Patents Issued in August 5, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040149123
    Abstract: A piston compressor includes single-headed pistons individually received for reciprocal linear motion in cylinder bores, and is arranged to suppress the wear of these pistons with simple machining for wear prevention. The single-headed piston includes a first piston portion disposed in close contact with the cylinder bore, for sucking refrigerant thereinto and compressing the refrigerant, and a second piston portion adjacently formed in a crankcase-side end of the first piston portion and having a diameter smaller than that of the first piston portion, so as to be prevented from being in contact with the cylinder bore, or so as to apply, even if in contact therewith, a small thrust force to the cylinder bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20040149124
    Abstract: A piston-chamber combination comprising an elongate chamber which is bounded by an inner chamber wall and comprising an elastically deformable piston comprising a container in said chamber to be sealingly movable relative to said chamber at least between first and second longitudinal positions of said chamber, said chamber having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas at the first and second longitudinal positions of said chamber and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas at intermediate longitudinal positions between the first and second longitudinal positions thereof, the cross-sectional area at the first longitudinal position being larger than the cross-sectional area at the second longitudinal position, said piston including a piston body and sealing means supported by the piston body for scaling on said inner chamber wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Nicolaas Van Der Blom
  • Publication number: 20040149125
    Abstract: A centering support for a piston in a piston-type pump having a diaphragm extending between the piston and the cylinder to define a product end of the pump and a driven end of the pump includes at least three equally radially spaced, centering elements extending radially outwardly from the piston for contacting the cylinder wall. The centering elements define a gap between the piston and the cylinder wall. The centering elements are disposed on the piston spaced from the diaphragm at the product end of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance, S.A.
    Inventors: Wayne Warne, Goran Hermodsson, Ake Svedberg, Yoshiki Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20040149126
    Abstract: A device that eliminates the need for torque, usually applied by large tools, in the assembly or maintenance of pumps. This device connects the cylinder (7) and upper housing (5) of a pump using a simple locking pin (9) that inserts through the upper housing (5) of the pump and along the flat (7a) on the pump cylinder (7). The cylinder (7) inserts into the upper housing (5) until the holes (11) for the pin are (9) aligned. Upon alignment, the locking pin (9) is inserted through both components and locked, thus connecting them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Mark T Weinberger, Michael J Sebion
  • Publication number: 20040149127
    Abstract: A method of producing composite, hollow fibre gas separation membranes, wherein external surfaces of the porous hollow fibre tubes used in the construction of the membranes are subjected to a modification technique before the external surfaces are coated with a thin layer of selective polymer so as to increase the number of pores in the fibre surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: SMARTMEMBRANE CORP.
    Inventors: Arthur Lyons, Andrew Van Den Gross
  • Publication number: 20040149128
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing contamination of a substrate or a substrate surface, and particularly relates to prevention of contamination of raw materials, semi-finished products, base materials of products and substrate surface in a high-tech industry such as in the production of semiconductors and liquid crystals. A gas coming into contact with a base material or substrate is purified by dust removing means and adsorption and/or absorption means so that the concentration of fine particles in the gas is below class 1,000 and a non-methane hydrocarbon concentration is below 0.2 ppm. Thereafter, the base material or the substrate surface is exposed to this gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: EBARA RESEARCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fujii, Tsukuru Suzuki, Hidetomo Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20040149129
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for cleaning ambient air by means of an adsorption unit (8) arranged in a vehicle, which vehicle includes a combustion engine (1) and a ventilation system (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) for a passenger compartment. Adsorption takes place whether the engine (1) is running or switched off. In adsorption mode, a fan (11) is operated to force ambient air from an inlet (6) to the ventilation system in a first direction, through an adsorption unit (8), and out of an outlet (10) of the ventilation system. In desorption mode the engine is running and air is supplied to a first heating means (13). The heated air is passed through the adsorption unit (8) to release the pollutants and regenerate said unit. The air containing the pollutants is passed through a second heating means (4, 16) and is then passed through the first heating means (13) to heat the said ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Martin Petersson, Jan Ke Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20040149130
