Abstract: A blanket wrap tailored to mount to a car seat or infant carrier. Safety restraints at the support mount through the wrap to permit attachment of the straps to the infant or toddler prior to fitting the wrap to the infant. An integral cushioned pad is centered to the wrap and fasteners are arrayed about the wrap to assure a snug fitting, once the infant is strapped to the seat or carrier. A hood and sleeves can be provided at the wrap.

Abstract: A preferred patient examination table (10) includes a selectively engageable, pivot mechanism (14) allowing the table (10) to be pivoted about an upright pivot axis (98) in order to position the table (10) as needed for ready access to examination equipment (88) by performing a procedure with either a left or right hand.

Abstract: A transversely extending insert 20 for adjusting the length of a split level wheelchair support cushion 10, said split level wheelchair support cushion 10 having a raised forward section 12 for supporting a user's femoral region and a lowered rear section 14 for supporting the user's ischial and coccyx region, with a downwardly rearwardly slanting step face 21 separating the raised forward section 14 from the lowered rear section 12, said insert 20 having:substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces 24 and 22, top surface 24 being co-planar to top surface 17 of raised forward section 14, bottom surface 22 being co-planar with bottom surfaces 13 and 15 of both raised forward section 14 and lowered rear section 12,substantially parallel downwardly rearwardly slanting front and back surfaces 23 and 25, 27, back surface 25, 27 having a horizontally indented ledge surface 26 positioned therealong, ledge surface 26 being co-planar with the top surface 19 of lowered rear section 14.

Abstract: Bedding articles which are encased (or of which all or part of the upholstery is enclosed) in an allergen barrier. The allergen barrier comprises an elastic stretch knit substrate laminated with a monolithic, hydrophilic, moisture-vapor permeable elastic film made from at least one polymer and having a thickness of no more than 1 mil.

Abstract: A multiple purpose pocket tool having an elongated housing defining an open cavity, a plurality of elongated ancillary tools pivotally attached to one end of the housing at their proximal ends, and an elongated cover plate pivotally attached to the opposite end of the housing. Each of the ancillary tools includes a slot formed transversely across the top and bottom edges thereof, adjacent their proximal ends. The cover plate includes a downwardly extending flange which engages one of the slots formed in each of the tools when positioned in its terminal closed position, thereby locking the tools in place. The cover plate further includes a protrusion formed on the inwardly facing surface of one of its sidewalls which engages an aperture formed through the corresponding sidewall of the housing when in either its terminal open or closed position, thereby locking the cover plate in such position.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a movable body (114) to a passenger boarding bridge (110)is provided. The apparatus includes a cab (118) with a periphery (206) on one end of the passenger boarding bridge. A gangway (120) connects the cab (118) to the movable body (124). The gangway (120) has a bridge end (202) for engagement with the cab (118). The apparatus further includes an automatic gangway position detection system (203) for sensing the proximity of the bridge end (122) of the gangway to the periphery (206) of the cab.A method for connecting a passenger boarding bridge (110) to a movable body (124) having a cab (118) with a periphery (206) is provided. The method includes several steps. Those steps include providing a gangway (120), between the cab (118) and the movable body (124), the gangway (118)having a bridge end (122) and a body end (124). Further steps include engaging the bridge end (122) of the gangway with the cab (118) and engaging the body end (124) of the gangway with the moveable body (124).

Abstract: A gangway to accommodate passage to and from a boarding structure includes first and second longitudinal frame members each having an elongate housing with a wall structure surrounding an interior thereof and a pair of longitudinal elongate rails extending through a length of the housing in parallel relation to each other and terminating at opposite distal ends; the pair of rails including a fixed rail and a moving rail. A series of step members, each including top bottom step surfaces, are rotatably supported between the first and second longitudinal frame members in pivotal interconnection with the pair of rails of each frame member.

Abstract: A hand-held scrubbing device used for cleaning and/or scrubbing bathroom walls, tile, tubs, faucets, crevices, shower stalls, and other surfaces. The hand-held scrubbing device includes a head which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis of an elongated body portion of the device. The head can simultaneously swivel with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongated body portion. Various cleaning implements, such as brushes and scrubbing pads, are attached to the head. The device also includes a handle which is rotatable with respect to the elongated body portion and is locked into a pistol position or a wand position. Preferably, the device can include a universal joint assembly which allows the head to rotate and swivel with respect to the elongated body portion. A splash guard can be attached to the head. A motor is housed within a hollow portion of the elongated body portion and is powered by battery.

