Patents Issued in February 12, 2004
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Publication number: 20040025966Abstract: Apparatus for dispersing particles flowing from an orifice comprising a deflecting surface disposed relative to the orifice, wherein the deflecting surface is fixed relative to the orifice, whereby particles flowing from the orifice can impinge upon and can be dispersed by the deflecting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Roger Dean Whitley, Stephen Clyde Tentarelli, David Ross Graham, Craig E. Steigerwalt, Luigi Depari
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Publication number: 20040025967Abstract: The present invention provides a two-piece capless fuel-filling device and method of attaching the same to a vehicle. The capless fuel-filling device includes two primary components, an exterior housing member and an interior housing member. The exterior housing member is first placed within an opening formed in a vehicle body panel and attached thereto. Next, the interior housing member is attached to the exterior housing member or the interior side of the body panel. Either the internal housing member or the external housing member includes a valve for enabling and restricting insertion of a refueling nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Richard Henry
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Publication number: 20040025968Abstract: A no-spill, automatic-shutoff, vapor-recovery spout (12) for transmitting a volatile liquid, such as fuel, from a container (10) into a tank. The spout comprises a structure having one end connected to and sealed to said container (10), and a second end to be inserted into, and forming a tank seal (56) with, the opening (54) of said tank. The spout includes a conduit (52) which conducts said fuel from said container through said tank seal into said tank, and a second conduit (48) which conducts vapor and air, in the opposite direction, through said tank seal from said sealed tank into the container. Said tank seal is in the form of a cone-shaped collar integral with a spring biased sliding sleeve (20), with the smaller end of said cone facing said tank opening, and having a smooth, continuous, and resilient sealing surface. The cone-shaped collar fits into and seals the range of tank opening diameters normally used with off-road, internal combustion engines.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Clifford Harry Allen
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Publication number: 20040025969Abstract: A tip for a rotary debarker has a polygonal main body with a front surface and a rear surface, and at least one cutting blade along each of the opposed edges. The main body includes a non-circular mounting boss extending from the rear surface. The main body is mounted to a tip holder that has a non-circular seat for receiving the non-circular mounting boss. The non-circular mounting boss and seat restrict relative movement between the tip and the holder during cutting operations. The tip is reversible relative to the holder to provide two operative cutting blades per tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: David J. Lindsay, Bruce Foerster
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Publication number: 20040025970Abstract: The steps of the subject method are (1) cutting fallen trees into segments, (2) cutting portions off each segment to create two flat, parallel surfaces, called flats, to produce a cant from each segment, (3) sawing at least one lengthwise radial slit in each cant, (4) kiln drying the cants, (5) filling each slit partially or fully with material having qualities similar to the qualities of the cants, (6) selecting pluralities of cants, each plurality being comprised of cants differing in diameter no more than a designated amount, the amount being in a range of 0 to 2 inches, (7) selecting at least two cants from one of the pluralities, (8) joining at least two cants flat-to-flat. One of the least two cants may be sawed in half lengthwise with the cut parallel to the flats and then the half cants are glued to the other cant flats-to-flats. Any and all of steps 3, 4 and 5 may be omitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Peter Sing
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Publication number: 20040025971Abstract: A new nitriding process by using a salt bath to produce iron and steel parts having excellent abrasion resistance and corrosion resistance are explained. A iron lithium complex oxide layer are formed at the outermost surface of the iron part by immersing the iron and steel parts in a salt bath containing cationic component of Li, Na and K and anionic components of CNO−and CO32−, where hydroxide compound selected from lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are added to the salt bath. Materials being in a hydrated state or in a free water containing state can be used for preparation or replenishing of the salt bath. An moistend air of (1×10−2 kg·H2O)/(1 kg dry air) can be used for mixing the salt bath. Containing ratio of Li, Na, K is preferable where a solidifying temperature of the mixture of carbonates of Li, Na, K in that ratio is lower than 500° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Tokuo Sato, Yutaka Sawano, Tetsuya Yamamura, Kazuyoshi Kurosawa, Humihide Nakamura, Motohiro Tenmaya
