Patents Issued in July 14, 2005
  • Publication number: 20050150828
    Abstract: A separation device for the removal of impurities extracted from a flexible conduit from a fuel such as liquefied petroleum gas is described having a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a means for channeling the fuel from the inlet onto an impingement surface in fluid communication with the fuel stream, the surface acting to condense the impurities, a gravity separation means for collecting the impurities removed from the fuel, and a means for channeling the fuel into an outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Brian VANDRAK, Carl SUCHOVSKY
  • Publication number: 20050150829
    Abstract: A biologically active reactor system for the treatment of wastewater comprises one or more submerged denitrification reactors having coarse media particles and a fixed biological film comprising biologically anoxic active microorganisms. One or more submerged aerated filters are in fluid communication with the one or more submerged denitrification reactor, the submerged aerated filter comprising coarse media particles and a fixed biological film comprising biologically aerobic microorganisms for oxidation of organic matter. One or more deep bed denitrification filters for removal of suspended solids and denitrification of oxidized nitrogens are in fluid communication with the one or more submerged aerated filters, the deep bed denitrification filter comprising fine media particles of less than 6 mm. Effluent from the submerged aerated filter is recycled to the submerged denitrification reactor for pre-denitrification prior to being piped to the deep bed denitrification filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Jeffrey Chen
  • Publication number: 20050150830
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for treating a sample by selectively controlling sonic energy and/or selectively controlling the location of the sample relative to the sonic energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Covaris, Inc.
    Inventors: James Laugharn, Brevard Garrison
  • Publication number: 20050150831
    Abstract: Hollow porous fibers containing adhered contaminants are cleaned to remove the contaminants by backflushing a liquid to fill the pores, and adding a flow of gas so as to form a two-phase mixture of gas and bubbles of liquid that can scrub the fibers, loosening the contaminants and allowing them to be flushed from the hollow fibers. The method is particularly useful for cleaning hemodialyzers used for dialysis and hollow fiber modules used in water treatment and separations. The two phase flow method is specifically effective in cleaning piping systems having high length to diameter (l/d) ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Princeton Trade and Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yacoob Tabani, Mohamed Labib
  • Publication number: 20050150832
    Abstract: A dialysate regeneration chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the dialysate regeneration chamber may include a toxin trap configured to selectively trap toxins and repel select cations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Takuji Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20050150833
    Abstract: An aqueous solution containing a fluorine-containing emulsifier in a low concentration of at least 1 ppm by mass and at most 1% by mass (e.g., coagulation waste water after an emulsion polymerization of a fluoropolymer and/or an aqueous solution obtained by washing with an aqueous solution a waste gas from a drying process and/or a heat treating process of the fluoropolymer) is subjected to vacuum concentration under a pressure of at most 100 kPa and a temperature of the aqueous solution of at most 100° C. by means of a heating tube surface evaporation type concentrator equipped with a heat pump or the like, and the fluorine-containing emulsifier is recovered from a highly concentrated aqueous solution containing the fluorine-containing emulsifier in a higher concentration of at least 5% by mass. According to the present method, the fluorine-containing emulsifier can be recovered with a high yield from a low-concentration liquid such as coagulation waste water of a fluoropolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicants: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY LIMITED, SASAKURA ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Funaki, Koichi Yanase, Hiroki Kamiya, Masao Uehara, Kenichiro Nagatomo, Yasushi Nishimura, Shiro Ohno, Satoru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20050150834
    Abstract: A methods of the present invention for inhibiting silica scale formation and corrosion in aqueous systems where soluble silica residuals (SiO2) are maintained in excess of 200 mg/L, and source water silica deposition is inhibited with silica accumulations as high as 4000 mg/L (cycled accumulation) from evaporation and concentration of source water. The methods of the present invention also provides inhibition of corrosion for carbon steel at corrosion rates of less than 0.3 mpy (mils per year), and less than 0.1 mpy for copper, copper alloy, and stainless steel alloys in highly concentrated (high dissolved solids) waters. The methods of the present invention comprise pretreatment removal of hardness ions from the makeup source water, maintenance of electrical conductivity, and elevating the pH level of the aqueous environment. Thereafter, specified water chemistry residual ranges are maintained in the aqueous system to achieve inhibition of scale and corrosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Dan Duke, John Kubis, John Wetherell
  • Publication number: 20050150835
