Patents Issued in December 25, 2008
  • Publication number: 20080314535
    Abstract: A multiply tissue article having a softening lotion and an embossment of the external surface. The embossment forms a network of discrete depressions. The embossment has particular configuration and induces a ply separation force within a defined range. The multiply tissue exhibits enhanced performance for softness, strength and ply delamination. The invention also relates to the process of making such a multiply article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Klaus Hilbig, Oliver Horst Heilmann, Martin Robert Ernest Leal, Norbert Meyer, Matthias Morand
  • Publication number: 20080314536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high quality paperboard comprising at least two plies, a first ply having good surface properties and strength, and a second ply for providing the paperboard with bulk wherein the second ply comprises hardwood CTMP. This paperboard has an internal strength and a bending resistance that is comparable with conventional high quality paperboard based on softwood CTMP. The invention also relates to products manufactured of the paperboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Peng, Isto Heiskanen, Mika Riikonen
  • Publication number: 20080314537
    Abstract: A mixed polymer fiber, comprising a crosslinked polymer fiber comprising carboxyalkyl cellulose and a galactomannan polymer or a glucomannan polymer, and cellulose fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Weyerhaeuser Co.
    Inventors: S. Ananda Weerawarna, Su Bing
  • Publication number: 20080314538
    Abstract: A piezo nozzle system can be used in a paper machine. Contrary to all expectations, piezo nozzle systems have proven to be particularly suitable for use in the extreme ambient conditions of a paper machine. Despite the high degree of humidity, the use of piezo nozzle systems allows a high degree of control and dynamics to be achieved when using controlled or regulated valve devices in a paper machine. Furthermore, the use of piezo nozzle systems ensures a high availability and stability of the valve devices while having a robust and extremely compact design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Jan Kabus
  • Publication number: 20080314539
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing sized paper and paperboard which incorporates in the paper and paperboard at the size press size a composition comprising one or more “hydrophobic polymers” wherein hydrophobic polymers, the amount of such polymers and the weight ratio of starch to such polymer in the composition are selected such that the paper and paper board exhibits a Cobb Value equal to or less than about 25 and to a sized paper or paperboard web formed by the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Williams, Peter M. Froass, Sandeep Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20080314540
    Abstract: A method of dewatering a fabric includes contacting the fabric with an endless wicking substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, Frank Stephen Hada
  • Publication number: 20080314541
    Abstract: A washer for washing and dewatering cellulosic pulp is disclosed, comprising a rotary drum with a plurality of external compartments defined by axial compartment walls distributed along the drum's circumference, a stationary cylindrical casing enclosing the drum, whereby a ring-shaped space is defined between the casing and the drum and where longitudinal seals divide the ring-shaped space into a forming zone for forming the pulp, at least one washing zone for washing the pulp at overpressure, and a discharge zone for feeding out the washed pulp, and the filtrates from different washing stages are collected in a peripheral valve located at the drum's end wall, the filtrate stages are separated by seals in the valve, and at least some of the valve seals are displaced in relation to the corresponding longitudinal seal, as seen in the direction of rotation of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: METSO PAPER,INC.
