Patents Issued in December 16, 2010
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Publication number: 20100314022Abstract: A method for providing an insulated electric high voltage DC cable or a high voltage DC termination or joint. A polymer based insulation system including a compounded polymer composition is provided. The polymer based insulation system is subsequently exposed to a heat treatment procedure while the outer surface of the polymer based insulation system is covered by a cover impermeable to a substance present in the polymer based insulation system in a non-homogenous distribution, thereby equalizing the concentration of the substance in the polymer based insulation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ABB Research Ltd.Inventor: Carl-Olof Olsson
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Publication number: 20100314023Abstract: Short fibers in a solder or a welding material often do not have the desired strength. Fiber mats that are introduced onto a surface or into a recess of a metallic component are provided. In addition a process for applying material to a metallic component is provided. In the process, a first fiber mat and a second fiber mat are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Rene Jabado, Ursus Krüger, Daniel Körtvelyessy, Ralph Reiche, Michael Rindler, Steffen Walter
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Publication number: 20100314024Abstract: A label affixing system with which a signal can be supplied to a label affixing machine from an image capturing unit which detects a conveyed object to be labeled. The label affixing system includes a plurality of conveyance lines, a CCD for capturing an image of the conveyed object, and a label affixing machine that includes a plurality of printing formats and affixes a printed label to the conveyed object. The system measures a distance to the conveyed object subjected to image capture by the CCD; selects one printing format from the plurality of printing formats on the basis of the measured distance to the conveyed object; prints the label on the basis of the selected printing format; and affixes the printed label to the conveyed object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Rojan Chitraker, Robert Lanzendorf
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Publication number: 20100314025Abstract: A method of attaching a gasket to a plastic surface includes providing a plastic material having a surface; applying sufficient heat to the surface to melt the surface while other portions of the plastic material remain solid; providing a liquid gasket material on the heated surface while the heated surface is melted; and allowing the liquid gasket material and the surface to cool so the gasket is welded to the plastic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventor: Steve Foldesi, JR.
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Publication number: 20100314026Abstract: A window or door flashing or roofing material, containing no asphalt, either mechanically fastened or self-adhering comprising a mixture of: one or more ethylene based elastomers having a melting point below 160° F., in an amount of 10-40% based on the total weight of the product; one or more semi-crystalline, non-elastomer alpha olefin-based polymers having a melting point above 160° F. in an amount of about 10-40% based on the total weight of the product; and a rubber fraction of ground, vulcanized rubber having a size up to about 18 mesh, US Sieve Series, in an amount of about 10% to about 75%, based on the total weight of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: AMCOL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Donovan, Jason M. Logsdon, Keith Chappell
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Publication number: 20100314027Abstract: A method comprises: (i) forming a first optical waveguide on a first substrate; (ii) forming a second, structurally discrete optical waveguide on a structurally discrete second substrate; (iii) assembling the second substrate or second optical waveguide with the first substrate or first optical waveguide so that the first and second optical waveguides are positioned between the first and second substrates and are relatively positioned for transferring the optical signal therebetween via optical transverse coupling; and (iv) arranging the first or second optical waveguide for transferring the optical signal therebetween via substantially adiabatic optical transverse coupling with the first and second waveguides so positioned.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Henry A. Blauvelt, Kerry J. Vahala, David W. Vernooy, Joel S. Paslaski
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Publication number: 20100314028Abstract: The invention relates to a structural mat for reinforcing a wind turbine blade structure. The structural mat comprises two or more groups of bonded fibres, the fibres being bonded by a matrix substantially preventing relative movement of said fibres and wherein said groups are connected to each other by connection means limiting the relative movement of said groups. The invention further relates to a wind turbine blade and a method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Andrew Hedges, Tomas Vronsky
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Publication number: 20100314029Abstract: A method of removing an out-of-tolerance area in a composite structure comprises determining the location of the out-of-tolerance area and selecting a volume of the composite structure to be removed based on the location of the out-of-tolerance area. The method may further include programming a machine tool to remove the volume and to pause after removal of each one of a quantity of layers of the volume. The method may additionally include removing one of the layers using the programmed machine tool. The method may further include restoring the volume removed using the programmed area removal digital definition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Lawrence S. Lindgren, Scott W. Lea, Gary E. Georgeson
