Patents Issued in February 5, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040020048
    Abstract: Core sand elements are rapidly and reliably retained in an assembly by driving one or more smooth surface fasteners, such as staples, nails or brads, into the core elements. Such an assembly method comprises positioning at least two core elements in a core assembly, positioning a smooth surface fastener for entry into the at least two core elements, and driving the smooth surface fastener into the two core elements to fasten them in the core assembly. In such a preferred method, the smooth surface fastener comprises a staple with two smooth surface tines connected by a crown and the staple is positioned for entry of one tine into each of two core elements with the crown of the staple spanning the interface between the two core elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Donald G. Wildrick, Gregory D. Watkins
  • Publication number: 20040020049
    Abstract: A rhomboidal blade includes a blade footing (2) of rhomboidal cross section and a blade body (1) for axial turbo engines is worked out from a solid blank (3) by machining. The blank (3) is cut off as a bar from a hot-rolled, bar-shaped input stock, whose cross section has the shape of a rhomboid which is adapted to the shape of the cross section of the rhomboidal blade footing (2). The blank is larger on all size than the maximum cross section of the blade by only the minimum oversize (5) for machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: MAN Turbomaschinen AG GHH BORSIG.
    Inventor: Hans-Egon Brock
  • Publication number: 20040020050
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluid coupling including the steps of forming an elongated bar stock having a profile with a longitudinally extending protuberance projecting radially outwardly from a longitudinal axis of the bar stock. A longitudinal section of the bar stock is then machined in the end of the bar and that section includes a portion of the protuberance. A first fluid passageway is machined longitudinally in the machined section while a second fluid passageway is machined in the protruding portion of the machined section. The axis of the first fluid passageway intersects the axis of the second fluid passageway at an angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Pilot Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Nigel D.L. Williamson
  • Publication number: 20040020051
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing jewelry pieces formed entirely or partially of a shape memory alloy provided with a pre-determined memory shape, where the shape memory characteristic and/or the superelastic characteristic of the alloy is used either in the construction of the piece or to facilitate repair of damaged pieces, since plastically deformed alloy shapes can be corrected by raising the alloy above the phase transition temperature, whereupon the piece resumes it memory shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Guy Beard
  • Publication number: 20040020052
    Abstract: By press-fitting a cylindrical blank into a die with one of a pair of punches, and at the same time press-fitting small diameter end portions and tapered portions of the pair of punches into both ends of the cylindrical blank while restraining both end surfaces of the blank with cylindrical members movable on the outsides of the punches, the external circumferential surface of the blank is finish molded to the required diameter by the internal circumferential surface of the die and, at the same time, tapered surfaces are formed on the inner circumferential surface in both ends of the blank. The process produces a bushing with its internal surfaces accurately coaxial, and with the external surface accurately formed to the required diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Yusuke Haga, Toru Okabe, Nobuaki Haga
  • Publication number: 20040020053
    Abstract: A blade unit (2) of a safety razor has a flexible blade assembly (5) comprising plurality of blades (16) with parallel cutting edges (17), mounted on a resiliently compliant support structure (4) that includes several spring elements (12) disposed along the blade unit (2) to oppose local deformation of the blade unit (2) under shaving forces imposed in the regions where the spring elements (12) act. The blade unit is able to conform closely to skin undulations due to varying deformation of the support structure (4) along the blade unit being permitted. In an embodiment the support structure (4) is a one piece moulding of resiliently flexible material and includes an upper frame (6) on which the blade assembly (5) is carried, a sub-frame (7) and a base (8), the upper frame (6) and the sub-frame (7) being connected together by a living hinge (9) and the sub-frame (7) and base (8) being connected by another living hinge (10) so that the support structure is Z-shaped in cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: THE GILLETTE COMPANY
