Abstract: A rail car truck includes a pair of longitudinally spaced wheelsets, a pair of laterally spaced side frames extending between and supported by the wheelsets and a bolster which extends between the side frames to support a vehicle body. There is a brace connected between the side frames to control relative longitudinal movement therebetween. The brace includes a center clamp assembly located generally intermediate the side frames and generally mid-way between the wheelsets. Each side frame mounts a pair of longitudinally spaced end blocks. There are four struts, each being inclined to the longitudinal axis of the truck and each extending from and being connected to an end block and to the clamp assembly.

Abstract: A seismic isolation system is provided with a swing bearing ring consisting of an upper ring and a lower ring, which are rotatable relatively, between a crane body and a traveling means. A lower vertical shaft of a block pivotally supported on saddles of the crane body is supported by a swing bearing provided at an eccentric position on the upper ring. An automatic restoring mechanism is provided which restores the swing of a horizontal lever, whose proximal end is installed to the upper ring of the swing bearing ring, around the centerline C2.

Abstract: Composite flatbed and well car railcar containers are disclosed herein, as well as modular containers formed from prefabricated side, end, top and bottom panels. In some embodiments, the container is a temperature-controlled container. The present invention is also directed to an improved door for use on the invented containers, as well as conventional containers and railcars.

Abstract: A copper metal film having 105 to 109 micropores per square centimeter and a product plated with the film. The copper metal film is obtained by immersing a work in an electroless plating solution which contains copper ions, a completing agent, a hypophosphorus acid compound, a metal catalyst for initiating reduction, and a compound having an acetylenic bond.

Abstract: A recording liquid for ink jet containing a solid fine particle dispersion obtained by dispersing in a medium a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II), and an ink jet recording method of recording using the recording liquid for ink jet containing the solid fine particle dispersion obtained by dispersing in a medium a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): 1

Abstract: A recording ink includes at least a water-soluble azopyridone dye of the following formula (1) and a water-soluble organic solvent: 1

Abstract: The present invention provides a coating composition comprising: A coating composition comprising: TEOS; a surfactant; at least one organosilane; HCl; water; and ethanol. The present invention also provides films made from such a coating composition and a method for making such films.

Abstract: A sol-gel process for producing layers of zirconium oxide is described which comprises the following stages:

Abstract: A foldable leg for furniture includes a tubular leg and a pivot assembly attached to a top of the tubular leg. The pivot assembly includes a front plate and two wing plates respectively perpendicularly extending from two opposite sides of the front plate and facing each other. Each of the wing plates has a curved top edge and an elongated slot longitudinally defined in each of the wing plates. A bracket is pivotally connected to the pivot assembly and includes two side plates parallel to each other, and each has a through hole defined in a lower portion of the side plate. A locking plate connects the two side plates and the locking plate is selectively locked by the pivot assembly. A spring has two ends respectively secured around the pivot pin and at a free end of the tongue of the pivot assembly.

Abstract: A grate trough forms the lower part of a grate element which has a plurality of fixed and a plurality of movable grate block rows. The grate block rows each include a plurality of grate blocks suspended next to one another on a block holding element and connected firmly to one another. The grate trough forms a carrying element for the block holding tubes of the fixed grate block rows and support for a movable grate carriage carrying the block holding elements of the movable grate block rows. The grate trough has two side walls and also a front and a rear frontal wall, the frontal walls being arranged at right angles to the side walls. The side walls and the frontal walls are provided at their junction with projections and recesses which engage one into the other, with the result that the walls are held in an exact position. The length and width of the grate trough remain constant, even after welding, since the walls cannot be displaced relative to one another.

