Abstract: A DC motor (1), in particular for a blower device of a motor vehicle, having a pole housing (10), a plurality of contact elements (13) effecting the bonding to a collector (12), a pole housing opening (16) making it possible to feed electrical connection lines (18) through into the pole housing (10), and an interference suppressor (28, 28.1) serving to reduce and/or eliminate line-conducted electrical interference signals, in which the interference suppressor (28, 28.1) has at least one leadthrough capacitor (48), which is located in an electrical path of at least one connection line (18). The invention further relates to an electrical interference suppressor (28, 28.1) for an electrical device located in a housing, in particular for a DC motor (1) in a pole housing (10), as well as to the use of a leadthrough capacitor (48, 48.1) for interference suppression in a DC motor (1).

Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality link bars, a plurality of magnetic devices, a first module and a second module connected to the first module in a slideable manner. The magnetic devices are disposed at connecting nodes where the link bars are connected to each other. One connecting node of the link bars is fixed at the first module of the electronic device, and another connecting node of the link bars is fixed at the second module of the electronic device. The first and second modules are open and closed in a semi-automatic manner based on magnetic force formed between the magnetic devices disposed at the connecting nodes.

Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine includes teeth assembled from a plurality of stacked laminations mounted on a cylindrical protective surface thereby forming a plurality of slots. The stator also includes an armature winding assembled within the teeth by inserting components of the armature winding into the plurality of stator slots from positions external to the teeth in a manner that facilitates mitigating potential for coil distortion. The armature winding includes a plurality of coils that each include an end winding. The stator further includes a segmented yoke inserted around the armature winding in a manner that facilitates mitigating a potential for disturbing the end winding of the coils. Independently assembling the stator components in this manner facilitates varying a thickness and/or the number of heat conducting laminations between the yoke and teeth that subsequently facilitates heat transfer from the armature winding to an outer pressure casing of the machine.

Abstract: A disk apparatus comprises a rotor frame 221 in which disk holding member is placed on a center of an upper surface of the rotor frame 221, a shaft 222 mounted on a center of the rotor frame 221, a bearing metal 231 which holds the shaft 222, a holder 232 which is disposed on an outer periphery of the bearing metal 231 and which holds the bearing metal 231, a stator 240 disposed on an outer periphery of the holder 232, a magnet 224 fixed to the rotor frame 221 at a location opposed to the stator 240, and a thrust cap 233 fixed to a center of a lower portion of the holder 232. An outer periphery of the lower portion of the holder 232 is swaged and fixed to a motor plate 234, and the shaft 222 is disposed between the disk holding member and the thrust cap 233.

Abstract: A shaft member for hydrodynamic bearing apparatuses having higher dimensional accuracy produced at low costs and a method for producing the same are provided. Moreover, a shaft member for hydrodynamic bearing apparatuses having hydrodynamic grooves processed with high accuracy and a method for producing the same are provided without a large increase in the processing costs. A shaft material 10 integrally having a shaft portion 11 and a flange portion 12 is formed by a forging process, and the cylindricity of a part or the entire outer circumferential surface 11a of the shaft portion 11 is corrected. The end face 11b of the shaft portion of the shaft material 10 and the end face 12b of the flange portion 12 on the opposite side of the shaft portion are ground relative to the corrected face 13 mentioned above, and the outer circumferential surface 10b of the shaft material 10 is ground relative to these end faces 11b, 12b.

Abstract: Provided is a motor shaft supporting structure for reducing noises when a motor operates in a refrigerator. In the motor shaft supporting structure for a refrigerator, a bearing housing supports a motor shaft in an axial direction of the motor shaft. The motor shaft is coupled to a blower fan. A bearing is inserted in the bearing housing for rotatably supporting the motor shaft. An ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) sheet is disposed on a portion of the bearing housing for supporting the motor shaft in the axial direction of the motor shaft.

