Patents Issued in April 3, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140093289
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a system velocity of 400 to 1,700 mm/sec and includes a fixing belt including a base layer; a silicon rubber layer; and a fluorine resin layer. A thickness L2 of the fluorine resin layer is in range of 2?L2?20 ?m. A thickness L1 of the silicone rubber layer is in range of 400?L1?750 ?m. The toner includes a release agent and a binder resin including a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin. A ratio W/R of a height W of third falling peak of an infrared absorption spectrum of the crystalline polyester resin to a height R of the maximum rising peak of an infrared absorption spectrum of the amorphous polyester resin is from 0.045 to 0.850. The content of inorganic fine particles is 0.80 to 5.00 parts per 100 parts of toner base particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHII, Hyo Shu, Wakana Itoh, Takuma Higa
  • Publication number: 20140093290
    Abstract: A fixation apparatus for fixing a developer image to a recording medium includes: a fixation belt; a heater member configured to generate heat by a resistance heating element and heat the fixation belt; and a pressurization member provided at a position opposed to the fixation belt with the heater member interposed in between and configured to press the heater member against the fixation belt while being in contact with the heater member. The pressurization member includes a temperature adjustment part provided near an end portion in the longitudinal direction of the pressurization member and designed to control an amount of heat transmitted from the heater member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Teruo SOEDA
  • Publication number: 20140093291
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a coil generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heater generating heat by the flux generated from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material, magnetic cores provided outside the heater and arranged in a rotational axis direction of the heater, a first mover moving at least a part of the cores from a first position to a second position spaced form the coils, an adjuster, movable between the cores and the heater, for reducing the flux directed from the cores toward the heater, and a second mover moving, when a first core in a non-sheet-passing area of the recording material is moved to the second position by the first mover and a second core adjacent to the first core in the non-sheet-passing area is disposed at the first position to heat the image, the adjuster to a position corresponding to the second core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suguru Takeuchi, Kohei Koshida
  • Publication number: 20140093292
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a coil generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heater generating heat by the flux generated from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material, magnetic cores provided outside the heater and arranged in a rotational axis direction of the heater, a first mover moving at least a part of the cores from a first position to a second position spaced form the coils, an adjuster, movable between the cores and the heater, for reducing the flux directed from the cores toward the heater, and a second mover moving, when a first core in a non-sheet-passing area of the recording material is moved to the second position by the first mover and a second core adjacent to the first core in the non-sheet-passing area is disposed at the first position to heat the image, the adjuster to a position corresponding to the second core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suguru Takeuchi, Kohei Koshida
  • Publication number: 20140093293
    Abstract: An erasing apparatus comprises a detection section configured to detect whether or not a sheet is set in a sheet supplying section, and a storage section configured to store processing information identifying one or more processes to be carried out on the sheet by the erasing apparatus. The erasing apparatus further comprises a control section configured to control a power supply of a heating element of an erasing section to be on when the detection section detects that a sheet is set in the sheet supplying section and when the one or more processes identified in the processing information includes erasing processing, and control the power supply of the heating element to be off when the detection section detects that a sheet is set in the sheet supplying section and when the one or more processes identified in the processing information does not include erasing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshihisa HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140093294
    Abstract: Provided is an image bearing member protecting agent which contains a fatty acid metal salt and an inorganic lubricant, wherein an aspect ratio (average major axis length/average minor axis length) of the inorganic lubricant is 60 to 400, and a mass ratio of the fatty acid metal salt to the inorganic lubricant (fatty acid metal salt/inorganic lubricant) is 98/2 to 85/15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji KOMITO, Hiroshi NAKAI, Kunio HASEGAWA, Takuya SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20140093295
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a brush to contact a photoconductive member, a roller to contact the brush, and a blade. The blade is located along the roller in a longitudinal direction. The blade has a first portion, a second portion, and a bent portion between the first portion and the second portion. A contact surface or edge of the first portion contacts a surface of the roller to remove toner therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Takeshi KOJIMA, Hirotaka HATTA, Toshiya SATOH, Akira ASAOKA
  • Publication number: 20140093296
    Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaning member, a storage case, and a transport member. The cleaning member collects waste toner on a surface of the photoconductive drum. The storage case successively stores the waste toner collected by the cleaning member through an inlet. The transport member is provided in the storage case, and rotates to transport the waste toner in the storage case in a rotary axis direction. The transport member rotates with a central portion in the rotary axis direction protruding toward the inlet further than both side portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takehiro NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20140093297
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an intermediate transfer member to which an image on an image bearing member is primarily transferred. The image primarily transferred to the intermediate transfer member is secondarily transferred to a recording medium. The velocity at which the recording medium is conveyed is switched to a velocity different from the image forming velocity before the recording medium is conveyed to the transfer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuya Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140093298
    Abstract: A post-processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a punching apparatus that has: a punching blade; an orthogonal direction movement portion that moves the punching blade in an orthogonal direction; a converting mechanism that converts rotational movement of a rotation member in a first rotation direction to reciprocating movement; a rotation driving portion that drives rotation of the rotation member; a rotation driving control portion; and an orthogonal direction movement control portion. The rotation driving control portion controls the rotation driving portion so as to move the punching blade toward a punching reference position when a reference position detection portion determines that the punching blade has moved beyond the punching reference position toward a through hole punching position, in a case where the punching blade is controlled so as to stop at the punching reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140093299
    Abstract: A packaging device having a magnetic closure system establishing a particular angular orientation between two elements of the device. The packaging device for a cosmetic product comprises a container to house the product. The container comprises a visual mark on a side surface thereof and a removable case including an internal cavity to receive the container which can slide inside the cavity until it is fully housed inside the case. The case comprises a side hole that opens into the internal cavity. The device comprises at least a first permanent magnet borne by the container and at least a second permanent magnet borne by the case. The magnets being configured such as to define the angular position of the container in relation to the second axis, such that the visual mark on the container is positioned in line with the hole in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Qualipac
    Inventor: Claude Lambert
  • Publication number: 20140093300
    Abstract: A decorative writing instrument includes a writing instrument and a resilient member having an opening therein. The writing instrument is disposed within the opening, wherein the decorative element is removably retained on the writing instrument. A decorative element is secured to the resilient member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Deborah Schwartzberg
  • Publication number: 20140093301
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a device for connecting a vacuum cleaner bag is capable of using a regular garbage bag as a bag for collecting dust and garbage inside, and conveniently mounting and removing the bag on a lower side of a dust collecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Hyoung-Kwon Cho
  • Publication number: 20140093302
    Abstract: A mechanical assembly such as a torque transfer strut for a rotating superconducting machine. The torque transfer strut includes a composite tube having a first end received in a clamping fitting, which may include an end housing or lug, a clamping wedge screwed onto a threaded end housing, and an annular clamping member applying a radial clamping force to the first end of the composite tube at ambient temperature. When cooled, shrinkage of the end housing in the axial direction causes the annular clamping member to maintain or increase radial clamping force, causing the clamping wedge to apply increasing radial force to an inner member deflecting outwardly a plurality of axial fingers. The first end of the composite tube remains clamped between the inner member and an outer member, together defining an annular channel receiving the first end of the composite tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Richard Ingles, Joseph Eugene, David John Swaffield
  • Publication number: 20140093303
    Abstract: A stand for a computing device that may be removed by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel L. McBroom, Euan S. Abraham, Brett W. Degner
  • Publication number: 20140093304
    Abstract: Provided is a pivoting unit including a pivotable body, a horizontal pivot shaft, a support for supporting the pivotable body pivotably about the pivot shaft so as to allow the pivotable body to take a fallen posture and a raised posture in which the pivotable body is more raised than the fallen posture, and a stop member for stopping the pivotable body in the raised posture. The stop member includes a long hole vertically extending and allowing the pivot shaft to be inserted therethrough, being disposed vertically movably between upper and lower positions. The stop member, in the lower position, abuts against an abutment portion, a specific part at a lower end of the pivotable body in the raised posture, to retain the pivotable body in the raised posture, while, in the upper position, allowing the pivotable body to pivot from the raised posture toward the fallen posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MURAOKA, Takanori YAMASAKI, Kouichirou NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20140093305
