Patents Issued in July 25, 2002
  • Publication number: 20020095758
    Abstract: A tool is provided for removing a component from a fuel rail in an automotive fuel system. The tool has a pair of jaws connected to a pair of pivoting handles, which allow the jaws to be opened and closed. The jaws have an inner cavity shaped to conform to an outer surface of the component. A pair of release members are slidably mounted on an outer surface of the jaws. When the release members are moved relative to the jaws, rims on the release members contact a retention clip holding the component to the fuel rail. Contact between the rims and the clip causes the clip to disengage from a retention surface on the fuel rail, freeing the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Siemens Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: James Archie Wynn
  • Publication number: 20020095759
    Abstract: A piston pulling apparatus constructed like a mandrel; having top and bottom ends and a cylindric periphery body defined by an array of piston bowl gripping segments having tops and bottoms and lying longitudinally between the top and bottom ends. The top end and the proximate tops of segments are held to each other with a fixed radius and circumference. The bottom end and its proximate array of bottoms are coupled to enable the radial expansion of the array from its bottoms. A threaded shaft lies axially within the body and is coupled to the bottom end to move it vertically upward axially, to displace the segment array bottoms radially, to increase the effective circumference of this apparatus near its bottom end; which, during the expansion, can be positioned to grip the inner sides of a piston bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Robert T. Scott
  • Publication number: 20020095760
    Abstract: Devices and techniques for placing and bonding identical elements to holes in a substrate where spacer balls and a reference surface are used to achieve the desired accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Terastor Corporation
    Inventors: John Berg, David J. Kindler, David Kent, David Buswell
  • Publication number: 20020095761
    Abstract: A hand jack that is associated with a frame structure for pressing spike metal plates into one or more wood members. The hand jack is secured within a generally C-shaped frame and is suspended from a support member that forms a portion of the C-shaped frame. Between the base of the hand jack and the other support member there is defined a receiving area or a press area for receiving one or more wood members and at least one spike metal plate. By actuating the hand jack, a portion of the jack moves into engagement with the spike metal plate and presses the same into the one or more wood members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Ulys Smith
  • Publication number: 20020095762
    Abstract: A golf club such as an iron golf club comprising a head body with a cavity formed on the rear surface thereof and a back member securely fitted into the cavity, with the both closely contacted each other. Prior to securing a back member 9 to a cavity 8 formed on the rear surface 7 of the head body 6, the back member 9 is heated to a high temperature. The temperature is set at about 750 degrees centigrade, approximated to standard finishing forging temperature if the member 9 is made of titanium or titanium alloy. As the back member 9 is fitted through deformation processing with the same being heated to the high temperature, the flow stress of the metallic material of the back member 9 can be lowered, thus enhancing ductility thereof. As a result, a front surface 14 and a peripheral surface 15 can be closely contacted by the cavity 8 without gaps, so that the back member 9 can be rigidly secured to the cavity 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Hitoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20020095763
    Abstract: An oil reservoir for vehicle transmissions includes an oil pan, cover, and filter cartridge which are manufactured as separate components. The cover 14 is attached to the pan 12 preferably with a snap-fit connection. The filter cartridge 16 is releasably secured in position between the cover 14 and pan 12 so as to enable the module 16 to be installed and removed without having to disconnect the cover 14 from the pan 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd M. Willis, Robert M. Waters, John C. Kapcoe
  • Publication number: 20020095764
    Abstract: A hot-rolling mill for flat products with at least two continuous casting units, wherein the continuous casting units are followed by a shear each and a tunnel furnace with transfer car each, a common breaking-down train, a finishing train, a cooling stretch and at least one reeling device. A connecting device is arranged between the tunnel furnaces and the breaking-down train for connecting the continuously cast slabs which have been cut into the desired coil weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Wilfried Bald, Dieter Rosenthal
  • Publication number: 20020095765
