Patents Issued in March 22, 2007
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Publication number: 20070062587Abstract: A seal assembly for a fluid pressure control device includes a guide element having a scaling surface and a first guide surface. A throttling element assembly includes a throttling element positionable within a fluid flow path, the assembly defines a mating surface adapted to seal with the sealing surface, and a second guide surface sized to slidingly engage the first guide surface. A relief void is formed in at least one of the guide element and the throttling element assembly adjacent the first and second guide surfaces to receive loose solid material, to thereby prevent disruption of the seal formed between the sealing surface and the mating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Michael McCarty, Donald Bush, Daniel Adams, Frederick Catron, Michael Frohwein
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Publication number: 20070062588Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic valve (1), which comprises an electromagnet (2) with a magnet armature (3) as well as the valve part (4) with at least two valve seats (5, 6). The electromagnet (2) is formed by a hollow-cylindrical plastic coil former (8), a coil winding (10) which is accommodated in the latter and a magnet housing (11) which encloses the coil winding (10), the hollow cylinder of the coil former (8) being formed as an armature space (14) of the magnet armature (3), into which an upper magnet pole (15) and a lower magnet pole (16) protrude. The valve part (4) is formed by a hollow-cylindrical valve housing (18), which has a pressure connection (P) at the end as well as a consumer connection (A) and a tank connection (T), respectively arranged in its lateral surface (19), in the hollow cylinder of which housing two cup-shaped deep-drawn parts (23, 24) with the valve seats (5, 6) are pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Eduard Golovatai-Schmidt, Michael Kraemer
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Publication number: 20070062589Abstract: A method of forming a ball valve element for a rotary ball valve assembly, the method comprising the steps of: (a) inserting an impedance element through an insertion opening of a ball valve element into a bore; (b) forming a fluid opening in the ball valve element which is non-rectilinearly aligned with the insertion opening and which communicates with the bore; and (c) sealing the insertion opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: MOGAS INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Cynthia Christenson, James Mohrfeld, Kevin Jackson
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Publication number: 20070062590Abstract: A valve for a hose line, the valve having an inlet having a threaded female swivel fitting, a first outlet having an external thread, and a second outlet having an external thread. The inlet and the first outlet are at a 90 degree angle to each other and the inlet and the second outlet are 180 degrees to each other. A three-port ball valve having an inlet port, a first outlet port, and a second outlet port controls the directional flow within the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Daniel Nelson, John Paper
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Publication number: 20070062591Abstract: A solenoid actuator includes a generally cylindrical armature captured to a generally annular coil tube by means of interference geometry. A major portion of the coil tube has a first inside diameter and a second portion of the coil tube has a second, smaller inside diameter. A first portion of the armature has an outside diameter corresponding to the inside diameter of the first portion of the coil tube, and a second portion of the armature has an outside diameter corresponding to the inside diameter of the second portion of the coil tube. The armature is inserted within the coil tube such that the second portion of the armature is free to slide through the second end of the coil tube. A coil tube end closure, for example, a plug, is joined to the first portion of the coil tube. An O-ring provides a seal between the end closure and the tube. A wound electromagnetic coil surrounds the coil tube and can be selectively energized to displace the armature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: John Armour
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Publication number: 20070062592Abstract: A manifold (1) comprises a body (2) with a plurality of branch fittings (3) diverging therefrom. The inner surface of the body (2) is conical such that the inner cross-sectional area of the body (2) decreases in the direction of flow. The manifold (1) is particularly well suited for use in tap water systems. The manifold (1) can be manufactured e.g. from polyphenyl sulfone PPSU, polysulphone PSU, polyvinylidene fluoride PVDF, glass fibre reinforced polyamide PA, or cross-linked polyolefin plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Thomas Larsson, Jarmo Smahl, Peter Hauki
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Publication number: 20070062593Abstract: The specific application initially contemplated for the V-RAD invention is that of feed rate control of liquid chemical solutions for the purpose of municipal and industrial water treatment. In this application, a vacuum solution feed system is commonly operated by water forced through a Venturi nozzle to create a vacuum that is used to draw the liquid chemical solution into the water. In the prior art, feed rate control has been achieved by employing a variable area orifice control valve. However, in the application of liquid chemical solution injection for industrial and municipal water treatment, the variable area orifice concept has proven to be severely limited in its ability to provide stable and accurate feed rate control. The V-RAD invention provides a new and unique method of feed rate control designed to replace the variable area orifice concept and to provide a stable and accurate method of feed rate control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Andrew Morgan, Alan Morgan
