Patents Issued in April 1, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040060640
    Abstract: A process of depositing at least one uncured colored rubber mix forming a contrasting motif on an outer surface of a tire includes preparing a blank of the uncured tire to be moulded, including all the constituents except for the colored rubber mix(es), depositing the colored rubber(s) in at least one cavity formed on a removable insert, each cavity having the general form of the motif to be moulded and having a total volume V2, the total volume of non-vulcanized colored rubber V1 placed in each cavity being less than the volume V0, mounting the insert in a suitable housing provided on the moulding surface of the mould for the tire, engaging the tire blank within the mould, and moulding and vulcanizing the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche-Et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Frederic Pialot
  • Publication number: 20040060641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for splicing a web of layered material so that a new roll of material may be joined to an expiring web via a butt joint. A shear wheel is driven to ensure that the shear wheel positively rotates as it cuts across web material that is held against the side of an anvil. In the illustrated embodiment, a drive cable and shear wheel assembly are operably connected to a splicing apparatus, a portion of the drive cable being threaded through the splicing apparatus and wrapped around at least a portion of the shear wheel, the threaded drive cable being maintained under tension. The rapid movement of the shear wheel assembly, and the wrapping engagement between the taut threaded drive cable and shear wheel, forces the shear wheel to positively spin, thereby improving the cutting capabilities of the attached rotary cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: James K. Ward, Timothy J. Searles
  • Publication number: 20040060642
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of producing multilayer laminates comprising a polyamide and a fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer laminated together and being excellent in interlayer adhesion strength by multilayer coextrusion in an easy and simple manner without need of any additional step or without being limited to some or other particular adhesive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Inaba, Masakatsu Kitano
  • Publication number: 20040060643
    Abstract: A easy way of utilizing the coin package will be possible ofter breaking the tape and hand pulling all the coins away from it. The total amount of coins can be veryfied before breaking the tape because a 40-45% exposure seen of the coin and its denomination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Hector Perez Perez
  • Publication number: 20040060644
    Abstract: A method/apparatus closes and finishes an open end of a product that can be fused together with heat. The apparatus includes a bending stage, a fusing stage, and a pressing/cooling stage, which all can be integrally formed, with the bending stage positioned upstream of the fusing stage, and the pressing/cooling stage positioned downstream of the fusing stage. The apparatus can further include a trimming stage positioned upstream of the bending stage for preparing the ends of a panel. The product has a pair of spaced layers with edges that form an open end. Either one or both of the layers can be heated and rolled toward the other layer while being heated so that they contact and fuse together. The layers can overlap and fuse at their contact surfaces, or the edges can abut to form a butt joint, or the edges can overlap slightly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Danko
  • Publication number: 20040060645
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a plunger, a heating element, and first and second arms. The plunger affixes a first unit to a second unit with adhesive. The first and second units are on a strip of a flexible tape. The strip is on a folding base unit. The folding base unit folds the first unit on top of the second unit. The heating element is attached to the plunger to cure the adhesive. The first and second arms are positioned on first and second sides of the plunger via first and second hinges, respectively, to secure the first and second units underneath the plunger. Another embodiment of the invention includes a first sub-assembly and a second subassembly. The first sub-assembly supports a first unit. The first sub-assembly, when activated, folds the first unit on top of a second unit. The first and second units are on a strip of a flexible tape. The second sub-assembly supports the second unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Ruel B. Pieda, Alan P. De Ocampo, Rammil Seguido
  • Publication number: 20040060646
    Abstract: By increasing the quantity of resin binder of at least one of conductive paste and ceramic green sheet, adhesion between conductive film and the ceramic green sheet is improved when an intaglio filled with the conductive paste is hot pressed on the ceramic green sheet. As a result, transfer failure at intaglio transfer is removed and internal fracture of the ceramic green sheet is suppressed. Also, by coating an adhesive layer on an intaglio filled with conductive paste, adhesion with ceramic green sheet is improved and transfer failure at intaglio transfer is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Masaaki Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20040060647
