Abstract: A laminated flat mop head which includes a flat foam layer laminated with a fabric material without using glue or adhesive.

Abstract: A laminated foam mop head which includes a foam block having a top surface, a bottom surface, and two side surfaces, a fabric material laminated to the bottom and side surfaces of the foam block, and a bracket attached to the top surface of the foam block such that the bottom and side surfaces of the foam block are drawn upward and inward to form a mop head having an elliptical shaped cross section and the top surface of the foam block is pushed inward and not exposed.

Abstract: A vehicle windscreen wiper comprising an arm and an articulation connector The invention proposes a motor vehicle windscreen wiper which comprises a wiper blade (20) mounted so as to be articulated at the front longitudinal end (22a) of a wiper arm (22) about a horizontal transverse axis (A) by means of a connector (24), of the type in which the means of articulation of the connector (46a, 46b) with the end (22a) of the arm (22) comprise at least one pivot (56) with a transverse axis which extends transversely from a first associated support element (58) and which is able to be received in a complementary housing (62) in an associated second support element (60), characterised in that the end (22a) of the arm (22) comprises means (52, 84) of longitudinal positioning of the connector distinct from the articulation means.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automatic cleaning device having a dirt receptacle sensor unit to sense the presence of a dirt receptacle. The dirt receptacle is detachably mounted in an installation chamber defined in a body of the automatic cleaning device.

Abstract: A cleaning tool head for use with the wand of a carpet extractor. The head includes a housing that engages a surface being cleaned and forms an enclosed interior. A partition divides the interior into a vacuum chamber located a front sidewall of the housing and a cleaning chamber located behind the vacuum chamber. The cleaning head is mounted on a pair of transport wheels which extend along a wheel axis and is further supported by an upwardly extending handle assembly. The cleaning head is pivotable in an arcuate path about the wheel axis through movement of the handle assembly between a cleaning position in which the housing lower edge engages the surface to be cleaned as the handle assembly is pulled by a user and a transport position in which the lower edge is out of engagement with the surface to be cleaned as the user pushes the handle assembly.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for improving user convenience. The vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body connected with a suction brush, and a power cord holding device rotatably disposed on the cleaner body. The power cord holding device rotates between a first position to stow or use the vacuum cleaner and a second position to allow a user to wind a power cord after use of the vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A precision vacuum cleaner head is to be employed on a variety of vacuum cleaning units, the head being especially adaptable for use with portable, handheld vacuum cleaning units. The head has a tapered outer housing configured to enter and clean corners. The housing encloses a chamber which has two different sized rotary brush members, the smaller of which is located at the tapered end of the housing. Airflow suction from the vacuum cleaner provides a vacuum suction airflow in the housing. This airflow acts on a turbo drive wheel to rotate both brush members. The tapered housing permits efficient and effective cleaning of both flat surfaces and corners.

Abstract: A vacuum accessory tool comprises a housing that defines a suction nozzle and a hair removal assembly associated with the suction nozzle. In one embodiment, the vacuum accessory tool further comprises an agitator assembly located in the suction nozzle and driven by an air turbine. In another embodiment, an impeller associated with the air turbine is weighted to prevent build-up of hair and other debris at the impeller.

Abstract: A grommet connector includes a first end portion and a second end portion with a barrier therebetween. The first end portion is adapted for insertion into a grommet, and the second end portion is adapted for connecting to another part, such as a nut or washer to form a subassembly of the grommet and the other part.

Abstract: The present invention is a stacker hinge for use in the manufacture and stacking of parts in a stacker apparatus. The stacker hinge may comprise a housing and at least one flipper, wherein the at least one flipper attaches to the housing such that the at least one flipper hinges from a first position to a second position. The stacker hinge may possess a two-piece construction, a housing and a flipper, for the single stacker hinge and a three-piece construction, a housing and two flippers, for the dual stacker hinge. The flippers for the dual stacker hinge according to at least one embodiment of the present invention are substantially identical and interchangeable, such that only two different components, the housing and the flipper, need to be formed and manufactured for the single or the dual stacker hinge.

Abstract: A grip body including a mounting portion, an inner piece supported by the mounting portion and at least a resin communication passage therebetween. The inner piece includes inner and outer surfaces, and a resin layer is integrally formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the inner piece by resin extending therebetween through the resin communication passage. The grip body also includes at least one plate having an insertion rod formed thereon, the plate being fixed to the inner piece by insertion engagement of the insertion rod into the resin communication passage. The plate is heated by providing a heating member attached at a position where the heating of temperature of a resin surface portion of the grip body is desired.

