Patents Issued in January 15, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040007154
    Abstract: An imaging composition comprising a mixture of a fluid and a functional material; wherein the fluid is compressed and the functional material is dispersed and/or solubilized in the compressed fluid; and wherein the mixture is thermodynamically stable or thermodynamically metastable or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Glen C. Irvin, Ramesh Jagannathan, Seshadri Jagannathan, Sridhar Sadasivan, Suresh Sunderrajan, Rajesh V. Mehta, Ross A. Sprout
  • Publication number: 20040007155
    Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Banning, Bo Wu, James D. Mayo, James M. Duff, Rina Carlini, Jule W. Thomas,, Paul F. Smith
  • Publication number: 20040007156
    Abstract: A soy protein based adhesive useful in particleboards and other composites is formed from a mixture of soy protein isolate, a polyol plasticizer and a vegetable oil derivative. The preferred plasticizer is glycerol and the preferred vegetable oil derivative is the maleinized methyl ester of tung oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Shelby F. Thames, Richard C. Cook, Sharathkumar K. Mendon
  • Publication number: 20040007157
    Abstract: This invention relates to a kind of white wax and its manufacturing method, particularly the white wax extracted from animal fat and sebum as a nontoxic, non-hazardous product of superb moistening that enhances skin's elasticity while keeping skin from cracking. The white wax in reference is made of animal fat and sebum, duly crushed after pre-treatment of high-temperature sterilization and deodorization and removal of impurities, allowing the fat and sebum to mix. The mixed raw material is heated after undergoing rapid refrigeration before being minced into sticky colloid when cooled and when squeezed and screened, the sticky discharges gummy matter which, when mixed and neutralized with emulsifying agent, allowing the gummy matter transform from greasy substance into watery white wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Tsai-Kui Chen
  • Publication number: 20040007158
    Abstract: Solvent-containing pastes comprising a polyolefin wax component prepared from one or more olefins by catalysis using a single-site catalyst based on a complex of a transition metal from groups 5 to 8 of the Periodic System of the Elements, and use of these pastes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Shahram Mihan, Andreas Deckers
  • Publication number: 20040007159
    Abstract: An aluminum pigment composition comprising flaky aluminum, wherein said flaky aluminum as a base material is coated with a coating layer comprising hydrolyzates (a) of a titanium alcoholate represented by the general formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Shigeki Katsuta
  • Publication number: 20040007160
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing aluminum-substituted hematite represented by &agr;-(Fe1−xAlx)2O3 where x=0.01 to 0.15, by mixing an iron compound and an aluminum compound such that an atomic ratio of Fe to Al falls within the range of 99:1 to 85:15, adding citric acid and ethylene glycol to the mixture of the iron compound and aluminum compound to produce a gel, and pyrolyzing the gel, followed by calcining the pyrolyzed product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jun Takada, Tatsuo Fujii, Makoto Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040007161
    Abstract: A method of attaching one or more organic groups onto a particle is described which involves reacting at least one radical with at least one particle wherein the radical is generated from the interaction of at least one transition metal compound with at least one organo-halide compound in the presence of one or more particles capable of radical capture. Variations of this method are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: James A. Belmont, Wayne Devonport
  • Publication number: 20040007162
    Abstract: A cement composition of an environmental impact reducing type, used in the field of civil engineering and construction, which provides initial strength-development equal to that of ordinary Portland cement and which can reduce the clinker calcination amount, is provided. A cement composition containing Portland cement having a 3CaO·SiO2 content of at least 60% and a slowly cooled blast furnace slag powder, wherein the content of the slowly cooled blast furnace slag powder is from 10 to 50 parts per 100 parts of the cement composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Minoru Morioka, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Takayuki Higuchi, Mitsuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20040007163
