Patents Issued in January 20, 2011
  • Publication number: 20110011615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for use as cable coverings, e.g. insulation or jacket, that meets industry requirements (especially Mil-PRF-85045F) for low water absorption, and high tensile strength and elongation retention properties upon fluid immersion. The compositions contain a base polymer having (a) a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU); (b) a chlorinated flame retardant; and (c) an antimony flame retardant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: General Cable Technologies Corpoation
    Inventors: Gregg R. Szylakowski, Michael J. Burke
  • Publication number: 20110011616
    Abstract: The present invention is a flame-retardant polyolefin/thermoplastic polyurethane formulation made from or containing a polyolefin, a thermoplastic polyurethane, and an intumescent, polyphosphate flame retardant composition. The invented system achieves elongations>400% and tensile strengths>1500 psi while the same polyolefin only achieved 100% elongation and<1000 psi tensile strength. Also, the present invention shows improved tape extrusion performance versus a comparable TPU only composition, indicating improved melt rheology/fabrication capability for extrusion applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Brown, Robert F. Eaton
  • Publication number: 20110011617
    Abstract: A flat power cable includes at least two cores of which at least two cores include a power transmissive insulated element and a protective sheath disposed in a radially external position with respect to the power transmissive insulated element. The cores are disposed on a common transversal axis and an outer armour contains the cores. Inside the armour, adjacent cores and an internal surface of the armour delimit empty interstitial spaces. The flat cable includes swellable fillers disposed in the empty interstitial spaces. In a transversal section of the cable, each of the swellable fillers, in an unswelled configuration, presents a cross section area smaller than a cross section area of the respective empty interstitial space. The swellable fillers swell by absorbing fluid the flat power cable is submerged in and enlarge, filling all the interstices, pushing against the cores and the armour and constraining the cable in its flat configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: El-fityani Walid
  • Publication number: 20110011618
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire which has an inexpensive material cost, ensures a superior ball joining shape, wire joining characteristic, and the like, and a good loop formation characteristic, and a superior mass productivity. The semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire contains at least one of Mg and P in total of 10 to 700 mass ppm, and oxygen within a range from 6 to 30 mass ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro UNO, Keiichi Kimura, Takashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110011619
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly-functional bonding wire which can reduce damages at a neck part, has good linearity of loops, stability of loop heights, and stability of bonded shape of a bonding wire, and can cope with semiconductor packaging techniques, such as low looping, thinning, achievement of a fine pitch, and three-dimensional packaging. A semiconductor-device bonding wire comprises a core member formed of an electrically-conductive metal, and a skin layer mainly composed of a face-centered cubic metal different from the core member and formed thereon. The percentage of <100> orientations in crystalline orientations in the lengthwise direction in the surface of the skin layer is greater than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL MATERIALS CO., LTD., NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Uno, Keiichi Kimura, Takashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110011620
    Abstract: An electrical conductor includes a primary electrical contact, at least one secondary electrical contact, and a connection element. The connection element electrically connects the first and the at least one secondary electrical contacts, and includes at least one plate-like region. Each plate-like region includes at least one deflection component with at least one first and at least one second pivot, wherein the first and second pivots of each deflection means are arranged such that each secondary electrical contact is movable relative to the primary electrical contact in a deflection direction, without creation of a shear force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Samuel HARTMANN, Dominik TRUESSEL
  • Publication number: 20110011621
    Abstract: A smart link in a power delivery system includes an insulator, which electrically isolates a power line, and a switchable conductance placed in parallel with the insulator. The switchable conductance includes switchgear for sourcing, sinking, and/or dispatching real and/or reactive power on the power line to dynamically in response to dynamic loading, transient voltages and/or currents, and phase conditions or other conditions on the power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, William Gates, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110011622
    Abstract: An electrical power transmission system includes electrical insulators arranged to electrically isolate live power lines. Surface reconditioning units are incorporated or integrated in the insulator structures. A sensor arrangement determines surface conditions of the electrical insulators in use to isolate live power lines. In response, the surface reconditioning units automatically recondition the surfaces of the in-service electrical insulators if appropriate for maintaining the electrical insulators in healthy state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR., Victoria Y.H. Wood
