Abstract: This invention provides water-based compositions, particularly coating, ink, adhesive, fountain solution and agricultural compositions, manifesting reduced equilibrium and dynamic surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tension reducing amount of a mixture of a non-fluorinated anionic compound and a non-fluorinated weak base cationic compound, the mixture demonstrating a dynamic surface tension (DST) which is less than the DST of the individual anionic and cationic compounds and less than 45 dynes/cm, at a concentration of ?5 wt % in water at 23° C. and 20 bubbles/second or less than 40 dynes/cm at a concentration of ?0.03M in water at 23° C. and 0.1 bubbles/second according to the maximum-bubble pressure method. Foaming of the water-based compositions can also be reduced or eliminated.

Abstract: A coating material is described herein that includes at least one inorganic compound, and at least one densifying agent, wherein the densifying agent increases the density of the coating material as compared to the density of the at least one inorganic compound. A method of producing a coating material is described herein that includes: providing at least one inorganic compound, providing at least one densifying agent, combining the at least one inorganic compound with the at least one densifying agent to form the coating material, wherein the densifying agent increases the density of the coating material as compared to the density of the at least one inorganic compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating material, paint or finish which contains as anti-skinning agents a combination of at least two organic and/or inorganic oxygen scavengers and also relates to compositions containing the combination, especially oxidatively drying paints or coating compositions and articles coated with such oxidatively drying paints or coating compositions.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a luminescent tile for use in an aqueous environment includes admixing a luminescent pigment capable of being illuminated by an external light source, a forming material, and a catalyst to create a luminescent mixture. Casting the luminescent mixture into a mold and allowing said mixture to substantially harden thereby creating a luminescent tile. The forming material permits luminescence from the luminescent pigment upon excitation by an external light source, such as, a blacklight, while allowing the luminescent pigment to be safely used in an aqueous environment, such as a pool, spa, or the like.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cement, which comprises in its main phase of microcrystalline magnesium ammonium phosphate and nanoapatite after hardening and thus at the same time has considerable strength. The material is biologically degradable and is suitable for application in tooth cements, as bone replacement, as bone filler, as bone cement or as bone adhesive.

Abstract: Polymerization of siloxane is improved using a gypsum-based slurry that includes stucco, Class C fly ash, magnesium oxide and an emulsion of siloxane and water. This slurry is used in a method of making water-resistant gypsum articles that includes making an emulsion of siloxane and water, then combining the slurry with a dry mixture of stucco, magnesium oxide and Class C fly ash. The slurry is then shaped as desired and the stucco is allowed to set and the siloxane polymerizes. The resulting product is useful for making a water-resistant gypsum panel having a core that includes interwoven matrices of calcium sulfate dihydrate crystals and a silicone resin, where the interwoven matrices have dispersed throughout them a catalyst comprising magnesium oxide and components from a Class C fly ash.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment/auxiliary combination having an improved chroma and/or relative colour strength, to its production and to its use.

Abstract: A cement composition for which the mechanical properties of the set cement can be controlled independently of the slurry density, both at high density (>16 ppg) and at low density (<12 ppg) comprises a trimodal blend of particulate materials present as fine, medium and coarse particule size fractions, the particulate materials including cement, flexible particles, and a filler, characterized in that the cement comprises the fine particle size fraction, and the flexible particles and filler comprise the medium and large particle size fractions.

Abstract: A controlled release formulation for a cement-based composition can be produced by intercalating an admixture (e.g. an accelerator, a set retarder, a superplasticizer) for the cement-based composition into a layered inorganic material (e.g. a layered double hydroxide (LDH)). A cement-based composition containing a cement-based material (e.g. cement, mortar or concrete) and such a controlled release formulation has better workability, especially in respect of slump-loss characteristics. With such a formulation release of an admixture in a cement-based composition may be controlled.