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Publication number: 20100314030Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a pneumatic tire including the steps of: shaping a cylindrical film formed of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composite in which a thermoplastic resin is blended with an elastomer, folding the film into a sheet shape, laminating rubber layers on both surfaces of the folded film, opening the laminate of the film and the rubber layers into a cylindrical shape, fitting the laminate thus opened on a tire making drum, forming the tire pneumatic tire including the film as an air permeation preventing layer, and curing the uncured tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Hashimura, Yoshiaki Kirino, Norifumi Kameda
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Steerable Catheter Using Flat Pull Wires and Having Torque Transfer Layer Made of Braided Flat Wires
Publication number: 20100314031Abstract: A catheter assembly includes an inner liner made of flexible material and an outer layer having a steering mechanism. The steering mechanism includes at least one flat wire and a corresponding lumen through which the flat wire may travel. The steering mechanism may also include at least one pull ring to which the flat wires are attached. A layer of heat shrink material may encompass the outer layer. A braided wire assembly may also be provided in the outer layer, and may be formed by braiding a plurality of flat wires into a wire mesh. The overall cross-section of the catheter assembly is preferably substantially circular. A catheter shaft may include a plurality of segments of differing hardness characteristics. The outer layer typically comprises a melt processing polymer such that the catheter assembly may be laminated using heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Wayne Heideman, Allan M. Fuentes, Richard E. Stehr, Sarah Cumming, Mark Dustrude -
Publication number: 20100314032Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the yield per area of optical films to be used and improve the working property when an optical film laminate, which is formed by laminating three or more optical films to have the optical orientation axis of each film oriented at a predetermined angle, is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Kumagai, Toshirou Nishikubo
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Publication number: 20100314033Abstract: A device for welding plastic tubes includes a pair of tube holders each of which has a tube clamp which includes an upper jaw and a lower jaw.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Ivars V. Ivansons, Dudley W.C. Spencer
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Publication number: 20100314034Abstract: A laminate with internal decorative pattern for eyeglass frames, formed by the application of heat and pressure comprising: a plurality of core layers of thermoplastic sheets printed with patterns by transfer printing; a first overlay layer of thermoplastic sheet; and a second overlay layer of thermoplastic sheet; wherein the core layers are sandwiched between the first overlay layer and the second overlay layer; the core layers may further enclose three dimensional articles or fluids for decorative or functional purposes. The process for manufacturing the laminate includes: preparing a plurality of core layers, a first overlay layer and a second overlay layer from thermoplastic sheets; printing patterns on the core layers by transfer printing; layering from top to bottom the first overlay layer, the core layers and second overlay layer; applying to the layer of sheets a temperature of 0° C. to 300° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: OKIA OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Yan Hui ZOU
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Publication number: 20100314035Abstract: The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs treating an optical film comprising of cellulous ester with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to prepare an alkali-treated optical film; immersing a polyvinyl alcohol film in an aqueous solution containing iodine and boric acid; stretching the polyvinyl alcohol film to prepare a polarizing film; adhering the alkali-treated optical film onto both surfaces of the polarizing film to prepare a polarizing plate; and providing the polarizing plate on both surfaces of a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell to providing the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display. At least one of the optical film has a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of from 60 to 300 nm, Rt=[(nx+ny)/2?nz]×d.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: KONICA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki SHIBUE, Makoto HONDA, Nobuo KUBO, Noriyasu KUZUHARA, Hiroki UMEDA, Sota KAWAKAMI, Takatoshi YAJIMA
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Publication number: 20100314036Abstract: An embodiment of the inventive method of transfer lamination bonding a first metallized side of a film to a substrate. Then a breakaway coating is applied to a second, non-metallized side of the film after the first metallized side has been bonded to the substrate. The bonded film and substrate are then placed in an oven. The film is then stripped from the substrate leaving metal from the film deposited on the substrate. The application of the breakaway coating is performed as an inline part of the transfer lamination process thereby providing an ease of manufacture presently unknown.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: HAZEN PAPER COMPANYInventor: JOHN HAZEN