    Abstract: High-Tc superconducting ceramic oxide products and macroscopic and microscopic methods for making such high-Tc superconducting products. Completely sealed high-Tc superconducting ceramic oxide provides are made by a macroscopic process including the steps of pressing a superconducting ceramic oxide powder into a hollow body of a material inert to oxygen; heat treating the superconducting ceramic oxide powder packed body under conditions sufficient to sinter the ceramic oxide powder; and then sealing any openings of the body. Optionally, a waveform or multiple pulses of alternate magnetic filed can be applied during the heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Dawei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20020095766
    Abstract: The invention allows a thin-film magnetic head that meets specifications required by the customer to be provided in a short period of time and manufacturing costs to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20020095767
    Abstract: A manufacturing method achieves excellent magnetic recording characteristics by sequentially sputtering a non-magnetic under-layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic substrate in an atmosphere of H2O partial pressure of 2×10−10 Torr or lower. This process allows beneficial deposition of the magnetic layer and reduces raw materials costs. The magnetic layer includes ferromagnetic grains and non-magnetic grain boundaries. The intermediate layer has a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure. The manufacturing method allows manufacture of a high quality magnetic recording medium without a heating step thereby allowing use of lower cost materials, reduces manufacturing time, and increases savings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Naoki Takizawa, Hiroyuki Uwazumi, Takahiro Shimizu, Tadaaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20020095768
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095769
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095770
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095771
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095772
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095773
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095774
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095775
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095776
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095777
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095778
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
  • Publication number: 20020095779
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a push button switch cover includes providing a cover substrate that is formed on a front surface thereof with at least one key top and on a rear surface thereof with at least one pressing projection in a manner that corresponds to the key top, and applying an adhesive to the pressing projection to form an adhesive section on the pressing projection. The cover substrate is carried to a dish-shaped metal spring feed position while keeping the pressing projection facing up, and a dish-shaped metal spring is pressed onto the pressing projection corresponding thereto, while aligning a central portion of the pressing projection with an apex of the dish-shaped metal spring, whereby the dish-shaped metal spring is bonded to the pressing projection through the adhesive section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ando, Takeo Shirasawa, Fumio Ohshima, Noriyoshi Kiyosawa, Hirohide Sato
  • Publication number: 20020095780
    Abstract: An electrolyte is formulated as a printing ink and laid down by an in-line press for manufacturing printed electrochemical cells. A curing station transforms the electrolyte to perform additional functions such as separating electrodes, preventing leakage, bonding cell layers, and resisting evaporation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Mark A. Shadle, David M. Good, Andrew J. Friesch, Chauncey T. Mitchell, Gerrit L. Verschuur
  • Publication number: 20020095781
    Abstract: A device for fastening functional parts in a component produced from a flat material, preferably sheet metal, by insertion and pressing, having several punching heads and opposing tool surfaces assigned to them. The component is located between the punching head and the pertinent opposing tool surface when the functional part is inserted. There are punching heads on a first tool part. The opposing tool surfaces are formed by thrust bearings which are provided on the top of a second plate-shaped tool part. The tool parts can be moved relative to one another for opening and closing the tool or the device and there are centering/guide and locking devices acting directly between the tool parts. When the tool parts are closed, the tool parts are directly centered and locked to one another. Each punching head is provided with an individual drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Heiko Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20020095782
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electrostatic chuck capable of holding a substrate in a chamber comprises forming an at least partially sintered dielectric insert, forming a dielectric preform comprising an electrode and a gas conduit, and placing the dielectric insert in the gas conduit of the dielectric preform, and sintering the dielectric preform and the dielectric insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Kadthala R. Narendrnath, Shamouil Shamouilian, Dennis S. Grimard
  • Publication number: 20020095783