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Publication number: 20040025972Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a treatment line. According to said method a) a correlation between one or several variable parameters of the chemical and/or physical processes of the treatment line and one or several characteristic values that are characteristic of the success of the treatment is established; rules are derived of this correlation that describe the dependence of the characteristic value or the characteristic values of the variable, parameters; the correlation and/or the rules derived therefrom are stored in a control system for the treatment line; b) the one or the several characteristic value(s) is/are measured continuously or discontinuously; c) if said characteristic values deviate from a predetermined standard range of values, the/those variable parameter(s) that is/are most closely correlated with said characteristic value is/are modified in the direction which counteracts the deviation of the characteristic value or the characteristic values from the standard range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Ibolya Bartik-Himmler, Hans-Willi Kling, Werner Opitz, Jens Seemann
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Publication number: 20040025973Abstract: A protective coating is formed on a metallic surface by contacting the surface with an aqueous solution of fluoromet-allate followed by an aqueous solution containing vanadate ions. The process does not require the use of any organic substances, but provides a corrosion resistant surface having good heat conductivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Shawn E. Dolan, Lawrence R. Carlson
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Publication number: 20040025974Abstract: Nanocrystalline and nanocomposite rare earth permanent magnet materials and methods for making the magnets are provided. The magnet materials can be isotropic or anisotropic and do not have a rare-earth rich phase. The magnet materials comprise nanometer scale grains and possesses a potential high maximum energy product, a high remancence, and a high intrinsic coercivity. The magnet materials having these properties are produced by using methods including magnetic annealing and rapid heat processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Don Lee, John Stanley Hilton, Baozhi Cui, Shiqiang Liu
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Publication number: 20040025975Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a material for a rare earth permanent magnet having a high magnetic coercive force and a high residual magnetic flux density.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Hideharu Nobutoki, Suguru Nagae, Satoru Hayasi
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Publication number: 20040025976Abstract: A soldering agent for use in diffusion soldering processes contains, in a soldering paste, a mixture of at least partially metallic grains of a high-melting metal and a solder metal. In a diffusion soldering process, the solder metal reacts completely with the high-melting metal and metals belonging to parts that are to be joined to one another by the soldering process, to form an intermetallic phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Holger Hubner, Vaidyanathan Kripesh
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Publication number: 20040025977Abstract: Generally, a wheel rim production method in accordance with the invention includes the steps of obtaining a length of extruded heat treatable metal alloy, preferably aluminum alloy, that has a cross-section of a wheel rim; heat treating the length of heat treatable metal alloy; winding or otherwise shaping the heat-treated length of metal alloy into a ring, leaving free ends in the ring forming a ring gap between the free ends; preparing the free ends of the ring for providing mating surfaces for welding; welding the mating surfaces of the ring, preferably using electron beam welding, to form a completed wheel rim; and finishing the completed wheel rim to achieve desired wheel rim parameters. In accordance additional aspects of the invention, additional steps can be carried out prior to obtaining a length of extruded heat treatable metal alloy that has a cross-section of a wheel rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: David J. Schroepfer
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Publication number: 20040025978Abstract: A nickel-base superalloy substrate includes a surface region having an integrated aluminum content of from about 18 to about 24 percent by weight and an integrated platinum content of from about 18 to about 45 percent by weight, with the balance components of the substrate. The substrate is preferably a single-crystal advanced superalloy selected for use at high temperatures. The substrate may optionally have a ceramic layer deposited over the platinum-aluminide region, to produce a thermal barrier coating system. The platinum-aluminide region is produced by diffusing platinum into the substrate surface, and thereafter diffusing aluminum into the substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Jon C. Schaeffer
