Abstract: The tool saver hand tool systematic tethering safety device is intended for use with hand tools (which could be defined as tools intended to be used by an operators hands, by way of the hand tools' handle, or grip). Hand tools are well known to drop accidentally out of an operators' hands, and the tool saver hand tool systematic tethering safety device will stop said hand tool from falling completely away from said operator, through the use of the systems' hand tool receiving apparatus, having been fit securely onto any hand tool, being then attached, through the use of its center linkage assembly, to a wrist piece, which, then, said wrist piece, fits comfortably, and securely onto an operators wrist.

Abstract: Tie stay clips are disclosed. Methods of making and using tie stay clips are also disclosed.

Abstract: A rope cleat secures a rope to a structure. The cleat has a body with opposite first and second portions joined along a longitudinal central plane. The body has a U-shaped cavity inside it tapering between a large entrance leg and a smaller exit leg, which communicate at a confluent portion. A flange is integrally attached to the body first portion. The flange is mounted against the structure through a mounting hole. The flange has an entrance hole and an exit hole spaced apart and extending through the flange. The rope is easily inserted into the large entrance hole, through the U-shaped cavity, and out the smaller exit hole. A knot is then tied to secure the rope in the cleat. The cleat has registration pins on one body portion, and corresponding registration holes on the opposite portion. The pins align the body first and second portions for assembly with a screw.

Abstract: A lid fastener for a drinking container comprised of a strap that connects to a belt, band or cylindrical sleeve or directly to the drinking container for use in anchoring the lid of a drinking container. The fastener may be fabricated by use of an elastic strap or measured inelastic fixed strap that connects (i) directly to the sides of the drinking container or (ii) to a belt or cylindrical sleeve made of any material of sufficient diameter to fit fast-food, coffee, or other drinking containers produced, which is wrapped around the drinking container. The elastic strap or measured inelastic strap or straps connects to the side of the drinking container or to a belt, band or cylindrical sleeve using an adhesive, hook, staple or fastener or by manufacture as one continuous piece of material. In one embodiment, an elastic strap is connected to a sleeve by an adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fastener (1), includes a curved end (2) and a head away from the curved end (2), wherein an object can be hooked up at the curved end (2), the head being provided with a narrower passage (3) for a cord (6) to pass through and a wider passage (4) for a tape (7) to pass through, the cord (6) and the tape (7) being used to connect to the same subject or separately to different subjects.

Abstract: A security attachment for helping to prevent unwanted access to a container slide fastener includes a retainer mounted in proximity to the slide fastener and an elongate toggle pull adapted to be removably secured in a fixed position by the retainer.

Abstract: A zipper knob formed with a silicon label surrounding an outside thereof to display its origin and improve touch and appearance, includes a main body for zipping or unzipping, an inner decoration element surrounding the main body, an outer decoration element formed of transparent or semi-transparent silicon material for surrounding the inner decoration element, wherein the outer decoration element is in different color from the inner decoration element, and a trademark display part formed to a surface of the outer decoration element.

Abstract: Touch fasteners for use as mold inserts in molding seat foam buns include a strip-form base a magnetically attractable material disposed on the strip-form base; and film selvedges biased to depend downward from the strip-form base toward the fastening side, such that they will be deflected away from the fastening side as the fastener is pressed into an associated trench.

Abstract: A clip is provided with two wings pivoting about a common axis and a biasing spring forcing the wings toward a closed position to grab sheets of paper or other articles. The clip can be mounted on a board, a metallic surface, etc. One wing is formed with a large opening or window and a panel with multiple surfaces is rotatably supported within the window. The various surfaces are provided with different images and other information.

Abstract: A clip operable to secure panels of sheet material includes a generally H-shaped unit having pair of opposed arms separated by a central beam forming a pair of aligned receptacles, each operable to receive a panel therein. At least one of the arms includes biasing members operable to apply pressure to the panels inserted into the receptacles. The clip secures adjacent panels together in edge-to-edge orientation such that the panels are coplanar. Panels utilized with the clip include sheets of building material such as plywood, drywall, and roofing materials.

