Abstract: An apparatus and a method for calibrating the position of a wafer platform in an ion implanter, and particularly in a medium current ion implanter. The apparatus is constructed by a curvilinear piece formed in a half-circular shape, a pair of linear rods for supporting the curvilinear piece, and at least one cross-bracing rod connected in-between the pair of linear rods for providing rigidity of the apparatus. When the inside peripheral surface of the curvilinear piece intimately engages an outside peripheral surface of the wafer platform of the ion implanter, or when the first and second linear rods fit snugly on the implanter indicative that the wafer platform is properly calibrated at a zero-angle position. When such fitting is not possible, the wafer platform is then adjusted until a snug fitting is made possible.

Abstract: The present invention provides a scrapping system of used-automobiles, comprising a reusable parts collecting station A, a liquid collecting station B for collecting liquids including fuel, oil and coolant, a prearrangement station C for collecting chlorofluorocarbon, batteries, seats, tires, etc., a functional parts collecting station D for collecting suspension device, etc., a non-ferrous metal parts and resin parts collecting station E for collecting motors, harnesses, instrument panels, bumpers, etc., and a pressing station F for pressing a body of the used-automobile which has been processed in the above stations, wherein the stations sequentially arranged.

Abstract: A battery replacement system and method for electronic devices which does not require a back-up battery or storage capacitor. A battery is placed within a tunnel formed in the electronic device. The tunnel has an input opening and an output opening. During use, the battery resides within the tunnel where it makes electrical contact with the power terminals of the device. When the battery is exhausted and needs to be replaced, a new battery is introduced into the tunnel via the input opening. As the new battery enters the tunnel, it makes electrical contact with the power terminals, while at the same time serving to push the exhausted battery out the output opening of the tunnel. The tunnel is configured such that the new battery makes electrical contact with the power terminals before the exhausted battery loses contact with the terminals. In this way, there is no interruption in power being supplied to the electronic device.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an electrical length of a coaxial cable and a plug connector with an adjustable length that facilitates the adjustment of the electrical length of the cable are disclosed. With the method, both ends of the coaxial cable are terminated with a respective coaxial plug connector wherein at least one of the plug connectors has an adjustable length. One of the coaxial plug connectors is connected with a phase measurement device, and the other coaxial plug connector having the adjustable length is electrically shorted with a short-circuit plug. A pressing force is applied in an axial direction between the short-circuit plug and an outer conductor of the coaxial plug connector, until the phase measurement device indicates that the electrical length has reached a predetermined value.

Abstract: A process and apparatus is disclosed capable of removably adhering a semiconductor substrate to a substrate support in a sub-atmospheric environment using a plurality of individual fibers, each mounted at one end adjacent the substrate support, and each having a loose end. When the portions of the fiber adjacent the loose fiber ends are each brought into contact with the under surface of the substrate, Van der Waals forces are exerted between the substrate and the fibers to urge the substrate toward the underlying substrate support. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate and portions of the fiber adjacent the loose fiber ends are first vertically brought into physical contact with one another, and then a horizontal force is applied to horizontally move, with respect to one another, the substrate and the portions of the fibers adjacent the loose fiber ends.

Abstract: A printed circuit board support including a first member having a planar upper surface for supporting a printed circuit board. At least one second member is movably coupled to a first side of the first member and movable toward and away from the side of the movable member, and a bias source biases the second member in a direction away from the first member. The support is readily compressed to allow placement into or onto a space defined by surfaces of a positioning device, and the support expands upon its release to fill the space. When the support is left in the positioning device during a change over to a different circuit board, the support will automatically adjust to any width-wise adjustment in the space between the surfaces of the positioning device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device including a first electronic component mounted on one main surface of a wiring board by being thermo-compression bonded by means of a thermo-compression bonding tool with an adhesive resin interposed between a first area of the one main surface of the wiring board and the first electronic component, and a second electronic component mounted on a second area different from the first area of the one main surface of the wiring board by melting a soldering paste material and higher than the first electronic component in post-mounting height, and wherein the first electronic component is mounted before the mounting of the second electronic component.

