Abstract: The method of manufacturing a hydrogen-absorbing alloy electrode comprises: a step of reducing an oxide or hydroxide residing on the surface of a hydrogen-absorbing alloy particle while the alloy particle is held in an atmosphere of a hydrogen gas maintained at a temperature where absorbing of the hydrogen gas does not substantially occur; a step of naturally cooling atmosphere from the temperature where absorbing of the hydrogen gas does not substantially occur to the temperature where the equilibrium hydrogen pressure of the hydrogen-absorbing alloy is equal to the hydrogen pressure in the atmosphere of the hydrogen gas and thereafter vacuum-evacuating the atmosphere of the hydrogen gas so that the hydrogen-absorbing alloy particle is cooled to room temperature while the hydrogen gas is exhausted; a step of exhausting the hydrogen gas and cooling the atmosphere to room temperature and thereafter introducing at least one kind of gas selected from the group consisting of argon, nitrogen and carbon dioxide int

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for carrying out the annealing step of a galvannealing process in which strips and sheets, particularly of steel, are subjected after galvanizing to an annealing step by heating the coated material and subsequently holding at final annealing temperature, wherein, during annealing, the heating step is interrupted by at least one additional holding step and, thus, a stepwise increase of the temperature over time is adjusted.

Abstract: A method for forming a titanium nitride film of an excellent quality on a semiconductor substrate at a low temperature is achieved. With a heated semiconductor substrate on a susceptor held at a temperature of about 500° C., titanium tetrachloride and ammonia are introduced into a reactor to carry out the deposition of the titanium nitride film. After the deposition is completed, the semiconductor substrate within the reactor is continuously held at a temperature of 500° C. After a low pressure mercury lamp is turned on, while the inner part of the reactor is irradiated with ultraviolet rays with a wavelength of 170-280 nm emitted from the lamp, an ammonia gas is introduced, with the flow rate adjusted to about 1000 sccm, into the reactor held at a pressure of about 10 Torr to carry out annealing in an ammonia atmosphere for about 60 seconds.

Abstract: An assembly comprised of a case for protecting a mobile wireless phone with a retractable headset device installed in an integral pocket. Openings in the case are provided for extending a connector cable that is plugged into the wireless phone, and for retractably extracting an earphone segment. The earphone cable segment is extracted for use when using the wireless phone in a hands-free scenario, and retracted when the assembly is to be stored.

Abstract: A head cover capable of being used for receiving golf clubs of various kinds and various sizes, is disclosed. The head cover for golf clubs of this invention comprises a head protection part. The head protection part consists of an outer layer defining a cavity therein and a liner provided within the cavity to define a head pocket for receiving the head of a golf club therein. The liner consists of upper and lower parts, the upper and lower parts of the liner being integrated into a single structure with an elastic band loop interposed between the upper and lower parts. The head cover for a golf club of this invention covers more securely any kind of or any size of golf club head, is reduced in the production cost, and is convenient to the golfer in use.

Abstract: Tread profile of a snow tire for a vehicle in which at least two vehicle wheels are rotatably mountable outside of a longitudinal vehicle axis. The tread profile includes a plurality of profile block rows aligned in a circumferential direction and distributed in an axial direction from a first tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an outside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle to a second tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an inside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion in which a mold parting line by a single-split mold runs on or near the tire equator. In a central part of the tread portion in which tread grooves are provided, the groove edges which are stroked by tire mold's protrusions for making the tread grooves when the mold is opened are provided with a chamfer backed by a recess and/or the groove walls extending from such groove edges are provided with a variable inclination, whereby demolding defects can be reduced.

Abstract: An emergency system for improving the traction of a tire with the tire having an outer circumferential tread surface and an inner circumferential edge. The emergency system has at least one tire traction device having a substantially C-shaped cross-sectional configuration with at least a portion of the tire traction device positionable about at least a portion of the tread of the tire. A tensioning strap is positioned between the tire traction devices. An adjustable connecting strap is secured to each tire traction device and the tensioning strap wherein upon a tightening adjustment of each adjustable connecting strap, each tire traction device is releasably secured about at least a portion of the tread surface of the tire.