    Abstract: An epoxy-based soldering flux is used to solder a flip-chip IC device to a metallic bond site on a substrate material. The soldering flux is composed of a thermosetting epoxy resin and a cross-linking agent with inherent flux activity. When heated the cross-linking agent cleans the metal oxides from the metal surfaces on the chip and then reacts with the epoxy resin to form a thermosetting epoxy residue. The flux residue left on the board after soldering does not inhibit the flow of an underfill encapsulant. The underfill binds to the thermosetting residue of the flux which increases adhesion strength preventing delamination of the chip during thermal cycling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Kirsten
  • Publication number: 20020095784
    Abstract: A bumping process for chip scale packaging comprises: providing a chip, the chip having an active surface that has a plurality of bonding pads; sequentially forming an under bump metal (UBM) structure and a leaded bump thereon on each of the bonding pads, wherein the material of the leaded bumps is composed of tin and more than 85% of lead; forming a thermosetting plastic on the active surface that covers the leaded bumps; and grinding the surface of the thermosetting plastic to expose the leaded bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Jen-Kuang Fang
  • Publication number: 20020095785
    Abstract: The wirings on an electron source substrate are formed to intersect with each other in a matrix so as to address the electron emission devices on the substrate. First and second wirings intersect with each other on a crossing point. As such a crossing point, an insulating layer is placed between the first and second wirings. To ensure insulation, a plurality of insulating layers are laminated. According to the present invention, a wiring pattern is provided on the substrate with a conductive paste and baking the wiring pattern of the conductive paste to form the first wiring. Subsequently part of the first wiring is coated at the crossing point with an insulating paste and baking the insulating paste to form a first insulating layer. The coating thickness of the insulating layer formed adjacent to sidewalls of the crossing point is substanially equal to the height of the first wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Shinsaku Kubo, Kazuya Ishiwata, Yoshimi Uda, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Hiroaki Toshima
  • Publication number: 20020095786
    Abstract: A support assembly for mounting a semiconductor device vertically relative to a carrier substrate. The support assembly includes an interposer to which the semiconductor device is attached. The support assembly also includes traces carried on the interposer, which electronically connect the semiconductor device to contacts on the interposer. The contacts are disposed along a single edge of the interposer. The invention also includes an alignment device for releaseably mounting the support assembly. The alignment device, which mounts to a carrier substrate, includes one or more receptacles. As a support assembly is inserted into a receptacle, the alignment device establishes an electrical connection between the contacts and corresponding terminals on the carrier substrate. The assembly may also include a cover that attaches to the top of the alignment device and biases the interposer against the carrier substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Larry D. Kinsman, Walter L. Moden, Warren M. Farnworth
  • Publication number: 20020095787
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of producing a catalytic converter which comprises the steps of providing a shock absorbent member around an outer periphery of a catalyst substrate, inserting the catalyst substrate and the shock absorbent member into a cylindrical workpiece, fixing the cylindrical workpiece to prevent the cylindrical workpiece from being rotated about a longitudinal axis thereof, reducing a diameter of a body portion of the cylindrical workpiece covering at least a portion of the shock absorbent member to hold the catalyst substrate in the cylindrical workpiece, spinning at least an end portion of the cylindrical workpiece, by means of a plurality of spinning rollers, which are evenly positioned around the outer periphery of the end portion, and which are revolved about the axis of the end portion along a common circular locus, and moved in a radial direction of the end portion, and moving the plurality of spinning rollers in an axial direction of the end portion to reduce a dia
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Sango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Irie, Masashi Ota
  • Publication number: 20020095788
    Abstract: A method for making a heat dissipation device (3) includes the steps of: providing a metal plate (2) and a fin member (1), bending the metal plate to form a body (2′), and attaching the fin member to the body. The metal plate includes a central portion (22) and a pair of end portions (24). The central portion is thicker than the end portions. The body includes a chassis (22′) originating from the central portion of the metal plate, and a pair of side walls (24′) originating from the end portions of the metal plate. The fin member is attached to the chassis between the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Wei Ta Lo
