Patents Issued in October 9, 2003
  • Publication number: 20030189368
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pivotal mounting mechanism and a method of mounting an axle in an axle mount. A plug is inserted in a receptacle such as the open end of a tube which has at least one J-shaped track. The axle is held in its final position by inter-engagement of the plug and tube. The mounting mechanism is easily assembled and substantially vandal resistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Michael Andrew Fewchuk
  • Publication number: 20030189369
    Abstract: The chair comprises, for its support on the floor, a structure (16, 12) carrying a seat and a back-rest. The chair is provided with a mechanism (10) which enables the seat to be advanced relative to the back-rest, within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: COMPAS S.R.L.
    Inventor: Ugo Alampi
  • Publication number: 20030189370
    Abstract: A chair adjustment mechanism suitable for use in vehicles including aircraft. The mechanism allows the chair to be easily moved in a horizontal place and locked into any position within a boundary of this plane. This movement includes swivel movement in 360 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Nathan A. Hemmer, David C. Cox
  • Publication number: 20030189371
    Abstract: A side plate according to the invention includes a main body, a first cup-shaped feature formed of the main body, and a second cup-shaped feature formed of the first cup-shaped feature, wherein the second cup-shaped feature has a diameter smaller than the first cup-shaped feature and is oriented in the direction opposite the first cup-shaped feature. The first and second cup-shaped features form a frustum-conical segment extending generally outward from the main body. The frustum-conical segment includes a plurality of threads located about a length of a hole formed therethrough. A contact surface is disposed about the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Cecil A. Collins
  • Publication number: 20030189372
    Abstract: A pivot mechanism includes a pivot arm (14) that is rotatably mounted on a base member (1) via a pivot pin (16). The pivot mechanism includes a locking mechanism comprising a convex tooth segment (36) provided on the pivot arm and a locking member (38) having a concave tooth segment (40). The locking member (38) is mounted on the base member (1) for movement between a locked position in which the convex and concave tooth segments are engaged preventing rotation of the pivot arm (14), and an unlocked position in which the tooth segments are disengaged. The centre of curvature of the convex tooth segment (36) is offset from the centre of curvature of the concave tooth segment (40) whereby, in normal usage, the convex and concave tooth segments are only partially engaged when the locking member is in the locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: ATL Engineering (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Philip Charles Shephard
  • Publication number: 20030189373
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite wheel. The wheel is composed by mats of oriented carbon fibers. The mats are impregnated with a synthetic resin. The wheel is composed of at least two portions previously built up, which form respectively the hub and the rim of the wheel. The rim portion can, viewed from a direction perpendicular to the central axis, have a section substantially symmetric relative to a central plane of symmetry, the distance measured from a side of the section facing the central axis to the central axis predominantly increasing in the direction pointing away from the mirror plane, and the hub portion having a correspondingly comically shaped outer edge, which fittingly lies against the side of the rim portion facing the central axis over a substantial distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Jan Spoelstra
  • Publication number: 20030189374
    Abstract: A wheel end for use in a vehicle wherein the wheel end includes a side shaft wherein the side shaft having an appendage on one end thereof. The side shaft having a cylindrical cavity at a center point of the appendage. The wheel end unit also includes a spindle arranged around the appendage. A knuckle is arranged around a portion of the spindle and a portion of the side shaft. The wheel end also includes a fastener secured between the spindle and the appendage to ensure a robust connection between the spindle and the appendage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: GKN Automotive, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven C. Hahn
  • Publication number: 20030189375
    Abstract: The invention comprises a retarder system for use with road vehicles. The retarder system discloses two improvements. The first is a system incorporating a self-excited electromagnetic and hydraulic retarder combination. The second is a retarder system incorporating the use of a PMG Gear ratio which permits use of a permanent magnet generator on a secondary shaft which is coupled by the gear ratio to a drive train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Bernard A. Raad
  • Publication number: 20030189376
    Abstract: A driveline assembly for a motor vehicle includes a housing containing at least a portion of a driveline component and a wet disk brake assembly. The wet disk brake assembly includes a plurality of friction disks immersed within lubricating/cooling oil contained within the housing. Actuation of the friction disks creates a braking force to slow and stop rotation of an axle and creates heat that can cause premature deterioration of the lubricating/cooling oil that in turn can cause premature failure of driveline components and brake assembly components. An electric generator driven by a driveline component is included within the housing to provide additional braking energy to reduce the braking load on the wet disk brake assembly such that the lubricating/cooling oil maintains temperatures within acceptable predetermined operational limits without a separate oil cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Mark Schneider, Larry W. Bowman, Paul Raymond Sieber, Robert W. Hildebrand, Michael Everett Johnson, James R. Brichta