    Abstract: Adsorbents for removing anions of a heavy metals and methods for using same are provided. Metal removing adsorbents comprise a porous material in which at least one oxygen-containing compound of iron, copper, aluminum, titanium, and/or zirconium is incorporated. The oxygen-containing compound may be incorporated into the porous media by impregnation or dispersion of a suitable precursor of such a compound. The precursor may be further treated to yield the oxygen-containing compound. Such adsorbents are particularly useful for removing arsenic and/or selenium from the environment and may be used in treating drinking water sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Toan Vo
  • Publication number: 20050150836
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the removal and disposal of arsenic from an aqueous medium. The systems and methods include the removal of arsenic from a source by contact with either a chemically treated natural or synthetic zeolite, for example a ferric-loaded zeolite. The spent zeolite is disposed of at an appropriate arsenic disposal site. A system for monitoring and maintaining an arsenic removal/disposal system by an off-site provider is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Charles Williams
  • Publication number: 20050150837
    Abstract: A method for removing organo-nitrogen compounds from liquid fuel includes contacting the liquid fuel with an adsorbent which preferentially adsorbs the organo-nitrogen compounds. The adsorption takes place at a selected temperature and pressure, thereby producing a non-adsorbed component and an organo-nitrogen compound-rich adsorbed component. The adsorbent includes either a metal or a metal cation that is adapted to form ?-complexation bonds with the organo-nitrogen compounds, and the preferential adsorption occurs by ?-complexation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Ralph Yang, Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado
  • Publication number: 20050150838
    Abstract: A methods for inhibiting silica scale formation and corrosion in aqueous systems where soluble silica (SiO2) can be maintained at residuals below 200 mg/L, but more preferably maintained at greater than 200 mg/L as SiO2, without silica scale and with control of deposition of source water silica accumulations as high as 4000 mg/L (cycled accumulation) from evaporation and concentration of source water. The methods of the present invention also provide highly effective inhibition of corrosion for carbon steel, copper, copper alloy, and stainless steel alloys. The methods of the present invention comprise pretreatment removal of hardness ions from the makeup source water, maintenance of electrical conductivity, and elevating the pH level of the aqueous environment. Thereafter, specified water chemistry residual ranges are maintained in the aqueous system to achieve inhibition of scale and corrosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Dan Duke, John Kubis
  • Publication number: 20050150839
    Abstract: A methods of the present invention for inhibiting silica scale formation and corrosion in aqueous systems where soluble silica residuals (SiO2) are maintained in excess of 200 mg/L, and source water silica deposition is inhibited with silica accumulations as high as 4000 mg/L (cycled accumulation) from evaporation and concentration of source water. The methods of the present invention also provides inhibition of corrosion for carbon steel at corrosion rates of less than 0.3 mpy (mils per year), and less than 0.1 mpy for copper, copper alloy, and stainless steel alloys in highly concentrated (high dissolved solids) waters. The methods of the present invention comprise pretreatment removal of hardness ions from the makeup source water, maintenance of electrical conductivity, and elevating the pH level of the aqueous environment. Thereafter, specified water chemistry residual ranges are maintained in the aqueous system to achieve inhibition of scale and corrosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Dan Duke, John Kubis, John Wetherell
  • Publication number: 20050150840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for clarification by flotation of water loaded with material in suspension, characterised in that the clarification treatment is carried out in two successive stages in a single plant. The method comprises a static flocculation step with descending current, integrated with a primary separation step for the heaviest particles, the zone in which the primary separation of the heaviest particles occurs being situated beneath the zone in which the static flocculation step is carried out and comprises a removal of the heaviest particles and a flotation step which guarantees the removal of the light particles, the decantation speed of which is below the threshold for cleaving the flotation agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Degremont
    Inventor: Patrick Vion
  • Publication number: 20050150841
    Abstract: The present invention is a filter apparatus with methods to capture a desired amount of material suspended in a liquid or gas for monolayer deposition, analysis or other uses. Novel filter devices are employed to capture material which may be used for the purification or enrichment of various sample constituents or captured material may be observed or analyzed. Alternatively, particulate material may be used as a transport mechanism for proteins or chemicals which in turn may be assessed or used. The filter device employs sensors to sense pressure and adjust, halt or otherwise control sample flow. The pressure sensor essentially monitors the flow rate of sample suspension through a filter, typically responding at a predetermined pressure associated with capture of a desired amount of material on the filter. A separate valve or valve integrated with pressure sensing provides a means to adjust sample flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Gary Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20050150842
