Patents Issued in July 25, 2002
  • Publication number: 20020095908
    Abstract: A passive fire protection system for the protection of vertical walls against flames and heat in a severe total environment type fire, the system including a multi-layered, flexible material containing at least one layer of intumescent material. This multi-layered material is configured such that it provides a containment system for the carbonaceous foam resulting from the expansion of the intumescent. The system further includes an installation process whereby the attachment of this multi-layered material to vertical surfaces is protected from the extreme heat of a fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Flame Seal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Kiser
  • Publication number: 20020095909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for packaging contact lenses. The apparatus includes a plurality of discrete inspection lens carriers and a plurality of contact lens containers. The carriers are movable within the apparatus. A single one of the containers is mounted on a single one of the carriers. The apparatus, in another embodiment, includes a plurality of lens carriers, a plurality of lifts, a plurality of contact lens containers and either a plurality of platens or a plurality of mandrels. One of the containers is mounted on a respective one of the carriers. Each of the platens or each of the mandrels is individually supported by one of the lifts. The lifts apply pressure, within a predetermined range, to each of the containers. The apparatus, in another embodiment, includes a plurality of contact lens containers. A heated mandrel is disposed above the plurality of containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Gregory Scott Duncan, Ravi S. Sanka, Gary S. Hall
  • Publication number: 20020095910
    Abstract: A filter material is described that is coated with cyclodextrins charged with taste substances, whereby the filter material also has 1 to 99% uncharged cyclodextrins, as well as a process for its production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Hartmut Salow, Brigitte Herhut
  • Publication number: 20020095911
    Abstract: A device for unsealing a plastic fruit bag comprises a conveyor device, a heating device, and a blower. A fruit contained in a sealed plastic bag is conveyed by the conveyor device to the heating device which melts a portion the plastic bag and thus opens the plastic bag. The opened plastic bags are sucked by the blower to a place for collection, and the fruits are collected in another place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Kuo-Shing Chang
  • Publication number: 20020095912
    Abstract: In the production and packaging of cigarettes, the procedure for carrying out a product changeover is such that the entire production and packaging installation is largely emptied. In the region of a film packer (16) and of a following multipacker (17), subassemblies for producing web connections (splice) are controlled such that a last cigarette pack of the old configuration is assigned to a last cigarette multipack (24) and this is then separated out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: FOCKE & CO. (GmbH & CO.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Kurt Meyer, Martin Stiller
  • Publication number: 20020095913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for covering printed products with a packaging material in the form of a continuous packaging material web, especially a plastic film. In each case, at least two printed products are deposited beside each other on the packaging material web by means of a feed device. In each case, at least two printed products lying beside each other are covered simultaneously with the packaging material and subsequently divided from each other. The invention permits the packaging rate to be doubled in a simple way, without having to carry out complicated modifications to the packaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Ferag AG.
    Inventor: Werner Honegger
  • Publication number: 20020095914
    Abstract: An integral frame and mailer formed from a single blank is disclosed. The blank includes a frame having a frame front panel and a frame rear panel, the frame rear panel being connected to a mailer rear panel along a fold line. A mailer front panel is foldably connected to the mailer front panel, wherein the mailer front panel and mailer rear panel effectively sandwich the frame front panel and frame rear panel therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: William Gerrie, Louis Thyroff
  • Publication number: 20020095915
    Abstract: A bag stuffer for an expandable bag has an insert that is movable from a collapsed orientation for enabling compact storage of an expandable bag containing the insert, to an expanded orientation for providing a commercial display of an expandable bag containing the insert. The insert includes one or two substantially rigid and substantially planar side panels and a bottom panel having opposite ends. The one or two side panels are connected to one or both of the opposite ends of the bottom panel at a hinge area containing a fold between the sides panels and the bottom panel. A biasing torsion spring, memory plastic at the hinge areas or leaf spring biases the insert toward the expanded orientation, the biasing force being applied in the hinge area for directly acting on the fold to bias the side panels away from the bottom panel and toward the expanded orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Maurice Hedaya
  • Publication number: 20020095916
