Abstract: A transparent electromagnetic radiation shield material for placement in front of a display device or other such source of electromagnetic radiation to shield the viewer from electromagnetic radiation while enabling the display to be viewed therethrough is provided, which transparent electromagnetic radiation shield material is produced by the steps of applying to the surface of a transparent base material a resin solution containing a reduction metal, drying the applied solution to form a coating, optionally subjecting the coating to reduction treatment as required, forming an electroless plating layer on the entire surface of the coating while simultaneously blackening the coating, forming a desired resist pattern on the electroless plating layer, and removing portions of the electroless plating layer where no resist is present and blackened portions of the coating thereunder by etching. A metallic salt or a metal complex or particles of a reduced metal particles are used as the reduction metal.

Abstract: A wall panel assembly for use in an office environment includes a wireway which is attached to a wall panel. The wireway includes two side walls, a top wall, a bottom wall and a raceway defining a conduit for electrical power conductors. The raceway is positioned between the side walls and extends between and interconnects the top wall and the bottom wall. The raceway structurally supports the wireway.

Abstract: An electrical block trim assembly that has a mount, a decorative ring, and a separate electrical box is provided. The mount has a base adapted to be secured to an exterior surface of a structure. The mount also has a housing extending from the base with a top portion that has an opening. Exterior covering, or siding, is attached to the exterior surface to surround a portion of the mount. A decorative ring is secured to the mount over the siding to conceal the edges of the siding that are adjacent to the mount. The decorative ring has an inner perimeter that is adjacent to the housing. An electrical box having walls with an upper portion is securely received and retained within the opening. The electrical box is interposed between the exterior surface and the top portion. The electrical box may be constructed of a different material than the mount and decorative ring.

Abstract: A cable comprising at least one conductor and an outer sheath surrounding the conductor(s) includes an integrally molded tab extending from one side of the outer sheath and of a height and thickness enabling a fastener to extend through the tab to secure the cable to a surface or support. The tab may be of a thickness enabling the tab to be nailed, stapled, or screwed through without pre-forming a hole or holes in the tab or alternatively the tab may include pre-formed holes at regular spacings.

Abstract: A flat, surface mounted, flexible, multi-purpose wire is disclosed. The flat wire has a plurality of flat elongated conductors spaced apart in a generally parallel relationship. Each of the flat conductors comprises a plurality of copper layers. An adhesive material separates the flat conductors and an insulation layer surrounds the flat conductors and the adhesive material, with the adhesive material bonding to the insulation layer. A cross-sectional height of the flat conductors and insulation layer is such that the multi-purpose wire will blend in with the surface when painted or after wallpaper is applied.

Abstract: An electrical insulator is produced by coating a molded part of the insulator with a hydrophobic plasma-polymer coating. The plasma-polymer coating is produced by igniting a plasma in a non-polar working gas or a working gas having non-polar groups at a working pressure of between 0.001 Pa (1·10−5 mbar) and 50 Pa (5·10−1 mbar). The electrical power input per chamber volume lies between 0.5 and 5 kW/m3, the gas flow per chamber volume lies between 10 and 1000 sccm/m3. A durable, hard and hydrophobic plasma-polymer coating is created, the quality of which is independent of the material of the molded part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device of the BGA configuration comprising: a wiring layer 2 arranged on a circuit substrate 1 via an insulation layer; a land metal portion 2 formed on the wiring layer 2; a solder resist 4 layered so as to cover the land metal excluding a center portion thereof and the entire surface of the circuit substrate 1; and a solder ball 5 arranged on the land metal portion defined and surrounded by the solder resist 4; wherein the land metal portion 3 has a solder ball contact surface having a groove (or a line-shaped protrusion) 7 extending continuously.

Abstract: A plurality of electronic components having conductive connecting members are surface-mounted to a target surface of a circuit board in a plurality of specified terminal-forming areas each having terminal parts. An anisotropic conductive layer is formed on this target surface so as to span these terminal-forming areas, and the plurality of electronic components are placed on this anisotropic conductive layer individually above the plurality of terminal-forming areas. As the layer is heated, these electronic components are pressed against the layer such that the conductive connecting members of the electronic components become attached to and electrically conductive with corresponding ones of the terminal parts on the circuit board. The anisotropic conductive layer remains electrically insulative elsewhere.