Abstract: A method and portable apparatus is described for the conversion of cellulose and other blomass waste materials through a pyrolysis and partial combustion sequence in a downdraft gasifier to produce a gas which can be immediately utilized to fuel an internal combustion engine in a generator set (genset). More specifically, the heat from the combustion of part of the cellulosic or other waste input is used to pyrolyze the remainder of the input to produce a mixture of permanent fuel gases. Particulates are removed (water scrubbers, filters) from the gas mixture which can then be used directly as a major part of the fuel to operate the internal combustion engine in the genset. All movement into, through, and out of the gasifier and purification train is controlled by the vacuum associated with the intake of the internal combustion engine, thereby ensuring a steady production of electricity.

Abstract: A visor support supports a cap visor at an angle with respect to a cap holder of a cap holding device for use with a sewing machine. The angle of inclination of the visor support can be adjusted. This prevents, when the cap holder is moved, contact between the cap visor and an arm of the embroidery machine, which causes a partially shiny and shabby appearance of the visor or damage to the visor, and prevents deformation of the visor, which reduces the commercial value of the cap.

Abstract: A center pontoon for a pontoon boat provides improved performance and an adjustable engine mount. The adjustable engine mount makes it possible to adjust the relative position of an outboard engine relative to the waterline of the boat. The center pontoon includes a relieved top surface for allowing a vertical adjustment movement of the engine mount. The mount has an elongated, mount body which is adjustably attached to the bottom of the hull of the boat by a pair of spaced apart, elongated mounting rails. The mount body has a vertical profile that is compatibly shaped with the relieved top surface to provide sufficient vertical adjustable movement. The engine mount is located between a pontoon boat deck and the center pontoon.

Abstract: A buoyancy aid for use in the surf or water which does not restrict body movement is shown. The buoyancy aid also allows the individual or person to remain afloat in a substantial upright position. A buoyancy aid for maintaining the torso of a person in a substantially upright position in a water environment is also shown. The buoyancy aid in the preferred embodiment includes a fastening system including a chest fastening member and a waist fastening member to fit around the waist of an individual or person. The buoyancy aid also includes a buoyancy member formed of a buoyancy material having pair of spaced substantially planar “V”-shaped buoyant strips which are disposed to be substantially equal on the front and back of a torso of a person.

Abstract: The present invention is for an elevated tow device made of a superstructure extending skyward from a towboat, where the superstructure raises an attachment point of a tether above 10 feet from the waterline, where the towboat is 25 feet or less in length, and a tether connecting the towboat to a towed subject. The present invention may further include an aerodynamic surface whose angular position is guided by the tether and which acts to stabilize the towboat as the towed subject applies lateral loads. When the towed subject pulls on the side of the towboat, the angle of attack on the aerodynamic surface increases proportionally, and the lateral forces approximately cancel. The towboat proceeds safely with little or no roll perturbation.

Abstract: An adjustable windshield brace for boat windshields has sufficient flexibility to permit utilization on the windshields of many boat manufacturers. The brace is formed of two linearly extending members, one of which is provided with a bell to receive the other member. The belled brace member is formed with internal threading to be engageable with corresponding threads on the other brace member. The threads are finely formed to permit a linear translational movement of approximately one-sixteenth of an inch for each revolution of the brace members. Each brace member is provided with a mounting flange pivotally mounted on the respective opposing ends of the brace members to provide an attitude adjustment of the mounting flanges. Length adjustment and orientation adjustment of one mounting flange relative to the other mounting flange is accomplished by rotating the threads interengaging the two brace members.

Abstract: A personnel location control system for controlling and guiding a group of individuals in a selected path to a waiting point and then to an activity in advance of that waiting point. The system in one embodiment relies upon a plurality of disks or like guide path-forming elements which define the edges of a desired guide path for a line of individuals waiting to reach the activity or destination. These elements may be physically mounted on a ground cover substrate where a single substrate or a plurality of similar substrates in combination, could form a desired guide path. Thus, some of the ground substrates may define arcuate guide path sections and others may define straight guide path sections, etc., but which when combined will form a total guide path. Thus, modular carpet substrates or sections could be provided and each of these carpet sections would be capable of being secured to a ground or floor surface.

