Abstract: A guitar bridge having a body comprised of a base and a main portion with a plurality of slots formed in the main portion of the body. A plurality of holes are formed in the body and located within the plurality of slots. A resonance chamber is formed in the main portion of the body. A plurality of coupling screws secure the body of the bridge to the body of the musical instrument. Strings are threaded through the bridge and through the compression screws so that dual compression of the bridge is achieved with the use of a two-way pressure system formed by the pressure of the coupling screws and the instrument strings.

Abstract: A bridge for attaching strings to a musical instrument. The bridge has a body comprised of a base and a main portion with saddle chambers formed in the main portion. Holes are formed within the saddle chambers. Each saddle chamber houses a saddle members therein. The saddle members have adjusting elements that both adjust the position of the string by changing the position of the saddle member, and adjust the position of the string on the saddle member. A plurality of coupling screws secure the bridge to the body of the instrument. Strings are threaded over the saddle member, through the bridge and out through the compression screws where they are secured or knotted.

Abstract: The locking guitar strap is a guitar strap, which can be securely attached to the button of a guitar or other stringed instrument by means of a locking mechanism mounted internally into the end tab of the guitar strap, thus preventing damage to the instrument by accidental disengagement of the strap from the instrument.

Abstract: Harmonica structures designed for enhancing harmonica play are disclosed. In one aspect, a reed comb is provided with a common bridge having reeds formed integrally therewith. The reed plate has a plurality of reed slots formed therein and is adapted to receive the reeds of the reed comb into corresponding slots formed in the reed plate. A stepped portion formed in the reed plate is adapted to receive a reed of the reed comb therein to permit substantial encasement of the reed within the reed slot. A key benefit of this arrangement is to resist leakage of air between the reed plate and the flanks of the reed during harmonica play. The reed plate can also include a first stepped portion upon which the roots of the reeds are positioned and a second stepped portion positioned adjacent to the tips of the reeds. Other structures are disclosed that include a radiused surface formed on a portion of the reed or on the surface of the reed slot in which the reed is positioned.

Abstract: A process for the automatic selection of musical or tonal compositions to be replayed from a collection of musical or tonal compositions includes the step of assigning evaluation data to each of said compositions which describe its characteristics. Parameters are established describing a target corresponding to a selected behavior of an audience. Status data is generated based on an evaluation of audience behavior. The parameters are then compared with the status data to generate requirement data based on the comparison. The requirement data is compared with the evaluation data and a composition is selected based on the comparison of the requirement data with the evaluation data. A device is also provided for the automatic selection of musical or tonal compositions.

Abstract: User enters information of a melody or other musical material and, when necessary, desired parameters. The input information and parameters are transmitted to a server via a network or other communication media. On the basis of the received musical material and parameters, the server creates content by imparting the musical material with an additional value corresponding to the parameters. For example, in the case where the musical material is a melody of a music piece, the server creates, as the content, harmony information, backing information, accompaniment information, musical score picture information, or the like. There may also be created test-listening or test-viewing sample content corresponding to the regular content. The user receives the sample content from the server, and purchases the regular content when the sample content has been found to be satisfactory as a result of the test listening or test viewing.

