Patents Issued in October 21, 2010
  • Publication number: 20100263900
    Abstract: A Full Authority Digital Controller (FADEC) has a stamped housing body, a FADEC circuit assembly within the housing body, and a cover. An electrical connector is mounted to the housing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Gregory DiVincenzo, Jeffry K. Kamenetz, Jay H. Hartman, Luke T. Orsini
  • Publication number: 20100263901
    Abstract: A water drain for a busway housing at the lowest point in a busway, typically at the elbow transition from vertical to horizontal and at the outside to inside junction of a building. There is a bulge made in the lowermost housing edge with a drain hole. A cap is fitted over the drain hole so no debris/conductors can blow in, but water leaks out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Alejandro Rodriguez Doring, Cesar Augusto Rivas Guerra
  • Publication number: 20100263902
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the management and routing of telecommunication cables include cable trough members. Generally, the trough members include a plurality of slots formed in the sidewalls of the trough members. These slots form a tortuous path as the slots extend along the sidewalls from a first end to a second open end at an end of the sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jacobson, Michael J. Nickel, Derek Sayres
  • Publication number: 20100263903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising a polyolefin and aromatic compounds, comprising a naphthyl-group or at least two linked phenyl-groups, as stabilizers for use in producing medium and high voltage cables with improved electrical breakdown strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OY
    Inventors: Thomas Hjertberg, Villgot Englund
  • Publication number: 20100263904
    Abstract: A torque-balanced, gas-blocking wireline cable and a method of making the cable includes an electrically conductive cable core for transmitting electrical power and surrounding inner and outer layers of a plurality of armor wires. Gas blocking is achieved by placing a soft polymer layer over the core before the inner wires are cabled thereon. The inner wires imbed partially into the soft polymer layer such that no gaps are left between the inner wires and the core. A second soft polymer layer is optionally extruded over the inner wires before the outer wires are applied. The second soft polymer layer fills any spaces between the inner and outer wire layers and prevents pressurized gas from infiltrating between the wires. The inner wires have larger diameters than the outer wires such that the inner wires carry approximately 60% of the load and torque imbalance is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Joseph Varkey, Sheng Chang, Byong Jun Kim, Jushik Yun
  • Publication number: 20100263905
    Abstract: A dilute copper alloy material includes, based on a total mass of the dilute copper alloy material, 2 to 12 mass ppm of sulfur, 2 to 30 mass ppm of oxygen, 4 to 55 mass ppm of titanium, and a balance consisting of pure copper and an inevitable impurity. A part of the sulfur and the titanium forms a compound or an aggregate of TiO, TiO2, TiS or Ti—O—S, and an other part of the sulfur and the titanium forms a solid solution. TiO, TiO2, TiS and Ti—O—S distributed in a crystal grain of the dilute copper alloy material are not more than 200 nm, not more than 1000 nm, not more than 200 nm and not more than 300 nm, respectively, in particle size thereof, and not less than 90% of particles distributed in a crystal grain of the dilute copper alloy material are not more than 500 nm or less in particle size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Seigi AOYAMA, Toru Sumi, Shuji Sakai, Takahiro Sato, Hidenori Abe
  • Publication number: 20100263906
    Abstract: A flexible thermoplastic composition comprises a poly(arylene ether), a first block copolymer, a second block copolymer and a flame retardant wherein the second block copolymer comprises a controlled distribution copolymer block. The flexible thermoplastic composition is useful in the manufacture of coated wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Kazunari Kosaka, Xiucuo Li, Weiguang Yao
  • Publication number: 20100263907
    Abstract: A telecommunications cable and separator spline. In one example the cable includes a cable jacket defining an elongate cable core, a conductor assembly including four twisted pairs of conductors disposed along the core and a plurality of parallel elongate localized and like distensions in an inner surface of the cable jacket. The distensions are substantially evenly spaced about an inner surface of the cable jacket and prevent the conductor assembly from coming into contact with the inner surface. In one example, the distensions are the result of a series of filler elements placed between the cable jacket and the cable core and which wind helicoidally along and about the cable core. The separator spline is comprised of first and second elongate dividing strips having a substantially H shaped cross section and arranged side by side. The spline twists helicoidally along its length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BELDEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gavriel Vexler, Galen Gareis
  • Publication number: 20100263908
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for fabricating a conductive film, and a conductive film fabricated by the same. The method comprises: forming a mixed solution consisting of at least one of a metallic precursor and a conductive polymer; spraying atomized droplets of the mixed solution on a surface of a substrate so as to form conductive frames; and coupling carbon nanotubes to the conductive frames so as to enhance electric conductivity. Accordingly, the conductive film can have enhanced electric conductivity, and can be easily fabricated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Hyun-Jung LEE, Hee-Suk KIM, Sun-Young NOH, Sun-Na Hwang, Soon-Ho LIM, Min PARK, Jun-Kyung KIM