    Inventors: Jorgen T. Lundberg, Rickard Andersson, Johan Bylander, Magnus Henriksson
  • Publication number: 20080314542
    Abstract: A torn paper web capture system that is a mechanism for securing a band, tape or strap, preferably composed of paper, across a paper roll as the roll is rotating. A sensor means detects the torn paper web and initiates both the shut down of rotation of the paper roll and the release of the band. The band resides within a guide track, the track being generally C-shaped in cross-section Upon contact with spool journal or similar rotating member the end of the band adheres and is wrapped around the rotating member. This wrapping action takes up the slack in the band and pulls it from the guide track and against the paper web, thereby securing the loose end of the paper web. The contact between the band and the rotating member may be initiated in multiple ways, such as with a nip roller, an actuating shoe member, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Peter A. Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20080314543
    Abstract: The invention presents a paper machine for a used paper recycling apparatus being installed in a room of a small shop or the like, friendly to the environment, low in running cost, and capable of maintaining a high confidentiality. The paper machine includes a paper making process unit for manufacturing wet paper from slurry pulp suspension sent from the pulp making section of a preceding process, and a drying process unit for drying the wet paper manufactured in the paper making process unit and making recycled paper, in which a processing conveyor is disposed between the paper making process unit and the drying process unit extending in the overall length of the paper making process and the drying process, and this processing conveyor is manufactured in a form of net belt conveyor having a running mesh belt of mesh structure composed of innumerable mesh cells for filtering and dewatering the pulp suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Yuji Koyama
  • Publication number: 20080314544
    Abstract: Disclosed is a machine for producing a paper web, cardboard web, or other fiber web (1), comprising a press section (2) which is provided with at least one press nip (5) formed by two squeeze rollers (3, 4) and in which a device (6, 7) for applying a medium, particularly starch, is disposed. The fiber web (1) can be guided through the press nip (5) along with a band (8). The inventive machine is characterized in that the device (6, 7) rests against at least one of the squeeze rollers (3, 4) for indirectly applying the medium to the fiber web (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Wilhelm Gansberger, Martin Vogt, Georg Bacovsky
  • Publication number: 20080314545
    Abstract: A flask for containing mold sand within it prevents any mold shifting or mold dropping. Each of an upper flask 2 and a lower flask 3 includes a body that defines an opening in which a sand mold is to be molded. The body has at least one inlet 101 for introducing the mold sand into the opening. Two flanges 102 are extended from the body such that they are opposed to each other across the opening. Each flange has a through bore. The flask also includes engaging members for engaging an actuator in the outside of the flask such that a force or forces from said actuator could be transmitted to the flask. An upper flask 104 and a lower flask 105 are opposed to each other across a pattern plate 107. They are integrally assembled to make a flask unit by means of a pair of connecting rods 106 that are fitted in each bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Minoru Hirata
  • Publication number: 20080314546
    Abstract: A method for a powder-metallurgical production of metal foamed material and of parts made of metal foamed material includes mixing a pulverulent metallic material including at least one of a metal and a metal alloy; pressing, under mechanical pressure, the mixed pulverulent metallic material so as to form a dimensionally stable semi-finished product; placing the semi-finished product into a chamber that is configured to be sealed pressure-tight; sealing the chamber; heating the semi-finished product to a melting or solidus temperature of the pulverulent metallic material; once the melting, or solidus temperature has been reached, reducing tile pressure in the chamber from an initial pressure to a final pressure so that the semi-finished product foams so as to form a metal foam; and lowering the temperature of the metal foam so as to solidify the metal foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: HAHN-MEITNER-INSTITUT BERLIN GMBH
    Inventors: John Banhart, Francisco Garcia-Moreno
  • Publication number: 20080314547
    Abstract: The invention concerns a casting apparatus which includes a crucible support and induction heating means (14, 16, 18) arranged to receive and support a crucible (10) containing material which is to be melted and poured from an outlet (38). The outlet is positioned on a vertical axis (40). The support and induction heating means also operates to apply induction heating to the material to melt it in the crucible. There is also a translation mechanism which tilts the crucible while the crucible is still supported and while heat is continuously applied to it. This mechanism operates in such a way that during tilting, the outlet of the crucible is maintained on the vertical axis so that the molten material pours from the outlet on the vertical axis. In the embodiments described, the crucible is simultaneously moved vertically towards the mould into which the melt pours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Irshad Khan, Wessel Marthinus Cronje
  • Publication number: 20080314548
