Patents Issued in July 24, 2008
  • Publication number: 20080173467
    Abstract: A dielectric enhancement fluid composition having at least one organoalkoxysilane and an acid catalyst having a pKA less than about 2.1 and a method for using the composition to enhance the dielectric properties of an electrical cable having a central stranded conductor encased in a polymeric insulation and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor, the method comprising at least partially filling the interstitial void volume of the cable with the composition. The fluid composition may further include an organometallic catalyst and a corrosion inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: NOVINIUM, INC.
    Inventors: Glen J. Bertini, Gary A. Vincent
  • Publication number: 20080173468
    Abstract: A wiring substrate comprises: a flexible substrate having a first region and a second region; a wiring line formed on the flexible substrate; and an electronic element that is disposed on the flexible substrate in the first region and electrically coupled to the wiring line. Flexibility of the first region is lower than flexibility of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki HARA
  • Publication number: 20080173469
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring board having a structure in which wiring layers 12A to 12D and insulating layers 11A to 11C are alternately arranged, and in which one or plural kinds of wirings selected from a group of a signal wiring 25 having a signal electrode 15, a power supply wiring 26 having a power supply electrode 16, and a ground wiring 27 having a ground electrode 17 are formed on each of the wiring layers 12A to 12D. The signal wiring 25 and the power supply wiring 26 are alternately provided on the insulating layers. Alternatively, the signal wiring 25 and the ground wiring 27 are alternately provided on the insulating layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Eiichi Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20080173470
    Abstract: A circuit board, in one embodiment a printed wiring board (PWB); in a second embodiment a substrate for an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or Chip Carrier; and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the PWB, ASIC or Chip Carrier includes: (1) a substrate having a conductive trace located thereon and (2) a combined, multi-purpose surface finish utilizing an electroless or electrolytically deposited nickel under-plate finished with a coating of an organic solderability preservative (OSP) and is located on at least a portion of the conductive areas (trace, pad, fingers, etc), which forms both a non-contact finish and a contact finish for the PWB, ASIC or Chip Carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Barbetta, Donna Rae Fawcett
  • Publication number: 20080173471
    Abstract: An element substrate including a substrate and a metal layer formed on the substrate by electroless plating and including a linear portion having a width of 10 nm to 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kaneda, Satoshi Kimura, Hidemichi Furihata, Jun Amako, Daisuke Sawaki, Takeshi Kijima
  • Publication number: 20080173472
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board including a through hole part, an electronic component including a component body and a lead member inserted into the through hole part to be electrically connected thereto, a metal member disposed around and separated from the through hole part, and a solder resist disposed at least around the metal member, at least a part of the component body being mounted on the solder resist
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Minoru Takizawa, Kazuhiko Nagao, Kiyokazu Ishizaki, Kuniyasu Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20080173473
    Abstract: An opening is formed in resin 20 by a laser beam so that a via hole is formed. At this time, copper foil 22, the thickness of which is reduced (to 3 ?m) by performing etching to lower the thermal conductivity is used as a conformal mask. Therefore, an opening 20a can be formed in the resin 20 if the number of irradiation of pulse-shape laser beam is reduced. Therefore, occurrence of undercut of the resin 20 which forms an interlayer insulating resin layer can be prevented. Thus, the reliability of the connection of the via holes can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Naohiro HIROSE, Kouta Noda, Hiroshi Segawa, Honjin En, Kiyotaka Tsukada, Naoto Ishida, Kouji Asano, Atsushi Shouda
  • Publication number: 20080173474
    Abstract: In Electronics, there exists three distinctive areas namely, discrete components or devices, circuits, and systems. A circuit is built from devices and a system is built from circuits. This invention aims at reducing the implementation of electronic systems down to just three steps namely, systems design, printed-circuit-board planar assembly, and systems test when-as a plurality of Universal Systems Printed-Circuit Blocks of pre-defined sizes is used. Each of said Universal Systems Printed-Circuit Blocks being usable and reusable for prototypes and production is built from a printed circuit board having thereon a functional circuit and a variety of circuit patterns and interconnection structures such that, any of said blocks, when joined together with other blocks on the same plane by standard connectors or electrically conductive compounds to form a systems board, can send and receive signals and voltages to and from any other blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Sang Henry Ta
