Patents Issued in November 20, 2008
  • Publication number: 20080283137
    Abstract: A safety line hose to which a worker can be attached and which includes a passageway for communicating an air compressor with a pneumatic tool. The safety line hose can include an elongated flexible pneumatic hose, an elongated flexible tubing enveloping the pneumatic hose, and an elongated, flexible, wear resistant sheath enveloping the tubing. A compressor air hose connector or other suitable attachment is attached to the end of the pneumatic hose located at the first end of the safety line hose, and can be adapted to be connected to the outlet of an air compressor hose or other source of air such as the air compressor itself. A pneumatic tool connector can be attached to the end of the pneumatic hose located adjacent the second end of the safety line hose, and can be adapted to be connected to a pneumatic tool. A fastening member can be attached to the first end of the safety line hose and can be adapted to be releasably fastened to a safety line attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Willie M. Davis, JR., Geneva M. Franks, Scotty R. Randall
  • Publication number: 20080283138
    Abstract: A flexible, typically un-bonded, armoured pipe, and a method manufacturing a flexible pipe. The pipe has a center axis and comprises an inner liner surrounded by a radial armouring and an axial armouring, the radial and axial armouring each comprising at least one armouring layer of armouring profiles wound with winding angles ?i relative to the center axis. The winding angle of the innermost armouring layer ?innermost is larger than the winding angle of the outermost armouring layer ?innermost. The outer radial armouring layer has sufficient strength and flexibility to prevent prohibitively large radial deformations of underlying axial armouring layers without considerably increasing the radial contact pressure on underlying axial armouring layer. At least one fibrous layer, comprising at least two fibrous cords wound on an underlying layer, surrounds the outermost armouring layer. The flexible pipe is useful in terrestrial and/or subsea transport of fluids at elevated temperature and/or pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Jan Rytter
  • Publication number: 20080283139
    Abstract: A flexible pipe (1) for transporting abrasive slurry, comprising a -tubular body (2) of a flexible polymer, such as rubber, and a multitude of coaxial, wear-resistant rings (3, 4, 5, 5) provided in the polymer along the length of the tube, wherein said rings and said tubular body have at least substantially the same internal diameter, and wherein thickness of the rings near their inner circumference is smaller over at least part of their circumference than the thickness of the rings near their outer circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Dirk Knol
  • Publication number: 20080283140
    Abstract: Seam fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper or paperboard, includes a basic structure constructed as seam cloth with weft threads running in a belt longitudinal direction and warp threads running in a belt transverse direction. At the belt longitudinal ends the weft threads form seam loops for joining the belt longitudinal ends. At least two weft thread layers are formed in the seam cloth, and weft thread pairs include respectively one weft thread of a first of the weft thread layers and one weft thread of a second of the weft thread layers. Two different types of groups of weft thread pairs are formed. In a first type of groups of weft thread pairs one respective weft thread of the first of the weft thread layers lies offset in a first direction in relation to the pair-wise assigned weft thread of the second of the weft thread layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Johan Einarsson
  • Publication number: 20080283141
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of dissolving a gaseous hydrocarbon into a liquid hydrocarbon to re-circulate gaseous components, which have separated from the liquid fuel mixture, back into the liquid fuel mixture, as well as, a method for making batch or continuous process amounts of mixed hydrocarbon fuels. The mixed hydrocarbon fuel is produced by introducing a volume of a liquid hydrocarbon into a vessel, and introducing a volume of a gaseous hydrocarbon into the vessel by bubbling the gaseous hydrocarbon into the liquid hydrocarbon at a gravitational low point of the vessel such that the bubbled gaseous hydrocarbon is dissolved into the liquid hydrocarbon to produce a liquid fuel solution. The vessel may be a mixing tank from which the liquid fuel is pumped into a vehicle fuel tank, or the vessel may be the vehicle fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: William H. Sutton, Carlos Borras, Mauricio A. Sanchez, Richard G. Mallinson
  • Publication number: 20080283142
