Patents Issued in June 21, 2001
  • Publication number: 20010003900
    Abstract: An improved fly wheel for storing rotational energy includes an inner ring and an inertial ring separated by an intermediate space. A radially resilient coupling device connects the inner and inertial rings and is subjected to a radial bias force, which exerts an outward force on the inertial ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Wolf-Rudiger Canders
  • Publication number: 20010003901
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing integrated bake and chill thermal cycling applied to a material substrate is provided. The apparatus is a module comprising an integrated bake and chill plate with one or more fluid channels in a generally spiraling arrangement. The fluid channels have inlets and outlets near the center and perimeter of the integrated bake and chill plate. Additionally, the fluid channels can have microchannels through portions thereof. The module can also comprise one or more thermoelectric devices, a thermally conductive plate on which the substrate directly or indirectly rests, a printed circuit board, and a variable power source. The integrated bake and chill plate, the thermally conductive plate and the thermoelectric devices are all in thermal contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Hooman Bolandi, Avi Tepman
  • Publication number: 20010003902
    Abstract: This invention provides a fundamentally new approach to air conditioning. In a conventional air-conditioning system air the full volume of air is cooled below the dew point to provide both sensible and latent cooling. In the new system, dehumidification and sensible cooling functions are preferably separate. The separate dehumidification allows for much higher supply air temperatures, preferably within about 10° F. of the space temperature. Low-velocity air distribution through a ceiling plenum or a vent into the space allows for very low fan static pressures, which greatly reduces fan energy use compared to conventional ducted systems. The low static pressures and high supply-air temperatures allow the use of existing drop ceiling construction with little modification. The system can also include low-cost thermal storage. Latent thermal storage is in the form of a concentrated liquid desiccant solution. Chilled water storage is another option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: William L. Kopko
  • Publication number: 20010003903
    Abstract: The temperature of an airflow cooled by an evaporator of a closed loop air-conditioning system, determined by means of a sensor, is compared with a theoretical value corresponding to the control current of an external-control, variable-displacement compressor, in order to detect a low level of refrigerant fluid in the system or any blocking of a compressor valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Jin Ming Liu, Bruno Hamery
  • Publication number: 20010003904
    Abstract: In a device for air conditioning a motor-vehicle passenger compartment, a control module adjusts electrical power supplied to a motor-driven fan unit delivering airflow to a condenser of the device. Means are furthermore provided for recording an air throughput passing over the condenser and produced, at least in part, by the motor-driven fan unit. A regulation module estimates a maximum value of the electrical power supply to the motor-driven fan unit, for a given air throughput, with a view to limiting the electrical power supply to this maximum value, as a function of the air throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Bruno Hamery, Jin Ming Liu
  • Publication number: 20010003905
    Abstract: A vapor compression system includes an evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser interconnected in a closed-loop system. In one embodiment, a multifunctional valve is configured to receive a liquefied heat transfer fluid from the condenser and a hot vapor from the compressor. A saturated vapor line connects the outlet of the multifunctional valve to the inlet of the evaporator and is sized so as to substantially convert the heat transfer fluid exiting the multifunctional valve into a saturated vapor prior to delivery to the evaporator. The multifunctional valve regulates the flow of heat transfer fluid through the valve by monitoring the temperature of the heat transfer fluid returning to the compressor through a suction line coupling the outlet of the evaporator to the inlet of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: XDX, LLC.