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Publication number: 20040025979Abstract: The method according to the invention can be used for the economic manufacture of a steel strip (W) or sheet consisting mainly of Mn-austenite which possesses enhanced strength compared with the prior art. For this purpose a steel is melted which contains at least the following alloying components (in wt. %), 15.00-24.00% Cr, 5.00-12.00% Mn, 0.10-0.60% N, 0.01-0.2% C, max. 3.00% Al and/or Si, max. 0.07% P, max. 0.05% S, max. 0.5% Nb, max. 0.5% V, max. 3.0% Ni, max. 5.0% Mo, max. 2.0% Cu as well as iron and unavoidable impurities as the remainder. This steel is cast into a thin strip (D) having a maximum thickness of 10 mm in a casting gap formed between two rotating rollers (2, 3) or rolls. The rollers (2, 3) or rolls are cooled so intensively that the thin strip (D) in the casting gap (4) is cooled at a cooling rate of at least 200 K/s.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Gabriele Bruckner, Wolfgang Schlump, Hans-Joachim Krautschick
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Publication number: 20040025980Abstract: A method for producing high-purity spheroidal graphite cast iron. The method comprises at least the steps of pretreating the melt in a closed converter and adding an inocculant when casting it into the mold. The solubility of the substances formed during the pretreatment and during the addition of the inocculant an be adjusted. The nucleation in the melt and the solidification in the mold can be brought into conformity by coordinating the pretreatment and the addition of inocculant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Karl Keller, Roland Siclari, Thomas Margaria
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Publication number: 20040025981Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for fabricating lightweight alloy feedstock for impact extrusion or impact forging. Specifically, the method for producing the working stock proposed in the present invention enables the production of impact-extruded components utilizing a highly alloyed starting stock. The high strength properties attained in the final impact extrusion allow part designers to utilize the economical process of impact extrusion and provide high strength impact extruded components.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: William Troy Tack, Lawrence Stevenson Kramer
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Publication number: 20040025982Abstract: In the present invention, forming is carried out by employing casting to rapidly solidify molten material comprising a copper base alloy containing 3 to 20% Ag (mass % hereinafter), 0.5 to 1.5% Cr and 0.05 to 0.5% Zr. Next, an aging treatment for precipitation is carried out at 450 to 500° C., and the formed article is obtained by precipitation strengthening. In addition, in the aforementioned copper base alloy, molten material comprising a copper base alloy containing Ag in the amount of 3 to 8.5% is solidified by casting, and the solidified article or the hot worked article thereof is subjected to an aging treatment for precipitation and a thermomechanical treatment using forging or rolling, and the casting is obtained by forming the material into a specific shape and carrying out precipitation strengthening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Kazuaki Mino
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Publication number: 20040025983Abstract: An ingot is manufactured by pulling it up such that V/Ga and V/Gb become 0.23 to 0.50 mm2/minute. ° C., respectively, where V (mm/minute) is a pulling-up speed, and Ga (° C./mm) is an axial temperature gradient at the center of the ingot and Gb (° C./mm) is an axial temperature gradient at the edge of the ingot at temperatures in a range of 1,300° C. to a melting point of silicon. A wafer obtained by slicing the ingot is heat treated in a reductive atmosphere at temperatures in a range of 1,050° C. to 1,220° C. for 30 to 150 minutes. A silicon wafer free of OSF's, tree of COP's, and substantially free of contamination such as Fe and of occurrence of slip, is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Etsuro Morita, Takaaki Shiota, Yoshihisa Nonogaki, Yoshinobu Nakada, Hisashi Furuya, Hiroshi Koya, Jun Furukawa, Hideo Tanaka, Yuji Nakata
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Publication number: 20040025984Abstract: A piece of jewelry (10) is disclosed, comprising first and second substantially opposing end portions (14, 16), at least one said end potion being moveable from an open state A in which said end portions (14, 16) are spaced apart towards a closed state B in which said end portions (14, 16) are spaced apart by, a reduced gap or are substantially engaged. The piece of jewelry (10) comprises at least a section (12a) made from a shape memory material and said shape memory material is adapted, at or above a predetermined temperature Ta, to bring said end portions (14, 16) towards each other. This occurs preferably when said shape memory material is placed in the region of a body part of a wearer such that shape memory effect is used in co-operation with body temperature to fit said piece of jewelry to its wearer whist simultaneously causing, a change in externally visible shape or configuration or the jewelry.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Thierry Holemans, Rudy Stalmans
