Patents Issued in August 2, 2001
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Publication number: 20010010748Abstract: In digitally recording an analog video signal on a storage medium, a data selector selects first luminance and first chrominance signals output from a Y/C separator. In response, a clock select switch selects a first clock signal with a first frequency. D/A converters sample the first luminance and first chrominance signals, output from the separator, at the first frequency, thereby converting them into analog signals to be output to a monitor. In reading out a digitally recorded video signal from the storage medium, the selector selects second luminance and second chrominance signals output from a digital codec and a chroma encoder, respectively. In response, the switch selects a second clock signal with a second frequency. The D/A converters sample the second luminance and second chrominance signals, output from the codec and the encoder, respectively, at the second frequency, thereby converting them into analog signals to be output to the monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisaji Murata, Toshihiro Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20010010749Abstract: In a display device used together with a playback apparatus such as an optical disk, a control is provided responding to a playback signal from an playback apparatus in order to prevent burn-out of CRT phosphor or deterioration of phosphor. A first controller controls the playback apparatus, and a second controller controls the display device, and those two controllers communicate with each other, thereby recognizing an operation status and a display status. Thus those two controllers control circuits and apparatus including a video control circuit which controls a contrast, whereby optimizing a display on a screen, and control status of an audio output, a power supply controller, and a playback apparatus controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 1997Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: KOICHIRO NAGATA, TAKAAKI HOSHI, MASASHI IMAI
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Publication number: 20010010750Abstract: A digital motion picture decoding apparatus comprising an input buffer memory for storing coded data to be decoded, a reproduced picture memory for storing the decoded picture data to be displayed, and a display picture deciding means for deciding a reproduced picture to be output from the picture data stored in the reproduced picture memory, further comprises: a program changing means for changing the type of the coded data to be decoded; a program change detecting means for detecting from the output of the program changing means that the type of the coded data to be decoded is changed; and a display state maintaining means for controlling the picture data output from the reproduced picture memory so as to maintain the display state of the reproduced picture which is currently displayed according to the decision of the display picture deciding means, when it is detected from the output of the program change detecting means that the change of the type of the coded data to be decoded makes the coded data not cType: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 1997Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: NOBUO SETOGUCHI, AKIHIRO WATABE
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Publication number: 20010010751Abstract: A code multiplexing/reading apparatus includes a first register. Two codes that reside in a predetermined relationship are outputted from the first register, which are superimposed on a video signal to be recorded by operation of switches. Consequently, a video recording device records a code-multiplexed video signal on a recording medium. When the code-multiplexed video signal is reproduced from the medium by a video reproducing device, two codes taken out of the reproduced video signal are compared with each other by a comparator. When the two codes are “1001101” and “0110010”, the inversion of the former code agrees with the latter code. Therefore, the former code is outputted as a predetermined code from a second register.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 1997Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: TADASHI AMINO, YOSHIYUKI MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20010010752Abstract: An information medium which has a data area for recording stream data (SOB) using stream packets each of which includes an application packet area, and a management area for recording management information that pertains to the stream data (SOB) is used. The stream data (SOB) are distributed and recorded in the application packet areas in a plurality of the stream PES packets. When the start portion of the application packet area included in the first stream PES packet in the stream data (SOB) does not match the first byte of a time stamp appended to the first application packet in the application packet area, then information is recorded so that they match.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Hideo Ando, Kazuyuki Uyama, Yuuji Ito, Shinichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20010010753Abstract: An information medium which has a data area for recording stream data (SOB) using stream packets each of which includes an application packet area, and a management area for recording management information that pertains to the stream data (SOB) is used. The stream data (SOB) are distributed and recorded in the application packet areas in a plurality of the stream PES packets. When the start portion of the application packet area included in the first stream PES packet in the stream data (SOB) does not match the first byte of a time stamp appended to the first application packet in the application packet area, then information is recorded so that they match.