Abstract: A rotor (7) for induction machines, includes a core (10), apt to face a stator (5) of an induction machine, and an axis (8) that is coaxial with the core (10). The core (10) and the axis (8) are made enbloc, and in that it includes a jacket (11) externally integrally coupled to the core (10), the jacket (11) including conductive metallic matrix incorporating reinforcing fibres (17). Also described is the process for manufacturing such a rotor, and the induction machine employing the rotor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic bearing system for use in a vacuum pump including a rotor provided with a rotary blade. The magnetic bearing system comprises a rotary shaft rotationally holding the rotor, a motor for rotationally driving the rotary shaft, a magnetic levitation section for supporting the rotor relative to a stator through the rotary shaft in a non-contact manner, a rotation detection section for detecting a magnetic pole position of the motor, a rotor-temperature detection section for detecting a temperature of the rotor, a carrier-wave generation section for supplying a common carrier wave to each of a plurality of sensors provided in the magnetic levitation section, the rotation detection section and the rotor-temperature detection section, and an A/D conversion section for sampling a sensor signal output from each of the sensors, in synchronization with the carrier wave.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor for motors, in which motor torque is kept high and generation of torque ripples is reduced, and what is more, detecting accuracy of a magnetic pole position is not deteriorated. A first divided rotor magnetic pole unit 15 and a second divided rotor magnetic pole unit 17 are disposed side by side on a surface of a rotor core 13 in an axial direction of a rotary shaft 11. The first divided rotor magnetic pole unit 15 includes P (P is a positive even number) permanent magnet magnetic pole portions 21 of a first kind and P (P is the positive even number) salient pole portions 23 made of a magnetic material, which are alternately disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotary shaft 11. The second divided rotor magnetic pole unit 17 includes P (P is the positive even number) permanent magnet magnetic pole portions 25 of a second kind which are spaced on another part of the surface of the rotor core 13 in the circumferential direction of the rotary shaft 11.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for enabling permanent magnets constituting the field magnet system of an IPM electric rotating machine to be embedded in a rotor core in a shallower depth. The IPM electric rotating machine is composed of a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and permanent magnets constituting the field magnet system. The rotor core has a side face opposed to the stator, and the permanent magnets are shallowly embedded so that the distance between the pole face thereof and the rotor side face is reduced. Furthermore, two adjacent permanent magnets are intensively spaced so that the following formula holds; 0.3<(Lq?Ls)/Ld, where Lq is the q-axis inductance of the rotor, and Ld is the d-axis inductance thereof.

Abstract: A single field rotor motor comprising a rotor mounted for rotation with respect to a stator. The stator has a plurality of stator poles each having a coil for creating a magnetic pole force. The rotor has a plurality of circumferentially spaced salient rotor poles formed thereon, wherein the flux within the rotor maintains a constant polarity. Magnetic means are provided for creating a pair of magnetic flux fields, wherein interaction of the pair of magnetic flux fields causes the magnetic flux fields to spray radially outward with respect to the rotor, thereby creating uniform magnetic polarity on the rotor poles. Circuit means are provided for alternately charging said stator coils to alternate the polarity of a given stator pole to alternately attract and repel said rotor poles to produce rotation of said rotor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil that extends in an axial direction of the salient-pole machine and is located below a pole shoe on a rotor body. Said machine is characterized in that the field coil is pressed against the pole shoe by means of at least one spring that is provided between the field coil and the rotor body and that an axial cooling channel is created in the gap between the field coil and the rotor body that is formed by the spring. The spring is configured in particular as a bent plate spring.

Abstract: A rotating machine including a stator iron core having a plurality of slots installed in the direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of armature windings alternately inserted and wound round an outer layer of one of the slots and an inner layer of another slot, and a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles for rotating inside the stator iron core and each of the armature windings is composed of a single covered conductor wound and has a leading line on the one-end side of the stator iron core.

Abstract: Both the stator core and the rotor core of a switching pattern AC induction motor are fabricated by soft magnetic material laminations or ferrite material, etc., both of which have corresponding frequency characteristic. The excitation voltage is sine wave pulse width modulated or sine wave pulse amplitude modulated within the frequency range of voice and ultrasonic. Under the condition of the same power output, the present motor reduces its size and mass to a fraction of or tenth of that of an ordinary one. Meanwhile, it reduces the cost of manufacture. It realizes stepless speed regulating from zero to several thousand rpm while keeping well mechanical characteristic performance.

Abstract: A compacted magnetic powder metal component assembly for use in an electrical machine is provided. Each component assembly has a top section and a bottom section. Each top section is comprised of a generally cylindrical center portion, a plurality of winding supports extending radially outward from the center portion and a core segment at a radial edge of each winding support. Each bottom section is comprised of a generally cylindrical center portion, a plurality of winding supports extending radially outward from the center portion, and a core segment in a radial edge of each winding segment support. The top section and the bottom section are combined to form the component assembly.

