Abstract: A substrate processing system is provided. The substrate processing system comprises a brush assembly that includes a core, a transducer, and a brush. The core is configured to include a plurality of orifices extending from a center of the brush core to an outer surface of the brush core. The transducer is configured to be disposed on an outer surface of the core. The transducer is capable of resonating at a high frequency. The brush includes a plurality of openings, and is configured to cover the transducer. When the transducer resonates at the high frequency, high energy acoustic energy is imparted from the transducer to a surface of a substrate to be prepared at a respective location of each opening of the plurality of openings.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for cleaning surfaces comprising; a housing having a handle on one end and a cleaning head on the other end the cleaning head having an upper surface, a lower surface, a perimeter edge and a magnetic means the magnetic means providing a magnetic field to at least the lower surface of the cleaning head and at least one attachment means provided on the upper surface or the perimeter for securing a cleaning sheet over the lower surface of the cleaning head.

Abstract: The cylinder attachment to wring water out of mop is a frusto-conical shaped cylinder having a neck that is slidably attached to a mop handle. The neck has an adjustable knob that removably secures the cylinder in position at any point on the mop handle. The cylinder has an array of apertures in its lower wider portion for release of the mop water when the dirty water-laden mop head is compressed inside it. The cylinder has an O-ring about its bottom periphery to seal the cylinder and prevent the cylinder from scratching the floor. The cylinder has a wider portion above the O-ring to hold the mop strings in the cylinder when it is lifted from the pail. A specialized pail is provided for rinsing the mop by having a crescent-shaped tray with apertures on its bottom and a clamp on top to hold the mop inside the tray.

Abstract: A mop with an attached wringer cup has a set of perforations near the outwardly tapering lower end of the wringer cup. The wringer cup includes a rib. Along a side portion of the rib a plurality of perforations may be provided. In an embodiment the perforations may increase in size toward the end of the wringer cup. A connector may be provided to secure the mop head to the handle. In an embodiment the connector may accept a collar without requiring the collar to have a particular rotation orientation.

Abstract: A toothbrush comprising a handle comprising a bend at approximately a midpoint thereof, a head support structure connected to the handle, and a partially spherical bristle cluster attached to the head support.

Abstract: Scuff Remover Device with a stick like handle, a hollow, spherical ball shape having an outside surface similar to that of a standard tennis ball. A connection collar joins one end of the stick handle to the ball shape and an adhesive material connects the collar to the ball shape. A plurality of removably attachable bonnets can be added to the ball to provide other cleaning related activities such as polishing, waxing and moisture absorption.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle.

Abstract: The present invention relates a cleaning implement for cleaning hard surfaces, comprising a handle connected to a mop head which is at least partially deformable, the mop head having a leading edge connected to a trailing edge, wherein the mop head comprises a first cavity, said first cavity extending from the leading edge towards the trailing edge, said first cavity forming an opening only adjacent the leading edge when said mop head is in contact with a hard surface to be cleaned, said opening having a width of between about 50% and about 100% of the entire length of the leading edge. The present invention further relates to a cleaning system for cleaning hard surfaces, comprising the cleaning implement, and a cleaning sheet removably attached to the mop head of said cleaning implement. The present invention further relates to a method of cleaning a hard surface comprising the step of wiping the surface with the cleaning system.

Abstract: A mop has a holder for attaching a mop covering. The holder is composed of an at least substantially rigid core and of a flexible edge lining that is placed along a part or all of the edge of the flat core, and/or the mop covering projects beyond the holder on at least one portion of the periphery of the holder. The core is preferably encapsulated with the material of the edge lining by injection molding in order to achieve an improved joining and the provision of a small gap between the core and the edge lining.

Abstract: Windshield wiper device, in particular for a motor vehicle, with at least one wiper arm (11) and an engine hood (12) that can be raised in the case of an impact, wherein the at least one wiper arm (11) can be moved in the case of an impact into a position below a windshield (10) or into a position in the area of a wiper field.

Abstract: Device for cleaning surfaces, especially printing machine cylinders, with the aid of a cleaning coth which is transported from a supply shaft to a winding shaft for soiled cleaning cloth ad is pressed with the help of a rubber bar against the surface to be cleaned, with a device to rotate the winding shaft, and at the ends of the winding shaft for soiled cleaning cloth there is a free-running bearing, the outer ring of which is in contact with the piston rod of a reset cylinder in such a way that the winding shaft is rotated in the direction of winding when the piston rod moves forward, but is held stationary by the free-running effect when the piston rod moves backwards.