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Hideo Ando, Kazuyuki Uyama, Yuuji Ito, Shinichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20010010754Abstract: An information medium which has a data area for recording stream data (SOB) using stream packets each of which includes an application packet area, and a management area for recording management information that pertains to the stream data (SOB) is used. The stream data (SOB) are distributed and recorded in the application packet areas in a plurality of the stream PES packets. When the start portion of the application packet area included in the first stream PES packet in the stream data (SOB) does not match the first byte of a time stamp appended to the first application packet in the application packet area, then information is recorded so that they match.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Hideo Ando, Kazuyuki Uyama, Yuuji Ito, Shinichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20010010755Abstract: In a DVD recording/playback system, a set top box STB receives an MPEG transport stream constituted by a plurality of transport packets, and a formatter extracts support information indicating if management information included in the transport packets includes predetermined items. A disc drive that records data on a recording medium having a management area and data area records the support information in the management area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Hideo Ando, Kazuyuki Uyama, Shinichi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20010010756Abstract: If only any one of a pair of an SS anti-duplication control signal S5 and copy guard signal S6 generated correlatively each other added on the video signal played back from the disk is detected, or if the specific anti-duplication control signal is not detected, the video signal recorded in the disk is judged to be an illegally duplicated video signal, and the output control signal generation section controls the output control section so as not to output the playback video signal S4.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Akira Ogino
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Publication number: 20010010757Abstract: An optical disk includes: a data region; and a management region. The data region stores: at least one video object containing video information and audio information; and at least one audio object containing audio information. The management region stores first path information and second path information, the first path information indicating a first reproduction path including only the at least one video object, and the second path information indicating a second reproduction path including a combination of the at least one video object and the at least one audio object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Mori, Masayuki Kozuka, Kazuhiko Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20010010758Abstract: It includes a housing (1) within which a resistor (3) is arranged connected to two connections (2) projecting through the bottom of the housing (1), further provided with an aluminum plate (5) serving as a radiator which is held inside at the top of the housing (1), held by strips (6) in the latter. The housing (1) and the aluminum plate (5) are provided with a hole (7) through which a wick may pass to project through the mouth of a container holding liquid product to be vaporized, by heating the wick through the resistor. A frame-like spacer element (8) is arranged on the housing (1) with fixing means to the housing (1), defining a supporting surface for a tablet (12), which tablet may be spaced to a greater or lesser extent by means of the spacer element (8) in order for said tablet (12) to be reached at all times by the appropriate heat to be full efficiently vaporized. The heating device may be used for both liquid and solid products.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Jordi Basaganas Millan
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Publication number: 20010010759Abstract: A lamp unit that is useful in a photoirradiating-type heating device that does not contaminate the processing chamber of a photoirradiating-type heating device, that permits the lamp to be reliably cooled, that permits the lamp to be reliably turned on, that inhibits the decline in the reflectance on the inner surface of an optical guide, and that permits attenuation of irradiation intensity to be inhibited. The lamp unit has a metal sleeve with an aperture at one end and a single ended lamp mounted so that sealed part of the lamp would be situated on the inside of the sleeve on the aperture side of sleeve, a coupling member having a contact support unit that makes contact with the outer surface of a sealed part of the lamp by elastic force as well as a contact fastening unit that makes contact with the inner surface of the sleeve after the contact support unit and that also fastens a single ended lamp to the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Masatoshi Kimura
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Publication number: 20010010760Abstract: In a digital camera system comprising lens-barrels 12, 13 having an optical system including an objective 14, a finder 17, a monitoring liquid crystal display 18, a release button 19 and a controller 22 having a power supply, a ring flash 15 is provided on the lens-barrel so as to surround the objective, a metering sensor 26 is provided below the front end portion of the lens-barrel, and a light receiving surface 28 is inclined at an angle of 20 to 85 degrees with respect to the surface which is perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical system. Accordingly, the metering sensor reliably receives the reflected light from a subject, and the amount of light emission of the ring flash can be accurately controlled, so that it is possible to obtain clear images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2000Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Masashi SAITO, Hiroyuki OGUNI, Yoshiteru OKADA and Hiroshi OKADAInventor: Masashi Saito
