Process Patents (Class 228/101)
  • Publication number: 20150116951
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electronic device, that accommodates a gyro element as an electronic component in an inner space formed by a base and a lid as a lid body, includes: preparing the lid in which a groove is provided on the rear surface which is welded with the base, and an opening area of the groove on the inner space side which is greater than an opening area on the outer periphery side of the lid; welding, first, the base and the lid at a portion excluding an unwelded portion that includes at least apart of the groove, of a planned welding portion of the base and the lid; and welding, second, the base and the lid at the unwelded portion such that the groove is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAUCHI, Shinya AOKI, Juichiro MATSUZAWA, Masaru MIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150108785
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide a door frame and a method of manufacturing the same, with reducing manufacturing cost. A door frame has a rear sash (vertical sash) (41) for supporting door glass and has a lock-device mounting bracket (door-frame component) (70) attached by welding to the rear sash (41) and having formed therein through-holes (70e, 70d) for welding. Weld beads (73, 75) are formed between the rear sash (41) and the wall surfaces of the through-holes (70e, 70d) for welding, the through-holes (70e, 70d) being formed in the lock-device mounting bracket (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20150110592
    Abstract: A mining machine includes a boom, a handle coupled to the boom, and a dipper coupled to the handle. The mining machine further includes a liner system coupled to the dipper. The liner system includes a first guide member and a second guide member coupled to a surface of the dipper, wherein the first and second guide members and the surface of the dipper define a channel extending along the dipper, and wherein the liner system further includes an insert disposed at least partially within the channel that is inhibited from moving away from the surface of the dipper by a portion of the first guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Voelz, Richard Nicoson
  • Publication number: 20150107110
    Abstract: A welding method including the steps of: providing, in a first position, a weld target assembly having a welding region and a weld tab located adjacent the welding region, the weld tab changeable from a first physical configuration to a second physical configuration when subject to a first type of weld operation; performing a first weld process on the welding region and weld tab; moving the assembly from the first to a second position; providing safeguard apparatus for cooperating with the weld tab to: prevent the assembly from moving to the second position when the first weld procedure did not include the first type of weld operation; and permit the assembly be moved to the second position when the first weld procedure included the first type of weld operation. The assembly includes a sub-assembly having a foot member and blade portion welded together, thereby ultimately forming an output guide vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Matthew David CURREN
  • Publication number: 20150102091
    Abstract: An apparatus used for forming stud bumps may be formed by providing a first clamp plate comprising a clamping surface, forming a notcher on the clamping surface, and forming a contact stopper on the clamping surface. The apparatus may include a clamp that includes at least two opposing plates, and at least one of the opposing plates includes a protruding feature that intersects the wire when the wire is clamped forming a first notch in the wire. The method for forming stud bumps includes bonding wire to a bonding surface, releasing the wire from the clamp, passing the wire a notch pitch distance through the clamp, clamping the wire with the clamp forming a second notch in the wire, and breaking the wire leaving a bonded portion of the wire on the bonding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yeong-Jyh Lin, Hsin-Hung Liao, Chien Ling Hwang, Yi-Li Hsiao, Chung-Shi Liu, Mirng-Ji Lii, Chen-Hua Yu
  • Publication number: 20150097023
    Abstract: A process for joining two parts by braze-welding, including forming a joint, between two surfaces to be joined, and a fillet. The composition of the filler metal used to form the fillet is different from that used to form the joint, to provide the joint with a higher ductility. The method can, for example, be applied to production of high-pressure compressor guide-vane sectors for a turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Didier Clement
  • Publication number: 20150090361
    Abstract: A UOE steel pipe used to form a structure by performing butt circumferential welding and having an outside diameter shape in a waveform in a longitudinal direction is shaped to have no local minimum of the outside diameter shape in the waveform within a predetermined length from both longitudinal end portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hisakazu Tajika, Takahiro Sakimoto, Satoshi Igi
  • Publication number: 20150082806
