Patents Issued in May 2, 2013
  • Publication number: 20130104724
    Abstract: A music playing movement display device includes CPU displaying a music playing movement image on a display unit based on music playing information, movement information, and structural data stored in RAM. the CPU determines whether to perform display of a music playing technique based on a music playing technique flag of the music playing information stored in the RAM, and, when determining to perform the display of the music playing technique, allows to change a display mode of the image corresponding to the music playing technique, compared to a display mode of a image corresponding to that of a case of not displaying the music playing technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130104725
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating customized chords. An exemplary method includes providing a storage medium, including a database storing data corresponding to a plurality of predefined chords to be played by the virtual instrument. The method then includes receiving a plurality of user inputs that enable a user to select a desired custom chord other than a predefined chord stored in the database, the user inputs being displayed on a display of said device. The method further includes creating the desired chord from the predefined chord data stored in the database in accordance with a predefined algorithm, and causing data corresponding to the created custom chord to be stored by the device such that the virtual instrument is able to play the created desired chord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Harry Little, Eli T. Manjarrez
  • Publication number: 20130104726
    Abstract: Provided are an effect device and method to receive an input tone signal based on vibrations of a stringed instrument. A pitch is determined. Parameters specifying filter characteristics are determined from the pitch. The determined parameters are set in at least one filter. The input tone signal is passed into the at least one filter set with the determined parameters to produce a filter output signal that is used to generate an output signal for feedback performance produced through a speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ROLAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: ROLAND CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130104727
    Abstract: A ground pressure detonation device includes a housing, a foot coupled to the housing, and an oscillation subsystem associated with the housing configured to oscillate the housing such that the foot impacts the ground with sufficient oscillating force to ensure detonation of one or more pressure sensitive explosive devices in and/or on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: QinetiQ North America, Inc.
    Inventor: QinetiQ North America, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130104728
    Abstract: A booster assembly for a vehicle capable of reducing the noise and manufacturing cost thereof, the booster assembly including an input rod configured to reciprocate in linkage with a brake pedal, a control plunger configured to reciprocate in linkage with the input rod, and a boosting piston configured to reciprocate in linkage with the control plunger or reciprocate in linkage with a valve body, wherein the boosting piston directly transmits an output, which is generated at the booster, to the master cylinder without being separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: MANDO CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130104729
    Abstract: A cylinder is installed within a case. An output shaft is installed in a hollow space within the cylinder. A pair of pistons extend in an arc, and is supported so as to be able to slide and be displaced along a circumferential direction of the cylinder within the cylinder. The pair of pistons is able to urge an arm integrated with the output shaft from two sides of the arm. Pressure chambers into which a pressure medium is introduced are defined between the cylinder and each piston in the pair of pistons. The pressure medium is fed to one of the pressure chambers and drained from the other, and thus the arm is displaced, and the output shaft pivots in a rotational direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: NABTESCO CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130104730
    Abstract: The pump comprises at least one pump element which has a pump piston that is at least indirectly driven in a stroke movement by a drive shaft. A plunger having a plunger body is arranged between the drive shaft and the pump piston and is movably guided in a receiving device in the direction of the stroke movement of the pump piston and is supported on the drive shaft by means of a support element. Lubricant is supplied to the receiving device via a supply line and lubricant is conducted out of the receiving device via a discharge line into the plunger body to the support element. An annular gap filter is provided between the plunger body and the receiving device and is arranged between the supply line for supplying lubricant to the receiving device and the discharge line for discharging lubricant into the plunger body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Eberhard Maier, Markus Schetter
