Patents Issued in September 2, 2003
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Patent number: 6611987Abstract: A pipe frame for a wiper apparatus of the motor vehicles which is excellent in the mechanical strength and possible to be manufactured without waste of material resin, which is obtained by unifying a pivot holder 1b on the pipe body 1a through the outsert moulding of resin against a plate portion 1a3 made by compressing the pipe body 1a in the full-contacting state and reinforced by crush-projections 1a11 and 1a12 formed on both sides of the plate portion 1a3 and a hollow cylindrical protrusion 1a4 formed on the plate portion 1a3.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouji Nakazato, Katsuhisa Iozumi
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Patent number: 6611988Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed, which is used for cleaning motor vehicle windows or glass. The wiper blade (10) is provided with an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (16) that can be pressed against the window or glass (24) and that is disposed, parallel to the longitudinal axis, on one band face (14) of a bandlike-elongated, spring-elastic support element (12), and a coupling part (20) connected to the center portion of the support element is seated on the other band face (18) of the support element and has one hinge half (36), whose hinge axis (52) is oriented transversely to the length of the wiper blade (10). An improvement in wiper blade mounting and in the securing of the mounted wiper blade to a wiper arm provided with a hinge bolt is attained, if both this hinge half and the coupling means of the wiper blade are formed by a bearing recess (36) in the coupling part (20).Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Peter De Block
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Patent number: 6611989Abstract: A vacuum cleaner has a case including a dust chamber filtering dust included in air, an appliance chamber sucking the filtered air from the dust chamber and discharging the air through a discharge port, and a cord chamber storing a wound electrical cord. A fan motor assembly is installed inside the appliance chamber of the case for forcedly sucking the air inside the appliance chamber and discharging the air. An exhaust duct is installed between the fan motor assembly and the discharge port in the case and guiding the air discharged from the fan motor assembly to the discharge port, and a flowing passage is disposed between the dust chamber and the cord chamber so that the air is able to flow therein, whereby overheating of case and of the electrical cord can be prevented and the durability and reliability of the cleaner can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dong Yeop Oh, Sang Wook Hong, Yong Dol Park
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Patent number: 6611990Abstract: The invention provides a supporting mechanism of a slide door in which a lower end rail portion being most easily dirty in a slide door opening and closing portion is hardly get dirty and an operation can be smoothly and without being shaky performed even when a great load is locally applied to the slide door at a time of moving the slide door. The supporting mechanism of the slide door has upper and lower rails extending along edge portions of upper and lower ends of the entrance/exit and guide rollers respectively provided at least in upper and lower end portions of a front edge of the slide door. The lower rail is constituted by one narrow plate rail having a lower end edge being a free end, the lower guide rollers include a set of two or more rolling rollers, and the set of two or more rolling rollers hold and support the lower rail therebetween from below so as to freely roll.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Komatsu LimitedInventors: Masanori Sogo, Makoto Sasaki
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Patent number: 6611991Abstract: A method for movably connecting two members. The method comprises the steps of molding a first member in a first mold portion and placing the first member within a second mold portion. The method also includes inserting molten material into the second mold portion to form a second member. The method further includes limiting contact between the first member and the material to prevent bonding between the first member and to permit relative motion between the members. The method also includes cooling the molten material into a solid form, whereby an assembly is formed from the first and the second member. The method further includes removing the members from the second mold assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Eke J. Okeke, Robert D. Russell
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Patent number: 6611992Abstract: The disclosed device is directed toward a lifting gate. The lifting gate comprises a barrier member having a top and a bottom opposite thereof. A top bracket assembly is coupled to the top of the barrier member. The top bracket assembly includes a top bearing coupled to a top bracket and a top hinge support coupled to the top bearing. A bottom bracket is coupled to the bottom of the barrier member, having a body defined by a first bracket end and a second bracket end and a central bracket portion between the first and second bracket ends. The bottom bracket is coupled to the bottom of the barrier member proximate to the first bracket end. A bottom bearing is coupled to the bottom bracket proximate to the central bracket portion. A bottom hinge support has a first support end and a second support end opposite thereof, and a central support portion between the first and second support ends. The bottom hinge support is coupled to the bottom bearing proximate to the central support portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Roger Regan Arnaud