    Abstract: Vehicles and systems are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, for example, a vehicle may include, but is not limited to, an axle, a bearing coupled to the axle, a knuckle coupled to the bearing, and an isolation sleeve coupled between the bearing and the knuckle. In one embodiment, for example, the isolation sleeve may be composed of solid zinc. In another embodiment, for example, the isolation sleeve may include a zinc coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: TODD D. ALBERTSON
  • Publication number: 20140093306
    Abstract: A wooden member joint structure having high strength against load repeatedly applied in opposite directions, with improved work efficiency in joining the wooden member to a mating member. A screw member having spiral protrusion on its outer peripheral surface and an axial hollow hole is threaded axially into a wooden column. A distal end of joint bolt is threadedly engaged with bottom of the hollow hole. The joint bolt has an integrally formed flange, and the flange is threaded into the column together with the screw member with its contact surface firmly pressed against end face of the screw member. A joint device is clamped between a fastening nut threadably mounted on a proximal end of the joint bolt and the flange and coupled to the screw member via the joint bolt. The joint device is secured to a foundation by an anchor bolt protruding therefrom and a fastening nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO FORESTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140093307
    Abstract: A locking apparatus for mounting a photovoltaic module on a rack, the locking apparatus includes a pressing member, a blot having a head and a threaded portion, and a mounting member fixed to the rack. The pressing member includes a bottom portion, two side portions extending up from opposite sides of the bottom portion, and two pressing pieces extending outward from tops of the side portions respectively. A through hole is defined in a center of the bottom portion. Two ribs extend inward from inner surfaces of side portions respectively. A distance between the ribs is less than a diameter of the head. The head is retained in the pressing member between the ribs and the bottom portion. The threaded portion extends through the through hole to be screwed into the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: BAO-REN ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20140093308
    Abstract: A coupling element, an injection molding object with the coupling element implanted therein are provided. The coupling element has two reversely extended fixing ribs. The injection mold has a first mold and a second mold. The first mold has a first molding cavity and two positioning blocks separated by the first molding cavity. The second mold has a second molding cavity. When the first mold and the second mold are shut together and their molding cavities combine to define a closed room, the positioning blocks hold the coupling element by clamping the fixing ribs so the coupling element is suspended in midair of the closed room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Chieh KAO, Ying-Huang LIU, Wei-Yu LIU, Sheng-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20140093309
    Abstract: A device (1) for automated connection of two components (25, 27) in joint region (29) is proposed. The device (1) has a rotating winding device, especially a circle-segment-like rotor (3), which is arranged to guide a cloth tape (23) along winding paths (26) and to create a wound joint connection in the joint region (29).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
    Inventors: Jürgen FLEISCHER, Jochen SCHÄDEL
  • Publication number: 20140093310
    Abstract: A clamp assembly for a bicycle includes a clamp having an enclosing hole, a gap and two locking members. The enclosing hole communicates with the gap. Each locking member has a locking hole opened therethrough. A threaded member is passed through the two locking holes of the two locking members. An enforcing ring is assembled onto an outer periphery of the clamp. Under this arrangement, when the enforcing ring is assembled onto the clamp, a stress in the clamp is dispersed uniformly so as to fasten a bicycle tubing stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Chao-Hu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140093311
    Abstract: A mounting structure comprises a part with a base, a mounting member with a mounting hole, a clip and a cap. The base has a temporary fixing part configured to fix the cap in a temporary fixed position, a permanent fixing part configured to locate the cap in a permanent fixed position, and an elastic hooking pawl configured to restrict entry of the cap into the permanent fixed position by interfering with insertion of the cap when held in the temporary fixed position. When the cap is inserted from the temporary fixed position to the permanent fixed position, each of the elastic lockable parts of the clip are deformed toward a mounting hole and press against the elastic hooking pawl such that the elastic hooking pawl does not interfere with the insertion path of the cap from the temporary fixed position to the permanent fixed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20140093312
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a latch body and a plurality of locking mechanisms. The latch body has a plurality of channels that extend through the latch body. The plurality of locking mechanisms is housed within the latch body. A locking mechanism in the plurality of locking mechanisms comprises a plate and a spring mechanism. The plate has an opening positioned relative to a corresponding channel in the plurality of channels. The spring mechanism is configured to hold the plate in a locked position within the latch body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Phillip E. Pacini, Russell J. Branham
  • Publication number: 20140093313
