Patents Issued in July 24, 2003
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Publication number: 20030136657Abstract: In order to achieve optimized insulation resistance in a rail mounted device (1) having a recess (13) for a bus bar, a terminal (17) having a narrowing in the area of the recess (13) is used so that the distance of the air insulation relative to an adjacent device is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Gunther Eckert, Reinhard Sangl, Winfried Vierling
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Publication number: 20030136658Abstract: A button apparatus with dual elastic elements includes a base, a key top located above the base, an elevation mechanism, and a complex elastic unit. The elevation mechanism is used to execute lifting and lowering operation between the base and the key top. The complex elastic unit, positioned between the base and the key top for providing resilience to the button apparatus, further includes a lower elastic element mounted on the base and an upper elastic element mounted under the key top. When the button apparatus is operated, an S-shaped resilience pattern can be provided by the complex elastic unit to generate a two-step punch feeling back to the user. Thereby, controllability of the button apparatus can be enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Darfon Electronics Corp.Inventors: Chien-Shih Hsu, Yai-Kun Tsai
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Publication number: 20030136659Abstract: A process and apparatus assuring low costs and high efficiency in practicing refuse incineration. A applying electromagnetic wave of a frequency band resonant with rotation or vibration of a specific substance e.g., dioxins molecule, thereby to heat the dioxins molecule selectively up to high temperature to remove the dioxins molecule by decomposition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: KABUSHIKA KAISHI Y.Y.L.Inventors: Sataro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20030136660Abstract: A method is provided, the method comprising operating a field emitter array (FEA) to generate at least one of a high electric field and a high electron flux, and exposing the field emitter array (FEA) to at least one gas. The method further comprises generating at least one radical species from the at least one gas exposed to the at least one of the high electric field and the high electron flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Bruce A. Gnade, Robert M. Wallace
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Publication number: 20030136661Abstract: A chemical reactor for direct conversion of hydrocarbons includes a dielectric barrier discharge plasma cell and a solid oxide electrochemical cell in fluid communication therewith. The discharge plasma cell comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a dielectric material and passageway therebetween. The electrochemical cell comprises a mixed-conducting solid oxide electrolyte membrane tube positioned between a porous cathode and a porous anode, and a gas inlet tube for feeding oxygen containing gas to the porous cathode. An inlet is provided for feeding hydrocarbons to the passageway of the discharge plasma cell, and an outlet is provided for discharging reaction products from the reactor. A packed bed catalyst may optionally be used in the reactor to increase efficiency of conversion. The reactor can be modified to allow use of a light source for directing ultraviolet light into the discharge plasma cell and the electrochemical cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLCInventors: Peter C. Kong, Paul A. Lessing
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Publication number: 20030136662Abstract: A cylindrical target is obtained by joining a backing tube made of metal as an inner cylinder and a target material as an outer cylinder via a buffer member 52 such as a carbon felt. The cylindrical target broadens the possibility of selecting the target material and the material for a backing tube for supporting this, simplifies manufacturing and enables recycling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Toshihisa Kamiyama, Kouichi Kanda
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Publication number: 20030136663Abstract: The invention generally relates to various aspects of a plasma process, and more specifically the monitoring of such plasma processes. One aspect relates in at least some manner to calibrating or initializing a plasma monitoring assembly. Another aspect relates in at least some manner to various types of evaluations which may be undertaken of a plasma process which was run, and more typically one which is currently being run, within the processing chamber. Yet another aspect associated with the present invention relates in at least some manner to the endpoint of a plasma process (e.g., plasma recipe, plasma clean, conditioning wafer operation) or discrete/discernible portion thereof (e.g., a plasma step of a multiple step plasma recipe). A final aspect associated with the present invention relates to how one or more of the above-noted aspects may be implemented into a semiconductor fabrication facility, such as the distribution of wafers to a wafer production system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Michael Lane Smith, Joel O?apos;Don Stevenson, Pamela Peardon Denise Ward
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Publication number: 20030136664Abstract: A sputter etch system and a method of conducting a sputter etch. The sputter etch system includes an etch chamber with a wafer pedestal having a top surface to support a wafer and a magnet configured to provide a continuous magnetic field directed at the top surface of the wafer pedestal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 1997Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: BRETT E. HUFF, KEN SCHATZ, MIKE MAXIM, WILLIAM G. PETRO