  • Publication number: 20100263909
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric conductor (L), made of an electrically conductive material comprising aluminum. The electric conductor is surrounded at least in a region intended for the connection of an electric contact element by a protective layer (3) serving the corrosion protection. The conductive material (2) is formed around a steel wire (1) having a diameter between 0.05 mm and 0.2 mm and a fracture strength of at least 1000 N/mm2 and having such a wall thickness that a conductor (L) having a diameter between 0.10 mm and 0.40 mm is obtained, onto which the protective layer (3) is applied having a thickness of at least 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ferdinand Grögl, Angela Brutler
  • Publication number: 20100263910
    Abstract: Dry process based energy storage device structures and methods for using a dry adhesive therein are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: MAXWELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Porter Mitchell, Xiaomei Xi, Linda Zhong, Bin Zou
  • Publication number: 20100263911
    Abstract: Provided is a composite electric wire, which is intended to realize a light weight and improve a mechanical strength at the same time and which is enabled to improve the reliability by avoiding the problem of oxide coating or electric erosion so that the electric wire may be easily handled for use as a car-mounted wire harness. The composite electric wire comprises an electric wire body (W) composed of center conductors (AL) and outer-layer conductors (CU) arranged to extend in a Z-direction along the outer circumferences of the center conductors (AL) and to enclose the center conductors (AL). In the electric wire body (W), the center conductors (AL) composed of copper-coated aluminum element wires (20) of a (1+6) number are sectionally positioned at the center portion of the electric wire body (W) in an X-Y plane, and the outer-layer conductors (CU) composed of twelve copper element wires (10) are positioned in the outer circumference portion arranged around the center portion of the X-Y plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100263912
    Abstract: Provided is a composite electric wire, which is intended to realize a light weight and improve a mechanical strength at the same time and which is enabled to improve the reliability by avoiding the problem of oxide coating or electric erosion so that the electric wire may be easily handled for use as a car-mounted wire harness. The composite electric wire comprises an electric wire body (W) composed of center conductors (CU) and outer-layer conductors (AL) arranged to extend in a Z-direction along the outer circumferences of the center conductors (CU) and to enclose the center conductors (CU). In the electric wire body (W), the center conductors (CU) composed of copper element wires (10) of a (1 +6) number are sectionally positioned at the center portion of the electric wire body (W) in an X-Y plane, and the outer-layer conductors (AL) composed of twelve copper-coated aluminum element wires (20) are positioned in the outer circumference portion arranged around the center portion of the X-Y plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100263913
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a sub-pad assembly of metal structures is located directly underneath a metal pad. The sub-pad assembly includes an upper level metal line structure abutting the metal pad, a lower level metal line structure located underneath the upper level metal line structure, and a set of metal vias that provide electrical connection between the lower level metal line structure located underneath the upper level metal line structure. In another embodiment, the reliability of a C4 ball is enhanced by employing a metal pad structure having a set of integrated metal vias that are segmented and distributed to facilitate uniform current density distribution within the C4 ball. The area1 density of the cross-sectional area in the plurality of metal vias is higher at the center portion of the metal pad than at the peripheral portion of the planar portion of the metal pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy H. Daubenspeck, Wolfgang Sauter, Timothy D. Sullivan, Steven L. Wright, Edmund Sprogis
  • Publication number: 20100263914
    Abstract: A plurality of metal elements formed in an electronic package. The electronic package includes an electronic substrate and a plurality of metal elements disposed in a layer of the substrate. The plurality of metal elements do not serve an electrical function in the layer. Also, each of the plurality of metal elements is floating in the layer. In another embodiment, a method for optimizing the design of a package substrate is provided. The method includes identifying a space in a layer of the substrate that is free of metal and forming a plurality of metal elements in the identified space, where the plurality of metal elements do not serve an electrical function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jack M. Yao, Ruey Kae Zang
  • Publication number: 20100263915