  • Publication number: 20030189377
    Abstract: A track assembly for moving a vehicle which includes a track having lugs including both drive and guide portions on its inner surface. The guide portions substantially abut against the track rollers of the assembly. Such abutment maintains alignment of the track between those rollers so as to prevent it from moving from side to side and interfering with feeding of the drive portions onto the assembly drive sprocket. Further, the guide portions grab against the drive sprocket to maintain contact of the drive portions therewith. Each of the above functions permits uninterrupted movement of the vehicle since the track is enabled to move in a continued path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Earl Fleming Wright, Andrew Edward Modzik, Donald Rodney Flatau
  • Publication number: 20030189378
    Abstract: The method for mains-synchronous switching of circuit breakers comprises the following method steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: ABB Technology AG
    Inventor: Michael Stanek
  • Publication number: 20030189379
    Abstract: A rotor 1 can prevent from cracking a magnet when molding the rotor and a molding die for the rotor can prevent from reducing yield of rotors. The rotor 1 formed into disk shape includes a rotor body 12 and an annular shape magnet 13. The rotor body 12 has inner and outer cover portions 18, 19 for covering respectively inner and outer surfaces 13a, 13b of the magnet 13, and first and second end cover portions 20, 21 for covering respectively one end face 13c and the other end face 13d of the magnet 13. The rotor 1 is formed by injection molding with the molding die, whose a cavity receives the magnet 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Aono
  • Publication number: 20030189380
    Abstract: A lightweight regenerative brake having a large braking force is provided. A regenerative brake 1 comprises a brake disc (10) and a pair of stators (20) to perform regenerative braking. This regenerative brake (1) reduces the heat generated in the brake disc (10), because a part of the kinetic energy of a railway car is regenerated by generation of electricity in a tertiary circuit of the power source side when the brake is applied, and consequently the amount of energy converted into heat energy is decreased. Compared to a conventional regenerative brake, this regenerative brake (1) enables the disc (10) to be made thinner and dispenses with a cooling device such as a fan. Accordingly, a small-sizes and lightweight brake having a large braking force can be constituted using this regenerative brake (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Sakae Ishikawa, Tsutomu Saito, Kenji Sato, Shigeyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20030189381
    Abstract: A cover for an electric motor including at least one lead wire. The cover includes an inner face, an outer face, and at least one opening extending therebetween. The opening is defined by a perimeter including at least one groove extending between the inner face and the outer face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Gaddam Reddy
  • Publication number: 20030189382
    Abstract: A high speed generator with a hydraulic rotor mounting system that dampens rotor vibrations at the rotor's critical speeds. Oil is supplied to a gap formed between the outer race of the rotor bearing assembly and the bearing liner. The oil provides soft bearing support for, and viscous damping of, the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Gerald E. Tornquist, Gregor McDowall
  • Publication number: 20030189383
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing arrangement (1) for a motion element, having the following features: the magnetic bearing arrangement has a stator. The magnetic bearing arrangement has a passive magnetic bearing (3, 8, 9) for lateral guidance of the motion element (2) and a controllable magnetic bearing (3, 5) for guidance of the motion element perpendicular to the guidance by way of the passive magnetic bearing. The controllable magnetic bearing has an electronic stabilization device; the stabilization device has an electrical conductor (6, 7) that can have an electrical control current applied to it by the stabilization device and that is associated with the stator element (5) in such a way that the magnetization of the stator element is influenced by the control current. The controllable magnetic bearing has a permanent magnet (3); the permanent magnet is arranged on the motion element opposite the stator element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Johan K Fremerey
  • Publication number: 20030189384
    Abstract: A direct current motor is comprised of an armature, magnets arranged to face each other through the armature, a commutator and brushes. The armature has a core and a plurality of coils wound on the core. Each magnet has a main part and an extension extending form the main part. The main part has an angular interval which corresponds to an interval of winding each coil, so that the extension is positioned outside the coil in the circumferential direction. During the commutation period of the coil, that is, during shorting of the coil by the brush, the amount of magnetic flux passing through the coil is changed by the extension of the magnet. Thus, an induction voltage is generated in the coil to counteract to a reactance voltage of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Harada, Takeshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20030189385
