Patents Issued in July 15, 2004
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Publication number: 20040134958Abstract: There are described drive roller assemblies for pulling print media within, or in conjunction with, a printing apparatus. In one embodiment the assembly includes a rigid drive roller having a hard outer surface in conjunction with a pressure roller having a deformable surface. In another embodiment the assembly has a rigid drive roller in conjunction with a plurality of pressure rollers which are adapted for pressing print media against the drive roller over substantially different portions of the drive roller length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Michael N. Burdenko
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Publication number: 20040134959Abstract: A combustion-engined setting tool, including a housing (11), an axially displaceable piston guide (13) and a firing pin guide (12) provided on a side of the piston guide (13) facing in the direction opposite the setting direction and axially displaceable relative to the housing (11), damping element (20) supported against a stop (17) provided in the housing (11) and cooperating with the firing pin guide (12), and a locking device (30) having a locking position (28) in which it prevents a press-on force, which is generated upon the setting tool (10) being pressed against a construction component, from acting on the damping element (20), so that the damping element (20) remains inactive during a press-on process, and having a release position (29) in which the damping means (20) becomes active and is capable of absorbing recoil forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Michael Maier, Mario Scalet, Stefan Bonig
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Publication number: 20040134960Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal combustion-operated setting tool for driving fastener elements such as nails, bolts, pins into a substrate, having a fuel source, with a fuel feed line from a fuel source to a combustion chamber and having at least one dosing device (30), which is arranged between the fuel source and the combustion chamber. For improving such setting tools, a displacement body (50) is arranged in a chamber in the dosing device (30) for forcing fuel out of the chamber, whose displacement volume can be adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Ulrich Schiestl, Ulrich Rosenbaum, Iwan Wolf, Hans Gschwend, Peter Hertlein
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Publication number: 20040134961Abstract: A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements, such as nails, bolts, and the like in an object includes a combustion chamber (11), a piston guide (17) adjoining the combustion chamber (11), a drive piston (15) arranged in the piston guide (17) and displaceable in a setting direction under action of expanding gases produced in the combustion chamber (11) upon combustion of fuel, and an electrically driven device (5) for pre-compressing oxidation medium necessary for effecting a combustion process in the combustion chamber (11) and/or the fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Iwan Wolf, Ulrich Rosenbaum, Ulrich Schiestl, Hans Gschwend, Nikolaus Hannoschoeck
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Publication number: 20040134962Abstract: Problems: To provide a stapler apparatus that clamping of the sheet bundle is smoothly shifted to staple driving operation for stapling at correct position irrespective of thickness of the sheet bundle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Naoto Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20040134963Abstract: A stapler apparatus includes a cartridge 10 storing staples 200 detachably supported, a staple driving unit 103 in the front direction of the cartridge mounting, an urging means 205 to urge the cartridge 10 to the staple punching side, and an interlocking means 96 mounted and linked to the cartridge 10 staple punching unit 103 to operate the urging means 205 onto the cartridge 10. The construction provides a stapler apparatus that allows the easy mounting of a cartridge and that can effectively urge a cartridge toward the punching station of the cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Naoto Mochizuki, Toshiro Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20040134964Abstract: The present invention is directed to a full-thickness resection system comprising a flexible endoscope and a stapling mechanism, wherein the endoscope is slidably received through at least a portion of the stapling mechanism. The stapling mechanism includes an anvil and a stapling head mounted to the anvil so that the anvil and the stapling head are moveable with respect to one another. A position adjusting mechanism is provided for moving the anvil and the stapling head relative to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Ronald D. Adams, Roy H. Sullivan, George Nunez
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Publication number: 20040134965Abstract: The invention relates to a processing device for cables or wires, which uses at least one unit for displacing a cable or wire (9), or micro-mechanical actuators for displacing a tool (5). This permits thinner cables or wires to be processed and produces a high degree of precision and excellent control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Jiri Stepan