    Abstract: The present application provides a fuel plenum for a micro-mixer combustor. The fuel plenum may include a first assembly plate with a first assembly plate aperture, a second assembly plate with a second assembly plate aperture, a fuel tube extending through the first assembly plate aperture of the first assembly plate and the second assembly plate aperture of the second assembly plate, and an installation insert positioned between the fuel tube and the first assembly plate aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Willis, Patrick Benedict Melton, Lucas John Stoia
  • Publication number: 20150086263
    Abstract: A solder alloy has an alloy composition containing Zn of 3 through 25 mass %, Ti of 0.002 through 0.25 mass %, Al of 0.002 through 0.25 mass % and balance of Sn, a solder joint made of the solder alloy, and a jointing method using the solder alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hikaru Nomura, Shunsaku Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20150076214
    Abstract: A stringing device and stringing method usable for manufacturing photovoltaic modules efficiently with an easy configuration, and a photovoltaic module manufacturing device and manufacturing method. A stringing device for electrically connecting electrodes formed respectively in adjacent photovoltaic cells via a conductive member includes: number one joining unit which joins the photovoltaic cell supplied with its light receiving surface facing up and the conductive member to each other; and number two joining unit which joins the photovoltaic cell supplied with its light receiving surface facing down and the conductive member to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seigo Kodama, Noriaki Iwaki, Shuichi Hirata, Masato Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150075874
    Abstract: A cutting device includes, at least one stack of cutting elements attached to a cutter surface having, a first element and a second element attached to the cutter surface, and a third element attached to the first element and the second element, the three elements being sized and shaped such that prior to attachment to the cutter surface the three elements are restable in a stable manner on the cutter surface due to gravity alone such that a plane-defined-surface defined by one of the two planes of a modified gilmoid of the third element positioned further from the cutter surface is oriented at an angle of about 35 to 55 degrees relative to the cutter surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Calvin J. Stowe, II, Andrew D. Ponder
  • Patent number: 8978512
    Abstract: An operating pedal includes a joining portion at which a first member and a second member whose thickness is smaller than a thickness of the first member are overlapped with each other, and welded to each other along an end edge of the second member, a step portion being provided in the first member along the end edge of the second member by recessing a protruding portion that outwardly protrudes from the end edge so that the protruding portion is drawn back from the second member; and the first member and the second member being welded to each other at a portion extending from the end edge of the second member to the step portion of the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toyoda Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Himetani, Nobuyuki Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20150069111
    Abstract: An orthopaedic prosthesis for use in a hip replacement surgery. The orthopaedic prosthesis includes a metallic foam shell and a metallic core. The metallic core includes a neck configured to receive a femoral head component and a stem extending through the metallic foam shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: John M. Armacost, Ryan C. Keefer, Jeffrey A. McAnelly
  • Patent number: 8973806
    Abstract: A class of nickel based alloys having a fine grain structure resistant to stress corrosion cracking, and methods of alloy design to produce further alloys within the class are presented. The alloys act as suitable welding materials in similar applications to that of Alloy 622. The fine-grained structure of these novel alloys may also be advantageous for other reasons as well such as wear, impact, abrasion, corrosion, etc. These alloys have similar phases to Alloy 622 in that they are composed primarily of austenitic nickel, however the phase morphology is a much finer grained structure opposed to the long dendritic grains common to Alloy 622 when it is subject to cooling rates from a liquid state inherent to the welding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Scoperta, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Lee Cheney
  • Publication number: 20150054278
    Abstract: A corner fitting includes a sleeve body having a hollow inner space and configured to coaxially fit over a pipe member of a predetermined size. An edge of the sleeve body at a second distal end has a corner cut portion, a protruding tab, and two recesses, the protruding tab being diametrically opposed to the corner cut portion in the radial direction of the sleeve body, and the recesses being diametrically opposed to each other in the radial direction of the sleeve body. The corner cut portion is configured and shaped such that the sleeve body fits together with an identical sleeve body on the pipe member of the predetermined size with the corner cut portions of the two sleeve bodies contacting each other and with the pipe being nested between the protruding tabs of the second distal ends of the two sleeve bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Richard Humm
