Abstract: A connector to attach cable or line to an article of gear whereby the cable or line is protected from fatigue through the use of a strain relief system and incorporates the ability to easily connect or disconnect the gear from the cable. The cable/line is permanently attached to the cable connection device with a knot or cable crimp. A strain relief for the cable/line is provided by a spring wrapped around the cable/line to prevent bending at the connection point, a heavy material coating around the cable/line again to prevent bending at the connection point, or a pivoting ball connection to allow the cable/line to move without bending the cable/line at the joint. A disconnect method is provided by a clipping system that allows the cable connection device to be connected or disconnected from the gear.

Abstract: A line anchoring coupling is disclosed having a base attachable to a support surface and a complementary connector attachable to a line. The connector is insertable into a base cavity and rotatable therein into an operative position permitting the connector to swing into a position aligned with tensioning forces applied to the line.

Abstract: A fastener provides first and second rings interconnected by a neck. The neck has a size such that the lateral portions of both rings extend laterally spacedly beyond the neck. At least one ring defines an orifice of sufficient size to allow passage of two portions of a flexible tension element on which the fastener is to be carried to pass through the orifice without either portion being supported on the other. For use a slackened medial portion of the tension element is folded upon itself to form a loop, the loop end is passed through the first ring, over and about the second ring and about the neck so that the tension element is fastened about the fastener without an end of the tension element having been passed through any fastener orifice.

Abstract: A buckle for receiving a strap member and for snap-fitting to a snap stud located on a helmet. The buckle includes a metal member having opposite ends, with an aperture located between the ends and a slit on either side of the aperture. Each of the slits including a plurality of rugous surfaces suitable for frictionally engaging a strap member positionable there through, and a plastic material substantially encasing the metal member except that at least a portion of the rugous surfaces are not encased by the plastic material and remain exposed, and a region surrounding the aperture of the metal member is not encased and the plastic material located adjacent the aperture defines a barrel configured for receiving and mating in a snap-fit relationship with a snap-stud fastener located on a helmet with which the buckle is to be used.

Abstract: Hanging hook structure including a hook body, two casings mated with each other, a press rod, a compression spring and a restoring spring. A slide stem downward extends from lower side of the hook body and is formed with a plane attaching face on one side. An upper rear side of the slide stem is formed with an escape recess. A stop block is formed under the escape recess. A front side of the slide stem is formed with an insertion notch. A lower end of the slide stem is formed with a restoring spring pushing cavity under the insertion notch. An inner side of each casing is cut with a slide channel and a push channel to form a cross shape. An upper end of one side of the slide channel is provided with a projecting stop block (or a dent). A lower end of the slide channel is formed with a restoring spring retaining section. A front section of the push channel is formed with a compression spring retaining section. A rear section thereof is provided with a diaphragm formed with an arched notch.

Abstract: An arrangement for brushing a fabric web moving in a traveling direction to define an upward strand and a downward strand, includes a self-contained carrier module having a motor-driven brush rotatable about a rotation axis transversely to a traveling direction of the fabric web and carrying bristles made of plastic or metal wire. A deflection roller is disposed at a lower end of the upward strand and/or downward strand of the fabric web and movable in a direction transversely to the rotation axis of the brush. Disposed above the brush are pressure-applying strips in parallel relationship thereto for loading the upward and downward strands of the fabric web, wherein the pressure-applying strip has a surface which is convex in a direction to the fabric web.

Abstract: A casket corner piece display pedestal and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket corner piece display pedestal has a center piece having first and second ends with a casket corner piece receiving surface disposed therebetween. The center piece includes either a memorabilia receiving container, a cremation urn, or both disposed within the first end of the center piece. A base member is attached to the second end of the center piece for supporting the casket corner piece display pedestal. The base member includes an extended portion protruding transversely to the casket corner piece receiving surface on the center piece. A cover member is removably disposed on the first end of the center piece to cover the memorabilia receiving container and/or cremation urn. The cover member includes an extended portion protruding transversely to the casket corner piece receiving surface on the center piece such that the casket corner piece display pedestal has an approximate C-shaped profile.

