Abstract: There are provided a restricted area including an area in which solar cell modules are installed, a preventer for preventing intrusion of an intruder into the restricted area, and a detector capable of detecting the intrusion of the intruder into the restricted area, and a predetermined electric shock preventer is activated by a signal outputted from the detector upon detection of the intruder to prevent the intruder from receiving an electric shock.

Abstract: An n layer, an i layer and a p layer are laminated, in that order, in a non-single-crystal thin film solar cell. The n layer, a part thereof, or a part of the n layer and the i layer, is formed at a low substrate temperature T1. The i layer and the p layer; the residual n layer, i layer and p layer; or the residual i layer and p layer, are formed at a higher substrate temperature T2 than T1. More particularly, T1 is between about 70° C. and 120° C, and T2 is between about 120° C and 450° C.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an automatic gas shut-off valve which has associated therewith a seismic sensor unit. The seismic sensor unit can be either an electric unit or mechanical unit or both. In operation, the seismic sensor is triggered by a seismic event to the dump/default or shut-off position whereupon the seismic sensor then causes the automatic gas shut-off valve to close and remain closed, thereby stopping the potential continued release of gas. The electric seismic unit with user reset can be located within the protected confines of a structure in a manner similar to today's electric circuit breaker box. This systems allows the consumer to restore gas to his own structure after determining that the gas lines and appliances are safe and undamaged, just as can be done with a tripped electric circuit breaker, without having to call in the utility company.

Abstract: A storing device is disclosed having a gas-sealing device and/or a heating device provided for a pipe connecting a storing tank for an easily polymerizable and/or coagulating liquid substance and a liquid sealing implement-protecting device. A method for the control of the pressure in the storing device is also disclosed. This invention contemplates protecting a storing device against deformation and fracture.

Abstract: A label is manufactured for permanent mounting to a gas flow regulator. The label is made from a material having a surface that can be permanently colored with a color layer and permanently etched, such as an aluminum alloy. The color layer can be anodized with a color layer to various colors. The etching can includes an etched bar code, which is readable by typical bar code readers, or an etched design. The label is formed as a continuous walled structure, such as a cylindrical tube.

Abstract: A pressure regulator having a base and a bonnet. The base includes a plurality of upstanding ridges, with an opening being defined between each of the ridges. The bonnet includes a peripheral rim having a plurality of engagement tabs located within each of the openings defined by the ridges of the base. The base is connected to the bonnet by folding the ridges over the peripheral rim of the bonnet. The ridges include side surfaces that mate with side edges of the engagement tabs to maintain the peripheral rim of the bonnet against the ridges as tension is applied to the peripheral rim that forces the peripheral rim away from the ridges. The bonnet also includes a plurality of interference tabs that engage an interior surface of the ridges before the ridges are folded over the peripheral rim of the bonnet to maintain the bonnet in proper position.

Abstract: A circular check valve with a central aperture is disclosed. The preferred use as a standing head valve for reducing hydrostatic pressure in a wellbore being produced by a reciprocating pump is discussed. In this application the circular check valve allows the a sucker rod, or equivalent source of pumping energy, to pass. The device is attached to the pump barrel in communication with pump chambers and the production tubing. The check valve device isolates the pump internals and the formation from the hydrostatic head of the produced fluid. The device eliminates pump-off and thus fluid pounding resulting in more efficient pumping and less maintenance. Other uses for the circular check are described.

Abstract: Method and device for estimating the position of an actuator body in an electromagnetic actuator to control a valve of an engine, according to which the actuator body, which is at least partly made of ferromagnetic material, is displaced towards at least one electromagnet, by the effect of the force of electromagnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet itself; the position of the actuator body relative to the electromagnet is determined on the basis of the value assumed by the reluctance of a magnetic circuit constituted by the electromagnet and by the actuator body.

Abstract: A valve and valve arrangement for a fire suppression system includes a remotely controlled valve such as a solenoid valve which is electrically controlled to provide a preselected flow through the remotely controlled valve corresponding to the flow through a single sprinkler head.