Abstract: A device for wringing moisture from a mop includes pressure elements between which a holder of the mop, together with a mop cover attached thereto, can be pressed. The mop cover projects beyond the holder, thereby forming a cushion at edges of the holder in order to prevent the holder from doing damage, for example to furniture. In order to be able to wring moisture in a defined manner from both the projecting edge of the mop cover as well as the portion thereof covered by the holder, the two interacting pressure elements form a gap having a height which decreases toward the edges. In particular, the height decreases in a gradual manner. The pressure elements are preferably rollers, several cylinder sections of which can have different diameters in order to be able to obtain gap sections of different heights.

Abstract: A central vacuum system includes a cylindrical canister with a slide-out filter drawer that can be used either in a filtered or cyclonic vacuum system. The drawer permits servicing the filter without having to otherwise open the canister. The dirtier upstream side of the filter element faces downward to help prevent dust from piling up on the filter element.

Abstract: In an inventive electric vacuum cleaner, a filter 20 through which air discharged from an air outlet port 19 is passed is provided on a rear face of a casing 18 of a cyclonic dust collecting apparatus 7, and held by a filter holder 18B. A rear face of the filter 20 is spaced from vertical ribs 32A of the filter holder 18B to define a guide passage 35 for guiding air discharged from a portion of the air outlet port 19 not opposed to an opening 33 through the filter 20 toward the opening 33. The guide passage 35 allows the air to pass through the portion of the air outlet port 19 not opposed to the opening 33.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner has a vacuum cleaner housing and an exchangeable filter with through opening arranged in the housing. A holding arm connected with its upper end to the vacuum cleaner housing penetrates the through opening. A fastening member is detachably connected to the lower end of the holding arm for securing the filter to the holding arm. The lower end of the holding arm has a radial recess, and the fastening member has engagement elements engaging the radial recess when the filter is secured on the holding arm. The engagement elements block removal of the fastening member from the lower end of the holding arm. The fasting member has an actuating ring moveable between a locked position, in which the engagement elements secure the fastening member against removal from the holding arm, and a release position, in which the fastening member is removable from the holding arm.

Abstract: A hose assembly for a suction cleaner, comprising a suction hose portion which is able to be extended lengthwise when subject to lengthwise tension and to return to a lengthwise-contracted configuration when relieved of the lengthwise tension, and a support means extending lengthwise of the hose portion and co-operable therewith to constrain at least part of it in its contracted configuration. There may also be a hose portion which is substantially non-extendible in normal use.

Abstract: A gate hanger—hinging kit/process, hinges a gate to a vertical support structure, such as a post, concrete column, I-Beam, etc.

Abstract: A connector apparatus which comprises two main connector parts, pivotally joined by a hinge mechanism, enabling a first part of the connector apparatus to be pivoted into an angled orientation position relative to the second connector part. Together with a hinge mechanism the connector apparatus can include an integral locking mechanism, such that the two main connector parts can be pivoted into a desired relative orientation and then locked into place. The user can easily unlock, pivot, and then lock the hinge mechanism in a desired relative orientation, allowing the device to be switched between straight, and angled orientations very quickly. In one embodiment, a connector apparatus is made to attach a pole handle, such as a swimming pool cleaning apparatus handle, on the first main connector part, and where the second main connector part attaches to a swimming pool skimmer net or brush.

Abstract: In one non-limiting embodiment of the invention a window is pivotally mounted to the body of an automobile by a quick release hinge part. A pair of injectors are pivotally mounted to the body of the automobile and a pair of receivers are mounted a major surface of the window. Each of the injectors has a pair of flexible fingers having outwardly extending tabs, and each of the receivers has a passageway having a tab-engaging portion. The tabs of an injector are inserted into the passageway of a receiver into engagement with the tab-engaging portion to detachably secure the receiver and the injector together to pivotally mount the window to the automobile body. Moving the tabs out of engagement with the tab-engaging portion, and separating the injector and the receiver separates the receiver and the injector and separates the window from the automotive body.

Abstract: A carding machine has a number of rollers including a cylinder and having at least one clothed and/or unclothed machine element located opposite the cylinder at a spacing therefrom. The machine may have further elements influencing the carding nip. In order to make possible a carding nip between the cylinder and the clothed and/or unclothed counterpart element that remains constant or virtually constant when heat is generated, the parts influencing the carding nip are so construed that they have thermal expansion characteristics which are such that, when subjected to the heat acting on them in use, the carding nip remains substantially constant.

