Patents Issued in July 12, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070158253
    Abstract: A transportable waste collection system for collecting waste found in a body of flowing water, including non-navigable waters, the system having a flotation platform adapted to floating in the body of water; a waste collection conveyor mounted on the platform having collection and discharge ends; a device for separating the waste from the body of flowing water and conveying the waste along the conveyor to the discharge end; a storage receptacle for storing the conveyed waste; and a water wheel interconnected with and providing power to the waste separation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: John Kellett
  • Publication number: 20070158254
    Abstract: To reuse support plate and to fix a membrane sheet by the same method both in a new product manufacturing and in regeneration. In a flat membrane element 10 including a deposit fixed portion 18 formed by lapping a membrane sheet 14 performing solid-liquid separation onto a support plate 12 supporting the membrane sheet 14 and by emitting a laser to a circumferential edge of the membrane sheet 14 to deposit fix the member sheet 14 onto the support plate 12, and making an inside of the membrane sheet 14 surrounded by the deposit fixed portion 18 be a solid-liquid separating area 20; an embrocation 22 having laser absorption property is applied on the surface of the membrane sheet 14 of the deposit fixed portion 18. At the time of regeneration, such a portion of the membrane sheet 14 that corresponds to the solid-liquid separating area 20 is cut off and, after that, a new membrane sheet is lapped on the embrocation 22 and the new membrane sheet and the embrocation 22 are deposit fixed by a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Kazuhiko Noto, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20070158255
    Abstract: Even when a membrane sheet contains an inorganic material, the membrane sheet and a support plate are properly deposited by a laser emission. In a manufacturing method of a flat membrane element lapping a membrane sheet 10 performing solid-liquid separation on a support plate 20 supporting the membrane sheet 10 and emitting a laser 24 to a mutual joint portion to deposit the membrane sheet 10 and the support plate 20, when the membrane sheet 10 contains an inorganic material, the support plate 20 is formed by a material having laser penetration and the laser 24 is emitted from the support plate 20 side to the joint portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Makoto Oonishi, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20070158256
    Abstract: An apparatus provided with a micro or ultrafiltration filter, wherein the filter is provided with a filter housing having a retentate side and a permeate side, wherein the retentate side and the permeate side are separated from each other by filter material, wherein a fluid supply pipe is connected to the retentate side and a permeate discharge pipe to the permeate side, wherein, in the permeate discharge pipe, a shut-off valve operable at a high frequency is provided and wherein means are connected to the permeate side for increasing the pressure in the permeate side when the said shut-off valve is closed to a value which is higher than the pressure on the retentate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: FRIESLAND BRANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Jantje Kromkamp, Albert van der Padt, Cornelis Petrus van der Vorst
  • Publication number: 20070158257
    Abstract: The invention relates to a membrane filter unit for liquid or gaseous media, comprising a bundle of capillary membranes which are open on at least one front surface side and which are cast in an area which is close to the end of the open membrane ends, in a sealing layer forming a hardened head part. The open membrane ends protrude on the outer side of the sealing layer. The sealing layer is arranged on a spacer element which has a layer which is penetrated by the capillary membranes and which is non-permeable in relation to the casting material which hardens in order to form the sealing layer. the invention also relates to a method for the production of a membrane filter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Stefan Schafer, Klaus Vossenkaul, Christoph Kullmann, Andreas Kruse
  • Publication number: 20070158258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manifold assembly that is capable of providing at least two effluents, each having different quality characteristics, from a single source inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Martin Blaze, Donald McGibbon, Richard Knasel, Jerry Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20070158259
    Abstract: The invention relates to an interlayer support suitable for depositing a self-adhesive material with a layer of self-adhesive (20). Said interlayer support comprises a relief structure (22) with raised webs forming substantially complementary channels in the self-adhesive (20) layer, by means of which the air trapped during adhesion can escape. The relief structure (22) is an irregular polygonal structure with stochastically formed and distributed polygons having between four and seven angles and connected by their angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Ludwig
  • Publication number: 20070158260