  • Publication number: 20130104731
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas-liquid auxiliary supporter for dry granulator including a hydraulic cylinder housing, a lower air piston, a plunger, an upper cover and an upper air piston, wherein the hydraulic cylinder housing is arranged with a hydraulic oil inlet, the lower air piston is arranged with an oil channel for hydraulic oil to flow through, an opening at one end of the oil channel connects to the hydraulic oil inlet on the hydraulic cylinder housing, while an opening at the other end of the oil channel is arranged on the lower end face of the lower air piston, the plunger is arranged in the opening arranged at the lower end face of the lower air piston, the upper cover is fixedly connected to the upper end face of the hydraulic cylinder housing, the upper air piston is disposed in the upper cover with sliding fit, a containing chamber is defined by the lower end face of the upper air piston, the upper end face of the lower air piston and the hydraulic cylinder housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Zhejiang Canaan Technology Limited
    Inventors: Zheng Fang, Tongcheng Xu, Yongxing Chen
  • Publication number: 20130104732
    Abstract: A fastening method for fastening a nut to a bolt by screwing includes preparing a nut including a tool mounting portion formed on a seat surface, and an annular thin portion formed on the tool mounting portion opposite to the seat surface, swaging a plurality of places of the thin portion with punches from an outer circumferential direction, and flowing a thickness of the thin portion so as to extend to a front end of the bolt partially in a circumferential direction to be closely adhered to a screw portion of the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130104733
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include air-treatment mask systems having at least one controllable air-treatment device that is controlled responsive to one or more signals from at least one pollutant sensor, and related methods of operation and air-treatment masks. In an embodiment, an air-treatment mask system includes a wearable air-treatment mask having a mask body including a face-securing member, and at least one controllable air-treatment device supported by the mask body. The air-treatment device is configured to treat incoming air. The system includes at least one pollutant sensor configured to sense ambient air for a presence of at least one pollutant and output one or more signals responsive to the sensing. The system includes control electrical circuitry operably coupled to the air-treatment device and the pollutant sensor and configured to control operation of the controllable air-treatment device responsive to receiving the signal(s) from the pollutant sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Elwha, LLC
    Inventors: Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Lowell L. Wood
  • Publication number: 20130104734
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for reducing mercury emissions from a cement plant comprising at least a particulate collection device and a preheater tower comprised of one or more preheater cyclones. The method comprises injecting pulverized coal into at least one preheater cyclone of said cement plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ALBEMARLE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Liu, Jon E. Miller
  • Publication number: 20130104735
    Abstract: A method for removing volatile organic substances from the contained air of closed habitats includes a) conducting contained air through an adsorber bed formed by a hydrophobic zeolite bed, b) closing the adsorber bed, c) extracting the air from the adsorber bed and feeding the air into the closed habitat, d) desorbing the volatile organic substances, in particular freons such as R134a and VOCs, from the adsorber bed by heating the adsorber, e) leading the desorbed substances to an environment outside the closed habitat, wherein water vapor, water, or CO2 is fed to the adsorber bed through a flushing line. The device includes a housing for accommodating an adsorber, a contained-air supply line, a contained-air return line, a flushing line, and least one outlet-air line for returning air from the adsorber bed into the closed habitat and for conducting the desorbate to an environment outside the closed habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ASTRIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Willigert Raatschen, Carsten Matthias, Helmut Westermann
  • Publication number: 20130104736
    Abstract: A filtration module is provided that includes a filter member and a spacing member disposed in detached, contact engagement along a length of each member, such length extending about a longitudinal axis of a filtration module to define a concentric and detached plurality of filtration layers, and an interleaved, concentric and detached plurality of spacing layers, respectively. One or both of the plurality of spacing layers and plurality of filtration layers may provide a radially-inward directed force. The spacing member may be elastically deformed in the filtration module to apply a radially-inward directed force and a radially-outward directed force, wherein the filtration and spacing layers are retained in substantial fixed spatial relation. A retaining member may be located to engage an external side surface of the filtration module. A filtration module may be constructed by winding the filter member and spacing member about a longitudinal axis of the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130104737