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Publication number: 20010010761Abstract: A real image type finder is provided with an imaging optical system, a focusing glass disposed at a focusing surface of the imaging optical system, an observing optical system for observing an image formed on the focusing glass, a case that accommodates the focusing glass and the observing optical system. The case is formed with an opening that allows only the focusing glass to be inserted in/withdrawn from the case therethrough. The finder is further provided with a covering means that removably covers the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Nakagishi, Isao Okuda
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Publication number: 20010010762Abstract: A photometry device for a camera is provided with a normal light sensor having spectral sensitivity characteristics close to visual sensitivity characteristics, a plurality of colorimetric sensors having spectral sensitivity characteristics that are different from those of the normal light sensor, an exposure amount determining system that determines an exposure amount of an object in accordance with an output of the normal light sensor. A color of the object is determined in accordance with the outputs of the plurality of colorimetric sensors and an external light sensor that measures an external light illuminating the object at spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to each of the plurality of colorimetric sensors. Then, based on the determined color, an exposure compensation amount is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isamu Hirai, Yoshikazu Iida
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Publication number: 20010010763Abstract: This invention provides a camera with a data exposure function comprising: a dot LED; a film winding mechanism provided with a film feeding motor; a film winding operation detecting portion for outputting a motor pulse signal corresponding to a rotation of the film feeding motor; a perforation detecting portion for detecting a perforation to output a perforation signal; and a main microcomputer for determining a lighting interval pulse by counting the number of motor pulses during detection of plural perforations, calculating a correction time corresponding to a decimal portion of the lighting interval pulse with reference to the cycle of a motor pulse signal and controlling a lighting interval of the dot LED based on an integer portion of the lighting interval pulse and correction time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Naoki Matsuo
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Publication number: 20010010764Abstract: The invention provides a fast-deployable light-weight tripod, comprising a center support for supporting a load, provided with three peripheral hinge members, three multi-stage telescoping leg assemblies each attached to one of the hinge members, each leg assembly comprising at least two compression-resistant members interconnected by a telescopic joint, at least one cam locking unit associated with each telescopic joint, each locking unit having a first engaged position preventing relative axial movement which would shorten the length of the leg assembly, and a second disengaged position wherein the assemblies are free to move in either axial direction, each locking unit being urged towards its engaged position for automatic locking of the tripod in its deployed position with the cam locking being effected by pressure on the cam unit from its associated extended leg; and further comprising a hand accessible release element for each leg assembly for independently releasing the at least one cam locking unit asType: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Daniel Sherwin
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Publication number: 20010010765Abstract: A lens unit structure for an SLR digital camera is provided with a photographing lens block and a finder block. The photographing lens block includes a lens barrel having a pair of guide shafts extending in parallel with an optical axis. Ends of the guide shafts are secured to the lens barrel. A focusing lens and a zoom lens are slidably supported by the guide shaft so as to move in a direction of the optical axis, but prevents the lenses from moving in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The finder block includes a casing that accommodates a finder optical system, a CCD, and a beam splitter. The beam splitter splits the light from the photographing lens block into components directed to the finder optical system and the image capturing element. The casing has a plurality of holes respectively receiving the pair of guide shaft members.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Nakagishi, Isao Okuda
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Publication number: 20010010766Abstract: A charging device comprises a conductor, which is in contact with a photoconductor, and a power source circuit, which applies a voltage to the conductor and electrically charges the photoconductor as to have a predetermined level of potential. The power source circuit includes a resistor having a predetermined level of resistance, and provides the conductor with a voltage through the resistor, thereby to stabilize the charged potential of the photoconductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Mabumi Kashihara
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Publication number: 20010010767Abstract: An electrostatic imaging device such as copying machine includes a photoreceptor, a corona electrifier for the photoreceptor, a developer and a ventilation system. The ventilation system includes a suction duct having a suction port for absorbing ozone generated by the corona electrifier, an exhaust duct having a pair of air nozzle for blasting air to the developer for prevention of ink leakage, an ozone remover for removing ozone from the air inside the duct to provide clean air to the air nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Takaaki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010010768Abstract: Prior to the transfer process, the pre-transfer charging is conducted on the recording image formed on the electrostatic recording body by the development process, and the potential difference generated in the air gap between the recording medium and the recording image at the time of transfer, is made smaller than the Paschen discharge potential difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Yuji Furuya, Hiroyoshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20010010769Abstract: A transfer guide is provided which includes a guide member for guiding paper to a transfer point and a paper holding member using an electrically conductive member attached to the guide member by means of a spring member and disposed in the vicinity of a surface of a photosensitive drum, such that the gap becomes narrow for thin paper and the gap widens for thick paper in correspondence with the ream weight of the paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Kenji Ishii, Masayuki Ainoya, Junji Shirakawa, Minoru Seino, Hideki Ando
