Patents Issued in January 21, 2010
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Publication number: 20100012026Abstract: An evaporation supply apparatus for raw material used in semiconductor manufacturing includes a source tank in which a raw material is pooled; a flow rate control device that supplies carrier gas at a regulated flow rate into the source tank; a primary piping path for feeding mixed gas G0, made up of raw material vapor G4 and carrier gas G1, an automatic pressure regulating device that regulates a control valve based on the detected values of the pressure and temperature of mixed gas G0 to regulate the cross-sectional area of the passage through which the mixed gas G0 is distributed so as to hold the pressure of the mixed gas G0 inside the source tank constant; and a constant-temperature heating unit for heating the source tank to a set temperature, in which mixed gas G0 is supplied to a process chamber while controlling the pressure inside the source tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Kaoru Hirata, Masaaki Nagase, Atsushi Hidaka, Atsushi Matsumoto, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
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Publication number: 20100012027Abstract: A device for injecting into a chamber at least one precursor comprises at least one tank containing the precursor, means for keeping the tank at a higher pressure than that of the chamber, and at least one injector connected to the tank. It also comprises a device for measuring the mean flowrate, arranged between the tank and the injector and a mechanical low-pass filter arranged between the device for measuring the flowrate and the injector. The control circuit comprises outputs respectively connected to the tank and to the injector for controlling said pressure and/or the injection time and/or the injection frequency, in such a way as to periodically inject droplets of precursor into the chamber. The control circuit also comprises a regulation input connected to the output of the device for measuring the mean flowrate, in such a way as to control said pressure and/or the injection time and/or the injection frequency in order to keep the mean flowrate at a predetermined set-point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2005Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: QUALIFLOW-THERMInventors: Frederic Poignant, Samuel Bonnafous, Jean-Manuel Decams, Herve Guillon
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Publication number: 20100012028Abstract: A light irradiation device (151) includes a UV lamp (153), first and second optical filters (164, 165) which transmit and block wavelengths within different specific ranges, and a filter switching mechanism (162) which selectively interposes the first and second optical filters (164, 165) between the UV lamp (153) and an optical lens. The blocking wavelength of the first optical filter (164) is relatively longer than that of the second optical filter (165). The first optical filter (164) is interposed between the UV lamp (153) and the optical lens since the start of curing a coating solution until a lapse of a predetermined period of time. When the predetermined period of time has elapsed, the second optical filter (165) is interposed between the UV lamp (153) and the optical lens to replace the first optical filter (164).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2005Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Jinbo, Hiroshi Ota, Takeshi Imizu
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Publication number: 20100012029Abstract: In a physical vapor deposition plasma reactor, a multi-frequency impedance controller is coupled between RF ground and one of (a) the bias electrode, (b) the sputter target, the controller providing adjustable impedances at a first set of frequencies, said first set of frequencies including a first set of frequencies to be blocked and a first set of frequencies to be admitted. The first multi-frequency impedance controller includes a set of band pass filters connected in parallel and tuned to said first set of frequencies to be admitted, and a set of notch filters connected in series and tuned to said first set of frequencies to be blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: John C. FORSTER, Daniel J. Hoffman, John A. Pipitone, Xianmin Tang, Rongjun Wang
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Publication number: 20100012030Abstract: Chemical vapor deposition processes utilize chemical precursors that allow for the deposition of thin films to be conducted at or near the mass transport limited regime. The processes have high deposition rates yet produce more uniform films, both compositionally and in thickness, than films prepared using conventional chemical precursors. In preferred embodiments, a higher order silane is employed to deposit thin films containing silicon that are useful in the semiconductor industry in various applications such as transistor gate electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: ASM America, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Todd, Mark Hawkins
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Publication number: 20100012031Abstract: The invention relates to a method of optical characterization, comprising a step of evaluating the doping of a substrate (SUB) using a reflected beam emanating from a light source, said method being carried out using apparatus comprising: said light source (LAS) to produce an incident beam (I) in an axis of incidence; a first detector (DET1, DET2) to measure the power of said reflected beam (R) in an axis of reflection; said axes of incidence and reflection crossing at a measurement point and forming a non-zero angle of measurement; and a polarizer (POL) disposed in the path of the incident beam (I). Furthermore, the light source (LAS) is monochromatic. The invention also envisages an ion implanter provided with said apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Frank Torregrosa, Laurent Roux