    Inventor: David A. Wightman
  • Publication number: 20010003906
    Abstract: Air conditioner for multiple rooms of a building having a network provided thereto including an outdoor unit, an outdoor unit controller for controlling operation of the outdoor unit, more than one indoor units, an indoor unit controller for controlling operation of the indoor units, and a main controller connected to the outdoor controller and the indoor controller through the network for receiving information on operation states and operation conditions of the outdoor unit and the indoor units, and controlling the outdoor unit controller and the indoor unit controller according to the information and a preset system algorithm, thereby permitting an easy installation of the air conditioner, and to save an installation cost, and an efficient and optimal air conditioning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Young Hoon Roh
  • Publication number: 20010003907
    Abstract: A portable lightweight cooling apparatus for cooling a human body is disclosed, having a channeled sheet which absorbs sweat and/or evaporative liquid, a layer of highly conductive fibers adjacent the channeled sheet; and, an air-moving device for moving air through the channeled sheet, wherein the layer of fibers redistributes heat uniformly across the object being cooled, while the air moving within the channeled sheet evaporates sweat and/or other evaporative liquid, absorbs evaporated moisture and the uniformly distributed heat generated by the human body, and discharges them into the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Moshe Siman-Tov, Jerry Allen Crabtree
  • Publication number: 20010003908
    Abstract: A freezer head for pipe freezing devices has a casing having a first exterior side with one or more first exterior depressions for receiving a pipe section to be frozen. The casing has a second exterior side with one or more second exterior depressions. The casing has a hollow interior. The casing has at least one connector configured to supply a cooling medium into the hollow interior. The first depression has a bottom having at least a first bottom portion and a second bottom portion, wherein each one of the first and second bottom portions has a different radius of curvature. The second depression has a bottom having at least a first bottom portion and a second bottom portion, wherein each one of the first and second bottom portions has a different radius of curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: REMS - WERK Christian Foll und Sohne GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Rudolf Wagner
  • Publication number: 20010003909
    Abstract: In an apparatus for the separation of air by cryogenic distillation, the overhead gas of a mixing column is sent to the passages for warming a bottom reboiler of the low-pressure column of a double column fed with air to be distilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Jean Renaud Brugerolle
  • Publication number: 20010003910
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating high-purity silica glass using a sol-gel processing that includes the steps of: (a) mixing deionized water with a monomer and a dimer to prepare an aqueous premix solution; (b) mixing the aqueous premix solution with a fused silica and a dispersion agent; (c) mixing the resulting mixture to form a dispersed sol; (d) aging the dispersed sol at the ambient temperature to stabilize silica particles, and removing air voids from the sol; and, (e) adding a polymerization initiator and a gelation agent to the aged sol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-Hyun Oh, Mi-Kyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20010003911
    Abstract: An optical fiber making apparatus has a main pipe connected to the furnace core tube, two branch pipes branching from the main pipe, and a gas source, a valve and a flow meter connected to each of the branch pipes. The flows or compositions of the inert gases supplied from the gas sources into the furnace core tube are varied. This changes the amount of heat applied to the lower end of the optical fiber preform, without depending solely on the main heater, to adjust the draw tension and thereby change the local chromatic dispersion along the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber being manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Okuno, Katsuya Nagayama, Kazuya Kuwahara, Ichiro Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20010003912
    Abstract: A method of knitting an elastic drawcord product and an elastic band and drawcord composite product are described. The method involves knitting a pair of elastic webs in a laterally spaced relationship to each other, and securing a drawcord within the space between the elastic webs by way of first and second tying yarns. The first tying yarn reciprocates across the space between the first and second elastic webs and is alternatingly secured to the side edges thereof along the front face of the elastic webs. The second tying yarn reciprocates across the space between the first and second elastic webs and is alternatingly secured to the side edges thereof along the rear face of the webs, and the drawcord is secured between the two elastic webs and the first and second tying yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Clyde E. Jackon, Frankie Hunt, James Burrow
  • Publication number: 20010003913
    Abstract: A lock with an electromechanical coupling device, which only consumes little electrical power, comprises an operating handle which constantly is in operative connection with a drive member of an electromechanical coupling device and upon recognition of an authentication code makes an operative connection with a driven member, which in turn is in constant operative connection with the operating mechanism of the lock. The drive member and the driven member of the coupling device are each spring-loaded into a rest position and can be coupled via a locking mechanism, which by means of an electromechanical transducer can be switched between a disengaged position and an engaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Sphinx Elektronik GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Engler
  • Publication number: 20010003914
    Abstract: A friction test apparatus provided with a rotating friction means having an endless belt set around one pair of rotating drums, a belt supporting means disposed near an inner face of the belt, a sample holder to which a sample is detachably attached, and a sample holder driving means which holds the sample holder as to be rotatable and by which the sample attached to the sample holder is pressed to and part from an outer face of the belt. Further, the friction test apparatus is also provided with a meandering prevention mechanism which prevents the belt rotated by the pair of rotating drums from meandering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Kiyoshige Muraoka, Jun Nishibayashi, Chikahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20010003915
    Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust gas analyzing system utilizing a mini-diluter method in which measurement accuracy of the exhaust gas analyzing system can be evaluated by the system itself. In the exhaust gas analyzing system, a sampling flow path is connected to an exhaust gas flow path through which gas exhausted from an engine flows to sample a portion of the exhaust gas. The sampled exhaust gas is diluted with dilution gas introduced through a dilution gas flow path which is connected in parallel to the sampling flow path. A portion of the diluted exhaust gas is stored in a sample bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Kaori Inoue, Masayuki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20010003916
    Abstract: A central electrode 12 is arranged in a coiled heater electrode 10. They are buried in a SnO2-based inner area 6, and the entirety is covered by a filter 8. The volume of the inner area 6 is set at from 1×10−3 mm3 to 16×10−3 mm3, the total volume of the bead 4 is set at from 15×10−3 mm3 to 70×10−3 mm3, and the ratio of the total volume of the bead 4 to the volume of the inner area 6 is set at from 4 to 20 to bring the sensor resistance in CO and that in methane closer to each other and increase the selectivity from hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Figaro Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Tohru Nomura, Hideki Okoshi, Tomoko Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20010003917
    Abstract: A method of testing a product for leaks includes applying to the product a reference pressure that is less than 50.6 KPa. The method also includes developing a gas flow through a leak detection sensor in response to applying the reference pressure to the product. Another step of the method includes determining, based upon the gas flow between the product and the pressure system, whether the product leaked an unacceptable amount during the test period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: ATC, Inc.