Abstract: A reinforced rubber toric membrane, inflated to a pressure p0 greater than the pressure p1 of the cavity of the tire in which it is used, having, in the inflated state, a crown radius RM less than the loaded radius RE of the inflated tire, and being, in its crown, reinforced by at least two plies of cords or cables crossed from one ply to the next, at least one of the plies being a hooping ply of cords or cables, oriented circumferentially, and reinforced in each of its sidewalls by at least one reinforcement ply, wound around an annular reinforcement element, and formed of reinforcement elements, each being composed of a core having a breaking load which is firstly greater than the tension, per element of ply, due to the pressure differential p0-p1 and to the maximum centrifugal force to which said element is subjected, and secondly such that it permits the breaking of said reinforcement elements for a pressure differential p0-p′1 greater than p0p1 and after the breaking of the elements of the hooping

Abstract: A fiberboard splice apparatus is capable of fully automating preparatory works for a fiberboard splice process to shorten the time needed for the preparation and to enhance the machine availability factor, and is made up of a fiberboard splice part for adhering an old fiberboard fed from one roll fiberboard to an end portion of a new fiberboard fed from the other roll fiberboard to accomplish fiberboard splice therebetween and a fiberboard feed device placed between the fiberboard splice part and the other roll fiberboard for feeding the new fiberboard to the fiberboard splice part.

Abstract: A method for producing a stepped semi-hardened product having a joggle in an edge portion, comprising: the first process where a plurality of first sheets made of a fiber-reinforced composite are laminated to each other, heated under a pressure and cooled under a pressure to provide a first flat plate-shaped laminate; the second process where the first flat plate-shaped laminate is softened by heating, placed on a first forming tool and formed by cooling under a pressure to prepare a simple shaped intermediate; and the third process where an edge portion of the simple shaped intermediate is heated under a pressure to form said joggle. A method for producing a preformed structure composed of the stepped semi-hardened product and a simple shaped semi-hardened product is also provided.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to significantly inhibit the formation of voids between substrates bonded together when a liquid adhesive is supplied onto an optical disc substrate or when the optical disc substrate is bonded to another optical disc substrate. Accordingly, the present invention discloses a method for bonding two optical disc substrates together which comprises the steps of joining the optical disc substrates together with an adhesive and curing the adhesive, wherein the adhesive is supplied onto the optical disc substrate by an electric field formed between the adhesive-supplying nozzle, for supplying the adhesive onto the optical disc substrate, and the optical disc substrate, and the two optical disc substrates are then joined together and subjected to spun by a spinning process.

Abstract: A method for producing a body structure composed of a stiffened panel of a fiber-reinforced composite, wherein (a) a skin member is placed on a forming tool, (b) a plurality of preformed stringer members are arranged on the skin member at predetermined intervals, (c) a plurality of preformed outer flame members are arranged on the skin member to intersect the preformed stringer members, (d) the skin member, the preformed stringer members and the preformed outer flame members are integrally hardened by heating under a pressure to prepare an assembly having a skin, stringers and an outer flame, (e) an inner flame member hardened by heating under a pressure beforehand is put into contact with the outer flame, and (f) the inner flame member and the assembly are adhesive-formed by heating under a pressure. A body structure produced by the method is also provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wall thickness program onto an elastomeric tubular component, such as an expandable bladder and/or cover element, for incorporation into a packing device for use in a subterranean well includes steps of contouring upon a surface a diametrical configuration defining a wall thickness program for the tubular component. The diametrical configuration is transferred from the surface onto at least one of the walls of the tubular component as a wall thickness program whereby the transfer diametrical configuration conforms substantially as a mirror image of the program on the contoured surface. An elongated mandrel may be provided as the surface onto which the diametrical configuration of the wall thickness program is contoured, such as by machining. Thereafter, the elastomeric tubular component may be prepared on the mandrel, such as by wrapping elastomeric ribbon in layers therearound as the mandrel is manipulated.