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Publication number: 20040134966Abstract: A method for producing titanium alloy brazing strips and the resulting brazing strips and/or foils. The method uses a cold-rolling process without heat treating to generate a titanium based multi-layer alloy strip or foil made up of discrete layers of titanium and an additional layer or layers of one or more metals, such as zirconium, nickel and/or copper, for example, or alloys thereof, with the layer of titanium roll bonded without heat treating to the layers of the additional metal(s). The resulting strip or foil can include, for example, Cu/Ti/Cu, Ni/Ti/Ni, Ni/Ti/Cu, Cu/Ni/Ti/Ni/Cu, Ni/Cu/Ti/Cu/Ni, Ni/Cu/Ni/Ti/Ni/Cu/Ni, Ni/Zr/Cu/Ti/Cu/Zr/Ni and Ni/Ti/Cu/Zr/Cu/Ti/Ni among other combinations. The resulting strip or foil can be used for brazing, creating an alloy of the weight percentage of the original materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Chen-Chung S. Chang, Bijendra Jha
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Publication number: 20040134967Abstract: A process is provided for fabricating YBa2Cu3O7 thin-film edge junctions in which no deposited barrier is employed. These devices display excellent RSJ-type I-V characteristics with values of Ic and Rn tunable over a useful range for operation of digital circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Conductis, Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moeckly, Kookrin Char
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Publication number: 20040134968Abstract: The present invention relates to a positioning and/or assembly aid (2) for devices (1) for machining at least one component (3, 4) by using at least one connecting element (5) such as a rivet, punch rivet, blind rivet, rivet nut, weld nut, weld stud, clip or the like and to a process for positioning components (3, 4) in a device (1) for machining at least one component (3) while using at least one connecting element such as a rivet, punch rivet, blind rivet, rivet nut, weld nut, weld stud, clip. The invention has means (6) for producing a light or laser beam (7) alignable from a reference position (11) towards a reference point (12). The present invention is suitable for punch rivet, nut welding, stud welding, weld fast, plastifast, blind rivet, and rivet nut, in particular for corresponding manually operable hand devices in prototype construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Reinhold Opper
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Publication number: 20040134969Abstract: A method for welding a pair of metal sheets together along an edge of each metal sheet is provided that includes the steps of: 1) determining a line for each of the edges to be welded using one or more sensors; 2) selecting one of the edges to be welded as a dominant edge and the other edge to be welded as a non-dominant edge; and 3) welding the metal sheets together along the dominant edge and the non-dominant edge. The present invention further includes an apparatus capable of performing the present method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Elpatronic AGInventors: Romeo Bucher, Bruno Kaegi
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Publication number: 20040134970Abstract: A method for inspecting welds between welded tubular ends includes arranging a series electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) assemblies in circumferential direction adjacent to an inner and/or outer surface of at least one of the welded tubular ends and inducing the EMAT assemblies to transmit sequentially or simultaneously acoustic shear wave signals towards the weld and to detect the shear waves reflected by and/or passing through the weld while the EMAT assemblies are maintained in a substantially fixed position relative to the weld such that at least a substantial part of the weld is scanned by the EMAT assemblies instantly after the weld is made.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Dirk Arie Kronemeijer, Jan Erik Vollebregt
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Publication number: 20040134971Abstract: In the friction agitation joining method according to the present invention, two plate-shaped joining members different in thickness, or a first joining member (1) and a second joining member (2), are butted against each other with a level difference formed at upper surface sides thereof. A rotating probe (42) of the joining tool (40) is inserted into the butted portion (3) of said first and second joining members (1,2) from the upper surface sides thereof. Joining-direction front sides of the first joining member (1) and the second joining member (2) with respect to the probe inserted position is pressed by a first front pressing roller (11) and a second front pressing roller (11), respectively, from the upper surface sides thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2004Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Masayuki Narita, Yasuyuki Hama, Hiroshi Akiyama, Takenori Hashimoto, Shigetoshi Jogan, Yoshitaka Nagano
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Publication number: 20040134972Abstract: A probe for friction stir welding MMCs, ferrous alloys, non-ferrous alloys, and superalloys, as well as non-ferrous alloys, the probe including a shank, a shoulder, and a pin disposed through the shoulder and into the shank, wherein the pin and the shoulder at least include a coating comprised of a superabrasive material, the pin and shoulder being designed to reduce stress risers, disposing a collar around a portion of the shoulder and the shank to thereby prevent movement of the shoulder relative to the shank, and incorporating thermal management by providing a thermal flow barrier between the shoulder and the shank, and between the collar and the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Tracy W. Nelson, Carl D. Sorensen, Scott Packer, Paul Allen Felter