Abstract: A method of mounting an electronic component having at least one contact extending across a part of its undersurface may include providing a support smaller in area than the undersurface of the component and having a contact pad for connection to the contact. The contact pad may have a first portion extending across an upper surface of the support adjacent one edge and a second portion extending from the edge across a side surface of the support. The method may also include positioning the electronic component and the support with the undersurface of the component adjacent the upper surface of the support. This is done so that the first portion of the contact pad is aligned with and spaced apart from a first portion of the contact, and the second portion of the contact pad is aligned with and disposed inwardly of a second portion of the contact.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a saw filter in which a carrier plate 10 that can be separated into base plates 2 is respectively provided with interconnects in the base plate regions A and these are contacted to the active structures of SAW chips 1 in flip-chip technique. A metal foil 3 or plastic film 4 is placed onto the chip-equipped carrier plate 10 and, for example, is pressure and heat treated such that it envelopes each chip 1 (except for the chip surface facing toward the carrier plate 10) and lies hermetically tight on the carrier plate surface in regions between the chips.

Abstract: Conductive materials that have low coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs) and that are used for power and ground planes are disclosed. Fibrous materials (such as carbon, graphite, glass, quartz, polyethylene, and liquid crystal polymer fibers) with low CTEs are metallized to provide a resultant conductive material with a low CTE. Such fibers may be metallized in their individual state and then formed into a fabric, or these materials may be formed into a fabric and then metallized or a combination of both metallizations may be used. In addition, a graphite or carbon sheet may be metallized on one or both sides to provide a material that has a low CTE and high conductivity. These metallized, low CTE power and ground planes may be laminated with other planes/cores into a composite, or laminated into a core which is then laminated with other planes/cores into a composite. The resultant composite may be used for printed circuit boards (PCBs) or PCBs used as laminate chip carriers.

Abstract: Probes for electronic devices are described. The probe is formed by ball bonding a plurality of wires to contact locations on a fan out substrate surface. The wires are cut off leaving stubs. A patterned polymer sheet having electrical conductor patterns therein is disposed over the stubs which extend through holes in the sheet. The ends of the wires are flattened to remit the polymer sheet in place. The wire is connected to an electrical conductor on the polymer sheet which is converted to a contact pad on the polymer sheet. A second wire is ball bonded to the pad on the polymer sheet and cut to leave a second stub. The polymer sheet is laser cut so that each second stub is free to move independently of the other second studs. The ends of the second stubs are disposed against contact locations of an electronic device, such as an FC chip, to test the electronic device.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for automating the assembly of a fiber optic module. The fiber optic module typically includes a housing, a clip, and a ferrule that is attached to the end of a fiber optic cable. The housing, clip, ferrule and fiber optic cable are supported by a pallet assembly. The pallet assembly can be loaded into a docking station of a laser weld machine that welds the ferrule to the clip. The pallet assembly includes a cartridge that is attached to a pallet and supports the housing. The pallet is constructed to receive different cartridges. Each cartridge has support features that correspond to a specific type of module housing. A different type of module housing may be loaded onto the pallet assembly by merely replacing the cartridge. The same pallet can therefore be used for the assembly of different fiber modules.

Abstract: A method of connecting a flat cable having flat conductors arranged in parallel and covered with an insulating material to a connecting terminal, in which crimp pieces of the connecting terminal are pierced into a desired conductor of conductors of the flat cable, with a gap left between a substrate of the connecting terminal and the flat cable, and leading ends of the crimp pieces penetrating the flat cable are bent inwardly, while maintaining a contact position of the crimp pieces penetrating the conductor and the conductor unchanged. Also disclosed are an apparatus for embodying the connecting method and a method for determining a connecting state between the flat cable and the connecting terminal.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a substrate of an ink ejecting device in which an electrode formed at the bottom surface of an air chamber is removed with a diamond disk, without erroneously removing an electrode formed at an actuator forming the internal surface of the air chamber, by forming the air chamber with a width not smaller than that of an ink channel. The diamond disk for removing the bottom surface of the electrode of the air chamber may be the same as or have the same dimensions (width) as the ink channel.