Abstract: A sole cleaning device for cleaning the bottoms and sides of the soles of boots and shoes including a rotating brush mounted above a container of water so that upon rotation of the brush a portion of the brush extends into the water. The device further including a removable scraper grate for supporting a shoe above the water but in engagement with the brush. A motor for rotating the brush against the sole of the boot. The removable grate provided with a pair of spaced and parallel side rails having fixed brushes mounted to the side rails and facing one another. The removable grate further including a sieve platform extending on one side of the grate above the water. Sponges are positioned on top of the sieve for removing water from a boot or shoe placed on the sponge.

Abstract: The invention is a single-wheel floor-polishing machine provided with drive wheel comprising two coaxial, opposite cup-shaped elements connected with each other by means of one or more traction elastic elements suitable for raising the polishing wheel from the floor. The upper cup is mechanically connected with the electric motor and the lower cup is connected with the rigid rotary plate that supports the polishing wheel. The polishing wheel rotation generates a centrifugal air vortex under the polishing wheel itself, which results in the formation of an area below normal atmospheric pressure, as a consequence of which the polishing wheel is attracted to the floor. In the starting phase the polishing wheel is raised from the ground and free to rotate; the polishing wheel does not overheat because the pressure is automatically regulated according to the polishing wheel rotation speed, to the type of floor and to the elasticity of the traction springs.

Abstract: A tire swab is provided for cleaning pipes. The swab is a tire with steel plates mounted against its sidewalls. Flexible yokes connect the plates to a cable which is used to pull the swab through the pipe. A pipe is placed through the center of the plates and the tire. The pipe allows the flow to pass through the swab while it is in use. The device can also be used as a plug for the host pipe. Compressed air is used to inflate the tire until it contacts the host pipe and plugs the flow. The pipe located in the center of the tire which allows the flow to pass is opened and closed by a valve.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner having a cord fixing apparatus. The vacuum cleaner has a body having a rear wall having an opening, a brush assembly connected to the body through a flexible hose and making contact with a floor, for sucking dust and impurities, a blower assembly which is installed at an inner side of the body, for generating a suction force, an extensible cord for supplying an external electric power to the blower assembly, a reel installed at an inner side of the body, for winding the cord, a rectangular-shaped plate for fixing the cord, a fixing rib for hingedly supporting the rectangular-shaped plate, an elastic material for biasing the rectangular-shaped plate to allow the rectangular-shaped plate to make contact with the cord, and a supporting rib for supporting the elastic material to allow the elastic material to apply a biasing force to the rectangular-shaped plate.

Abstract: A rotary positive blower is driven by a drive device and has an intake port and an exhaust port. A plurality of conduit arrangements each having an inlet coupled to the exhaust port and an outlet, each of the plurality of conduit arrangements have a first predetermined diameter in at least a given portion; and a restriction is disposed in at least one of the plurality of conduit arrangements between the inlet and the outlet of this at least one arrangement, the restriction has a predetermined length and a second predetermined diameter less than the first predetermined diameter to cooperate in reduction of noise and improved efficiency of the drive device and the rotary positive blower.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner having a separation device and a vacuum source communicating with a tube handle. The tube handle is connected to a nozzle by a tube shaft (33). The tube shaft is either shaped as a cyclone separator or a cyclone separator is arranged between the nozzle and the tube handle. The cyclone separator is provided with a whirl chamber (37) which is defined, in part, by an up-side-down truncated cone (41). The whirl chamber has an inlet opening (38), a first outlet opening and a second outlet opening. The inlet opening is placed at the upper part of the whirl chamber (37). Partially cleaned air flows through the first outlet opening (39) which communicates with the vacuum source. The second outlet opening (42) is placed at the lower part of the whirl chamber. The second outlet opening communicates with a dust collecting container (43).