    Abstract: A DC motor has a stator that is constituted as a hybrid magnet. The stator has a plurality of electromagnets and permanent magnets that are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator. Fixed cores of the electromagnets have pole cores that have an approximately arched cross-sectional shape. When direct current is supplied to fixed coils, the pole cores are alternately magnetized to be N- and S-poles in the circumferential direction of the stator. The permanent magnets are anisotropic magnets. The inner surface of the permanent magnet includes a first portion that is arranged in one of both sides in the circumferential direction and magnetized to be an S-pole and a second portion that is arranged in the other of both sides in the circumferential direction and magnetized to be an N-pole. The first portion contacts the pole core that is magnetized to be an S-pole and the second portion contacts the pole core that is magnetized to be an N-pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20030189386
    Abstract: An axial flux machine comprises: a soft magnetic composite stator extension positioned in parallel with a rotor disk and having slots; soft magnetic composite pole pieces attached to the stator extension and facing a permanent magnet on the rotor disk, each comprising a protrusion situated within a respective one of the slots, each protrusion shaped so as to facilitate orientation of the respective pole piece with respect to the stator extension; electrical coils, each wrapped around a respective one of the pole pieces. In another embodiment the soft magnetic composite pole pieces each comprise a base portion around with the electrical coils are wound and a trapezoidal shield portion a plurality of heights with a first height in a first region being longer than a second height in a second region, the second region being closer to a pole-to-pole gap than the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ralph James Carl
  • Publication number: 20030189387
    Abstract: The invention provides a stator for a dynamo-electric machine capable of preventing deterioration of efficiency. In the stator for dynamo-electric machine of which rotor is disposed inside the stator, a stator core 11 comprises: an inside ring core 9 formed annularly by laminating plate-type magnetic members in which a plurality of teeth are provided on one side of a yoke portion, disposing coils 8 in slots each formed between the teeth, bending the plate-type magnetic members so that the coils 8 are located inside, and bringing two end faces into contact with each other; and an outside ring core 10, being made of magnetic members and formed cylindrical in shape, which is fitted on outside of the inside ring 9 and holds the inside ring core 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuuji Nakahara, Naohiro Oketani, Katsumi Adachi, Akira Morishita, Hiroshi Matsui, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Takushi Takizawa, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20030189388
    Abstract: A power unit assembly comprises a pair of mirrored axial flux electric motors having a common axis of rotation, each axial flux motor including a rotor disposed on a rotor shaft and at least one stator disposed in operative relationship to said rotor. A common end plate is disposed between each of said pair of axial flux electric motors to provide a common mounting structure, while an output hub is operatively coupled to each rotor shaft of the pair of mirrored axial flux electric motors. Each of the pair of mirrored axial flux electric motors is operatively configured to provide independent speed and torque to each associated output hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Fukuo Hashimoto, Rao-Sheng Zhou, Mircea Gradu
  • Publication number: 20030189389
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for driving a two-axis MEMS mirror using three non-contact actuation elements or electrodes. A differential bi-directional mirror control uses unipolar drive voltages biased at a suitable value. Transformation functions map two-axis tip-tilt commands to three actuation drive signals for selected electrode orientations and sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Glimmerglass Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Andres Fernandez, William C. Dickson
  • Publication number: 20030189390
    Abstract: An electrostatic actuator comprises first and second stator sections having a first electrode array arranged in a first direction, and a second electrode array of electrodes extending in the first direction, respectively. A movable section having fifth and sixth electrodes arranged to face the first and second electrode arrays, respectively, is arranged between the first and second stator sections. A driving circuit alternately performs a first driving operation in which a DC voltage is applied between the adjacent electrodes of the first electrode array and a second driving operation in which a DC voltage is applied between the electrodes of the second electrode array. The voltage application is successively performed by deviating the positions of the electrodes to which the voltage is applied so as to move the movable section in the first direction while vibrating the movable section between the first and second stator sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Akihiro Koga, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Shunsuke Hattori, Akihiro Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20030189391