    Inventors: Nehemiah Hemi Sagi, Guosen Ronald Zhang, Ranajit Rana Ghosh, Xuguang Wang
  • Publication number: 20010003918
    Abstract: A testing apparatus in the form of a dip card 10 for testing a fluid medium includes a housing incorporating a grid member 16 provided with openings or tracks 20 for receiving test strips 18. At least one capillary tube 28 communicates between the exterior of the housing and an opening or track 20 in the grid member. The capillary tube 28 enables fluid to pass to a test strip 18 located in the opening 20 in the grid member 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: SureScreen Diagnostics Limited
    Inventor: James Gordon Campbell
  • Publication number: 20010003919
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for diagnosing an exhaust-gas recirculation system of an internal combustion engine wherein the fuel quantity, which is needed for a desired mixture composition, is computed, at least approximately, in a control apparatus, inter alia, from stored data of the EGR system. The stored data can be in the form of a through-flow characteristic line. Thereafter, the fuel quantity is corrected by a control factor in dependence upon the mixture composition. The control factor is computed and stored when the EGR system is switched on and the control factor is computed and stored when the EGR system is switched off. The difference of these control factors is then formed and compared to pregiven values. A fault signal is outputted in the event of a deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH.
    Inventors: Claus-Dieter Nusser, Axel Stuber, Bernd Landes, Martin Haussmann, Peter Henkelmann, Joerg Kerner, Guido Ehlers
  • Publication number: 20010003920
    Abstract: A vehicle's side impact test apparatus includes an impact pole fixedly projected from a barrier, and a vehicle carrier system for propelling a test vehicle to the impact pole along a leading road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Sang-Kyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20010003921
    Abstract: An arrangement for examining a textile material section is provided, more particularly of toweling goods, by visual inspection by an examiner. In this respect, the examining arrangement has a laying area arranged in the field of vision of the examiner, in which the material section can be positioned so that it is laid flat for examination of the first side of the material section. In addition, the examining arrangement includes a turning device (2, 3), by which the material section (4), starting from the position for examining the first side (8) of the material section (4), can be reversed in such a manner that the material section (4) can be positioned so that it is laid flat in the laying area (6) for examination of the second side (10) of the material section (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: KARL MUESSIG, ROLAND BEHR
  • Publication number: 20010003922
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring arrangement for measuring the flow velocity of a gas. With a single measuring sensor, a physical quantity of the gas as well as the gas temperature can be measured. During a first measuring phase in which the measuring sensor is heated to an operating temperature by a heating current, a first measurement quantity is determined from the change of the heating current caused by the physical quantity. During a second measuring phase, the measuring sensor is connected to a resistance measuring device and the heating current of the measuring sensor is reduced in such a manner that the inherent warming of the measuring sensor is small compared to the operating temperature. A second measurement quantity is determined from the resistance of the measuring sensor which is proportional to the temperature of the gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Dieter Engel
  • Publication number: 20010003923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a crankshaft starter-generator for an internal combustion engine wherein the starter-generator is drive-coupled to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and serves both as the starter and the generator. A stator of the starter-generator is coupled with torsional strength to a motor block of the internal combustion engine. A rotor of the starter-generator is drive-coupled with the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. A carrier is arranged coaxially with respect to the crankshaft and drive-coupled thereto. The rotor is drive-coupled to the carrier. The rotor and the carrier are arranged coaxially with respect to each other and are coupled to one another with torsional strength. Furthermore, the stator is arranged on the inside, and the rotor is arranged on the outside of the starter-generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: KONTEC GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Puchas
  • Publication number: 20010003924
    Abstract: In a linear guide unit comprising a guide housing configured as a profiled girder having a bottom wall and a side wall, said bottom and side walls defining an empty guide space and forming an angle of less than 180° with each other in cross-section, a guide rail fixed on one of the bottom wall and the side wall, said guide rail being partially surrounded by at least one sliding traveler supported thereon, and a carriage plate fixed on the traveler and projecting out of a longitudinal opening of the empty guide space, said carriage plate having a connecting surface for connection to a connecting structure that is to be moved in a longitudinal direction of the guide housing, for a further delimitation of the empty guide space, a cover sheet is detachably fixed on the side wall in an end region of the side wall opposing the bottom wall, the longitudinal opening for the carriage plate being arranged between a free end region of the cover sheet and the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Eberhard Alber