    Abstract: A separator for substantially resolving at least one component of a process stream, such as from the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. The separator includes a body defining a chamber therein. A nozzle housing is located proximate the chamber. An exhaust inlet is in communication with the nozzle housing and the chamber. A nozzle assembly is positioned in the nozzle housing and includes a nozzle moveable within and relative to the nozzle housing. The nozzle includes at least one passage formed therethrough such that a process stream entering the exhaust inlet connection passes through the passage formed in the nozzle and imparts a substantially rotational flow to the process stream as it enters the chamber. A positioning member is configured to position the nozzle relative to the nozzle housing in response to changes in process stream pressure thereby adjusting flowrate of said process stream entering into the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Terry D. Turner, Bruce M. Wilding, Michael G. McKellar, Kevin T. Raterman
  • Publication number: 20020095917
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. A modular cartridge assembly is provided to facilitate color change operations. A fan cone is provided in the base unit to permit fan wheel size changes without requiring structural modifications to the base unit housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Publication number: 20020095918
    Abstract: A particulate filter for diesel engines comprises a metal shell or casing inside which is set a filtering body made of ceramic foam. The filtering body is made up of a plurality of separate elements made of ceramic foam and having a substantially plane and elongated shape, which are set about a longitudinal axis of the shell in such a way as to define, inside the shell, an inner chamber (B) set inside the array of filtering elements and at least one outer chamber (A) set outside the array. The said chambers respectively communicate with the intake pipe and with the outlet pipe, or vice versa, in such a way that, during use, the flow of the engine exhaust gases that traverses the shell passing from the intake pipe to the outlet pipe (or vice versa) is forced to traverse the aforesaid filtering elements, thus assuming a component of radial velocity with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Massimo Debenedetti, Gianmarco Boretto
  • Publication number: 20020095919
    Abstract: A filter element of an air filter includes a main body and a substrate. The far infrared emission powder substances are embedded at certain grain sized and at certain ratio to the substrate, thereby forming the main body that is adapted in form to various internal combustion engines. The resonance effect will be created by means of the far infrared emission substances in the filter element of the air filter, thereby making tiny the molecular cluster of water in the moisture-containing air entering into the internal combustion engine for combustion, increasing the molecular freedom, enlarging the contact surface of the oil gas with the air. Therefore, it's easier that the oxygen-containing particles and the oil gas are evenly mixed for reaching an optimal mixture ratio of the original design standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Tung-Sen Chen
  • Publication number: 20020095920
    Abstract: A seal member is attached to a peripheral edge portion of a filter body by being fused to semi-melted fibers that form the filter body when the semi-melted fibers are layered over a forming surface. Therefore, the formation of the filter body and the attachment of the seal member can be simultaneously accomplished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: TOYODA BOSHOKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanari Takagaki
  • Publication number: 20020095921
    Abstract: An airboat having aquatic vegetation shredder includes an airboat having a buoyant hull and an aquatic vegetation shredding assembly supported on the hull. The airboat is driven by a propulsion assembly including a propeller that revolves in the air. These features cooperatively provide a low draft vessel that is capable of relatively higher forward speeds than other aquatic vegetation shredders and particularly effective in shallow water environments. Various alternative configurations of the shredding assembly are disclosed including upright and fore-and-aft shaft orientations for the cutting assembly and a drum and knife cutting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: THE MASTER'S DREDGING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: David M. Penny
  • Publication number: 20020095922
    Abstract: A walk reel mower includes a pair of inclined rigid links for mounting the reel cutting unit to the reel mower frame for rolling about a longitudinal axis, and a pair of vertical support arms for mounting the reel cutting unit to the reel mower frame for pitching about a transverse axis. An integrated gearbox houses both the traction and reel drives, including the differential that is part of the traction drive, as well as a parking brake. A flexible drive shaft powers the cutting reel from the gearbox and is made from materials that do not require petroleum based lubricants to avoid the possibility of damage to the turf or grass. A single control handle located on the handle of the mower actuates both the reel and traction drives. The reel cutting unit includes a back plate which has a portion formed as a hollow beam for strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Gerald E. Goman, Christopher C. Dickey, Robert D. Patton, Donald B. Schnotala