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Publication number: 20100314037Abstract: A method for fabricating a packaging substrate includes: providing a base having a release film with two opposite surfaces, two first auxiliary dielectric layers enclosing the release film, and two metal layers disposed on the two first auxiliary dielectric layers, therewith an effective area defined on the two metal layers; forming an inner wiring layer from the two metal layers; forming on each of the two first auxiliary dielectric layers and the inner wiring layers a built-up structure having first conductive pads so as for two initial substrates to be formed on the opposite surfaces of the release film; removing whatever is otherwise lying outside the effective area; removing the release film; and forming dielectric layer openings in the two first auxiliary dielectric layers so as for two substrate bodies to be formed from the initial substrates, wherein a portion of the inner wiring layers are exposed to thereby function as second conductive pads.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Chin-Ming Liu
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Publication number: 20100314038Abstract: Provision of a process for producing a membrane/electrode assembly for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell which can produce a high output voltage in a wide current density range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Toshihiro TANUMA
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Publication number: 20100314039Abstract: A method for producing a heat-resistant resin endless belt includes preparing a heat-resistant resin sheet including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; forming a first inclined thinned portion at an end of the first surface and a second inclined thinned portion at an end of the second surface as the inclined thinned portion is formed to be gradually thinned toward the end, the end of the first surface being opposite to the end of the second surface; applying an adhesive composition by a screen printing method on at least one of the first and second inclined thinned portions; joining the first and second inclined thinned portions of the sheet to each other; and hardening the adhesive composition, in which the adhesive composition is an additive polymerized silicon adhesive composition containing ferric (III) oxide at between 6.5 and 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Sumio KAMOI, Atsushi Takai
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Publication number: 20100314040Abstract: An example method of fabricating a metamaterial comprises providing a first metamaterial layer, the first metamaterial layer including a first plurality of conducting patterns, such as electrically coupled resonators. A second metamaterial layer is then formed, including a second plurality of conducting patterns, to form a multilayer metamaterial. Positional alignment of the first and second plurality of conducting patterns can be achieved relative to the same fiducial mark, which may be associated with the first metamaterial layer, for example supported by a first substrate or on an alignment layer that is attached to the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Duke UniversityInventors: Talmage Tyler, II, Nan Marie Jokerst, David R. Smith, Vinh N. Nguyen, Jungsang Kim, Serdar H. Yonak
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Publication number: 20100314041Abstract: A method of making a substrate includes providing an upper insulative layer and a lower insulative layer, wherein the upper insulative layer includes an inlet opening, the lower insulative layer includes a channel, and the inlet opening is in fluid communication with the channel, flowing a non-solidified material through the inlet opening into the channel, and then solidifying the non-solidified material by applying energy to the non-solidified material, thereby forming embedded metallization in the channel. The substrate can be a microfluidic device, an electrical interconnect or other electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchInventors: Sum Huan Ng, Zhenfeng Wang
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Publication number: 20100314042Abstract: In a method for reinforcing a fibre composite component for aviation and space flight, a vacuum mat is configured with at least one receiving portion for reproducibly receiving at least one reinforcing element. The at least one reinforcing element is introduced into the at least one receiving portion of the vacuum mat. The vacuum mat with at least one introduced reinforcing element is applied reproducibly in a sealed manner to the fibre composite component to be reinforced to form a mould portion and at least the formed mould portion is cured to connect the at least one reinforcing element to the fibre composite component. The vacuum mat is then removed from the reinforced fibre composite component so that the vacuum mat can be reused.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Christian Luebbering, Hauke Lengsfeld, Roland Brandenburg
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Publication number: 20100314043Abstract: A sticking method for sticking a support plate onto a substrate in such a way that the support plate can be removed in quickly and easily is provided. The sticking method according to the present invention includes the step of sticking a support plate 3 onto a wafer 2 via a first adhesive layer 4 provided on the wafer 2, a separate film 5 provided on the first adhesive layer 4, and a second adhesive layer 6, provided on the separation film layer 5, which either is higher in rate of dissolution in a solution than the first adhesive layer 4 or dissolves in a solvent different from the solvent in which the first adhesive layer 4 dissolves.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Hirofumi IMAI, Koki Tamura, Takahiro Asai, Takahiro Yoshioka, Yoshihiro Inao
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Publication number: 20100314044Abstract: A method of making a filter by thermoforming a plurality of individual packages each of the plurality of packages having a first portion hingably attached to a second portion and placing a media portion in each of the plurality of packages and dispensing a curable product in each of the plurality of individual packages and curing the curable product such that a portion of the media is now fixedly secured to the curable product.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventor: Al Morris