  • Publication number: 20010003925
    Abstract: An actuator unit comprises a worm wheel rotated by a motor and having an output gear, a rotational lever having a toothed portion engaged with the output gear. The output gear has one first motor side gear tooth, two second motor side gear teeth, and two third motor side gear teeth which are shifted in three stages in an axial direction of a wheel shaft. The toothed portion has two first lever side gear teeth engageable only with the first motor side gear tooth, one second lever side gear tooth engageable only with the second motor side gear teeth, and one third lever side gear tooth engageable only with the third motor side gear teeth. The toothed portion does not rotate the output gear when the rotational lever is rotated while the worm wheel is located in a neutral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Oliver Swan
  • Publication number: 20010003926
    Abstract: In a device for controlling the drive of mechanisms operating separately from one another, the object is to minimize the operating effort and expense of driving alternatively operating mechanisms. Furthermore, it is ensured by the device that the mechanisms are only allowed to be put into operation if they are in a specific state and that this state is maintained throughout their operation. The device has power transmission capabilities different from one another for adjusting the control system to different states of the mechanisms. Arrangements provided for this purpose operate in different settings, determined by control signals, of which a first setting prevents a power transmission and further settings respectively permit power transmission to one of the mechanisms. The arrangement for power transmission is equipped with a signal-receiving device, with which a reception of the control signals dependent on the state of the mechanisms takes place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: Jenoptik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lawrence R. Gravell, John C. Pflueger
  • Publication number: 20010003927
    Abstract: The control lever equipment for a bar handle vehicle enables smooth pivoting of a grip allowance adjusting mechanism for a control lever with respect to a grip. In this equipment, the control lever is composed essentially of two pieces, i.e., a lever piece and an operating piece, which pivot coaxially independent of each other on a support shaft attached to a holder fixed to the handle bar. An adjusting pin for widening and narrowing the grip allowance between the control lever and the grip of the handle bar is attached either to the lever piece or to the operating piece pivotally on an axis parallel to the support shaft. A resilient piece is interposed between the adjusting pin and a bearing for bearing the shaft end of the adjusting pin, formed either on the lever piece or the operating piece, to be coaxial with the adjusting pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genichi Hatakoshi, Naoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20010003928
    Abstract: A foot brake release device so adapted that a slight and instant pull of a parking release knob for releasing the parking activated state at the parking brake pedal enables to completely release the parking activated state of the parking brake pedal, thereby removing separate inconvenient checking of full release of the parking actuated state and promoting a safe operation of an automobile, the device comprising: a parking brake pedal equipped at one side thereof with a ratchet gear and mounted rotatively; a ratchet plate equipped with a ratchet gear meshed to a ratchet gear and mounted rotatively; a torsion spring mounted at the ratchet plate for the parking brake pedal to rotate at a predetermined angle for maintenance of a locked state and to restrict the ratchet plate from rotating in one direction; and torsion spring slack keeping unit for maintaining slacked state of the torsion spring when the parking brake pedal is returned for rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Taeg-Jo Kim
  • Publication number: 20010003929
    Abstract: A process for producing a high-purity Mn material comprising the steps of premelting crude Mn at 1250-1500° C. and vacuum distilling the melt at 1100-1500° C. The degree of vacuum during the vacuum distillation ranges from 5×10−6 torr to 10 torrs. A crucible for use in the vacuum distillation is a double crucible, which consists of inner and outer crucibles, and a carbon felt packed in the space therebetween. A high-purity Mn material for thin film deposition which contains a total of not more than 100 ppm impurity metallic elements, not more than 200 ppm oxygen, not more than 50 ppm nitrogen, not more than 50 ppm S, and not more than 100 ppm C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Yuichiro Shindo, Tsuneo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010003930