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Publication number: 20100012032Abstract: An apparatus for high-rate chemical vapor (CVD) deposition of semiconductor films comprises a reaction chamber for receiving therein a substrate and a film forming gas, a gas inlet for introducing the film forming gas into the reaction chamber, an incidence window in the reaction chamber for transmission of a laser sheet into the reaction chamber, a laser disposed outside the reaction chamber for generating the laser sheet and an antenna disposed outside the reaction chamber for generating a plasma therein. The film forming gas in the chamber is excited and decomposed by the laser sheet, which passes in parallel with the substrate along a plane spaced apart therefrom, and concurrent ionization effected by the antenna, thereby forming a dense semiconductor film on the substrate at high rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Yung-Tin Chen
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Publication number: 20100012033Abstract: A sheet plasma film forming apparatus includes: a pressure reducing container; a plasma gun; an anode; plasma flowing means; a sheet plasma converting chamber as part of the pressure reducing container; a pair of permanent magnets which forms a sheet-shaped plasma; and a film forming chamber as a part of the pressure reducing container. The pressure reducing container includes first and second bottle neck portions that are openings of the film forming chamber formed such that the plasma flows from the sheet plasma converting chamber through the first bottle neck portion to the film forming chamber, and the flown sheet-shaped plasma flows through the second bottle neck portion to the anode. In the thickness direction of the sheet-shaped plasma, a size of the first and second bottle neck portions is smaller than an internal size of the film forming chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: SHINMAYWA INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masao Marunaka, Takayuki Tsuchiya, Atsuhiro Terakura, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20100012034Abstract: A method and device for depositing at least one layer, particularly a semiconductor layer, onto at least one substrate, which is situated inside a process chamber of a reactor while being supported by a substrate holder, is provided. The layer includes of at least two material components provided in a fixed stoichiometric ratio, which are each introduced into the reactor in the form of a first and a second reaction gas, and a portion of the decomposition products form the layer, whereby the supply of the first reaction gas, which has a low thermal activation energy, determines the growth rate of the layer, and the second reaction gas, which has a high thermal activation energy, is supplied in excess and is preconditioned, in particular, by an independent supply of energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Gerhard Karl Strauch, Johannes Kaeppeler, Markus Reinhold, Bernd Schulte
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Publication number: 20100012035Abstract: There is provided a vacuum evaporating apparatus which is suitable for performing a process in which a metal vapor atmosphere is formed in a processing chamber, the metal atoms in this metal vapor atmosphere are caused to be adhered to the surface of an object to be processed, and the metal atoms adhered to the surface of the object to be processed are diffused into grain boundary phases thereof. The apparatus comprises: a processing furnace (11); at least one processing box (4) disposed inside the processing furnace; and a heating means (2) provided inside the processing furnace so as to enclose the processing box. An evacuating means is provided which, after housing the processing box inside the processing furnace in a state in which the object to be processed (S) and the metal evaporating material (V) are disposed in the processing box, reduces the processing furnace and the processing box to a predetermined pressure and keep them at that pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Kyuzo Nakamura, Takeo Katou, Atsushi Nakatsuka, Ichirou Mukae, Masami Itou, Ryou Yoshiizumi, Yoshinori Shingaki
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Publication number: 20100012036Abstract: An MSW processing apparatus includes two or more semi-isolated reaction chambers separated from one another by isolation regions configured with two or more TIG elements, either or both of which may be independently purged. The TIG elements may be configured in a staircase-like fashion and include vertical and horizontal conductance spacings, sized so that, under different operational process temperatures of the MSW processing apparatus, a change in the horizontal conductance spacing is less than a change in the vertical conductance spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Hugo Silva, Martin Dauelsberg, Johannes Lindner, Thomas E. Seidel, Gerhard K. Strauch