    Abstract: A rotational shearing filter is disclosed which includes a housing and several spaced-apart, stationary, coaxial, annular, hollow filter disks that are disposed therein. Several shearing elements are retained in a torsion-proof manner on a central, rotatable drive shaft which penetrates the filter disks. The shearing elements are placed next to the annular surfaces of the filter disks, which point in the axial direction of the housing, so as to keep the filter disks penetrable for filtrate that penetrates from the housing into the filter disks. In order to prevent the shearing elements and the filter elements from touching each other as a result of thermal expansion, the shearing elements that are connected to the drive shaft so as to rotate therewith are guided thereon in an axially movable manner while spacers which axially displace the shearing elements according to longitudinal modifications of the housing occurring due to thermal conditions are positioned between the shearing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Andreas Kufferath Gmbh & Co., KG
    Inventor: Gregor Mauer
  • Publication number: 20070158261
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter device designed for the insertion of filter elements (28), which can be positioned in a filter housing (10) comprising a filter inlet (20) and a filter outlet (22) for the fluid to be filtered, said filter elements (28) being traversed in both directions for filtration or backwashing. Certain filter elements (28) perform the filtration in a filtration position and at least one additional filter element (28) can be backwashed in a backwashing position to clean its active filtration surface. As the individual filter elements (28) are brought into the backwashing position and are then returned to their filtration position in succession by means of a pivoting device (30), the filter elements are individually displaced into the backwashing position in a temporal sequence, in contrast to prior art, where an arm-type backwashing device is pivoted towards the individual filter elements in order to carry out the backwashing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Ralf Wnuk
  • Publication number: 20070158262
    Abstract: A water treatment system is provided with a fluidized bed reaction vessel having a water inlet and a water outlet, the reaction vessel having a region of continuously varying cross-sectional area intermediate of the water inlet and the water outlet. The continuously varying cross-sectional area intermediate of the water inlet and the water outlet of the reaction vessel is configured as a substantially truncated conical internal surface. A region of substantially constant cross-sectional area intermediate of the water inlet and the water outlet, the region of substantially constant cross-sectional area is coaxially disposed in relation to the region of continuously varying cross-sectional area. The region of substantially constant cross-sectional area comprises a substantially cylindrical internal surface. Also, the region of substantially constant cross-sectional area is axially adjacent to a region of diminished cross-sectional area of the region of continuously varying cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Harry Manvel, George Babb
  • Publication number: 20070158263
    Abstract: A filter assembly (100) may comprise a filter cartridge (102) and a filter housing (101) which may include a cylindrical support (121) and a removable portion (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Jay Brandt, David Childs
  • Publication number: 20070158264
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for the generation of methane by a two phase anaerobic phase system (APS) digestion of organic substrates. Also provided is a device for practicing the methods of the invention. The APS-digester system is a space-efficient, high-rate solids digestion system. The APS-digester system consists of one or more hydrolysis reactors, a buffer tank and one biogasification reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Ruihong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20070158265
    Abstract: A continuous flow reactor or method promotes aerobic granule formation. The reactor may comprise three or four zones that may comprise one or more of an aerobic zone, an alternately aerobic and anoxic zone or discrete aerobic and anoxic zones, and a settling zone. The reactor may have a single sludge removal flow. An anaerobic zone may be located at the bottom of a mass of settled granules. Feed may be introduced through the settled granules generally in a plug flow. An aerobic/anoxic zone may be structured or operated partially like a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) but with aeration varying in space or time. Sludge granules may move intermittently from an aerobic zone to an aerobic/anoxic zone, for example by an air lift pump. A settling zone may have an upflow of >4 m/hr or >5 m/hr and wash off flocculated biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Pierre Cote, Henry Behmann
  • Publication number: 20070158266