    Abstract: A mixture of fluids is separated into at least two phases, one of which has a higher density than the other, passing the mixture through a normally horizontal supply pipe, by creating a stratified flow in the supply pipe, by passing the mixture through an inclined pipe, whilst maintaining a stratified flow in the inclined pipe, by extracting fluid with lower density (“lighter phase”) via a first discharge system and fluid with a higher density (“heavier phase”) via a second discharge system, wherein the interface between the lighter phase and the heavier phase is monitored in the inclined pipe by a level controller means that varies the flow of the fluid of higher density to keep the interface between set levels. The invention also provides a device for employing this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Puik
  • Publication number: 20050150843
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an installation for treating liquids, especially for purifying contaminated water. Said method consists of the following steps: the raw water is pre-purified by adding a foam-forming reaction agent; the pre-purified water undergoes a main purification process by foaming the water with ionising radicals contained in the exhaust from the subsequent steps, in a known perforated cylinder washer, the foam formed is eliminated; the de-foamed water is ionised; and the impurities in the purified water are sedimented. The purified water is then additionally purified, the mud consisting of impurities from the pre-purification and the main purification process is physically separated, and the transformation of raw water into purified water is carried out continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Hermann Berthold
  • Publication number: 20050150844
    Abstract: Processes and apparatus for the treatment of product streams from mineral processing operations, including the treatment of tailings which result from oil sand processing operations. The processes and apparatus relate to the recovery of a diluent solvent from bitumen froth tailings and to the thickening of tailings from a bitumen froth stream and a middlings stream resulting from an oil sand extraction process. In one aspect the processes and apparatus relate particularly to the recycling of product streams to maximize process efficiencies. In a second aspect the processes and apparatus relate particularly to the thickening of tailings to produce an underflow component, a clarified overflow component and an unclarified overflow component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: TRUENORTH ENERGY CORP.
    Inventors: Alexander Hyndman, John Ringstrom, John Sharpe, Douglas Bartlett, W. Scott Hindle, Chris Grant
  • Publication number: 20050150845
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for treating waste water wherein organic and inorganic substances in waste water can be treated at high levels regardless of the concentration, and a unit itself can be made compact. The method of the invention is a method for treating waste water, which comprises treating waste water at 100° C. or less in the presence of oxygen and catalyst containing noble metal and active carbon and having pores, wherein the volume of pores having a radius of 40 ? or more and less than 100 ? is 0.05 ml/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Takaaki Hashimoto, Kuninori Miyazaki, Junichi Miyake, Tohru Ishii
  • Publication number: 20050150846
    Abstract: For a firefighter or another person who may need to work in a hazardous environment, such as a rescue or chemical worker, a harness attached to an air tank of a self-contained breathing apparatus so as to enable a person wearing the harness to carry the air tank on his or her back includes, at an upper portion of the harness, a hand loop, by which a rescuer can drag a person wearing the harness, if the person has become incapacitated. Preferably, the hand loop and the shoulder straps are fabric straps, which are sewn to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: William Grilliot, Mary Grilliot
  • Publication number: 20050150847
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display rack (100) having a base (103) that further includes a plurality of recessed troughs that form a plurality of slots (110) whereby each of the plurality of slots include a plurality of holes (108) therein. The display rack further includes a plurality of divider pieces (102) whereby each one of the divider pieces is adapted for insertion into a selected one of the slots of the base. The dividers also include a plurality of tabs (112) that are aligned with the plurality of holes within its respective slot so as to facilitate stability and rigidity of the dividers when mated and recessed within its respective slot of the base. The dividers take the form of a L-shaped configuration which allows the dividers to be recessed within a slot of the base in a first or a second orientation thereby allowing variable bin width adjustment with respect to adjacent dividers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Rodney Hawkinson
  • Publication number: 20050150848