  • Publication number: 20020095923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a harvesting machine 1, to especially a self-propelled pick-up chopper for picking up and chopping corn, wilted grass, green feed and similar harvested produce, with an ejection elbow 6, which is disposed downstream from pulling in and chopping devices for transferring harvested produce to the loading space of an accompanying vehicle. In particular, in order to free to the operator of the harvesting machine from the burden of the cumbersome positioning work after each change in the direction of travel, provisions are made that the ejection elbow 6 can be swiveled by means of a motor, controlled by a control device, from a first operating position into a second operating position, which corresponds to the first operating position of the ejection elbow, mirrored in the vertical median plane (FIG. 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Bernard Krone, Josef Horstmann, Bernhard Schniederbruns
  • Publication number: 20020095924
    Abstract: A tool having a rotatable handle grip is disclosed. The tool includes an elongated handle having a first end and second end, wherein a handle grip is rotatably coupled with the first end, and a working end is coupled with the second end. The working end may include a plurality of spaced tines with the prongs having points, wherein at least one cutting blade is coupled to the device between adjacent tines allowing a user to slide the tines of the fork along the ground surface, thereby using the blade to harvest vegetation. Additionally, the working end has an attached harvesting means that allows a stack of cut vegetation to accumulate on the device to be carried and placed in a preferred location or container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: William K. Hixon
  • Publication number: 20020095925
    Abstract: A round baler has strategically located deflecting surfaces in the intake region of the machine to direct incoming crop materials away from sidewalls of the baler. In a preferred embodiment, the materials are directed away from clearance gaps between the outer edges of forming belts and the sidewalls of the baler. Each deflecting surface may be part of a deflector in the nature of a hollow wedge with an upright, angled-in deflecting surface, an upright rear wall, and a horizontal, triangular top wall. A fastening bolt may attach the deflector to the sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: William W. Preheim
  • Publication number: 20020095926
    Abstract: A rake includes a detachable handle, and includes a number of teeth formed in the bottom for working as a rake, and includes a recess formed by a peripheral wall for working as a shovel, and includes one or more hand grips for holding the rake after the handle is disengaged from the rake. The rake includes a cylindrical member for receiving the handle. A lever has a cam pivotally secured to the rake for detachably securing the handle to the rake. The rake includes a channel for slidably receiving a shoe. The shoe is engaged between the cam of the lever and the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Shih Hao Hsu
  • Publication number: 20020095927
    Abstract: A method of centrifugally spinning a staple fiber yarn (17) comprising, in a first stage, drawing a feed material (6) by a drafting device (9) into a partially twisted yarn (11); and delivering the partially twisted yarn into a spinning centrifuge (3) via an axially shiftable yarn guidance tube (7); and in a second stage, further twisting the partially twisted yarn (11) into a finished yarn (17) while winding it onto a cheese (15). Before completion of the first stage, a yarn end from the cheese (15) is placed in the drafting device (9) onto the feed material and joined to the partially twisted yarn (11), the feed material (6) is separated, the yarn direction is changed and the partially twisted yarn (11) from the centrifuge (3) is withdrawn in the second stage from the centrifuge (3) and wound onto the cheese (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Karl Koltze
  • Publication number: 20020095928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord comprising a bundle of inorganic filaments, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Gerhard Scharr, Hanno Schombacher, Jens Kleffmann
  • Publication number: 20020095929
    Abstract: A wire rope (10) includes a plurality of strands (12). The strands are formed from individual wires or filaments (14). The strands are wound about a central axis. A conduit (16) also extends along said central axis. The conduit has walls that are foraminous and permit radial flow of a lubricant. The lubricating compound is injected into the channel (18) defined by the conduit. The lubricating material migrates through the orifices in the conduit wall and radially outwardly therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: UTILX Corporation
    Inventors: Glen J. Bertini, Glenn S. Jessen
  • Publication number: 20020095930
    Abstract: Several methods of forming links for use with the creation of rope chains is disclosed, whereby the outer peripheries of such links are contoured prior to assembly into rope chains. In one embodiment, the wire used in the formation of intertwinable links is contoured and then cut into individual, pre-contoured links. In another embodiment, the outer periphery of non-contoured links are individually contoured prior to the intertwining of such links to form actual rope chains. In another embodiment, individual links are collectively contoured, preferably after arrangement on a support such as a mandril. Such contouring can be accomplished by hand, machine or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: David Rosenwasser, Avraham Moshe Rosenwasser
  • Publication number: 20020095931