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Publication number: 20010010770Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet, a discharged-sheet receiving device provided at an upper part of a casing including the image forming device, for receiving the sheet with an image formed thereon after being discharged, and a receiving frame for receiving the casing including the image forming device, the receiving frame being provided with a guide unit for guiding the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device. The guide unit guides the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device to be removed so that the sheet does not interfere with the receiving frame when the sheet is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Ryusei Kominato
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Publication number: 20010010771Abstract: A platen together with a frame supporting the platen is rotatably mounted on a shaft and a platen gap is regulated by rotary movement of the frame about that shaft to detect thickness of a printing sheet at a first printing position. The mechanism for setting the platen gap is simplified and precise and the present printer can accommodate even printing sheets whose thickness is partially different. Further, it is detected platen temperature by a simple temperature detecting means and to change the platen position according to the detected temperature by a predetermined value ±&Dgr;d for a standard value d0 of the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Mikio Nagai, Toshihiro Fujimoto, Shohei Nakayama
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Publication number: 20010010772Abstract: A calendar selling system comprises a server that stores information of a plurality of pictures and a terminal that receives information of the plurality of pictures from the server and shows the information to a user, and the user selects pictures for a calendar from the plurality of pictures according to the information with the terminal to order the calendar. The calendar selling system also comprises a printing office that receives information of the pictures selected by the user from the server, prints the calendar with the pictures selected by the user and dates set by the user or automatically set according to the date of the order, delivers the calendar to the user and bills the user. Therefore, the desired calendar can be purchased all through the year and delivered to the user quickly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Kazuki Nakajima
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Publication number: 20010010773Abstract: A dot printer not using any type, nor requiring any ink ribbon has an ink roller 1, a platen 2 having an outer surface coated with ink by contacting the ink roller 1, and a printing head 3 facing the platen 2 in an appropriately spaced apart relation thereto. The printing head 3 is a dot impact type printing head having a plurality of printing wires caused to project selectively to form letters, and a recording medium 6 is conveyed between the platen 2 and the printing head 3 to have printing made thereon by the printing head 3. A protective film 8 is employed between the printing head 3 and the recording medium 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Yuji Nakagaki, Mitsuharu Shishido
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Publication number: 20010010774Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a media supply section and a media take-up section. Each section is capable of accepting a plurality of cassettes. On the supply section side, the cassettes can contain a roll of photosensitive material that is to be processed through a printing section. The cassettes on the take-up sections are initially empty and are designed to receive the web of photosensitive material after the web has been conveyed through the printing section. The cassettes can be provided at a plurality of locations and can be angularly positioned with respect to each other. A single transport assembly can be provided at each of the supply section and take-up section, and can be rotatable about a rotatable point so as to accept or discharge media to each of the appropriate cassettes. A splicer is provided on the transport assembly in the supply section, for splicing the end of the material from an empty cassette, and is also rotatable with the transport assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Christopher J. Kralles, John G. Weigand, Michael J. Chapman
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Publication number: 20010010775Abstract: A platen has an impact surface positioned to oppose a printhead so that a part of a printhead strikes paper loaded on the impact surface. The platen includes a first impact surface having a curved surface, a second impact surface having a curved surface, and an opening formed between the first and second impact surfaces. The platen is rotatable about an axis such that the first and second impact surfaces are selectively positioned to oppose the printhead. Paper advances into the platen and passes through the opening from an inside of the platen to outside of the platen so that the paper extends to cover the first impact surface, and another paper advances to the second impact surface. The impact surfaces may have different curvatures with respect to the axis. A projection may be formed on the impact surface and extends transversely of the paper advancement. The projection is substantially configured to the flection of the paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Shigemi Togashi, Yoichi Goto, Akihiro Moriyama