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Publication number: 20040134973Abstract: An optically baffled heating station for joining wire connections by using a solder sleeve includes: an outer housing; a reflection block where said reflection block includes a reflection chamber where the reflection chamber forms the shape of two overlapping ellipses where the ellipses intersect at one respective focal point of each ellipsis and the opposing non-intersecting focal points are separated by about a 90° angle; two heating elements within a heating element block where the two heating elements extend beyond the heating element block and protrude into the reflection pockets of the reflection chamber. A slot extends between the two heating elements through the reflection block and the heating element block. The closed end of the slot includes a target area where the shrinking of the sleeve occurs. The target area receives the reflected light and minimizes the reflection of light toward the open end of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David S. Wright, Guy N. Middleton
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Publication number: 20040134974Abstract: A solder bump structure includes a contact pad, an intermediate layer located over the contact pad, a solder bump located over the intermediate layer, and at least one metal projection extending upwardly from a surface of the intermediate layer and embedded within the solder bump. Any crack in the solder bump will tend to propagate horizontally through the bump material, and in this case, the metal projections act as obstacles to crack propagation. These obstacles have the effect of increasing the crack resistance, and further lengthen the propagation path of any crack as it travels through the solder bump material, thus decreasing the likelihood device failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Se-Yong Oh, Nam-Seog Kim
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Publication number: 20040134975Abstract: The present invention involves a composite pallet for a substrate of a printed circuit board for a vector transient reflow process. The composite pallet includes a heat conductive layer for heat sinking means from the substrate and a heat insulative layer adjacent the conductive layer to shield the substrate from heat and to absorb heat from the heat conductive layer. The heat conductive layer has first and second opposite surfaces. The first surface is configured to receive the substrate disposed thereon to diffuse heat from the substrate during the vector transient reflow process. The heat insulative layer is disposed adjacent the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Brenda J. Nation, Peter J. Sinkunas, Mark Tor
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Publication number: 20040134976Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing a solder joint between a pair of electrical devices which have juxtapositionable solderable portions. A solder material is provided between the solderable portions at the solder joint. A spacer material is suspended in the solder material to maintain the electrical devices spaced a predetermined distance from each other at the solder joint. The spacer material has a melting point higher than that of the solder material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Frank Keyser, Robert Fuerst
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Publication number: 20040134977Abstract: An envelope has a main panel, a pair of opposing side panels, a bottom panel, and a seal flap; a standard adhesive applied to the bottom panel or the pair of opposing side panels for bonding the bottom panel to each of the pair of opposing side panels; and a layer of remoistenable adhesive coating composition disposed on at least a portion of the seal flap, the composition having a its essential ingredients an adhesive and a water-insoluble flavoring agent in an emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: John Ryan O'Dwyer, Philip Sprovieri
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Publication number: 20040134978Abstract: An image data input/output apparatus is disclosed that includes a scanner, a printer, and a storage unit. In addition, a check sheet forming unit forms a check sheet by compositing thumbnails corresponding to items of image data stored in the storage unit and causes the printer to print the formed check sheet. Further, a selected image recognition unit causes the scanner to scan the printed check sheet and recognize the selected thumbnails, and a selected image output unit retrieves the items of image data corresponding to the selected thumbnails and outputs the retrieved items of image data. A user can print the check sheet indicating the thumbnails, and can select one or more thumbnails by indicating a check mark. The image data input/output apparatus scans the check sheet and recognizes the scanned check marks. Accordingly, the user can easily output the items of image data corresponding to the selected thumbnails.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Junichi Hara, Toshio Miyazawa, Yasuyuki Nomizu, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Nekka Matsuura, Takanori Yano, Taku Kodama, Yasuyuki Shinkai, Takayuki Nishimura
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Publication number: 20040134979Abstract: According to the present invention, individual two-dimensional barcodes 30, 91 and 173 are provided for individual chips 31 arrayed on a wafer 50, individual lead fames 93 to each of which chips 92 are bonded and individual packaged products 171 constituted of resin sealed semiconductor chips based upon chip ID information to enable information management to be implemented separately for individual chips 31, individual frames 93 and individual chip products 171. Thus, a higher degree of efficiency and a higher degree of accuracy in the information management for semiconductor devices are achieved in all processes of semiconductor production including the individual manufacturing processes, the physical distribution process, the shipping process and the claim handling process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Isao Kudo