Abstract: A vacuum cleaning tool having a housing that includes a connector for a vacuum hose of a vacuum cleaning apparatus is provided. Disposed in a brush chamber of the housing is a brush roller, the bristles of which project through a vacuum slot formed in the base plate of the housing. The brush roller is driven via a belt drive by an air turbine, which is provided in a turbine chamber of the housing. Provided between the brush chamber and the turbine chamber is a guide member for guiding the suction air stream that is to act upon the air turbine. In order when the vacuum cleaning tool is raised from the floor to reduce the drive power, the guide member is pivotably mounted in the housing of the tool. In a first operating pivot position the suction air stream is directed essentially tangentially against the air turbine to achieve a high drive power. In a second, non-operative pivot position the suction air stream is directed essentially radially against the turbine to achieve a low no-load speed.

Abstract: A hand-held blower and adjustable blower nozzle attachment is disclosed for providing a variable rate air flow discharge from the nozzle attachment. The blower includes a housing having a handle, a discharge portion and a motor with an operatively connected impeller within a chamber connected to the discharge portion. A tubular body is attached to the discharge portion at one end and a blower nozzle attachment at a second end. The blower nozzle attachment includes at least one constrictor flap provided within the nozzle attachment body to change the air flow rate between a low air velocity rate in a first position and a higher air velocity rate in at least one second position. The adjustable blower nozzle attachment is provided with at least one aperture corresponding to the at least one constrictor flap for adjustment of the flap between the first and the at least one second position.

Abstract: A grommet assembly for providing a location for a fastener to attach a cover member to a support structure includes first and second flange members. The flange members are sonically weldable to each other and are adapted to sandwich the cover member therebetween. Each of the flange members defines a passageway portion and has a recess portion. At least one of the flange members has a plurality of protrusions. The first and second flange members, upon being sonically welded together, cooperate to define a passageway with the passageway portions, and further cooperate to define a recess with the recess portion. The passageway is adapted to receive the fastener, and the recess is adapted to receive the cover member. The protrusions extend into the passageway and are engageable with the fastener.

Abstract: A drapery support and drawing structure having drapery guides, a rod mechanism and a drapery panel. Each of the drapery guides incorporate a plate and a rod engagement mechanism. The plates are inserted into uniquely spaced pockets on the back side of the drapery panel. The rod engagement mechanism slidably engages the rod mechanism. The rod mechanism incorporates an inner extension that extends and retracts within an outer extension; the outer extension alone may be supported by mounting brackets. When the inner extension is fully extended a flat panel drapery results. However, when the inner extension is partially or fully retracted the drapery guides are proximate each other and evenly spaced pleats are formed. At all times the rod mechanism is hidden behind the drapery panel. A drawing wand may be utilized to extend and retract the inner extension.

Abstract: The present invention provides modular sliding door rollers for use in sliding doors. The modular sliding door rollers have a major roller unit and one or more minor roller units modularly connected together in series. The major and minor roller units have a roller which is adjustable to extend out of and retract into the major and minor roller units by adjusting a roller adjuster on the major roller unit. Two pairs of partially overlapping and divergent roller axle slots are provided on each of the major and minor roller units to provide for extension and retraction of the rollers.

Abstract: A utensil holding device engageable with a utensil (e.g., spoon or fork) to provide an improved gripping surface for the utensil. The utensil holding device is adapted for quick and easy attachment to a utensil. A portion of the handle section of a utensil is arranged inside a cavity formed by the utensil holding device. The device allows an individual to better grip and maneuver a utensil.

Abstract: A hinge mechanism includes a pivot axle including a first cylindrical portion and a second cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than that of the first cylindrical portion, an inner sleeve rotatably mounted on the second cylindrical portion of the pivot axle and including an inner wall containing a first hole for receiving the second cylindrical portion and an outer wall formed with a plurality of juxtaposed locking pieces, a first outer sleeve fixedly mounted on the inner sleeve and including an inner wall containing a second hole 31 for receiving the inner sleeve and an outer wall formed with a retaining block containing a retaining recess connecting to the second hole for receiving the plurality of juxtaposed locking pieces, and a second outer sleeve fixedly mounted on the first cylindrical portion of the pivot axle.