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for increasing the productivity of a direct reduction process in which iron oxide is reduced to metallized iron by contact with hot reducing gas; comprising the steps of: a) providing a first hot reducing gas consisting essentially of CO and H2; b) providing additional reducing gas by reaction of a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon fuel with oxygen; c) mixing the first hot reducing gas with the additional reducing gas to form a reducing gas mixture; d) enriching the reducing gas mixture by the addition of a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon; e) injecting oxygen or oxygen-enriched air into the enriched mixture; and f) introducing the enriched mixture into an associated direct reduction furnace as reducing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Stephen C. Montague, Russell Kakaley, Gregory D. Hughes, Gary E. Metius
  • Publication number: 20010003931
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a metal formed product comprises a molten metal-holding furnace; a semisolidified metal-producing mechanism; a cooling member-restoring mechanism arranged adjacent to the semisolidified metal-producing mechanism, for applying a restoring treatment so that chillers have a desired function; a forming machine for forming semisolidified metal to have a predetermined shape; and an articulated robot capable of transporting a crucible to the molten metal-holding furnace, the semisolidified metal-producing mechanism, and the forming machine. The semisolidified metal-producing mechanism includes first to third agitators. The cooling member-restoring mechanism includes first to third treating sections. These components are arranged in a direction of back and forth movement of the articulated robot. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently obtain the metal formed product having a high quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Kazuya Sakamoto, Kenji Ohwada, Tomonori Taoka, Koichi Kuroki, Takahiro Suenaga, Takashi Idegomori, Kenichi Katahira, Hideomi Ito, Akira Noda, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Masayoshi Kai, Shinji Kazama
  • Publication number: 20010003932
    Abstract: An improved polycrystalline diamond composite (“PDC”) cutter with secondary PDC cutting surfaces in addition to a primary PDC cutting surface is formed comprising of at least two wafers of cemented carbide bonded together. The secondary cutting surfaces are formed by compacting and sintering diamond in grooves formed at the surface of the wafers. Wafers of different grades of cemented carbide may be used. Moreover, different grades of diamond may be compacted and sintered in different grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: SCOTT M. PACKER
  • Publication number: 20010003933
    Abstract: A wrench includes a handle having a ring-shaped head in which a toothed member is rotatably received. Three protrusions extend radially inward from an inner periphery of the ring-shaped head so as to define three recesses between the protrusions. Two grooves are respectively defined in a top and a bottom of each of the protrusions so as to two elastic members therein. A top cap and a lower cap are respectively mounted to the ring-shaped head. The lower cap has three curved slots defined in a top surface thereof. Three pawl members engaged with the toothed member are movably located in the recesses and each have a pin movably received in the curved slots of the lower cap. The elastic members bias a rear surface of each of the pawl members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Yuan-Ching Chi, Shyong-Chuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20010003934
    Abstract: A bar feeder for feeding an automatic lathe, comprising a bar magazine and a guide supplied by the magazine, a facing device being associated with the end of the magazine that lies opposite to the end that is adjacent to the lathe and being suitable to machine the rear end of the bar on which the bar pusher engages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: IEMCA GIULIANI MACCHINE ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Saverio Gellini
  • Publication number: 20010003935
    Abstract: A vegetation cutter, a cutting string for use with a vegetation cutter, and a method of cutting vegetation, are provided which utilize a novel cutting string arrangement in which a twist and living hinge are provided in a cutting string having a drag co-efficient of less than 1.0, typically with a first long axis and a second short axis, the second axis less than 85% of the first axis. The twist is provided between the free end of the string and where the string is mounted to the head, or where two twists are provided in the string, the string is mounted to the head at a central portion between the twists. The string may be mounted to the head by grooves or slots and/or clamping mechanisms, or a wide variety of other components. The cutting string may have a wide variety of cross-sectional configurations (both symmetrical, such as elliptical, or non-symmetrical, such as substantially tear drop). The twist is typically between about 30-150°, most desirably about 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: VINCENT D. MORABIT, MICHAEL Z. MORABITO, CHIRSTOPHER J. MORABITO
  • Publication number: 20010003936
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating cut portions from a sheet material such as paper or cardboard, and method thereof. The separation process is performed by using an air suction force to separate (from a sheet) a cut blanking portion and a rim portion having predetermined shapes. In one aspect, an apparatus comprises a pair of dispensers which receive a sheet therebetween between a pair of dispensers, approaches the pair of dispensers each other, absorbs a blanking portion with a first dispenser and a rim portion with a second dispenser, detaches the first and second dispensers each other, moves the first or second dispenser at a predetermined position, and releases the blanking portion and rim portion from the first and second dispensers, respectively. Thereby, the blanking portion and the rim portion can be readily separated and piled uniformly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: BYUNG-JUN SONG