Abstract: A locking mechanism assembly for a jewellery strand comprising a male end pin with a rounded end and a groove, and a corresponding female end socket in the shape of a hollow cylinder that neatly fits the pin, and further may comprise a spring wrapped around the socket, at least two separate holes at the inner end of the socket, ball bearings each of which correspond to one of the holes, and a housing that encases the socket, the spring, the holes and the ball bearing. Insertion of the pin into the socket locks the pin in the socket. Release of the pin may be effected by extending the socket housing towards the pin before removing the pin from the socket.

Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator for an oscillator contained in an upper concave portion of an insulating case that has a metal lid with which the upper concave portion is air-tightly closed comprises a GND electrode being conductively coupled to an earth pattern of the piezoelectric resonator and provided on an outer bottom face of the insulating case, a piezoelectric connecting electrode being conductively coupled to an excite electrode of the piezoelectric resonator and provided on the outer bottom face of the insulating case, and an adjustment electrode being conductively coupled to the metal lid and provided on the outer bottom face of the insulating case in such a way that a regulator circuit in an IC part conductively contacts with the adjustment electrode if the IC part including the oscillation circuit is attached to the outer bottom face of the insulating case, wherein the metal lid serves as an adjustment terminal.

Abstract: A fuel tank comprises an upper-half tank body (7) and a lower-half tank body (8) which are made of bowl-shaped steel plates and which integrally include a flange (7f) and a flange (8f) in their peripheral edges, respectively, the flanges (7f, 8f) being superposed on and liquid-tightly connected to each other. The flanges (7f, 8f) are connected together by crimping into a roll shape to form an annular thick-walled connection (12), and an annular reinforcing rib (7r, 8r) leading to the connection (12) is formed at least in one of the upper-half and lower-half tank bodies (7, 8). Thus, it is possible to provide a fuel tank in which a sufficient strength can be imparted to portions around a flange connection, without particularly increasing the thickness of a steel plate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a raceway member, in which a hardness of a region to be plastically deformed is controllable in a stable manner and a sufficient rolling contact fatigue life is ensured by making a hardness of a region including a raceway surface sufficiently high, while suppressing increase in the manufacturing cost, includes a steel member preparation step, a heat treatment step, and a finishing step. The heat treatment step includes: a carbonitriding step, in which the steel member is heated to a carbonitriding temperature, which is a temperature not lower than A1 point, and carbonitrided; a temperature holding step, in which the steel member is cooled from the carbonitriding temperature to a temperature range between not lower than a temperature 100° C.

Abstract: An erection method for a solar receiver and support tower provides a climbing assembly on the support tower to raise the solar receiver to its final elevation by progressively jacking and installing support tower sections to erect the tower and support the solar receiver.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a connection between a corrugated tube and a further body, wherein the further body has a bore having a bore diameter which is smaller than the outer diameter of the corrugated tube, with the method including the step of drawing or pressing the corrugated tube into the bore.

Abstract: An automated clamping system for securing a work piece to the table of a machine tool. The clamping system automatically retracts away from the work piece as the material manipulating device moves into the area of each clamp. This allows manipulation of the work piece without stopping to move the clamp to a new location so that the clamp does not interfere with the metal manipulating device. A typical embodiment is the use of the system on a milling machine. The clamping system could be used with milling machines (both manual and computer controlled), routers, water jet cutters, laser cutters, flame cutters, and many other types of cutting machines.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a hydrodynamic bearing, a method for manufacturing the same, and a spindle motor, with which the gap in the axial direction required for the smooth operation of a bearing can be sufficiently ensured. A method for manufacturing a hydrodynamic bearing comprising a shaft 7, a sleeve 8 attached so as to be capable of relative rotation with respect to the shaft 7, a first flange unit 6 fixed to or integrated with the shaft 7, and a second flange unit 9 fixed to the shaft 7, the method comprising at least inserting the shaft 7 into the sleeve 8, and inserting the shaft 7 into the second flange unit 9, pressing the top face of the second flange unit 9 in the axial direction, and fixing the second flange unit 9 to the shaft 7 by welding the shaft 7 and the second flange unit 9 while maintaining the pressing state.