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Publication number: 20100314045Abstract: A spherical spacer is used as a spacer member defining a gap, and is fixed to a color filter substrate. A concave portion coming in contact with a part of the spherical spacer is formed in a position in a TFT substrate, the position being opposite to the spherical spacer. The substrates are bonded with each other by engaging the spherical spacer and the concave portion with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventor: Yoshiaki HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20100314046Abstract: A plasma reactor having a reactor chamber and an electrostatic chuck having a surface for holding a workpiece inside the chamber includes inner and outer zone backside gas pressure sources coupled to the electrostatic chuck for applying a thermally conductive gas under respective pressures to respective inner and outer zones of a workpiece-surface interface formed whenever a workpiece is held on the surface, and inner and outer evaporators inside respective inner and outer zones of the electrostatic chuck and a refrigeration loop having respective inner and cuter expansion valves for controlling flow of coolant through the inner and outer evaporators respectively. The reactor further includes inner and outer zone temperature sensors in inner and outer zones of the electrostatic chuck and a thermal model capable of simulating heat transfer through the inner and outer zones, respectively, between the evaporator and the surface based upon measurements from the inner and outer temperature sensors, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Paul Lukas Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Hamid Tavassoli, Douglas A. Buchberger, JR., Douglas H. Burns, Kallol Bera, Daniel J. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20100314047Abstract: An etching system. An etching chamber includes an exhaust port. A gas input pipe is connected to the etching chamber, inputting etching process gas thereinto. A top RF electrode is disposed above the etching chamber. A bottom RF electrode is disposed under the etching chamber and opposite the top RF electrode. The etching process gas is transformed into plasma by operation of the top and bottom RF electrodes. An exhaust pump is connected to the exhaust port, expelling the plasma from the etching chamber. A base is disposed in the etching chamber. A focus ring is disposed on the base, accommodating a wafer. The wafer is etched by the plasma. A barricade is disposed on the focus ring and corresponds to the exhaust port, regulating the plasma flowing through the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tu-Yen Huang, Yi-Hong Chen, Ta Chin Lee, Shang-Sheng Wu, Chiun-Tong Su
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Publication number: 20100314048Abstract: A plasma processing system for generating plasma to process at least a wafer. The plasma processing system may include a first coil for conducting a first current for sustaining at least a first portion of the plasma. The plasma processing system may also include a second coil for conducting a second current for sustaining at least a second portion of the plasma. The plasma processing system may also include a power source for powering the first current and the second current. The plasma processing system may also include a parallel circuit for adjusting one of the amperage of the first current and the amperage of the second current. The parallel circuit may be electrically coupled between the power source and at least one of the first coil and the second coil. The parallel circuit may include an inductor and a variable capacitor electrically connected in parallel to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Maolin Long, Seyed Jafar Jafarian-Tehrani
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Publication number: 20100314049Abstract: The sheet processing apparatus includes a buffer roller to form a sheet bundle by overlapping a plurality of sheets while respectively displacing an end part of each sheet at one end of the conveying direction toward the conveying direction, a fold conveying path to fold the displaced and overlapped sheet bundle twice into three layers so that the end part at one end covers an end part at the other end and the end parts at the one end are respectively exposed, and a sealer to seal the sheet bundle by adhering the end part at the one end of the twice-folded sheet bundle to a surface of the sheet bundle with a seal. The sealer adheres all of the end parts at the one end and the surface of the sheet bundle with a seal having length longer than exposed length of the end parts at the one end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Shunsuke Nishimura, Satoru Yamamoto, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20100314050Abstract: A die bonder is provided comprising a bond head including a collet for picking up a die and bonding the die at a bonding site. The die bonder further comprises a first motor which is connected to the collet by a shaft for driving the collet in driving directions towards and away from the bonding site and a second motor which is connected to the bond head for driving the bond head in directions parallel to the driving directions of the first motor. A rotary motor is also operatively connected to the collet for rotating the collet about a rotational axis that is parallel to the driving directions of the first motor. The shaft is slidably connected to the rotary motor and is slidable relative to the rotary motor when it is driven by the first motor to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Sun Kuen WONG, Hon Chiu HUI, Yin Fun NG