    Abstract: A bit retainer includes a body including a series of passages extending therethrough and a partition formed between every two adjacent passages. Each passage has an upper end laterally extending to a front side of the body to define a first opening and a lower end laterally extending to a backside of the body to define a second opening. The first opening has an enlarged portion defined in a lower portion of the first opening and the second opening has an enlarged portion defined in a top portion of the second opening. The enlarged portion of the first opening and the enlarged portion of the second opening linearly correspond to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Kun-Chih Hun
  • Publication number: 20050150849
    Abstract: The present invention relates to stands for flower arrangement and for storage of bouquets. The present invention is particularly directed towards an assembly stand for flower arrangement having multiple stations for maintaining bouquet holders stable during design and assembly of flower arrangements. The stand can also be used for storage and transport of the bouquets. The stand contains a frame and a top surface having openings thereon attached to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Trudy Campellone, Craig Andrussier
  • Publication number: 20050150850
    Abstract: A shoe storage shelf assembly is suitable for mounting to an organizer system and has at least one storage shelf with a top side, an underside, a depth from front to back, and a width from side to side. The shelf is configured for use as a standard storage shelf in an organizer system. The assembly also has a pair of shelf support brackets each with a body having a rear end and an upward facing shelf support surface. The support surface is forwardly and downwardly inclined and has an upturned stop at a distal forward end. Connectors extend rearward from the rear end of the brackets and are configured to connect to uprights in an organizer system. The shelf can be inverted such that its top side rests on the shelf support surfaces with its front borne against the upturned stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Rubbermaid, Inc.
    Inventors: David Stitchick, Radu Ghiorghie, Anthony Marchetta, Keith Pelfrey, Frazer Costa, Gina Rodi
  • Publication number: 20050150851
    Abstract: A coupling apparatus for temporary attachment of a portable medical apparatus, such as an intravenous infusion unit, to a personal mobile transport vehicle such as a wheelchair, hospital bed, gurney or mobile stretcher is disclosed. The apparatus includes a deployable arm which may be pivoted from a storage position alongside the transport vehicle to one or more fully deployed and locked positions for releaseably receiving and securing a portable intravenous infusion unit to the transport vehicle during the transport or relocation of infirmed or ambulatory restricted individuals. The apparatus also includes a stabilization strap for securing and stabilizing medical equipment, intravenous lines or other equipment lines attached to, or emanating from, the portable intravenous infusion unit during a transport operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Jerry Norris
  • Publication number: 20050150852
    Abstract: A corrugated decking is provided that has a plurality of top horizontal surfaces, a plurality of bottom surfaces, and a plurality of transition surfaces, each transition surface connecting one of the top horizontal surfaces to one of the bottom surfaces. One of the top horizontal surfaces has a plurality of apertures, the apertures having downwardly sloping flanges surrounding each aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: John Henning, David Cross, Bert Culpepper, Timothy Kircher
  • Publication number: 20050150853
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the repair, reinforcement and protection of damaged upright support members of typical commercial and industrial storage rack systems is disclosed. The invention employs a rigid vertical channel attached to an accommodating base plate to wrap around and bring into secure alignment a damaged upright storage rack support member. The invention is designed to be used to repair damaged upright storage rack support members without requiring the disassembly of the storage rack or the removal of product being stored on the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Richard Kimball
  • Publication number: 20050150854
    Abstract: A traveling crane according to the present invention includes a hook hoisting guide sheave for guiding a hook hoisting rope from the top of a boom toward the end of a jib, and the hook hoisting guide sheave is arranged on the top of the boom in a state that the guide sheave can guide the hook hoisting rope along the upper surface of the boom by folding the rope toward an upper spreader placed at a position adjacent to a boom anchor during assembling/disassembling of the crane. Thereby, the upper spreader can be moved between the boom anchor and a far end of the boom without providing a guide sheave dedicated for moving the upper spreader. Pairs of support legs are downward provided on both sides and in front and in rear of the upper spreader and a roller is provided for each support leg, so that interference between the upper spreader during movement and obstacles on the boom upper surface can be prevented even in a horizontal movement system excellent in operating efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Kobelco Cranes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Toudou, Koichi Shimomura, Keisuke Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20050150855
    Abstract: A container for injectable medicines includes an inner wall and an outer wall, with a sterile environment disclosed therebetween. A method for using the container includes inserting a needle for a hypodermic syringe through a seal in the outer wall, and intaking sterile air into the syringe. The hypodermic needle is then inserted through a seal in the inner wall and into the medicine contained therein. A proper dosage of the medicine is then intaken into the syringe, and it is withdrawn from the medicine container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Karl Woods
