Patents Issued in March 18, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040051025
    Abstract: A device for hanging implements comprising a hook member having two straight parallel arms with the first end of each arm joined by an arcuate section and with the opposite end of each arm extending at an angle with respect to its respective arm, and a generally flat base member for joining the hook to the implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Stewart,
  • Publication number: 20040051026
    Abstract: A mold construction is provided having a layered configuration including a substrate or mold core preferably of ampcoloy, an intermediate or primer coat preferably of electroless nickel, and an outer mold surface layer made of a high strength metal preferably of titanium. The mold construction is particularly advantageous for use in molding glass objects. The electroless nickel undercoat or primer coat serve to adhere the softer ampcoloy substrate to the high strength outer layer of titanium alloy. The electroless nickel also provides some elasticity for the outer layer of titanium alloy layer to reduce cracking and flaking of the titanium alloy. The layer of titanium alloy provides good strength and durability to withstand abrasive contact with the molten glass, while the ampcoloy still facilitates high thermal conductivity for reducing mold cycle times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Robert William Flynn
  • Publication number: 20040051027
    Abstract: A tool 10 and a method for creating the tool 10 which is comprised of several selectively coupled sectional members 12, 16, and which includes at least one cooling channel 14. In one embodiment, each sectional member 12, 16, which is to be used to form the at least one cooling channel 14, has respective indented channels 18, 20. Channel 18 of member 12 registers with a unique one of the channels 20 of member 16 to which member 12 is coupled, thereby forming the unique cooling passage 14. Other embodiments are disclosed which also provide desired cooling paths 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Mark Manuel
  • Publication number: 20040051028
    Abstract: An optical communication system including an integrated circuit chip, an electro-optical chip operatively integrated on the integrated circuit chip, an adjustable optical chip which includes at least one optical element disposed between the electro-optical chip and one of a source or recipient of at least one optical signal, at least one micromachine operatively coupled to the at least one optical element to selectively manipulate the at least one optical element; an optical signal sensor disposed relative to the at least one optical signal to sense an optical signal condition data, and to transmit said optical signal condition data to the integrated circuit chip, a feedback circuit between the integrated circuit chip and the at least one micromachine, the integrated circuit chip configured to receive the optical signal condition data, convert it to a corresponding feedback signal, and to transmit the feedback signal through the feedback circuit to the micromachine, thereby causing the micromachine to selecti
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Kit M. Cham, Frank H. Peters
  • Publication number: 20040051029
    Abstract: A digital camera has distance measurement zone setting means (12) for dividing distance to a subject into a plurality of distance measurement zones; distance measurement zone selection means (13) for selecting a distance measurement zone to be scanned; an autofocus evaluation value calculation circuit (14) for acquiring an AF evaluation value by scanning the selected distance measurement zone; zone-update determination means (15) for determining, through use of the AF evaluation value, whether or not to update a distance measurement zone to be scanned; and in-focus position decision means (16) for appropriately updating the scanned distance measurement zone based upon the determination as to whether to update the distance measurement zone, and deciding an in-focus position based upon acquisition of AF evaluation value. A focusing lens (2) is driven to the in-focus position by a focusing-lens drive circuit (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Shinya Hirai
  • Publication number: 20040051030
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring images from a multiple axis imaging system. A data processing device is provided for receiving image data as it is read out of an imaging array, reorganizing the data, and otherwise processing it, for storage or in memory or transmission for display. The imaging system scans an object with an array of imaging elements having corresponding detectors for capturing the images. The data processing device reorganizes the data so that the data order corresponds to spatial locations of the respective object regions. The data may be transmitted in correct order for display of an image of the entire object, or may be mapped to a memory for rapid access and display of the image. Image processing may also take place prior to transmission or storage of the data. Data processing may be divided among a number of different processors. The data processor may be compressed for transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Artur Olszak, James Goodall, Ibrahim Bardak
  • Publication number: 20040051031