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, lightweight well cement compositions and additives for the well cement compositions. The methods of the invention for sealing pipe in a well bore penetrating a zone or formation which readily fractures at low hydrostatic pressure is basically comprised of the steps of providing a lightweight cement composition comprised of a hydraulic cement, water and an additive comprising an aqueous suspension of microspheres containing a water swellable clay suspending agent, placing the cement composition in the annulus between the pipe and the well bore and allowing the cement composition to set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Lance E. Brothers, Krista L. Keener, James A. Braden, Jan Pieter Vijn, Bach Dao
  • Publication number: 20040007164
    Abstract: A shipping pallet that has a load bearing deck with a plurality of domes that provide high strength, stiffness, and rigidity to the deck, and an undercarriage for supporting the deck and for receiving a forklift, palletjack, hand truck, or other automated machinery. Each dome is defined by an apex located proximate to the upper surface of the deck and a plurality of legs extending from the apex and ending at the lower surface of the deck. The domes are arranged adjacent to each other and define an array such that a load applied to the upper surface of the deck, substantially on the apex of the domes, will cause the applied forces from the load to be transmitted substantially laterally along the legs of the arches thereby producing intersecting compressive forces between adjacent domes that enable the load bearing deck to have high strength, stiffness, and rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Conrad C. Herring, Richard A. Halavais
  • Publication number: 20040007165
    Abstract: A theft-prevention ink pack device is provided, comprising a support member (70) having support lugs (73a, 74a, 75a, 75b) within a case (130) having ink spouts (66) and knife edges (69) , a tray member (80) supported by the lugs (73a, etc.) , spaced from the knife edges (69) , an ink pack (90) placed on the tray member (80) and having a bag (92) containing ink (91), a pressboard (100) positioned behind the ink pack (90), and conical compression coil springs (120, 121) for pushing the pressboard (100). When the support member (70) is moved as it is pulled, the support provided by the support lugs (73a, etc.) of the tray member (80) is cancelled to cause the tray member (80) to fall down and the ink pack (90) is broken by the knife edges (69) and urged under pressure by the spring forces of the springs (120, 121) via the pressboard (100) to cause the ink to spurt through the ink spouts (66).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Abe, Hayato Minamishin, Masato Koike
  • Publication number: 20040007166
    Abstract: An essentially automatic, robotic-like system to aid in preventing crime in high trafficked buildings and other public sites, using only low voltage power, is described. In various modes it can protect public buildings such as schools, stadiums, open air markets, banks, office buildings from entrance of persons carrying weapons or separately trying to pass weapons into a protected area, even in the event of general power loss. Here the invention provides a well designed, compact solution to weapons detection and the detainment of persons attempting to disrupt, destroy or harm citizens in public buildings such as schools, banks, etc. with a minimum of restriction of access by persons regularly using the facilities. In other variations, it can be used to prevent unauthorized removal of costly or dangerous items from protected buildings or areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Romeo Prasad
  • Publication number: 20040007167
    Abstract: A personal watercraft has a handle rigidly attached to a rear portion of a deck pedestal. The handle has an elongate hand hold being disposed at a vertical position below a seat top surface and above a deck re-boarding platform. The hand hold spans between top and bottom attachment positions and is disposed at an angle of at least 30 degrees with respect to a horizontal surface. A handle for a watercraft is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Shannon Cassell
  • Publication number: 20040007168
    Abstract: An improved boat docking stabilizer device to an economic, compact and reliable boat mooring apparatus that stabilizes a moored boat for safe boarding and de-boarding of passengers while permitting the boat to roll free with the waves thus preventing damage to either the dock or the moored boat. An improved boat docking stabilizer device which may be used in pairs for mooring a boat to a dock structure or the like. This boat docking stabilizer device includes an adjustable backboard mounted perpendicularly to a dock structure by fastening means, an adjustable vertical support bracket mounted to the backboard, a hitch ball coupler pivotably mounted to the vertical support bracket for receiving a ball hitch mounted on a boat, and means for locking the hitch ball coupler in a ready position and in a locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas Metz
  • Publication number: 20040007169
