Abstract: A hydraulic control system for controlling the orientation of a material handling unit on a lift boom. The control system includes a flow divider/combiner valve operative in a boom-raise, unit-leveling mode to pass a portion of the fluid displaced from the rod end of the boom cylinder to the base end of the unit cylinder, and operative in a boom-lower, unit-leveling mode, to combine the fluid stream displaced from the base end unit cylinder in a preset ratio with pressurized fluid, and pass the combined stream to the rod end of the boom cylinder. A modulating valve controls flow to and from the base end of the boom cylinder and is pilot actuated to inhibit descent of the boom until the pressure in the unit cylinder reaches a level at which the unit cylinder initiates levelling of the unit.

Abstract: A film forming method for a compressor and a part of the compressor to be formed with a film are disclosed. A paint container (36) is arranged above a rotary holding mechanism (34) with a swash plate (15) of the compressor mounted thereon. A lubrication paint (37) in the paint container (36) is dripped on the end surface (152) of the swash plate (15) through a dripping unit (38). The swash plate (15) is rotated at high speed by the operation of a motor (M) so that the surplus portion of the lubrication paint (37) on the end surface (152) is removed by centrifugal force. The lubrication paint (37) remaining on the end surface (152) with the surplus portion thereof removed by centrifugal force has a uniform film thickness.

Abstract: A desorbable sorption filter, in particular for a heating or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, has a metallic support (12) which can be heated by flow of current and an adsorber (14) mounted at or on the support (12). To provide an improved, directly heatable sorption filter which particularly enables inexpensive production and good electrical and thermal conductive contact without the use of adhesives, it is proposed for the adsorber (14) to be of planar design and to be mechanically connected to the support (12, 112) by means of holding elements (26) formed integrally on the support (12, 112).

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner assembly (10) comprising a main housing (12) having an inlet (14) and an outlet (16). A motor (17a) is disposed within the main housing (12) between the inlet (14) and the outlet (16) for providing motive force to a cooling fan (17b), a blower (17c), and a separator (22). The cooling fan (17b) is mounted within the main housing (12) above the motor (17a) to circulate cooling air around the motor (17a). The blower (17c) is mounted within the main housing (12) below the motor (17a) for drawing air into the inlet (14) and exhausting air outwardly through the outlet (16). The separator (22) is mounted below the blower (17c) for circulating the air and water bath (20) within a water bath pan (36) and provides, in combination with the water bath (20), a primary filter for filtering the air prior to exhausting the air outwardly toward the outlet (16) of the vacuum cleaner to atmosphere.

Abstract: In a gas recovery system, before gases including PFC are diluted with nitrogen gas, a cooling mechanism trap separates the gases into PFC and the other gases, and the separated PFC is stored temporarily in a temporary storage mechanism until it reaches a concentration at which an efficient recovery of PFC is possible, and thereafter, the temporarily stored PFC is packed in a cylinder.

Abstract: A fuel vapor treatment canister for controllably storing and releasing fuel vapor from a fuel tank and the like of an automotive vehicle. The fuel vapor treatment canister comprising a casing having first and second end walls between which an inside space is formed. The first end wall has a first opening in communication with a fuel tank, and a second opening in communication with an air intake passage of an engine. The second end wall has a third opening in communication with the atmosphere. The inside space includes first and second chambers. The first chamber is located closer to the first end wall than the second chamber. A partition wall is disposed to divide the inside space into the first and second chambers. The partition wall structure has an air permeability and a heat insulating ability higher than that of metal. A first fuel vapor adsorbing material is disposed in the first chamber. A second fuel vapor adsorbing material and a heat-accumulative material are disposed in the second chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the conduction of liquid media, for example fuels, between a tank and a delivery point, especially fuel consumption measuring systems or fuel conditioning systems, which includes a bubble-separating arrangement, as well as a filter element for use in such a system. For the simple and effective detection and separation of bubbles and further contaminations of every type in the particular liquid medium and, if necessary, the further development for additional simple and rapid determination of their volumes and therewith consideration in possible measurements, it is provided that the bubble-separating arrangement is formed by a filtering device and in the filtering device the connection for the liquid medium is arranged in a zone outside the filtering element.