Abstract: A chute feed assembly for opening and moving fibers through a chute delivery system into an infeed chute for an opening station. The chute feed assembly includes a beater for opening the fibers which is drivable in a selected of two directions. The beater delivers the opened fibers into a fiber batt forming chute where they are formed into a fiber batt which is then delivered to further processing. The infeed air flow is assisted by providing non-friction chute surfaces to allow even fiber flow throughout the chute. Also, the air flows of densified air controlled across the fiber batt forming channel to provide for even fiber distribution of selected density. The assembly provides for all drive motors to be mounted outside the interior of the chute feed assembly reducing heat build-up within the chute feed assembly.

Abstract: A clip which is made from a band-like metal plate having spring characteristics, in which opening of the clip can be performed by a considerably weak force, in which setting is less even if sheets of paper having a stack thickness nearly equal to the maximum clipping thickness, and which comprises a body including a back portion formed at a longitudinal center portion of the band-like metal plate so as to have a length substantially corresponding to the maximum clipping thickness, and abutment portions formed adjacent to the back portion so that the respective free ends of the abutment portions form abutting edges which abut against each other for clipping sheets of paper; a pair of finger grips for opening the abutting edges of the abutment portions, the finger grips being attached to the abutment portions respectively in a manner so that each of the finger grips is formed into a U-shape and respective free ends of the U-shape of the finger grip are rotatably inserted into lock portions formed at each of the

Abstract: A strapping apparatus for strapping, clamping together or holding together different objects includes a strapping body and a strapping means. The strapping body is a solid body formed with at least one pair of slots or bores extending angularly to each other and extending straight through the strapping body. The strapping means is a rope, a wire or a band having an eye, or locking sling, at one end thereof and a free rope end at the opposite end. The eye of the strapping means extends through a slot of the pair of slots or bores, whereas the free rope end is introduced through the second slot or bore and is drawn underneath the eye as seen in a strapping direction.

Abstract: In a thermoplastic bag having a reclosable fastener extending along the mouth of the bag and a slider straddling the fastener for opening and closing the fastener, the fastener including two opposing interlocking profiles along the side walls of the bag, the slider adapted to maintain straddling relation with the fastener, an improved endstop means proximate to at least one end of the reclosable fastener, the endstop means being formed from the material of the profiles and rising vertically from the fastener to a height adequate to engage the slider and prevent movement of the slider past the end of the bag. A rail extends along the length of at least one of the profiles on the outside thereof, the rail extending to a point sufficient to permit the slider to cooperate with the rail to maintain straddling relation with the fastener when the slider reaches the endstop. Docking means and methods of making endstop means and docking means are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a bottom stop assembly for a separable slide fastener, an open box has a first channel for receiving a box pin firmly attached on an end of a stringer. The open box has front and rear walls between which a web intervenes at their intermediate portions. Right and left flanges define with the web and the front and rear walls the first and a second channel for receiving an the box pin and an insert pin firmly attached on the lower ends of the other stringer. The channel on the box pin insertion side has projections on the flanges extending inwardly, the projections urging the box pin against the web. Upper and lower engaging surfaces formed by a cut-out embrace the web from up and down to limit axial movement of the box pin in the open box. A bulge on the lower end of the box pin bears against the flanges presses the projections to urge the box pin against the web. With these arrangements, any movement of the box pin inside the box is completely restricted.

Abstract: An apparatus for containing cremation ashes and displaying a photograph in the same compartment. The apparatus comprises a base which has an outer ridge to contain cremation ashes. The base is of sufficient depth to accept a photograph over the deposited ashes. A cover is pivotally connected to the base and can be closed over the base in order to protect and prevent loss of the contents. The cover has a transparent base which allows the photograph and cremation ashes to be easily viewed by the user. The apparatus can take the form of a locket, a pendant or can be interlocked with other units to form a charm bracelet. The apparatus can be modified to mount on a wall or stand on a countertop.

Abstract: An urn for inhumation ashes has a frame with a front area delimiting a large open space, an urn body adapted to store ashes and located in the open space, a graphic sheet located forwardly of the urn body, a transparent element located forwardly of the graphic sheet, and a rear protecting sheet arranged behind the urn body, the urn body, the graphic sheet, the transparent element and the rear protecting sheet being located inside the frame.