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Publication number: 20040134980Abstract: An automated teller machine (10) having a secure enclosure (26); a lock (30) for securing the secure enclosure (26) and a processor (24) for controlling teller machine functionality and additionally the lock (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Dennis Flood, James Boyes
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Publication number: 20040134981Abstract: A banknote validator can recognise ink stains having predetermined characteristics and is operable to perform measurements on a received banknote in order to classify the banknote into at least the following categories: (a) genuine non-stained bills of said denomination; (b) bills which been stained; and (c) other bills, including non-genuine banknotes. Preferably, stained banknotes are sent to at least one dedicated store. The validator can classify banknotes into many denominations, but can only authenticate banknotes belonging to a sub-set of those denominations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Christian Voser
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Publication number: 20040134982Abstract: A method for tracking shipments of a letter or package shipped by at least one shipper to an address of at least one addressee including printing a bar code on each shipment to be tracked, wherein the bar code includes at least one part for identification of the shipper of the shipment, which is invariable for each shipper, and a shipment rank identification part of each shipment, which is variable for each shipment; and a device for tracking shipments of a letter or package shipped by at least one shipper to an address of at least one addressee including at least one database having at least one user data table listing bar codes of the shipper and address information, and a data table of shipments being tracked listing each shipment by shipper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Frederic Jouvin, Jean-Luc Jouvin
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Publication number: 20040134983Abstract: Disclosed is a tire marking system for marking tire identification information onto tires based on tire information in each of bar code labels adhered to the tires. The tire marking system includes a database server which includes a first database containing data of tire production plan information including tire quantity information and data of tire identification information, and a second database containing data for managing whether marking of the tire identification information is performed onto the tires. The tire marking system further includes client computers connected to the database server via communication media, and a image reading device and a tire marking device which are connected to each of the client computers. When the tire marking device completes the marking, in the second database of the database server, data of the marked tire identification information is updated to indicate that the marking is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2004Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Masamichi Oyama, Takehiko Itoh
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Publication number: 20040134984Abstract: Methods and systems for the negotiation of a population of RFID tags with improved security is provided. In one aspect, a binary traversal is performed to singulate tags without using information that directly identifies the tags in the tag population. A key is generated to identify each RFID tag of the population of RFID tags. The generated key does not include bits identifying an item with which the particular RFID tag is associated. A binary tree algorithm is operated to identify one or more tags in the population of RFIDs tags using the generated keys. In another aspect, frequency hopping and/or spread spectrum techniques are used to provide improved security while negotiating tags. In another aspect, the reader causes the tags to scroll series of bits back to the reader for each bit sent to the tags to provide improved security.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Kevin J. Powell, Wayne E. Shanks, William R. Bandy
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Publication number: 20040134985Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a non-contact IC card reading/writing apparatus having a superior reception characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Futoshi Deguchi, Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Akihiko Hirata, Masahiko Tanaka
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Publication number: 20040134986Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray system for voluminous objects, known in the form of mobile devices that are displaced over the object, or in the form of fixed X-ray systems through which a voluminous object to be inspected (inspection product) is passed. Heavy goods vehicles or delivery vans (VAN) frequently constitute said objects to be inspected and pass through the silhouette system under their own propulsion. The X-rays are activated and deactivated by a preferably three-phase photoelectric barrier system. The aim of the invention is to activate or deactivate the X-rays of an X-ray source using a simple barcode that is attached to an object to be inspected, the object being driven past the X-ray source at a defined distance from the latter. The X-rays of X-ray sources of this type are generally activated by a diaphragm. It is thus advantageous if a barcode reader is located in a predetermined proximity to the diaphragm to define the activation or deactivation of the X-rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Wolfgang Studer, Erwin Kirsten
