Abstract: A connector terminal comprised of a single bent metal sheet, including a contact portion including a first sheet portion and a second sheet portion, the first and second sheet portions being folded to overlap one on another, a terminal body, and a connector portion connecting the terminal body and the contact portion to each other, the connector portion including a reinforcement portion covering therewith an end surface of the first sheet portion, an end surface of the second sheet portion, and at least a part of a surface of the second sheet portion in a part of the contact portion.

Abstract: A moisture-proof film (10) includes a moisture-proof part (12) formed on a surface of a film body (11). The moisture-proof part (12) includes a first layer made of a silicon oxycarbonitride compound containing carbon atoms in a composition thereof, and a second layer made of a silicon oxynitride compound which, in a composition thereof, contains carbon atoms less than those of the first layer or does not contain carbon atoms, and having a density higher than that of the first layer. The first and second layers are stacked adjoining each other. The first layer has a density increasing toward the second layer.

Abstract: A method of grinding an ingot for use in manufacturing a semiconductor or solar wafer is disclosed. The method includes providing an ingot including four flat sides and four rounded corner portions, each corner portion extending between an adjacent pair of the flat sides, and grinding a plurality of planar facets on each corner portion, each planar facet of the corner portion joined to an adjacent facet at a juncture and oriented such that each corner portion has a substantially arcuate shape. A wafer and ingot are also disclosed.

Abstract: A saddle hanger for connecting at least one bracing member to a truss chord includes a base having a first end portion for receiving a bracing member and an adjacent portion for receiving a truss chord. A projecting element extends from a transverse edge of the base portion, and has a width narrower than the transverse dimension of the hanger base. A plurality of flanges extends upward from side edges of the base and defines with the base a channel for receiving one of the truss chord and bracing member. The saddle hanger can be formed from a stamped metal blank, with portions of the saddle hanger being nested in side-by-side relation to minimize the amount of material used.

Abstract: A method of joining metal components having the steps of depositing adhesive material between the components and welding the components together via solid-state or fusion welding. The welds are spaced apart from the adhesive material and are produced so as to prevent exposure of the adhesive material to the welding. The two types of bonds (adhesive and welding) are produced in the components separated by time and space.

Abstract: A twelve-sided polygon-shaped air bag comprised of fabric for use in vehicle restraint systems and method of manufacture is disclosed. The air bag is constructed from fabric panels in the shape of congruent, twelve-sided polygons, which may be regular dodecagons or dodecagons having alternating short and long sides. The individual panels may be in the form of a single dodecagon, or in the form of two abutting dodecagons. The use of dodecagon-shaped panels allows for economical fabric utilization and increased fabrication efficiency, compared with panels having a circular shape.

Abstract: An acoustical panel has a fiberboard which includes a fibrous filler and a base binder, and a nodulated overlay disposed on the fiberboard, wherein the overlay includes nodulated wool and an overlay binder and has a substantially smooth surface. In one embodiment of the present invention, the fibrous filler is mineral wool and the base binder is granular starch. In an another embodiment of the present invention, the nodulated wool is nodulated mineral wool and the overlay binder is cooked pearl cornstarch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a façade system with a translucent porous insulating material of mineral or organic fibers for passive solar energy utilization, the insulating material having on the outside a colored layer (2) for design purposes and for controlling the light transmittance. The façade system is formed from a multiplicity of preferably factory-prefabricated façade insulating boards (1). The colored layer (2) can, moreover, be designed in such a way that it protrudes beyond the insulating layer along two board edges (3, 4). Consequently, when the façade insulating boards (1) are applied to the building wall, the abutting edges in the region of the joins between neighboring insulating boards are covered by the overlapping protruding colored layer (2).

Abstract: A method of producing an elongated member having a main body portion and terminal portions extending form ends thereof includes bending an elongated strip between circumferential faces of first forming rolls and second forming rolls having parallel central rotational axes. The circumferential faces of the first forming rolls include annular main body portion bending sections that form the main body portion in the strip and adjacent transition portion bending sections that form adjacent transition portions in the strip, thereby forming an intermediate stage elongated member. The transition portions have a cross-section that changes continuously from the annular cross-section of the main body portion to a different cross-section of the terminal portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preliminarily printing a blank for a tapered draw-formed body, which comprises transforming digital rectangular coordinates to annular coordinates so that the height of the rectangular coordinates is made to correspond to the height of a tapered plane on which the printed image is to be manifested and the change of the area of the tapered plane by a minute change of the height of the tapered plane is made equal to the change of the area of the annular plane. In this method, excessive flattening of the image in the lateral direction is prevented when the resulting preliminarily printed blank is draw-formed, and an image having a beautiful appearance and a high commercial value can be reproduced.

Abstract: A hollow metallic or metalloplastic element drawn or drawn-ironed from a decorated blank, and comprising an outer skirt decorated with an image formed from lines of dots of ink. The skirt has over its entire height which comprises zones of level h:2R at least equal to 0.5, a spacing between adjacent lines of dots of a same ink and an angle of inclination of the lines which are constant to better than a relative 1%.

Abstract: A laminar article with good barrier properties to oxygenated and hydrocarbon compounds is prepared by blending a polyolefin with about 2 to 39% of a melt blend of a nylon and a polyvinyl alcohol component, using an alkylcarboxyl-substituted polyolefin as a compatibilizer.

Abstract: A jewellery post has an elongated member with a longitudinally extending passage adjacent one end, and a plug of bonding material within the passage adjacent this end. The bonding plug is a sliding fit in the passage and has a length which is short compared to the length of the tubular member.

Abstract: An arm for holding the impact stylus of a high speed dot matrix printer is fabricated from a single stamping which when properly folded defines two members having C-shaped cross-sections joined by a thin web. The web is folded around the stylus to bring the 4 legs of the two C-shaped members into overlapping relationship to define a hollow elongated and tapered arm having the stylus substantially wholey encircled by the web whereby after brazing the stylus is securely held.

Abstract: Film base material is provided which comprises a film of biaxially oriented synthetic linear polyester of highly hydrophobic character having superimposed thereon adherent to said film a subbing layer which contains a copolymer of vinylidene chloride, an alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, an allyl or methallyl component containing an active methylene group the monomer of which has the general formula ##STR1## wherein T is --CN or --COCH.sub.3, X is O, NH or S, and R is a hydrogen atom or methyl group and optionally at least one copolymerizable acid.The subbing layer improves the adhesion between the film support and the photographic emulsion layers and prevents the separation of the layers or frilling when the final photographic film is processed.