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Patent number: 6611993Abstract: A hinge mechanism for joining a door to a vessel is disclosed. The hinge mechanism includes a housing having a first end and a second end, and a rod reciprocally disposed in the housing, with the rod having a first end adapted to pivotally engage the door and further having a second end. A spring is disposed within the housing. A first coupling slidably connects a first end of the spring to the first end of the rod, and a second coupling slidably connects a second end of the spring to the second end of the rod. The spring, the housing, and the first and second couplings cooperate to permit movement of the rod between an outward position, an inward position, and a neutral position between the outward position and the inward position. The spring is arranged to bias the rod toward the neutral position.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Francis M. Ray
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Patent number: 6611994Abstract: The present invention relates to the application of fiber length measurement in the blowroom or carding room of a spinning mill. A method and an apparatus in a textile processing machine are described in which before and/or after a working element of the textile processing machine the nep count and/or the fiber length (staple) is determined, with an open-loop/closed-loop control unit being provided which receives the values for the fiber length and/or the nep count as input and determines therefrom the optimized machine setting data and outputs the same to at least one actuator of a working element which influences the nep count and/or the staple of the textile processing machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Jürg Bischofberger, Götz Theodor Gresser, Olivier Wüest, Christian Sauter, Jürg Faas, Peter Artzt, Volker Jehle, Hermann Maidel
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Patent number: 6611995Abstract: A corner mount packaging assembly for retail display of a tie-down assembly and for protection of a right angle edge of a load secured by the tie-down assembly. The packaging assembly includes an L-shaped frame with an inner surface adapted for placement over a right angle edge of the load, and an outer surface having guide members extending along side edges of the frame. The tie down assembly is removably attached to the inner surface of the frame, and includes a strap, hook type fasteners on the strap ends, and a tensioning mechanism for imparting a tension to the strap. The guide members form a channel on the outer surface for receiving the strap to prevent the strap from sliding off the frame, and the rigid L-shaped frame dissipates the force of the strap over a wider portion of the load, thus preventing damage thereto.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: USA ProductsInventors: Stephen D. Jackson, Raymond S. Brown
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Patent number: 6611996Abstract: A slider for a reclosable fastener for plastic bags comprises a body. The body includes a top, a first side, a second side and a separation member on an underside of the top. The separation member is adapted to open and close the fastener. The first side has at least one slot for separating the first side into at least two sections. The second side has at least one slot for separating the second side into at least two sections. Each of the slots extends from respective ends of the first and second sides opposite the top and extends through the respective first and second sides.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Pactiv CorporationInventors: James S. Blythe, Eric A. St. Phillips
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Patent number: 6611997Abstract: A multi-piece slider member (150) is provided for use with interlocking fastening strips (120, 130). The slider member (150) is slidably disposed upon the interlocking fastening strips (120, 130) to facilitate the occlusion and deocclusion of the fastening strips when moved towards first and second ends thereof. The slider member (150) comprises a first housing segment (160), a second housing segment (170), and an attachment mechanism (200) for use in assembling the first and second housing segments together onto the interlocking fastening strips (120, 130). The attachment mechanism (200) includes an appendage (210) projecting from the first housing segment and a cooperating slot (250) formed in the second housing segment. The appendage (210) has a barb (212) formed along the length while the slot (250) has a notch (252) formed along its length.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: The Glad Products CompanyInventor: Alan F. Savicki
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Patent number: 6611998Abstract: The closure device (121) includes interlocking fastening strips (130, 131) and a slider (132) slidably disposed on the fastening strips for facilitating the occlusion and deocclusion of the fastening strips when moved towards first and second ends thereof. Flexible shoulders (230, 232) and legs (234, 236) are disposed on the slider (132) for facilitating the attachment of the slider onto the fastening strips (130, 131) in the vertical Z axis (106). The flexible shoulders (230, 232) and legs (234, 236) further provide resistance against the removal of the slider (132) from the fastening strips (130, 131) in the vertical Z axis (106) thereafter.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: the glad products companyInventor: Jeffrey S. Stiglic
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Patent number: 6611999Abstract: The detent means for a heat sink is provided thereon with an elastic member in connecting with two side clamp holders, the elastic member is bent to render the bending area to be the force bearing point which is communicating in force with the two side clamp holders, the thickness of a lateral arm between the bending area and one of the two side clamp holders is gradually reduced toward the side clamp holder; the lateral arm of the elastic member can be slightly bent and fixed in shape by the force exerting on the elastic member, after being fixed in shape, the elastic variable thereof is fixed for firmly holding by clamping; the detent means can prevent cracking of the main body of the heat source due to an overly large clamping force, and can largely increase the extent of application of the detent means in mating with any of various main bodies of heat sources and heat sinks of different thickness.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Glacialtech, Inc.Inventor: Hsien-Keng Hsu