    Abstract: A method and apparatus utilizes a flexographic printing cylinder or print sleeve that is functionally adapted to have a photopolymeric printing plate removably attached to it. A micro-cutting mechanism is also provided that is axially aligned with the printing cylinder or print sleeve whereby a cutting tool, such as a knife, blade, straight edge or laser, can be drawn across the printing cylinder or print sleeve to cut a portion of the printing plate that is mounted thereto. In the method and apparatus of the present invention, and after the printing plate is attached at a point along the cylinder or sleeve, the micro-cutting mechanism is placed proximally to the printing cylinder or sleeve and the cutting tool is drawn along a line and across a portion of the printing plate. This forms a first cut through the plate. The cut may be at an angle relative to the perpendicular of the cylinder or sleeve, or the cut may be perpendicular to the surface of the cylinder or sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Burt Tabora
  • Publication number: 20040060648
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a disposable undergarment includes moving a web of body panel material in a longitudinal machine direction and cutting the web of body panel material along the longitudinal machine direction to thereby form a rear body panel web and a front body panel web each having a maximum rise and a minimum rise respectively. The maximum rise of each of the rear and front body panel webs is greater than the minimum rise of a corresponding one of the rear and front body panel webs. The method further includes shifting at least one of the rear and front body panel webs in the longitudinal machine direction and thereby aligning the maximum rises of the rear and front body panel webs. The method further includes separating the rear and front body panels in a lateral cross direction, such that the maximum rises of each of the rear and front body panel webs are spaced apart in the lateral cross direction and form a gap therebetween in a non-overlapping relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell E. Thorson, Paul T. Van Gompel, Jennifer L. Marvin
  • Publication number: 20040060649
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an undergarment includes moving a web of body panel material in a longitudinal machine direction and cutting the web of body panel material along the longitudinal machine direction to thereby form a rear body panel web and a front body panel web each having a maximum rise and a minimum rise respectively. The maximum rise of each of the rear and front body panel webs is greater than the minimum rise of a corresponding one of the rear and front body panel webs. The method further includes shifting at least one of the rear and front body panel webs in the longitudinal machine direction and thereby aligning the maximum rises of the rear and front body panel webs. The method further includes aligning a s crotch member with the maximum rises of the rear and front body panel webs and connecting the crotch member to the front and rear body panels. The crotch member includes at least one stretchable component including an elastic material. A disposable undergarment is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul T. Van Gompel, Russell E. Thorson
  • Publication number: 20040060650
    Abstract: A composite material collation machine and associated method for fiber tape placement and consolidation at a relatively high rate are provided. The composite material collation machine includes a laser diode array for heating at least one fiber tape, a compaction device for pressing the fiber tape against a workpiece, an inspection system for monitoring the fiber tape, and a controller. The inspection system produces an output representative of at least one characteristic of the fiber tape, and the controller is capable of receiving the output and, based on the output, automatically altering at least one system parameter defining an operational characteristic of the composite material collation machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Scott T. Holmes, Bruce E. McIlroy, Roger W. Engelbart, Stanley A. Lawton
  • Publication number: 20040060651
    Abstract: A dummy member is covered with a sheet member in a manner to keep one side of the sheet member in contact with the dummy member retaining a plurality of permanent magnets in a manner that any pair of adjoining magnets are opposite in polarity. A plurality of permanent magnets are supplied to the other side of the sheet member conforming to the dummy member so as to be magnetically attracted by the permanent magnets of the dummy member whereby the therapeutic permanent magnets are positioned at predetermined places on the other side of the sheet member. Subsequently, the therapeutic permanent magnets arranged on the other side of the sheet member are fixed to the sheet member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Katsumi Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20040060652
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing a perforated panel for reticulation to a film adhesive. The method includes supporting the perforated panel. The method also includes adhering the film adhesive to the perforated panel without initiating a cure of the film adhesive. The method applies a vacuum to the film adhesive. Next the method will move the perforated panel at a predetermined speed through a reticulation unit. Next the method will soften the film adhesive and finally remove the film adhesive from the perforations by an airflow. The method is generally used for creating acoustic sheet panels for use in many industries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: John L. McNeely, Ray Funderburke, Shannon Hogg
  • Publication number: 20040060653