Abstract: A buckle includes a buckle body, and a holder member for holding an article. The holder member is rotatably and detachably attached to the buckle body. Thus, the article can be attached to the buckle body if required.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a waterproof zipper comprises steps of: feeding a nylon zipper to a feeding device; passing the nylon zipper to a gluing device and coating PU gel on backsides of the fastener strips of the nylon zipper; adhering a PU film with PU gel on backsides of the fastener strips by using rollers to press the PU film so as to be formed as a waterproof layer; wherein the PU film is adhered on a release paper; heating the PU film and PU gel to be formed as a waterproof layer; cutting the waterproof layer along a center of the waterproof layer so as to form with two waterproof layers are located at the two fastener strips. Thus a waterproof zipper is formed. Finally, the waterproof zipper is guided out. A nylon waterproof zipper is made by using method.

Abstract: A slide fastener stringer easily manufactured by a series of manufacturing steps with molding fastener elements in a warp yarn exclusion area formed on one side edge of a fastener tape, wherein a fastener tape is produced by weaving with warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber yarn; plural pieces of water soluble fiber yarns are disposed inside over plural pieces of the warp yarns from the side edge of the tape; in a dying step in a process for manufacturing a fastener stringer, the water soluble fiber yarns are dissolved to form the warp yarn exclusion area; and by molding the fastener elements by using the warp yarn exclusion area, the fastener stringer is manufactured in an easy sequential manufacturing process without applying any special processing.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is an article of funerary ornamentation, characterized in that it includes a receptacle adapted to receive mementos, which is of a combustible material and is covered by a display layer with personalized themes. In particular, the receptacle is composed of a box in two parts that enclose each other and the ornamental article includes a supporting device suitable for keeping the box in an inclined plane in relation to horizontal.

Abstract: A light duty consumable prosthesis for use in replicating leg bones, arm bones and spinal column vertebra in a cadaver is constructed of largely consumable products to enable the prosthesis to be incinerated in the event that the host cadaver is cremated. The leg prosthesis is telescoping such that it is length adjustable to be sizable in cadavers of different leg lengths. The arm prosthesis is also of a telescoping design that includes a bendable hinge between an upper arm portion and a lower arm portion. The spinal column prosthesis is similar to the upper arm prosthesis and includes rods to assist in securing it in location.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a piezoelectric fiber sheet comprises providing a plurality of wafers of piezoelectric material, bonding the wafers together with an adhesive material to form a stack of alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material, and cutting through the stack in a direction substantially parallel to the thickness of the stack and across the alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material to provide at least one piezoelectric fiber sheet having two sides comprising a plurality of piezoelectric fibers in juxtaposition to the adhesive material.

Abstract: A self-piercing rivet fastening device has a punch that drives legs of the rivet into portions of workpieces that are forced into a die cavity, in order to join the workpieces. Particular surfaces of the die cavity are modified to increase the coefficient of friction in order to prevent tips of the legs of the rivet from breaking through a workpiece adjacent to the die and forming holes.

Abstract: A tool for removing universal joints from driveshafts of land vehicles and other devices. The tool includes a pair of retaining blocks with notches for supporting a universal joint in a hydraulic press. The notches are shaped to accommodate driveshafts of different configurations and tabs at the bottom of the notches stop the fall of a driveshaft in the event that such become detached from a universal joint.

Abstract: A holding device for a timing belt wheel module includes a link, a first holding member secured on a distal end of the link, and a second holding member movably mounted on the link. Each of the first holding member and the second holding member includes a fixed snap plate, a movable snap plate, and a locking bolt. Thus, the holding device is used to hold timing belt wheel modules of different sizes, types and specifications without having to prepare multiple sets of holders of different sizes, types and specifications, thereby facilitating maintenance of the timing belt wheel module.

Abstract: An apparatus for replacing a shock absorber for another for automobiles, which supports and compresses a coil spring in a strut type suspension, in correspondence to various dimensions of shock absorbers is provided. The shock absorber replacement apparatus includes: a movable cart having a flat support table, wheels and a handle; an air cylinder installed on the support table; a fixed frame installed on a cylinder head of the air cylinder; a strut fixing unit which fixes and supports a lower portion of the strut onto the fixed frame; a rotatable semi-circular clip arm installed in an end of a piston rod of the air cylinder; a clip which is hung on the upper portion of a coil spring toward an end of the clip arm; and an air opening and closing pedal which opens and closes an air pressure to be introduced to upper and lower cylinder chambers of the air cylinder and thus descends and ascends the piston rod.