  • Publication number: 20020095789
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming at least one flat-tube insertion slot in a header tube. A sawcut is introduced into the header tube during a sawing step, and the slot is configured, during a subsequent punching step, by means of a slot punch, which punches into the region of the sawcut. A rimmed opening can be configured during the punching step by using a slot punch with a larger width and/or length relative to the sawcut. The sawcut is preferably introduced to a depth less that the wall thickness of the header tube. The respective web region(s) between chamber of a multi-chamber header tube can be compressed during the punching operation to a level lower than that of a header-tube wall region functioning as a flat-tube insertion stop, in order to form a chamber-connecting duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Walter Demuth, Wolfgang Geiger, Martin Kotsch, Hans-Joachim Krauss, Hagen Mittelstrass, Harald Raiser, Michael Sickelmann, Karl-Heinz Staffa, Christoph Walter
  • Publication number: 20020095790
    Abstract: The material of the wall inside a hole in a housing is squeezed toward the center of the using a staking tool with a diameter larger than that of the hole. The material necessary for forming a locking section can be obtained from only a small part of the entire area of the wall of the hole. The amount of material necessary for the entire process is secured and the material is pressed so as to contact with an end face of the outer race using the staking tool, forming the locking section. Accordingly, the locking section provides sufficient strength. Also, since only the small part of the entire area of the wall is necessary as described above, there is no decrease in strength or deformation as to the thin housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gen Sasaki, Shinichi Akao, Shouji Takanishi
  • Publication number: 20020095791
    Abstract: A razor blade cartridge includes a plastic body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a series of guard ribs integrally molded with the plastic body and extending between the leading and trailing edges of the plastic body. The razor blade cartridge also includes one or more cutting blades encompassed by the plastic body, each of the cutting blades including a cutting edge facing the leading edge of the plastic body. The guard ribs, which cover the cutting edges of the cutting blades, reduce friction as the cutting blades pass over a skin surface and minimize the likelihood of nicks and cuts while shaving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Andrew J. Pennella, Paul D. Richard, David F. Rivers
  • Publication number: 20020095792
    Abstract: A knife and sheath assembly includes a knife having a handle and a blade and a sheath having a cavity for releasably receiving the knife blade in a storage condition. A first end portion of the blade is adjustably mounted in the handle and a second end portion including a cutting edge protrudes from the handle. The blade is movable between a first, retracted position in which a first length of the blade protrudes from the handle and a second, extended position in which a second length of the blade longer than the first length protrudes from the handle. A releasable latch member on the handle releasably locks the knife blade in the first and second positions, and the sheath cavity is designed to receive the portion of the knife blade which protrudes from the handle in the retracted position, such that the overall length of the assembly is reduced when the knife is sheathed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Michael C. Jue, Alan K. Uke, Jeffery D. Arnett
  • Publication number: 20020095793
    Abstract: By providing a rotatable wheel mounted in cooperating engagement with a longitudinally movable arm or slide member, an easily employed, dependable, and reliable movable comb control system is achieved, enabling users to controllably move the comb member on a hair trimmer any desired distance. In the present invention, cam slots are formed in the wheel with the slots positioned for controlled engagement with cam pins formed on the movable arm or slider. By employing this construction, rotational movement of the wheel causes controlled movement of the cam pins which results in the desired longitudinal movement of the arm/slider. By securing the elongated arm/slider to the comb element, either directly or through an interconnecting plate, the longitudinal movement of the arm/slider causes the comb element to move simultaneously therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: John Wilcox, Peter G. Katz
  • Publication number: 20020095794
    Abstract: A shear device includes one or more fixed blades secured to the front portion, one or more cutter blade coupled to a lever and moved relative to the fixed blade in a shearing action by the lever. A cam member is rotatably received in the housing and engaged with the lever, and a motor coupled to the cam member for rotating the cam member to move the lever in a reciprocating action and to move the cutter blade relative to the fixed blade in the shearing action. The cam member includes a radially outer peripheral portion slidably received in a notch of the lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Kuo Chen Liu