Abstract: A column is disclosed for counter-currently contacting gas and liquid comprising a plurality of horizontal contact trays arranged axially spaced apart in the column, each contact tray being provided with passages, and which column is further provided with a plurality of horizontal separation trays, each separation tray being spatially arranged above a contact tray, said separation tray having means to separate entrained liquids from the upwardly moving vapor and means to return the thus separated liquid to a contact tray below, wherein the means to separate liquid from the vapor comprise a separation device having vapor inlet means, demister means to separate liquid from a substantially horizontal moving vapor, means to discharge the obtained vapor poor in liquids to a contact tray above the separation tray and means to collect the separated liquids at a lower end of the separating device, which collecting means are in fluid communication with the means to return the thus separated liquid to a contact tray be

Abstract: A removable firebox for use in a portable, collapsible barbecue grill including retractable heating grate on top of the firebox and a retractable mid-level cooking grill for providing high-temperature cooking. A lower main grill is disposed in a base cavity of the barbecue grill for providing moderate temperature cooking. The firebox rests in the base cavity of the grill housing and provides heat to a cooking area defined by the base cavity, an upper lid of the housing and a pair of side walls extending upward from the base cavity. The firebox and/or the upper lid includes insulation and/or cooling baffles to protect users from heated surfaces. Venting is provided from the sides and rear of the grill housing. When collapsed, the grate and grills fold onto or are retracted within the firebox, and the entire firebox assembly is stowed in a sealed grill housing. The top and bottom portions of the grill housing mate to form a sealed container-like structure for convenient transportability or storage.

Abstract: An improved low shear extrusion and dehydrating apparatus (10) and method is provided for the continuous extrusion of various starting materials (e.g., starch-bearing grains or starch fractions thereof, proteinaceous materials and/or nutraceuticals) to yield improved products, especially cold water swelling or soluble starch products. The invention is also useful for forming pre-gelled starch products and for processing starch-bearing materials using little or no surfactant. The apparatus (10) preferably includes an elongated extruder (18) together with a tubular die assembly (20) coupled to the outlet of the extruder barrel (32), wherein the volumetric ratio of the die assembly (20) to the free volume of the extruder (18) is at least about 2, and the ratio of die assembly retention time to the extruder retention time is at least about 5.

Abstract: A device for sensing the presence of cooking utensils on a cooking hob comprising at least one heat source. The device includes an electrically conductive coil turn fed by the signal generated by an oscillator. The oscillator is preferably a voltage-controlled oscillator generating square wave signals. The coil turn operates, when utensil sensing occurs, to modify the cut-off frequency of a low pass filter (L/R) fed by said oscillator (VCO).

Abstract: A housing of a device for the treatment of gases hotter than the ambient temperature, in particular flue gases, comprises an exterior frame made of supports. At the interior side of said frame an insulating wall is arranged which comprises an interior side metal sheet and an exterior side metal sheet, wherein insulating material having an extremely low heat conductivity is arranged between said metal sheets.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining a desired nip pressure distribution profile in the cross direction of a paper web. The paper web passes through a nip, the latter defined by at least one elastomer covered roll, the covered roll having polarizable particles or magnetic particles embedded therein. A plurality of spaced plates or spaced coils each generate a local field (respectively electric or magnetic) which acts upon individual spaced zones or regions along the covered roll. The field may thus be an electric field or a magnetic filed. The effect of the field is to change the effective modulus of the elastomer by acting on the particles. In turn, this action varies the nip pressure pulse as to exert a desired pressure at each of a plurality of spaced zones or regions on the paper web, to thus create or process a more uniform product in the nip. The method and apparatus can be used, for example, to improve web moisture profiles in the press section of paper machines.

Abstract: In a method for measuring cups given the engraving of printing cylinders in an electronic engraving machine, an engraver of an engraving member engraves cups into a printing cylinder. The geometric dimensions of the cups represent actual hue values. A video image of the cups is picked up. The contour of a cup is determined in the video image and the geometric dimensions of the cup are determined in that the cup contour is measured. For this purpose, the cup contour in the picked up video image is smoothed by a simulation with a spline function or a general polynomial function, and the geometric dimensions of the cup are determined on the basis of the smoothed cup contour. The determined geometric dimensions are the transverse diagonal, the longitudinal diagonal, the through-cut, the web width, the cup surface or the cup volume.