    Abstract: Provided is turbine plant using methanol as fuel in which working fluid is compressed by compressor 1 and led into combustor 2. A mixture of H2 and CO2 as fuel added with O2 is burned to generate high temperature gas, which works at high temperature turbine 3, flows through heat exchangers 4, 5 and returns partly to the compressor 1 and enters partly low pressure turbine 7 of bottoming system to work. Condensed water from condenser 9 of the bottoming system is pressurized by pressure pump 10 and flows through the heat exchangers 4, 5 to become high temperature steam and to work at high pressure turbine 6. Exhaust gas thereof is mixed into the combustor 2. A mixture of methanol and water is supplied into reformer 13 to absorb heat from the heat exchanger 4 to be reformed into H2 and CO2, which is supplied into the combustor 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugishita, Hidetaka Mori, Ichiro Fukue, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20020095932
    Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine having an intake system and an exhaust system is disclosed. The exhaust system includes a catalyst, and the intake system includes a throttle valve. The engine is mounted on a vehicle having a brake booster to which an intake pressure at downstream of the throttle valve is introduced. The catalyst temperature rise control in which the intake air amount is increased after starting of the engine and the ignition timing is retarded according to a rotational speed of the engine is performed. When a pressure difference between the detected intake pressure and the atmospheric pressure during the catalyst temperature raising control is less than a predetermined pressure, the increased intake air amount and the retard amount of the ignition timing is gradually decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumiura, Katsuhiro Kumagai, Takashi Kiyomiya, Atsushi Matsubara, Shinichi Kitajima, Kan Nakaune
  • Publication number: 20020095933
    Abstract: A hydrostatic transmission comprising a housing formed with a fluid sump, a center section disposed within the fluid sump, a hydraulic pump mounted on the center section, and a hydraulic motor mounted on the center section. A fluid passage is formed in the center section for hydraulically connecting the hydraulic pump with the hydraulic motor. A bore is open at an outer surface of the center section in communication with the fluid passage. An output operation device is provided for controlling discharged fluid of the hydraulic pump. The output operation device is moved to an operational position from a neutral position. A piston having an outer surface is reciprocally inserted into the bore so as to be allowed to project outward from the center section. A valve is disposed within the bore for opening and closing the bore to and from the fluid passage. The valve is biased to be closed by a spring disposed between the valve and the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Kenichi Takada, Koji Irikura
  • Publication number: 20020095934
    Abstract: In the rotary pump, a high pressure outer circumference chamber, which is formed around an outer circumference of an outer rotor and communicates with a discharge port, presses radially inward first defined parts among the outer circumference of the outer rotor that are positioned radially outside second defined parts adjacent to teeth gap portions whose volume are largest and smallest among teeth gap portions communicating with an intake port. Teeth top clearance between the outer and inner rotors at the second defined part is reduced due to pressure difference between the discharge pressure applied to the first defined parts and the intake pressure applied to the second defined parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Tomoo Harada, Takashi Sato, Hiroshi Kondo, Toshihiko Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20020095935
    Abstract: A hybrid supercharger system for internal combustion engines. A hydraulic turbine drive driven by hydraulic fluid is mounted on the same shaft with an exhaust driven turbine, with both turbines driving a compressor providing compressed air to the engine. Engine oil is utilized to lubricate at least one bearing located on the exhaust portion of the shaft and the hydraulic drive fluid is used to lubricate at least one bearing on the hydraulic turbine portion of the shaft. In a preferred embodiment four bearings are provided, two of which are lubricated by engine oil and two of which are lubricated with hydraulic turbine drive fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Davorin D. Kapich
  • Publication number: 20020095936
    Abstract: A fuel control system for supplying metered quantities of fuel from a fuel supply (11), through a fuel pump (13), a metering valve (15) and a pressurizing valve (17) to a plurality of engine fuel manifolds (31a, 31b, 33) includes an ecology valve (43) for withdrawing fuel from the engine fuel manifolds (31a, 31b, 33) during cessation of engine operation and for returning fuel to the engine fuel manifolds (31a, 31b, 33) to be burned during normal engine operation. The ecology valve (43) includes a valve housing (44) having a plurality of ecology ports (50, 52, 54) adapted to be coupled to corresponding ones of the engine fuel manifolds (31a, 31b, 33) and a control port (46) adapted to be connected to a corresponding control port (45) of the fuel pressurizing valve (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Paul W. Futa, Steven F. Fisher, Kevin R. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20020095937