    Abstract: A method of removing contaminants from a gas stream utilizing a supersonic venturi including a converging section, a throat, and a diverging section is provided. A contaminated gas stream and a scrubbing liquid stream are introduced into the converging section, thereby forming a mixed stream which experiences choked flow upon exiting. The choked mixed stream is introduced into the throat section wherein the scrubbing liquid is contacted with the contaminated gas stream. The contaminated scrubbing liquid stream is removed from the supersonic venture scrubber, and an essentially pure gas stream is removed from the diverging section. A flow modification device may be introduced into the throat section. The flow modification device may be either axially or radially adjustable in order to effect the atomization of the scrubbing liquid and/or the contacting of atomized scrubbing liquid with the contaminated gas stream within the throat section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Vivek GAUTAM, Magnus MORTBERG, Jan HAGEMANN, Stefan WALTER
  • Publication number: 20130104738
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass laboratory apparatus that includes a pre filter and a main filter to scrub solids from a gas using water filtration. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a main vessel adapted to hold a volume of a liquid such as water and an inlet conduit with an opening above the liquid level in the main vessel and an outlet below the surface of the liquid level in the main vessel. A pre filter arranges in the inlet conduit at a level above the liquid level in the main vessel. A main filter is located below the water level in the main vessel. A negative pressure is supplied to draw a gas through the first, pre-filter, through the water and second main filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: David Goldstein
  • Publication number: 20130104739
    Abstract: A vented housing having high flame resistance, water resistance and insulation is provided. Furthermore, a ventilation member to be included in such a vented housing is provided. The ventilation member according to the present invention is a ventilation member to be fixed to a housing so as to cover an opening of the housing. The ventilation member includes: a support body in which a through hole is formed; and a gas permeable membrane that covers the through hole and allows a gas passing through the opening to permeate through the gas permeable membrane. The support body contains a polyphenylene ether resin or a polyphenylene oxide resin, and the gas permeable membrane is composed only of a porous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Suzuki, Satoru Furuyama, Teppei Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20130104740
    Abstract: A method for preparing a palladium-gold alloy gas separation membrane system comprising a gold-palladium alloy membrane on a porous substrate coated with an intermetallic diffusion barrier. The method includes an abrading step to increase surface roughness of the palladium to a desired range, a gold plating step with a solution of chloroauric acid (AuCl4H) and hydrogen peroxide, followed by annealing to produce a palladium-gold alloy membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Nathan Earl PERKINS, II, John Charles SAUKAITIS
  • Publication number: 20130104741
    Abstract: A pipe for passing or discharging wet gases and a condensate edge film reception and discharge device for the installation in such a pipe are described. The pipe is especially designed as wet chimney. The condensate edge film reception and discharge device is arranged at the opening of the pipe or in the interior of the pipe. It includes a droplet separator which is preferably designed as annular separator. By this, an effective removal of the generated condensate edge film is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Matthias Jansen
  • Publication number: 20130104742
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a dispensing system and a sanitizing system. The apparatus has a dispensing mode and sanitizing mode. The dispensing system may comprise a first valve and at least one component, the at least one component having an inner surface. The first valve is opened to send a free-flowing material to the at least one component when the apparatus is in the dispensing mode. The first valve is closed when the apparatus is in the sanitizing mode. The sanitizing system comprises a processing unit having a discharge cell configured to initiate a cold plasma discharge in an air flow. A tank may be configured to receive the air flow from the discharge cell of the processing unit and expose water in the tank to the air flow for a time sufficient to provide dissolution of ozone from the air flow into the water and form ozone-containing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: PEPSICO., INC.
    Inventor: PEPSICO., INC.
