Patents Issued in December 27, 2012
  • Publication number: 20120325062
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a punch motor, an actuator which rotates by driving of the punch motor, a punching blade which punches a sheet by driving of the actuator, and a controller which controls the driving of the punch motor so that approach run is gained, if a thickness of the sheet exceeds a threshold, in a rotating direction of the actuator in which the punching blade does not move at the beginning of the driving of the punch motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasunobu TERAO
  • Publication number: 20120325063
    Abstract: An adjustable pouch machine comprises a vertical sealer module forms transverse seals between two plies of a pouch web to partially define a plurality of pouches. Rollers selectively tension and relax the web on the vertically oriented wheel, allowing them to drop away from heated lands on emergency and cycle stops. A filler wheel has a plurality of adjustable gripper units mounted directly thereon for transporting independent separate pouches cut from the pouch web. An adjustable knife is selectively provided with changeable knife hub sets to handle a variety of pouch sizes where a filler wheel alternately first fills and seals pouches in a train. Gear linkage accommodates variation in distance between hubs of different sets. Various embodiments, apparatus and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: R.A. Jones & Co, Inc.
    Inventors: Sima Paunesku, Daniel J. Rack, Jeffrey D. Wintring, Richard A. Roth
  • Publication number: 20120325064
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of punching a sheet using a register. Front and lateral marks (Q, R) of a sheet (S) are sensed, error values are calculated by a CPU (155), and front and lateral levers (135, 137) are actuated accordingly. Front and lateral edges (J, K) of the sheet (S) are not used as references, but front and lateral marks (Q, R) are used as references, so that a pattern (P) is brought into accurate conformity with a mold (131) and then cut off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: YOUNG SHIN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyong Taik LEE
  • Publication number: 20120325065
    Abstract: A power tool in one embodiment includes a work-piece support surface, a swing arm assembly movable along a swing path between a first swing arm position whereat a portion of a shaping device supported by the swing arm assembly extends above the work-piece support surface and a second swing arm position whereat the portion of the shaping device does not extend above the work-piece support surface, a mechanical fuse positioned to maintain the swing arm assembly in the first swing arm position, an actuator configured to apply a force to the mechanical fuse sufficient to break the mechanical fuse and to force the swing arm assembly away from the first swing arm position and toward the second swing arm position, and a control system configured to actuate the actuator in response to a sensed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: Robert Bosch Tool Cooperation
    Inventor: Stephen C. Oberheim
  • Publication number: 20120325066
    Abstract: A manually operated food dicer having a frame structure which is supported above a support surface, the frame structure having a top surface that includes at least a first slicing blade and at least one carriage guide configuration. A food item carriage displaceably deployed on the frame structure by way of the carriage guide configuration, the food item carriage including an upper receptacle for receiving food items and a lower dicing blade platform. As the food item carriage traverses the length of the frame structure in a cutting direction, the upper receptacle passes over the slicing blade resulting in a slide of the food item being deposited on the lower dicing blade platform, after which the carriage guide configuration brings a top surface of the lower dicing blade platform into contact with a bottom dicing surface of the frame structure further cutting the food item slice into diced food cubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Ori Braun
  • Publication number: 20120325067
    Abstract: A blade mount is brought into contact with the outer circumference face of knife cylinder such that penetrating hole having a larger diameter on the blade mount faces a stopping member of sliding member. Resilient force is generated between an active-force generator and the sliding member and thereby the stopping member is projected externally from the outer circumference face of the knife cylinder. The blade mount is slid with respect to the outer circumference face of the knife cylinder such that the inner wall of penetrating hole having a smaller diameter formed on the blade mount is fitted into the space between the outer circumference of the knife cylinder and the stopping member, so that the blade mount is fixed to the outer circumference face of the knife cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironari Yamada, Osamu Hatano, Kazuya Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20120325068
    Abstract: To restrain shifting of a circular blade, and reduce a cutting-in angle of the circular blade with respect to the tape roll main body, both ends of a rotatable blade shaft 38 is supported by a pair of shaft bearings 39a and 39b of shaft supporting members 37 of a tool post 20. The circular blade 21 is mounted to the blade shaft 38, between the shaft bearings 39a and 39b. This prevents the blade shaft 38 from being shifted or bent, restrains shifting of the circular blade 21, and reduce the cutting-in angle of the circular blade 21 with respect to the tape roll main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadaji SUTOU, Futoshi MATSUE, Akira OKANO