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Publication number: 20100012037Abstract: A substrate transfer apparatus comprising: a plurality of floating-transfer guide plates adjacent to each other with a space, each of guide plate having a plurality of floating gas ejecting holes; a gas supplying source for supplying a floating gas to the guide plates; a tray that is placed on one of the guide plates in order to mount a substrate to be transferred, and that is floated by the floating gas; and a transfer arm for transferring the floated tray to the adjacent other guide plate from the guide plate, wherein the tray includes a main body portion having both side edges parallel to a transfer direction of the tray, and an outward projecting portion that is formed so as to partially project outwardly from at least one of both side edges of the main body portion, and wherein the transfer arm is in contact and engaged with the outward projecting portion when the tray is transferred by the transfer arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Katsushi Kishimoto, Yusuke Fukuoka, Mitsuhiro Toyoda, Hiroyuki Tadokoro, Yusuke Ozaki
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Publication number: 20100012038Abstract: A system for managing a group of dairy animals to be milked fully automatically, where the dairy animals go through a lactation cycle comprising phases of calving, inmilking, producing milk, and being dry. The system includes a computer executing program instructions for recording information and processing data indicating a division of the group of dairy animals into subgroups of a plurality of dairy animals, an insemination period determined per subgroup within which the dairy animals of the subgroup concerned are to be inseminated, which insemination period is so short that substantially all dairy animals in the subgroup concerned go simultaneously through the lactation cycle, and a separation of pregnant dairy animals of at least one of the subgroups in a separate area, around the beginning of the being dry phase of the subgroup concerned.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Maasland N.V.Inventor: Gerth Petersen
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Publication number: 20100012039Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (10) for automatic adjustment of at least one interior dimension of a milking location (12) for an animal. The milking location (12) comprises an enclosure formed by e.g. four confining means (121, . . . , 124), whereby at least one of the confining means (121, . . . , 124) is movable. The system (10) comprises a first sensor means (14) operable to detect the presence of an animal In the milking location (12). The system (10) also comprises a control means (18) connected to the first sensor means (14), When an animal is detected in the milking location (12), the control means (18) is operable to move the at least one movable confining means (121, . . . , 124) stepwise, in order to adjust the at least one interior dimension of the milking location (12) to the animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Anders Hallström
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Publication number: 20100012040Abstract: An at least partially open sided outdoor animal shelter structure, the structure including (a) a floor to support animals, the floor including apertures therethrough allowing animal waste matter to pass through the floor, (b) a basement below the floor for collecting the waste matter, (c) floor supports to support the floor above the basement, (d) side supports, (e) a water impervious canopy supported by the side supports, the canopy being supported above at least part of the floor, the canopy allowing at least some light to pass therethrough, (f) at least one air flow control means to control airflow in the area below the canopy.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Thomas George Pow, Kathleen Pow
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Publication number: 20100012041Abstract: A method includes supplying feed on a commercial basis to an end consumer in pre-measured single-use dispenser packaging, which packaging, when installed to a feeder apparatus of appropriate design, functions as at least a portion of a hopper of the feeder apparatus. When at least partially exhausted of feed, the supplied packaging, serving temporarily as the hopper, is removed and replaced with another filled pre-measured single-use dispenser package. While installed to the feeder apparatus, the commercially supplied feed container filled with the single-use quantity of feed is advantageously visible and functional as part of the hopper conventionally made a permanent and refillable part of the feeder apparatus. As such, simple cartridge replacement of a feed supply is made possible, thereby obviating transfer of feed from the supply packaging to the hopper forming part of the feeder apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Lawrence I. Wechsler
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Publication number: 20100012042Abstract: A bowl for containing food for an animal, the bowl including: an interior volume for accommodating the food, the interior volume being defined by a base and an upwardly extending circumferential sidewall, wherein at least one protruding portion extends upwardly from the base of the bowl into the interior volume to obstruct the animal from consuming the food too fast.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Long Sin Victor Lee