    Inventor: Kevin J. Wain
  • Publication number: 20040020054
    Abstract: A coaxial cable stripper includes an upper lid, a base, a blade seat, a lower lid, and a blade rotation rod. In use, the user's finger presses the upper lid to open the front end of the stripper. The cable is placed on the recess of the base. Then, the upper lid is released and the front end of the stripper close and grip the cable. Next, the screw at the bottom of the base is adjusted to control the spring force of the spring so as to force the blade to cut deep into the inner insulation layer to the central conductive core. Next, the screw at the blade body hole is adjusted to control the cutting depth of the blade body so as to force the blade to cut into the outer sheath of the cable. Then the inner insulation layer and the outer sheath can be cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Gwo-Jiang Liaw
  • Publication number: 20040020055
    Abstract: A pie cutter has a centrally disposed hinge and a plurality of cutting blades extending from the hinge. The blades are collapsible relative to one another so that the side walls of the blades are juxtaposed next to one another when the pie cutter is not in use. The blades may be expanded relative to one another to define a cylindrical configuration with the blades equally spaced angularly from one another to define cylindrical sectors. In a preferred embodiment, successive blades are joined at their outer peripheral ends by pivotable links which are collapsible when the pie cutter is not in use and which are expandable when the pie cutter is to be used. In another embodiment, a string extends in a loop through the outer peripheral ends of the blades and provides for a controlled movement of the blades between the collapsed and expanded relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Eyal Zuker
  • Publication number: 20040020056
    Abstract: A combined saw blade and measuring device, or ruler. The saw blade includes a measuring device, or ruler, manufactured as an integrated component of the blade. In this case the ruler is marked, or etched, on the saw blade such that the blade acts as a ruler and straight edge. The ruler is marked on the horizontal edge opposite the saw teeth and runs the length of the saw blade. In this manner there is no need for adjunct attachments to the blade that act as measuring device or the use of a separate measuring device, or ruler, for the purpose of measuring the length of material to be cut. This design eliminates the need for a separate measuring device and therefore simplifies the process of measuring and cutting lengths of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Joseph McFadden, Robert McFadden
  • Publication number: 20040020057
    Abstract: A hand held device (2) comprising a handle (4), an operational member (6) which folds into and out of a side (8) of the handle (4), a control member (10) for controlling the folding of the operational member (6), an arm (12) which connects the control member (10) to the operational member (6), a guide groove (14) which is in the handle (4) and which guides the control member (10) over a path which causes the folding of the operational member (6), a first connecting formation (16) which connects the arm (12) to the operational member (6), and a second connecting formation (18) which connects the operational member (6) to the handle (4), the device (2) being such that movement of the control member (10) along the guide groove (14) causes the folding of the operational member (6) via the arm (12), the device (2) being such that in its closed condition the operational member (6) is folded into the handle (4) and the first connecting formation (16) is further away than the second connecting formation (18) from a f
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Mark Hughes
  • Publication number: 20040020058
    Abstract: A folding knife according to one embodiment is provided and includes (a) a handle defining a blade cavity; (b) a blade having a first end which is pivotably coupled to the handle about a pivot; and (c) a biasing element disposed within the blade cavity of the handle. The blade has a detent formed therein on a lower edge thereof proximate to the pivot. The biasing element has a fixed first end and an opposing free second end which has a rounded ball member formed thereat. As the blade is closed towards the retracted position, the blade contacts and deflects the second end of the biasing element until the rounded ball member of the second end engages the blade detent, resulting in the blade being held in the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: GREAT AMERICAN TOOL CO.