    Abstract: A land based gas turbine apparatus includes an integral compressor; a turbine component having a combustor to which air from the integral compressor and fuel are supplied; and a generator operatively connected to the turbine for generating electricity; wherein hot gas path component parts in the turbine component are cooled entirely or at least partially by cooling air or other cooling media supplied by an external compressor. A method is also provided which includes the steps of supplying compressed air to the combustor from the integral compressor; and supplying at least a portion of the cooling air or other cooling media to the hot gas path parts in the turbine component from an external compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Robert Russell Priestley
  • Publication number: 20020095938
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and methods for increasing the efficiency and economy of direct iron making processes. In one aspect, the energy contained in off gases produced during a direct iron making process may be utilized in a variety of ways to generate electricity. In another aspect, the off gases may be used to control the pressure in the reaction vessel and increase reaction rates and productivity. In yet another aspect, the sulfur content of the off gases is lowered which reduces the amount of scrubbing required before emission into the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Reginald Wintrell
  • Publication number: 20020095939
    Abstract: The present invention provides a turbo heater which utilizes a gas turbine engine and a heat exchanger assembly. The gas turbine engine is adapted to efficiently operate over a prolonged period of time and at varying power outputs without adverse or detrimental effects to the components thereof. For example, the gas turbine engine includes bearing assemblies and a fuel delivery systems which are uniquely designed for the demands of repeated cycling (i.e. starting and stopping), as well as operation at various power outputs without damage to the gas turbine engine. In addition, the use of exhaust gas from the gas turbine engine eliminates direct impingement of combustion on the heat exchanger element, thereby significantly increasing the durability and life span of the turbo heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Fairlane Tool Company
    Inventors: Richard W. Gordon, Richard Chute
  • Publication number: 20020095940
    Abstract: A gas turbine has a cooling air system supplying air for cooling a high temperature part of the gas turbine and a spray air system supplying air for spraying fuel into a combustor and is formed so that a part of high-pressure air compressed by a gas turbine compressor is used as air of the cooling air system and spray air system, wherein a heat exchanger and a boost compressor are arranged downstream of the outlet of compressed air of the gas turbine compressor, and the boost compressor is composed of a parallel connection of a compressor driven by the turbine shaft and ae compressor driven by a driven source other than the turbine shaft, and pressurized air from the boost compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and the spray air system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamanaka, Satoshi Kondou, Masami Noda
  • Publication number: 20020095941
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas heat pump-type air conditioner that can reliably notify a user that the time for changing the engine oil of the gas engine that drives the compressor has arrived without stopping the operation of the gas engine. In a gas heat pump-type air conditioner that forms a cooling cycle by circulating refrigerant using a compressor having a gas engine as a drive source, when the cumulative hours of operation t of the gas engine reaches a second predetermined time T2 (S3), a warning display A is displayed while the operation of the gas engine continues, and thereby the user is notified that the time for changing the engine oil has arrived (S4), and at the same time, after the initial stop procedure is carried out subsequent to reaching the predetermined time T2 (S5), a warning display B is displayed (S6), and the warning restoration operation procedure (S7) is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20020095942
    Abstract: The control settings of a vehicle climate control system are adjusted in accordance with a relative ambient humidity correction to compensate for variations in relative ambient humidity, and the correction is based on normally measured system operating parameters. The ambient humidity correction value is determined according to a difference between the cooling performance of the system and the ambient heat energy absorbed by the system. The cooling performance of the system is determined during an initial period of vehicle operation based on the time required to reduce the initial evaporator temperature by a predetermined amount. Once steady-state operation of the system is achieved, the cooling performance of the system is determined by the steady-state deviation of the evaporator outlet air temperature from a target temperature of the system. The ambient heat energy absorbed by the system is determined based on the temperature of the ambient air and the flow rate of air through the evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Mark A. Koors, Christopher M. Puranen
  • Publication number: 20020095943
    Abstract: A sub-condenser 4 is disposed in a within-vehicle-compartment air passage P1, so that the sub-condenser is permitted to receive heat from a heater core 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Hatakeyama, Satoshi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20020095944