  • Publication number: 20050150856
    Abstract: The gas-venting groove or grooves are formed, while leaving a part of the thread ridge (3) up to a certain height, as the vertical degassing paths in the thread ridge carved on the outer surface of the round neck wall and the entire neck is whitened by the thermal crystallization. This thermal crystallization is conducted under the condition that the neck is prevented from undesired deformation caused by uneven resin flow state. Thus, the object of this invention is to provide a highly safe neck that can be used widely in the field of heat-resistant containers, pressure-tight containers, and heat-resistant and pressure-tight containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozawa, Toshimasa Tanaka, Takao Iizuka, Makoto Takada
  • Publication number: 20050150857
    Abstract: A closure includes an outer plastic shell having a base wall, a peripheral skirt with a central axis, a circumferential array of lugs on an underside of the base wall, and a pair of axially spaced internal beads on the skirt spaced from the base wall. An inner plastic shell has a base wall, a peripheral skirt with a central axis, at least one internal thread on the skirt of the inner shell, a circumferential array of lugs on an outer surface of the base wall, and a circumferential bead on an outer surface of the skirt remote from the base wall. The inner shell is positionable within the outer shell in a non-child-resistant first position with the bead on the skirt of the inner shell captured between the beads on the skirt of the outer shell, such that the outer shell is rotatably coupled to the inner shell and the at least one internal thread on the skirt of the inner shell can be threaded onto and off of a container by simple rotation of the outer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Brian Brozell, Steven Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20050150858
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tamper proof closure for a vial, which may be used only when needed, by insertion of a security member having engaging means in contact with corresponding engaging means on a ring part of a closure cap so that the cap may t be removed from the vial only with this ring part of the closure cap being separated from the cap by an action exerted by the engaging means of the security member on the engaging means of the ring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Simport Plastics Ltd.
    Inventors: Andre Lafond, Yanick Bertin
  • Publication number: 20050150859
    Abstract: A hot fill, blow molded plastic container adapted for vacuum pressure absorption and top load force enhancement having a waist region, and generally rectangular shaped vacuum panels and columns equidistantly spaced about the container. The waist region being movable to accommodate top load forces. The vacuum panels being movable to accommodate internal thermally induced volumetric and pressure variations in the container resulting from heating and cooling of its contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Lane, Daniel Gamber
  • Publication number: 20050150860
    Abstract: In order to prevent a workpiece from being damaged in etching workpiece of various external diameters, a ceramic holding jig corresponding to the external diameter of workpiece is mounted on a chuck table in a chamber of an etching apparatus. The chuck table is composed of a holding face for holding a workpiece and for converting etching gas into plasma and insulating zones each having an internal diameter smaller than the external diameter of the workpiece and an external diameter larger than the external diameter of the workpiece. In case a workpiece is to be held by either a first ceramic holding jig or a second ceramic holding jig on the chuck table, a jig identifying means installed to the chamber identify in advance which ceramic holding jig is mounted on the chuck table to match the holding jig and the workpiece each other, thereby to prevent the workpiece from being damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Shinichi Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20050150861
    Abstract: A vacuum processing apparatus is provided with: a vacuum processing tank; a first gas introduction section that is constructed such that a first processing gas in a radical state is introduced into the vacuum processing tank and is guided to a semiconductor wafer; and a second gas introduction section that is constructed such that a second processing gas that reacts with the first processing gas is introduced into the vacuum processing tank and is guided to the semiconductor wafer. The second gas introduction section has two shower nozzles provided at positions on either side of an introduction pipe provided for the first gas introduction section. According to this vacuum processing apparatus, high speed processing of a number of processing objects can be achieved. Moreover, the in-plane uniformity of the processing objects after processing can be ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Kwang-Myung Lee, Ki-Young Yun, Il-Kyoung Kim, Sung-Wook Park, Seung-Ki Chae, No-Hyun Huh, Jae-Wook Kim, Jae-Hyuck An, Woo-Seok Kim, Myeong-Jin Kim, Kyoung-Ho Jang, Shinji Yanagisawa, Kengo Tsutsumi, Seiichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20050150862