    Abstract: Semiconductor nanoparticles, having a poly(alkylene glycol) residue attached to the surface of semiconductor crystals, exhibit hydrophilicity, a non-specific adsorbing property to biosubstances, and absorption and luminescence characteristics controlled by aquantum effect of the semiconductor crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohtsu, Yasuko Saito, Manabu Kawa
  • Publication number: 20040007170
    Abstract: A process of fabricating a CMOS device comprised with super-steep retrograde (SSR), twin well regions, has been developed. The process features the use of two, selective epitaxial growth (SEG), procedures, with the first SEG procedure resulting in the growth of bottom silicon shapes in the PMOS, as well as in the NMOS region of the CMOS device. After implantation of the ions needed for the twin well regions, into the bottom silicon shapes, a second SEG procedure is employed resulting in growth of top silicon shapes on the underlying, implanted bottom silicon shapes. An anneal procedure then distributes the implanted ions resulting in an SSR N well region in the composite silicon shape located in the PMOS region, and resulting in an SSR P well region in the composite silicon shape located in the NMOS region of the CMOS device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Chew Hoe Ang, Wenhe Lin, Jia Zhen Zheng
  • Publication number: 20040007171
    Abstract: A method is provided for growing thin oxide films on the surface of a substrate by alternatively reacting the surface of the substrate with a metal source material and an oxygen source material. The oxygen source material is preferably a metal alkoxide. The metal source material may be a metal halide, hydride, alkoxide, alkyl, a cyclopentadienyl compound, or a diketonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Mikko Ritala, Antti Rahtu, Markku Leskela, Kaupo Kukli
  • Publication number: 20040007172
    Abstract: A tape dispenser apparatus includes: a generally egg-shaped hollow housing that has first and second separable longitudinal sections; the first section including an internal annular tape-mounting mandrel on a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the housing; the housing having a tape slot in the transverse direction; and a cutting blade externally on the housing, spaced from and generally parallel to the tape slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Scott L. Sakoff
  • Publication number: 20040007173
    Abstract: In drying a coating liquid such as a resist applied to a substrate under reduced pressure, a coating film in a peripheral portion tends to lose good shape regardless of duration of a drying period, and it is difficult to set an appropriate exhaust flow rate. After the substrate is loaded in an airtight container, a pressure is reduced from atmospheric pressure to a pressure slightly higher than the vapor pressure of a solvent, for example. Then, the solvent actively evaporates from the coating liquid. Here, evacuation is performed initially based on a first flow rate set value Q1, and thereafter, it is performed based on a second flow rate set value larger than Q1. Rounding of the surface in the peripheral portion is corrected by evacuation based on Q1, and more active evaporation of a solvent component is attained by switching to Q2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji Kobayashi, Takahiro Kitano, Shinichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20040007174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method suitable for automatic cleaning of a coating or extrusion head of a coating apparatus. The invention includes a scrubbing station wherein a combination of physical contact and strong solvent solution combine to remove coating fluid from the exterior of an extrusion head. A second cleaning station, preferably a rinsing station then further cleans the head of coating fluid and removes solvent used at a first cleaning station. The solvent used at the rinsing station is preferably self-drying thereby obviating the need for any further cleaning action. The invention also provides for the ability to prime the coating bead at the extrusion head so as to have a fully formed bead ready before the head begins coating a substrate, thereby providing an even coating across said substrate. The priming operation preferably comprises holding the head steady over a rotating priming roller while extruding fluid preferably at a constant volumetric flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Gregory M. Gibson, John E. Hawes, Samer M. Kabbani, Ocie T. Snodgrass
  • Publication number: 20040007175
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for extrusion coating both sides of a metal strip. A metal strip, such as aluminum alloy strip, is moved through a pre-conditioner, two extrusion dies, a post-heater and a cooling system. Both sides of the strip are coated with thin coatings of thermoplastic polymers. The coated metal strip is useful for containers, such as cans and can ends, as well as for automobiles, appliances, aerospace, construction and electrical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas L. Levendusky, Robert B. Larsen, Vincent J. Downard, Roy B. Steidley, Dawn A. Armfield, Paul H. Fournier, John B. Kapustay, Jeffrey B. Pezick