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for delivering biomass fuel to a structure through an external wall of the structure is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a hopper disposed within a delivery vehicle. The hopper includes an inlet disposed on its top surface to receive biomass fuel and an outlet located proximate the bottom of the hopper to release the fuel by opening a gate valve. A delivery hose is connected to the hopper outlet at one end and is sealably connectable at its other end to an externally accessible coupling disposed on an external wall of the structure to which fuel is to be delivered. The coupling is connected on the interior side of the external wall to a delivery pipe that connects to a fuel bin for storing the biomass fuel. Sensors within the bin can signal the operator when the level of fuel within the bin reaches a preselected level, allowing the operator to stop delivery when the bin is full.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Charles J. Steffl, Joel W. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20080283143
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing apparatus that enables liquid for drawing liquid from a bottle into an oral syringe without inverting the bottle includes a tubular cap member for insertion into the mouth of a bottle. The cap member defines upper and lower openings connected by a bore. The device includes an elongate tube having an upper end connected to the cap lower opening and a lower end positionable adjacent a bottom wall of a bottle. A plunger is positioned within the bore of the cap member and is movable between a retracted configuration that closes the tube upper end and an extended configuration positioned within the tube. The plunger also defines an aperture through which liquid from the tube may flow into the plunger when the plunger is at the extended configuration. Liquid may be drawn from the plunger when an oral syringe is inserted into the cap member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Travis McKibbin, Nicholas L. Jensen
  • Publication number: 20080283144
    Abstract: Combined device to feed and compact preset doses of ground coffee or other similar substances including the combination of two operating devices (A, B): the first equipment (A) consisting of a measuring screw (1) in upright position, the second equipment (B) consisting of a compacting piston (2, 2?) in oblique position that stands perpendicular to the lying concavities (5), which are geometrically congruent with the morphology of the doses to be compacted inside the dies (4) located on a polygonal conveyer (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Aroma System SRL
    Inventor: Gino Rapparini
  • Publication number: 20080283145
    Abstract: A standalone ice dispenser delivers ice in either bagged form or bulk form to a user. The device uses a cone-shaped drum with an upwardly oriented mount that receives and stores the ice which ice is gravitationally delivered to the drum from an ice maker. When ice is to be dispensed, a motor rotates the drum such that a fin within the drum cause ice therein to advance toward and eventually out of the mouth of the drum into either a bagging system or directly out of the device via a chute. Weight sensors attached to the drum determine whether the drum is relatively empty or relatively full and control operation of the ice maker as a result and/or a proximity sensor measures the volume of ice in the drum and controls the operation of the ice maker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Tim Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20080283146
    Abstract: A bypass for a tube set for directing the flow of a fluid component includes an inlet passage for fluid connection with a source of said fluid component, an outlet passage for fluid connection with a first bag compartment, and a bypass passage for fluid connection with a second bag compartment. A flow control device in the bypass passage is operable in a first position in which the flow control device seals the bypass passage, and a second position in which the flow control device unseals the bypass passage to receive a tubing line connected with said second bag compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: B.Braun Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel Bartholomew
  • Publication number: 20080283147
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a router including a motor housing for at least partially enclosing a motor, a base having a sleeve for receiving the motor housing therein. The base is constructed to at least partially support the motor housing on a workpiece. The router additionally includes an electrical switch disposed substantially in a quadrant, defined by a first axis extending through generally opposing handles, and a second axis, extending normal to the first axis, and generally bisecting the motor housing, of the motor housing. Preferably, the electrical switch is disposed in the range of 30° (thirty degrees) to 60° (sixty degrees) from the second axis and particularly at approximately 45° (forty-five degrees) to allow for comfortable grasping of the motor housing/base, easy repeatable switch manipulation, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Randy G. Cooper, Mark A. Etter, Greg K. Griffin, Ginger L. Allen, Derrick Kilbourne
  • Publication number: 20080283148