Abstract: A laminated body of a motor includes: a yoke spirally laminated to form a hollow cylindrical shape; a plurality of teeth protruding from one side edge of the yoke disposed along a longitudinal direction of the yoke and being separated apart at a predetermined distance; a plurality of notch portions on an opposite side edge of the yoke, each of the plurality of notch portions being aligned with each of the plurality of teeth; a stopping protrusion extendingly formed at a protruding end of the teeth in the longitudinal direction of the yoke; and an inclined portion having an inclined surface formed by decreasing a width of the stopping protrusion toward an end of the stopping protrusion so as to reduce cogging torque.

Abstract: A fuel pump includes a pump portion for pumping fuel. The fuel pump further includes a magnet having magnetic poles circumferentially alternate with each other. The fuel pump further includes an armature on a radially inside of the magnet. The armature includes a rotor core provided with a coil formed of a wire. The armature is rotatable for driving the pump portion. A commutator, which is in a substantially disc shape, is provided to an axial end of the armature for rectifying electricity supplying to the coil. The rotor core has an axial end having an outer circumferential periphery defining a commutator-side collar portion extending toward the commutator. The coil is formed by winding the wire between an outer circumferential periphery of the commutator and the commutator-side collar portion.

Abstract: In a motor having a pawl-shaped magnetic pole, if a coil is wound like a ring shape so as to be formed, one leader line can be generally drawn out to an external portion from a position close to an outer periphery of a stator, however, the other leader line is drawn out to the external portion from an inner periphery of the stator. Accordingly, the leader line occupies a part of the inner space formed by the stator core, so that there is generated a problem that a space factor of the coil is reduced. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to improve the space factor of the coil. In order to achieve the object mentioned above, a space passing wirings of a plurality of coils therethrough is provided in a part of the pawl-shaped magnetic pole of the stator core of the stator having the pawl-shaped magnetic pole.

Abstract: In a Lundell type rotor core of a rotor in a vehicular AC generator, each interposing magnet is supported at a base part of each claw-shaped magnetic pole part in an axial direction of the rotor. This configuration prevents the transmission of deformation at a front end part of each claw-shaped magnetic pole part to the interposing magnet during rotation of the rotor at high rotation speed.

Abstract: An apparatus including an actuator configured for controllable deflection, and also including a piezoresistive element integral to the actuator and having first and second piezoresistive portions and a plurality of contacts. One of the plurality of contacts is configured to pass a received feedback signal through the first and second piezoresistive portions. Detection of the actuator deflection is indicated by comparison of the feedback signal as detected via at least one of the plurality of contacts that are interposed by at least one of the first and second piezoresistive portions.

Abstract: A method of producing a surface acoustic wave device includes a sacrificial-layer forming step of forming a sacrificial layer on a piezoelectric substrate so as to cover comb electrodes and reflectors, a space-forming-member forming step of forming a space-forming member while openings are formed near the reflectors along a surface of the sacrificial layer, a sacrificial-layer removing step of removing the sacrificial layer from the openings of the space-forming member, and a resin sealing step of sealing a surface acoustic wave element with sealing resin, the surface acoustic wave element having an excitation protection space formed between the reflectors and the comb electrodes by the space-forming member.

Abstract: An acoustic boundary wave device includes a first medium having piezoelectricity, electrodes that are provided on the first medium and excite acoustic waves, a second medium made of a material different from the first medium and provided on the first medium so as to cover the electrodes, and a third medium that has a heat conductivity higher than that of the second medium and is provided so as to contact an upper surface of the second medium and at least a part of side surfaces of the second medium.

Abstract: A piezoelectric thin-film resonator and a method of manufacturing thereof eliminate and prevent breaking of a piezoelectric thin film, disconnection of electrodes, and other known problems. The piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes a substrate and a suspended portion including a vibrating portion in which a piezoelectric thin film is disposed between a pair of excitation electrodes. At least two film-like supports partially supported on the substrate are provided. The suspended portion is supported by the supports so as to be suspended above the substrate with an air-gap layer therebetween.