    Abstract: A new system for holding HEPA filters in an air duct. In the present invention, the filters are mounted parallel to the direction of air flow. This allows a filter assembly with essentially unlimited surface area to be installed without increasing the outside dimensions of the duct. This system also allow for easy and convenient replacement of filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Dimiter Gorchev
  • Publication number: 20040149131
    Abstract: A gas-selective permeable membrane (1) utilisable in a leak detector for a gas, more particularly helium, comprising a sheet-like body (11) on which at least one reduced thickness area (15) is defined by removing a material from the sheet-like body. This at least one reduced thickness area (15) being permeable to at least one gas and formed so as that it is partly surrounded by a thicker and substantially gas-impermeable area (16) ensuring the structural strength of said membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Roberto Carboneri, Sandro Vittozzi
  • Publication number: 20040149132
    Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator using substantially planar screens of similar charge positioned perpendicular to the gas flow direction. The screens have a similar charge of the same polarity, and particles flowing through the screens are charged, agglomerated and either collected on the screens or fall downwardly into collecting hoppers below the screens. The screens preferably have openings smaller than 3 millimeters and are spaced apart less than 10 millimeters. In an alternative embodiment, the screens have alternating polarities and are spaced about an inch or more apart to prevent sparkover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Hajrudin Pasic
  • Publication number: 20040149133
    Abstract: A compact and highly portable combination pressure swing adsorption apparatus and product gas conservation device for medical use, to produce efficiently a gas with a high concentration of oxygen and to deliver the oxygen concentrated gas to a user at selectable times and in selectable doses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Norman R. McCombs, Robert E. Casey, Michael A. Chimiak, Andrzej Klimaszewski
  • Publication number: 20040149134
    Abstract: An air purification system which is well-suited to removing particles from outside air as the air flows into a cleanroom used in the fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuits. A housing provides at least one spray nozzle for spraying fine mist water droplets. In use, the water droplets capture the airborne particles in the air flowing through the housing and adhere to the water droplet target. The water droplets coalesce and form larger droplets which adhere to the surface of the water droplet target and ultimately collect in a drain pan. The low-density water droplet target prevents large pressure differentials from forming in the housing, which pressure differentials may otherwise cause re-vaporization of the water droplets from the target and re-flow of the particles in the flowing air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Dar Chen, Po-Sung Kuo, Yen-Chun Wang
  • Publication number: 20040149135
    Abstract: A thin sheet of sealed coffee grounds comprises a plurality of filter packs, a rigid substrate sheet, a flexible barrier sheet sealed to the substrate sheet via a plurality of ring-shaped seals to form a plurality of chambers to contain the plurality of filter packs, a plurality of cut lines outside the plurality of seals for isolating the chambers from one another, and a plurality of grippable tabs for dispensing the filter packs from the thin sheet. The grippable tabs are adapted to allow a user to dispense a filter pack at a time from the thin sheet by simply pulling a grippable tab to open a chamber and release the filter pack therein. The substrate sheet has a smooth top surface in one aspect of the invention and a plurality of cylindrical cavities sealed by the flexible barrier sheet via the ring-shaped seals in another aspect of the invention. In a further aspect of the invention the plurality of filter packs in the thin sheet is replaced by a plurality of portions of loose coffee grounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Edward Z. Cai
  • Publication number: 20040149136
    Abstract: Various systems are provided which may be used in a beverage machine for dispensing one or more, (in particular a plurality of) beverage types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: VKI TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Halle, Robert Declos, Patrick Brazeau, Martin Harnois, Pascal Grenier, Denis Hache, Joe Normandeau, Andre Gauthier, Roger Bourgouin, Stephen Grant, Rejean Bouliane, Eric Theriault
  • Publication number: 20040149137
    Abstract: A sprinkling device, particularly for processes for making wine from red grapes, which can be associated with a fermentation and/or storage tank in order to recirculate the wine must that is being fermented from the base region to the top region of the fermentation tank and to sprinkle the recirculated wine must in a stream into the top region of the fermentation tank, comprises: an auxiliary tank which can be fitted in a hatch or similar top opening of a main tank and which is provided with means for fixing to the hatch, first discharge means for the discharge of the wine must supplied to the auxiliary tank from the main tank, which means comprise a base opening of the auxiliary tank and a closure member which is movable between a closure position and an open position in order to produce a first sprinkling stream of the recirculated wine must, and second discharge means for the discharge of the wine must, which means are associated with the closure member and can discharge the wine must by means of a second
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: GIMAR TECNO S.R.L.
