Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 6874788
    Abstract: A strip brush seal device for improving a seal capability of a seal portion, promoting an elastic deformation of the seal portion, and preventing wear of the seal portion. Also for providing a secure joint to a mounting portion of the strip seal brush. The strip brush seal comprises a mounting portion which is located toward the side of protrusions of individual seal strips in which the protrusions of the seal strips are integrally joined along a direction of width of the strip, a strip brush seal which retains a seal portion to the radially inward direction relative to the mounting portion, a back plate which is disposed in the opposite side of the action of a process fluid, and a joint portion which is formed by welding the individual protrusions of the seal strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignees: Eagle Engineering Aerospace Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Kono
  • Patent number: 6875333
    Abstract: A plating apparatus is provided to allow the whole area of a target plating surface of a wafer to be subjected to more uniform plating treatment and moreover enables a target plating surface of a wider area to be subjected to positive and uniform plating treatment. In the plating apparatus which has a stirring bar within a plating tank and which performs plating treatment of a target plating surface of the wafer while stirring a plating solution near the target plating surface of the wafer by moving the stirring bar, the stirring bar is rotated while being oscillated in a motion plane substantially parallel to the target plating surface of the wafer. By this operation, the occurrence of an eddy flow of the plating solution is suppressed during stirring and it becomes possible to positively carry out more uniform plating treatment of a wider region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Electroplating Engineers of Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Sakaki
  • Patent number: 6876790
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coupling a laser signal to an optical carrier. The method and associated apparatus control a power of the laser signal to a power density level below a damage threshold of the optical carrier, couple the laser signal to the optical carrier, and measure an output power of the laser signal at an exit of the optical carrier. By translating a focusing lens or an entrance of the optical carrier along an optical axis between the focusing lens and the entrance to the optical carrier, a range in measured power output is determined in which the laser signal is incident within the entrance of the optical carrier. The method and associated apparatus set a distance between the focusing lens and the entrance to the optical carrier such that the entrance to the optical carrier is at a position beyond a focal point of the focusing lens where the laser signal is divergent-coupled to the optical carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Science & Engineering Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Hyo Sang Lee
  • Patent number: 6875683
    Abstract: A method of forming a bump on an active surface of a wafer is disclosed. The method of the invention forms an under ball metallurgy (UBM) onto the active surface of the wafer. Then, the UBM is partially removed until a portion of the active surface of the wafer is exposed. At least one conductive stud is bonded onto the non-removed UBM by wire bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho-Ming Tong, Chun-Chi Lee, Jen-Kuang Fang, Min-Lung Huang, Jau-Shoung Chen, Ching-Huei Su, Chao-Fu Weng, Yung-Chi Lee
  • Patent number: 6876324
    Abstract: To provide a filter cover which has little electromagnetic effect on a dielectric resonator and is able to lengthen the life of a press mold without impairing isolation between transmission and reception. A VCO comprising a dielectric resonator, a high-frequency oscillator, a base, a cover, in which the distance between the surface of the cover facing the dielectric resonator and the surface of the base facing the dielectric resonator is half or below of the effective wave length of the oscillator frequency, and the cover has periodic projections facing the dielectric resonator which are a quarter of effective wave length of the oscillator frequency, wherein the nearest distance between the surface of the dielectric resonator facing the cover and the surface of the cover facing the dielectric resonator is a quarter or over of the effective wave length of the oscillator frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sasada, Atsushi Koshizaka, Terumi Nakazawa, Shiro Oouchi
  • Patent number: 6874471
    Abstract: When the position of a throttle valve approaches a target value, an integration calculation of position control is stopped. When a deviation from the target value increases, the integration calculation is restarted. If an integration value includes no frictional amount, a motor output in which a motor and a spring are matched is set synchronously with a change in target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Tetsuya Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 6874787
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a brush seal device for shutting off a gap between splitting surfaces so as to prevent sealed fluid from leaking out from the gap. Each of the splitting surfaces is composed of splitting direction-extending surfaces that extend in such a direction as to split split-body parts and a longitudinal surface that extends in the longitudinal direction of the split-body parts and that forms a step-like surface interposed between the splitting direction-extending surfaces. Shutoff means for sealing the gap between the splitting direction-extending surfaces so as to prevent leakage of sealed fluid is provided in the gap between the splitting direction-extending surfaces that are combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Eagle Engineering Aerospace Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Kono
  • Patent number: 6875938
    Abstract: A foil style switching element includes a first carrier foil and a second carrier foil arranged at a certain distance from one another and a plurality of contact arrangement arranged between the first and the second carrier foils. The contact arrangements are arranged on the first and second carrier foils so that an electric contact between the contact arrangements is generated when the first and the second carrier foil are pressed together. A foil style luminescent screen unit applied on a side of the first carrier foil facing away from the second carrier foil, the luminescent screen unit includes a first electrode layer, a dielectric layer, a luminescent matter layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer of the foil style luminescent screen unit is applied directly on the first carrier foil which faces away from the second carrier foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: I.E.E. International Electronics & Engineering S.ar.l.