  • Publication number: 20080173475
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding gasket is provided, which is capable of reducing the amount of projection from the inner surface of a first opposing wall having gasket holding holes and is less likely to come off through the gasket holding holes in the direction from the inner surface side toward the outer surface side of the first opposing wall. A communication device as an electronic device has a device body having a plural number of sub-casings and electromagnetic shielding gaskets 1. A first opposing wall 102a disposed on the sub-casing of the device body includes a plural number of gasket holding holes 104 and gasket guiding holes. The electromagnetic shielding gasket 1 has a gasket body 2 and a plural number of fitting parts 4 and come-off stopping parts 3. The fitting parts 4 are guided in the gasket guiding holes and then fitted in the gasket holding holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: UBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teizou Awaji
  • Publication number: 20080173476
    Abstract: Construction of printed circuit boards (PCBs) containing electromagnetic shielding and conductive tubes forming signal lines and/or waveguides. The method of construction calls for forming of grooves through layers of the PCB and coating the interior surfaces of these grooves with conductive material. These conductor-coated groove walls serve as conductive surfaces between embedded conductive surfaces on different layers. The conductive surfaces thus joined form a continuous electrically conductive surface that can be configured to act as an electromagnetic shield. Such conductive surfaces may be configured with internal conductors to act as a signal line, or without internal conductors to act as a waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Martin A. Cotton
  • Publication number: 20080173477
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a film substrate, a plurality of wiring layers arranged in order on the film substrate, and bumps formed on the wiring layers, respectively. Each of the bumps is provided across a longitudinal direction of a corresponding one of the wiring layers so as to extend over regions on both sides of the wiring layer above the insulating substrate, and a cross sectional shape of the bump taken in the width direction of the wiring layer is such that a central portion is higher than portions on both sides of the central portion. Accordingly, the bumps formed on the wiring layers can be held with strength sufficient for practical use against the force applied in the lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Imamura, Nobuyuki Koutani
  • Publication number: 20080173478
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an improved power supply device capable of minimizing its size, keeping a slider from rattling within a protector, and regulating the direction of a wiring harness extending through the protector. The afore-mentioned object can be achieved by a power supply device in accordance with the present invention comprising a guide rail having two concave arch sections, and an convex arch section in continuation with each of the concave arch sections in its both ends, a movable slider guided along the guide rail, and a floating wiring harness fixed to the slider. In the power supply device, the guide rail can be disposed within a protector having an opening through which the wiring harness extends. Further, the slider has two opposing curved surfaces for passing the guide rail therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Kogure, Hisashi Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20080173479
    Abstract: A bridge and cable harness assembly to protect bus bar apparatuses from foreign object exposure and further, electrical shorts. The assembly provides an apparatus that is configured based on the specific arrangement of the bus bar. The user determined how many bridge assemblies are necessary to protect the bus bars. The bus bars and bridges are secured to each other either by apertures in bus bars that accepts protrusions of bridges which are heat staked, or where the bus bars are overmolded into the insulative bridge material. Screws are used to make a final assembly into the board-mounted connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen D. Gherardini, Christopher G. Daily
  • Publication number: 20080173480
    Abstract: A method, device and system for augmenting a traditional drilling or workover rig with automated operational, monitoring and reporting systems. The automation system comprises integratable components of various automated operational systems, combined in a device easily adapted to install into the operational area of a drilling or workover rig, wherein the automated operational systems are dynamically selectable either or both locally or remotely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Pradeep Annaiyappa, Scott Boone, Brian Ellis, Beat Kuttel, John Scarborough
  • Publication number: 20080173481