Abstract: A thin film piezoelectric actuator comprises a driving part at least one end of which is supported by an anchor portion. The driving part includes: a piezoelectric film, a first lower electrode provided under a first region of the piezoelectric film, a second lower electrode provided under a second region different from the first region of the piezoelectric film, a first upper electrode provided opposite to the first lower electrode on the piezoelectric film, a second upper electrode provided opposite to the second lower electrode on the piezoelectric film, a first connection part that electrically connects the first lower electrode and the second upper electrode via a first via hole formed in the piezoelectric film, and a second connection part that electrically connects the second lower electrode and the first upper electrode via a second via hole formed in the piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a first ceramic sheet having an individual electrode formed thereon, a second ceramic sheet having a common electrode formed thereon, a top ceramic sheet having a surface electrode for the individual electrode and a surface electrode for the common electrode formed thereon, wherein the surface electrode for the common electrode is divided by a plurality of slits into a plurality of electrode-portions each having a area of not more than a predetermined area. Accordingly, when these ceramic sheets are calcinated to be integrated together, this construction makes it possible to lower the affect due to difference in the amount of thermal shrinkage between the surface electrode for the common electrode and the top ceramic sheet, thereby suppressing the arching deformation of the top ceramic sheet.

Abstract: A device including: a housing; a powered element disposed on or in the housing; and an impact power producing element housed on or in the housing and operatively connected to the powered element, the impact power producing element producing power upon an impact of at least a portion of the housing with another surface.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric element, a circuit board on which the piezoelectric element is mounted, an IC component having at least a function of oscillating the piezoelectric element and connected to a bottom face of the circuit board, an insulating section covering at least a part of the IC component, a circuit connection terminal formed on a main surface of the IC component, an internal connection bump formed on the circuit connection terminal and connected to the circuit connection terminal and the bottom face of the circuit board, a functional terminal formed on a main surface of the IC component, a back surface electrode formed on a back surface of the IC component, a penetrating electrode penetrating the IC component from the main surface to the back surface and connecting the functional electrode and the back surface electrode to each other, an external connection bump connected to the back surface electrode, and a mounting terminal formed on a surface of the insulating section, an

Abstract: A piezoelectric thin-film element formed with a niobate lithium potassium sodium thin-film having a well-developed Perovskite structure and having an excellent piezoelectric characteristic. The piezoelectric thin-film 4 is a dielectric thin-film composed of a alkaline-niobic oxide represented by (Nax1Ky1Liz1) NbO3 (0<x1<1, 0<y1<1, 0?z1<1, x1+y1+z1=1) and having a Perovskite structure, and the base dielectric thin film 6 composed of a alkaline-niobic oxide represented by (Nax2Ky2Liz2) NbO3 (0<x2<1, 0<y2<1, 0?z2<1, x2+y2+z2=1) and having a Perovskite structure is provided between the lower electrode 3 and the piezoelectric thin-film 4.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a first ceramic sheet having individual inner-electrodes formed thereon, a second ceramic sheet having a common inner-electrode formed thereon, a third ceramic sheet having individual surface-electrodes formed thereon, and a fourth ceramic sheet having a plurality of connection electrodes connecting the individual surface-electrodes and the individual inner-electrodes respectively. The connection electrodes have first portions, second portions and third portions respectively, the first portions facing the individual surface-electrodes and arranged at a pitch in a row in a row-direction, the second portions facing the individual inner-electrodes and being arranged in the row-direction to be shifted with respect to the first portions by half the pitch respectively; and the third portions connecting the first portions and the second portions respectively.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer with a base body containing a piezoelectric material is disclosed. The piezoelectric material is polarized in an input part of the base body along a first axis and in an output part of the base body along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. In a transition region between the input part and the output part, the polarization of the piezoelectric material gradually changes its direction from a polarization along the first axis to a polarization along the second axis.

Abstract: A multi-layer piezoelectric element having high durability which allows it to increase the amount of displacement of a piezoelectric actuator under high voltage and high pressure and does not undergo a change in the amount of displacement during continuous operation in a high electric field and under a high pressure over a long time period is provided. The multi-layer piezoelectric element comprises a stack of at least one piezoelectric layer and a plurality of internal electrodes consisting of first and second internal electrodes placed one on another, a first external electrode formed on a first side face of the stack and connected to the first internal electrode and a second external electrode formed on a second side face of the stack and connected to the second internal electrode, wherein the bonding strength between the piezoelectric layer and the internal electrode is weaker than the bending strength of the piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes individual inner-electrodes arranged between stacked ceramic sheets, individual surface-electrodes arranged in a row in a row-direction on a top surface of the stacked ceramic sheets, and connection electrodes connecting the individual inner-electrodes and the individual surface-electrodes respectively. The connection electrodes each have a size enough to cover one of the individual surface-electrodes respectively. The individual surface-electrodes and the connection electrodes are connected to each other via inner conduction electrodes filled through holes which are located at mutually different positions in a direction orthogonal to the row-direction of the individual surface-electrodes. With this, it is possible to make the contour of the piezoelectric actuator to be small, and to suppress the arching deformation or warpage of the piezoelectric actuator.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to electronic device housings and may be particularly applicable to portable electronic devices. In an embodiment, an assembly comprises a first housing element that forms a first recess, a second housing element that contacts the first housing element, wherein the first recess faces away from the second housing element and the second recess faces towards the first housing element, wherein the first housing element and the second housing element combine to form an enclosure, and an electronic component within the enclosure. Embodiments of the invention increase shielding of electronic components within the housing and also reduce leakage paths through an interface between elements of the housing.