Abstract: A hydraulic valve system for controlling and synchronizing the flow of hydraulic fluid to a set of first and second hydraulic actuators powered by a single control valve work section. The system includes a primary control valve or valves and a synchronizing control valve. The primary control valve is actuated to control the flow of hydraulic fluid between a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid and both the first and second cylinders, and includes an input port connected to the source of pressurized hydraulic fluid and an output port connected in a parallel hydraulic circuit to both the first and second cylinders. The synchronizing control valve is actuated to synchronize the flow of hydraulic fluid from the primary control valve to the first and second hydraulic cylinders by bleeding a portion of the flow of hydraulic fluid supplied to one of the cylinders to the tank. The synchronizing control valve has first and second input ports and an output port.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic line coupling arrangement of a consumer, with a pump line, a tank line and a safety valve in the pump line, the valve element of the safety valve being acted upon in the opening direction by an opening pressure from the pump line and in the closing direction by a closing pressure of a closing pressure connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic pump having axial pistons, the pump being of the type having intersecting axes, and comprising a rotary rotor with a central axis co-operating with an associated distribution seat via a bearing surface that is substantially perpendicular to said axis, said rotor presenting a plurality of axial bores slidably receiving corresponding pistons. According to the invention, a driver separate from the rotor is provided to rotate about an axis of rotation that essentially coincides with said central axis, said driver serving firstly to center and rotate the rotor about said axis of rotation, and secondly to apply resilient thrust to press the bearing surface of the rotor against the distribution seat.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor (K1-K3) comprising: a connecting rod (21) in which a small end portion (22) having a small hole (22a) and a large end portion (25) having a large hole (25a) are coupled with each other; wherein the small end portion (22) is coupled with a piston (24) by a piston pin (23) loosely fitted into the small hole (22a), while an eccentric shaft (7a) of a crank shaft (7) is loosely fitted into the large hole (25a); wherein the large end portion (25) is formed with a cylindrical bore (25b) having an axis passing through a center of the large hole (25a) and a fixing hole (25c, 28, 30) communicating with the cylindrical bore (25b); wherein after a cylindrical distal end portion (22c) of a rod portion (22b) of the small end portion (22) has been loosely fitted into or lightly press fitted into the cylindrical bore (25b), not only the cylindrical distal end portion (22c) is fixed in the cylindrical bore (25b) by inserting a locking pin (26) into the fixing hole (25c, 28, 30) while a small torsion

Abstract: A method of removing moisture efficiently in the gas supply system by evacuation at normal temperature without using the baking method. The method involves flowing a gas to remove moisture in the gas supply system with the flow pressure of the gas to remove moisture set at not lower than a minimum pressure at which the gas flow becomes viscous and not higher than a water saturated vapor pressure at a flow temperature of the gas to remove moisture. The gas to remove moisture achieves a viscous flow when a mean free path of gas molecules is smaller than a diameter of piping of the gas supply system. If the gas for removing moisture is evacuated at normal temperature under such conditions, the adsorbed moisture on an inside surface of the piping and in the valves and filters can be removed effectively.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a water apparatus for treating industrial waste products comprising a first tank (2) containing water at a determined pressure, a second tank (4) placed inside the first tank and with which it is in communication in the lower part and which contains water at a lower pressure than that of the first tank (2), an inlet device (6, 7) of the discharge product in the second tank (4), a first dilution sector (14) of the waste product which is external to the tanks (2, 4) but in communication with the second tank (4) at one end (15) and connected to the other end with a Venturi tube (17), an outlet duct (18) of the waste product diluted by said second tank (4). The Venturi tube (17) is in communication with the first tank (2) and is suitable to create the depression of the second tank (4) with respect to the first tank (2). The second tank (4) comprises internally a further sector (10) for the dilution of the industrial waste product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a product and process for blanching or cooking food strands, wherein the food strand is conveyed through a blanching tank on a conveyor immersed within the tank, wherein the conveyor includes means for allowing the food strand to hang on a plurality of bearing means of the conveyor means while forming a plurality of free suspended loops between each adjacent bearing means when operatively arranged to hang the strand.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an embossed PVA film, which includes embossing the film such that the crystallinity index of the emboss top is 0.50-0.90. According to the present invention, an embossed PVA film superior in resistance to blocking even when preserved in a roll state, in appearance to show high quality of products, and in resistance to pinholes can be provided.

Abstract: Multicolor prints should be economically producible in a printing machine suited for automation. For this purpose a printing machine is configured which operates according to the collect-run principle. The multicolor prints are collected on a rubber cylinder (21 on a printing cylinder (5). The printing machine is capable of processing two printing colors (inks) in one printing unit. For the execution of the collecting printing the sheets are fed in a cycle offset to the rotation of the collecting cylinder. There are yielded very compact and simply structured printing machine configurations.

Abstract: A sheet-fed rotary printing press with a convertible mechanism includes a convertible cylinder, a plurality of gripper units, a plurality of holding members, a convey mechanism, and a pair of paper guide members. The convertible cylinder conveys a sheet. The gripper units are arranged on an outer surface of the convertible cylinder and lined up in an axial direction of the convertible cylinder, and grip the sheet. The holding members are arranged on the outer surface of the convertible cylinder to be adjacent to the gripper units, and lined up in the axial direction of the convertible cylinder to be phase-shifted from the gripper units. In single-sided printing, the convey mechanism conveys the sheet fed from an upstream convey cylinder by gripping its leading edge upon opening/closing operation of the gripper units.