    Abstract: A tool for luthiers comprising a main slide bar; router or rotary tool attachment piece; and two slotted clamps; wherein the main slide bar comprises a first channel that runs longitudinally from the first to the second end of the main slide bar and that comprises a lip that extends around the perimeter of the channel and that is carved out at the front end of the main slide bar to allow various parts to be inserted into the channel; wherein each side surface of the main slide bar comprises a second channel that runs longitudinally from the first to the second end of the main slide bar; wherein each end of the slotted clamps fits into the second channel via a recess in the side surface; and wherein the router or rotary tool attachment piece comprises a third channel that fits over the main slide bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Daryl Hinther
  • Publication number: 20080283149
    Abstract: An apparatus for surfacing a flitch by cutting material from its radially outer surface to prepare the flitch for veneer slicing or other uses. The apparatus comprises a cutterhead rotatable about a cutterhead axis. The apparatus further comprises a carriage comprising a ring that rotates about a carriage axis and a pivot arm that carries the cutterhead and is coupled to the rotatable ring for pivoting movement about a pivot arm axis. The apparatus further comprises a flitch contour accommodation device coupled to the pivot arm and to the cutterhead to permit rotation of the cutterhead about a device axis that is generally transverse to the cutterhead axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel J. Rastatter, Jurgen F. Trost
  • Publication number: 20080283150
    Abstract: A cutter insert for a tree stump milling cutter or the like with a milling tooth having a milling tooth head and a shaft. The shaft has two lateral faces extending in an advancement direction of the milling tooth, and the milling tooth head has a protrusion, which projects past the shaft in the advancement direction and has a support face. A high degree of operational dependability and service life result with such a cutter insert if the shaft has a neck projecting opposite the advancement direction, which is arranged at a distance from the support face of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Wolfgang Essig, Thomas Wohrstein
  • Publication number: 20080283151
    Abstract: A warp stable wood product and methods for detecting the same are provided. The wood product may be sorted based on its morphology, microstructure, macrostructure, and/or chemical composition properties being substantially symmetric relative to at least one or more cross-sectional centroids of the wood product, thereby imparting warp stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Weyerhaeuser Co.
    Inventors: Stanley L. Floyd, Chih-lin Huang, Mark A. Stanish, John E. Jones, III, Susan K. Kaluzny, Thomas J. Taylor, Philip Latos
  • Publication number: 20080283152
    Abstract: A rinse conditioner bath that comprises a Jernstedt salt and a soluble iron is disclosed. A method for treating a substrate with the disclosed rinse conditioner bath as well as a zinc phosphate solution is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Greene, Donald R. Vonk, Michel Sudour, Mark W. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20080283153
    Abstract: A gas injector including in which a gas is passed through high-voltage/low-current electrical discharges before being discharged into the chamber of a thermal treatment furnace. The electrical activation of the gas accelerates desirable reactions between the gas, gases in the furnace chamber, and the chamber workload. Preferably, a hot electrode is electrically charged and the other parts of the gas injector and the furnace are grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Ellsworth Knorr, JR., John Lewis Green
  • Publication number: 20080283154
    Abstract: The present invention provides hot dip galvanized high strength steel sheet excellent in plating adhesion and hole expandability and a method of production of the same, that is, hot dip galvanization steel sheet excellent in plating adhesion and hole expandability containing, by mass %, C: 0.08 to 0.35%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.8 to 3.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.25 to 1.8%, Mo: 0.05 to 0.35%, and N: 0.010% or less and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said hot dip galvanized high strength steel characterized in that the steel sheet has a metal structure having ferrite, bainite, by area percent, 0.5% to 10% of tempered martensite, and, by volume percent, 5% or more of residual austenite, and a method of production comprising annealing by a continuous annealing process at 680 to 930° C. in temperature, then cooling to the martensite transformation point or less, then hot dip galvanizing the steel during which heating the steel to 250 to 600° C., then hot dip galvanizing it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Hirokazu Taniguchi, Kenichiro Matsumura, Toshiki Hattori, Satoshi Kato
  • Publication number: 20080283155