  • Publication number: 20120325069
    Abstract: A slice blade assembly for various produce items is provided. A circular array of V-shaped blades is carried in an outer support ring. Each blade is held in place by a new non-welded block and nut which interlock with bent tabs formed at the tips of each blade. Each blade is adjustable since each blade is bendable at its apex. Each worn or damaged blade may be removed and replaced without replacing the block and nut that support the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Tim Vaughan
  • Publication number: 20120325070
    Abstract: A glass plate cutting machine 1 includes a cutter wheel 4 for forming a cut line 3 on a glass plate 2; a moving means 5 for moving the cutter wheel 4 along a cut line 3a which has been preset and is to be formed on the glass plate 2; a resiliently pressing device 6 for resiliently pressing the cutter wheel 4 against the glass plate 2; and a control unit 7 for controlling the resiliently pressing device 6 so as to alternately change over the intensity of a resiliently pressing force of that cutter wheel 4 with respect to the glass plate 2 in the movement of the cutter wheel 4 by the moving means 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Bando Kiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki BANDO
  • Publication number: 20120325071
    Abstract: A rigid plectrum (1) for stringed instruments, of the type having a spearhead shape with a pointed front part (2) and a broadened rear part (3) in which, at the lateral walls (4) and (5) forming the pointed part, a first facet (4a) and a second facet (5a) are made, covering the entire thickness of the respective lateral wall; the facets being set at an angle ? to the thickness of the respective lateral wall, each facet starting on one face of the plectrum which is opposite the face from which the other facet starts, and finishing on the other face of the plectrum; the facets also being set at an angle ? to the face of the plectrum, from the rear part to the front part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Stefano Tommasi
  • Publication number: 20120325072
    Abstract: The presence of the described resonance device in the form of resonators (3, 4) influences the vibration characteristics of a membrane (2) in a defining manner and ensures a harmonic relationship between the fundamental and overtones of the drum sound, even if said drum does not have a closed sound box or shell (1). In orchestras and ensembles, but also as a solo instrument, the acoustic presence is improved by the increased energy conversion efficiency of the instrument and by the increased precision of the overtone characteristics with the aid of the ring resonators (3,4). The resonance device therefore enables the drum to be precisely tuned to a fundamental pitch in a given harmonic musical concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Roland Meinl Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Norbert ECKERMANN
  • Publication number: 20120325073
    Abstract: A flash-memory based stored-sample electronic music synthesizer enables the electronic reproduction of a large number of independent voices while accommodating the exacting demands of voice continuity, minimal note-start latency, and voice synchronicity. Error correction code associated with each page of a sound sample is stored with the sound sample and is retrieved with the sound sample during playback to thereby increase the overall sample retrieval rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Howard Chamberlin, Timothy Thompson, Miller Mark, Sivaraman Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20120325074
    Abstract: This application describes a method and an apparatus which enable one to compose music using hierarchical musical scales and harmonic sequences, where each harmonic sequence of a higher level is derived from the one on the lower level. Frequencies associated with harmonic sequence on each level above the first one are obtained as multiples of the corresponding frequencies on a lower level. The sets of multipliers used to scale the frequencies between the levels is restricted to respective groups of rational numbers, or scales, where each level in a harmonic hierarchy can be related to its own scale, or a single scale can be used for all levels. When composing for an orchestra of multiple instruments, harmonic sequences and scales can be assigned independently to each musical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: ANDREI V. SMIRNOV
  • Publication number: 20120325075
    Abstract: A propellant charge magazine having a magazine housing in which propellant charges are disposed and that can be cooled by a device for distribution and/or discharge of cooling air disposed in, or within the immediate vicinity of, the propellant charge magazine. A cooling air distribution system can be disposed in a combat compartment housing, with an air discharge device thereof being disposed in an upper portion of the housing for guiding cooling air into a lateral area of the housing. A deflector guides the cooling air downwardly in the lateral area and upwardly in a central area of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Raczek, Heinrich Heldmann
  • Publication number: 20120325076
    Abstract: Ultra high hardness steel based composite armor having crack mitigating layers. A method of using ultra high hardness steel in ballistics armor applications. A method of overcoming brittleness of a ultra high hardness steel plate for using the ultra high hardness steel in ballistic armor applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Stephen A. Monette, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120325077