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe has a strip-shaped piezoelectric unit having a uniform thickness and a grounding electrode formed on the top surface, a backing material, and an acoustic matching layer bonded on the top surface of the piezoelectric unit. A conductive film is formed on a protrusively curved top surface of the backing material for applying a signal thereto for driving the piezoelectric unit. A conductive adhesive is applied between the backing material and the bottom surface of the piezoelectric unit. The conductive adhesive has a thickness which varies along the longitudinal direction of the piezoelectric unit, thereby causing a larger driving current to flow at the center of the piezoelectric unit in the longitudinal direction, and a smaller driving current to flow at both ends of the piezoelectric unit to suppress side lobes in generated ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Yasuo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20030189392
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drawer fixing mechanism for fixing a drawer to a desk without using screws and rivets, so that it prevents the drawer from being deformed, shifted or separated from the desk by impact applied to the desk. The fixing mechanism comprises a fixing member outwardly extending along upper edges of a drawer and having insertion holes corresponding to the through holes and an insertion groove at its bottom, an intermediate frame combined with a stand, and bots and nuts for assembling elements of the desk. The intermediate frame has a plurality of connection holes formed to correspond to the insertion holes. The bolts are inserted into the through holes of an upper panel, the insertion holes of the fixing member combined with the drawer, and the connection holes of the intermediate frame in order, and the nuts are combined with the respective bolts at the bottom of the intermediate frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Hyuk-Koo Park
  • Publication number: 20030189393
    Abstract: A furniture accessory kit is designed to support portable computers in office partition systems of the type having slat wall panels on which detachable office amenities, such as paper trays, etc. can be hung. A horizontal shelf accessory supports a portable computer thereon, and includes a connector that detachably mounts the shelf to an associated slat wall panel in a cantilevered horizontal orientation. The shelf has a wire trough to mange wiring associated with the portable computer. A sleeve-shaped accessory unit with a hollow interior for retaining computer accessories therein is configured to be hung on the slat wall panel directly above the shelf. A wire management device to retain wires associated with the portable computer is configured to be hung on the slat wall panel near the shelf and the accessory unit. A security devices for securing the portable computer to the slat wall and which is configured to be hung on the slat wall panel near the shelf and the accessory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Gregg R. Draudt, William C. Stewart, Andrew H. Carlson, Russell P. Whitaker, Mark D. Swets, Joseph D. Ruedinger
  • Publication number: 20030189394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet that comprises a frame stand provided with having vertical frame profiles. According to the invention, a lateral casing is attached on at least one side of the frame stand to two vertical frame profiles that are assigned to the side. A mounting wall is arranged at a distance from the lateral casing while facing the interior of the switchgear cabinet. A cable installation space is formed between the mounting wall and the lateral casing, and the mounting wall is detachably fastened to the frame stand by means of retaining elements. The aim of the invention is to increase the number of possible ways of installing cables in a switchgear cabinet of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Marc Hartel
  • Publication number: 20030189395
    Abstract: A self-closing slide is movable between an open position and a closed position. The slide includes a frame, a linear gear on the frame and a carriage configured for movement along the frame. A biasing element operably connects the frame and the carriage to bias the carriage to the closed position. A pinion gear is carried by the carriage and is positioned for movement along the linear gear with movement of the carriage along the frame. A damper is operably connected to the pinion gear and to the carriage and an engagement gear is operably mounted to the carriage and to the damper. The engagement gear is movable between a first, engaged position in which the engagement gear engages the damper and a second, disengaged position in which the engagement gear disengages the damper. When the carriage is moved from the open position toward the closed position, the engagement gear is in the second, disengaged position to disengage the damper so that the pinion gear rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: David A. Doornbos, Steven L. Bivens
  • Publication number: 20030189396
    Abstract: A field emission element includes a substrate, a cathode conductor disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer structure on the cathode conductor that has a first insulating layer on the cathode conductor and a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, a gate disposed on the second insulating layer, a gate hole provided through the gate and the insulating layer structure to expose a portion of the cathode conductor therethrough, and an emitter on the exposed portion of the cathode conductor in the gate hole. The first insulating layer is covered by the second insulating layer at a side surface of the gate hole and a dielectric constant of the first insulating layer is different from that of the second insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Niiyama, Mitsuru Tanaka, Yuji Obara
