Patents Issued in October 30, 2003
  • Publication number: 20030200989
    Abstract: The cleaning device may clean probe elements. The probe elements may be the probe elements of a probe card testing apparatus for testing semiconductor wafers or semiconductor dies on a semiconductor wafer or the probe elements of a handling/testing apparatus for testing the leads of a packaged integrated circuit. During the cleaning of the probe elements, the probe card or the handler/tester is cleaned during the normal operation of the testing machine without removing the probe card from the prober. The cleaning device may be placed within the prober or tester/handler similar to a wafer containing semiconductor dies to be tested so that the probe elements of the testing machine contact the cleaning medium periodically to remove debris and/or reshape the tips of the probe elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: International Test Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan E. Humphrey, Billie Jogce Freeze
  • Publication number: 20030200990
    Abstract: A writing implement having a forward-positioned eraser, and method. The eraser circumscribes the shaft of the writing implement, and may have an annular or doughnut shape. The eraser may be affixed to the shaft portion, for example where used with a fixed-length writing implement such as a mechanical pencil or erasable pen. The eraser may, alternatively, be slidable along the shaft portion, which would make the eraser useable with a sharpenable pencil, the length of which will be changed as a result of sharpening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Daniel Kamrath Weiss
  • Publication number: 20030200991
    Abstract: A dual texture coform nonwoven web prepared from meltblown filaments and at least one secondary material is disclosed. The dual texture coform nonwoven web is useful as cleaning pads, wipes, mops, among other articles of manufacture. One surface of the dual texture coform nonwoven web contains coarse filaments, which impart an abrasive characteristic to this surface of the nonwoven web and the other surface contains fine filaments, which impart a non-abrasive or soft surface to the nonwoven web. Also disclosed is the process of producing the dual texture coform nonwoven web, method of using the dual texture coform nonwoven web as a wipe, mop, and the like, along with cleaning kits containing the coform nonwoven web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Elizabeth Keck, Charlene Bendu Harris
  • Publication number: 20030200992
    Abstract: A washing station and method for removing debris and oil from landscape maintenance equipment vehicles includes a self-contained pressurized washing system that separates the washing water from solids, washes the solids, captures the oil and debris, recycles the filtered water and prevents contamination of the surrounding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Mechanical Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Sidney Goldman
  • Publication number: 20030200993
    Abstract: A portable apparatus cleaning a conduit including a housing, a filter and a pump. The filter is attached to the conduit to be cleaned and an aqueous solution reservoir, and is storable within the housing. The pump is attached to the aqueous solution reservoir, and to the conduit to be cleaned, and is storable within the housing. A method for cleaning a conduit, which includes connecting a power supply to a pump, connecting an aqueous solution reservoir to the pump, connecting a conduit to be cleaned to the pump, connecting the conduit to be cleaned to a filter, connecting the filter to the aqueous solution reservoir, running the pump for a specified period of time, disconnecting the aqueous solution reservoir from the pump and filter, connecting the pump and filter to a container of distilled water, and running the pump for at least one cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Luis Gierbolini, Dennis J. Goss
  • Publication number: 20030200994
    Abstract: A cleaning/polishing pad has a first surface with raised, substantially nubs, having a length greater than a width, arranged adjacent each other forming laterally alternating rows of nubs and having troughs interspersed therebetween, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thickness. The troughs, which may contain polishing/cleaning chemicals, are divided into first and second groups of substantially parallel troughs. The groups of troughs are arranged at an angle to one another forming a hatch pattern. The pad can be formed to make roller brushes, circular brushes or manual wipes. For the circular brushes the nubs are arranged adjacent each other forming laterally alternating concentric circles of nubs. Micropores are interspersed within the pad having a gradient of pores with smaller pores towards the first surface and larger pores towards the second. There are no sharp edges or corners in/on the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: BERKSHIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Harald A. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20030200995
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for substantially cleaning fill from a borehole, variously including in preferred embodiments disturbing particulate solids of fill while RIH, entraining particulates while POOH, jetting downhole while RIH and jetting uphole while POOH, and controlling at least one of a pump rate regime or a POOH rate regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: BJ Services Company
    Inventors: Scott A. Walker, Jeff Li, Graham Wilde