    Abstract: Disclosed drilling systems offer multiple methods providing access to the open borehole without first tripping the drill string. In some embodiments, a drill bit has a tool port that is blocked by a plug during normal drilling operations. When a tool is deployed through the interior of the drill string, the tool port opens, enabling the tool to enter the borehole beneath the drill string and perform logging or sampling operations. The plug may be attached to the drill bit by a hinge or pivot, or alternatively, the plug may be discarded and a replacement seated in place after the tool is retracted into the drill string. In other embodiments, the drill bit itself is detachable, allowing the bit to be parked in the hole or in a side bore. If desired, the bit can be re-attached by lowering the drill string to the bottom of the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Clive D. Menezes, Daniel J. Krueger
  • Publication number: 20080173482
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a rotary drag drill bit has a body intermediate a shank and a working face. The working face has a plurality of blades converging towards a center of the working face and diverging towards a gauge of the working face. A carbide section is fixed to the working face and positioned within a pocket disposed within an inverted cone of the working face. The carbide section has a distal end exposed within the working face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: David R. Hall, John Bailey, Casey Webb
  • Publication number: 20080173483
    Abstract: An implement adapted to be combined with a prime mover vehicle. The implement comprises a piece of equipment such as a rotary broom sweeper. The implement generally comprises a frame carried by wheels, an axle combined with the wheels, and a hydraulic system that includes a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor. As the prime mover moves the implement, the wheels of the implement turn. The wheels are operatively combined with the hydraulic pump to actuate the flow of hydraulic fluid through the hydraulic system. The hydraulic system actuates the piece of equipment carried by the implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: SWEEPSTER ATTACHMENTS, LLC
    Inventor: EDWARD WALTER PHELPS
  • Publication number: 20080173484
    Abstract: A first motor and a second motor are housed in a case with a power split-integration mechanism and a reduction gear provided therebetween. Each of the first motor and the second motor is assembled from a stator formed by stacking stator members, which are made of the same material which have the same structure and which have the same diameter, and a rotor formed by stacking rotor members which are made of the same material which have the same structure and which have the same diameter such that the thickness of the stator and the rotor corresponds to the power that needs to be output from the motor. Thus, the variety of the components constituting the first motor and the second motor can be reduced, and the efficiency in the assembly and production of the first motor and the second motor can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Umemura, Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Eiji Yanagida, Keiji Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20080173485
    Abstract: A control device for hybrid vehicle is provided with property alter means 88 that is operative based on whether or not an EV running mode is set and alters a given property used for determining demanded output torque TOUTt of a transmission mechanism 10 by referring to an accelerator opening Acc. This suppresses occurrence of engine startup to meet a requirement for the EV running mode to be initiated. The property alter means 88 alters the given property such that during an EV running mode turn-on state, demanded output torque TOUTt determined based on the accelerator opening Acc has a lower value than that set for an EV running mode turn-off state. That is, this causes a drop in sensitivity of demanded output torque TOUTt determined based on the accelerator opening Acc. Thus, the occurrence of engine startup induced upon depressive operation of an accelerator pedal during the EV running mode is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Kumazaki, Tooru Matsubara, Atsushi Tabata
  • Publication number: 20080173486
    Abstract: A power system for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, the power system comprises an electric machine (12) further comprising a first excitation source (47), a permanent magnet rotor (28) and a magnetic coupling rotor (26) spaced from the permanent magnet rotor and at least one second excitation source (43), the magnetic coupling rotor (26) also including a flywheel having an inertial mass to store kinetic energy during an initial acceleration to an operating speed; and wherein the first excitation source is electrically connected to the second excitation source for power cycling such that the flywheel rotor (26) exerts torque on the permanent magnet rotor (28) to assist braking and acceleration of the permanent magnet rotor (28) and consequently, the vehicle. An axial gap machine and a radial gap machine are disclosed and methods of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Publication number: 20080173487
    Abstract: A second electric motor is arranged on a first axis on which an output shaft of the engine is arranged, a transmission is arranged on a second axis which is parallel with the first axis, and a clutch is arranged on the first axis to selectively connect and disconnect the second electric motor and the transmission to and from the engine. Power on the first axis is transmitted to an input shaft of the transmission via a power transmitting mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamada, Atsushi Tabata, Yuji Inoue, Ryuji Ibaraki
