Abstract: The invention is embodied in a coil antenna for radiating RF power supplied by an RF source into a vacuum chamber, the coil antenna including plural helical conductors each having a first end and a second end, the first ends being adapted for connection to a first common RF potential, the second ends being adapted for connection to a second common RF potential, each of the plural conductors being wound about a common axis of helical symmetry, each of the second ends being spaced substantially equally from the axis and from each other.

Abstract: A liner bonding apparatus for bonding liners to half shells for a cartridge housing a recording disc or the like includes a conveyor for conveying half shells, a fabric transfer mechanism for supplying a liner fabric, and a punching mechanism for punching out liners from the fabric. There are further provided a provisional bonding mechanism for temporarily boding a punched-out liner to each half shell on the conveyor by dripping liquid such as water or alcohol onto the half shell, and a nonprovisional bonding mechanism for bonding the liner permanently to the half shell by applying heat and pressure to the liner.

Abstract: In die bonding in which good dies are bonded to good bonding portions of a bonding object (substrates, tapes, etc) and bad dies are bonded to bad bonding portions of the bonding object, dies on a wafer are successively detected and discriminated by a die detecting camera, dies are classified into good dies and bad dies on the basis of the results of this detection and discrimination, dies are registered on a wafer good/bad status map, and dies registered on the wafer good/bad status map are picked up by a die-transporting nozzle, transferred and bonded according to whether good dies or bad dies are requested based upon detection of bonding portions of the bonding object.

Abstract: A press forming die is fabricated by initially fabricating a die forming panel, by press forming, which provides a die surface for the press forming die. During fabricating the die forming panel, a shaped panel is obtained by initially press forming a first blank material with a die forming prototype and a punch forming prototype. Next, the shaped panel is mounted onto the punch forming prototype again and, thereafter, a die forming panel is obtained by press forming a second blank material. The die forming panel is then mounted on a frame body and a backup material is formed between a space between the frame body and the die forming panel, thereby fabricating the press forming die. Since the die surface of the press forming die can be shaped by press forming, the press forming die can be simply fabricated.

Abstract: A louver laminated with a very thin film (i.e. a transfer film, very thin layer, etc.) for use in the construction of window blinds such as Venetian blinds, and the like, the louver having opposed top and bottom surfaces, as well as opposed first and second side surfaces each laminated with a very thin film. More particularly, the film is so thin, that the boundary edges of the film, once laminated to a surface of the louver, are imperceptible to human touch, i.e. they are tactilely invisible. An apparatus and method for making a louver laminated with a very thin film is further proposed.

Abstract: In the treatment of cellulose pulp in connection with bleaching, the pulp is first cooked and, if necessary, oxygen delignified in order to reduce the Kappa number below 24, preferably below 14, and after that the pulp is treated in an acid stage at a pH of 2-5 and at a temperature range of 75-130° C. in order to reduce the Kappa number by 2-9 units. To prevent essential weakening of the strength properties of the pulp in the acid stage treatment tower, the retention time, t min, is 30 to 300 minutes and the treatment temperature, T 0° C. is Tmin<T<Tmax, in which 1 T min = 10517 24 + ln ⁢   ⁢ ( 2 ⁢   ⁢ t ) - 273 and T max = T min + 23 ⁢ ° ⁢   ⁢ C .

Abstract: The invention concerns a loading device for the dewatering a web-forming wire, which supports and/or loads the wire of a paper machine and scrapes water from the wire surface. The loading device is loaded by a pressure medium and includes a movable loading member and a fixed base member. The loading member includes a longitudinal groove which extends the length of the loading member and the base member includes a slide rail adapted to be received in the longitudinal groove for supporting the loading member. In order to eliminate jamming phenomenon of the loading member, the loading member is supported evenly in its position in a cross machine direction and it is adapted to move towards the wire and away from the wire with aid of rollers arranged between the slide rail and the internal walls of the loading member which define the longitudinal groove.

Abstract: A method in a paper machine for transferring a paper web from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric of a press section, including the steps of forming a pick-up point on the wet wire and separating an edge strip from at least one edge of the web prior to the pick-up point by means of at least one cutting device. The method further includes separating the web from the wet wire and passing the web onto the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point. The method also includes applying a pressure difference to the at least one edge strip through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the at least one edge strip to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine.