  • Publication number: 20030200996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of cleaning a wafer chuck (10) by an automated system that supplies a solvent to a chuck surface (12), washes the chuck surface (12), and dries the chuck surface (12) by spinning the chuck (10), in one embodiment. In another embodiment, the chuck surface (12) is dried by pulling a vacuum on the chuck surface (12) or flowing a gas on the chuck surface (12). Additionally, a brush can be used to wash the chuck surface (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: William Mark Hiatt, Karl E. Mautz
  • Publication number: 20030200997
    Abstract: On-Line and Off-Line methods of simultaneously cleaning and disinfecting an industrial water system are described and claimed. The methods involve the addition to the water of the industrial water system of a Compound selected from the group consisting of the alkali salts of chlorite and chlorate and mixtures thereof; and an acid, followed by allowing the water in the industrial water system to circulate for several hours. The reaction of the alkali salts of chlorite and chlorate and acid produces chlorine dioxide in-situ in the water of the industrial water system. The chlorine dioxide kills microorganisms and the acid acts to remove deposits upon the water-contact surfaces of the equipment. An alternative method involves the use of a chelating agent and a biocide. Other possible cleaning and disinfection reagents may be added as needed including corrosion inhibitors, chelating agents, biocides, surfactants and reducing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Jasbir S. Gill, Amit Gupta
  • Publication number: 20030200998
    Abstract: A pressure washer including a first container adapted to contain a first liquid, a second container adapted to contain a second liquid, a valve, a first conduit fluidly connecting the first container to the valve, and a second conduit fluidly connecting the second container to the valve. The pressure washer also includes a single engine-powered pump and a mixing device. The pump is adapted to receive water from a water source, and the mixing device adapted to receive water from the pump. The mixing device is adapted to mix at least one of the first and liquids received from the valve with the water received from the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Power Products Group, LLC
    Inventors: Herb Hoenisch, Peter Nushart, Wes Sodemann
  • Publication number: 20030200999
    Abstract: A device for cleansing skin includes a small cup forming a cavity and a spray nozzle connected to a source of cleansing fluid. The cup is easily manipulated to place the edge of the cup on the surface of skin to be cleansed so that the nozzle is aimed at the skin. The cup prevents splattering of the fluid. A drain line may be included in the cup to drain spent washing fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Arthur F. Clark
  • Publication number: 20030201000
    Abstract: A process chamber assembly for use with a substrate and a flow of process fluid includes a vessel and a spray member. The vessel defines a chamber. The spray member includes at least one spray port formed therein adapted to distribute the flow of process fluid onto the substrate in the chamber. The spray member is operative to rotate about a rotational axis relative to the vessel responsive to a flow of the process fluid out of the spray member through the at least one spray port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Steven Lee Worm, Michael E. Cole
  • Publication number: 20030201001
    Abstract: A wet cleaning device for chemically cleaning a plurality of wafers. The wet cleaning device includes a plurality of first chemical cleaning tanks for conducting a first cleaning procedure, a plurality of second chemical cleaning tanks for conducting a second cleaning procedure, a transferring tank including a first measuring device for measuring the wafers after the first cleaning procedure, a measuring tank including a second measuring device for measuring the wafers after the second cleaning procedure, a first transporting device, and a second transporting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hsin-Ta Chien, Hsuang-Sheng Tung, Ching-Yuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20030201002
    Abstract: A slurry tank autocleaner for cleaning an empty slurry tank. A first pipe is inserted in the interior of the slurry tank, where the first pipe has an open end located inside the slurry tank. A first nozzle is disposed on the open end of the first pipe. A cover is used to cover the slurry tank, where the cover has a plurality of second nozzles targeting the slurry tank. A second pipe is connected to the second nozzles. A controller is used to control chemical, pure water or dry gas to spurt from the first nozzle and the second nozzles through the first pipe and the second pipe. Thus, the slurry tank can be automatically cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Nanya Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Kun Chen, Ming Fa Tsai
  • Publication number: 20030201003
    Abstract: A single wafer type wet-cleaning technique for wet-cleaning wafers, individually, which are not stored in a cassette, at the front and back faces thereof simultaneously, in a sealed cleaning housing, whereby a plurality of chemical fluids are vertically and sequentially supplied from a number of upper side supply nozzles 25 and lower side supply nozzles 26 to the front and back faces of each wafer W to clean the same, and purified water is always caused to flow out of the lower side supply nozzles 26, 26, . . . , which do not supply chemical fluids, of the lower side supply nozzles, thereby preventing the occurrence of cross contamination of various chemical fluids between cleaning treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: S.E.S Company Limited