  • Publication number: 20110011623
    Abstract: A smart link in a power delivery system includes an insulator, which electrically isolates a power line, and a switchable conductance placed in parallel with the insulator. The switchable conductance includes switchgear for sourcing, sinking, and/or dispatching real and/or reactive power on the power line to dynamically in response to dynamic loading, transient voltages and/or currents, and phase conditions or other conditions on the power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, William Gates, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110011624
    Abstract: A smart link in a power delivery system includes an insulator, which electrically isolates a power line, and a switchable conductance placed in parallel with the insulator. The switchable conductance includes switchgear for sourcing, sinking, and/or dispatching real and/or reactive power on the power line to dynamically in response to dynamic loading, transient voltages and/or currents, and phase conditions or other conditions on the power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Searete LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, William Gates, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110011625
    Abstract: A grommet includes a small diameter tubular section and a large diameter tubular section contiguous with the small diameter tubular section. Both of the sections are attached to a wire harness for a motor vehicle by threading the wire harness through both of the sections. The small diameter tubular section is inserted into a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a vehicle body engagement annular recess. The recess is adapted to be engaged with the vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on the outer peripheral surface with a plurality of projecting portions that extend from a connecting part between both of the sections to a side wall of the vehicle body engagement annular recess in an axial direction of the large diameter tubular section and are separated apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the large diameter tubular section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Okuhara, Tsutomu Sakata
  • Publication number: 20110011626
    Abstract: A base insulating layer is formed on a suspension body. A lead wire for plating and a wiring trace are integrally formed on the base insulating layer. A cover insulating layer is formed on the base insulating layer to cover the lead wire for plating and the wiring trace. A thickness of a portion of the cover insulating layer above a region of the base insulating layer in which the lead wire for plating is formed is set smaller than the thickness of a portion of the cover insulating layer above other regions of the base insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMAUCHI, Tetsuya OOSAWA, Mitsuru HONJO, Masami INOUE
  • Publication number: 20110011627
    Abstract: A rigid structural part made of laminated composite material incorporates electrically conducting cables, the structural part includes at least two structural layers including fibers held in place by a thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix, at least one conducting network layer located between two of the at least two structural layers, the at least one conducting network layer including a network of electrically conducting cables, said electrically conducting cables being arranged throughout said structural part in a substantially regular manner and being electrically insulated from said two structural layers by a dielectric material. The structural part also includes electrical connections, to which electrically conducting cables of the at least one network layer are electrically connected so as to form an electrical network by assembling several structural parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Jesus Aspas Puertolas
  • Publication number: 20110011628
    Abstract: A highly thermal conductive circuit board includes a composite substrate, and a metal layer, an insulating layer, and a conductor layer sequentially disposed on the composite substrate. When at least one electronic element is electrically disposed on the conductor layer of the highly thermal conductive circuit board, heat produced by the electronic element in operation is rapidly dissipated through characteristics such as a high thermal conductivity and a low thermal expansion coefficient of the highly thermal conductive circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: KINIK COMPANY
    Inventors: Ming-Chi Kan, Shao-Chung Hu, Chien-Min Sung
  • Publication number: 20110011629
    Abstract: An electrodynamic array of conductive nanomaterial electrodes and a method of making such an electrodynamic array. In one embodiment, a liquid solution containing nanomaterials is deposited as an array of conductive electrodes on a substrate, including rigid or flexible substrates such as fabrics, and opaque or transparent substrates. The nanomaterial electrodes may also be grown in situ. The nanomaterials may include carbon nanomaterials, other organic or inorganic nanomaterials or mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Trigwell, Alexandru S. Biris, Carlos I. Calle
  • Publication number: 20110011630