Abstract: To provide a flat ceramic sintered body without warp and waviness, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: A apparatus and method for manufacturing a laminated optical disc that include an adhesive applying device adapted to apply an adhesive to a first substrate, forming an adhesive layer having a specific thickness between the first substrate and a second substrate superimposed onto the first substrate. The manufacturing apparatus and method further include an adhesive supply source adapted to supply the adhesive to the adhesive applying device at a first predetermined temperature and a defoaming tank adapted to remove bubbles from the adhesive at a second predetermined temperature, which is higher than the first predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a vehicular pneumatic tire, in which, in order to produce and apply a preferably unvulcanized tread strip to a partial tire, which already has a cambered carcass and a ply packet radially outward therefrom, at least two strips of material, each consisting of a mixture of rubber and/or plastic, are applied to the partial tire. At least one strip of material is wound in numerous essentially adjoining windings running in the circumferential direction of the tire. In the case of two strips of material, these consist of different mixtures and, depending upon the desired characteristics of the tire, are arranged simultaneously or sequentially on different areas in the inner or the radially outer zone of the space occupied by the finished tread strip.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of shaping a sheet of polymeric film to substantially conform to a curved surface of a rigid substrate, such as a vehicle windscreen.

Abstract: A method of an emboss pattern process has steps of transferring an emboss pattern onto a thermoplastic resin sheet by using an emboss patterning roller; lustering the opposite face of the embossed face of the thermoplastic resin sheet by using a lustering means having a mirror face member; and peeling the thermoplastic resin sheet from the emboss patterning roller at a lower temperature than a temperature for transferring the emboss pattern. The emboss patterning roller has a roller body, having a face embossed with the pattern, and sealing rings attached on each side face of the roller body, in which the roller body and the sealing ring has a passage for flowing a cooling medium from one sealing ring through the roller body to the other sealing ring.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying adhesive film to a article. One or more clamps are mounted on a fixture for temporarily securing the fixture to the article. Film locator clips are mounted on the fixture to receive a segment of adhesive film. At least one of the film locator clips is moveable and biased in one direction to apply tensioning force to the film to hold at least a part of the film in a spaced relationship to the vehicle. A wiping head on the fixture is shifted to engage the film and cause one portion of the film to be applied to the vehicle. The wiping head is then moved from the one portion of the film to other portions of the film to apply the other portions of the film to the article. The method of the present invention includes the steps of locating a fixture on the article and attaching a film segment to first and second clips that are arranged in a spaced relationship.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for applying large or pull-off loads to a base sandwich panel structure through a wide range of temperatures, including cryogenic temperatures. The apparatus comprises a “+” shaped connector having a vertical leg and laterally extending horizontal legs. The lower portion of the vertical leg is secured in a slot formed in the base sandwich panel structure, while the horizontal legs are secured to a major surface of the base sandwich panel structure adjacent the slot. A load application member is then secured to the upper portion of the vertical leg. The vertical leg facilitates the transfer of loads to or from the base sandwich panel member and the laterally extensive horizontal legs facilitate peel-off shear loads to be distributed through the major surface of said panel.

Abstract: First, an image receiving sheet is put on an insertion table of an image transfer device, next, the paper is overlapped on the image receiving sheet, then, a flexible hygroscopic carrier sheet is further overlapped on them and they are inserted between the pair of heat rollers in that state.

Abstract: Tamper-apparent authenticating labels which comprise a protective film, an OVD image layer and a visually transparent ink pattern therebetween, to be applied to commercial articles. Authenticity of the label can be verified by viewing the taggant with a detector. The label reveals tampering when the film is separated from the article, causing separation of portions of the OVD under the ink. Also, methods for making tamper-apparent authenticity labels.

Abstract: A apparatus and method for manufacturing a laminated optical disc that include an adhesive applying device adapted to apply an adhesive to a first substrate, forming an adhesive layer having a specific thickness between the first substrate and a second substrate superimposed onto the first substrate, and a suction device adapted to suction the adhesive layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate with a predetermined suction force. The manufacturing apparatus and method may further include a provisional bonding device adapted to partially cure the suctioned adhesive layer to partially bond and provisionally fasten the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: Multi-stranded silicone rubber fishing skirts printed with RTV adhesive inks and/or laminated with colored foils. The RTV inks set in the presence of humidity. The foils and inks can be applied to a silicone rubber substrate in preferred patterns and in registry with other areas containing foil or ink. The adhesive ink preferably comprises a mixture of an RTV adhesive, oil based thinner and/or pigment. In various processes the ink is silk-screen printed and air-dried. One or more foils can be bonded to the rubber with different techniques. The foil can be vulcanized to the rubber substrate, bonded to a wet ink, or bonded under pressure to exposed smooth surfaces. The surface texture can be defined during and after vulcanization at the mold and with a smoothing template or with printed ink.

Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite wood board is designed particularly for use in the flooring of truck trailers which experience adverse operating conditions such as from heavy loads of lift trucks on the top side and water spray during rainy periods on the bottom side. The composite wood board comprises an edge-glued laminated wood member composed of wood segments with end joints. The wood member is underlaid with a thin layer of fiber reinforced plastic. The top surface of the composite wood board is the same as that of the laminated wood. The fiber reinforced plastic underlay is composed of glass and/or carbon fibers embedded in a polymeric resin such as epoxy, phenolic, vinyl ester, polyester, polypropylene or polyamide resin. Further, the fiber reinforced plastic underlay is substantially bonded to the wood member with a reactive hotmelt adhesive.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for fastening a polymeric label to a glass, plastic or metal container or surface by means of a water based adhesive composition by the following steps:

Abstract: A composite structural laminate plate suitable for building maritime vessels or for building civil structures such as double hull oil tankers, bulk carriers, barges decks for roll-on roll-off ferries, orthotropic bridge decks or for building any structural application in which the traditional method of construction uses stiffened steel plates. The laminate has two facing metal layers that are structurally bonded to a polyurethane elastomer core which may have steel or rigid foam void sections embedded within. The laminate provides equivalent inplane and transverse stiffness and strength, reduces fatigue problems, minimizes stress concentrations, improves thermal and acoustical insulation, and provides vibration control. The laminate provides a structural system that acts as a crack arrest layer and that can join two dissimilar metals without welding or without setting up a galvanic cell.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for post etching inspection of electrical circuits including an optical inspection assembly viewing an electrical circuit at various regions thereon and providing output indications of etching characteristics of the electrical circuit at the various regions and output circuitry receiving the output indications of etching characteristics of the electrical circuit at the various regions and providing an output indication of variations in the etching characteristics between at least some of the various regions.

Abstract: A self-supporting construction frame, with two vertical portions; and two horizontal portions. In the construction frame, one of the two vertical portions is an anchor portion; and the two horizontal portions are detachably coupled to the two vertical portions. A method of using the construction frame for installation of doors and windows is also disclosed.

Abstract: An axle driven cord collection system that uses cones to spool the lift cords. An idle/drive wheel on each cone prevents the cords from tangling. A collet connects each cone in an adjustable way so that the total travel of each cord can be precisely controlled by adjusting the position of the starting wrap on at least one of the cones.

Abstract: An insert part which can be inserted into the ends of the rods of roller blinds or other profiles and is used to join to the chain links of a pull and adjustment chain of the roller blind comprises a plate-shaped part (1) which has a section (7, 14) which is to be inserted into the roller blind rod and a bent section (5) which is opposite the section (7, 14) to be inserted and to which the chain links (21, 22) can be connected.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved process for inhibiting calcium carbonate scaling in aqueous systems such as that employed in the kraft process for the production of wood pulp. Such an improved process is achieved by the addition to the system of at least one antiscalant comprising at least one monomer unit derived from the group consisting of 1,2-dihydroxy-3-butene, N-(hydroxymethyl) acrylamide, and N-(sulfomethyl) acrylamide, and at least one monomer unit derived from the group consisting of maleic acid, acrylic acid, acrylamide, methacrylic acid, itaconic acid, vinyl sulfonic acid, styrene sulfonic acid, N-tertbutylacrylamide, butoxymethylacrylamide, N,N-dimethylacrylamide, sodium acrylamidomethyl propane sulfonic acid, and salts thereof.

Abstract: Methods for oxygen delignification of a pulp are disclosed, including initially delignifying the pulp at a delignification temperature of less than 90° C., adding oxygen to the pulp so that the oxygen is present during the initial delignification step, and further delignifying the pulp at a delignification temperature of greater than 90° C., the difference between the two delignification temperatures being less than about 20° C., and the pressure being greater in the initial delignification step. The method also includes adding alkali solely to the initial delignification step in order to obtain high alkalinity therein.

Abstract: A method and arrangement for drying a paper to be surface-treated, in particular fine paper, in an after-dryer in a paper machine. The paper web is first dried in a forward dryer section of the paper machine by one or more groups with single-wire draw that are open downward on support of a drying wire, the paper web is then finished in a finishing section, e.g., surface-sized or coated, and thereafter, the paper web is dried by an upwardly open inverted group with single-wire draw. In the inverted group with single-wire draw, the tendency of curling formed in the paper web in the forward dryer section can be substantially eliminated and/or compensated for.