    Abstract: An apparatus for mounting accessories on a weapon mount. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an accessory interface system having a forward module coupled to a mounting module. The mounting module of the accessory interface system mounts on a weapon mount. The forward module of the accessory interface system provides a plurality of surfaces for mounting weapon accessories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Jason M. Davis, Brian P. Dean, Brandon R. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20120325078
    Abstract: A system and method for providing information for performing a registration correction for artillery employs two spaced apart optical imaging systems associated with a processing system. Outputs from the two imaging systems are monitored to detect potential shell trajectory events and then correlated to eliminate potential shell trajectory events not viewed by both optical imaging systems. Locations are determined for potential shell trajectory events viewed by both optical imaging systems. Shell firing data relating to firing of at least one shell is provided to determine at least one predicted trajectory time point for the shell, and this is used to identify a corresponding detected shell trajectory event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd
    Inventors: Dan Shlomo Shulman, Yair Bnayahu, Egon Gersch, Shlomo Cohen
  • Publication number: 20120325079
    Abstract: A cap group of a container pipe of a rifle comprises a manually removable closure latch having a main body, an engagement element, a spring and a socket. The group further comprises a cam profile joined to the container pipe, having a housing seat for the stable and manually reversible reception of the engagement element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Fabbrica D'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A.
    Inventors: Dario Plebani, Ivano Contin, Fausto Caravaggi
  • Publication number: 20120325080
    Abstract: One or more examples of the gas boosters described herein aim to provide a light weight gas booster configured to produce high output pressure levels at high volumes. Generally described, one or more examples of the gas boosters reduce the dead volume in a piston assembly, thereby increasing the ratio of the output pressure to the input pressure. In that regard, several examples of the gas boosters disclosed herein have a first check valve as a disk-type check valve or the like and a second check valve as a ball-type check valve or the like. Furthermore, one or more examples include an inwardly acting cam configured to convert rotary motion to reciprocating motion by an inner surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: Robert B. Haines, Richard Rosenthal
  • Publication number: 20120325081
    Abstract: A hydraulic device that includes a case, and a substantially hollow rod slidably extending from the case. The rod has a ram on a first end thereof that caps the rod to form a first hydraulic piston. The rod has a second hydraulic piston on a second end thereof, inside the case. The first and second pistons are at least partially radially coextensive, and a pressure barrier inhibits high pressure on the first piston inside the hollow rod from reaching a side of the second piston that faces the first piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: REED VIVATSON, MARK BERGSTROM
  • Publication number: 20120325082
    Abstract: A fluid cylinder mechanism (1) equipped with a cylinder (10) having a base end (12) and an open end (11), and a piston (20) having a flange portion (21) disposed inside the cylinder and a rod portion (25) that passes through the open end of the cylinder, in which a space inside the cylinder is partitioned by the flange portion of the piston into a first pressured chamber (14) on a side of the base end and a second pressurized chamber (15) on a side of the open end, is characterized by including: a first flow path (22) that permits flow of a fluid from the first pressurized chamber to the second pressurized chamber; a second flow path (32) that permits flow of the fluid from the second pressurized chamber to the first pressurized chamber; and an opening and closing means (35) for opening and closing the second flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: BARNES GROUP INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hirotani, Darrell Quander, Steven Reilly
  • Publication number: 20120325083
    Abstract: A piston guide ring for use in a piston-cylinder assembly includes a compatibilized polyamide-poly(arylene ether) blend. The compatibilized polyamide-poly(arylene ether) blend includes about 35 to about 95 parts by weight polyamide and about 5 to about 65 parts by weight poly(arylene ether), based on 100 parts by weight total of the polyamide and the poly(arylene ether). The piston guide rings provide improved compressive strength at elevated operating temperatures, more isotropic mold shrinkage, and reduced moisture absorption compared to piston guide rings prepared from polyamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Sai-Pei Ting, Hua Guo
  • Publication number: 20120325084
    Abstract: Electrostatic aerosol in vitro exposure systems and methods are disclosed and can be used for collecting and depositing particulate matter onto tissue without pre-concentration, and without any intermediate collection steps such as use in water or on a filter. The system can include an inlet configured to receive air containing particulate matter, a receptacle configured to hold one or more tissue samples, a porous membrane providing support for an air-liquid interface of the tissue sample, and an electrostatic precipitation area. Particulate matter contained in the air received at the inlet can be electrically charged in the electrostatic precipitation area and flowed over the tissue sample, where it can be collected and measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Sexton, Harvey E. Jeffries, Ilona Jaspers, David H. Leith, Glenn W. Walters, Melanie Lynn Doyle-Eisele, Kim M. Lichtveld, Sandra W. Irwin, James J. Jetter, Seth M. Ebersviller, William Vizuete, Jose Zavala Mendez
