Patents Issued in April 5, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070075027
    Abstract: A book end with a saving-box includes two upright hollow bodies, which are positioned with two planar inner sides thereof facing toward each other to define a space between them for holding at least one book therein. Each of the two upright hollow bodies defines a coin collecting space, and is provided at a predetermined position with a coin slot communicating with the coin collecting space. Each of the two upright hollow bodies has a size-expanded lower portion and has a bottom board connected to a lower end thereof, and can therefore stand stably without the risk of tilting over.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas Yeh
  • Publication number: 20070075028
    Abstract: A two-piece, adjustable width merchandising tray for the organized display of multiple product containers. Two L-shaped tray sections, formed of plastic material. The bottom portions of the two L-shaped sections are provided with laterally extending, interengaging fingers that enable the width of the tray to be adjusted for different product sizes while maintaining substantial continuity to the surface of the bottom structure for containment of product leakage. An asymmetrical side wall arrangement with a forwardly projecting hand grip at the front of one of the side walls enables individual trays to be removed and replaced from a closely packed array of trays arranged in side-by-side fashion. The trays can be conveniently lifted and carried for product restocking, reorganizing, tray cleaning, etc. A simple pull strip and paddle arrangement enables product to be fronted at all times. Double stacking of product containers is also accommodated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Nagel, Joseph Kologe
  • Publication number: 20070075029
    Abstract: A feeding bottle is provided which includes a body portion for the containment of fluid therein. At least one opening is defined in the body portion for location of a feeding teat therewith. A venting aperture is provided for allowing venting of the body portion and the venting aperture is provided with closure means. The venting aperture is in communication with air inlet means, at least part of said air inlet means being substantially flexible. The closure means are movable relative to the air inlet means between an open position, wherein the air inlet means is open, and a closed position, wherein the at least flexible part of said air inlet means flexes to close the air inlet means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: LINDAM LIMITED
    Inventor: Adam Yates
  • Publication number: 20070075030
    Abstract: A closure for a container, which specifically may contain cosmetic product, the closure having a hinged lid which is connected in one piece to a base part via a film hinge, the film hinge having a pivot axis, there being a latching mechanism which keeps the hinged lid in a first stable position, and a springy element acting on the hinged lid. The springy element is tensioned in the first stable position and, after the release of the latching mechanism, automatically displaces the hinged lid by means of a driving spring force and with a pivoting movement into a second stable position. There is a separate control element which, at least during part of the pivoting movement, controls the spring force acting on the hinged lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Nicola Delli Venneri
  • Publication number: 20070075031
    Abstract: A slender synthetic resin heat-resistant bottle type container having a circumferential draw ratio of 2.8 or less, for example, comprises at least one pressure reduction absorbing panel (5) provided at a container body part, wherein the pressure reduction absorbing panel is provided with at least one convex portion (6) having a width larger at a lower side than at an upper side as viewed in a circumferential direction of the container. Alternatively, each pressure reduction absorbing panel has a border line bulged toward a container bottom part. This causes a resin to be smoothly stretched even at mold surface portions corresponding to concave and convex portions of a container body part surface upon blow molding. These avoid a defective appearance of the container and do not adversely affect heat resistance thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tanaka, Tadayori Nakayama, Shinichi Tabata, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20070075032
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container adapted to increase volume contraction and reduce pressure having four panels that are adapted to contract inwardly from vacuum forces created by contraction of container contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Kelley, Scott Bysick, Justin Howell
  • Publication number: 20070075033
    Abstract: An electrostatic actuator for increasing a swing (deflection angle) of a movable structure includes a laminate substrate in which a thin film silicon layer is formed on a silicon substrate through a buried insulating film and a torsion beam movable structure constructed with the thin film silicon layer. A potential difference is generated between a movable side comb-tooth electrode of the movable structure and a fixed side comb-tooth electrode disposed to face the movable side comb-tooth electrode to swing the movable structure. The fixed side comb-tooth electrode is formed in the inside of a through hole bored through the laminate substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiro Onoda, Hideaki Nishikawa, Tetsuo Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20070075034
