Patents Issued in January 30, 2003
  • Publication number: 20030019255
    Abstract: In the process of manufacturing furs, the pelt (6) is dried on a peltingboard (2), where it is stretched to an optimum length and fastened to the board by slipping a sleeve-like device (8) over the pelt so tightly that it stops the pelt from sliding back from it tightened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Jens Hedegaard
  • Publication number: 20030019256
    Abstract: A lock mechanism has a housing and a latch extending from the housing. The latch has an extended position and a retracted position. The mechanism includes apparatus for biasing the latch to the extended position, apparatus for defining a locked mode and an unlocked mode, and apparatus including a clutch for transferring an operator input motion to move the latch to the retracted position in the unlocked mode. The clutch includes a cam surface and a cam follower. A spring biases the cam follower toward the cam surface and a second override spring which biases the cam follower to compensate for any off-center relationship due to wear, excessive force and/or assembly misalignment and to prevent jamming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: George Frolov
  • Publication number: 20030019257
    Abstract: An anti-vandal door lock apparatus in which a cylinder lock such as a mortise lock cylinder is employed for unlatching a cylindrical lock assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the mortise lock cylinder is mounted to the outside of a door trim such as a pull plate, with the cylindrical lock mounted to the inside of the trim, and the pull plate is mounted to the door, in such manner as to effect an anti-vandal door lock assembly. Preferred embodiments may include a hold-back feature, as well as a feature for facilitating secured removal of the mortise lock cylinder as for re-keying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Triangle Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ira J. Simon, Martin S. Simon
  • Publication number: 20030019258
    Abstract: A lock including a lock body, lock cylinder, a threaded member and an engagement member. The engagement member moves within the lock body to engage the threaded member in at least two different positions. One of the positions allows the lock threaded member to be tightened onto a corresponding threaded connection and then locked into place, thereby securing the object which contains the threaded connection. Another one of the positions allows the lock threaded to be loosened from the corresponding threaded connection and thereby allows the lock to be removed from the object which contains the threaded connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Christopher R. Irgens, John Zapushek
  • Publication number: 20030019259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to locking devices and in particular to apparatus and methods for securing components to a bicycle frame (60). A first exemplary embodiment of a locking device (100) includes a first retainer (120), a second retainer (170) and a key (190). The first retainer (120) includes a coupler (124) which is configured to couple with a coupler (196) on key (190). The first retainer (120) further includes a first radial surface (130) having a frusto-conical configuration. The second retainer (170) includes a tab member (174) configured to prevent the rotation of the second retainer (170) relative to the bicycle frame (60). In a second exemplary embodiment of a locking device (300) includes a first retainer (320), a sleeve (360), a second retainer, and a key. The first retainer (320) includes a coupler (324) which is configured to couple with a coupler on the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Wayne F. Nicodemus, William S. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20030019260
    Abstract: An anti theft device for a trailer comprising a bracket attached to a side of the trailer, a pipe flattened at one end thereof such that the flattened end is adapted to be received in the bracket, the pipe when received in the bracket and disposed in a vertical relationship being adapted to lift the trailer slightly above the ground so that the bottom of the pipe is in contact with the ground and a lock for locking the pipe to the bracket while maintaining the vertical position of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Lonnell E. Smith
  • Publication number: 20030019261
    Abstract: The invention relates to an access system in which an access authorization that can be disposed of outside of the vehicle communicates with identification means located inside the vehicle. If the identification means respond, control means which operate a door lock (40) from a door handle (10) are transferred out of their inoperative position into an operative position. To this end, the door handle (10) can move between three different positions (10.1, 10.2). In the first position, the door handle (10) is located in a retracted position (10.1), which cannot be grasped by the human hand, but rather is streamlined. Only when the door handle (10) is in a protruding extended position (10.2) is the latter possible. The door handle is then manually displaced into a third protracted position in which the door lock (40) is opened. According to the invention, this mode of operation is ensured by an actuator (30) configured, for example, as an eccentric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Reinhard Wittwer