Abstract: Methods, cement compositions and oil suspensions of powders selected from the group consisting of micro-silica, silica flour, fine silica flour, silica sand, fine particle size cement, ultra-fine particle size cement, fly ash, slag, vitrified shale and zeolite.

Abstract: A laptop port includes a well through an aperture in a work surface with various power or data connections in the well and a door with opposing front and back edges. The door hinging between a closed position in which the door is coplanar with the work surface and conceals the well and the connections, and an open position in which the door is in an over-center location and the well and connections are revealed. The pivot is spaced from the back edge and remains closer to the back edge than to the front edge, defining a door tail between the back edge and the pivot. The door is self supporting in the over-center open location, not requiring further mechanisms to hold the door in the open position.

Abstract: A predominately thermoplastic pallet, for use with a fork lift device, is provided and includes a rectangular base including rails having metal reinforcing beams, eight spaced apart outer columns extending upwardly from the outer rails and one center column extending upwardly from the center of the base. The pallet also includes a top including a rectangular thermoplastic frame and a corrugated sheet metal deck, wherein the frame is attached, to the tops of the outer columns and wherein the deck is inset from the outer edge of the frame and wherein the pallet has dimensions and properties which include outside dimensions of about 40 inches by about 48 inches, two forklift device openings on each side of the pallet, each of which are at least 3.1 inches high and 12 inches wide and a pallet height or 5.56 inches or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a steel pallet having a paper top plate which can be conveniently exchanged, easily carried with its light weight, and can be mass-produced, thereby lowering the manufacturing cost, by forming the top plate so as to have a three layer structure of an upper corrugated board, a honeycomb panel, and a lower corrugated board. The steel pallet comprises: a paper top plate in which a plurality of corrugated boards are stacked; an upper steel support plate supporting an lower portion of the paper top plate, in which a plurality of first transverse members and a plurality of first longitudinal members are formed in rows and columns; a plurality of rectangular steel column members bonded to the bottom surface of the upper steel support plate; and a lower steel support plate bonded to bottom surfaces of the column members, in which a plurality of second transverse members and a plurality of second longitudinal members are formed in rows and columns.

Abstract: A removable panel sized to overlie and connect at least two modules each having a top. The removable panel can include a work surface comprising the top surface of the panel and a mating surface on the bottom surface of the panel. The mating surface can include at least a first portion arranged to cooperate with the top of a first module and a second portion arranged to cooperate with the top of a second module. The removable panel and modules can form a storage and work system. The modules can be mobile or can be stationary. A number of mating surface arrangements are disclosed that cooperate with a number of module top surfaces.

Abstract: An inclined hearth combustor which generally includes a primary combustion chamber having a plurality of stepped hearths, a secondary combustion chamber in communication with the primary combustion chamber and a boiler having an inlet in communication with the secondary combustion chamber. The secondary combustion chamber includes a refractory-lined cyclone separator for removing fly ash from combustion gases exiting the primary combustion chamber and the boiler inlet is surrounded by the cyclone separator. The primary combustion chamber may further include an ash transfer ram movably disposed between two stepped hearths, wherein the ash transfer ram includes a top layer of refractory material extending rearwardly from a leading edge thereof. The ash transfer ram may further include a plurality of V-shaped wheels attached to a bottom surface thereof, a replaceable wear plate disposed on a side surface thereof and/or a wiper blade fixed on a forward face thereof.

Abstract: An inclined hearth combustor which generally includes a primary combustion chamber having a plurality of stepped hearths, a secondary combustion chamber in communication with the primary combustion chamber and a boiler having an inlet in communication with the secondary combustion chamber. The secondary combustion chamber includes a refractory-lined cyclone separator for removing fly ash from combustion gases exiting the primary combustion chamber and the boiler inlet is surrounded by the cyclone separator. The primary combustion chamber may further include an ash transfer ram movably disposed between two stepped hearths, wherein the ash transfer ram includes a top layer of refractory material extending rearwardly from a leading edge thereof. The ash transfer ram may further include a plurality of V-shaped wheels attached to a bottom surface thereof, a replaceable wear plate disposed on a side surface thereof and/or a wiper blade fixed on a forward face thereof.

Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor, comprising a furnace, a heat exchange chamber, a substantially vertical discharge channel connected to the lower part of the heat exchange chamber for removing particulate material from the heat exchange chamber to the furnace, and a substantially vertical auxiliary channel for transferring particulate material from the heat exchange chamber to the furnace and from the furnace to the heat exchange chamber, the lower part of said auxiliary channel being provided with nozzles for fluidizing gas and with a flow conduit for connecting said auxiliary channel to the furnace and a flow conduit in the upper part for connecting said auxiliary channel to said heat exchange chamber. The furnace, heat exchange chamber, discharge channel and auxiliary channel preferably form an integrated structure having the discharge channel and the auxiliary channel adjacently arranged between the furnace and the heat exchange chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus and manufacturing method in which from one to three hydraulic pumps are provided and installed near a front end of the implement, so that a first pump can be easily coupled to the power take-off shaft of the tractor by an operator. In an exemplary embodiment of a system for a planter apparatus, one pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating the vacuum fan subsystem, and optionally a fertilizing subsystem. A second pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating the seed drive subsystem. A third pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating a bulk fill subsystem. A manufacturing method that provides multiple configurations is also disclosed.

Abstract: A down pressure adjustment mechanism for a planter provides a self-contained spring cartridge holding a preloaded compression spring that may be moved between a limited number of mounting points to provide for convenient and significant changes in down pressure without the need for specialized tools or the like.

Abstract: Apparatus and method to improve flow of liquid anhydrous ammonia from a portable liquid NH3 tank in cold temperatures includes an air compressor coupled to the vapor port of a portable liquid NH3 tank used to supply liquid anhydrous ammonia to an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer applicator. The air compressor injects compressed air into the tank to maintain head pressure within the tank at between 80 and 150 psi. to facilitate flow of liquid NH3 from the tank to the applicator when atmospheric temperatures are low as well as when the level of liquid NH3 present in the tank declines.

Abstract: A seed planting unit provides a manifold connecting a vacuum to multiple metering disks. The manifold includes valves to sequentially connect the manifold branches to the seed unit so as to moderate the peak air flow necessary to be handled by the vacuum source reducing horsepower drain and cost of the vacuum source itself.

Abstract: A high-breathability lace-type elastic webbing consisting of a plurality of elastic webbing sections and connecting threads sewn between the elastic webbing sections. The elastic webbing sections can be of equal width or of mutually different widths. Stitch sections of the non-elastic connecting threads sewn between each pair of the elastic webbing sections are completely exposed on the surface of the elastic webbing sections, thereby adding an aesthetic appeal to the outward appearance of the elastic webbing similar to serrated edging of lace.

Abstract: An embroidering and dyeing system which is flexible for operation, enables producing high quality embroidering patterns and dyeing patterns on a cloth, and enables visualizing an ongoing process for producing the pattern. The embroidering and dyeing system includes a control device, an embroidering machine controlled by the control device, and a dyeing device separated from the control device and the embroidering machine and controlled by the control device embroiders on a work piece by the embroidering machine before or after dyeing on the work by the dyeing machine. A relative position between an embroidery pattern and a dyeing pattern is corrected. In case a thread with a color necessary for embroidering runs out, the embroidery pattern is produced by dyeing a white or transparent thread by the dyeing device.

Abstract: A seam for use in joining material. The seam having a joint sew line connecting a first and second material. The seam having a cord arranged adjacent to the joint sew line. A stitch line is located adjacent to the cord, wherein the cord forms a predetermined shaped hump on an outer surface of the material.