    Abstract: The electronic device comprises a body (40) of electrically insulating material that is provided with a through-hole or cavity. In the cavity or through-hole an electric component (20) is present. This component is attached to the body through an attachment layer (13). The surface of this attachment layer is provided with a pattern of electrical conductors for electrically coupling the component to other components and/or contact means for external coupling. At least one of which electrical conductors extends to a surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Vincent Van Montfort, Fransiscus Gerardus Verweg, Roel Kusters
  • Publication number: 20070075035
    Abstract: A method for microstructuring surfaces of a workpiece includes the following steps: a) placing a workpiece to be structured into a liquid medium; b) providing a light source for producing a cavitation bubble in the liquid medium; and c) producing a cavitation bubble using the light source in such a way that the subsequent collapse of the cavitation bubble structures the surface of the workpiece, in particular material is removed from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Gernot Repphun, Martin Voss, Frank Wrona
  • Publication number: 20070075036
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring plasma density of a plasma processing reactor, comprises a stationary compact probe having a short dielectric cap with a short coaxial cable inserted therein and having an open metal antenna tip. The probe can be utilized to determine resonant plasma frequency near its tip location. Two or more of such probes can be used to determine three dimensional plasma density distribution inside the plasma processing reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Paul Moroz
  • Publication number: 20070075037
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring a dimensional change of a pattern for an object having a transparent layer exposed through the pattern and a non-transparent pattern laminated therewith. According to the method, a first beam is projected to the pattern. A second beam resulted from the first beam passing through the transparent layer exposed by the pattern, or from the first beam reflected from the non-transparent layer of the pattern, is detected. A value of a predetermined property from the second beam detected is obtained. A variation of the value is monitored for identifying the dimensional change of the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Shih-Ming Chang, Chen-Yuan Hsia, Wen-Chuan Wang, Chi-Lun Lu, Yen-Bin Huang, Chang-Cheng Hung, Chia-Jen Chen, Kai-Chung Liu, Hsin-Chang Lee, Hong Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20070075038
    Abstract: A method for etching features in an etch layer is provided. A patterned photoresist mask is formed over the etch layer with photoresist features with sidewalls wherein the sidewalls of the photoresist features have irregular profiles along depths of the photoresist features. The irregular profiles along the depths of the photoresist features of the sidewalls of the photoresist features are corrected comprising at least one cycle, where each cycle comprises a sidewall deposition phase and a profile shaping phase. Feature is etched into the etch layer through the photoresist features. The mask is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: S.M. Sadjadi, Peter Cirigliano, Jisoo Kim, Zhisong Huang, Eric Hudson
  • Publication number: 20070075039
    Abstract: In a state that a plate-shaped insulator is disposed adjacent to a plate-shaped electrode, a discharge gas containing an inert gas is supplied to a vicinity of a processing object from one gas exhaust port located nearer from the plate-shaped electrode, out of at least two-line gas exhaust ports which are disposed around the plate-shaped electrode and which are formed so as to be surrounded by the plate-shaped insulator and moreover which are different in distance to the plate-shaped electrode from each other, while a discharge control gas is supplied from the other gas exhaust port to the vicinity of the processing object. Simultaneously with the supply of the gases, electric power is supplied to the plate-shaped electrode or the processing object, by which plasma processing of the processing object is carried out. Thus, plasma processing method and apparatus capable of processing for desired fine linear portions with high precision are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Yoichiro Yashiro, Tomohiro Okumura, Tadashi Kimura, Mitsuo Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20070075040
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for planarizing or polishing a surface. One composition comprises about 0.01 wt. % to about 20 wt. % ?-alumina particles, wherein the ?-alumina particles have an average diameter of 200 nm or less, and 80% of the ?-alumina particles have a diameter of about 500 nm or less, an organic acid, a corrosion inhibitor, and water. Another composition comprises ?-alumina particles, an organic acid, dual corrosion inhibitors of triazole and benzotriazole, wherein the wt. % ratio of the triazole to benzotriazole is about 0.1 to about 4.8, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Cabot Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuchun Wang, Jason Aggio, Bin Lu, John Parker, Renjie Zhou
  • Publication number: 20070075041
    Abstract: The present polishing slurry is a polishing slurry for chemically mechanically polishing a surface of a GaxIn1-xAsyP1-y crystal (0?x?1, 0?y?1), characterized in that this polishing slurry contains abrasive grains formed of SiO2, this abrasive grain is a secondary particle in which a primary particle is associated, and a ratio d2/d1 of an average particle diameter d2 of a secondary particle to an average particle diameter d1 of a primary particle is not less than 1.6 and not more than 10. According to such the polishing slurry, a crystal surface having a small surface roughness can be formed on a GaxIn1-xAsyP1-y crystal at a high polishing rate and effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Keiji Ishibashi, Takayuki Nishiura