    Inventors: Yuji Ono, Ryoichi Ohkura
  • Publication number: 20030201004
    Abstract: An eyeglass cleaning station with a wash chamber and tissue dispenser. The wash chamber has removable nozzles for adjusting spray and a primer bulb pump that operates by hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: James Cooley
  • Publication number: 20030201005
    Abstract: This patent application is for a camera-mounted umbrella designed to protect a photographic or video camera against unfavorable weather conditions. The invention consists of three primary components—a small, foldable umbrella head; a short umbrella shaft; and a camera attachment bracket. The umbrella shaft again consists of two components—a rigid component to which the umbrella head is attached and a flexible component to which the camera attachment bracket is fixed. The camera attachment bracket is a hot shoe bracket, enabling the umbrella to be mounted onto the camera body via the camera's hot shoe. Thus, the user of the invention is able to protect his/her camera and lens against rain and/or excessive sunlight while retaining full operational control over the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Thomas Hilmersen
  • Publication number: 20030201006
    Abstract: The present invention includes an open-loop AMTEC cell operable in a delivery mode and in a priming mode. In the delivery mode, the cell provides electrical potential through electrochemical reactions, which persist until the ion content of the cell is exhausted. In the priming mode, the electrochemical potential of the cell is established through an outside electrical potential or through a reversal of the thermal gradient within the cell. The cell of the present invention is particularly operable in accordance with a preferred method and also as a component of a suitable electrical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Robert K. Sievers, David A. Butkiewicz, Robert W. Fletcher, Thomas K. Hunt
  • Publication number: 20030201007
    Abstract: A planar concentrator solar power module has a planar base, an aligned array of linear photovoltaic cell circuits on the base and an array of linear Fresnel lenses or linear mirrors for directing focused solar radiation on the aligned array of linear photovoltaic cell circuits. The cell circuits are mounted on a back panel which may be a metal back plate. The cell circuit area is less than a total area of the module. Each linear lens or linear mirror has a length greater than a length of the adjacent cell circuit. The cell circuit may have cells mounted in shingle fashion to form a shingled-cell circuit. In an alternative module, linear extrusions on the circuit element have faces for mounting the linear mirrors for deflecting sun rays impinging on each mirror onto the shingled-cells. The linear extrusions are side-wall and inner extrusions with triangular cross-sections. The circuit backplate is encapsulated by lamination for weather protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Lewis M. Fraas, Jany X. Fraas, Han Xiang Huang, James E. Avery
  • Publication number: 20030201008
    Abstract: An array of elongated concave parabolic trough-shaped reflectors is disclosed. The orientation of the array is biaxially kept essentially perpendicular to rays of the sun by an optical control such that sunlight is reflected and concentrated along a focal line of each elongated reflector by which (a) water in a tube disposed at the focal line is heated by reflected line focused sunlight impinged thereon and/or (b) line focused reflected sunlight is optically transformed into point focused reflected sunlight using Fresnel lenses from which electricity is generated using solar cells upon which the point focused reflected sunlight is impinged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Paul Lawheed
  • Publication number: 20030201009
    Abstract: Herein described is a photovoltaic module (30) that comprises a rectangular module body (61) and a frame (60) secured to the sides of the body. The frame is composed of an upper bar (63), a lower bar (64) and a pair of side bars (65 and 66). The upper bar (63) has an insertion projection (71) projecting from a part which is middle in thickness direction of the upper bar. The projection (71) is thinner than the upper bar (63).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeharu Nakajima, Kazunari Iwamoto, Haruhiko Ito, Ichiro Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20030201010
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell includes a first substrate having on its surface a first electrode layer having on its surface a semiconductor film on which a photosensitizer is adsorbed, and a second substrate having on its surface a second electrode layer. The first and second substrates are arranged so that the first electrode layer overlaid with the semiconductor film and the second electrode layer are opposite each other with an electrolyte disposed therebetween. Spacer particles are interposed between the semiconductor film and the second electrode layer, and at least one of the electrode-layer-having substrates is transparent. A coating liquid for forming the semiconductor film includes both a component for forming the semiconductor film as well as the spacer particles, dispersed in a dispersion medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Catalysts & Chemicals Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuguo Koyanagi, Michio Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20030201011