  • Publication number: 20040007176
    Abstract: A system for processing substrates comprises a plurality of process chambers. Each process chamber includes an inlet gas distribution member connected to an inlet gas line to distribute gas from the inlet gas line into the process chamber, a substrate support to support a substrate at a spacing distance from the inlet gas distribution member, and a gas outlet. The inlet gas distribution member has an inlet gas distribution member impedance to a gas flow through the inlet gas distribution member into the process chamber. The plurality of process chambers are substantially identical. A source gas delivery line is connected to the inlet gas lines of the plurality of process chambers to supply a gas flow to be divided into the inlet gas lines. A plurality of tunable upstream gas restrictors are each disposed in one of the inlet gas lines connected to the inlet gas distribution members of the process chambers and are configured to adjust a flow rate into the corresponding process chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Karthik Janakiraman, Victor Wang, Vikash Banthia, Teresa Winson, Nitin Ingle
  • Publication number: 20040007177
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus has a processing space provided with a holding stand for holding a substrate to be processed. A hydrogen catalyzing member is arranged in the processing space to face the substrate and for decomposing hydrogen molecules into hydrogen radicals H*. A gas feeding port is arranged in the processing space on an opposite side of the hydrogen catalyzing member to the substrate for feeding a processing gas including at least hydrogen gas. An interval between the hydrogen catalyzing member and the substrate on the holding stand is set less than the distance that the hydrogen radicals H* can reach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Shigetoshi Sugawa, Masaki Hirayama, Tetsuya Goto
  • Publication number: 20040007178
    Abstract: Methods for preparing organic thin films on substrates, the method comprising the steps of providing a plurality of organic precursors in the vapor phase, and reacting the plurality or organic precursors at a sub-atmospheric pressure. Also included are thin films made by such a method and apparatuses used to conduct such a method. The method is well-suited to the formation of organic light emitting devices and other display-related technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Stephen R. Forrest, Paul E. Burrows, Vladimir S. Ban
  • Publication number: 20040007179
    Abstract: A reaction apparatus for atomic layer deposition includes a vacuum chamber having a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a gas flow path for connecting the gas inlet and the gas outlet; a reactor located in the vacuum chamber, including a reaction chamber where a first gas, which is input through the gas flow path, reacts with a specimen in the reaction chamber, the reactor further including a gas distributor, which is located in the reaction chamber to evenly supply the gas; a specimen location controller for moving the specimen located in the vacuum chamber to the reaction chamber; and an analyzer, which is connected to the reaction chamber, for analyzing a second gas generated in the reaction chamber. The apparatus is able to deposit uniform atomic layers on a specimen by maintaining the pressure and flow of reactant gas and can deposit and analyze an atomic layer simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jae-Cheol Lee, Chang-Bin Lim, Kwi-Young Han
  • Publication number: 20040007180
    Abstract: A film-formation apparatus includes a film-formation chamber and a source gas supplying apparatus supplying a source gas to the film-formation chamber together with a carrier gas, wherein the source gas supplying apparatus includes a concentration detector detecting a concentration of the source gas and a gas flow controller controlling a flow rate of an inert gas added to the carrier gas based on a result of measurement of the concentration of the source gas obtained by the concentration detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamasaki, Yumiko Kawano
  • Publication number: 20040007181
    Abstract: A source gas is fed into a discharge space of a reactor and an electric power is applied to generate discharge in the discharge space to decompose the source gas, thereby forming a deposited film. A plurality of discharge means are disposed in the reactor. In the deposited-film formation, the following steps are switched from one to another at a given timing: i) a first step of applying an electric power to a first discharge means to generate discharge to form the deposited film and ii) a second step of applying an electric power to a second discharge means to generate discharge to form the deposited film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Atsushi Yasuno