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Publication number: 20070062594Abstract: A microfluidic device having durable anisotropic wetting fluid contact surfaces in the fluid flow channels of the device. The anisotropic wetting surface generally includes a substrate portion with a multiplicity of projecting regularly shaped microscale or nanoscale asperities disposed in a regular array on the surface. Each asperity has a first asperity rise angle and a second asperity rise angle relative to the substrate. The asperities are structured to meet a desired retentive force ratio (f1/f2) caused by asymmetry between the first asperity rise angle and the second asperity rise angle according to the formula: f1/f2=(?1+1/2??0)/sin(?2+1/2??0), ??0=(?a,0??r,0).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Charles Extrand
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Publication number: 20070062595Abstract: Plastic pipes, such as high density polyethylene plastic pipes, useful for distributing natural gas and which have improved impact resistance and burst strength. The plastic pipe has an inner and an outer surface, with the inner surface defining a channel for conveying natural gas and the like. A fabric overlies the outer surface, preferably in a helical wrap. The fabric is formed of high tenacity polyolefin fibers, preferably polyethylene and/or polypropylene fibers. The fabric provides the pipe with improved burst strength and impact resistance. The pipe can be used to transport natural gas under low pressure or higher pressures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Ashok Bhatnagar, Lori Wagner, Brian Arvidson, Timothy Swinger
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Publication number: 20070062596Abstract: The shaft rod (2) according to the invention has, at one of its narrow sides, at least one recess (21) which is later provided in the shaft rod and in which a reinforcing element (24) is glued. The material externally of the shaft rod forms securing zones (32, 33) which serve for the attachment of additional elements. The recesses are preferably applied in such a manner that hollow spaces free from Eloxal coating are exposed which may be utilized as recesses into which reinforcing elements are glued.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Groz-Beckert KGInventor: Franz Mettler
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Publication number: 20070062597Abstract: A bed blanket (10) is formed from yarns (22, 24) having filaments (26) comprised of a material having a specific gravity of not more than about 1, such as polypropylene. The yarns are bulked, core-and-effect air textured yarns. The woven blankets exhibit high heat retention and have a low density and an excellent hand. These blankets are suitable for hospital and hospitality industry use.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Richard Stewart, Patrick Vesay
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Publication number: 20070062598Abstract: A papermaker's fabric includes: a set of top machine direction yarns; a set of top cross machine direction yarns interwoven with the top machine direction yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom machine direction yarns; a set of bottom cross machine direction yarns interwoven with the bottom machine direction yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a plurality of stitching yarns interwoven with the top and bottom fabric layers. The yarns are interwoven as a series of repeat units. In each of the repeat units, each top cross machine direction yarn forms multiple paper side floats, and at least a first of the paper side floats passes over a first number of top machine direction yarns, and at least a second of the paper side floats passes over a second number of top machine direction yarns that differs from the first number by one.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Christine Barratte
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Publication number: 20070062599Abstract: Device for filling an aerosol container with a liquid using in particular a filling arrangement equipped with a pusher element (12), includes a cup designed to accommodate the liquid for filling the aerosol container, this cup being provided on its bottom with an injection opening adapted to the valve of the aerosol container, a piston head (7) acting by pushing on the filling liquid contained in the cup for transferring it from the cup to the container. The piston head (7) comes in the form of a scraper in continuous contact with the inside wall of the cup during the transfer operation. The piston head (7) is shaped to work with the cup after transfer to keep the piston head (7) within the cup to form an airtight wall that retains the residual liquid that has not been transferred within the cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Antoine Chassaing
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Publication number: 20070062600Abstract: A stand for dispensing purified water into a supply bottle has both a dispensing nozzle on the stand with a customer actuated switch supply of the water through the spout and a sanitizing system in the stand for pre-sanitizing the bottle prior to filling at the point. The sanitizing system includes a nozzle for injecting liquid into the bottle projecting through a drain opening with at least one customer actuated switch for supply of liquid to said at least one nozzle. The nozzle is located underneath the base surface of the filling station such that the bottle is inverted and its neck inserted through a hole into the base onto a switch at the drain to ensure the bottle is in place before the injection nozzle is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Michael Hofer
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Publication number: 20070062601Abstract: An apparatus, system, and means are disclosed for a modular backpressure sensor configured for use with a fluid delivery nozzle. The modular backpressure sensor may be installed and removed using simple tools and may optionally include an activator handle attachment. The system may optionally include a protective end plug for the fluid delivery nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Jay Ballard