Abstract: A printed circuit board has a conductor path applied to a substrate having an electrically insulating surface, the conductor path preferably being constructed in the shape of a meander and containing connection areas with holes to which small contact plates are applied for the purpose of later bonding with connection leads. The small contact plates are applied in a hard soldering process with the aid of solder paste to the connection areas of the conductor paths and to the surface area of the substrate surface which is made of ceramic and exposed by the holes. It is consequently possible, dispensing with so-called bonding wires, to directly connect connection leads or bonding lugs electrically with the conductor path and mechanically with the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is preferably designed as a measuring resistor, wherein the conductor path is applied as a resistance layer of platinum or platinum group metal in a thin film process to a small ceramic plate of aluminum oxide.

Abstract: A “Gatling gun” via to interconnect circuitry from a first side of a substrate or printed circuit board, to a second side of the substrate or board. The present via structure comprises a center conductor via surrounded by a plurality of ground vias. The plurality of ground vias shield the center conductor via, thus providing electrical isolation for the conductor via from the rest of the circuitry. In one embodiment, the conductor via is electrically connected to a conductive pattern on the substrate by a wire bond.

Abstract: An air-wound, coil-type, passive inductor includes a surface which allows the coil to be picked-up using a vacuum probe of a head of a pick-an-place machine and the surface does not interfere with adjusting the spacing between the loops of the coil for tuning the coil after the coil is attached to a circuit board. Terminal ends of the coil are placed on solder paste on interconnection pads on the circuit board, then the board is heated to reflow the solder, and then washed to remove the flux contained in the solder paste. The surface may be adapted to be removed or at least degraded by the heating, or the washing, or afterwards by a mechanical method of removal without damaging the coil.

Abstract: A roller cone for a rock bit is disclosed. The cone includes a cone substrate and hardfacing applied by a welding process in grooves on the exterior surface of the cone substrate. The cone also includes hardfacing applied by a thermal spraying process to insert lands on the exterior surface of the cone substrate.

Abstract: In a dynamic scale, and a method for controlling a dynamic scale, an item to be weighed is transported by a transport device to a weighing cell. The transport device is operable in a number of different operating modes. At the weighing cell, a measured weight value is obtained, and this measured weight value is subsequently interpreted and, based on the interpretation of the measured weight value, the transport device is switched to a different operating mode, which may include reversing the direction of the transport device so as to permit the item to be re-weighed and subsequently discharged from the scale.

Abstract: An apparatus for weighing a patient while the patient remains in bed including at least one flexible potentiometer mounted on top of a bed or mattress having a known compliance, i.e. known degree of flexure for a given weight, and connected to an electrical system for detecting and measuring the resistance of the potentiometer, so as to indicate the weight of the patient. The flexible potentiometer may also be adhered to a sheet of plastic, such as Mylar, and placed upon the bed like a protective sheet for the bed. The apparatus may include a multiple of flexible potentiometers. Further, the device to which the flexible potentiometer is connected may be used to help control servo mechanisms in medication dispensing devices such as infusion pumps and/or hemodialysis machines (artificial kidneys).

Abstract: A support device for a weighing cell is mounted on one or more support posts resting on support springs that are connected to a stationary chassis and are pretensioned with an upward force. In case of a downward-directed shock, the support springs will yield to the inertial shock force and allow the weighing cell to move downward. The support posts can lift off from their resting places on the support springs, but are constrained by guide members to a limited range of upward vertical movement. A balance equipped with the support device has a low profile height and protects the weighing cell from downward- as well as upward-directed shocks.

Abstract: A writing tablet for allowing handwritten material on paper form in which the script input surface which electronically digitize the script, is marked by illumination to allow proper alignment of the document to receive the script.

Abstract: A launch vehicle for boats or other small watercraft which includes a partially submersible frame movably mounted on wheels. The wheels are provided with all-terrain type tires which enable the frame to move over rocks and uneven ground or lake beds, without becoming bogged down in muck or lake bed sediments. The frame supports a boat bunk configured to engagingly support the bottom sides of a boat hull thereon during its transportation and storage, as well as a walkway adapted to assume a generally horizontal orientation so as to enable a user to stand or rest thereon. The walkway has a lateral width of at least one foot, and extends substantially the longitudinal length of the boat launch vehicle. When horizontal, the walkway is positioned vertically spaced above the bunk at a location selected to locate above the lake surface of the lake when the bunk is sufficiently submerged to enable the boat to be floated free from or positioned over the bunk.