    Abstract: To achieve efficient heat spreading and heat releasing by using a metal core of a circuit board, a terminal block includes an insulating block body and terminals. At least one of the terminals is provided with terminal portions for a connection with a circuit board. The terminal portions are inserted into respective through holes of the circuit board, the circuit board having a pattern circuit at a surface layer thereof and a conductive metal core at an intermediate portion in a thickness direction, so that heat of the metal core or of both the metal core and the pattern circuit is absorbed and transferred to the terminals. A bus-bar block includes an insulating block body and several parallel bus-bars with different lengths. Terminal portions at a tip end of the bus-bars are inserted, near heat-generating component on the circuit board, into the through holes of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Shiraiwa, Kazuomi Kiyosue, Akinori Nakashima, Tomohiro Sugiura, Noriyoshi Yamazaki, Minoru Umezaki
  • Publication number: 20100263916
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board having a board substrate, a transmission member having a flexible substrate, and an elastic clamping frame. The elastic clamping frame is in the form of a single piece and includes upper and lower walls and press protrusions protruding from one of the upper and lower walls. A stack of a connecting portion of the flexible substrate and a connecting portion of the board substrate is tightly disposed between the upper and lower walls such that each of the conductive fingers of the transmission member and a corresponding one of the conductive fingers of the printed circuit board are pressed against each other by the pressing action of the press protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Sunrex Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20100263917
    Abstract: A method of preparing printed circuit boards (PCB) or flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) by direct printing includes: 1) a step of printing a pattern on substrate with a paste composition including conductive particles, polyamic acid as binder and solvent; 2) a step of baking the printed substrate to imidize the polyamic acid; and 3) a step of electro-plating the printed substrate. Printed circuit boards (PCB) or flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) are produced by applying an addition method of direct printing while to simplify processes, to save time and cost, and to minimize waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: EXAX INC.
    Inventors: Soon Yeong Heo, Seong Sil Park
  • Publication number: 20100263918
    Abstract: A circuit board and a layout method therefor are provided. The circuit board is adapted for coupling between two circuits and includes multiple first pins, multiple second pins, a chip-disposing area for disposing a circuit chip, and a routing area including electrical routes. The first pins are coupled to one the circuit, and the second pins are coupled to the other one circuit. Two terminals of each of a first group of electrical routes of the electrical routes respectively are coupled to one of the first pins and the chip-disposing area, and two terminals of each of a second group of electrical routes of the electrical routes respectively are coupled to the chip-disposing area and one of the second pins. The second group of electrical routes and at least one of the first pins therebetween do not have any one of the first group of electrical routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yung-Hsu LIN, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Publication number: 20100263919
    Abstract: An electronic type substrate having 40 to 97 weight-percent polymer and 3 to 60 weight-percent auto-catalytic crystalline filler. An interconnect or a conductor trace is created in the substrate by: i. drilling or ablating with a high energy electromagnetic source, such as a laser, thereby selectively activating the multi cation crystal filler along the surface created by the drilling or ablating step; and ii. metalizing by electroless and/or electrolytic plating into the drilled or ablated portion of the substrate, where the metal layer is formed in a contacting relationship with the activated multi cation crystal filler at the interconnect boundary without a need for a separate metallization seed layer or pre-dip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yueh-Ling Lee, Meredith L. Dunbar, Xin Shane Fang, Carl Wang
  • Publication number: 20100263920
    Abstract: A three-dimensional circuit substrate comprises one or more electrically conductive tracks. The substrate is formed from a unitary moulding over the one or more electrically conductive tracks and thereby provides structural support therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: DEEPSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Paul Westmarland, Carl Justin Lewis, Andy Sayle
  • Publication number: 20100263921
    Abstract: A circuit board includes: an insulating substrate; and a circuit formed on the insulating substrate. The circuit includes: a undercoat layer with a circuit pattern formed by irradiating a metal thin film covering a surface of the insulating substrate with a laser along an outer shape of the circuit so as to partly remove the metal thin film along the outer shape of the circuit; a Cu plating layer, a Ni plating layer and a Au plating layer formed by metal plating and sequentially provided on a surface of the undercoat layer. A first middle plating layer and a second middle plating layer are provided between the Ni plating layer and the Au plating layer. The first middle plating layer includes metal with a less noble standard electrode potential with respect to Au and is in contact with the Au plating layer. The second middle plating layer includes metal with a noble standard electrode potential with respect to the metal in the first middle plating layer and is in contact with the first middle plating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichiro Nakahara, Naoto Ikegawa, Kyohei Uemura, Yoshiyuki Uchinono
  • Publication number: 20100263922