  • Publication number: 20030189397
    Abstract: Color cathode-ray tube comprising a color selection mask (16) held under tension between a first pair of opposed long sides (30) of an approximately rectangular metal frame (21), a main magnetic screen (22) placed at the rear of the frame in the funnel-shaped part (11) of the tube's envelope, and additional means (50) for forming a screen against the Earth's magnetic field in the part lying along the second pair of opposed short sides of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Goffredo Antonelli, Cesare De Paolis, Giuseppe Giannantonio, Paolo Ginesti
  • Publication number: 20030189398
    Abstract: An inline electron gun for use in a multi-beam electron gun as in a color cathode ray tube (CRT) includes a main focus lens for focusing the electron beams on the CRT's display screen for providing a video image. The main focus lens includes plural charged grids aligned in a spaced manner along the electron gun's longitudinal axis through which plural (typically three) electron beams are directed. One or more of these charged grids includes at least two aligned common apertures for passing the three electron beams. The layered common aperture arrangement allows for increasing the length of the electron gun as well as the effective diameter of the electron gun's main focus lens for improved video image resolution without introducing electron beam astigmatism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hsing-Yao Chen, Yu-Kun Ma, Hsiang-Lin Chang, Chun-Hsien Yeh
  • Publication number: 20030189399
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device having high-contrast and/or high-reliability is provided. The electroluminescent device comprises a pair of electrodes—at least one of which is transparent to electroluminescent light, and a phosphor layer which is disposed between the electrodes. The phosphor layer has a host crystal lattice, a first dopant and a second dopant. The first dopant cooperates with the host crystal lattice to cause light emission when a voltage is applied across the pair of electrodes, and the second dopant further distributes the first dopant in the host crystal lattice to increase light emission from the phosphor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Alexey N. Krasnov, Peter Hofstra, Richard P. Wood
  • Publication number: 20030189400
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL panel is provided, which is capable of forming an organic luminescent layer without scratching an organic layer formed beneath. An organic luminescent layer is formed by evaporating an organic luminescent material over a hole injecting electrode by placing a mask used to evaporate a luminescent layer to be kept spaced apart from a substrate. By placing the mask while a bottom surface thereof is brought into contact with top surfaces of spacers, it is possible to space apart the mask from a hole transporting layer formed over the substrate. Although it is necessary to fine-tune the position of the mask during the color-layer successive deposition step of the organic luminescent layers, by performing the positioning while the mask is kept spaced apart from the substrate, it is possible to reduce a possibility that the mask scratches the hole transporting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nishio, Hiroshi Matsuki
  • Publication number: 20030189401
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes at least two light-emissive units provided between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode opposed to the cathode electrode, each of the light-emissive units including at least one light-emissive layer. The light-emissive units are partitioned from each other by at least one charge generation layer, the charge generation layer being an electrically insulating layer having a resistivity of not less than 1.0×102 &OHgr;cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: International Manufacturing and Engineering Services Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Kido, Takeshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20030189402
    Abstract: A flexible photovoltaically powered display, which may be utilized in a wide variety of display contexts including retail shelf systems, is described. The photovoltaic cell is preferably activated by ambient light (e.g., fluorescent or incandescent).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Konarka Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Gaudiana, Alan Montello
  • Publication number: 20030189403
    Abstract: Disclosed is a support which comprises a flexible substrate and provided thereon, one or two or more polymer layers and one or two or more sealing layers, wherein at least one of the polymer layers and the sealing layers is formed by a process comprising the steps of exciting a reactive gas at a space between opposed electrodes at atmospheric pressure or approximately atmospheric pressure by electric discharge to be in the plasma state, and exposing the flexible substrate, the polymer layer or the sealing layer to the reactive gas in the plasma state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Taketoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Kita
  • Publication number: 20030189404