Abstract: A method of growing a nitride semiconductor crystal which has very few crystal defects and can be used as a substrate is disclosed. This invention includes the step of forming a first selective growth mask on a support member including a dissimilar substrate having a major surface and made of a material different from a nitride semiconductor, the first selective growth mask having a plurality of first windows for selectively exposing the upper surface of the support member, and the step of growing nitride semiconductor portions from the upper surface, of the support member, which is exposed from the windows, by using a gaseous Group 3 element source and a gaseous nitrogen source, until the nitride semiconductor portions grown in the adjacent windows combine with each other on the upper surface of the selective growth mask.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a single crystalline silicon ingot, a single crystalline wafer, and a producing method thereof in accordance with the Czochralski method which enables reduction of a large defect area while increasing a micro-vacancy defect area in an agglomerated vacancy point area, which is the area between a central axis and an oxidation-induced stacking fault ring, by providing uniform conditions of crystal ingot growth and cooling and by adjusting a pulling rate for growing an ingot to grow, thus the oxidation-induced stacking fault ring exists only at an edge of the ingot radius.

Abstract: A crystal growth method, comprising the steps of: a) bringing a nitrogen material into a reaction vessel in which a mixed molten liquid comprising an alkaline metal and a group-III metal; and b) growing a crystal of a group-III nitride using the mixed molten liquid and the nitrogen material brought in by the step a) in the reaction vessel, wherein a provision is made such as to prevent a vapor of the alkaline metal from dispersing out of the reaction vessel.

Abstract: A rotary drum seeder for depositing seeds onto food products. The seeder includes a primary support structure, rotary drum assembly, seed hopper, feed gate disposed between the seed hopper and a hopper discharge, and controller. The surface of a rotatable drum of the drum assembly includes repeating patterns made up of apertures. Seeds are selectively adhered to and dislodged from the apertures by high and low pressure fluids provided to the apertures. The low and high pressure fluids come from a vacuum source and a high pressure source, respectively. The vacuum source causes seeds to adhere to the apertures, while the high pressure source generates a localized positive fluid pressure in a seed dislodging device disposed within the rotary drum, thereby forcing the seeds from the apertures when they pass over the seed dislodging device. A boundary layer air knife is used to remove excess seeds from the surface of the rotary drum.

Abstract: An applicator includes a slot and a reservoir which extends from the slot and has a shape which generally conforms to the slot. The reservoir is configured to contain a liquid therein. A piston which conforms to the reservoir is configured to move in the reservoir to thereby urge the liquid in the reservoir toward the slot.

Abstract: This device for supplying coating products to the atomizers of an installation for spraying coating products on objects to be displaced by a conveyor, comprises at least one principal tank, adapted to supply secondary tanks each intended for an atomizer, at least one station for distributing the contents of the principal tank between the secondary tanks, and means for displacing the full secondary tanks towards application robots adapted to displace said atomizers opposite said objects. Each secondary tank forms with the atomizer for which it is intended, a sub-assembly adapted to be displaced, by the afore-mentioned displacement means, between an application member and the distribution station, and vice versa.

Abstract: This device for supplying coating products to the atomizers of an installation for spraying coating products on objects displaced by a conveyor, comprises at least one principal tank adapted to supply secondary tanks each intended for an atomizer, and means for displacing this principal tank up to the vicinity of the secondary tanks.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for introducing in continuous a substance in liquid phase into plastics granules by means of the steps of:

Abstract: A booth of a powder coating system is designed for quick color changes. The booth includes a bottom wall supported above a floor. An inner space of the booth is defined above the bottom wall and an equipment-receiving space is defined beneath the bottom wall. The bottom wall has an opening providing communication between the inner space and the equipment-receiving space. The booth is adapted to receive a powder-recovery module beneath the bottom wall in the equipment-receiving space.