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for stabilizing lithium metal powder. The method comprises the steps of heating the lithium metal powder to above its melting point to provide molten lithium metal, dispersing the molten lithium metal, and contacting the dispersed molten lithium metal with a phosphorous-containing compound to provide a substantially continuous protective layer of lithium phosphate on the lithium metal powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Marina Yakovleva, Yuan Gao, Yangxing Li
  • Publication number: 20080283156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a part having very high mechanical properties from a hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel strip, comprising precoating said strip with aluminum or an aluminum alloy, cold deformation of the coated strip, possible cutting of the excess sheet with a view to the final geometry of the part, heating of the part so as to form an intermetallic compound from the steel/precoat interface and to austenitize the steel, transfer of the part to a tool and cooling of the part in the tool at a rate such that the steel has, after being cooled, a martensitic or bainitic structure or a martensite-bainite structure. The precoating is carried out by electroplating, by chemical or physical vapor deposition or by co-rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: ARCELOR France
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Laurent, Jacques Devroc
  • Publication number: 20080283157
    Abstract: Production of hot dipped hot rolled steel strip by producing steel strip by casting by a thin slab continuous casting process and hot rolling, said steel strip containing, by mass %, C: 0.03% or more, Si: 0.02% or more, Mn: 0.15% or more, and Ca: 0.001% or more by heating it to a peak maximum steel strip temperature of 550° C. to less than 650° C. by a temperature elevation rate of 25° C./sec or more for 15 sec or more for oxidation, heating it to a peak maximum steel strip temperature of 700° C. to 760° C. so that the time when the steel strip temperature is 570° C. or more is 25 sec to 45 sec for reduction, then hot dipping it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Makoto Katsube, Masayuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20080283158
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing high tensile strength steel plate having 570 MPa (N/mm2) or larger tensile strength and having also extremely superior balance of strength and toughness both before PWHT and after PWHT to that of the conventional steel plates, by specifically specifying the temperature-rising rate at the plate thickness center portion of a quenched and tempered material during tempering, and to be concrete, the method has the steps of: casting a steel consisting essentially of 0.02 to 0.18% C, 0.05 to 0.5% Si, 0.5 to 2.0% Mn, 0.005 to 0.1% Al, 0.0005 to 0.008% N, 0.03% or less P, 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Akihide Nagao, Kenji Oi
  • Publication number: 20080283159
    Abstract: A method of fabricating soft copper alloy wire having flexure resistance and heat resistance, includes casting a molten alloy of a copper alloy including 10 mass ppm or less of oxygen, and 0.005 mass % to 0.6 mass % of indium, at a predetermined temperature, to provide a cast bar of the copper alloy having equiaxed crystal, rolling the cast bar of the copper alloy having equiaxed crystal to provide a rolled copper alloy, and conducting a cold drawing and annealing on the rolled copper alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigi Aoyama, Yuju Endo, Hiroyoshi Hiruta
  • Publication number: 20080283160
    Abstract: A bent pipe corresponding to at least API X100 grade and having a base metal with high strength and toughness and a weld metal with high toughness is provided. A steel plate prepared by cooling after hot rolling at a cooling rate at the central portion in the plate thickness direction of at most 5° C. per second at 700-500° C. is formed into a bend mother pipe, which is then heated to 900-1100° C. and subjected to bending, then it is cooled to a temperature of at most 300° C. at a cooling rate in the central portion of the thickness direction of at least 5° C. per second at 700-500° C., after which it is tempered at 300-500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiko Hamada
  • Publication number: 20080283161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high strength seamless steel pipe excellent in hydrogen-induced cracking resistance, characterized by consisting of, by mass %, C: 0.03-0.11%, Si: 0.05-0.5%, Mn: 0.8-1.6%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.003% or less, Ti: 0.002-0.017%, Al: 0.001-0.10%, Cr: 0.05-0.5%, Mo: 0.02-0.3%, V: 0.02-0.20%, Ca: 0.0005-0.005%, N: 0.008% or less and O (Oxygen): 0.004% or less, and the balance Fe and impurities, and also characterized in that the microstructure of the steel is bainite and/or martensite, ferrite is precipitated at grain boundaries and yield stress is 483 MPa or more. Further, to ensure high strength of the steel, the seamless steel pipe preferably contains, by mass %, at least one of Cu: 0.05-0.5% and Ni: 0.05-0.5%. To produce the above-mentioned steel pipe, it is desirable to limit a starting temperature of quenching after rolling, a cooling rate and a tempering temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Nobutoshi Murao, Nobuyuki Hisamune, Hajime Osako, Kunio Kondo