    Inventors: Marc Schmiz, Paul Schockmel, Aloyse Schoos
  • Patent number: 6875985
    Abstract: An infrared absorption gauge includes a detector circuit including a detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation from a sample and for generating a signal representing the radiation received, and means for stabilizing a response characteristic of the detector to the radiation detected thereby, said stabilizing means having a GaAs diode for directing radiation at the detector and means for controlling the radiation source in dependence upon the signal generated by the detector. The stabilizing means thus acts as a negative feedback loop and seeks to maintain the overall illumination irradiating the detector (i.e. the combined illumination that is reflected back from the sample and that is emitted by the GaAs diode), at a substantially constant predetermined level, which tends to linearize and extend the frequency response of the detector to the radiation detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: NDC Infrared Engineering Limited
    Inventor: Colin David John Skelton
  • Patent number: 6876899
    Abstract: A method of finishing like castings wherein the exact dimensions of the casting are not known requires the steps of traversing the casting along a fixed path impinging excess material on a reduction apparatus such as grinder at a fixed location such that a defined witness is produced on the excess material, measuring the difference from the witness to the casting parent material and adjusting the fixed path to remove the excess material to within a specified tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Vulcan Engineering Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Frank D. DeCord, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6874306
    Abstract: A hand-pushed mower provided with a frame holding an engine, a wheel disposed under a lower end of the frame, a handle disposed on an upper end of the frame, and a mowing blade disposed in front of the wheel and rotated by the engine, wherein the wheel is formed into a barrel-shaped configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: VIV Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Tadashi Hishida
  • Patent number: 6874976
    Abstract: A common feature of the method and apparatus for multipoint grouting resides in using a multiple injection apparatus having a plurality of unit pumps in one plant, driven independently of each other and controlled by a centralized control device. The plurality of the unit pumps are connected through ducts to a plurality of injection pipes each having an outlet, inserted in a plurality of injection points in ground. By operations of the plurality of the unit pumps, ground improving material is injected from the plurality of the outlets into the plurality of the injection points in the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Kyokado Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Shimada
  • Publication number: 20050067355
    Abstract: A sludge concentrating device comprising a sludge tank storing sludge, a filtering means having an endless belt filter cloth revolving around upper and lower rollers with at least the lowermost roller immersed in the sludge, a filter cloth washing means, a filtrate chamber having a filtrate inlet close to the filter cloth and a weir, a sludge distributing tank serving as a means for introducing sludge into the sludge tank and disposed in the vicinity of the upper end of the filtrate inlet, and a concentrated sludge discharge tank serving as means for discharging concentrated sludge from the sludge tank and disposed in a position substantially opposed to the sludge introducing means with the filter cloth interposed therebetween, wherein the device further comprises a flocculant adding means for adding a flocculant to the sludge fed to the sludge tank, an acid adding means for adding an acid, and a rectifier serving as a uniform sludge feeding means for feeding sludge into the sludge tank uniformly widthwise of
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicants: Kiyoshi Suzuki, Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering Technolo, JFE NGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suzuki, Kinichiro Kouno, Takashi Etou, Itaru Sakai, Satoru Udagawa, Arimitsu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20050067720
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of forming an encapsulation layer on a back surface of a wafer mainly comprises the following steps. Firstly, there is provided a wafer having an active surface and a back surface, wherein the active surface has a plurality of bumps formed thereon. Next, an encapsulation is provided on the back surface of the wafer and a mold is provided to have a mold surface of the mold disposed over the back surface. Afterwards, the mold surface is heated and moved to press the encapsulation simultaneously so as to have the encapsulation entirely distributed over the back surface of the wafer to form the encapsulation layer, with a flat surface, covering the back surface of the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Pen Tsai, Chih-Chiang Liu, Wei-Min Hsiao