    Abstract: The invention relates to an incandescent lamp for a motor vehicle headlight. The secondary filament (2) is arranged in such a way that, in a projection plane that is arranged perpendicular to the reference plane (B), the edge (2a), facing the antidazzle device (4), of the image, projected onto the projection plane, of the second incandescent filament (2) is arranged over the entire length of the second incandescent filament (2) between the reference axis (A) and the antidazzle device (4), and the edge (2a), facing the antidazzle device (4), of the image, projected to the scale 1:1 onto the projection plane, of the second incandescent filament (2) has a prescribed spacing from the reference axis (A). It is thereby possible to produce the light/dark boundary for the lower beam with the aid of the edge (2a) of the secondary filament image (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCH GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Behr, Manfred Buhler, Christian Seichter, Klaus Wittmann
  • Publication number: 20030189405
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for forming ribs for a plasma display panel. The method includes: forming a rib material layer having a predetermined thickness; forming band-shaped barrier rib masks on the rib material layer, each of the barrier rib masks having a pattern corresponding to a barrier rib; forming at least one dummy rib mask for forming at least one dummy rib for each barrier rib, the dummy rib mask being spaced apart from an end of each barrier rib mask in a longitudinal direction of the barrier rib mask; and performing sandblast by blowing abrasive onto the rib material layer and the barrier rib and dummy rib masks, thereby forming the barrier ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shirakawa, Akihiro Fujinaga, Kazunori Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20030189406
    Abstract: A metal halide lamp with ceramic discharge vessel (4), the discharge vessel having two ends (6) that are sealed with ceramic stoppers that in each case contain an elongated capillary tube (12), termed stopper capillary below, of inside diameter K, and wherein an electrically conducting lead-through (9, 10), which comprises an inner part (14) and an outer part (13) with reference to the discharge, is guided through this stopper capillary (12) and is sealed outside with glass solder (18), there being fastened on the lead-through an electrode (16) with a stem (15) that projects into the interior of the discharge vessel, the outside diameter S of the inner part being coordinated with the inside diameter K, the inner part (14) being a composite component that comprises a core pin (18) of diameter D onto which there is mounted as a double ply a coil with an effective diameter d of the core wire, the following relationships being fulfilled:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCH GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Roland Huttinger, Stefan Juengst, Ruediger Klam, Dieter Lang
  • Publication number: 20030189407
    Abstract: An ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp which is small and has high light radiation intensity and moreover good color reproduction with high efficiency in which, even with a large amount of mercury added, a failure of the mercury to vaporize in the bulb part does not occur, and in which blackening of the bulb part due to wearing of the electrodes even under a large electrode load as a result of shortening of the distance between the electrodes is low is obtained by an ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp in which a bulb part of the discharge vessel made of translucent material has an essentially ovoid shape, is filled with at least 0.2 mg/mm3 of mercury and which is operated at an input wattage of at most 400 W using direct current, has the length D of the tip area of the anode and the length L of the bulb part in the direction of the tube axis of the lamp set in accordance with the relationship D≧L/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuji Hirao
  • Publication number: 20030189408
    Abstract: A compact fused silica, electroded HID lamp for automotive forward lighting, which contains no mercury. The lamps voltage, approximately 40 volts, is developed in this lamp by vaporizing zinc iodide instead of mercury. A compromise between voltage and luminous flux is achieved through the choice of the sodium scandium (Na:Sc) molar ratio, between 4.5:1 and 6:1 and a zinc iodide (ZnI2) dose of 2 to 6 micrograms per cubic millimeter that permits the lamp to operate within the North America, European and Japanese automotive color specifications for white light. The voltage in the lamp can be controlled according to the zinc iodide doping level without seriously impacting the visible spectrum otherwise provided by the other known dopants in the lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Walter P. Lapatovich, Sharon Ernest, Susan L. Callahan, Robert J. Karlotski, Janice T. Karlotski
  • Publication number: 20030189409
    Abstract: A mercury vapor discharge fluorescent lamp is provided that has a mercury barrier. The mercury barrier is effective to inhibit mercury atoms from absorbing into the glass envelope and amalgamating with sodium atoms in the envelope. The mercury barrier is substantially non-mercury absorptive, both when the lamp is on and when it is off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Curtis E. Scott, Judith A. Scott, Edward E. Hammer, Jon B. Jansma
  • Publication number: 20030189410
    Abstract: This invention provides a light emitting device in which each pixel has three sub-pixels for emitting different colors, comprising a signal correction circuit for correcting gradation information of each signal depending on the light emitting index of each sub-pixels, characterized in that; the signal correction circuit has a means to calculate a signal having gradation information according to the following formulae; multiplying the gradation information of the signal input into the three sub-pixels by (1/&agr;):(1/&bgr;):(1/&ggr;), when the ratio of the light emitting indexes of the three sub-pixels is &agr;:&bgr;:&ggr;.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Yamazaki, Aya Anzai, Mitsuaki Osame
  • Publication number: 20030189411