  • Publication number: 20080283162
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-strength titanium alloy golf club head part includes making at least one golf club head part with a titanium alloy. The golf club head part is then heated to a temperature higher than a critical temperature of generating martensite and maintained above the critical temperature not more than thirty minutes. The golf club head part is then cooled to a temperature below the critical temperature at a cooling rate higher than 10° C./s. Next, the golf club head part is heated to a heat-treatment temperature higher than 450° C. and maintained at the heat-treatment temperature at least one hour. The golf club head part is then cooled to room temperature. The mechanical characteristics of a golf club head formed by the golf club head part are enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Ming-Jui Chiang
  • Publication number: 20080283163
    Abstract: Aluminum alloy products about 4 inches thick or less that possesses the ability to achieve, when solution heat treated, quenched, and artificially aged, and in parts made from the products, an improved combination of strength, fracture toughness and corrosion resistance, the alloy consisting essentially of: about 6.8 to about 8.5 wt. % Zn, about 1.5 to about 2.00 wt. % Mg, about 1.75 to about 2.3 wt. % Cu; about 0.05 to about 0.3 wt. % Zr, less than about 0.1 wt. % Mn, less than about 0.05 wt. % Cr, the balance Al, incidental elements and impurities and a method for making same. The invention alloy is useful in making structural members for commercial airplanes including, but not limited to, upper wing skins and stringers, spar caps, spar webs and ribs of either built-up or integral construction. The invention alloy may be aged by 2 or 3 step practices while exceeding the SCC requirements for applications for which the invention alloy is primarily intended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Gary H. Bray, Dhruba J. Chakrabarti, Diana Denzer, Jen Lin, John Newman, Greg Venema, Cagatay Yanar
  • Publication number: 20080283164
    Abstract: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, exemplary embodiments are provided of covers for hand-held consumer electronic devices. In one particular embodiment, a roll-on cover generally includes elastomeric material configured to be unrolled to snugly fit over and conform to an outer surface portion of a hand-held consumer electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Mark Noonan
  • Publication number: 20080283165
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread rubber comprising layers each formed by overlap winding a rubber tape. The rubber tape in each layer has a conductive part in the longitudinal direction of the tape and the remaining less-conductive part, wherein the conductive part is wound at least once around the tire. In the radially outermost layer, the conductive part is exposed in the tread surface by a total axial width WU of at least 1.0 mm. In the radially innermost layer, the conductive part appears in the radially inner surface so as to be electronically connected to a conductive underlying structure by a total axial width WL of at least 1.0 mm. Between the radially adjacent layers, the conductive part in the radially outer layer is connected to the conductive part in the radially inner layer by a total axial width WM of at least 1.0 mm. Preferably, the rubber tape is made of mainly a silica rich compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Mafune, Hideo Nobuchika
  • Publication number: 20080283166
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire with tread grooves comprises: building a green tire, and vulcanizing the green tire in a mold, wherein the building of the green tire includes making a tread rubber by overlap-winding a raw rubber tape, and the mold is provided with protrusions for molding the tread grooves on the tread rubber. During vulcanizing the green tire in the mold, one of the protrusions is positioned radially outside an end of the raw rubber tape so that the end is relatively pressed radially inwards of the tire by the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Mafune, Masayuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20080283167
    Abstract: An off-road motorcycle tire having a block pattern comprising a plurality of blocks 11 defined by tread grooves 10, each block 11 having a circumferential profile 16 of top surface 12 in the form of a straight line or a circular arc having a radius Ra of curvature of at least 500 mm, in which the circumferential profile denotes a profile in the circumferential section which passes through the centroid G of the top surface 12 and is parallel to the tire equatorial plane Cc. According to the invention, the ground contact pressure at the periphery of the top surface of blocks 11 is prevented from lowering to enhance the edge effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Sadahiko Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20080283168