Abstract: A paddle-wheel deliverer for a web-fed rotary printing machine is driven by its own, position-controlled motor so that the deliverer can be set up cost-effectively and the products are transferred reliably into the paddle wheel.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning cloth, supply shaft, take-up shaft, detector, projections, proximity switch, and catching detection unit. The cleaning cloth is pressed against a rotary member and cleans an outer surface of the rotary member. The cleaning web before cleaning is wound around the supply shaft. The supply shaft rotates in accordance with supply operation of the cleaning cloth to the outer surface of the rotary member. The take-up shaft is rotatably driven to take up the cleaning cloth supplied from the supply shaft to the outer surface of the rotary member. The detector, projections, and proximity switch output a signal corresponding to a rotational speed of the supply shaft. The catching detection unit detects that the cleaning cloth is caught in the rotary member on the basis of a state of the signal output from the detector, projections, and proximity switch. A method of detecting catching of the cleaning web in the cleaning apparatus is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for making a printing plate including a step of forming a hydrophobic image area on at least a part of a hydrophilic surface of a plate. The plate surface contains a photocatalyst and the image area is formed by using an organic compound which is decomposed and removed by the irradiation of light having a higher energy than the band gap energy of the photocatalyst.

Abstract: A first structural unit includes a laser image-setting head, and a second structural unit includes a loading compartment to accommodate a cassette housing having a thermal transfer ribbon on spools having hubs. After a cassette is inserted in the loading compartment, the compartment is closed so that drive rollers engage the hubs without play. To produce a printing plate, the second structural unit is then brought over the first structural unit in the manner of a telescope by a moving device, and the thermal transfer ribbon is brought to the laser image-setting head. The thermal transfer ribbon inserted into the loading compartment is guided by self-centering means so that it does not contact the cassette housing, and is positioned with respect to the plate cylinder by guide rollers. Wear-free and therefore fast ribbon guidance can be performed, and automation of the movement sequences of the thermal transfer ribbon can be achieved.

Abstract: A method for producing an effect upon an emulsion formed of a printing ink and a dampening solution on a roller in a printing machine includes introducing oscillations produced by an oscillation exciting device of the printing machine, which oscillates at a frequency corresponding to that of ultrasound, into the emulsion on the roller; and a device suitable for performing the method.

Abstract: Described is an optronic fuse device (10) for a flying object such as a drone, a rocket or an aircraft, comprising a sensor window (14) which is provided for its optical arrangement (12) and with which is associated an air deflection device (16) in order to keep the air flow of the flying object in flight away from the sensor window (14) and to deflect it past the sensor window (14) and in that way to prevent fouling and/or icing of the sensor window during the mission of the flying object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure of slackening type blasting mat comprising a steel plate member having thickness capable of bearing a blasting pressure of explosive inputted to blasting hole; an elastic member which is fixedly attached by bolt along bottom edge of said steel plate member and isolating what blasting noise and blasting gas and flying away material of explosive inputted into each blasting hole of blasting region are discharged out to exterior; and a weight reinforcing member which is welded to top surface of said steel plate member in a structure as grid window frame, and which is made of steel frame material having heavy weight capable of bearing a blasting pressure.

Abstract: A self-propelled and constant-acceleration rocket for use in triggering an avalanche includes a hollow cylindrical body member having an interior volume, an open top end, and an open bottom end whose exterior surface includes a plurality of flight guidance fins. A partition wall divides the interior volume into an upper volume and a lower volume. An explosive payload is mounted within the upper volume, and a nose cone having a circular and planar tip closes the open top end of the body member. A rocket motor is mounted within the lower volume. The rocket has a center of gravity and a center of pressure that are both located on the rocket's central axis and within the lower volume. The center of gravity is located closer to the open top end than is the center of pressure. A collapsible launch stand holds the rocket in a launch tube for launching of the rocket. Adjustment of a pair of launch tube support members provides for adjustment of the rocket's launch angle.