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing particles using supercritical fluid with enhanced mixing. The process includes a vessel having an inner surface defining a chamber. A high-speed shear or turbulent mixer is incorporated inside the vessel in order to create a region of enhanced mixing (mixing zone). A supercritical fluid pump communicates with the first inlet, and supplies supercritical fluid into the mixing zone through the first inlet. A solution pump communicates with the second inlet, and supplies solution into the mixing zone through the second inlet. A mixer assembly includes a motor drive and a rotor. The rotor is in the mixing zone and can mix the solution and the supercritical fluid. Particles are produced when the solution and the supercritical fluid are pumped into the mixing zone while the rotor is mixing. The design of the mixer and the direction of the flow of materials into the chamber creates a plug flow in the mixing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: FERRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boris Shekunov, Pratibhash Chattopadhyay, Jeffrey Seitzinger
  • Publication number: 20070158267
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to dialysis therapy, particularly continuous flow dialysis therapy, are provided. The present invention includes a single closed fluid path along which a minimal amount of therapy fluid including dialysate is fed into, continuously circulated and cleaned such that a therapeutic effective amount of solutes, excess water and the like can be removed from the patient connected to the closed fluid loop during treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicants: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventor: Brian Micheli
  • Publication number: 20070158268
    Abstract: A method of operating a dialysis machine comprising receiving patient specific data, storing the received patient specific data in a non-volatile memory device, and implementing a treatment according to one of an acute care mode or a home care mode is disclosed. In the case of the acute care mode of treatment, the patient specific data is deleted after implementing the treatment. In the case of the home care mode of treatment, the patient specific data is retained after implementing the treatment. Hardware for implementing the disclosed method is also disclosed. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should no be used to construe the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Peter DeComo
  • Publication number: 20070158269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating betaine from fermentation process solutions, vinasse and other sugar beet based solutions on a weakly acid cation exchange resin in H+-form in the chromatographic separation process. The present invention relates also to use of a weakly acid cation exchange resin in H+-form for the chromatographic separation of betaine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: FINNFEEDS FINDLAND OY
    Inventors: Hannu Paananen, Pia Saari, Nina Nurmi
  • Publication number: 20070158270
    Abstract: Simultaneous synthesis and purification of a fatty acid monoester biodiesel fuel from a triacylglycerol feedstock is described. In an exemplary method, the triacylglycerol feedstock is continuously contacted with a catalytic chromatographic bed comprising a first (solid phase) basic catalyst through a first port of a simulated moving bed chromatographic apparatus. A monohydric alcohol and optional second (mobile phase) basic catalyst is continuously contacted with the catalytic chromatographic bed through a second port and pumped in a first direction toward the triacylglycerol feedstock to contact the triacylglycerol in a reaction zone of the catalytic chromatographic bed where the fatty acid monoester and glycerol coproduct are formed. The fatty acid monoester is removed from the reaction zone through a product port of the simulated moving bed apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Doug Geier, John G. Soper
  • Publication number: 20070158271
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for producing customized, predictable and reproducible supplies of radioisotopes using, for example, a reactor housing that is fabricated from a radioactive shielding material and has both an internal volume and a surface that comprises an entry port and an exit port, a chromatographic column that is positioned within said internal volume such that a first end of said column is in fluid communication with said entry port and a second end of said column is in fluid communication with said exit port, and a changeable filter module that is disposed external to said reactor housing and in fluid communication with said exit port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: DRAXIS Health Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Tartaglia, Carlo Coppola, Vince Teoli, Alain Guy Bournival
  • Publication number: 20070158272
    Abstract: A process is described for the treatment of water contaminated by apolar organic compounds and/or by heavy metals, which consists in circulating the water through a system comprising at least two types of zeolites having a silica/alumina ratio >50, placed in succession, wherein the first zeolite through which the water is passed is characterized by a high absorption capacity and structural channel dimensions ranging from 7 to 50 ?, whereas the second is characterized by a high removal capacity of molecules with a molecular diameter comparable with structural channel dimensions ranging from 5 to 7 ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: ENITECHNOLOGIE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Rodolfo Vignola, Umberto Cova, Gino Della Penna, Raffaello Sisto