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Publication number: 20100314051Abstract: Methods and devices for controlled evaporation of solvent from a solution are provided. In one embodiment, the device can control evaporation of different solutions comprising solvents of dissimilar volatilities simultaneously. In another embodiment, control over the flow of solvent vapor out of the device is provided by selecting the pressure at an inlet port and an exhaust port of the device. In yet another embodiment, control over the flow of solvent vapor out of the device is provided by selecting the size of a disk flow control orifice positioned between the wells and a vapor removal outlet of the device. In still another embodiment, control over the flow of solvent vapor out of the device is provided by the opening and closing of the vapor removal outlet of the device. In yet a further embodiment, the rate of evaporation of solvent is controlled by controlling the temperature of the solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedInventors: Jack Barger, James Sinclair, Michael P. Emery
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Publication number: 20100314052Abstract: A pleated roller shade system allows a thin flexible shade fabric, such as, for example, silk, to be wrapped around a roller tube. The system comprises a pleating bar mounted parallel to the roller tube and having a fabric-receiving opening that defines, for example, a serpentine path. The shade fabric is received through the fabric-receiving opening and is folded by the pleating bar, such that the shade fabric is wrapped around the roller tube in folds as the roller tube rotates. The shade fabric is neatly wrapped around the roller tube (i.e., bunching of the shade fabric is avoided) and is stored out-of-sight when rolled up.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.Inventor: David A. Kirby
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Publication number: 20100314053Abstract: A blind slat (1) has a substantially constant cross-sectional profile extending between a leading end (2) and a trailing end (3). The profile defines an upper face (4) of the slat (1). The upper face (4) has a convex portion (6) extending from adjacent the leading end (2) towards the trailing end (3). The convex portion (6) has an apex (7) at which the upper face (4) is parallel to a reference axis (R) of the profile that extends laterally between the leading end (2) and the trailing end (3). The upper face (4) also has a concave portion (8) located between the convex portion (6) and the trailing end (3). The concave portion (8) has a base (9) at which the upper face (4) is parallel to the reference axis (R). An inflection (10) joins the convex portion (6) and the concave portion (8). The upper face (4) is inclined with respect to the reference axis (R) by at least 11° at the inflection (10). The profile has a depth measured between the leading end (2) and the trailing end (3) of between 105 and 150 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: LIFTMASTER ELECTRONICS PTY LTDInventor: Franz Buser
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Publication number: 20100314054Abstract: A curtain includes a curtain bracket (1) having an end to which a rotation driving device (3) is mounted. The rotation driving device (3) can actuate a curtain reeling drum (4A) to rotate a curtain cloth (7) or actuate a reeling rope device (4) to rotate a curtain cloth or shade (7). A reverse rotation releasing device (5) and a resilience reverse rotation mechanism (14) are connected to the rotation driving device (3). The rotation driving device (3) is comprised of a pull rope rotary disc (3c), a unidirectional clutch device (6) connected to the pull rope rotary disc (3c), and a rewinding spring (3e) mounted between the pull rope rotary disc (3c) and a pull rope rotary disc box (3a). Thus, only one cord is sufficient to control opening of the curtain cloth or shade (7), and reverse rotation of the curtain reel drum (4A) is not adversely affected by the rotation driving device (3). It is convenient to use while avoiding injury to children.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventor: Xiangrong Zhu
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Publication number: 20100314055Abstract: A feed system for a comminuted cellulosic material including: a chip bin having an upper chip inlet, an interior chamber oriented generally vertically and a lower discharge port; at least one liquor inlet to the chip bin to inject liquor in the chip bin, wherein the chip bin retains sufficient liquor and chips within the interior chamber to create a hydraulic pressure on the chips at the lower discharge port; a generally horizontally oriented chip conveyor or tube coupled to the lower discharge port to receive the chips and liquor from the bin under the hydraulic pressure, wherein the conveyor or tube includes liquor injectors which inject liquor into the chips and the conveyor or tube, and a high pressure transfer device coupled to a discharge of the conveyor or tube to receive the chips and liquor, whereby the hydraulic pressure of the chips and liquor at the discharge of the chip bin is sufficient to feed the chips and liquor to the high pressure transfer device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ANDRITZ INC.Inventors: Tyson Bradford HUNT, Bertil STROMBERG
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Publication number: 20100314056Abstract: Provided is a process for producing bleached pulp, including subjecting unbleached pulp, which is obtained by cooking a lignocellulose substance, to alkali-oxygen bleaching treatment and then subjecting the alkali-oxygen bleached pulp to chlorine-free bleaching treatment including chlorine dioxide treatment, wherein in at least one chlorine dioxide treatment stage in which the chlorine dioxide treatment is performed, monopersulfuric acid is used in combination. The amount of chlorine dioxide to be used is reduced and the colour reversion resistance of the bleached pulp is improved by this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoshida, Tetsuo Koshitsuka, Eiko Kuwabara, Takashi Ishii