Abstract: A jewelry article includes an elongated support and a multiplicity of ornaments strung along the support, at least one of which constitutes an adjustable self-stopping bead. Each self-stopping bead has a rigid shell with a pair of holes sized to slidably receive the support. A flexible resilient tube is positioned inside the shell in alignment with the holes that tube having a length that is as great as or slightly greater than the spacing of the holes, an outside diameter that is slightly larger than the diameter of the holes and in inside diameter that is slightly smaller than the maximum cross-sectional dimension of the support so that the tube resiliently engages the support to adjustably fix the position of the self-stopping bead along the support. A method of making the self-stopping bead is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an improved doorbeam having increased impact strength and reduced weight. The doorbeam is formed from a continuous metal web having opposing lateral edges and a varying thickness therebetween. The stock is rolled into a tubular configuration, and the lateral edges are welded together. The resultant beam provides extra reinforcing material where needed to provide a balance between weight and strength.

Abstract: Shaving apparatus having at least one pivotable cutting unit (3) comprising an external cutting member (4) and an internal cutting member (6) which is drivable relative to said external cutting member, a drive mechanism (8) for driving said internal cutting member (6) into rotation, and a coupling member (18) having a coupling head (19) and a coupling body (20), which coupling head can be coupled to a coupling element (16) of the internal cutting member (6) in a detachable manner, said coupling body (20) being coupled to said driving mechanism (8). The coupling head (19) can be inserted into a cavity (21) of the coupling head (19). For driving said internal cutting member into rotation, the coupling head (19) comprises curved surfaces (25) for cooperation with surfaces (28) of said cavity (21).

Abstract: A manual straight razor includes an elongated front cutter portion having a rear end. The front cutter portion has an elongated wide opening which is slightly, downwardly narrowed. A complementary razor holding structure is snugly inserted in to the side opening and has a V-shaped lower member having a rounded end portion, along which a number of grooves are provided. When the razor holding structure attached to a pair of razor blades is snugly inserted into the wide opening, a pair of gaps is formed between the razor blades and the V-shaped lower-member. Soapsuds are passed through the grooves and kept temporarily in the gaps, and the soapsuds are rinsed away in flowing water or liquid medicine. A correct angle of inclination of a line linking the lowest point on each respective razor blade and the lowest point on the rounded elongated lower member can be easily adjusted to between 20 and 30 degrees to fit the razor blades on the face of the skin for safe shaving of hair.

Abstract: An adapter for a weed eater is movably connected to a lower side of a spinning spool of a weed eater. The adapter when installed to the weed eater has a cord equal in height to weeds after they are cut. A center of the seat of the adapter has a penetrating hole. A stud penetrates through the penetrating hole of the adapter so as to lock the spinning spool of the weed eater. Since the diameter of the penetrating hole is larger than the diameter of the stud, the adapter and the spinning spool are movable connected to one another, and the adapter can move along the stud. The weight of the weed eater can be transferred to a ground so as to reduce the burden of the user and the weed eater can avoid stones as it is trimming weeds.

Abstract: Drive shaft of a plant cutter apparatus includes an elongate main shaft portion made of a titanium alloy, and end shaft portions made of steel and integrally joined to the opposite ends of the main shaft portion. The titanium alloy has substantially the same mechanical strengths as the steel. Therefore, the titanium-alloy-made main shaft portion can secure rigidity that is normally required of the plant cutter's drive shaft, and can also reduce the weight of the drive shaft to thereby minimize unwanted sagging-induced vibrations of the drive shaft caused by the shaft's own weight.

Abstract: A pumpkin carving tool that has a cutter in the form of a loop projecting a selected distance from an edge of an open annular frame. In the simplest form the cutter is fixed to the frame. In an alternate embodiment the cutter is detachably mounted on the frame. The detachable cutter can be adjustably varied in the amount it projects from the frame to make different depths of carvings. The cutter is a narrow thin band of metal sharp enough to cut carvings in the outer surface of a pumpkin but not sharp enough to cut the users skin.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a fat skimming ladle that is efficient and convenient to use for removal of fat and other floating debris off of cooked soup stock. This special purpose ladle retains the simple elegant look of a common soup ladle, and can just as convenient to be used. The conduit structure with inlet located at the interior bottom of the ladle bowl and outlet located behind the proximal end of the handle allows for a simple, elegant and greatly functional design.