  • Publication number: 20010003937
    Abstract: The substrate sawing process for a strip mainly includes multi-alignment corresponding to a plurality of substrate areas of strips which are arranged side-by-side on a plate. A saw machine is mechanically moved to the substrate areas and is positioned by the alignments of corresponding substrate areas for cutting the substrate areas of the strips in the first phase. Then the saw machine is further mechanically moved to the substrate areas again and is positioned by the alignments of corresponding substrate areas again for cutting the substrate areas of the strips in the second phase. Therefore, an error in any of the substrate areas in the first phase and second phase cannot add to the peripheral substrate areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: JAU-YUEN SU
  • Publication number: 20010003938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a knife holder for a microtome. The knife holder has a plate arranged pivotably on its base member and arranged, in its functional position covering the cutting edge of the knife, spaced apart from the cutting plane to the side of the knife holder remote from the specimen side, and at the same time spaced apart from the knife holder on the side of the cutting edge of the knife. By this arrangement of the plate, any gripping of the cutting edge of the knife can be precluded in the functional position of this plate. In advantageous embodiment examples of the invention, the pivoting mechanism for the plate is coupled to a switch which has the effect that, when the plate is pivoted out of the functional position, the motor drive of the cutting movement is locked, or that a brake precludes any movement of the knife slide or specimen slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Hans Heid
  • Publication number: 20010003939
    Abstract: An automatic carton slitting machines includes a transmission means for moving cartons, a sensing and positioning means for detecting and positioning the cartons at locations desired, a slitting means for slitting the carton and a control unit for coordinate and control the operations of all other means. The cutter means includes two spaced cutter sets each has a motor driven rotating saw cutter with adjustable slitting angle. One of the cutter sets is movable by a cutter set moving means for changing spacing distance between the cutter sets to process carton of different width. The cutter means also has a frame lifting means to adjust cutter sets height for processing cartons of different height. Through coordinating the transmission means, cutter set moving means and frame lifting means may coordinate their motion so that the cutter sets may move in three dimensions against the carton for automatically cleaving cartons of different size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 1999
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: SHENG-FENG LIU, CHIN-LU HUANG, WEI CHANG, HAI-JOUR SUN, SHIUAN-I SHAU
  • Publication number: 20010003940
    Abstract: There are provided a musical tone-generating apparatus and a musical tone-generating method which make it possible to distribute tone generation loads evenly between a plurality of musical tone-generating sections, even if musical tones designated for tone generation are more concentrated in some specific tone ranges,, to thereby reduce a tone generation load applied to each of the musical tone-generating sections, and a storage medium storing a program for executing the musical tone-generating method. Performance information is supplied which simultaneously instructs a start of generation of musical tones corresponding to each of a plurality of tone pitches. Each of a plurality of tone generators generates musical tones of at least one pitch name independently of each other, all of the tone generators being capable of generating musical tones of all pitch names.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION OF JAPAN
    Inventor: Masao Kondo
  • Publication number: 20010003941
    Abstract: There is provided a music reproducing apparatus by which audio data or the like can be downloaded into an internal memory means with ease. A connector portion that can be connected to a predetermined card slot of a data processing apparatus, an audio data memory means, an audio reproducing circuit and an audio data outputting section are integrally incorporated within a card-type housing of a music reproducing apparatus and hence the music reproducing apparatus can be easily connected to a data processing apparatus such as a personal computer apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Takeshi Sawada, Toru Tanaka, Tadashi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20010003942
    Abstract: An electronic musical toy instrument has a first memory unit for storing a lot of music sound data for playing music, a second memory unit for storing sound data that corresponds to a sound responding to the progress of the music, a sound output unit for generating sound that corresponds to the music sound data or the sound data, and an operating member for reading the sound data out of the second memory unit. With the electronic musical toy instrument, a sound that corresponds to the sound data is generated from the sound output unit by an actuation of the operating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Mieko Yabushita, Makoto Takezaki, Katsumi Araki