    Abstract: A tire (2) according to the present invention includes a tread (4), a pair of beads (8), and a carcass (10) having a radial structure. The carcass (10) has a first ply (32) and a second ply (34). The first ply (32) has a first cord. The first cord is formed by twisting three yarns. The yarn is constituted by an aramid fiber. A fineness of the yarn is equal to or higher than 800 dtex and is equal to or lower than 1100 dtex. The second ply (34) has a second cord. The second cord is formed by twisting three yarns. The yarn is constituted by the aramid fiber. A fineness of the yarn is equal to or higher than 800 dtex and is equal to or lower than 1100 dtex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Sadahiko Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20080283169
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided in which markings shown on surfaces of side walls thereof have superior visibility and the effect of increased visibility can be maintained over a long period of time. In a pneumatic tire having a marking provided on a side wall, a marking area which includes the marking and a background portion of the marking is formed into a recessed plane which is recessed further inwards than the surface of the side wall in an axial direction of the tire, and the marking is formed in the marking area in the form of a projecting plane which is provided in such a manner as to project relative to the recessed plane. The surface of the marking is made up of a specular surface portion having a surface roughness in which a center line average surface roughness (Ra) is in the range of 0.4 to 1.5 ?m, and the background portion is made up of a rough surface portion whose surface roughness exceeds a surface roughness in which Ra is 1.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sato, Takashi Nakatsuru
  • Publication number: 20080283170
    Abstract: A heavy-load tire has a wind bead structure in which a turned-up portion of a carcass ply is wound around a bead core, in which a bead portion is equipped with a bead reinforcing layer having a U-shaped cross section and a bead apex rubber having a triangular-shaped cross section. The turned-up portion has an auxiliary turned-up portion passing through the vicinity of a radially outer side of the bead core. The bead apex rubber includes a high elasticity inner apex portion disposed at a radially inner side and a low elasticity outer apex portion disposed at a radially outer side. The inner apex portion has an L-shaped cross section including a bottom piece portion along the radially outer side of the auxiliary turned-up portion, and a raised piece portion which rises at an axially inner end side of the bottom piece portion and extends radially outwardly in a tapering manner along the body portion of the carcass ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Kiyoto Maruoka
  • Publication number: 20080283171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for coating substrates, comprising the steps of: a) preparing a substrate, b) applying a composition onto at least one side of the substrate, the composition containing an inorganic compound, the inorganic compound containing at least one metal and/or semimetal selected from the group Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Nb, V, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, B, Al, In, TI, Si, Ge, Sn, Zn, Pb, Sb, Bi or mixtures thereof and at least one element selected from the group Te, Se, S, O, Sb, As, P, N, C, Ga or mixtures thereof, c) drying the composition applied in step b), d) applying at least one coating onto the at least one side of the substrate onto which the composition was applied in step b), the coating containing a silane of the general formula (Z1)Si(OR)3, where Z1 is R, OR or Gly (Gly=3-glycidyloxypropyl) and R is an alkyl radical having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and all R may be identical or different, oxide particles selected from the oxides of Ti, Si, Zr, Al, Y, Sn, Zn, Ce or mixtures the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Edwin Nun, Heike Bergandt, Andreas Gutsch, Gerhard Geipel
  • Publication number: 20080283172
    Abstract: A composite structure including two external skins and an internal core between them, wherein a portion of one of the external skins has to be replaced, with pressure from a counter-form and suction. The repair is accomplished by piercing a vent hole in the opposite external skin to discharge the air in the cells of the core, which improves adhesive bonding of the new portion on the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Airbus France
    Inventors: Christophe Bernus, Jean-Claude Marty
  • Publication number: 20080283173
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing an antenna-embedded laminated glass with an antenna element sealed between glass sheets, which is characterized to comprise forming two or more glass sheets forming the laminated glass; bonding a transfer film on a surface of one of the glass sheets by a bonding strip, the transfer film including the bonding strip and a conductive strip forming the antenna element; and press-bonding glass sheet, through a intermediate film, to the surface of the one glass sheet with the transfer film bonded thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Katsumi HISAEDA