    Inventor: Alney K. Vallotton
  • Publication number: 20040020059
    Abstract: A shearing tool has a fulcrum shaft, a first blade rigidly attached to the fulcrum shaft, a first element also rigidly attached to the fulcrum shaft and spaced apart on the shaft from the first blade, and a second blade contiguous with a second element, the second blade pivoted on the fulcrum shaft at one end of the blade, and between the attachment positions of the first blade and the first element such that relative rotation of the first and second elements causes relative rotation of the first and second blades producing a shearing action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Donald J. Brockhage
  • Publication number: 20040020060
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an article and method for an improved weed trimmer cover that prevents unwanted projectile and debris distributions. A preferred embodiment of the weed trimmer comprises a domed guard structure that encompasses the effective cutting range of a prior art weed trimmer. Alternative embodiments may comprise elements that protect only portions of front, side and rear cutting areas. Embodiments of the invention also allow a user to lift up a cover element to allow close work among obstructions. Embodiments of the present invention also improve the performance of prior art weed trimmers by increasing cutting performance and preventing flexible materials from wrapping about the cutting elements and shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Fred J. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20040020061
    Abstract: A cut guide for a portable hand-held saw that has a blade with a cutting portion that is disposed along a generally vertical axis. The cut guide includes a mounting portion, which is configured to be coupled to the saw, a guide block portion, a guide portion and an adjustment mechanism. The guide block portion, which defines a generally vertical cutting stroke axis, is pivotally coupled to the mounting portion such that the cutting stroke axis can be pivoted relative to the cutting portion of the blade. The guide portion is movably coupled to the guide block portion along the cutting stroke axis. The guide portion includes an abutment structure with at least one feature for establishing an orientation of the cutting stroke axis relative to a longitudinal axis of a workpiece. The adjustment mechanism pivots the guide block portion relative to the mounting portion to thereby adjust an angular relationship of the cutting stroke axis relative to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Michael L. O'Banion
  • Publication number: 20040020062
    Abstract: A hand saw is provided with a support having a front lever, which is pivotable about one of the opposite ends of the support between a rest position, in which it extends coplanar with the support, to an operative position, and a handle mounted on the other end of the support and rotatable thereabout from and in a respective rest position, in which the handle extends coplanar to the support, so as to the hand saw has substantially a linear configuration when the front lever and the handle are displaced in their rest positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: SEATEK CO., INC.
    Inventor: Lucien C. Ducret
  • Publication number: 20040020063
    Abstract: A device and a method for the measurement of the angle of drift of a borehole that extends from the surface of the ground downwardly into the earth. The device comprises a generally hollow protective exterior casing, a microprocessor control; and, a sensor pack. At least the microprocessor control and the sensor pack are received and contained within the exterior casing. The sensor pack includes one or more accelerometers mounted upon a sensor chassis that is positioned within the casing and situated generally parallel to its longitudinal axis. The sensor chassis has one or more mounting surfaces for receiving and securing the one or more accelerometers to the sensor chassis. The mounting surfaces are configured such that the one or more accelerometers when secured to the chassis are held and retained at an inclined angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the exterior casing and the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Lewis, Robert Everett Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20040020064
    Abstract: An improved method, system, and device for a compass combining an electronic magnetic compass and an angular velocity sensing gyroscope. One aspect of the invention integrates an angular velocity output signal from an angular velocity sensor or rate gyroscope to determine the angle of motion. An initial magnetic heading is obtained from a geomagnetic sensor and used as a reference for the integrated angular velocity signal. A geomagnetic heading signal is blended with the angular velocity output signal at an adaptive time interval. The adaptive time interval is increased if the reliability of the magnetic field improves and decreased if the reliability of the magnetic field degenerates. Additionally, dynamic calibration of the angular velocity sensor may be performed to correct for gyroscope bias (zero offset), and/or gyroscope scale factor or gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Robert W. Levi, Robert R. Marshall
  • Publication number: 20040020065