Abstract: A powder coating system includes a booth and one or more powder-recovery modules that are insertable into an equipment-receiving space of the booth. A color change method includes removing a first powder-recovery module from the equipment-receiving space and positioning a second powder-recovery module in the equipment-receiving space.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for applying a developer to a photoresist material layer disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The developer system and method employ a developer plate having a plurality of apertures for dispensing developer. Preferably, the developer plate has a bottom surface with a shape that is similar to the wafer. The developer plate is disposed above the wafer and substantially and/or completely surrounds the top surface of the wafer during application of the developer. A small gap is formed between the wafer and the bottom surface of the developer plate. The wafer and the developer plate form a parallel plate pair, such that the gap can be made small enough so that the developer fluid quickly fills the gap. A differential voltage is applied to the developer plate and the wafer causing an electric field to be formed in the gap. Transportation of negatively charge photoresist material is facilitated by exposure to the electric field during the development process.

Abstract: A cover member for a semiconductor processing thermal reactor. The cover member has a central quartz window portion and an outer flange portion. The central window portion has either an inward bow defining a concave outside surface, or an outward bow defining a convex outside surface. The centerline of the central window portion has a radius of curvature which when extended through the flange portion divides the flange portion into an upper flange section and a lower flange section. The upper and lower flange portions having substantially equal masses.

Abstract: An improved atomic layer doping apparatus is disclosed as having multiple doping regions in which individual monolayer species are first deposited and then dopant atoms contained therein are diffused into the substrate. Each doping region is chemically separated from adjacent doping regions. A loading assembly is programmed to follow pre-defined transfer sequences for moving semiconductor substrates into and out of the respective adjacent doping regions. According to the number of doping regions provided, a plurality of substrates could be simultaneously processed and run through the cycle of doping regions until a desired doping profile is obtained.

Abstract: A method and system of holding a substrate where foreign substances on the back surface can be decreased. The substrate holding system comprises a ring-shaped leakage-proof surface having a smooth surface on the specimen table corresponding to the periphery of the substrate, a plurality of contact holding portions within the periphery of the substrate, and electrostatic attraction means for fixing the substrate by contacting the back surface of the substrate to the ring-shaped leakage-proof surface and the contact holding portions. The substrate contacts to the cooling surface at the ring-shaped leakage-proof surface and the contact holding portion placed on a position inside the ring-shaped leakage-proof surface. The back surface of the substrate and the cooling surface do not contact to each other in the large portion of the remaining area.

Abstract: A high pressure chamber comprises a chamber housing, a platen, and a mechanical drive mechanism. The chamber housing comprises a first sealing surface. The platen comprises a region for holding the semiconductor substrate and a second sealing surface. The mechanical drive mechanism couples the platen to the chamber housing. In operation, the mechanical drive mechanism separates the platen from the chamber housing for loading of the semiconductor substrate. In further operation, the mechanical drive mechanism causes the second sealing surface of the platen and the first sealing surface of the chamber housing to form a high pressure processing chamber around the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for reducing animal waste malodor using agents and cross-adapting agents are described.

Abstract: A cleaner for the inside of a water tank is designed to draw up water stored within the water tank for aquarium fishes such as goldfishes, tropical fishes and the like to discharge the water to the outside. In this cleaner, a draw-up pipe is comprised of a body portion, and a grip portion connected at an angle of 90° or more to the body portion. A first one-way valve and a second one-way valve are mounted within the draw-up pipe. Thus, the cleaner has a good manipulatability, so that air stored in the cleaner can be reliably discharged, and the discharging of water can be carried out reliably.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for composting animal waste. A system of gutters and conveyors collect liquid manure and urine and mix it with fibrous material such as ground corn stalks, ground cotton waste, ground peanut hulls, ground hay, or sawdust. The waste and fibrous material mixture combine to form a ground fibrous waste material or mash which is preferably transported up and down the length of the building by a pair of gutter blending conveyors located in central gutters below the service alley between two rows of pens. The mash is moved along by the gutter blending conveyors at a speed sufficiently slow so that composting can occur on a continuous basis. Animal carcases may be ground up and added to the mixture as it is composting, to dispose of the bodies.