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate including an electrode; a resin protrusion formed on the semiconductor substrate; and an interconnect electrically connected to the electrode and formed to extend over the resin protrusion. The interconnect includes a first portion formed on a top surface of the resin protrusion and a second portion formed on a side of a lower portion of the resin protrusion. The second portion has a width smaller than a width of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo IMAI, Shuichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20110011631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The ceramic substrate includes: a ceramic base; an electrode pattern formed on at least one surface of the ceramic base at predetermined internal and external depths; and electrode material filled in the inside of the electrode pattern. The method of manufacturing the ceramic substrate includes: coating first electrode material on at least one surface of a ceramic base; forming a surface layer built-in electrode pattern by pressurizing the coated first electrode material; primarily firing the ceramic base on which the surface layer built-in electrode pattern is formed; coating second electrode material on the surface layer built-in electrode pattern; and secondarily firing the ceramic base on which the second electrode material is coated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,
    Inventors: Won Hee YOO, Byeung Gyu CHANG, Yong Suk KIM
  • Publication number: 20110011632
    Abstract: An electric conductor having good electric conductivity and excellent heat resistance, and a process for its production are provided. An electric conductor comprising a substrate 10 and at least two layers formed on the substrate, each being a layer (Z) made of titanium oxide doped with at least one dopant selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Mo, As, Sb, W, N, F, S, Se, Te, Cr, Ni, Tc, Re, P and Bi, wherein at least one layer among said at least two layers is a second layer (Z2) 12 wherein the percentage of the number of dopant atoms based on the total number of titanium and dopant atoms is from 0.01 to 4 atomic %; and between the second layer (Z2) 12 and the substrate 10, a first layer (Z1) 11 is formed wherein the percentage of the number of dopant atoms based on the total number of titanium and dopant atoms is larger than in the second layer (Z2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichiro NAKAO, Naoomi Yamada, Taro Hitosugi, Tetsuya Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20110011633
    Abstract: A multilayer circuit board in which wirings are arranged so that the inductance thereof is reduced. A ground wiring and a power source wiring which are provided in a multilayer circuit board are arranged so that most of the wirings are superposed vertically along a direction of a longer side of the circuit board, and since currents flow in an opposite direction to each other in the portions which are superposed, magnetic fields generated by the currents so flowing are canceled by each other. Similarly, a W-phase wiring, a V-phase wiring and a W-phase wiring are also arranged so that the wirings are partially superposed along their longer side direction vertically, and magnetic fields generated by currents flowing in the portions which are superposed vertically are canceled by one another. By this, the inductance of the wirings can be reduced by increasing a mutual inductance between these wirings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Uchida, Motoo Nakai, Hiroshi Sumasu
  • Publication number: 20110011634
    Abstract: A circuit package includes a substrate formed using a plurality of layers, the substrate having a first surface and a second surface, at least some of the plurality of layers being electrically interconnected by a via; and at least one standard surface-mount capacitive element electrically coupled to at least one surface of the substrate, thereby allowing electrical and mechanical access to the first surface and the second surface, the at least one standard surface-mount capacitive element located to prevent the passage of a direct current (DC) signal through the circuit package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Avago Technologies Enterprise IP (Singapore )Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Moldauer, Nicole A. Butel, Brian James Misek
  • Publication number: 20110011635
    Abstract: A method for arranging a component on a circuit board, a circuit board, and a mobile device comprising a circuit board are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Dario Ondelj
  • Publication number: 20110011636
    Abstract: There are provided a multilayer wiring board and a method of manufacturing the same. The multilayer wiring board according to an aspect of the invention may include: a main body having a plurality of insulting layers stacked upon each other, including a first layer provided as an inner layer and a second layer provided as an outer layer; a first resistor provided on the first layer; and a second resistor provided on the second layer, connected in parallel with the first resistor, and having a smaller area than the first resistor. The multilayer wiring board obtains a target resistance value using the first and second resistors formed on the first and second layers. The second resistor, formed on the outer layer, can have a smaller area than the first resistor. Accordingly, the usable area of the outer layer is increased to thereby reduce the size of the multilayer wiring board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Jae Oh, Joo Yong Kim, Yoon Hyuck Choi
  • Publication number: 20110011637
    Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board, including: a signal interconnection which transmits and receives an electrical signal between electronic components; a ground interconnection connected to a ground of a circuit; a power interconnection connected to a power layer to supply power to electronic components; at least one ground layer installed in an inner layer; at least one clearance which passes through the ground layer; and a ground via which connects the ground interconnection with the ground layer. The signal interconnection and the ground interconnection or the signal interconnection and the power interconnection are installed in a pair, and a pair of interconnection vias for interlayer connection are inserted through the clearance installed in the ground layer so that one of the pair of interconnection vias is connected to the ground layer by the ground interconnection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshinaga, Kenji Kataoka, Michihito Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20110011638
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a shielding tape comprising at least one shielding layer, at least one separator layer, a first (inner) edge, and a second (outer) edge. The shielding tape further includes an indicator extending along at least a portion of the outer edge. The indicator is for identifying the outer edge when the outer edge overlaps the inner edge when the shielding tape is positioned onto a cable. Alternatively, both edges may have an indicator. The present invention makes it easy to locate the outer edge of the shielding tape for an installer wishing to remove at least some of the shielding tape before crimping or compressing a connector onto the end of a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Gemme, Leonard Visser
  • Publication number: 20110011639
    Abstract: A coaxial cable of the present invention comprises a center conductor, a dielectric surrounding the center conductor, a shielding tape surrounding the dielectric, a braided metal surrounding the shielding tape, and an outer jacket surrounding the braided metal. The shielding tape comprises: (i) a first shielding layer bonded to a first separating layer; (ii) a second shielding layer bonded to the first separating layer and a second separating layer; and (iii) a third shielding layer bonded to the second separating layer. The present invention eliminates the potential problem of the outer shielding structures separating and interfering with connector attachment. Furthermore, the use of three or more shielding layers in the shielding tape of the present invention improves the flex life of the shield tape by covering micro-cracks in the metal layers with additional shielding layers, thus reducing signal egress or ingress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Leonard Visser
  • Publication number: 20110011640
    Abstract: An insulating composition for use in high voltage devices is formed from a soft dielectric casting compound, such as a silicone gel, comprising ferroelectric particles such as barium titanate dispersed within it. Low levels of particles, from 1% to 20% by volume of the insulating composition, are highly effective yet do not cause excessive thickening of the soft dielectric casting compound when it is in its liquid state. The insulating composition is particularly effective for coating, enrobing or encapsulating alternating high voltage devices such as power electronics devices in order to prevent electrical discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: The University of Manchester
    Inventors: Ian Cotton, Ningyan Wang, Sarah Follmann, Jeffrey Robertson
  • Publication number: 20110011641
    Abstract: The invention relates to a junction box which safely dissipates heat produced by electrical/electronic components assembled in the box. The junction box has a housing with cover and at least one component chamber that juts out from a side wall of the housing. The component chamber has cooling fins. An electric or electronic component, sheathed in insulation, is inserted into the component chamber, such that it fits firmly against the walls of the chamber. The cover has cooling fins and overhangs the body of the housing and the component chamber in several areas. The construction of the junction box with the component chambers that jut out from the body and the housing cover with overhang enhance heat dissipation and allow the box to be used with solar modules in which bypass flows up to 16 A and greater occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: FPE Fischer GmbH
    Inventor: Roland Pfeffer
  • Publication number: 20110011642
    Abstract: Low leakage electrical joints and wire harnesses for simplifying the electrical infrastructure associated with solar energy utilities are disclosed. The low leakage electrical joints include fused wires that have been sealed, encased and configured to plug into other joints to form wire harnesses. The wire harnesses are particularly well suited for coupling a plurality of solar collector junction boxes to a combiner box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Dean Solon
  • Publication number: 20110011643
    Abstract: A system for use in borehole completion is provided and includes a perforating sub, a firing sub having a first port and an interior and including a firing assembly disposable within the interior and operably coupled to the perforating sub and a drilling fluid barrier, which is formed with a second port and is displaceable toward a position at which the first and second ports align to form a fluid path through the interior that is sufficiently pressurizable to actuate the firing assembly, a drop plug selectively engageable with the drilling fluid barrier to enable displacement thereof to the position in response to applied pressures and an isolation sub, into which the drop plug is receivable following disengagement thereof from the drilling fluid barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: James G. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20110011644