    Abstract: A split axle assembly for obtaining gage measurements of a track including a first wheel with a first split axle, a second wheel with a second split axle, a first bearing for rotatably receiving the first split axle, and a second bearing for rotatably receiving the second split axle, the first bearing and the second bearing being positioned inboard between the first wheel and the second wheel. In one embodiment, a sliding barrel device is provided. In another embodiment, the first bearing is received in a first bearing body and the second bearing is received in a second bearing body so that they are axially movable relative to one another. At least one linear guide is provided to allow axial movement of the first bearing body and the second bearing body relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Gary A. Carr, Cameron D. Stuart, Jeffrey A. Bloom
  • Publication number: 20040020066
    Abstract: The Siding Revealer Gauge is a lightweight tool that when used properly will repeatedly give exactly the same measurement between layers of siding boards, shingles, and other flat materials installed in an overlapping fashion. Said lightweight tool also allows said overlapping flat materials to be installed much faster then with any tools already existing in the art of hanging said overlapping flat materials. The Siding Revealer Gauge has a handle attached to a back surface, a level top surface, and a ledge protruding from a front surface. The ledge protruding from the front surface of the gauge is placed against the butt of an installed piece of said material. The front face of the gauge should be held firmly against said flat material. The butt of the next layer of flat material should be laid across the top surface of the gauge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Walter L. Morey
  • Publication number: 20040020067
    Abstract: A linear guide apparatus has a guide rail having a rolling-element rolling groove formed on a side thereof along in an axial direction; and a slider having a rolling-element rolling groove disposed so as to be opposed to the rolling-element rolling groove of the guide rail, the slider moving relatively in the axial direction of the guide rail with rolling elements rollably interposed between the two rolling-element rolling grooves, and a crowning portion disposed on the both axial ends of the rolling-element rolling groove of the slider, wherein a maximum value of sum of load in an axial direction applied on the crowing portion on the both axial ends of the slider by the rolling elements is set to be smaller than a maximum value of load in the axial direction applied on one of the crowning portions of the slider by one rolling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20040020068
    Abstract: An improved structure for a tape rule housing is disclosed. The housing is provided with a separately fabricated grip or a grip in one piece with the housing such that the user is able to grasp the grip conveniently and firmly when handling the tape rule instead of holding entire bulky housing unstably. The engagement of separate grip with the housing can be performed in the way of inlaying or sled and channel meshing. Besides, the grip is enclosed with a slip resistant soft cover so as to assure the gripping comfortability and firmness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Shin-Lin Lee
  • Publication number: 20040020069
    Abstract: An electronic caliper includes fixed and movable caliper arms mounted on a common housing and having jaws at their free ends. One of the caliper arms is attached to the housing through a pivot pin for pivoting motion between a contact position and a disengaged position. A spring engages the movable arm at a point on a side of the pivot pin opposite the jaws. The spring is under tension so as to bias the contact pad carried by the distal end of the movable caliper arm toward contact with the pad mounted on the distal end of the fixed caliper arm. A non-contact electronic sensor is positioned facing a target disk carried by movable caliper arm at its innermost end within the housing. A plunger, located on the same side of the pivot pin as is the target disk, allows the movable caliper arm to be pivoted to its open position to allow for insertion and removal of the soft tissue to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Paul M. Killough
  • Publication number: 20040020070
    Abstract: A hair drier having the capability of efficiently supplying hot air and minus ions from different outlets is provided. This hair drier has a hollow housing with an air suction inlet and an air outlet. In the housing, a fan and a heater are disposed in an air-flow channel formed between the air suction inlet and the air outlet. The air sucked in the housing by the fan is heated by the heater, and then ejected from the air outlet. The housing also has an ion-flow channel formed as an independent flow channel from the air-flow channel, and an ion outlet provided at a different position from the air outlet to eject minus ions generated by the minus ion generator. The minus ion generator is disposed in the ion-flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Kengo Ito
  • Publication number: 20040020071