  • Publication number: 20070075042
    Abstract: A composition and an associated method for chemical mechanical planarization (or other polishing) are described. The composition includes a stabilizer-metal-vinyl pyridine polymer surface-modified colloidal abrasive (e.g., silica) and an oxidizing agent (e.g., hydrogen peroxide), where the metal is a Fenton's reaction metal. The method includes applying the composition to a substrate to be polished (e.g., chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP)), such as substrates containing tungsten or copper and dielectrics layers that being subjected to tungsten or copper CMP for planarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Junaid Siddiqui, Timothy Compton, Daniel Castillo, Bin Hu
  • Publication number: 20070075043
    Abstract: This consists of six pieces: a bottom (1), two side pieces (2), (2?) and two ends (3), (3?), and a lid or top (4), all made of medium or high density wood fiber and that can be assembled by means of a number of tabs (11) and (29) emerging from some of said pieces and which couple by a tongue and groove system to respective slots (19) and (17) made in other pieces. The box has stacking means which are materialized in upward extensions (20), (20?), (24), (24?) of the upper ends of the side pieces and of the ends, determining oblique edges, coinciding with notches of the same shape made in their lower edges, which allow these to be self-centring. The free outwardly-projecting ends of the securing tabs constitute a spacer between boxes, which when these are palletised means that conduits are formed to facilitate air circulation between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: BOXIDEA, S.I.
    Inventors: Juan RIOGONZALEZ, Santiago QUEROL PUIG
  • Publication number: 20070075044
    Abstract: An exemplary circuit breaker has in an enclosure filled with an insulating gas at least one interrupting chamber extending along a longitudinal axis. The interrupting chamber can be configured radially symmetrically and contains an arcing volume and at least two associated arcing contacts. The arcing volume is actively connected to at least one exhaust having an exhaust volume. The exhaust is constructed for cooling hot gases generated during breaking operations and is connected to a volume of the interrupting chamber. The breaking capacity of this circuit breaker can be increased significantly and the exhaust can be constructed in a comparatively simple and cost effective manner. This can be achieved by providing in the area of the exhaust at least one forcibly created recirculation area which increases the flow resistance of the hot gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Xiangyang Ye, Frank Wolter, Helmut Heiermeier
  • Publication number: 20070075045
    Abstract: An electrical switch is disclosed. The switch includes at least one switching contact which is held against the prestressing force of a contact force spring on a moving contact mount, and an arc quenching device, in which at least one section of the at least one contact force spring extends between side pieces of the contact mount. A device for limiting the spreading of combustion products is provided, which has an angle bracket inclined with respect to the opening direction of the moving contact mount. When the contact mount is in the open position, the bracket overhangs the at least one section of the at least one contact force spring. In order to protect the contact force springs, in particular at the end of the opening process, even better against contamination by spreading combustion products, the inclined angle bracket is seated in a prestressed manner on the side pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Kuhrt, Gunter Seidler
  • Publication number: 20070075046
    Abstract: This method for inhibiting damage due to arc between electrical contacts involves the spreading of a grease composed of from 70% by weight to 95% by weight of a base oil and from 5% by weight to 30% by weight of a thickening agent and additives over a pair of electrical contacts in a circuit which causes terminals to move relative to each other so that they are disconnected from each other, whereby damage on the contact area due to arc occurring when the electrical contacts are isolated from each other is inhibited. As the thickening agent there is preferably used an organic bentonite. As the base oil there is preferably sued an ester oil, glycol oil or poly-?-olefin. The base oil preferably has a low density to reduce arc energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Hisaya Nakamura, Masakazu Harada, Shiro Sakai, Takaya Kondo, Tomohiro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20070075047
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-pole circuit breaker. The multi-pole circuit breaker includes: a substrate disposed between the single pole breaking unit, spaced relatively far from the switching mechanism as compared to the other single pole breaking units among the plurality of single breaking units, and the adjacent single pole breaking unit; a link mechanism rotatably supported on the substrate; and springs having one ends supported by the substrate and the other ends supported by the link mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: LS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki-Hwan OH
  • Publication number: 20070075048