    Inventor: Marco Francia
  • Publication number: 20040149138
    Abstract: A vacuum coffee maker comprises a first vessel for receiving water to be heated and brewed coffee and a second vessel for receiving coffee grounds and brewing coffee therein. The first vessel has an opening in it and a fluid passage from the opening to a lower potion of the vessel. The second vessel having an opening in it. A base for receiving the first vessel is provided with a heater. A platform supports the second vessel above the first vessel. Engagement means releasably brings together the opening in the first vessel and the opening in the second vessel for fluid communication between the first and second vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Chi Wah Leung, Chi Chung Fung, Shek Chuen Luk
  • Publication number: 20040149139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an espresso coffee machine designed for a low-voltage vehicle that includes a water tank connected to a pump for pumping the water to a heating element which is itself connected to a brewing head in which a cartridge of coffee is brewed, a moveable closure for closing the head with a mechanism for moving the closure from an open position to a closed position and vice versa, a coffee dispensing pipe associated with the closure and a connection for the electric power supply, in which machine the heating of the heating element is switched off or reduced when the pump is running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Alexandre Kollep
  • Publication number: 20040149140
    Abstract: A system and method is shown for processing animals, such as calves, from birth to slaughter by utilizing hot-fed rations during the feeding process. The system and method reduces or eliminates the need to use hormones and simultaneously reduces or eliminates the need to sterilize the meat products. Each calf or animal is weaned at a weaning station, fed at a feeding station, slaughtered at a slaughter station to provide a carcass that is substantially the same size as other carcasses for the same breed of animal processed in the system. The consistent carcass size enables manufacture of consistent carcasses which, in turn, facilitates providing substantially the same size meat cuts. This feature enables use of a standard-size packaging, such as a case-ready package, which may be shipped for display and purchase at a store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: David H. Long
  • Publication number: 20040149141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a toaster in which the housing (1) comprises: a toasting chamber (2); a toast rack (5), which can move vertically inside said chamber (2) between an eject position and a toasting position; a driver (6), which is linked to the toast rack (5), is slide mounted on a vertical column (7) and is used to lower the toast rack (5) from the eject position, in which the driver (6) is returned by an elastic means (9), to the toasting position, in which the driver (6) is held in place by an unlockable means (10); and a rising damping device comprising a piston (16) which can slide vertically along a determined path in a housing (17) that is solidly connected to the drive and the upper face of which can come into contact with a stop end (19) located in the top part of the housing (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Julian Arnedo, Antonio Basora
  • Publication number: 20040149142
    Abstract: Bakeware having an embossed textured pattern formed on the food-contacting surface and on the exterior surface. In the preferred embodiment, the textured pattern on the food-contacting surface is made up of a plurality of spaced-apart raised diamond-shaped surfaces separated by depressed grooves. The textured pattern of the exterior surface consists of a plurality of spaced-apart depressed diamond-shaped surfaces separated by raised ridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Publication number: 20040149143
    Abstract: A rack of a cooking implement includes a surface for supporting food, opposed sides and opposed ends separated by the food supporting surface. The rack also includes opposing looped handles. A pan of a cooking implement has opposed end walls that are spaced apart at length further than the length of the rack and opposed side walls that are spaced apart at a width wider than the width of the rack. The pan also includes opposing upstanding handles. The handles include at least one horizontal resting surface for supporting the looped handle of the rack and at least one vertical retaining surface for abutting the looped handle of the rack. As a result, the looped handles of the rack are received and supported by the handles of the pan thereby permitting the rack to hang within the interior of the pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Karen J. Swinford, Jeffrey Bull, Denise Marie Simon, Shawn Young
  • Publication number: 20040149144
    Abstract: Barbecue apparatus is provided comprising a support structure, a fire basket, and an optionally removable and adjustable cooking grid operatively positioned above the fire basket. The fire basket is in the form of a generally squat horizontal rectangular enclosure comprising two spaced operatively horizontal mesh panels and a side panel extending between the edges of the two mesh panels along at least three sides thereof. The fire basket is supported in a manner, typically on an axle located centrally with respect of the front and back thereof, for enabling it to be inverted during the combustion of solid fuel contained therein about an axis that is generally parallel to any open region between the edges of the two mesh panels. The fire basket is preferably open along one side that is maintained uppermost when inverting the fire basket for use and which can be directed lowermost to empty the fire basket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Mathuloe William Qubeka