    Abstract: A system for transferring molten metal from a vessel and into one or more of a ladle, ingot mold, launder, feed die cast machine or other structure is disclosed. The system includes at least a vessel for containing molten metal, an overflow (or dividing) wall, and a device or structure, such as a molten metal pump, for generating a stream of molten metal. The dividing wall divides the vessel into a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein part of the second chamber has a height H2. The device for generating a stream of molten metal, which is preferably a molten metal pump, is preferably positioned in the first chamber. When the device operates, it generates a stream of molten metal from the first chamber and into the second chamber. When the level of molten metal in the second chamber exceeds H2, molten metal flows out of the vessel and into another structure, such as into one or more ladles and/or one or more launders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Paul V. Cooper
  • Publication number: 20080314549
    Abstract: Molding material mixture, molded part for foundry purposes and process of producing a molded part. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Ralf-Joachim GERLACH, Bettina WEHREN
  • Publication number: 20080314550
    Abstract: A regenerative heat exchanger includes a pair of heat exchangers, an inlet valve assembly and an outlet valve assembly. Each valve assembly includes two corresponding pairs of valve ports and two poppet discs each being movable between said corresponding pairs of valve ports. The poppet discs have rods extending to distal ends. Distal ends extending from the inlet valve assembly are pivotably interconnected to distal ends from the outlet valve assembly and pivotably interconnected to a crank of an eccentric mechanical drive to operate one of the inlet poppet discs and one of the outlet poppet discs in tandem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Greco
  • Publication number: 20080314551
    Abstract: A steering wheel having a central hub connected by at least one spoke to a rim. The steering wheel comprises at least one heat pipe within the rim. The heat pipe is thermally isolated from any external cooling arrangement and is configured to transfer heat from a first region of the rim to another region of the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Frederic Tarte, Pascal Lemasson
  • Publication number: 20080314552
    Abstract: A building element of the walls or ceiling or floor has panels made of a thermally conducting material with the panels having pipes located therein. The pipes can selectively be connected to a source of high or low temperature so that the panels adopt a temperature different from ambient temperature which, as a result, allows the panels to cause heating or cooling of an area of the building in which the panels are located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Dieter Rosenkranz, Walter Ferber
  • Publication number: 20080314553
    Abstract: Retainers are described that comprise at least one center body component comprising a plurality of center body troughs, and at least one compatible component comprising a plurality of compatible troughs, wherein at least part of the plurality of the compatible troughs couple with at least part of the plurality of center body troughs. In addition, thermal displacement devices are described that incorporate at least one retainers and at least one additional component, wherein the at least one retainer is coupled at least in part to the at least one additional component through a contact area or a substrate, surface or combination thereof, wherein the at least one retainer is coupled with the substrate, surface or combination thereof through a contact area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: James Charles Calder
  • Publication number: 20080314554
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device with a heat pipe includes a base for thermally engaging with an electronic device, a first fin assembly and a second fin assembly arranged on the base, and a heat pipe thermally connecting the first and second fin assemblies with the base. The first fin assembly has a first contacting face defining two grooves and the second assembly has a second contacting face facing to the first contacting face defining two grooves. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section thermally connecting with the base and the first and second fin assemblies, a first condensation section and a second condensation section respectively thermally engaging in the grooves of the first contacting face of the first fin assembly and the second contacting face of the second fin assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: DONG-YUN LI
  • Publication number: 20080314555
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base, a first fin group located above the base, at least one heat pipe connecting the base and the first fin group and first and second fans located at two opposite sides of the first fin group. Each of the first and second fans is oriented with an acute angle to the base. Outlet and inlet of the first and second fans are oriented towards the base and the first fan produces cooling air to blow towards the first fin group and the base and the second fan draws heated air away from the first fin group and the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: WEI-LE WU, CHUN-CHI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20080314556