    Abstract: A workpiece alignment assembly. The assembly may include an embossing foil, a nest having a gas-bearing surface to receive a substrate, and piezo actuators disposed near the gas-bearing nest. In one embodiment, the piezo actuators center the substrate relative to the embossing foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Bruce Harper, Christopher Bajorek
  • Publication number: 20050150863
    Abstract: A mask material layer 102 of a desired pattern is formed on a silicon oxide film 101. The exposed parts of the silicon oxide film 101 is etched in accordance with the pattern of the mask material layer 102 by plasma etching by using a mixed gas fed at a rate such that the ratio (C5F8+O2/Ar) of the total flow rate of C5F8+O2 to the flow rate of Ar is 0.02 (2%) or less. Thus, a generally vertical right-angled portion is formed in the silicon oxide film 101. Therefore, no microtrenches are formed, and etching into a desired pattern is precisely effected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Takayuki Katsunuma
  • Publication number: 20050150864
    Abstract: Photonic crystal structures are made by a method including steps of providing a substrate, depositing at least one planar layer to form a stack, each planar layer of the stack comprising two or more sublayers having different sublayer refractive indices, depositing a hard mask material, depositing an imprintable material over the hard mask material, patterning the imprintable material by imprinting an array of depressions, and directionally etching at the depressions a regular array of openings through the hard mask material and the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: James Stasiak, David Champion, Kevin Peters, Donald Coulman, Tony Cruz-Uribe
  • Publication number: 20050150865
    Abstract: A pattern film forming method includes a step of producing a transfer sheet in which a thin film is formed on a surface of a sheet-shaped material and a step of pressing the thin film against a pattern film formation surface of the substrate with a pressing member having convex portions corresponding to the pattern film from a reverse surface of the transfer sheet opposite to the thin film or a reverse surface of the substrate opposite to the pattern film formation surface to transfer the thin film to the substrate. A pattern film forming apparatus includes a sheet supply device, a pressing device and a substrate transport device. A high-definition pattern film having a desired pattern and a sharp edge can be formed with high productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Jun Fujinawa, Junji Nakada, Norio Shibata, Takashi Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20050150866
    Abstract: Components of semiconductor processing apparatus comprise thermal sprayed yttria-containing coatings that provide erosion, corrosion and/or corrosion-erosion resistance in plasma atmospheres. The coatings can protect substrates from physical and/or chemical attack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Robert O'Donnell, John Daugherty
  • Publication number: 20050150867
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the treatment of disk-like objects with one first liquid and at least one second liquid at least in a defined edge region of a disk-like object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Sez AG
    Inventor: Harry Sax
  • Publication number: 20050150868
    Abstract: In order to control the cooling power of a cooling device in an electric switching device (1), through-openings (14a, b, c) can be closed by means of a holding fitting (16). The holding fitting (16) fixes the cooling device in an at least partial manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Andrzej Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20050150869
    Abstract: An electric device, in particular for medium or high voltage electric substations, able to perform the functions of circuit-breaking, isolating and earthing is described. The device comprises: a casing; at least one circuit-breaker; at least one line isolator having a fixed isolator contact; a line isolator actuating shaft for actuating the at least one line isolator; at least one earthing isolator; a circuit-breaker actuating shaft for actuating at least one circuit-breaker; and a lever connected to a conductor rod co-operating with movable circuit-breaker contacts, said conductor rod further engaging with said fixed isolator contact in a closing position, wherein: the device further comprises a resilient member co-operating with said conductor rod in order to transfer correct pressing loads to said movable contacts. According to the invention, said circuit-breaker actuating shaft and said line isolator actuating shaft are coaxial. Profitably, the casing is filled with nitrogen or sulphur hexafluoride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: VEI POWER DISTRIBUTION S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alberto Vaghini, Giorgio Perli, Armando Rossi
  • Publication number: 20050150870
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an arc-quenching device for circuit breakers having double-break contacts for use in low-voltage distribution systems. Provided around a prechamber (41) is a magnetic shield (91) for the purpose of intensifying the magnetic blowing action on an arc formed between the arc guide rails (51, 61) of the prechamber. In addition, a blowing loop (81) is inserted in the arc-quenching circuit and extends in sections parallel to an arc guide rail (61). Prechamber insulation having a bulge constricting the arc area likewise serves the purpose of optimizing the arc run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Schneider, Siegfried Mayer, Norbert Papok
  • Publication number: 20050150871
