| 08th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 3 |
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| 20090044506 | RETURN TO NEUTRAL CONTROL MECHANISM FOR ZERO TURNING RADIUS MOWER - A return to neutral control mechanism for a zero turning radius mower is disclosed. The return to neutral control mechanism includes a pair of control levers pivotable between forward, neutral and reverse positions. A brake pedal is moveable between a disengaged position to an engaged position. In response to engagement of the brake pedal, a control pivot attached to each control lever moves each control lever to the neutral position. The return to neutral control mechanism may include a cam that rotates in response to engagement of the brake pedal, and a control pivot that follows the cam during engagement of the brake pedal. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044507 | Harvesting Method And Apparatus For Leafy Vegetables or Legumes - A harvesting apparatus comprising a first conveyor ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044508 | Brush cutting head with internally housed drive and bearing assembly - The present invention relates generally to brush cutters and to brush cutting heads therefor, and more specifically, to brush cutting heads having internally housed drive and bearing assemblies. The brush cutting head includes a hollow support body having a first end, an opposed second end, an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface of the support body defines a hollow which extends between the first and second ends of the support body. Also provided is a drive and bearing assembly housed at least partially within the hollow of the support body. The drive and bearing assembly includes a drive block mounted to extend within the hollow of the support body at the first end thereof. The drive block includes a motor provided with a torque transmitting driveshaft. A first coupling assembly is connected to the driveshaft of the motor and the support body. The first coupling assembly is operable to transmit the torque produced by the motor to the support body to thereby urge rotation of the brush cutting head. The drive and bearing assembly further includes a second coupling assembly mounted to extend within the hollow of the support body at the second end thereof. The second coupling assembly has a first end and a second end. The second end of the coupling assembly is fixedly attached to the support body. The second coupling assembly includes a bearing support member, a bearing assembly housed within the bearing support member and a coupling member. The bearing assembly is mounted in surrounding relation with a portion of the coupling member to thereby allow free rotation of the coupling member relative to the bearing support member. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044509 | Crop guard with staggered guide fingers - A row of transversely spaced guide fingers projects forwardly from the header of a harvesting machine to permit flow of the crop between the fingers into the sickle, wherein adjacent pairs of the fingers are staggered in length and present a space therebetween having a transverse width of at least approximately forty percent of the center-to-center width of adjacent pairs of fingers to thereby enhance free crop flow and minimize loss of severed, grain-bearing heads. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044510 | Core fiber detecting method and device in core yarn spinning - The presence/absence of a core fiber in a core yarn is reliably detected to prevent production of a core fiber-free core yarn. In a method for producing a core yarn C by wrapping a fiber bundle S around a core fiber F, the core yarn C is spun with a core fiber F content being changed from that of normal spinning for a predetermined time period after the start of spinning, in order to detect whether the core fiber F is present. The core yarn C may be spun with a core fiber made of a drawn elastic yarn to detect whether the core fiber is present based on a thickness fluctuation of the core yarn that is caused by slackening the core yarn. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESCRIBING AND MANUFACTURING A CORRECTIVE HORSESHOE - A method and apparatus for manufacturing a shoe for an animal is disclosed. The hoof of an animal may be aligned to a pre-determined position. The animal may then be examined against a criteria. It is then determined whether the bone structure of the animal satisfies the criteria. The hoof may be re-aligned to a different pre-determined position if the criteria is not satisfied. A shoe is then manufactured for the animal according to position data corresponding to a satisfactory position. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044512 | DIRT SEPARATOR FOR COMPRESSOR DIFFUSER IN GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A compressor diffuser for a gas turbine engine is provided with a dirt separator. The dirt separator ensures the air having moved downstream of the compressor section, and moving toward the combustion section, is separated into a dirtier air flow path directly radially outwardly, and a cleaner airflow path directed radially inwardly. In this manner, the air reaching a combustion section, and the air being utilized for radially inner cooling air is relatively cleaner air. Further, the dirt separator provides a convenient surface for mounting a pressure sensor. In one embodiment, the dirt separator is mounted within the diffuser housing, and in a second embodiment, it is mounted immediately downstream. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044513 | Method Of Mitigating Undesired Gas Turbine Transient Response Using Event Based Actions - A method of managing transient events regularly seen during gas turbine operation that may cause undesirable operation and hardware damage. During certain transient operations, a lag may be seen between reference exhaust temperature and actual turbine exhaust temperature. This lag can result in an under-fired condition within the combustion system of variable magnitude and duration. Either fuel split schedules or a control algorithm can be positioned during these transients to prevent combustion dynamics or loss of flame. Combustion dynamics are known to cause damage that may require hardware replacement. Once the transient has completed, normal control operation is resumed. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044514 | Particulate Filter Regeneration - In one example, a method of operating an engine having a diesel particulate filter in a vehicle, the particulate filter having a length and depth, includes performing particulate filter regeneration in response to temperature variation across the length and/or depth of the particulate filter. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PARTICULATE MATTER FROM A DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER - A system is provided for removing particulate matter from a diesel particulate filter. The diesel particulate filter includes at least one diesel particulate filter unit to filter particulate matter from diesel engine exhaust gas received from a diesel engine. The system includes a sensor positioned adjacent to at least one diesel particulate filter unit, where the sensor is configured to determine the extent of particulate matter trapped within the diesel particulate filter unit. The system further includes an engine controller coupled to the sensor and the diesel engine, where the sensor is configured to output a first alert signal to the engine controller upon determining that the trapped particulate matter exceeds a predetermined threshold. The engine controller is configured to increase the temperature of the diesel exhaust gas entering the diesel particulate filter upon receiving the first alert signal. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044516 | Method of Controlling Nochi Purification System and Nox Purification System - A method of controlling an NOx purification system ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044517 | Exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine - The present invention has for its object to provide a technique in which in an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine equipped with an exhaust gas purification apparatus that is constructed to include a catalyst having an oxidation function, the temperature of the catalyst is able to be raised in a quicker manner. In the present invention, when the catalyst is raised to its activation temperature, an exhaust gas flow rate control valve is controlled in a valve closing direction, and at the same time an intake air amount control valve is controlled in a valve opening direction. In addition, an engine discharged exhaust gas is raised in temperature by retarding fuel injection timing in the internal combustion engine. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044518 | SULPHUR OXIDE (SOX) REMOVAL METHOD AND SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER FOR SAID SYSTEM - This system for the elimination of SOx (Sulphur Oxide) stored in a NOx ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044519 | Device and method for purification of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine - The invention relates to device for emission control of an internal combustion engine ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044520 | Intake Air Heater for Assisting DPF Regeneration - An apparatus and a method for enhancing diesel engine performance is provided. At low engine load and cold ambient temperatures, an intake air heater increases the engine load via an engine alternator, which in turn, enables the engine to burn more fuel by the process of combustion. The combusted fuel elevates exhaust gas temperatures, which thereby accommodates cold start, controls white smoke, and aids DPF regeneration. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044521 | Catalyst for treating exhaust gas and device for treating exhaust gas using the same - A catalyst for treating an exhaust gas has at least a carrier and plural layers formed on the carrier, wherein at least one layer of the above plural layers has an interstice in the layer, and at least one layer of the above plural layers contains a catalyst component. The above catalyst for treating an exhaust gas allows the enhancement of the diffusion of an exhaust gas in a catalyst layer, which results in the improvement of catalyst efficiency. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044522 | EXHAUST DEVICE FOR A DIESEL ENGINE - The present invention has an object to provide an exhaust device for a diesel engine capable of surely burning flammable gas in an exhaust route. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044523 | APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTING COLLECTED DIESEL EXHAUST MATERIAL FROM AFTERTREATMENT DEVICES AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for combusting soot from a diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment device. The apparatus includes a cabinet having a housing, a heating element positioned within the housing of the cabinet, and a mounting arrangement for securing the diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment device above the heating element. The apparatus also includes an ash collection container mounted beneath a floor of the housing for collecting ash that falls from the diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment device during heating. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044524 | Exhaust Gas Purification Method and Exhaust Gas Purification System - In an exhaust gas purification method where purification agent F being consumed by an exhaust gas purifier ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044525 | EXHAUST-GAS COOLING DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust-gas cooling device ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044526 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR USING A FRACTION OF ENGINE EXHAUST TO DELIVER A DOSANT - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for delivering a dosant with engine exhaust. The apparatus includes a flow-rate regulator disposed downstream from an engine exhaust manifold that operates to control a fraction of exhaust from the engine exhaust manifold. The apparatus also includes a doser disposed downstream of the flow-rate regulator that provisions a supply of dosant to the path of the controlled fraction of exhaust, which atomizes, vaporizes, disperses, mixes with, and/or delivers the dosant. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044527 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL SYSTEM - A hydraulic control system for controlling preferably at least two consumers, has a pump with an adjustable delivery quantity supplying pressure fluid, an adjustable metering orifice with which the consumers are each associatable, a power beyond connection to which at least one power beyond consumer is connectable, an inlet pressure governor unit situated downstream of the pump and acted on in a closing direction by a load pressure of the consumers or of the at least one power beyond consumer, the inlet pressure governor unit being provided in a pressure fluid flow path between the pump and at least one of the two consumers, while the power beyond connection branching off from a pressure fluid flow path between the pump and the inlet pressure governor unit, a tank, the inlet pressure governor unit in a spring-prestressed position closing a connection to the at least one of the two consumers and the tank, and in another position a pressure fluid connection to the tank is opened, the inlet pressure governor unit being movable into an additional position in which a throttled connection to the tank is opened. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044528 | PUMP CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - On the basis of reference torque and torque correction amount output units (T | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044529 | Power cycle generator - A power cycle generator includes a central processor, a liquid storage unit, a heating unit, and a condensing unit. The central processor receives a signal and activates a compressor which forces out liquid substance in the liquid storage unit. The liquid substance is ejected out through an atomizer as an atomized object which is filled into the heating unit having a heat exchanger. Simultaneously, the atomized object is evaporated through a solar cell into high pressure air flow blowing toward a gas turbine which transmits proper torque through a gear box to a generator for producing electricity. The high pressure air flow is converted into a liquid-gas mixture through the condensing unit, and is compressed and transmitted to the liquid storage unit through the compressor, thus forming a continuous cycle between a liquid state and a gaseous state, and acquiring free electricity and heat through solar energy. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PARTICULATE MATTER FROM A DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER - A system is provided for removing particulate matter from a diesel particulate filter. The system includes an engine controller coupled to the diesel engine, and to a locomotive controller. The locomotive controller includes an algorithm to create a trip plan to optimize the performance of the locomotive along a route in accordance with a power setting of the diesel engine at each location along the route. Each sensor is configured to output a first alert signal to the engine controller once the trapped particulate matter exceeds a predetermined threshold. Upon receiving the first alert signal, the engine controller communicates with the locomotive controller to determine a time region or distance region within the trip plan when the power setting exceeds a power threshold. The engine controller increases the temperature of the diesel exhaust gas entering the diesel particulate filter during the time region or distance region. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSION IN DIESEL EXHAUST GAS - An aftertreatment system is provided for reducing particulate matter emission and chemical emissions in diesel engine exhaust gas. The system includes a diesel particulate filter including a plurality of diesel particulate filter units configured to engage respective cross-sectional regions of the diesel engine exhaust gas including particulate matter. Each diesel particulate filter unit includes a plurality of channels aligned in a flow direction of the diesel engine exhaust gas. The channels are selectively configured with a distinct cross-sectional area density. Additionally, each diesel particulate filter unit includes a plurality of walls separating adjacent channels of the plurality of channels, where the walls have a respective thickness. A plurality of pores are configured to vacate a distinct ratio of the area of the walls. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044532 | FLEXIBLE FUEL VARIABLE BOOST SUPERCHARGED ENGINE - The present invention provides a flexible fuel, spark ignition, variable boost, supercharged internal combustion engine. A variable speed drive assembly connects the engine output to a supercharger. The engine includes a fuel sensor which provides a signal to an engine controller which determines the type of fuel. The engine controller also receives signals from a mass air flow sensor, a manifold air pressure sensor, a crank angle sensor, a camshaft angle sensor, an oxygen sensor in the exhaust stream and a transmission controller. The engine controller provides control signals to an ignition module, to a fuel injection system, to an electronic throttle control, to a supercharger drive controller and to the transmission controller | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044533 | Energy Conversion System - This invention will convert solar energy into mechanical or electrical energy. This will be accomplished by creating an environment from the lens arrangement and enclosure ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044534 | Scheme of power enhancement for combined cycle plants through steam injection - A combined cycle power plant has his power output augmented by addition of a gas turbine (GT | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044535 | EFFICIENT VAPOR (STEAM) ENGINE/PUMP IN A CLOSED SYSTEM USED AT LOW TEMPERATURES AS A BETTER STIRLING HEAT ENGINE/REFRIGERATOR - A high efficiency vapor (steam) engine/pump process in a closed system can use either water or liquefied gases for its working fluid to extract thermal energy from the ambient or non-ambient heat sources to increase its heat transfer rate and obtain power generation efficiency over 50%. A slow-speed two-phase piston engine's flywheel has a high ratio gear reducer attached to increase a generator's speed and produce power with over 50% efficiency and meet its power generation requirements (3,600 RPM). This two-phase engine/pump substitutes the cooling condenser's position, compresses the waste streams directly back into the boiler, and allows the process to run at temperatures lower than room temperature, with no need for a conventional cooling condenser. The present process will not discharge thermal pollution and/or radioactive/hazardous wastes into the heat sink and to the global environment, which is highly recommended for new nuclear steam engine modifications. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044536 | Gas turbine power generator plant and silencer for the same - A gas turbine power generator plant, intended to reduce its noise by making small the intake and exhaust outlets of the cooing air channel of a case, comprises an engine core in which a turbine, a compressor and a generator are installed on the same axis, a combustor for burning air for combustion compressed by the compressor and supplying the air to the turbine, a radiator for cooling a coolant or a lubricant, a cooling fan for ventilating the radiator with cooling air, an electric power converter for converting electric power generated by the generator, and the case for housing these constituent elements. And, a combustion air channel passing the compressor, the combustor and the turbine and a cooling air channel passing the radiator, the cooling fan and the electric power converter are formed as mutually independent channels from intake to exhaust. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044537 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTERNALLY LOADED LIQUID FUEL INJECTION FOR LEAN PREVAPORIZED PREMIXED AND DRY LOW NOX COMBUSTOR - A fuel injector stick for a gas turbine includes: a body of a length, L, the body including an annular shape forming a fuel channel and adapted for insertion into a premixer of the gas turbine; a mounting section for mounting the injector stick to the gas turbine; and a nozzle for injecting fuel into the premixer of the gas turbine. A gas turbine combustor and a method for changing fuel injector sticks are provided. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044538 | FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLES, WITH LABYRINTH GROOVES, FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES - A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine of an aircraft, and more particularly a novel and unique heatshield structure for a fuel nozzle wherein a labyrinth seal is uniquely provided in the nozzle to isolate a portion of an insulating gap from an interface whereat fuel may enter the insulating gap, and the insulating gap is provided with a positive purge flow for forcing vapors out of the insulating gap. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044539 | FUEL LANCE FOR A GAS TURBINE INSTALLATION AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING A FUEL LANCE - A fuel lance for a gas turbine installation with sequential combustion, in which hot gas is produced in a first combustion chamber and expanded in a subsequent turbine, and then flows through a subsequent second combustion chamber in which the fuel lance for injecting fuel into the hot gas is arranged. The fuel lance has a lance section which extends in the flow direction of the hot gas and includes at least an outer tube which is arranged concentrically to a lance axis, and a center tube which is concentrically arranged in the outer tube and in which the fuel is guided to the lance tip and is injected through first injection openings in the region of the lance tip into the hot gas. The fuel lance is modified for operation with syngas by the first injection openings being arranged directly on the lance tip, and by the first injection openings being oriented so that the fuel jets which emerge from them include an acute angle with the lance axis. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044540 | COMBUSTION LINER STOP IN A GAS TURBINE - A liner stop for retaining a liner within a sleeve of a combustion system, includes: a female component including a saddle, the female component adapted for coupling to one of the liner and the sleeve; a male component including a tab for insertion into the saddle, the male component adapted for coupling to an opposite one of the liner and the sleeve; and an insert adapted for being attached to the tab and ensuring dampening of vibration when the tab is disposed within the saddle. A method and a system are also disclosed. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF JET NOISE FROM SINGLE JETS - An exhaust flow nozzle for use with a jet engine. The exhaust flow nozzle includes a beveled downstream edge portion that helps to direct noise generated by the jet engine upwardly away from a ground surface during takeoff and landing operations. One specific embodiment makes use of a linearly moveable flow altering component that is positioned outside the final flow nozzle. When the flow altering component is in its retracted position it has no effect on the exhaust flow leaving the flow nozzle. Alternative embodiments involve the use of varying edge shapes for the final flow nozzle. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044542 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMPRESSOR CLEARANCE AND CONTROLLING A GAS TURBINE - A gas turbine including a compressor, the gas turbine including a sensor for measuring a clearance of blades in the compressor; and a controller for receiving clearance information and using the information to control the gas turbine for prevention of at least one of a surge and rubbing of the blades. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044543 | Jet engine with compressor air circulation and method for operating the jet engine - In a jet engine with compressor air circulation provided for stabilizing the flow conditions, the compressed hot compressor air tapped from the flow path of the compressor ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044544 | REFRIGERATOR - The present invention discloses a refrigerator which can keep the contents in a non-frozen state by an electric field generated by a radio frequency voltage. The refrigerator includes a setting unit for setting a amplitude and frequency of a voltage, a generating unit for generating an electric field according to the voltage having the set amplitude and frequency, and applying the electric field to a storing space for storing the contents, and a freezing cycle for cooling the storing space. The contents are kept in a non-frozen state below a phase transition temperature. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044545 | Modular Semi-Conservative and Self-Scaling Electronics Cooling System - A modular electronic cooling system with moving parts, composed of a base unit and individual modules inserted into this base unit in respect to the expected upper limit of the heat load is presented. This cooling system utilizes thermoelectric power generation and the heat load itself to allow for operation independent of any external power source. By the same mechanism the cooling system scales within a range beyond initial configuration, automatically reacting to and dissipating a dynamic heat load via forced convection, and doing so passively, without the need for specific programming. The said cooling system comprises of porous material or multi-layered mesh parts, thermoelectric components, a modular assembly system and independent enclosure parts for described porous material or multi-layered mesh, an electronics control system that may be passively activated, and a motor assembly. Altogether the system provides maximum efficiency in terms of form factor. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044546 | Environmentally-Neutral Processing With Condensed Phase Cryogenic Fluids - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for utilizing a substantially condensed phase cryogenic fluid for the purpose of remediation and retrieval of, e.g., spilled crude oil and other “oil spill”-related products from marine/aquatic and terrestrial environments. In some implementations, systems and apparatus are provided for applying a substantially condensed phase cryogenic fluid to a volume of spilled oil, and further having structure for collecting the spilled oil. Some implementations are environmentally-neutral. Substances other than oil may be remediated as well. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044547 | Method and apparatus for maintaining a uniform temperature in a refrigeration system - A refrigeration apparatus includes an air chiller, a storage enclosure defining a compartment, a duct system, and a valve system. The air chiller blows chilled air into the duct system. The compartment has a first and a second opening, each of which is coupled to the duct system. The valve system has valves that can be moved to route the chilled air so that it enters into the first opening and exits the second opening, or vice versa. In one implementation, the first opening is at the top of the compartment and the second opening is at the bottom of the compartment, and the valve system is controlled by a control circuit that periodically switches the valves (via an actuator) to change the direction of the chilled air. This effectively maintains a relatively uniform temperature throughout the compartment. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044548 | TWO-STAGE VAPOR CYCLE COMPRESSOR - A two-stage vapor cycle compressor includes a first stage impeller, a second stage impeller situated adjacent to the first stage impeller, an electric motor running on a pair of foil bearings, a thrust disk including two foil bearings and being positioned between the second stage impeller and the electric motor, and a compressor housing enclosing the first and second stage impeller and the electric motor. A refrigerant vapor compressed by the first stage and second stage impeller flows through an internal passageway formed by the compressor housing and cools the foil bearings and the electric motor. The compressor may be a gravity insensitive, small, and lightweight machine that may be easily assembled at low manufacturing costs. The two-stage vapor cycle compressor may be suitable for, but not limited to, applications in vapor compression refrigeration systems, such as air-conditioning systems, for example, in the aircraft and aerospace industries. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044549 | Tabletop Quick Cooling Device - A tabletop quick cooling device comprises a housing with at least one door allowing access to at least one quick cooling chamber. The tabletop quick cooling device provides for a control panel electrically connected to an appropriate control circuit and control cooling time for a food or beverage inserted therein. Air intake openings and exhaust ports are also provided. An optional rack may be inserted into the quick cooling chamber to conveniently cool cans or bottles. In one embodiment, the tabletop cooling device utilizes liquid nitrogen circulating around the heat conductive surface within the quick cooling chamber. Another embodiment uses a conventional micro compressor to effectuate cooling. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044550 | AIR CONDITIONER - An error in judgment due to the difference in the temperature of the refrigerant at an outlet of a condenser is reduced when judging the adequacy of the refrigerant quantity. An air conditioner ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044551 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner that adjusts the temperature in a target space includes a refrigerant circuit and a controller. The refrigerant circuit is configured by the interconnection of a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, indoor expansion valves, and indoor heat exchangers. The controller adjusts the temperature such that predetermined temperature is reached in a target space. In addition, the controller judges the refrigerant quantity in the refrigerant circuit based on at least one value of operation state quantity of constituent equipment or refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant circuit. The controller achieves a state in which the target space temperature satisfies a predetermined temperature condition. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044552 | Twinning of air conditioning units - Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment units are provided with controllers which may be interconnected to a third or common controller, such as a communicating thermostat, and provide information in a process to determine if two or more of such air conditioning units may be operated as twinned units. Information is transmitted over a data bus between the controllers for the respective air conditioning units and the common controller to determine if the air conditioning units are the same type, of a same family and of essentially the same capacity before permitting twinned operation. If one of the air conditioning units is not twinnable, an alarm signal is generated to prevent operation of the air conditioning units in a multiple-unit configuration. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044553 | System and method for distributing air within a display case - A display case for storing food and beverage products that evenly distributes chilled air within the display case that includes a cassette unit and a chassis that has an interior volume that is encapsulated by a front section, a rear section, a base portion and a top portion and two side portions. The chassis has one or more shelves and one or more goal posts mounted therein. The goal posts deliver chilled air to the shelves. The shelves have a bottom surface that has a plurality of impingement holes disposed therein that disperse the chilled air into the interior volume so that the chilled air blankets the top of the food and beverage products on the shelves below. The shelves may incorporate a groove in the bottom surface. Low power consumption LED lighting may be incorporated in the grove to illuminate the product on the shelf below. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044554 | SHUT-OFF VALVE SUPPORT MEMBER AND OUTDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - In a plate shaped shut-off valve support member configured to support a shut-off valve to which a refrigerant pipe on an indoor unit side is connected, and configured to be extended across a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion of an outdoor unit, the operability of a service port of the shut-off valve is ensured and the strength of the shut-off valve support member is improved. A shut-off valve support member ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044555 | Desiccant dehumidifier - Provided is a desiccant dehumidifier characterized in that: external air is introduced through a cooling coil and an eliminator; the introduced external air is bifurcated into a desiccant rotor and a bypass line in front of the desiccant rotor; the external air bifurcated to the desiccant rotor passes through the desiccant rotor disposed at a dehumidifying section to perform dehumidification, and the bypass air passed through the bypass line is mixed with the air passed through the desiccant rotor behind the desiccant rotor to form suction air to be supplied through a suction fan; and a part of the external air bifurcated to the desiccant rotor passes through the desiccant rotor disposed at a purge section, and then passes through the desiccant rotor disposed at a recycling section via a recycling heater to form exhaust air to be exhausted through an exhaust fan, wherein ventilation air is introduced through a separate path on a path through which the external air is introduced and then mixed with the external air. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044556 | Refrigerating device with frame heating - The invention relates to a refrigeration device having a main body with a frame and an access opening and a door. The door and the main body each have heat-insulated surfaces and together delimit a heat-insulated compartment and the door is movable between an open position in which access to the heat-insulated compartment can be had through the access opening of the main body and a closed position in which the door cooperates with the frame of the main body restricts access through the access opening of the main body to the heat-insulated compartment. An electrical frame heating assembly is disposed relative to the frame of the main body for heating the frame and has a Peltier element. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044557 | VAPOR COMPRESSION SYSTEM - A vapor compression system having a defrost cycle is disclosed. A compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, and an expansion valve connected in a closed refrigerant loop with at least one flow control device. The at least one flow control device may control the flow of refrigerant through the closed refrigerant loop. At least one sensor monitors a predetermined parameter of the closed refrigerant loop and at least one controller receives a signal from the at least one sensor. The at least one controller controls the position of the at least one flow control device. The at least one controller initiates a defrost cycle in the closed refrigerant loop by substantially actuating at least one of the at least one flow control device to provide refrigerant flow from the compressor to the evaporator for substantially preventing formation of frost on the evaporator. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044558 | Modular Refrigerating Appliance - A modular refrigerating appliance comprising a first planar heat-insulating element and additional planar heat-insulating elements, which are joined to one another whereby being able to be detached from one another and which, when joined, form a housing of the refrigerating appliance. The modular refrigerating appliance also has a cooling circuit, which comprises an evaporator, a condenser, and a compressor, and which is mounted on the first planar heat-insulating element. At least the condenser is, at least in part, mechanically protected on its surface facing away from the first heat-insulating element solely by the construction of the first planar heat-insulating element. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044559 | Ice Preparation Device - An ice maker comprises a frame ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044560 | Refrigeration Device Comprising a Water Tank - A refrigeration device comprising a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044561 | COOLING, CARBONATION AND DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A LIQUID IN A KEG - A cooling, carbonation and dispensing system for use with a liquid in a keg includes a cooling ring mounted on top of the keg. The cooling ring includes a toroidal-shaped shell into which dry ice is placed. The cooling ring and dry ice provide contact cooling of the keg, as well as carbon dioxide gas by sublimation of the dry ice to carbonate the liquid in the keg and pressure on the liquid so that it may be dispensed from the keg. A chilling unit having a hose bundle is mounted on top of the cooling ring. A liquid dispensing hose from the keg coupler on the keg connects to the hose bundle, so that liquid from the keg passes through the hose bundle. A lid having a tower is attached to the top of the chilling unit and latched to it to form a water-tight seal. Another hose connects to the hose bundle in the chilling unit and conducts the liquid to a dispensing hose attached to a dispenser in the tower. Wet ice is placed in the chilling unit and the tower to provide further chilling (flash chilling) of the liquid. The components of the assembled system may be wrapped in an insulating blanket to provide further cooling. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044562 | Door for a Refrigerator - A door for a refrigerator comprises a door leaf and a dispensing unit for water and/or ice, this unit being introduced into the door leaf, as well as a supply channel, which runs from one edge of the door leaf to the dispensing unit. The supply channel has a groove which is recessed into the door leaf and extends between adjacent corners of the door leaf. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044563 | REFRIGERANT ACCUMULATOR FOR MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING UNITS - The invention relates to a refrigerant accumulator for a motor vehicle air conditioning unit with a collector chamber and a neighboring flow chamber wherein the region of the accumulated refrigerant oil, the collector chamber includes a valve, which is established such that at a pressure difference between the collector chamber and the flow chamber higher than the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid column in the collector chamber refrigerant flows from the collector chamber over the valve into the flow chamber. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044564 | Refrigerating Apparatus - A refrigerant circuit ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044565 | Jewelry with hidden compartment - An article of jewelry preferably in the form of a pendant having a hollow compartment therein which is accessible by a threaded or press fitted cap which upon opening the container permits access to an article retaining apparatus. The article retaining apparatus can be solid, hollow or formed of a mesh material which permits visibility of the retained object and includes a slot for insertion of a retained object. The article retained may be an object having a reference to luck, power, love or protection and may include either hair or paper or small object. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044566 | ILLUMINATED ARTICLES OF ADORNMENT - An illuminated article of adornment, such as jewelry, having a conductor loop, a magnetically connectable clasp housing a removable battery, and a medallion having internal light emitting diode (“LED”). The clasp consists of two magnetically connectable clasp components, at least one of which is adapted with an interior chamber for containing a battery power source. Each clasp component includes a vertex end connected to an electrical conductor, and a magnetically attractable base. At least one of the clasp components contains a magnet thereby allowing the clasp components to be magnetically connectable in base-to-base relation without requiring precise manual alignment. No further mechanical connection is required. Once connected the clasp completes an electrical circuit resulting in the illumination of an LED electrically connected to the necklace opposite the clasp portion. The LED is preferably connected to or embedded within a crystal to enhance the illumination effect. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044567 | Method and apparatus for controlling the level of a molten material in a glass manufacturing system - A method of feeding a pulverulent batch material into a furnace in the manufacture of glass. The pulverulent batch material is fed from a first bulk batch feeder at a first batch feed rate, and from a second trim batch feeder at a second trim batch feed rate. The trim batch feed rate is equal to or less than 10% of the total batch feed rate. The use of trim electrodes and trim burners is also disclosed. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044568 | Submerged fired vertical furnance - A furnace is heated by submerged heating equipment. An exhaust stack is vented directly to outside the furnace. A portion of hot gases may pass into at least one shaft via which incoming material and a stage of pre-heating occurs. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044569 | BUBBLING BRICK - The invention pertains to a bubbling brick with at least two bores for introducing two different gases into a glass melt. In order to increase the variability of the glass melt process, these bores together form an included angle α>0. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044570 | Manufacturing device for producing mineral fibers from incinerator ashes and its plasma-vitrified slag - Incinerator ashes, which is obtained after treating municipal solid waste, incinerator ashes or its plasma vitrified slag is made into mineral fibers. Cullet is added during manufacturing the mineral fibers for conditioning. The mineral fibers thus obtained have a good strength and could raise value of recycled product. In addition, it could reduce impact of the incinerator ashes to the environment and environmental protection is achieved. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044571 | Knitted Glove with Controlled Stitch Stretch Capability and enhanced cuff - A knitted glove made by creating each of the at least fifteen sections using a separate knitting course on a flat knitting machine providing varying stitch dimensions with one or two yarns in one or more sections. Custom stretch characteristics can be provided using one or two yarns providing a tight glove that provides flexibility and ease of movement. The varying stitch dimension is achieved by 1) varying the depth of penetration of the knitting needle into fabric being knitted by a computer program, 2) adjusting the tension of yarn between a pinch roll and knitting head by a mechanism controlled by a computer and/or 3) casting off or picking up additional stitches in a course. The glove includes four finger components, a thumb component, two palm components, and a wrist component. A padded cuff section can be added to the wrist component for comfort. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044572 | TERMINAL KNITTING TEXTURE AND CLOTHING PROVIDED WITH THIS TERMINAL KNITTING TEXTURE - A terminal knitting texture for a single welt consisting of a single knit that starts knitting on a terminal side, wherein a plurality of courses in an antirun area at knit starting are knit without being knit at all the wales, and are knit by using first-kind knitting yarns consisting of single covering yarns provided with thick elastic core yarns in the antirun area so as to provide knitting not causing outward curls with the first-kind knitting yarns in the antirun area. In a welt knitting area continuous to the antirun area, a course knitted with the first-kind yarns is combined with a course knitted with knitting yarns lower in stretching/shrinking force than the first-kind yarns. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044573 | Method for Knitting Out Semi-Turn X Yarn Semi-Turn Y Yarn Structural Texture and Yarn Guiding Mouth Thereof - The invention concerns flat weft-knitting field in the textile industry, particularly relates to a new method that can adopt the flat weft knitting machine to continuously weave the knitwear whose that appearance can be seen structure texture pattern of X-yarn by a semi-turn (or semi-twist), Y-yarn by the semi-turn and the special-purpose yarn guiding mouth thereof. There is two or three parallel positioned yarn guiding holes provided in a yarn guiding mouth. X-yarn and Y-yarn can be independently fed through two guiding holes being parallel placement; Alternatively, X-yarn, Y-yarn and C-yarn can be independently fed through the three guiding holes being parallel placement; Or, Z-yarn can be fed through outside of the two or three guiding holes being parallel placement. To achieve the fabric whose surface is X-yarn by a semi-turn and Y-yarn by another semi-turn, or appearance in most is X-yarn, and Y-yarn in small part; or most of the appearance is X-yarn and C-yarn by a semi-turn and Y-yarn and C-yarn by another semi-turn; or pattern on the appearance includes several patterns aforesaid, inside is Z-yarn, which are plating knitting, there is no need to change the yarn guiding mouth or the yarn by using the present invention. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044574 | Drum-type washing machine - A drum-type washing machine is disclosed, in which bearings are received in the bearing housing assembly. The bearing housing assembly may include a support portion coupled to a motor, and a coupling portion connected to a damper bracket. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044575 | Detergent Dispensing Device - A detergent dispensing device for an automatic washing machine, the device having a plurality of chambers to accommodate a detergent composition, a selecting means to selectively expose each chamber to wash liquor allowing the detergent, in use, to be washed out of the chamber; a manual operating means being movable from a first position to a second position for loading mechanical energy into the device which provides a restoring force for the operating means, and a return motion prevention means to retain the operating means in the second position, the return motion prevention means being arranged to move when subjected to a condition prevailing in an interior of the machine during a wash cycle, thereby moving the operating means to the first position or releasing the operating means to return to the first position during a single wash cycle; the operating means being arranged to move the selecting means and cartridge relatively to one another to advance the selecting means to an adjacent chamber as it moves either from the first to the second position, the second to the first position, or both. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044576 | Apparatus and Method for Loading Items to Be Washed With an Air Flow - An apparatus for loading items to be washed with an air flow, comprising a substantially closed first channel system for guiding an air flow which loads the items to be washed. A treatment chamber for receiving the items to be washed, a blower for driving the air flow, a heater for heating the air flow before the items to be washed are loaded, and a cooler for cooling the air flow after the items to be washed have been loaded are arranged in the first channel system. Here, the first channel system has outside the treatment chamber and the blower, two branches and which are connected to one another in parallel and can be flowed through in parallel by corresponding parts of the air flow. Here, the heater is arranged in a first branch and the cooler is arranged in a second branch of said branches. The invention likewise relates to a corresponding method. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044577 | Steam laundry machine - A steam laundry machine for washing or drying laundry using steam is disclosed. The steam laundry machine includes a drum to store the laundry, a steam generating device to generate steam, and a control panel including a course selection part constituted to enable a user to select courses and a steam option selection part constituted to enable a user to select a point of time at which steam is supplied to the drum during operation of the course selected by a user. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044578 | COMPUTER LOCK SYSTEM - A computing device including a first computer portion pivotally connected to a second computer portion by a hinge. The computing device further includes an element moveable between a first position, in which the hinge is free to rotate, and a second position, in which the hinge is substantially prevented from rotating. A lock selectively controls movement of the element between the first and second positions. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044579 | CYLINDER LOCK ASSEMBLY WITH A TAILPIECE ROTATIONALLY COUPLED TO THE CYLINDER PLUG - The present application relates to lock assemblies that provide a secondary coupling point, utilizing an anti-rotation pin or extended tailpiece leg or other method, which rotationally couples the tailpiece to the cylinder plug, thereby preventing rotation of the tailpiece independently of the cylinder plug. Therefore, a tailpiece within a bolt cam or other actuator used to withdraw a bolt or unlock a lockset cannot be rotated after the primary means for connecting the tail piece to the cylinder plug has been forcibly removed, severed, or destroyed. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044580 | Corpse Treatment Method - A method for handling the bodily remains of a human or animal comprises the following steps, to be performed in suitable sequence, of: (a) providing a receptacle at least partly filled with soil material, for instance potting compost or hydroculture granules; (b) allowing a plant, such as a tree, a shrub, a bonsai tree or a house-plant, to grow in this soil material; and (c) adding at least components of the bodily remains to this plant. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044581 | Stabilizing membrane for water and nutrient - This invention relates to a preparation and a method for reducing the consumption of water in agriculture and other activities in which plants are cultivated, and which at the same time helps to reduce the seepage of nutrient-rich, fertiliser-saturated water into the ground water. More particularly, the invention relates to an electronegative, antioxidising powder mixture which, upon application to an upper layer of soil, is capable of forming a biologically degradable membrane in the upper layer of soil, preferably comprising the surface of the soil and a biologically active zone for root and plant formation, wherein the membrane has a combined effect in that it increases the retention time of water and nutrients in the root zone, has an antioxidising effect on the environment in order to combat ozone and other free radical induced damage to the vegetation, and regulates the albedo of the top soil layer so that the temperature in the root zone is held within the temperature at which the plants thrive. This is obtained by a powder mixture comprising a water-soluble, dried and ground organic raw material from marine brown algae with at least one added pigment, and that the powder mixture is exposed to an E-field of negative polarity so that the material at least is saturated with electrons. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044582 | CONTROLLED RELEASE FERTILIZERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - A method of manufacturing a controlled release fertilizer wherein the fertilizer is deposited onto a first polymer film and then covered by a second polymer film to encapsulate the fertilizer between the first polymer film and the second polymer film. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044583 | Measuring straightness of an elongated rolled workpiece - An elongated workpiece is treated, e.g. rolled, in a production system where treatment devices move the workpiece longitudinally in a horizontal travel direction and at a generally constant travel speed along a horizontal longitudinal path and a control computer is connected to the treatment devices. Straightness of the workpiece is measured by gripping the workpiece at a pair of longitudinally spaced supports, applying tension to a longitudinally extending horizontal portion of the workpiece between the supports, and continuously moving the workpiece in the travel direction at the travel speed with a lower surface of the portion substantially unsupported. At least periodically a vertical spacing is measured between the portion and a straight longitudinal reference line extending in the direction between the supports parallel to the workpiece at the supports. The vertical-spacing measurement are fed to the computer for use controlling the devices. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044584 | Multipart Punch For Hydro Piercing - A novel multipart punch and system allows apertures to be formed in hydroformed members with the slug which would otherwise result being divided into two or more smaller slugs. These smaller slugs can be folded back into the hydroformed member and held captive therein or removed if desired. The multipart punch and system provides a flush surface in the hydroforming mold when the punch is in its initial position to allow easy loading and unloading of the mold and to allow additional blank to be fed into the mold during the hydroforming operation, if desired. Also, the hydraulic ram used with the multipart punch need develop less force than an equivalent prior art stepped punch. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044585 | Method of Working in Pressing Dies Using Marking Paint - The method according to the invention for working in pressing dies using marking paint wherein a fluorescent marking paint is used. This enables the operator in the manual working in of pressing dies to identify the painted tool surface without error and error-free detection of the tool surface occupied by marking paint is also possible by means of suitable devices (camera) for working-in of the pressing die which is done more or less automated. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044586 | GEAR-ROLLING APPARATUS - A gear-rolling apparatus includes two gear units and a base. Each gear unit has a rolling portion, a rolling shaft extends from the rolling portion, a clicking column and two location columns extend from edges of a free end of the rolling shaft along an axle direction of the rolling shaft. The clicking column and the two location columns are spaced out from each other to form three grooves therebetween, a clicking clasp extends inward from the top of the clicking column. The clicking clasp has an inclined inner surface which inclines inward from top to bottom. The two rolling shafts are inserted into the hole of the base, the clicking column of one of the rolling shafts mates the groove opened between the location columns of the other rolling shaft, the location columns of one of the rolling shafts mate the grooves opened between the clicking column and the location columns of the other rolling shaft respectively, bottom surfaces of the two clicking clasps are against each other. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044587 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR INTENTIONALLY INFLUENCING THE GEOMETRY OF ROUGHED-DOWN STRIPS IN A ROUGHING-DOWN STAND - When rolling hot-rolled strips, different draughts per pass might occur during the rolling operation over the length of the roll gap, due to changes in the hardness of the rolling stock, to the roll gap itself or to the geometry of the incoming rolling stock. These different draughts per pass lead to lateral deviations and shifts of the rolling stock in the roll stand and to a lateral banding of the outgoing hot-rolled strip. In order to avoid these defects by intentionally influencing the geometry of the rough-rolled strip, it is proposed to interconnect in at least one roughing-down stand a dynamic positioning in the roughing-down stock ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044588 | Method and Device for Changing Rolls - The invention relates to a method for changing rolls, in particular, working rolls ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044589 | Method for the production of profiles of a light metal material by means of extrusion - A method, for the production of profiles ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044590 | SINGLE POINT INCREMENTAL FORMING OF METALLIC MATERIALS USING APPLIED DIRECT CURRENT - A method for forming a sheet metal component using an electric current passing through the component is provided. The method can include providing a single point incremental forming, the machine operable to perform a plurality of single point incremental deformations on the sheet metal component and also apply an electric direct current to the sheet a metal component during at least part of the forming. The direct current can be applied before or after the forming has started and/or be terminated before or after the forming has stopped and can reduce the magnitude of force required to produce a given amount of deformation, increase the amount of deformation exhibited before failure and/or reduce any springback typically exhibited by the sheet metal component. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044591 | FORGING METHOD, FORGED PRODUCT AND FORGING APPARATUS - A forging method for upsetting end portions of a raw material as diameter expansion scheduled portions includes: providing an upsetting apparatus having a fixing die, guides each having an insertion passage for inserting and holding an end portion of the raw material in a buckling preventing state, and punches each for axially pressing the end portion of the raw material inserted in and held by the insertion passage; inserting end portions of the raw material with the end portions protruded from the fixing die into the insertion passages; and moving the guides in direction opposite to moving direction of the punches such that length of exposed portion of the raw material becomes equal to or less than buckling limit length at cross-sectional area of the exposed portion of the raw material while simultaneously axially pressing the end portions of the raw material with the punches. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044592 | Method for manufacturing an edge protector and die assemblies therefor - In primary press forming process, a piece of blank sheet metal is draw worked so as to form a preformed work piece (Wb) provided with a bent portion (a) substantially conforming to a three dimensional contour of a leading edge of a blade to be protected and extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of planar portions (b and c) extending from either side of the bent portion. In a secondary press forming process, the planar portions (b and c) of the preformed work piece are stretch formed into a final shape that conforms to the corresponding profile of the blade while the bent portion (a) of the preformed work piece is clamped and protected from deformation. In other words, the bent portion of an edge protector ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044593 | Method and Apparatus for Calibrating a Relative Humidity Sensor - The invention relates to a method for calibrating the relative content (RH) of water. According to the invention, at least one calibration point is defined at a known partial pressure (Pw) of water vapour and sensor temperature of the sensor. According to the invention, at the same known partial pressure (Pw) of water the sensor ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044594 | Method and Device for Calibrating a Weighing System of a Blast Furnace Top Hopper - A method for calibrating a weighing system of a blast furnace top hopper and a corresponding weighing system are disclosed. The method comprises the step of using at least one actuator for exerting a vertical net force with a certain magnitude onto the hopper, so as to simulate a certain weight of charge material in the hopper; and the step of determining the magnitude of the vertical net force. According to the invention, the method further comprises the step of determining the magnitude of a pressure exerting a lifting force onto said hopper and the step of using the determined magnitude of the vertical net force and the determined magnitude of the pressure to establish calibration data for the weighing system. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT AND LOCATE ROOF LEAKS - A leak in a membrane on top of a horizontal roof deck is located by applying conductive wires on the membrane underneath the aggregate in a grid pattern. A measuring and switching circuit generates voltage having a positive attached to the roof deck and a negative attached to the wires. The circuit has a relay for each wire which can be switched between a current sensor system and the negative potential. The sensor system is arranged to sense at each of the wires in turn the current flowing from the roof deck through any leak in the membrane to the wire. A microprocessor operates the relays in turn to connect all the other wires to the negative as a shield while each wire is sensed. From the output of the grid the changes in current in the x and y directions are analyzed to locate the leak in the membrane. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044596 | FLOW CALIBRATOR - A piston-and-cylinder gas flow calibrator (prover) having piston and cylinder elements with interface surfaces made of glass, quartz, or alumina. The piston and cylinder are made of the same material so as to have the same coefficient of thermal expansion. In one embodiment, the surface of the piston is ground, while the facing surface of the cylinder is unground. Also, disclosed are movement detectors for detecting movement of the piston in the cylinder. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044597 | Breath sampling device - A hollow container defining a sample chamber is formed of at least two parts which fit together and have apertures therein. One of the parts is displaceable relative to the other part between a first relative disposition of the parts in which the apertures are open so as to provide a clear path for air to pass through the container and a second relative disposition of the parts in which the apertures are closed so that there is no path for air to pass through and a volume of air is trapped in the chamber. In one embodiment part is axially moveable relative to the other part. In another embodiment where the parts are tubular, one of the parts is rotatable relative to the other. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044598 | OXYGEN SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE OXYGEN SENSOR - An oxygen sensor and a method for manufacturing the oxygen sensor are provided. The oxygen sensor includes a zirconia layer having first and second sides. The second side is opposite the first side. The oxygen sensor further includes a first electrode disposed on the first side of the zirconia layer. The oxygen sensor further includes a second electrode disposed on the second side of the zirconia layer. The oxygen sensor further includes a porous channel structure configured to route air therethrough to the first electrode while preventing hydrocarbons from flowing therethrough and contacting the first electrode, such that a signal between the first and second electrodes is indicative of an amount of oxygen in exhaust gases contacting the second electrode. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044599 | Quantitative Aerosol Dilution System - An inlet conduit ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044600 | DEVICE FOR STORAGE AND AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF CALBIRATION AND SYSTEM INFORMATION - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an apparatus and method for storing data relating to instrumentation used for certifying a filter in a containment system. The apparatus generally comprises a memory device communicatively coupled to one or more instruments of a sample system. The memory device stores a data set regarding the instrument. The data set is then accessed during testing of an air sample from the containment system. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044601 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING THE SEALING TIGHTNESS OF TEAR-OFF LIDS - In a linear transport device ( | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044602 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SEALABILITY OF LITHIUM ION CELL - An apparatus for detecting the sealability of a lithium ion cell comprises a container which is filled with a detecting liquid, a clamp and a high-pressure-gas joint member. The clamp can carry a lithium ion cell to be detected and put it into said container. One end of the high-pressure-gas joint member is connected to an injecting hole of the lithium ion cell to be detected and the other end is connected to a high-pressure gas supply. The detecting apparatus also comprises an elevator which can move the lithium ion cell into and out the detecting liquid within the container. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044603 | ARTICLE, DEVICE, AND METHOD - An article includes a substrate assembly for use in a detector system. The substrate assembly includes a substrate; a sample reception structure secured to the substrate; a test window extending through the substrate; and a fluid channel defined by a surface of the substrate and extending from the sample reception structure to the test window. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044604 | Portable Measuring Facility for Determining A Medically Significant Analyte Concentration - A portable measuring facility for determining the concentration of an analyte in a living body may comprise a sensor configured to determine the concentration of an analyte in a liquid, and a liquid conveying facility. The liquid conveying facility may have a liquid line configured to be connected to a probe that is implantable into tissue of the living body, a pump configured to pump the liquid from the probe through the liquid line to the sensor, and a degassing facility configured to degas the liquid pumped from the probe through the liquid line to the sensor. | 2009-02-19 |
| 20090044605 | DEVICE FOR LEACHING EXTRACTION AND ASSESSMENT - A apparatus and process for quantifying of contaminants, wherein the apparatus comprises a container that includes a housing to support a sample, and a gel elastomer inside the enclosure. The gel elastomer is capable of absorbing the contaminants that are leached from the sample. The gel may be a PDMS gel, and is preferable coated on a, or the side wall of the apparatus. After a period of time, the gel is analyzed for the presence and amount of contaminants. | 2009-02-19 |