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Publication number: 20040025985Abstract: Impact resistant components and methods of protecting structures from impacts. The components are interposed between a potential point of impact and a structure to be protected. They comprise a shape memory alloy (SMA) exhibiting pseudoelastic behavior, and having a high strain to failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Mide Technology CorporationInventors: Marthinus C. van Schoor, Attila Lengyel, Brett P. Masters, John P. Rodgers
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Publication number: 20040025986Abstract: A precious metal sputter target has a composition selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium and single-phase alloys thereof. The sputter target's grain structure is at least about 99 percent recrystallized and has a grain size of less than about 200 &mgr;m for improving sputter uniformity. The cryogenic method for producing these sputter targets is also effective for improving sputter performance for silver and gold sputter targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Andrew C. Perry, Paul S. Gilman, Wendell Stuber, Binu Mathew
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Publication number: 20040025987Abstract: According to the present invention, there is disclosed a heat treated high carbon or alloy steel wire and method of heat-treating the wire. The wire is produced by the steps of initially heating the high carbon or alloy steel wire to a temperature of about 1600 degrees F. to about 1800 degrees F. for between 10 seconds and 2 minutes; rapidly cooling the wire to an intermediate point temperature of between 400 to about 1000 degrees F.; holding the wire at the intermediate point temperature for about 2 minutes to about 40 minutes; and cooling the resulting wire to ambient temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Anand W. Bhagwat, Thomas A. Kellogg, Steven S. Wray
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Publication number: 20040025988Abstract: An iron-based casting alloy and a process for making the alloy are provided by combining an iron-carbon-chromium system with primary carbides of vanadium, niobium, titanium, or combinations thereof without any eutectic carbides of vanadium, niobium and titanium. Eutectic chromium carbides (M7C3) are also formed without any primary chromium carbides. Proeutectic austenite can also be formed in the alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Climax Research Services, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Gundlach, Sumita Majumdar
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Publication number: 20040025989Abstract: A Co—Ni base heat-resistant alloy is composed of, all by weight: not more than 0.05 mass % of C; not more than 0.5 mass % of Si; not more than 1.0 mass % of Mn; 25 to 45 mass % of Ni; 13 to less than 18 mass % of Cr; 7 to 20 mass % of Mo+½W of one kind or more of Mo and W; 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Ti; 0.1 to 5.0 mass % of Nb; 0.1 to 5.0 mass % of Fe, with the balance of substantially Co and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Akihiko Chiba, Shirou Takeda, Shigemi Sato, Shigeki Ueta, Toshiharu Noda, Michio Okabe
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Publication number: 20040025990Abstract: High temperature incendiary (HTI) devices and methods destroy biological and/or chemical agents. Preferably, such HTI devices include dual modal propellant compositions having low burn rate propellant particles dispersed in a matrix of a high burn rate propellant. Most preferably, the HTI device includes a casing which contains the dual modal propellant and a nozzle through which combustion gases generated by the ignited high burn rate propellant may be discharged thereby entraining ignited particles of the low burn rate propellant. In use, therefore, the high burn rate propellant will be ignited using a conventional igniter thereby generating combustion gases which are expelled through the nozzle of the HTI device. As the ignition face of the propellant composition regresses, the low burn rate particles will similarly become ignited.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Atlantic Research CorporationInventor: Hermann L. Miskelly
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Publication number: 20040025991Abstract: Gas generants in an inflator have nitroguanidine as a fuel and mica as a slagging agent. A gas generant with nitroguanidine has many desirable properties such as little hygroscopicity, a high conversion efficiency, and a suitable burn rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: JB Canterberry, Edward O. Hosey