  • Publication number: 20130104743
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a dispensing system and a sanitizing system. The apparatus has a dispensing mode and sanitizing mode. The dispensing system may comprise a first valve and at least one component, the at least one component comprising an inner surface. The first valve has an open position to send a free-flowing material to the at least one component when the apparatus is in the dispensing mode, in a closed position when the combination is in the sanitizing mode. The sanitizing system comprises a processing unit, having an electrochemical cell configured to produce an anolyte solution and a catholyte solution. The sanitizing system comprises a second valve having an open position to send the anolyte solution and the catholyte solution to the at least one component when the apparatus is in the sanitizing mode. The second valve has a closed position when the apparatus is in the dispensing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventor: PepsiCo, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130104744
    Abstract: A satay grill rack comprised of a metal grill rack and a metal grill bar which, when assembled together, holds up satay meat skewers for grilling on a barbecue grill. The rack elevates the satay meat skewers above the surface of the barbecue grill and with the aid of a heat shield, makes holding the handle of the satay meat skewers easier and safer and reduces the chance of bamboo skewer handles burning. The grill rack is adjustable and can accommodate a plurality of meat skewers of different lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Steve Oi
  • Publication number: 20130104745
    Abstract: A compact portable charcoal-fired barbecue cooker is convertible for rotisserie cooking or for grill cooking. The cooker has a fire basket or charcoal grate, which can swing or rotate between a lowered, horizontal position, used for grilling, and a raised or upright position, used for rotisserie cooking, by turning a handle positioned outside the cooker body. The rotisserie spit drops into receptacles formed in the left and right side walls of the cooker body, and with the charcoal grate upright, a drip pan can be positioned under the spit. The vents are positioned so the heated air flows over the roast. A reflector or heat shield is positioned between the upright fire basket and the rear wall of the cooker. A locking tab can releasably retain the handle in the upright position. The entire cooker can be picked up using the handle affixed to the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Randal J. Stier
  • Publication number: 20130104746
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to a pre-cooked food product; a plurality of tube gears, at least one tube gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a motor having a shaft adapted to rotate at a first rotational speed; and a plurality of idler gears mounted to a portion of the housing structure and contactingly engaged with the plurality of tube gears, the idler gears adapted to transfer a rotational power from the motor to the plurality of tube gears at a second rotational speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20130104747
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to the pre-cooked food product; a plurality of timing pulleys, each timing pulley mounted on an end of a corresponding tube and including a notched circumferential surface; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a motor including a shaft, the motor adapted to generate rotational power through the shaft at a first rotational speed; and a timing belt coupled to the motor and contactingly engaged with the notched circumferential surfaces of the timing pulleys, the timing belt adapted to transfer the rotational power generated by the motor to the tubes at a second rotational speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond E. Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, William Neal Davis, Robert Jeffery Hankins
  • Publication number: 20130104748
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to the pre-cooked food product; a plurality of spur gears, each spur gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a motor; a timing pulley coupled to a shaft having a plurality of worm gears mounted thereon; and a timing belt coupled to the motor and the timing pulley and adapted to transfer rotary motion generated by the motor into rotary motion of the tubes through contacting engagement of the worm gears with the spur gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20130104749
    Abstract: A roller grill includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to a pre-cooked food product; a plurality of rollers mounted in a row, each roller mounted on an end of a corresponding tube and including a plurality of detented projections extending from a circumferential surface of the roller; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a continuous looped surface coupled to a motor shaft and contactingly engaged with the detented projections of the plurality of rollers. The roller grill further includes a protrusion mounted to the housing structure and in contacting engagement with the continuous looped surface, such that the continuous looped surface is contactingly engaged with at least two detented projections of each roller of the plurality of rollers mounted in the row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond E. Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20130104750
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to the pre-cooked food product; a plurality of non-metallic gears, each non-metallic gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; a motor including a motor shaft and adapted to generate a rotational power through the motor shaft at a first rotational speed; and a drive sub-assembly adapted to transfer the rotational power from the shaft to the plurality of non-metallic gears at a second rotational speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20130104751
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a block comprising a lubricant-impregnated material. The block includes a first portion including a first surface having a first groove extending a length of the first surface; and a second portion including a second surface having a second groove extending a length of the second surface. The apparatus includes a shell configured to at least partially enclose the first and second portions of the block and urge the first surface of the first portion into interfacing contact with the second surface of the second portion to form a channel defined by the first and second grooves, the channel configured to receive at least a portion of a chain in contact with the first and second portions of the block to transfer lubricant from the block to the chain through movement of the chain through the channel in contact with the first and second portions of the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ADCO Industries - Technologies, L.P.
    Inventor: Clifton Glenn Hampton
  • Publication number: 20130104752
    Abstract: A support mechanism for preventing outward deflection of a cracker shaft in an egg breaker assembly, about which are supported in orbiting fashion a plurality of circumferentially spaced rows of egg breakers. A disk shaped portion is mounted in slaved rotatable fashion about an intermediate location of the cracker shaft and exhibits a plurality of exteriorly facing and circumferentially offset inwardly recessed scalloped surfaces. An outer fixed and guiding cam is secured to an aligning intermediate location of the breaker and exhibits an inner arcuate extending and guiding/support surface in outwardly spaced and aligning fashion relative to the scalloped locations of the rotating disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: FPS FOOD PROCESSING SYSTEMS, B.V.