Abstract: A multiple receptacle blade holder tool including an elongated rectangular cross section main body with one end being rounded and having multiple rectangular receptacles for blades. The blade holder also has top and bottom surfaces parallel to the blade receptacles and a relief channel forming independent legs that clamp one or more blades in the holder.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a guide bar for a motor-driven chain saw (1) and includes a longitudinally extending flat base body (2) having a peripherally extending guide groove (3) for guiding a saw chain (4). In the region of the direction-changing section (12) of the guide bar (13), the saw chain (4) is partially laterally covered by guide discs (14, 14′), which rotate along with the idler sprocket (16). The guide discs (14, 14′) include radially projecting sections (18) whose number is identical with the number of the teeth (17) of the idler sprocket (16). The tendency to kickback of the motor-driven chain saw is reduced with these constructive measures.

Abstract: A hand held rotary blade saw with a motor, rotary saw blade, driving connection between the motor and the blade, two pivotable forward blade guards with top and bottom hand manipulable pivot members for exposing either a left or right blade sector for cutting, or an upward or downward blade sector when the blade is vertically oriented by twisting the wrist. The switch is operable by the thumb or the finger, such that left and right handed users have operational parity regardless of blade orientation, which hand is holding the saw, or whether the thumb or finger is operating the switch. Parallel receding blade guard edges form a forward notch enabling forward cutting. The blade is interchangeable and a carrying case, belt holster attachment, and special battery charger are provided. The battery charger charges the battery while the battery is in the saw or when it is removed.

Abstract: A tool guard attachment for a rotary hand tool of the type which has a housing with a nose portion from which an output shaft protrudes and which typically has a mechanism for holding tool bits or implements is disclosed. The tool guard attachment, which mounts to the nose portion of the rotary hand tool, has a guard housing with an enlarged guard portion at the outer end thereof which provides a shield or guard for a flat circular tool implement that is mounted on an arbor shaft assembly that in turn is connected by a U-joint to a drive shaft assembly at an acute angle relative to the arbor shaft assembly. The drive shaft assembly engages a driver nut or the like that is mounted to the output shaft of the rotary hand tool. The angle between the drive shaft and the arbor shaft is offset about 10 to 30° so that the rotary hand tool itself does not interfere with the cutting blade engaging a work surface at a perpendicular angle during operation.

Abstract: A laser projection apparatus has an adjustment platform having a base seat, a platform portion that is adjustably coupled to the base seat, and an adjustment mechanism that is operatively coupled to the base seat and the platform portion to adjust the inclination angle of the platform portion with respect to the base seat. The apparatus also has a frame body that is connected to the adjustment platform, and a column that is suspended by the frame body and which is separated from the adjustment platform by a distance. The apparatus further includes a first projection light-source mechanism that is connected to the column and which projects a straight light that is parallel to a central axis, and a second projection light-source mechanism which is connected to the column and which projects a light ring that is transverse to the central axis.

Abstract: Inclination measurement apparatus includes an indexable clinometer bearing turntable rotatable in a single plane between a pair of precisely reproducible diametrically opposite orientations with respect to the desired measurement axis for respectively issuing inclination measurements V0 and V180 responsive to the inclination of a surface with respect to a desired measurement axis, and a reference clinometer for enabling uninterrupted accurate bias corrected inclination measurements of the inclination of the surface with respect to the desired measurement axis by virtue of its inclination measurements being employed for calculating bias corrected inclination measurements.

Abstract: A bend-angle measuring device used to measure the bend angle of bent tubular components. The bend-angle measuring device makes use of a combined linear and rotational motion of a movable arm to gain access to numerous bent configurations.

Abstract: A shape cutting system for cutting a material having a surface. The shape cutting system includes a cutting unit and at least one template. The cutting unit includes a frame, a blade adjustment assembly and a blade assembly are coupled to the frame. The blade assembly is positioned at least partially within the frame such that a longitudinal axis of the blade assembly is substantially perpendicular to a lower support surface of the frame. The blade assembly includes a blade retainer and a blade connected to the retainer. A rigid collar of the retainer is configured to operatively engage at least one of a periphery and the edge of an opening of the template thereby enabling the blade to cut a shape in the cutting material which assimilates the shape of at least a portion of the at least one of the periphery and the edge.