Abstract: A system for removably mounting an accessory on a pottery wheel. The system includes a locating pin which is attached to the pottery wheel at a nominal location. The location of the locating pin may be adjusted. The system also includes a hole fabricated in an accessory at a location corresponding to the nominal location. The location of the locating pin is adjusted to align with the location of the hole and the hole is slid onto the locating pin, thereby mounting the accessory on the pottery wheel.

Abstract: The kinematic mounting system includes a first component, a second component, and at least one connector. The first component defines at least one cavity therein, while the second component defines at least one groove therein. The connector includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is configured to press-fit within the cavity defined by the first component. The second surface is coupled to the first surface and is configured to contact the groove of the second component along two substantially parallel contact lines, while the first and second components come to a tight contact in their interface. The first and second components may be an engine block and an engine bedplate.

Abstract: A lift tool and method useful for installing a repaired clutch assembly or flywheel in a vehicle bell housing. The tool includes (a) a mounting bracket which can be secured to existing threaded openings in the bell housing, (b) an elongated lift arm pivotably attached to the mounting bracket, (c) a rail supported by the elongated arm, (d) a hook carried by the rail and being moveable along the rail, (e) a hanger bracket which is connected to the hook and which is able to support the clutch assembly or flywheel, and (f) power source for selectively raising or lowering the elongated arm. With proper safety precautions, the lift tool can also be used in the removal of a clutch assembly or flywheel from a bell housing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for forming thin wall sheet into a mechanically locked shell by providing a Mandrel that is shaped the same as the required shell and a set of forming rollers that forms the said sheet around the said mandrel. And providing gathering and forming and center bares that are parallel to the horizontal axis of the said mandrel and are moved to form the two edges of the said sheet over the said center bar. And wherein the said gathering and forming and center bars are moved to open or up position. And providing Lockseaming rollers that are moved along the axis of the said mandrel such that the said Lockseaming rollers will progressively form the said two edges into the said mechanical lock commonly known to those who are skilled in the art as a Lockseam.

Abstract: A medical device (110) including a catheter shaft (111) and a unitarily and continuously formed portion (108) having a varying durometer, and optionally including an expandable balloon (18, 118). One or both of the unitarily and continuously formed portion (108) and the balloon (18, 118) are made from an irradiation cross-linked or cross-linkable mixture of a polyamide elastomer and at least one additional cross-linking reactant. The polyamide elastomer can be a polyester amide, a polyether ester amide or a polyether amide, and is preferably a nylon block copolymer. The aromatic molecule can be 1,3,5 triethyl benzene; 1,2,4 triethyl benzene; and 1,3,5 triisopropyl benzene. The cross-linking reactant can be: (a) a difunctional material, (b) a trifunctional material, (c) a tetrafunctional material, or (d) an aromatic molecule containing at least two ring substituents, each of the ring substituents having labile hydrogens at a benzylic site therein.

Abstract: A lens shape piezoelectric device which is thinner than the manufacture limit thickness, which is conventionally difficult to manufacture, and a method for manufacturing the same. The piezoelectric device has a oscillation part having at least two steps where one side thereof is planar and the opposite side is thickest at a peripheral holding portion and thinner toward the central portion. A piezoelectric element of another embodiment has an oscillation part of at least two steps where the peripheral holding portion is thickest on both sides and the thickness decreases toward the central portion. In these piezoelectric devices, at least one side of the thinnest central portion of the oscillation part has a convex lens shape. A pair of electrodes are vacuum deposited in the center of these oscillation parts on both sides, and a gold wire is led as a lead wire from each electrode.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide correlation between positional information relative to the workpiece and inspection information acquired relative to the workpiece. This correlation helps a user or technician quickly identify the physical location, on the workpiece, to which the inspection information pertains. Component inspection information can then be provided to an operator along with an indication of a position of the inspected component on the workpiece.

Abstract: When two mounting units for performing a series of component mounting operations constituted of component holding, component recognition, and component placing are arranged, operational control is executed so that, while a component recognition or board recognition operation is performed in either one of the two mounting units, the component placing or component holding operation is not performed in the other of the mounting units.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fixing and positioning in tubes and its use in tubular reactors.

Abstract: An intelligent connector assembly for use in an interface between a device and a cable, including: a block having a circuit thereon, the block being configured to be received onto a housing, with alignment features on the housing and the block such that the block is receivable in only one orientation into the housing, and a plurality of external interfaces on the block. A method of simultaneously fabricating a plurality of circuit blocks for aligned positioning onto the housing of individual connectors, by: simultaneously fabricating a plurality of blocks on a single sheet of material; cutting a repeating pattern of holes across the single sheet; and separating the single sheet into sections such that each individual block is disposed on an identically shaped section of the single sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus including vertically separated acoustic resonators are disclosed. The apparatus includes a first acoustic resonator on a substrate and a second acoustic resonator vertically separated above the first acoustic resonator. Because the resonators are vertically separated above another, total area required to implement the resonators is reduced thereby savings in die size and cost are realized. The vertically separated resonators are supported by standoffs that are fabricated on the substrate, or on a resonator.