    Abstract: Disclosed is a welding teaching point correction system, including: a robot; a spot welding gun comprising two welding tips provided to be opposed to each other; an imaging apparatus to image a welding point of a workpiece, the imaging apparatus being provided detachably to or exchangeably with at least one of the two welding tips; an operation control unit to control the robot and the spot welding gun in accordance with an teaching program to teach welding operation to the robot and the spot welding gun; an image processing unit to acquire positional information of the welding point of the workpiece in the image; and a program correction unit to correct an teaching point for the robot in the teaching program in a plurality of directions based on the positional information of the welding point of the workpiece in the image acquired by the image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Kunisaki, Hisanori Takata
  • Publication number: 20070075049
    Abstract: According to the invention a hollow cylindrical shank of electrically conducting metal is connected to a resistance welder. A coolant supply tube passes through the shank and has an interior coolant supply passage. The coolant supply tube has an outer diameter less than the inner diameter of the hollow cylindrical shank. A weld cap seats on the shank and has a cap tip and a cap skirt that depends from the cap tip and is attached to the shank. An underside of the cap tip faces the shank and the supply tube. A coolant receiving bore formed into the underside of the weld cap extends into the cap tip to receive the coolant supply tube part way into the bore. The bore formed into the underside of the cap tip defines a bore sidewall that provides added area of heat transfer contact between the coolant and the cap tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Robin Stevenson, Pei-Chung Wang, Michael Karagoulis, Hai-Lung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20070075050
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing material from a packaged electronic device of the type encapsulated with a protective material that forms an outer surface of the device. An exemplary system includes a stage for placing the device in a first position for receiving laser radiation to remove the material by ablation, and for placing the device in a second position for viewing one or more features along the outer surface of the device. An optical system is configured to provide an exterior image, including one or more features along an exposed surface of the device, while the device remains in the second position. A viewing system displays a captured image of the device, including one or more features interior to the protective surface, overlayed with the exterior image for simultaneous viewing of both images so that a position of a first feature present in the captured image can be viewed in relation to a position of a second feature in the exterior image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Jon Heyl
  • Publication number: 20070075051
    Abstract: Plasma devices and methods for using such plasma devices in analytical measurements are disclosed. In certain examples, a low flow plasma may be operative using a total argon gas flow of less than about five liters per minute, and in some embodiments, a plasma argon gas flow of less than about four liter per minute. In other examples, a plasma produced using inductive and capacitive coupling is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: PerkinElmer, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Morrisroe
  • Publication number: 20070075052
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing metal oxide nanoparticles. The process includes the steps of: a) providing at least two precursor metal salt materials, b) passing the at least two precursor metal salt materials through a plasma torch forming a vaporized material, and then c) condensing the vaporized material forming a metal oxide nanoparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Fanson, Jonathan Phillips, Claudia Luhrs
  • Publication number: 20070075053
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation source includes a toroidal chamber that contains an ionizable medium. The electromagnetic radiation source also includes a magnetic core that surrounds a portion of the toroidal chamber. The electromagnetic radiation source also includes a pulse power system for providing pulses of energy to the magnetic core for delivering power to a plasma formed in the toroidal chamber to produce electromagnetic radiation that radiates radially through walls of the toroidal chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Energetiq Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Smith, Matthew Besen, Raghuram Petluri
  • Publication number: 20070075054
    Abstract: A method for displaying laser irradiation state and a system of displaying laser irradiation state, enabling to monitor laser irradiation state correctly and rapidly even when a laser irradiation direction varies, and a scanner head and a work are relatively apart, characterized that laser light is irradiated at the surface of a work, in a specified pattern shape different from a process pattern from a scanner head, in advance of process by irradiation of laser light at a work by a scanner head mounted at a robot hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Takamasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070075055