Abstract: A vehicle seat air-conditioning system is used with a main air-conditioning unit which operates in one of a plurality of air blow modes. The main air-conditioning unit has an air-conditioned air outlet-port for supplying air-conditioned air irrespective of the air mode. The vehicle seat air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioned air duct connected to the air-conditioned air outlet-port, a seat-air duct connected to the air-conditioned air duct to supply the air-conditioned air to the inside of a seat and an air blower unit for blowing the air-conditioned air.

Abstract: A fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger for use where two fluid streams may be of indeterminate composition, temperature, and flow rate, and, where the two fluid streams may flow at different rates and at different times. Such conditions are found, for example, in the flow patterns of a building's hotwater, cold feed water for a water heater, and drainwater. As defined for heat recovery from drainwater, the present invention comprises a first, central, straight-through heat exchanger tube for cooling flowing drainwater, a second heat exchanger to heat cold water encircling and spaced from the first, and a non-pressurized reservoir between first and second heat exchangers permanently filled with water in thermal contact with first and second heat exchangers. Submerged in the reservoir water there is at least one insulated convection chamber, of small volume, enclosing first heat exchanger with a convection opening uppermost.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a pair of manifolds, each of which has a plurality of axially spaced oblong slots, and each of which has at least two detents formed therein. A plurality of generally flat tubes extends between the manifolds and individually through the slots for providing fluid communication between the manifolds. A plurality of radiation fins extends between adjacent flat tubes. A plurality of brackets is provided for mounting the heat exchanger. Each of the brackets has a curved portion, a flange portion and a mounting portion. The curved portion extends circumferentially around a portion of the manifold. The curved portion has opposite ends and has means located midway between the ends for allowing the ends of the curved portion to move resiliently relative to each other to widen the distance between the ends. The curved portion also has at least one protrusion adjacent to each end. Each of the protrusions extends into one of the detents in the manifold.

Abstract: To reduce noise caused by exhausted cooling air as well as to maintain a necessary amount of cooling air of a cooling fan. A cooling fan is positioned behind a radiator. A shroud surrounds an impeller coupled to a motor and a rotating shaft. The shroud has an inlet and an outlet in the shape of a bell mouth. The bell mouth shaped inlet has its front edge spaced from the rear surface of the radiator by a clearance D, and forms a space around its front peripheral edge. A space is formed via the space, and opens around the periphery of the shroud. The ratio A:B is 1:3 to 5, preferably approximately 1:4, where A denotes a difference between maximum and minimum diameters of the bell mouth shaped outlet of the shroud, and B notes a length of the shroud.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fin and tube type heat-exchanger, which has a number of heat tubes of 6 mm or smaller to cause a reduction of the pressure loss and to prevent a drop in heat-exchange efficiency. Furthermore, the fin and tube type heat-exchanger can obtain the optimum heat-exchange efficiency, reduce the manufacturing cost and adapt to alternative refrigerants.

Abstract: A tube is provided with elastically deformable tube deforming sections (tube curved sections), and a fin is provided with the quality of spring so that the fin deforms in accordance to changes of dimension between the tubes. Accordingly, it is possible to weaken (absorb) stress by the tube deforming sections (tube curved sections), and to prevent the fin from separating from the tube even when the tube deforming section (tube curved section) deforms.

Abstract: A multichannel flat tube for a heat exchanger has a plurality of parallel flow channels aligned in a row, side by side, along a transverse axis of the tube. At least the inner flow channels have oval cross-sections, and major semiaxes of the inner flow channels are inclined relative to the transverse axis of the tube at an acute angle. The flat tube can be designed for high operating pressures with relatively low weight and relatively high heat exchange capability. The construction may be used, for example, in CO2 air conditioners in motor vehicles.

Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning unit for a motor vehicle includes a heating unit for generating heated air, at least one cold-air duct guided around the heating unit, and air-mixing spaces provided downstream of the heating unit in the direction of flow. The mixing spaces are separated from one another by at least one partition and into which cold and heated air can be introduced in each case in a controllable manner by means of air-flow control elements, in order to mix the air in each mixing space to a certain mixing temperature. It is thereby possible to supply air which can be temperature-controlled separately to at least two air-conditioning zones.

Abstract: A perforating gun brake includes a first body having an axis. Several gripping feet are provided each having a pivot end and a remote end. The pivot end is pivotally mounted to the first body. The gripping feet are movable between a stored position substantially parallel to the axis of the first body and an engaging position extending outwardly at an angle in relation to the first body. A second body is coupled to and axially movable relative to the first body. A wedge member is carried by the second body. The wedge member exerts a force upon the remote end of the gripping feet upon movement of the second body to force the gripping feet outwardly into the engaging position.