Abstract: Colored patterning of a web-shaped nonwoven or a composite made of a nonwoven and a fabric or knit is achieved by water jet needling. The nonwoven provided as the upper layer of two layers is provided with one or more colors or is colored or printed itself and is placed on a second nonwoven or a woven or one that has a different color. Then both layers are subjected to the water jets that displace the fibers, with the colored fibers in the first layer being displaced into the second layer to produce a pattern on the underside of the second layer. It is also possible, instead of colored fibers in the nonwoven of the upper layer, to move them when they are not colored into a second layer that can have any color.

Abstract: In one embodiment a hand operated machine for making curly ribbon products comprises a rotary drum that includes a station to attach the uncurled ribbons (more than one), a cutting station to cut the curled ribbons, and a stapling station to staple the ribbons together or to a card, ribbon, or the like. A handle is provided to rotate the drum and a fixed curling mechanism mounted downstream of the drum serves to curl the ribbon as the drum rotates to place the ribbon in contact with the curling mechanism. In another embodiment the machine is automated and includes a drum that has the same stations. The attaching station includes a pair of jaws that are sequentially movable one relative to the other and together to attain attaching the ribbons to the drum for the first cycle, detaching the ribbon during the first cycle and attaching the succeeding ribbon used in the next cycle for mass producing the curly ribbon product.

Abstract: OE yarn is passed through a drawing zone provided between a front roller and a back roller controlled to rotate at different velocities. An air jet nozzle is located between the two rollers and directs a jet of air at the yarn. The drawing causes improvements in various characteristics of the yarn making the processed yarn more suitable or useful for making up into textile articles.

Abstract: A transducer apparatus is disclosed having a spool member with a body portion and first and second elevated regions formed on the body portion. A PVDF film surrounds the spool member, the film including an inner surface facing the spool member and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The film as surrounding the spool member has a predetermined frequency of resonance. Lateral ends of the film are secured together by a securing material. The securing material is such that the secured ends of the film will have substantially the same resonance frequency as a remainder of the film. The film includes a non-electrode area at a perimeter of the inner surface and an electrode material formed on a remainder of the inner surface. Upon securing the lateral edges of the film together, the securement is at overlapping non-electrode lateral edges of the film. The securing material may be any one of an adhesive in combination with screws or thermally deformable nails, adhesive alone, tape, or ultrasonic welding.

Abstract: The invention relates to a riveting device (1) comprising a pressure pad (3) and a riveting die (4). Said pressure pad (3) and riveting die (4) can be hydraulically driven by means of a pressure pad piston (12) and a die piston (13). The aim of the invention is to further develop such a riveting device (1) in an advantageous manner. To this end, the pressure pad piston (12) and the die piston (13) are driven by the same hydraulic pressure, the effective piston area (36) of the pressure pad piston (12) being embodied in a smaller manner than the effective piston area (14) of the die piston (13).

Abstract: A dismantling system (automobile dismantling system) 1 of a product for dismantling the product having plural kinds has input means (terminal) 30a, 30b, 40a, 40b, - - - for inputting information of the dismantled product; memory means (a memory device of a host computer 2) for storing the information inputted from the input means 30a, 30b, 40a, 40b, - - - ; lot determining means (means constructed within the host computer 2) for classifying the product into the same kind or the approximately same kind on the basis of the stored product information, and determining a product number as a lot when the number of products of the same kind or the approximately same kind reaches a predetermined number; and dismantling means (automobile dismantling means) 61 for dismantling the product; wherein the product is dismantled by the dismantling means 61 every lot.

Abstract: A technique for fabricating datum surfaces on a print cartridge body. One technique includes fixing the print cartridge in a tooling fixture after the printhead has been affixed to the body, performing a position measurement on the fixed print cartridge to obtain position measurement data, and using the position measurement data, machining precisely located datum surfaces.

Abstract: The Quickchange Tool Holder Clamp secures Computer Numeric Control milling machine tool holder shanks in a single action by locking the tool holder in a horizontal position through the application of tension on the shank's collar when the shank is placed in an aperture with contours that specifically match those of the shank's collar. Use of this device Secures the collar of the shank rather than the body of the shank, minimizing handling of the shank and tool and thereby protecting the shank, the tool and the human operator from damage while allowing for rapid and safe accessibility to all sides of the tool and its components.