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Publication number: 20100314057Abstract: The invention pertains to a process for manufacturing paper or cardboard, wherein flour including a protein and starch fraction is subjected to a degradation step involving a treatment with protease and a non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) hydrolysing enzyme, after which the flour is introduced into the paper fibre matrix. It is especially preferred that the flour is rye flour, and that the NSP hydrolysing enzyme is a hemi-cellulase or a cellulase, or a combination thereof. The invention also pertains to a composition containing flour and the aforementioned enzymes; and to the use of flour thus treated as a source of starch.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MENEBA B.V.Inventors: Jacobus Gerardus Renirie, Jacobus Adrianus Antonius Van Der Meijden, Johannes Jozef Plijter, Jeroen Johannes Van Soest
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Publication number: 20100314058Abstract: Sanitary tissue products having two or more different regions of different design elements that provide weave patterns to surfaces of the sanitary tissue products and processes for making such sanitary tissue products are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Matthew Todd Hupp, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Nicole Taylor, Brandy Nicole Lockaby, Oliver John Meinderding, Sara Elizabeth Gordon, William Richard Rempe, Jill Marie Verkamp
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Publication number: 20100314059Abstract: The present invention is a method of making a near-premium quality paper product having good strength and absorbency characteristics and a product made by that method. The invention is also a method for retaining a high ash content within a paper web formed by conventional wet pressing. The present invention is also a method for retaining a high percentage of softening agent within a paper web that includes such an agent. Further, the present invention is a soft absorbent paper product having a high void volume. Finally, the invention is also a method for producing a soft, absorbent, and near premium paper product having a high void volume using an undulatory crepe blade having a multiplicity of serrulations in its rake surface which presents differentiated creping angles and/or rake angles as to the paper being creped.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LPInventors: Steven L. EDWARDS, David W. White, Frank D. Harper, John H. Dwiggins
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Publication number: 20100314060Abstract: A premium colored paper having high contrast suitable for high-end packaging applications is produced through a controlled penetration of a coloring formulation through the paper. The paper is coated on a first side with a first coloring formulation. Then, a second coloring formulation is applied to a second side (i.e. opposite side) of the paper such that the coloring agent in the second coloring formulation penetrates through the paper sheet but does not significantly interfere with the color or brightness of the first coated side of paper. When desired, the first coloring formulation may be applied on the paper on-line during papermaking process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MEADWESTVACO CORPORATIONInventors: Vladislav A. Babinsky, Bruce W. Babcock, Robinson C. Claytor
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Publication number: 20100314061Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sheet of paper from a pulp and a sheet of paper obtained by the present method, wherein said pulp comprises a mixture of natural and/or synthetic fibers, water, and at least one aqueous suspension and/or dispersion comprising at least one mineral material, wherein said dispersion or suspension comprises, as a steric dispersing agent of at least one mineral material, at least one copolymer comprising at least one vinylic monomer, at least one non-ionic monomer, or a mixture of several monomers having formula (I) in the present method, wherein said agent limits the presence of divalent ions in the aqueous phase and said agent is not a chelating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: COATEX S.A.S.Inventors: Olivier Guerret, Francois Dupont, Jacques Mongoin
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Publication number: 20100314062Abstract: A method of treating pulp on a porous surface of a rotating drum cylinder having a lower drum portion in a vat of pulp slurry and a radial array of filtrate conduits including: as the porous surface of the drum rotates through the vat, drawing filtrate from the slurry through the porous surface by the application of a suction to the filtrate conduits vacuum; draining the filtrate from the filtrate conduits into the filtrate chamber and to a filtrate suction conduit extending to an elevation below the vat; forming a pulp mat on the porous surface which passes filtrate and substantially blocks fibers in the pulp slurry; removing the pulp mat on the porous surface from the vat as the drum rotates; draining filtrate from the filtrate suction conduit, and before excessive gases passing through the porous surface enter the filtrate conduits, switching a fluid flow downstream of the filtrate conduits to a gas vent passage offset and below from a drum rotational axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ANDRITZ INC.Inventor: Todd S. Grace
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Publication number: 20100314063Abstract: The invention relates to a bar arrangement for a machine for producing a fibrous web. The bar arrangement according to the invention is characterized by at least one restoring mechanism for bringing the mobile bar from the operating position into the rest position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Frank Schmidt, Ansgar Müller, Joachim Grabscheid