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Publication number: 20040025992Abstract: A priming mixture comprises aluminium silicate as the sensitizer, advantageously in a-percentage higher than 10%, not exceeding 30% and preferably included between 15% and 25%. Combined with said sensitizer, the-mixture may further comprises a potassium compound, preferably potassium nitrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Fiocchi Munizioni S.p.A.Inventor: Carlo Galluzzi
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Publication number: 20040025993Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a protective cover for use on a portable electronic device to substantially prevent harmful impacts thereto. The protective cover may include peripheral pad elements each having a mounting surface and an impact portion and a retention member for retaining the protective cover to the electronic device. The mounting surface for each peripheral pad element may include at least one shoulder extending substantially perpendicularly from the mounting surface so that each peripheral pad element can be positioned in a nested arrangement with at least one peripheral edge of the electronic device. In this manner, the impact portion for each peripheral pad elements provide an exposed, resilient cushion to substantially prevent harmful impact to the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Paul Grady Russell
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Publication number: 20040025994Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly in which a run-flat support member 3 is inserted into a cavity of a pneumatic tire 2, where the run-flat support member 3 includes a circular shell 4 in which the outer circumferential side thereof is used as a support surface and the inner circumferential side thereof is opened to have two leg portions, and elastic rings 5 supporting the ends of the two leg portions on a rim. An air path 7 is provided in the elastic ring 5 so as to interconnect the inside and outside of the run-flat support member 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Akikazu Seko, Takuzo Sano, Noboru Takada
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Publication number: 20040025995Abstract: Disclosed are a run-flat tire and a tire/wheel assembly in which the workability of the tire-to-rim fit has been improved while including a core-type run-flat support member. The tire/wheel assembly is formed by coupling a pneumatic tire and a rim of a wheel. In the tire/wheel assembly, the run-flat support member constituted of a circular shell and elastic rings is inserted into a cavity of the pneumatic tire, in which the circular shell has a support surface thereof extended toward the periphery of the tire and leg portions along each side of the support surface, and the elastic rings support the leg portions of the circular shell on the rim. At the same time, a seat portion and an engaging portion are provided for at least one of the elastic rings, in which the leg portion of the circular shell can be settled on the seat portion, and the engaging portion is extended in an outer tire axial direction from the seat portion and sandwiched between a tire bead base and a rim seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Akira Kuramori, Atsushi Tanno, Masatoshi Kuwajima
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Publication number: 20040025996Abstract: An air supply device 4 comprises a device body 5 provided with a cylinder 50, and a piston 6 mounted movably in the cylinder 50, the device body 5 being joined in the midway of a valve 31 so that a through-hole 54 is communicated to a flow passage of the valve 31. A direction, in which the piston 6 is moved, corresponds substantially to a radial direction of a tire unit 1 (wheel 3), and the piston 6 can be moved by a centrifugal force, which is generated by rotation of the tire unit 1. A latch 51 for latching the piston 6 is formed below the piston 5 in the cylinder 50, in which a coil spring 7 is mounted. Also, the device body 5 is provided with an adjusting screw 8, check valves 12, 13, and an air filter 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Yutaka Akahori
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Publication number: 20040025997Abstract: A first aspect of the invention is a pneumatic tire comprising a radial carcass 5 of at least one carcass ply comprised of a main body portion 3a and a turnup portion 3b, and a reinforcing member 7 comprised of at least two reinforcing layers, in which at least two reinforcing layers 6a, 6b among reinforcing layers 6a, 6b, 6c constituting the reinforcing member 7 are cross reinforcing layers 21 arranged so as to envelop at least the turnup portion of the radial carcass 5 and cross cords of these layers with each other, and outer ends 14a, 14b of the reinforcing layers 6a, 6b constituting the cross reinforcing layers 21 and located outward from the turnup portion 3b of the radial carcass 5 in the widthwise direction of the tire are outward from an outer end 13 of the turnup portion 3b of the radial carcass 5 in the radial direction of the tire, and the cords constituting each of the reinforcing layers 6a, 6b, 6c are cords having given properties, and a crossing angle a between cords of adjacent reinforcing layType: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Yoshiyuki Waki