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Patent number: 6612000Abstract: A clothes clip has a biasing spring that imparts a symmetrical force to each of the gripping members of the clothes clip. The two distal ends of the spring press against the fixed jaw of the clip at point equidistant from the central axis, and a central loop of the spring presses against the movable jaw of the clip along its central axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Acotex Far East LimitedInventor: David R. Housley
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Patent number: 6612001Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling device for chain links (1) which comprise an elongated element (2) and which are provided with two pairs of eyes or loops (3, 4 and 5, 6 repectively). The coupling device (11) comprises a double-hook member (13) and is designed to cooperate, in a coupling position (K), with the eyes (3, 4) in one of the pairs of eyes by engagement from within of said eyes (3, 4). The double-hook member (13) is sized such that it is insetable into the chain link (1) through an interspace (9) between the shanks (7, 8) and connecting parts of the eyes (3, 4 or 5, 6) and then locatable or positionable in said coupling position (K) in the chain link (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventors: Stig-Rune Yngvesson, Jan Montin
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Patent number: 6612002Abstract: The closure device (121) includes first and second fastening strips (130, 131) arranged to be interlocked over a predetermined length. The first fastening strip (130) includes a first flange (163) which extends from the first fastening strip in a transverse Y axis (104) towards the second fastening strip. The second fastening strip (131) includes a second flange (153) which extends from the second fastening strip in the transverse Y axis (104) toward the first fastening strip. A slider (132) slidably engages the first and second fastening strips (130, 131). The slider (132) includes a separator and the separator engages the first flange (163) and the second flange (153) during deocclusion of the fastening strips (130, 131).Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: The Glad Products CompanyInventor: Alan F. Savicki
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Patent number: 6612003Abstract: A double-bow shoe lace device includes a shoe lace, two loop assemblies, and a clamp member. The shoe lace has a first lace segment forming a criss-cross pattern on eyelet tabs of a shoe, and a second lace segment that includes first and second lace portions. Each lace portion has a lower section connected to the first lace segment. Each loop assembly includes a loop segment connected to an upper section of a respective one of the lace portions, and a distal lace segment. The clamp member is sleeved slidably on the loop assemblies. Downward and upward movements of the clamp member along the loop assemblies result in tightening and loosening of the shoe.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Kun-Chung Liu
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Patent number: 6612004Abstract: In a complex machining machine tool, a tool rest capable of attachably and detachably installing tool installing inserts thereon is provided, a plural number of virtual tools is set and registered concerning a predetermined at least one tool together with its indexing positional data in tool file, the tool data of the corresponding virtual tool is read out from the tool file on the basis of the machining instruction by the virtual tool stored in machining program, and the corresponding virtual tool is indexed on the tool rest on the basis of the indexing positional data, and then machining with the virtual tool is executed. At the time of machining, it is possible to continue machining with the same tool by only positional indexing without changing the tool. The work for changing tools can be extremely decreased even if machining contents are changed or it is necessary to change tools by tool exhaustion.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Yamazaki Mazak Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Naoe Fukumura, Masayoshi Mizukado, Kazuhiro Kikata, Sadami Miyazaki, Koichi Maki
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Patent number: 6612005Abstract: The present invention concerns a tire valve removal tool. The device has a body having a bore extending through the body. An internal stop is located in the body. As located in the body is an internally threaded portion for engaging the threaded portion of a valve stem. A plurality of exhaust vents are axially spaced apart along the body and are in communication with the bore. A plunger is slidably retained within the bore. The plunger has a handle at one end and a valve engaging means located at an opposing end for engaging the tire valve and rotating it for insertion or removal.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Kenneth Rivers
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Patent number: 6612006Abstract: Method and apparatus for extracting a fiber from connector. In accordance with our method the extraction does not compromise any failure evidence located within the ferrule of the fiber connector. The method comprises the steps of metallic etching, followed by adhesive etching, and a final step of heating and applying a load to the ferrule and/or fiber.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Osman S. Gebizlioglu, Mustafa Ozgur
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Patent number: 6612007Abstract: The present invention relates to a clinch joiner (1) for clinch joining ductile layers of material (7,8), such as metal sheets, and in particular to and a joiner including a die (4) and a punch (2).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Colin Maxwell Wade