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Publication number: 20100314064Abstract: A sieve for the wet-end section of a paper machine is described, in which the sieve has been compressed by at least one of increased temperature, pressure and/or moisture. Such a treatment leads to a sieve which has at least one side wherein the thread floats and knuckles are reshaped and the sieve presents at least one substantially flatter surface for the production of paper. This process does not cause any physical damage to the surface of the sieve, as current techniques of abrasively polishing the surface do, and therefore leads to cloths with improved properties and lifetimes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Joachim Pitzler, Oliver Baumann
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Publication number: 20100314065Abstract: This aims to provide a paper making machine belt (a shoe press belt) having excellent wet squeezability but less damages (such as cracks or wear) of the outer periphery of a belt being used. The paper making shoe press belt includes drainage conduits extended in the felt-side surface thereof. The drainage conduits are discontinuous grooves, and are made semi-arcuate on at least one of the belt ends in a belt running direction (an MD direction).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
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Publication number: 20100314066Abstract: A pinseam press fabric is smoothed in the area of the seam by depositing polyurethane particles having a size of about 1 to 500 micrometers across the seam of the felt defined by the ends of the fabric. The polyurethane particles are drawn into the seam end by the application of a vacuum. Once the particles are deposited, the fabric is heated so that the polyurethane particles melt to form a polymeric matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Robert Crook, Sanjay Patel, Clifton Wilder
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Publication number: 20100314067Abstract: A belt for papermaking shoe press is provided which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base (6) and a polyurethane layer (2) united therewith, the reinforcing fibrous base (6) having been embedded in the polyurethane layer (2). The belt includes a polyurethane layer obtained by curing a mixture comprising: a urethane prepolymer obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound selected among p-phenylene-diisocyanate, 4,4?-methylene-bis(phenyl isocyanate), and tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound selected among polypropylene glycol, polytetramethylene glycol, and a polycarbonate diol; a hardener selected among an aliphatic diol compound, hydroquinone-bis-?-hydroxyethyl ether, and organic polyamine compound; and an aliphatic triol compound. Due to this layer, the shoe press belt for papermaking is excellent in wearing resistance and flexing fatigue resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino, Yuya Takamori, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura
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Publication number: 20100314068Abstract: A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: ATI Properties, Inc.Inventors: Robin M. Forbes Jones, Sterry A. Shaffer
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Publication number: 20100314069Abstract: A method of making steel comprising assembling a steelmaking furnace, a thin strip caster, and a mold caster, inputting to a computer data on demand and customer requirements for production output, raw materials, furnace availability and capacity, ladle treatment for casting, sequence schedules and through-put, capacities and variability, forecasting by processing by computer from the inputted data a production schedule for the steelmaking furnace and ladle treatment, and sequence schedules for the thin strip and the mold casters as a function of molten metal availability, the thin strip and mold caster sequence schedules and through-put, and demand for production output, directing production of molten metal alternatively to the delivery systems of the thin strip caster and mold caster responsive to said forecasting, and varying during casting the rate of metal delivery through the delivery system of the thin strip caster responsive to molten metal availability and the mold caster through-put.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventor: Richard Wechsler
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Publication number: 20100314070Abstract: The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide an fluid circulating installation adapted with a temperature equalization system and fluid transmission duct disposed in a heat carrier existing in solid or liquid state in the nature where presents comparatively larger and more reliable heat carrying capacity. The fluid passes through the solid or gas state semiconductor application installation to regulate the semiconductor application installation for temperature equalization, and flows back to the heat equalization installation disposed in the natural heat carrier of heat for the heat equalization installation providing good heat conduction in the natural heat carrier to provide the operation of temperature equalization regulating function on the backflow of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
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Publication number: 20100314071Abstract: A seat air-conditioning system for automotive vehicles includes an air-conditioning unit for generating cold air or hot air, a driver seat including a seat portion provided with a plurality of air discharge holes through which to discharge the cold air or the hot air to the outside, a front passenger seat including a seat portion provided with a plurality of air discharge holes through which to discharge the cold air or the hot air to the outside, an outlet duct mounted to the air-conditioning unit for drawing the cold air or the hot air from the air-conditioning unit therethrough, a seat duct connected to the outlet duct for supplying the cold air or the hot air to the driver seat and the front passenger seat therethrough, and a seat blower attached to the outlet duct for blowing the cold air or the hot air at an increased flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: HALLA CLIMATE CONTROL CORP.Inventors: Dae Woong Lee, Jong Su Kim, Soo-Yong Jin