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Publication number: 20070062602Abstract: A water cooler caddy device for use in conjunction with a water cooler or other beverage dispenser. The water cooler caddy has an arcuate inner surface as an interface with the water bottle and is sized such that it may be placed over the water bottle and slid down so that it either rests on an upper surface of the water cooler, or is supported by the side of the water bottle. The water cooler caddy may have a gap in the circumference so that the radius of the inner surface may be temporarily increased to facilitate installation. Partitions are used to form compartments to contain service items.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Keith Alsberg, Mikael Backstrom, Matthew Cowen
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Publication number: 20070062603Abstract: A fuel receiver assembly, that permits replacement of a worn fuel receiver without draining the fuel tank, includes a check valve receptacle having a male-pipe-threaded nipple which engages the female-threaded pipe coupling of the fuel tank. The check valve receptacle has a spring-biased, normally closed check valve that prevents fuel from escaping from the fuel tank. Fuel pressure from the refueling pump opens the normally-closed check valve. The check valve receptacle is designed to be a relatively permanent installation in the fuel tank, having ultra-low-wear components. The check valve receptacle also has a female-threaded socket that is coaxial with the male-pipe-threaded nipple. A specially-designed male-threaded fuel receiver engages the female-threaded socket. Sealing between the check valve receptacle and the replaceable fuel receiver is accomplished by an O-ring seal installed on the fuel receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Dean Mackey, Kenneth Jensen
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Publication number: 20070062604Abstract: The invention relates to a device for filling an aerosol container with a liquid using in particular a filling arrangement equipped with a pusher element (12), this filling device comprising a cup that is designed to accommodate the liquid for filling the aerosol container, this cup being provided on its bottom with an injection opening that can be adapted to the valve of the aerosol container, a piston head (7) acting by pushing on the filling liquid contained in the cup for transferring it from the cup to the container. This device is characterized in that the piston head (7) has the form of a scraper in continuous contact with the inside wall of the cup during the transfer operation, this piston head (7) being shaped to work with the cup after transfer to keep the piston head (7) within the cup to form an airtight wall that retains the residual liquid that has not been transferred within the cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: FILLON INVESTISSEMENTInventor: Antoine Chassaing
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Publication number: 20070062605Abstract: A propane bottle recycler comprising a bottle station, first and second propane collection tank, compressor, liquid propane storage tank, bottle crusher, and crushed bottle storage compartment. The bottle station comprises a bottle manifold and bottle station frame, and the bottle manifold is pivotally connected to the bottle station frame. Propane bottles are placed in receiving cavities in the bottle manifold and held in place with cam levers, and the bottle manifold is raised to a vertical position. The propane drains out of the propane bottles, through propane hoses into a propane manifold, into the first and second collection tanks, and to a compressor, which repressurizes the propane. The propane is then stored in a liquid propane storage tank. The used propane bottles are crushed by the bottle crusher and stored in the crushed bottle storage compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Wayne Wilson, Bradley Fimrite, James Schmid
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Publication number: 20070062606Abstract: The present invention is directed to a manual bulk liquid pump control and distribution system that utilizes a single-handle manual operation for direction of flow and speed, along with providing a neutral position for standby. The system can be operated at a rate of 0 to 250 gallons per minute and be reversed with a single motion of the operating handle. The pump operates in one direction at a fixed RPM, resulting in longer pump life and safer operation. For added safety, the system utilizes the pump's relief valve for both discharge and suction operation. It has the ability of sucking the liquid out of the lines and hoses after each transfer operation. This system has an aluminum flow-reversing valve or two-way valve at the center of the design. This valve allows the flow of the product to be precisely controlled in either direction, along with the flow rate and pressure. This gives the operator the ability to control the product regardless of viscosity or volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: David Palmer
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Publication number: 20070062607Abstract: A collapsible funnel and a method for making a collapsible funnel is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the collapsible funnel may be provided with a screen for filtering fluids placed into the funnel. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a funnel is provided which includes multiple adjacent panels and a glue strip adjacent to one end, which enables the funnel to be manufactured with conventional process machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Theodore Salani, Lawrence Salani