Abstract: A method of producing a coil which comprises steps of bending each of straight coil wires into a rectangular wave shape including in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and turned portions connecting between the in-slot portions, turning a coil bend-forming portion that is one of the in-slot portions of each coil wire which becomes a folded bend of a phase winding by 180° around an axis thereof, twisting the turned portions of the coil wires together to weave the coil wires into a wire bundle, and folding the wire bundle at the coil bend-forming portions of the coil wires to place sides of the wire bundle to overlap each other to make the coil, thereby eliminating the 180° twisting of the coil bend-forming portions to produce the coil without any undesirable deformation of the phase windings.

Abstract: A short-circuiting member for preventing a commutator from being elongated in the axial direction without increasing the types of different components. Each component includes outer circumference terminals arranged along an outer circumference, inner circumference terminals arranged along an inner circumference, and connection portions connecting corresponding outer and inner circumference terminals that are separated from each other by a predetermined angle in a circumferential direction. The outer and inner circumference terminals are substantially formed along the same plane. The components are laminated in a state in which the connection portions of one of the components are reversed to the connection portions of another one of the components.

Abstract: A device for machining components, in particular of a vehicle body has a transport and positioning unit for the component and several machining stations, which are arranged around said unit and to which the component held by a component holder of the transport and positioning unit can be fed in a position ready for machining. To transport the component from one machining station to the other machining stations whilst taking up the smallest possible surface area, the transport and positioning unit includes a rotor and a pivoting arm that is mounted eccentrically on said rotor, driven in opposition to the latter and supports the component holder. The drives of the rotor and the pivoting arm are synchronized in such a way that the component holder is displaced along a closed curved path comprising spaces between the neighboring apexes of said path.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus configured to manufacture a storage unit by mounting an object onto a spindle motor that is attached to a housing and configured to rotate the object includes a centering mechanism that includes a first centering unit engaged with a spindle hub of the spindle motor and configured to center the spindle hub, and a second centering unit provided concentric to the first centering part and configured to center the object, and an attachment unit configured to attach the object around the spindle hub while the centering mechanism aligns a center of the spindle hub with a center of the object.

Abstract: A lead wire insertion device includes a first chuck member and a second chuck member, each of which is separable, and connects a coil terminal of a cassette coil to a terminal of a connection terminal. The first chuck member is divided into the first chuck inner member and a first chuck outer member at a first division position that is inside both ends of a cross section of the coil terminal in a lateral direction, and that is offset from a center of the cross section in the lateral direction. The second chuck member is divided into the second chuck inner member and a second chuck outer member at a second division position that is inside the both ends of the cross section of the coil terminal in the lateral direction, and that is offset from a center of the cross section in the lateral direction.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a surface mounting apparatus in which abutting members will not abut on a printed wiring board when the abutting members are lowered. [Means for Solving the Problems] A surface mounting apparatus includes a conveyer 34 or 53 that support a printed wiring board 2 movably in a transportation direction, and a board transfer device 14 that lowers a pair of tab members 71 and 71 to positions spaced apart upstream and downstream of the printed wiring board 2 in the transportation direction and moves the tab members 71 in the transportation direction. The board transfer device 14 includes an interval changing device that changes an interval between a pair of the tab members 71 and 71 and a sensor that detects the position of the printed wiring board 2 on the conveyer.

Abstract: A tool includes a housing and a plunger supported by the housing. The housing has one or more tines configured to unlatch at least one terminated cable assembly from an electrical connector assembly. The plunger is configured to at least partially remove the at least one terminated cable assembly from the electrical connector assembly. The tool can be used as an extraction and insertion tool facilitating the repair of high speed electrical connectors.

Abstract: It identifies the on-substrate arrangement position information of the transfer products which are fabricated on the same substrate without increasing the fabrication processes. The process of repeatedly exposing a plurality of transfer product patterns which are depicted on a sheet of photo mask are repeatedly exposed on a substrate S times, and in at least two exposure processes among the S times exposure processes, photo masks on which different identification patterns are depicted for each of the plural transfer product patterns are employed to carry out the exposure processes repeatedly, and the number of transfer product patterns which are transferred at one time are differentiated between a process in the at least two exposure processes and the other processes.