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Publication number: 20030136665Abstract: In one aspect, the invention encompasses a method of etching insulative materials which comprise complexes of metal and oxygen. The insulative materials are exposed to physical etching conditions within a reaction chamber and in the presence of at least one oxygen-containing gas. In another aspect, the invention encompasses a method of forming a capacitor. An electrically conductive first layer is formed over a substrate, and a second layer is formed over the first layer. The second layer is a dielectric layer and comprises a complex of metal and oxygen. A conductive third layer is formed over the second layer. The first, second and third layers are patterned into a capacitor construction. The patterning of the second layer comprises exposing the second layer to at least one oxygen-containing gas while also exposing the second layer to physical etching conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Daryl C. New
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Publication number: 20030136666Abstract: In combination, a fluid dispenser and an electrochemical cell to produce electric energy by chemical conversion of the fluid to be dispensed. The electrical energy produced is preferably used to operate a device associated with the dispensing of the fluid as, for example, in operation of an electric pump-to-pump fluid from the reservoir. The fluid preferably is dispensed for use after dispensing in some other purpose than as a source for electrochemical energy to dispense fluid from the reservoir. For example, preferred fluid containing alcohol compounds are for use in cleaning and disinfecting.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Heiner Ophardt
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Publication number: 20030136667Abstract: The dosing unit comprises a moving member which is pressed against a gasket mounted at the circumference of an opening in the wall of a reservoir such that a part of the surface of the moving member is in contact with a liquid inside the reservoir and a part of the surface is in contact with the medium in a compartment outside the reservoir. The gasket ensures that the liquid does not flow from the reservoir to the outside compartment and medium does not flow from the outside compartment to the reservoir except when the moving member is moved and medium adhered to its surface is dragged by the gasket. Due to the invention, an electrode is provided in the reservoir and an electric potential may thereby be established between the moving member and the liquid in the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Thomas Graf, Henrik Orsnes, Degn Hans
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Publication number: 20030136668Abstract: There is provided an electrolytic processing device including: a processing electrode brought into contact with or close to a workpiece; a feeding electrode for supplying electricity to the workpiece; an ion exchanger disposed in at least one of the spaces between the workpiece and the processing electrode, and between the workpiece and the feeding electrode; a power source for applying a voltage between the processing electrode and the feeding electrode; and a liquid supply section for supplying a liquid to the space between the workpiece and at least one of the processing electrode and the feeding electrode, in which the ion exchanger is present. A substrate processing apparatus having the electrolytic processing device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Itsuki Kobata, Mitsuhiko Shirakashi, Masayuki Kumekawa, Takayuki Saito, Yasushi Toma, Tsukuru Suzuki, Kaoru Yamada, Yuji Makita, Hozumi Yasuda
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Publication number: 20030136669Abstract: Electrode at least comprising an electroconductive support of a titanium-palladium alloy, titanium, tantalum or compounds or alloys of titanium or of tantalum, an electrochemically active coating and an interlayer between the support and the electrochemically active coating, wherein the interlayer consists of titanium carbide and/or titanium boride and is applied to the support by flame or plasma spraying. Process for producing these electrodes and their use in an electrochemical cell for producing chlorine or chromic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Fritz Gestermann, Hans-Dieter Pinter, Gerd Speer, Peter Fabian, Robert Scannell
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Publication number: 20030136670Abstract: An exemplary method for using a mobile plating system is provided that includes locating the mobile plating system at a desired location for plating, positioning an external vacuum pump from an interior position of a mobile storage volume of the mobile plasma plating system to an exterior position, and coupling the external vacuum pump to a vacuum chamber within the mobile storage volume of the mobile plasma plating system using a flexible piping segment, rigid coupling with a dampening effect, or other arrangement operable to reduce and/or eliminate the mechanical vibrations within the vacuum chamber due to the operation of the external vacuum pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Jerry D. Kidd, Craig D. Harrington, Daniel N. Hopkins