    Abstract: A fibre optic epi-fluorescence imaging system in which the optical fibres are rearranged so that the system can be used for measuring luminescence samples. The system comprises at least two optical fibres (32, 46) or bundles of fibres which lead to a CCD camera (74), the fibres or bundles of fibres from all samples being arranged in two sets, a first set which are formed from a non-fluorescing material and a second set which are formed from a material which may fluoresce but enables the fibres formed therefrom to have a higher numerical aperature than those of the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: John Gordon Rushbrook, Claire Elizabeth Hooper
  • Publication number: 20040051032
    Abstract: To provide the ultrasonic-welding apparatus, which can attain the above-mentioned requirement, and which can automatically achieve both measurement of the face-deflection the work piece after welding and the welding of work pieces, such as a reel for a magnetic tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouta Kitamura, Tadashi Takahara, Kenji Ishikawa, Novuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20040051033
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling the deflection amplitude and offset of a laser beam that is deflected off of a vibrating mirror galvanometer, given only beam deflection timing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Mark D. Hagen, James E. Noxon, Arthur M. Turner
  • Publication number: 20040051034
    Abstract: A method of use for holographic optical traps or gradients in which repetitive cycling of a small number of appropriately designed arrays of traps are used for general and very complex manipulations of particles and volumes of matter. Material transport results from a process resembling peristaltic pumping, with the sequence of holographically-defined trapping or holding manifolds resembling the states of a physical peristaltic pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: University of Chicago
    Inventors: David G. Grier, Sven Holger Behrens
  • Publication number: 20040051035
    Abstract: A flaw inspection system (10) contains a substrate (12) to be inspected, such as a generator tube wall, a rotor of a generator, an aircraft skin, having or thought to have interior defects (24, 26) such as stress cracks, where the substrate (12) has attached reference blocks (14, 16) also containing defects (18, 20) of the type that might be found in the substrate, where an ultrasonic generator (28) emits sound waves (30) which contact all the defects, causing heat (32) which is sensed by a thermal camera (50) which, in association with a controller (54) causes images (60, 62) to appear on a monitor (52) from which the type and number of defects (24, 26) in the substrate (12) can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Zombo, Paul Vona, Miguel A. Felix
  • Publication number: 20040051036
    Abstract: The invention relates to the mass-selective ejection of stored ions from linear ion traps. The invention consists in using nonlinear resonances to enhance the ejection speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Bruker Daltonik GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Franzen, Gerhard Weiss
  • Publication number: 20040051037
    Abstract: A method of manipulating a microscopic quantity of material is disclosed wherein an optical fiber probe having a sharp tip with a hole fabricated therein is used to extract the material. The hole is sufficiently small that upon immersion of the sharp tip in the material a virtual seal forms to inhibit penetration of the material into the hole. A laser pulse is sent down the fiber probe to disrupt the seal and promote entry of the material into the hole. The probe can also be used in a reverse manner to deliver trapped material from the hole into a targeted region. The bole also permits an annular light intensity distribution at and near the exit of the probe tip which can be used to optically trap particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Rod Taylor, Cyril Hnatovsky
  • Publication number: 20040051038
    Abstract: An ion guide is installed in an intermediate chamber provided between a low vacuum chamber and a high vacuum chamber, and is located on a passage of transporting ions from the low vacuum chamber to the high vacuum chamber. The ion guide includes a plurality of plate-shape electrodes juxtaposed in a transport direction of the ions in the intermediate chamber and provided with ion passage holes around an ion beam axis, respectively; a plate-shape aperture electrode disposed as a part of partition for separating the intermediate chamber and an adjacent chamber and provided with an aperture around the ion beam axis; and high frequency power sources for applying high frequency electric voltages to the plate-shape electrodes and the aperture electrode, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20040051039
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for calibrating a mass spectrometer by internally introducing calibration masses at a post-source stage of the mass spectrometer is provided. A source of lock mass ions adjacent the ion optics creates lock mass ions within the ion optics. Lock mass ions mix with the analyte ions in the ion optics prior to mass analysis. The source of lock mass ions may include various means for ionizing lock mass molecules including but not limited to photoionization, field desorption-ionization, electron ionization, and thermal ionization means. An apparatus and method of mass calibrating a tandem mass spectrometer is also provided. The mass calibration apparatus includes a collision cell for fragmenting analyte ions and a source of lock mass ions adjacent said collision cell for creating lock mass ions in the collision cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Charles W. Russ, Steven M. Fischer