Abstract: The invention includes implements comprising handles and working ends and product lines thereof. The implements are typically cleaning implements, such as mops and brooms, bit may be garden implements such as hoes and rakes. The invention also includes various methods for using such implements. In one aspect, the methods relate to shipping the implements, each of which includes the same overall length. In another aspect, the methods relate to displaying the implements, most often in a retail environment for presentation to consumers.

Abstract: A delinter apparatus for seed cotton includes a jack screw displacement system for a gratefall which opens the apparatus for removal of a saw cylinder while urging a plurality of belt tensioning idlers into a relaxed position such that the drive belt for the saw cylinder can be removed in a simplified and more efficient manner. The apparatus also has improved flow characteristics due to improvements in the lint feeder design as well as the transition designs from the feeder to the float chamber and saw interface.

Abstract: A swivel connector has the form of a split ring that enables a carrying element such as a sling or strap to be connected to a mounting device such as a sling swivel stud of a firearm. The swivel connector can be constructed of a single continuous piece of elastic material and can have a geometry that reduces rotation of the swivel connector about the mounting device.

Abstract: An ornamental device comprising a primary rigid plate with a space between the primary rigid plate and the surface of an object such as an article of clothing or cap, the space providing a receptacle to releasably hold a secondary rigid ball marker either frictionally or magnetically held, the device further being able to accommodate a secondary ball marker on top.

Abstract: A belt clip (10) for mounting objects to a user's belt. The belt clip (10) has a resilient U-shaped member portion and a hollow hanger member. The resilient U-shaped member portion having an upper end and a lower end with a U-bend portion at the upper end and parallel inner and outer walls extending downwardly from the U-bend. A gap is defined between the inner and outer walls for slidably engaging a belt. The hollow hanger member portion protrudes outwardly from the outer wall of the U-shaped member portion and has a generally downwardly facing wall with an aperture extending therethrough. The aperture provides a means for mounting objects (24, 30) to the belt.

Abstract: A fastening button structure of the present invention comprises a base and a hooking body, wherein a first connecting device is formed on one side of the base. A second connecting device is formed on one side of the hooking body, wherein the second connecting device is connected to the first connecting device. A protrusion is formed on one side of the hooking body, wherein decorations can attach to the protrusion of the hooking body. More particularly, the decorations can be altered or removed or exchanged according to the user's preference.

Abstract: A friction lock buckle apparatus for tightening a strap is provided having two opposing side walls and a plurality of cross rails spanning there between. The friction lock buckle is provided with one cross rail comprising a removable coupling screw for being received into the closed loop end of a strap. The coupling screw is removable so as to enable the buckle to be used to replace a failed buckle or repair a strap having a failed buckle. The buckle includes a friction lock member to frictionally engage an opposing end of the strap to the buckle. The replacement buckle replaces failed buckles on strapped articles such as backpacks, reduces waste and saves money by reducing the necessity of replacing the article.

Abstract: A clip for joining structural parts comprises a disk having an inner portion and an outer portion forming a rim about the inner portion. The inner portion has a depression with a recess extending downwardly from the depression and provided with a laterally-extending opening for receiving a mounting member, such as a pin.

Abstract: A clip is provided for holding a stack of at least one tray and tray cover. Stack compressive forces applied by the clip are substantially limited to tray and cover edge portions. The clip has a channel base with left and right side walls attached for restricting movement of a stack in left and right directions. Protrusions above the base extend inward towards the walls of the channel for captivating the stack in an upward direction. Spring protrusions extend upward from the base on input and output ends of the channel, and are configured for applying an upward spring force on opposing bottom edge areas of the stack.

Abstract: A shoelace knot retaining apparatus comprises an upper tab member, a lower tongue member and a fold for enabling the upper tab member and the lower tongue member to fold away from each other to dispose only one of the upper tab member and the lower tongue member to engage the shoelace knot. Further, the fold enables both of the upper tab member and the lower tongue member to engage the shoelace knot, whereby the upper tab member and the lower tongue member are disposed in a shoelace knot securing position to prevent the shoelace knot from untying. In particular, one of the upper tab member and the lower tongue member has at least one first opening of a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the shoelace to thereby limit the movement of the shoelace with respect to the one opening. The other of the upper tab member and the lower tongue member has at least one second opening. Each of the one first opening and the one second opening has respectively a first extremity and a second extremity.

Abstract: A device for securing shoelaces that includes a member for encapsulating free ends of a shoelace, the member has a pair of openings positioned within a rear wall of the member. Further, a reinforcement area is included along the rear wall of the member. A slit is extended along the length of the top part of the member. Lastly, a shoelace storage compartment formed within the member and receives the free ends of the shoe lace after one of each of the free ends has passed through at least one of the pair of openings.