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device for at least two heat-generating electronic components, includes a base, a fin set and a plurality of heat pipes. The base includes a supporting frame and at least two plates attached to a bottom of the frame for contacting with the at least two heat-generating electronic components. The fin set includes a plurality of fins on the base. The heat pipes respectively and thermally connect the at least two plates and the fin set together. A single fan is attached to the heat dissipation device for generating an airflow through the fin set to dissipate heat in the fin set absorbed from the at least two heat-generating electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shi-Wen ZHOU, Peng LIU, Jun CAO
  • Publication number: 20080314557
    Abstract: An assembly that includes one or more thermoelectric devices and a heat sink and that corrects the problem of an uneven heating effect across the area occupied by the devices due to a lateral heat loss at the edges of the devices or other anomalies among the devices is constructed with a heat sink that contains voids in the slab or flat surface that is in thermal contact with the thermoelectric devices. The voids are located at or within the periphery of the area that is directly aligned with the thermoelectric devices and are concentrated in regions relatively close to the periphery, leaving an area in the center of the slab that is either void-free or of a relatively low void density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sunand Banerji, Joseph N. Bretton, Vorin Hay
  • Publication number: 20080314558
    Abstract: A flexible composite sheet (FCS) comprising a membrane, a substrate coupled to the membrane, and a plurality of ridges coupled between the membrane and the substrate, wherein a vibratory motion is induced from the flow to at least one segment of a membrane spanning a distance s, wherein the vibratory motion is reflected from at least one segment of the membrane to the flow, and wherein a reduction in fluctuations is caused in the flow pressure gradient and freestream velocity U at all frequencies except around f, where f?U/s. When coupled to a heat exchanger fin, the FCS can enhance heat transfer without enhancing flow pressure drop. The FCS has other flow control applications, such as a drag reduction when coupled to an aircraft wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SINHATECH
    Inventor: Sumon Kumar SINHA
  • Publication number: 20080314559
    Abstract: A heat exchange structure is connected to a dual water cooling system and a heat dissipating apparatus has the heat exchange structure. The heat exchange structure includes a box as a main body, and the box includes a first cavity and a second cavity. The first cavity and the second cavity are interconnected with separate water cooling systems, wherein the first cavity includes a first chamber, and the first cavity has a water inlet pipeline and a water outlet pipeline, both interconnected to the first chamber. The second cavity includes a second chamber, and the second cavity has a water inlet pipeline and a water outlet pipeline, both interconnected to a second chamber. A heat conducting plate is disposed at a position that connects the first cavity and the second cavity for providing a heat conducting path of the first cavity and the second cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: I-Ta HSU, Chih-Peng Liao
  • Publication number: 20080314560
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for causing thermal transfer between two structures on command including responding, by a thermal switch, to a command signal by moving a first set of one or more thermally conductive members into a position adjacent to a second set of one or more thermally conductive members, the first and second one or more thermally conductive members having thermally conductive contacts with the first and second structures, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Gary D. Grayson, Mark W. Henley
  • Publication number: 20080314561
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating the tube side streams in a plurality of plate fin and tube or finned tube exchangers to accomplish more efficient heat transfer or a more compact design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: William Lewis
  • Publication number: 20080314562
    Abstract: Provided is a water-cooled air compressor which is capable of restraining lowering of the performance of a plate type compressor for heat-exchanging compressed air from a compressor body, with cooling water due to clogging of gaps between plates in the heat-exchanger by dust or the like, incorporating a first solenoid valve and a second solenoid valve connected respectively in a cooling water supply pipe line and a cooling water discharge pipe line of the heat-exchanger, an air feed pipe line connecting between a compressed air supply pipe line on the outlet side of the heat-exchanger and the cooling water discharge pipe line, a third solenoid valve and a check valve connected in the air feed pipe line, a discharge pipe line connected in a discharge pipe line 18 so as to branch therefrom, a fourth solenoid valve connected in the discharge pipe line, and a control device for controlling opening and closing of the first to fourth solenoid valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Hideharu Tanaka, Masahiko Takano, Akihiro Nagasaka
  • Publication number: 20080314563
    Abstract: A method for controlling the temperature of an exothermic reaction with simultaneous production of steam is based on the use of heat exchangers (5a) crossed by a recirculation liquid along an inner path extended between the inlet opening for the recirculation liquid and an outlet opening (5f), the recirculation liquid coming from a steam drum (10) for the separation of the produced steam and being fed to said inlet opening along a path external to the heat exchangers, the produced steam being integrated in the form of an additional liquid flow which is mixed at least in part with the recirculation liquid flowing along the external path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Methanol Casale S.A.