Abstract: To pertinently control perforation and transfer (setting) of stencil sheet in correspondence with respectives of plural printing drums, perforated stencil sheet is set to plural printing drums by moving single stencil making unit, position of the stencil making unit is detected by position sensors and shield plate, printing drum information of ink color supplied to the respective printing drums is detected by printing drum information detecting means with regard to respective printing drums, the stencil making unit is made to be on standby as it is at a position of setting drum to which the stencil making unit has been transferred finally after finishing to transfer stencil sheet to the respective printing drums. At successive stencil making operation, stencil making instruction information expediting perforation to the operator, is displayed from the printing drum at standby position to displaying means.

Abstract: A sheet discharge unit has a transfer passage 3 for transferring a sheet of printed paper 2 toward a sheet receiving tray 20, and a pair of left and right jump wings 11,11 located at both sides of the transfer passage 3 and moveable between a guide position in which the jump wings protrude upward from a bottom wall of the transfer passage and await position in which the jump wings are retracted below the bottom wall. In one embodiment, each of the jump wings 11,11 comprises divided wing components laterally spaced in a direction S perpendicular to a sheet transfer direction T. In an alternative embodiment, each of the jump wings comprises a unitary body having a plurality of convex segments and a plurality of concave recesses which are alternately located in the direction S.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for operating a sheet-fed offset press so as to reduce the occurrence of spoilage caused by nonuniform printing. In this method, the timing of start of oscillating motion of oscillating rollers is regulated. Also, the present invention provides an oscillation mechanism for a sheet-fed offset press, in which less failure and wear occur, and a smaller force is required to accomplish a changeover from transmission to stoppage of oscillation and vice versa.

Abstract: An ink bottle set-up device having a bottle set-up body 2 formed with a bottle set-up chamber 3 and a projection-guide recess formed along a direction in which an ink bottle 100 having a positioning projection 103 is inserted. An ink bottle erroneous set-up prevention mechanism 6 is located on the bottle set-up body and comprises a detecting lever 9 moveable in protruding or retracting positions and urged toward the protruding position, a slide member 12 slidable in bottle inserting or bottle discharging directions for selectively allowing the ink bottle to be inserted through the bottle set-up chamber when the positioning projection in alignment with the projection-guide recess is detected by the detecting lever, and a bottle stopper segment 14 secured to the slide member 12 and protruding into the bottle set-up chamber 3.

Abstract: A device for fastening flexible printing plates to a plate cylinder of rotary printing machines is provided. The plate cylinder has a channel, a channel gap, and a bore. The channel accommodates bent ends of the printing plate. The bore in the channel is axially parallel to the plate cylinder. Two segmented shafts are arranged pivotally in the bore and have leaf springs which are fastened to the segmented shafts. The leaf springs can be brought into contact with the ends inserted into the channel. The channel has at least one lateral recess or cut out in an area which connects the bore radially to a channel gap on the periphery of the plate cylinder, and is at a distance form the channel gap. The end of the printing plate which is bent approximately at a right angle, is provided with a shaped element projecting in the direction of recesses in the channel. The shaped element of the end inserted into the channel can be moved into the recess by bringing the leaf springs into pressure contact with the bent end.

Abstract: Passenger boats are mounted on an undercarriage assembly that includes rail-mounted centering wheels. The passenger boats are accelerated by linear induction drive motors mounted on a guide rail structure. Thrust is applied to the racing boats by magnetically conductive reaction plates that are attached to the undercarriage assembly and are movable through linear flux slots formed in the induction stators of the linear induction motors. The submerged guide track structure is arranged in various closed loop courses, including “Figure-Eight,” an hour-glass, serpentine and oval patterns, as well as parallel guide track structures that extend between a launch station and a return station. A dual “Figure-Eight” watercourse includes a simulated jump ramp and an underground tunnel arrangement. In the continuous loop guide structure, two or more boats are launched and separation is maintained by a safety block arrangement.

Abstract: A vehicle for use on a live line. The vehicle is provided with three coplanar traction wheels mounted on a frame and spaced along a first longitudinal axis parallel to the live line and above therefrom. The vehicle is also provided with two movable coplanar pressure wheels mounted on the frame and spaced along a second longitudinal axis parallel to the line and below therefrom. The vehicle has a driving motor mounted on the frame, for driving the traction wheels. The motor has a source of energy, such as batteries. The vehicle has a pressure mechanism mounted on the frame and coupled to the pressure wheels, for maintaining the line squeezed between the traction wheels and the pressure wheels. The vehicle has a control mechanism coupled to the motor for controlling the motor. Thereby, in use, the vehicle is moved along the line. The vehicle can also be provided with a de-icing tool. The de-icing tool has a collar with two parts opening and closing around the line.