Abstract: An electronically controlled sample warper includes a yarn introduction member movably mounted on a distal end of a yarn introduction lever rotatably provided on a side surface of a warper drum for winding a yarn on the warper drum, and a plurality of yarn selection guides disposed, in correspondence with the yarn introduction member, on an end portion of a base on which the warper drum is supported. Each of the yarn selection guides is movable angularly about the base between a yarn exchange position in which it projects from the base for changing the yarn to another yarn, and a standby position in which it is retracted in the base for storing the yarn in the base. The yarn introduction member and each of the yarn selection guides are cooperative to undertake delivery of a yarn between them so as to wind yarns on the warper drum in the preset order with automatic yarn change.

Abstract: An air interlacing jet 2 includes a yarn channel 20 and a threading slot 42 forming an opening on one side of the yarn channel so that yarn or yarn filaments can be inserted into the yarn channel. An air orifice 40 intersects the yarn channel and high pressure air injected through the air inlet or orifice 40 interlaces or intertwines the yarn or yarn filaments as they are drawn through the yarn channel 20. The body 4 of the interlacing jet or jet insert 2 is a single piece member and the yarn channel 20 includes outwardly tapered sections 28 and 32 at each end. The tapered sections are formed by an EDM process. Thread guides 58, 60 located below the yarn channel axis and the tapered yarn channel sections permit the yarn to be drawn through the yarn channel 20 at an angle relative to the threading slot 42 so that the yarn cannot easily escape from the yarn channel 20.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating a conformable composite acoustic transducer panel including a conformable composite body having upper and lower planar faces and upper and lower thin, flexible electrodes bonded to the upper and lower faces, respectively. The composite body includes an array of individual piezoelectric or electrostrictive ceramic elements extending normal to the upper and lower faces and through the composite body from the upper face to the lower face to electrically contact the electrodes. Stiff integral face plates are bonded to the side surfaces of the elements at their upper and lower ends. Alternatively, a conformable, stiff, voided polymer matrix is bonded to the element sides over their entire length. Flexible circuit boards may be bonded to the electrodes to provide electrical contact thereto.

Abstract: Applique circuits suitable for advanced packaging applications are introduced. These structures are particularly suited for the simple integration of large amounts (many nanoFarads) of capacitance into conventional integrated circuit and multichip packaging technology. In operation, applique circuits are bonded to the integrated circuit or other appropriate structure at the point where the capacitance is required, thereby minimizing the effects of parasitic coupling. An immediate application is to problems of noise reduction and control in modern high-frequency circuitry.

Abstract: An automotive valve spring compression and valve replacement table is provided having a cylinder head support station that is rotationally affixed to a rotation mechanism, or head rotator, allowing for rotation of the supported cylinder head at any position within a full 360 degree rotational arc. A pneumatically operated valve spring clamp is provide capable of compressing and retaining the force of a valve spring. The clamp is supported on a clamp support rail, which allows for horizontal positioning of the clamp. A clamp rail support urging mechanism, or clamp slide, supports the clamp support rail, and allows the user to incrementally adjust the lateral positioning of the clamp.

Abstract: A tool which immobilizes dual camshafts of an internal combustion engine by interfering with teeth of the gears or sprockets driving the camshafts when inserted into engagement with the teeth of both gears or sprockets. The tool comprises a generally U-shaped member, wherein the sides of the U pass into and occupy valleys of the teeth. The center of the U has reliefs exposing timing marks of the engine. The tool has optional adjustment structure for adjusting length of the sides of the U and optional second adjustment structure for variably spacing the two sides of the U apart. The former adjustment structure may comprise frictionally retained, slidably disposed members, or may comprise a clamp employing a threaded fastener. In an alternative embodiment, the tool may be formed in separable components wherein two interference members are mounted on a threaded shaft.

Abstract: A method for temporarily connecting a body half and a door half of a hinge, said body half of said hinge including connecting means for receiving said door half of said hinge including connecting means for receiving the body half, one of said connecting means including a portion having disposed proximate the end thereof at least one groove for receiving a resilient flexible retainer;said method including the steps of;(a) fastening the hinge when assembled to a vehicle and a door so as to fasten the door with the vehicle temporarily;(b) painting the vehicle and door together while temporarily connected;(c) subjecting the vehicle and door and the resilient flexible retainer to heat such as that found in a curing process for a painting process for vehicles;(d) separating said body and door halves of said hinge by removing the retainer and separating said halves;(e) separating said door from said vehicle by separating the body half and the door half of said hinges.