Abstract: A radiator mounting arrangement for a work machine is described. The radiator mounting arrangement includes a work machine having a forward end, a rearward end, and a lateral sidewall interposed between the forward end and the rearward end. The radiator mounting arrangement also includes a radiator having an inner side edge. The inner side edge has an upper end and a lower end . The radiator is secured to the work machine such that (i) the inner side edge of the radiator is positioned adjacent to the lateral sidewall, (ii) the upper end of the inner side edge is positioned a distance D1 from the lateral sidewall, (iii) the lower end of the inner side edge is positioned a distance D2 from the lateral sidewall, and (iv) the distance D1 is greater than the distance D2 so that the inner side edge and the lateral sidewall define an angle &agr; therebetween.

Abstract: A snowmobile exhaust system is provided. One aspect of the invention includes a snowmobile comprising an engine that has at least one exhaust pipe configured to carry warm exhaust gases from the engine. At least one seat is coupled to the snowmobile, and the exhaust pipe is arranged so that the seat is thermal communication with at least a portion of the exhaust pipe. Another aspect of the invention includes a snowmobile having a front section and a back section, with an engine located in the front section and an exhaust pipe is coupled to the engine. The snowmobile is configured so that the operator is positioned behind the engine, with the exhaust pipe terminating behind the operator.

Abstract: This is a new motor-driven transport trolley comprising a frame with a rotating plate on top, having two sets of wheels, right and left, and two or more hydraulic motors which move the two sets of wheels separately to obtain differentiated drive. The motors are hydraulic and are fed by a pressure pump; the motion is differently distributed to the various hydraulic motors by means of valves connected to a control unit which controls the operation of the hydraulic motors, the pressure pump and the valves. This control unit is controlled by a push-button panel connected to it by means of an electric cable, infrared rays or radio waves, etc.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is provided including an internal combustion engine mounted in a forward portion of the vehicle for driving engagement of a pair of wheels attached to a front axle. An electric motor is mounted in a rear portion of the vehicle for driving engagement of another pair of wheels through a rear axle. A set of batteries for powering the electric motor are stored in the trunk of the vehicle or beneath the trunk floor. A controller is used for controlling the driving engagement of the pair of axles by the electric motor and the internal combustion engine. More particularly, the electric motor is automatically operated to drive the rear wheels when increased horsepower is demanded such as during heavy acceleration or high speed cruising or when enhanced traction is required due to a slip condition.

Abstract: A wheel hub drive includes a stationary hub carrier, a rotational hub, a hydrostatic axial piston motor using the swashplate construction fastened to the hub drive and in a direct drive connection with the hub, and a brake connected directly between the hub carrier and the hub. To achieve the smallest possible dimensions of the hub drive, the axial piston motor has an external bearing cylinder block and a motor shaft that is free of lateral forces and is rotationally synchronously coupled with the hub. The hub has a separate bearing system for mounting in the hub carrier. A bearing system is radially between a central bearing journal of the hub and a bearing segment connected with or formed on the hub. The bearing system is preferably formed of two helical roller bearings in an O-arrangement. The brake is located radially outside and axially inside the area of the bearing system. A flange provided on the hub for fastening at least one wheel rim has a companion drum that covers the brake.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for a motor vehicle includes a louver tube having an intake end and an exhaust end. An outer tube, consisting of a frustoconical portion and a cylindrical portion, is concentrically arranged around the louver tube. A plurality of louvers and associated louver holes in the louver tube scoop a portion of gasses from the louver tube into the outer tube. An end cap, which includes an exhaust exit hole in its center, fits into an exhaust end of the outer tube. A plurality of end cap holes are arranged so that gasses leaving the outer tube flow through them. A restrictor disk between the end cap and louver tube includes a central hole coaxial with the louver tube and the exhaust exit hole of the end cap. Restrictor disk holes are in the restrictor disk between the central hole and its perimeter so that gasses leaving the louver tube flow through the central hole and the restrictor disk holes as they leave the muffler.

Abstract: A double-walled-structure, such as a silencer for use in a ventilation duct system, has a perforated inner tube, an outer casing which is arranged at a distance from the inner tube and encloses the same, and a tubular, sound-absorbing element which is arranged between the inner tube and the casing. The tubular element has an increasing density radially outwards from the center axis of the inner tube. The silencer is produced by the sound-absorbing element being arranged on the inner tube, and the inner tube with the sound-absorbing element arranged thereon being enclosed in the surrounding outer casing.