    Abstract: An ice-making machine and method that uses an accumulator to accumulate liquefied refrigerant when warm gasified refrigerant is supplied to the evaporator after a freeze cycle. During a harvest cycle, a set of valves operates to bypass the condenser and direct the discharged gasified refrigerant from the compressor through the accumulator and then to the evaporator. The warm gasified refrigerant converts the liquefied refrigerant to gaseous refrigerant. This enhances the suction pressure to the compressor during the next ensuing freeze cycle, thereby increasing the efficiency of the accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Mile High Equipment Co.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Stensrud, Ronald James Esser, Norman Lee Schmunk
  • Publication number: 20020095945
    Abstract: An air conditioning unit (1) for interiors is disclosed, carrying out a method comprising the following steps: carrying out a first thermal exchange between a first quantity of air drawn from an interior to be conditioned (A) and a second quantity of air drawn from the external ambient (E) in a first heat exchanger (7); after the first thermal exchange conveying the second quantity of air to a thermal exchange bank (12) connected to a thermal recovery bank (10) both belonging to a refrigerating circuit to carry out a second thermal exchange; after the second thermal exchange conveying the second quantity of air to the interior to be conditioned (A); after the first thermal exchange effecting a further thermal exchange between the first quantity of air and the recovery bank (10) before discharging the first quantity of air to the external ambient (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Federico Rossetto
  • Publication number: 20020095946
    Abstract: A reusable, multi-walled cooler bag for maintaining a cool temperature within the bag includes: (a) a front portion comprised of at least one front layer; (b) a rear portion comprised of at least one rear layer, the layers being identical to one another, the front portion being sealed to the rear portion along at least two of its edges, the bag having a closable opening at its upper end; and (c) a reclosable fastener mechanism for opening and closing the opening in the bag; wherein the front or rear portions hold nontoxic coolant material between the front and/or rear layers; and the bag has a water-tight interior for storing items to be kept cool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Gary Keith Greene
  • Publication number: 20020095947
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an insulated cooler 10 having ski runners 16 and wheels 34 in combination for mobility for attachment to the underside of the cooler body. The cooler also has the interior partition at 58 to form a thermos container portion 60 and an ice cooler portion 56. A removable thermos 44 with cap and pump spout 36 are disclosed which pump spout 36 extends through a recess 66 in one sidewall of the cooler body. Molded compartments 48, 52 are located on the underside of the cooler lid 42 for storage of various items. Cargo netting 20 is attached to the side of the cooler with snap ring ports 68 which also can hold various items. The underside of the cooler contains recessed wheel wells 70 for receiving the wheels 34 which are attached with retaining pins 72 into mounting holes 84 on the underside of the cooler body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Treppedi, Thomas Bochichio
  • Publication number: 20020095948
    Abstract: A deflector for use in an accumulator that provides a reservoir for the liquid-phase of a heat transfer medium circulating in a closed-loop air conditioning system is configured to prevent liquid phase medium from the supply pipe from entering the inlet area of the delivery pipe of the accumulator. The deflector has a recessed underside defined by a depending peripheral skirt having an outline that is closely spaced with respect to the peripheral wall of the accumulator to define therewith an annular gap. The upper wall of the deflector is positioned to be impinged by medium delivered from the supply pipe and is configured to distribute radially and impart rotation to the medium, thus enhancing the separation of the liquid phase along the accumulator peripheral wall, especially as the liquid and gaseous phase pass through the annular gap. The open inlet area of the delivery pipe is shielded within the recessed underside of the deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Daniel Leonard Corrigan, Kenneth Peter Luke Cram
  • Publication number: 20020095949
    Abstract: An accumulator-dehydrator assembly for use in an air conditioning system including an evaporator and a compressor. The accumulator-dehydrator assembly also includes a canister with an upper portion, an inlet, an outlet and a delivery tube with a first tube end positioned in the upper portion of the canister and a second tube end connected to the outlet. A baffle is disposed within the canister that includes a first end connected to the canister and a second end positioned to define a partition between the first tube end of the delivery tube and the inlet. The purpose of the baffle is to reduce pulsations that result from pressure fluctuations in the air-conditioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Coyle, Prasad S. Kadle, John A. Barrett
  • Publication number: 20020095950
    Abstract: An air-conditioner, an outdoor unit and an refrigeration device each using a refrigeration cycle which can reduce power consumption so as to be highly efficient, which can be operated by a commercially available power source, and which is highly reliable. An air-conditioner comprises a motor and a refrigeration cycle including a compressor driven by the motor, an outdoor heat-exchanger and an indoor heat-exchanger, the motor being located in a motor chamber within a closed container, and refrigerant gas in the refrigeration cycle flows through the motor chamber, wherein the motor has a core of a rotor in which a cage type conductor and permanent magnets magnetized in bipolar state are embedded, and said motor is driven by a commercially available electric power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuboe, Susumu Nakayama, Akira Saruta, Kazumoto Urata
