Patents Examined by Daniel Stemmer
  • Patent number: 5958506
    Abstract: A method of restoring damaged portions of paper (Japanese and machine-made) paintings and calligraphic works, which does not require a high degree of skill, retains the original thickness of the work, improves durability after restoration and ensures neutralization of the work and simplification of any further restoration. A raw restoration liquid prepared from paper stock, water and an adhesive such as a liquid extract of Hibisci radix and optionally a colorant is placed in a vat. A target paper work to be restored is laid over a cloth or paper-making sheet which is laid over a filtering sheet-like member fitted into a paper-making frame. The paper-making frame is soaked in the raw restoration liquid so that the fibers contained in the raw restoration liquid are filled into the damaged portions of the paper work. The cloth or paper-making sheet is removed from the paper-making frame while the fibers are dried to the point of dampness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Inventor: Mitihiro Kihara
  • Patent number: 5954901
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for repairing dimpled or cracked windshields is set forth. One portion of apparatus utilizes a suction cup, a laterally extending support member, three adjustable legs to level the support member approximately parallel to the windshield, and a threaded housing in inserted therethrough to bear against the windshield. The housing incorporates a plunger which operates as a syringe to inject a fluid resin for repair. On the opposite face, a set of suction cups holds a support member so that the end face of a bolt can be moved against the windshield to slightly bow the back side of the damaged area. The repair procedure includes the optional step of drilling into the dimple or crack, bowing from the back side, injection under pressure wherein the injection step is through an O-ring seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventor: Jack Henderson
  • Patent number: 5955113
    Abstract: The present invention is a kit and method for the repair of a break in an automobile light bulb housing. The kit and method enable an inexpensive in situ repair including lamina overriding the break. The lamina form an environmentally impervious repair matching the color of the lens and including a light diffusion pattern to diffuse light substantially similar to that of the unbroken lens. The kit includes shapable parts enclosable in a blister pack. The blister cover may include a usable diffuser pattern. The diffuse pattern maintains the environmental imperviousness of the repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventors: Gerald Jacino, Anthony Jacino
  • Patent number: 5951799
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shoe lining having anti-microbial properties. The method comprises providing a quantity of a thermoplastic resin including an inorganic zinc-based anti-microbial agent admixture having a predetermined microbial inhibition characteristic. This thermoplastic resin is blended with a polyethylene resin to form an anti-microbial feedstock. The anti-microbial feedstock is formed into relatively long, narrow, thin lengths of anti-microbial members. These members are woven into an anti-microbial fabric having predetermined microbial inhibition characteristics. This fabric is cut into a plurality of pieces in accordance with a predetermined pattern and the pieces are joined together thereby constructing the anti-microbial shoe lining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Super Sack Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Robert R. Williamson, Norwin C. Derby, Craig Alan Nickell
  • Patent number: 5948505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite comprising a thermoplastic resin and a glass fabric that can be used in the form of a linear extrudate as a structural member or as a repair unit. The resin glass fiber composite structural member can be manufactured in an extrusion process. The linear extrudate can have a cross-section of any arbitrary shape or can be a regular geometric shape. The profile is made by first preforming the glass fabric into a useful shape, combining the preform fabric with melt resin and extruding the resin and glass fiber in a useful shape. When contacted with melt resin, the glass fiber becomes intimately contacted with and substantially coated with the melt resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Andersen Corporation
    Inventor: Giuseppe Puppin
  • Patent number: 5944937
    Abstract: A chemically resistant composite sheet composed of a PTFE substrate layer, a glass cloth, and an intermediate thermoplastic fluoropolymer layer of a thermoplastic fluorocarbon resin prepared by laminating the layers between a pair of rollers under pressure and under heat sufficient to melt the intermediate thermoplastic fluropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Nisshin Chemical Industry Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 5942060
    Abstract: A canister including an elongated hollow plastic body having a wall with inner and outer surfaces, an edge portion on the wall defining an open end, an end on the edge portion extending transversely to the inner and outer surfaces, a porous plastic member having an outer edge portion extending across the open end and fused to the end, an inner portion on the porous plastic member located radially inwardly of the outer edge portion and extending into the body and fused to the inner surface of the wall adjacent the end thereof, and a gas-treating material in the body. A method of fabricating the above canister including the steps of applying pressure and vibratory welding energy to the porous member to thereby cause the member which was originally planar in shape to have its outer edge compressed against the end of the body and fused thereto and the central portion inwardly of the outer edge forced into the body and its outer edge fused to the inner surface of the body adjacent the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Inventor: Lora L. Berger