  • Publication number: 20020095795
    Abstract: A portable machine for cutting sheet material, for cutting a strip of sheet material of a certain width comprising a frame having an elongate slot, two cutting rollers, and a stop arranged to be fixed in a position that defines the width, and comprising, additionally, a threaded shaft that defines an axis of rotation, and a support member with a threaded member, where the stop is fixedly attached to the support member, and where the shaft engages the threaded member, in such a way that a rotation of the shaft around the axis of rotation causes a displacement of the support member according to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Francisco Vidal Carres
  • Publication number: 20020095796
    Abstract: A scissors has pivotally joined metal cutting elements, each having a handle portion including a yoke insert molded in hard plastic inner portions of handle loops. In one of the loops the hard plastic material defines only a part of the loop, terminating in spaced ends which are fixed to a flexible and resilient portion which completes the loop. The other loop has projecting forwardly therefrom a hard plastic finger rest which extends along the handle portion and defines a channel receiving the handle portion of the one loop. Both loops have hard plastic buttons projecting therefrom which abut when the scissors are closed. The flexible and resilient portion of the one loop is formed of a soft, frictional material which also covers outer surfaces of the hard plastic portions of both loops and the finger rest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Richard A. Whitehall, Mitra E. Leyde, Donald R. Lamond, David E. Evans
  • Publication number: 20020095797
    Abstract: When the number of rotations of a drive source has fallen below a predetermined value, clutch moving members are disengaged from a clutch drum by clutch resilient members, and thus the clutch drum is caused, by a braking resilient member, to resiliently slide back to a predetermined braking position where a brake shoe is pressed against brake pads to apply the brakes. When the number of rotations of the source unit has increased above a predetermined value, the clutch moving members are caused to slide radially outward by centrifugal force in such a manner that the clutch moving members press and axially slide the clutch drum to a non-braking position against the bias of the braking resilient member, so that the brake shoe is disengaged from the brake pads to release the brakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Makoto Warashina, Takao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020095798
    Abstract: An apparatus having a foot, a reciprocating saw and a housing. Between the foot and the housing there are means for releasable mounting the foot on the housing, characterized in that the releasable mounting means have a first coupling member connected to the foot and, co-acting therewith, a second coupling member connected to the housing. The coupling members can be carried from a disconnected to a connected position by a relative displacement between the foot and housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Ellis, Eric Robert Larson, Stephen Michael Oshgan, Cornelis Johannes Maria Van Dun, Jan Peter Houben
  • Publication number: 20020095799
    Abstract: A pruner attachment apparatus includes a body releasably attachable to a shoe of a power tool of the type having a reciprocating saw blade. The body includes a front face for engaging a workpiece. The pruner attachment apparatus further includes a hook member for engaging the workpiece. The hook member is laterally spaced from the saw blade of the tool and is mounted to the body for movement along a path between a first position and a second position. The path includes an upper curvilinear portion configured such that movement of the hook member from the first position to the second position positions the hook member completely behind an imaginary line in a common plane with the front face. A biasing mechanism biases the hook member to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: David C. Campbell, Angela M. Waldrop
  • Publication number: 20020095800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a powered reciprocating saw, in particular to a pruning saw. To simplify use of the saw a clamping mechanism is provided which holds an object in position while it is sawn. The clamping mechanism is mounted at the front portion 4 of the housing of the saw near the saw blade 20. The clamping mechanism comprises: a slide element 30 for sliding movement in cutting direction C of the saw blade, a supporting member 30; and a clamping arm 40 being rotatably mounted on the slide element 30, by means of a one way rotary clutch 42 such that the arm can freely rotate in one direction only, in which direction the clamping arm 40 moves towards the support member 30 to clamp an object therebetween in a clamping position below the saw blade for sawing it. When the saw is in use, it vibrates due to its reciprocating parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Daniel Bone, Philip Wren
  • Publication number: 20020095801