Abstract: A flexible pipe (10) for high pressure is provided with a sublayer (11) made of natural or synthetic rubber or man-made polymers in general, and with a first and a second stiffening layer (12, 14), which are superimposed and both consist of a high-resistance metal spiral, whereby the spiral can have one or more wires. Between the first (12) and the second (14) layer there is interposed a skim coat (13) made of natural or synthetic rubber or man-made polymers in general. The flexible pipe (10) for high pressure is also coated with a coating (15) made of natural or synthetic rubber or man-made polymers in general.

Abstract: This hooking device comprises a ring of substantiAlly polygonal section and an open hook, provided with bearing surfaces arranged to cooperate with the section of the ring and fast with the lever or frame, certain bearing surfaces of the hook being parallel to one another and adapted to ensure, by cooperation with surfaces of the ring likewise parallel to one another, the essential of the transmission of effort between the lever and the heddle frame. The hook is equipped with a member for locking the ring in position engaged in the hook, the bearing zone of the locking member on the ring being located substantially between an axis of articulation of the ring on the frame or on the lever and an axis of articulation of this member on the hook. The locking member is constituted by a lock forming a pivot pin received in a cavity formed in the thickness of the hook, this lock presenting a surface adapted to interact with the ring, of width substantially equal to the width of the ring.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a puff or pouf which is used for bathing. The puff is currently most widely used for bathing purposes however it is not the intent to limit the use for this purpose only as the puff can be used in a multitude of ways. It is the intent to broaden the use of the puff in a multitude of ways both Commercially and Industrially. The puff can be used for bathing, household cleaning and so on.

Abstract: This pump body is mounted on a container and has a forward manually operated pump and a rearward vertical container fill conduit. In the filling process, the container is filled through the conduit, and a closure is then applied to the top of the conduit. The closure may be part of the pump body housing. Multiple containers with their pump bodies may be filled simultaneously.

Abstract: A highly reliable and safe, modular automatic refill (bulk delivery) system for ultra-high purity pyrophoric metalorganic chemicals employing: a manifold that insures contamination-free operation; a liquid-level detection system with fail-safe redundancy; and an evacuation system which leaves the system's manifold and transfer lines relatively free of chemical fire hazards; leaves them free of oxygen contamination; and leaves the composition of the system's carrier gas unaffected, between refills.

Abstract: A method of operating a carbonated beverage filling machine for filling beverage containers, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans, with a beverage, and also a carbonated beverage filling machine for filling beverage containers, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans, with a beverage. The beverage in the corresponding container, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans, is carbonated in the container, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans, while the container, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans, is being filled in the carbonated beverage filling machine for filling beverage containers, such as beverage bottles and beverage cans.

Abstract: An apparatus for rapidly filling a hydrogen tank with a hydrogen gas comprises a hydrogen source; a hydrogen tank; a passage which connects the hydrogen source and said hydrogen tank; and a mechanism for varying the hydrogen-filling rate. The mechanism for varying the hydrogen-filling rate changes the hydrogen-filling rate depending upon the pressure within said hydrogen tank. The apparatus can suppress heat generation at the initial filling stage where the temperature is easily increased. Also, even if it takes longer time for increasing the pressure within the hydrogen tank at the initial filling state, the delayed time can be caught up and, the apparatus and the process of the present invention can totally attain a rapidly filling with hydrogen.

Abstract: A vapor assisted fuel dispensing nozzle has a projecting aluminum outer spout tube surrounding an internal fuel supply tube, and the tubes define therebetween a vapor return passage. The inner fuel supply tube extends from a spring biased poppet valve for producing a venturi suction in response to fuel flow. The outer spout tube encloses a stainless steel spout extension reinforcing tube having peripherally spaced vapor return flutes or grooves and an internal valve seat at the distal end for receiving a recessed valve member. In one embodiment, the valve member is connected by a stiff wire to a spring biased fuel pressure sensing disk slidable within a cylinder located upstream of the poppet valve. In another embodiment, the valve member is guided by a cup-shaped cage recessed within a tip chamber of the extension tube.

