directly to terminals on a plug and terminal assembly which is formed for positive location on an end frame of the machine without welding or other fastening to the end frame. The end frames of the machine and stator laminations forming the stator core are formed so as to increase the precision of the final position of the stator relative to the rotor assembly of the dynamoelectric machine. The end frames are constructed for grounding without the use of fasteners or wire.

Abstract: A method for making a core for one of a rotor and a stator for use in an electric motor, the core being formed from a plurality of laminations, includes forming a predetermined number of through-material slots in a first portion of a material stock, forming at least one angled interlocking projection in the material stock, the projection having a circumferential length and being formed so that at least a portion of the projection remains integral with the material stock, cutting the material stock to define a receiving opening corresponding to the interlocking projection, the receiving opening positioned relative to the projection at an angle &phgr; that is a whole number multiple of &bgr;, where &bgr; is an angle defined as a ratio of 360 degrees to the number of slots and cutting the material stock to form a first substantially circular lamination. Second and third laminations are formed in kind.

Abstract: A method of preparing a metal tube for a length of superconducting wire Inserts superconducting base material into the tube and packs or coils the tube so that a portion of its outer surface would contact another surface. To prevent the portion of the outer surface from sticking to the other surface, the portion is coated with powder material particles suspended in an effectively liquid component before the packing or coiling so that the surfaces do not contact each other. The powder material has a melting point temperature higher than the melting point temperature of the tube and the liquid component evaporates or burns away completely at the temperature that forms the superconducting phase of the superconducting base material.

Abstract: A monolithic inductor (10) comprises an elongated substrate having opposite distal ends (14) and (16), each end having an end cap extending from the opposite ends to support the substrate (12) in spaced relation from a PC board, the end caps being formed with non-mounting areas and a deflection area for preventing the substrate resting on the non-mounting area, a substantially steep side wall (16) on the substrate side of the end cap (14) at the non-mounting area, and an inclined ramp extending up to a top of the end cap on the substrate side substantially opposite the non-mounting area, an electrically conductive soldering band (30) extending partially around each end cap, each soldering band having a gap (34) at the non-mounting area for thereby reducing parasitic conduction in the band (30), and an electrically conductive layer formed on the substrate in a helical path extending between the opposite ends and in electrical contact with the conductive soldering bands (30) at the ramps (120).

Abstract: A read head has a flux guide layer that is immediately adjacent (abuts) the back edge of a read sensor. The flux guide layer is made of a high resistance soft magnetic material that conducts magnetic flux from the back edge of the read sensor so that the magnetic response at the back edge of the read sensor is significantly higher than zero. This increases the efficiency of the read sensor. The material for the flux guide layer is A-B-C where A is selected from the group Fe and Co, B is selected from the group Hf, Y, Ta and Zr and C is selected from the group O and N. In a preferred embodiment A-B-C is Fe—Hf—O and the Ms&rgr; of the flux guide layer is greater than 50 times the Ms&rgr; of the read sensor layer where the read sensor layer is NiFe, Ms is saturation magnetization and &rgr; is resistivity. Because of the flux guides high resistance current shunting losses are nearly eliminated.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transformer coil encapsulated in casting resin utilizing a disposable casting mold where the disposable mold acts both as a winding mandrel and as an inner mold shell for resin encapsulation. The disposable casting mold may be oval shaped or circular shaped depending upon the desired shape of the coils to be encapsulated. The inner and outer mold shells are made from thin sheet metal and thus may be adjusted for the manufacture of a wide variety of sizes of oval shaped or circular shaped epoxy encapsulated coils.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a multilayer-type chip inductor having a small DC resistance without decreasing the inductance or the impedance. The method of manufacturing a multilayer-type chip inductor includes the steps of: preparing a ceramic green sheet; forming an electrode film on one surface of the green sheet; multilayering a plurality of the green sheets in such a way that the surfaces on which electrode films are formed face each other for pairs of the green sheets; contact-bonding the green sheets; and sintering the green sheets.

Abstract: A conductive polymer PTC device includes upper, lower, and center electrodes, with a first PTC conductive polymer layer between the upper and center electrodes, and a second PTC conductive polymer layer between the center and lower electrodes. Each of the upper and lower electrodes is separated into an isolated portion and a main portion. The isolated portions of the upper and lower electrodes are electrically connected to each other and to the center electrode by an input terminal. Upper and lower output terminals are provided, respectively, on the main portions of the upper and lower electrodes and are electrically connected to each other. The resulting device is, effectively, two PTC devices connected in parallel, thereby providing an increased effective cross-sectional area for the current flow path, and thus a larger hold current, for a given footprint.

Abstract: When a seal (10) with a lip (10A) is slid onto a shaft (14), the seal (10) is first slid from a D-cut portion (14C) to the end of a shaft body (14B) contiguous to the D-cut portion (14C), and then is slid at a first speed (at 40 mm/s) from this end to a position in which the seal (10) does not come into contact with a large-diameter portion (14A) of the shaft (14). Since there is a strong possibility that the lip (10A) of the seal (10) will have been completely curled at this time. the seal (10) is pulled out at a second speed (at 10 mm/s) on the shaft body (14B) from this position toward the D-cut portion (14C), and the seal (10) is again slid inward at a third speed (at 70 mm/s) from this position to an appropriate position. Thus, the seal (10) is slid without the lip (10A) being curled. The sliding operations at the second and third speeds may be performed a plurality of times.