  • Publication number: 20070158273
    Abstract: A device for treating liquid medium has an ultrasound emitter located relative to a compartment of a container holding a liquid medium and a microbubble emitter located relative to the compartment. The ultrasound emitter emits high-frequency ultrasound between about 200 KHz and 10 MHz. The microbubble emitter emits bubbles with an average diameter of less than 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Cordemans de Meulenaer, Baudouin Hannecart, Yves Canivet
  • Publication number: 20070158274
    Abstract: A system for on site monitoring and controlling the characteristics of a body of water by measuring the water characteristics in a first position and adjusting the water characteristics in a second position through either adding dispensable materials to the water or changing the energy of the water or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Joseph King
  • Publication number: 20070158275
    Abstract: Zero valent iron particles (14) having enhanced surface area are used to treat contaminated groundwater in-situ or above ground. Hollow and/or porous zero valent iron particles (14) having a generally spherical shape and porous surface are produced using a sacrificial substrate (10) and thermal treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Wei-xian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20070158276
    Abstract: A batch treatment system that provides wastewater treatment one batch at a time, rather than a continuous flow process. In a basic embodiment, the batch treatment system incorporates two zones: (1) a solids separation zone, and (2) an advanced oxidation zone. More advanced embodiments add a filtration zone after separation and before advanced oxidation. The batch treatment system is particularly useful in applications such as ships because (1) reduced size and weight requirements, (2) the reduction of sludge and organic solids saves space and energy and disposal costs, and (3) the reduction of odors permits shipboard treatment rather than holding in tanks for later discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: NAVALIS ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Markle
  • Publication number: 20070158277
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide various embodiments of filtration media and in-tank fuel filters suitable for filtration of alternative fuels. In one exemplary embodiment, an in-tank fuel filter generally includes a filter body. The filter body includes an interior and first and second panels of filtration media. The first and second panels of filtration media include needle-punched non-woven filtration media. There is an opening in the filter body for providing fluid communication with the interior of the filter body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Clyde Bachand, Yu Li
  • Publication number: 20070158278
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning and/or sterilizing sand filter is provided. The apparatus comprises at least one sand filter but preferably a plurality. The apparatus comprises a clean water pipe circuit and a backwash water pipe circuit. Preferably connected to the backwash water pipe circuit is a cleaning and/or sterilizing means provider. On a regular basis and/or when it is detected that the efficiency of the filter has decreased below a certain threshold, cleaning and/or sterilizing means are added to the backwash water in order to remove unwanted particles, bacteria, oils and/or greases, metal deposits and the like that previous simple backwashes failed to remove. A method for using the apparatus thereof is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Denis Deschenes
  • Publication number: 20070158279
    Abstract: A rack, which is configured to selectively maintain at least one fork of a lift truck, includes a back, a front opposite the back, a supporting member extending between the back and the front of the rack, and a wedge member. The wedge member extends between the back and the front of the rack such that the wedge member is positioned substantially nearer the supporting member at the back of the rack than at the front of the rack. The supporting member and the wedge member collectively define a storage space for receiving the at least one fork. Fork rack systems and methods for removing, replacing, and/or storing forks provide additional advantages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Jerry Tyree
  • Publication number: 20070158280
    Abstract: A computer server rack system including posts and side walls attached to the posts. The side walls include a plurality of folding rails which are individually movable between a storage position and an inward extending position wherein the rails project in an inward direction into the computer server rack system from the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Aaron Cox, Jason Minyard
  • Publication number: 20070158281
