Abstract: An optical device is enclosed within a package or module having an optically transmissive or transparent cover that is sealed with an adhesive preform that has been pre-applied onto the bonding areas of the cover. The adhesive preforms are formed of a wet adhesive deposited on a sheet of optically transmissive or transparent material as a preform in predetermined locations and are B-staged or dried to form dry solid adhesive preforms. The preforms may be continuous or have one or more small gaps therein. The sheet of optical material is diced or singulated to produce individual optical covers having an adhesive preform thereon.

Abstract: A tool pot separation type chain for use in a tool magazine includes a plurality of tool pots, and a plurality of pairs of laterally spaced link plates each adjacent ones of which are connected to each other by a connection pin. Each of the pairs of link plates has a tool pot receiving section for removably receiving one of the tool pots therein. Each of the tool pots has a pair of bearings mounted thereon such that outer races of the bearings are movable in rolling contact on a guide rail or a tool pot jumping-out preventing rail provided in an opposing relationship with the guide rail in the tool magazine. With this construction, the tool pot separation type chain is able to minimizes the traveling resistance thereof during carrying of the tool pots to reduce the driving force, prevent abrasion of the tool pots and the rails and suppress generation of noise and also facilitates a carrying in or carrying out operation of each tool pot at a tool pot loading/unloading position.

Abstract: A tensioner lever for chain drives has an internal space formed therein for accommodating within it at least a coiled portion of a torsion coil spring. The internal space has an opening for enabling the torsion coil spring to be assembled in the internal space. The lever body further has a boss disposed inside the internal space. The boss has an axial hole through which a pivot shaft extends and an outer peripheral surface around which the coiled portion of the torsion coil spring is loosely fitted, the axial hole and the outer peripheral surface being concentric with each other. The tensioner lever of the foregoing construction requires only a small space for installation to a mount surface and can be easily and speedily assembled onto the mount surface.

Abstract: A holder for mounting an air bag module, the holder including a bottomed, substantially box-like body having a peripheral wall and an opening, the holder adapted to be fastened to a side plate of a seat back frame in a cavity of a back pad with the opening thereof facing a body of an automotive vehicle and with a bottom plate section thereof being applied to the side plate, and wrapped at the peripheral wall thereof by margin pieces which are provided around an opening portion in a side of a seat cover, rolled in the holder from the opening of the holder, and fastened to the holder, the air bag module having an air bag housed within an air bag case, the air bag module adapted to be incorporated in the holder and fastened to the side plate through the holder, whereby the air bag module is installed in the side of the seat back, the holder further including flanges, and at least first and second brittle sections serving as breaking portions, the peripheral wall including a front side wall section facing a front

Abstract: A wireless article, such as an identification tag or badge, includes an electronic device mounted on a substrate and connected a loop antenna for receiving and/or transmitting radio frequency signals. Electrically conductive material disposed on the substrate or in holes through the substrate of the wireless article connect the antenna terminals to the electronic device contacts. The structure and materials of the wireless article may be rugged and strong to provide a tamper-resistant article, and/or may include one or more weakened or frangible portions that easily break to provide a tamper-destruct article. The wireless article may be arranged to resist heat, moisture and/or solvents, to function in severe environments such as laundering and industrial processes.

Abstract: An electronic package or module is protected by a lid sealed with a thermoplastic or thermosetting adhesive laminate that has been pre-applied onto the lid, including the bonding area of the lid. The adhesive is deposited as wet adhesive or is laminated in sheet format onto a sheet of the material of which the lids are to be formed. The adhesive is dried or B-staged to become a solid sheet preform, as by solvent removal or chemical cross-linking, respectively. The lids are then formed from the laminate of lid material and adhesive, as by thermo-forming or by stamping. The lid and adhesive materials may be electrically insulating, or may be electrically conductive so as to replace soldered lids in providing electromagnetic interference protection. In some cases, the adhesive may be thermally conductive and be utilized in combination with thermally conductive interface material that is in direct contact with heat generating devices covered by the lid.

Abstract: A tube squeezer having a simple and small-sized structure, which can squeeze out the content material out of a tube effectively, and surely maintain the squeezed state of the tube. This tube squeezer comprises, a tube having a closed one end along a length direction and another end from which a material contained therein can be discharged; a frame mounted integrally on one end of the tube along a width direction for holding the end of the tube; and a handle having a main body mounted on the frame and an arm extending from the main body. The main body projects from the tube in the width direction, so that a user can hold the main body when rolling up the tube by the frame. The arm extends from the main body such that a tip end portion thereof overlaps with a part of the tube, thus the tip end portion can be engaged with the surface of the tube when the tube is rolled up. Therefore, this tube squeezer makes it possible to prevent the reversed rotation of the rolled tube.