Abstract: A preconditioned air adapter chute for attachment to a ring connector of an aircraft has a body adapted at a first end to attach a hose for transmitting the preconditioned air. The body is provided at a second end with a flange for connecting to the ring connector. A compressive gasket is affixed to a surface of the flange which faces the ring connector. At least one clamp assembly, affixed to the body, has a handle and a clamp pivotably mounted in a housing. The handle and clamp are pivoted about separate pivot points, so that a cam action is obtained as the handle is moved from an open to a closed position. The clamp of each clamp assembly passes through a slot-like opening in the flange to allow engagement of the clamp in the connector.

Abstract: To provide a powder for dust cores capable of improving magnetic properties such as magnetic permeability in a molded compacted powder magnetic core and mechanical properties such as size precision of the molded compacted powder magnetic core and radial crushing strength and, a dust core using the powder. A powder for a dust core contains a ferromagnetic powder, an insulating material containing silicone resin and/or phenol resin, and a lubricant, wherein the lubricant contains aluminum stearate, and a dust core using the powder for a dust core.

Abstract: A maraging steel is subjected to the aging to have a hardness of more than 500 Hv. A nitrided case is formed to have a depth that is about 20% to 50% to a ½ thickness of the maraging steel plate. An endless ring for a metal belt is constructed by the above maraging steel. According to methods of manufacturing the maraging steel and the endless ring, the nitrided case having the depth that is 20% to 50% of a distance from a plate surface to a center can be formed by executing an aging to have the hardness of more than 500 Hv, then executing a nitriding in the nitrogen atmosphere to which organic chloride is added.

Abstract: A method has been developed for surface modifications of high temperature resistant alloys, such as FeCrAl alloys, in order to increase their resistance to corrosion at high temperatures. Coating it with a Ca-containing compound before heat-treating builds a continuos uniform and adherent layer on the surface of the alloy, that the aluminum depletion of the FeCrAl alloy is reduced under cyclic thermal stress. By this surface modification the resistance to high temperature corrosion of the FeCrAl alloy and its lifetime are significantly increased.

Abstract: Disclosed is an isotropic SmFeN powdery magnet material for producing resin-bonded magnets.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic powder which can provide a magnet having excellent magnetic properties and having excellent reliability especially excellent stability. The magnetic powder is composed of an alloy composition represented by Rx(Fe1−yCoy)100−x−z−wBzAlw (where R is at least one kind of rare-earth element, x is 7.1-9.9 at %, y is 0-0.30, z is 4.6-6.9 at %, and w is 0.02-1.5 at %), the magnetic powder being constituted from a composite structure having a soft magnetic phase and a hard magnetic phase, wherein the magnetic powder has magnetic properties characterized in that, when the magnetic powder is formed into an isotropic bonded magnet having a density &rgr;[Mg/M3] by mixing with a binding resin and then molding it, the remanent magnetic flux density Br[T] at the room temperature satisfies the relationship represented by the formula of Br/&rgr;[x10−6T·m3/g]≧0.

Abstract: A fine ferrite-based steel is disclosed, wherein at least 60% of the ferrite grain boundary is a large angle grain boundary of at least 15°, and the mean ferrite grain size is not more than 2.5 &mgr;m. The fine ferrite-based steel of the invention has a high strength and a long fatigue life.

Abstract: A manufacturing mold base for plastic injection molds is formed from a martensitic stainless steel alloy comprising: about 0.03%-0.06% by weight C, about 1.0%-1.6% by weight Mn, about 0.01%-0.03% by weight P, about 0.06%-0.3% by weight S, about 0.25%-1.0% by weight Si, about 12.0%-14.0% by weight Cr, about 0.5%-1.3% by weight Cu, about 0.01%-0.1% by weight V, about 0.02%-0.08% by weight N, with the balance being Fe with trace amounts of ordinarily present elements.