Abstract: A process carrier is capable of supporting printed circuit boards during manufacturing and testing. The process carrier includes a base plate, a first top plate and a second top plate. The base plate has an upper surface including a recessed area sized to receive a panelized group of printed circuit board substrates and a lower surface. The first top plate is coupleable to the upper surface of the base plate during a first manufacturing process. The first top plate includes a plurality of connected rails configured to secure the panelized group of printed circuit board substrates. The second top plate is coupleable to the upper surface of the base plate during a second manufacturing process. The second top plate is configured to cover the panelized group of printed circuit board substrates.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of forming an electrical connection on a device. In one embodiment, the electrical connection is attached to the device via an adhesive having electrically conductive particles disposed therein. In one embodiment, the adhesive is cured while applying pressure such that the conductive particles align, have a reduced particle-to-particle spacing, or come into contact with each other to provide a more directly conductive (less resistive) path between the electrical connection and the device. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for forming an electrical lead on a partially formed solar cell during formation of the solar cell device is provided.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for forming a conductive pattern on an insulating substrate and a related apparatus. In the method, particle-type conductive matter is transferred onto a surface of the substrate and the particle-type conductive matter is at least partially sintered at elevated temperature and pressure in order to convert the particle-formed pattern into a continuously conducting pattern affixed to the substrate. According to the invention, the conductive matter is transferred in the form of a predefined pattern, and the sintering is carried out by using a nip comprising two opposing nip members between which the substrate is fed. The method provides an efficient way of making high-resolution conductor structures at low temperatures.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piston device, comprises the following steps. Processing a first raw material to form a piston with a top surface and a bottom surface. Processing a second raw material to have the diameter of said second raw material slightly larger than the diameter of said piston. Cutting the second raw material into a plural cylinders. Mounting the annular component on the top surface or the bottom surface through the convex portion. The durability and the life cycle of the piston device can be extended by mounting the annular component onto the piston.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing and/or machining components, in particular gas turbine components such as blades, blade segments or integrally bladed rotors for an aircraft engine, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method for manufacturing components, in particular gas turbine components, includes at least the following steps: a) providing a workpiece; b) milling the workpiece to provide a component to be manufactured; c) rounding the edges of the component and/or smoothing the surface of the component and/or hardening the surface of the component by a hydraulic method using a lubricant and/or coolant required for the milling.

Abstract: A link rod with a U-shaped profile made from a one-piece sheet metal shell including two part shells and a back connecting said part shells. Bearing eyes are formed from a pair of aligned holes in the part shells. To obtain outer collars having inner bearing support surfaces for the bearing eyes with a slim-shaped construction of the link rod, the forming is performed stepwise by firstly producing the holes and bending the edges thereof to form the collars on one of the part shells which have not yet been brought parallel to each other by bending. Only then is what is to become the second part shell bent such as to be parallel to the first part shell. The holing and the bending of the edges of the holes on the second part shell is then carried out through the holes of the first part shell.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a rib for an aircraft wing, the method comprising providing a billet of material for forming the rib, machining away material from all sides of the billet to form a rib for use in an aircraft, the rib including a web that extends between first and second flanged portions, each flanged portion having a flange that facilitates fixing of the rib to another component of the aircraft, wherein the material that forms the web extends diagonally across the billet, the web having a first face on a first side and a second face on a second side opposite to the first side of the web, and the first flanged portion extends more to the first side of the web than to the second side and the second flanged portion extends more to the second side of the web than to the first side.

Abstract: To improve the ease of use, a hair trimmer (1) is proposed, this hair trimmer (1) comprising a cutting unit (2) for trimming hair driven by a first motor (20) and a suction unit (3) for absorbing clippings that is driven by a second motor (30), wherein the second motor (30) is operable to function in at least two different modes, one of the modes resulting in a lower suction power and the other of the modes resulting in a higher suction power.