  • Publication number: 20120325085
    Abstract: A cyclic adsorption process is provided, the process containing one or more adsorber vessels undergoing the steps of at least pressurization and depressurization and driven by one or more variable speed centrifugal machines operating under acceleration and deceleration conditions and adjusted to the steps, vessel size, and process conditions employed, wherein the process cycle time is greater than the ratio of the change in inertia, defined the maximum energy that can be lost during a cycle due to inertia changes, to 0.3 times the total power of the one of more centrifugal machines that would be consumed in the absence of inertial effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: PAUL W. BELANGER, MICHAEL S. MANNING, ANDREW C. ROSINSKI
  • Publication number: 20120325086
    Abstract: A nitrogen-flush scrubber system for a controlled atmosphere room in which the amount of nitrogen required to flush the regenerated scrubber beds is significantly reduced. The present invention provides a dual-bed scrubber system in which low oxygen air salvaged from the active scrubber bed is used to flush high oxygen air from the regenerated scrubber bed prior to nitrogen flush. The scrubber system may include two scrubber beds that are used alternately to scrub air from the CA room. One scrubber bed is used as an active scrubber bed to remove carbon dioxide from the air. The inactive scrubber bed may be regenerated while it is inactive. When the active scrubber bed becomes sufficiently saturated, the control system may switch the active scrubber bed, using the regenerated bed as the active scrubber bed and allowing the saturated bed to be regenerated. Before switching, the regenerated bed is purged to reduce the oxygen level, which increased during regeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: James C. Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20120325087
    Abstract: Hydrogen selective coatings, coated articles and methods for their formation and for hydrogen separation or purification. The coatings are formed by atomic layer deposition of suitable metal oxides with desirable hydrogen activation energy or hydrogen flux, e.g., silicon dioxide, and can be borne on a nonporous, thin-film metal or cermet substrate, e.g., a palladium sheet or layer. The coated substrate may include a porous support for the sheet or layer. The coated article may be used as a purification membrane and the coating can protect the metal layer from contaminants in the gas or process stream from which hydrogen is being purified. In some embodiments, the coated article can provide such protection at elevated temperatures in excess of 300° C.; and in other embodiments, can provide protection at temperatures in excess of 600° C. and even in excess of 800° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: T3 SCIENTIFIC LLC
    Inventors: Chung Yi A. Tsai, Siu-Yue Tam
  • Publication number: 20120325088
    Abstract: A method and reactor for removing a component from a gas stream is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing the gas stream containing the component that is to be removed and adsorbing the component out of the gas stream as the gas stream rises via microbeads of a sorbent falling down an adsorber section of a reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Marc D. Hornbostel, Gopala N. Krishnan, Angel Sanjurjo
  • Publication number: 20120325089
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a carbon dioxide capturing device includes an absorption tower, a regeneration tower, and a cooling unit. A gas containing carbon dioxide and a lean liquid is introduced to the absorption tower which brings the gas and the lean liquid into contact with each other to generate a rich liquid. The regeneration tower generates a lean liquid by diffusing vapor containing carbon dioxide from the rich liquid from the absorption tower, and then returns the lean liquid to the absorption tower. The cooling unit cools at least one of the gas, the lean liquid, and the rich liquid. The cooling unit includes first and second coolers connected in series to each other, by first and second cooling mediums, respectively. The first cooling medium is generated outside the device without using power for cooling in the device. The first cooler is located upstream of the second cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsuru UDATSU, Kensuke Suzuki, Satoshi Saito, Masatoshi Hodotsuka, Hideo Kitamura, Norihide Egami
  • Publication number: 20120325090
    Abstract: The present invention has as an object to render a photochromic coating layer free from air bubbles and obtain a uniform layer without film thickness unevenness in the coating layer. In the prevent invention, entrained air in a coating fluid stored in a vessel of a coating unit comprising the vessel, a check valve for preventing back-flow of the coating fluid connected to the vessel, and optionally an ejection nozzle connected to the check valve; air existing inside of the check valve; and optionally air existing inside of the ejection nozzle are removed by plugging an outlet of the coating fluid existing downstream of the check valve and then rotating the coating unit on an axis of the vessel and orbiting the coating unit on a revolution axis simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Naoto TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20120325091