Abstract: A pile carpet after tufting or the like is usually provided on the back with a latex precoat for stabilization and then provided with a foam back or an additional jute fabric. This environmentally hazardous method and the problem of recycling the foam back as well as the latex layer can be avoided If a nonwoven is applied instead to the tufted back of the carpet by water needling. This is possible with water needling in that the solidification of the pile fibers in or on the primary carrier takes place but no nonwoven fibers reach the visible side of the carpet. The back layer to be needled can also be made thicker and mote voluminous. Instead of a carpet, any other pile goods can also be stabilized in this fashion.

Abstract: A method comprising constraining a circumference of a blank of a Cu—Mo alloy and one of surfaces to be worked with the use of a die, and using a working punch or a counter punch to apply working pressures to the other of the surfaces to be worked, thereby obtaining a cup-shaped body.

Abstract: A lathe for machining optical workpieces, in particular spectacle lenses, comprises a fast tool arrangement and a workpiece spindle arrangement. A machine frame is cast monolithically from polymer concrete and on and in which all the functional surfaces, functional spaces and other cutouts are formed to their exact dimensions during the casting process. The machine frame upper part cast in one piece simultaneously covers the fast tool arrangement and the workpiece spindle arrangement and thus the machine bed in the manner of a covering hood. The machine frame is of compact dimensions, has a very rigid oscillation-damping machine bed and, in comparison with the rapidly moving elements of the fast tool arrangement, has a very large mass with a high center of gravity, which prevents the transmission of disruptive oscillations from the fast tool movement to the machine bed and thus to the workpiece spindle arrangement.

Abstract: A stent and a method of making a stent from a tubular member. The stent includes a pattern and an opening cut into the wall of the stent and extending from the first end to the second end. One or more connectors may be cut in the tubular wall and extend into the opening cut in the tubular member. The connectors may aid in subsequent expansion and/or forming of the stent.

Abstract: A technique is provided for installing a device in which a part of the device and the location of the part are automatically determined. An installer is notified of the part and its location for installation. Routines implementing some or all of the technique may be provided on a computer-readable medium. A method is also provided for locating a part to be installed using a project manager application. An installer retrieves the part from the location and installs the part. In one embodiment, the present techniques are implemented using an installation system including a processor-based system and a locator system. The processor-based system is configured to indicate a location of a part to be installed while the locator system is configured to provide the location to the processor-based system.

Abstract: A carbon-carbon composite plate (1) for stamping is provided, the carbon-carbon composite plate having a porosity P of 20% or greater, and the stamping being carried out in the absence of water, or the carbon-carbon composite plate having a porosity P of 10% or greater, and the stamping being carried out in the presence of water. This enables an intact plate-shaped member to be obtained by stamping.

Abstract: This patent relates to a method of assembling a spindle assembly comprising: a tubular spindle (2); a beat piece structure which is capable of being located and slid within a part (6) of the spindle (2); a stop mechanism (20) located within the spindle (2) which prevents the beat piece structure from sliding past it when the beat piece structure is located in and sliding within the spindle (2); and a retention mechanism capable of being located within the spindle (2) and which prevents the beat piece structure from sliding past it when the beat piece structure is located in and sliding within the spindle (2); wherein the method comprises the steps of: i) inserting the beat piece structure into the spindle through one end of the spindle and sliding it along the spindle (2) in one direction until it abuts the stop mechanism (20); ii) inserting the retention mechanism into the spindle through the same end of the spindle (2) until it locates at a predetermined position; iii) sliding the beat piece structure

Abstract: A punch and insertion tool including an arm and a base that are integrally moulded so as to constitute a single, continuous piece of plastic material. The arm supports an insertion shaft with an outermost sharp end so that the insertion shaft extends approximately transversely to the arm, the insertion shaft having a diameter and shape such that it will pass fully through the bore of a barbed tubular connector. The base includes means to hold a plastic tubing in a position opposing the insertion shaft so that the arm and the base can be pressed together in such a fashion that the arm will impinge any barbed tubular connector positioned on the shaft and push it with the shaft into an installed position in the wall of the plastic tubing tube.

Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional object having complex passages, comprising the steps of forming a plurality of interlockable sub-objects capable of being assembled together to form the three-dimensional object, each sub-object having a portion of the complex passages and each having at least one joining surface for attachment to an adjacent sub-object, the interfaces between the sub-objects being chosen such that each sub-object may be formed by a simple, inexpensive molding process, for example, by compression molding or injection molding; applying a suitable joining material to the joining surfaces; and assembling the sub-objects to form the three-dimensional object. In applications wherein the joining material is heat-curable, the method may include the additional step of heat-curing the assembly. The joining material may be identical or not with the sub-object forming material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a rim hole (20, 26, 30) in hollow profiles (1), a tubular piece (9) being pushed into the hollow profile (1) and being placed there in such a way that it coaxially surrounds the location of the rim hole (20, 26, 30) to be produced. The hollow profile (1) is then acted upon from outside to inside at this location by means of a tool, with the rim hole (20, 26, 30) being formed.

Abstract: A system useful for riveting sheets of metal together. The system having a fastening element having a head on one side and a self-piercing surface on an opposite end, a die having an elastically moveable annular stop and a ring boost, and a ram assembly operably punching the piercing surface into a sheet. The fastening element may be a self-piercing rivet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cast metal strip using a twin roll casting installation comprising two casting rolls and two lateral plates that together define a molten metal chamber and a casting gap. Molten metal is introduced in to the molten metal chamber and forms the molten metal chamber a molten metal bath with a bath surface that is open to the top. A cast metal strip is conveyed from the molten metal chamber and through the casting gap. A delimiting surface area for collecting particles that are foreign to the molten metal is produced on the surface of the bath under the effect of at least one gas jet. The aim of the invention is to substantially avoid the introduction of particles that are foreign to the molten metal into the surface or into the near-surface zone of the cast strip. For this purpose, the at least one gas jet is directed together with the casting roll onto the bath surface at a distance of the gas jet axis to the contact line of the bath surface.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an armature including securing a core to the shaft having a plurality of slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof, forming a coil composed of a plurality of coil portions by simultaneously winding wires a plurality of turns around a pair of slots separated by a predetermined number of slots and offsetting each of the coil portions one slot at a time in the circumferential direction of the core, securing a commutator to the shaft having a plurality of segments, adjacent coil portions having a slot along one side thereof, and electronically connecting segments which should have the same electric potential by means of equalizing connectors so that each pairs of the segments that should have the same electric potential has a substantially equal electric potential.

Abstract: A method of forming an antenna on a circuit board includes the steps of drilling the circuit board at selected positions to produce a groove having predetermined dimensions; applying carbon powder on all surfaces of the groove; and performing plating over the carbon powder on the groove, so that a metal layer is attached to the surfaces of the groove, and an antenna in the form of a metal layer on the circuit board is completed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bipolar battery having at least two battery cells comprising: a sealed housing, a negative end terminal, a positive end terminal, at least one biplate assembly arranged in a sandwich structure between said negative and positive end terminals, and a separator, including an electrolyte, arranged between each negative and positive electrode forming a battery cell. The biplate assembly is provided with an inner barrier of a hydrophobic material around the negative and the positive electrode, respectively, and an outer seal around the edge of each biplate. Each end terminal is provided with a terminal seal. The edge of each biplate is positioned close to the sealed housing to provide means to conduct heat from each biplate assembly to the ambient environment. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a bipolar battery and a biplate assembly.

Abstract: A method for producing lithium ion secondary batteries includes the steps of: (A) preparing an electrode sheet with lead-forming parts, (B) intermittently forming porous insulating layers containing an inorganic oxide filler and a binder on a surface of the electrode sheet excluding the lead-forming parts, (C) connecting a lead to each of the lead-forming parts, and (D) fabricating batteries by using the electrode sheet to which the leads are connected. The step B includes: the step of applying a slurry containing the inorganic oxide filler and the binder to the outer surface of a gravure roll, and transferring the slurry applied to the outer surface of the gravure roll on a surface of the electrode sheet that is being transported by a plurality of guide rolls excluding the lead-forming part; and the step of moving at least one selected from the gravure roll and the guide rolls to make the electrode sheet away from the gravure roll in the lead-forming part.

Abstract: A press-fit assembling device is provided to assemble enclosures including a chassis and a housing. The press-fit assembling device includes a base and a driver. The base includes a platform defined with a locating channel to secure the chassis located thereon. The driver is pivotally connected to one end of the base and is formed with a press plate. The press plate moves down under the control of the driver to press fit the housing and the chassis located on the platform. A plurality of stop blocks is arranged on the platform, and is used to prevent damage to the enclosure. The driver is also formed with a linkage set. When the press plate is lifted up, an aft part of the linkage set abuts against a cross rod and keeps the press plate from dropping down while the operator positions the chassis and housing for press-fitting.