Abstract: A structure of plate positioning arrangement is disclosed. The structure of plate positioning arrangement comprises a shank extending at a bottom surface of a head of the positioning element, and a cap produced through a plastic injection molding process for covering and surrounding the edge of the head is for providing a receiving space below the head for fitting a fixing element. A through space is formed at a central region of the fixing element for fitting the shank of a positioning element, wherein the shank is fixed with a resilient element. Thus the cap is capability to allow the positioning element move in the same way within the through space of the fixing element.

Abstract: A process for pre-drying textile filaments after wet treatment and a device for practicing this process. The process consists essentially in applying simultaneously to a layer of wet filaments (3) passing by on a conveyor (4) with a permeable conveying surface, on the one hand, a mechanical squeeze-drying action and, on the other hand, a pressure difference by circulation of air through said layer (3).

Abstract: A process for lyophilizing a solution of an active agent in a delivery container is provided. Solution of active agent is deposited into a delivery container, the container is covered with a covering plate and placed inside a lyophilizing apparatus. Lyophilization is conducted to dryness by radiation, convection or both. Also provided is a device made by this process, an active agent-plastic administration device such as a syringe containing an active agent in the form of lyophilized cake, and an array of such administration devices.

Abstract: A supporting apparatus for supporting a substrate in drying a substrate surface of the substrate including a supporting rod having a hollow interior portion and a groove configured to support a substrate on the supporting rod, the groove communicating to the hollow interior portion, a porous material disposed in the hollow interior portion of the supporting rod such that the porous material contacts with the substrate being supported in the groove, and a vacuum device configured to provide suction in the hollow interior portion of the supporting rod.

Abstract: Drying semiconductor wafers or substrates by introducing an polar organic compound in liquid form into or onto means for enhancing evaporation within a process chamber and allowing the liquid to evaporate and form a drying vapor within the process chamber.

Abstract: The gas components in thermoplastic norbornene resin pellets are suppressed below certain levels by drying the resin under vacuum or under the ordinary pressure and under vacuum. A substrate for magnetic recording media is manufactured by injection-molding the resin dried by the method according to the invention. The magnetic recording medium, employing the substrate manufactured according to the invention, includes at least a magnetic layer, a protection layer on the magnetic layer and a liquid lubricant layer on the protection layer. The magnetic recording medium is manufactured by forming these layers, one after another, on the substrate according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shoe sole, in particular for a sports shoe, where the sole includes a cartridge cushioning system that includes a load distribution plate arranged in a heel region of the shoe sole, at least one cushioning element for determining the cushioning properties of the shoe sole during the first ground contact with the heel, and at least one guidance element to guide the foot into a neutral position after the first ground contact.

Abstract: A footbed is disclosed that is for use with a shoe. The footbed includes static and dynamic chambers for cushioning a wearer's foot. The static chambers are isolated from one another and the dynamic chambers. The dynamic chambers are in fluid communication and fluid therein is free to flow during a wearer's walk cycle.

Abstract: A snowboard boot has a sole portion and an upper portion. The sole portion includes a mid sole having a base portion with a front catch coupled to a toe section of the base portion. The first and second rear catches are located at first and second lateral sides of a heel section of the base portion, and first and second strap attachment members extending from the heel section of the base portion. The upper portion includes a foot section fixedly coupled to the sole portion and a leg section extending upwardly from the foot section. The first and second strap attachment members are integrally formed with the base portion of said mid sole as a one-piece, unitary member.

Abstract: An article of footwear provided with snap-fit replaceable ground-engaging members, particularly snap-fit tips, and a kit and method for altering ground-engaging characteristics of an article of footwear such as an athletic shoe. An article of footwear according to the present invention includes a sole (and/or a footplate) having at least one ground-engaging member in snap-fit engagement therewith. In particular, the ground-engaging member is engageable under the application of a non-rotational force (especially a manual force). According to one aspect of the present invention, a clearly discernible feedback (especially an audible feedback, such as a click or a snapping sound) is provided to clearly indicate engagement between the ground-engaging member and the sole.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for purifying polysaccharides capable of inducing the production of high titers of opsonic antibodies that kill strains of enterococcal bacteria. In addition, the invention is directed to the antigens produced by this purification method and to vaccines which utilize such antigens.