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and to a machine for splicing the trailing end of a running expiring web (e.g., a web of cigarette paper) to the leading end of a fresh web while the ends of the webs travel next to each other, in the same direction and at an at least substantially identical speed between a rotary knurling surface and a complementary second rotary surface which may but need not be a knurling surface. The rolls which constitute or mount the carriers for the two surfaces are driven in such a way that each n-th (e.g., each tenth) revolution results in the making of a splice between the leading and trailing ends of the webs. The forwardly and/or rearwardly extending remnants of the fresh and expiring webs are torn off the spliced-together webs at the respective ends of the splice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: HAUNI Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Albert-Berend Hebels, Frank Grothaus, Franz Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20040060654
    Abstract: In a method of mechanical processing in which mechanical processing is performed while a coolant 19 is sprinkled over a workpiece 13 fastened to a fixing surface using a coagulating agent, any agent having melting point equal to or higher than ordinary temperature from among calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, polyethylene glycol, and paraffin is used as the coagulating agent 12 for fastening the workpiece 13 to a workpiece-fastening stage 14 as the fixing surface, the coagulating agent 12 being solidified to thereby fasten the workpiece 13 to the workpiece-fastening stage 14, and a coolant 19 at an ordinary temperature is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Kenso Kanada, Kazuhiko Ikai
  • Publication number: 20040060655
    Abstract: A method of forming a laminate of at least two layers including at least one aramid paper with at least one layer of polymer by calendering opposing surfaces of the aramid paper at different temperatures prior to laminate formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Dariusz Wlodzimierz Kawka, David Wayne Anderson, Michael Joseph Brown
  • Publication number: 20040060656
    Abstract: The present invention presents an improved bellows shield for a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of the bellows shield coupled to a substrate holder electrode advantageously provides protection of a bellows with substantially minimal erosion of the bellows shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehito Saigusa, Taira Takase, Kouji Mitsuhashi, Hiroyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20040060657
    Abstract: The present invention presents an improved deposition shield for surrounding a process space in a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of the deposition shield advantageously provides for a clean processing plasma in the process space with substantially minimal erosion of the deposition shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehito Saigusa, Taira Takase, Kouji Mitsuhashi, Hiroyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20040060658
    Abstract: The present invention presents an improved baffle plate for a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of the baffle plate advantageously provides for a uniform processing plasma in the process space with substantially minimal erosion of the baffle plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Nishimoto, Kouji Mitsuhashi, Hiroyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20040060659
    Abstract: An etching apparatus has a sensor for monitoring the etching state, an etching result estimation model for estimating an etching result from an output of the sensor and an etching result estimator, and an etching recipe calculation model for calculating a recipe based on the estimation result, in such a manner as to achieve a target etching result. In the etching method employed, when subjecting a semiconductor substrate prepared by using polysilicon to etching, calculating at least one of an oxygen gas flow rate and a pressure or both, which are included in the recipe, is calculated based on a recipe calculation model and the etching is performed using the thus-obtained parameter(s). The etching apparatus and the etching method enable desired pattern dimensions to be achieved, while suppressing variation in the final pattern dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Natsuyo Morioka, Kenji Tamaki, Akira Kagoshima, Daisuke Shiraishi, Motohiko Yoshigai, Junichi Tanaka, Shoji Ikuhara, Hideyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20040060660
    Abstract: A plasma processing system has a chamber, a workpiece holder in an interior of the chamber, a first power circuit, a second power circuit, and a feedback circuit. The first power circuit has a first power supply coupled to a first matching network. The first matching network is coupled to a coil adjacent to the chamber. The second power circuit has a second power supply coupled to a second matching network. The second matching network is coupled to the workpiece holder. The feedback circuit includes a radio frequency (RF) probe and a controller. The RF probe is partially disposed in an interior of the chamber. The controller is coupled to the RF probe and the first power circuit. The RF probe measures a change in plasma density in the interior of the chamber and the controller adjusts the first power supply in response to the change in plasma density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Lam Research Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventors: Pete I. Klimecky, Fred L. Terry, Jessy W. Grizzle, Craig Garvin
  • Publication number: 20040060661
    Abstract: The present invention presents an improved upper electrode for a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of an electrode plate with a deposition shield coupled to the upper electrode advantageously provides gas injection of a process gas with substantially minimal erosion of the upper electrode while providing protection to a chamber interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Nishimoto, Kouji Mitsuhashi, Hiroyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20040060662