Abstract: In the construction of electronic devices with one or more flip chips and, in some cases, one or more leadless components, mounted on a substrate, the interconnections are made with conductive adhesive deposited using specialized masks. A magnetic metal mask fabricated of a membrane of magnetic material is placed temporarily onto the face of a semiconductor wafer or of a circuit or other substrate. When properly positioned with respect to the wafer or substrate, such as by relational guide holes, the mask is held in place by the magnetic forces produced by a controllable electromagnet. Contact pad openings in the magnetic metal mask are formed by suitable means such as laser cutting or photo-etching. The magnetic metal mask may include a flexible interface layer on the side facing the wafer or substrate to assure tight sealing thereto, so as to reduce smearing and bridging of the conductive adhesive paste and avoid bridging between contact pads that might otherwise occur during deposition of the paste.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of site directed therapy. More specifically the invention relates to site directed radio therapy, and provides a method for production of radioconjugates and an apparatus for radioimmunotherapy. The method, conjugates and apparatus can be practicalized without the need for radioactive shielding and/or airtight facilities. Without these restrictions the invention provides a simple and efficient means of therapy at the bed-side of the patient.

Abstract: Firstly, a passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1 is mounted on a side of a seat back frame 2 and outside of a frame, an opening 10 is formed in a side of a back pad 9 at a location corresponding to that of the passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1, the passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1 is accommodated in the opening 10, a harness 6 is assembled with the passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1 in the opening 10 through a connector 7 such that the harness 6 can be connected to the passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1. Therefore, the harness 6 can be reliably assembled with the passenger's sitting posture detecting apparatus 1 through the connector 7 from outside with a simple operation. Secondary, the harness 6 is held and brought into conduction such that the harness 6 is separated from the edge of the mounting member 14 through a clip 18.

Abstract: A flashlight comprises an electrically-conductive cylindrical housing having a reduced inner diameter portion, for example, a tapered portion, and a hole at a forward end thereof with a solid state light source projecting through the hole at the forward end thereof and a tail cap attached to the housing at a rearward end thereof. A switch in the tail cap selectively connects the solid state light source and at least one battery in the housing in circuit through the housing for causing the solid state light source to produce light. The light source makes electrical contact with the housing at a contact area at which an insulating coating has been removed. The housing of the flashlight is formed by forming a reduced inner diameter portion in a cylindrical housing tube having an insulating coating and removing the insulating coating from the inner surface of the reduced inner diameter portion of the housing to provide the contact area.

Abstract: A card has an electronic device, such as an integrated circuit, a conductive, resistive or capacitive network, or other electronic device, embedded therein. The card, sometimes referred to as a “smart card,” has the electronic device mounted to a substrate, generally by electrical connections formed of solder, electrically-conductive adhesive or flexible electrically-conductive adhesive. The substrate is covered by a layer of melt-flowable adhesive of thickness sufficient to cover the electronic device mounted thereon. The substrate is attached to a card blank to which it is bonded by melt flowing the melt-flowable adhesive. In one embodiment, the card blank has a cavity into which the electronic device and substrate are placed. In another embodiment, the substrate is of the same size and shape as is the card blank and the space therebetween is filled with melt flowable adhesive to bond them together and embed the electronic device therebetween.