Abstract: A ground wiring layer and a signal wiring layer are formed on a base insulating layer. A cover insulating layer is formed on the base insulating layer with an adhesive layer therebetween to cover the ground wiring layer and the signal wiring layer except for a certain region on the ground wiring layer. An electromagnetic shield layer is formed on the certain region of the ground wiring layer and the cover insulating layer. A resin solution is applied on a release sheet and dried, so that a transfer sheet including the resin layer and the release sheet is formed. Then, the surface of the resin layer is placed on the top surface of the electromagnetic shield layer and these layers are heated and pressurized, so that the transfer sheet is laminated on the electromagnetic shield layer. Thereafter, the release sheet is removed.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing an electronically functional structural component adapted to integrate a plurality of electronic functions into a laminate cover, layer, and/or laminate component, for protecting, supporting, and/or forming a complete electronic device (such as a multimedia device). The method includes laminating a plurality of structural and/or protective layers interspersed with electronically functional layers or electronic components in communication with the multimedia device to form a supportive and electronically functional layer, cover, protective layer, and/or electronic device. Thus, the manufacturing methods provided allow for the cost-effective addition of thin and lightweight functional, protective, and/or decorative layers to a multimedia device or other electronic device at a sales location or other customization location.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing an electronic component, the electronic component having a first surface and an opposite second surface, the apparatus includes a first film having a pocket that stores the electronic component and wherein the pocket has a protrusion at a bottom and wherein a top of the protrusion contacts with the second surface of the electronic component, and a second film covering the pocket and wherein a part of the second film is stuck to the first surface of the electronic component by a pressure difference so that the electronic component does not move freely.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a camera module having a CMOS image sensor, a semiconductor chip to serve as a light sensor is mounted on a optical-component-mounting face of a wiring substrate mother board and, after bonding wires are connected to the semiconductor chip, a lens barrel is joined to the wiring substrate mother board so as to cover the semiconductor chip. A position adjustment pin and a through hole are provided on the lens barrel and the wiring substrate mother board respectively outside a junction face between the lens barrel and the wiring substrate mother board to be used for adjusting the position of the lens barrel with respect to the wiring substrate mother board by inserting the position adjustment pin into the through hole.

Abstract: A self-supporting contacting structure is directly produced on a component that does not have a housing by applying a layer made of non conducting material and a layer made of an electrically conductive material to the component and to a support and by subsequently removing these layers from said support.

Abstract: A method of making a circuitized substrate which includes a plurality of contiguous open segments along a side edge portion of the at least one electrically conductive layer thereof, these open segments isolated by a barrier of dielectric material which substantially fills the open segments, e.g., during a lamination process which bonds two dielectric layers of the substrate to the conductive layer.

Abstract: A method for forming or remanufacturing a component to have an internal space. A refractory metal blocking element is positioned with at least a portion to be within the internal space. A material is added by at least one of laser cladding and diffusion brazing, the blocking element at least partially blocking entry of the material to the internal space. The blocking element is removed.

Abstract: A method for forming or remanufacturing a component to have an internal space. A refractory metal blocking element is formed, in situ, with at least a portion to be within the internal space. A material is added by at least one of welding, laser cladding, and diffusion brazing, the blocking element at least partially blocking entry of the material to the internal space. The blocking element is removed.

Abstract: A device and process for vertically extracting diffusers from a wastewater treatment tank where the diffusers are attached to a device having a lifting point and a pivot extraction point. The device and diffusers are lifted from the bottom of the tank until there is a clearance between the diffusers and the bottom of the tank, and then a pulling member attached to the pivot extraction point is pulled to pivot the device and the diffusers to align the diffusers with the hole. The diffusers and the device can then be extracted vertically through the hole.

Abstract: Bicycle wheel rims with internally reinforced spoke seats are disclosed along with methods for producing them. The rims are produced from a rim blank with at least one circumferentially extending spoke attachment region that has a relatively uniform given thickness. Access holes are formed in an upper web of the rim blank and tooling is positioned above and below the spoke attachment region to form a reinforced spoke seat and a spoke hole therein. Material that is upset and moved from the location of the spoke hole is displaced into an annular region where it reinforces the spoke hole. Material in the vicinity of the spoke hole can be displaced towards the inside of the rim and material can be removed from the undisplaced portions of the spoke region leaving a reinforced area around the spoke hole.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a full face vehicle wheel having a high durability performance, in which the back surface of a wheel disk is provided in advance with an annular joining groove. A peripheral joining end of a wheel rim is provided in advance with an inside slope end surface. The peripheral joining end is seated and positioned on the bottom surface of the annular joining groove. A welding heat confining annular region is produced between the inside groove wall of the annular joining groove and the inside slope end surface. The annular joining groove and the peripheral joining end are joined by welding.