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Publication number: 20030136671Abstract: To optimize the yield of sputtered-off material as well as the service life of the target on a magnetron source, in which simultaneously good attainable distribution values of the layer on the substrate, stable over the entire target service life, a concave sputter face 20 in a configuration with small target-substrate distance d is combined with a magnet system to form the magnetron electron trap in which the outer pole 3 of the magnetron electron trap is disposed stationarily and an eccentrically disposed inner pole 4 with a second outer pole part 11 is developed rotatable about the central source axis 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Bernd Heinz, Martin Dubs, Thomas Eisenhammer, Pius Grunenfelder, Walter Haag, Stanislav Kadlec, Siegfried Krassnitzer
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Publication number: 20030136672Abstract: An AC/DC cylindrical magnetron with a drive system that absorbs large variations in the rotation of the target tube, an efficient high capacity electrical transfer system, and improved electrical isolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: VON ARDENNE ANLAGENTECHNIK GMBHInventor: Richard L. Barrett
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Publication number: 20030136673Abstract: A biosensor for detecting and measuring analytes in an aqueous solution. The biosensor device has a sensor design based on modeling of the active-site chemistry of reactive molecules such as enzymes, antibodies and cellular receptors. The sensor design takes advantage of a synthetic polymer modeled after these reactive molecules to provide reversible, sensitive and reliable detection of analytes in the form of a versatile and economical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Denis Pilloud, Kevin McGowan, Guy Farruggia, William Morris, Allan B. Fraser
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Publication number: 20030136674Abstract: A gas sensor for measuring an amount of a measurement gas component, including a solid electrolyte having an internal space, a gas-introducing port for introducing measurement gas from an external space into the internal space, diffusion rate-determining means between the internal space and the gas-introducing port, and inner and outer pumping electrodes for pumping-processing oxygen contained in the measurement gas. The diffusion rate-determining means includes slits each having, when viewed in a plane substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal extension axis thereof, two dimensions, with at least one dimension of each slit being not more than 10 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhide Kato, Kunihiko Nakagaki
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Publication number: 20030136675Abstract: An oxygen sensor as a gas sensor has a vent hole for taking an atmosphere into an outer sleeve in an outer sleeve cover for covering the outer sleeve from above and manufactured by rubber. A filter unit made by a tubular member enlarged in diameter on a predetermined boundary, a sheet-shaped filter having a water repellent property and an oil repellent property, and an O-ring is fitted and inserted into this vent hole. The upper end portion of a large diameter portion is folded by bending processing. Folding portion nips and supports the filter and the O-ring between the folding portion and a step portion formed between a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion. It is sufficient to set the size of a filter to same size as the vent hole. The filter can be attached to a predetermined position of the outer sleeve cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20030136676Abstract: A flat limiting-current sensor 10 includes a solid electrolyte substrate 22, a negative electrode 34a and a positive electrode 32a. The negative and positive electrodes 34a and 32a, respectively, are disposed on the same side of the solid electrolyte substrate 22. A voltage of 0.8 V is applied between the negative electrode 34a and the positive electrode 32a in order to determine oxygen concentration. The ratio between the area of the negative electrode 34a and the area of the positive electrode 32a is set to 1:2, thereby reducing element resistance to 74% that of the case where the negative electrode and the positive electrode assume the same area. Thus, the measurement accuracy of the flat limiting-current sensor 10 is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 1999Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: KANAME MIWA, KATSUHIKO HORII, HIDEAKI YAGI
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Publication number: 20030136677Abstract: An electrochemical sensor element is described, in particular for determining the oxygen level in gas mixtures, having at least one measuring electrode (15) exposed to a measured gas, at least one reference electrode (17) exposed to a reference gas, at least one heating device (23), and one reference gas channel (21), through which the reference gas can be supplied to the reference electrode (17). The reference electrode (17) is connected to the reference gas via a volume provided with pores. The volume is formed in a layer between the reference gas channel (21) and the reference electrode (17).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2000Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: HARALD NEUMANN, KURT BAYHA, LOTHAR DIEHL