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Publication number: 20010010776Abstract: To avoid the effects of unwanted variations in the pen-to-paper spacing of a printer, deliberate and effectively randomised variations are introduced by using paper drive rollers (20) with an irregular cross-section. In one embodiment, an overdrive roller comprises rollers (23-26) the surfaces of which incorporate flattened portions (27, 28) of differing widths and spacings. The number, size and/or spacing of the portions (27, 28) differ from roller to roller. Instead or in addition, variations may be incorporated into a pinch wheel (101), platen (15) or other component of the paper drive system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Antoni Gil Miquel
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Publication number: 20010010777Abstract: A system to make illustrations has at least one writable sheet of material with a first side and a second side, and at least an ink-producing writing device to write on the sheet of material. The sheet is secured in a thread-shaped frame. Provision is made for attachment devices in order to attach the frame to a vertical surface, such as one or more suckers, which are connected to the sheet of material and the frame. Further, provision is made for a writing material holder and erasers in order to erase an illustration made.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Edwin R. van der Heide
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Publication number: 20010010778Abstract: A releasable fastener formed of a first, male (2), and second female component (4) is provided. Deformable arms (18) on the male component (2) extend back from the lead edge (14) of the body portion of the male component which is inserted into the female. Wedges (24) on the arms lock in apertures (40) in the second component (4). The gap between the arms (18) and the body portion is closed off by an end cap and grip portions on the arms to prevent trapping of fingers. The fastener is particularly suited to attaching nursery items, such as parasols, to nursery equipment such as pushchairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Kevin Hilton, Daniel Martin
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Publication number: 20010010779Abstract: A mechanical locking connector having a wedge, a wedge receiver, and an actuator. A wedge aligns closely to the interior of a wedge receiver and is forced by an actuator to expand opposing sides of the wedge receiver outwardly to frictionally engage any suitably shaped receptor having two corresponding opposing engageable sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Joel W. Pfister
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Publication number: 20010010780Abstract: A reclamation pipe boring apparatus for sewerage wherein a vehicle body (14) is provided with an outrigger (20) upwardly projecting via the center thereof and actuated by hydraulic pressure, a cutting device (25) disposed in the front region of the vehicle body (14), actuated by hydraulic pressure and having a rotary cutter (24) at the front end, lift means (30) actuated by hydraulic pressure to move the cutting device (25) up and down, reach means (35) actuated by hydraulic pressure to move the cutting device (25) back and forth, and swing means (40) actuated by hydraulic pressure to turn the cutting device (25) clockwise and counterclockwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Ryozo Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20010010781Abstract: One or more electric and/or data transmitting cables are confined in an elongated strip-shaped body containing a hardenable resin or the like, and the body is placed against a portion of the internal surface of an underground sewage, water or other pipe. An expandible tubular liner is thereupon introduced into the pipe and is expanded to press the body against the pipe. The body is caused to set, by conveying a hot fluid through the liner and/or by electrically heating the cable or cables, and to adhere to the internal surface of the pipe. The liner can remain in the pipe and can be bonded to the strip-shaped body and/or to the remaining portion of the internal surface of the pipe. Alternatively, the liner is caused to collapse and is withdrawn from the pipe once the strip-shaped body is bonded to the internal surface of the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Martin Prusak
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Publication number: 20010010782Abstract: Underwater conduits are connected by remotely operated devices including a vehicle capable of underwater excursions, and apparatus for connecting conduits, by a method controlled from a support vessel on the surface comprising the steps of launching a remotely operated vehicle from the support vessel; launching connection apparatus from the support vessel; manipulating the remotely operated vehicle to dock with the connecting apparatus; installing the connection apparatus at one of the conduits; activating a docking clamp means using the remotely operated vehicle to capture the end of the other conduit; activating the connection apparatus to draw the second conduit to the first; connecting the two conduits together to form a continuous flowline; providing a sealed connection and recovering the remotely operated vehicle and connection apparatus to the support vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Giovanni Corbetta