Abstract: An Al—Mg—Si based aluminum alloy extrusion having large strength, absorbable impact energy and resistance against compressing cracking, wherein the average size of Mg2Si precipitation in the [1 0 0] and [0 1 0] directions of the (1 0 0) plane inside grains is 20 nm or more, the distribution density of the Mg2Si precipitation in the [0 0 1] direction of the (1 0 0) plane is 100 or more per &mgr;m2, and the size of precipitations on grain boundaries is 1000 nm or less. Alternatively, in the Al—Mg—Si based aluminum alloy extrusion, a tensile strength obtained from a tensile test performed at a strain rate of 1000 per second is from 150 to 400 N/mm2 (both inclusive).

Abstract: Rolled, extruded or forged product made of an AlCuMg alloy processed by solution heat treatment, quenching and cold stretching, to be used in the manufacture of aircraft structural elements, with the following composition (% by weight): 1 Fe<0.15 Si<0.15 Cu:3.8-4.4 Mg:1-1.5 Mn:0.5-0.8 Zr:0.08-0.

Abstract: A physical vapor deposition target includes an alloy of copper and silver, with the silver being present in the alloy at from less than 1.0 at % to 0.001 at %. In one implementation, a physical vapor deposition target includes an alloy of copper and silver, with the silver being present in the alloy at from 50 at % to 70 at %. A physical vapor deposition target includes an alloy of copper and tin, with tin being present in the alloy at from less than 1.0 at % to 0.001 at %. In one implementation, a conductive integrated circuit metal alloy interconnection includes an alloy of copper and silver, with the silver being present in the alloy at from less than 1.0 at % to 0.001 at %. A conductive integrated circuit metal alloy interconnection includes an alloy of copper and silver, with the silver being present in the alloy at from 50 at % to 70 at %. A conductive integrated circuit metal alloy interconnection includes an alloy of copper and tin, with tin being present in the alloy at from less than 1.0 at % to 0.

Abstract: An aircraft structural component, particularly a fuselage component, production method using rolled, extruded or forged products made of aluminum alloy with the following composition (% by weight):

Abstract: A flat plate member with gear portion is formed to a predetermined shape by pressing a flat steel raw material having a composition comprising, by weight, 0.10-0.18% C, less than 0.03% Si, 0.60-1.50% Mn, less than 0.020% P, less than 0.013% S, 0.001-0.004% B and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities, wherein quenching is performed on only the gear portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire that achieves, without degrading the steering stability, the reduction in road noise due to tire vibration when a vehicle drives on a rough road surface. The present pneumatic tire is characterized in that a tread portion is formed by at least two layers consisting of cap rubber on a road-contact surface side and base rubber on a side adjacent to a belt layer, that hollow particles having a mean particle diameter of at most 500 &mgr;m are mixed in a volume ratio of 2% to 40% into the base rubber, and that a thickness of the base rubber is made to be at least 1.0 mm.

Abstract: A rim for a bicycle wheel with tubeless tire comprises a radially inner peripheral wall, a radially outer peripheral wall, two circumferential side walls which connect the inner and outer peripheral walls and form two ribs which extend beyond the outer peripheral wall, for anchorage of a tubeless tire. The inner and outer peripheral walls have two holes facing one another, within which an intermediate tubular element is mounted, connected to which is a valve body of a standard type normally used for bicycle wheels provided with inner tubes.

Abstract: This invention provides a product shape designing process for designing an optimal product shape, particularly a pneumatic tire contor in a cross section, comprising the following steps. A shape generation step of setting plural basal shapes and linearly combining the basal shapes to generate plural sample product shapes, a performance evaluation step of obtaining evaluation values on a product performance of the sample product shapes generated in the shape generation step, and a product shape extraction step of extracting an optimal product shape whose evaluation value on the product performance is an optimal value based on the evaluation values on the product performance obtained in the performance evaluation step. This process realizes a smooth optimal tire contor that reduces rolling resistance coefficient while increasing lateral spring constant of the tire for good drivability.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the bead portions, and a tread reinforcement disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion. The tread reinforcement comprises a reinforcing rubber layer and a radially outer reinforcing cord layer. The radially outer reinforcing cord layer is made of cords disposed radially outside the reinforcing rubber layer. The reinforcing rubber layer extends across the substantially overall tread width and made of a rubber material having a hardness of not less than 70 degrees and a loss tangent of not more than 0.15. In a tire meridian section, the thickness of the reinforcing rubber layer being in a range of not less than 2 mm at the tire equator and gradually decreasing towards the axial edges of the reinforcing rubber layer.