  • Publication number: 20080173488
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a battery onto an electric vehicle comprises: a body member forming a body of the electric vehicle; a battery case containing a battery; a supporting member, which is connected to the body member, fixed to a bottom of the battery case; and a clash-proof block connecting between the battery case and the body member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20080173489
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a battery onto an electric vehicle comprises: a body member forming a body of the electric vehicle; a battery case containing a battery; a supporting member, which is projected outward from the battery case and is disposed under the body member, fixed to a bottom of said battery case; and a clash-proof block connecting between the battery case and the body member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20080173490
    Abstract: A regenerative braking coordination device has a braking operating member receiving an input from a driver in the form of an operation amount, an input shaft operable for transmitting the operation amount, and a braking force boosting device operable to generate a hydraulic braking pressure corresponding to the operation amount transmitted by the input shaft. The device further includes a hydraulic pressure braking device to generate a braking force and an operation amount absorber for absorbing the operation amount of the input shaft. The operation amount absorber includes a cylinder, a piston dividing the interior of the cylinder into first and second hydraulic chambers and an orifice connecting the first and second hydraulic chambers. The orifice can be in the piston or in a flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20080173491
    Abstract: A snowmobile having a double A-arm front suspension is disclosed. The double A-arm front suspension includes an upper A-arm, a lower A-arm, and a spindle connecting the skis the upper A-arms and lower A-arms, the connection of the upper and lower A-arms to the spindle define a caster angle, the upper A-arm and the lower A-arm are connected to the front portion of the frame such that the caster angle decreases when the front suspension is compressed. Also disclosed is a snowmobile having a suspension travel of at least 8 inches and a steering assembly having a single pitman arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Bombardier Recreational Products Inc.
    Inventor: Berthold Fecteau
  • Publication number: 20080173492
    Abstract: A snowmobile is disclosed having improved drive train including a continuously variable transmission (CVT) having a drive belt looped around a driving pulley and a driven pulley, and a transversely arranged jackshaft wherein the driven pulley is connected directly onto the outer surface of one end of the jackshaft. The transverse jackshaft is preferably made from a thin-walled hollow tube and the driven pulley is preferably press fitted thereon. A method of assembling a snowmobile drive train is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Xavier-Pierre Aitcin, Joel Pitre, Yan Nolet
  • Publication number: 20080173493
    Abstract: A two-wheeled inverted robot of the present invention includes a body, two wheels coaxially arranged on the body, a drive device for driving each of the wheels, first state detection means for detecting at least one of an inclination angle and an inclination angular speed of the body, second state detection means for detecting at least one of a rotation angle and a rotational angular speed of the wheel, body constraint recognizing means for detecting whether or not body rotation is constrained, and control means for determining a command value to the drive device. Based on the detection result by the body constraint recognizing means, the control means determines the command value for changing a ratio of a torque contributing to the body rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Yuji Adachi
  • Publication number: 20080173494
    Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) may include a central processing unit (CPU); an interface that can engage with at least one vehicle component; and, a lockable ECU cover that covers at least a portion of the ECU and that limits access to the ECU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Chris Lang
  • Publication number: 20080173495
    Abstract: With regard to a tractor having a high-powered engine, universal joints must be enlarged, whereby the attachment work of a power transmission shaft becomes difficult. Furthermore, the kind of the universal joints to be used is limited, thereby being inconvenient. A tractor is constructed so that a transmission casing 23 is arranged in a rear portion of a vehicle body, a front axle casing 25 is arranged in the front portion of the vehicle body, and power from an engine 3 is transmitted from an output shaft 86 supported by the transmission casing 23 through a power transmission shaft 97 to an input shaft 101 supported by the front axle casing 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Komatsu, Keiichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080173496
    Abstract: A method for sound control in a unit of the engine periphery of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, in particular in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine, a sound control signal being generated based on a detected sound emission of the unit and injected into the unit, and the sound control signal is also generated as a function of the operating mode of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Uwe Kassner