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Publication number: 20010010783Abstract: This pneumatic machine tool comprises a telescopic spindle (18) having a drive shaft (28) driven in rotation by a pneumatic motor (14) and on which is slidingly mounted a hollow shaft (36) with which a tool holder (30) is associated and which is driven in translation by control means (24) comprising a carriage (38) driven in translation by an endless screw (42) via a nut (40) carried by the carriage (38), the said endless screw being driven in rotation by an electric motor, and is characterized in that the carriage is provided with a force sensor (52; 55) designed to measure the thrust exerted on the tool holder (30) and connected to a central processing unit in which is stored an algorithm for processing the signal delivered by the sensor and for monitoring the advance of the tool carried by the spindle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: RECOULES S.A.Inventor: Marcel Desmoulins
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Publication number: 20010010784Abstract: A drill bit for drilling a hole of a selected diameter in a wood workpiece includes a conically shaped tip having a main cutting portion and a thread series operable to threadingly draw the drill bit into the wood workpiece. The thread series has a diameter which progressively increases in a direction opposite to the drilling penetration direction of movement of the drill bit to a maximum diameter which is the same as the selected diameter of the hole to be drilled. The drill bit also includes a cylindrical portion extending from the conically shaped tip, a spiral screw shaped splinter groove for conducting splinters in the drilled hole away from the drill bit penetration area and a centering drill portion with a self cutting thread series.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Karl-Heinz Giebmanns
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Publication number: 20010010785Abstract: A tool interconnect structure includes a spindle adapter, a rotary cutting tool, and a lock mechanism securing the rotary cutting tool to the spindle adapter. The spindle adapter has a face with a short hollow tapered shank at the face. The rotary cutting tool has a face for engaging the spindle adapter face and a tapered recess at the face for cooperating with the tapered shank. The lock mechanism includes a pair of blocks having shoulders at their ends adapted to engage annular grooves within the hollow tapered shank and within the rotary cutting tool. The blocks have threaded apertures therethrough and a screw having oppositely threaded end portions extends through the apertures. Rotation of the screw causes the shoulders to engage with and disengage from the grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Master Tool CorporationInventor: John M. Cirino
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Publication number: 20010010786Abstract: A pop-up tie down device includes a body member having an attachment member for securing the body member to the stake hole of a side wall in a vehicle carrier. The anchor member includes a cavity which holds a pop-up tie down device. The pop-up tie down device is movable from a retracted position within the cavity to an extended position wherein a portion of the tie down device protrudes from the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: James P. Elwell, James L. Worrell
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Publication number: 20010010787Abstract: A wedge anchor has a shank with an expander section having a surface that forms an angle greater than 8° with respect to an axis of the shank. A plurality of longitudinal ribs project radially and outwardly from the expander section, extend along the axis of the shank, and are angularly spaced apart from each other. A tubular expansion sleeve is sleeved on a neck section of the shank adjacent to the expander section, and is formed with a plurality of axially extending slits for engaging the longitudinal ribs when the expander section is extended into the expansion sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Tai-Ping Hsu
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Publication number: 20010010788Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying coatings to a portion of the internal bore or threads of a fastener or similar article having an opening on at least one end is provided. A 360° coating with material is provided using centrifugal force to assist in direction the material to a desired surface, which does not require use of a pressurized air stream in order to propell the coating material toward the walls of the article desired to be coated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: John S. Wallace, James P. DeFillipi, Joseph A. Lopetrone, Charles M. Stempien
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Publication number: 20010010789Abstract: A self-clinching fastener for attachment to a plastically deformable metal panel includes a body portion with a central axis and a central pilot portion extending from the body portion and coaxial with the central axis. The body portion forms a generally annular-shaped end face adjacent the central pilot portion and a groove defined in the end face encircling the central pilot portion. The groove has an inclined inner wall forming an undercut and an inwardly inclined bottom wall such that the groove has an increasing depth in a direction toward the undercut. The inclined bottom wall is formed by a plurality of generally flat faces and the inclined inner wall is formed by a plurality of generally flat faces which are aligned with the faces of the bottom wall. The fastener further includes a plurality of spaced apart lugs encircling the central pilot portion and axially extending from at least one of the end face and the groove. The lugs form abutments to improve torsional resistance of the fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: W. Richard Pamer, Stanley H. Umbel