Abstract: A method of making a fabric Venetian blind comprises helical winding of a narrow, elongated strip, which, when properly overlapped and bonded along longitudinal glue lines, will form the vanes and front and rear facings of the blind. The strips may be formed of a single, uniform material, or of adjacent, longitudinally extending portions of relatively opaque and relatively translucent fabric. An alternative embodiment uses the same winding technique to similarly form a structure of only translucent fabric, but with pockets for subsequent insertion of opaque vanes. Several alternative strip configurations and assembly arrangements are disclosed. The disclosed method and structure may also be used to form products for other applications.

Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of floor elements, which floor elements comprise an upper decorative surface and a lower surface, edges intended for joining and a core forming a carrying structure. A mixture of polyols, such as polyester or polyether, crude methylene diphenyl diisocyanate and possibly a small amount of blowing agent in a ratio forming a polymeric resin with a density in the range 600-1400 kg/m3 is injected or cast into a mold, whereby a slightly porous or solid polyurethane core is formed.

Abstract: A porous ceramic laminate has a porous silicon nitride substrate and a porous silicon nitride separation film supported thereon and having minute pores of sizes capable of Knudsen separation or molecular sieve by sintering a porous silicon nitride substrate supporting a formed layer containing polysilazane at 800° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere.

Abstract: The invention is a method of splicing two damaged ends of a conveyor belt together such that the resultant spliced belt is stronger than typical splice methods. The damaged belt is cut apart and the ends are prepared so that the ends may be spliced together. The belt ends are stripped of the rubber coating that covers the cord core through cutting or abrading the coating away. The belt ends can be prepared in any fashion from blunt end cuts to stepping the cut of the core such that the steps of one end of the belt complement the steps of the other end of the belt. The prepared belt ends are mated together and sewn. A new layer of rubber is then placed over the sewn portion of the belt. The new layer of rubber is then vulcanized, through either hot or cold vulcanization techniques. The resultant sewn and vulcanized belt is a stronger belt than a belt repaired by only mechanical or vulcanization methods.

Abstract: In a method of cutting a cloth of the invention, a cloth woven by warps and wefts is cut at 45 to 55 degrees to divide the cloth into a left-to-right cutting bias portion and a right-to-left cutting bias portion as bias cloths. The left-to-right cutting bias portion has a left-to-right stretching direction, and the right-to-left cutting bias portion has a right-to-left stretching direction. Then, the right-to-left cutting bias portion and the left-to-right cutting bias portion are cut into bias front cloths, bias adhesive core pieces, bias adhesive tapes, and bias linings. By crossing the bias core pieces or the like having the different stretching directions and bonding to a stretchable cloth, a stable stretchability and tension can be given to the stretchable cloth.

Abstract: A radial force variation of a tire is corrected irrespectively of the kind of the organic fiber cord used, wherein a radial force variation (RFV) is measured at room temperature to specify a tire position indicating a minimum value of RFV, and an inner face of a tread portion is pushed and enlarged outward in a radial direction of the tire by a pushing means at a RFV bottom region sandwiching the position of the minimum RFV value from both sides thereof in a circumferential direction of the tread portion, and such a push enlarged state is kept for a given time.

Abstract: A pultrusion method produces a composite structural member having rigid elements embedded therein. The structural member may be a sandwich structure in which one or more rigid, pre-rigidized, or rigidizable composite or non-composite structural elements are introduced at regular or irregular positions within core elements. The structural member may also be formed from layers of resin-matrix fiber fabric into a structural cross-section, such as an I-beam or T-beam, with a bundle of pre-pultruded rods located at the bends or the web-flange intersection points within layers.