Abstract: In the lower area of a ladder two pull or pressure rods are arranged on either side in a pivoting manner. Via sliding sleeves and joints said rods are joined to telescopic support elements which are each arranged at the level of an upright of the ladder. For greater stability the telescopic support elements are connected to each other via an auxiliary bar whose length can also be adjusted.

Abstract: There is disclosed a ladder with side supports or stiles of flexible textile material and spaced rung members enclosed in tubular sleeves whose opposed ends are secured to the stiles.

Abstract: An actuator assembly including an actuator drivingly connected by a transmission path to an output member, the actuator being capable of moving the output member in a first direction from a rest condition to an actuated condition, and also being capable of moving the output member in a second direction from the actuated condition to the rest condition. The actuator assembly further including an energy storing means, in which movement of the output member by the actuator in the first direction is assisted by the energy storing means and movement of the output member in the second direction by the actuator stores energy in the energy storing means.

Abstract: A direct drive apparatus for an elevator wherein a movable part of the direct drive, particularly a linear motor, is connected with an elevator car or counterweight for transmission of compression and tension in the travel direction by a tension/compression strut with settable damping properties. The tension/compression strut includes first and second rods which lie on a longitudinal axis of the strut and extend into opposite ends of a sleeve. First and second nuts are threadably received in the ends of the sleeve. First and second spring elements are positioned in the sleeve abutting the first and second nuts respectively. A central spring element is positioned between first and second spring plates which abut the first and second spring elements respectively. Each rod extends through the respective nut, spring element and spring plate into the central spring element and is attached the respective spring plate to optimize the oscillation and body sound insulation.

Abstract: An improved method for final balancing a brake drum determines the location and length of a first constant depth cut and a second constant depth cut along the squealer band which are necessary to correct the imbalance, and using a cutting machine, makes the first and second constant depth cuts at the predetermined location and for the predetermined length along the squealer band to produce a final balanced brake drum. Preferably, the cutting machine is a milling machine which produces a plunge type entrance/exit cut. It is a further feature of the invention to provide a feather type entrance/exit cut to reduce the stress concentrations, and produce a cosmetically more appealing final balanced brake drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to hydrodynamic torque converter comprising a pump wheel which is arranged inside of a housing, a turbine wheel, a stator, a torque converter lockup clutch and a torsional vibration damper. The turbine wheel has a turbine hub which is axially and rigidly mounted on a drive hub of the torque converter in an axial direction to the drive hub by means of at least one axial bearing. The turbine hub is mounted in a radial direction by means of a radial bearing. A connection with circumferential backlash is provided between the turbine hub and the drive hub by means of a disengaging gear. The invention also provides a rotationally fixed connection by means of an engaging gear located between the input component of the torsional vibration damper and the turbine hub, whereby the engaging gear and the disengaging gear are arranged on an essentially same axial position and radially within one another.

Abstract: The invention includes a bill processing unit into which a bill is fed and in which the bill is discriminated. The bill that has been discriminated and approved by the bill processing unit is received and stored by a storage unit. The bill processing unit and the storage unit are separated by a partition. A passage opening is formed in the partition through which the bill passes. According to the invention, even if the bill processing unit is destroyed, the bills in the storage unit may not be stolen. That is, protection against steal may be improved.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for the delivery, holding, storing, and dispensing of coins and the like from coin-operated machine, such as a gaming machine into which coins are deposited and, when an award is indicated, coins are dispensed as all or part of an award or prize is disclosed. After depositing coins in the coin slot of the gaming machine, the coins are deposited into one or more coin hoppers located in the front or the rear, or the top or bottom, or to the left or right of the coin counting and moving mechanism in the slot machine. Once deposited into the coin hoppers, the coins can then be dispensed as awards to the gaming machine customer, or, alternatively, further deposited into a coin drop consisting of one or more containers, such as coin bags, mounted beneath the coin hoppers on a motorized carousel thereby improving security and minimizing customer play interruption on payout and coin service intervals.