Abstract: A machine for the manufacture of a multi-layer fibrous web includes at least two fibrous web layers and at least two formers; the fibrous web layers each having a lower fines side with a lower fines content and a higher fines side with a higher fines content; and the formers include a first former and a second former, at least one of the two formers being a gap former, with the second former including a couch roll defining a couching zone whereat the lower fines side of the first fibrous web layer is brought into contact with the lower fines side of the second fibrous web layer.

Abstract: A mold with integral screen comprising a body of material having a surface, the body has a grid-like pattern of vacuum holes extending through the body of material and opening through said surface and permitting a vacuum to be supplied to said surface, a screen overlying said surface, said screen and said body being formed of the same material as the body and being integral.

Abstract: An interchangeable die system in accordance with the present invention may include two main parts: a shank and a die assembly. The shank is a structural frame that is secured to and remains attached to the die casting machine during a change of the die assembly. The die assembly consists of a die, an adaptor plate and an ejector plate assembly. The die assembly is secured to the shank using the adaptor plate and a locking cam. A spool assembly slides within the shank to actuate the ejector plate assembly.

Abstract: A modular casting system includes a plurality of casting modules and, is provided with on-board systems such as a lubrication system, cooling system, etc., which operate independently from similar systems on other modules of the system. Each of the casting modules is connected by quick disconnect connections to a centrally disposed source of fluid pressure and electrical power and a control unit for controlling each of the modules independently. Each of the modules is readily removable from the system and replaced with a new module of a different type or with a different mold. Each of the modules is preferably provided with a filter removal unit which is operative to raise of the filter during the cooling operation and facilities removal of the filter upon completion of the pouring operation. The casting modules are provided with a tilting launder tray which facilitates laundering of the mold after a casting operation.

Abstract: In a method for casting prefabricated products in a continuous casting device, having a casting mold and a strand guide downstream of the casting mold, wherein the strand guide has rolls positioned opposite one another in pairs for supporting and guiding the solidifying cast strand, wherein some rolls are drive rolls and others are idle rolls, wherein drives are provided for the drive rolls, and wherein the drive rolls are adjustable against the cast strand in order to transmit guiding forces and strand conveying forces onto the cast strand in interaction with the idle rolls, the drive rolls and the drives are controlled to a preset rotational speed such that the drive rolls have circumferential speeds identical to one another within the limits of a preset casting speed. The motor torques of the drives are maintained at a level as equal as possible below a permissible torque limit value relative to a loadability of the strand shell.

Abstract: For the working of walls which bound the cavity of a continuous casting [mould] mold, a machine is used which incorporates machining and/or polishing tools. The machine consists of a machine tool table with an arm introducible into the cavity for the supporting of the tools and a table for the clamping of the [mould] mold, as well as devices for generating a numerically controlled relative movement between the tools and the walls. In order to obtain a high accuracy in the working also in the case of a cavity with a conicity varying in longitudinal direction and/or along the peripheral line of a cross-section or in the case of a cavity with special comer configurations, it is proposed that a rotational movement of the tools about axes which are arranged substantially obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the arm be combined with a swivelling movement of the arm about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a honeycomb rotor, a drive unit and a gas movement device. The honeycomb rotor has at least two heat exchange passages and at least two purge zones provided respectively between the at least two heat exchange passages. The drive unit rotates the honeycomb rotor. The gas movement device circulates a gas through the at least two purge zones. The gas movement device may include a blower, and the drive unit may include a motor. In this case rotation of the blower can be synchronized with rotation of the motor. A vehicle drive device includes a power source that emits exhaust gas. The power source has a fuel battery having an air intake. Heat may be exchanged between the exhaust gas and air supplied to the air intake.

Abstract: An HM reservoir for storing hydrogen includes a housing and a plurality of storage units. The storage units are stacked in the interior of the housing. Each storage unit includes a pair of plate-like molded bodies and a flat heat exchanger. The plate-like molded bodies are formed by compressing powder of hydrogenstorage material. The heat exchanger is provided between the molded bodies. Each molded body includes a first side and a second side, which is opposite to the first side. The first side contacts the heat exchanger. A plurality of flat hydrogen passages are formed in the interior of the housing to face the second sides of the associated molded bodies. The structure of the HM reservoir is thus simple. Further, the molded bodies of the HM reservoir smoothly absorb hydrogen and smoothly release the same.