  • Publication number: 20040149145
    Abstract: A live seafood storage apparatus having a tank for holding seafood, such as lobsters, and a substantially rectangular storage tank for a large quantity of bacteria-supporting bio-media. The storage tank is disposed beneath the lobster tank. Normally, water drains from the lobster tank into the storage tank, where it passes through a pre-filter and down through the large volume of bio-media. Water is moved from the storage tank back to the lobster tank by a pump. If a power failure occurs, substantially all of the water drains from the lobster tank by gravity into the storage tank. Closed access doors minimize evaporation, thus providing sufficient moisture within the lobster tank for lobsters to survive for an extended period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Marine Environments
    Inventor: James Harris
  • Publication number: 20040149146
    Abstract: A seasoning implement composed of an elongated hollow member loaded with a seasoning and having a plurality of axially spaced openings for inserting into a food mass. The hollow member provides a driving force to expel the seasoning. The hollow member may be a two-component assembly. A first component includes a hollow shaft defining a plurality of holes and has a point on one end and is open on its other end. The second component includes a cap. The two components are mutually engageable in a secure coupling. The seasoning is in the form of a powder or solid mass composed of a binder matrix holding a seasoning or mixture of seasonings. The binder disintegrates during heating of the food to release the seasoning and enable the implement to expel the seasoning into the food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Nevin Jenkins, Martin Fleit, Antonio Lebron
  • Publication number: 20040149147
    Abstract: A drum breader and coating recirculation system that includes a spreader positioned at an end of the drum, the spreader having a plurality of angled surfaces to distribute coatings evenly; a screening platform positioned downstream of the spreader having a drive device for imparting straight-line angular displacement to the screening platform; and a drum feed conveyor positioned downstream of the screening platform, the drum feed conveyor having a belt extending at least partially along an upward angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Phillip Bayus, David Alan Bailey, Ramesh M. Gunawardena, Michael Miller, Harold Eugene Patterson
  • Publication number: 20040149148
    Abstract: An automatic bean curd manufacturing apparatus includes a main body provided with a bean grinding chamber and a bean juice heating chamber, a driving motor installed in the main body, a rotational container removably and rotatably installed in the grinding chamber of the main body and provided at an inner bottom with a grinding blade, a rotation suppressing member for selectively suppressing a rotation of the rotational container, a clutch installed on a bottom of the rotational container to rotatably support the grinding blade, a rotational container cover for closing an opened top of the rotational container, a grinding container removably installed in the rotational container to grind the beans, a rotational container fixing member for preventing the rotational container from moving, a heating container removably installed in the heating chamber to heat the bean juice dispensed from the rotational container through a bean juice guide, and a heating container cover for closing an opened top of the heating c
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Jane Lee
  • Publication number: 20040149149
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for marking a sheet-shaped workpiece using a marking tool. The marking tool is mounted in a punch holder of a punch press and a counter-support is fixed in place on a side opposite of a marking surface of the workpiece to be marked. The surface of the workpiece is marked by displacing the workpiece in its plane while engaging the marking tool with the workpiece. In one form, a support roller provides counter-support. In another form, an elastic element is cooperatively associated with the punch stroke of the punch press to translate an exactly defined contact pressure force between the tool tip and the workpiece to be marked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Albrecht Schneider
  • Publication number: 20040149150
    Abstract: An embossing apparatus is comprised of a first embossing member that defines one or more embossing designs therein and a second embossing member that defines one or more embossing designs therein that substantially match the embossing designs of the first embossing member. The first and second embossing members are coupled together with one or more coupling elements to maintain said first and second embossing elements in planar alignment and align said embossing designs of the first and second embossing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Michael P. Seifert, Bennett J. Skaletski