Abstract: This is a high-efficiency item of equipment, for example for a well bottom for separating out gas from a liquid/gas mixture, based on the effects of flows of the cascade and segregated types. It consists basically of a sedimentation vessel whose lateral surface has holes in the upper portion, enclosing (i) a discharge pump, (ii) a suction pipe and (iii) the lower end of a production tubing. The vessel contains helicoidal surfaces for achieving segregated-type flow. A significant part of separation takes place above the level of the separator, in a medium in which there is a predominance of gas and the flow is in the form of a cascade.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a lateral position of a first member on a hitch of a work machine. A first processing device receives a first signal indicative of a desired turn radius of the work machine and transmits a first desired hitch position as a function of the first signal. A second processing device receives a second signal indicative of an actual hitch position and also receives the first desired hitch position. The second processing device transmits a first error as a function of the second signal and the desired hitch position. A controller receives the first error and transmits a second error as a function of the first error. A first member modulator receives the first error and transmits a first activation signal as a function of the second error. The first activation signal controls the lateral position of the first member.

Abstract: A hand held, manually operated excavation tool, which is specifically designed for single hand use to remove turf, which has been damaged by an air borne golf ball. The device has a handle, tubular shank, an internal ramp, an entry and an evacuation port, a concentric leading edge and an internal threaded portion to receive optional repair tools A threaded two-pronged aerator or culling tool may be stored in the handle portion. The principal object's shank is of sufficient length to penetrate, to an appropriate depth, turf which is commonly associated with that portion of a golf-course referred to as the “green.” The repair tool is designed to easily penetrate, core, capture and remove damaged, dying or dead turf. The efficient removal and subsequent repair of damaged portions of grass on a putting surface would improve the consistency of a putting green and the quality of play for all golfers on a given course.

Abstract: A ram device has a cylindrical housing (10) in which is arranged a pressure medium actuated impact piston and a control unit for controlling the pressure medium flow into the housing (10) and which housing (10) at its rearward end is provided with a pressure medium connector (16) and is closable by a closure part (12). The closure part (12) is threadable into an end portion (22) of the housing (10) provided with an internal thread by an externally threaded section (18) and has a second threaded section (20) which stands in engagement with a counter element (22) which abuts a housing surface (40) perpendicular to the housing axis.

Abstract: An electronic equipment includes one or more electronic devices, a cold stage, and a cold insulation member. The one or more electronic devices perform a predetermined operation within a predetermined temperature range. The cold stage cools down the one or more electronic devices to a predetermined operational temperature at which the one or more electronic devices is operable. The phase transition temperature of the cold insulation member is in a range between the predetermined operational temperature and an upper limit of the predetermined temperature range. The cold insulation member is arranged adjacent to the one or more electronic devices, and retains the temperature of the one or more electronic devices within the predetermined temperature range. At least one electronic devices over which the cold insulation member is arranged is partially formed from a material which is in a superconductive state at the predetermined operational temperature.

Abstract: A harness-wiring system is provided that includes a wire harness extending from the body of an automobile to a sliding door thereof. The sliding door include a harness housing with a guiding slot. A portion of electrical cables forming the wire harness is passed through a net-like sheath knitted from resin threads, and this portion is folded into the harness housing, so as to form a U-shaped configuration in the harness housing. The system includes a first clamping device having a mount. This first clamping device fixes the net-like sheath onto the electrical cables, while fixing itself to the harness housing. The system further includes a second clamping device having a guide. The second clamping device fixes the net-like sheath onto the electrical cables, while fitting the guide with the guiding slot. The construction of the wire harness connection between the car body and the sliding door is thus simplified.

Abstract: A fire-protection sleeve (1) for a pipe, cable and the like (T) comprises an axially extending tubular metal housing (2), which has a radially outwardly projecting connecting flange (3) at one end. An end section (6), at the one end of the housing (2), contains a heat-intumescing composition (10), formed on the inner wall of the housing (2) and surrounds the axis of an axially extending opening (9) in the tubular housing (2) for the pipe, cable and the like (T). At the end section (6) of the housing (2) having the heat-intumescing composition (10), metallic lamellas (12) are arranged, which extend radially inwardly into the opening (9) of the housing (2) for the pipe, cable or the like (T) and are flexible in the axial direction of the opening (9).