  • Publication number: 20150056006
    Abstract: A welding wire formed of a trace boron titanium base alloy is provided, along with welds formed from the wire and articles comprising one or more of such welds. A method may include forming such a weld or welds from such a welding wire, and may also include non-destructively inspecting titanium alloy articles comprising one or more of such welds using ultrasonic waves to detect internal flaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Bernath, Sesh A. Tamirisakandala
  • Publication number: 20150050516
    Abstract: In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus for manipulating a plurality of curved sheets is provided. Each of the plurality of curved sheets includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The apparatus includes tooling to be coupled to the upper surface of each of the plurality of curved sheets. The tooling is capable of moving the plurality of curved sheets relative to each other and abutting the plurality of curved sheets so that the upper surface of each of the plurality of curved sheets is coextensive with a virtual arcuate surface. The apparatus also includes a welding apparatus capable of welding the plurality of curved sheets together after abutting the plurality of curved sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Peter Z. Anast
  • Patent number: 8957345
    Abstract: A method is provided for connecting a diaphragm to a housing of a pressure or force sensor, wherein a measurement element is attached in the housing and can capture a load acting from the outside onto the diaphragm during the use of the finished sensor. A housing ring surface or the housing is situated opposite a diaphragm ring surface of the diaphragm, which are subjected to compressive loading by the load during use of the sensor. A first connection is produced in an inner region between the housing ring surface and the diaphragm ring surface until they rest against each other radially outside the first connection. Then a second connection connects the housing ring surface and the diaphragm ring surface to one another radially outside the first connection up to a shared outer edge. Here, a defined connection depth of the entire double connection is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kistler Holding AG
    Inventors: Dieter Karst, Paul Furter, Stefan Brechbuehl
  • Publication number: 20150043962
    Abstract: A tailored blank for hot stamping includes a welded portion formed by butt-welding a first aluminum-plated steel sheet and a second aluminum-plated steel sheet, an Average Al concentration of a weld metal in the welded portion is in a range of 0.3 mass % to 1.5 mass %, an Ac3 point of the weld metal is 1250° C. or lower, and furthermore, an aluminum layer formed during the butt-welding is present on a surface of the welded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yasunobu Miyazaki, Yasuaki Naito, Kaoru Kawasaki, Takahiro Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20150044496
    Abstract: A jointed body that has been solid-phase jointed at normal temperature and that has a non-conventional structure is presented. The jointed body is formed by solid-phase joining a first jointed member to a second jointed member, and has a junction interface between the first member and the second member. This jointed body includes an average crystal grain size in a near interface structure that constitutes a near interface area having a total width of 20 micrometers and extending at both sides of the junction interface as a center is 75-100% of an average crystal grain size in an around interface structure that constitutes around interface areas located at both outer sides of the near interface area. In the jointed body, the near interface structure after the joining is almost the same as the structure before the joining, allowing the jointed body to exert similar characteristics to the jointed members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tadashi Oshima, Hisaaki Takao, Hirofumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150045695
    Abstract: Intraluminal guide wires including at least a portion thereof fabricated from a non-super-elastic cobalt-chromium alloy that exhibits improved elasticity, while maintaining a relatively high yield strength, as compared to conventionally employed non-super-elastic cobalt-chromium alloys. The guide wire may include an elongate core wire having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein at least a portion of the elongate core wire is fabricated from a cobalt-chromium alloy having a Young's modulus that is 150 GPa or less while having a yield strength that is at least 280 ksi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: John A. Simpson, Raleigh A. Purtzer
  • Publication number: 20150034701