Abstract: A utensil for liberating the contents of an egg from the shell of the egg. The utensil includes an egg support for holding the egg and a shell cracker formation for cracking the shell of the egg held by the egg support, the shell cracker formation being moveable between a rest position and a crack position. The utensil further includes an actuator for connection to the shell cracker formation, the actuator being moveable between a first position and a second position wherein movement of the actuator from its first position to its second position will cause the shell cracker formation to move from its rest position to its crack position.

Abstract: A blade guard for a hedge trimmer that can cut trimmings from a hedge includes a cutting arm member with a first set of the cutting blades that extends laterally from the cutting arm member. The blade guard generally includes a first housing member and a second housing member movable between an open condition and a closed condition. A connecting member on the blade guard member that is operable to releasably couple to the cutting arm member. The first housing member and the second housing member in the open condition establish an opening between the first housing member and the second housing member. The blade guard in the open condition is operable to catch the trimmings in the opening between the first housing member and the second housing member. The blade guard in the closed condition is operable to cover the first set of the cutting blades.

Abstract: In a folding knife in which a release button is used to lock the blade in the open and/or closed positions, and to release the blade from being locked, the release button has a shank portion that does not extend past the axial centerline through the button. The tang of the blade may therefore be made long enough that the lockup between the tang and the release button is more secure.

Abstract: A utility knife with an auto-retractable blade, having a housing containing a blade therein. An actuator is provide being fixed to a slider contained in the housing and slidable with respect to the housing. The slider, having an upper hook and a lower hook and being able to coact with an upper protrusion and a lower protrusion of a blade seat also contained in the housing, are able to automatically retract into the housing after the blade leaves a workpiece and before a user of the knife releases the actuator for extending the blade. The blade will not undesirably move backward in cutting.

Abstract: A hedge trimmer comprising: a chassis; a set of blades protruding from one end of the chassis; a cord extending from a second end of the chassis; and a rigid cord protector secured to a portion of the cord at end of the cord attached to the second end of the chassis.

Abstract: A device for cutting sheet metal is disclosed. The device comprises of a cutting blade (13) which passes between two curved sharpened support blades (12 & 14) (“curved support blades”), the latter which curves away from the cutting blade (13). The cutting blade (13) and the curved support blades (12 & 14) each have two holes in them (henceforth referred to as upper and lower holes) which enable them to be connected together and to the handles (4 & 5). The handles (4 & 5) are long and similar to those commonly used in long handle pruning secateurs. Items (3 & 6) each have two holes in them (henceforth referred to as upper and lower holes) which enable them to be connected together and to the cutting blade (13) and the curved support blades (12 & 14). Items (3 & 6) are bolted together at their upper holes, and at the other ends they slot into the handles (4 & 5).

Abstract: A child resistant safety scissor includes a first scissor member having a handle end and a blade end and having a first pivot point located between the handle end and the blade end; a second scissor member having a handle end and a blade end and having a second pivot point located between the handle end and the blade end; a pivot rotation means located at the first pivot point of the first scissor member and at the second pivot point of the second scissor member, rotatably connecting the first scissor member to the second scissor member at the pivot points; a slideable, spring-loaded lock mechanism first component located on the handle end of the first scissor member and a spring-loaded lock mechanism second component located on the handle end of the second scissor member, the first component having a first position, being a lock position wherein it is interconnected with the second component and is inoperable, and the first component having a second position being an unlocked position, wherein it is not inte

Abstract: The invention relates to a hand tool machine protection device for a hand tool machine (12), having at least one operating element (14, 16) and a shut-off unit (18), which brings about a shut-off during a deactivation of the control element (14, 16) by means of at least one shut-off means (24). The invention provides that the hand tool machine protection device comprises an emergency shut-off unit (28), which is provided for an emergency shut-off of an operation of the tool (26) with an activated operating element (14, 16).