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Publication number: 20040134987Abstract: A bioptical holographic laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a holographic scanning disc having scanning facets with high and low elevation angle characteristics, as well as positive, negative and zero skew angle characteristics which strategically cooperate with groups of beam folding mirrors having optimized surface geometry characteristics. The system has an ultra-compact construction, ideally suited for space-constrained retail scanning environments, and generate a 3-D omnidirectional laser scanning pattern between the bottom and side scanning windows during system operation. The laser scanning pattern of the present invention comprises a complex of pairs of quasi-orthogonal laser scanning planes, each composed by a plurality of substantially-vertical laser scanning planes for reading bar code symbols having bar code elements (i.e.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.Inventors: Frank Check, LeRoy Dickson, John Groot, Timothy Good
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Publication number: 20040134988Abstract: The invention is a system and method for providing optimized accuracy and precision in analog-to-digital conversions of data. In an embodiment of the invention, an A/D converter is configured by setting two separately definable reference voltages that are controlled by a microprocessor. The A/D converter range is as wide as, or slightly greater than, a dynamic range of the analog signal to be converted. The microprocessor adjusts at least one reference voltage. The A/D converter receives analog signals from a sensor. The dynamic range of the signal from the sensor, or the sensor operating conditions, are used to define the reference voltages. The converted data is provided to a data processor at a rate controlled by a clocking signal. In a method according to the invention, the A/D converter is operated using the features described above. The accuracy and the precision of the converted data are thereby optimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: John A. Pettinelli, Matthew W. Pankow, Joseph T. Livingston, Edward C. Bremer, Timothy P. Meier
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Publication number: 20040134989Abstract: The invention is a microprocessor-based decoder board for an optical reader having a plurality of imaging modules that provide frames of image data having a plurality of formats. In one method for operating the decoder board of the invention, and a multiple imaging module reader comprising the decoder board, a frame of image data captured by a selected imaging module is decoded. The decoder board determines the format of the frame of image data from information about which of the plurality of imaging modules provided the frame of image data or from information about the frame of image data, activates as necessary a command to prepare the decoder board to decode the frame of image data according to the format provided by the imaging module, and performs the decoding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Meier, Robert C. Gardiner, Jeffrey D. Harper, John Izzo, Thomas J. Koziol, Andrew Longacre, John Pettinelli
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Publication number: 20040134990Abstract: A body portion of an optical reader has an elastomeric skirt surrounding the lateral edges thereof. The laterally spaced front edges of the skirt, which are on either side of a window through which the light is emitted and received along an optical axis, are angled rearwardly from a plane normal to said axis. The front edges extend downwardly and forwardly from a front edge of the bottom wall of a body, and also extend forwardly from a front edge of the top wall of the body. These features allow the lower ends of the front edges of the skirt to be placed on a surface near the target to act as a fulcrum in rotating the handle of the scanner to selectively place the reader in close proximity to the target, while at the same time allowing the operator to view the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Timothy R. Fitch, Gerard F. Beckhusen, Eric Coleman, John C. Izzo, Larry Ramsey-Macomber, Clayton Roberts
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Publication number: 20040134991Abstract: Wireless tags with a plurality of non-equivalent current pathways altered to collectively represent encoded information, each of which responds differently to an interrogation signal. The element is subjected to a signal stimulating the current pathways, each of which contributes to an overall element response. The information may be recovered from the salient features of this overall response. These salient features include resonant frequency, amplitude, relative peak position, relative peak amplitude, damping, and Q factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Richard Fletcher, Neil Gershenfeld
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Publication number: 20040134992Abstract: The present invention allows the use of low speed USB reader/connector to be use for full speed and high-speed transmission by introducing an accurate clock element into the smart card. In addition, the present invention eliminate the need of having a clock element in any USB compatible reader/connector, making the reader/connector a much simpler device that can be manufactured in a lower cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Gregory Guez, Alain Peytavy
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Publication number: 20040134993Abstract: This invention relates to a secure electronic device comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Francois Vacherand, Gilles Delapierre, Didier Bloch
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Publication number: 20040134994Abstract: A security document, comprises a printed document and one or more memory circuits adapted to be read wirelessly attached to or incorporated within the printed document, wherein data in the memory circuit is protected from access by an unauthorised reader, and wherein the memory circuit is physically isolated so as to inhibit physical tampering or to indicate when physical tampering has occurred. Methods of publishing and of reading such security documents are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stefek Malkowski Zaba, Keith Alexander Harrison, John Deryk Waters, James Thomas Edward McDonnell, Richard Anthony Lawrence