  • Patent number: 5935360
    Abstract: A method for repairing a discrete damaged part of a strip bonded to an article surface includes applying a first removable masking member along and adjacent the damaged part of the strip and separated from the strip by a gap of at least 0.005", and applying a second removable masking member to the outer surface of the strip. A repair adhesive, which can be cured at a curing temperature less than a higher temperature which can result in damage to properties of the article or a surface coating, is applied at and beneath an edge of the damaged part of the strip. Then the repair adhesive is cured at the curing temperature. Apparatus for bonding a strip to an end portion of the article includes a body having a channel there through defined, in part, by spaced apart support surfaces for article surfaces and positioned relative one to the other at a relative spatial position substantially coinciding with the relative spatial position of the article surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Philip R. Griggs
  • Patent number: 5935698
    Abstract: Prefabricated composite detail parts use precured strips that include Z-pin reinforcement along the bond line. Each strip has Z-pin stubble protruding from opposed faces so that the pins are embedded into the detail parts when the joint forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Shawn D. Pannell
  • Patent number: 5932050
    Abstract: A spray device is prepared has a plurality of nozzles each of which has a capillary tube surrounded by a gas discharge pore at the end of the nozzle. A molten resin liquid is blown out to a reinforcing fiber from the capillary tube by heated air stream discharged through the gas discharge pore, so that a binder resin layer is formed on the reinforcing fiber. Following this, a resin-permeable supporting sheet and then a back-up sheet are applied to the binder resin layer side of the reinforcing fiber, and a releasing sheet is applied to the other side of the reinforcing fiber. The thus obtained superposed layers are pressed to adhere the reinforcing fiber, the supporting fiber and the back-up sheet to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Tonen Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuzou Ikeda, Akihiro Atsumi, Makoto Saito
  • Patent number: 5932046
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fabric covered cushion includes the steps of coating one side of a stretchable fabric with gel/foam in order to make said fabric resistant to passage of air therethrough, disposing the coated fabric over a mold adapted for vacuum forming the cooled fabric and positioning at least one strap member in the mold with a portion of the strap member extending beyond a boundary of the mold. Thereafter, a vacuum is applied between the mold and the fabric in order to stretch the fabric and cause intimate contact between the fabric and the mold. An additional volume of foam is deposited on the fabric coating while the vacuum is being applied in order to enable bonding between the additional volume of gel/foam, the coated fabric and strap member. The additional gel/foam is allowed to set and bond with the fabric and the strap member, and a fabric covered cushion is removed from the mold having the selected contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Paul M. Yates
  • Patent number: 5928447
    Abstract: A method for repair of a length of a conduit having a circumferential inner surface, by anchoring to the inner surface in a direction parallel to the length a plurality of sections of tubing of generally rectangular cross-section spaced around the conduit in the circumferential direction, each of the sections of tubing having therein a plurality of openings in a direction parallel to the circumferential direction. A plurality of strips of plastic sheeting is then anchored to the tubing on a surface opposite to a surface of the tubing anchored to the inner surface, with the strips of plastic sheeting extending circumferentially around the conduit along the length of the repair, and defining a space between the plastic sheeting and the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Inventor: Thomas GianFrancisco
  • Patent number: 5928448
    Abstract: The present invention is a dowel-adhesive method for repairing ceramic matrix composites. The dowel adhesive method embodied in the present invention incorporates both adhesive and mechanical bonding of a patch to a damaged CMC surface area. The damaged area is first identified and then pre-processed. Next, a CMC patch plug is produced and adhesively and mechanically bonded to the pre-processed area. Mechanical bonding is accomplished with dowel pins and corresponding dowel pin holes in the patch plug and the panel. The dowel pins anchor the CMC patch plug to the panel. Adhesive bonding is accomplished by placing a ceramic adhesive between the patch plug and the panel. Also, the dowel pins are adhesively bonded within the dowel pin holes of the plug and the panel. The ceramic adhesive is set by a low temperature cure (if required) and a high temperature firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventor: David Eric Daws
  • Patent number: 5928465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the production of a plate with depressions or apertures which is coated on at least one side. Plates of this kind are employed, for example, as passage-containing plates in hydraulic blocks for ABS/ASR/VDC systems, the depressions or apertures serving as passages or holes and the coating being a seal. In this invention the depressions or apertures are formed in an uncoated plate and then the plate is coated. As a result, the life of the machining tools is extended, the machining tolerances become smaller and the rate of machining can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Guenther Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5925204
    Abstract: An improved method is provided for repairing damaged portions of an exposed surface of wallboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: ProPatch Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Hoffmann, Sr.