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus having an internal antenna for large area processing and capable of improving plasma characteristics, such as plasma density and plasma uniformity while reducing plasma potential. The inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus has a plurality of linear antennas horizontally arranged at an inner upper portion of a reaction chamber while being spaced from each other by a predetermined distance and being connected to each other in series or in a row for receiving induced RF power and at least one magnet positioned adjacent to the linear antennas for creating a magnetic field perpendicularly crossing an electric field created by the linear antennas in such a manner that electrons perform a spiral movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Geun-Young Yeom, Young-Joon Lee, Kyong-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20040060663
    Abstract: An offset measuring mechanism and method used in a bonding apparatus, in which the object plane of a position detection camera is set on a hypothetical bonding working plane, and the image of imaging elements within the imaging plane is projected onto a bonding working plane. Furthermore, the tip end of a bonding tool is aligned with the bonding working plane. The object plane of the offset measuring camera is set on the bonding working plane, and the image on the bonding working plane is projected onto the imaging elements of the imaging plane of the offset measuring camera. The imaging elements detect the projected image of the imaging elements of the position detection camera or the image of the tip end of the bonding tool and output this data to the image position measuring part or tool position measuring section of the control block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventor: Manabu Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20040060664
    Abstract: Multi-ply tissue product is bonded by an adhesive spray whose position is controlled so that the web path distance between the spray application and the location where the webs are forced together permits sprayed adhesive to partially but not completely set during travel over that web path distance at operating web speeds. Typically, the web path distance between the nozzle and the location is more than 140 inches. The webs are positioned one in back of the other and each is unwound onto its own carrier roll, with the spray positioned between the carrier rolls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Eastern Pulp and Paper Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation
    Inventors: Ralph B. Lichtenberg, Joseph H. Torras, Eric C. Taylor, Michael Brown
  • Publication number: 20040060665
    Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator comprising a) an elongated chamber (3) having an opening for a glue stick and a nozzle (6) for distributing melted glue, b) means for gradually pushing the stick into the chamber (3) and c) two heating elements (131, 132), each of which comprises a channel (151, 152) made from an electrically resistant material and which can be connected to an electrical power source. Said channel (151, 152) is formed on an electrically insulated surface of a substrate (141, 142) which is arranged so as to be in thermal contact with a mass of glue contained in the chamber (3). The heating element (131, 132) is applied against an external conformal surface (21, 22) of a heating body (2), one surface of which defines said chamber (3). The heating body (2) is made from a heat-conducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Francis Richardot
  • Publication number: 20040060666
    Abstract: The component mounting equipment (30) mounts an FPC board (12) on an LCD board (11). The LCD board (11) has a first electrode section (11b) on one side edge and a second electrode section (11c) on another side edge. The FPC board (12) has a first section (12a) on one side edge and a second section (12b) on other side edge. A first mounting apparatus (31) mounts the first section (12a) on the first electrode section (11b). A second mounting apparatus (32) mounts the second section (12b) on the second electrode section (11c). In the second component mounting apparatus (32), the second section (12b) is separated from the second electrode section (11b) at an ACF supply section (170) and released at a pre-press bonding section (180).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Kenichi Nishino, Shinji Kanayama, Shinjiro Tsuji, Masayuki Ida, Tomotaka Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20040060667
    Abstract: A folding shade system includes a shade having a plurality of panels secured in an end-to-end fashion and cables suspended from opposite tracks to define a first curved profile. The folding shade system further includes at least one receiver for each of the cables secured to the shade to define a cable-receiving pathway extending across the width of one of the panels. The pathway defined by the at least one receiver has a second curved profile substantially matching the first curved profile of the cable. The at least one receiver for each cable may be a continuous sleeve defined by lines of stitching in joined end portions of adjacent panels or, alternatively, may include separate receivers each secured to the shade by a connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: David A. Kirby
  • Publication number: 20040060668
    Abstract: A shade system includes a plurality of panels that are supported by opposite first and second tracks for translation of the panels between retracted and extended positions. The shade system further includes an extension panel supported for translation with a terminal shade panel. An extension panel support assembly includes mount members translatably secured to the tracks and deployment members that position at least a portion of the extension panel beyond an end of the tracks when the shade system is in the extended position. A drive system engages the deployment members to translate the extension panel with respect to the tracks and to deploy the extension panel beyond the end of the tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: David A. Kirby