Abstract: A method for fabricating a printed circuit board assembly comprising a via, wherein the method inhibits the flow of molten solder into the via during a wave soldering step, thereby preventing heat transfer that might otherwise degrade a solder joint at a top pad that is thermally coupled to the via. The method comprises the steps of: (1) fastening a bottom component to the bottom surface of the circuit board by a screening and reflow of solder paste that also generates a solder plug in the via; (2) fastening top components to the top surface of the circuit board by a screening and reflow of solder paste, wherein the top components comprise ball grid arrays and other surface mount devices that are to be affixed to pads which are connected to vias; and (3) wave soldering the bottom surface to affix additional components onto the circuit board, such as pin-in-hole components placed on the top surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for the drilling, notably by percussion or rotary-percussion drilling, and draining of holes in soil or rock. A drill bit (2, 3) mounted on a drill rod (4) creates a bore hole and a jacket tube (6) is coupled to the drill rod (4) or the drill bit (2, 3). In the area adjacent to the drill bit (2, 3) the jacket tube (6) has at least one through hole which opens into an annular space embodied between the drill rod and the jacket tube. In the end area adjacent to the drill bit (2, 3) the jacket tube (6) is surrounded by at least one filter tube (7) having a plurality of through holes or slits (8) which are distributed especially evenly across its circumference. This allows for correspondingly safe and reliable drainage during boring, using simple measures.

Abstract: A rolling cone drill bit is provided that has gage inserts on the first row from the bit axis to cut to full gage diameter that have a cutting portion enhanced with a layer of super abrasive material. The gage cutting surface has a center axis that is canted to be more normal to the gage curve such that the its point of contact at gage is away from the thinner portion of the layer of super abrasive material.

Abstract: In a series-parallel hybrid vehicle, a check is made to see if there is any trouble of a clutch such as slip or overheating in an engaged state of the clutch, and upon detection of a clutch trouble, the vehicle is driven in accordance with a series hybrid type to prevent driving characteristics from being deteriorated by the clutch trouble.

Abstract: The vehicle deceleration control apparatus according to the invention controls deceleration given to a vehicle according to a distance from a vehicle ahead, which is directly measured or estimated based on an accelerator operating condition, so that the smaller the distance from a vehicle ahead, the greater is an assist deceleration. The vehicle deceleration control apparatus is capable of giving an appropriate deceleration according to traffic conditions.

Abstract: The control apparatus of the present invention is provided in a hybrid vehicle with a combustion engine for outputting a driving force, an electric motor for generating a force for assisting the output from the engine, depending on the driving conditions, a power storage unit for storing electric energy generated by the motor acting as a generator using the output from the engine and electric energy regenerated by the motor when the vehicle decelerates. The control apparatus includes: a speed limiter for decreasing the driving force produced by the motor when the vehicle speed exceeds a first threshold value while the engine and the motor produce the driving force; a generation starter for starting generation by the motor when the vehicle speed exceeds a second threshold value which is higher than the first threshold value; and a generation amount setting device for setting the amount of generation, depending on the driving conditions of the vehicle, when the generation starter starts the generation.

Abstract: In a seat belt control device of the invention, when a buckle switch detects disengagement of a buckle and a tongue plate of a seat belt, the seat belt is retracted through a motor. In addition, the seat belt is re-retracted, through a motor, when a passenger detector detects that no passenger is present in an automobile, when a door switch detects that a door opens, or when an engine key switch detects that an engine key is pulled out or is in an off state. Thus, the seat belt can be positively retracted. Therefore, when a passenger gets off or is going to get off, the seat belt can be securely retracted to thereby prevent the seat belt from being caught by a projection in a compartment or by the door of the automobile.

Abstract: A multi-wheel-driving vehicle including at least three parallel axles each of which is provided on both ends thereof with respective drive wheels and including power dividing means for permitting the rotary speed among the axles, is improved in its effect of braking so that the braking force of fewer brakes is effectively transmitted to all drive wheels of a vehicle according to a simple braking operation by a driver. The power dividing means, for example, a differential gear unit, includes an input member and a pair of output members, like differential side gears, each of which interlocks with at least one of the axles so as to differentially share a driving force received by the input member between the pair of output members.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic dual circuit steering system with

Abstract: An elevator in which an elevator-car and a counter weight are hung like a draw well. The elevator includes a receiving unit for receiving an electric power from a feeding unit provided in a hoistway, an inverter for converting the received electric power into ac power, a motor connected to an ac side of the inverter, for driving the counter weight in up and down directions, a sensor for detecting a position of a receiving unit, and a control unit for controlling an inverter on the basis of the position detected by the position sensor. The counter weight has the receiving means, the inverter, and the motor.