Abstract: A system and method for precise remote guidance of animals such as rats, dogs, horses, birds, etc., inclusive of remote monitoring of the animal's location, orientation and movement, and graduated stimulus or feedback as to whether or not the movement and orientation is correct. The system incorporates a remote monitoring capability for monitoring the animal's location, orientation and movement, plus a remote stimulus mechanism to apply positive and/or negative reinforcement to the animal depending on whether or not the movement direction and/or orientation is correct. The reinforcement is applied in varying degrees pursuant to a gradient scale. This way, the animal learns to associate movement in the correct direction and/or proper orientation as gradually increasing positive reinforcement and/or reducing negative reinforcement.

Abstract: A universal animal restraining device for use in automobiles, trucks, trucks, R.V.'s, trailers, the home, outdoors or anywhere that will accept a 1¾″ diameter×⅜″ in height, round mounting base, with a quick release fitting and a plastic coated wire rope leash. The leash/fitting assembly may be easily removed, leaving only a low profile mounting base in place.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus for reducing shedding in pets the apparatus comprising: a collar of a suitable length to fit around the neck of a pet; and at least one magnet fitted on the collar. Each of the magnets has a north pole directed towards the neck of the pet, and each of the magnets has a magnetic field strength in the range of 500 to 1000 gauss.

Abstract: An assist gas fuel injection mechanism for a 2-cycle internal combustion engine includes a chamber communicated to a combustion chamber through a communicating passage. A rotary valve is provided in the communicating passage for controlling the opening and closing of the communicating passage. A fuel injection device is provided in the communicating passage between the rotary valve and the chamber. With this configuration, a highly compressed gas from the chamber, and fuel from the fuel injection device, are mixed with each other, and a concentrated mixture gas is supplied to the combustion chamber through the communicating passage. It is desirable to minimize the clearance between a valve body and a housing of the rotary valve, to reduce leakage of the assist gas for injection, and to reduce the size of the assist gas fuel injection mechanism.

Abstract: The reciprocating valve actuation and control system includes a poppet valve moveable between a first and second position; a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid; a hydraulic actuator including an actuator piston coupled to the poppet valve and reciprocating between a first and second position responsive to flow of the pressurized hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator; an electrically operated valve controlling flow of the pressurized hydraulic fluid to the actuator; and an engine computer that generates electrical pulses to control the electrically operated valve. The electrically operated valve includes a linear latching motor. The hydraulic actuator comprises a self-contained cartridge assembly including an actuator piston with dampers for damping motion of the actuator piston, limiting the actuator stroke to assure soft seating of the actuator, and to avoid overshoot during the engine valve opening stroke and the engine valve return stroke.

Abstract: A deactivation hydraulic valve lifter includes an elongate lifter body having a substantially cylindrical inner wall. The inner wall defines at least one annular pin chamber therein. The lifter body has a first end configured for engaging a cam of an engine. An elongate pin housing includes a substantially cylindrical pin housing wall and pin housing bottom. The pin housing wall includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The pin housing bottom defines a radially directed pin bore therethrough. The pin housing is concentrically disposed within the inner wall of the lifter body such that the outer surface of the pin housing wall is adjacent to at least a portion of the inner wall of the lifter body. A plunger having a substantially cylindrical plunger wall with an inner surface and an outer surface is concentrically disposed within the pin housing such that the outer surface of the plunger wall is adjacent to at least a portion of the inner surface of the pin housing wall.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, a pair of suction ports are formed on left and right sides of the rear of the cylinder head with respect to the vehicle body. A pair of exhaust ports is formed on left and right sides on the front side of the cylinder head. Suction poppet valves and exhaust poppet valves for opening and closing the suction ports and the exhaust ports are slidably fitted in guide tubes, respectively. In addition, a valve gear includes a camshaft and a rocker arm pivotally supported on a rocker arm shaft. The rocker arm is formed with a bifurcated end, which crosses an ignition plug on the exhaust poppet valve side. The suction poppet valves are directly driven to open and close by the camshaft.