Abstract: A method for attaching an IC socket connector to a circuit board has acts of fabricating IC socket connectors, installing the IC socket connectors in an IC socket, preparing the IC socket connectors for attachment to a circuit board and attaching the IC socket connector to the circuit board. The IC socket connectors are U-shaped, are punched from a metal sheet, have a closed bottom and are electroplated with a protective nickel coating. After installing the IC socket connectors in an IC socket, a recess is formed in the closed bottom of each IC socket connector in any shape. Solder balls are attached respectively to the recesses in the bottoms of the IC socket connectors. The IC socket connectors are attached to the circuit board by melting the solder ball.

Abstract: An insulating substrate with metal foils on both sides thereof is prepared, and a through hole that passes through the metal foils and insulating substrate is formed. An electroless copper plating layer is formed on an inner surface of the through hole and a surface of each of the metal foils, followed by the formation of an electrolytic copper plating layer on the overall surface of the electroless copper plating layer. After removing the electrolytic copper plating layer except the portions on the inner surface and a peripheral region of the through hole, the metal foils are processed to form conductor patterns.

Abstract: Techniques for fabricating an inkjet printhead include providing a printhead substrate, fabricating a thinfilm structure on the substrate, forming a break trench in a surface region of the substrate in which a feed slot is to be formed, and subsequently abrasively machining the substrate through the break trench to form the feed slot. The break trench can be formed by an etch process, prior to applying a barrier layer to the thinfilm structure in a preferred embodiment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing piston-type accumulators comprising an accumulator housing (10) and a separating piston which can be displaced in a longitudinal direction inside the accumulator housing (10) and separates two working spaces located therein. The end faces of the accumulator housing are sealed by means of one respective cover part (20). Previously known production methods are further improved due to the fact that the cover part (20) is fixed on one side (40) thereof via the free longitudinal edge (32) of the accumulator housing (10), which is displaced towards the cover part (20) in order to do so, such that a functionally and positionally secure connection of a cover part is ensured within the housing of a piston-type accumulator without using standard threaded connections.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a member having a toothed portion, comprises a first step of cutting a work piece into predetermined dimensions and then deburring the same, and a second step, in succession with the first step, of pressing an axially end face of a portion to be toothed with a predetermined load, and simultaneously drawing the work piece so as to form the toothed portion,

Abstract: Applicable to hollow pieces (1) of thin precious metal made by electro-forming after melting an interior base model interior and draining it via a breather hole (4), that has previously been galvanised with a coating of the metal. It consists of filling the hollow piece (1) via the breather hole (4) on an opening (2) with one or more resins (3) of different types until it solidifies, then cutting away the breather hole (4) and selectively filing sectors of the surface of the piece (1) and finishing the opening (2) to remove part of the precious metal to reveal the resin (3) inside. The piece thus made has resin (3) inside and on its surface it has sectors with resin (3) together with a thin layer of precious metal.

Abstract: A method for forging/molding a coarse blank of an aluminum transmission shaft, including steps of: placing burn-in softened aluminum material into a preheated mold; using a first punch head to first forge the aluminum material in the mold cavity from outer side of the molding hole so as to form a blank body of the transmission shaft with two pivot heads at two ends and a shorter middle shaft rod; moving out the first punch head and connecting an extension mold with the mold; and immediately using a second punch head to secondarily forge the blank body in the mold cavity from outer side of the extension hole so as to make an end section of the second punch head extend into the mold cavity to a position near the inner end of the mold cavity, whereby the middle shaft rod of the blank body outward axially extends to the extension mold into a predetermined length to form the transmission shaft.

Abstract: A reinforced structural component is manufactured by forming an intermediate structural member which defines a channel extending along at least a portion of its length. A support member is disposed in the channel and affixed to the intermediate structural member. A second forming operation is carried out on the combination of the intermediate structural member and support member so as to partially enclose and fixedly retain the support member therein. The method may be applied to metallic and nonmetallic structures, and may be utilized in conjunction with high speed metal forming processes such as roll forming. Disclosed herein are structures made according to the method as well as use of the method in the manufacture of structural components for motor vehicles.