  • Patent number: 5919334
    Abstract: The machine of the present invention is used to produce articles of apparel having an openable front or rear panel. It includes feeder mechanisms to supply two half width webs and webs for reinforced edges through cutter mechanisms where webs cut into segments for the desired garment are overlapped to provide a central opening. Segments are transferred to a carrier drum having folding devices which are operative while the drum rotates. A full width web with a pattern of adhesive pre-applied to selected margins is overlaid on top. The underlying segments have extension flaps along selected margins which are folded around and over the edges of the top panel segment and bondably seamed to it by means on, or co-acting with, the carrier drum. Seams can be made along transverse, longitudinal, or skewed lines by different folding device arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: William P. Niedermeyer
  • Patent number: 5916407
    Abstract: A process for producing an electrically conductive connection between opposite arranged contact areas of two elements that are to be connected, by means of a hot-melt type adhesive formed of electrically conductive particles, which are dispersed in a thermoplastic base material. The hot-melt type adhesive (22) is applied purposely only to the contact areas (16) of at least one of the elements (10, 28, 42, 50) and that these elements are joined under the effects of heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Gruenwald, Ralf Haug, Thomas Burkhart, Martin Mennig, Helmut Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5916405
    Abstract: A speaker enclosure having a substantially seamless rigid outer skin, a middle sound absorbing layer, and a substantially seamless flexible inner skin. The speaker enclosure is comprised of two basic parts, a box section and a baffle section where each of these sections include the rigid outer skin, the middle sound absorbing layer and the seamless flexible inner skin and are made according to the same method. The outer skin is formed from multiple layers of resin impregnated carbon fiber, the middle sound absorbing layer includes pieces of honeycomb material and the inner layer is formed from multiple layers of resin impregnated fiberglass. The layers of material are arranged in a substantially seamless manner into a mold and then cured by vacuum bagging and heating thereby producing a strong, lightweight speaker enclosure made of materials which dampen the transmission of errant sound waves in the enclosure and thereby minimize distortion of the sound signal produced by the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Southern California Sound Image, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Ritto, Michael Adams
  • Patent number: 5916408
    Abstract: A method for making a mittenlike bath scrubber includes an initial step in which a tubular net is transformed into a wavy net by a heat rolling device. The wavy net is then flattened such that the wavy net has an upper layer and a lower layer. The flattened wavy net has a closed end which is formed by the fusion of the corresponding portions of the upper layer and the lower layer. The flattened wavy net has an open end which is opposite to the closed end and is provided with a strap. The flattened wavy net is turned inside out to become the mittenlike bath scrubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Ching-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 5908529
    Abstract: A multi-layer film substrate comprising at least two laminated insulating layers composed of a polyimide having a low thermal expansion, wherein an adhesion layer composed of an Si-containing or SiO.sub.2 -dispersed polyimide is interposed between the low thermal expansion polyimide layers. The substrate is produced by laminating at least two insulating layers composed of a polyimide having a low thermal expansion, wherein the low thermal expansion polyimide layers are laminated through an adhesion layer composed of an Si-containing or SiO.sub.2 -dispersed polyimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kazuaki Satoh