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Patent number: 6612008Abstract: For providing machine-made and individually fabricated seals and gaskets on the spot a seal or gasket fabricating machine is adapted to the dimensions and conditions of a mobile van-type service vehicle, and is installed within the van-part of the vehicle. The vehicle's van part receives shelves for tools, raw materials for seals and gaskets, service station equipment and driving means independent from the place of use for the seal or gasket fabricating machine. The vehicle with the machine is driven to the location of demand, and the required seal or gasket is fabricated on the spot.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Norbert Thoma
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Patent number: 6612009Abstract: A dishwasher having a wash chamber or tub including a sump and a side wall. A pump is fluidly connected with the sump and a supply tube is supported adjacent the tub side wall and receives wash liquid from the pump, the supply tube has a manifold portion including a plurality of outlet openings. A coupling retainer is connected to the supply tube and has a plurality of funnel shaped coupling ports corresponding in number and spacing to the outlet openings of the supply tube. Each of the coupling ports includes a center opening which is provided with a sealing surface. A valve member supports a plurality of valve elements for sealing the outlet openings and is captured between the coupling retainer and the supply tube such that the valve elements generally align with the coupling parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Richard R. Laszczewski, Jr., Roger J. Bertsch, Eric C. Irwin
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Patent number: 6612010Abstract: A method and a device for interconnecting two mutually coaxial and axially movable pipes (2 and 22 respectively), where one pipe (2) has a locking portion (16), and the other pipe (22) has a control body (30) and a locking part (26), which upon axial movement of the control body (30) is arranged to be moved between a first position, wherein the locking part (26) is not engaged with the locking portion (16), and a second position, wherein the locking part (26) is engaged with the locking portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Kongsberg Offshore ASInventors: Knut Håvard Bekkevold, Finn G. Haugen
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Patent number: 6612011Abstract: A flexible work station (1) and an operating method for processing, especially the joining and geometric welding of two or more different types of components (4, 5). The work station (1) has a component feed device (6, 7), one or more flexible processing places (2) with a plurality of movable and type-related positioning devices (14, 15) with a clamping device (16), as well as one or more processing devices (13) and at least one transport device (9). The transport device (9), which is preferably designed as a robot, has a plurality of replaceable and type-related gripping tools (10, 11), with which it transports the components (4, 5) from the component feed device (6, 7) to the positioning devices (14, 15). In the case of a change from one component to another, the gripping tool (10, 11) is changed as well, and the old gripping tool (10, 11) is laid down on a gripper rest (22) at or on the components (4, 5), which are just located on the positioning device (14, 15) or on the component feed means (6, 7).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: KUKA Schweissanlagen GmbHInventors: Georg Mayr, Martin Stedele
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Patent number: 6612012Abstract: A method of manufacturing medical devices of a size sufficiently small to be passed through the vasculature of the body, and more particularly through the small vessels of the brain. The method includes the steps of laser cutting a pattern of apertures in the surface of a tubular workpiece, radially compressing the tubular workpiece to reduce the outer dimensions of the workpiece and heat setting the reduced diameter workpiece to form the very small medical device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Cordis Neurovascular, Inc.Inventors: Vladimir Mitelberg, Dieter Stoeckel
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Patent number: 6612013Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for loosely attaching blind rivets to components of an assembly. The method includes attaching a rivet to an assembly while positioning the head at a predetermined clearance away from the adjacent one of the assembly components. One or both of the aligned openings in the components may be enlarged to leave radial clearance between the assembled rivet body and the enlarged openings. The apparatus includes a nose insert for use with or attachment to a rivet gun or attaching apparatus. The insert forms a stop engageable by a preformed rivet head to maintain a predetermined clearance between the rivet head and adjacent component when the rivet is attached to components forming an assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Paul M. Zardus, Pei-Chung Wang
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Patent number: 6612014Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for securing a wafer to a SRD spider, the SRD spider has a plurality of spider arms. The apparatus includes a plurality of spaced surfaces disposed on a distal end of one of the spider arms, each of the surfaces being spaced perpendicularly from the longitudinal axis of the spider arm. In one aspect, the two surfaces are positioned to limit production of a wedging force between that spaced surface and the wafer. In one embodiment, a post at least partially defines each one of the plurality of spaced surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Bernardo Donoso, Joseph J. Stevens, Donald J. Olgado, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko
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Patent number: 6612015Abstract: A method of fabricating a limited-rotation motor that is characterized by axial stability of a rotor that includes a permanent-magnet armature and further characterized by a relatively small inherent axial force on the rotor. The rotor is supported by a pair of ball-bearing units and axial stability is provided by preloading the bearing unit at the end of the rotor with a relatively stiff spring and preloading the bearing at the second end with a relatively weak spring, whereby thermal expansion and contraction of the rotor are accommodated almost entirely by a movement of the second end of the rotor. A low axial force on the rotor is obtained by forming the armature with a split mold so that uniform compression is extended along the entire armature, resulting in relatively uniform magnetic properties, and by positioning the corresponding stator elements symmetrically relative to the magnetic center of the armature.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: GSI Lumonics CorporationInventor: David C. Brown
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Patent number: 6612016Abstract: A method of forming a flexure for an integrated lead head suspension with a metal spring layer, a conductive lead layer and an insulator layer between the metal spring layer and the conductive lead layer. The method includes forming insulator suspended portions on a lower surface of the conductive lead layer and further includes forming insulator spring arm portions on an upper surface of the metal spring layer adjacent to the insulator suspended portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Hutchinson Technology IncorporatedInventors: Jeffry S. Bennin, Todd W. Boucher, Anthony J. Liberko, Raymond A. Loehlein, Robert J. Matz, Gabriel M. Montes, Karupanan Supramaniam
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Patent number: 6612017Abstract: A method of making a magnetic head, which has an air bearing surface (ABS), includes forming first and second pole piece layers with the second pole piece layer having a front located second pole tip component and a rear located second pole yoke component, forming the second pole tip component with front and rear surfaces, first and second side surfaces and top and bottom surfaces with the front surface being located at the ABS and the first and second side surfaces and the top and bottom surfaces intersecting the ABS and forming the second pole yoke component with a front portion which has a bottom surface, a back surface and first and second side surfaces that interface the top surface, the rear surface and the first and second side surfaces respectively of the second pole tip component.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventor: Hugo Alberto Emilio Santini
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Patent number: 6612018Abstract: A method of making a read head includes forming a spin valve sensor with an antiparallel pinned layer that has an AP coupling film located between and interfacing first and second ferromagnetic films wherein the first and second ferromagnetic films are composed of Co90Fe10. Another aspect forms the spin valve sensor with a free layer which has a nickel iron (NiFe) film located between and interfacing third and fourth ferromagnetic films composed of Co90Fe10. Still another aspect forms the spin valve sensor with a sense current field (SCF) pinned layer that is spaced from the free layer and is pinned by sense current fields from other conductive layers of the spin valve sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Hardayal Singh Gill
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Patent number: 6612019Abstract: The invention relates to an inductor comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive segments interwoven with a substrate. The inductance of the inductor is increased through the use of coatings and films of ferromagnetic materials such as magnetic metals, alloys, and oxides. The inductor is compatible with integrated circuit manufacturing techniques and eliminates the need in many systems and circuits for large off chip inductors. A sense and measurement coil, which is fabricated on the same substrate as the inductor, provides the capability to measure the magnetic field or flux produced by the inductor. This on chip measurement capability supplies information that permits circuit engineers to design and fabricate on chip inductors to very tight tolerances.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kie Y. Ahn, Leonard Forbes
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Patent number: 6612020Abstract: A tubular part having a tubular main body and an integral tubular pullout projecting laterally from the side of the main body and in fluid-tight communication therewith is superplastically formed by inserting the tube in a cavity of a die base and heating the die to a temperature at which the material of which the tube is made exhibits superplastic properties. The distal end of a pull-rod is extended through an opening in the die base and through a hole in the side wall aligned with the opening. A pull-die is selected having a cross section larger than the hole and about equal to the desired internal cross section of the tubular protrusion. The pull die is attached to the distal end of the rod and (before or after attachment) is heated to about the superplastic temperature of the tubing material.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Daniel G. Sanders
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Patent number: 6612021Abstract: A wire control apparatus is provided for controlling the mounting of the ends of wires to connectors as part of a wiring harness assembling procedure. The apparatus includes supplies of wires and instructing indicators to identify which wire should be selected by an operator. The apparatus also include jigs for receiving the connectors. The apparatus then provides indicators for issuing instructions to identify the connectors to which the respective wires are to be connected and probes for testing that the wires have been connected pursuant to the instructions.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshikazu Taniguchi, Satoru Taniguchi, Kenji Chiyoda, Hajime Kato