    Abstract: A device includes a carrier and an integrated circuit chip having a first side supported by the carrier and a second side having contacts. The carrier has multiple carrier contacts supported by the carrier and separated from the integrated circuit chip. Multiple leads are coupled between the contacts on the integrated circuit chip and the multiple carrier contacts. A resin encapsulates the integrated circuit chip leaving the multiple carrier contacts at least partially uncovered for attaching to a card or board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Sustek, Stephane Di Vito
  • Publication number: 20100263923
    Abstract: A method of making a wiring substrate includes forming a first metal layer on a surface of a support member, the first metal layer having at least one columnar through hole that exposes the surface of the support member, forming a columnar metal layer that fills the columnar through hole, forming an insulating layer on the columnar metal layer and on the first metal layer, forming an interconnection layer on a first surface of the insulating layer such that the interconnection layer is electrically connected to the columnar metal layer through the insulating layer, and forming a protruding part including at least part of the columnar metal layer by removing at least the support member and the first metal layer, the protruding part protruding from a second surface of the insulating layer opposite the first surface and serving as at least part of a connection terminal of the wiring substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Kotaro KODANI, Junichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100263924
    Abstract: A combined environmental and electromagnetic rotary seal. The invention is adapted for use between two mutually rotating components of an electromagnetic energy transmission system and provides simultaneous protection against contamination from the environment and unwanted electromagnetic leakage. In the illustrative embodiment, a first set of grooves is cut into the exterior of a first conductive cylindrical component whose interior contains a portion of a millimeter-wave beam waveguide energy transmission system, the grooves comprising the electromagnetic portion of the seal and a second set of grooves is cut into the interior of the conductive housing enclosing the first conductive cylindrical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: David Crouch, Vincent Giancola, Kenneth W. Brown
  • Publication number: 20100263925
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector locking hub nut that does not damage the wiring during pulling, frees up manpower by allowing one person rather than two to be able to do the pulling, has a simplified design, and which has universal threading for conduit of all currently approved sizes and materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Rifet Spahic
  • Publication number: 20100263926
    Abstract: A wire harness having a flat portion which holds a plurality of round wires arranged in parallel in a flat shape and a circular portion which holds the plurality of round wires, that have been converged to have a circular section, to have a circular section are provided continuously while being located in different areas along the length direction of the wire harness. The flat portion is provided in any one of the moving area, the curved area, the cross routing area between the body portions, or the routing area to a flat space of the wire harness, and the circular portion is provided in any one of the routing area about the axis, the twisted routing area, or an area other than the flat portion of the wire harness when the wire harness is routed in the automobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Murayama, Hirokazu Koseki
  • Publication number: 20100263927
    Abstract: A dead end connector member including a shaft section and a clevis section. The shaft section includes a ridge section, wherein the ridge section is sized and shaped to have an outer sleeve compressed thereon to connect the outer sleeve to the shaft section. The clevis section has a front end connected to the shaft section. The clevis section includes two spaced legs forming an eyebolt receiving gap between the legs. Each leg comprises a pin hole adapted to receive a fastener to rotatably connected the dead end connector to an eyebolt of another member. The clevis section includes a tab at a rear end of the clevis section. The tab extends at least partially across the gap to form a rotation limiter adapted to contact one side of the eyebolt and limit rotation of the dead end connector member relative to the eyebolt in only one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Robert V. DeFrance
  • Publication number: 20100263928
    Abstract: Excavation equipment for the construction of compaction piles includes a tool mounted at the end of a drilling rod; the tool is constituted by a shaft (10) provided on its end with digging teeth (12) and with at least a plate (14) for collecting debris rotating between an open position during the excavation and closed during the ascent of the tool. A screw (17, 18, 17?, 18?, 20); is of the type having at least two principles (17, 18, 20), in the upper part (20) fixed directly on the shaft (10) and in the lower part (17, 18) fixed on a cylindrical element (16) inserted on the shaft. A compactor (19) is positioned on the screw (17, 18) of the cylindrical element (16). The shaft rotates between two positions displaced between them, one corresponding to the excavation condition and the other to the ascent one; each of the at least two-principle screws of the shaft (20) constitutes the continuation of a corresponding screw (17, 18) of the cylindrical body (16) depending on the angular position of the shaft (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Soilmec S.p.A.