  • Publication number: 20080283174
    Abstract: Resin-impregnated carbon fiber composites containing metal inserts. Carbon fibers or a carbon fiber preform are bonded to a metal structural member. Once the carbon fiber-metal bond is established, the fiber-metal assembly or hybrid preform is impregnated with resin, to form an article in which bonding between the metal structural member and the composite remainder of the article is greatly enhanced. In a process embodiment, a metal insert, e.g. a steel insert, is provided in contact with particulate carbide-forming metal, e.g. titanium, and with carbon fiber segments. Then an electric current is passed through the carbide-forming metal particles and carbon fibers to heat them to a temperature above the melting point of the carbide-forming metal. This initiates an exothermic reaction, which forms liquid phase metal carbide. Subsequently the liquid phase metal carbide is cooled and solidified, thereby bonding the carbon fiber segments to the metal insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Allen H. Simpson, Mark L. La Forest, Alexander Mukasyan, Douglas J. Steinke
  • Publication number: 20080283175
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of manufacturing fluid-filled MEMS displays, where the fluid is sealed in the display assembly and substantially surrounds the moving components of the display to reduce the effects of stiction and to improve the optical and electromechanical performance of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Nesbitt W. Hagood, Jasper Lodewyk Steyn, John J. Fijol
  • Publication number: 20080283176
    Abstract: The invention is a new process for the production of a hollow structural column or rod in polymers, obtained by assembling modules having shorter length, comprising two or more elongated modules, each one provided with male-female truncated cone-shaped terminal parts (56, 56), wherein the inner surface of the “female” terminal part (56) has a taper angle that is identical to the taper angle of the outer surface of the “male” terminal part (53), and comprising the following steps: aligning said hollow modules; preparing said male and female terminal parts with adhesive for glueing and insertion in the terminal part of the adjacent, aligned module; applying, preferably at the ends, an axial compression device, so that on compression of the ends of the rod made up of said modules each external male tapering surface adheres to and exerts a suitable pressure on the internal female tapering surface of the adjacent module during the structural joining and glueing of the terminal parts and the polymerisation of the a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Exit Engineering S.r.L.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bottacin
  • Publication number: 20080283177
    Abstract: An apparatus to prepare a preform for fabrication includes a mandrel, anchoring groove, anchoring device, tensioning groove, and tensioning device. The mandrel receives the preform. The mandrel has a first mandrel end and a second mandrel end. The preform has a first preform end and a second preform end. The anchoring groove is disposed at the first mandrel end. The anchoring device is configured and located to urge the first preform end towards the anchoring groove to secure the first preform end therebetween. The tensioning groove is disposed between the first mandrel end and the second mandrel end. The tensioning device is configured and located to urge a portion of the preform into the tensioning groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Michael L. Glain, David J. Kehrl, Andrew E. Modin, Scott A. Harris, Robert A. Coleman, Andrew Head, Steven C. Stenard, Thomas R. Cundiff, Joo Hyun Han, Timothy D. Aquino
  • Publication number: 20080283178
    Abstract: A slip-resistant shock absorbing golf club grip that includes a felt layer, a fabric mesh formed of fibers and a polyurethane coating covering the mesh and felt, the fibers of the mesh defining grooves in the surface of the slip-resistant polyurethane which are engaged by a users' hands, with the polyurethane coating being buffed to partially expose the fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Ben Huang
  • Publication number: 20080283179
    Abstract: A label printing station includes: a base; a label supply wheel rotatably mounted to the base for rotation about a first vertical axis of rotation; a label backing take-up wheel rotatably mounted to the base for rotation about a second vertical axis of rotation; and a label print-head assembly mounted to the base, the label print-head assembly being configured to print on a label as the label is vertically oriented. The supply wheel, the print-head assembly and the take-up wheel serially define a paper path along which a substantially continuous label backing sheet travels. The backing sheet may be supported from underneath at multiple locations along the paper path. With the printed label being vertically oriented, the label can be attached to an object, such as a vertically oriented pharmaceutical vial, which can simplify the labeling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: John Richard Sink