Abstract: An unlocking tool for opening a container operates by the action of a lever. The container includes a first half and a second half connected to each other for rotation. The first half includes a latch finger, and the second half has a hole for receiving the latch finger and engaging with it to keep the container closed. The second half also includes a second hole adjacent to the first hole for suspension of said container. The unlocking tool of the invention functions as a lever along which the tool has an effort point, a fulcrum and an acting point. The tool is formed to pass in part through the second hole of the second half and rotate around the fulcrum positioned in the second hole. When the tool is rotated around the fulcrum positioned in the second hole, the acting point of the tool urges the latch finger to release the engagement between the latch finger and the first hole of the second member, thereby opening the container.

Abstract: A support member attached to a support surface is rotated about a threaded stud to change the distance between an object on the support member and the support surface. The support member is fixed relative to the stud when the desired distance is attained, and a nut is fastened onto the stud, thereby trapping the object between the nut and the support member, and fixing the distance between the object and the support surface.

Abstract: A cable (5) is inserted in a tube (2) wound on a tube reel (1). The cable is fed from a cable reel (6) through a cable-advancing unit (4) into a free inlet end (2.1) of the tube (2). Compressed air is applied to an air inlet (8) of the advancing unit (4), and led through the tube along the cable already inserted in the tube. The tube reel is put on a support 7, which is driven to a periodic movement in the vertical direction between to extreme positions (amplitude A, period P). During part of each period the movement is a free fall, or at least approximates a free fall. The movement may be sinusoidal with period P=2.pi.?A/g!.sup.1/2 (g is gravitational constant). In this case, the support (7) may be part of a rotatably supported lever, or may be part of a seesaw. In addition, the movement may be the vertical component of a maintained swinging movement. In this case the support (7) may be the swinging part of a Chinese swing.

Abstract: A device for making plaster memorabilia is provided including a pan for accepting a predetermined amount of plaster therein. As such, various body parts may be impressed therein prior to the plaster drying after which a plaster block is rendered. Also included is a frame assembly for receiving the plaster block therein. The frame and plaster block are adapted to be mounted on a wall such that the impressions may be displayed via an outboard end of the frame.

Abstract: For use with a robot having an end effector for connecting stator coil lead wires to trough-shaped terminals, tamper members are slidably mounted on a terminal crimping and lead wire cutting member. Air actuators drive the tamper members toward the terminals when the end effector is manipulated to place the lead wires into the terminal troughs.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head is provided in which a magnetic yoke assembly is built up, layer by layer, atop a substrate using semiconductor thin film techniques. A lower yoke assembly is first fabricated including a lower magnetic layer situated on the substrate and first and second side poles built up vertically from the ends of the lower magnetic layer. An insulative pedestal surrounded by a frame is formed at the top of the lower yoke assembly and extends above the uppermost lateral plane of the yoke assembly. A diamond-like carbon (DLC) wear layer is deposited atop the pedestal. First and second pole support wells are excavated in the DLC layer so as to expose the first and second side poles therebelow, and further to receive first and second pole supports, respectively, therein. First and second pole extension members are situated on the first and second pole support members, respectively, with a non-magnetic gap region being situated between the first and second pole extension members.

Abstract: A improved stator apparatus for use in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine. The stator apparatus comprises a magnetically permeable core having a coil housing mounted to a leg portion thereof. A coil assembly including a voltage transformer is maintained in the coil housing. The various coils of the coil assembly are mounted about a central chimney member of the housing coaxial with the portion of the core extending therethrough. A circuit grounding member is electrically connected between the voltage transformer and the core by frictional contact therebetween. The circuit grounding member is constructed of a generally flat conductive piece having a longitudinal ridge defined along a portion of its length. In exemplary constructions, the longitudinal ridge extends along side a portion of the core and is biased into frictional contact therewith. The ridge facilitates assembly of the stator apparatus as well as enhancing electrical connection of the grounding member with the core.