    Abstract: A laser welding system includes a robot control unit that acquires movement amount measurement values from encoders provided on axes of the robot and calculates the current position of a laser processing head based on the measurement values. Based on the calculated current position of the laser processing head, the robot control unit calculates a laser beam emission direction specifying the direction in which the laser beam should be aimed in order to strike a predetermined laser irradiation position. The robot control unit sends a command indicative of the laser beam emission direction to a processing head control unit which changes the direction of a reflecting mirror provided inside the laser processing head such that the laser beam is emitted in the specified direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gakushi Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20070075056
    Abstract: A soldering device for forming electrical solder connections in a disk drive unit includes a bond head, a laser unit, a pressurized gas supply, and a solder ball supply. The bond head includes a housing that provides a primary passage and two supplemental passages that communicate with the primary passage. The laser unit is operable to direct a laser beam through the primary passage. The pressurized gas supply is operable to deliver pressurized gas through one supplemental passage and into the primary passage. The solder ball supply is operable to deliver a single solder ball through the other supplemental passage and into the primary passage. The primary passage has a tapered configuration structured to maintain a solder ball within the primary passage to allow a laser beam from the laser unit to act upon the solder ball before the solder ball is discharged from the bond head by pressurized gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: YiuSing Ho, GuoHong Lu
  • Publication number: 20070075057
    Abstract: A method for actively controlling he fine-tuning and impedance matching using a laser process is provided, including the use of a laser process equipment, a monitor device, and a feedback controller. The laser process equipment is for performing laser soldering or laser etching. The monitor device is for monitoring the target metrics of the target circuits. The feedback controller is for receiving the feedback from the monitor device and issuing control signals to the laser process equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Yi-Hsi Chen, Chih-Chuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20070075058
    Abstract: A precision, laser-based method and system for high-speed, sequential processing of material of targets within a field are disclosed that control the irradiation distribution pattern of imaged spots. For each spot, a laser beam is incident on a first anamorphic optical device and a second anamorphic optical device so that the beam is controllably modified into an elliptical irradiance pattern. The modified beam is propagated through a scanning optical system with an objective lens to image a controlled elliptical spot on the target. In one embodiment, the relative orientations of the devices along an optical axis are controlled to modify the beam irradiance pattern to obtain an elliptical shape while the absolute orientation of the devices controls the orientation of the elliptical spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: GSI Lumonics Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Ehrmann, James Cordingley, Donald Smart, Donald Svetkoff
  • Publication number: 20070075059
    Abstract: There is provided a laser machining method and a laser machining apparatus whose machining accuracy and quality excel without lowering machining efficiency. One hole is machined by a split beam that is a first pulsed laser beam and another split beam that is a second pulsed laser beam whose irradiation position is determined based on irradiation position of the first laser beam. In this case, the machining quality may be improved by machining the circular hole by equalizing circling directions and angular velocity of the split beams. A beam splitter splits a laser beam outputted out of one laser oscillator into the split beams and AOMs can time-share them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Kunio Arai
  • Publication number: 20070075060
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a medical device from a workpiece is provided. The method begins by generating a pulsed beam of radiation from a radiation source. The pulsed radiation beam is characterized by a prescribed pulse frequency. The pulsed radiation beam is directed onto the workpiece and the workpiece is moved relative to the radiation source so that a prescribed pattern is cut in the workpiece by the pulsed radiation beam. The prescribed pulse frequency is adjusted based on a change in a parameter pertaining to the relative motion of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Matthew Shedlov, Ken Merdan
  • Publication number: 20070075061
    Abstract: Provided is a method for adjusting static attitude of a magnetic head attached to a flexure that is disposed near a free end of a head support. The free end is a distal end in a longitudinal direction of the head support. The method includes generating an adjustment condition by analyzing an image signal obtained from images of the magnetic head, the images being picked up with at least two image pickup units; bending the flexure for static attitude adjustment based on the adjustment condition; and irradiating a laser beam to a bent area of the flexure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shindo, Toru Mizuno, Hitoshi Nakayama, Shinji Atsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20070075062