Abstract: A silencer shim structure is mounted on a friction pad of a disc brake assembly by retaining pins which extend through the shim structure and into the backing plate for preventing dislodging of the shim structure in service. The force of the rotating action of the brake disc is at a 90° angle to the retaining pin. This 90° angle provides effective resistance to any shifting or rotation of the shim structure with respect to the backing plate during actuation of a disc brake apparatus. The retaining pin has an outer surface which is disposed substantially flush with the outer surface of the shim structure. The outer surface of the retaining pin therefore does not interfere with the positioning or functioning of an actuator piston structure, caliper structure or other disc brake structure. The flush mounting allows the system of the present invention to be used for any caliper design.

Abstract: A brake cable mounting structure for a drum brake, in which even if the distance from the brake mounting surface to the center of the brake shoes in the width direction is short, the layout of the brake cable mounting section and the mechanical expander is efficient and effectively provided. Further, the anchor only need to support the braking force, thereby making the device smaller and lighter. The brake cable mounting structure of this invention is characterized in that the inner cable of the brake cable extends out from the brake; and the guide pipe on which the outer casing of the brake cable is integrally fixed with the back plate.

Abstract: A bicycle fork having a damping apparatus that includes a cylinder, a damping fluid and a piston. The cylinder defines a chamber. The damping fluid is located in the chamber. The piston is disposed in the chamber and is positioned adjacent the fluid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromagnetic clutch device for a compressor used for air conditioners in vehicles and so forth. The object of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic clutch device whose pulley can be downsized regardless of the outer diameter of a coil even when the so-called alignment is small. In order to achieve this object, an electromagnetic clutch device according to the present invention comprises a drive shaft forming a part of a compressor mechanism which is accommodated in a housing of the compressor and projecting through a nose of the housing; a drive rotor accommodating a coil for the electromagnetic clutch and rotatably supported on the circumference of the nose by means of a clutch bearing; an armature plate opposing the coil and connected to a projecting end of the drive shaft so as to rotate with the drive shaft; and a pulley fixedly attached to the drive rotor, wherein the pulley is arranged between the housing and the coil.

Abstract: A hydraulic clutch release mechanism, particularly for use in the power train of a motor vehicle, employs a circular piston which is reciprocable in a plenum chamber between a cylindrical housing and a guide centrally located within the housing. One end portion of the piston is form-lockingly connected with a plastic seal at the plenum chamber. Such form-locking connection is provided adjacent one of two lips forming part of the seal. The one lip engages the external surface of the guide and the other lip engages the internal surface of the housing and is adjacent another form-locking connection established between the seal and an annular plastic or metallic retainer which is affixed to the piston with limited axial play. The other end portion of the piston is operatively connected with a clutch, e.g., by way of a release bearing.

Abstract: A clutch release bearing having a fixed portion (5,6) including an inner support tube (6) and an outer body (5) concentric therewith which defines a control chamber (50) capable of being supplied with a fluid and housing an axially movable tubular piston (4) supporting a drive member (3) engageable with the diaphragm (13) of the clutch (1), wherein the support tube (6) axially projects beyond the outer body (5). The front end of the support tube (6) is surrounded by a guide sleeve (9) for the piston (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanical device for the selection and supply of revolution cylinder type products, and more especially packaging components for photographic films. The device comprises a calibrated bent chute that includes a product supply system, with a regulating effect, and a selection system for product orientation. Selection is based on two different flows of the products. Correctly oriented products, whose axis is substantially perpendicular to that of the normal flow, follow the direction of this normal flow. Incorrectly oriented products, whose axis is substantially parallel to that of the normal flow, are deviated from the normal flow, by an opening.

Abstract: A roller conveyor that carries objects in a certain direction comprising, underneath a drive roller that is rotationally driven, transverse rollers each which has a rotation axis intersecting with the drive shaft and is raised and lowered. The transverse rollers are raised and lowered by being provided, for instance, in a lift, and they are arranged so that, when the transverse rollers are in the raised position, their peripheries come into contact with the drive roller. In this position, the uppermost edges of the transverse rollers are located higher than the uppermost edge of the drive roller, so that the transverse rollers divert objects carried on the conveyor transversely.

Abstract: A printed-board conveying apparatus including a first belt conveyor including first stationary and movable guide rails and two first belts which are circulated while being guided by the two first guide rails, respectively, and which support opposite end portions of a first printed board, respectively, and cooperate with each other to convey the first printed board, and a second belt conveyor which is arranged in parallel with the first belt conveyor and which includes second stationary and movable guide rails and two second belts which are circulated while being guided by the two second guide rails, respectively, and which support opposite end portions of a second printed board, respectively, and cooperate with each other to convey the second printed board. The first and second stationary and movable guide rails extend parallel to one another such that the first and second stationary guide rails are provided outside the first and second movable guide rails, respectively.