    Inventors: Ermanno Filippi, Enrico Rizzi, Mirco Tarozzo, Marco Badano
  • Publication number: 20080314564
    Abstract: A temperature control device controls the temperature of a controlled object by circulating a fluid in a temperature adjustment unit arranged near the controlled object. The temperature control device comprises a heating pathway that heats and circulates the fluid in the temperature adjustment unit, a cooling pathway that cools and circulates the fluid in the temperature adjustment unit, a bypass pathway that does not pass the fluid through the heating pathway and cooling pathway, but circulates the fluid in the temperature adjustment unit, and adjustment means that adjust a flow ratio of the fluid that is supplied from the heating pathway, cooling pathway, and bypass pathway to the temperature adjustment unit via a confluence unit that combines these flows. The adjustment means are provided on a downstream side of each of the heating pathway, the cooling pathway, and the bypass pathway and on the upstream side of the confluence unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicants: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya NAGASEKI, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koichi MURAKAMI, Ryo NONAKA, Yoshihisa SUDOH, Hiroshi ITAFUJI, Norio KOKUBO
  • Publication number: 20080314565
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for chip cooling. One embodiment of a system for cooling a heat-generating device, such as a semiconductor chip, includes a vaporization chamber for at least partially vaporizing a stream of liquid in a stream of a gas to produce a mixture of gas, vapor and liquid and a heat sink coupled to the vaporization chamber for transferring heat from the heat-generating device to the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Yves C. Martin, Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Theodore G. Van Kessel
  • Publication number: 20080314566
    Abstract: This invention discloses a ventilation system for an MRI system, including: a hydrodynamic rotating device, a primary coolant water pipe, a secondary coolant water pipe, a fan and air outlet; the water outlet of the primary coolant water pipe is connected to the water inlet of the hydrodynamic rotating device, while the water inlet of the secondary coolant water pipe is connected to the water outlet of the hydrodynamic rotating device; with the impetus provided by the coolant water from the primary coolant water pipe, the hydrodynamic rotating device drives the fan near the air outlet to rotate, discharging the coolant water into the secondary coolant water pipe. Furthermore, the invention discloses a ventilation method for an MRI system. Ventilation efficiency is improved significantly with the system and method provided by this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Li Ming Chen, Ting Qiang Xue, Wei Gao, Ke Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20080314567
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger mixing system comprising at least one heat exchanger zone, at least one connection plate having one or more mixing units, at least four corners per connection plate, wherein each corner being either blind passage corner, a through-passage corner, a single passage corner, or a double passage corner, and the one or more mixing units are provided with static mixing elements. Present invention relates further to use of a heat exchanger mixing system, and a process for mixing fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Tommy Noren
  • Publication number: 20080314568
    Abstract: Ceramic materials are converted to materials with anisotropic thermal properties, electrical properties, or both, by forming the ceramics into composites with carbon nanotubes dispersed therein and uniaxially compressing the composites in a direction in which a lower thermal or electrical conductivity is desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, a California corporation.
    Inventors: Guodong Zhan, Joshua D. Kuntz, Amiya K. Mukherjee
  • Publication number: 20080314569
    Abstract: To provide an EGR cooler which has a small number of parts and achieves compact design with low cost. A plurality of flat tubes, each having a bottom to close an end thereof, is arranged in parallel. An opening of each of the flat tubes penetrates through a tube plate. Corrugated fins are placed in each of the flat tubes, thus forming a core. A casing encloses the outer circumferential surface of the core. The tube plate closes the opening of a tank body equipped with a partition. The edge of the partition is placed at an intermediate position in the width direction of the opening of the flat tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: T.RAD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Yamazaki, Yoichi Nakamura, Noriyuki Ishii, Toshikatsu Hachiya
  • Publication number: 20080314570
    Abstract: A heat exchanger apparatus for accommodating thermal and pressure transients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Ranga Nadig
  • Publication number: 20080314571
    Abstract: A baffle assembly for an etching apparatus is disclosed. The baffle assembly comprises a ring and a lower baffle portion having a curved wall extending between a flange portion and a lower frame portion. A heating assembly may be present within the lower frame portion to control the temperature of the baffle. The baffle assembly may help confine the plasma within the processing space in the chamber. The ring may comprise silicon carbide and the lower baffle portion may comprise aluminum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel J. Hoffman, Kallol Bera
  • Publication number: 20080314572