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Publication number: 20070062608Abstract: A maneuvering device for controlled tilting of a cut up trunk portion, having at least one slot (44), characterized in that it includes a body (10) provided with a thread (18), a head (12) mobile in rotation relative to the body (10) and elements (16) for driving the body (10) by the head (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Joseph Clochard
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Publication number: 20070062609Abstract: The folding work bench folds compactly for storage when not in use and occupies a minimal work space. The folding work bench has a durable work surface, a top storage shelf, a back board for hanging tools, a locking mechanism, and a work table that can be folded up against the back board and locked in a compactly folded configuration that also secures the tools on the back board in the work bench.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Mark Carter
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Publication number: 20070062610Abstract: A basket mold and a method of making a basket mold for fabricating handwoven wooden baskets and, in particular, to a multi-part mold for shaping the basket. The multi-part mold is made up from a plurality of mold sections held together in a desired shape and orientation by a fastener. The multi-part mold may be in the form of a system for molding baskets of varying sizes specifically by adding additional mold sections to the multi-part mold, or subtracting mold sections from the multi-part mold in order to respectively increase or decrease the size of the mold, and hence the basket woven thereupon.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Nate's Nantuckets, Inc.Inventor: Nathan Taylor
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Publication number: 20070062611Abstract: The present invention has as its object to stably produce a high strength electrical steel sheet and a processed part of the same which is high in strength and has wear resistant and is superior in magnetic flux density and core loss without greatly changing the cold rollability and production processes from those of conventional electrical steel sheet and provides a high strength electrical steel sheet characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.06% or less, Si: 0.2 to 6.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 3.0%, P: 0.30% or less, S or Se: 0.040% or less, Al: 2.50% or less, Cu: 0.6 to 8.0%, N: 0.0400% or less, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and containing in the steel a metal phase composed of Cu of a size of 0.1 ?m or less. The method of production of the same comprises holding in a temperature range of 300° C. to 720° C. for 5 seconds or more for heat treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Hidekuni Murakami
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Publication number: 20070062612Abstract: In order to provide a further uniform carburizing treatment to an article to be treated, a carburizing treatment apparatus which performs carburizing treatment by heating the article to be treated in a treatment chamber, the inside of which is under reduced pressure and in a carburizing gas atmosphere, includes a temperature measurement means for measuring temperatures in a plurality of regions inside the treatment chamber and a temperature adjustment means for individually adjusting temperatures in the plurality of regions on the basis of measurement results of the temperature measurement means so that the article to be treated is given a uniform carburizing treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA
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Publication number: 20070062613Abstract: A nickel-based semifinished product has a cube recrystallization texture and the semifinished product can e.g. be used as a support for physicochemical coatings having a highly microstructured orientation. Such supports are e.g. suitable as substrates for ceramic coatings such as are used in the field of high-temperature supraconductivity. In this case, the product is used in supraconducting magnets, transformers, motors, tomographs and supraconducting current paths. There is provided a nickel-based semifinished product that has improved performance characteristics when used as a support for physicochemical coatings having a highly microstructured orientation. Especially the semifinished product should have a higher-grade, thermally more stable cube texture while substantially preventing the formation of grain boundary grooving. For this purpose, Ag in the microalloy range is added to the material of the semifinished product, the added Ag being not more than 0.3 atomic percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Joerg Eickemeyer, Dietmar Selbmann, Ralph Opitz, Bernhard Holzapfel
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Publication number: 20070062614Abstract: A titanium alloy containing carbon with and without addition of silicon exhibiting improved corrosion resistance and mechanical strength as compared to commercially pure ASTM grade 2 titanium or PGM-alloyed ASTM grade 7 titanium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: James Grauman, Stephen Fox, Stacey Nyakana
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Publication number: 20070062615Abstract: The free-cutting copper alloy according to the present invention contains a greatly reduced amount of lead in comparison with conventional free-cutting copper alloys, but provides industrially satisfactory machinability. The free-cutting alloys comprise 71.5 to 78.5 percent, by weight, of copper, 2.0 to 4.5 percent, by weight, of silicon, 0.005 percent up to but less than 0.02, by weight, of lead, and the remaining percent, by weight, of zinc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: SANBO SHINDO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keiichiro OISHI