    Abstract: A ballast system for use with a fluorescent lamp having two filaments disposed at opposite ends of the lamp. The ballast system has a DC input terminal for connection to a DC voltage source or for receiving a rectified DC signal. The ballast system also includes a capacitor operably connected between the DC input terminal and the lamp and an inductor, wherein the lamp operably connects the capacitor in series with the inductor. The ballast system further includes a first power transistor operably connected to a junction joining the DC input terminal to the capacitor and a second power transistor operably connected to drive the first power transistor. The emitter of the first power transistor and the collector of the second power transistor are operably connected to the inductor such that the two power transistors sense a change in voltage across the inductor and control current from the DC voltage source to the capacitor in response to a change in voltage across the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Sri Sridharan
  • Publication number: 20030189412
    Abstract: An improved lighting fixture is disclosed, having a plurality of groups of distinct light-emitting devices, e.g., light-emitting diodes, that can be controlled to produce a beam of light having a wide variety of complex luminous flux spectra, including but not limited to spectra that closely emulate that of any one of a number of conventional light sources, with or without a conventional chemical dye filter. Each group of light-emitting devices is configured to emit light having a distinct luminous flux spectrum. A controller supplies selected amounts of electrical power to two or more groups of the plurality of groups of light-emitting devices, such that the groups cooperate to produce a composite beam of light having a selected luminous flux spectrum. The spectrum can be controlled to have a normalized mean deviation across the visible spectrum, relative to that of a beam of light to be emulated, of less than about 30%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: David W. Cunningham
  • Publication number: 20030189413
    Abstract: A brushless motor having a control circuit with a heat detector has a rotor, a stator with two coils and a control circuit. The control circuit has a driver IC connected to the two coils, a Hall element connected to the driver IC, a heat detector connected to driver IC and an AC to DC converter connected to an AC power source. The AC to DC converter provides converted DC power to the driver IC, the coils and the Hall element to make them operate normally. Therefore, the motor can directly use the AC power source by the control circuit. The motor has a function for automatically adjusting rotational speed of the motor by the heat detector to decrease power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Hsin-Mao Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20030189414
    Abstract: An edge detector 15 of an ASIC 3 detects a pass timing signal indicating a timing in which slits of a slit plate pass light emitting and receiving elements of a photo interrupter, and the rotation direction of a transfer roller based on phase-A and phase-B signals from an encoder 56. A position counter 16 counts the pass timing signal in accordance with the rotation direction of the transfer roller. When a count comparator 17 detects the agreement of the count value of the position counter 16 with the set value of a stop position setting register 12, a stop position processor 22 counts a delay time, and outputs a stop command signal of an LF motor to a PWM generator 8 in the timing of agreement with the set value of a time setting register 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazushige Muroi, Masatoshi Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20030189415
    Abstract: Pulse variable information is used to control at least obstacle detection and also, optionally, speed of movement of a movable barrier. In one embodiment, pursuant to a learning mode the movable barrier is moved and, while moving the movable barrier, at least one pulse variable that corresponds to movement of the movable barrier at a desired speed is measured and used to determine at least one predetermined threshold that corresponds to a level of excessive force as exerted by the movable barrier. This threshold can then be used during an operating mode to facilitate detection of barrier obstacles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventor: James Fitzgibbon
  • Publication number: 20030189416
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell with integrated humidification, comprising a cathode-side or anode-side humidification unit with a heat exchanger, a condensate separator, a capillary tube and a Venturi nozzle and/or pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Scholta, Ludwig Jorrisen, Bernd Gaugler
  • Publication number: 20030189417
    Abstract: A battery charger with charging parameter values derived from communication with a battery pack to be charged. Communication is over a one-wire bus with battery pack transmissions in response to charger inquiries. The battery charger may be in the form an integrated circuit driving a power transistor or other controllable DC supply. A battery pack may contain a program with multiple charging currents and charging interval termination methods such as time, temperature rise, and incremental voltage polarity. A lack of communication may be invoke a default charging program or denial of access to the charger. The charger also communicates over a high-speed three-wire bus with an external computer for analysis of identification information acquired from the battery and for control of the charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Donald R. Dias, Robert D. Lee