    Abstract: A connection for transmitting rotating torque has a first component having a shaft with male spline teeth on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The male spline teeth extend to an inner end, and there is a blocking portion of the shaft extending in an inner direction from the inner end of the male spline teeth. A second component has a hollow portion with female spline teeth on an inner periphery of a bore. The female spline teeth extend to an outer end. Bolt holes are formed in both the hollow portion and the shaft. The bolt hole in the shaft is formed in a portion of the shaft receiving the male spline teeth. A bolt extends through the bolt holes, and the shaft is secured within the hollow portion. A distance from an inner end of the blocking portion to the inner end of the male spline teeth is greater than a distance between an outer surface on the bolt to the outer end of the female spline teeth on the hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Carbone
  • Publication number: 20140093314
    Abstract: A mounting system having a plate with a tail portion and a base with a socket portion. The socket includes a dropping gate which recedes into a compartment in the base when the plate is vertically inserted on the base. The base includes a stop which engages a catch on the plate to prevent the plate from being laterally removed from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KESSLER CRANE, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Kessler, Richard Eggink, Kevin P. Mott
  • Publication number: 20140093315
    Abstract: A surface treatment machine comprising a chassis; a cutter member mounted to the chassis for milling a surface; and a smoother member mounted to the chassis for levelling raised edges of a milled surface, the smoother member positioned behind the cutter member relative to the direction of travel, wherein the smoother member comprises a movably supported impact element for impacting the raised edges of the milled surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventor: Dario Sansone
  • Publication number: 20140093316
    Abstract: A method and pumping/drainage channel member for injecting surface water into the soil beneath a ground area includes drilling a series of holes and inserting an elongated pumping/drainage members into each hole extending downwardly into the soil. The pumping/drainage channel members comprise a cluster of integrally joined channel features each formed with a lengthwise extending slot opening. Surface water flows to the pumping/drainage member, enters the channels and drains down the pumping/drainage members to enhance water movement down into the soil to reduce runoff and help to recharge acquifers. Longer members may be installed between shorter members in a pattern to achieve more rapid injection of water deep into the subsoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew Niemczyk
  • Publication number: 20140093317
    Abstract: A system and method for securely cradling a subsea pipeline is claimed that lands on one side of the pipeline, is embedded into the sea floor, reaches under the pipeline, positions the cradling structure, and then lifts the pipeline. The system typically comprises a gravity driven pile based device, comprising a pile tower, a roller carriage assembly, and a jacking assembly that engages the roller carriage assembly and pile tower rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gregory Restivo, Nikunj Patel, Kinton Lowell Lawler, Donald C. Nelson, Jason Ray Pollick
  • Publication number: 20140093318
    Abstract: A facing anchor assembly for securing a facing to a soil reinforcing element, the facing anchor assembly including first and second horizontally-disposed plates vertically-offset from each other and having at least one transverse protrusion disposed on each plate. The transverse protrusions can receive and seat at least one transverse wire of the soil reinforcing element and a coupling assembly can be configured to secure the at least one transverse wire in place, and also frictionally engage a pair of longitudinal wires of the soil reinforcing element between the first and second horizontally-disposed plates, thereby preventing removal of the soil reinforcing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: T & B STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Thomas P. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20140093319
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that reduce release of dust generated during rotary dumping of rail cars in a dumping facility. The method includes removing dust laden air from a space bounded by a backside airflow diverter, a rotational frame, a first baffle and a second baffle while the rotational frame is rotating with a rail car by drawing the dust laden air through a secondary air intake that passes through the backside airflow diverter into a backside hood. A dust control apparatus includes a diverter, overlying a backside hood having a concave curved upper surface; and at least one secondary air intake positioned to pass through the diverter being located approximately where pressure in the backside hood remains neutral or negative relative to a pressure even there is a transient increase in air pressure in a lower portion of the backside hood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Michael R. Harris, Jason Santers
  • Publication number: 20140093320