    Abstract: An apparatus and method arranged to use a combination of at least electrical resistance heating and mechanical friction heating to case a base material and/or a consumable material to reach a combination of temperature and pressure sufficient to cause welding. The method and apparatus configured for the simultaneous or substantially simultaneous application of both electrical resistance heating and friction heating to achieve welding is referred to as an electrofriction process, method or apparatus. This combination of resistance and friction heating allows the heating to be more localized within a relatively small weld zone, thereby improving the efficiency of the overall process and allowing the size, weight and strength and/or the cost of the application equipment and/or associated fixtures and power supplies to be reduced while enhancing its capability for operation in confined spaces and providing satisfactory welding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Henry Offer
  • Publication number: 20050150872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protective covering for welding devices, in particular spot welding pliers, said covering being resistant to welding projections and being non-flammable. The inventive covering comprises a front panel and a rear panel which can be connected to each other by connecting means enabling the distance between the two panels to be adjusted, said panels being substantially planar and protecting the part of the device provided with welding pliers and the part opposite thereto, also comprising a tubular rim which is placed between the front and rear panels and which protects the part located between them, said rim consisting of several panels which are joined to each other in a non-detachable manner such that the rim corresponds substantially to the circumference of the welding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Alain Robillot
  • Publication number: 20050150873
    Abstract: A drive device, especially for a pair of welding tongs comprising a pair of limbs, essentially arranged between the adjusting ends of the limbs, which are located opposite to the welding ends embodied with welding electrodes, for adjusting at least one limb between a welding position and a standby position. In order to improve said type of drive device in such a way that the construction length thereof is small, the drive device can be continuously controlled and monitored for the actuation of the welding tongs, the structure thereof is simple, economical and easy to maintain, and the noise of said drive device is significantly reduced, the inventive drive device is provided with an electric motor-driven screw-thread drive with a rotating nut and a rotating spindle which is axially displaceable between an extended and a return position, said spindle being movingly connected with the free extending end thereof to an adjusting end of the limb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt-Walter, Robert Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20050150874
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a resistance welding system is provided. The method utilizes a sensor for isolating and determining movement of a pin that typically supports an object to be welded such as a fastener. The movement of the pin is used to determine various present welding operation parameters to reduce cycle time, and increase efficiency and quality of the weld. The present welding operation parameters are compared to learned or stored welding operation parameters, for example, to determine whether a fault should be generated or whether an acceptable weld was achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Daniel Cabanaw, David Beneteau
  • Publication number: 20050150875
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a case housing a product and a lid made of material that transmits a laser beam are fixed to each other with a bonding member interposed between them, and thereafter, a laser beam is focused onto the bonding member through the lid so that the bonding member is melted. By doing so, the case and the lid are welded together via the bonding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Amako, Kazushige Umetsu, Hideo Tanaya
  • Publication number: 20050150876
    Abstract: A plurality of stretches of laser weld are executed on a structure to be welded by means of a device for focusing and orientation of the laser beam, which is associated to a component element of a manipulator robot. The focusing head is kept in the proximity of, but not closely adjacent to, the different areas to be welded and can consequently follow a simplified path, whilst the device for orientation of the laser beam aims the latter on the different areas of the structure to be welded, so that the speed of travel of the laser beam spot along the longitudinal direction of the weld stretch is independent from the speed of travel of the robot end element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Roberto Menin, Arturo Baroncelli, Enrico Mauletti
  • Publication number: 20050150877
    Abstract: (1) A laser processing method for silicon substrates wherein a roughness (Ra) of a surface of a silicon substrate is adjusted to 0.05 micron-1 micron after which a laser is applied. (2) A laser processing device for silicon substrates including: means for adjusting a surface of a silicon substrate to 0.05 micron-1 micron; and means for applying a laser. This method and device is able to prevent spattering of melted silicon and provides superior processing precision and allows efficient formation of holes and cutting on a silicon substrate. In particular, the present invention is useful for opening short-circuit sections disposed in silicon wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuta Araki