    Inventor: Stefano Massari
  • Publication number: 20100263929
    Abstract: Excavation and compaction equipment for the construction of piles includes a drilling rod rotating around a rotation axis (A) and a tool (10) mounted at a lower end of the drilling rod. The tool includes a hollow central shaft (11) and provided at its lower end (17) with a door (18) for the outlet of the concrete; at least a screw (12) integral with the shaft (11). A compactor is (13) positioned along the screw (12) and a base (14) of substantially semicircular shape is provided at the lower end of the screw (12). A plate (15) has a shape such that it superimposes under the base (14) and rotates relatively around the shaft (11) for alternatively assuming an open position, in condition of excavation (descent) wherein it superimposes on the base, and a reclosed position, in condition of compaction (ascent) wherein it forms a surface substantially circular with the base (14). Excavation teeth (16) are fixed to the lower end of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Soilmec S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alessandro Ditillo
  • Publication number: 20100263930
    Abstract: A pneumatic earth boring tool includes a cylindrical body, a transmitter mounted in the body, the transmitter generating a signal usable for operating the earth boring tool, a linear generator mounted in the body for generating an electrical current to power the transmitter and a rectifier for converting the electrical current produced by the linear generator to direct current. Electrical power generated by the linear generator is used to power the transmitter to generate a signal useful for locating the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Earth Tool Company, LLC
    Inventor: Steven W. Wentworth
  • Publication number: 20100263931
    Abstract: Acoustic velocities measured downhole are used to predict a rock strength using results of a regression analysis that include grain size. The grain size can be obtained from drill cuttings or from NMR measurements. The determined rock strength is used in drilling operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Umesh Prasad, David A. Curry
  • Publication number: 20100263932
    Abstract: A retainer device for a drill bit, an earth-boring drill assembly and methods of retaining a drill bit and operating drill assembly. The earth-boring drill assembly includes a casing having a central axis, the bit having a generally cylindrical head. The retainer device includes an annular sleeve connectable to the casing and a retainer assembly provided between the sleeve and the bit. The retainer assembly includes an axial slot defined by one of the sleeve and the bit, the slot having an axially-extending side wall defining an opening and an axial end wall, and a lug supported on the other of the sleeve and the bit, the lug being positionable in the slot through the opening in the side wall, the lug being engageable with the end wall to restrict axial movement of the bit from the sleeve and away from the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Dale Richard Wolfer
  • Publication number: 20100263933
    Abstract: A system for steering the direction of a borehole advanced by cutting action of a rotary drill bit by periodically varying the rotation speed of the drill bit. The steering system comprises a motor disposed in a bent housing subsection and operationally connected to a drill string and to the drill bit. The rotation speed of the drill bit is periodically varied by periodic varying the rotation speed of the motor or by periodic varying the rotation speed of the drill string. Periodic bit speed rotation results in preferential cutting of material from a predetermined arc of the borehole wall which, in turn, resulting in borehole deviation. Both the drill string and the drill motor are rotated simultaneously during straight and deviated borehole drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PRECISION ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Steven Reid Farley
  • Publication number: 20100263934
    Abstract: A method of protecting a top drive drilling assembly includes incorporating a shock absorbing sub incorporated in the top drive drilling assembly. The shock absorbing sub comprises a first body and a second body capable of relative axial movement, with a shock absorbing medium disposed between the first body and the second body to absorb any reactive axial force exerted upon the top drive drilling assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Shawn James NIELSEN, Sinisa DOBRIJEVIC
  • Publication number: 20100263935
    Abstract: Methods of forming bit bodies for earth-boring bits include assembling green components, brown components, or fully sintered components, and sintering the assembled components. Other methods include isostatically pressing a powder to form a green body substantially composed of a particle-matrix composite material, and sintering the green body to provide a bit body having a desired final density. Methods of forming earth-boring bits include providing a bit body substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material and attaching a shank to the body. The body is provided by pressing a powder to form a green body and sintering the green body. Earth-boring bits include a unitary structure substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material. The unitary structure includes a first region configured to carry cutters and a second region that includes a threaded pin. Earth-boring bits include a shank attached directly to a body substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Redd H. Smith, John H. Stevens, James L. Duggan, Nicholas J. Lyons, Jimmy W. Eason, Jared D. Gladney, James A. Oxford, Benjamin J. Chrest
  • Publication number: 20100263936