  • Publication number: 20080173497
    Abstract: The invention relates to the layered sound absorptive non-woven fabric containing the resonance membrane and at least one another layer (1, 3) of the fibrous material at which the resonance membrane is created by a layer (2) of nanofibres having diameter to 600 nanometers and of surface weight 0.1 to 5 g/m2, at the same time the resonance membrane together with at least one layer (1, 3) of fibrous material is formed by cross laying to the required thickness and surface weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Klara Kalinova, Filip Sanetrnik, Oldrich Jirsak, Ladislav Mares
  • Publication number: 20080173498
    Abstract: A support structure has a first leg, a second leg, eg, a second leg, a third leg and a fourth leg. Each of these legs has a top portion, a center portion, and a bottom portion. The first leg includes a first hinge and a first stop. The first hinge connects the first leg center portion and the second leg center portion. The first hinge allows rotation of the second leg with respect to the first leg. The first leg center portion includes the first stop for limiting the rotation of the second leg with respect to the first leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Bradley James Beyor, Stanley Earl Aylward
  • Publication number: 20080173499
    Abstract: A window blind assembly is provided for use with a roller blind. The assembly comprises a charging element; a retaining element; and an energy storage system operatively connected therebetween. The energy storage system comprises a plurality of springs and the charging system is adapted to rotate relative to the retaining element such that the energy storage system is charged upon closure of the blind and the stored energy is released during the opening of the blind, whereby the opening of the blind is assisted by the release of the stored energy from the energy storage system. The springs are connected in series such that they are axially spaced from each other and adjacent ends of the springs are connected together via a connector located therebetween, wherein the adjacent ends of the springs are each coupled to a respective end of the connector and rotation of one spring relative to the other is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Louver-Lite Limited
    Inventor: Reginald C. Allsopp
  • Publication number: 20080173500
    Abstract: The present invention easily improves the accuracy of connection level alignment between an elevating guide rail and a fixed side guide rail in a path switching device which switches vertically a traveling path of a conveyance carriage or the like via an elevating guide rail, and in an upper and lower path switching device for a traveling body for transportation, including an elevating guide rail supported horizontally by an elevating body, upper fixed guide rails to be connected to the elevating guide rail at a lifted position of the elevating body, and lower fixed guide rails which are connected to the elevating guide rail at a lowered position of the elevating body, the elevating guide rail is supported movably vertically in a predetermined range with respect to the elevating body, and receiving members for receiving the elevating guide rail at a level at which the elevating guide rail is connected to the lower fixed guide rails before the elevating body reaches a lower limit thereof are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshio Shimizu, Teruaki Nabeta
  • Publication number: 20080173501
    Abstract: The invention provides for a transport system and method of using the transport system. The transport system may include a transport track; and a platform assembly that transports along the transport track, the platform assembly including (1) a cargo platform; and (2) a pair of drive pinion trucks mounted on opposing sides of the cargo platform, each drive pinion truck engaged with the transport track for movement along the transport track. The drive pinion trucks may be provided with a leveling system to provide leveling of the cargo platform during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Lloyd L. ELLISON, Timothy S. Smith, Kenneth A. Comeau
  • Publication number: 20080173502
    Abstract: The present invention presents a method and a system for the positioning of the elevator car and the door of the elevator in the condition monitoring system. In the method the accelerations of the elevator car and the door of the elevator are measured with sensors. By integrating the acceleration information two times in relation to time the position information is determined. When the condition monitoring system detects a fault, forecasts a malfunction occurring in the future or detects a significant change in the operation of the elevator or in the measuring signals related to the elevator, it is possible to attach to this information the location of the fault or event i.e. the position of the elevator or the position of a door of a certain floor level on the slide path. The position information can be synchronized to a separate reference point by means of a positioned switch by making an adjustment to the position information at the reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tapio Tyni, Pekka Perala, Nils-Robert Roschier, Simo Makimattila