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Publication number: 20040025998Abstract: Runflat tire construction is optimized for tire ride comfort by reducing tire wall gauges in the tread-shoulder-to-upper-sidewall transition region and compensating with supporting sidewalls that constantly increase in thickness (gauge) from the transition region to a bead/flange area where a chafer extends above a wheel rim flange. Thus the bead and lower sidewall area are reinforced to a maximum and the shoulder area gets only the minimum stiffness necessary to achieve the required runflat performance. Within the context of wall gauges that constantly increase from the transition region to the bead/flange area, a mid-sidewall gauge ratio MSGR, being equal to a mid-sidewall gauge G2 divided by a shoulder gauge G1, is approximately within the range of 1.1 to 1.4, preferably approximately equal to 1.3; and a bead/flange gauge ratio BFGR, being equal to a bead/flange gauge G3 divided by a shoulder gauge G1, is approximately within the range of 1.5 to 1.8, preferably approximately equal to 1.7.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Roland Close
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Publication number: 20040025999Abstract: A pneumatic radial ply tire 100 for use on aircraft has a radial reinforced carcass 20 having at least one axially inner ply 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D of textile cords 21 wound around a pair of bead cores 33. The improved bead structure 30 has a flipper 50 having an axially inner leg LI and axially outer leg LE. The ends LI, LE of the flippers 50 are above the bead core height Bh and below the apex A of an elastomeric strip 40 satisfying the relation Bh<LE<0.7D and Bh<LI<0.7D. Additionally, the tire carcass 20 has at least one axially outer ply 2E, 2F of textile cords 21 extending from bead 30 to bead 30 along the turn-ups 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D of the axially inner plies 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D. The plies 21 are closely spaced along the natural ply path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Kiyoshi Ueyoko
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Publication number: 20040026000Abstract: In a pneumatic tire comprising a carcass, a belt arranged at the outside of the carcass in a radial direction and comprised of at least two belt layers, at least one belt reinforcing layer arranged so as to overlap with the belt and extend over a widthwise outer end thereof, and a tread rubber arranged at the outside of the belt in the radial direction, a pair of split auxiliary belt layers are arranged so as to overlap at least with both widthwise outer end portions of a widest-width belt reinforcing layer and reinforcing elements having an inclination angle different from that of reinforcing elements in the belt reinforcing layer are embedded in the split auxiliary belt layer for decreasing the wearing rate at the tread end portion of the tire to effectively control irregular wear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Akiyoshi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20040026001Abstract: It is to provide a pneumatic tire in which a bulk modulus of elasticity of a tread rubber is small and an inverse V-shaped bending in a tread portion is suppressed to effectively prevent separation failure, breakage and the like of a belt layer, which comprises a radial carcass, a belt of two belt layers with a cross cord arrangement reinforcing a tread portion at an outer peripheral side of a crown portion of the radial carcass and a rubber reinforcing layer having a crescent-shaped form at a cross section, wherein the tread rubber forming a ground contact face of the tread is made of rubber having a bulk modulus of elasticity of not more than 4 GPa and an additional belt layer of cords having a cord angle with respect to an equatorial plane of the tire larger than that of cords in each of belt layers is arranged on an outer peripheral side of the belt and a compression rigidity of the additional belt layer in a widthwise direction of the tread is made 2 times or more larger than that of the belt layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Yoshihide Kohno, Makoto Kurokawa
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Publication number: 20040026002Abstract: A method of making a gypsum board includes mixing together gypsum and water in a mixer to form a gypsum slurry; discharging the gypsum slurry onto a first facing sheet; laying a second facing sheet on top of the discharged gypsum slurry; passing the gypsum slurry and facing sheets through a forming station to form the slurry to a desired thickness; allowing the formed gypsum slurry to set; removing at least one of the facing sheets from the set gypsum; cutting the set gypsum into boards; and drying the cut gypsum boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Walter Weldon, Steven Roy Butler, David Downs
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Publication number: 20040026003Abstract: Described is a radically curable composition apt particularly as adhesive and sealant and especially for use on damp mineral bases. It features monomers and oligomers of different hydrophilicity/-phobicity in specific proportions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Roland Dux, Fabio Wurmli, Mario Rittiner