  • Publication number: 20040051040
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses decreases in the volumes of the patterns which have been formed on the surfaces of semiconductor samples or of the like, or performs accurate length measurements, irrespective of such decreases. In an electrically charged particle ray apparatus by which the line widths and other length data of the patterns formed on samples are to be measured by scanning the surface of each sample with electrically charged particle rays and detecting the secondary electrons released from the sample, the scanning line interval of said electrically charged particle rays is set so as not to exceed the irradiation density dictated by the physical characteristics of the sample. Or measured length data is calculated from prestored approximation functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Osamu Nasu, Tadashi Otaka, Hiroki Kawada, Ritsuo Fukaya, Makoto Ezumi
  • Publication number: 20040051041
    Abstract: A scanning electron microscope with an energy filter which can positively utilize secondary electrons and/or reflected electrons which collide against a mesh electrode and are lost. The scanning electron microscope which has a porous electrode for producing an electric field for energy-filtering electrons produced by applying a primary electron beam to a sample and a 1st electron detector which detects electrons passing through the porous electrode is characterized by further having a porous structure provided near the sample, a deflector which deflects electrons from the axis of the primary electron beam, and a 2nd electron detector which detects the electrons deflected by the deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Hideo Todokoro, Makoto Ezumi, Yoichi Ose, Naomasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040051042
    Abstract: SiC at least about 400 micrometers thick, and preferably within the range of about 400-2,000 micrometers thick, is employed to detect electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength less than about 10 micrometers via an acoustic absorption mechanism. The SiC body preferably has a non-dopant impurity level low enough that it does not interfere with a single crystal structure for the SiC, and an approximately uniform thickness with an approximately flat radiation receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: HEETRONIX
    Inventor: James D. Parsons
  • Publication number: 20040051043
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting a test gas that may be present at a measuring location, using an infrared gas analyser (1) that comprises a cuvette (2), an infrared light source (3), an infrared detector (4), and two gas lines (15, 17). Said gas lines supply gases to the infrared gas analyser and one of said lines is adapted to take up a measuring gas at a measuring location that may contain a test gas. The second line (17) is adapted to take up gas from the surroundings of the measuring location (reference gas), which gas may contain a test gas background that is to be taken into consideration when detecting the test gas taken up at the measuring location. In order to improve the sensitivity of the analyser it comprises only one cuvette (2) and the measuring gas taken up at the measuring location and the reference gas are fed to the cuvette of the infrared gas analyser in such a manner that they are alternately present in the cuvette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Ralf Kilian, Randolf Rolff, Gerd Kuster, Ralf Hirche
  • Publication number: 20040051044
    Abstract: The invention refers to a device for determining the nuclide content of a radioactive fluid. The device comprises a space (2) for receiving the fluid, a primary detector (6) for detection of gamma radiation emitted form the fluid in the space (2), and a processing member (10) for determining the nuclide content of the fluid based on the detected gamma radiation. The primary detector (6) includes a first detector part (8) having a front end directed towards the space and a second detector part (9) arranged adjacent to said front end between the first detector part (8) and the space (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Bjorn Bjurman, Bjorn Grapengiesser, Lembit Sihver
  • Publication number: 20040051045
    Abstract: A scintillator-camera system for determining uniformity of radiation emission from a radioactive source includes a cylindrical scintillation detector, the scintillation detector having a central hole along the long axis and having a conical mirror around the scintillator to direct light emitted from the circumference of the scintillator to a camera. A camera is arranged to view the scintillation detector so that light stimulated in the scintillator by a radioactive source inserted in the central hole is detected by the camera, the camera producing image data upon detection of light stimulated in the scintillator. The image data are adapted to be analyzed to detect non-uniformity in a radiation emission pattern from the radioactive source. The image from the thick scintillator and surrounding conical mirror provides information about both circumferential, i.e., radial, and axial emission non-uniformities in a single view of the radioactive source(s) or seed(s) within the thick scintillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas S Jones, Robert Schulte