Abstract: A cruise ship or pleasure boat is disclosed that has an open or semi-open main public space situated around the axial longitudinal plane of the ship and at the base of port and starboard longitudinal superstructures. The port and starboard longitudinal superstructures that border the public space are inclined away form the axial longitudinal plane of the ship so that the ratio of the width of the combination comprising the longitudinal superstructures and the public space to the width of the ship at the waterline is from 1.3 to 3.

Abstract: A sailcloth in roll good form permits efficient and cost effective construction of cross cut and vertical cut, laminate sails based on “off-angle,” (asymmetrical) load bearing fibers. The sailcloth also may include a conventional warp and fill thread or fiber layout. Such sailcloth illustratively is significantly less susceptible to load force stretch, creep elongation, and airfoil shape deformation because, among other things, it is not dependent on the load bearing limitations of symmetrical, woven or knitted roll good sailcloth.

Abstract: A shallow water mooring system applies to offshore industry for oil and gas exploration, and production. This mooring system employs non-steel synthetic lines to provide the desired flexibility for shallow water mooring system applications. Piled submerged towers at seabed serve as elevated anchors to keep the whole synthetic mooring lines off the seabed under environmental loading conditions. Other buoyant means such as a buoy is also utilized to further help the synthetic mooring lines off the seabed during their service life.

Abstract: An unmanned submersible vehicle which has the capability to be remotely operated is powered by on on-board battery. The battery is recharged while the vehicle is operating by a turbine driven by the flow of water past the vehicle. The vehicle may also be coupled to a base station by a cable for control purposes. The cable is spooled on a cable spool mounted in or on the vehicle, so the vehicle unspools the control cable as the vehicle moves away from the base station.

Abstract: A submersible vehicle object ejection control system stores a plurality of pump speed command profiles. Each pump speed command profile is based on vehicle depth, vehicle speed, type of object being ejected, maximum noise emission magnitude during object ejection, and object exit velocity. The system also receives data representative of current vehicle depth, current vehicle speed, and the type of object being ejected. In response to these data, the system retrieves one of the plurality of pump speed command profiles and supplies pump speed commands representative of the retrieved pump speed command profile.

Abstract: An underwater buoyancy apparatus for compensating for wave induced vertical and/or horizontal motion, particularly in sonar devices deployed from nautical platform. The underwater buoyancy apparatus is slidably connected along a tether between a nautical platform and an underwater sonar device. The underwater buoyancy apparatus contains a volume of air and/or water which can be changed to thereby alter the underwater buoyancy apparatus's depth in a body of water, in response to vertical and/or horizontal motion the nautical platform.

Abstract: The invention relates to boundaries used on a watercraft. Specially, the invention relates to boundaries used on pontoon boats. The boundaries generally include a rail and panel system positioned around an outer periphery of the pontoon boat. The invention also relates to a method of forming and installing the boundaries on a watercraft.

Abstract: A warning device, comprising a top portion, and a plurality of sides extending from the top portion that are joined to one another to collectively form an interior void. A fan is positioned within the device for diverting air through the interior void, and at least one collar located within the interior void for engaging the top portion of a like device, wherein substantially all of the interior void is filled by the like device, forming a nested arrangement.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for fabricating a composite substrate including a supporting substrate and a layer of a binary or ternary material having a crystal form that is non-cubic and semi-polar or non-polar. The methods comprise transferring the layer of a binary or ternary material from a donor substrate to a receiving substrate.

Abstract: In a method of forming a layer having a lower electrical resistance and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first layer may be formed on a single crystalline substrate using amorphous silicon doped with impurities. A heat treatment may be performed on the single crystalline substrate at a temperature of about 550° C. to about 600° C. to convert the first layer into a second layer including a single crystalline silicon film transformed from a lower portion of the first layer contacting the single crystalline substrate and a polysilicon film transformed from an upper portion of the first layer. The layer may be formed at a relatively low temperature by a selective epitaxial growth process, and thus degradation or damage to a semiconductor device, which may be generated in a high temperature process, may be reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a technique for producing a high quality Si single crystal ingot with a high productivity by the Czochralski method. The technique of the invention can control the magnetic field strength of an oxygen dissolution region different from that of a solid-liquid interface region in order to control the oxygen concentration at a desired value.