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Publication number: 20070062616Abstract: A method for sinter coating a work-piece, the work-piece having at least two sections of different surface-related heat capacities. The method including a step of shock heating of the work-piece under conditions which, with continuing effect on the work-piece, bring the work-piece to a first temperature and which is stopped before the temperature of the work-piece section with the greater surface-related heat capacity matches the first temperature. The work-piece then has a subsequent step of application of the sinter material to the work-piece. The step of shock heating of the work-piece is preceded by a step of pre-heating the work-piece under conditions which, with continuing effect on the work-piece, bring the work-piece to a second temperature between the fusion temperature of the sinter material and the first temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Jürgen Eberle, Dirk Heinrich, Thomas Schiffer, Hermann Stegmaier, Hans-Joachim Wonicker
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Publication number: 20070062617Abstract: The invention provides a method for lowering the coefficient of friction of the surface of metal bands with a coating, especially of tin-plated or chromium-plated steel bands (S), which are passed through a coating installation at a band speed (v). To be able to lower the coefficient of friction of the surface of the coating even at high band speeds through the coating installation, according to the invention, an aqueous solution of a tenside is sprayed onto the coated metal band passed at the band speed (v) after the coating process. The invention further provides a device for applying a metallic coating onto a steel band, especially in a band tin-plating installation or band chromium-plating installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Theodor FLORIAN
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Publication number: 20070062618Abstract: The invention offers an aluminum alloy plate with excellent press-formability and continuous resistance spot weldability, and a method of manufacturing such a plate. The aluminum alloy plate comprises, in % by mass, 0.3-1.0% of Mg, 0.3-1.2% of Si, 0.10-1.0% of Fe and 0.05-0.5% of Mn; where Fe+Mn?0.2%; the remainder consisting of Al and unavoidable impurities; wherein an average value of recrystallized grain size is 25 ?m or less; and at least 5000 particles/mm2 of intermetallic compounds with a circle-equivalent diameter of 1-6 ?m exist. It can further contain 0.5-1.0% of Cu, 0.1-0.4% of Zr, 0.05% or less of Ti or 0.05% or less of Ti together with 0.01% or less of B. The invention also offers a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy plate comprising steps of pouring a melt consisting of the above composition into an opposing rotating belt caster that is forcibly cooled; casting the melt at a cooling rate of 40-90° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Pizhi Zhao, Masaru Shinohara
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Publication number: 20070062619Abstract: A copper alloy that has a specific chemical composition, the balance being Cu and impurities, in which the relationship between the total number N and the diameter X satisfies the following formula (1). This copper alloy is obtained by cooling a bloom, a slab, a billet or an ingot in at least a temperature range from the temperature of the bloom, the slab, the billet or the ingot just after casting to 450° C., at a cooling rate of 0.5° C./s or more. After the cooling, working in a temperature range of 600° C. or lower and further heat treatment of holding for 30 seconds or more in a temperature range of 150 to 750° C. are desirably performed. The working and the heat treatment are most desirably performed for a plurality of times. log N<0.4742+17.629×exp(?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Yasuhiro Maehara, Mitsuharu Yonemura, Keiji Nakajima, Tsuneaki Nagamichi
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Publication number: 20070062620Abstract: A fixing element which comprises carbon-bearing steel and has a hardened functional tip is overall heated to the austenitisation temperature, held at that temperature and then quenched and is then subjected to an annealing operation which is effected by inductive heating and limited to the region of the fixing element, which lies outside the functional tip. In that way the structure of the fixing element comprises in part martensite and in part annealed martensite, wherein the functional tip comprises throughout martensite and the remainder of the fixing element comprises a martensite which is annealed by short-term inductive heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Heinrich Friederich, Reinhard Schmoock
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Publication number: 20070062621Abstract: A process for producing hot-rolled aluminum strip for can making in a rolling plant whose yearly production capacity is below 250,000 tons. Feed material is fed through a reversing roughing stage to form a strip which immediately thereafter is finish rolled. The finish rolling is followed by heat treatment of the strip coiled up into coils. In this case, during the last finishing rolling passes, recrystallization in the rolled material is suppressed by means of controlled temperature management of the hot strip and the recrystallization is specifically brought about only outside the rolling train, directly following the finishing rolling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Reimar Finck, Jurgen Hirsch
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Publication number: 20070062622Abstract: An organizational system including an outer bag body and a rigid storage basket configured to fit within the outer bag body. The outer bag body may be styled as a conventional purse, etc. The storage basket preferably includes multiple individual storage compartments arranged adjacent one another with a respective open end of each storage compartment arranged adjacent one another so that all individual storage compartments are readily accessible from an opening at the top of the purse/bag when the basket is positioned within the bag body. Optionally, the storage basket is readily removable from the purse so that it may be placed on a kitchen countertop, etc. to provide organization to the basket's contents without the need for any support from a bag body. Optionally, the organizational system includes one or more interchangeable bag bodies configured to fit the same storage basket.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Jennifer Groover