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for highly attenuating vibrations of a drillstring assembly while drilling. In one embodiment, vibrations are attenuated by introducing one or more vibration attenuation modules at appropriate assembly locations. For example, vibration attenuation modules may be inserted at locations where vibration energy is expected to be maximal. In one embodiment the vibration attenuation modules include cavities loosely packed with particles of solid material such as sand or metallic powder. In one embodiment, the cavity walls are rough and/or include geometric features that enhance vibration energy transfer to the loosely packed particles in the cavity(ies). The vibration energy is dissipated via friction and inelastic particle-particle and particle-wall collisions that occur as a result of drillstring motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jahir Alfonso Pabon, Joachim Sihler, Demosthenis Georgeou Pafitis, Chaur-Jian Hsu
  • Publication number: 20110011645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinked glycerol or oligoglycerol ester which can be obtained by crosslinking a non-crosslinked glycerol or oligoglycerol ester which can be obtained by reacting an (A) acid phase comprising (a1) a fatty acid, (a2) a dicarboxylic acid, (a3) a dimeric fatty acid, (a4) an oligomeric fatty acid, (a5) a hydroxy fatty acid or (a6) a mixture of at least two thereof, with a (B) alcohol phase comprising (b1) monoglycerol, (b2) diglycerol, (b3) triglycerol, (b4) oligoglycerol made up of more than three glycerol units, (b5) an alkoxylate of glycerols (b1), (b2), (b3) or (b4), or (b6) a mixture of at least two thereof, forming a full or partial ester and crosslinking the full or partial ester by means of a crosslinking agent, wherein the crosslinking can take place during or after the formation of the full or partial ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Heinz Muller, Diana Maker, Nadja Herzog, Alfred Westfechtel
  • Publication number: 20110011646
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for drilling with casing. In an embodiment, methods and apparatus for deflecting casing using a diverter apparatus are disclosed. In another embodiment, the apparatus comprises a motor operating system disposed in a motor system housing, a shaft operatively connected to the motor operating system, the shaft having a passageway, and a divert assembly disposed to direct fluid flow selectively to the motor operating system and the passageway in the shaft. In another aspect, methods and apparatus for directionally drilling a casing into the formation are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for measuring the trajectory of a wellbore while directionally drilling a casing into the formation are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Richard L. Giroux, Gregory G. Galloway, Tuong Thanh Le, Raymond H. Jackson, Gregory R. Nazzal, James C. Swarr, David J. Brunnert, William M. Beasley, Brent J. Lirette, Albert C. Odell, Jim Terry, Dave McKay, Samir Alkhalib, Mike Wardley
  • Publication number: 20110011647
    Abstract: A method for handling lubricant mist used in mist lubrication, a separation conduit and a rock drilling rig having a mist lubrication system provided with a separation conduit. The return flow of the lubrication mist is conveyed in the separation conduit from the lubrication target to a collection container. The separation conduit is an elongated conduit having an elongated separation member arranged therein, the separation member comprising a plural number of successive and inclined barrier surfaces. Lubricant droplets contained in the lubricant mist hit the barrier surfaces and accumulate thereon. The separated lubricant is collected into the collection container at the outermost end of the separation conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy
    Inventors: Miikka Mäntyniemi, Esa Riihioja
  • Publication number: 20110011648
    Abstract: A tool used for cutting coke or other hard materials in drums, adapted for being mounted to a boring rod with which the water can be run under pressure into the tool thus that, the water can be run toward the boring and cutting nozzles, being provided with a valve mechanism that can rotate about a coupling angle for releasing and closing the flow channel ports depending on a control input, with a first coupling position of the valve mechanism for boring and another coupling position for cutting, whereby the valve mechanism can be coupled at a water pressure reduced to the coupling pressure by rotating about the coupling angle, is simplified as to construction and handling in that the valve mechanism comprises a valve body in the water intake area of the casing, which has a cylindrical shape and a section for the water flowing inside the casing, as well as being rotationally mounted and having the possibility to be lifted and lowered in a cylindrical section of the inner wall of the casing, the valve body bein
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: RUHRPUMPEN GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Paul, Kay Simon, Thomas Graefenstein, Steffen Krenzer
  • Publication number: 20110011649
    Abstract: A weight detection apparatus includes a transfer mechanism configured to transfer a medium to be detected along a transfer path at a predetermined speed, a transducer configured to detect a kinetic energy of the medium transferred by the transfer mechanism, and convert the detected kinetic energy into a measurable physical quantity, and an operation section configured to calculate an weight of the medium on the basis of the physical quantity converted by the transducer and the predetermined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20110011650
    Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a coordinate input surface and, under a region thereof, a first and second switch assembly. Each assembly includes at least a first and second conductive element. When a force smaller than a first threshold is exerted on the surface, the first and second element of both assemblies are not in contact with each other. When a force larger than the first threshold and smaller than a second threshold is exerted, the first and second elements of the first assembly are in contact with each other, while the elements of the second assembly are not. When a force larger than the second threshold is exerted on the region, the elements of both assemblies are in contact with each other. A display including a sensor assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventor: Gunnar KLINGHULT
  • Publication number: 20110011651
    Abstract: A device and method for detecting connections of a 4- or 5-terminal resistive touch panel are disclosed. The device includes five terminals and a detecting unit. When the five terminals are connected to the touch panel, the detecting unit provides a high potential and a low potential to first and last of the five terminals, respectively, thereby determining whether the touch panel is a 4- or 5-terminal resistive touch panel by determining if there is a closed circuit between the two terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: SHANG-TAI YEH, Chia-Ling Sun
  • Publication number: 20110011652
    Abstract: A multi-terrain motorized wheelchair apparatus is disclosed that comprises a seating assembly for supporting a user in a seated position, a track assembly with the seating assembly being pivotable with respect to the track assembly. The track assembly includes a pair of track units positioned on opposite sides of the seating assembly. The apparatus comprises a seating orientation adjustment assembly configured to adjust an orientation of the seating assembly with respect to the track assembly. The apparatus includes at least one drive assembly mounted on the seating assembly and which has at least one drive shaft structure connected to the track units to drive the track units. The seating assembly is supported on the track units of the track assembly by the drive shaft structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: TIMMY R. SWENSON
  • Publication number: 20110011653
    Abstract: According to one of the embodiment, an assembled battery has a plurality of cells electrically connected in series. A charge amount difference detection circuit detects charge amount difference of the cells. Wherein, while a charging or discharge current is being applied to the cells, the charge amount difference detection circuit detects charge amount differences greater than a charge amount of a reference cell having a minimum charge amount, the charge amount differences of the cells are determined by addition of the charging or discharge currents during a period corresponding to the time differences between the reference cell and the other cells reaching a predetermined specific voltage, discharge switches are controlled by a switch controller, based on the charging amount differences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Mami Mizutani, Ryuichi Morikawa, Masahiro Tohara, Shinichiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20110011654
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is provided in which a case (14) for housing an electrical component including at least a battery module is disposed underneath a floor of a luggage compartment interposed between left and right rear side frames (12) immediately to the rear of a fuel tank (42) disposed beneath a floor panel (41) of a hybrid vehicle, and a canister (48) is disposed on one of left and right sides of the case (14). Since the canister (48) is disposed further inside than the outer end of the rear side frame (12) in the left-and-right direction and further forward than the rear end of the case (14), when the vehicle is involved in a collision from the side the case (14) and the canister (48) can be protected by the rear side frame (12), and when the vehicle is involved in a collision from the rear the fuel tank (42) and the canister (48) can be protected by the case (14) while guaranteeing the capacity of a luggage compartment of a rear part of a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shinya Kubota, Harumi Takedomi, Kazuyuki Kumakura, Mitsushige Goto
  • Publication number: 20110011655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a travel system for a hybrid type motor vehicle comprising a thermal engine (10) with a shaft (12), an electric machine (14) with a rotor (16) connected to electric accumulators (72), a drive shaft (16) controlled in rotation by the machine and/or the engine for rotating the motive axle (60) of the vehicle, and a rotating speed variation device (13) between said drive shaft and shaft (12) of engine (10). According to the invention, the speed variation device comprises at least two alternate paths (VT1, VT2) for motion transmission to motive axle (60) controlled each by a disengageable coupling (30, 36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Stephane VENTURI
  • Publication number: 20110011656
    Abstract: A plug-in hybrid vehicle drive system, including an internal combustion engine for driving one or more wheels of a vehicle, at least one on-wheel electrically powered motor, the motor coupled to a speed reduction mechanism, the speed reduction mechanism coupled to a vehicle wheel for driving at least one wheel of the vehicle, a battery located in the vehicle and connected to the at least one on-wheel motor for supplying power to the on-wheel motor, a battery charger including an AC/DC power converter, and an AC outlet connector in communication with the battery charger for receiving power from an external source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Peder Ulrik Poulsen