Abstract: A currency evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the bills in the stack. The device includes an input receptacle for receiving a stack of bills to be evaluated and a single output receptacle for receiving the bills after they have been evaluated. A transport mechanism transports the bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the output receptacle along a transport path. The device further includes a discriminating unit that evaluates the bills. The discriminating unit comprises two detectors positioned along the transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacle. The detectors are disposed on opposite sides of the transport path so that they are disposed adjacent to opposite sides of the bills. The discriminating unit counts and determines the denomination of the bills. The evaluation device also includes means for flagging a bill when the denomination of the bill is not determined by the discriminating unit.

Abstract: A coin separator and rejector is described. One or more magnets are positioned in a coin race to reject ferrous coins, slugs, tokens, and the like before they can be completely inserted through the coin entry slot. A coin retaining member is disposed in the coin entry portion of a coin race adjacent to and downstream of the magnet. A ferrous coin, token or slug inserted into the coin slot is immediately attracted by the magnet and forced against the coin retaining member and blocked from proceeding down the race.

Abstract: A machine for conveying and moving into position tubes (124), the machine including a chute (42) with a vertical feed station for said tubes, conveyor belts (12) and a motor (31) for moving said conveyor belts, characterized in that said conveyor belts have two areas, namely an area (121) for loading said tubes and an area (122) for positioning said tubes, and a longitudinal recess co-operating with pressing means (44) for inserting said tubes into said positioning area during longitudinal movement of said belts under said chute (42).

Abstract: An oscillatory drive unit for use in an oscillating system to be oscillated substantially at the resonance point of the oscillating system, wherein the oscillating system includes a mass to be oscillated and a countermass to which the mass is connected by resilient coupling members. The oscillatory drive unit includes a piston-cylinder-component that is operatively connected to the mass and the countermass. The piston-cylinder-component includes a cylinder chamber and a piston. The piston is arranged for reciprocal movement between a first end position and a second end position. Gas is introduced under pressure into the cylinder chamber within an energizing range of piston positions defined by a first energizing position and a second energizing position of the piston, and gas is vented from the chamber within a venting range of piston positions defined by a first venting position and a second venting position of the piston.

Abstract: A continuous conveying apparatus of an unified going/returning way type in which tread faces can be turned around with driving elements (chains or the like) on both sides of the tread faces maintained. A movable member having tread faces is turned helicoidally by 180° around an axis which extends in a plane parallel to the reference plane of the tread faces and is inclined at an angle of 45° with respect to the traveling direction. Then, the movable member travels horizontally and turned helicoidally by 180° around another axis which is inclined oppositely to the aforementioned axis. Thus, the movable member travels in the direction opposite to the going direction.

Abstract: A system and method for purifying liquefied corrosive gases of metallic impurities is described. The principle for this purification method relies on vapor-phase transfilling the vapor phase from a source container into a receiving container. This method has been observed to decrease metal concentrations by a factor of at least 1000 and, decreases the metallic impurity levels in the resulting condensate. The vapor transfer is accomplished by controlled differential pressure rather than mechanical pumping, thereby generating no particle or metal impurities.

Abstract: An apparatus for a discharge treatment, comprising

Abstract: A black matrix material for increasing resolution and contrast of field emission displays is disclosed. The black matrix material is preferably deposited by electrophoresis in the interstitial regions between phosphor pixels of the faceplate. By this technique, high resolution and/or small surface area field emission displays may be manufactured. The black matrix material does not brown when subjected to the conditions associated with the manufacture of field emission displays, is chemically inert and remains stable under vacuum conditions and electron bombardment. The black matrix material is selected from boron carbide, silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, vanadium carbide and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides processes for making stoichiometric, highly electrically resistant and crystalline gas-sensing layer of SnO2 thin-film for stable detection of reducing gases. It also provides processes for making stoichiometric and crystalline thin film CuO catalytic layer for the detection of dilute sulfur compound gases. The sensing layer is made using dual ion beam sputtering, where an argon ion beam sputters targets comprising Sn or its oxides, and a pure or highly concentrated oxygen ion beam is simultaneously deposited on a substrate. It also provides processes for making stoichiometric and crystalline thin film CuO catalytic layer for detection of dilute sulfur compound gases. The catalytic layer is made using dual ion beam sputtering, where an argon ion beam sputters targets comprising Cu or its oxides, and a pure or highly concentrated oxygen ion beam is simultaneously deposited on a substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated, fully automated, high-throughput system for two-dimensional electrophoresis comprised of gel-making machines, gel processing machines, gel compositions and geometries, gel handling systems, sample preparation systems, software and methods. The system is capable of continuous operation at high-throughput to allow construction of large quantitative data sets.