  • Publication number: 20040051046
    Abstract: An imaging camera includes a housing that defines a proximal end and a distal end. A Fresnel lens is installed in the proximal end of the housing. Moreover, a reflection mode photocathode is installed in the distal end of the housing opposite the Fresnel lens. An electron sensor is disposed in the center of the Fresnel lens. A conductive layer is disposed on the interior of the housing. Further, the Fresnel lens establishes plural concentric optically passive surfaces that are parallel to a central axis defined by the imaging camera. A conductive layer is disposed on each optically passive surface, and an electron lens is established by the conductive layer on the interior of the housing and the conductive layers on the Fresnel lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventor: Daniel Ferenc
  • Publication number: 20040051047
    Abstract: A radiation image sensor includes a radiation detector layer formed of radiation detector particles which generate electric charges upon exposure to recording radiation and are dispersed in a polymer, and an electric signal detector layer formed of detector elements each of which is formed on the surface of a plastic substrate for each pixel to detect the electric charges generated at the corresponding pixel in the radiation detector layer. The radiation detector layer and the electric signal detector layer are laminated one on the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20040051048
    Abstract: A system for detecting neutron radiation. A liquid cocktail mixture comprised of a neutron absorber and a scintillator is housed in a Teflon® tube having a mirror at one end of the tube and a windowed portal at the other end of the tube. Neutrons that penetrate the tube react with the neutron absorber producing ionization that excites a scintillator to produce photons. A photo-multiplier tube is coupled with the windowed portal for receiving photons and converting the photons to electrical signals. A processing device is coupled to the photo-multiplier output for receiving and analyzing the electrical signals so as to provide a measurement pertaining to the presence and relative strength of neutron radiation. The tube can be adapted to function as a portable survey instrument. Alternatively, the tube can be stretched to cover large apertured areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: George M. Murray, Harvey W. Ko, Glen Southard
  • Publication number: 20040051049
    Abstract: A mechanical scanning stage for high speed image acquisition in a focused beam system. The mechanical scanning stage preferably is a combination of four stages. A first stage provides linear motion. A second stage, above the first stage, provides rotational positioning. A third stage above the rotational stage is moveable in a first linear direction, and the fourth stage above the third stage is positionable in a second linear direction orthogonal to the first direction. The four stages are responsive to input from a controller programmed with a polar coordinate pixel addressing method, for positioning a specimen mounted on the mechanical stage to allow an applied static focus beam to irradiate selected areas of interest, thereby imaged by collecting signals from the specimen using a polar coordinate pixel addressing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Yong Yu Liu, Daniel S.H. Chan, Jacob C.H. Phang
  • Publication number: 20040051050
    Abstract: A reference device for evaluating the performance of a confocal laser scan microscope. The reference device comprises a substrate (53) and reference fluorescing matter distributed over a surface of the substrate (53). The reference fluorescing matter has a predetermined spatial distribution over the latter surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Karl Anton Josef Schmid, Urban Georg Schnell
  • Publication number: 20040051051
    Abstract: A fluorescence analysis apparatus for analyzing behaviors of fluorescent molecules includes a laser light source, a sample stage that supports a substrate on which a sample including fluorescent molecules is placed, an optical system that converges a light beam from the laser light source on the sample, thus forming a confocal region, a scanning mechanism that moves the confocal region by scanning over the sample, an optical system that converges fluorescence from the sample, a photodetector that detects the converged fluorescence, and fluorescence intensity recording means for recording a change in fluorescence intensity of the fluorescence detected by the photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Kato, Hiroko Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20040051052
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of manufacturing an original plate used for manufacturing optical disc, which comprises: exposing and developing a photoresist layer provided on a base to form uneven pattern on the photoresist layer; irradiating ultraviolet rays to the photoresist layer where the uneven pattern is formed; and irradiating infrared rays onto the photoresist layer after ultraviolet rays have been irradiated thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Shingo Imanishi, Asao Kurousu, Mitsuru Toyokawa, Nobuyuki Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20040051053