  • Publication number: 20080283180
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing micromachined devices, including sensors, actuators, optics, fluidics, and mechanical assemblies, using manufacturing techniques of lead frames, substrates, microelectronic packages, printed circuit boards, flex circuits, and rigid-flex materials. Preferred embodiments comprise using methods from post-semiconductor manufacturing to produce three-dimensional and free-standing structures in non-semiconductor materials. The resulting devices may remain part of the substrate, board or lead frame which can then used as a substrate for further packaging electronic assembly operations. Alternatively, the devices may be used as final components that can be assembled within other devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Bachman, Guann-Pyng Li
  • Publication number: 20080283181
    Abstract: A compact handheld adhesive applicator is provided with a housing assembly and a cartridge assembly removably connected to the housing assembly. The cartridge assembly includes a primary spool for mounting an adhesive segment roll and a secondary spool for automatically winding a spent portion of the adhesive segment roll. A gear arrangement allows for numerous adhesive segments to be applied consecutively in a glide-type application or for a single adhesive segment to be accurately applied using a manual advance feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Scott M. Allen, David J. Trettin
  • Publication number: 20080283182
    Abstract: A handheld adhesive applicator is provided with a housing assembly, a cartridge assembly removably connected to the housing assembly, and a handle assembly removably connected to the housing assembly. The cartridge assembly includes a primary spool for mounting an adhesive segment roll and a secondary spool for automatically winding a spent portion of the adhesive segment roll. A gear arrangement allows for numerous adhesive segments to be applied consecutively in a glide-type application or for a single adhesive segment to be accurately applied using a manual advance feature. The removable handle may be gripped during a primary mode of operation or removed for a secondary mode of operation in which the housing assembly is gripped during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Scott M. Allen, David J. Trettin
  • Publication number: 20080283183
    Abstract: A noise absorber carpet comprised of a fabric layer portion and a resinous backing layer portion is provided. The fabric layer portion and the resinous backing layer portion are heat bonded with a press into the noise absorber carpet, and the press includes perforation pins and a cooling medium. The resinous backing layer portion is provided with noise absorbing perforations formed by contact with the perforation pins of the press and cooled by the cooling medium. The perforations having been cooled by the cooling medium with the press simultaneously with the bonding of the resinous backing layer portion with the fabric layer portion and the cooling of the press by the cooling medium, thereby providing for instant curing and fixation of the shape of the perforations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Kohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080283184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of attaching an active film (5) onto a flexible package comprising the steps of heating a foil (2); applying an active film (5) to the foil (2); and applying sufficient pressure to the active film (5) and foil (2) combination and sufficient heat to the foil (2) so that active film (5) adheres to the foil (2). In one example, the active film (5) comprises two components and wherein the two components are an active agent and a polymer. In another example, the active agent is an absorbing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: CSP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peter J. Sagona, Jonathan R. Freedman, Jean Pierre Giraud
  • Publication number: 20080283185
    Abstract: A method of producing a multilayer plastic film from resin starting material includes irradiating a batch of plastic resin material and using irradiated resin from the batch to produce at least one layer of a multilayer plastic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: MIREK PLANETA, HARINDER TAMBER, FELIX GUBERMAN
  • Publication number: 20080283186
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for manufacturing electromagnetic interference shields for use in nonconductive housings of electronic equipment. In one embodiment, the shield may include an electrically nonconductive substrate, such as a thermoformable film, coated with an electrically conductive element, such as an extensible ink or a combination of conductive fibers with an extensible film. In one embodiment, a compressible conductive perimeter gap gasket may be formed by using a form in place process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Martin L. Rapp, Jeff McFadden, Frank T. McNally