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Publication number: 20070062623Abstract: A tire tread comprising a plurality of elements in relief (1) comprising a contact face (2) intended to come into contact with the roadway during travel and lateral faces (13, 14, 15, 16), the intersection of each lateral face with the contact face forming a ridge (23, 24, 25, 26). The tire tread also comprises a plurality of cutouts (3, 4) in the form of grooves and/or incisions, said cutouts being defined by facing main faces. Each tread pattern element (1) is formed with at least one rubber mix (referred to as “base mix”). This tread, viewed in section in a plane containing the thickness of this tread, has at least one face defining at least one cutout covered at least in part with a second rubber mix, referred to as “covering mix”, this part having covering mix extending when new over a height Hr at least equal to 30% of the height H of the face, and wherein at least one first base mix opens on to the contact face when new or at the latest after wear at most equal to 10% of the height Hr.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Robert Chassagnon, Didier Vasseur
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Publication number: 20070062624Abstract: A method for improving tyre grip on snowy and/or icy roads includes forming a tread band with a base elastomeric material comprising at least 70 wt % of a polymer mixture including between 20 wt % and 60 wt % of at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer and between 40 wt % and 80 wt % of at least one 1,3-butadiene homopolymer. The at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer comprises styrene units and vinyl units. The at least one 1,3-butadiene homopolymer comprises vinyl units. The glass transition temperature of the at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer is at least 30° C. higher than that of the at least one 1,3-butadiene homopolymer. A mixture of the at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer with the at least one 1,3-butadiene homopolymer shows a single glass transition peak having a maximum value corresponding to a temperature greater than or equal to ?70° C. and less than or equal to ?45° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Angela Amaddeo, Luciano Garro
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Publication number: 20070062625Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component, the at least one component including a rubber composition, the rubber composition including at least one diene based rubber; and at least one metal organic framework material including divalent zinc and a multidentate organic ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Georges Koster, Claude Boses, Rene Zimmer, Hans-Bernd Fuchs, Fahri Ozel, Wolfgang Lauer, Lothar Braun
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Publication number: 20070062626Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of protrusions on a bottom of each of the grooves. The height of the protrusion is variable in a profile of the protrusion in a circumference direction of the pneumatic. The protrusion has at least one peak portion that protrudes away from a center of the pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire further includes a connection member between the protrusion and an adjacent one of the lands, the connection member having a first end toward the land and a second end toward the peak portion, a height of the first end from the bottom of the groove being larger than that of the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Toshiro Oyama
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Publication number: 20070062627Abstract: Vehicle pneumatic tire in radial design comprising a profiled tread (1), a multi-layered belt assembly (2), an inner layer (4), a casing (3) embodied in at least one layer, which casing is guided around bead cores (6) in bead areas, side walls (8) and for each side wall (8) at least one reinforcing profile (9) which is inserted in the region thereof, is crescent-shaped in cross section, extends respectively at least over a large part of the side wall length and is made of elastomeric materials of different hardnesses. A core profile (10), also with a crescent-shaped cross section, which core profile is made of a harder material than the other material of the reinforcing profile (9), is enclosed in the reinforcing profile (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Kay Wagner
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Publication number: 20070062628Abstract: A method for joining bodies by melting down a joining element. The joining element acts on a surface of one of the bodies and penetrates the surface as a result of a directed force. Once in a penetrated condition, a mechanical excitation is generated such that during further penetration of the joining element into the one body, the advance is maintained through the directed force and the melting down is maintained through the mechanical excitation. Molten or melted material is hydraulically displaced into the bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: WOODWELDING AGInventors: Marcel Aeschlimann, Elmar Mock, Laurent Torriani
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Publication number: 20070062629Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer card of thermoplastic material comprising first and second layers (7, 2) secured to each other, together with least one reinforced bonding zone (9) between the first layer and the second layer. The invention also provides a method of making a multilayer card secure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: SAFEM SAInventor: Gilles Monteilliet
