Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of electronic multilayer component search of which alternately stacked electrically conductive and insulating layers alternately connected to opposite edges of the component, which method comprises: providing a substrate having a face endowed with a regular pattern of substantially parallel elongated protrusions separated by valleys; providing a first and a second flux of electrically conductive material in a direction subtending an angle of less than 90 with the substrate face and extending substantially parallel to the surface protrusions, and covering the thus-formed electrically conductive layers with intervening electrically insulating layers, the first and second fluxes having substantially oppositely directed in-plane components; providing said first and second fluxes with intervening insulating layers in an alternate manner as often as desired; dividing the substrate into strips, each including a protrusion, by severing the substrate along a series of planes, each

Abstract: Methods for fabricating merged magnetic heads, employing an inductive write head and a magnetoresistive (MR) read head which share portions of the overall magnetic structure, provide for accurate definition of the write track width and for improved alignment of the write gap and the read gap. The method includes accurately forming and defining the nonmagnetic write gap prior to fabricating the inductive write coil structure and subsequently formed higher topology elements. The methods provide for better control of the widths of the top pole member and the bottom pole member, thereby resulting in substantially equal widths for these pole members.

Abstract: A hexagonal head wrench having a body, six sides and six corners. A protuberance is formed on each corner. Each protuberance has two oppositely oriented flank members angled at a predetermined angle outwardly and away from each corner. Engagement of the wrench with a fastener occurs on a portion of each respective flank member distal from the corner. Continued application of torque progressively radially engages each flank member with the fastener.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) head having a double self-aligned contiguous junction includes an MR sensor structure with a biased guide joined thereto. The guide is formed using a first resist mask applied over the MR sensor structure. A guide biasing structure is formed using the first resist mask and a second resist mask applied over the first resist mask and the guide. The first resist mask is configured to form a double self-aligned contiguous junction between the MR sensor structure and the guide and guide bias structure. In this manner, the position of the guide biasing structure is carefully controlled so that it does not overlap the MR sensor structure.

Abstract: A new Screw & Driver System for providing a way for releasably securing a driver to the head of a screw such that the driver cannot be lifted straight up and out of the screw. The inventive device includes a screw and a driver therefore. The screw has a head with an hourglass-shaped driver receiving cavity. The hourglass-shaped driver receiving cavity includes a middle section and a pair of opposed wedge-shaped sections extending from the middle section. The pair of opposed wedge-shaped sections have undercut sidewalls. The driver includes a tool element having an hourglass-shaped end wherein the hourglass-shaped end of the tool element has shoulder surfaces which cooperably engage and lockingly mate with the undercut sidewalls of the pair of opposed wedge-shaped sections when the driver and the screw are in working engagement.

Abstract: A clamp expander for an annular hose clamp includes first and second jaws for engaging first and second ends of the hose clamp. The jaws are mounted on ends of first and second plier sections for translation between open and closed positions thereof. A modified embodiment clamp expander includes first and second arms mounting the first and second jaws. The first arm is fixedly connected to a guide rod and the second arm is slidably mounted thereon for translation between open and closed positions by a draw bolt which connects the arms.

Abstract: The present invention involves a pivot head wrench having a body section pivotally connected to a handle section, and further having locking means for locking the relative angular position of the body section and the handle section. The locking means comprises a receiver surface on one of the sections, a ball engaging the receiver surface, and a ball position controller comprising a pin having a stepped shape. The pin has a first surface which forces the ball into locking engagement with the receiver surface, and has a second position which permits disengagement of the ball from the receiver surface for permitting pivoting of the head. The spring is biased in a position where the first service engages the ball for locking the orientation of the head section relative to the handle section.

Abstract: The present invention is a methodology for assembling a winding around a stator for an energy storage apparatus. The energy storage apparatus includes a rotor and a stator. The methodology includes the step of positioning a preformed winding around the stator. The methodology also includes the step of dividing a forming fixture into a plurality of segments. The methodology further includes the step of positioning the forming fixture around the stator shaping the winding. The methodology also includes the step of potting the winding.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a stator of an induction motor having a cooling jacket extending around the stator, the method including the steps of welding a channel upper surface and a channel lower surface to an inner channel side surface to create a cooling jacket, coating the inner diameter of the cooling jacket with an oxide layer, heating the cooling jacket to expand the cooling jacket, sliding the cooling jacket over the stator, and cooling the cooling jacket to contact the cooling jacket into positive engagement with the stator such that the cooling jacket is fixedly secured thereto.

Abstract: A combination hammer and lumber manipulating tool for providing a hammer which is capable of being utilized as a lumber manipulating tool for use in combination with an air hammer. The inventive device includes a handle, and a hammer-head having a claw, a socket and a striking head. The hammer-head further includes a jaw attached to a side of the socket distally spaced in opposition to the claw. The distal space between the claw and the jaw is formed to fittingly engage a piece of lumber for manipulating. The jaw preferably includes a plurality of teeth for gripping the piece of lumber.