Abstract: A device for installing and removing a carabiner and for threading a rope within the carabiner has a main body section. A carabiner capture arm is movably coupled to the body section and is used for supporting the carabiner to be at least one of installed or removed. A rope holding arm is moveably coupled to the body section and is used for installing the rope within the carabiner.

Abstract: The invention comprises a joint formed by mechanical interaction of particles with the parts to be joined. The particles engage an interface surface of each part, creating a high friction condition that prevents further relative movement of the parts once they are assembled. The particles have a substantially flat or flake-like morphology. The surface of each particle is rough to enhance mechanical engagement with each interface surface. The flake-like shape prevents the particle from penetrating an elastomeric part, which would render the particle ineffective in the bonding process.

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Abstract: An improved, spin-on, bead-lock filter which is particularly adapted for use as a high-pressure oil filter in a diesel engine is provided which comprises a housing containing a filter medium and having an inwardly deformed periphery, and a cover assembly including a cover plate and a retainer plate having mutually spaced apart outer edges for forming a recess that receives the inwardly deformed portion of the housing. A gasket is seated in the recess so that both a mechanical connection and a seal is formed between the cover assembly and the housing when the periphery of the housing is inwardly deformed pursuant to a bead rolling step in conformance with the assembly method of the invention.

Abstract: A shock absorbing type steering shaft comprising a tubular outer shaft having a female serration and a solid inner shaft having a male serration. After the outer diameter surface of the outer shaft is pressed inwardly in the radial direction to plastically deform an inner portion thereof, the inner shaft is inserted into the outer shaft so that the inner shaft is pressure-contacted and fixed to the plastically deformed portion of the outer shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides an auxiliary tool for assembling a motor assembly to a wafer-deposition machine for supporting a wafer. The auxiliary tool facilitates easy and quick assembly of the motor assembly to the wafer-deposition machine. An aspect of the present invention is directed to an auxiliary tool for assembling a motor assembly to a wafer-deposition machine, wherein the motor assembly includes a plurality of first screw holes and the wafer-deposition machine includes a plurality of second screw holes corresponding to the first screw holes, respectively. The auxiliary tool comprises a plurality of locking members each having a substantially uniform dimension in a longitudinal direction and being configured to be inserted through one of the plurality of first screw holes of the motor assembly with a corresponding one of the plurality of second screw holes of the wafer-deposition machine to align the first screw hole with the corresponding second screw hole.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coil for an electric rotary machine, the coil comprising a substantially flat bundle of insulated wires wound around a winding axis so as to form a plurality of superposed turns, the cross-section of the bundle in the superposed turns having a long dimension that extends substantially perpendicularly to the winding axis of the coil.

Abstract: An electric motor having an armature which includes a coating of thermally conductive plastic applied in a conventional injection molding process. The armature also includes a fan which is integrally formed from the thermally conductive plastic applied to the armature. The process of molding thermally conductive plastic around the armature and integrally forming a fan at one end of the armature completely eliminates the need to apply one or more coatings of a trickle resin to the armature. It also eliminates the need to separately form a fan and to secure the separately formed fan by a suitable adhesive to the armature, which together significantly simplify and reduce the manufacturing cost of the armature. The thermally conductive molded plastic coating also better fills the spaces between the magnet wires around the armature, thus promoting even more efficient cooling of the armature during use and better holding of the magnet wires stationary relative to one another.

Abstract: A superconducting cable is manufactured by providing spacers 12 in a plurality of cores 2 at the time of stranding of the cores 2, and removing the spacers 12 before the stranded cores 2 are housed in a thermally insulated pipe and housing the cores into the thermally insulated pipe while the strands are held in a slacked state. By means of temporal interposition of the spacers, there is easily manufactured three cores having sufficient slack to manage thermal contraction which occurs when the cores are cooled in the thermally insulated pipe.