    Inventor: FPS Food Processing Systems, B.V.
  • Publication number: 20130104753
    Abstract: A shell cracking and retaining device for cracking shelled food products, wherein the device entirely or substantially retains food, shell portions and other debris during the cracking process, and therefore prevents said food, shell portions and other debris from being sent airborne from the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Vito R. Gratta
  • Publication number: 20130104754
    Abstract: A binding apparatus for a baling machine includes means (4a,4b) for dispensing at least two strips of binding film (2a,2b) and guiding the strips of film simultaneously onto the surface of a rotating bale (6). The dispensing mechanism lays the strips of film side-by-side on the bale surface to form a combined strip (16) having a width greater than the width H of each individual strip of binding film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KUHN-GELDROP BV
    Inventors: Leonardus Hendirkus Maria Van Amstel, Henricus Petrus Gerardus Bullens
  • Publication number: 20130104755
    Abstract: A container assembly for use in a high-pressure press having a central pressure cell and a method of sealing a central pressure cell. The container assembly includes a container that receives a sample to be pressed, and a gasket distinct from the container, the gasket meeting the container at an interface. The container and the gasket are dimensioned to locate the interface within the central pressure cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: STEWART N. MIDDLEMISS
  • Publication number: 20130104756
    Abstract: Different solvents for a dampening fluid are disclosed. The solvent is a volatile hydrofluoroether liquid or a volatile silicone liquid. Such liquids have a lower heat of vaporization, a lower surface tension, and better kinematic viscosity compared to water, which is the conventional solvent used in dampening fluids. The dampening fluids, which are relatively nonpolar, can be used in a combination with polar inks to form a new type of digital lithographic printing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicants: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy D. Stowe, Eric Peeters, Chu-Heng Liu
  • Publication number: 20130104757
    Abstract: An apparatus for printing a variable pattern on a substrate, a method using the apparatus, a product produced by using the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink bath containing a printing agent to be applied to the substrate, a roller that picks up ink from the ink bath, a doctor blade to wipe of excess printing agent on the roller, and a means for intentionally varying the design printed on the substrate from the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: PERGO (EUROPE) AB
    Inventor: Pergo (Europe) AB
  • Publication number: 20130104758
    Abstract: An intaglio printing press includes a feeder, an intaglio printing unit, and a delivery unit and is configured to perform intaglio printing on a paper sheet W having been subjected to printing in a previous step. The intaglio printing press comprises a first inspection camera provided between the feeder and the intaglio printing unit and configured to inspect one surface of the paper sheet having been subjected to the printing in the previous step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventor: KOMORI CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130104759
    Abstract: In methods for operating a printer a sheet is provided in a printing path leading to a printing area, a receiver is provided having a cross edge to which a printed image is to extend in the printing path for movement with the sheet. The receiver and the sheet are moved through the printing area so that the cross edge is moved through printing area during transfer of a toner to form the print image. The receiver and the sheet are further moved through the printing area with the cross edge of positioned on the sheet to separate a portion of the sheet that is masked from transfer of the print image from an unmasked portion of the sheet and the unmasked portion of the sheet is positioned to receive any portion of the print image that is transferred when the receiver is not in the printing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Gary P. Lawniczak
  • Publication number: 20130104760
    Abstract: A web press and method of printing is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Craig L. Malik, Ronald J. Ender, Mike M. Morrow, Paul Mark Haines, Steven T. Castle, Karsten N. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20130104761
    Abstract: A spraying and printing device includes a supporting platform, a linear driving mechanism, a printing mechanism, and a spraying mechanism. The supporting platform is configured for placing a plurality of preprinted workpieces. The linear driving mechanism is mounted above the supporting platform, and includes a guiding rail and a moving member movably sleeved on the guiding rail. The printing mechanism is mounted to the moving member and positioned above the supporting platform. The printing mechanism includes at least one roller. The spraying mechanism is assembled to one end of the guiding rail and includes a plurality of spraying nozzles for spraying different dyes on the at least one roller. The at least one roller is driven by the moving member to slide along the guiding rail back and forth thereby printing different dyes on the workpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SHAO-KAI PEI