    Abstract: A multi-component divider including a first divider component and a connection mechanism for a second divider component. The second divider component connects to the first divider component when the first divider component is connected to a base. The second divider component extends above the first divider component, thereby extending the overall height of the divider. The base and multi-component divider can be used in locations where there is limited space between shelves, such as a shelf in a freezer or refrigerated display, or in any application where a higher divider may be preferred, but cannot be installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Hardy
  • Publication number: 20070158282
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing articles comprises a plurality of individual article support means for supporting a plurality of articles independent of the side walls of a container. Each article support means comprises a first rack and a second rack. Each one of the racks comprises a first spine and a second spine, each spine having notches for receiving the peripheral surface of the articles. Each rack also has a plurality of openings formed in each rack disposed intermediately to each spine. At least one of the racks has means for coupling the first spine and the second spine to form one of the racks for coupling to the other rack through one of the openings. The racks are coupled so that the spines of one of the racks are oriented approximately ninety degrees to the adjacent spines of the other rack. Coupling means comprises male and female connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Randy Louis Howard
  • Publication number: 20070158283
    Abstract: A supporting device for exhibiting golf clubs enabling the easy dismounting and storing of the golf clubs from and onto the supporting device for exhibition when users actually dismount the golf clubs from the supporting device for exhibition, hold them by hands, and perform test swing which is formed by improving a supporting device comprising a plurality of hook members for hooking the heads of golf clubs thereto and a connection member connecting the hook members to each other, wherein when the clubs are hooked to the hook members, they are always arranged in a specified direction at all times, and the supporting device for exhibition can be minimized in size and manufactured at low cost. The hook members are so formed that the inlets of guide parts suspending the shafts of the clubs are opened in the front direction so that the clubs can be suspended therefrom from the front direction of the supporting device for exhibition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: WAIKEIWAI INC.
    Inventors: Heihachiro Yamamoto, Hitoshi Nishi, Yasushi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20070158284
    Abstract: A bottle support with wall mounting brackets and an elongated element. The elongated element has a multiplicity of receiving voids. The elongated element is secured to a wall with the wall mounting brackets and the elongated element is at an angle of about 0° to about 60° relative to level as defined by a standard bubble level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: David Felder
  • Publication number: 20070158285
    Abstract: The invention is a saddle rack comprised of an upper portion or body upon which the saddle rests, fabricated by plastic mould injection, approximating an equine's back shape and supported by four legs. Bridle and halter may be stored on handles, and baskets provide extra storage space. Numerous embodiments are provided, including embodiments to accommodate either Western or English shaped saddles. Preferably, the body is of webbed or perforated design allowing additional air penetration and ventilation of the underside of a saddle resting on the rack, advantageously providing the saddle a means to dry while being stored. More preferably, racks may be stacked for shipping or display, to save space. Maintenance and cleaning are greatly simplified by durable plastic design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Vern Mann, Karen Mann
  • Publication number: 20070158286
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a storage system comprising of at least one storage receptacle that is suspended by movably coupling the storage receptacle to at least one longitudinally extending track. The storage receptacle may be movably coupled to the track either by coupling members that are coupled to frames, trucks, or the receptacle itself. The storage receptacle is movable along the track between first and second positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Frederick Beurer, Michael Stuart
  • Publication number: 20070158287
    Abstract: Electrically-conductive plastic hangers for supporting a workpiece during an electrostatic coating, plating, treating or other processing operation are described herein. In embodiments, the hangers have a one-piece hanger body made of an electrically-conductive plastic material, a connector portion configured to hang the hanger from a rack or other support and a further connector portion configured to hang a workpiece directly from the hanger. The further connector portion is provided in the form of a closure to seal off a part opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: ENGINEERED PRODUCTS & SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Kissak T. Sarajian
  • Publication number: 20070158288