Abstract: An accumulator mechanism for stopping a carrier on an inverted power and free conveyor system when it approaches a stopped preceding carrier. A pivot arm on a leading trolley for each carrier has a retractable trolley dog which is normally driven by a chain dog projecting from a drive chain. The accumulator mechanism includes an actuator lever which is pivoted to mounting plates and carriers a cam roller that acts in a cam slot formed in a pivot plate. When the actuating lever is pivoted due to contacting a preceding carrier, the cam roller acts within the contour of the slot to pivotally displace the pivot plate. The pivot plate then pulls a lift link upwardly to pull on the pivot arm and retract the trolley dog from the chain dog. The slot is arranged to effect lost motion of the cam roller in the slot to accommodate over travel.

Abstract: A gate assembly for a railroad hopper car is disclosed. The gate assembly includes a frame defining a discharge opening, a slidable door mounted on the frame for movement between a closed position, wherein the door closes the discharge opening, and an open position, wherein the door is positioned to allow commodity to pass through the discharge opening. Either of two modular components can be arranged in combination with the door on the gate assembly to allow the gate assembly to be conditioned for either pneumatic and/or gravitational discharge or gravitational discharge only of commodity from the gate assembly. A drive mechanism including an apparatus for selectively engaging either the door or either of the modular elements arranged in association with the door is mounted on the frame of the gate assembly, with the apparatus of the drive mechanism preferably being lost motion connected to the door.

Abstract: A gate assembly for a railroad hopper car is disclosed. The gate assembly includes a frame defining a discharge opening, a slidable door mounted on the frame for movement between a closed position, wherein the door closes the discharge opening, and an open position, wherein the door is positioned to allow commodity to pass through the discharge opening. Either of two modular components can be arranged in combination with the door on the gate assembly to allow the gate assembly to be conditioned for either pneumatic and/or gravitational discharge or gravitational discharge only of commodity from the gate assembly. A drive mechanism including an apparatus for selectively engaging either the door or either of the modular elements arranged in association with the door is mounted on the frame of the gate assembly, with the apparatus of the drive mechanism preferably being lost motion connected to the door.

Abstract: A loading car for bulk materials includes a vehicle undercarriage frame defining a longitudinal axis and including first and second car frames connected to one another by a coupler. Rail undercarriages are provided for supporting the vehicle undercarriage frame for mobility on a railroad track. A carrying frame is mounted on the first and the second car frame by means of swivel rings, with a storage box built on the carrying frame. A bottom conveyor belt having a discharge end is disposed in the storage box, and a transfer conveyor belt extending at an angle to a horizontal plane is associated with the discharge end of the bottom conveyor belt. Disposed between the storage box and the first and second car frames are support members, each of which including two hydraulic cylinders positioned opposite one another transversely to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Ternary pigment compositions of compounds of formulae (I), (II) and (III) 1

Abstract: A water-permeable solid material is provided having water-permeable properties together with strength for use as paving materials by effective use of so-called “clinker ash” generated from thermal power plants and the like. In addition, in order to prevent abrasions when pedestrians fall in the case in which a solid material is used as a paving material, a water-permeable solid material is provided having a smooth surface in which the surface irregularities is reduced as small as possible. Coal ash is used as an aggregate, and the particles of the coal ash are tightly bound with each other by a small amount of cement using the pozzolana property of the coal ash. In addition, an inorganic material is interposed between particles of the coal ash, which is used as an aggregate, so as to improve the strength while ensuring voids.

Abstract: A load supporting assembly structured to support and retain cargo intended to be loaded on and transported by a common commercial carrier, such as an aircraft, wherein the supporting assembly may be in the form of a pallet or alternatively a container having a base panel, side panel and one or more additional panels. Each of the panels include a peripheral flange or like portion extending at least along a majority of the length thereof, which is disposed and configured for fixed attachment to one or more track segments or one or more attachment members. The attachment members are disposed and structured to interconnect the various panels into a predetermined shape, without the use of conventional fasteners or connectors, dependent on the type of common carrier in which the load supporting container assembly is to be loaded.