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Publication number: 20100012043Abstract: The present invention relates to a cat lavatory comprising (i) a bottom part with a substantially rectangular floor space and, on each longitudinal and lateral edge of the floor space, a side wall projecting substantially upwardly in each case, wherein mutually adjacent side walls are joined together by means of an elastic mount, a pouch, preferably containing cat litter, can be placed in the bottom part, and lateral edges of the pouch can be folded over the side walls of the bottom part, and (ii) a frame-like top part which can be placed on top of the side walls of the bottom part and is designed such that, when placed on the side walls of the bottom part, it expands them outwardly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2006Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: MARS INCORPORATEDInventor: Gunnar Wenzel
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Publication number: 20100012044Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal tank stand skirt for an animal tank stand (e.g., a metal stand). The stand includes four legs having a top portion and a bottom portion, a platform having a front long member, a rear long member, and two short members that connect the top end of each leg to form a rectangular opening to receive an animal tank. The animal tank stand skirt includes two rectangular skirt members, each skirt member has a top end, a bottom end, a first side and a second side; one or more fasteners at the top end of the skirt member; and one or more pockets on an inside portion of the skirt member, at or near the first side. The skirt has an opening at the middle at the first sides of each skirt member; and the skirt has a length and width that fit a standard size tank stand. The present invention further includes methods of use thereof, kits and systems that include the animal tank stand skirt.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Armand P. Ghioni
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Publication number: 20100012045Abstract: The invention refers to appetence measurement for animals. In particular, the invention proposes an automated system for measuring the appetence of animals, including at least one feeding area (2) and an accommodation area (1), wherein the feeding area includes a room (3) whose dimensions are chosen so that the animal is able to move therein, and the system also includes access control resources (6, 10-12) that are designed so that the animals can gain access in turn to the room (3) from the accomodation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Claire Larose, Marie Le Toux, Isaballe Guiller
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Publication number: 20100012046Abstract: A method of separating the liquid waste from solid waste produced by a farm animal in order to capture and separate environmentally undesirable components from animal waste, the method comprising providing an animal shelter structure that comprises a canopy above a floor that includes a plurality of openings to allow waste produced by animals standing on the floor to pass through the floor and into a basement below the floor, wherein the basement includes a fluid outlet to allow a draining of fluid received in the basement to pass through the opening and into a reservoir, and allowing draining of at least some of the liquid from the basement and into the reservoir prior to removing the remaining waste from the basement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: HERD HOMES LIMITEDInventor: Thomas George Pow
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Publication number: 20100012047Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing heat loss from a non-human animal. The method can include the steps of providing a cover having a first side with a reflective material sized and configured for covering at least a portion of a non-human animals body, and a layer of material, and covering at least a portion of the non-human animal during a surgical procedure with the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Spacedrapes, Inc.Inventors: David Larkins, James Bell
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Publication number: 20100012048Abstract: A system to reduce standby losses in a hot water heater is presented. The system utilizes a safety relay valve between the combination gas controller and the burner. The safety relay valve bypasses gas to a damper actuator valve to position a flapper valve located over the flue pipe. Once the flapper valve has opened to ensure combustion, the gas is allowed to flow back to the safety relay valve. Some of the bypass gas may be diverted to boost the pilot or to supply a booster. The safety relay valve is then opened to allow the gas supply to the burner. Once the burner is turned off by the combination gas controller, the small amount of bypass gas bleeds out of the damper actuator valve to close the flapper valve to reduce standby losses through the flue pipe, and to allow the safety relay valve to close tightly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: INVENSYS CONTROLS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: Geoffrey Mervyn Whitford, Brendon John Ruwoldt
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Publication number: 20100012049Abstract: The cavitation heating system of the preferred embodiment includes a reservoir to contain an operating fluid, and a cavitator subsystem with an inlet to receive the operating fluid from the reservoir, a cavitator to cavitate the operating fluid, and an outlet to transfer the cavitated operating fluid to the reservoir. The cavitation of the operating fluid generates heat. The cavitation heating system may use various techniques either singly or in combination to increase the heat generated from the cavitation of the operating fluid, including: the use of oil as an operating fluid, the addition of dissolved noble gases in the operating fluid, the use of a pump to create jets that cavitate the operating fluid in a vessel and heat the operating fluid, and the use and control of pressure on the cavitation of the operating fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: JMS CO., LTDInventor: Benjamin Pless