    Abstract: An electronic part including an electronic part main body and an external electrode on the surface of the electronic part main body. The external electrode includes at least one alloy layer selected from among a Cu—Ni alloy layer and a Cu—Mn alloy layer, and an antioxidant film formed on the outer side of the alloy layer. The antioxidant film is one of a Sn-containing film, a noble metal film, and an organic substance film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hidekiyo Takaoka, Kosuke Nakano, Yutaka Ota, Kenichi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20150037088
    Abstract: A lead-free solder alloy capable of forming solder joints in which electromigration and an increase in resistance during electric conduction at a high current density are suppressed has an alloy composition consisting essentially of 1.0-13.0 mass % of In, 0.1-4.0 mass % of Ag, 0.3-1.0 mass % of Cu, a remainder of Sn. The solder alloy has excellent tensile properties even at a high temperature exceeding 100° C. and can be used not only for CPUs but also for power semiconductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Ohnishi, Shunsaku Yoshikawa, Ken Tachibana, Yoshie Yamanaka, Hikaru Nomura, Kyu-oh Lee
  • Patent number: 8944307
    Abstract: A welding method of applying energy to an interface where a metal glass and a crystalline metal make contact with each other or to the metal glass near the interface, heating and melting the metal glass to form a molten layer, and joining the metal glass and the crystalline metal. The metal glass has a glass formation ability in which a nose time of a TTT curve when a solid of the metal glass is reheated is 0.2 seconds or more. The metal glass and the crystalline metal are formed with a material that satisfies a temperature range of a temperature of the metal glass at which a spread factor of the crystalline metal that has not been melted and the molten metal glass is 25% or more and a melting point of the crystalline metal to be 100 K or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignees: National University Corporation Kumamoto University, Kuroki Kogosyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Kawamura, Jonghyun Kim, Hironori Kuroki, Yuji Yanagida, Naohisa Sawai, Masafumi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20150030882
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steel plate, the chemical composition of which comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.010%?C?0.20%, 0.06%?Mn?3%, Si?1.5%, 0.005%?Al?1.5%, S?0.030%, P?0.040%, 2.5%?Ti?7.2%, (0.45×Ti)?0.35%?B?(0.45×Ti)+0.70%, and optionally one or more elements chosen from: Ni?1%, Mo?1%, Cr?3%, Nb?0.1%, V?0.1%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Frederic BONNET, Olivier BOUAZIZ, Jean-Claude CHEVALLOT
  • Publication number: 20150030378
    Abstract: A construction for a boom such as a dragline boom provides a spade plate that connects lacing members to a main chord at a cluster. The spade plate is curved. One edge of the spade plate has tabs attached to the lacing members. Another edge of the spade plate is attached to the main chord. The spade plate may be applied for new construction or repair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Peter CONSTANCON, Arlon John Thomas RATCLIFF, Harold BYDEMAST
  • Publication number: 20150030377
    Abstract: A rotatable connection between a first component and a second component, the rotatable connection comprising: a first connecting piece composed of metal and which is to penetrate the first component over at least the entire thickness of the first component, in which at an end facing the second component, the first connecting piece is welded to the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Erwin FANDL, Franz MAYR
  • Publication number: 20150028080
    Abstract: A method for the cohesive connection of two components, in particular two rotating shaft parts, in a connecting region, is provided, wherein integrally formed portions for manipulating the surface geometry of the components are positioned adjacent to the connecting region, wherein the two components are welded together and wherein a subsequent heat treatment is carried out for the targeted introduction of residual compressive stresses, the distribution of which is also determined by the manipulated surface geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Brussk, Bora Kocdemir, Tim Schreiber, Shilun Sheng, Frank Truckenmuller, Tino Uravic
  • Publication number: 20150021892
    Abstract: A number of variations includes a rail and method of manufacture thereof wherein a rail may be fabricated from a first segment, a first node, and a second segment, wherein the first segment is attached to the first node, wherein the second segment is attached to the first node, and wherein the first node comprises a pre-machined hollow aluminum casting comprising at least one chassis component mounting point for attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: EDWARD D. MOSS, ROBERT N. SAJE, PETER M. PARLOW, GILES D. BRYER, ARTUR WYSZYNSKI
  • Publication number: 20150022059