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oil removing device for cleaning pipes that are present in the form of coils (13). Same device comprises a furnace that accommodates and heats the pipes, with or without associated cooling zone, and a gas guiding device (15, 16′) for feeding a scavenging gas to or removing it from the pipes. Said gas guiding device is provided with means for detachably and sealingly establish a link with a gas feed line and a gas discharge line. The aim of the invention is to configure the link with the pipes in as easy and reliable a manner as possible. For this purpose, the device is configured in such a manner that both ends of every pipe are separately connected to one and the same connecting head (4) that has a gas inlet (5) and a gas outlet opening the axially aligned therewith. The end (7) of the gas feed line and the end (8) of the gas discharge line are opposite each other and can be displaced along with the gas inlet opening and/or the gas outlet opening while sealingly connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Willi Johnen, Glynn Jones
  • Publication number: 20040020072
    Abstract: An apparatus for drying semiconductor wafers includes a bath for receiving semiconductor wafers and for holding a fluid, a chamber for providing an area where vapor is flowable over the bath, a supply pipeline for supplying vapor to the chamber, a vapor discharging pipeline for expunging vapor in the chamber, a fluid discharging pipeline for draining fluid in the chamber therefrom, and a protector for maintaining a distance between the semiconductor wafers during a drying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jung-Min Kim, Young-Hee Kim, Myung-Hwan Shin
  • Publication number: 20040020073
    Abstract: Top cover assembly including a top cover mounted on a side plate of a cabinet, a fire plate between the side plate and the top cover, for preventing spreading of fire taking place in the cabinet to an exterior, and a cabinet holder for fastening the fire plate to the side plate, thereby enhancing a sense of beauty in view of design and preventing spreading of fire taking place in the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Soon Jo Lee, Seong Hai Jeong
  • Publication number: 20040020074
    Abstract: A heater device, usable in particular for inner shoes of sports footwear, comprising a conducting fabric of a known type, which is embedded in the inner shoe advantageously substantially at the forefoot region. The fabric is connected, at its opposite ends, to two or more conductors, which are associated with the inner shoe and are connected, at their opposite ends, to connections to an external source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Andrea Brait, Valeria Adriani
  • Publication number: 20040020075
    Abstract: The ventilated shoe comprises an outer sole and at least two interchangeable inner soles. The inner sole in disposed in contact with and over the outer sole. The outer sole has ventilation ports at the toe portion and at the heel portion. The ventilation ports extend trough the entire thickness of the outer sole. A support is provided to spacedly rest the inner sole over the outer sole in a manner to allow air to penetrate through the ventilation ports and to circulate between the outer sole and the inner sole. The inner sole may be air permeable and is used when the temperature is medium to high. Under cold temperature it is preferable to use an impermeable inner sole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Louis Garneau Sport inc.
    Inventor: Louis Garneau
  • Publication number: 20040020076
    Abstract: A shoe includes a shoe body, an ozonizer, an ozone discharge pipe, and an air supply unit. The shoe body includes a sole unit connected to an upper and formed with a cavity for receiving the ozonizer. The ozone discharge pipe is connected to the ozonizer, and is in fluid communication with an interior space in the upper. The air supply unit is connected to the ozonizer to supply air for generating ozone and to subsequently force the ozone to flow from the cavity into the interior space via the ozone discharge pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Kun-Chung Liu
  • Publication number: 20040020077
    Abstract: A waterproof footwear includes a neoprene sock having a floor region and a side wall extending upward therefrom terminating in an upper edge. An outer rubber layer is bonded to and covers the entire outer surface of the neoprene sock side wall. A rubber floor portion covers the floor region of the neoprene sock and an outsole is attached to the rubber layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: LaCrosse Footwear, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent A. Thomas, Robert G. Rinehart
  • Publication number: 20040020078
    Abstract: An insole is described that can be placed with an insole receiving area of a slipper. The insole can be prepared by compression molding a structure comprising a foam layer having a first foam side and a second foam side. The insole includes a heel region, an arch region, and a toe region. The heel region includes a heel cushioning portion and a heel perimeter portion. The heel perimeter portion includes a retaining wall that extends above the top surface of the heel cushioning portion. The arch region includes an arch cushioning portion and an arch perimeter portion. The arch perimeter portion includes an arch support that extends above the top surface of the arch cushioning portion. The toe region includes a toe cushioning portion and a toe perimeter portion. A slipper and a method for manufacturing a slipper are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Walter Thomas Bray,, Theresa Stewart
  • Publication number: 20040020079