Abstract: Electroplating methods using an electroplating bath containing metal ions and a suppressor additive, an accelerator additive, and a leveler additive, together with controlling the current density applied to a substrate, avoid defects in plated films on substrates having features with a range of aspect ratios, while providing good filling and thickness distribution. The methods include, in succession, applying DC cathodic current densities optimized to form a conformal thin film on a seed layer, to provide bottom-up filling, preferentially on features having the largest aspect ratios, and to provide conformal plating of all features and adjacent field regions. Including a leveling agent in the electroplating bath produces films with better quality after subsequent processing.

Abstract: An electrolytic production of sodium persulfate in a decreased number of steps with low unit power cost is described. Sodium persulfate is caused to crystallize by the reaction between an anode product and sodium hydroxide. The resulting sodium persulfate slurry is separated into a mother liquor and sodium persulfate crystals which are recovered and dried to obtain product sodium persulfate. In the process of the invention, ammonia liberated in the reaction-type crystallization of sodium persulfate is recovered into a cathode product, which is then neutralized by sodium hydroxide and/or ammonia. The neutralized solution is combined with sodium sulfate recovered from the mother liquor after recovering the sodium persulfate crystals and reused as a part of the starting material for an anolyte feed solution.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a wire, particularly a sawtooth wire for all-steel sawtooth wire card clothings, wherein the surface of a wire-shaped intermediate product, such as a wire already provided with sawteeth, is smoothened in an electropolishing process in an electrolyte bath containing an electrolyte. A relative movement is produced between the electrolyte and the intermediate product during the electropolishing process. The apparatus includes a device for producing a relative movement between the electrolyte and the intermediate product contained in the electrolyte bath.

Abstract: An article, such as an artist's canvas (12), having at least one touch sensitive area (14) on its surface is carried in a device (10) comprising a base (16), side walls (18, 19, 20, 21), and a cross-member (22) extending across the device (10) in a position spaced from the base (16). A plurality of contact pins (24) are carried by the cross-member (22) and extend towards the base (16). The location of the contact pins (24) on the cross-member (22) can be adjusted, thereby to enable the contact pins (24) to make contact with the article (12) at positions spaced from the touch sensitive area (14).

Abstract: A case for acoustic and electrical sound instruments and including bottom and cover sections hingedly connectable with each other, a fastener for releasably securing the cover section to the other bottom section, and a least one retaining band connectable to the bottom section for releasably securing a sound instrument in the case.

Abstract: A container for filling a predetermined quantity of filling product, in particular pasty tooth filler masses, has a cylindrical base body with two oppositely lying hollow spaces and a connection piece lying therebetween. The hollow spaces are closable with snap lids so that hygiene and where appropriate sterility of the filling product are guaranteed.

Abstract: In surface packaging of thin resin packages such as surface mount resin molded memory ICs or the like, cracks of the package occur frequently at a solder reflow step where thermal impact is applied to the package because the resin has absorbed moisture before packaging. To solve this problem, the devices are sealed, by heat-sealing, in a bag moisture-tight at an assembly step of the resin molded devices where the resin is still dry, and are taken out from the bags immediately before the execution of surface packaging. The devices are packaged in a moisture-proofing bag made of a laminate film, and a desiccant is sealed, by heat-sealing the bag, in the moisture-proofing bag together with the, e.g., surface mount semiconductor device having a plastic package encapsulating the semiconductor device. A caution is provided for the bag, that the devices should be presented from moisture absorption after opening the bag.

Abstract: A disc package for retaining a disc includes a retention panel having a first surface in substantial contact with a face of the disc when the disc is inserted within the package, and a cover panel which is contiguous with the retention panel and which shares with the retention panel a common edge. The common edge includes a fold line about which the cover panel is folded so as to be substantially superposed with the retention panel. The disc package also includes a disc retainment section positioned proximate a second edge of the retention panel and overlaying at least a portion of the first surface of the retention panel. At least a portion of the disc retainment section is attached to the first surface of the retention panel to enable at least a portion of the disc to be positioned between the retention panel and the engagement section to retain the disc in the disc package.