Abstract: A method of producing a multilayer LC display element including a plurality of LC display cells stacked together and each filled with an LC material, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a multilayer empty cell structure by stacking a plurality of empty cells each having a pair of substrates opposed together and having a peripheral portion sealed except for at least one LC material inlet opened externally; and (b) supplying the LC material by vacuum supply through the LC material inlet into each of the empty cells forming the multilayer empty cell structure, wherein said empty cells formed in the step (a) are provided at circumferentially different positions with the liquid crystal material inlets, respectively.

Abstract: Method for sealing a bared section (10) in the wall of a hollow body based on a thermoplastic and on reinforcing fibers, the hollow body being especially intended for conveying or containing a pressurized fluid. The surface and the contours of the section (10) are coated with a protective thermoplastic (30) which is heated while it is being deposited and is compatible with the said thermoplastic of the hollow body in order to achieve complete adhesion.

Abstract: A desiccant composition containing a deliquescent salt and a modified starch containing from about 5 to about 95 percent of the deliquescent salt and from about 5 to about 95 percent of the modified starch.

Abstract: Methods for effecting monomolecular adhesion are described. Adhesion may be effected by contacting a first and second bonding surface, wherein a first reactant for a chemical bonding reaction is plurally present on the first bonding surface, a second reactant for the chemical bonding reaction is plurally present on the second bonding surface, and the surfaces are contacted for a time and under conditions sufficient to permit the chemical reaction to bond a sufficient number of first reactants to second reactants to attach the bonding surfaces. A molecular linker may optionally be used. Methods for producing multi-laminate structures, wherein successive layers are monomolecularly bonded, are described, as are multi-laminate structures so constructed.

Abstract: A plaster agent comprising a water impermeable or water semipermeable film (layer a), one tackifier layer (layer b) laminated on one surface of said layer a, and another tackifier layer (layer d) laminated on said layer b through an intermediary knitted fabric having a weight per unit area of 10 to 100 g/m2 (layer c) comprising hollow fibers having pores extending therethrough in the outer peripheral direction and containing substantially no medicine internally thereof, and at least one of said layer b and said layer d containing a vaporizable or non-vaporizable medicine.

Abstract: A problem arose in that when gas holes defined in a gas-introducing plate lying within a plasma etching apparatus reached more than a given size, plasma entered from an etching-processing chamber to the backside (cooling plate side) of a gas-introducing plate through the gas holes.

Abstract: An abrasive molding consisting essentially of inorganic particles having an average particle diameter in the range of 0.005 &mgr;m to 0.3 &mgr;m, and having a relative density in the range of 45% to 90%, provided that pores having a diameter of at least 0.5 &mgr;m are excluded from the molding. The abrasive molding is used for polishing a material to be polished by using a polishing liquid, preferably water or an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide, which does not contain a loose abrasive grain.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for endpointing a planarization process of a microelectronic substrate. In one embodiment, the apparatus may include a species analyzer that receives a slurry resulting from the planarization process and analyzes the slurry to determine the presence of an endpointing material implanted beneath the surface of the microelectronic substrate. The species analyzer may include a mass spectrometer or a spectrum analyzer. In another embodiment, the apparatus may include a radiation source that directs impinging radiation toward the microelectronic substrate, exciting atoms of the substrate, which in turn produce an emitted radiation. A radiation detector is positioned proximate to the substrate to receive the emitted radiation and determine the endpoint by determining the intensity of the radiation emitted by the endpointing material.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a reaction chamber for simultaneously processing a plurality of process substrates, a boat for loading the process substrates into the reaction chamber, and a stocker for storing a multiple number of dummy substrates, at least a portion of the dummy substrates being loaded into the reaction chamber together with the process substrates through the use of the boat. A substrate cleaning process is carried out by loading dummy substrates to be cleaned into the reaction chamber through the use of the boat and introducing a cleaning gas into the reaction chamber.