Abstract: A transmission is provided for driving a radial fan about a fan axis in a vehicle cooling unit including a plurality of heat exchangers arranged to surround the radial fan to receive a radial air flow therefrom. The radial fan receives an axial air flow from a front end of the cooling unit. At least one of the heat exchangers has a rearmost edge that defines a back end plane transverse to the fan axis, with none of the other heat exchangers having a rearmost edge that extends rearward beyond the back end plane.

Abstract: A compact cooling system for a vehicle includes an assembly of heat exchangers (10), (12), (14) and (16) connected to each other to provide a box-like configuration. Each heat exchanger (10), (12), (14), (16) includes a core with headers (20), (22) at each end in fluid communication with spaced, flattened tubes (18) with fins (24) extending between the tubes in each of the cores. One of the cores (10) is generally horizontal and located at the upper side of the box-like configuration. A radial discharge fan (42) is located within the box-like configuration and receives cooling air and directs the same radially outwardly through the cores to cool fluid passing through the tubes (18) of the cores. An equalization tank (60), (80) is mounted on the box-like configuration in overlying, spaced relation to a substantial portion of the surface of the heat exchanger (18) so as to be in the path of cooling air merging from the heat exchanger (10) to divert the same.

Abstract: A core structure of an integral heat-exchanger comprises at least two first heat exchanger tubes which extend in parallel with each other; at least two second heat exchanger tubes which extend in parallel with each other, the second heat exchanger tubes juxtaposed with the first heat exchanger tubes; and a corrugated fin including a corrugated first part interposed between the first heat exchanger tubes, a corrugated second part interposed between the second heat exchanger tubes and a flat connection part arranged between the corrugated first and second parts. The corrugated first part of the fin is formed with a plurality of first louvers each extending substantially between the two first heat exchanger tubes. The corrugated second part of the fin is formed with a plurality of second louvers each extending substantially between the two second heat exchanger tubes. The innermost one of the second louvers is positioned away from the innermost end of the corrugated second part of the fin by a given length.

Abstract: A fluid cooling device, and a method for manufacturing the fluid cooling device, are disclosed. The fluid cooling device includes a plurality of cold plate members, each having a plurality of imperforate plate portions and perforate portions arranged in a line; and, at least one connector for connecting the plate portions together at one end thereof. The cold plate members are arranged in a stack, wherein respective plate portions of each cold plate member are in registration with perforate portions formed in its adjacent cold plate members in the stack. The fluid cooling device can provide very high heat transfer by close clearance laminar developing flow, thereby increasing the thermal performance of the fluid cooling device while maintaining low pressure drop.

Abstract: The air heating capability of an indoor heat exchanger is limited to set the temperature of the indoor heat exchanger to a first predetermined temperature Tel or lower during heating. Thereby, fogging is prevented through re-evaporation of the condensed water in the indoor heat exchanger during heating within an air-conditioning apparatus with a hot water heater core using hot water as the heat source and the heating circuit.

Abstract: A preferably fiber optic line passes into a well interior through a pressure barrier such as a tree or wellhead housing, via a modified horizontal penetrator assembly. The penetrator assembly comprises double poppet valve assemblies arranged to open upon engagement of the penetrator with an interior well component such as a tubing hanger. Retraction of the penetrator closes the poppet valves, sealing the pressure barrier, severing the line and allowing the tubing hanger to be pulled. A replacement line is readily installed through the open poppet valve assemblies.

Abstract: A method and apparatus that allows communications of electrical power and signaling from downhole component to another downhole component employs an inductive coupler assembly. In one arrangement, one portion of the inductive coupler assembly is attached to a production tubing section and the other portion of the inductive coupler assembly is attached to a casing or other liner section. The production tubing inductive coupler portion is electrically connected to a cable over which electrical power and signals may be transmitted. Such power and signals are magnetically coupled to the inductive coupler portion in the casing or liner section and communicated to various electrical devices mounted outside the casing or liner section. In other arrangements, inductive coupler assemblies may be used to couple electrical power and signals from the main bore to components in lateral branches of a multilateral well.