    Abstract: Pipeline stopping tools for use in temporarily stopping flow in a pipeline have features for centering a conduit or cable within the pipeline. The conduit or cable is guided into a recess, to avoid damage as the pipeline is squeezed closed. Alternative pipeline stopping stools have features for sealing against both the inside walls of the pipeline and against the cable. In a first tool, a linkage on a handle drives seal lips on a seal ring to engage around and seal against the cable in the pipeline, while the outer edges of the seal ring seal against the inside walls of the pipeline. The linkage includes jaws which force the seal lips against the cable. In a second tool, a resilient seal is attached over a center plate and side plates pivotably attached to the center plate. A linkage drives the center plates from an open to a closed position. A cable recess in the seal ring seals against the cable while the outside edges of the seal ring seal against the pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Sempra Fiber Links
    Inventors: Scott A. Beals, Ronald D. Hammer, Robert E. Evans
  • Publication number: 20030201012
    Abstract: A check valve device includes a valve section of a valve plug arranged in a fluid passage of a body, the valve plug being in a valve-opened state when separated from a seat section, and the valve plug being in a valve-closed state when seated on the seat section, and an elastic member which urges the valve section by the spring property of bent spring sections so that the valve section is seated on the seat section. The body, the valve plug, and the elastic member are formed of resin materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Fukano
  • Publication number: 20030201013
    Abstract: A waterproof valve of an exhausting tube comprises a tube body, a check portion, a check piece and a ball. An upper end of the check portion has two assembling holes. A check piece having two tip points at two side of the distal end thereof and a distal end of the check piece has a round hole. In assembly, the check portion and ball are mounted in the tube body; the assembling holes of the check portion are coupled to the tip points of the check portion. The round hole at the distal end of the check piece is assembled with the ball for controlling the action of the check piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ching Hsiang Liu
  • Publication number: 20030201014
    Abstract: A check valve for connection in a fuel tank filler tube. The valve has a tubular body with a plurality of radially inwardly extending vanes or ribs in the inlet end about a portion of the circumference. The ribs are tapered in the flow direction to deflect the end of a siphoning hose to an offset opening. A valve seat and poppet with a tapered surface are disposed downstream of the ribs, clearance apertures are formed in the side of the tubular body downstream of the valve seat. The tapered surface of the poppet, upon being opened by insertion of the end of a siphoning hose deflects the hose outwardly through the clearance apertures to facilitate further insertion into the tank. The poppet is biased normally closed by a spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pk Haridass Krishnamoorthy, Steven A. Verzyl, Robert P. Benjey
  • Publication number: 20030201015
    Abstract: An indicator-equipped flow regulating valve includes a valve body through which a fluid flows, a connecting body connected to an upper portion of the valve body, a housing connected to an upper portion of the connecting body, a piston arranged in the connecting body and the housing and displaceable when pressed by the pilot air, a shaft connected to the piston, a diaphragm connected to a lower end of the shaft and seated on a valve seat formed in the valve body, a flow regulating section regulating the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the valve body, and an indicator section indicating an opened/closed state of the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Fukano
  • Publication number: 20030201016
    Abstract: An insert or cartridge that fits into a cavity in a valve body provides a check valve function and an anti-cavitation function and a pressure relief function. This insert is substantially circular and has an internal cavity with a valve assembly that has two pairs of valve seats, one pair of valve seats providing the anti-cavitation function and the other pair of valve seats providing the pressure relief function. The outside of the insert itself engages with a sealing surface in the cavity in the valve body to provide the check valve function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: George T. Fiala, David W. Swaim
  • Publication number: 20030201017
    Abstract: In order to provide a rapid coupling system (100) for establishing a connection of at least two pressurised lines (Lx) with a first coupling element which can be connected with a second coupling element in a pressure sealed manner, that enables easy coupling in a simple way under avoidance of the above mentioned disadvantages in all pressure ranges, it is intended to enable a simple way of easy coupling under avoidance of the above mentioned disadvantages in all pressure ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Per Knuthson
  • Publication number: 20030201018
    Abstract: A control system is provided having a flow valve, a control valve for controlling flow through the flow valve, a logic circuit for receiving, processing, and transmitting data signals; a central control unit for receiving, processing, and transmitting data signals; and a flow valve actuator. When the flow valve actuator is actuated, the central control unit informs the logic circuit to permit the control valve to allow flow through the flow valve. However, if during a set time period, the flow valve actuator is actuated too often, subsequent actuation is disallowed for a second time period. Also, if during a shut down, subsequent actuation is disallowed. During the second time period or the shut down, any successive actuation is recorded by the central control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: I-CON Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn D. Bush