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Publication number: 20100012050Abstract: A boiler water cycle of a fluidized bed boiler, preferably, a supercritical once-through-unit (OTU) boiler, includes a drop leg, a number of horizontal inlet headers, substantially having a length of the length of a front wall of the furnace of the boiler, arranged below the furnace, and panels of water tubes of the front wall and a rear wall, extensions of the water tubes being directly connected to the inlet headers, wherein each inlet header is in flow communication with a drop leg by way of an inlet duct connected to the end of the inlet header. The inlet headers include a front wall chamber below the front wall of the furnace, a rear wall chamber arranged below the rear wall of the furnace, and at least one grid chamber below the center part of the furnace grid in a wind box of the fluidized bed boiler.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: FOSTER WHEELER ENERGIA OYInventor: Pentti Lankinen
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Publication number: 20100012051Abstract: A compact, tiered sulfur recovery unit having a burner, a combustion chamber, a reaction chamber, a waste heat boiler and a steam drum. The waste heat boiler is mounted above the reaction chamber, and the steam drum is mounted above the waste heat boiler, resulting in a three-tiered, compact design, requiring only a single platform for space. The reaction chamber comprises a horizontal body and an upright plenum. The reaction chamber includes an inlet for receipt of acid gas (H2S). One end of the horizontal body of the reaction chamber is fluidly attached to the combustion chamber, while the other end of the horizontal body of the reaction chamber is fluidly attached to a lower end of the upright plenum of the reaction chamber. An upper end of the upright plenum of the reaction chamber is fluidly attached to the waste heat boiler. The waste heat boiler includes an outlet for the release of SO2 for downstream sulfur blowdown to produce additional elemental sulfur.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Sidney Leroy Born
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Publication number: 20100012052Abstract: A method for operating a hybrid drive, developed as a parallel hybrid, and having a drive train, especially for a motor vehicle, having at least one internal combustion engine and at least one electrical machine device or a hydraulic machine device, a separating clutch being situated between the internal combustion engine and the electrical or hydraulic machine device and, as seen in the drive direction, the electrical or the hydraulic machine device is postconnected to the internal combustion engine, the separating clutch being separated in the overrun condition if a specifiable drag torque is able to be absorbed by the electrical or the hydraulic machine device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Ruprecht Anz, Michael Werner, Oliver Fautz, Michael Glora
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Publication number: 20100012053Abstract: A vehicle propulsion system and method of operation are presented. As one example, the method includes operating an engine to produce an engine output; transferring the engine output to one or more drive wheels of the vehicle via a transmission; responsive to a first condition, varying torque supplied to the drive wheels by adjusting a relative number of combusting cylinders and deactivated cylinders of the engine; and responsive to a second condition, varying the torque supplied to the drive wheels by adjusting a number of strokes performed by the combusting cylinders per combustion cycle while shifting the transmission between different gear ratios.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, John Ottavio Michelini
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Publication number: 20100012054Abstract: A cooling circuit for the thermal engine of an automotive vehicle includes a main loop that includes a first exchanger for collecting the heat from a first heat source, a first radiator and a pump connected in series by ducts for the circulation of a cooling liquid, the temperature of the cooling liquid being kept under normal operation conditions at a temperature lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. The cooling circuit includes a first bypass of the main loop in parallel relative to said first radiator, the first bypass including sequentially, in the circulation direction of the cooling liquid, a second exchanger for collecting the heat from a second heat source and a second radiator connected in series by ducts for the circulation of the cooling liquid, the temperature of said cooling liquid at the outlet of said second exchanger being set, under normal operation conditions, at a temperature higher than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Renault TrucksInventors: Thomas Justin, Frederic Demarle