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic component includes bonding a dome-shaped cap having a recess to a substrate on which are disposed a vibrator and a bonding material projecting in a rounded shape and surrounding the vibrator while the cap is disposed so that an open side of the recess faces the substrate and is relatively pressed to the substrate side. The bonding material is disposed so that, relative to the vibrator, an outer side end portion of the cap is located on the inner side of the bonding material or an inner side end portion of the cap is located on the outer side of the bonding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Saito, Hiroaki Kaida, Manabu Ibayashi, Yuichiro Nagamine, Katsuma Moroishi, Takuya Kono, Kazuhiro Mimura
  • Publication number: 20150017475
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of processing an object, the object being made of a metal or an alloy, the object having a plurality of open cavities, the method comprising: performing a sealing process on the object to seal the openings of the open cavities, thereby forming a plurality of closed cavities; and reducing the sizes of the closed cavities by performing a consolidation process on the object having the closed cavities. Sealing process may comprise shot peening or coating the object. A consolidation process may comprise a hot isostatic pressing process. The sizes of the closed cavities may be reduced until the closed cavities are no longer present in the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Charles Malcolm Ward-Close
  • Publication number: 20150007939
    Abstract: Structures, materials, and methods to control the spread of a solder material or other flowable conductive material in electronic and/or electromagnetic devices are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: David W. Sherrer, James R. Reid
  • Patent number: 8925790
    Abstract: A novel method for attaching a hosel to a putter head is disclosed. A hosel having a hole is inserted into a putter head cavity and the cavity and hole in the hosel are filled with a fixative configured to permanently attach the hosel shaft to the putter head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventor: David Edel
  • Publication number: 20150001876
    Abstract: A number of variations may include a product including a secondary dash including a center portion constructed and arranged to be attached to a primary dash of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Robert N. Saje, Artur Wyszynski, Terry A. Swartzell, Johnny Ristoski
  • Publication number: 20150004426
    Abstract: A pipeline is a pipeline having plural weld zones in which ends of plural steel pipes are joined by welding, the plural steel pipes are produced from plural charges of molten steel having one or more steel compositions; yield point elongation is not present on a stress-strain curve obtained when stress is applied in a longitudinal direction of each of the steel pipes; a thickness of each of the steel pipes t (mm) and an average pipe outside-diameter D (mm) satisfy t/Dx100?6; and in the plurality of the weld zones, ?YS which is a yield strength difference between one steel pipe and the other steel pipe that are welded to each other (MPa), and YR representing a yield ratio that is a ratio of the yield strength to tensile strength of a pipe having a low yield strength out of the one steel pipe and the other steel pipe, satisfy ?YS??1.75×YR+230.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nagata, Eiji Tsuru, Yasuhiro Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20150000456
    Abstract: A steering shaft bearing unit for rotatably mounting a steering shaft of a steering column for a motor vehicle includes at least one circumferentially closed region for accommodating at least one bearing for rotatably mounting the steering shaft, and at least one securing region for securing the steering shaft bearing unit to a console part of the steering column. At least one through-hole, in particular two through-holes, for guiding a clamping bolt of the steering column therethrough is/are arranged in the securing region. The securing region and the circumferentially closed region are designed as separate parts that are then preferably directly interconnected, preferably welded together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Rony Schnitzer
  • Patent number: 8920258
    Abstract: A golf club head has a main body and a front recess that includes a flange. A rear portion of the main body includes a perimeter-weighting element. A striking face insert is secured within the front recess. A face center is located on the front surface of the striking face insert. A rear cavity is at least partially delimited by the perimeter-weighting element and a rear surface of the striking face insert. A rear insert is secured to the rear surface of the striking face insert. In an imaginary horizontal plane passing through a portion of the rear insert, proximate a heel portion of the club head, a heelwardmost point of the rear insert is spaced further from a vertical center plane than a minimum distance between the flange and the center plane. The club head comprises an auxiliary recess that extends outward from the rear cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keith F. Dolezel, Matthew R. Daraskavich
  • Publication number: 20140360718