  • Publication number: 20030201019
    Abstract: An interlock valve is formed by incorporating a main valve portion having a valve member into a first casing, incorporating a driving-side operating portion 2 having a driving piston for driving the valve member into a first end plate, incorporating a return-side operating portion having a return spring for returning the valve member into a second end plate, incorporating an OR circuit portion formed to output control fluid to the driving piston by a plurality of shuttle valves, a plurality of OR input ports, and one OR output port into a second casing, and sandwiching the first casing and the second casing between the first end plate and the second end plate positioned to face each other to couple the end plates and the casings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takada, Bunya Hayashi, Yukihiro Matarai
  • Publication number: 20030201020
    Abstract: A pneumatic slide valve includes a valve housing made of injection-molded plastic material and having a valve bore and a plurality of external ports. The valve housing has an outer housing portion, made of reinforced plastic and determinative for a geometric outer dimension of the valve housing, and an inner housing portion made of non-reinforced plastic and extending continuously in the valve housing. The inner housing portion defines several pressure fluid compartments in fluid communication with the ports and the valve bore at least in a region which is positioned in the area of the pressure fluid compartments, wherein the outer housing portion is molded around the inner housing portion. A slide member is accommodated in the valve bore of the valve housing for displacement in the direction of the axis, for regulating a flow of compressed air between the ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: BOSCH REXROTH AG
    Inventor: Erwin Kulmann
  • Publication number: 20030201021
    Abstract: A device that is adapted to be mounted to an interior surface of a polymeric fuel tank includes a body, a weld foot adapted to be inserted into the molten inner surface of the fuel tank and having a support surface adapted to control insertion of the weld foot into the molten inner surface of the fuel tank and to position the device relative to the inner surface, and a break zone positioned between and interconnecting the weld foot and the body and having a structural cross section that is weaker than the weld foot and the body such that under sufficient force, the break zone will fracture and allow the body to separate from the inner surface of the fuel tank, thereby leaving the weld foot embedded within the inner surface of the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Fuller Potter, Kale Stephen Schulte
  • Publication number: 20030201022
    Abstract: A fine channel device capable of producing fine particles in an industrial scale, hardening the fine particles immediately after the production and recovering the fine particles from a medium without collapsing the shape of the produced fine particles, a fine particle producing method using the fine channel device and a solvent extraction method using the fine channel, are presented. The fine channel device comprises a fine channel provided with an inlet port and an inlet channel which feed a dispersion phase, an inlet port and an inlet channel which feed a continuous phase, and an outlet channel and an outlet port which discharge fine particles produced by the dispersion phase and the continuous phase, wherein the inlet channel for feeding the dispersion phase and the inlet channel for feeding the continuous phase are joined at an arbitrary angle, and the two inlet channels are connected to the outlet channel at the arbitrary angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kawai, Koji Kitayama, Toru Futami, Katsuyuki Hara, Tomohiro Ohkawa, Keiichiro Nishizawa, Hideaki Kiriya, Hirotatsu Kusakabe
  • Publication number: 20030201023
    Abstract: An over-molded fluid control value for use in fluid delivery systems. An embodiment of the fluid control valve includes a rigid substrate having a opening defined therein, and a valve structure fabricated of an elastomeric material. The valve structure is over-molded over at least a portion of the rigid substrate and including a valve portion extending over the opening, the valve portion movable in response to a differential fluid pressure to allow fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Louis C. Barinaga, Daniel D. Dowell
  • Publication number: 20030201024
    Abstract: A kit for providing temporary radiator repair comprising at least one laminate patch and at least one radiator clamp capable of forcibly holding the composite patch to tank portions, such as on the top or sides of the radiator, and at least one load distribution bar for more even distributing the compression force on the top of the radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Gerald King
  • Publication number: 20030201025