    Abstract: A reamer includes a mandrel defining a mandrel axis and arms extending radially from the mandrel. Each arm has a proximal end and a distal end. The reamer includes a cutting head disposed on the distal end of each arm and cutting teeth disposed on each cutting head. The arms are arcuately spaced about the central mandrel to allow the movement of debris axially along the central mandrel and at least one of the arms defines a square cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Southeast Directional Drilling, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Heieie, Steven L. Ugrich
  • Publication number: 20100263937
    Abstract: Methods of forming and repairing earth-boring tools include providing wear-resistant material over a temporary displacement member to form a cutting element pocket in a body and a depth-of-cut control feature using the wear-resistant material. In some embodiments, the wear-resistant material may comprise a particle-matrix composite material. For example, a hardfacing material may be built up over a temporary displacement member to form or repair a cutting element pocket and provide a depth-of-cut control feature. Earth-boring tools include a depth-of-cut control feature comprising a wear-resistant material. The depth-of-cut control feature is configured to limit a depth-of-cut of a cutting element secured within a cutting element pocket partially defined by at least one surface of the depth-of-cut control feature. Intermediate structures formed during fabrication of earth-boring tools include a depth-of-cut control feature extending over a temporary displacement member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: James L. Overstreet, Kenneth E. Gilmore, Travis E. Puzz
  • Publication number: 20100263938
    Abstract: Control of the carbide volume in the matrix in an impregnated bit is accomplished by coating the hard particles in the matrix to space them further apart to increase the soft binder percentage in a controllable manner. The softer binder due to lower volume content of hard particles allows more rapid matrix wear in the softer formations to allow more diamond grit to cut better before getting flat spots and to be replaced faster with additional diamond grit further into the matrix as the higher content of the softer binder and the softer coating on the hard particles in the matrix promotes more effective cutting with more frequent emergence of diamond grit on the bit face as cutting progresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Dan E. Scott
  • Publication number: 20100263939
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a high impact resistant tool comprises a sintered polycrystalline diamond body bonded to a cemented metal carbide substrate at an interface, the body comprising a substantially pointed geometry with an apex, the apex comprising a curved surface that joins a leading side and a trailing side of the body at a first and second transitions respectively, an apex width between the first and second transitions is less than a third of a width of the substrate, and the body also comprises a body thickness from the apex to the interface greater than a third of the width of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Ronald B. Crockett, Casey Webb, Michael Beazer
  • Publication number: 20100263940
    Abstract: A weighing device having a plurality of digital weighing cells (164), each including a sensor connected to a force transmission unit (163), each generating a digital measurement value corresponding to a transmitted force at a measurement time point, and including a data processing device that converts the digital measurement values to transmission units configured to be transmitted over a data communications line (20) to a central control unit (18) connected to all weighing cells for analysis of the transmission units. The central control unit (18) calculates a digital combination value based on the transmission units originating from the various weighing cells (164), the combination value representing a weight force with which the weighing device (16) is loaded at a weighing time point. The conversion of the measurement values to transmission units involves a pairing of each converted measurement value with a time value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: SARTORIUS AG
    Inventors: Alfred KLAUER, Christian Oldendorf, Thomas Schink, Erich Bettwieser
  • Publication number: 20100263941
    Abstract: [Problems] To provide a system and a method for accurately measuring the weight of a portion of a human body. [Means for Solving the Problems] This system for measuring the weight of each of six body portions of a human body comprises support base provided for six body portions and supporting the body portions, six body portion measuring units each having a weight measuring part measuring the weight of the body portion and a data transmission-reception part transmitting and receiving data including data on the weight of the body portion measured by the weight measuring part, and a data processing unit transmitting control data to the six body portion measuring units and receiving the data on the measured weights of the body portions. The data processing unit comprises a means determining whether or not the total sum of the data on the measured weights of the six body portions matches the weight of the human body within a present allowable range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Tadao Kurata, Sumiko Kurata
  • Publication number: 20100263942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing element for lifting platforms, which is a displaceable part of a bearing arm of a load receiving element of a lifting platform, with a vehicle bearing element resting on that end of said bearing element that protrudes from the carrier, wherein at least one annular recess, in particular an annular groove, is arranged on the upper side of said bearing element, in which at least one vertically displaceable transfer element is disposed that seals a pressure chamber that is filled with hydraulic fluid and is disposed below said transfer element, with the transfer element generating in the pressure chamber a pressure that is characteristic for the weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Roland Hörnstein