Abstract: A door through which an authorized person can see into a locked locker. The door can close a locker located in a school, a bus station, an airport, or the like, and the authorized person can be a security guard.

Abstract: A bracing arrangement for a piece of furniture comprises a wire (25) extending diagonally between and around a series of pulleys (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31) placed at strategic points on opposing side panels (20, 21). The ends of the wire are connected to an adjusting mechanism (32) which is fixed to a part (24) of the furniture. Adjustment of the mechanism allows the ends of the wire to be pulled together to tension the wire and brace the structure.

Abstract: A storage cabinet assembly for use in storing firearms or the like includes a cabinet with a recessed bifold door arrangement, to facilitate access to items contained within the cabinet assembly. The door arrangement includes a single-point locking system, which provides a secure arrangement for maintaining the doors in a closed position while providing ease in opening and closing the doors. Various support and storage modules or components are adapted to be contained within the interior of the cabinet, including stock rests for positioning in the bottom of the cabinet interior, as well as barrel rests and pistol supports that are secured to amounting member which may be adjustably positioned within the storage cabinet interior. A bin or shelf arrangement may also be positioned within the storage cabinet interior. The various support and storage modules or components may be used in various combinations, and may be moved to various positions within the storage cabinet interior.

Abstract: A mobile tool chest with a safety device has a chest, a top cover, locking strips and drawers. The chest has a top. The top cover is pivotally attached pivotally to the top of the cabinet. The locking strips are slidably mounted inside the chest and are connected to the top cover and have locking holes and inner surfaces. The locking holes are formed through the inner surfaces of the locking strips. The drawers are mounted slidably in the chest, and each drawer has a rear end and a hook. The hooks are attached respectively to and protrude from the rear ends of the drawers and selectively engage the locking holes in locking strips when the top cover is closed. When the top cover is closed, the locking strips still allow the drawers to push back into the chest and the locking strips still can lock the drawers.

Abstract: A closet system pull-out valet organizer system provides a slidable cabinet having a front, a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a back opposite the front. The cabinet slides along a line perpendicular to the front. A mirror is hingedly attached close to where the second side meets the front, and a door can be hingedly attached close to where the first side meets the back.

Abstract: An equipment cabinet having a corrugation in the side panels is disclosed. The panels are affixed to a base by bolting or welding so as to be disposed opposite each other. Holes are provided in opposing surfaces the so that cross members may be secured in a position between the opposing side panels of the cabinet to form a support structure for equipment, such as batteries. Equipment may also be attached using mounting brackets. An equipment retaining bracket includes a retaining cross member, an L-shaped bracket and a bolt to joint the retaining cross member and the L-shaped bracket so as to secure the battery in two dimensions. Retaining brackets may be provided at the front and the rear surfaces of the equipment and, in cooperation with the cross members, retain the equipment in the cabinet.

Abstract: A crawl space storage and retrieval system is provided which allows a user to maximize the storing of items in a crawl space area and to retrieve stored items therefrom without entering the crawl space area. The storage and retrieval system includes a central hub assembly, a support assembly, and a plurality of edge rail sections. The central hub assembly is formed of a ball-bearing frame assembly disposed between a lower base member and an upper base member. A cover plate is disposed on top of the upper base member. The support assembly is formed of a plurality of platform sections in which each platform section is interconnected to other platform sections and to the upper base member. Each of the plurality of removable edge rail sections is interconnected to a corresponding one of the plurality of platform sections.