  • Publication number: 20040149151
    Abstract: A screen-printing apparatus for printing creamy solder paste on a substrate by attaching a screen mask to the substrate. A laser-measuring device mounted in the apparatus measures the top surface of the screen mask at a printing position and the top of the substrate at a substrate-measurement position by three-dimensional measurement, and detects a shape of the substrate or the screen mask, and determines whether or not they are acceptable. After screen printing is completed, the substrate and the screen mask undergo a printing inspection where their shapes are inspected. This provides not only inspection data of the printing results but also data for identifying the causes of print failures. As a result, the screen-printing apparatus, which has high-printing accuracy and can prevent printing failures from occurring, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiyuki Yamasaki, Michinori Tomomatsu, Seikoh Abe, Seiichi Miyahara, Yuji Otake, Takahiro Fukagawa, Kunihiko Tokita, Masayuki Mantani, Minoru Murakami
  • Publication number: 20040149152
    Abstract: A screen printing manual repetition system semi-automates use of a screen with a manual printing press. The screen has a screen frame and a screen mesh. The manual repetition system (MRS) has an MRS frame mountable to the screen frame, a track system, and a height adjustor configured to adjust the height of the track system relative to the MRS frame. A squeegee has a squeegee frame with a blade, guide members configured to guide the squeegee through the track system, and an angle adjustor configured to adjust the angle of the blade relative to the screen mesh during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Michael S. Edson
  • Publication number: 20040149153
    Abstract: A debris screen for a printing press having an ink roller train and a paper pathway includes a source reel, a collecting reel, and at least one transfer roller mounted to a supporting frame, a sheet of flexible material extending along a sheet path from the source reel, over the transfer roller, and to the collecting reel, the transfer roller positioned on the frame such that the sheet path extends between a portion of the ink roller train and the pathway for the paper web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Paul Harris, Eric Thompson
  • Publication number: 20040149154
    Abstract: A ceramic decal assembly containing a ceramic substrate, a layer of adhesive contiguous with the substrate, and a ceramic decal contiguous with the layer of adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Pamela A. Geddes, Barry J. Briggs, Daniel J. Harrison
  • Publication number: 20040149155
    Abstract: A printing system has an imaging subsystem, an application subsystem, and a decoupler separating the imaging subsystem from the application subsystem. A method of imaging is also provided. In a placing action, an image is placed on a transfer roll in a first environment. In a moving action, the transfer roll is moved to a second environment. In a transferring action, the image is transferred to a media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Kurt E. Thiessen, Antoni Murcia
  • Publication number: 20040149156
    Abstract: The invention provides a principal theory and a system method for a Tornadoes Dynamic Teardown System (TDTS) to cease Tornadoes' moving and extinguish Tornadoes. TDTS provides an innovation feasible theoretical method, which utilizes: 1, te man-made tornadoes attract the real tornadoes moving over into their GAAS areas, cease their moving and dissipate them. 2, for huge ones, TDTS provides a sudden media explosion in the center the core flow of the sucking pipe of weather patterns for example Tornadoes. This explosion provides an relatively small media separation in a cross section inside the sucking pipe that applies rheology conservation law to induct the vacuum energy and kinetic energy of the sucking pipe transferring into potential energy to automatically break the sucking pipe or whirl vortex tube into two sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Henry Niuer Yi, Jane Ju Yi
  • Publication number: 20040149157
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for improving—at least in part—the external ballistics of primarily the type of artillery shells (1) that are fin-stabilised in their trajectory towards the target and thus have a slipping plastic driving band (6) which, during firing of the said shell from a designated barrel, constitutes the shell's direct contact with the inside of the barrel. The problem that it is the function of the present invention to resolve is that the slipping plastic driving band (6) normally detaches immediately outside the muzzle of the barrel used for firing, thereby leaving an open groove (4) that causes distrubing turbulence which is detrimental to the flight of the said shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Ulf Hellman
  • Publication number: 20040149158