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Publication number: 20030136678Abstract: The apparatus is provided with a wire guiding means disposed in a liquid bath for turning the direction of a wire to feed the wire into and out of the bath contained by the liquid. The wire guiding means includes a tubular conduit having a first open end disposed in the liquid, a second open end disposed above the liquid, and a middle curved portion for guiding the wire through the tubular conduit. The tubular conduit can be at least partially filled with the liquid. Preferably, the treatment liquid is an electrodeposition liquid. A plurality of the tubular conduits may be disposed in the bath substantially parallel with each other. Preferably the first open end is connected to a bottom portion of the bath through a coupling such that the treatment liquid in the bath can flows into the tubular conduit. The second open end is positioned higher than the first open end.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Yoshihide Goto
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Publication number: 20030136679Abstract: A fluid circuit includes a membrane having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a pore extending from the first side to the second side. The circuit also includes a first channel containing fluid extending along the first side of the membrane and a second channel containing fluid extending along the second side of the membrane and crossing the first channel. The circuit also includes an electrical source in electrical communication with at least one of the first fluid and second fluid for selectively developing an electrical potential between fluid in the first channel and fluid in the second channel. This causes at least one component of fluid to pass through the pore in the membrane from one of the first channel and the second channel to the other of the first channel and the second channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Paul W. Bohn, Jonathan V. Sweedler, Mark A. Shannon, Tzu-chi Kuo
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Publication number: 20030136680Abstract: A medical diagnostic method and instrumentation system for analyzing noncovalently bonded agglomerated biological particles is described. The method and system comprises: a method of preparation for the biological particles; an electrospray generator; an alpha particle radiation source; a differential mobility analyzer; a particle counter; and data acquisition and analysis means. The medical device is useful for the assessment of human diseases, such as cardiac disease risk and hyperlipidemia, by rapid quantitative analysis of lipoprotein fraction densities. Initially, purification procedures are described to reduce an initial blood sample to an analytical input to the instrument. The measured sizes from the analytical sample are correlated with densities, resulting in a spectrum of lipoprotein densities. The lipoprotein density distribution can then be used to characterize cardiac and other lipid-related health risks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: W. Henry Benner, Ronald M. Krauss, Patricia J. Blanche
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Publication number: 20030136681Abstract: A method for fast thickening electroforming stamper, in which a substrate is placed in an electroforming tank and electroforming to form a first electroforming layer on the face of the substrate. A first thickening material is connected with a face of the first electroforming layer distal from the substrate. The first thickening material, the first electroforming layer and the substrate together form a combination body. After the substrate is separated from the first electroforming layer, at least the first electroforming layer and the first thickening material together form a stamper.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Jui Lung Tsai
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Publication number: 20030136682Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for electrolytically producing metal foil which is diminished in pinhole defects and has a uniform thickness. The metal foil is produced by passing an electric current between a cylindrical cathode immersed in an electrolytic solution and an anode opposed to the cathode, continuously electrodepositing a metal layer on the surface of the cathode while rotating the cathode and thereafter peeling the metal layer off. An auxiliary anode capable of adjusting the current density when electrodeposition is started is disposed at a position downstream from the anode with respect to the direction of flow of the electrolytic solution. The auxiliary anode is an electrode having a coating layer comprising an electrode active substance and formed over an electrically conductive metal substrate, with an intermediate layer of tantalum or a tantalum alloy formed between the coating layer and the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Ryuichi Otogawa, Shinji Yamauchi, Hirokatsu Shimizu
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Publication number: 20030136683Abstract: A process for electroplating and annealing thin-films of nickel-iron alloys having from 63% to 81% iron content by weight to produce pole pieces having saturation flux density (BS) in the range from 1.9 to 2.3 T (19 to 23 kG) with acceptable magnetic anisotropy and magnetostriction and a coercivity (HC) no higher than 160 A/m (2 Oe). The desired alloy layer properties, including small crystal size and minimal impurity inclusions, can be produced by including higher relative levels of Fe++ ions in the electroplating bath while holding the bath at a lower temperature while plating from a suitable seed layer. The resulting alloy layer adopts a small crystal size (BCC) without significant inclusion of impurities, which advantageously permits annealing to an acceptable HC while retaining the high BS desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Mike Ming Yu Chen, Thomas Edward Dinan, Neil Leslie Robertson