Abstract: A rocker arm assembly having a main body with side walls and a push rod contacting portion spaced away from a valve stem contacting portion is disclosed. The valve stem contacting portion further includes a spring clip mounted thereon. The arms of the spring clip cooperate to form a channel for providing lateral guidance between the rocker arm and a valve stem.

Abstract: A fuel delivery system comprises fuel rail (26), at least one fuel injector (30), a flex cable (72) extending along a length of the fuel rail (26), and lead (70) extending from the flex cable (72). (FIG. 2). Lead (70) extends to an electrical connector (34). (FIG. 2). Electrical connector (34) connects to the fuel injector 930) and attaches to the fuel rail (26). (FIG. 2).

Abstract: An inside space of a starter motor having a motor, a magnetic switch and a reduction gear train is ventilated through a ventilation passage formed in the starter motor. The ventilation passage includes a labyrinth passage formed at a portion connecting a front housing containing the reduction gear and a center housing containing the motor and the magnetic switch. The labyrinth passage connecting a motor chamber and a switch chamber prevents brush dusts generated in the motor chamber from being scattered in the other spaces. Grease splash from the gear train does not enter into the ventilation passage separated the gear train. Thus, the ventilation passage well functions for a long time without being clogged with the grease, brush dusts or the mixture thereof.

Abstract: A hand-held starter apparatus for starting model engines includes a motor, a body supporting the motor, a switching device that activates the motor, and a trigger in communication with the switching device. The body is configured for comfortable gripping by users with large hands and by users with small hands.

Abstract: The invention relates to an intake system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle for separating entrained water droplets. The intake system has an untreated air intake (10), an untreated air pipe (11) connected to said untreated air intake (10), and a water separator (12) adjoining said untreated air pipe (11). Inside the untreated air pipe (11) a swirl is produced to cause the aspirated air to rotate inside the untreated air pipe (11). The untreated air pipe (11) communicates with the internal combustion engine. The water separator (12) has an inner pipe (13) and an outer pipe (14), which are arranged coaxially to one another. The inner pipe (13) protrudes into the outer pipe (14), which is provided with a water outlet (20). Due to the coaxial construction of the water separator (12), the intake air flows into the downstream components without being diverted, so that no appreciable pressure losses are caused.

Abstract: In an intake manifold for a vehicle, including a plurality of branch pipes connected at their one ends to a surge tank, bent at substantially 90 degrees, and horizontally arranged in parallel to one another, and an engine mounting flange connected to the other ends of the branch pipes, particularly in that including a pair of joining members made of a synthetic resin and welded to each other, among welding margins set before welding in at least one joining member along a joining line, the welding margin in a pressing direction for a portion corresponding to an inclined portion is set larger than the welding margin in the pressing direction for the remaining zone excluding the inclined portion of the joining line.

Abstract: A cylinder head assembly for use in a flat head style internal combustion engine. A valve for use in the head has a cup portion above the face of the valve. The cup portion of the valve moves longitudinally in a sleeve or liner in the head of the engine.

Abstract: In a case member mounting structure for mounting a chain case to an engine body, the chain case is fastened to the engine body by a number of bolts applied along the outer edges thereof and by bolts applied to portions in a central region thereof. The chain case has a plurality of central fastening boss portions in a central region of the inner wall surface, and bolt fastening holes are formed in the respective central fastening boss portions. An annular connection wall is formed in a projecting fashion to connect the central fastening boss portions such that the chain case is affixed to the engine body by putting the connection wall and the central fastening boss portions in abutment with the engine body. As a result, it is possible to fasten the chain case with fewer fastening bolts, enhance the rigidity of the central region of the chain case and prevent its vibrations.