Abstract: A drawer rail is used on a table having bottom and a drawer below the bottom of the table with a sidewall, and has a rail device, an auto-returning device and a buffering device. The rail device is mounted with the table and has an inner track attached on the table and having a mounting board and a connecting board and an outer track engaged with the connecting board and immovably attached on the sidewall of the drawer. The auto-returning device is mounted on the rail device and has a base mounted on the connecting board and having an elongated groove, a sliding block movably mounted on the base and a spring mounted in the base. The buffering device is mounted with the auto-returning device, is used to reduce the returning force of the spring and has a jacket and a drive shaft connected with the sliding block.

Abstract: A storage device includes a framework (100) comprising upper (102?, 104?, 106?) members and lower (102, 104, 106) members connected together in a spaced-apart relationship by a plurality of struts (108). The storage device further includes a container-supporting arrangement (210) slidably mounted within the framework, the container-supporting arrangement being moveable between a retracted position configured to store a supported container within the framework, and an extended position configured to position at least part of the supported container outside the framework.

Abstract: A hidden type sliding rail assembly auto locking structure for drawer is disclosed comprised of a holder base, a slide, a coil spring member, a hook, a steel spring strip, a locking block, and an actuating block. When the outer sliding rail is moved outwards with the drawer, the actuating block pushes:the steel spring strip to force the hook against the slide and to further force the locking block into a side notch and stopped at a stop edge at the holder base to prevent disconnection of the locking block, for enabling the coil spring member to return the drawer to the close position. Except the coil spring member, the holder base holds the other parts on the inside and keeps them from sight without the use of a cover, thereby saving much installation labor and time.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a locating structure for slide rail, comprising a guide rail which is a rectangular plate disposed with a respective inward-turn slide groove on both sides of its bottom plate, wherein at least two locating holes at the predetermined locating positions are machined to form on the surface of the bottom plate; a slider which is a short frame whose slide plate on top extends to form a respective slide wing on its both sides corresponding to the slide grooves to form a socketingly connection, wherein a respective receiving hole is manufactured to form on both sides of the slide plate, a spring frame, disposed on the bottom of the slide plate and manufactured to form a ball hole on its bottom to socketingly connected with a rolling ball, extends upward an predetermined length from its both sides, respectively, and then bends inward to form a turn portion, respectively, one of which connects downward with a spring plate whose bottom contacts with the rolling ball and the other of whi

Abstract: A lighting system has a discharge lamp (2), and an associated electronic ballast (1), a printed circuit board (3) on one side bearing outer electrodes for the discharge vessel (5, 6, 7) and on the other side being used for mounting the ballast (1).

Abstract: Provided is a film type filter attached to the front surface of a plasma display panel (PDP) and formed to a thickness of about 100 ?m to about 1500 ?m in order to reduce the rate of process error.

Abstract: An accessory for a fuel burning or processing engine or machine is provided. The accessory comprises a core formed of a material having ferri-magnetic properties. The core is of elongate form and defines a recess adapted to receive a high tension lead. The accessory further comprises a clamping device for clamping the high tension lead and retain it in the recess. The core is retained within a housing formed of a non-ferrous material. The housing is provided with a device for receiving calibrating elements formed of a material with high magnetic permeability at low field strength and low hysteresis loss.

Abstract: Spark plug devices are formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a base resin host. The percentage by weight of the conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination thereof is between about 20% and 50% of the weight of the conductive loaded resin-based material. The micron conductive powders are metals or conductive non-metals or metal plated non-metals. The micron conductive fibers may be metal fiber or metal plated fiber. Further, the metal plated fiber may be formed by plating metal onto a metal fiber or by plating metal onto a non-metal fiber. Any platable fiber may be used as the core for a non-metal fiber. Superconductor metals may also be used as micron conductive fibers and/or as metal plating onto fibers in the present invention.

Abstract: A method for forming cathodes for use in field emission devices using nanoparticles, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), is disclosed. The CNT layer comprises the electron emitting material on the surface of the cathode. Using the methods of the present invention, the density of the deposited CNTs may be modulated by forming emitter islands on the surface of the cathode. The size and distribution of the CNT emitter islands serve to optimize the field emission properties of the resulting CNT layer. In one embodiment, the CNT emitter islands are formed using a screen-printing deposition method. The present invention may be practiced without further process steps after deposition which activate or align the carbon nanotubes for field emission.

Abstract: The invention relates to a Hg-free Lamp, whereby the lamp has an arcluminescence profile of Luminescence (measured in cd/m2)/mm with at least one section, in which said at least section is at least ?0.05 mm and ?0.5 mm, and the slope in Luminescence/mm for said at least one section is ?1300.000.0001 (cd/m2)/mm.