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Publication number: 20030136684Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting the endpoint of a polishing step. In general, an electropolishing system is provided with a power supply configured to deliver a current through an electrolytic solution. Signal characteristics of the signal provided by the power supply are monitored to determine a polishing endpoint. Illustratively, the monitored signal characteristics include current and voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Alain Duboust, Yan Wang, Siew Neo, Liang-Yuh Chen
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Publication number: 20030136685Abstract: A process for recovery of valuable metals from superalloys by electrochemical decomposition is described, both electrodes being formed by the superalloy and the polarity of the electrolysis current being reversed with a frequency of from 0.005 to 5 Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Viktor Stoller, Armin Olbrich, Juliane Meese-Marktscheffel, Wolfgang Mathy, Michael Erb, Georg Nietfeld, Gerhard Gille
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Publication number: 20030136686Abstract: A high volume electrolytic water treatment system and process for treating wastewater. The system and process is designed to treat waste streams that are both complex and with variable contaminate compositions. The system includes pumping influent water to a headworks screen for removing solids in the water. The screened water is then discharged into primary and secondary surge tanks. The tanks include electrocoagulation electrodes. The electrodes, using alternating current, destabilize materials such as fats, oils, greases and surfactants. The pretreated influent water is then pumped to one or more elongated flow-through modules. The flow-through modules also include electrocoagulation electrodes for further treating of the influent water. From the flow-through modules, the treated water is sent to a foam removal apparatus and then to a clarifier. Clear water from the clarifier then flows into an effluent weir and discharged from the system thereby completing the water treatment process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Robert J. Herbst
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Publication number: 20030136687Abstract: A novel composite wrap material with holes cut into the wrap material and covered with a solid film structure to form transparent windows, and methods of making such wrap material with windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Michael Van Abel, LouAnn S. Mueller, Michael R. Nowak
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Publication number: 20030136688Abstract: A carton assembly for packages of smoking articles comprises a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall, a second end wall and a dispensing portion. The dispensing portion is defined by a perforation line on the first and second side walls and the bottom wall before the dispensing portion is removed. When the perforation line is torn, the dispensing portion may be removed allowing cigarette packages to be withdrawn from the carton assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Mitchell A. Venable, Karen Marie Keith
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Publication number: 20030136689Abstract: This device comprising engaging and retaining means (1b), (1c), (1d), (1e) collaborating with the central hole in the disc, said disc engaging and retaining means being formed as an overhang over a circular central region (1) exhibited by the base (1), is notable in that the region (1a) has arrangements able, when finger pressure is applied to said means (1b), to allow them to retract in part only so as to cause simultaneous controlled tilting of the disc corresponding to its partial release from the base (1) so that it can be grasped by hand at the released part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: MOULAGES DE VELAYInventor: Bruno Mathieu
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Publication number: 20030136690Abstract: An enclosure with removable lid is disclosed herein. In an embodiment disclosed herein, the enclosure is a secret compartment in a guitar string changing tool case, with a magnetically engaged lid that is disengaged from the enclosure by the application of pressure on a portion of the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Patrick M. Lauer
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Publication number: 20030136691Abstract: A club organizer for a golf club carry bag, comprising a cover means adapted to fit across the opening of the golf club carry bag, the cover means having an arcuately shaped ridge member adapted to be supported along a portion of a rim defining the opening of the carry bag, the ridge member having a convex outer side wall and a concave inner side wall defining a concavity, and web means located within the concavity for rigidizing the ridge member by urging the ridge member against the rim, the ridge member being so inclined as to have an upper and a lower end and including a plurality of descending apertures for passing the shaft of each of the iron clubs therethrough and into the carry bag, each of the apertures including a groove formed through the outer side wall for locating the head of respective ones of the iron clubs so that, in accordance with the inclination of the ridge member, each of the apertures is at a different height to each other of the apertures whereby the head of each of the iron clubs arType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Joseph Anthony Puskaric