Abstract: A portable implement is provided that includes a tool element, arranged on one end of a guide rod, for the sawing, cutting and/or scything of undergrowth or grass, a motor, arranged at the other end of the guide rod, for driving the tool element, a holding element, arranged between the tool element and the motor, for holding the portable implement, and a connecting element, arranged on the guide rod or on the holding element, for connecting the holding element with the guide rod. The connecting element cooperates with the guide rod by means an operating element such that the operating position of the portable implement can be adjusted individually. The connecting element, in a first position of the operating element, is connected with the guide rod displaceably in longitudinal direction to the guide rod and for adjusting the operating position of the portable implement.

Abstract: A reciprocating tool that includes a spindle that reciprocates with respect to a housing within a cavity of the housing. The reciprocating tool includes a blade clamp mechanism actuator coupled to the housing for movement with respect the housing between first and second positions. The spindle reciprocates with respect to the blade clamp mechanism actuator. A blade clamp mechanism is coupled to the spindle for reciprocating movement therewith, and the blade clamp mechanism is configured to attach the saw blade to the spindle. The blade clamp mechanism includes a collar mounted on the end of the spindle, and the collar is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the spindle between an engaged position and a disengaged position in response to movement of the blade clamp mechanism actuator between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A CONSTRUCTIVE ARRANGEMENT APPLIED TO A THIMBLE FOR USE IN A PRE-OPERATIVE SHAVING comprises a two or three-bladed refill cartridge (1) (or any number of blades) attached to a handle (thimble) (2) prolonged or elongated by the four longitudinal rods (3) with lateral flaps for its rotation (4) and has a property of being adapted to the index finger in a process similar to the sewing thimble and clipper, making easier the malleability of the proposed utility model.

Abstract: A device (1) for supplying shaving aid (10) to cutting units (22) of an electric shaver (20) is designed as a stand-alone unit which is to be arranged separately from the shaver (20), and which is adapted to receiving the shaver (20). As a consequence of this design, this supplying device (1) may be designed such as to contain more shaving aid (10) than any supplying device that needs to be positioned inside the shaver (20), so that the need for a user to replenish the shaving aid (10) arises less frequently. The supplying device may further comprise means for performing at least one other function than supplying a shaving aid (10) to a shaver (20), for example a function of cleaning a shaving head (21) of the shaver (20) and/or a function of charging a battery of the shaver (20).

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring and marking a body portion of a vehicle for repairing the body portion of the vehicle. The apparatus includes a measuring component, and a sliding component. Further, the measuring component includes an elongated calibrating portion and a marking member. Furthermore, the elongated calibrating portion includes a proximal end portion, and a distal end portion opposite to the proximal end portion. The marking member is disposed on the proximal end portion of the elongated calibrating portion. Moreover, the sliding component is slidably attached to the elongated calibrating portion. The apparatus is capable of being aligned to the body portion of the vehicle such that the sliding component rests to an edge portion proximate to the body portion, and the measuring component extends over the body portion for measuring and marking the body portion when the apparatus is slid over the body portion.

Abstract: Devices for commercial, industrial, professional and household use are described in offset levels. In one embodiment, the offset level may comprise at least two parallel but offset portions such that an individual may use the offset level to lay a level line even if here is an object in the way which would prevent use of an conventional straight level. In one embodiment, the offset level comprises at least three portions, two of which are co-axial and a third which is not co-axial with the other two and which is therefore offset.

Abstract: A chalk line hook is constructed and arranged to connect with an identical chalk line hook to provide a chalk line having a length of two chalk lines. The chalk line hook includes a connector portion, an anchor portion, and a lock portion. The connector portion is constructed and arranged to connect with a free end of the chalk line. The anchor portion is operatively joined with the connector portion for anchoring the hook. The lock portion is constructed and arranged to lockingly engage with a captured portion of the identical chalk line hook.

Abstract: This is a set of plastic templates for drawing the location of an electrical box on a drywall panel. Each set will include 6 templates with each template having the same basic shape as the type of electrical box for which it will be used. After measuring the correct height with a tape measure center the cut out hole of the template over the marking and trace. Cut along the traced line and remove the cut out portion of drywall. Insert the box or enclosure.