    Abstract: Cylindrical screens and screen assemblies for use with perforated base pipe or casing for sand control in wellbores have generally longitudinally extending slots punched in the screen. The outer surface of the screen material is deformed below the inner surface causing apertures to form along the longitudinal edges of the slot. The slots are generally longitudinally aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical screens whether butt-welded or spiral-rolled and welded by determining the angle at which the slots need to be punched to result in such alignment. End caps which connect between the screen and the casing extend over the ends of the cylindrical screen and are welded thereto to minimize sand entry. At least one of the end caps may include an expansion joint to permit relative expansion and contraction between the screen and the casing particularly when used in thermal recovery operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: ANTON ENERGY SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian (James) MA, Yonghua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20140359949
    Abstract: A tire service hammer includes a handle portion and a head portion having a sledge portion, a wedge portion, and a body portion connecting the sledge portion and the wedge portion, wherein the wedge portion includes a bead breaking wedge and a hook extension. A method of manufacturing a tire service hammer includes providing a handle portion and providing a head portion that includes a sledge portion, a wedge portion, and a body portion connecting the sledge portion and the wedge portion, wherein the wedge portion includes a bead breaking wedge and a hook extension. A tire servicing system for repositioning a wheel having a tire mounted on a rim includes a first grasping portion for securing a portion of the rim while repositioning the wheel, and a breaking portion for breaking a tire bead formed between the tire and the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: SERVICE SOLUTIONS U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Robert KOCHIE, Robert JENSEN, Michael WHITE
  • Publication number: 20140361582
    Abstract: A motor vehicle axle includes a subframe which has a bushing for linkage to a vehicle body. The bushing defines an axis and includes a bushing body and a face plate which is welded to the bushing body via a weld seam and has a contact surface which is raised in relation to the weld seam, as viewed in a direction of the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Franzke, Ralf Pape, Markus Rowinski
  • Publication number: 20140361495
    Abstract: A metal static gasket and method of construction thereof is provided. The gasket includes at least one metal layer. At least one of the metal layers has opposite sides with at least one through opening extending through the opposite sides, with the through opening being configured to register with an opening to be sealed. At least one metal layer of the gasket has least one raised annular seal bead extending adjacent the through opening. A plurality of protrusions extend outwardly from at least one of the opposite sides, wherein the plurality of protrusions are formed from separate pieces of metal from the at least one metal layer and are individually fixed to the at least one metal layer via separate bond joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Swasey, Christopher J. Magewick
  • Publication number: 20140358210
    Abstract: A method of making an electrical stimulation lead includes attaching segmented electrodes to an interior of a ring in a circumferentially spaced-apart arrangement; attaching a conductor wire to each of the segmented electrodes; coupling the ring with the segmented electrodes to a lead body; and, after coupling to the lead body, removing at least those portions of the ring between the segmented electrodes to separate the plurality of segmented electrodes from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Dale Howard, Anne Margaret Pianca
  • Publication number: 20140356985
    Abstract: A temperature controlled substrate support assembly used for processing a substrate in a vacuum chamber of a semiconductor processing apparatus. The substrate support assembly comprises a top plate for supporting the substrate. A base plate is disposed below the top plate wherein the base plate comprises a cavity in an upper surface of the base plate. A cover plate is disposed between the top plate and the base plate. At least one thermoelectric module is in the cavity in the upper surface of the base plate wherein the at least one thermoelectric module is in thermal contact with the top plate and the base plate, and the at least one thermoelectric module is maintained at atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Ricci, Henry Povolny
  • Publication number: 20140354043
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to produce equipotential connections that are electrically efficient in terms of resistivity between portions of a current-return network in a non-conductive architecture, such as an airplane fuselage. The approach adopted by the invention is to impart an equipotential-bonding function to an aluminum cable having a large cross section, said bond being electrically connected, via direct contact, to as many devices as is physically possible to connect thereby. According to one embodiment, an electrical connection assembly of an aircraft fuselage (100) having a composite skin comprises in-line shunt connections (2) for electrically interconnecting an aluminum-alloy-based cable (1) of large cross section acting as an equipotential connection to brackets (113, 141) for primary current-return networks and to brackets (111) for electrical devices via connectors (202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicants: LABINAL POWER SYSTEMS, MECATRACTION