    Abstract: A maskless micro-ion-beam reduction lithography (MMRL) system generates patterns of beamlets by switching individual beamlets on or off using a universal pattern generator which is positioned as the extraction electrode of the plasma source. Each aperture of the pattern generator is independently controlled to pass a beamlet. A multiplex addressing system to the individual apertures of the MMRL system is used to reduce the number of electrical connections. An additional layer of control electrodes is added. All apertures in each row of a first layer are connected to a single row address line. All apertures in each column of a second layer are connected to a single column address line. By using the combination of row and column lines, each aperture can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: William A. Barletta, Ka-Ngo Leung
  • Publication number: 20040051054
    Abstract: A circuit is enabled to capacitively drive a memory cell (erasing, programming, and reading) via a capacitance. The capacitance is additionally present and isolates the antenna from the driver circuit of the memory cell. Charge accumulates on the antenna in the case of a FIB attack. The capacitance prevents the charge from flowing away, so that the voltage thus generated acts on the memory cell, which thus experiences a corresponding alteration of its charge state, which is detected. The capacitance can be implemented and realized in any conventional manner, such as any arbitrary capacitor structure of the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Hans Taddiken
  • Publication number: 20040051055
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithography system comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20040051056
    Abstract: An UV light system (10) for treating the air includes an UV tube lamp (20) having a first section (42) for transmitting UV light in a wavelength range thaht includes maximum ozone production and maximum germicidal activity, and a second section (44) for transmitting UV light in a wavelength range thaht includes maximum germical activity while excluding the production of ozone; and a movable annualar sleeve (46) for controlling the amount of ozone transmitted by the lamp (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: James L. Disabito, Mark E. Kurtz, Scott P. Russell
  • Publication number: 20040051057
    Abstract: A movement sequence determining method of obtaining a preferred solution of movement sequence within a predetermined time and an apparatus for realizing it, includes at least an arithmetic step of generating a group including plural movement sequences that can be carried out, out of a group of movement sequence candidates, each indicating a visit order of plural process areas as well as scan directions of local areas in the plural process areas, and selecting a movement sequence in which a movement operation between plural process areas is completed in a shortest time, from the group generated, and a prestep of producing a movement time management table storing movement times, each from a movement start position to a movement end position, in unit lengths between process areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Nikon Corp.
    Inventor: Koji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20040051058
    Abstract: The invention relates to the contactless measurement of a linear textile formation such as yarn (1), thread, textile fibre, sliver, etc. in which a linear textile formation moves in a radiation flux (7) between a radiation source (3) and a radiation sensor (4) consisting, of a plurality of radiation-sensitive elements (40) arranged next to each other in at least one row and in which the diameter and/or the hairiness and/or the density of the linear textile formation is determined on the basis of the number of overshadowed radiation-sensitive elements (40) of the radiation sensor (4) and/or on the basis of the irradiation degree of the radiation-sensitive elements (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Miroslav Stusak
  • Publication number: 20040051059
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus (20) for controlling a registration between a target point (22) on a moving web (24), and a production outcome provided by a production operation. A method aspect can include a transporting of the web (24) along a movement direction (26) past a reference detector (30), and a detecting of at least a first reference point (50) on the web (24). The target point (22) can be designated by employing at least the first reference point (50). The web is transported past a speed-sensor (32), and the speed-sensor can measure a web speed of the moving web (24) to provide an output of web speed data. The web speed data is integrated over time to determine a web-length which has been transported past the speed-sensor (32). The production outcome is actuated at a production-device (34), and the actuating of the production outcome can be adjusted to occur after a reference-length of the web (24) has been transported past the speed-sensor (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Tanakon Ungpiyakul, Thomas A. Bett
  • Publication number: 20040051060