Abstract: An actuator assembly having a plurality of head suspensions removably secured to a spindle of the actuator assembly. Each head suspension is mounted to an arm, which is mounted to an actuator spindle through the use of a spacer having an annular lip. A spacer having an aperture is coupled to the actuator spindle by inserting the spindle through the aperture of the spacer. The actuator arm includes a pair of spring arms that can be expanded from a neutral state to a stressed state to engage an annular lip on the spacer for removably securing the arm to the spacer. A stacked array of arms can be formed on the actuator spindle by arranging a desired number of spacers on the spindle and mounting the arms to the spacers. In one embodiment, the spacer includes a single annular lip extending from a first planar surface of the spacer. In a second embodiment, the spacer includes an annular lip that extends from each of a pair of opposite planar surfaces, and an arm is attached to each of the lips.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for assembling a base and a main board assembly in a hard disk drive including an actuator having a magnetic head; a base having a spindle motor mounted thereon, the spindle motor rotating at high speed a disk on which the magnetic head is suspended to conduct data writing and reading; and a main board assembly assembled to a lower surface of the base. The device comprises a guide section for establishing a vertical assembling position of the base and the main board assembly and for allowing the main board assembly to be capable of a sliding movement to a predetermined location on the base; a stopper section for stopping the sliding movement of the main board assembly on the base; and a locker for locking the main board assembly stopped by the stopper section to the base in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A head stack assembly installation system with a frame supporting a head stack installation tool including a robotic assembly supporting a measurement assembly communicating with a computer hosting an installation software program. The robotic assembly picks and places the head stack assembly into the head disc assembly and the measurement assembly collects and communicates process positions and force parameters to the computer, the computer calculating distance and force data. The installation software program directs and controls enactment of process steps followed by the head stack installation tool to install or abort installation of the head stack assembly based on the position and force data.

Abstract: A method for forming a bi-layer lift-off mask for use in fabricating an abutted junction type GMR read-head sensor with a narrow trackwidth of less than 0.5 microns. The mask has a novel suspension bridge structure that avoids problems associated with bi-layer lift-off masks of the prior art, namely insufficient or excessive undercutting of the lower layer that produces fence formations in the conducting lead layer or collapse of the mask structure rendering removal difficult.

Abstract: A method of making a chip resistor is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a resistive element is provided on a substrate. Then, a resin layer is formed on the substrate to enclose the resistive element. Then, the substrate and the resin layer are cut in this order. To prevent the breakage of the substrate during the cutting, the resin layer has better machinability than the substrate.

Abstract: This invention relates to a graphite and/or carbon black-containing cathode coating dispersion which is suitable for battery production. The dispersion is water, acid and alkali resistant and also electrically conductive when coated on cathode surfaces. The dispersion is a water-based system which contains a binder which is an epoxy resin and is cured with an amine curative. The dispersion is maintained as a two-pot compound wherein the epoxy dispersion is mixed with an amine curative at the time of application. The epoxy resins are preferably a Bisphenol A or Bisphenol F Epichlorohydrin based epoxy or epoxy novalac.

Abstract: The invention provides a mounting apparatus with a beam which is free from adverse effect on its performance due to thermal distortion and misalignment of its guide rails, on which the beam for mounting operation travels. One end of the beam is rotatably supported on a slide, which moves along the guide rails. Another end of the beam is also rotatably supported on another slider through a moving element. The slider and the mounting element move along the guide rail. The moving element moves in a direction perpendicular to the guide rails.

Abstract: An electronic component mounting apparatus has a pair of guides, a beam traveling along the guides and a mounting head placed on the beam. A first linear motor moves the beam along the guides, and a second linear motor moves the mounting head along the beam. A thermal insulating portion placed between the beam and the guides thermally insulates the two components from each other. Thermal conduction portions are placed on the fixed elements of the first and second linear motors. This configuration assures an accurate operation of the mounting apparatus by eliminating thermal deformations of their components.

Abstract: An electronic chip device includes an interface support film having a support film and at least one flat conductive interface placed on the support film, as well as a microcircuit connected to the interface. The interface support film possesses such properties that it can be creased or folded on itself without deterioration. The support film possesses a thickness of less than 75 &mgr;m, the best results being obtained with a thickness of between 10 &mgr;m and 30 &mgr;m. Preferably the support film is selected from among polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene teraphtalate (PET). In one embodiment, the device includes a compensation film placed on the support film. The compensation film has a recess containing the microcircuit and its connections. The recess can contain a material to encapsulate the microcircuit and its connections.