    Abstract: An oil cooler for an engine or other lubricated mechanism includes a connector through which the oil cooler is connected to an oil supply passage and a return oil passage in an engine crankcase or other supply source. The connector includes a seal face to which inlet and outlet passages from the cooler are connected with oil supply and return passages in a connected mechanism. A continually open oil bypass is provided by forming a groove or slot in the seal face of the oil cooler extending between the inlet and outlet passages of the oil cooler and forming the cooler oil bypass. Alternatively, a bypass may be formed by a slot in a mating engine or mechanism connector connecting with the supply and return oil passages. Using a perimeter gasket between mating connectors can increase the bypass oil flow by the area of the clearance within the gasket opening created by the thickness of the gasket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: DANIEL J. HOMMES
  • Publication number: 20080314573
    Abstract: An engine combination for generating forces with a gas turbine engine generating force that utilizes an engine lubricant for lubricating moving components in the turbofan engine, and an internal combustion engine provided in the combination as an intermittent combustion engine generating force that utilizes a coolant for transporting heat generated in the intermittent combustion engine away therefrom and having an air intake, there being an air transfer duct connected from a compressor in the gas turbine engine to the air intake to transfer compressed air thereto. A coupling heat exchanger is coupled to both the gas turbine engine and the intermittent combustion engine to have the engine lubricant and the coolant pass therethrough to thereby permit the coolant to transport heat in the engine lubricant away therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Jorn A. Glahn, Brian M. Fentress
  • Publication number: 20080314574
    Abstract: A method for the production of heat exchangers (10, 110, 210) of the so-called plate type, comprising the operative steps of: —juxtaposing a couple of substantially identical metal plates (12, 14), —fixing together said juxtaposed plates (12, 14) to one another by means of welding performed at respective perimetric sides (13a, 13b, 13c, 13d), —further fixing together said juxtaposed plates to each other by means of a plurality of welding tracts (22), arranged in at least two alignments, parallel and adjacent to a couple of opposite perimetric sides (13a, 13c) of the plates themselves (12, 14), and at a pre-established spaced relationship from said sides, —introducing a fluid under pressure between said juxtaposed metal plates (12, 14), to form a hollow, substantially box-shaped body (17), in which an internal chamber (16) and two substantially tubular passages (16a, 16b), formed between said couple of opposite perimetric sides (13a, 13c) and the respective adjacent alignments of the welding tracts (22), are d
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Methanol Casale S.A.
    Inventors: Ermanno Filippi, Enrico Rizzi, Mirco Tarozzo
  • Publication number: 20080314575
    Abstract: A parallel flow evaporator comprises a transitional plate. A left side plate and a right side plate are connected with two side edges of the transitional plate respectively. A first liquid inlet manifold is secured to an upper side edge of a forward side surface of said transitional plate, a first gas outlet manifold is secured to an upper side edge of a rearward side surface of said transitional plate, a second liquid inlet manifold is secured to a lower side edge of the forward side surface of said transitional plate, and a second gas outlet manifold is secured to a lower side edge of the rearward side surface of said transitional plate. A plurality of flat tubes, which are parallel with and distant from each other, are arranged between said first liquid inlet manifold and said second liquid inlet manifold. Said first liquid inlet manifold and said second liquid inlet manifold as well as said first gas outlet manifold and said second liquid inlet manifold communicate with said flat tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Zongde Dong
  • Publication number: 20080314576
    Abstract: A thermal module (100) includes a centrifugal blower (20), a heat dissipater (10) and a plurality of heat transfer plates (34). The centrifugal blower includes a casing (22), a stator accommodated in the casing, and a rotor (24) rotatably disposed around the stator. The casing includes a base wall (224) and a sidewall (222) surrounding the base wall. The sidewall defines an air outlet (221) in front of the rotor. The heat dissipater is made of porous material and disposed at the air outlet of the centrifugal blower. The heat transfer plates extend into the heat dissipater so as to increase heat transfer efficiency between a heat generating electronic component and the heat dissipater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicants: FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIN-GONG MENG, CHING-BAI HWANG
  • Publication number: 20080314577
    Abstract: A system for monitoring strain in a wellbore casing includes one or more gages that are affixed to an outer surface of the wellbore casing. Each gage includes one or more apertures. During operation, variations in the shape and spacing of the apertures are monitored and used to determine a level of strain in the wellbore casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventor: Frank C. Adamek
  • Publication number: 20080314578