    Abstract: In a first aspect, an apparatus is provided for detecting substrates. The apparatus includes (1) a transmitter/receiver unit adapted to transmit a light beam through a substrate located within a transfer chamber; (2) a reflector adapted to receive the light beam transmitted from the transmitter/receiver unit and to reflect the transmitted light beam toward the transmitter/receiver unit; and (3) a controller coupled to the transmitter/receiver unit and adapted to determine whether a substrate is positioned between the transmitter/receiver unit and the reflector based on an intensity of the reflected light beam received by the transmitter/receiver unit. At least one of the transmitted and reflected light beams is adapted to strike a substrate positioned between the transmitter/receiver unit and the reflector with non-normal incidence. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Shinichi Kurita
  • Publication number: 20040051061
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of printing presses, and specifically to a method and apparatus for visually inspecting a web moving on a printing press using a CMOS based image recording device and preferably a LED light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Quad/Tech, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Warner
  • Publication number: 20040051062
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detection system and a detection method for the detection and tracking of optical codes on objects which are transported along a monitored zone, comprising a plurality of optoelectronic sensors to read the codes and to generate corresponding reading data and comprising at least two data buses, each having its own associated bus control unit, wherein each of the plurality of sensors is connected both to the one and to the other of the two data buses and wherein the one of the two data buses with the associated bus control unit, on the one hand, and the other data bus with the associated bus control unit, on the other hand, are divided into a primary branch and a secondary branch which is subordinate to the primary branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Sick AG
    Inventors: Roland Gehring, Juergen Reichenbach, Reinhold Kilian, Hubert Uhl, Klemens Wehrle, Daniel Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20040051063
    Abstract: An image information recording/reading method and apparatus for positive and short-circuited reading system capable of obtaining both moving and still pictures with improved image quality. The method and apparatus are designed to obtain favorable images in the imaging of both still and moving pictures by applying a necessary and sufficient voltage to avoid the influence of fixed noise at the time of still picture imaging, and applying a higher voltage than that of the still picture imaging at the time of moving picture imaging, in which the intensity of the radiation (recording light) is limited because of the continuous irradiation of the radiation (recording light).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20040051064
    Abstract: The device comprises:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: ELBI INTERNATIONAL S.P.A.
    Inventor: Danilo Beraldo
  • Publication number: 20040051065
    Abstract: A dual-magnet valve unit having a first master magnet ring assembly with an outer casing slidably contained within an outer housing that forms a chamber with the casing of the master magnet ring assembly and a second, slave magnet disk assembly with an outer tube and a poppet member in the form of a cone and displaceable within the inner transport fluid conduit, the inner transport fluid conduit having a valve seat contactable by the cone of the poppet member to block fluid flow through the fluid conduit in one position of the slave magnet disk assembly and displaceable from the cone to pass fluid flow through the fluid conduit in an opposite position of the slave magnet disk assembly, the master magnet ring assembly being displaced by selective supply of a motive fluid to the chamber to displace the master magnet ring assembly from one position to another, which automatically displaces the slave magnet ring assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: John P. Petro, Donald Burch, Jeremy F. Mayer
  • Publication number: 20040051066
    Abstract: Biased actuators having first and second magnetic members, a first electromagnetic coil, the first magnetic member being moveable relative to the second magnetic member between first and second positions, and being electromagnetically attracted to the first position by electrical excitation of the first electromagnetic coil, a first preloaded spring configured to apply a first spring force to the first magnetic member biasing the first magnetic member towards the second position only when the first magnetic member is in or between the first position and some fraction of its travel from the first position to the second position. Various embodiments are disclosed, including embodiments having a second spring acting as a return spring throughout the motion of the first magnetic member, and dual electromagnetic coil configurations. Exemplary embodiments are disclosed with respect to spool-type valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Oded E. Sturman
  • Publication number: 20040051067
    Abstract: In a solenoid-actuated pintle valve assembly, the solenoid assembly is shrouded by a manifold jacket connected via an opening to a source of air at a pressure higher than the working gas pressure within the valve chamber. During operation of the valve and solenoid assembly, a low mass flow of air is forced continuously throughout the solenoid assembly and exits through any leaks in the jacket and along the bushing bores into the valve chamber. Thus, the bushing bore and solenoid assembly are actively protected against entry of contaminants. Further, since it is no longer necessary to vent the valve to permit the escape of gases leaking along the bushing bores, contaminant-laden gases are kept from being exhausted into the engine compartment and from leaving a carbon track residue. The invention is especially useful for exhaust gas recirculation valves on internal combustion engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Mahoro M. Fujita, Todd P. Geib, Geoffrey J. Scott, Mark A. Reeves