    Abstract: A getter structure including at least one portion of getter material at least one face of which is positioned against at least one portion of gas-permeable material such that said portion of getter material is able to achieve a gaseous absorption and/or adsorption at least by said face through at least said portion of gas-permeable material, and in which the portion of gas-permeable material includes one or more channels made at the level of a face of said portion of gas-permeable material which is in contact with the portion of getter material, where the portion of getter material is able to achieve a gaseous absorption, or a gaseous adsorption, or both a gaseous absorption and a gaseous adsorption, via the channel or channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Ene Alt
    Inventor: Stéphane CAPLET
  • Publication number: 20120325092
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to solve these problems and to provide a exhaust gas treatment system which prevents formation of deposits in a main duct and a flue, on and after the point where the exhaust gases converge, after the removal of CO2 and reduces labor required for maintenance such as cleaning, and thus enabling a long-term operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Jun Shimamura, Toshio Katsube, Shigehito Takamoto, Masaharu Kuramoto, Naoki Oda
  • Publication number: 20120325093
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for an engine can perform manual regeneration control for regenerating a particulate removal filter by increasing the engine rotation speed. The system can suppress the engine rotation speed increase while maintaining the exhaust gas temperature required to regenerate the particulate removal filter. The system can set the target engine rotation speed to a first set value when a regeneration instruction signal from a manual regeneration switch is received. When, although the engine rotation speed falls within a predetermined engine rotation speed range including the first set value that is the target engine rotation speed for a predetermined time period, the exhaust gas temperature does not reach the filter's regeneration temperature within the predetermined time period, the target engine rotation speed is repeatedly reset by being increased from the first set value by a predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Hideo Shiomi, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20120325094
    Abstract: A pressurized boiler comprises a first three-way valve, a dispenser, and a control card. The first valve comprises a seat integrated in the boiler and a pilot screwed into the seat. The dispenser receives hot water from the boiler through a first pipe and comprises a plurality of consecutively connected serving elements, each of which has three branches, which include closing means controlled by the card and which enable the direction of hot water towards a selected hot beverage serving. The first valve enables the direction of hot water from the boiler towards the dispenser and air towards the dispenser, draining the water downstream from the boiler so that it does not remain in the system and cool down between two consecutive servings. The boiler and the dispenser can be remotely disposed relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Jofemar, S.A.
    Inventor: Félix Guindulain Vidondo
  • Publication number: 20120325095
    Abstract: A griddle pan for domestic use, having a base, a plurality of ridges extending upwardly from the base, and gulleys between successive ridges. The pan includes a plurality of barriers, each barrier being arrangable between successive ridges, at a height at or lower than the height of successive ridges. The barriers allow liquid to flow from tops of ridges towards the gulleys, and the barriers being arrangable to prevent at least some liquid from spitting from the gulley away through the space between the tops of successive ridges and away from the pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Edward Michael O'Donnell
  • Publication number: 20120325096
    Abstract: A corn creamer includes a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body. Teeth are disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit, and a scraping blade member with a cutting edge is attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber. The second circular end of the blade bit is attached to a shaft and the device is used to cut and cream corn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Cecil Holt
  • Publication number: 20120325097
    Abstract: A modified ink cup for plate printing is presented, where the ink cup is separated internally into two domains, a storage area and a print area, by a baffle system. The baffling allows only a limited amount of exposure of the ink in the ink cup to the outside air, reducing evaporation of the ink solvent and extending the life of the ink supply in the cup. This system greatly reduces the number of times an ink cup has to be re-filled to perform plate printing and limits the evaporation of possibly toxic solvents to the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: James Cheng
  • Publication number: 20120325098
    Abstract: In a printing blanket, a manufacturing method of the printing blanket, a blanket cylinder, and a printing press, a printing unit is configured to include a plate cylinder to which a plate is attached, and a blanket cylinder that has a blanket attached thereto, rotates synchronously with the plate cylinder, and can transfer an ink image transferred from the plate cylinder onto a web, a circumference of the blanket cylinder is set to be twice as large as a circumference of the plate cylinder, and a notch and a concave portion along an axial direction are provided on a surface of the blanket at a uniform interval to correspond to a notch of the plate cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: KYOCERA CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Nishiyama, Takashi Mori