Abstract: An armoring system for vehicles, vessels, aircraft and structures. A plurality of discus-shaped disks are individually wrapped in a containment wrap. The wrapped disks are laid out in an imbricated pattern and adhered in place between a pair of fibrous layers. In one embodiment an elastomer layer is used to seal the panel to prevent degradation from exposure to environmental factors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a refractory ceramic plate and an accompanying wall structure for an incinerator, for example a garbage incinerator.

Abstract: A system for collecting ultra fine fly ash from a dry fly ash removal system includes providing a bagfilter transport conduit for each bagfilter of the system. A vacuum shutoff valve is positioned in each bagfilter transport conduit The bagfilter transport conduit is selectively connected to an educator that is, in turn, selectively connected to a blower. The blower creates a vacuum flow in the transport conduit that draws the ultra fine fly ash from the bagfilter and deposits the ultra fine fly ash in a collection bin. This system allows a dry fly ash removal system to segregate fly ash by size and separately collect the ultra fine fly ash from the larger fly ash particles. The ultra fine fly ash has been found to be commercially valuable as a concrete admixture filler in various applications.

Abstract: A process for the incineration of particulate solids, especially biological waste matter with low caloric value, feeds the solids into a combustion chamber of a furnace together with a sub-stoichiometric amount of fresh air to control the rate of combustion and to inhibit the formation of sintered ash. The furnace for implementing the process can be a cyclone furnace having a primary combustion chamber with a first feed inlet for the solids and air and a second air inlet positioned between the first inlet and an exhaust gas outlet. A supply tube extends through the exhaust gas outlet of the primary combustion chamber to supply a source of fresh air at ambient temperature to maintain the primary combustion chamber at a desired temperature. The fresh air maintains the furnace temperature at least at about 850° C. and generally at about 850° C. to less than about 1100° C.

Abstract: A method of applying liquid anhydrous ammonia to soil is disclosed as including the step of pressurizing anhydrous ammonia received from a source. The pressurized anhydrous ammonia is conducted to a plurality of terminal outlets, wherein each of the outlets is configured to maintain a back pressure and thereby the liquid state of the anhydrous ammonia. The anhydrous ammonia is discharged from the plurality of terminal outlets to thereby contact the soil.

Abstract: A sewing machine needle includes a blade; a shank extending from one blade end and adapted to be clamped in a sewing machine; a needle point provided at the other blade end; an elevation provided on the blade adjacent the needle point; and an eye traversing the blade adjacent the needle point. The eye has a first eye end oriented toward the shank; a second eye end oriented toward the said point; a thread inlet side; and a thread outlet side. The elevation is situated on the thread outlet side between the needle point and the second eye end. The eye is bordered by two facing eye walls each having a respective edge at the thread outlet side. Each edge extends from the first eye end to the second eye end such that it is recessed from an imaginary straight line connecting the first eye end with the elevation.

Abstract: In a first embodiment the combination boat dry dock and boat launching apparatus includes two planar dock sections pivotally connected to each other. The dock sections include cradle straps for supporting the hull of a boat with the longitudinal axis of the boat in substantial parallel relationship with the pivot axis of the dock sections. Each dock section is supported by two pontoons attached at proximal and distal portions of the dock sections. The two pontoons at respective proximal portions of the dock sections may be flooded with water to allow the proximal portions of the dock sections to descend below water level for launching of a boat. Air is introduced into these two pontoons for expelling water and thereby raising the dock sections above the water level. In a second embodiment, a constant buoyancy pontoon is mounted to each dock section intermediate the other pontoons. A pump and conduits transfer water between the proximal and distal pontoons of each dock section.

Abstract: An improved air-intake system and engine layout for use on a small watercraft provides for a lower temperature, vapor fuel/air charge with less water vapor content. The watercraft includes an engine-air intake system incorporating an air-intake box which inhibits the engine from intaking water present in the engine compartment, especially during high speed maneuvering. An extended flywheel case is also provided that prevents water located in the engine compartment from being sprayed by moving parts directly into the air-intake box. Furthermore, the improved air-intake system of the present invention incorporates external air-intake valves that prevent water from entering the engine and propulsion compartments through the air intakes while the watercraft is in an inverted.