Abstract: A new complex of an element of transition group IV or V is provided for forming an improved precursor combination for use in chemical vapor deposition (CVD). This complex dispenses with an alkoxide ligand having an &agr; proton, so that hydrolysis of the complex no longer liberates a reducing agent.

Abstract: A sealant solution for sealing capsules comprises a mixture of HPMC and a solute which elevates the thermal gelation temperature of the HPMC, and also a mixture of a gelling agent and a hydrolysing agent, wherein said hydrolysing agent decreases the solution temperature of said gelling agent. The sealant solution is produced by mixing a first subordinate solution, which contains the HPMC and solute, and a second subordinate solution, which contains the gelling agent and the hydrolysing agent, the first and second subordinate solutions being heated before mixing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the production of pigmentary copper phthalocyanine in the beta crystalline phase comprising:

Abstract: Systems and methods of making and using fine particle materials in pigment blends and for using the aforementioned pigment blends in paint, coating, or coloring compositions are provided. This invention further provides systems and methods of enhancing the visual appearance of a variety of substrates by introducing a paint, coating, or coloring composition to the substrate. The fine particle materials of the present invention have a substantially random geometric shape, a particle size less than about 100 microns, and help provide both functional and visual enhancing properties to compositions and substrates containing these fine particle materials.

Abstract: Cementitious compositions and methods for making the compositions wherein the compositions include high volume of mineral admixtures such as fly ash and blast-furnace slag in combination with rice hull ash. In one embodiment, the cementitious composition is a blend of hydraulic cement, rice hull ash and a mineral addition selected from fly ash and blast-furnace slag. The cementitious compositions can advantageously have high early and 28-day compressive strength and a very low permeability rating.

Abstract: A tower furnace for heat treatment of metal strips having a pre-heating section (3) and a high-temperature section (5) connected thereto at the top forming a housing (4) separate from the pre-heating section (3) is described, whereby the pre-heating section (3) equipped with a preferably gas-heated muffle (7) exhibits a connecting stopper (6) made of heat-insulating material for the high-temperature section (5) inserted into the muffle (7). To create advantageous structural conditions it is proposed that the high-temperature section (5) is also fitted with a preferably gas-heated muffle (12) which encloses the connecting stopper (6) externally and connects to this in a gas-tight manner preferably by way of a fluid seal (14).

Abstract: A sewing cartridge includes a cassette body, a hollow needle that can pass through a work cloth, a spool around which a thread to be supplied to the hollow needle is wound, a needle cover that covers at least a tip of the hollow needle, and a coil compression spring that urges the needle cover to a cover position where the needle cover covers the hollow needle.

Abstract: A boom vang system for sailboats has a rear facing pivotal cam cleat arm hingedly connected to a rigid tang on the sailboat mast. When the boom vang rotates off the centerline of the boat, as for instance will occur when the boat is sailing downwind and the boom and sail are blow off the centerline of the boat, the pivotal connection of the cam cleat arm to the tang allows for the cam cleat to be urged into alignment with the sailor regardless of his position on the boat. The cam cleat arm may rotate along an arc lying in a plane substantially parallel to the boat deck. Sheeves and pulleys may be rigidly connected to the rigid tang to prevent tangling of lines.

Abstract: A gauge pin includes a round rod that extends perpendicularly from a top surface of a disc shaped base. A bottom surface of the base is coated with an adhesive.

Abstract: Exposure time is determined by a device which is sensitive to an environmental substance in a controlled environment. Embodiments include a humidity sensitive timer treated with a cobalt salt which changes colors after a certain exposure time within the controlled environment. Elapsed time is measured by exposing the timer to a humidity controlled environment and monitoring the timer for a change in color.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of Czochralski single crystal silicon wafers to dissolve existing oxygen clusters and precipitates, while preventing their formation upon a subsequent oxygen precipitation heat treatment. The process comprises (i) heat-treating the wafer in a rapid thermal annealer at a temperature of at least 1150° C. in an atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of at least 1000 ppma, or alternatively (ii) heat-treating the wafer in a rapid thermal annealer at a temperature of at least about 1150° C. and then controlling the rate of cooling from the maximum temperature achieved during the heat-treatment through a temperature range in which vacancies are relatively mobile in order to reduce the number density of vacancies in the single crystal silicon to a value such that oxygen precipitates will not form if the wafer is subsequently subjected to an oxygen precipitation heat-treatment.