Abstract: A printed circuit board support including a first member having a planar upper surface for supporting a printed circuit board. At least one second member is movably coupled to a first side of the first member and movable toward and away from the side of the movable member, and a bias source biases the second member in a direction away from the first member.

Abstract: An encapsulation method for a ball grid array (BGA) semiconductor package, includes: adhering one sided adhesive tape to an upper portion of the semiconductor package after performing a wire bonding; carrying out a molding by using a mold having a groove of a certain size inside; and removing the one side adhesive tape after completing the molding, whereby a flash is prevented from occurring during the BGA encapsulation process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to patterning methods for patterning metal over a substrate, and more particularly to patterning methods using a die. A patterned die having at least one raised portion and having a metal layer over the die is pressed onto a thin metal film over a substrate, such that the metal layer over the raised portion of the patterned die contacts portions of the thin metal film. Pressure is then applied such that the metal layer and the thin metal film cold-weld to one another. The patterned die is removed, such that the portions of the metal layer cold-welded to the thin metal film break away from the die and remain cold-welded to the thin metal film over the substrate, in substantially the same pattern as the patterned die. In one embodiment of the invention, at least one layer is deposited between the substrate and the thin metal film, such as an organic layer or an adhesion-enhancing layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an implement, including providing a first group of engine types and a second group of transmission types at a common, first manufacturing facility, selecting a desired module configuration, selecting a desired engine from the first group, a desired transmission from the second group, connecting the selected engine and transmission together in the desired module configuration to provide a base of the implement, transporting the base to a second facility, providing a working device at the second facility, and connecting the working device to the base of the implement at the second facility.

Abstract: A method of repairing gas turbine engine components is provided. The method includes removing the damaged portion and fabricating an insert to match the removed portion. The insert is precision machined and crystallographically matched to the original component, and then bonded to this component using transient liquid phase bonding techniques and suitable heat treatment.

Abstract: Improved plastic heat exchanger production systems are described. The production systems are arranged to extrude plastic tubing, cut the tubing into segments of desired length and convey the tubing to a plurality of aligned tube inserters. Clip strips are feed through the tube inserters which sequentially automatically insert tube segments into the clip strips. The clip strips are then cut at desired lengths to provide tubing panels of a desired size or sizes. In a preferred system, header pipes are attached to the respective ends of the cut tubing panels to provide completed heat exchanger panels. When desired, heat exchangers having laterally offset tubes may be created by cutting one or more middle clip strips into spacer segments and rotating the spacer segments to laterally offset at least some of the tubes. In another aspect of the invention, improved tube inserters suitable for inserting plastic tubing into a plastic clip strip are described.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tube manufacturing method which is adapted to manufacture heat exchanger tubes accurately as the sealability thereof displayed when they are inserted into heat exchanger bodies is maintained, and which is used on a production line, having a dimpling step of molding a plurality of dimples in a plate material, which is payed out continuously, so as to form the plate material into a molded plate material, a tube body manufacturing step of folding back the molded plate material around an axis extending in the direction in which the plate material is payed out, so as to form the molded plate material into an intermediate tube body, and a step of cutting the intermediate tube body into parts of a predetermined length, the dimpling step including providing the plate material with non-molded sections, in which the dimples are not molded, at predetermined intervals, the cutting step including cutting predetermined parts to be cut set on the non-molded sections.

Abstract: A handheld and bench top hose and tubing cutter for cutting hose and tubing of various sizes is disclosed. The hose cutter comprises a upper arm member and lower arm member with each arm member having its own handle, finger guard and colored differently. An intermediate pivot point is located close to one end of each of the two arm members to join the two arm members. The upper arm member further comprises a replaceable cutting blade located close to the pivot point. The lower arm member further comprises a nested cradle facing the cutting blade. The nested cradle has a suitably contoured supporting surface for the positioning of a hose or tube of various sizes to be engaged and cut through by the cutting blade. The upper and lower arm member also respectively includes opposing stopping surfaces such that, upon contacting each other, they would act as a positive stop for the cutting process with the position of the cutting blade clearing the nested cradle.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting sheet material comprises a hand-manoeuvrable body (10) comprising separate superimposed parts (11, 12) with a gap (13) between in which a sheet material (23) can be received. The parts are physically connected only by a blade (14), and a pressure means (22), e.g. a freely rotatable wheel is provided to tension the sheet in front of the blade. The gap (13) may be sinusoidal for support, and tensioning of the sheet. A window (24) is provided for viewing the sheet in front of the blade (14).