    Abstract: Hammer drills and similar devices have an ongoing dust and debris problem that is solved by a protector device covering the drill in a main body protector shielding a user from the materials. The protector device has an evacuation region on its underside with multi dimensional adapters for attaching hoses of varying sizes. Additionally, an insertable collapsible accordion cylinder assists in covering the debris falling from different size drills being used. A second embodiment has a circular saw dust protector attachment arranged as two half moons or 1/4 moon and 3/4 moon having a central cylinder at their respective tops that are to be held together with a mechanical latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Mark Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20140093321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for drilling a printed circuit board, comprising: drilling down in an initial position, and when contacting a live superficial conductive layer of a PCB, acquiring a first conductive position and acquiring a first height difference between the initial position and the first conductive position; drilling onward after the first drill bit of the driller drills through the superficial conductive layer and when contacting another conductive layer of the PCB, acquiring a second conductive position and acquiring a second height difference between the initial position and the second conductive position; calculating a difference between the second and the first height difference to obtain a third height difference; and performing back-drilling, according to the third height difference, in a position that needs back-drilling. The present invention acquires precise depth information through a test blind via and reduces Stub length of back-drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shandang Liu
  • Publication number: 20140093322
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method, comprising a workpiece-receiving portion (2) for receiving a workpiece (28) to be mechanically machined. At least one vibrating device (9) is connected to the workpiece-receiving portion (2), and the vibrating device (9) causes the workpiece-receiving portion (2) to vibrate, the vibration of the workpiece-receiving portion (2) having a frequency that is lower than the frequency of ultrasound. The vibrating device (9) has a vibrating body (8) to which a compensating mass (7) that vibrates in the opposite direction is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN
    Inventors: Friedrich Bleicher, Johannes Bernreiter
  • Publication number: 20140093323
    Abstract: A box stop device includes a base member and a raised member attached to the base member. The base member has a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface may be flat. The bottom surface may be adapted to attach to a desired surface. The raised member may be attached to the base member and may extend approximately vertically from the top surface. The raised member may include a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side may be attached together at an angle of approximately 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Carey D. Malmstrom
  • Publication number: 20140093324
    Abstract: A blind rivet comprises a sleeve, a body, and a mandrel. The sleeve includes a barrel with a hexagonal cross-section, a flange, and a through-hole. The rivet body includes a base, a barrel with slits extending in the axial direction, and a through-hole. The mandrel includes an elongated stem and a head. During the setting process, the barrel of the rivet body is pushed open by the head of the mandrel, and the objects to be fastened are fastened between the opened portion of the barrel and the flange of the sleeve. The mandrel is then pulled further and the polygonal vertices of the sleeve barrel are compressed by a round squeezing hole in a nosepiece. The compression of the sleeve barrel forces the inner circumference of the barrel into non-sliding engagement with the mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: NEWFREY LLC
    Inventor: Takanori MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20140093325
    Abstract: A clip for attaching a mounting component to a base component, and the clip comprises: a pin including a head portion for engaging the mounting component, and a shaft portion which is contiguous to the head portion, and a lock pins which extends downward from the head portion; and a grommet including a flange and a shank contiguous to the flange and partially defining an aperture operable to receive the pin in one of a temporary fitted position and a permanent fitted position; and wherein the temporary fitted position, the lock pin abuts a recessed portion in the grommet for maintaining the temporary fitted position, and wherein in the permanent fitted position, the lock pin collapses on the inside, and is contained on the inside of the shank portion of the grommet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Suguru MIZUKOSHI, Mii MIYAZAKI, Toshiya OHBA
  • Publication number: 20140093326
    Abstract: A floating fastener for mounting to a first object and then fastening into a second object includes a fastening main body having, from top to bottom, sequentially connected handling portion, shank portion and fastening portion; a cap portion having a connecting section connected to the handling portion and a first stop section extended into the cap portion; and a sleeve movably located around the shank portion and having a second stop section movably interfering with the first stop section for the sleeve and the cap portion to movably connect together without separating from each other, a floating displacement limiting section located below the second stop section and horizontally abutted on the first stop section for preventing the sleeve from swaying, and a fixing section formed around a lower end of the sleeve. The floating fastener can possess a degree of floating displacement without having a swaying or inclined sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Ting-Jui WANG
  • Publication number: 20140093327
    Abstract: A fastener comprises an adjustable insert that disposed in a receptacle having a first end facing a grommet and the insert is connected to the receptacle for movement relative to the receptacle. The insert has a central opening and diametrically opposed cam and locking surfaces open to said central opening. A bore in the insert is radially disposed relative to a longitudinal axis of the insert. An engagement member disposed within the bore is moveable therein laterally relative to the longitudinal axis of the insert toward and against the receptacle to fix the insert against movement relative to the receptacle. The engagement member is moveable laterally relative to and toward the central opening of the insert to allow movement of the insert relative to the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Ned C. Bowers, Carlos Osorio