    Abstract: An individual transportation system (10) includes a track system (12), including a primary track section (14), a switching track section (16) and loading/unloading section (18). The transportation system (10) additionally includes a plurality of carriages (20) supported by the track system (12), and a plurality of underslung passenger vehicles (22) each matably engageable with one of the carriages, and adapted to hold at least one passenger therein. The transportation system (10) further includes a storage facility (24) for storing the vehicles (22) when they are disengaged from the carriage, whereby a carriage and vehicle combination traveling on the primary track can be switched between primary track section (14) via an associated switching track section (16), and can be switched to the loading/unloading track (18), wherein the vehicle may be disengaged from carriage (20) and stored in the storage facility (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Frederick P. Keller, Benedikt J. Gaegauf
  • Publication number: 20040149159
    Abstract: A diesel-electric locomotive includes an assembly including a diesel engine and a generator, to which a drive unit can be connected. There is provision for the assembly to be replaceable as a module. For this purpose, it is arranged, for example, in a replaceable container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Ulrich Foesel, Christian Gritsch, Heinz Hofmann, Gyoergy Papp
  • Publication number: 20040149160
    Abstract: A diesel-electric locomotive includes an assembly including a diesel engine and a generator, to which a drive unit is connected. The diesel engine is connected to a cooling system holding fluid. The drive unit is electrically connected to a braking resistor. There is provision for the braking resistor to be arranged in the cooling system so as to give off heat to the fluid. For example, the braking resistor is connected to a separate heating voltage source which may be, for example, a voltage source in a second locomotive which is coupled to the locomotive in a traction grouping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Ulrich Foesel, Christian Gritsch, Heinz Hofmann, Gyoergy Papp
  • Publication number: 20040149161
    Abstract: An improved bogie control arm for steering wheels and axles of bogies comprising of two pairs of C-type control arm made out of rolled steel channel section which has been flared by splitting the web and thereafter welding profile cut steel plates, two pairs of fabricated adoptor is connected to said control arm by means of welding or rivetting, said fabricated adopter is provided with rubber spring as primary suspension, said two pairs of ‘C’-type control arms are connected to each other by means of cross struts and pins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Balasubramanyan Ananthanarayanan Krishnaswami
  • Publication number: 20040149162
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-steering, three-axle bogie, in particular for a rail vehicle, comprising wheel sets (8, 9, 10) and wheel set bearing housings (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) allocated to said sets. According to the invention, the outer wheel sets (8, 10) are counter-coupled and can be displaced in a longitudinal direction and the central wheel set (9) can be displaced in a transverse direction and is included in the control system. The wheel set bearing housings (2, 4, 6) on one side of the running gear and/or the wheel set bearing housings (3, 5, 7) on the other side of the running gear are coupled exclusively to the wheel set bearing housings (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) lying on the same side and neighbouring wheel set bearing housings (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) are coupled to a first rotary lever (14, 26) that is connected so that it can rotate to the corresponding wheel set bearing housing (4, 5) of the central wheel set (9), by means of a steering linkage-rotary lever configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Wolfgang Auer
  • Publication number: 20040149163
    Abstract: An actuating system for manually operating the doors of a railroad hopper car. An operating shaft having a handle is rigidly coupled to an actuating lever. A door opening lever, which is rotatably coupled to said actuating lever, is rotatably coupled to the door for a hopper chute. To operate the system, an operator rotates the handle of said operating shaft, rotating said actuating lever and said door opening lever, shifting said door from the closed to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Fred J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20040149164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture of elongated N-alkylaziridine prepolymers of general formula (I) wherein n represents a whole number between 1 and 50; R1 represents H or C1 to C12 alkyl; X represents a bivalent, saturated or unsaturated, linear, branched, cyclic or polycyclic hydrocarbon radical which can contain between 0 and 5 heteroatoms from the group 0, NR1, S, which contains a total of between 1 and 50, preferably between 2 and 30, and ideally between 2 and 20 C atoms, and which comprises a group selected from —NR1-(C═O)—O—, —NR1-(C═O)—NR1-, —(C═O)—O—, —(C═O)—S—, which represents that covalent link with the polymer radical Z; Z represents a bivalent prepolymer radical having number-average molar masses of between 1,500 and 45,000 g/mole, from the group comprising polyester, polycarbonate, polyolefins, polysiloxane and polyethers; E represents —X′-A-X′—; A represents a double radical, saturate
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Gunther Eckhardt, Guenther Lechner, Erich Wanek
  • Publication number: 20040149165