  • Publication number: 20040007182
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus comprises a plate that separates a high frequency induction antenna from a vacuum chamber. The plate comprises a nonmagnetic metal plate that has an opening and a dielectric material member that seals the opening. The area of the nonmagnetic metal plate is larger than the area of the dielectric material member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Toshiaki Hongoh, Naoki Matsumoto, Chishio Koshimizu
  • Publication number: 20040007183
    Abstract: This thin film-forming apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber 2 for forming a thin film on a target material 5, an evaporation source 3 arranged in the chamber 2 and having an evaporation port 33 through which the vapor of a material 40 to be vapor-deposited passes, and a moving mechanism 20 for moving the source 3 towards the widthwise direction of the port 33 between a prescribed waiting position and film-forming position of the source 3. This apparatus further comprises a film-thickness sensor 50 for detecting a film-forming speed of the material 40, which is arranged in a vicinity of the waiting position of the source 3 and on a side of the material 5. The source 3 is positioned opposite to the sensor 50 at the waiting position and is positioned opposite to the material 5 at the film-forming position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: ULVAC, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Van Slyke, Tsutomu Yamada, Ryuji Nishikawa, Hiroshi Kanno, Hisakazu Takahashi, Yoshitaka Nishio, Toshio Negishi
  • Publication number: 20040007184
    Abstract: A surface treating process according to the present invention, a vapor deposited film is formed from an easily oxidizable vapor-depositing material on the surface of a work by evaporating the vapor-depositing material in a state in which the vapor deposition controlling gas has been supplied to at least zones near a melting/evaporating source and the work within a treating chamber. Thus, the vapor deposited film can be formed stably on the surface of a desired work without requirement of a long time for providing a high degree of vacuum and without use of a special apparatus. In addition, the use of the surface treating process ensures that a corrosion resistance can be provided to a rare earth metal-based permanent magnet extremely liable to be oxidized, without degradation of a high magnetic characteristic of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: SUMITOMO SPECIAL METALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishiuchi, Yoshimi Tochishita, Fumiaki Kikui, Mitsuo Kizawa
  • Publication number: 20040007185
    Abstract: This invention makes it possible to make even films composed of at least silicon and germanium with gradient germanium ratio along a film thickness direction thereof for a short deposition time. A temperature controller 61 controls a heater 2 so that temperature of wafers W will be changed from low (e.g. 400° C.) to high (e.g. 700° C.) by alternately repeating temperature changing process to heat up the wafers W and temperature regulating process when temperature of the wafers W does not change as much as that of the temperature changing process for a specific amount of time. While a gas controller 62 provides a reactive gas into a reaction tube 1 during the temperature regulating process, it controls a valve 31 to stop it during the temperature changing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Moriya, Yasuhiro Inokuchi, Yasuo Kunii, Junichi Murota
  • Publication number: 20040007186
    Abstract: A thermal processing unit according to the invention includes: a processing furnace; gas-supplying means that supplies a process gas into the processing furnace; heating means that heats an inside of the processing furnace to a predetermined process-temperature; a normal-pressure gas-discharging system for discharging gas from the processing furnace at a predetermined discharging-pressure that is near to an atmospheric pressure; a valve provided in the normal-pressure gas-discharging system, the valve being adjustably caused to open and close, a pressure of the gas through the valve being also adjustable; a pressure sensor that detects a discharging-pressure in the normal-pressure gas-discharging system; and a controller that controls the valve based on the pressure detected by the pressure sensor. In the pressure sensor, a gas-contact surface that may come in contact with the discharged gas is made of a corrosion-resistant material that is not metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Yukimasa Saito