    Abstract: A display rack comprising a horizontally movable trolley mounted on a track and a rotatable shelf mounted to the movable trolley. The track is mounted between a plurality of upright posts in such a manner that the trolley is horizontally movable between the posts. The track may be oriented so that the trolley moves either from side to side or between the back and front of the display. The shelf is mounted is secured to the trolley so that it is rotatable about a vertical axis that is disposed substantially at right angles to the direction of travel of the trolley. The shelf may be positioned either above or below the trolley and, depending upon the shelf's position, the product is displayed on the upper or lower surface of the shelf. The display shelf may therefore be moved horizontally relative to the upright posts and/or rotated to allow for easier access to the products displayed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: E-B DISPLAY COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Michael S. Rotolo
  • Publication number: 20070158289
    Abstract: The structure of modular shelf rack includes two bar-type side racks, which are standing vertically. The single bar-type side rack is made by a single frame rod, and the upper and lower positioning parts are placed on top and bottom of the two side racks with pre-determined heights. There is a lower stationary rack placed between the bottom of the two side racks, and a hook and vertical blocker is placed on both sides of the lower stationary rack. There is also an upper stationary rack, which is placed between the top of the two side racks, and the slip-on positioning parts are placed on both its sides. The slip-on positioning part is placed vertically to connect the top of the two side racks with the bottom and to position the two side racks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Fang-Yin Chen
  • Publication number: 20070158290
    Abstract: A lifting device comprises four pairs of hoisting cables arranged in a V-shape relative to one another for lifting and lowering a load suspension apparatus at which they engage and which are taken off from drivable cable drums. The free lengths of the hoisting cables of two longitudinal pairs of cables lie in longitudinal planes which are located at a distance from one another, and the free lengths of the hoisting cables of two transverse pairs of cables lie in transverse planes which are located at a distance from one another and which extend at right angles to the longitudinal planes. Two mechanically separate hoists are provided for the hoisting cables of the two longitudinal cable pairs and for the hoisting cables of the two transverse cable pairs, each of the hoists is drivable by its own driving motor, and the driving motors are controlled by a common control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: PETER LERCHENMUELLER, Josef Fitz
  • Publication number: 20070158291
    Abstract: A combination of a FOUP (front opening unified pod) system and a reticle system utilized for the transport of wafers and a reticle system, the latter of which are used for transporting reticles from a first fabrication site to a further site at another location, and which provides for a unified system enabling the automated and trackable delivery of the reticles between these sites. Provided is a modified FOUP base structure, which is adapted to retain a reticle and to be able to employ existing equipment in a fabrication site which only necessitates a minimal modification of the equipment in order to render the latter universally adaptable to the combination of the systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Campbell, David Pinckney, Edward Sherwood, Uldis Ziemins
  • Publication number: 20070158292
    Abstract: A container for holding a fluid that includes a hollow body defining an inner volume and an elastomeric membrane that is integrally formed with the hollow body forming a unitary container having a vent area. The vent area vents the inner volume such that air is selectively permitted to flow into the inner volume through the vent area and the fluid contained in the inner volume is substantially prevented from flowing out of the inner volume through the vent area. The elastomeric membrane is co-molded with the hollow body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Joseph Clark, Richard Chomik
  • Publication number: 20070158293
    Abstract: Bottle package comprising: a bottle having a wall, an EAS label sticked to the bottle wall, an advertising label sticked to the bottle wall, wherein the advertising label covers the EAS label. A recess is formed in the bottle wall, or an embossment is formed in the advertising label to receive the EAS label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Societe JAS HENNESSY ET COMPAGNIE
    Inventor: Jean-Charles Andreani
  • Publication number: 20070158294
    Abstract: A resource-saving neck of a synthetic resin bottle having high resistance to pressure and heat and a high, stable sealing property is provided. The part is aimed at equalizing an effect of thread-formed portions on the crystallization of a molten resin material along the circumferential direction of the part. These objectives are achieved by (1) forming screw threads of a multi-threaded screw structure on the outer surface of the neck wall, each screw thread comprising a main thread, with a starting and ending extension, with a width and height thereof being reduced gradually; (2) disposing the starting extension of a screw thread vertically above the ending extension of another thread; and (3) whitening the entire part by thermal crystallization. Sinks are prevented in the neck wall, and the height can be restricted despite increase in the diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tanaka, Takao Iizuka, Yukio Koshidaka, Kazuhiko Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20070158295