  • Publication number: 20130104762
    Abstract: A print-target fabric supporting device includes: a holding member that holds a print-target fabric having a cylindrical body portion while being inserted into the cylindrical body portion of the print-target fabric; a base unit on which the holding member holding the print-target fabric is fitted; and a print surface formation portion that is provided in at least any one of the holding member and the base unit so as to form a print surface onto which ink is discharged while the holding member being fitted on the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130104763
    Abstract: A device for printing a substrate web moved in a direction of transport past a printing unit includes a substrate web suction device arranged opposite the printing unit. The substrate web suction device has gas inflow openings that are arranged on a jacket surface of the substrate web suction device opposite the printing unit. An underpressure device sucks in air through the gas inflow openings to achieve suction of the substrate web on the substrate web suction device. Printing can be accomplished by guiding the substrate web using the substrate web suction device. Suction is applied through the gas inflow openings to a first region of the substrate web. The first region of the substrate web is printed while the suction is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Soenke Dehn, Detlef Schulze-Hagenest
  • Publication number: 20130104764
    Abstract: A switch connectable to an upper explosive device and a lower explosive device in a perforation gun train is provided. The switch comprises a circuit, a portion of the circuit being openable upon detonation of the lower explosive device, and the switch being changeable from a first position to a second position upon the opening of the portion of the circuit. In the first position, current can flow to the lower explosive device but not to the upper explosive device. In the second position, opposing current can flow to the upper explosive device but not to the lower explosive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: EXPLOSIVES LIMITED
    Inventor: EXPLOSIVES LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130104765
    Abstract: A liner assembly for an explosively formed projectile device may include a reactive material liner and a primary liner configured to form into a projectile responsive to initiation of an explosive material. The reactive material liner may be configured and formulated to increase the velocity of the projectile after formation thereof. An ordnance device for generating an explosively formed projectile may include a case, an explosive material, and a reactive material liner and a primary liner configured, in combination, to form into a projectile. An explosively formed projectile may include a deformed primary liner and a deformed reactive material liner having an ignited portion increasing the velocity of the projectile. Methods of explosively forming a projectile may include explosively expelling a primary liner and a secondary liner and increasing the velocity of the projectile by combusting at least a portion of the secondary liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Frederick P. Stecher, Richard M. Truitt
  • Publication number: 20130104766
    Abstract: A diversionary device has a housing containing a pyrotechnic cartridge (24) with an ignitable fuse (52). A firing arrangement includes an ignition cap (60) containing a primer charge (54). Passageways (74, 82) in the housing and ignition cap define a first flow path from the primer charge to a region of the housing in which the fuse (52) is located through which flash from the primer charge can flow to ignite the fuse (52). A further flow path connects said region of the housing with the exterior of the housing to supply the fuse with oxygen for reliable burning. The device may be a multi-burst device containing a plurality of cartridges (24) and the first flow path may include a flash divider (86) for directing a proportion of the flash from a primer charge on to the fuse (52) of each cartridge. The housing may be separable to allow replacement of the cartridges (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: THOMAS LOWE DEFENCE
    Inventor: Duncan Thomas
  • Publication number: 20130104767
    Abstract: A conveyor system for transporting articles, comprising a rail system that comprises a plurality of track sections and at least one switch point, by which, via a switch point drive, a first track section can be connected to a second track section or to a third track section of the rail system. At least one drivable transport trolley can be driven along a path of movement on the rail system. A communications system with comprises at least one communications line that extends along the path of movement of the at least one transport trolley. A trolley communications unit disposed on the at least one transport trolley interacts with the communications line. The switch point drive can be controlled by means of a switch point control system, which is connected to the at least one communications line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: EISENMANN AG