  • Publication number: 20030019262
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock for the door of a motor vehicle which can be locked from the outside, preferably with a key and locking cylinder. The lock mechanism includes a force application element which is preferably a cylindrical nut that can be turned around an axis of rotation, and includes a measurement system for detecting the position of the nut. The measurement system can have at least one stationary sensor and at least one measurement element which is dynamically coupled to the nut of the lock and is located in the measurement range of the sensor in order to detect the position of the nut. The measurement element is located directly on the outside cylindrical surface of the nut while at the same time is made as a component which is separate from the nut of the lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Weyerstall
  • Publication number: 20030019263
    Abstract: A lock apparatus includes a lock core device received in a lock core chamber of a lock body and having a key operable lock core, a shackle member with a leg portion inserted into a shackle insert hole in the lock body, and a catch member received in a catch chamber that extends from the lock core chamber to the shackle insert hole. The lock core device has a latch member disposed in the catch chamber and formed with a pin hole that is eccentric to an axis of the lock core. The catch member has a first end portion for engaging the shackle member, and an opposite second end portion formed with a pin which extends rotatably into the pin hole for engaging the latch member such that the catch member is movable between locking and unlocking positions during locking and unlocking movement of the latch member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Waterson Chen
  • Publication number: 20030019264
    Abstract: A commercial washer and dryer coin box guard adapted for receipt in a coin box frame. A coin box is slidably received inside the coin box frame, which is part of a coin box housing. The coin box housing is part of a washer or drier. The coin box guard is designed to prevent unauthorized entry into the coin box and stealing coins found therein. The guard includes a face plate dimensioned for covering the front of the coin box frame. The face plate has one or more flanges on the sides thereof for engaging a portion of the sides of the front of the coin box frame. One of the sides of the coin box frame has a frame hole therethrough. The frame hole in the side is indexed with a flange hole in one of the flanges. The frame holes in the side of the coin box frame and the flange are adapted for receiving a hasp of a padlock for securing the face plate to the front of the coin box frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Donald G. Behunin
  • Publication number: 20030019265
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of growing rice plants wherein abundant elements and trace elements significantly influencing growth of rice plants are incorporated into rice plants to improve the nutritional balance in the rice plants thereby eliminating the influence of insects causing damage to crops and making spraying of agrochemicals needless so as not to adversely affect the human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Senya Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20030019266
    Abstract: A ram (5U) is descended by a self-weight pressure of a rod-side cylinder chamber (19) of a hydraulic cylinder (13R) which vertically moves the ram (5U) is detected by oil pressure detection means (21), and a determination section (65) detects a position at which a punch (P) attached to the ram (5U) contacts with an upper surface of a workpiece (W), from a change of this detected pressure. If the upper surface of the workpiece (W) is detected, a plate thickness calculation section (67) calculates a plate thickness of the workpiece (W) based on an upper surface position of a die (D) known in advance and stored in a memory (63).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kanno
  • Publication number: 20030019267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-accuracy pressure device for working that has a large pressing force and requires small driving energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Shoji Futamura, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20030019268
    Abstract: A punch having wings is driven through framing members and then rotated. Rotation of the punch causes the wings to crimp the framing members together. An angular crimping technique where piercing members are driven through framing members in at least two different directions to crimp the framing members together. A fastenerless cinching tool pierces adjacent framing members and crimps the framing members together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Robert A. Berry, Thomas J. Wheeler, Alfred H. Judge, Scott Rudolph, Robert Gehret
  • Publication number: 20030019269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flow-forming method and device for producing a hollow article having a steplike shoulder from a tubular workpiece. For this purpose on the tubular workpiece is formed a conical area, which is selectively heated. Then an axial upsetting force is exerted on the workpiece, so that the heated conical area is upset and formed to the steplike shoulder. Both the shaping of the conical area and the upsetting can be performed on one flow-forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Bernhard Rolf