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Publication number: 20030136692Abstract: A tool box has box which pivotally installed with a transparent cover. A hook extends from the cover toward the box. The box has a concave portion corresponding to the hook for being buckled by the hook. The box has a spacer. The spacer spaces the interior of the box into an upper receiving chamber and a lower receiving chamber. The lower receiving chamber has an opening penetrating the box at a side with respect to the concave portion. A disk is placed into the lower receiving chamber from the opening. The concave portion of the disk corresponding to the box has a stop plate. The thickness of the stop plate is smaller than the depth of the concave portion. Thereby, the hook of the cover buckles the concave portion and at the same time it resists against the stop plate for fixing the disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Kun-Chih Hung
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Publication number: 20030136693Abstract: In a fastener driving tool, a carrier for holding a plurality of fasteners comprises a plurality of sleeves, each sleeve holding an associated fastener. Each sleeve has a body with an axis and a bore, the bore extending axially through the body and the bore being for receiving the associated fastener. A set of compressible ribs is also included within the bore of the sleeve for gripping a shank of the associated fastener so that the associated fastener is positioned substantially in the axial direction of the sleeve when the fastener is driven. Each rib has a curved portion that is concave with respect to the bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Harish C. Gupta
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Publication number: 20030136694Abstract: A protective cover for the entire toothbrush that is disposable. It is convenient, simple, compact, and promotes good oral hygiene. The cover is made from a polyethylene bag that is slightly longer than the toothbrush and slightly wider than the bristle portion. The entire toothbrush slides into the bag and can be sealed for protection. The cover has holes for ventilation. The cover is inexpensive to produce and used just once before disposing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Particia Marie Fitzgibbons
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Publication number: 20030136695Abstract: A case for a recording tape cartridge is formed by joining an upper case and a lower case via mutual peripheral walls. A blocking piece, which is disposed to extend along the peripheral wall of the upper case serving as a cover, is inserted into a recess, which is disposed in the lower case serving as a base and opens upward and sideward, and a portion of the recess is blocked off by the blocking piece, whereby an engagement hole is formed that is positioned lower than a parting line (PL) and opens only sideward. According to the invention, it is possible to form a recess that opens only toward the outer surface of the peripheral wall of the base of the case, without disposing undercuts in the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Hiraguchi
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Publication number: 20030136696Abstract: A decorative cover or container which is a flattened sleeve which includes a lower portion having a base portion and a skirt portion with a plurality of portions extending from the base portion, and optionally an upper portion which is detachable via a detaching element, for example, perforations. Upon opening of the sleeve, the lower portion of the sleeve defines and encompasses an inner retaining space and in one embodiment conforms generally to the outer surface of a pot. The potted plant is disposed in the inner retaining space of the lower portion of the sleeve such that at least a portion of the pot is covered by the lower portion of the sleeve. The lower portion of the sleeve is detachable from the upper portion, when the upper portion is present, by tearing along the detaching element forming an upper edge of the lower portion of the sleeve. The upper edge may be non-linear. The lower portion may be tapered and may have a gusset in the lower end.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2001Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Donald E. Weder
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Publication number: 20030136697Abstract: A bottle containment and identifier unit comprising a container having a lid with incorporated apertures therein. The lid has bottle identifiers mounted thereon to prevent user confusion and cross-contamination of each bottle. Alternatively, the bottle identifiers may be affixed to a side of the container. Handles and an associated strap may be affixed to the container used for transporting the unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Mary Nix
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Publication number: 20030136698Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a medicinal product package which is suitable for microbe eradication therapy and with which the patient's compliance is increased and thus the result of therapy is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Andreas Klatt
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Publication number: 20030136699Abstract: A nestable and stackable food storage container has a base with a bottom panel. The bottom panel has an upper side, a lower side, and a base perimeter. The base also has a cylindrical side wall extending generally upward from and around the base perimeter. The side wall terminates at a top edge and defines an open top. A lid has a top panel with a top side, a bottom side, and a lid perimeter. A nesting structure is provided at least in part on a portion of the base and at least in part on a portion of the lid. T he nesting structure permits removably nesting the lower side of the base with the lid in either a standard lid orientation or an inverted lid orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Carolyn M. McNeeley, Leighann Sturgin