Abstract: A silicon single crystal ingot growing apparatus for growing a silicon single crystal ingot based on a Czochralski method The silicon single crystal ingot growing apparatus includes a chamber; a crucible provided in the chamber, and for containing a silicon melt; a heater provided at the outside of the crucible and for heating the silicon melt; a pulling unit for ascending a silicon single crystal grown from the silicon melt; and a plurality of magnetic members provided at the outside of the chamber and for asymmetrically applying a magnetic field to the silicon melt Such a structure can uniformly controls an oxygen concentration at a rear portion of a silicon single crystal ingot using asymmetric upper/lower magnetic fields without replacing a hot zone In addition, such a structure can controls a flower phenomenon generated on the growth of the single crystal by the asymmetric magnetic fields without a loss such as the additional hot zone (H/Z) replacement, P/S down, and SR variance.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a boride single crystal is provided, wherein an initial melt region formed from an ingredient powder including an excessive content of boron than a stoichiometric composition of a boride is provided at one end in the longitudinal direction of a feed rod formed from a ingredient powder containing boron and a metallic element that constitute the boride, the initial melt region is heated to melt so as to form a molten zone, and the molten zone is moved toward the other end of the feed rod along the longitudinal direction, so as to grow the boride single crystal in a portion of the feed rod that the molten zone has passed. A substrate formed by the manufacturing method and particularly suitable for epitaxial growing a semiconductor layer such as a GaN-based semiconductor layer thereon is also provided.

Abstract: Methods for producing silicon carbide crystals, seed crystal holders and seed crystal for use in producing silicon carbide crystals and silicon carbide crystals are provided. Silicon carbide crystals are produced by forcing nucleation sites of a silicon carbide seed crystal to a predefined pattern and growing silicon carbide utilizing physical vapor transport (PVT) so as to provide selective preferential growth of silicon carbide corresponding to the predefined pattern. Seed holders and seed crystals are provided for such methods. Silicon carbide crystals having regions of higher and lower defect density are also provided.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for the removal and purification of the water and salt by-products from spent BHP emitted from a lasing process. The apparatus comprises a liquid processing system that freezes the water and salt by-products into a slurry, and then separates out the water (as ice) and salt components by filtering in a centrifuge. In order to remove as much residual BHP from the wet mixed ice-salt component as possible, a heat source is used to partially melt ice crystals, thereby generating an aqueous rinsing liquid on the surface of the wet mixed ice-salt crystals. The applied centrifugal force causes a continual displacement of the liquid film wetting the surface, so that it becomes progressively diluted. As such, the purification of the mixture of ice and salt crystals is implemented with an aqueous (water) rinse that is unaffected by the sub-freezing temperatures within the centrifuge.

Abstract: A process for preparing p-n or n-p junctions having a p-type oxide film is disclosed. In one embodiment, a p-type zinc oxide film has a net acceptor concentration of at least about 1015 acceptors/cm3.

Abstract: Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include particular baffle members or duct structures having an inlet proximal to an outer periphery of a workpiece and/or workpiece support.

Abstract: Processing fluid is vertically incident to a surface S1 of a rotation substrate W through a delivery path provided on a pressure vessel. The curtain of processing fluid has a width longer than a diameter of the substrate. Therefore, a cleaning process is execute onto the whole surface of the substrate by the processing fluid.

Abstract: A stand for supporting vehicle parts for painting is provided. The stand includes a base and a vertical member attached to the base. A support member is included and is attached to the vertical member. A plurality of fixtures are provided and are attached to the support member and are configured for holding a plurality of vehicle parts in relation to one another so that the vehicle parts are oriented as if in an assembled state.