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Patent number: 6612022Abstract: A method for manufacturing a Personal Computer Memory Common Interface Architecture (“PCMCIA”) printed circuit board (“PCB”) includes providing a PCB having a PCMCIA area and an auxiliary area. The PCMCIA area has multiple locations adapted to receive electronic components. The auxiliary area has multiple test points disposed thereon. The method also includes populating the PCMCIA area with electronic components. Testing of the PCMCIA area is next performed by electrically contacting at least some of the multiple test points within said auxiliary area. If the testing produces unsatisfactory results, diagnostics and repair are performed. After the testing produces satisfactory results, the auxiliary area is separated from the PCMCIA area to produce a populated, tested, PCMCIA PCB.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Alan Andrew Gale, Thomas Alden Fiske, Simon Korowitz
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Patent number: 6612023Abstract: A method and apparatus for printed circuit board pads with registering feature for component leads. A U-shaped metalized pad is disposed on a printed circuit board for soldering to a component lead. Solder is disposed on the pad and heated to a molten state so that surface tension and wetting effects form the molten solder into a solder mound having a U-shaped lateral cross section conforming to the U-shaped metalized pad. The solder mound has a first arm and a second arm, and a lateral aperture extending therebetween for receiving an extremity of the component lead, and registering the extremity of the component lead with respect to the pad.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Guy Lichtenwalter, Norman D. Marschke
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Patent number: 6612024Abstract: A semiconductor device with bump electrodes having acutely shaped tips and method of mounting same. The bump electrodes are brought into contact with respective portions of a conductive pattern of a mounting substrate without any foreign matter between the tips of the bump electrodes and the respective portions of the conductive pattern. Thereafter, sealing material is allowed to surround the bump electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Dai Sasaki, Tohru Terasaki, Masuo Kato, Masami Tsurumi
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Patent number: 6612025Abstract: A method for forming connections within a multi-layer electronic circuit board 10. The method includes forming an aperture within the circuit board and selectively coating the interior surface of the aperture with a polar solder mask material that is effective to bond with solder that is selectively inserted into the aperture, thereby retaining the solder within the aperture and improving the electrical connection provided by the solder.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Visteon Global Tech., Inc.Inventors: Zhong-You (Joe) Shi, Lakhi N. Goenka, Andrew Z. Glevatsky
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Patent number: 6612026Abstract: A process and system for mounting terminals with electric wires in cavities of connector housings. Press-connecting terminals are initially loaded in cavities arranged in an upper surface of a connector jig and electric wires are press-connected on the terminals in the jigs. Then, the terminals with electric wires are transferred from the connector jig to cavities arranged in a lower surface of a inserting jig by pins arranged to contact and push the terminals from below in the transfer direction. Then, the terminals are loaded from the inserting jig to cavities of connector housings from the back by blades arranged to contact and push the terminals from one end in the inserting directing.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Fujita, Yoshinobu Ota, Junichi Shirakawa, Kenji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 6612027Abstract: Metal traces and solder bump pads are formed on a semiconductor substrate by way of a semiconductor template that has been micromachined to receive solder paste material. The solder paste material is then formed into precisely controlled ball shapes and metal trace geometries. First, a semiconductor substrate is covered with a mask material for protecting selected surfaces of the substrate that are not to be etched. Next, a mask is applied in order to etch the substrate surface below. Solder ball sites and metal trace channels are formed at this time. A solder nonwettable material is applied to the exposed surfaces of the solder ball sites and the metal trace channels. A solder paste can then be applied uniformly across the surface of the substrate, thus filling in any sites and channels, or both, that are used to form the balls or metal traces desired.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Salman Akram
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Patent number: 6612028Abstract: Methods are provided for the manufacture of a conductive layer on an insulating layer and for the manufacture of a built-up circuit board, each include an innovative step of irradiating the surface of an insulating (resin) layer with ultraviolet light, so that a conventional swelling process can be eliminated or simplified.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Masaharu Shirai