  • Publication number: 20030019270
    Abstract: A bending machine according to the present invention include: a first fixture member 22 for holding one end portion of a long work 20; a second fixture member 24 for holding the other end portion of the work 20; a rack 30 mounted on the first fixture member 22 so as to extend in longitudinal directions of the first fixture member 22; a roll-shaped bending die 21, mounted on the second fixture member 24, for bending the work along the outer peripheral surface of the second fixture member; a pinion gear 26 which is coaxially connected to the bending die 21 via a shaft 28 and which engages the rack 30; and a connecting member 27 for connecting the first fixture member 22 to the second fixture member 24 via the shaft 28 in a relatively rotatable state so that the pinion gear 26 is movable along the rack 30 while engaging the rack 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Norio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030019271
    Abstract: A screw down cylinder, an upper backup roll chock, and an upper work roll chock are pressed against an upper crosshead by hydraulic cylinders, and an upper roll cross mechanism is actuated, whereby the upper backup roll chock (upper backup roll), the upper work roll chock (upper work roll), and the screw down device (screw down cylinders) can be synchronously moved in the same direction via the upper crosshead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Mikio Yamamoto, Toshihiro Usugi, Keizou Takemura, Akira Kaya
  • Publication number: 20030019272
    Abstract: Press brake tool holders suitable for releasing and securing press brake tools in response to applied fluid pressure. One press brake tool holder includes a horizontally elongated body having a cam shaft bore disposed longitudinally therethrough, and receiving a slidably and sealingly mounted cam shaft therein. The cam shaft can have at least one axial camming surface, having a large outer diameter region axially tapered to a small outer diameter region, and in contact with a cam follower pin slidably disposed in a cam follower pin bore transversely disposed through the body. The cam follower pin can bear against a pivotally mounted clamp disposed about the body. In response to applied fluid pressure, the camming surface can slide axially, thereby increasing the effective outer diameter as seen by the cam follower pin, thereby urging the cam follower pin outward and against the upper portion of the pivotally mounted clamp, and closing the lower clamp portion about a press brake tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Heath E. Harrington, David M. Runk
  • Publication number: 20030019273
    Abstract: Unibody devices that are easily assembled on a damaged vehicle. Some devices of the present invention can be positioned on a vehicle by simply jacking up the vehicle and removing one wheel. Various embodiments of the present invention advantageously comprise a sidearm which is disposed at an angle preferably close to but preferably other than 90° to a main beam. The sidearm is advantageously slidably positionable on the main beam and comprises at least one clamp for securing the sidearm to a vehicle being repaired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Bradley R. Weschler
  • Publication number: 20030019274
    Abstract: A method of calibrating stock consistency sensors, that serve to measure the stock consistencies of fiber stock suspensions, required in the production of a fiber web, specifically a paper or cardboard web, whereby the stock consistency sensors are all based on the same measuring principle and the stock consistency sensors are calibrated on-line and automatically, and whereby the actual stock consistency values are determined from the obtained stock consistency readings by way of at least one mass balance and by way of the characteristic curves of the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Michael Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20030019275
    Abstract: A method of compensating a MOS gas sensor is described and which includes using a MOS gas sensor to provide a signal indicative of gas concentration of a target gas in an ambient; providing a signal representative of dew point of the ambient; and modifying the signal from the MOS gas sensor using the signal representative of dew point to simultaneously compensate for the effects of both temperature and relative humidity on the MOS gas sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Greg A. Lloyd, William A. Fuglevand
  • Publication number: 20030019276
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for testing differential pressure sensors. The method includes applying a pressure of predetermined value to the reference side of the differential pressure sensors, measuring the output values from the measurement sides of the differential pressure sensors, and comparing the measured output values. The disclosed apparatus includes a pump for simultaneously applying a pressure of a predetermined value to the reference side of a number of differential pressure sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Gambro AB