  • Publication number: 20040060669
    Abstract: A drive system is provided for a moveable barrier, such as a garage door, that limits unauthorized shifting thereof. The drive system includes a flexible actuator for raising and lowering the door. The flexible actuator is tensioned with a biasing mechanism to minimize actuator throw, and a stop assembly of the biasing mechanism limits unauthorized travel of the garage door from the closed position by a predetermined amount that is sufficiently small so as to keep intruders out of the garage. The flexible actuator may for example, be a cable, a belt or a chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Olmsted
  • Publication number: 20040060670
    Abstract: A roll-up shade with cord capture has a headrail, a bottomrail, a panel of window covering material between the headrail and the bottomrail and a plurality of looped cords extending from the headrail down one side of the panel of window covering material, around the bottom edge, up an opposite side of the panel of window covering material and into the headrail such that movement of the looped cords into the headrail will cause the panel of window covering material to roll up and movement of the cords out of the headrail will cause the window covering material to unroll. A rod extends across one side of the panel of window covering material and captures the looped cords between the rod and the surface of the window covering material or in apertures through the rod or in apertures formed by clips or eyelets attached to the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Ren Judkins
  • Publication number: 20040060671
    Abstract: This is a method and apparatus for making window coverings and frames and the like in which a multiplicity of frame members are held in position in a geometric shape and distorted inwardly towards a center of the frame by a distorting force after which a covering is adhered to the frame. When the covering is firmly adhered, the distorting force is released causing tension to be applied to the covering and insuring that the covering is taut and wrinkle free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Ron Badley
  • Publication number: 20040060672
    Abstract: A method for the continuous cooling of chemical pulp with the aim of achieving improved heat economy in a digester system comprising a vessel (1) for impregnation and a vessel (2) for cooking the impregnated cellulose chips. A part of the black liquor (14) withdrawn from the digester (2) is added at the beginning of a transfer system (4) having maintained essentially the withdrawl temperature, increasing the temperature of the chips mixture in the transfer system (4). A fraction of the transport fluid (10) from the transfer system (4) that is continuously withdrawn from the impregnated chips fed into the top of the digester is returned to the impregnation vessel (1) at essentially maintained transfer temperature, at a location before the said transfer system (4), seen from the point of view of the direction of flow of the chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Vidar Snekkenes, Lennart Gustavsson
  • Publication number: 20040060673
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for solvent pulping of cellulose-containing biomass utilizes at least one steaming vessel, a plug screw feeder or compression screw device, at least one super-atmospheric impregnation vessel, a solvent delignification reactor capable of operating at a pressure of 350 psig or more, and a solvent containing line for introducing solvent-containing liquor at the plug screw feeder outlet or compression screw device outlet. The process and system can also include at least one series connected pressure diffuser and optionally a retention tube downstream of each pressure diffuser to provide sufficient retention time to substantially preclude re-deposition of lignin on the cellulose fibers of the biomass, a blow tank connected to the last of the pressure diffusers and retention tubes, and vessels for multistage alcohol washing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: ANDRITZ INC.
    Inventors: Joseph R. Phillips, Brian Greenwood, Bertil C. Stromberg, Thomas Pschorn
  • Publication number: 20040060674
    Abstract: The measurement and control of the percent consistency of pulp leaving a blow tank in a pulp operation is improved by using digester data and additional temperature measurements. The percent consistency of pulp is determined by using the following data: 1) the temperature and relative amounts of dry pulp, liquid and dissolved solids in a blown mixture entering the blow tank; 2) the temperature and amount of dissolved solids in a first stage filtrate liquor; and 3) the temperature of a diluted pulp mixture leaving the blow tank. Once the percent consistency of pulp is accurately measured, this value is then used to control the tonnage rate of pulp entering a first washer in a pulp washing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: George Seymour
  • Publication number: 20040060675
    Abstract: A method for target application of a Performance Enhancing Material to a creping cylinder in order to improve a tissue making operation is described and claimed. The method involves dividing the creping cylinder into Zones and then applying the desired Performance Enhancing Material on a Zone by Zone basis such that each Zone has the optimal Performance Enhancing Material present. Furthermore, a method to ascertain the amount and pattern of application of the Performance Enhancing Material used on the creping cylinder is described and claimed. This method involves adding an inert fluorescent tracer to said Performance Enhancing Material and then to use a fluorometer to look for the tracer on the creping cylinder, and/or on the creped tissue product and/or in the water removed from the felt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Sammy L. Archer, Gary S. Furman