  • Publication number: 20020095951
    Abstract: Processes and apparatuses are disclosed for the production of a synthetic air product with a variable oxygen content and a varying level of impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Bao Ha
  • Publication number: 20020095952
    Abstract: A sports team necklace has a necklace string with beads directly molded thereto. The beads include sports projectile shaped beads. In one embodiment, a majority of beads are of a smaller size and one or more is larger and can be a pendant. In another embodiment, colored groups of beads are arranged sequentially, the colored groups representing team colors. In another embodiment smaller beads display alternating groups of beads, each a different team color and a pendant carries a team color or colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Daniel P. Kelly
  • Publication number: 20020095953
    Abstract: An earring comprises a decorative ring part having a first end portion to which is connected a fastening post comprising a fastening portion intended to be inserted in the hole pierced in an ear, and a fastening-free end portion. Said fastening portion is inclined with respect to the first end portion by an angle &agr;corresponding to an angle of separation of the ear lobe bearing said earring with respect to the cheek, forming a bend, so as to put the earring straight with respect to the cheek.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Etablissements Charles Garnier
    Inventor: Gerard Bonifacio
  • Publication number: 20020095954
    Abstract: An apparatus for bend-shaping a glass sheet is disclosed, which comprises a heating furnace, a plurality of in-furnace beds disposed within the heating furnace, at least one out-furnace bed disposed externally of the heating furnace proximately to an outlet of the heating furnace, and an elevating mechanism disposed below that one of the in-furnace beds which is positioned proximately to the outlet and the out-furnace bed. The in- and out-furnace beds have upper surfaces curved transversely and capable of jetting air to floatingly support a glass sheet. For producing a dual curved glass sheet, the elevating mechanism is operated to elevate opposed ends of the one in-furnace bed and the out-furnace bed so that these beds jointly form a hill For producing a single-curved glass sheet, the elevating mechanism is operated to lower the opposed ends of those beds to their original flat positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Honjo, Takeshi Yabuno, Yasuyuki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20020095955
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for sealing the top of an optical waveguide draw furnace is disclosed. The apparatus includes an assembly constructed and arranged to removably cover the top of the draw furnace while mating with the downfeed handle. The apparatus includes an elongated sleeve having a base and a sealing mechanism positioned on the sleeve at a location remote from the base. The sleeve defines a chamber for receiving the downfeed handle, and the sealing mechanism is arranged with respect to the sleeve to mate with the downfeed handle received in the chamber. In one aspect of the invention, the apparatus further includes an inert gas purge for providing an inert atmosphere within the chamber. A method of sealing the top of an optical waveguide draw furnace is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Steven Craig Ball, John Morris Barnard, James Alan Snipes
  • Publication number: 20020095956
    Abstract: The problems of non-uniform treatment of paper pulp that may be caused by differential flow velocities within a vessel, channeling, and/or disruption of the pulp flow, are substantially eliminated by providing a non-circular cross-section substantially atmospheric pressure vessel with at least one screen surface, and typically a liquid introducing device. The vessel, screen surface, and liquid introducing device are constructed and positioned with respect to each other so that during the treatment of a pulp slurry the slurry has substantially uniform width in a treatment zone, and there is substantially uniform resistance to the flow of slurry over the screen surface over any particular cross-section of the vessel in the treatment zone, and its consistency varies less than 6% in the treatment zone (e.g. between 8-14%).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: James R. Prough
  • Publication number: 20020095957
    Abstract: A sensor for an interconnected lock assembly which can sense whether the door is in an opened or closed state. The interconnected lock assembly comprises a first lock assembly operably connected to a deadlatch assembly. A second lock assembly operably interconnected with the first lock assembly by a rack mounted on a carrier component. The second lock assembly is operably connected to a deadbolt latch assembly. The deadbolt latch assembly comprises a deadbolt movable between an extended position when the carrier component is in a lowered position and a retracted position when the carrier component is in a raised position. The lock assembly further includes a sensor component positioned within said deadlatch assembly in a predetermined manner to detect when said door is an open or closed position. The information is relayed to an electronic control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Peter K. Bates, Alan Doerr