Abstract: An evaluation method for polycrystalline silicon including the steps of immersing the polycrystalline silicon in an agent which is capable of dissolving the polycrystalline silicon, and counting the number of foreign particles in the agent. The polycrystalline silicon thus evaluated may be used as a material for pulling single crystal silicon. The evaluation method may further include a step of analyzing the composition of the foreign particles. In yet another aspect, the evaluation method may further include a step of subjecting the agent to a circulation filtering process prior to the immersion of the polycrystalline silicon in the agent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of producing a silicon monocrystal which comprises preparing a silicon seed crystal having a sharp tip end, and melting down a part of the silicon seed crystal from a tip end to a position having a predetermined thickness, followed by performing a necking operation to form a tapered necking part and a neck portion, and subsequently pulling a monocrystal ingot after increasing a diameter, wherein said part to be melted down is a part from a tip end to a position in which a thickness is twice as large as the diameter of the neck portion to be formed or more; said necking operation is performed in such a way that a tapered necking part is formed at an early stage by pulling a crystal with gradually decreasing the diameter to a minimum diameter of 5 mm or more, and then a neck portion is formed, subsequently the monocrystal ingot is pulled with increasing a diameter.

Abstract: A single-crystal rod, obtained using CZ crucible pulling, has a crystal cone and a cylindrical single-crystal rod, and the crystal cone has an apex angle of 30° to 90°. There is also a process for producing dislocation-free single-crystal rods using CZ crucible pulling in which a seed crystal is immersed in a melt and is pulled out again, and a cone with an apex angle of from 30° to 90° is pulled.

Abstract: A method of producing high-quality epitaxial wafers with scarce occurrence of epitaxial layer defects by allowing an epitaxial layer on wafers sliced from a nitrogen-doped silicon single crystal as well as a method of pulling up a silicon single crystal to serve as the raw material therefore is provided. More particularly, a method of pulling up a single crystal from a nitrogen-doped silicon material melt while allowing the single crystal to grow is provided which comprises employing a passing or residence time in the temperature range of 1150-1050° C. of not less than 50 minutes and/or a passing or residence time in the temperature range of 1050-950° C. of not more than 40 minutes in the step of pulling up of the single crystal. Further, a method of manufacturing epitaxial wafers is provided which comprises allowing an epitaxial layer on the surface of silicon wafers sliced from the single crystal pulled up by the method mentioned above.

Abstract: A printing form for transferring free-flowing printing ink to a printing material to be printed includes a body having a surface formed with a multiplicity of openings coverable by printing ink; a multiplicity of gas-containing cavities formed in the body, the cavities, respectively, terminating in the openings, respectively, at the surface of the body; and devices assigned to the cavities, respectively, for producing a vacuum therein for sucking printing ink covering the openings of the cavities into a region adjacent to the openings of the cavities, respectively, when a vacuum is produced by devices in the cavities, respectively; an ink transferring device including the printing form; and a method of producing the printing form.

Abstract: The present invention provides recycling system of an aqueous paint in which number of required apparatuses or equipments can decrease when two or more aqueous paint having different paint colors are used in the recycling system for a same aqueous paint.

Abstract: An optical fiber coating forming device forms a coating of an ultraviolet light hardening type in an optical fiber by precisely controlling an ultraviolet light output of a light source. The optical fiber coating forming device has a light source (2) for irradiating ultraviolet light to resin for coating formation molded to a coating removing portion (4) of an optical fiber core wire (3), a light receiver (5) for detecting intensity of the ultraviolet light by receiving the ultraviolet light irradiated to the resin for coating formation from the light source (2), and an environmental sensor (20) for detecting environmental information. The environmental sensor (20) includes at least a temperature sensor (6) and selectively includes a humidity sensor (7) and an atmospheric pressure sensor (8).