  • Publication number: 20040007187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for depositing layers, particularly crystalline layers, onto substrates. Said device comprises a process chamber arranged in a reactor housing where the floor thereof, comprises at least one substrate holder which is rotatably driven by a gas flow flowing in a feed pipe associated with said floor. Said substrate holder is disposed in a bearing cavity on a gas cushion and held in place thereby. The aim of the invention is to technologically improve the design of a substrate holder which is rotatably mounted in a gas flow, particularly in a linear cross-flowing process chamber. Said bearing cavity is associated with a tray-shaped element arranged below the outflow of the feed pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Johannes Kappeler, Frank Wischmeyer, Rune Berge
  • Publication number: 20040007188
    Abstract: A vacuum valve assembly for use in a vacuum processing chamber includes a seat defining an opening in the vacuum valve, with the seat having a sealing face adjacent the opening and normal to the direction of the opening; and a gate having a sealing face adapted to mate with the seat sealing face, the gate being movable toward and away from the seat sealing face to seal and open the vacuum valve opening. A continuous elastomeric seal extends around the vacuum valve opening between the gate sealing face and the seat sealing face of sufficient size such that when the gate is positioned to seal the vacuum valve opening, there exists a gap between the gate sealing face and the seat sealing face. A purge gas port system, disposed in the seat or in the gate, has an inlet for a purge gas, an essentially continuous outlet extending around the vacuum valve opening and adjacent the elastomeric seal and gap, and a manifold system connecting the inlet and the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Burkhart, Lawrence A. Gochberg
  • Publication number: 20040007189
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing game feed from clogging within a game feed dispenser. The game feed dispenser includes a container for storing the game feed. At a bottom portion of the container is a funnel having an opening. The apparatus includes a rotating plate positioned underneath the container. At least two agitating panels are affixed to the top of the rotating plate and extend through the funnel opening into the interior of the container where the game feed is stored. A motor rotates the rotating plate. Upon rotation of the rotating plate, the agitating panels also rotate. Rotation of the agitating panels within the interior of the container allows the agitating panels to break the game feed into smaller pieces, which allows the game feed to easily exit through the opening of the funnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Outdoor Innovations
    Inventors: Glen Betty, Jeff Nelson
  • Publication number: 20040007190
    Abstract: A hollow container molded from glass or other transparent material in various shapes and sizes to be used as a fishbowl that will hang on a wall. The fishbowl is designed with two indented hollow cavity slots imbedded at the top of its back, which will allow the fishbowl to be placed on and removed from fasteners fixed in a wall, without removing the fasteners, for easy cleaning and maintenance. The benefit of this invention is that it is smaller than an aquarium, and is more properly categorized as a fishbowl. It is distinct from an aquarium in that it is one molded piece of glass with its hanging device formed in the back of the bowl itself. Installation is achieved by installing two simple screws in a vertical wall, which are hidden once the fishbowl is in place, leaving no awkward, unsightly exterior hanging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Rebecca Lynn Covell, Joel Tracy Ireland
  • Publication number: 20040007191
    Abstract: An automated carrier-based pest control system is provided, and includes a substantially automated sprayer. The system also includes a container in fluid communication with the substantially automated sprayer for holding a mixture of carrier-based ingredients, including one or more ingredients, for discharge from the substantially automated sprayer. Also includes is one or more discharge control units operably connectable to the substantially automated sprayer and to the container for regulating discharge of the mixture of carrier-based ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: John Stuart Greeson
  • Publication number: 20040007192
    Abstract: A four-stroke engine with an isolation chamber. The isolation chamber has a pressure-sensitive wall attached to or slidably mounted within the isolation chamber. The pressure-sensitive wall is substantially impervious to air, oil, and fuel. When the piston moves away from the crankcase, a vacuum is created in the crankcase. This draws the pressure-sensitive wall toward the crankcase, fluidwise, and movement of the pressure sensitive wall pulls air into the intake side of the isolation chamber through a one-way valve or time induction mechanism. When the piston moves toward the crankcase, increased pressure within the crankcase forces the pressure-sensitive wall away, fluidwise, from the crankcase and pushes air from the isolation chamber into the combustion chamber. The pressure-sensitive wall prevents oil from flowing from the crankcase. Power in a four-stroke engine is increased up to as much as 40%, without the necessity to employ superchargers or turbochargers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Keoppel