Abstract: A boat featuring an autopilot-based steering and maneuvering system. The steering system uses a specially integrated autopilot that remains engaged unless the operator is actively commanding the boat to change course. For example, in a boat in which steering is performed using a joystick, course changes can be effected simply by moving (e.g., twisting) the joystick. That movement automatically disengages the autopilot, allowing the operator to achieve the course change. When the operator has completed the course change and released the joystick, a centering spring returns it to a neutral position and the autopilot automatically reengages. In the improved maneuvering system, the autopilot is used for controlling the direction of a waterjet boat during very low speed (e.g., less than 4 knots) maneuvers, such as docking. The autopilot controls the steering system, e.g.

Abstract: A hollow plastic body, particularly a plastic ball, has antistatic properties and a melting temperature above that found in floating covers of petrochemical storage tanks, therefore, enabling use of the body in flotation of oil tank covers without danger of melting and without danger of developing a static charge followed by subsequent hazardous discharge. The balls are constructed of a non-foamed high-density plastic resin, HDPE (high density polyethylene), mixed with an antistatic additive or agent. The antistatic agent is effective to convert the electrically insulating plastic to an electrically conductive material which does not develop a static electrical charge. Only a relatively small amount of the antistatic agent, less than one percent by weight, is sufficient to provide the desired antistatic property to ball while having no more than a minimal effect on the melting temperature, thereby to retain the integrity of the flotation in the presence of the elevated temperature.

Abstract: A method for doping a melt with a dopant has the melt being provided in a crucible. The dopant is introduced into a vessel and the vessel is immersed in the melt, the dopant being transferred into the melt through an opening which forms in the vessel. There is also an apparatus which comprises a vessel containing the dopant and a device which is connected to the vessel, for lowering the vessel into a melt and for lifting the vessel out of the melt, the vessel being provided with an opening which is blocked by a closure piece which is of the same type of material as the melt and melts when it is brought into contact with the melt.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon wafer with robust gettering sites and a low concentration of surface defects is provided. The method comprises adding polycrystalline silicon to a crucible; adding a nitrogen-containing dopant to the crucible; heating the crucible to form a nitrogen-doped silicon melt; pulling a silicon crystal from the melt according to the Czochralski technique; forming a silicon wafer from the silicon crystal, wherein the silicon wafer includes a front surface and a back surface; placing the silicon wafer into a deposition chamber; heating the wafer; and simultaneously depositing an epitaxial first film of a desired compound onto the front surface of the wafer and a second film of the desired compound onto the back surface of the wafer.

Abstract: A method is described for growing at least one silicon carbide (SiC) single crystal by sublimation of a SiC source material. Silicon, carbon and a SiC seed crystal are introduced into a growing chamber. Then, the SiC source material is produced from the silicon and the carbon in a synthesis step that takes place before the actual growing. The growing of the SiC single crystal is then carried out immediately after the synthesis step. The carbon used is a C powder with a mean grain diameter of greater than 10 &mgr;m.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a device of silicon carbide (SiC) and a single crystal thin film, which are wide band gap semiconductor materials and can be applied to semiconductor devices such as high power devices, high temperature devices, and environmentally resistant devices, is provided by heating a silicon carbide crystal in an oxygen atmosphere to form a silicon (di)oxide thin film on a silicon carbide crystal surface, and etching the silicon (di)oxide thin film formed on the silicon carbide crystal surface to prepare a clean SiC surface. The above SiC device comprises a clean surface having patterned steps and terraces, has a surface defect density of 108 cm−2 or less, or has at least a layered structure in which an n-type silicon carbide crystal is formed on an n-type Si substrate surface.

Abstract: The present invention is treatment apparatus for performing predetermined treatment by exposing substrate to gaseous atmosphere, and comprises a chamber for receiving substrate, liquid line for supplying liquid for forming the gaseous atmosphere, liquid flow control device for controlling an amount of liquid flow of liquid line, vaporizer for vaporizing liquid supplied from the liquid line, carrier gas line for supplying carrier gas for carrying gas vaporized in vaporizer, and gas supply line for supplying gas vaporized in vaporizer into chamber while being carried by carrier gas. Since liquid is vaporized by vaporizer while controlling amount of liquid flow of liquid line, it is possible to perform vaporization in a certain amount from certain amount of the liquid and to surely and controllably form gaseous atmosphere with stable concentration, without being influenced by environment.