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Publication number: 20100012055Abstract: In an opposed piston engine, a pair of pistons are disposed in opposition in the bore of a cylinder. The cylinder includes first liquid coolant grooves having a first cooling capacity to cool a portion of the cylinder extending from a central portion toward an exhaust port, and second liquid coolant grooves having a second cooling capacity, less than the first cooling capacity, to cool a portion of the cylinder extending from the central portion toward an inlet port. Each piston includes a cylindrical skirt with a crown and an open end opposite the crown, a piston rod with a bore, a first end attached to a back surface of the crown, and a second end extending through the open end of the skirt, a radial array of liquid coolant flow passages in communication with the bore and disposed between the first end and the back surface of the crown, and a single wristpin retained on the second end section of the piston rod and positioned externally to the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Achates Power, Inc.Inventors: James U. Lemke, Ronald J. Hoffman, Michael H. Wahl, Patrick R. Lee
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Publication number: 20100012056Abstract: A thermal engine for an automotive vehicle, including at least one cylinder block including a first inner circuit for circulating a cooling liquid, of the type in which the first inner circuit includes an outer supply duct including an inlet opening into a reception chamber for a rotor of the engine water pump formed in the block. The chamber includes in its intermediate portion a supply opening having a level located above the level of the inlet opening of the inner supply duct of the first inner circuit. An additional degassing duct connects the upper portion of the reception chamber or water pump volute with an element of the engine cooling circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.Inventor: Frederic Benet
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Publication number: 20100012057Abstract: In a cylinder head structure for an internal combustion engine that directs air into a covered space above the cylinder head covered by a head cover to ventilate the covered space, a gas flow passage space that extends continuously over an entire length or substantially over the entire length in a longitudinal direction is formed in the covered space. In addition, an air introduction position is provided within the gas flow passage space, and an air discharge position is provided outside the gas flow passage space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi KITAGAWA, Nobuyuki Murakami
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Publication number: 20100012058Abstract: The present invention provides a variable coordination volume type eight-stroke engine for increasing the fuel efficiency in the heavy load operation by regulating the maximum air-pressure in the charge-coordinate-channel and adjusting the initiation timing of the injection-process as the engine load changes; wherein the maximum air-pressure of the charge-coordinate-channel will be regulated with a buffer piston in the range of 25% to 75% of the concurrent maximum combustion pressure of the mastery cylinder. In addition the overall temperature of the master cylinder and the slave cylinder will be reduced in the heavy load condition by injecting a flow of high-density-air at lower temperature in the heavy load operation, thereby achieving better durability and higher fuel efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Lung-tan Hu
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Publication number: 20100012059Abstract: A roller bearing includes an outer ring formed by connecting a plurality of arc-shaped outer ring members in a circumferential direction and a plurality of rollers arranged along an inner diameter surface of the outer ring. A slope surface (22i) is provided at one or each circumferential end on an inner diameter surface of the outer ring member (22a), and a contour line of the slope surface (22i) is along a direction perpendicular to a revolution direction of the roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Katsufumi Abe, Hiroki Tsuchiyama, Shinji Oishi, Noriaki Fujii, Tomoya Fujimoto, Keiko Yoshida, Kazuto Abe, Kiminori Komura
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Publication number: 20100012060Abstract: An engine assembly may include an engine structure and a camshaft supported on the engine structure. The camshaft may include a first shaft, a first lobe member fixed for rotation with the first shaft, a second lobe member fixed for rotation with the first shaft and spaced axially from the first lobe member, and a third lobe member located on the first shaft axially between the first and second lobe members. The third lobe member may include first and second portions coupled to one another to provide for assembly of the third lobe member on the first shaft after the first and second lobe members are fixed to the first shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Glenn E. Clever, Roy Glenn Kaywood, Jack Stringfield
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Publication number: 20100012061Abstract: A valve timing control is executed by an ECU that controls an engine and an electric-motor ECU that controls an electric motor. The ECU and the electric-motor EDU serve different functions. The ECU sets the target phase of an intake valve based on the engine operating state, and prepares a rotational speed command value for the electric motor that serves as an actuator such that a phase feedback control loop, in which the intake valve phase is caused to match the target phase, is formed. The electric-motor EDU forms a feedback control loop for the motor speed, in which the electric power supplied to the electric motor is controlled such that the electric motor rotates in accordance with the rotational speed command value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Bakushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Zenichiro Mashiki, Yasumichi Inoue, Noboru Takagi, Haruyuki Urushihata
