Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Connelly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
  • Patent number: 6327324
    Abstract: A fuel assembly for a boiling water reactor comprising a plurality of fuel units (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d), stacked on top of each other, each one comprising a top tie plate (5), a bottom tie plate (6) and a plurality of fuel rods (4a, 4b, 4c) arranged between the top tie plate and the bottom tie plate. The fuel units are surrounded by a fuel channel (9) with a substantially square cross section. At least some of the fuel units comprise fuel rods with different diameters and different fuel quantities. The fuel rods are adapted such that fuel quantity and lattice space are optimized laterally and axially in the fuel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Westinghouse Atom AB
    Inventor: Olov Nylund
  • Patent number: 6325323
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nip force control system in a reel-up gear for a paper machine comprising a pair of primary arms (6, 7) and secondary arms (8, 9) for supporting and positioning a tambour core (2, 3) at the paper web winding operation as well as at the so-called change-over procedure when the tambour core is replaced. Each of the arms are connected to a hydraulic cylinder (10, 11) for positioning the arms and the primary—as well as the secondary arms are provided with load cells (12, 15) for measuring the nip force (F) for respective arm against the tambour core (2, 3). The control system also includes load cells (17) in the holding bracket (4) of the tambour core for measuring the additional force from said holding bracket. By this location of the load cells close to the measuring point an improved nip force control is obtained, especially during the critical change-over procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Thermo Nobel AB
    Inventor: Anders Olsson
  • Patent number: 6229690
    Abstract: The invention concerns a horizontally divided switchgear, including compartments for high voltage and for cable connection. The cable connection compartment is common to one or more switchgear cubicles and is a compartment separated from the high voltage compartment(s) of the cubicle(s). In the switchgear is included one or more switchgear cubicles defined by vertical (12, 13, 14) and horizontal (15, 16) walls. The cubicle is arranged with only high voltage equipment, while connection means (18) for incoming and outgoing current cables are arranged exteriorly underneath the lower horizontal wall (16) of the cubicle. Bushing means (17) for cable conections are arranged in the lower horizontal wall (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Jan Fivelstad, Christer Arnborg
  • Patent number: 6218481
    Abstract: An acetylide-form propargyl-containing resin composition for cationic electrocoating, which comprises a resin having a skeleton of epoxy resin and has a number average molecular weight of 500 to 20,000, and which contains, per 100 grams of the resin composition solids, 5 to 400 millimoles of sulfonium group and 10 to 495 millimoles of propargyl group, the total content of the sulfonium and propargyl groups being not more than 500 millimoles per 100 grams of the resin composition solids, said propargyl group being partly in the form of an acetylide. This resin composition may further contain unsaturated double bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Toshitaka Kawanami, Ichiro Kawakami, Takayuki Kokubun, Takao Saito, Saori Yoshimatsu
  • Patent number: 6043017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new compound of formula (I) with the proviso that Y represents N, and also relates to a colour photographic silver halide material comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide layer with which according to the invention a compound of formula (I) is associated, and also relates to a photographic colour development process in which couplers of formula (I) are reacted with colour developers of the phenylenediamine and/or diaminotoluene type to form coupling products which exhibit a strong absorption, particularly in the infrared region. The present invention further relates to the use of compounds of formula (I) as cyan and/or infrared couplers in colour photographic silver halide materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert NV
    Inventor: Peter Bergthaller