    Inventors: Bjorn Ericson, Per-Ola Wictor
  • Publication number: 20030019277
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a pressure relief device are provided. The system includes a release sensor that provides an indication when the pressure relief device activates. A wireless transmitter is connected to the release sensor and sends a wireless transmission having an activation signal when the indication is provided by the release sensor. A receiver receives the wireless transmission from the transmitter and generates a warning when the activation signal is identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Geof Brazier, John P. Clark, John E. Smallwood
  • Publication number: 20030019278
    Abstract: An accelerator pedal is positioned at a kickdown position. Then, an output value of a measurement device of an accelerator pedal position sensor is measured. Thereafter, the measured output value of the measurement device is stored in a correction output value storage of the accelerator pedal position sensor along with a corresponding correction value, which is used to correct the measured output value of the measurement device. A couple of fully opened position stop members is provided and is engaged with the accelerator pedal when the accelerator pedal is rotated to a fully opened position. Furthermore, a couple of fully closed position stop members is provided and is engaged with the accelerator pedal when the accelerator pedal is rotated to a fully closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yasunari Kato, Masahiro Makino
  • Publication number: 20030019279
    Abstract: To improve the electrical properties of the gas sensor, the following measures may be used:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Heiner Scheer, Hans-Joerg Renz, Johann Riegel, Lothar Diehl, Sabine Thieman-Handler
  • Publication number: 20030019280
    Abstract: A protective cover assembly of a gas sensor which is made up of an inner and an outer cover. The inner cover is disposed within the outer cover coaxially through a given clearance. The dimension of the clearance is defined within a range suitable for improving the response rate of the gas sensor while ensuring the effect of avoiding the damage such as cracks in a sensor element arising from wetting thereof with moisture contained in a measurement gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Kengo Toguchi, Makoto Mashida, Kazuhiro Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20030019281
    Abstract: A method and device for testing containers, the method calling for a difference in pressure to be generated between the pressure inside the container and the pressure immediately surrounding the container, the behavior of one of these pressures permitting the gas tightness of the container to be assessed. A pressure value is stored and subsequently compared with one of the pressures, the stored pressure value being stored electronically and compared with at least one value of the output signal from a pressure sensor. The container is housed in an enclosure which is connected to a pressure or suction line, and a pressure-value storage unit, a comparator unit and a pressure sensor are associated with the pressure or suction line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Martin Lehmann
  • Publication number: 20030019282
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    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Cramer
  • Publication number: 20030019283
    Abstract: A method of testing the assembled state of an internal combustion engine and quickly and accurately judging whether there is at least one fault with the assembling of the engine. While an exhaust-valve side space (100) is closed and a crank shaft (18) is rotated at a constant speed, the pressure in the exhaust-valve side space and the pressure in a surge tank (96) are detected by pressure sensors (106, 98), respectively. The assembled state of an engine (90) is tested based on the predetermined conditions of the detected two pressures. Those predetermined conditions may be the crank-shaft angles when the two pressures take respective maximal values, the crank-shaft angles when the two pressures change from their constant states to their increasing or decreasing states, etc. Based on those values, incorrect phases of crank and cam pulleys, incorrect clerances of intake and exhaust valves, missing of a compression ring, etc. can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
    Inventors: Naoyuki Maruta, Nobuaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030019284
    Abstract: Method for correcting the signal (30) of a sensor corresponding to the passage of teeth (20b) and of hollows (20d) of a target (20) secured to an engine camshaft, characterized in that duration measurement is used to evaluate the angular values (&agr;T, &agr;N) of the alternations (30b, 30d) of the signal corresponding to the teeth and to the hollows, these angular values are compared with the mechanical angles (&ggr;T,&ggr;N) of the teeth and of the hollows, and from this a phase shift (&agr;1,&agr;2) of the rising (30a) and falling (30c) fronts of the signal with respect to the corresponding flanks (20a, 20c) of the teeth of the target is deduced. When said teeth and hollows extend over equal angular sectors, the phase shifts are calculated directly by comparing the duration measurements of two consecutive alternations (30b, 30d) of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE
    Inventors: Jae-Bong Koo, Franz Dietl, Bennaceur Manssouri
  • Publication number: 20030019285
    Abstract: An arrangement for isolating a differential axle system while it is subjected to a test process for noise, also reduces the noise contribution of the differential gear set by coupling a load directly to the differential gear set shaft. The isolation arrangement has a suspension arrangement that supports the differential axle system above the base supports. In a different embodiment, the isolation support supports the differential axle system, yet affords multiple degrees of freedom with respect to the base. The differential axle system is clamped in a manner that permits the multiple degrees of freedom with respect to the base, via an engagement arrangement that secures the differential axle system to the isolation support. The engagement arrangement has a first position with respect to the base wherein the differential axle system is installable on, and removable from, the isolation support, and a second position wherein the differential axle system is secured to the isolation support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: James C. Juranitch, Robert D. Olschefski
  • Publication number: 20030019286
    Abstract: A fuel-vapor-processing system for an engine has a canister for accumulating fuel evaporation gas. The system has a leak-check apparatus for checking a leak on passages. The leak-check apparatus includes a leak-check means for carrying out leak-check processing when the engine if in a stopped state. The leak-check means operates only if a predetermined condition is satisfied. It is thus possible to reduce the number of times the leak-check processing is carried out and, hence, possible to reduce power consumption. For example, only if a relatively small leak is detected when the engine is in a running state, the leak-check processing is carried out in a stopped state to verify existence of such a leak. In the leak-check processing, the temperature of fuel, detected by a sensor or an estimated value, may be taken into consideration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Keiji Wakahara, Syujiro Morinaga, Yoshinori Maegawa, Makoto Miwa
  • Publication number: 20030019287
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement structure for an engine for a personal watercraft for preventing an engine controlling sensor from being splashed with water so that the engine operates appropriately. An engine for driving a jet propulsion pump is provided in a watercraft body surrounded by a hull and a deck with a throttle body and a surge tank contiguous to the throttle body being provided on the intake side of the engine and forming a horizontal partition assembly A extending in a forward and rearward direction and extending in a substantially horizontal direction at an upper portion of the engine. A sensor for controlling the engine is disposed above the horizontal partition assembly. An intercooler is disposed just below the surge tank. The intake pressure sensor for detecting the intake pressure on the downstream side with respect to the throttle valve is disposed adjacent to a head cover and is attached in a state wherein it is spaced away from an upper face of the throttle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Gokan, Kazuhito Hotta
  • Publication number: 20030019288
    Abstract: In a sensor according to the related art, specifically for a device for determining at least one parameter of a medium flowing in a supply line, the sensor having a frame element that has a recess, undercurrents occur in the area of the recess. This results in the measuring signal of the sensor being influenced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Uwe Konzelmann
  • Publication number: 20030019289
    Abstract: Support member 7 where flow amount detection element 9 including a heating resistor and electronic circuit parts 8 for obtaining the air flow amount according to the flow amount signal detected by flow amount detection element 9 are mounted is cooled from both the direction of the main flow of main passage 2 and the direction of an anti-main flow (the opposite direction to the direction of the main flow).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Ueyama, Izumi Watanabe, Keiichi Nakada, Junichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20030019290
    Abstract: A flow sensor, which includes a diaphragm, is made such that the diaphragm is flat or outwardly deformed to allow fluid flow rate measurements at higher flow rates. The diaphragm is made of an upper set of insulating films, electric devices, and a lower set of insulating films. The component layers of the diaphragm are formed such that the average stress in the upper set of insulating films is more compressive than the average stress in the lower set of insulating films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Takao Iwaki, Toshimasa Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Wado, Yukihiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20030019291