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Publication number: 20040026004Abstract: The invention comprises a method for gluing fibrous raw materials, which improves the even distribution of the binding agent on the fibers considerably. The invention furthermore describes a device for performing the gluing process. The invention suggests a method for moistening fibrous raw materials provided for the manufacture of fiberboards, mats and the like with bonding agents, wherein the fibrous raw materials exist in at least a pre-dried state and are moistened by a pre-dispersed binding agent in a continuous stream, characterized in that subsequent to the moistening process the fibrous raw materials are compressed with high pressure before being conveyed further.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Helmut Roll
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Publication number: 20040026005Abstract: Determined is a correlation value R (=I(t)/I(0)) between an intensity I(0) of monitor light at least at one specific wavelength which is detected before cure of resin RSN and I(t) of the monitor light at the specific wavelength which is thereafter detected, and the cure of the resin RSN is judged to be completed when a temporal change of the correlation value R comes to a stable state. In assembly manufacturing, light-cure resin RSN is interposed between at least two members M1 and M2. After the above described cure end point is detected, application of resin curing light to the resin RSN is stopped, and the assembly is transferred.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Kazuhito Kawai, Naoki Uchiyama, Ryotaro Matui, Shinobu Ito
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Publication number: 20040026006Abstract: A chip mounting device comprising a first recognition means (3) for recognizing a first recognition mark (5) on the upper chip-retainable head (2) side, a second recognition means (4) for recognizing a second recognition mark (6) on the lower substrate-retainable stage (1) side, a third recognition means (18) for recognizing the recognition marks (5, 6) concurrently when the first recognition mark (5) is brought close to or into contact with the second recognition mark (6), and a temperature detection means (17) attached to the first recognition means (3) or the second recognition means (4), wherein calibration is carried out based on the recognition of the recognition marks when the temperature detection means (17) detects a beyond-allowance temperature change, whereby permitting a high-accuracy, efficient calibration independently of mechanical deformation and temperature change in environmental atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Yoshiyuki Arai, Akira Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20040026007Abstract: An all-additive method for direct fabrication of nanometer-scale planar and multilayer structures utilizes the tip of a scanning probe microscope and a material reservoir. True “pick-and-place” retrieval and deposition of materials with a wide range of electrical, chemical, and mechanical properties is thereby facilitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Brian Hubert, Joseph Jacobson, Aggelos Bletsas
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Publication number: 20040026008Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing zippered bags at faster speeds. This is accomplished by speeding up the ultrasonic welding operation. More specifically, ultrasonic welding is performed continuously while the web of bag making film and the zipper tape are moving, instead of being performed while the film and zipper tape are stopped. To facilitate this improvement, the ultrasonic welding station is moved from the bag machine, where the bag making film and zipper tape move intermittently, to the sealer frame, where the film and zipper tape move continuously. The ultrasonic welding apparatus comprises a pair of rotary elements, one of which is acoustically coupled to an ultrasonic transducer. One of the rotary elements is provided with a protuberance on its periphery that acoustically couples the zipper tape to the energized rotary element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Victor Delisle
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Publication number: 20040026009Abstract: A dashboard is made that presents a cover for an air bag protection system, the cover being invisible from the outside and being defined by an inside line of weakness in the wall of the dashboard, the line of weakness defining an opening for the air bag. A layer of hard plastics material is injected molded; the line of weakness is cut locally inside the wall; the outside of the plastics layer is covered with a decorative covering; a tab with a hinge for hinging the cover is fastened to the cover; the reinforcing frame is fastened to the plastics layer, and prior to welding, it is ensured that a vibratory discontinuity exists between the frame and the tab so that during welding some of the vibration generated is absorbed away from the line of weakness; and the tab is fastened to the reinforcing frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Didier Ponthieu