  • Publication number: 20110011657
    Abstract: A solar electric scooter with foldable photovoltaic modules is disclosed. According to one preferred embodiment, an apparatus is provided for transportation comprising one or more batteries capable receiving and storing an electric charge. An electric motor may be capable of providing rotational velocity to one or more wheels upon receiving power from the electric batteries. A plurality of foldable photovoltaic modules may comprise solar cells capable of providing electric charge to the one or more batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Michael C. Donnell, Tony VanMeeteren
  • Publication number: 20110011658
    Abstract: A motor driving system with a pair of units connected in series to form a DC power supply with an intermediate potential connection point, positive and negative electrode lines connected to the positive and negative sides of the power supply through positive and negative electrode side switching circuits, an intermediate potential line with one end connected to the intermediate potential point, a DC to DC converter unit having two switching devices connected in series between the positive and negative electrode lines, a DC link circuit connected in parallel to the DC to DC converter unit between the positive and negative electrode lines, and a DC to AC converter unit driving an AC motor, the other end of the intermediate potential line connected to the connection point between the switching devices with a reactor in the intermediate potential line or in each of the positive and negative electrode lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoki TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20110011659
    Abstract: An energy storage module (30, 32) for an electric vehicle or hybrid electric vehicle (12). Multiple low-voltage storage batteries (36) disposed on a tray (60) and connected in parallel circuit relationship form a low-voltage battery bank. A DC-to-DC converter (42) has an input connected to the low-voltage battery bank and an output connected to a high-voltage energy storage bank (34). An AC-to-DC converter (40) is connected to the low-voltage battery bank for charging the low-voltage battery bank from a source of AC electricity (45).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Sailor, Colin J. Casey
  • Publication number: 20110011660
    Abstract: A hybrid powertrain system includes reciprocating free-piston internal combustion engines, each including a linear alternator device configured to generate electric power. A control module determines mechanical and electrical power demands responsive to an operator torque request and a state of charge of an energy storage device. The control module operates the torque machine to generate an output torque responsive to the mechanical power demands and operates the reciprocating free-piston internal combustion engines to generate electric power responsive to the electrical power demands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicants: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC., REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Paul M. Najt, Tang-Wei Kuo, Rodney B. Rask, Aristotelis Babajimopoulos, Zoran S. Filipi, George Lavoie, Dionissios N. Assanis
  • Publication number: 20110011661
    Abstract: In a radiator core support 1 having a hood lock stay member 3, which is provided with a hood lock 14, on a radiator core support 1 of a motor vehicle, a transmission means is provided to connect between the hood 7 of a vehicle body to directly transmit load acting on the hood lock 14 from an engine hood from the hood lock stay member 3 to the side members 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go Takahashi, Hiroshi Toyoura
  • Publication number: 20110011662
    Abstract: A vehicle sub-structure includes an array of electrical power cells, the electrical power cells being ordered into groups of serially connected cells. A switch set provides for selectively interconnecting the plurality of groups of electrical power cells in a selected one of a plurality of possible orders, allowing the first and last cell in the series of cells to be changed. An auxiliary storage element is nested within the electrical power cells and both the auxiliary storage element and the arrays of electrical power cells are housed in a conformal enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Leo P. Oriet, Jules Cazabon
  • Publication number: 20110011663
    Abstract: A compressor system and method of operating same are provided for the compressed air supply of a commercial vehicle, wherein the compressor system includes a compressor for compressed air generation, a transmission for transmitting torque from a drive motor to the compressor, a clutch for disconnecting the connection between compressor and drive motor, and a control unit for opening and closing the clutch. The control unit is capable of opening the clutch in the event a settable maximum allowed compressor speed or motor speed of the drive motor is exceeded and to close the open clutch temporarily when the motor speed is greater than the maximum allowed motor speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Gilles HEBRARD
  • Publication number: 20110011664
    Abstract: A vehicle has a crash detection device for detecting a crash that introduces a force acting in an effective direction into the vehicle. An acceleration device directly or indirectly cooperates with the crash detection device to absolutely accelerate at least one partial mass of the vehicle against the effective direction in which the force is introduced in case of a crash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Baumann, Till Heinrich, Clark Ruedebusch