    Abstract: Tamper-evidencing container and closure structures are provided for preventing or for signaling unauthorized access to packaging. These structures provide tamper-evidencing improvements that add to the security and reliability of packaged contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Portola Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lohrman, Mike Ma, Sungsuk Kim
  • Publication number: 20070158296
    Abstract: The invention relates to a closure cap (1) comprising a cap (2) and a cap base (3) in addition to an inlet (9) which is arranged in the base of the cap (3). Said inlet is closed by a membrane seal (4) which can easily be penetrated. Said closure cap also comprises a covering disk (7) which is arranged on the external side of the base of the cap (3) which covers the inlet (9) and the membrane seal (4). The aim of the invention is to produce a closure cap (7) which, according to a manipulation test, enables a container provided therewith to refilled in a precise manner, and whose membrane can be penetrated and which is easier, faster and more simple for the user to recognize. According to the invention, the covering disk (7) is transparent in at least one area covering the membrane seal (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Gunter Krautkramer
  • Publication number: 20070158297
    Abstract: A packing system (8) based on a crown cap shall be modified in such a manner that the consumer maintains in all steps of opening a beverage bottle, in particular a wine or sparkling-wine bottle (1), a high-quality impression of the bottle and its contents. For this purpose, a covering cap (22) provided with a cylindrical casing (23) encircling the crown cap (10) is associated with the crown cap (10). The covering cap (22) is dimensioned in such a manner that its circumferential edge (24) ends flush with the teeth (13) of the crown cap (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Querbach
  • Publication number: 20070158298
    Abstract: The improved lid for containers of the object of the invention that belongs to the type that has an inner body that fits to the container by its external part and a second body in the form of a casing fitted to said inner body encasing it by its external face, and is basically characterised by the fact that the assembly of one body to the other is carried out by means of snap fitting, the inner body having a protrusion on the underside which includes a perimeter cavity into which a rib that comes from the periphery of the external body is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Aniceto CANAMASAS PUIGBO
  • Publication number: 20070158299
    Abstract: A plastic blow molded container (10) is disclosed as including a freestanding base structure (20) that is constructed with good stability against tipping provided by five alternating hollow legs (22) and five curved ribs (34) that alternate, and a hub (41) from which the legs and ribs extend radially with a construction that provides good stability against tipping as well as the capability of withstanding internal pressure. The legs (22) have lower flat feet (24) of truncated wedge shapes with an outer diameter Df, and the hub (41) has a periphery connected to the feet and ribs with a height Hp such that the ratio of the diameter Df over the height Hp is in the range of about 25 to 90 to maintain strength without the hub engaging the supporting surface on which the feet rest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: PLASTIPAK PACKAGING, INC.
    Inventors: William Young, Richard Darr, Dale Behm
  • Publication number: 20070158300
    Abstract: A hollow plastic container with a separately formed handle engaging the sidewall of the container and supported thereby. The handle includes an elongated portion extending upwardly over the major portion of the longitudinal extent of the sidewall and arm portions extending from the elongated portion towards the sidewall for engagement with the sidewall, wherein the sidewall receives the arm portions and holds the handle in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: William Young, Richard Darr, Christopher Kaminski
  • Publication number: 20070158301
    Abstract: To smooth silicon sliders that have been parted from each other on a wafer by DRIE, an isotropic etch using fluorine either in a gas or in an aqueous solution is performed prior to separating the individual sliders from the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Timothy Reiley, Nicholas Buchan
  • Publication number: 20070158302
    Abstract: A system for removing resist from a substrate is configured to apply an ozonated resist stripper to a resist that is to be removed, as well as to direct another gas toward the resist. In a resist removal method, a resist stripper that includes ozone is applied to a resist and another gas is directed toward the resist. Direction of a gas other than ozone at least partially toward the resist may facilitate removal of the resist, such as by causing movement in the resist stripper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Terry Gilton