Abstract: The present invention enables the cloth shrunk through its washing to be finished in press to such a state as found in its new product. The present invention is comprised of a buck having a protruded curved upper surface on which a collar of the shirts 1 is mounted and a press iron having a concave curved iron surface for depressing the upper surface of the buck. A radius of curvature of the upper surface of the buck is selected to be larger than a radius of curvature of the iron surface of the press iron. The buck is divided at its central position into a right segment and a left segment so as to form a pair of right and left divided members. There is provided a depressing mechanism for turning each of the divided segments in an upward and outward direction at the time of pressing at the collar.

Abstract: An active display device includes a motorized base and a transparent display. The base unit includes a magnetic drive, which communicates magnetically with a magnetically attractive rotor or agitator in the bottom of the display unit to circulate the fluid within the display unit and any particulate matter mixed therein. The purely magnetic communication between base and display eliminates all mechanical passages therebetween, thereby precluding potential leakage routes from the display component and permitting the display to be readily removed and replaced atop the base. The display may include a magnetically movable floor or other panel, if desired, with the floor panel disposed between the magnetic rotor and the display having a series of passages therethrough to permit liquid circulation, but precluding passage of particles beneath the floor to the rotor area. The base may include numerous additional features, such as an audio system, remote actuation, lighting, etc.

Abstract: An illuminated indicia enclosure apparatus includes a rear panel fixedly attached to an upstanding surface, the rear panel having apertures disposed therein for receiving and mounting one or more lighting elements on an inner surface thereof, an indicia-defining fascia, the fascia having a front panel and generally opposing side panels extending therefrom, and hinged tension securement elements for securing the fascia to the rear panel, wherein the hinged tension securement elements are configured to provide expedient installment and removal of the fascia to the rear panel.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying at least one image by applying the image to a transparent substrate and portraying the image using one or more colored translucent substances limited to specific wavelengths of the visible light spectrum substantially matching the color of the transparent substrate and treating the non-image area on the transparent substrate with an opaque substance.

Abstract: Sign holders are provided for displaying sign inserts. The sign holders are capable of being reused, whereby several different signs can be removably affixed to the sign holders for displaying signs at multiple events. Signage systems are also provided, comprising a plurality of sign holders and an optional container for storing and transporting the same.

Abstract: A method and system of placarding wherein at least one sheet of corrugated cardboard is provided with printed matter on at least one side. The sheet is also provided with at least one score crossing the sheet. The sheet is foldable into an easily transportable unit. At a placarding site, the sheet is unfolded and inserted into a holder. The holder retains the sheet such that at least one part of an edge area of the sheet is enclosed by the holder.

Abstract: A curved panel assembly useful e.g. as a sign holder, has upper and lower elongate curved abutment members each with an elongate concave rear side, and backing sheet retainers extending rearwardly from the concave side at opposite ends of the concave side, the backing sheet retainers having a predetermined spacing from one another. A backing sheet has first opposite marginal edge portions facing and abutting the concave rear sides of the abutment members, the latter being rearwardly open behind the edge portions to allow the backing sheet to be displaced to and fro, and second opposite marginal edge portions retained by the backing sheet retainers. The first opposite marginal edge portions have a length greater than the predetermined spacing of the backing sheet retainers and the backing sheet is sprung into abutment against the rear sides of the abutment members with the second opposite marginal edge portions retained by the backing sheet retainers.

Abstract: A display system having a substantially flat front portion for holding and displaying memorabilia. The display system comprises a frame, a backing supported by the frame, a plurality of cardholders for holding photographic memorabilia and a recessed chamber for holding an object of memorabilia associated with the photographic memorabilia. The cardholders retain trading cards and are attachable to the backing. The cardholders are arranged about the chamber in an aesthetic manner.

Abstract: An blocking apparatus for gun trigger includes a main body of lock and a locking plate. The locking body is composed of a lock cylinder and a locking piece disposed inside a plastic core, then covered by a metal casing and a metal panel. The surface thereof is coated with a waterproof layer by injection molding. The locking plate has two locking rods installed on a metal plate. The surface of the locking plate is also covered with a waterproof layer by injection molding. The two locking rods on the metal plate are inserted into two inserting holes on the locking body so as to lock the trigger of gun.