    Inventor: Juergen Roeckle
  • Publication number: 20130104768
    Abstract: An equipment recovery system for high risk environments such as high wall mine shafts has a vehicle that rides on a track including applications where a push-beam conveyor may serve as the track. The vehicle has a guide to keep it on the track and a hitch for attaching a recovery cable. The vehicle is remotely operated from outside the mine, has a power train for moving the vehicle, an implement for performing tasks, and carries an onboard power source and electrical control boxes to power and control the vehicle and implement. The vehicle may communicate with an outside operator station via an Ethernet cable and may employ and Ethernet extender for that purpose. The vehicle may have a camera to transmit video images. The vehicle may be operated from a high wall miner control center or from an operator station on a self propelled support vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Robert Wayne Graham
  • Publication number: 20130104769
    Abstract: The invention transforms conventional vehicles into Personal Road-Rail Vehicles (PRRVs) that have revolutionary dual mode of travel capabilities that permits their being driving as both conventional vehicles on conventional roads and as revolutionary high speed PRRVs on compact Road-Rail Highway Systems (RRHSs) (somewhat vaguely similar to a one car, high speed passenger train). it is envisioned these PRRVs and RRHSs will permit cost effectively upgrading and modernizing the national transportation system and infrastructure by: significantly reducing traffic congestion at major cities and highways by cost-effective adding additional multi-stacked, compact RRHS' lanes on existing real estate; expediting the transition to all electric PRRVs and the construction of electric power grids nationwide to support the embedded power grids in the RRHSs; and lastly by providing automated PRRV travel on RRHSs that will support evolving to fully automatic PRRV travel thus reducing the need for high speed passenger trains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Fredrick John Lebert
  • Publication number: 20130104770
    Abstract: Provided is a railway vehicle having a configuration which can sufficiently protect the cabin even when large external force is applied to the end structures thereof. An end structure 50 is disposed at an end portion of the vehicle body 11 through a crushable zone 40. The end structure is provided with an end post, corner posts, and an upper reinforcement beam 56. The lower end portions of the end post and the corner posts are joined to an end beam 26 of an underframe, and the upper end portions of the end post and the corner posts are joined to the upper reinforcement beam, respectively. In the crushable zone, there are provided a lower slide portion and an upper slide portion. The lower slide portion is configured by connecting a slide center beam projecting from a center portion of an end beam of the underframe in a direction of a cap beam with a guide center beam projecting from the cap beam in a vehicle end direction by a lower fuse member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Nakao, Kentaro Hayashi, Takashi Ishizuka, Masaru Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20130104771
    Abstract: Bone cements and methods provided include a bone cement composition having collective attributes and properties desirable for initial fixation as well as interventional applications. Compositions include an amount of Portland cement and an amount of calcium sulfate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Wook-Jin Seong, Young Cheul Heo, Hyeon Cheol Kim, Iei Yong Sung, Soo Cheol Jeong
  • Publication number: 20130104772
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of the inventive technology may involve the intentional changing of the stability of an emulsion from a first stability to a more desired, second stability upon the addition of a more aromatic asphaltene subfraction (perhaps even a most aromatic asphaltene subfraction), or a less aromatic asphaltene subfraction (perhaps even a least aromatic asphatene subfraction) to a emulsion hydrocarbon of an oil emulsion, thereby increasing emulsion stability or decreasing emulsion stability, respectively. Precipitation and redis solution or sorbent-based techniques may be used to isolate a selected asphaltene subfraction before its addition to an emulsion hydrocarbon when that hydrocarbon is part of an emulsion or an ingredient of a yet-to-be-formed emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation d/b/a Western Research Institute
    Inventor: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation d/b/a Western Research Institute
  • Publication number: 20130104773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to halogenated indium oxo alkoxides of the generic formula In7O2(OH)(OR)12X4(ROH)x where R=C1-C15-alkyl, C1-C15-alkenyl, C1-C15-alkynyl, C1-C15-alkoxyalkyl, C6-C15-aryl- or C7-C15-alkoxyaryl, X=F, Cl, Br, I and x=0 to 10, to processes for preparation thereof and to use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Steiger, Duy Vu Pham, Heiko Thiem, Alexey Merkulov, Arne Hoppe