  • Patent number: 6872421
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing atomic layer deposition. A plurality of substrates are loaded into a plurality of reaction cells. The reaction cells are disposed in a reaction chamber isolated from an exterior condition. Various paper substances are ultimately and repeatedly applied onto each substrate such that a thin film is formed on each substrate. The plurality of vapor injection pipes each inject one of the vapor substances by periodically scanning over each substrate to apply substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chul-Ju Hwang, Kyung-Sik Shim
  • Patent number: 6873942
    Abstract: 3-D structure design system and method thereof capable of preparing drawings and performing quantity calculation at the same time, and largely eliminating troubles caused when designing a concrete structure by handling the design of concrete-made structures with a cubic 3-D data from the very beginning. The system comprising: data input device for inputting structure data; 3-D structural data search device for searching data on a portion between members and data on a connection between members on the basis of the input data on the concrete-made structure, checking an interference portion between members, aligning members through the result of rivaling between members, automatically adjusting the overlapping of members, and searching the input data on members as data conforming to the concrete structure; body quantities search device for calculation; and result display device for displaying/outputting a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Original Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Suga
  • Patent number: 6872692
    Abstract: A synthetic lubricant base stock is provided having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 5 to about 300 cS and a VI greater than 100. The base stock comprises random co-oligomers of an alpha olefin or mixtures thereof and an olefinic substituted aromatic compound which co-oligomers are prepared in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Margaret May-Som Wu, Steven Edward Donnachie, James Thomas Carey, Walter David Vann, Norman Yang, Dilip Surana
  • Patent number: 6871518
    Abstract: A removable retaining bracket that prevents removal of a connection fitting from a gas distribution system component is described. The retaining bracket has a base that defines an opening that accepts the connection fitting and prevents removal of the fitting from the gas distribution component. The retaining bracket extends along the gas distribution system component and defines openings in which a securing component is positioned. The openings are positioned to locate the securing component to prevent removal of the retaining bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Engineered Controls International Inc.
    Inventors: Jason L. Olsen, Vincent J. Avillion
  • Patent number: 6873552
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory recovers variation in the threshold of a memory cell due to disturbance related to a word line. The nonvolatile memory continuously performs many writing operations without carrying out single-sector erasing after each writing operation, performing the additional writing operations quicker than the usual writing operation, and lightening the burden imposed on software for use in additional writing. The data stored in a designated sector is read out before being saved in a register, and the selected sector is subjected to single-sector erasing when a predetermined command is given. Then write expected value data is formed from the saved data and data to be additionally written, completing the writing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi ULSI Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishii, Hitoshi Miwa, Osamu Tsuchiya, Shooji Kubono
  • Patent number: 6872027
    Abstract: A guide rail clamp comprises a first clamp half and a second clamp half, which when fastened together form a slot therethrough adapted to fit a cylindrical support rod or a flat rectangular support bar. The two halves of the clamp may be held together by a pair of bolts extending through a pair of threaded sleeved nuts, which securely grip the bolts when the two clamp halves are spaced slightly apart. In a preferred embodiment, two pegs extending from one clamp half into holes located in the second half help align and secure the grip of the clamp and minimize motion of the rail. To securely fasten the support rod or support bar inserted within the slot, a bolt may be used to bias the support bar or rod against the edges of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Valu Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Stuart J. Ledingham