  • Publication number: 20140093328
    Abstract: A self-locking plug is provided that includes a lock carried between a sleeve and a core. The sleeve has an anti-rotation feature for reducing axial rotation of the sleeve during at least one of core removal and core installation. The core extends through the sleeve. The lock includes a first component and a second component. The first component has a protrusion that extends radially out to a circumferentially extending interference surface. The second component has an interference tab that is radially biased against the interference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John P. Tirone, Richard M. Murphy, Joseph M. Gambill
  • Publication number: 20140093329
    Abstract: An adjustment safeguard for a set screw on a carburetor includes a cap held non-rotatably on the head of the set screw. The cap is surrounded by a coaxially positioned wall sleeve fixed to the housing. A rotation stop is fixed to the housing to limit the angle of rotation of the cap in the sleeve in the rotational direction of the set screw. A through-opening in the cap permits inserting a tool into an engagement opening in the head of the set screw to avoid destruction by introducing too much torque into the adjustment safeguard. The form and opening width of the through-opening is limited by the use of a metal material such that a tool larger than the adjustment tool is not able to be inserted through the through-opening into the head of the set screw. The engagement opening is flexible to limit a maximum allowable adjustment torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Achim Baumhauer, Walter Gernhard
  • Publication number: 20140093330
    Abstract: Provided is an attachment structure including an attachment portion formed by cutting and erecting a processing portion provided as an inner portion of a notch formed on a plate-like base surface portion and bending the processing portion in a predetermined shape. One of an inner portion of the attachment portion on the base surface portion and the attachment portion has a screw groove to which an attachment screw is to be screwed formed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Hirasawa, Takuya Toriumi
  • Publication number: 20140093331
    Abstract: A ballistic resistant fastening member includes a bolt head that has a generally circular shape. The bolt head further includes a top surface and an underside surface disposed opposite the top surface. The fastening member further includes a shaft extending from the underside surface of the bolt head and having a minimum length of 0.40 inches. The shaft further includes a top having an outwardly tapered radius, wherein the top is mechanically disposed with the underside surface and a bottom end distal from the top. The fastening member further includes a bore extending from the bottom end of the shaft into the shaft. The fastening member further includes a slot disposed on the top surface of the bolt head, wherein the length of the slot is less than the diameter of the bolt head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Stephen L. McGrade
  • Publication number: 20140093332
    Abstract: A bearing device is disclosed and can include a bushing. The bushing can include a hollow body that can have an internal diameter, IDHB, and proximal ends and distal ends opposite each other. The bushing can also include a first bushing flange extending radially outwardly from the proximal end of the body and an axial extension extending from the distal end of the hollow body. The axial extension is deformable so as to form a second bushing flange extending radially outwardly from the distal and of the hollow body. The axial extension can have an internal diameter, IDAE, ?IDHB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hagan, Abe Sanchez, Brian T. Graham
  • Publication number: 20140093333
    Abstract: A book coil binding machine includes a housing, a coil guiding block, a conveying device, a clamping device, a supporting apparatus and a cutting apparatus. The coil guiding block is removably disposed on the housing. The conveying device drives a coil moving forwards along the coil guiding block. The clamping device clamps the book in the book clamping space for the coil being guided into the holes of the book when the clamping device is at the clamping position. The clamping device releases the book when the clamping device is at the releasing position. The supporting apparatus is provided for the book in the book clamping space being abutted thereto when the supporting apparatus is at a supporting position, whereas the supporting apparatus is departed from the book when the supporting apparatus is at a loosening position. The cutting apparatus cuts off the two ends of the coil which are extended out of the book when the cutting apparatus is at a cutting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Chou-Chih Chiang
  • Publication number: 20140093334
    Abstract: A vessel (4) includes a crane (1) connected to a deck (5) of the vessel. The crane (1) includes a frame (10) which is rotatable about a horizontal hinge axis (H), a rotation mechanism (20) connected to the frame (10) at a position away from the horizontal hinge axis (H), arranged to rotate the frame (10) about the horizontal hinge axis (H) from an upper position to a lower position and vice versa, and a swivel member (30), which is with a first end (31) rotatable connected to the deck (5) and which is with a second end (32) rotatable connected to the rotation mechanism (20). The swivel member (30) is rotatable between an inward position associated with the upper position of the frame (10) to an outward position associated with the lower position of the frame (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: IHC Holland IE B.V.