Abstract: A spiral conveyor with automatic flow control includes a plurality of curved segments connected to form a spiral for the flow by gravity of articles from an upper level to a lower level. Each of the segments includes freely rotating skate wheels forming a conveying surface and a controlled, powered cylindrical roller. A sensor mounted in each segment senses the presence of an article in the segment. A controller receives the signals from the sensors and activates the associated roller for transport mode to assist articles through the conveyor if the path is clear, or if the downstream portion of the conveyor is blocked, to reverse the roller for accumulate mode to hold articles in the segment until the path is cleared.

Abstract: A low cost automotive power window switch having few window operating switches uses a single switch to select which of the four windows to operate, and to control the window locks. The power window switch has a window operating switch 3 for raising and lowering each of the car windows, and a mode selector switch 2 for switching between the windows. The mode selector switch 2 also has a window lock switch function for locking and unlocking the windows.

Abstract: A multi-directional operating switch is disclosed, comprising a housing having a bottomed receptacle portion, a central fixed contact portion disposed on an inner bottom surface of the receptacle portion, peripheral fixed contact portions disposed on a peripheral surface with respect to the central fixed contact portion, a plurality of movable contacts disposed respectively in opposition to the central and peripheral fixed contact portions, and a step for depressing the plural movable contacts selectively to switch over from one contact to another, wherein the movable contacts are disposed within the receptacle portion of the housing in such a manner that in the depressing direction of the stem the movable contact disposed in opposition to the central fixed contact portion and the movable contacts disposed in opposition to the peripheral fixed contact portions are spaced a predetermined distance from each other, while in a direction perpendicular to the stem depressing direction they partially overlap each ot

Abstract: An electro-kinetic electro-static air conditioner includes a self-contained ion generator that provides electro-kinetically moved air with ions and safe amounts of ozone. The ion generator includes a high voltage pulse generator whose output pulses are coupled between first and second electrode arrays. Preferably the first array comprises one or more wire electrodes spaced staggeringly apart from a second array comprising hollow “U”-shaped electrodes. Preferably a ratio between effective area of an electrode in the second array compared to effective area of an electrode in the first array exceeds about 15:1 and preferably is about 20:1. An electric field produced by the high voltage pulses between the arrays produces an electrostatic flow of ionized air containing safe amounts of ozone. A bias electrode, electrically coupled to the second array electrodes, affects net polarity of ions generated. The outflow of ionized air and ozone is thus conditioned.

Abstract: In one embodiment of this invention, the apparatus for sputter deposition within an evacuated volume comprises a compact gridless ion source into which an ionizable gas is introduced and from which ions leave with directed energies at or near the sputtering threshold and a sputter target near that source, biased negative relative to the surrounding vacuum enclosure, and located within the beam of ions leaving that source. Particles sputtered from the target are deposited on a deposition substrate spaced from both the ion source and the sputter target. An energetic beam of electrons can be generated by the incident ions striking the negatively biased sputter target and the deposition substrate is located either within or outside of this beam, depending on whether the net effect of bombardment by energetic electrons is beneficial or detrimental to that particular deposition process.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal composite strip for the production of electrical contact components. A film made of tin or a tin alloy is first applied onto an initial material made of an electrically conductive base material. A film of silver is then deposited thereonto. Copper or a copper alloy is preferably used as the base material. The tin film can be applied in the molten state, and the silver film by electroplating. Furthermore, both the tin film and the silver film can be deposited by electroplating. A further alternative provides for manufacturing the tin film in the molten state and the silver film by cathodic sputtering. The diffusion operations which occur in the coating result in a homogeneous film of a tin-silver alloy. This formation can be assisted by way of a heat treatment of the composite strip.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a thin and light electrochemical device using a solid polymer electrolytic film, which is capable of maintaining its steady performance for a long time even at a high humidity condition and a process for preparing the same. The device comprises inserting and pressuring the jointed electrochemical device 10 between a pair of pressing plates 30 and 31, wherein the jointed electrochemical device 10 is obtained by jointing the anode and the cathode having a catalytic layer on a base substrate of conductive porous material to both sides of the solid polymer electrolytic film, and wherein the pressing plates have the opening part having an area smaller than an electrochemical reaction part formed by facing the anode and the cathode.