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Publication number: 20040134995Abstract: Until this time, the problem of ice and snow buildup on windshields has been dealt with using a technology that was developed to remove water from the exterior and condensation from the interior. Ice and frost removal from the outside of a windshield using the defrost system required an extensive warm-up period combined with the manual operation of an ice scraping device. This method is impractical when the vehicle is moving. Attempts to melt ice and snow on the rear window using electric resistance wires embedded in the glass work well, but cannot be used in front facing applications because of interference with vision caused by the wires. The forced hot air approach proposed in this invention allows the glass to remain clear, and aids the windshield wipers in removing the softened and/or melted snow, a job for which the wipers were designed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Russell M. Keeler
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Publication number: 20040134996Abstract: The invention intends to prevent the occurrence of a phenomenon that air is sucked through an ejection port formed at a nozzle end when a plunger rod is retracted to move away from a valve seat. In a method or apparatus for ejecting liquid droplets in which a liquid under regulated pressure, the liquid being stored in a container as required, is ejected while it is caused to fly in the form of liquid droplets from a valve ejection port, bubbles are prevented from being mixed into the liquid through the ejection port by controlling a supply amount of the liquid in a manner being able to follow a pressure difference between the ejection port and a flow passage in a valve body. The liquid is continuously ejected at a high-speed tact. The ejection port is opened with a plunger rod retracted by air pressure, and the liquid droplet is ejected through the ejection port with the plunger rod advanced by a resilient force of a spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2004Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Ikushima Kazumasa
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Publication number: 20040134997Abstract: A method and system for controlling atmospheric conditions in a portion of the atmosphere for weather modification is described. The control of atmospheric conditions is carried out by controllably urging the collisions between the water droplets in the atmosphere so as to cause their controllable coalescence. The urging is characterized by adjusting non-gravitational attraction forces between the droplets to a predetermined value so as to alter a collision rate between the water droplets to a desired value. The changes of the non-gravitational attraction force between the droplets are achieved by dosed seeding in a portion of a cloud or fog a particulate material that is electrically charged to a required magnitude and polarity. The dosed seeding of the charged materials controls the concentration of the charged droplets and the electric attraction between the charged droplets with neutral droplets as well as the electric interaction between the charged droplets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Alexander Khain, Yuri Feldman, Mark Pinsky, Vladimir Arkhipov, Yaroslav Ryabov, Alexander Puzenko
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Publication number: 20040134998Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a straw tube capable of preventing reduction of pressure inside a drinking container when sucked, an apparatus, and a method for producing the straw tube and for using the apparatus. A straw tube has a tube body having a plurality of grooves extending in the longitudinal direction and a convex streak sandwiched by these grooves and projecting outward from the datum level of the outer circumferential wall. An apparatus has a rotating drum having tube loading grooves, a female rod having grooves and capable of reciprocating within the tube loading grooves by a cam mechanism, and a male roller having convex streaks corresponding to the grooves of the female rod so that the grooves of the female rod engage with the convex streaks through the tube and the female rod and the male roller are synchronized.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Katumasa Hosi, Kiyokazu Ishiwatari, Minoru Suyama
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Publication number: 20040134999Abstract: A volatilizing apparatus for volatilizing a volatile agent, comprising: a container comprising a container body and a lid covering the container body. The lid is attached to the container body through a hinge member so as to open and close with respect to the container body. One of ends of a volatilizing body is fixed to the inner face of the container body, and the other of the ends of which is fixed to the inner face of the lid. The volatilizing body has a laminated honeycomb structure, holds the volatile agent, and is adapted to be contained in the container under the closed state of the lid and to expand between the container body and the lid under the open state of the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Kazushige Aiyama
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Publication number: 20040135000Abstract: The invention relates to improvements in or relating to containers and in particular to an air freshening or purifying device utilising a gel fragrance or other composition suitable for use in a vehicle. The air freshening or purifying device comprising a gel holder having at least one recess for receiving a gel, wherein a plurality of prongs project from a base of the recess, said prongs being inclined in at least two different directions to an axis perpendicular to the recess base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Bruno Buthier