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Biesse, Franck Albero, Samuel Andraud, David Boutot
  • Publication number: 20140356226
    Abstract: A brazing material which can be melted at a suitable temperature at which damage is not given to a device inside a package upon sealing, and besides the brazing material is not remelted, e.g., upon mounting to a board, and which has a low temperature difference between a liquidus and a solidus. The brazing material is made of a Au—Ga—In ternary alloy, wherein weight concentrations of the elements lie within a region of a polygon with a point A (Au: 90%, Ga: 10%, In: 0%), a point B (Au: 70%, Ga: 30%, In: 0%), a point C (Au: 60%, Ga: 0%, In: 40%) and a point D (Au: 80%, Ga: 0%, In: 20%) as vertexes (excluding lines on which In and Ga become 0%), in a Au—Ga—In ternary phase diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Taniguchi, Tomohiro Shimada, Kenichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20140346272
    Abstract: A landing gear rod (1) for an aircraft, the rod comprising a tubular portion (3) for receiving a shock absorber and an axle-carrier portion (2) situated at the end of the tubular portion (3) and adapted to receive a landing gear wheel support mechanism. The tubular portion (3) and the axle-carrier portion (2) are made of mutually distinct metal materials, the tubular portion (3) being made of a first metal material and the axle-carrier portion (2) being made of a second metal material, the tubular portion (3) and the axle-carrier portion (2) being connected together by at least one weld (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Pascal Hitier
  • Publication number: 20140345939
    Abstract: In joining a first metal member composed of a first metal to a second metal member composed of a second metal with a joining material interposed therebetween, the joining material including a low melting point metal having a lower melting point than the first metal and/or the second metal, the low melting point metal composing the joining material is Sn or an alloy containing Sn, at least one of the first metal and the second metal is a metal or an alloy which forms an intermetallic compound with the low melting point metal composing the joining material, and heat treatment is performed at a temperature at which the low melting point metal melts in a state of locating the joining material between the first metal member and the second metal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakano, Hidekiyo Takaoka
  • Patent number: 8881386
    Abstract: There is provided a power module production method that is capable of stably producing a power module with highly reliable properties, and so forth. The power module production method produces a power module 1 by stacking a cooler 5, an insulating resin sheet 4, a heat sink block 3, and a semiconductor chip 2, wherein a first insulating resin sheet 41, which forms a lower layer of the insulating resin sheet 4, is first bonded to the cooler 5 by thermal compression. Next, with a second insulating resin sheet 42, which forms an upper layer of the insulating resin sheet 4, interposed between the first insulating resin sheet 41 and the heat sink block 3, the second insulating resin sheet 42 is bonded to the first insulating resin sheet 41 by thermal compression, and the heat sink block 3 is bonded to the second insulating resin sheet 42 by thermal compression. The semiconductor chip 2 is then soldered onto the heat sink block 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140327272
    Abstract: A method of creating a hardened steel assembly from at least two parts may include the consecutive steps of first joining the at least two parts in a cold formed state to form an assembly, and then hardening the joined assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Johansson
  • Publication number: 20140329108
    Abstract: In a first aspect, the invention provides aluminium alloy comprising the following composition, all values in weight %: Si 0.25-1.5 Cu 0.3-1.5 Fe up to 0.5 Mn up to 0.1 all other elements including Mg being incidental and present (if at all) then in an amount less than or equal to 0.05 individually, and less than or equal to 0.15 in aggregate, the balance being aluminium. In a second aspect, the invention provides a composite aluminium sheet product comprising a core layer and at least one clad layer wherein the at least one clad layer is an aluminium alloy comprising the following composition, all values in weight %: Si 0.25-1.5 Cu 0.3-1.5 Fe up to 0.5 Mn up to 0.1 all other elements including Mg being incidental and present (if at all) then in an amount less than or equal to 0.05 individually, and less than or equal to 0.15 in aggregate, the balance being aluminium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: NOVELIS INC.
    Inventors: Cyrille Bezencon, Corrado Bassi, Frank Schellinger