    Abstract: A can opener with simple construction for easily and safely opening pull-top cans and the like without particular attention to the handling and storing thereof. The can opener according to the present invention comprises: a cylindrical main body; an engagement projection disposed on a circumferential surface of the main body, the engagement projection having a claw extending in a direction parallel to the axis of the main body; and a handle for rotating the main body, the handle being continuous with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Akio Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20020095802
    Abstract: An alignment head for use in aligning the wheels of a vehicle. The alignment head includes left and right covers configured for engaging each other to establish a housing. A frame assembly is positioned within a central portion of the housing, and sensors are mounted on the frame assembly. First and second transceivers are positioned respectively within front and rear portions of the housing. The sensors and transceivers provide information that is used by certain control circuitry to generate alignment information that can be used to align the wheels of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Brian K. Gray, M. Todd Foreman
  • Publication number: 20020095803
    Abstract: A magnetic compass modified for use in linear, angular and, geometric as well as, or instead of, directional measure. Body (30), (35) manufactured to a predetermined circumference and made of a break-resistant material. Mounted on the base (33a) or, suspended from the top section (33b), is a freely pivoting or movable magnetic pointer (32) and a transparent, or partially transparent, upper section (35) so that the position of the pointer may be observed. Outer edge (31) made of slip-resistant material for contact and rotation on surface of structure being measured. Outer edge of base is calibrated with appropriate units positioned for use with pointer. Calibration (FIGS. 4a-c) could also possibly be inscribed on upper section of body instead of on the base. Most operations center around the locations of two variable points on the Compass Ruler, the contact point (37) and the zero point (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Mark Meek
  • Publication number: 20020095804
    Abstract: A novel sheet material cutting device comprising an elongated planar base plate including a bottom base plate surface adapted to lie on the top surface of a flat sheet of cuttable material, a top base plate surface overlying the bottom surface and spaced-apart therefrom, at least one elongated straight cutting edge between the bottom surface and the top surface and parallel to the main axis of the base plate for contact with a cutting blade during cutting of sheet material lying under the bottom base plate surface, and a trailer edge spaced-apart from the cutting edge, and a guard wall extending upward from the base plate top surface, between the cutting edge and the trailer edge and parallel to the main axis of the base plate, the wall curved toward the trailer edge to provide an ever-expanding space between the cutting edge and the guard wall as a function of height above the base plate top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Jay E. Coplan
  • Publication number: 20020095805
    Abstract: A tape rule blade having graduations in an eye-catching third color, wherein the numerals of the graduations on the tape rule blade are in numeric characters of a first color, numeric characters of a second color, and numeric characters of the eye-catching third color to facilitate the visual separation of adjacent numeric characters. At the same time, the alerting effect also afforded prevents sighting errors and reading inaccuracies, with the tape rule blade thereby having even more practical value through an innovative design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Cheng-Hui Hsu
  • Publication number: 20020095806
    Abstract: A plurality of two-dimensional template-shaped gauges to quickly determine the amount of liquor poured from a corresponding bottle. Since each style of gauge fits a complementary bottle style, the ounce, shot or metric vertical markings on the gauge can be spaced to reflect the change in bottle cross-section. A bartender or server can quickly, literally at a glance, determine the amount remaining in the bottle. The result is a more accurate pour and better control over the sales of expensive liquor and similar beverages. The new gauges are reusable an indefinite number of times depending on the plastic or other material from which they are constructed. Moreover, the new gauges are ideal for displaying brand names and logos. The template shapes may be formed on both side edges of each gauge, therefore each gauge can be used with two bottles of differing shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Barbara J. Bolle
  • Publication number: 20020095807
    Abstract: An apparatus and method involves the use of a gauge to measure the pitch and rake of a blade on a propeller. The gauge has a rotational sensor that determines relative rotation of a measurer. The measurer includes a pitch sensor and a rake sensor. The rotational sensor communicates with a display, which provides an output representative of pitch or rake of the blade based on signals received from the rotational sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Scott Morgan