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Publication number: 20040135001Abstract: The present invention includes a unique irrigation sprinkler system with a unique sprinkler head design; a unique method of defining the planted area to be served by the sprinkler head; a unique method for determining when that planted area needs to be watered; a unique way of providing even coverage throughout the planted area when being watered; the ability to use one sprinkler head to individually water multiple, non-overlapping planted areas; a unique way of addressing multiple sprinkler heads in the same sprinkler system; and a unique method for remotely determining the integrity of the sprinkler system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Galen Collins
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Publication number: 20040135002Abstract: Dosage of an active agent in a fluid, suitable for injection in the human or animal body, is achieved by spraying the fluid by means of a spray device (1), in the form of a mist or jet onto a mucous membrane of the body, for example in the tonsillar or nasal region. The spraying device (1) comprises a connection adapter (3) with an annular seal (11) for the container (9), in particular in the form of an ampoule. Other fluids can equally be sprayed in a corresponding manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Beller
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Publication number: 20040135003Abstract: A sprayer system includes one or more spray nozzle systems and a recirculation line which contains a Venturi for recirculation of non-sprayed liquid into a tank during breaks in spraying. To facilitate circulation, restrictors are placed in an upstream area of each nozzle system feeding line, and a downstream control valve is inserted between each nozzle system and the recirculation line. Each nozzle system can be independently controlled. Closing a control valve activates the spraying system associated with that valve, whereas opening the valve enables the liquid to circulate through the recirculation line into the tank to prevent unwanted dripping, demixing and depositing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Jaap Wilting
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Publication number: 20040135004Abstract: A device for spraying a fluid, said device comprising a reservoir for the fluid to be sprayed; pumping means comprising a electric operated pump having an inlet port in fluid communication with the fluid of said reservoir and an outlet port; a tubing having opposite ends, one end being in fluid communication with the outlet port of the pump, the other end being in fluid communication with a spraying nozzle; electric power supply means; a on-off switch means; electrical wiring connecting the electric power supply means, the electric motor and the on-off switch means to have the electric motor remotely operated by the on-off switch; a harness means allowing a user to wear an assembly defined by the reservoir, the pumping means and the power supply means; and a valve means provided across the tubing to allow passage of said fluid when this latter is pressurized by the pump and to prevent the fluid to drip from the nozzle when not pressurized by the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Stephane Fex
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Publication number: 20040135005Abstract: A fluid dispenser for dispensing a fluid in the form of a powder, said fluid dispenser comprising a fluid reservoir (23) provided with a movable actuating wall (22) and with a spraying orifice (53), the reservoir containing a piece of porous material (4) suitable for being impregnated with gas and with the fluid in powder form, said fluid dispenser being characterized in that the porous material occupies the major part of the volume of the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: VALOIS SASInventor: Frederic Duquet
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Publication number: 20040135006Abstract: A liquid atomizer comprising a housing fitted with an inlet for connecting to a liquid supply line and a cavity being in flow communication with the inlet and having a longitudinal axis. The housing has one or more outlet nozzles for emitting atomized liquid. A vortex generating member is received within the housing and is formed with at lest one vortex generating path generates a liquid vortex about an axis transversally extending relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing and extending opposite a respective outlet nozzle. Each of the vortex generating paths is in flow communication with the cavity and extends opposite a respective outlet nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: DAN MAMTIRIMInventors: Yoel Zur, Gandin Vitaly, Zohar Katzman, David De Vires
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Publication number: 20040135007Abstract: An anodized aluminum atomizing nozzle (20) for use in a misting system and a process (200) for manufacturing the atomizing nozzle (20) are provided. The atomizing nozzle (20) is made up of a nozzle body (22), an orifice insert (24), and an impeller (26). The nozzle body (22) has an inlet end (30), has an outlet end (32), has an insert recess (54) proximate the outlet end (32), and encompasses a first chamber (60). The orifice insert (24) is affixed to the nozzle body (22) within the insert recess (54) and encompasses a second chamber (94). The impeller (26) is configured to reside within the first and second chambers (60,94) between the orifice insert (24) and the nozzle inlet end (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventor: Nathan Palestrant