  • Publication number: 20120325099
    Abstract: This invention is concerning a multibeam exposure scanning method and apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a printing plate. The problem to be solved is that the influence of the heat from adjacent beams accompanying multibeam exposure is effectively reduced, and a desired shape having a very small size is formed with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Ichirou Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20120325100
    Abstract: In a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate, an anti-marking device is provided. The anti-marking device comprises a flexible jacket comprised of fluoropolymer to engage the freshly printed substrate as it is transferred over the transfer cylinder, the anti-marking device removably attached with free play to the transfer cylinder. In an embodiment, a base cover is installed on the transfer cylinder between the anti-marking device and the transfer cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: PRINTING RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Howard W. DeMoore, Joey V. Le
  • Publication number: 20120325101
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an environmental contribution supporting apparatus provided for a system including a printing apparatus and an erasing apparatus includes a duplex-reduction calculating unit, an aggregation-reduction calculating unit, a sheet-reduction-ratio calculating unit, a printing-state-character selecting unit, a sheet-reuse-ratio calculating unit, a reuse-state-character selecting unit, a sheet-reduction-message selecting unit, a sheet-reuse-message selecting unit, an advice setting unit, and a report creating unit configured to edit a character selected by the printing-state-character selecting unit, a character selected by the reuse-state-character selecting unit, and a message set by the advice setting unit into a predetermined form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroyo Tanaka, Yoshikatsu Kamisuwa, Tsunehiro Motegi
  • Publication number: 20120325102
    Abstract: An ink for high-speed printing is formulated by controlling the phase angle of the ink to less than 60° at a frequency of 10 Hz when the ratio of the total non-volatiles volume fraction of the ink to the maximum total non-volatiles volume fraction of the ink is a ratio between about 0.40 to about 0.90. An ink for high-speed printing includes one or more resins, one or more colorants, one or more solvents, and one or more additives. The ink can be a flexographic ink, a rotogravure ink, a heatset offset ink, or a publication gravure ink. A print of the ink includes less than 1% of pinholes by area. The ink is applied to a substrate, which moves at a speed of greater than 1200 feet/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard R. Durand, JR., Saeid Savarmand, Stephen Postle
  • Publication number: 20120325103
    Abstract: A coupling device which is configured such that respective explosives for blasting work are coupled to front and rear sections thereof. The coupling device includes cylindrical bodies, one of the bodies being movable away from or close to another one of the bodies, a partition provided inside a predetermined one of the bodies to divide an inner space of the predetermined body, and an expandable support section provided between the bodies to connect the bodies to each other. The expandable support section forms a cylindrical shape together with the bodies when one body is moved away from the other body and is radially expanded when one body is moved close to the other body. The explosives can be easily inserted into a blasting hole and be positioned in the center of the blasting hole, thereby increasing the efficiency of blasting work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyung Sik Yang, Jeong Gyu Kim, Hyong Doo Jang, Won Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20120325104
    Abstract: Some embodiments may include an improved cartridge ammunition load and/or related method. Such a load may comprise a shot casing, a combustible propellant charge, a wad, and a plurality of shot. The shot may include shot of a first size and a second size, wherein the second size is within 80-95% of the first size. The first-size shot may be arranged in a stack of one or more planar rings, and may have the second-size shot disposed in a central interstice of one or more of the rings. Embodiments may include any number of layers of shot of the first and second size, and the second-size shot need not be present between every pair of adjacent layers of first-size shot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Bowen
  • Publication number: 20120325105
    Abstract: A wafer transfer system includes a bidirectional wafer carrying pod, an over-head transport (OHT) rail, an OHT, two platforms, and two loading ports respectively connected to the two platforms. The bidirectional wafer carrying pod has a loading housing and two doors respectively and detachably installed on the two opposite sides of the loading housing. The OHT rail has a single rail section and a double rail section. The two ends of the double rail section are connected to the single rail section. The platforms are respectively disposed beside the double rail section. The loading ports are disposed under the double rail section. Through the OHT, The bidirectional wafer carrying pod can selectively be transferred to one rail of the double rail section and disposed on the loading port of the tool corresponding to the one rail of the double rail section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: INOTERA MEMORIES, INC.