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring one or more parameters of a variable physical structure, such as liquid level, is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes an electrodynamic element placed in proximity to a monitored structure and exciting within said element an alternating electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field should be at a frequency at which the electromagnetic field penetrates into the monitored structure and then variations of the electromagnetic field parameters are measured for the element caused by a variation in the structure. The exciting of the electrodynamic element is by an electromagnetic field in the form of at least one slowed electromagnetic wave having suitable energy distribution of the electric and magnetic fields for the measuring of the electromagnetic field parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yuriy N. Pchelnikov, David S. Nyce
  • Publication number: 20030019292
    Abstract: This invention utilizes transparent plastic probes or a single multi-level probe, immersed in a fuel tank to detect fuel level. A light source and light sensing element is incorporated with the level probe so that as liquid touches the immersed end of the probe a change in reflective light occurs which results in a change in the electrical output of each light sensing device. The resulting signals from the light sensing devices are converted for use in fuel level gagging and for use by flight computers and similar devices. The invention also includes corporation of static electricity suppressing. coatings and an encasement cage to reduce the effect of fuel foam and fuel level fluctuations to due movement of fuel in the tank resulting from vehicle movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Bruce Robinson, Edgar Douglas Kenna, Kenneth F. Cherry
  • Publication number: 20030019293
    Abstract: A Driveline Angle Analyzer (DAA) for determining a torsional acceleration and inertias of a vehicle driveline by entering measurements of a vehicle driveline configuration into a graphical user interface program. The user selects the driveline configuration of interest from a plurality of driveline configurations. Then, the user enters information, such as driveline measurements relating to the selected driveline configuration. To aide in gathering the correct information, the user can print out a worksheet for the selected driveline configuration. After the user inputs the information for the selected driveline configuration, the user can select a corrective mode that allows the user to improve the selected driveline configuration. For example, the user can change the angle of a component with the surrounding components by changing their angles and/or length while enabling the components to stay connected to each other, thus maintaining the vehicle's driveline geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Scott A. Sirrine
  • Publication number: 20030019294
    Abstract: A 3D angle measurement instrument includes a casing having a top and bottom with side walls extending therebetween. A gyroscope is positioned within the casing and electrically connected to a battery power source. The gyroscope is capable of measuring acceleration and deceleration velocities of the casing indicative of angular rotation thereof. A microprocessor is positioned within the casing and is electrically connected to the gyroscope and battery. The microprocessor receives an output signal from the gyroscope and is capable of calculating an angular displacement value using the output signal and a corresponding time factor. The angular displacement value is displayed on an electronic display in angular degrees from a reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Lars Richter
  • Publication number: 20030019295
    Abstract: A suspension for a gyroscopic float assembly in a floating gyroscope system comprises a pair of flexures that each have an outer rim and a plurality of flexure beams extending from the outer rim. A plurality of flexure tabs extend outward from outer perimeter portions of the rims for mounting the flexure assembly to a pair of end caps. A plurality of strain relief passages formed in the rims is arranged to provide relief from thermally induced stresses. A plurality of angular stops formed in inner perimeter portions of the rims is arranged to constrain the flexure against rotation about a selected axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Richard Anderson, Devadas Dorai-Raj
  • Publication number: 20030019296
    Abstract: A rotation sensing system includes a rotation sensor that produces a signal in response to an input rotation about a sensing axis. A servo system is arranged to rotate the rotation sensor at an angle about the sensing axis to null the signal from the rotation sensor such that the rotation sensor is substantially inertially stable. The rotation sensing system is mounted on a resolver arranged to measure the angle through which the servo system has rotated the rotation sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Robert E. Stewart, John T. Douglass, Stanley F. Wyse
  • Publication number: 20030019297