  • Publication number: 20010003943
    Abstract: A musical sound signal generation apparatus for producing a sound corresponding to an operated key can produce a sound of a newly-operated key even if all the musical sound signal generation means for generating a musical sound signal are in use. On producing the new sound, the apparatus prevents the players and the audience from having a sense of incongruity derived from the change in sound production. Especially, when a chord has been produced, it can maintain the state of chord production normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Eiji Matsuda, Jiro Tanaka, Tsutomu Saito
  • Publication number: 20010003944
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to realize a musical instrument and a method for automatically playing a musical accompaniment with guiding smoother and easier chord patterns to play. One of significant features of the present invention is to indicate chord forms which realize smoothest fingering after analyzing a chord following to the present chord to determine whether the present chord should employ a root position or an inverted position for the smoothest fingering. Another feature of the present invention is to indicate chord forms which are selected to realize less movement of the player's hand after analyzing the former chord to determine a chord position (root position or inverted position) of the present chord which is the closest to the former position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Rika Okubo, Takashi Yahata
  • Publication number: 20010003945
    Abstract: An automatic player piano is an acoustic piano equipped with a data acquisition system and a playback system, and the data acquisition system monitors the hammers with hammer sensors for producing a set of music data codes representative of a performance on the keyboard, wherein the hammer sensor has a detectable range over the trajectory of the associated hammer so that the data acquisition system obtains pieces of music data accurately representative of the trajectory of hammer to be required for a faithful reproduction of the original performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Muramatsu, Yasuhiko Oba, Tadaharu Kato, Kiyoshi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20010003946
    Abstract: A detonation arrestor cuts the detonating cord of a dud line charge to prevent the pressure wave from a nearby explosion from sympathetically detonating the dud line charge. A housing of the detonation arrestor has a transverse passageway to receive the detonating cord of the dud line charge and an axial bore intersecting the passageway. A cutter piston having a cutter blade is disposed in the bore and is sized to permit axial displacement by a shallow dish-shaped diaphragm spring. The diaphragm spring has its center adjacent to one end of the cutter piston and laterally extends from the bore to be secured to the housing along its round periphery in a sealed relationship. The diaphragm spring is formed in the configuration of a Belleville spring from a spring material providing strength, rigidity, and spring modulus to snap to an extended position when displaced to a position past an over center position by an impinging pressure wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Felipe Garcia, Robert Woodall, Christopher Doyle, John Pipkin
  • Publication number: 20010003947
    Abstract: A vacuum brake booster (10) has a vacuum chamber (18) and a working chamber (20) separated from one another in a pressure-proof manner by a movable wall (16). A control valve (22), which comprises a housing (24) workingly coupled to the movable wall (16), has a first valve seat (50), which is disposed in the housing (24) and to achieve a pressure difference at the movable wall (16) is capable of controlling the supply of at least atmospheric pressure to the working chamber (20) in dependence upon the displacement of an input element (26) coupled to the first valve seat (50). For improved boosting of the brake force during emergency braking operations, an armature (38), which cooperates with a permanent magnet (40), is provided in the control valve housing (24) and is rigidly coupled on the one hand to the actuating element (26) in actuating direction and on the other hand to the first valve seat (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Peter Schluter
  • Publication number: 20010003948
    Abstract: The invention concerns a radial piston hydraulic engine (10), which includes a rotated box section (11), with which box section (11) a cam ring (12) is connected. The radial piston hydraulic engine (10) includes a fixed non-rotary shaft (14), with which a cylinder body (15) in a fixed position is connected. The radial piston hydraulic engine includes a distributor (13), which is connected with the box section (11) and rotates together with it, whereby through channels located in the distributor a pressurized medium is conducted to pistons (16a1, 16a2 . . . ) of cylinders (P1, P2 . . . ) controlled by the distributing valve, that is, by distributor (13), and that at least some cylinders (P1, P2 . . . ) include in connection with themselves a shut-off valve (70a1, 70a2 . . . ) which is used to make some pistons (16a1, 16a2 . . . ) inoperative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Matti Uski
  • Publication number: 20010003949
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permeation installation comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L' Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Christian Monereau, Serge Phelut