    Abstract: A comfortable, supportive odor absorbing insole covering the inner sole of footwear has a bottom inner sole engaging open cellular resilient cushion layer, impregnated with odor adsorbing chemicals such as activated charcoal zeolites, or silica gel, and a natural pile top layer such as lambskin shearling providing comfortable support and loft while protecting the foot or sock of the wearer against discoloration or irritation from the absorbent chemicals. The layers of the insole are laminated into integral unitary relation by heat sealing or by glue or binders which do not impede flow of air. The layers may also be simply stretched together. The alternating application and release of foot pressure on the insole, as when walking, will circulate air in the footwear into intimate contact with the chemical for absorption of moisture and destruction of foot odors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Jim K. Klavano
  • Publication number: 20040020080
    Abstract: A shoe (and fabrication techniques therefor) on which is provided a bottom portion that includes a sole portion and a heel portion and that has a bottom surface and an upper portion extending upwardly from the bottom portion. The bottom surface of the bottom portion of the shoe has areas of a fabric material (such as cotton, nylon, polyester, any other cloth or fabric), or any of a variety of other first materials, interspersed with areas of a durable material (such as ethylene vinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloride, thermoplastic rubber, any other plastic, and/or any other natural or synthetic leather or rubber), or any of a variety of other second materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Anthony Cox, John C. S. Koo
  • Publication number: 20040020081
    Abstract: A sport boot is provided that is suitable for, but not limited to, use as a snowboard boot. The sport boot includes an outer shell and an inner liner received within the outer shell. The outer shell includes an outsole and a protective upper affixed to the outsole. The inner liner includes a cushioning midsole and a flexible upper affixed to the midsole. Unlike conventional sport boots that place the midsole between an insole board and a shank on the outer shell, the present invention incorporates the midsole onto the inner liner directly under a rider's foot to provide a level and more stable platform. With the midsole built into the inner liner, there is an improved relationship between the horizontal plane a rider's foot lies in and the horizontal plane of the midsole. When attached in this manner, a rider's foot and the midsole more effectively remain in parallel planes, which improves the overall comfort and performance of sport boot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Dominic Paul Symons, Joseph Gordon Babcock, Randall Alan Kleiner
  • Publication number: 20040020082
    Abstract: To keep one of three hydraulic pumps unaffected by variations in torque of the remaining hydraulic pumps when the three hydraulic pumps are used, displacements of the first and second hydraulic pumps are controlled based on their own delivery pressures P1, P2 and a pressure P3′ obtained by reducing through a reducing valve 14 a delivery pressure P3 from the third hydraulic pump, while a displacement of the third hydraulic pump 3 is controlled only by its own delivery pressure P3. The pressure oil delivered from the third hydraulic pump 3, therefore, remains unaffected by variations in delivery flow rates from the first and second hydraulic pumps 1,2, in other words, by variations in their torque consumptions, so that the third hydraulic pump is assured to provide a stable flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Nobuei Ariga, Genroku Sugiyama, Hideaki Tanaka, Tsukasa Toyooka, Masaki Egashira, Takatoshi Ooki
  • Publication number: 20040020083
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining the location of a work machine at a work site, where the work machine includes a house, a boom connected to the house, a stick connected to the boom, and a work implement connected to the house. Reference signals are received from an external reference source. The position of a point on the house is determined in response to the received signals. Information about the work machine is determined based on the position of the point on the house. The status of center-of-rotation (COR) information is updated. The system determines if an event has occurred. If an event is determined to have occurred, event reactions occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Michael David Staub, Claude Wesley Keefer
  • Publication number: 20040020084
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for automatically moving on the ground a tool mounted at the end of an articulated arm. It consists in bringing the tool (7, 17, 27) onto a first point of the surface and in calculating the co-ordinates of said point; in bringing the tool onto a second point enabling to set a first axis of co-ordinates of the working plan and to determine the furthermost point to be reached on said axis; in bringing the tool onto a third point close to the second co-ordinate axis and enabling to define the position of the frame of reference of the working plan, then in a fourth point delimiting the zone plane inside which the work will be performed and in defining a working plan for the tool capable of being superimposed with the working surface so as to enable it to cover, by discontinuous or continuous movements, the entire working surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Yves Riberon, Jean-Claude Robert-Peillard