Abstract: A circuit-component supplying system including a supplying device which stores a plurality of circuit components in a first storing manner and stores a plurality of circuit-component holders in a second storing manner substantially identical with the first storing manner, and which supplies the circuit components in a first supplying manner and supplies the circuit-component holders in a second supplying manner substantially identical with the first supplying manner, a movable member to which one of the circuit-component holders is detachably attachable, and a movable-member moving device which moves, in a first moving manner, the movable member so that the movable member receives the one circuit-component holder from the supplying device, and which moves, in a second moving manner substantially identical with the first moving manner, a holding head including the movable member and the one circuit-component holder held by the movable member, so that the one circuit-component holder receives one of the circuit

Abstract: Devices for introducing valve keys in internal-combustion-engine valves have heretofore required complex locking and actuating devices in order to bring the valve keys into a fitting position. In order to reduce the introducing procedure, a guide body has a recess which runs symmetrically with respect to its central axis. A conveying channel is formed by a pin passing through the recess in its longitudinal direction, by wall regions of the recess and by guide beads which are attached in such a way that they can pivot and are extended parallel to the pin in their basic position. The guide bead is bent inwards in the direction of the pin with such a radius and a distance between the bent region and the pin as well as the valve stem is set in such a manner, that bulges of the fed-in valve key engage into annular grooves of the valve stem at the end of the conveying channel.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting screw elements from a screw shaft comprises a frame, a stationary clamp mounted on the frame and disposable between open and closed positions, a carriage mounted on the frame for motion toward and away from the stationary clamp, a movable clamp mounted on the carriage for motion therewith and disposable between open and closed positions, a first drive coupled to the stationary clamp for opening and closing the stationary clamp, a second drive coupled to the movable clamp for opening and closing the movable clamp, and a third drive coupled to the carriage for causing motion of the carriage toward and away from the stationary clamp, wherein clamping of a downstream screw element by the stationary clamp, clamping of an upstream screw element by the movable clamp and one or more strokes of the carriage away from the stationary clamp result in removal of the downstream screw element held in place by the stationary clamp from the screw shaft.

Abstract: A parts distributing method for distributing parts to mounting units in a parts mounting system having a plurality of mounting units. The method involves specifying parts of specific kinds which can be mounted with each mounting unit as division-specified parts; distributing parts specified for a specific mounting unit to the specific mounting unit; repeating operations to distribute parts having a maximum mounting time, out of remaining parts other than the division-specified parts, to mounting units which sequentially have a minimum mounting time; and repeating operations to distribute the division-specified parts one by one to mounting units which sequentially have a minimum mounting time.

Abstract: To provide a highly reliable semiconductor device structure that enables cost reduction in the production of packages, inclusive of the cost for chips, and may cause less changes in connection resistance even under conditions of a long-term environmental resistance test. In a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor chip face-down bonded to a wiring board, it has a structure wherein projecting metal portions are provided at the opposing wiring board terminals without forming bumps on bonding pads of the chip, the whole chip surface is bonded with an organic, anisotropic conductive adhesive material, and the whole or at least an edge of the back of the chip is covered with a sealing material.

Abstract: An automatic breadmaker with improved thermal sensing, wiring, and a simplified assembly procedure. The breadmaker preferably includes a high voltage circuit board coupled to an interior wall of the breadmaker, the interior wall separating the baking chamber of the breadmaker from a component compartment. One or more thermal control devices electrically connected to the high voltage circuit board are disposed in a heat transfer relationship with the interior wall, thereby improving device accuracy and avoiding the need for leads to the thermal control devices. In the most preferred embodiment of the present invention, the high voltage circuit board is coupled to the interior wall via a component mounting bracket which also holds the thermal control devices against the interior wall.

Abstract: A method (100) for providing an electrical ground connection between a printed circuit board (700) and a metallic substrate (200) comprises the steps of: (i) providing an aperture (204) in the substrate (200); (ii) forming a ground plug (302) out of a metallic blank (300); (iii) inserting the ground plug (300) into the aperture in the substrate (200); (iv) compressing the ground plug (302) into the aperture (204) in the substrate (200); (v) placing the printed circuit board (700) onto the substrate (200); and (vi) applying solder into the aperture in the printed circuit board (700) and onto the ground plug (302). The steps of forming (104), inserting (106), and compressing (108) are carried out in a single punching operation (120). The method (100) efficiently provides a high quality electrical ground connection and avoids any need for sophisticated machinery.

Abstract: A method of fabricating conductive plugs of different conductive types in contact with different conductivity type semiconductor regions of a semiconductor substrate. The method of the present invention utilizes a simplified two-step masking process and results in a semiconductor device having low resistance conductive plugs of two different conductivity types. The conductive plugs may be formed from conductive materials such as doped polysilicon or refractory metal. If a refractory metal is used, a barrier layer of titanium nitride or titanium oxynitride is used to form the outer layer of the conductive plug.