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Publication number: 20070062630Abstract: Structural damage repair elements including inserts and a structural damage repair kit is provided. The structural damage repair elements typically include two or more layers of materials having an adhesive therebetween that are subsequently compressed together. The structural damage repair kit includes a chemical molding agent, an optional jig, one or more structural damage repair elements and a sealant. Both hollow and solid elongated objects, as well as relatively flat, curved objects may be repaired with the kit. The structural damage repair elements include rods, wafers, and/or adhesive saturated inserts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Wesley Wilbur, David Wilbur
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Publication number: 20070062631Abstract: The invention concerns an assembly of devices for production of green radial tires, comprising a carcass building drum (11), a belt building drum (21) and a completing drum (22), which are arranged on one horizontal axis, wherein the carcass building drum (11) and the belt building drum (21) are equipped with the respective supply systems (4, 5), the carcass building drum (11) is carried by a driving unit (1), and the belt building drum (21) and the completing drum (22) are carried by co-axially arranged shafts of a driving unit (2), which is arranged opposite the driving unit (1) carrying the carcass building drum (11), and between the belt building drum (21) and the carcass building drum (11) there is movably arranged only one transfer device (3). The invention further concerns a method of production of green radial tires using the above assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Matador A.S.Inventor: Peter Mihalik
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Publication number: 20070062632Abstract: A spray-painting machine for a pneumatic tire comprises: a tire holder comprising a pair of bead support disks between which the tire is held; at least one spray gun; a spray gun shifter to move the spray gun to a position near the tread face of the tire held by the tire holder; a rotator for the bead support disks to rotate the tire around the rotational axis of the tire; and a controller which controls the spray gun to spray the paint onto the tread face during the tire is rotated. In a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire, after the raw tire is vulcanized, an identification mark is spray-painted on the tread face of the vulcanized tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Yarimizu, Hiroyuki Onimatsu, Youjirou Miki
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Publication number: 20070062633Abstract: For use in the manufacture of reinforcement layers for flexible pipes which are capable of absorbing compressive or tensile forces, and which are used for the transport of oil and gas, a thermoplastic material is applied to a strength-imparting layer. The strength-imparting layers are reeled on reels, and following unreeling they are laminated by application of heat and in direct continuation applied to the flexible pipe. The strength-imparting layer expediently consists of a polymer which is reinforced with at least 20% by volume of fibres. The thermoplastic material is of a reversible type, i.e. it may change from being relatively soft, but non-sticky by changes in temperature. The use of the method according to the invention allows manufacture of very strong reinforcements for flexible pipes which cannot be manufactured using a solid material, such as steel, since high performing bending forces are required in the shaping.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: NKT Research & Annovation A/SInventors: Kristian Glejbol, Jakob Wedel-Heinen
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Publication number: 20070062634Abstract: A process control procedure for a bonding process includes predetermining a deformation limit and a deforming time limit is for deforming a bonding precursor member. The bonding precursor member is deformed while monitoring instantaneous deformation values and instantaneous deforming time values for the bonding precursor member. A deforming shut-down time value is set at an instantaneous deforming time value corresponding to an occurrence of a first condition or a second condition. The first condition is an instantaneous deformation value for the bonding precursor member reaching the deformation limit and the second condition is an instantaneous deforming time value for the bonding precursor member reaching the deforming time limit. Deformation of the bonding precursor member is shut down at the deforming shut-down time value, thereby producing a deformed bond member from the bonding precursor member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Daniel Evans, James O'Bryan
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Publication number: 20070062635Abstract: A laminated seamless belt having at least a base layer and an outer layer. The base layer contains a polyester thermoplastic elastomer as its main component. The base layer has a volume resistivity set to not less than 1.0×106(?·cm) nor more than 1.0×1011(?·cm). A volume resistivity of the outer layer is set to not less than 1.0×1011(?·cm) and not less than 10 times as large as that of the base layer. The base layer and the outer layer are formed by laminated extrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Masakazu Tanaka, Takayuki Hattori
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Publication number: 20070062636Abstract: A method of gap detection between successive adhesive layers on a media carrier using reflective florescence. Roll of label media is obtained and placed on a printer (not shown). Labels pass by a UV light source and labels and carrier reflect back a portion of the UV light. The reflected light is detected by a photosensor. The difference in florescence between label and carrier is detected. Location of the change of florescence identifies the location of the beginning of gap/end of label or the end of gap/beginning of label. The printer is adjusted if necessary to ensure any markings, printing, logos, symbologies or other indicia is printed in the correct position on label.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Peter Gustafsson, Mats Hedberg