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Publication number: 20040026010Abstract: A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material, which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width. In the disclosed embodiment the sides of the incoming supply web are cut in seam-forming mating edges and the web is fed in at an angle to a pair of rollers, at least one of which is tapered, to spirally wrap the web into a cylinder of the desired circumference of the seamed belts and providing mating engagement and gluing of the seam-forming edges. Then by sequentially transversely cutting off cylindrical segments of that spirally formed cylinder into the desired width, multiple seamed belts are formed with both the desired circumference and width.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Paul F. Mastro
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Publication number: 20040026011Abstract: A continuous method for making a polymeric bristle subassembly using the steps ofType: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Mark Stephen Edwards, Harold Francis Staunton
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Publication number: 20040026012Abstract: A raw material (12) comprising a mixture of a natural fiber and a thermoplastic fiber is supplied to the surface of the rotating rotary body (11). The natural and thermoplastic fibers are scattered toward the carrying surface of the conveyor belt (15) by the rotational force of the rotary body (11). An air blower (14) may direct pressurized air to the scattered raw material (14) in order to further effect separation of the natural and thermoplastic fibers. Consequently, the natural fibers and the thermoplastic fibers are deposited such that the relative concentration of the natural fibers and the thermoplastic fibers gradually and seamlessly changes or varies across the thickness or depth of the resulting molded fiber material (50).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Takehiro Kato, Kumiko Sango, Masato Nomura, Kazuo Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20040026013Abstract: An energy absorbing system is provided. The system comprises a fitting having a crack inducing surface extending radially outward in relation to an axis. An energy absorbing structural element formed by a hollow body extends along the axis and has a first end adapted to interact with the crack inducing surface of the fitting so as to radially spread the hollow body. Cracks are formed in the hollow body in response to forces applied in a direction substantially parallel to the axis which forces push the crack inducing surface against the first end. The hollow body may have layers of reinforcing flat material embedded in a matrix material and may comprise a single winding of the flat material about the axis. A number of layers of the flat material in the hollow body may be different in different areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventor: Christof Kindervater
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Publication number: 20040026014Abstract: The method includes the stages of gluing of a plurality of layers of sheet material (2, 3, 4); and stamping of all the layers (2, 3, 4) together; with sticking together of the previously glued zones being carried out at the same time as the stamping of all the layers (2, 3, 4). The machine includes gluing stations (12) (2, 3, 4); and a stamping station (13) which includes a pair of pressing elements, which stamp and stick together said previously glued layers. The laminar element is formed from a plurality of layers of sheet material (2, 3, 4) and can include one or several cavities (5) of polygonal profile, or else said layers are of sinusoidal profile. A higher manufacturing output of the laminar layer is achieved and it permits the forming of a laminar element with cavities or undulations of any desired shape, without limitation on the thickness of the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Jaume Teixidor Casanovas
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Publication number: 20040026015Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and method for consolidation joining a thermoplastic preform to form a duct. The apparatus includes first and second longitudinally extending support structures. The first support structure at least partially defines a cavity for supporting the preform in a desired configuration of the duct. The second support structure extends in the cavity such that the preform can be supported between the first and second support structures. The second support structures can include an elastomeric device that is configured to adjust radially and urge the interface of the preform against the first support structure. A heater is configured to heat an interface of the preform to above a glass transition temperature. The resulting duct is has a longitudinal consolidation joint and defines a passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Walter Forrest Frantz, Matthew K. Lum, Mark L. Younie