Abstract: A cable lasher is provided for securing a telephone or transmission cable to a support strand strung in the air between adjacent utility poles to prevent sagging of the transmission cable. As the cable lasher traverses a span of the support strand, the lasher pays out a line of lashing wire that is helically wrapped around the cable and the strand to bind them together. A series of tensioning rollers maintains constant tension in the lashing wire at all times to ensure a tight uniform wind. A gearbox translates linear motion of the lasher along the guide wire into rotational motion of a drum portion of the lasher. The rotation of the drum causes the wrapping of the lashing wire about the cable and the strand. A one-way clutch allows the drum to rotate only in one direction when the clutch is engaged in order to prevent any slacking in the wound lashing wire.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating an electrode of a plasma chamber. According to the method, a circular silicon substrate is provided facing a drilling plate having a plurality of tips projected from one surface of the drilling plate. Afterwards, a polishing material containing a plurality of polishing particles is supplied on the circular silicon substrate and the drilling plate. Thereafter, an ultrasonic wave is applied to the drilling plate to vibrate the tips of the drilling plate. The plurality of polishing particles collide with the circular silicon plate during the vibration of the tips of the drilling plate and a plurality of fine through holes are thereby formed in the circular silicon plate.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises one or more electronic components, including flip-chip semiconductor devices, chip resistors, capacitors and inductors and other components, electrically interconnected to an electronic substrate by solder bump interconnections and having a rigid adhesive underfill bonding between the electronic component and the substrate. The rigid adhesive underfill is a preform of an insulating thermoplastic and/or thermosetting resin, or a combination thereof, having a high modulus of elasticity and high glass transition temperature. Preferably, insulating adhesives having a higher melt-flow index are employed to facilitate formation of a void-free bond between the component and the substrate and of a fillet around the edges of the flip-chip or other component, thereby to provide a moisture barrier and additional mechanical strength.

Abstract: A method of inducing biaxial particle alignment in a body of crystalline particles of a material such as a high temperature superconducting material, having anisotropic magnetic susceptibility so that at least a major portion of the crystalline particles have at least two crystalline axes generally parallel, comprises subjecting the particles to a magnetic field which varies cyclically relative to the body of crystalline particles with time, and which has an average magnitude which is a maximum in a first direction, a lower average magnitude in a second direction generally orthogonal to said first direction and a minimum or zero average magnitude in a third direction generally orthogonal to said first and second directions. Alignment of the axis of maximum magnetic susceptibility of the particles generally with the direction of maximum average magnitude and the axis of minimum magnetic susceptibility of the particles generally with the minimum or zero average magnitude direction is induced.

Abstract: A hydraulic tensioner includes a relief valve mechanism assembled in a plunger and held in fluid communication with a high-pressure oil chamber defined between a housing and the plunger which is slidably inserted in a plunger accommodation bore in the housing with a tip portion projecting therefrom. The relief valve mechanism is composed of a cup-shaped orifice member having an orifice formed in an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a relief valve assembled in the cup-shaped orifice member. The relief valve includes a cup-shaped sleeve slidably received in the orifice member, a spring urging the sleeve toward the high-pressure chamber, and a discharge port normally closed by the sleeve and adapted to be opened when the sleeve is displaced against the force of the spring. The thus constructed relief valve mechanism is small in size and capable of achieving downsizing of the hydraulic tensioner.

Abstract: A seat having a seat back and a seat cushion, the seat back including a first frame and a first support member stretched within the first frame, the first support member being made of a first elastic body, the first elastic body including a first section having first tension suitable for supporting a person sitting on the seat, and second sections having second tension lower than the first tension.

Abstract: A seat having a seating face made of sheet resilient material is assembled from a seat frame comprising a substantially quadrilateral frame body, the sheet resilient material forming the seating face, a pad member forming a largely rising bank, and a skin material enclosing the pad member, wherein the sheet resilient material is stretched within a frame body of the seat frame, one end of the skin material is abutted against and fixed on the frame body of the seat frame, the pad member is assembled outside the seat frame, the skin material covers outside of the pad member from the one end which is abutted against and fixed on the frame body of the seat frame, and the other end is wound and stopped around a back of the seat frame, a bank which rises larger than the surface position of the seating face made of the sheet resilient material which is stretched within the frame of the seat frame is formed, and the bank is assembled as a strong bank with a simple structure, and the pad member prevents the seat frame

Abstract: A toothed belt particularly suitable for use in general industrial machineries includes a cured rubber belt body, a tensile member embedded in the belt body, and a tooth fabric adhered to the surface of teeth of the belt body. The belt body is formed primarily from a vulcanizable rubber composition containing hydrogenated nitrile rubber and zinc polymethacrylate. The zinc polymethacrylate and the hydrogenated nitrile rubber are blended together in a ratio of from 22:78 to 45:55 parts by weight. To the vulcanizable rubber composition, a vulcanizing agent comprised of peroxide and a reinforcer comprised of carbon black are added, and a mixture is vulcanized and pressed or otherwise molded to form the afore-said cured rubber belt body with the tensile member embedded therein. The tensile member is made of high-strength glass fibers. The glass fibers preferably have a resorcin-formalin-latex layer and an overcoat layer both formed thereon.