Abstract: Delivery of gas by a pulsed gas delivery device is monitored using a sensor. The sensor may include a source that generates radiation at a spectral range that includes an absorption frequency of the gas being delivered. The radiation is transmitted through a receptacle into which the delivered gas has been received. A detector detects the intensity of the radiation that reaches the detector from the source after transmission through the gas in the receptacle. A controller measures a precise quantity of the gas that was delivered by the gas delivery device, by determining from the detected intensity the amount of the radiation that was absorbed by the gas in the receptacle. The controller monitors in real time the delivery of the gas, by adaptively adjusting the quantity of gas being delivered to a desired quantity. The sensor and controller can also monitor for failures or for out-of-specification behavior of the gas delivery device.

Abstract: Blocker plates for chemical vapor deposition chambers and methods of treating blocker plates are provided. The blocker plates define a plurality of holes therethrough and have an upper surface and a lower surface that are at least about 99.5% pure, which minimizes the nucleation of contaminating particles on the blocker plates. A physically vapor deposited coating, such as an aluminum physically vapor deposited coating, may be formed on the upper and lower surfaces of the blocker plates. Chemical vapor deposition chambers including blocker plates having a physically vapor deposited coating thereon are also provided.

Abstract: A source gas-supplying unit may include a chamber for receiving a liquid source. A first pipe may extend into the chamber to dip into the liquid source. The first pipe may provide a carrier gas to bubble through the liquid source to generate a vapor source. A second pipe may be connected to the chamber. The vapor source and the carrier gas may be supplied by the second pipe to a process chamber in which a semiconductor-manufacturing process may be carried out. A blocking structure may be provided in the sealed chamber. The blocking structure may block the liquid source that may be splashed toward the second pipe due to the bubbling.

Abstract: A shower head formed by stacking a shower base, a gas diffusion plate, and a shower plate and supplying material gas and oxidizer gas to a wafer on a loading table through a first gas diffusion part and a second gas diffusion part formed in both faces of the gas diffusion plate, first gas outlets formed in the shower plate and communicating with a first gas diffusion space, and second gas outlets formed in the shower plate and communicating with a second gas diffusion space. A plurality of heat transfer columns fitted closely to the lower surface of the shower base are installed in the first gas diffusion part so that portions therebetween can form the first gas diffusion space, and radiant heat from the loading table is transmitted by the heat transfer columns in the thickness direction of the shower head.

Abstract: A vapor deposition device for the vapor deposition of a substrate, and specifically particular of a substrate comprising heat-sensitive substances, for example OLEDs. To keep heat away from these substances, the vapor deposition device includes an evaporator tube with a special nozzle bar. This nozzle bar, which comprises several linearly arranged openings, projects with respect to the evaporator tube in the direction toward the substrate to be coated.

Abstract: An evaporator device for coating substrates, in particular for applying an aluminum layer of OLEDs. To attain high evaporator tube temperatures, such as are required for example for the vaporization of materials with low vapor pressure, the heating system is placed into the interior of the evaporator tube. The thermal losses are thereby minimized and higher tube temperatures are possible at comparably coupled-in heating power.

Abstract: A vacuum deposition system comprises a vacuum vessel, an evaporation source holder located in the vacuum vessel for holding an evaporation source and a holding jig provided in the vacuum vessel for holding a substrate facing the evaporation source. An adhesion-prevention member is located at outer peripheries of the evaporation source and the holding jig along an inner wall of the vacuum vessel. The adhesion-prevention member is spaced from the inner wall of the vacuum vessel. The adhesion-prevention member includes members slanted diagonally downward from the central part toward the inner wall. Thereby, the adhesion-prevention member prevents an evaporant from the evaporation source from adhering to the inner wall of the vacuum vessel. A heater on the adhesion-prevention member heats the adhesion-prevention member to exfoliate particles that are deposited to the adhesion-prevention member.