    Inventors: JUNG-PIN LAI, TSAN-I CHEN
  • Publication number: 20120325106
    Abstract: An elevated loop of cable or other flexible traction member extends suspended above a surface over which a sport participant is to be towed. The loop includes upper and lower legs which run between a pair of pulleys which are mounted for rotation in substantially vertical planes atop respective ones of a pair of mutually separated support structures. At least one of the pulleys is coupled to a reversible, variable speed drive. A carrier is coupled to one leg of the loop and in response to rotation of the drive, unit travels along according to a reversible variable speed velocity profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Christian Von Lerchenfeld
  • Publication number: 20120325107
    Abstract: The improved intermodal vehicle has a one-piece upper frame assembly with a horizontal load carrying surface below the ends of a drawbar for connecting the trailers. Each highway trailer has a coupler socket assembly at both its front and rear into which the drawbar enters and connects to the intermodal vehicle by a vertical coupling pin projecting upward from the horizontal load carrying surface. The coupling pin is operated up and down by either manual or air operated actuators, and locks in the up position by a manually operated safety latch. The upper frame is supported from dual steerable lower frames by primary air springs so that when the springs are deflated, the upper frame is lowered to allow the trailers to be pushed upon the load carrying surface. When the air springs are inflated, the trailers are raised so that the trailer wheels are carried above the railroad track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: RAILRUNNER, N.A., INC.
    Inventors: Harry O. Wicks, Michael W. DiLuigi, Joseph Magri
  • Publication number: 20120325108
    Abstract: A crash module for a rail vehicle includes at least one crash element, which is arranged in front of the vehicle structure. At least one transverse profiled element is provided, which is connected to the at least one crash element and which has a substantially lower compressive strength in the longitudinal direction of the rail vehicle than in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Graf, Thomas Meissl, Andreas Rittenschober, Markus Seitzberger
  • Publication number: 20120325109
    Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention describe methods of processing a semiconductor substrate that include applying a zincating solution to the semiconductor substrate to form a zinc passivation layer on the titanium-containing layer, the zincating solution comprising a zinc salt, FeCl3, and a pH adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Intermolecular, Inc.
    Inventors: Bob Kong, Zhi-Wen Sun, Chi-I Lang, Jinhong Tong, Tony Chiang
  • Publication number: 20120325110
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acidic, aqueous, chromium-free composition (A) for the anti-corrosive treatment of steel and/or galvanized steel surfaces comprising metal ions (M) selected from ions at least of the elements nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, iron or tin and a multi-stage method applying the composition (A) for the anti-corrosive pre-treatment of metal components which have steel and/or galvanized steel surfaces. The invention further relates to metal surfaces of zinc or iron having a passive layer system comprising at least 30 mg/m2 nickel and at least 10 mg/m2 zircon, titanium and/or hafnium and sulfur, wherein nickel is present in metallic form at up to at least 30 At. %, obtainable in a method according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Jan-Willem Brouwer, Frank-Oliver Pilarek, Jens Kroemer, William E. Fristad, Helene Maechel
  • Publication number: 20120325111
    Abstract: A resin for aqueous pigment dispersion that allows the production of an aqueous pigment dispersion for ink jet recording that contains only a few coarse particles and has excellent ejection stability, an aqueous pigment dispersion containing the resin for aqueous pigment dispersion, an ink jet recording ink, and a method for producing an aqueous pigment dispersion. A resin for aqueous pigment dispersion produced by copolymerization of a composition that contains (a) one or two or more compounds selected from the group consisting of alkenylsuccinic acids, alkenylsuccinic anhydrides, alkylsuccinic acids, and alkylsuccinic anhydrides, and (b) a styrene monomer, wherein the (a) component constitutes 5% by mass or more and the (b) component constitutes 30% by mass or more of the total amount of all the monomer component(s) and the (a) component of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Buei, Yoshinosuke Shimamura, Shinichi Okada, Kenji Nasu, Takashi Yoshinari