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Publication number: 20100012062Abstract: There is provided an actuator device for a variable valve apparatus. The variable valve apparatus has a control shaft to vary operation characteristics of an engine valve by an axial movement thereof. The actuator device has a rotatable screw shaft, a movable member axially movable with rotation of the screw shaft and a transmission mechanism unit that converts an axial movement of the movable member to the axial movement of the control shaft. An amount of the axial movement of the movable member is larger than an amount of the axial movement of the control shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Makoto NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20100012063Abstract: A gasket provided in a gasket groove, receives the force that acts in the direction in which two pressure-adjusting oil passages are aligned in line, and the magnitude and direction of this force change as the difference between the hydraulic pressures in the pressure-adjusting oil passages varies. However, because the opening of a hydraulic oil supply passage is located on an imaginary line extending through between the openings of the two pressure-adjusting oil passages, pressure is applied from the hydraulic oil supply passage to the gasket, whereby constant and large frictional force occurs between the gasket and the side wall of the gasket groove. Thus, the gasket is firmly retained in the gasket groove, whereby the vibration of the gasket is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junpei Shoji
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Publication number: 20100012064Abstract: The present invention provides a valve lifter, including a buffer layer, a Me diamond-like carbon layer having a thickness of 0.3˜0.6 ?m, and a diamond-like carbon layer having a thickness of 1˜1.5 ?m and a SP3 bonding fraction of 60˜70%, which are sequentially formed on a base body which is subjected to carbonitriding treatment. The valve lifter can exhibit superior low-friction characteristics and wear resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: In Woong Lyo, Sung Moon Choi, Woong Kim, Jeong Uk An, Hyung Ick Kim, Seung Gyun Ahn, Hong Kil Baek, Jin Won Jung
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Publication number: 20100012065Abstract: The invention proposes a mechanical roller tappet (1a, 1b) comprising a tappet housing (2a, 2b) shaped out of sheet metal, a drive roller (3) actuable by a cam (9) and an axle (5a, 5b) on which the drive roller (3) is mounted, end portions (24) of the axle (5a, 5b) being supported in axle eyes (23) of the tappet housing (2a, 2b), said tappet housing (2a, 2b) comprising a tappet skirt (10a, 10b) and a tappet bottom (16) possessing a contact surface (21) for an adjacent engine component on a power take-off side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer, Manfred Jansen, Karsten Kucht, Norbert Radinger
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Publication number: 20100012066Abstract: In a method of increasing the combustion efficiency of a gasoline/diesel internal combustion engine for vehicles, vessels, aircraft, generators, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Wei Hua Wang
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Publication number: 20100012067Abstract: A turn-key method of providing a typical gasoline internal combustion engine with a hybrid fuel that is combustible is accomplished with a modified spark plug. The spark plug design is relative to the use of the internal combustion engine and has the capacity to support traditional gasoline consumption in the absence of a hybrid fuel. Both liquid and gaseous hybrid fuels such as natural gas, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrogen, butane, propane, ethanol, etc. can be supported by the spark plug. In addition the design supports the spontaneous electrolysis of water followed by the instantaneous combustion of the electrolysis products Hydrogen & Oxygen back to water. This design accommodates the more modern engine designs which conceal the placement of spark plugs into the head of the engine, rather than previous designs with side arms that inhibit installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: John Scott Perez
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Publication number: 20100012068Abstract: A motor vehicle has an electric power supply that includes a battery bank (122), a compression ignition engine (100), different types of cold start aids (118, 120) that draw electric current from the power supply for aiding engine starting in cold ambient temperature, and a control (124) for monitoring voltage of the power supply while the cold start aids are drawing current from the battery bank and for interrupting the current to a lower priority one of the cold start aids, but not a higher priority one of the cold start aids, when monitored voltage falls below a threshold voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company , LLCInventors: Rogelio Rodriguez, Tashmin Lopa