Abstract: A ratchet socket wrench and socket arrangement including a socket having a hexagonal coupling end, and a ratchet socket wrench having a box at one end and ratchet wheel mounted in the box and adapted for turning the socket, the ratchet wheel having a locating element supported on a spring in a radial hole thereof and forced by the spring into engagment with one recessed locating hole at one side of the hexagonal coupling end to stop the socket from rotary motion relative to the ratchet wheel, and a plurality of needle rollers moved in spaces in sloping teeth thereof to limit the rotary motion of the ratchet wheel to one direction within the box of the ratchet socket wrench.

Abstract: A pushing apparatus for pushing a wall form assembly that is provided with roller assemblies includes an upright tubular seat that confines an axial hole therethrough. A rotary shaft is disposed rotatably in the axial hole and has a lower end that extends out of the tubular seat and that has a base plate mounted securely thereon. A foot unit includes a pivot plate disposed below and mounted pivotally to the base plate, and an inclined support which inclines downwardly from the pivot plate and which has a lower end portion that contacts the floor. The foot unit further includes a spring member interposed between the base plate and the inclined support. The operating member includes a threaded shank which extends threadedly into the axial hole via the internally threaded top section and which is coupled rotatably to an upper end of the shaft.

Abstract: A process for producing a double magnetic head with two head gaps with opposite azimuths by forming a first magnetic head with a first head gap having a predetermined inclination angle on a first substrate and a second magnetic head having a second head gap with a second inclination angle on a second substrate and etching a first recess along the first head. The second head is received in the first recess and a second recess is etched along the second head to receive the first head. Subsequently, one of the heads is reversed and the first head is fitted into the second recess and the second head into the first recess so that the first and second inclination angles are opposed in a common reference frame thereby providing opposite azimuth angles.

Abstract: A multiple bit screwdriver includes a tubular handle body with a first end portion, an opposite second end portion and an axial bore formed through the first and second end portions. A plurality of tool bits are inserted successively into the axial bore via the first end portion such that the tool bits are rotatable with the handle body, and are removable successively from the axial bore via the second end portion. Each of the tool bits has a bit portion and a connecting sleeve on one end of the bit portion. The connecting sleeve has an axial blind hole formed therein to permit extension of the bit portion of an adjacent tool bit therein. First and second spring units are respectively provided on the first and second end portions and extend radially inward into the axial bore.

Abstract: A method is described for creating an inductor in the package for an integrated circuit. The inductor is formed by utilizing one or more of the bond leads as the core of the inductor and by winding a series of coils about the core in connection either with the bond pads of the integrated circuit itself or to other bond leads for connection outside the integrated circuit chip.

Abstract: A current sensor operable over a selected operating frequency range includes a flux concentrating core. The core is fabricated by forming a series of tape-wound laminations into a desired closed shape, securing the laminations together at a point and removing material at the point to create a gap.

Abstract: A length-adjustable screwdriver including a handle having a polygonal center hole, a polygonal tube slidably mounted in the polygonal center hole of the handle, a collar block controlled by a chuck to lock the polygonal tube at the desired location, a shaft mounted in the polygonal tube and having a magnet at its front end adapted for securing a tool bit at the front end of the polygonal tube by magnetic attraction, and a sleeve slidably sleeved onto the polygonal tube, the sleeve having a spring-supported ball forced into engagement with one of a longitudinal series of locating holes of the polygonal tube to secure the sleeve at the desired location and a polygonal center through hole adapted for holding a tool bit when the front end of the sleeve protrudes over the front end of the polygonal tube.

Abstract: In this method for producing capacitive alumina-ceramic absolute pressure sensors sorted in high-precision zero-point long-term stability defect classes referred to a measured-value span c.sub.sp, the sensors are firstly produced conventionally: a substrate is provided with an annular first electrode and, at the center, a circular second electrode insulated from the first; a diaphragm is provided with a third electrode, and the substrate and diaphragm are joined tightly together in a vacuum by the mutually facing electrodes, at an outer edge through the interposition of an active brazing ring with the formation of a chamber, with the result that a pressure-dependent capacitance C.sub.p and a pressure-independent capacitance C.sub.r are produced. Then, using the equation c=(C.sub.p -C.sub.r)/C.sub.p =k.sub.1 (p-p.sub.0)+k.sub.0, at room temperature and under a vacuum (=p.fwdarw.0) a first zero value c.sub.n1 =-k.sub.1 p.sub.0 +k.sub.

Abstract: An identification insert for a socket for a ratchet wrench. The insert is a member which is adapted to be received in the opening in the socket and to be retained therein. The identification insert provides color differentiation and has other indicia thereon to provide further identification. A set of sockets having indicia are held on a socket holder.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for repairing a cooling fluid box of the cooling circuit of an alternator stator bar, the imperviousness between the box and the stator bar being defective, wherein:the cooling circuit (9, 12, 6, 7, 16) is disconnected,the box (4) is cut along a plane approximately perpendicular to the axis (31) of the alternator,imperviousness is established between the stator bar (3) and the box (4),a cover (17) is secured to the box (4) along the cutting plane,the stator bar is cooled during the imperviousness resumption and cover fixing operations,the electric circuit of the stator bar (3) is re-established,the cooling circuit of the stator bar is connected.