    Abstract: A hybrid ablation layer that comprises a separate under layer is applied to a material to prevent pitting resulting from laser peening. The underlayer adheres to the surface of the workpiece to be peened and does not have bubbles and voids that exceed an acceptable size. One or more overlayers aer placed over and in contact with the underlayer. Any bubbles formed under the over layers are insulated from the surface to be peened. The process significantly reduces the incidence of pits on peened surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Lloyd Hackel
  • Publication number: 20070075063
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of rapidly machining multiple, often similar or nearly identical, features using a LASER machining system. During LASER machining, light of a wavelength and intensity that will modify the workpiece to be machined is directed at the workpiece and interacts to produce the desired change. If several features are to be machined, the processing speed can be increased by operating on a multiplicity of features at once. In one embodiment of the invention, this is achieved by separating the LASER beam into multiple beams and machining the desired features simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Thor Miller Wilbanks, Jeffrey Schuster
  • Publication number: 20070075064
    Abstract: A welding apparatus capable of effecting welding completion processing which is reliable and free of wasteful time, by transmitting the completion of wire fusion prevention processing to a welding machine 11, by transmitting the detected result to a controller 17 upon completion of the subsequent wire fusion detection processing, and by thus proceeding with processing while effecting the confirmation of completion of respective processing between the welding machine 11 and the controller 17.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20070075065
    Abstract: A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording material. The fixing device has a fixing member having a heat source, a sensor which senses a surface temperature of the fixing member, a measuring section which obtains temperature-rising time information of the fixing member based on information from the sensor, an abnormality determining section which compares the temperature-rising time information obtained by the measuring section with reference value information to determine whether or not an abnormality exists, and an adjusting section which adjusts the reference value information of the abnormality determining section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Noriyuki Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20070075066
    Abstract: The fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording material. The fixing device has a fixing member having a heat source; a temperature sensor which senses a surface temperature of the fixing member; an abnormality determining section which obtains temperature-rising time information in a predetermined temperature range that enables water in the recording material to evaporate based on information from the temperature sensor, to determine whether or not an abnormality exists in the fixing member based on a result of the measurement; and a heat controlling section which supplies power to the heat source, and lowers a supplying amount of the power in operation when the abnormality determining section determines an abnormality exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Noriyuki Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20070075067
    Abstract: A combination bread toaster and steamer device and method includes inserting at least one piece of bread into a bread slot of a combination bread toaster and steamer device; placing water into a heater pan of a steamer compartment on the combination bread toaster and steamer device; placing another food into the steamer compartment; activating at least one bread heating element disposed adjacent the bread slot and a steamer heating element disposed adjacent the steamer compartment; and activation of the steamer heating element reducing wattage to the bread heating element that would be used by the bread heating element when operating alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Beesley, Eric Hales
  • Publication number: 20070075068
    Abstract: According to a method and a device for heating a strip-shaped carrier in an oven, a carrier is passed through the oven in a direction of conveyance. The carrier is supported by a heatable plate, which together with the carrier is moved through the oven stepwise with a predetermined step size from a starting position to an end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Wessel Wesseling, Franciscus Sonnemans, Dionys Van De Ven
  • Publication number: 20070075069
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the type and quantity of food prepared in at least one appliance includes at least one appliance for processing at least one type and quantity of food. A controller associated with the appliance controls the processing performed by the appliance. A backoffice application server is in communication with the controller. The controller prompts a user at the appliance, to input the type of food to be processed and the quantity of food to be processed by the appliance. The controller receives the input and transmits the input to the backoffice application server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Technology Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Musial
  • Publication number: 20070075070
    Abstract: An open coil resistance heater assembly is made for universal mounting between left and right hand installations in an appliance or other equipment. The heater assembly has its coils arranged symmetrically about a bisecting plane of the heater assembly and/or a center line of its terminal assembly aligned with the bisecting plane. The symmetrical coil arrangement and/or bisected terminal assembly allow the heater to be used in right hand or left hand installations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: James Sherrill, H. Howard