  • Publication number: 20040020085
    Abstract: A greeting card is formed to receive interactive computer-based functionality, as a functionality device, in a form such as a computer readable storage medium, for example, a compact disk (CD). Together this card and functionality device make an all-in-one gift and greeting card product, providing an improved gift/greeting card combination that meets multiple unmet needs of the greeting card consumer. The card is formed with a number of panels, one of which contains a means of receiving the functionality device. The functionality device provides functionality that relates to the occasion being commemorated or to the recipient's demographic profile. In one embodiment of the present invention, the greeting card product combines a congratulatory greeting card for expectant parents with a CD insert. The CD contains an interactive software application with a searchable database of names to help the parents choose a name for their baby in a new and fun way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Joann Marie Ferguson, Kristin Kave Nicholson, Patricia L.F. Petersen
  • Publication number: 20040020086
    Abstract: The invention provides for a label such as a temper evident holographic or diffractive security label that consists of at least two separate microstructures (30, 31), one exhibiting a holographic or diffractive security image, the other a non visible non-diffractive structure which controls differential release of a reflector or semi reflector layer (27) to display a separate visual message upon removal of the label by tamper. The advantage over previous prior art devices is that both the diffractive message and the tamper evident message are encoded within the microstructure without any need for additional coating or print layers in the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Philip Hudson
  • Publication number: 20040020087
    Abstract: A color enhancing, lightweight, pin screen has multiple polymeric pins, each having a head at one end and slidably positioned in a corresponding aperture in at least one vertically-oriented plate. The polymeric material may be treated to achieve various visual effects, such as phosphorescence in light, black light designs and multiple colors. Also, the shape of the head can be designed to provide various light displays depending on its shape, i.e., convex, concave, diamond, flat and adding a reflective coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Ward Fleming
  • Publication number: 20040020088
    Abstract: A multi-image display device. Some embodiments include an alignment mechanism for correcting misalignments of an indicia, an image selector and a motion train, which form parts of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Yossi Shimon Dana, Avner Madar
  • Publication number: 20040020089
    Abstract: An evidence marker 10 includes at least two flat marker elements 20 bearing visual indicia thereon, and a substantially rigid leg unit 30 connecting and detachably securing the at least two flat marker elements at an angle (preferably 90°) with respect to one another. Each of the flat marker elements is preferably L-shaped and symmetrical, and more preferably about 1 mm thick and having a pair of perpendicular outer edges 22 about 10 to 11 cm long. The leg unit consists of six identical, orthogonally disposed legs 32 substantially shorter than the pair of edges 22 of the flat marker elements. The six legs 32 of the leg unit 30 are preferably about 1 to 3 cm and about 1.5 cm thick. Each of the six legs of the leg unit preferably has four orthogonal grooves 34 formed longitudinally therein. Each groove 34 is capable of receiving an edge of one of the flat marker elements therein, retaining one of the flat marker elements therein by friction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Jane A. Kaminski
  • Publication number: 20040020090
    Abstract: A segmented wagon wheel design, formed of a series of segments incorporating a part of a felloe, one or more, but preferably, a pair of spokes, and a segment of a hub, molded as an integral structure, which when formed through the interconnection of a series of the segments together, into the shape of a wagon wheel, forms a segmented wagon wheel that appears to be seamless of design, and yet highly structured for implanting or resting upon the front lawn or business, for displaying other indicia such as the homeowner's name, an address, and other seasonal displays, as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Harold M. Lueddecke
  • Publication number: 20040020091
    Abstract: A product identifier system for identifying each of a plurality of groups of products arrayed on shelves, wherein the contents of each of the product groups differ but the groups have like product containers and similar labels. The product identifier system includes a product dividing apparatus for dividing the plurality of products that includes a base having a base clip contactingly engaging the shelf ledge, a base arm having at least one tab and a connector having an at least one aperture, wherein the connector is coupled to the base. Moreover, the product dividing apparatus includes a billboard having at least one aperture. The billboard is held in place by the contacting engagement of the base and the connector, wherein the billboard extends upward therefrom to divide said plurality of products, wherein the billboard is further rotationally adjustable relative to the base with respect to the shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Terry J. Johnson, Travis O. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20040020092