Abstract: In a coating apparatus for supplying a mixed solution of a resist solution and a thinner onto a wafer from a nozzle, the nozzle is connected to a mixed solution supply pipe, and the resist solution and the thinner are supplied to the mixed solution supply pipe from a resist solution supply pipe and a thinner supply pipe respectively through a junction pipe. The diameter of the junction pipe is set smaller than those of other supply pipes, whereby the resist solution and the thinner can be mixed efficiently in the junction pipe, and as a result the wafer is coated with the mixed solution so that a uniform film thickness can be obtained within the surface of the wafer.

Abstract: A cluster tool includes a block which is formed with an inner high vacuum chamber, at least two loadlock chambers that are in fluid communication with the high vacuum chamber, and at least two slot valves for selectively isolating each loadlock chamber from the high vacuum chamber. The cluster tool also includes a high vacuum pump that is connected to the high vacuum chamber and a water pump comprising a refrigeration unit and a cryoplate. The cryoplate is cooled by the refrigeration unit and projects into the high vacuum chamber between the loadlock chambers. Selective operation of the slot valves allows a single water pump to serve a plurality of loadlock chambers. Each loadlock chamber includes a refrigerated platen that projects into the loadlock chamber, a heat lamp assembly that radiates into the loadlock chamber, and a tray for holding the wafer therein. The platen has a cooling system for selectively cooling the wafer, and selective radiation of the heat lamp assembly degasses the wafer.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for delivering processing gas are provided. The apparatus for delivering processing gas from a vaporizer to a processing system comprises: a valve connected between the vaporizer and the processing system, the valve having a valve input connected to a vaporizer output and a first valve output connected to a processing system input and a second valve output connected to a bypass line; and a controller for switching the valve between the first valve output and the second valve output. The apparatus may further comprise: a second valve connected between a carrier gas source, a divert gas source and the vaporizer, the second valve having a first valve input connected to the carrier gas source, a second valve input connected to the divert gas source, and a valve output connected to a vaporizer input.

Abstract: A thin film deposition reactor including a reactor block 110 on which a wafer is placed, a shower head plate 120 for uniformly maintaining a predetermined pressure by covering the reactor block 110, a wafer block 140 installed in the reactor block 110, on which the wafer is to be seated, an exhausting portion (not shown) connected to the reactor block 110 for exhausting a gas within the rector block 110 to the outside, a first connection line 121 installed on the shower head plate 120, through which a first reaction gas and/or inert gas supplied flow, a second connection line 122 installed on the shower head plate 120, through which a second reaction gas and/or inert gas supplied flow and a diffusion plate 130 installed under the shower head plate 120.

Abstract: A vacuum processing apparatus is capable of increasing the speed of exhaust of residual gas. With the reaction chamber formed in the vacuum vessel made smaller than the assistance chamber, the thin film is grown by introducing the raw material gas into the reaction chamber after moving the substrate stage toward the reaction chamber and decreasing the conductance of evacuation of the reaction chamber. When exhausting the residual gas by vacuum pumping, the substrate stage is moved into the assistance chamber thereby increasing the conductance of evacuation of the reaction chamber. Pressure in the reaction chamber is increased when growing the thin film and decreases when exhausting the residual gas by vacuum pumping.

Abstract: The present invention provides an HDP-CVD tool using simultaneous deposition and sputtering of doped and undoped silicon dioxide capable of excellent gap fill and blanket film deposition on wafers. The tool of the present invention includes: a dual RF zone inductively coupled plasma source; a dual zone gas distribution system; temperature controlled surfaces within the tool; a symmetrically shaped turbomolecular pumped chamber body; a dual cooling zone electrostatic chuck; an all ceramic/aluminum alloy chamber; and a remote plasma chamber cleaning system.

Abstract: A technique for forming a tungsten nitride film having a high growth speed without causing any dusting.

Abstract: A thermal CVD apparatus is provided with a substrate heating source which includes a reaction chamber and an electromagnetic wave generator connecting to the reaction chamber. Silicon substrates are placed in the reaction chamber. The electromagnetic wave generator supplies electromagnetic waves to the reaction chamber to form a thin film on the front face of each silicon substrate. Alternatively, the thermal CVD apparatus may be provided with a cavity resonator for placing the substrates therein and the electromagnetic wave generator may be connected to the cavity resonator.