    Abstract: A casing spacer comprised of a pair of bands formed in a semi-circular configuration of a desired radius. Each band has a plurality of threaded studs that extend radially outward from the outside radial surface of each of the bands. The bands have a plurality of selected interchangeable risers, each of the interchangeable risers is configured to extend a desired distance from the outside radial surface of each of the band. The risers have a plurality of bore holes that are adapted to receive one of the threaded studs. The risers are detachably mounted to the bands by means of the threaded studs. The bands are fastened together around a carrier pipe to support the carrier pipe on the selected risers at a desired position when the carrier pipe is inserted into a casing pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Chad Anthony Calais, Gary Dwayne Simon
  • Publication number: 20030201026
    Abstract: A catching and holding apparatus (1) for catching-side weft thread ends in a weaving machine comprises a main nozzle (3) and a catching passage (5) for holding and stretching a weft thread end (9) and a carrier (2) on which the main nozzle and the catching passage are arranged. Furthermore, the catching and holding apparatus (1) also comprises an auxiliary nozzle (4) and one or more guides (6a, 6b), which are arranged on the carrier (2) in such a manner that a weft thread end (9) which is located in the action region (4a) of the auxiliary nozzle (4) is brought by an air jet of the auxiliary nozzle (4) along the guides (6a, 6b) into the action region (3a) of the main nozzle (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Sultex AG
    Inventor: Urs Schaich
  • Publication number: 20030201027
    Abstract: A filling apparatus for, a filling system for and a method of introducing into a container a suspension or solution of a substance, in particular a pharmaceutical substance, in a propellant under pressure, the filling apparatus comprising: a main body (4) including a passageway (20) for communicating, in use, with a valve stem (144) extending from a head (141) of a body (139) of a container (138), the container (138) comprising a metering chamber (143) selectively communicatable by the valve stem (144) with the atmosphere and a storage chamber (140) defined by the body (139); a fill actuator (7) comprising a filling valve assembly (29) in communication with the passageway (20) for selectively introducing thereinto propellant under pressure containing a substance in a suspension or solution; an exhaust actuator (10) comprising an exhaust valve assembly (48) in communication with the passageway (20) for selectively exhausting therefrom propellant under pressure containing substance; and a container-engaging bod
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: AstraZeneca UK Limited
    Inventors: John Brennan, Roger Matthews, Stephen Metcalf
  • Publication number: 20030201028
    Abstract: A grommet adapted to be inserted in a fueling cavity of housing of an engine driven device. The grommet is design to at least partially seal the fueling cavity to inhibit fluids entering the interior of the housing. The grommet is a one piece structure that has a side section and a lower intermediate section. The lower intermediate section includes an opening to provide access to at least a portion of a filler tube that is used to fill a fuel tank of the engine driven device. The lower intermediate section also includes a lip that extends outwardly from the housing of the engine driven device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Lincoln Global, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventor: David J. Bender
  • Publication number: 20030201029
    Abstract: The present invention provides a canter chipper head that comprises a rotor suitable for rotation about a rotation axis. The rotor has a lateral side and a frontal side, and includes a first cutting assembly and a second cutting assembly that are each mounted to the rotor. During rotation, the first cutting assembly defines a first lateral cutting surface around the rotation axis, and a first frontal cutting surface that is generally transverse to the rotation axis. The first lateral cutting surface and the first frontal cutting surface perform a primary cut in a log. The second cutting assembly defines a second lateral cutting surface around the rotation axis, and a second frontal cutting surface that is generally transverse to the rotation axis. The second lateral cutting surface and the second frontal cutting surface perform a secondary cut in the log that is deeper than the primary cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Pascal Robitaille
  • Publication number: 20030201030
    Abstract: A blinds slat has a major portion being strips of bamboo and a minor portion being one or more pairs of wooden strips that are located at or near opposite side extremities of the slat. The resulting composite bamboo and wooden slat has exemplary resistance to warping and other deleterious effects of exposure to sun and moisture. Also disclosed is a method for producing the slats that is particularly advantageous in avoiding environmental harm, in that only small amounts of wood are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ming Nien
  • Publication number: 20030201031
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for producing compositionally modified sintered RE—Fe—B-based rare earth permanent magnets, by the addition of small amounts of Nd, Cu, Ti, Nb, or other transition metals, and mixtures thereof, to maximize fracture toughness with corresponding improved machinability, while maintaining maximum energy product, said method comprising the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicants: Electron Energy Corporation, University of Dayton
    Inventors: Shiqiang Liu, Jinfang Liu
  • Publication number: 20030201032