    Abstract: One embodiment of a downhole jet pump 10 includes an exterior pump housing 12, power fluid jet nozzle 30, mixing tube 32, and a carrier 40 including a plurality of venturi ports 38. A nose piece 48 is provided fluidly downstream from the mixing tube 32. A diffuser 46 is downstream from the nose piece, and preferably forms a unitary body from the lower end of the nose piece to the side port of the pump housing. An inlet valve 100 passes formation fluid into the pump housing and to the venturi ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas Roland Jackson
  • Publication number: 20080314579
    Abstract: A fiber optical sensing cable is inserted into an underwater well by: connecting a housing (12A) comprising a coiled or spooled U-shaped fiber optical sensing cable (21) to the wellhead (2) of the well (1) such that an opening (14) in the wall of the housing (12A) is connected to a guide tube (15) extending into the underwater well (1); —inserting the U-shaped nose section (21A) of the fiber optical sensing cable (21) via the opening (14) into the guide tube (15), thereby uncoiling at least part of a pair of substantially parallel sections of the fiber optical sensing cable of which the lower ends are interconnected by the U-shaped nose section; and connecting the upper ends (21B) of the substantially parallel sections of the fiber optical sensing cable to an optical signal transmission and/or receiving unit via e.g. a pair of wet mateable connectors that are connected to a pair of underwater fiber optical transmission cables (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Kari-Mikko Jaaskelainen
  • Publication number: 20080314580
    Abstract: An apparatus for conducting earth borehole operations, the apparatus having a base, a mast mounted on the base, and an integrated top drive/CT injector unit carried by the mast for longitudinal movement therealong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas Dyer Wood
  • Publication number: 20080314581
    Abstract: An unlimited stroke drive method for pumping fluid from an oil well in which the well has a tubing string extending from the earth's surface down to a fluid producing formation. The method includes the steps of positioning a pump barrel within the tubing, an upper end of the pump barrel having communication through a standing valve with the interior of the tubing string, vertically reciprocating a length of flexible cable within the tubing string to vertically reciprocate a plunger within the pump barrel to allow a lower portion to quickly fill with fluid from the producing formation and then to a downward position in which fluid within the pump barrel lower portion is transferred through a traveling valve to an area within the pump barrel above the plunger to move formation fluid from within the pump barrel to the interior of the tubing and thence to the earth's surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: T. Leon Brown
  • Publication number: 20080314582
    Abstract: A downhole-reconfigurable tool string is utilized to obtain targeted measurements for formation evaluation and reservoir characterization. Tool string hardware and corresponding analysis software are dynamically adjusted to meet specific reservoir description needs identified during or before the logging run with the downhole-reconfigurable tool string. A technique for utilizing the downhole-reconfigurable tool string includes four different steps. The first step includes detecting first order features and identifying second order features. The second step includes enhancing measurements relative to the second order features by reconfiguring tool hardware to extract at least the desired information of the reservoir in terms of its static and dynamic properties, and software focusing to enhance the sensitivity to a particular reservoir attribute. The third step is performing an inversion to reconstruct the reservoir property as accurately as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashok Belani, Tarek M. Habashy, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Fikri J. Kuchuk, Ramachandra G. Shenoy
  • Publication number: 20080314583
    Abstract: Retrievable bridge plug used in oil and gas wells comprises a setting and anchoring mechanism, a locking and releasing mechanism and a sealing and anti-adhering mechanism. The bridge plug in which a self-lock mechanism is placed can be lowered through an coiled tubing or wireline, and provide reliable bi-directional sealing, and can be taken out by a specific tool after setting, in order to be used repeatedly after simple maintenance. By replacing its mandrel, the bridge plug can be refitted into a squeezing bridge plug, a conventional one and a hook-wall bridge plug to be used in a temporary/permanent and selective blocking operation. Also, the bridge plug can be associated with other downhole tools to perform well test, layer protection and snubbing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Jian Xu
  • Publication number: 20080314584
    Abstract: A ball catcher is adapted to be fluidly connected to a wellhead port to receive wellbore fluids and balls carried therewith. A diverter is fit to the catcher body and has a wellhead end positioned to intercept the fluid flow from the wellhead port so as to divert debris and balls carried therein into a ball recovery chamber. The diverter has a bore in fluid communication with the flow outlet and the wellhead end has flow passages formed therethrough to the bore for receiving the fluid flow free of debris and balls and discharging the fluid flow from the catcher body. The diverter and the ball recovery chamber can be connected to quick removal for replacement, repair or cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Boris (Bruce) P. CHEREWYK