Abstract: A substrate stack is suspended within a stack holder to position upper and lower stack surfaces coplanar with upper and lower holder surfaces. Laminating heat and pressure is simultaneously applied to the upper and lower surfaces to laminate a carrier interconnect film to top and bottom stack portions simultaneously. Subsequent wet chemical processing of both stack edges may also be simultaneous to effect savings in manufacturing costs.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip having contacts on the central region of its top surface is provided with a dielectric element overlying the central portion of the top surface. The dielectric element has a first surface facing toward the chip and a second surface facing away from the chip, a hole encompassing the central contacts and an edge bounding the hole. Central contact leads extend from the central contacts on the chip to central terminals on the dielectric element. The terminals on the dielectric element may be connected to a substrate using techniques commonly employed in surface mounting of electrical devices, such as solder bonding. The leads, and preferably the dielectric element, are flexible so that the terminals are moveable with respect to the contacts on the chip, to compensate for differential thermal expansion of the chip and substrate. The dielectric element may be provided with a compliant layer disposed between the terminals and the chip. The entire assembly is compact.

Abstract: Methods of facilitating commercial production of supported conductive networks without the use of hazardous chemicals including using heat flowable adhesive in the formation of the networks, providing contact pads exposed through a dielectric substrate which supports a conductive network, using the thickness of a conductor supporting dielectric layer to space the conductors and providing conductor and waste material cross-sections trapezoidal in shape in a non-planar pattern during manufacture of the networks.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a wiring board which includes an insulative board having a wiring pattern on one surface thereof, a connection hole being formed in the insulative board such that the connection hole reaches the wiring pattern, a conductive bump, which is formed by growing a plating on the wiring pattern, being embedded in the connection hole, and the conductive bump serves as a connection to a wiring pattern which is intimately attached to the other surface of the insulative board.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor includes a cylindrical bore in which a piston reciprocates. A cylinder head is situated adjacent an end of the bore and forms a suction chamber and a discharge chamber which communicate with the bore through respective valved passages. Fluid to be compressed enters the suction chamber through an outlet section of a muffler. That outlet section is made of a material having low thermal conductivity (plastic) and fits into the suction chamber to resist the transfer of heat to the suction chamber from the discharge chamber. A capillary tube includes an inlet end submerged in an oil reservoir and an outlet end mounted in a hole formed in the outlet section of the muffler for supplying oil to fluid entering the bore.

Abstract: The cantilevered stator vanes of the compressor section of the gas turbine engine are treated by including a rotating hub having a by-pass passage for removing the low momentum fluid from the main air stream adjacent to the tips of the stator vanes in the compressor and returning it back into the main air stream after having treated the air while avoiding penalties and excessive heating. A plurality of vanes are circumferentially spaced in the by-pass passage for removing vortices and streamlining the flow before injected the air back into the airstream. The vane passage hub treatment is fabricated in a single cast piece in one embodiment, in a three ring configuration in another embodiment and in a segmented ring configuration in still another embodiment.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for bonding a nozzle plate to the front nozzle face of a printhead. A bonding station includes a heated printhead holder in opposed relationship to a nozzle plate holder with a curved lower surface. A nozzle plate having a row of nozzle holes and alignment apertures are formed by laser ablation in a thin polymer film. The film is moved into the bonding station, and the nozzle plate is aligned with pins on the curved nozzle plate holder surface. Both the printhead holder and nozzle plate holder are adjustable in directions perpendicular to the nozzle array on the printhead face and also rotationally. The adjustment insures that the nozzle plate, with adhesive applied to the bottom surface, makes initial tangential contact at the center of the nozzle array, resulting in accurate alignment of the nozzle plate holes with the nozzle array in the printhead face.

Abstract: A forged roll for rolling a seamless steel pipe, having excellent biting properties and wear resistance, and manufacturing method. The forged roll comprises a high carbon alloy cast steel comprising about 1.10-1.85 wt % carbon, about 0.3-1.2 wt % silicon, about 0.4-1.5 wt % manganese, about 0.5-2.0 wt % nickel, about 0.5-2.0 wt % chromium and iron. Heat treatment for spheroidal carbide formation is performed so that the spheroidal carbide covers about 35-55% of the area of the roll metallurgical structure.