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Publication number: 20030136700Abstract: The container carrier (1) serves to hold containers (11) for fluid samples. For the transport of the sample containers (11), the container carrier (1), which is directly but detachably connected with a cover part (2) during the dispensation of fluid samples into the sample containers (11), is separated from the cover part (2), with the sample containers (11) remaining in the container carrier (1) in transport. A transport cap (8) is provided for closing the container carrier (1) in transport, particularly in a fluid-tight manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Robert Zeller
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Publication number: 20030136701Abstract: A laundry composition contained within a pouch wherein the pouch can stand on its own without the need for a reinforced base. The pouch is formed from a flexible material and contains a laundry composition in at least two phases. One of the phases, together with the fold, forms a base upon which the pouch can stand without additional support. The phase that assists in forming the pouch base is a solid. Processes for making the inventive laundry pouch are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2001Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA,Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Corinne M. Saso, Richard Thomas Chalmers
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Publication number: 20030136702Abstract: A collapsible insulated cooler case includes a sandwich construction of fabric and cell foam material forming the panel walls of the container and further includes front binding straps that hold the case in a collapsed condition. The binding straps extend from the front flap of the cooler over the bottom and engage with companion straps on the back side of the cooler case. Alternatively, the front binding straps are used to hold the container top panel in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Travel Caddy, Inc. d/b/a TravelonInventors: Andrezj M. Redzisz, Henry Deutsch
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Publication number: 20030136703Abstract: Distinctive, promotional bag dispensing apparatus are provided that include a clamp and a clip configured to retain a plurality of plastic (or other) bags in stacked adjacent relationship. Each clamp includes a base member and a retaining member that is movably secured to the base member via hinges for pivotal movement about an axis thereof. A plurality of spaced-apart posts extend from the front surface adjacent the forward edge portion. Each clip has a U-shaped configuration with adjacent, spaced-apart first and second panels that are configured to receive and retain header portions of a plurality of bags in stacked adjacent relationship positioned therebetween. The first and second panels each comprise a plurality of spaced-apart apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Robert A. Jones, Jason S. Holland, Brenda S. Jones
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Publication number: 20030136704Abstract: A sanitary napkin package and kit for emergency use during a first, unexpected, or emergency onset of a menstrual period or menses, which contains a sanitary napkin located inside a compartmentalized container;Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Stephanie D. Burgess
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Publication number: 20030136705Abstract: A method of repairing cigars and the storing and humidification of pre-coated adhesive backed cigar patches for sealing damaged cigars packaged in separate zip-lock bags stored in a small box with a Spanish cedar bottom insert having an optional humidifier compartment containing wet paper wads or wet Spanish cedar chips. The method of cigar repair includes applying vegetable glue to one or both sides of a wrapper leaf and allowing the glue to dry, cutting desired sizes and shapes form the dried leaf, selecting a patch and wetting it, and applying the wet patch to the damaged cigar and allowing it to dry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Robert A. Roth
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Publication number: 20030136706Abstract: A product of reduced sulfur content is produced from an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock which includes sulfur-containing impurities. The feedstock is contacted with an olefin-modification catalyst in a reaction zone under conditions which are effective to produce an intermediate product which has a reduced amount of olefinic unsaturation relative to that of the feedstock as measured by bromine number. The intermediate product is then separated into at least three fractions of different volatility, and the lowest boiling first fraction is contacted with a hydrodesulfurization catalyst in the presence of hydrogen under conditions which are effective to convert at least a portion of its sulfur-containing impurities to hydrogen sulfide. The intermediate boiling fraction is contacted with a selective hydrotreating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen under conditions which are effective to convert at least a portion of its sulfur-containing impurities to hydrogen sulfide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Stacey McDaniel, Ptoshia A. Burnett