  • Publication number: 20040060676
    Abstract: The present invention relates a method for the manufacture of paper, in particular of coated fine paper, in which method paper stock is fed from a headbox (100) to a wire section (200) in which water is drained from a paper web (W), in which method the paper web (W) is passed from the wire section (200) to a press section (300) to press water out of the paper web (W), and in which method, after the press section (300), the paper web (W) is dried in a dryer section (400), precalendered and coated in a coating station (600), after which the paper web (W) is dried in a drying section (650) and calendered in a final calender (900), and reeled in a reel-up (1000). In the method the stock is fed into the headbox (100) using multilayering technology, the paper web (W) is precalendered in a one or more reinforced-nip calender (500), the paper web (W) is coated in a film coating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Johan Gron, Pentti Rautiainen
  • Publication number: 20040060677
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-purpose functional agricultural mulching paper is disclosed. The method comprises steps of (a) providing a papermaking material, (b) treating the papermaking material to form a cleaned paper pulp, and (c) adding at least one functional additive into the cleaned paper pulp and treating the cleaned paper pulp to form the multi-purpose functional agricultural mulching paper. The multi-purpose functional agricultural mulching paper of the present invention can be applied in week control, pest control, bacterial control, plant disease control, growing seedling, fertilizer supply and seed sowing to increase the economic benefits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Ching-Chung Huang
  • Publication number: 20040060678
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling the production of filler-containing paper. Filler and retention agent are both delivered to the paper manufacturing system in such a process of paper manufacture. The amount of filler in the paper is also measured, as is also the filler concentration or the total concentration in the white water or the stock. Filler is delivered in a quantity such that the system will be buffered with filler to a generally pre-determined concentration level (control value), which is followed via measuring processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Kent Borje Eriksson, Oskar Nordin
  • Publication number: 20040060679
    Abstract: A paper forming device of a paper machine enables a change-over between a thin paper high velocity forming and a thick paper forming. In the paper forming device, stock liquor S is discharged from a headbox 1 onto a wire 2 and, while being transferred on the wire 2, is dewatered by a dewatering equipment and further by a suction box 6. A forming roll 13, wound with an extended felt 7, is arranged movably up and down above the wire 2 near the headbox 1. When a thin paper is to be formed, the forming roll 13 is moved down so that a nip of the stock liquor is formed between the wire 2 and the felt 7. Thereby, the stock liquor S discharged from the headbox 1, can be comparatively immediately nipped between the wire 2 and the felt 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Hiroto Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20040060680
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for passing stock to a headbox (100) of a paper machine or equivalent. The apparatus comprises a deaeration tank (11) which is provided with vacuum by means of a vacuum pump (Po) or another device. The deaeration tank (11) comprises an inlet duct (10) through which it is supplied with wire water. The deaeration tank (1) comprises a discharge duct (12) and, at the discharge end thereof, an overflow (14) for the wire water in the discharge duct (12). Said overflow (14) of the discharge duct (12) is located below the deaeration tank (11) and opens to a free air space, and that the discharge duct (12) includes a branch duct (15a1) for a flow which is passed to the headbox (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Matti Hietaniemi
  • Publication number: 20040060681
    Abstract: Provided is an evaporative pattern casting process which ensures that smooth casting can be carried out without blow-back of a molten metal and a molding product having an excellent casting quality is obtained. The invention relates to an evaporative pattern casting process for casting a product, which comprises pouring a molten metal into a mold provided with a pattern with a through-hole, embedded in molding sand, and evaporating the pattern with the poured molten metal, gradually exhausting the gas generated by the evaporation of the pattern to the outside of the mold through an exhausting path provided with an exhaust gas-controlling means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Shigeo Nakai, Masahiko Kagitani, Yoshimasa Takagi, Takeshi Nurushima, Hitoshi Funada
  • Publication number: 20040060682
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a three-dimensional object includes the steps of forming a mixture that contains a binder, a wetting agent, and a least one of aluminum or a first aluminum-base alloy into a green composite, removing the binder from said green composite forming a porous preform structure and infiltrating the porous preform structure with a molten second aluminum base alloy to form the three-dimensional object with near theoretical density. The wetting agent assists in wetting during infiltration. The green composite may be formed by an additive process such as computer aided rapid prototyping, for example selective laser sintering. The method facilitates the rapid manufacture of aluminum components by an inexpensive technique that provides high dimensional stability and high density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Newell, Charles H. Zenuk