Abstract: A workpiece 1 is supported on a conveyor 2 through a carrier 3. A supporting portion of the workpiece 1 is vertically and horizontally rotatable to change its position to a floor conveyor position, an overhead conveyor position, and a side conveyor position. The workpiece 1 is first moved to enter a spray booth 30 in the floor conveyor position ({circle over (1)}) and then vertically rotated to the overhead conveyor position where the bottom portion thereof faces upward. An under-side coating is performed on the lower portion of a car body by a spray apparatus 31 for which the nozzle position is situated lower ({circle over (2)}). The workpiece 1 is then horizontally rotated to the side conveyor position where the left-hand side of the car body faces upward and an L-side coating is performed on the left-hand side of the car body by the same spray apparatus 31 as above ({circle over (3)}).

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for forming a thin film of a composite metal compound. Independent targets formed of at least two different metals are sputtered so as to form on a substrate an ultra-thin film of a composite metal or an incompletely-reacted composite metal. The ultra-thin film is irradiated with the electrically neutral, activated species of a reactive gas so as to convert the composite metal or the incompletely-reacted composite metal to a composite metal compound through the reaction of the ultra-thin film with the activated species of the reactive gas. The formation of the ultra-thin film and the conversion to the composite metal compound are sequentially repeated so as to form on the substrate a thin film of the composite metal compound having a desired thickness.

Abstract: semiconductor device, including the step of supplying an oxidizing gas and a nitriding gas onto one main surface of a semiconductor substrate while heating the substrate so as to oxynitride the surface region of the substrate, wherein the supplying step is performed such that the gaseous phase above the main surface of the substrate forms a first region having a substantially uniform temperature in a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate and a second region interposed between the first region and the substrate and having a temperature gradient in a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate such that the temperature is elevated toward the substrate, and the distance from the main surface of the substrate to the interface between the first and second regions is set at 9.5 cm or less.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a plasma processing apparatus wherein plasma is generated in process chamber to treat a sample. Said plasma processing apparatus is further characterized in that multiple closely packed through-holes are formed on the plate installed on the UHF antenna arranged opposite to the sample, an optical transmitter is installed almost in contact with the back of the through-holes, and an optical transmission means is arranged on the other end of said optical transmitter, thereby measuring optical information coming from the sample and plasma through optical transmitter and optical transmission means by means of an measuring instrument. No abnormal discharge or particle contamination occur to through-holes even in long-term discharge process, and no deterioration occurs to the optical performance at the end face of the optical transmitter.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a microelectronic workpiece in a micro-environment is set forth. The apparatus includes a first chamber member having an interior chamber wall and a second chamber member having an interior chamber wall. The first and second chamber members are adapted for relative movement between a loading position in which the first and second chamber members are distal one another and a processing position in which the first and second chamber members are proximate one another to define a processing chamber. At least one workpiece support assembly is disposed between the first and second chamber members for supporting the microelectronic workpiece.

Abstract: To provide a feed carrying apparatus 1 capable of considerably reducing the carrying resisting force at a corner 3a of a pipeline 3 and also capable of considerably reducing the cost of the whole apparatus, and capable of carrying feed S smoothly and efficiently. A corner joint 48 formed on a bent pipe part 51 with a plurality of projections 52 projecting inward is disposed at the corner 3a of the pipeline 3. There is disposed a disk cable tension applying mechanism 271 in which a load corresponding to weight of a weight 277 is loaded to always urge fixed tension against a disk cable 2. At a corner 303a of a pipeline 303 are disposed a drive device 304 having a drive motor 313 connected to a drive sprocket 316 constituting a corner joint 310, or a drive device 404 having a drive sprocket 410 arranged away from an inclined wall 409d within a casing 409 formed with the inclined wall 409d.

Abstract: A blank for forming a multi-sided container suitable for storing and/or shipping live crustaceans, such as lobsters, shrimp, and crayfish is disclosed. The blank has a base member to which one or more thermal conditioning wall members are foldably connected. In addition, one or more infiltration barrier wall members are foldably connected to the base opposite the thermal conditioning wall member or members. The thermal conditioning wall member or members and infiltration wall member or members have partial side wall members extending substantially orthogonally from them in an aligned relationship. Thus, the thermal conditioning wall member and infiltration barrier wall member can be folded to bring their partial side wall members into contact, thereby forming one or more multi-sided containers for live crustaceans.