    Inventors: Dennis Kweldam, Erwin Cornelis Johannes Bijvoet
  • Publication number: 20140093335
    Abstract: A rail transportation means used in bottled preparation manufacturing process is provided with a rail and a slide block slidably mounted on the rail. On the slide block are provided a first movable guideway, a second movable guideway, a position-switch device and a material loading-and-unloading mechanism. The rail transportation means is capable of automatically transporting feeding trays to and forth between the filling area and other relative equipments involved in the manufacturing process, such as the lyophilizer and the sealing device, without requiring manual intervention, thus allowing the bottled preparation manufacturing process to be carried out in a dust-free and sterile environment, increasing product yield and production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Wei-Hua CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20140093336
    Abstract: In the substrate holder, while holding a periphery portion of a semiconductor wafer, some of protruding portions having a grass shape on a pad main body hide beneath the semiconductor wafer, and the others of the protruding portions are exposed outside the semiconductor wafer. Also, the protruding portions hiding beneath the semiconductor wafer contact a rear surface of the semiconductor wafer, and sink the semiconductor wafer to a suitable depth via gravity, thereby holding the semiconductor wafer mainly in a length direction. In addition, some of protruding portions exposed near the periphery portion of the semiconductor wafer contact a side surface of the semiconductor wafer, thereby holding the semiconductor wafer mainly in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Tsutomu HIROKI
  • Publication number: 20140093337
    Abstract: For the transport of a substrate from a cassette to a back surface cleaning processing unit in a cleaning processing block, a transfer robot rotates the substrate through 90 degrees from a horizontal attitude in which the front surface of the substrate is positioned to face upward into a standing attitude while transporting the substrate out of a cassette to a substrate passing part, and passes the substrate in the standing attitude to the substrate passing part. The substrate passing part holds the substrate in the standing attitude. A main transport robot receives the substrate held in the standing attitude. The main transport robot rotates the substrate through 90 degrees from the standing attitude into a horizontal attitude in which the back surface of the substrate is positioned to face upward while transporting the substrate from the substrate passing part to the back surface cleaning processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu HAYASHI, Jun SHIBUKAWA, Mitsukazu TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140093338
    Abstract: A cart (2) for assisting in transferring mailpieces (100) for a sorting machine (1) having a row of sorting outlets (10) for the mailpieces (100) stacked on a work surface (11), said cart (2) for assisting in transferring mailpieces including a support (23) supporting a tray (101) to be filled, a back plate (20) carrying guide means (24) co-operating with a longitudinal runner (14) on said sorting machine (1), said back plate (20) being extended by a transfer ramp (26) inclined relative to said back plate (20) with which it forms an acute angle and designed to bridge over the edge of the work surface (11) to come flush with said work surface (11) from above. A postal sorting installation including a sorting machine (1) and a cart (2) as described for assisting in transferring mailpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SOLYSTIC
    Inventors: Frederic Mestrallet, Pierre Jourdan, Olivier Schott