  • Publication number: 20040060683
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a three-dimensional object includes the steps of forming a mixture that contains a binder and a least one of aluminum or a first aluminum-base alloy into a green composite, removing the binder from said green composite forming a porous preform structure and infiltrating the porous structure with a molten second aluminum base alloy to form the three-dimensional object with near theoretical density. The green composite may be formed by an additive process such as computer aided rapid prototyping, for example selective laser sintering. The method facilitates the rapid manufacture of aluminum components by an inexpensive technique that provides high dimensional stability and high density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy Barry Sercombe, Graham Barry Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20040060684
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a cylinder block with a sleeve in which arc recesses for avoiding interference with the umbrella portions of valves are formed at an intersection between a deck face and a cylinder bore. A sleeve is cast in such a manner that it is embedded in a cylinder block with a space from a deck face simultaneously with the molding of the opening end portion of a cylinder bore and recesses in the cylinder block in the space with a bore pin mated with a sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Hideo Ibukuro, Tadashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20040060685
    Abstract: Methods for making various titanium base alloys and titanium aluminides into engineering components such as rings, tubes and pipes by melting of the alloys in a vacuum or under a low partial pressure of inert gas and subsequent centrifugal casting of the melt in the graphite molds rotating along its own axis under vacuum or low partial pressure of inert gas are provided, the molds having been fabricated by machining high density, high strength ultrafine grained isotropic graphite, wherein the graphite has been made by isostatic pressing or vibrational molding, the said molds either revolving around its own horizontal or vertical axis or centrifuging around a vertical axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Ranjan Ray, Donald W. Scott
  • Publication number: 20040060686
    Abstract: Moulding machine (1) for the moulding of sand moulds (4, 5) by blowing sand in through slitshaped openings (14, 15) extending across each side plate (16, 17) of a moulding box (6, 7). Into the boxes (6, 7) extend moulding patterns (12, 13). At least one of the end parts (18, 19) of the slitshaped openings has a greater width than the central part (20, 21) thereof. When the sand is blown in through the openings (14, 15) a greater amount of sand is achieved at the peripheral region of the boxes (6, 7) than when the end parts has no greater width than the central part of the opening. Consequently, by the present solution is achieved a greater hardness of the squeezed sand moulds at the peripheral region than by the prior art solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Erik Nyholm Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20040060687
    Abstract: A stand device for supporting a personal, miniature, or mobile computer, such as a PC notebook or laptop computer. The stand device is comprised of a base platform (A) for supporting the notebook computer, and at least two hinged legs (B) for elevation and angling of the (A) base and attached computer. The stand device is made from a material such as aluminum to help absorb and dissipate heat away from the computer. The stand device is designed so that it can be attached to the bottom side of the notebook computer with Velcro™ disks. This allows the stand device to be carried, stowed and used while attached to the notebook computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: David William Moss
  • Publication number: 20040060688
    Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for cooling integrated circuit assemblies uses a heat sink having a base and a displacement element having a size substantially similar to an area of heat concentration appropriately positioned on the integrated circuit. A compressive force placed upon the displacement element between the heat sink and the integrated circuit provides an optimum thermal resistance at an interface between the IC and the heat sink for efficient transfer of heat to the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Andrew Douglas Delano
  • Publication number: 20040060689
    Abstract: A heat sink apparatus for use with a liquid refrigerant that tends to generate gas during the cooling process wherein at least some of the gas tends to accumulate on the internal surfaces of heat sink liquid channels forming gaseous pockets that in turn cause surface hot spots, the apparatus for minimizing the surface host spots and comprising a first sink member having first and second substantially oppositely facing surfaces, the second surface for receiving at least one heat generating component, a second sink member having at least a first surface, the first surface of the second sink member secured to the first surface of the first sink member, the first surface of one of the sink members forming a cavity extending between first and second cavity ends and including a cavity surface, the first side of the other of the sink members including a cover surface that substantially covers the cavity and substantially oppositely faces the cavity surface so as to form a channel, at least one of the cavity surface
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: David W. Pfeifer, John Kasunich