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Publication number: 20010010790Abstract: Fasteners for decorative attachments to railings, gratings and the like, such as, in particular, finials attached to the tops of standards of railings, and friezes attached to and/or wrapped-around the sides of standards or posts of railings and to the standards or posts that are the cross-members of gratings, according to the present invention, are constituted of annular bodies made from a material having elastic properties. The annular fastener bodies are fabricated as parts having either an integral, single-piece construction or as sectional, multi-piece parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Andrea Radaelli, Giorgio Radaelli, Patrizia Radaelli, Alberto Radaelli
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Publication number: 20010010791Abstract: A nut assembly is provided which has a pivotable nut having both sides thereof increased in wall thickness to impart strength and thereby to prevent breakage of the nut upon tightening of a bolt. The nut assembly includes a pivotable nut and a frame having a flange formed with a bolt hole and a pair of arms provided on both sides of the flange. A pair of hanging walls extending in the bolt inserting direction are provided around a bolt hole at two portions opposing on an imaginary plane perpendicular to a line connecting the pins. This makes it possible to narrow the width of the guide hole of the nut in which the hanging walls are received by an amount by which the hanging walls have narrowed. By this arrangement, the wall thickness of both sides of the nut is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2000Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Kazuichi Ikuta
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Publication number: 20010010792Abstract: A loose-leaf book, published with the pages collected in a binder, is updated by publishing new pages for the book on the internet, having users download those pages and then punch or otherwise modify the downloaded pages so that they fit in the binder and conform to the format of the existing pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: Top That Publication plcInventors: Barrie John Henderson, Simon Peter Couchman
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Publication number: 20010010793Abstract: A binder/trimmer is disclosed in which a book block is placed in a carriage, jogged to align the pages, and then transported to a milling station in which the spine of the book block is milled to roughen the spine, then to an adhesive application station at which a suitable adhesive is applied to the spine, and thence to a binding station at which the spine of the book is brought into engagement with the center portion of a cover and at which a binding clamp forces the cover against the outer faces of the book block proximate the spine, and then to a trimming station. At the trimming station, the book is deposited in a nest and is positioned relative to a trimming blade which is actuated to trim a first edge of the book to a predetermined dimension. The book is then rotated to trim second and third edges thus resulting in a perfect bound book accurately trimmed to a predetermined size. A method of binding and trimming a perfect bound book is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Jeffrey D. Marsh
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Publication number: 20010010794Abstract: An assist mechanism for loading and unloading irregularly shaped cargo, such as for example, containers of compressed gas, includes a frame assembly and a handling assembly slidably engageable and movable with respect to the frame assembly. The handling assembly is movable along at least two axes to facilitate loading and unloading cargo, and includes a slide assembly having a powered pivotable support arm, a cuff assembly pivotably attached to the support arm, and optionally a handle assembly attached to the cuff assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Jari Jarvinen, Thomas Cassar
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Publication number: 20010010795Abstract: A rocking station comprises a frame (17) in which there is a powered rocking board (14) onto which are fed objects to be rocked. The board (14) is supported on the floor on supports (20,21) arranged near its two opposite ends with the supports (20,21) defining two parallel rotation axes of the board with each one near one of said opposite ends and transversal to the board. On each side of the board there is a chain (24) defining two main lifting branches (39,40) with each main branch being arranged between one part of the frame (17) above the board and couplings (22,23) to the board being arranged near one of said opposite ends of the board. A motor (30) causes the chains to run on command in one or the other direction to alternately place one main branch or the other under tension and lift the corresponding board end by rotating the board around the rotation axis near the opposite end.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Donato Patrito
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Publication number: 20010010796Abstract: A stabilizing leg for a backhoe is formed with a tubular outer member, a stabilizer rod connected telescopically to the tubular outer member, and a clearance adjusting mechanism for adjusting the clearance between the tubular outer member and the stabilizer rod. The clearance adjusting mechanism is provided with at least one adjusting pad fitted to the tubular outer member so as to rest on an edge between two contiguous outer lateral surfaces of the stabilizer rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2000Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventor: Giuseppe Burgo
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Publication number: 20010010797Abstract: A tubular connector adapted to extend between two tubular components comprising a tubular body having an internal diameter, a first free end including an annular radial flange having a tapered surface adapted to engage a complementary seating surface on a first of the two tubular components, the internal diameter remaining constant through the first free end; and a second free end having an annular bulbous shape adapted to seat within a cylindrical end of a second of the two tubular components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ming Cheng Li