Abstract: A center marking assemblage or kit consisting of a stylus retaining quill having an upper end and a lower end; a stylus having an upper driving end and a lower scribing end, the stylus being slidably mounted within the stylus retaining quill, a group of differently sized scribing end centering guides, each guide among the group having a lower circular diameter matching a common drill bit size; and consisting of quick disconnect couplings integral with the lower end of the stylus retaining quill and with the upper ends of the scribing end centering guides, such couplings allowing such guides to be selectively and alternately attached to and removed from the lower end of the stylus retaining quill.

Abstract: A floating bench saw guide for guiding a portable circular saw along a workpiece while sawing the workpiece, has a cradle for retaining a portable circular saw, a saw plane across the cradle, and a guide lip movably affixed to the cradle. A pair of gage blocks are affixed to the cradle along the saw plane. The gage blocks are advantageous for allowing the use of a straight edge for easily positioning the blade of a circular saw along the saw plane. In another feature of the invention, a pair of spaced-apart parallel rails are affixed to the cradle. The guide lip is movably affixed to the rails and is reversible relative to the saw plane. The guide lip overhangs its mountings to the rails such that it is positional relative to the saw plane over a distance which is longer than the length of the rails.

Abstract: A hand held battery operated can opener comprising a housing; a drive located in the housing and having a can contacting drive wheel; a rechargeable battery connected to the drive; and a movable section movably connected to the housing. The movable section comprises a cutting blade. The housing is sized and shaped to be grasped by a single hand of a user in a grasping position. The grasping position comprises a back of the housing being matingly received in a palm of the hand and fingers of the hand being located at left and bottom sides of the housing and, while the user is grasping the housing in the grasping position, at least one finger of the hand can articulate to move the movable section.

Abstract: A coupling for the torsion-proof, but radially resilient connection of a stator of an angle encoder with a stator of an object to be measured, the coupling includes a spring element that is either normally in a first position but when the spring element is bent out by a bending force the spring element moves from the first position through a click point to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder or the spring element normally is biased in a first position but when the bias of the spring element at said first position is canceled the spring element is moved to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder.

Abstract: A tubular receiver is open at an upper end and integral with a flexible sheet magnet, suction cup or other attachment device, at a lower end. A rod is frictionally inserted into the tubular receiver and extends upwardly to terminate with a spherical shape. When one of these devices is fixed to hitch portions of a trailer and a towing vehicle, the driver of the vehicle is able, more easily, to bring the two hitch portions together.

Abstract: An improved archery target sight, in which much of the unneeded weight present in support arms is removed. This sight utilizes a pair of lightweight rods, that are positioned lengthwise vertically to each other, and where the rods are gripped between a mounting block and clamp, with the rods placed in recessed grooves defined in the block and clamp. The rods extend outward from the bow to hold and position vertical adjustment sighting apparatus. A stop block may be attached along the length of the rods, where the stop block is adjacent to the mounting block and provides a means to set the placement of the rods in reference to the mounting block, by consistently placing the stop block immediately adjacent to the mounting block, so as to allow disassembly of the rods from the mounting block, and reattachment at a later time with an identical configuration achieved by repositioning the stop block against the mounting block.

Abstract: The present invention is used to detect the grade on all slopes in highway construction using a degree gauge.

Abstract: A carpentry tool for defining a plurality of measuring configurations is disclosed. The tool has a frame and an arm, where the arm is rotatably and slidably coupled to the frame. The frame may also include a collapsible rule and at least one bubble level. The members of the tool may also include various measuring indicators and angle indicators. The combination of the frame, the arm, the collapsible rule, and the bubble level allow the tool to be positioned in multiple measuring configurations.