    Abstract: Non-thermoplastic starch fibers having no melting point and having apparent peak wet tensile stress greater than about 0.2 MegaPascals (MPa). The fibers can be manufactured from a composition comprising a modified starch and a cross-linking agent. The composition can have a shear viscosity from about 1 Pascal·Seconds to about 80 Pascal·Seconds and an apparent extensional viscosity in the range of from about 150 Pascal·Seconds to about 13,000 Pascal·Seconds. The composition can comprise from about 50% to about 75% by weight of a modified starch; from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of an aldehyde cross-linking agent; and from about 25% to about 50% by weight of water. Prior to cross-linking, the modified starch can have a weight average molecular weight greater than about 100,000 g/mol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil MacKey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Lora Lee Buchanan, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Paul Arlen Forshey
  • Publication number: 20040149166
    Abstract: An internal size and a method for sizing board, such as liquid packaging board, with a hydrophobising internal size containing oxetanon derivative or 2-oxetanon. The main part of the hydrocarbon chains R′ and R″ of the oxetanon derivative or 2-oxetanon are derived from linear fatty acids, and ≦20 w-%, typically 2 to 15 w-%, most typically 5 to 12 w-% of the hydrocarbon chains are derived from branched and mainly saturated fatty acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Markku Nurminen, Kenneth Sundberg, Claes Zetter
  • Publication number: 20040149167
    Abstract: The present invention provides a surface treatment agent that endows a copper foil with excellent adhesion to insulating resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tsuchida, Masashi Kumagai, Fumiaki Akase
  • Publication number: 20040149168
    Abstract: An inorganic film-forming coating composition prepared by adding an orgnobasic compound (B) to a titanium-containing water based solution (A) obtained by reacting a hydrogen peroxide water with at least one titanium compound selected from the group consisting of a hydrolizable titanium compound, a low condensation product of the hydrolizable titanium compound, titanium hydroxide and a low condensation product of the titanium hydroxide; and an inorganic film-forming method by use of the coating composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jun Akui, Hideo Kogure, Osamu Isozaki
  • Publication number: 20040149169
    Abstract: A method of producing self dispersible organic pigment particles stabilized by the method. The method includes modifying organic pigment particles and then contacting the surface modified particles with an aqueous vapor entrained in a carrier gas to produce the stabilized organic pigment particles. Typically the pigment particles are modified by exposing their surfaces to ozone or a plasma-activated process gas. The surface stabilizing method prevents the violent exothermic reaction, which occurs when surface modified pigment particles are exposed to ambient air. The method is accomplished in a device, which includes a reactor, means for introducing in the reactor aqueous vapor entrained in a carrier gas and an agitator assembly for deagglomerating during surface modification the pigment particles placed in the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: An-Gong Yeh, Sandra L. Witman, James L. Hohman
  • Publication number: 20040149170
    Abstract: A method for producing hardened cellular concrete having normal compressive strength by producing tiny, unconnected, pre-pour, air-filled bubbles during mixing of cement, cementitious substitutes, sand, coarse aggregates, water, fiber, a surfactant, aluminum flakes or powder, calcium formate, and magnesium silico fluoride and then producing additional tiny, unconnected, post-pour, hydrogen-filled bubbles to replace those air-filled bubbles which are destroyed while pouring the fresh concrete during the casting operation. Only as much matrix is added to the coarse aggregate as is needed to engulf the aggregates while enabling the aggregate particles to be in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Osvaldo Moran
  • Publication number: 20040149171
    Abstract: A cementitious composition is provided that comprises an effective amount of bottom ash and an effective amount of cement. In one embodiment, a structural product formed from mixing the composition with an effective amount of water has a seven-day compressive strength of at least about 2,500 psi and, more preferably, a seven-day compressive strength of at least about 4,000 psi. In another embodiment, a structural product formed from mixing the composition with an effective amount of water has a twenty-eight-day compressive strength of at least about 4,000 psi and, more preferably, a twenty-eight-day compressive strength of at least about 5,000 psi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Charles E. Price
  • Publication number: 20040149172
    Abstract: Exemplary liquid cement additive compositions have high solids loading which includes alkali or alkaline earth metal salts and other cement additive components. The liquid carrier is preferably aqueous in nature, although nonaqueous carriers are possible, and the carrier is modified using a viscosity modifying agent and dispersant to help load salt and other solids in high level amounts. Thus, methods for making the liquid cement additive compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Leslie A. Jardine, David F. Myers, Anandakumar Ranganathan