    Abstract: A magnetic powder core comprises a molded article of a mixture of a glassy alloy powder and an insulating material. The glassy alloy comprises Fe and at least one element selected from Al, P, C, Si, and B, and has a texture primarily composed of an amorphous phase. The glassy alloy exhibits a temperature difference &Dgr;Tx, which is represented by the equation &Dgr;Tx=Tx−Tg, of at least 20 K in a supercooled liquid, wherein Tx indicates the crystallization temperature and Tg indicates the glass transition temperature. The magnetic core precursor is produced mixing the glassy alloy powder with the insulating material, compacting the mixture to form a magnetic core precursor, and annealing the magnetic core precursor at a temperature in the range between (Tg−170) K and Tg K to relieve the internal stress of the magnetic core precursor. The glassy alloy exhibits low coercive force and low core loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Shoji Yoshida, Hidetaka Kenmotsu, Takao Mizushima, Kazuaki Ikarashi, Yutaka Naito
  • Publication number: 20030201033
    Abstract: A bearing is provided particularly suitable for a turbine and turbine related components used in the aerospace industry. More particularly, the bearing is suitable for such applications as pneumatic starters for turbines. The bearing is preferably constructed from a M50 steel, which typically has a pre-treated hardness in the range of approximately 60 to 64 Rc. With the present invention, the bearing is nitrided to obtain a case hardness of approximately 74 Rc. To achieve such a case hardness, the bearing may require nitriding over several days. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a pneumatic starter includes a shaft, preferably constructed from M50, that has a portion of its outer surface nitrided. The nitrided surface functions as an inner race of a bearing assembly. Nitriding the portion of the shaft extends the bearing life of the bearing due to its increased hardness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Robert Telakowski
  • Publication number: 20030201034
    Abstract: A capacitor electrode forming method includes chemisorbing a layer of at least one metal precursor at least one monolayer thick on a substrate, the layer including non-metal components from the precursor. The chemisorbed layer can be treated with an oxidant and the non-metal components removed to form a treated layer of metal. A capacitor electrode can be formed including the treated layer and, optionally, additional treated layers. Preferably, treating the layer does not substantially oxidize the metal and the treated layers exhibit the property of inhibiting oxygen diffusion. The chemisorbing and the treating can be performed at a temperature below about 450° C. or preferably below about 350° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Eugene P. Marsh
  • Publication number: 20030201035
    Abstract: Compositionally modified, sintered RE-Fe—B-based rare earth permanent magnets demonstrate the optimum combination of mechanical and magnetic properties, thereby maximizing fracture toughness with corresponding improved machinability, while maintaining the maximum energy product (BH)max.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicants: Electron Energy Corporation, University of Dayton
    Inventors: Shiqiang Liu, Jinfang Liu
  • Publication number: 20030201036
    Abstract: The present invention provides a spring steel having both a high strength and a good coiling property after heat treatment, characterized by: containing, in mass, C: 0.4 to 1.2%, Si: 0.9 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Cr: 2.5% or less, and N: 0.001 to 0.015%, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; and, in the microstructure of the steel after hot rolling, the density of globular cementite carbides 0.2 to 3 &mgr;m in circle-equivalent diameter being 0.5 piece/&mgr;m2 or less and the density of globular cementite carbides over 3 &mgr;m in circle-equivalent diameter being 0.005 piece/&mgr;m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Masayuki Hashimura, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Takanari Miyaki
  • Publication number: 20030201037
    Abstract: The aim of the present invention is a manufacturing process for assembly parts (101, 102, 111, 112) for the manufacture of elements of chemical devices (100), comprising the fixation of an anticorrosion metallic coating (31, 32) on an unprocessed assembly part (21, 22), by means of an operation comprising a brazing operation under a controlled atmosphere and, possibly, the shaping of the coated part (101, 102), by plastic deformation. The brazing temperature is preferentially less than approximately 750° C., and more preferentially between 600° C. and 720° C. The process according to the invention makes it possible to fix solidly on a steel plate an anticorrosion coating with a thickness less than 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Ernest Totino, Christian Hug
  • Publication number: 20030201038
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising 0.15% or less C, 2.0% or less Si, 3.0% or less Mn, P, S, Al and N in adjusted amounts, from 0.5 to 3.0% Cu, or one or more of Cr, Mo and W in a total amount of 2.0% or less, and having a composite structure comprising ferrite and martensite having an area ratio of 2% or more. The steel sheet is in the form of a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet, a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet, or a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet. There is thus available a steel sheet excellent in press-formability and in strain age hardening property as represented by a &Dgr;TS of 80 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, a Corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Saiji Matsuoka, Tetsuo Shimizu, Kei Sakata, Osamu Furukimi