  • Publication number: 20040007193
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine with two camshafts arranged next to one another and each mounted in a radial bearing in the cylinder head and hydraulic device for rotary angle adjustment of each camshaft with respect to a crankshaft. The supply and discharge of hydraulic pressure medium to and from the devices are controlled separately in each case by an electromagnetic hydraulic valve comprised of an electromagnet and of a valve housing capable of being plugged into a valve receptacle. Each valve housing on its circumference has a plurality of annular grooves with a plurality of radial orifices and on its free end face has a further orifice, via which the hydraulic valves are fluidically connected to the radial bearings of the camshafts and to a pressure connection and to a tank connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Joachim Dietz
  • Publication number: 20040007194
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine provided with a variable valve mechanism that varies at least a valve operating characteristic (valve lift amount and the like) of an intake valve, a target intake air amount equivalent to a target torque is set based on operating conditions of the engine, to calculate a target volume flow ratio by dividing the target intake air amount by an engine rotation speed and total cylinder volume. The target volume flow ratio is corrected according to closing timing of the intake valve. If the valve lift amount of the intake valve is in a low valve lift region, the target volume flow ratio is further corrected according to the valve lift amount, and the post corrected target volume flow ratio is converted into a valve opening area of the intake valve to be set as a target valve opening area. Then, based on the target valve opening area, a target valve operating characteristic of the intake valve is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI UNISIA AUTOMOTIVE, LTD.
    Inventors: Isamu Iizuka, Kenichi Machida
  • Publication number: 20040007195
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus to clean an oil control valve for use by an internal combustion engine. The invention causes the oil control valve to execute a cleaning routine when specific entrance criteria are met. This ensures cleaning of the valve to remove contaminants that are wedged, pinched or otherwise trapped on the valve, without interference in the operation of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Amanpal S. Grewal, Daniel Lee McKay, Daniel George Gauthier, Jeffrey M. Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20040007196
    Abstract: A heater for a liquid has a combustion chamber, a jacket for the liquid extending about the combustion chamber and a burner head assembly connected to the combustion chamber. The burner head assembly includes a housing having a burner mounted thereon and a hollow interior. A control module and a fan are mounted in the hollow interior, the fan being connected to an electric motor. A compressor and a fuel pump are mounted on the housing and are operatively connected to the electric motor. The control module may include controls for exercising components of the heater prior to combustion, thereby verifying operation of these components. Preferably there is a speed control for the motor, such as a closed loop speed control which regulates motor speed and accordingly output of the heater. Preferably there is a backup system using a lookup table in the event that the closed loop speed control fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jonathan Young, Douglas Thompson Paul, Angelo Faccone
  • Publication number: 20040007197
    Abstract: A multi-chamber resonator box for a vehicle air intake system, wherein the resonator includes a Helmholtz, an expansion chamber, an annular, and a perforated style resonator to militate against the emission of noise energy caused by intake air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Mark D. Hellie, John D. Kostun, Michael J. Mungle
  • Publication number: 20040007198
    Abstract: A cover for a crankcase of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The cover has an inside surface in which walls are formed extending from the inside surface to form channels. A plate covers the channels to form passages that allow the flow of oil from various inlets to various outlets in the passages, but does not necessarily completely seal the channels. The plate is secured to the inside surface of the cover by threaded members that are inserted through fastening apertures in the plate and are threaded into corresponding internally threaded apertures in the inside surface of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Kevin G. Bonde, William D. Koenigs