  • Publication number: 20070075071
    Abstract: A heater for heating elongated objects includes an elongated strip of flexible material having first and second ends and elongated opposite side edges defining a width therebetween. The strip of material comprises a fiber reinforced elastomeric material having at least a first portion that is set in a spiral. The heater also includes at least one elongated electrically conductive heating element imbedded in the elongated strip of elastomeric material. A thermostat is operably coupled to the heating element, and the thermostat is encapsulated in an elastomeric dielectric material that is bonded to the elastomeric material of the strip to provide a waterproof seal around the thermostat. The heater further includes an electrical power line extending from the thermostat for supplying power to the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Carlos Cardenas, Matthew Byrne
  • Publication number: 20070075072
    Abstract: A microwave or radio frequency device including an applicator for receiving an object to be processed, and a plurality of generators supplying power to the applicator via propagation guides. According to the invention, three propagation guides propagating the microwaves or radio frequencies generated by three respective generators are mounted on three respective plates defining a three-dimensional rectangular axis system, and symmetrical relative to a ternary axis of symmetry of the axis system, whereby the generators supplying power to the applicator are mutually decoupled. The three propagation guides have a rectangular cross-section and are mounted on respective plates in such a way that the short sides of the rectangular cross-section of said guides are orthogonal in pairs, or are coaxial cables extending in a longitudinal propagation direction perpendicular to the plates with one exposed end thereof extending into the applicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Georges Roussy
  • Publication number: 20070075073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation inspection system discloses a shielding door device for a radiation inspection system, comprising a door body, two guides located on two opposite sides of the door body, a rack, a gear and a motor. The two guides are fixed on an upper surface of a frame and the door body is movably connected to the two guides via bearings. The rack is fixed on a bottom of the door body and meshed with the gear. The gear is coupled with a shaft of the motor fixed on a lower surface of the frame. With the above configuration, the present invention is advantageous in automatic and complete shielding of the radiation inspection system without interference. In addition the shielding door can be controlled intelligently, so that accidental radiation leakage can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Yinong Liu, Haifeng Hu, Wanlong Wu, Yulan Li, Xilei Luo, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Bin Sang, Hailin Wang
  • Publication number: 20070075074
    Abstract: Mounting devices for attaching electronics equipment to a cargo container. An embodiment of the present invention comprises a mounting plate comprising a first portion for securing the electronics equipment to the mounting device, a second portion, coupled to the first portion at an edge of the first portion, at an approximate right angle to the first portion, and a third portion, coupled to the second portion at a second edge, wherein the third portion is approximately parallel to the first portion, wherein a length of the second portion being substantially similar to a width of a door of the cargo container, and the third portion is of sufficient length to retain the mounting device on the cargo container when the door of the cargo container is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Randy Jaeger, Dean Razee, Peter Lauenstein
  • Publication number: 20070075075
    Abstract: Apparatuses for mounting an antenna on a cargo container. An embodiment in accordance with the present invention comprises an antenna cover, disposed for mounting within a void of a corrugated wall of the cargo container, the antenna cover mounting over at least one opening in the corrugated wall of the cargo container, wherein the antenna is disposed through the at least one opening and mounted inside of the antenna cover, such that the antenna the antenna is disposed to perform a function selected from a group comprising transmitting radio frequency (RF) radiation from outside the cargo container and receiving RF radiation from outside the cargo container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Randy Jaeger, Richard Riley, Peter Lauenstein
  • Publication number: 20070075076
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for attaching electronics equipment to a cargo container are disclosed. A device in accordance with the present invention comprises a first portion, comprising a wireguide, a second portion, coupled to the first portion at an edge of the first portion, at an approximate right angle to the first portion, the wireguide continuing to at least a part of the second portion, and a third portion, coupled to the second portion, the third portion being approximately perpendicular to the first portion and approximately parallel to the second portion, wherein the second portion and the third portion are designed to accommodate a door flange of a cargo container to attach the mounting device to the cargo container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Gordon Hewitt, Guy Zierten, Peter Lauenstein