  • Publication number: 20080173503
    Abstract: A frame for a lift, such as a double-decker lift, has at least one cage carried by a common, rectangular frame. The frame consists of an upper yoke, a center yoke, a lower yoke and side panels. First roller guides are provided for each lift guide rail ends of the frame longitudinal side or at the upper and lower yokes. A second roller guide for each guide rail is provided at the center yoke. The second roller guides improve the stiffness and increase the natural frequency of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: MARCO SCHUPFER
  • Publication number: 20080173504
    Abstract: A device for the brake application of a motor vehicle comprising a master cylinder and a pneumatic brake booster, with one of the pistons of the master cylinder having a stepped design with two differently sized hydraulically active effective surfaces, and change-over of the effective surfaces takes place by means of a valve assembly upon failure of the brake booster. An annular chamber, delimited by the stepped piston and the housing, is connectable by means of the valve assembly either to the pressure chamber associated with the stepped piston or to a pressure fluid reservoir. The valve assembly comprises a first and a second valve, which are switchable depending on the pressure of the working chamber of the brake booster. The first valve in its activated position connects the pressure chamber to the annular chamber, and the second valve in its activated position closes the connection between the annular chamber and the pressure fluid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Peter Drott, Michael Vogt, Stephan Krebs
  • Publication number: 20080173505
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a brake lever, a caliper brake, brake cable, and mounting bracket which mounts the caliper brake so that a wheelchair user's assistant can control the wheelchair wheel yet does not interfere with propulsion of the wheelchair by the user by rotating the wheelrim. One embodiment bracket has integral construction with a flange for connection to the wheelchair, a web, and a shoulder for connection to the caliper brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: James Robert Breakwell, James Veach Breakwell
  • Publication number: 20080173506
    Abstract: An opening and closing member with a rotary damper for use in a western style stool or piano and the like which facilitates easy control of the rotary damper and easy assembly. Hinge members corresponding to an opening and closing member side are adjacently disposed at the same side of respective hinge members on a side of a proper member. The rotary damper having a particular directivity is disposed between hinge members facing each other. The opening and closing member is swivellably journalled on the proper member about an axis of rotation of the rotary dampers, and the damping power of the rotary damper is applied to the swiveling motion as the opening and closing member swivels with the rotary damper on its axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Nobutaka Yajima
  • Publication number: 20080173507
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a notebook or laptop or tablet computer case that can also be used as a ventilated and/or insulating platform for supporting a computer during use, on either a lap or desk or table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: The Janssen Boas Company, a Corporation of the State of New York
    Inventor: Noah Janssen
  • Publication number: 20080173508
    Abstract: Description of a hydraulic control system (1A) for a hydrodynamic torque converter (1) with a controlled torque converter lockup clutch (2) of an automatic transmission for controlling a supply pressure (p_WD_zu) of the torque converter (2) and a supply pressure (p_WK_zu) of the torque converter lockup clutch (2). The torque converter lockup clutch (2) is engaged when the supply pressure (p_WD_zu) of the torque converter (1) is lower than a predefined pressure level of the supply pressure (p_WK_zu) of the torque converter lockup clutch. A converter pressure valve (WDV) is provided for controlling the supply pressure (p_WD_zu) of the torque converter (1), and a converter coupling valve (WKV) for controlling the supply pressure (p_WK_zu) of the torque converter lockup clutch, where their valve slides (WDV_S, WKV_S) can be acted upon by at least one pre-control pressure (p_VS) and one system pressure (p_sys).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Georg Gierer, Thilo Schmidt, Tobias Rolser
  • Publication number: 20080173509
    Abstract: In a torque converter, a piston mounted on a turbine hub, sealed on the turbine hub, having a first friction surface at a radially outer portion of the piston, a first drive ring having a second friction surface and a third friction surface, the second friction surface arranged to engage the first friction surface, the first drive ring having means for connecting to the piston and for connecting the first drive ring to an elastic member of a damper, a second drive ring having a fourth friction surface and a fifth friction surface, the fourth friction surface arranged to engage the third friction surface of the first drive ring, means for connecting the second drive ring and the casing while permitting axial displacement of the second drive ring relative to the casing, the casing having a sixth friction surface which engages the fifth friction surface of the second drive ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG
    Inventors: Kevin Parks, Craig Kneidel
  • Publication number: 20080173510
    Abstract: Disclosed is a torque converter, which comprises at least two thrust bearings disposed on respective axially-opposite sides of a radially-inward portion of a stator. The stator includes a non-rotatable member, a rotatable member and a one-way clutch. The rotatable member has a cylindrical portion having an inner peripheral surface interlocked with the one-way clutch, and an extension portion which extends from an approximately axially-central region of the cylindrical portion in a radially-outward direction relative to the cylindrical portion, and has an axial thickness less than that of the cylindrical portion. The thrust bearings are disposed to clamp the extension portion from respective axially-opposite sides of the extension portion at respective positions located radially outwardly relative to the cylindrical portion, so as to facilitate reduction in axial dimension of the torque converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tokimori Saka
  • Publication number: 20080173511
    Abstract: A supporting structure for a one-way clutch supports the one-way clutch arranged between a stator of a torque converter for transmitting a torque from an engine to a transmission side via a fluid and a shaft at the transmission side. The supporting structure includes a first protrusion and a first contact plate. The first protrusion is provided at an inner periphery of the stator and protruding towards an inner-peripheral side of the stator. The first contact plate is fitted between the one-way clutch and the first protrusion of the stator and supports the one-way clutch while restraining an axial movement of the one-way clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: EXEDY Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito MAEDA, Ryousuke Iida
  • Publication number: 20080173512
    Abstract: A fluid transmission device comprises: a cover member coupled to a drive shaft; a converter mechanism constituted by a pump impeller coupled to the cover member, a turbine runner connected to a driven shaft, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, a converter chamber through which a working fluid flows being formed in the interior thereof; a lockup mechanism having a clutch piston provided in a lockup chamber that is surrounded by the cover member and the turbine runner, which engages and disengages the drive shaft and driven shaft by supplying a control fluid to a clutch oil chamber surrounded by a back surface of the clutch piston and the cover member; an inlet passage for leading the working fluid into the lockup chamber from the outside; a communicating passage for leading the working fluid into the converter chamber from the lockup chamber; and an outlet passage for leading the working fluid to the outside from the converter chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimi KANEKO, Yasuhiro MORIMOTO, Yoshimichi TSUBATA, Shoji NOMURA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20080173513
    Abstract: A viscous fan drive with a front-mounted fan and electrical actuation without a tethered harness. The mechanical package includes an inverted viscous clutch, a drive pulley, a split electromagnetic actuator with the electrical portion mounted to a stationary mounting member. Enhanced cooling can be provided with breather openings in the pulley, breather slots in the body member, and fins in the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Rick L. Boyer
  • Publication number: 20080173514
    Abstract: An external-control-type fan coupling device is provided and has no restriction on the layout or positional relationship of an electromagnetic coil and a valve element of the device. As a result, the casing and the valve structure of the device can be simplified. Additionally, the design prevents leaking of oil and leaking of magnetism without adversely affecting performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited
    Inventors: Ken Shiozaki, Shigeyuki Serizawa
  • Publication number: 20080173515
    Abstract: A selectively engageable friction mechanism such as a brake assembly including hard anodized brake disks having a single cross section and a bias assembly including a single spring, in the preferred embodiment such spring being a belleville spring
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: White Hydraulics, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Daigre
  • Publication number: 20080173516
    Abstract: In a friction plate 40, segment pieces 42 of a friction material are bonded onto a core plate 40 at intervals in a circumferential direction. 43 denotes a spline tooth. On each segment piece, there are formed a first oil groove which is made to open to an inside-diameter side of the segment piece and has its end portion part-way along the segment piece (hereinafter, referred to as a first oil groove) and a second oil groove which is made to open to an outside-diameter side of the segment piece and has its end portion part-way along the segment piece (hereinafter, referred to as a second oil groove). Segment pieces in which a first oil groove 51 and second oil grooves 61 are pressure molded and segment pieces in which a first oil grooves 52 and second oil grooves 62 are stamped are arranged alternately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: NSK-WARNER KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi HIRAYANAGI