    Abstract: A firearm including a barrel, an upper receiver, a lower receiver, a cartridge magazine top, a magazine follower, and a magazine spring. The upper receiver has the barrel attached thereto. The lower receiver is pivotably attached to the upper receiver. The lower receiver comprises a one piece frame member forming a magazine well with an integral substantially closed bottom end. The magazine top is stationarily attached to the lower receiver. The magazine top comprises inward projecting rear cartridge retaining ears and front cartridge feeding lips at a top aperture through the magazine top. The magazine follower is movably located in the magazine well of the lower receiver. The spring is located between the closed bottom end of the magazine well and the magazine follower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Craig A. Christensen
  • Publication number: 20040020093
    Abstract: A system and method for providing increased capacity to a firearm having an actuator operably connected to a trigger assembly is disclosed. A magazine for holding a cartridge for use with the firearm includes a plurality of tubes, each tube being defined within the magazine and including an open end. The plurality of tubes being axisymmetric about a longitudinal axis of the magazine. A retainer, mounted about the open end of the tubes and being adaptive to impede release of the cartridge from the open end of the tube, being operably meshed with the actuator wherein the retainer and the actuator cooperate to permit removal of the cartridge from one of the plurality of tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hajjar, Warren Stockton
  • Publication number: 20040020094
    Abstract: A firing mechanism includes a hammer, an electrical solid-state full auto sear positioned to engage the hammer in a first electrical state and to disengage from the hammer in a second electrical state, and a controller connected to the electrical solid-state full auto sear for causing the electrical solid-state full auto sear to change from the first electrical state to the second electrical state. The controller may include circuitry for causing the electrical solid-state full auto sear to change from the first electrical state to the second electrical state at a predetermined rate, a predetermined number of times, or for a predetermined period of time. The hammer may include a retractable hammer bent for engagement with the electrical solid-state full auto sear, and the electrical solid-state full auto sear may include a piezoelectric device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: George D. Ealovega
  • Publication number: 20040020095
    Abstract: A sear mechanism for firearms comprises a sear box (12), at which a trigger (15) is mounted, a hammer (16) upon which acts an elastic thrust element (33) and equipped with a mounting tooth (40) for the engagement with a fixed sear tooth (41) integral with the sear box (12), a breechblock carrier (13) carrying a firing pin (14), as well as a sear device (17, 17′) to give the hammer (16), when controlled by the trigger (15), motion between a cocking position (A) in engagement with the sear tooth (41) and a striking position (B) against the firing pin (14), made up of an initial translation step of a pin (31, 31′) of the hammer in a slot (32) of the sear box (12) and a subsequent rotary step under the action of the elastic thrust element (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Ugo Gussalli Beretta
  • Publication number: 20040020096
    Abstract: A firearm magazine loader and unloader accessory (10) comprises a main body (12) adapted to fit over an open end of a magazine (70) and a tiltable alternate round thruster (50) mounted in the main body above the magazine's open end. The alternate round thruster includes two plungers (62) and (64), each positioned above a column of rounds (80, 82) of the magazine. Loading is achieved by thrusting inside the magazine the topmost round of the magazine using the plunger above to provide a vacant space for a new round to be rearwardly inserted. Unloading is achieved by thrusting inside the magazine the second-to-topmost round of the magazine with the plunger above to release spring (78) pressure from the topmost round so that it can gravitationally and forwardly unload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Guy Tal, Ran Tal
  • Publication number: 20040020097
    Abstract: A gun support apparatus is provided, which includes a base portion, a first arm member, and a second arm member. The first arm member is attached to the base portion. The second arm member is attached to the base portion. Each of the first and second arm members includes an upright member, a distal support member, a first link, and a second link. The first link is pivotably coupled to the upright member and attached to the distal support member, such that the first link is located between the distal support member and the upright member. The second link is pivotably coupled to the upright member and pivotably coupled to a distal end of the first link, such that the second link is located between the distal support member and the upright member. The second link has a variable length, and may include a dampener, spring, and/or friction element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Mark A. Deros