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diagnostic system and method, especially for a valve (2) that can be actuated by a positioner (9) via a drive (6). The system utilizes a sensor (12) for recording structure-related sound and has a device (14) for evaluating a recorded measurement signal (13). A spectral region greater than 50 kHz is evaluated for conducting fault recognition. A fault indication signal is generated if the intensity of the measurement signal in this spectral region exceeds a defined threshold value. The sound caused by cavitation is primarily evaluated for conducting fault recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Fiebelkorn, Gerhard Klebert, Alf Puettmer
  • Publication number: 20030019298
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a freeze-resistant pressure sensor, which is comprised of a pressure sensor housing (9), which encloses a pressure measurement chamber (10), and a pressure measurement cell (2). In addition, an elastically flexible compensation element (1) is provided, which is disposed in the pressure measurement chamber (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Heiko Scheurich, Winfried Kuhnt, Martin Mast, Berthold Rogge, Masoud Habibi, Hanspeter Mayer
  • Publication number: 20030019299
    Abstract: By sealing a diaphragm with less processes and lower cost and reducing deformation due to remaining stress, a stable and highly reliable pressure sensor construction is proposed. The pressure sensor is low in measurement error and small in floating capacitance and leakage current and good in characteristic. As a means to attain the above object, a polycrystalline silicon diaphragm is sealed with a silicon oxide film deposited through a LPCVD method and then completely covered. The diaphragm is placed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate with a nearly constant gap of 0.15 to 1.3 &mgr;m, and has difference-in-grade constructions of a deformation reducing means due to remaining stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Horie, Yasuo Onose, Norio Ichikawa, Seiji Kuryu, Satoshi Shimada, Akihiko Saito, Keiji Hanzawa, Masahiro Matsumoto, Hiroshi Moriya, Akio Yasukawa, Atsushi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20030019300
    Abstract: A sensor package includes a force sensing element and a housing. The force sensing element has an element surface, a well, and first and second shelves within the well. The housing has a housing surface. The first and second shelves of the housing are arranged to support the force sensing element so that the element surface and the housing surface are substantially coplanar and so that the element surface of the force sensing element directly senses a force without need of an actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: SAID KARBASSI, JOSEPH MAURER
  • Publication number: 20030019301
    Abstract: A flowmeter is described which has a retrievable housing conduit which is locatable within a conduit or pipe and which seals against the pipe so that fluid only flows through the housing conduit, and a flow restriction is created within the housing conduit to create a Venturi when in use. At least two spaced pressure measuring stations are provided along the housing conduit, one of the stations located at an unrestricted flow location, the other at a restricted flow location, whereby pressures measured at these stations can be used to calculate fluid flow rates. Embodiments of the invention are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Andrew Richards, Brett Lestrange
  • Publication number: 20030019302
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a torque (MGL) of an electrical machine (19), in particular a generator (19) in a motor vehicle, are proposed. The method and the apparatus are characterized in that by a unit (43), the torque (MGL) of the electrical machine (19) is ascertained as a function of a current electrical power (PG) of the generator (19), a current generator rpm (NG), and a current generator efficiency (nG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Kurt Reutlinger, Clemens Schmucker, Torsten Baumann
  • Publication number: 20030019303
    Abstract: An arrangement for detecting physical measurement variables, in particular force, torque, stress and/or acceleration, at a wheel bearing in a motor vehicle is proposed. This arrangement has a radial bearing (14, 15), a rotatable component (13, 24) interconnected with the radial bearing (14, 15), a sensing device (30) with which at least one physical measurement variable capable of being transferred from the rotatable component (13, 24) to the radial bearing (14, 15) can be detected, and a further device (16) interconnected with the radial bearing (14, 15) with which the rotational speed of the rotatable component (13, 24) can be influenced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Klaus Dobler, Erich Zabler, Anton Dukart, Martin Borsik, Dietmar Arnst, Gottfried Flik, Hans-Peter Trah, Volker Imhof
  • Publication number: 20030019304
    Abstract: Discloses a system for the analysis and measurement of selected gases such as combustible gases contained in a gaseous sample to be analysed including a mixing manifold arrangement to mix the sample gas with a diluting gas to provide a constant gas output flow rate to a detector system. The mixing manifold arrangement automatically reconfigures itself to provide an optimal concentration ratio of sample and diluting mixed gas to the detector system. A constant sample gas input rate is preferred. Excess sample gas not required to maintain a constant mixed sample output rate is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Taylor, Wiktor Skupinski