  • Publication number: 20040007199
    Abstract: In a bearing metal fitted to a journal bearing portion where a center of a bearing metal fitting hole is deviated from a reference straight line in a direction orthogonal to the reference straight line at a time of mounting a cylinder head, a thickness, in a direction parallel to a direction in which the center of the bearing metal fitting hole is deviated, of one of an upper metal and a lower metal, which is positioned in the same direction as the direction in which the center of the bearing metal fitting hole is deviated, is increased by an amount by which the center of the bearing metal fitting hole is deviated from the reference straight line, and a thickness, in the direction parallel to the direction in which the center of the bearing metal fitting hole is deviated, of one of the upper metal and the lower metal, which is positioned in a direction opposite to the direction in which the center of the bearing metal fitting hole is deviated, is reduced by the amount by which the center of the bearing metal
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Kazuaki Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20040007200
    Abstract: A plunger stop for temporarily holding the plunger of a ratchet type chain tensioner in place during installation of the tensioner, or during mounting or removal of the chain, comprises a bifurcated part inserted into a groove in which a pivoted ratchet pawl is situated. The bifurcated part is sandwiched between the pivoted ratchet pawl and a part of the tensioner housing, with the bifurcated part straddling a ratchet pawl-biasing spring in the groove. A grip, which is integral with the bifurcated part protrudes outside the tensioner housing so that it can be grasped manually for removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshio Kurokawa, Toyonaga Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20040007201
    Abstract: A family of sliding vane rotary power devices provides an internal combustion engine, a pump, a compressor, a fluid-driven motor, an expander device, a fluid-driven pump, a compressor or a throttling device. All of these devices have a rotor assembly with a number of vanes equally spaced about the rotor dividing the rotor chamber into discrete cavities. As the rotor turns, the vanes follow the wall contour of the rotor chamber so that the cavities rotate with the rotor and expand and contract as the rotor turns. Various combinations of smooth wall contours and rotational arrangements are provided in different devices in order to cause an appropriate number of expansions and contractions of a cavity during the course of a rotation. Various devices in the family of devices differ both in the shape of the rotor chamber and in the configuration of an internal stator member about which the rotor assembly turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Osama M Al Hawaj
  • Publication number: 20040007202
    Abstract: A direct cylinder injection-type spark ignition internal combustion engine is disclosed. The engine comprises a spark plug, a cavity formed in the top surface of a piston, and a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into the cavity in nearly the shape of a fan having a relatively small thickness. When the fuel injected in nearly the shape of a fan from the fuel injection valve is considered by being divided into a plurality of fuel segments in a radial direction, a side wall of the cavity has a first fuel deflection passage 82a and a second fuel deflection passage 82b for so deflecting at least two of the plurality of fuel segments as to pass near the spark plug. The side wall of the cavity is at least partly provided with a return portion 83 that protrudes toward the inside of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Baika, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Fumiaki Hattori, Takashi Hashima, Hiroyuki Hokuto, Toshimi Kashiwagura, Mutsumi Kanda, Hiroya Tanaka, Souichi Matusita, Shizuo Abe, Nobuyuki Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20040007203
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine at idle that reduces NOx and controls smoke and hydrocarbon emissions. An idle delivery quantity of fuel is determined and divided into a first quantity of fuel and a second quantity of fuel in approximately equal quantities. During a compression stroke of an engine piston, the first quantity of fuel is injected into an engine cylinder. Adjusting at least one of timing and quantity of the injection of the first quantity of fuel reduces, at least in part, NOx emissions. At a timing angle of at least thirty degrees after the first quantity of fuel is injected and after the first quantity of fuel has been burned, there is an injection of the second quantity of fuel. Adjusting at least one of timing and quantity of the injection of the second quantity of fuel reduces, at least in part, smoke emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jason J. Rasmussen, Kevin P. Duffy, Kurtis M. Best, Matthew R. Roth