  • Publication number: 20040051068
    Abstract: An electromagnetically-actuated two-way two-position valve is normally closed and comprises an axially-mobile group (5) which has an upper end (5a) that faces a fixed group (6) and which is attracted thereby. An obturator (4) is intercepted and then drawn in an opening movement by the mobile group (5) when the mobile group (5) is at a short distance from an end of its run. A return spring (9), which displaced the obturator (4) towards a closed position when the fixed group is deactivated, is entirely located behind the upper end (5a) of he mobile group (5). An air gap (8) is comprised, in a radial direction, between a coil (7) for activating the fixed group (6) and the upper end (5a) of the mobile group (5). The valve is constructionally simple and economical and has a higher fatigue resistance than known valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Marco Bartolacelli, Sergio Acerbi, Reggiani Claudio
  • Publication number: 20040051069
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a first mounting face and a second mounting face for mounting of a terminal box. The first mounting face is formed with terminal holes in which coil terminals are housed and a screw hole for fixing. The second mounting face is provided with an elastic clip having hooks. The terminal box is in a substantially L shape. A first portion of the terminal box is provided with connecting terminals to be connected to the coil terminals, a connector to be brought into continuity with the connecting terminals, and a printed board mounted with an indicating lamp and electric components. A second portion of the terminal box is provided with locking holes into which the hooks of the elastic clip are locked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Miyazoe
  • Publication number: 20040051070
    Abstract: A pipe coupling comprises a socket having a ball valve in which a through bore having one end that allows insertion of a plug is formed and a casing supporting the ball valve for rocking motion. The casing has a slot extending from its flank to the top. The slot has a flank opening and a top opening. The flank opening is wider than the top opening. A lock element is located for movement in the through bore of the ball valve. When the one end of the through bore of the ball valve is aligned with the flank opening, the lock element advances into the flank opening, thereby preventing the ball valve from rocking. When the lock element is pushed into the through bore of the ball valve by the plug, it is disengaged from the flank opening, whereupon the ball valve is allowed to rock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Mikiya, Reichi Makishima, Hidemi Seki
  • Publication number: 20040051071
    Abstract: Provided is a butterfly valve that prevents occurrence of erosion, thereby rendering it possible to secure fine adjustment of a volumetric flow rate of a fluid in an area of low degree of valve opening or in an area of minute degree of valve opening, to infallibly attain high range ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Yoshiharu Sato
  • Publication number: 20040051072
    Abstract: A valve arrangement (10) for reducing the instability of fluid flow in a compressible flow governor valve includes a cutoff plug (12) with a lateral concave surface (14) and an end portion (16) having a substantially circular cross section, and a seat (30) with a convex surface (32). The lateral concave surface (14) and the end portion (16) of the cutoff plug (12) define an abrupt cutoff corner (18). The radius (re) of the end portion (16) of the cutoff plug (12) is less than the radius (Rs) of the seat (30). The radius of curvature (R) of the seat (30) is less than the radius of curvature (rq) of the lateral concave surface (14) of the cutoff plug (12). The configuration of the cutoff plug (12) and seat (30) enhances the annular flow pattern beneath the cutoff plug (12) at all lift positions thus reducing flow instability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: James R. Hardin
  • Publication number: 20040051073
    Abstract: The invention concerns a safety valve comprising a body (2) traversed by an actuating rod (1) in translation relative to the body (2), wherein the rod passes through a bellows (3) comprising two metal walls, the bellows being fixed at each of its ends to the body and to the rod, respectively. The invention also concerns a fluid tank whereon is mounted such a valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Christian Estrems
  • Publication number: 20040051074
    Abstract: An azeotropic mixture of perfluorobutylethylene and at least one of the group consisting of bromochloromethane, cyclopentane, cis-1,2 dichloroethylene, trans-1,2 dichloroethylene and dichloromethane useful for cleaning agents, blowing agents and certain of which are suitable for flash spinning of polyolefins to make plexifilamentary fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Hyunkook Shin, Chien-Ping Chai Kao, Thomas A.J. Schweiger