  • Publication number: 20100263943
    Abstract: A resistive multi-point touch device and method is disclosed. A plurality of wires intersect each other to form a plurality of intersecting regions. The intersecting wires are separated from each other by a plurality of insulating particles. First, suppressed intersecting regions are sensed, and then contact points on the suppressed intersecting regions are sensed based on the suppressed intersecting regions. Sensing of the suppressed intersecting regions is performed by first sensing suppressed wires, and then determining possibly suppressed intersecting regions based on the suppressed wires, and sensing suppressed intersecting regions based on these possibly suppressed intersecting regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu CHANG, Shang-Tai YEH
  • Publication number: 20100263944
    Abstract: A sensor structure of a touch panel and a method of determining a touch signal generated by the same are disclosed. The sensor structure includes a plurality of sensor lines disposed on a surface of a substrate, and a control circuit electrically connected to the sensor lines. Each of the sensor lines has a plurality of conductive pads and a conductive line electrically connected the conductive pads. The control circuit receives a touch signal from one of the sensor lines. The touch signal is resulting from a touch capacitance generated between a touch and one of the conductive pads of the sensor line. The control circuit calculates the position of the touch based on the touch capacitance. In addition, the touch capacitance generated by a conductive pad close to the control circuit is larger than the touch capacitance generated by another conductive pad further away from the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Chien-Ming Lin, Ming-Ta Hsieh, Chih-Chung Chen, Hsueh-Fang Yin, Chia-Lin Liu
  • Publication number: 20100263945
    Abstract: A rechargeable electromagnetic pen is disclosed. The rechargeable electromagnetic pen comprises a rechargeable and storable electrical power source system, an electrical power receiving terminal and a signal transformation circuit. The electrical power source system provides the rechargeable electromagnetic pen with electrical power for emitting electromagnetic signal to an array of antenna loops of a digital tablet. The electrical power-receiving terminal receives electrical power signal generating from electric energy transformation and transmission between the electrical power receiving terminal and a charge site. The signal transformation circuit processes and transforms the electrical power signal and charges the electrical power source system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: WALTOP INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Fuu Mao, Chia-Te Huang, Ke-Wei Chen
  • Publication number: 20100263946
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media consistent with the invention may be used to detect an area of contact on a surface of the device by an external object. Then, an inclination of the device may be determined based on the detected area of contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Reiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20100263947
    Abstract: A method for generating electricity from solar power to an electrical system inside a truck/semi/vehicle relying on a photovoltaic panels (1) DC disconnects (2,3); charge controller (4); batteries (5); electrical wires, and fuses. The photovoltaic panel(s) will generate electrical power that will provide sufficient power to run an electrical system inside a truck/semi/vehicle or an electrical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Chris John Reichart, Gerald G. Glass
  • Publication number: 20100263948
    Abstract: A robotic vehicle (10,100,150A,150B150C,160,1000,1000A, includes a chassis (20,106,152,162) having front and rear ends (20A,152A,20B,152B) and supported on right and left driven tracks (34,44,108,165). Right and left elongated flippers (50,60,102,154,164) are disposed on corresponding sides of the chassis and operable to pivot. A linkage (70,156,166) connects a payload deck assembly (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806), configured to support a removable functional payload, to the chassis. The linkage has a first end (70A) rotatably connected to the chassis at a first pivot (71), and a second end (70B) rotatably connected to the deck at a second pivot (73). Both of the first and second pivots include independently controllable pivot drivers (72,74) operable to rotatably position their corresponding pivots (71,73) to control both fore-aft position and pitch orientation of the payload deck (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806) with respect to the chassis (20,106,152,162).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Adam P. Couture, Richard Page, John P. O'Brien, Mikhail Filippov, Andrew Shein
  • Publication number: 20100263949
    Abstract: A multi-wheeled, self-propelled device that alters an existing walk behind caddy in that the operator stands on a motorized platform while holding onto an assembly which is attached to the handlebar of said walk behind golf caddy. The self-propelled device is temporarily attached to the bottom portion of the walk behind golf caddy. The power supply and motor remain part of the platform and the control (throttle/brake) remains part of the attached handlebar assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Jerry Dean Horn