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Patent number: 6612029Abstract: A method of fabricating multi-layer vertical comb-drive actuator that includes a first comb structure having a plurality of first comb fingers and a second comb structure having a plurality of second comb fingers, wherein the first and second comb fingers are substantially interdigitated. The present invention includes masking and etching of a structure that contains these multiple layers, wherein the first and second comb fingers are simultaneously fabricated. The first and second comb fingers may include two or more stacked conductive layers electrically isolated from each other by an insulating layer or an air gap. Alternatively, either the first or second comb fingers may include only one conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Onix MicrosystemsInventors: Behrang Behin, Satinderpall Pannu
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Patent number: 6612030Abstract: A seal features a first curved region generally concave in a direction of concavity, and a second curved region generally concave in the direction of the concavity of the first curved region. The second curved region is oriented within the direction of concavity of the first curved region. A first bend connects the first curved region to the second curved region, and a second bend connects the first curved region to the second curved region.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Jetseal, Inc.Inventor: Horace P. Halling
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Patent number: 6612031Abstract: A tube and method of making the same for a heat exchanger includes a base, a top spaced from and opposing the base, a first side interposed between the base and the top along one side thereof, and a second side interposed between the base and the top along another side thereof. The tube includes an end form formed solely on either one of the first side and the second side to create a stop for inserting said tube into a manifold of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eugene E. Rhodes, Greg A. Whitlow, Wen Fei Yu
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Patent number: 6612032Abstract: The invention relates to a method for attaching a semiconductor chip to an ink jet pen body and improved construction techniques therefor. According to the method a first adhesive have a cure time greater than about 15 minutes is dispensed in a predetermined pattern in one or more chip pockets of an ink jet pen body. Beads containing a second adhesive are dispensed in two or more discrete locations around an inside perimeter of each chip pocket. A semiconductor chip having chip edges is attached to the second adhesive in each of the chip pockets and the first adhesive is cured using heat or radiation. Use of a dual adhesive system improves the alignment of the semiconductor chips relative to one another until the first adhesive is completely cured.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Ashok Murthy, Richard Earl Corley, Jr., Kris Ann Reeves, Jeanne Marie Saldanha Singh, Paul Timothy Spivey
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Patent number: 6612033Abstract: A method for making a hollow crank includes a three-direction forging step to forge a piece to have a recess in a first end of the prototype; a step of forming a hollow first end of the prototype by forcing the first end through a cone-shaped passage in a mold; a step of forming the first end of the prototype to have an angle relative to the second end of the prototype; a step of setting the first end of the prototype in a cold-forging mold to set the shape of the prototype.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Cheng-Xun Jiang
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Patent number: 6612034Abstract: A hand-held electrical appliance (1) for personal care or for use as an electric tool, has a housing (2), manual actuating means (3), at least one force sensor (9) located in or on the housing (2) for supplying a sensor signal representative of the grip force exerted by the hand of a user, and control means for controlling at least one operational parameter of the appliance (1) in response to the sensor signal. In this way the user can consciously or unconsciously influence the motor speed or the spring load of the shaving heads of an electric shaver, or the motor speed of an electric drill.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Ate Klaas Damstra
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Patent number: 6612035Abstract: A drywall cutting tool provides cuts in drywall material either parallel or perpendicular to a reference edge of the sheet, without repositioning the tool from the reference edge. The tool comprises a T square, with the head and stem portions immovably affixed to one another. The stem of the tool carries a slidably adjustable cutting body thereon, with the cutting body being secured through an elongate slot formed in the center of the stem portion of the device. The cutting body carries a pair of spaced apart cutting rollers or discs, and may be turned so the cutting axes of the two discs define a line either parallel or perpendicular to the reference edge of the sheet, and thus perpendicular or parallel to the stem of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventors: Patrick H. Brown, William D. Good
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Patent number: 6612036Abstract: The edge profile cutter includes a slidable base, a first cutting blade, and a second blade. The slidable base includes a base portion, an upright portion. The upright portion extends upward from a front of the base portion. A handle portion extends upward from the base portion at substantially a middle thereof. A first blade slot is formed in a bottom of the base to receive the first cutting blade. The first cutting blade may be adjusted within the first blade slot. Preferably, a first clamp slot is formed adjacent the first blade slot to receive a first clamp. The first clamp retains the first cutting blade. A second blade slot is formed in a front of the upright portion. The second cutting blade may be adjusted within the second blade slot. A second clamp preferably retains the second cutting blade. A lengthwise notch is formed in a front bottom edge of the base portion. The lengthwise notch may be sized to receive an end of a ceiling tile or the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Michael J. Frazier