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Publication number: 20100012069Abstract: A sealing system is provided for connecting tubular motor vehicle components that includes, but is not limited to a connecting piece and a substantially tubular connecting attachment disposed radially outside the connecting piece. Disposed peripherally on an outer side of the connecting piece is a sealing element for sealing the connecting piece with respect to the connecting attachment. The sealing element has a receiving pocket for receiving the connecting attachment. Furthermore, a clamping element exerts a retaining force radially inwardly onto the connecting attachment by means of the sealing element. As a result, the connecting attachment can be connected to the connecting piece without an interposed hose so that the sealing system is space-saving and makes easier assembly possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventor: Roger MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20100012070Abstract: An intake manifold includes a manifold case having an intake passage. A valve is arranged in the intake passage. The valve is rotatable about its proximal end so as to partly close the intake passage. When the valve partly closes the intake passage, a clearance is formed between a wall surface defining the intake passage and a distal end of the valve. The clearance connects a section of the intake passage upstream of the valve and a section of the intake passage downstream of the valve to each other. When the valve partly closes the intake passage, each of side edges of the valve comes in surface-to-surface contact with a portion of the intake passage wall surface that faces the side edge of the valve, thereby airtightly sealing the spaces between the side edges of the valve and the wall surface of the intake passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuyuki OTAKI
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Publication number: 20100012071Abstract: An internal combustion engine uses separate, tubular and hollow reciprocating sleeve valves that open and close intake and exhaust passageways for improved aspiration. The sliding sleeve valves are disposed within sleeves horizontally disposed within a modified head secured above the combustion chamber. The valves are driven in a path normal to the engine pistons by an independent crankshaft that is rotated through an external pulley driven by the engine crankshaft. Fluid flow occurs through the valve interior and through ports dynamically positioned above the compression cylinder, proximate aligned sleeve and head ports. Sleeve ports are separated by bridges that maintain valve rings in compression during reciprocation to prevent damage. Each valve body has a reduced diameter midsection forming a relief annulus that distributes shearing pressures about the circumference of the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Gary W. Cotton
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Publication number: 20100012072Abstract: A method for operating an engine of a vehicle, the engine having one or more deactivatable cylinders, the method including controlling the stability of a vehicle in response to vehicle acceleration, and reactivating or deactivating combustion in at least a cylinder in response to vehicle acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Thomas G. Leone, Donald J. Lewis, Husein Sukaria, Eric Tseng
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Publication number: 20100012073Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston (10) for an internal combustion engine having a piston head (11) and a piston skirt (16) with piston hubs (17) which are each connected to a hub bore (18) for receiving a piston bolt, wherein the piston hubs (17) are in the shape of a trapezoidal or step-shaped support in which the inner faces (19) of the piston hubs (17) include an acute angle (?a) with the central axis (M) of the piston. The invention provides that each hub bore (18) is embodied as a shaped bore which is widened at least in its inner area in such a way that the widened portion increases in size in the direction of the inner end (18?) of the hub bore (18) forming facets (120, 220) on the lateral surface (18) of the hub bore (18), and that the facets (120, 220) include an acute angle (?a, ?) with the central axis (M) of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Peter Kemnitz
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Publication number: 20100012074Abstract: The present invention is to provide a lubricant structure of an engine capable of easily and compactly attaching and detaching primary oil filters connected to oil intake sides of two oil pumps to and from a crank case. A power transmission chamber in the crank case dually divided in a crankshaft direction is an oil reserving portion. A first oil pump for pressure-feeding oil of the oil reserving portion to a lubricant point, a second oil pump for returning the oil returned to the crank chamber to the oil reserving portion, and first and second oil filters connected to the oil intake sides of the oil pumps are provided. The first oil filter is inserted from one of left and right crank case members, the second oil filter is inserted from the other crank case member, and both the oil filters are closed by oil filter caps.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Norikazu ASAYA
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Publication number: 20100012075Abstract: An oil pump assembly is shown for wet oil sump applications at extreme angles for power sports equipment. The oil pump is comprised of a pump body, an oil pick-up and a driven gear shield, where these components may be integrally formed from die cast aluminum. The pump body includes a rotor body housing a gerotor assembly for pumping. The oil pump is attached to the rear wall of the crankcase and below the crankshaft, and is driven by the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventor: Michael John Bluhm