| 45th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 5 |
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| 20080271621 | Printing group including cylinders supported for movement - A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders comprises, at the most, one break in the circumferential direction. The surface forms, in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of adjacently arranged breaks which, when viewed in the circumferential direction, are arranged in a staggered manner with respect to each other. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271622 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING A PRINTING SUBSTRATE WEB - An apparatus and method for printing a printing substrate web in a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The web-fed printing press has at least one printing unit for printing at least one, preferably several, printing substrate webs. The web fed-printing press comprises a web guide device, through which the or each printing substrate web can be transported in such a way that, independent of the web guidance of the or each printing substrate web through the web guide device, at least one printing substrate web can be processed on an upper side and/or on a lower side by at least one processing device that is positioned in the region of the web guide device. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271623 | Method and Device for Producing Printed Products - The invention relates to printed products which are folded once, twice or three times, are ejected by a rotary printing machine, or produced by a rotation, are stored temporarily, and then ejected by storage units. The printed products are folded essentially in the center and stitched optionally along the additional fold (F). They are then cut in such a way that the first folded edges (F. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271624 | Sheet-Fed Printing Press and Printing Method - A sheet-fed printing press exhibiting excellent workability is provided, in which even by powder spray in print work equal to conventional one, any printing plate can be used because wear is enhanced by the printing press body and with which low cost can be realized by eliminating the need for changing the printing plate in the middle. A single-side printing sheet-fed printing press, including a print unit, and a sheet fed section having a feeder portion for feeding a sheet to the print unit, is characterized in that at least one of the feeder portion and the print unit has a dust removing means. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271625 | High-Throughput Apparatus for Patterning Flexible Substrates and Method of Using the Same - The present invention is directed to a high-throughput apparatus for patterning a flexible substrate and methods of using the same. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271626 | PRINTING PRESS CYLINDER - A printing press cylinder having a cylinder base body and a functional layer, which forms an outer surface of the printing press cylinder, is disclosed. The cylinder base body is made of phenolic resin impregnated textile fibers or of hardboard. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271627 | Lithographic printing press and method for on-press imaging laser sensitive lithographic plate - A lithographic printing press having a plate cylinder in a covered compartment suitable for on-press imaging and developing a laser sensitive plate is described. The plate cylinder as well as certain other press parts is covered by non-transparent and/or safe-light-passing-only covers so that no or only limited amount of unsafe light passes onto the plate mounted on the plate cylinder during on-press imaging and development. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a laser having a wavelength selected from 200 to 1200 nm. The plate is on-press exposed with the laser, developed with ink and/or fountain solution, and then directly prints inked images to the receiving sheets. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271628 | Imprint lithography - An imprint lithography apparatus includes an imprint template operably connected to an imprint actuator. The imprint actuator is actuatable to displace the template along an imprint axis to bring the template into contact with an imprintable medium. The template is connected to the actuator via a bearing configured to permit substantially unrestricted displacement of the actuator relative to the template along an axis substantially perpendicular to the imprint axis during release of the template from the imprintable medium. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271629 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING PRINTING PLATES ON A WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A method and apparatus for handling printing plates on a web-fed printing press is disclosed. Printing plates imaged on an imaging device are assigned a coding relating to the plate cylinder position of the printing couple at which the respective printing plate is used. Imaged printing plates are inserted into cassettes such that printing plates for several printing couples are positioned in each cassette, where each cassette is assigned a data record relating to the position at which each printing plate is arranged within the respective cassette. The loaded cassettes are conveyed to the region of the printing couples where the data record assigned to the cassettes is also made available in the region of the printing couples. The printing plates are removed from the cassettes and, with a comparison to the data record assigned to the respective cassette, supplied to the respective printing couples. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271630 | METHOD FOR HANDLING PRINTING PLATES - A method for handling printing plates, namely for arranging printing plates in cassettes that are used as printing plate repositories during a printing plate change, is disclosed. Each printing plate is assigned a coding before, during or after imaging relating to a plate cylinder position of a printing couple at which the respective printing plate is used. Each imaged and coded printing plate is transported to the region of a cassette. In the region of each cassette, the coding of the printing plates is read out, and in doing so a check is made to see whether the printing plates are located at the correct cassette. If it is established that the printing plates are located at the correct cassette, a defined accommodation position in the cassette is released for each printing plate and the printing plate is positioned at this accommodation position within the cassette. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271631 | Placement and Removal Device of a Doctor Blade in a Printing Screen Cylinder - The invention relates to a placement and removal device of a doctor blade in a screen printing impression cylinder mounted on a printing machine. The device comprises a support fixed to the frame of the machine in the extension of the cylinder on which a slide is mounted in a manner that enables it to pivot about an axis parallel to the axis of said cylinder. The slide is provided for enabling a slider to be displaced only parallel to said axis. The slider is equipped with rapid assembling and disassembling means that interact with mating means on the doctor blade for permitting the doctor blade to be rapidly fixed to or removed from the slider. The slider is designed for enabling it, in a first limit position situated on the outside of the cylinder, to rise in order to remove the doctor blade and, in a second limit position inside the cylinder, to be placed in front of the working position of the doctor blade. In this position, by turning over the slide, the doctor blade is placed in or removed from the working position. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271632 | Method for Controlling Luminance of Transmissive Board and Transmissive Board - A method for controlling luminance of a transmissive board at the moment of transmissive illumination, in a short time, at a low cost. The luminance of a control object is made the target luminance by a rough control step of printing ink having a constant light transmittance on a front side or a back side of the control object in a transmissive board. The rough control step is repeated a number times within a range such that the luminance does not exceed the target luminance. The ink is printed on the front side or the back side by controlling the amount of the ink to be printed to a unit area in accordance with a luminance difference between the target luminance and the control luminance which is not eliminated in the rough control step. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271633 | RAIL ROAD CAR TRUCK AND FITTINGS THEREFOR - A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of the sideframes in the manner of a swing motion truck. The lateral swinging motion is combined with a longitudinal self steering capability. The self steering capability may be obtained by use of a longitudinally oriented rocker that may tend to permit resistance to deflection that is proportional to the weight carried across the interface. The truck may have auxiliary centering elements mounted in the pedestal seats, and those auxiliary centering elements may be made of resilient elastomeric material. The truck may also have friction dampers that have a disinclination to stick-slip behaviour. The friction dampers may be provided with brake linings, or similar features, on the face engaging the sideframe columns, on the slope face, or both. The friction dampers may operate to yield upward and downward friction forces that are not overly unequal. The friction dampers may be mounted in a four-cornered arrangement at each end of the truck bolster. The spring groups may include sub-groups of springs of different heights | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271634 | Railway Wagon - The present invention relates to a railway wagon comprising a load carrier and front and rear bogies. The load carrier is releasably connected to, and laterally displaceable in relation to, the respective bogies. Supporting devices are mounted at the ends of the load carrier. They support the load carrier when it is displaced in relation to the bogie. Each supporting device comprises an abutment device which is vertically operable between a pulled-up position and an extended position. At each end of the load carrier there is also a displacing driving device for displacing the load carrier relative to the bogie, and a device that counteracts tilting tendencies of the load carrier. Each abutment device comprises a sliding member, which can slide on the base in the extended position. The railway wagon can thus be displaced, for instance pivoted outwards at one end, to allow a truck to be driven on to or off the same. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271635 | Pigment Compositions for Inks with Improved Rheology - A process for the preparation of pigment compositions which give improved ink flow is provided which comprises treating the pigment, during the pigment synthesis, with a small amount of a long chain aliphatic amine. The pigment compositions obtained can be used for preparing millbase inks which due to their improved flow viscosity (rheology) at high pigmentation can be easily handled as well as flexibly formulated, e.g. a number of final printing inks for different ink applications can be manufactured from a single millbase in a very economical manner. The final inks are preferably used in packaging gravure printing processes. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271636 | Composition for Dental Impression Treatment Material and Preparation Thereof - The present invention relates to a composition for dental impression treatment material and preparation thereof for the purpose of obtaining the superior impression in restoration treatment for dental prosthesis, and for the gingival retraction from the teeth, gingival oozing inhibition and stanching. The composition preferably comprises 67.70 to 71.85% by weight of kaolin clay, 16.05 to 20.00% by weight of distilled water, 10.83 to 11.50% by weight of aluminum chloride hexahydrate, 0.14 to 1.02% by weight of starch powder, 0.42 to 0.43% by weight of silicone oil, 0.03% by weight of coloring agent. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271637 | POTATO EXTRACT AND METHODS FOR USE - A thermally resistant stable composition comprising potato extract and method for making the same is disclosed. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271638 | Reinforcing sheet for reinforcing toothed belt, and toothed belt and method for production thereof - A method of manufacturing of the present invention is a method of manufacturing a toothed belt ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271639 | ADDITION OF SPENT ACTIVATED CARBON TO ASPHALT COMPOSITIONS AND TO COKING UNITS AS FEEDSTOCK OR QUENCHER - An asphalt mastic is prepared by combining spent activated carbon, that has not been regenerated, with liquid asphalt to achieve a composition that is useful for a variety of applications for which asphalt is used, including aggregate compositions and roofing materials. The activated carbon can also serve as a foaming initiator for the production of foamed asphalt. Still further, the activated carbon can be used as coking unit feedstock and as a quencher for a delayed coking unit. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271640 | Porogens, Porogenated Precursors and Methods for Using the Same to Provide Porous Organosilica Glass Films with Low Dielectric Constants - A porous organosilica glass (OSG) film consists of a single phase of a material represented by the formula Si | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271641 | Hydraulic Binder - In an alkali activated hydraulic binder containing slags and aluminium silicates slag, in particular furnace slag in amounts from ≧20% (w/w), aluminium silicates different from furnace slag such as for example flue-ash and natural aluminium silicates, such as for example basalt, clays, marl, andesite or zeolite, in amounts from 5 to 75% (w/w) and an alkali activator in an amount, which corresponds to a Na | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271642 | Making co-precipitated mixed oxide-treated titanium dioxide pigments - Simplified and improved processes are provided for manufacturing titanium dioxide pigments including a surface treatment whereby a plurality of inorganic oxides or a combination of one or more inorganic oxides with one or more inorganic phosphates are applied to a titanium dioxide base pigment. Aqueous acid-soluble sources of the desired inorganic oxides and/or phosphates are predissolved in an aqueous acid, and these can be added on a batch wise or more preferably on a continuous basis to an alkaline slurry containing the titanium dioxide base pigment and to which aqueous alkaline-soluble sources of the desired inorganic oxides are being or have been added previously. Co-precipitation of the oxides and/or oxides and phosphates is then accomplished by an adjustment of the pH, to provide a surface treated pigment with excellent homogeneity of the deposited mixed oxides and/or oxides and phosphates. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271643 | Waterproof Cement and Synergic Composition Used to Obtain High Waterproofing - A waterproof cements mortar or concrete compound is described. The waterproof compound contains a synergically effective quantity of a composition of water repelling and water reducing agents that are added to the waterproof compound as it is manufactured. Also described are synergic compositions for waterproofing and manufacturing methods for producing said waterproof compounds. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271644 | Method for the Production of High-Strength, Acid-Resistant Concrete - In a method for the production of high-strength, acid-resistant concrete by use of water, hydraulic binder and aggregates, a hydraulic binder containing aluminosilicates, calciumsulfate and an activator containing salts of alkalimetals is applied wherein the aluminosilicates are chosen from the group consisting of furnace slag, clay, marl and industry-by-products like flue-ash with the requirement that the Al | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271645 | MOUNTABLE TABLE FOR THE REAR OF A VEHICLE - The present disclosure provides a mountable recreation fable that mounts on the rear of the vehicle while the vehicle is parked and the tailgate is open. The recreation table includes a table top and a table pole attached to the underside of the table top. A table mount attaches to the rear of the vehicle, and the mount includes a receiver for the table pole to be inserted into. The mount is secured to either a striker or a seat headrest in the rear of the vehicle. Advantageously, the recreation table of the present disclosure easily attaches to the rear of the vehicle. The recreation table can be utilized in combination with seats in the rear of the vehicle, and the present disclosure requires no modification to attach the table to the vehicle. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271646 | Caisson for the Transport of Goods - The present invention refers to a caisson for the transport of goods, in particular to a container. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271647 | PALLET - A pallet has a top, load supporting deck | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271648 | PORTABLE WORKSTATION - A portable workstation, in one embodiment, includes a base unit and a table. The base unit includes one or more vertical support members and a platform extending horizontally from the vertical support member. Support legs telescopically extend laterally to support the workstation in an upright position. The platform forms the top of the base unit in an upright position. The table is configured to extend from the base unit and includes a support leg. The table transitions between an extended position and a storage position. When the support legs are in the extended position, the table and support legs provide support to the base unit of the workstation, forming an integrated tripod system. Thus, the base unit may be compact and easily transported in a storage position; however, the platform and the table when extended may provide an ample work surface at a traditional working height. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271649 | Height-Adjustable Folding Desk - A height-adjustable folding desk includes a desktop and a leg-support connected to the lower surface of the desk. The leg support includes a first “ | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271650 | Foldable table - A foldable table comprises a first table plate having a first frame; a second table plate having a second frame; a combining rod; one end of the combining rod pivoted to the first protruding bar and another end thereof being pivoted to the second protruding bar; the combining rod being a bent structure; thus, the combining rod can drive the first table plate and the second table plate to be expanded toward two sides or be drawn close; a first supporter having a top end pivoted to the first frame; a second supporter having a top end pivoted to the second frame; and a combining frame; two ends of the combining frame being pivoted to the first frame and second frame; the combining frame being installed with a buckling block; a first linkage and a second linkage. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271651 | Secure System for Transporting or Preserving Valuables Such as Bank Notes - A secure system for transport or preserving valuables, enclosed in a container ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271652 | Barrier - A barrier that includes attack resistant pane(s) (see DEFINITIONS section). In this way, a person behind the barrier can be protected when they are outside. More specifically, the person behind the barrier is protected, at least to some extent, from both: (i) vehicular attacks; and (ii) blast (for example, bombs) and/or ballistic (for example, bullet) attacks. Also, the protected person can see what is happening across the barrier because of the attack-resistant pane(s). Also, if the barrier is unanchored then it can be moved from place to place, for example, by heavy equipment, so that the same barrier can be re-deployed at different outdoor locations (or indoor locations) on an as-needed basis. Preferably, the barrier also includes framing pieces that secure the attack-resistant pane(s) to the body of the barrier, with the framing pieces being covered on one side by an attack-resistant material (preferably, hardened steel). | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271653 | Controlling curtain opening system in continuous furnaces - This invention is directed to a controlling curtain opening system in a continuous furnace which comprises a laser photo cell eye system situated in front of the curtain box. The laser photo cell eye system comprises a plurality of laser beams to monitor and adjust to the height of a moving products passing therethrough. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271654 | Methods and Apparatus for Enhanced Incineration - The teachings of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enhanced incineration. A method for improving the performance of an incinerator may comprise separating one or more substances from a process fluid using a classifying centrifuge, ejecting a first substance from the classifying centrifuge, the first substance having characteristics optimized for incineration, incinerating the first substance, and using heat generated from the incineration of the first substance to enhance the combustion efficiency of an additional substance separated from the process fluid. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271655 | Apparatus and method for isolating zones of an industrial furnace - This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for at least partially isolating a zone of an industrial furnace. The apparatus includes a hanger block and a hanger clamp. The method includes removably mounting a hanger block with respect to a furnace structure. A hanger clamp is engaged with the hanger block. A curtain structure is mounted in the hanger block, and the hanger clamp is mounted to an adjustable support or mechanism. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271656 | Removable filler module - This invention relates to an industrial furnace roof filler element to allow replacement of a failed heat source during operation. The filler element can include a lower portion, a module, an aperture, a protuberance, a bore and/or a heat source. This invention also relates to a method of operation for an industrial furnace wherein a failed heat source is replaced during operation of the industrial furnace. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271657 | Coal fired process heaters - One embodiment of the invention consists of a vertical cylindrical process heater with an overhead convection section, a radiant section containing a contiguous, helical, down flow, tubular radiant coil, and one or more top, downward fired, pulverized coal burners. A second embodiment consists of a cabin type heater having a radiant section of rectangular cross section, a contiguous vertical tube serpentine coil, an overhead convection section, and one or more bottom, horizontally fired, pulverized coal, end wall burners. A third embodiment consists of a process heater with a radiant section and overhead convection section, the radiant section having a vertical cylindrical, contiguous, helical, down-flow tubular coil, contained in a refractory lined enclosure of square cross-section. A continuous chain grate coal stoker is provided at the base of the radiant section. A coarse coal feed with a minimum of fines is fed thru a hopper located at one end of the traveling chain grate and essentially coal free ash is removed at the opposite end of the chain grate, thru a nozzle provided with a water seal. One or more centrifugal solids-gas separators are provided at the radiant section flue gas outlets in the case of all three embodiments, for the purpose of removing ash particulates from the flue gas streams, before the latter enter the overhead convection sections. Since the flue gas enters the convection sections very nearly devoid of particulates, the convection sections may be of conventional design utilizing bare and/or finned tubes on closely spaced equilateral or quadrilateral centers. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271658 | Sewing Machine and Sewing Element - This invention relates to a sewing machine, in particular a chain stitch or a double chain stitch sewing machine and preferably a multiple needle chain stitch or a multiple needle double chain stitch sewing machine employing three stitch forming sewing elements, namely a needle, a looper, and a spreader, with said spreader spreading a thread triangle of a looper thread in which the needle carrying a needle thread plunges for the connection of the needle thread to the looper thread, and with said sewing elements being driven through at least one driving means. The invention further relates to a sewing element for a sewing machine, in particular a chain stitch or a double chain stitch sewing machine, preferably a multiple needle chain stitch or a multiple needle double chain stitch sewing machine, said element consisting of a spreader that spreads a thread triangle of a looper thread in which a needle carrying a needle thread plunges for the connection of the needle thread to the looper thread. For further improving a sewing machine or a sewing element of the above-mentioned type in such a way that a collision of the sewing elements of the sewing machine will not cause any serious damage to the sewing machine and stop periods as a consequence thereof, it is provided that the sewing elements are formed such that at least one sewing element, in particular the spreader, will dodge or break at a predetermined breaking point in the case of a collision with a second sewing element, in particular the needle, due to its design and/or material properties. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271659 | Needle holder of multiple needles for sewing machine - The present invention refers to a needle holder of multiple needles, the needle holder is connected with a needle bar on one end and equipped with a needle receiver with several open needle accommodating parts on the other end, so that it is convenient to process and manufacture. With cooperation of a needle retainer, the needle accommodating part of the needle receiver can become a closed structure to allow the ends of the needles to insert and be fixed on position by a needle fastening member on the needle retainer. Wherein, due to the open structure of the whole needle receiver of the needle holder, the manufacture is more precise and accurate, in addition, the processing, maintenance and replacement are more convenient, so as to become a structure of high precision and easy manufacture. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271660 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING BOAT WAKE - A boat with a controllable wake, including a boat hull with a propulsion system. A wake controlling device includes first and second plates with a bottom surface which is convexly curved between their forward and rear ends, and first and second mounts secured to the port and starboard sides, respectively, of the boat transom and securing the forward ends of the plates for pivoting about axes which are behind the boat transom and generally lie parallel to the plane of the aft boat bottom adjacent the first and second mounts. Plate controls extend between the transom and the plates to adjustably pivot the plates relative to the mounts. A plurality of generally triangular fins extend from the plates at substantially right angles to the plate bottom surfaces and extend at substantially right angles from the axes. Side plates are on the lateral edges of the first and second plates. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271661 | VEHICLE POSITIONING GUIDE - A vehicle positioning guide for mounting on the front of a vehicle comprises a mounting means for mounting the vehicle positioning guide onto the front area of a vehicle. A guide mast has at least an extended in-use reference configuration whereat the guide mast is positioned in a substantially vertical front plane oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, such that the guide mast is longitudinally aligned with the front of the vehicle, and such that the guide mast is viewable from the driver's seat of the vehicle, thereby accurately indicating the front end of the vehicle to a driver. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271662 | Inlay system for concrete - The present invention discloses a tactile warning panel inlay system and method. Such system is comprised of a panel formed with an exposed surface having a plurality of tactile warning protrusions and a support surface configured to contact a substrate matrix. The panel includes a plurality of apertures extending from the exposed surface to the support surface. Further, a plurality of two-piece fasteners are configured to extend individually through an aperture included in the plurality of panel apertures to secure the panel to the substrate matrix. Each fastener includes a head conformed to the shape of the tactile warning protrusion and a threaded shank for extending through the panel and which has an anchor member threadably secured thereto. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271663 | Method and Device for Navigating Excavation Towards A Buried Target - A method and device to navigate excavation towards a target buried in an excavatable material, for example excavation near an underground pipeline by excavation equipment. The device generally comprises indicating material arranged to be buried in the ground in proximity to the target. The indicating material is arranged to be frangible for permitting a portion of the indicating material to be removed from a remainder either by tearing, separation at separated sections or separation at perforated lines of severance. Different visual proximity indicators on the indicating material cause different sections of the indicating material to be visually distinct from one another corresponding to different degrees of proximity to the target. In use, the indicating material is placed in the ground and excavation towards the target results in portions of the material being removed. Proximity is indicated by associating which section a removed portion of the indicating material corresponds with. The proximity indicators may comprise use of varying colour, scaled indicia or other suitable notation. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271664 | Feedback Systems for Adjustment Mechanisms on Power Tools - The present invention relates to feedback systems that are used with power tools to provide the user with sensory feedback information allowing the user to determine the position of an adjustable portion of a power tool with respect to a stationary portion of a power tool or with respect to a workpiece without having to refer to a scale or manual measuring device. This feedback information may make it easier and faster for the user to determine the orientation or location of an adjustable portion of a power tool or determine the orientation or location of the workpiece with respect to an operational member of the power tool allowing the user to concentrate his thinking on executing the operation instead of concentrating on set up. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271665 | Method for producing group III Nitride-based compound semiconductor - In the production of GaN through the flux method, deposition of miscellaneous crystals on the nitrogen-face of a GaN self-standing substrate and waste of raw materials are prevented. Four arrangements of crucibles and a GaN self-standing substrate are exemplified. In FIG. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271666 | Method and Apparatus for Preparing Crystal - A method and an apparatus for producing crystals wherein crystal quality can be kept and a crystal composition is uniformed from a growth early stage to a growth last stage are provided. In an apparatus for producing crystals wherein the crystals | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271667 | Nitride crystal, nitride crystal substrate, epilayer-containing nitride crystal substrate, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same - A nitride crystal is characterized in that, in connection with plane spacing of arbitrary specific parallel crystal lattice planes of the nitride crystal obtained from X-ray diffraction measurement performed with variation of X-ray penetration depth from a surface of the crystal while X-ray diffraction conditions of the specific parallel crystal lattice planes are satisfied, a uniform distortion at a surface layer of the crystal represented by a value of |d | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271668 | Coating Apparatus - A protrusion ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271669 | POLYMERIC COVER FOR ROBOTS HAVING AN INCREASED TOTAL SURFACE ENERGY - The present invention involves cover for robots having spray nozzles wherein the surface material of the covers have been enhanced for residue retention. The robot covers of the present invention may be formed from a polymer, which in one exemplary embodiment may be polyethylene. For example, the polymer may be received in the form of a cast or blown extruded plastic film. In one exemplary embodiment, the polymer may be processed to increase the surface energy and/or surface area of the polymer. By increasing at least one of the surface energy and the surface area of the polymer, the total energy of the surface of the polymer is increased. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271670 | Painting Installation - A painting installation includes at least one painting cabin ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271671 | Extrusion Nozzle for Extruding Hollow Profiles - The invention relates to an extrusion nozzle comprising at least one core ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271672 | Device for Later Application of a Two-Component Material on a Substrate | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271673 | LIQUID SEND/RECEIVE JOINT DEVICE AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A liquid send/receive joint device that releases pressure on a false connection prevention key and prevents breakage of the false connection prevention key when a rotary force of a predetermined level or greater is applied to the liquid send/receive joint device while a liquid accepter and a liquid reservoir are connected to each other, is provided. A fuel cell system equipped with such a liquid send/receive joint device is also provided. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271674 | DOSING SYSTEM FOR A COATING PLANT - A metering system for a coating installation for coating components such as vehicle body parts contains an applicator which applies the coating material supplied to it with a volumetric flow metered on-demand, a regulated first metering device which adjusts the pressure or the volumetric flow of the coating material to be applied by the applicator based on setpoints which are specified by automated installation controls, a transducer to generate a reading which matches the pressure or the volumetric flow of the coating material flowing to the applicator and a control device for regulating the metering device as a function of the specified setpoints and of the reading from the transducer. A second metering device is connected at the outlet of the regulated first metering device for the coating material flowing to the applicator which controls the pressure or volumetric flow of the said applied coating material for precision metering of the coating material applied as a function of the specified setpoints. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271675 | Method of forming thin film solar cells - A single chamber CVD manufacturing process enables thin film p-i-n solar cells exhibiting collection efficiencies in the range of 9% to 12%, and higher. These collection efficiencies are achieved by: Changing the overall chemical and structural composition of the p-doped layer; Using techniques to remove residual reactants after deposition of the p-doped layer; optionally, applying a buffer layer of a hydrogen-rich amorphous silicon between the p-doped layer and a subsequently deposited intrinsic layer; and, changing the silicon crystalline composition during deposition of an i-doped layer or an n-doped layer. The single chamber process provides a cost of manufacture/solar cell output in $/Watt that is competitive. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271676 | PLASMA TREATMENT METHOD AND PLASMA TREATMENT APPARATUS - In a plasma treatment method of and apparatus for treating the surface of a treatment target substrate by utilizing glow discharge produced by supplying high-frequency power into an inside-evacuated reactor through a high-frequency power supply means, a plurality of impedance regulation means for regulating impedances on the side of the reactor and on the side of the high-frequency power supply means are provided correspondingly to the impedances of a plurality of reactors, and the high-frequency power is supplied into the reactors via the impedance regulation means corresponding to the reactors. Plasma treatment can be made in a good efficiency and a low cost on a plurality of reactors having different impedances. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271677 | Spoilage reducing composition for bird feeders - Disclosed is a method, composition and kit for preventing spoilage of feed in a bird feeder by use of a spoilage reducing composition that comprises an effective amount of a moisture absorbing material, an optional support material, and an optional functional additive that are formed into a shaped body that is combined with an bird feeder, bird feed and/or bird seed to effectively absorb water and water vapor thereby reducing spoilage of feed. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271678 | Adjustable Animal Watering System - The assemblies of the invention are suitable for mounting to, or being an integral part of, an animal enclosure such that the height of a valve-controlled liquid outlet may be adjusted according to the changing needs of growing animals. The adjustable liquid delivery assemblies comprise an elongated rail, a liquid delivery unit having at least one liquid delivery head slideably engaged with the elongated rail, a flexible liquid delivery tube for connecting a liquid delivery head to a liquid source, and a means for securing the liquid delivery unit at a selected position on the elongated rail. The liquid delivery system may further comprise a retaining rail. A means for securing the liquid delivery unit at a selected position on the elongated rail may comprise a linear series of holes disposed along the length of the rail, each hole traversing the elongated rail, and a peg configured to pass through a hole of the series of holes and extend beyond the elongated rail to prevent the liquid delivery head from passing beyond the position of the peg. The means for securing the liquid delivery unit at a selected position on the elongated rail can also be a frictional force between the elongated rail and the liquid delivery unit, or between the retaining rail and the liquid delivery unit, a spring, or a spring clamp. The assemblies may further comprise a means to attach the liquid delivery assembly to an animal enclosure such as, but not limited to, securing member having a securing nut and bolt assembly or a spring clamp mounted thereon. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271679 | PET SHEET - Disclosed is a pet sheet including a backsheet, a liquid-permeable topsheet and a liquid absorbent layer which is smaller than the backsheet and disposed between the backsheet and the topsheet. The backsheet extends beyond the liquid absorbent layer to provide side regions outside the liquid absorbent layer. A hydrophilic sheet is provided above the backsheet in the side regions. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271680 | Process to enable live-bearing fresh water fish to live and breed in a salt water environment. - The invention provides for a process that enables live-bearing fresh water fish to live and breed in a salt water environment such as an aquarium. The process starts with a live birth of fry in an aquarium where the salinity of the water matches the salinity of amniotic fluids. Once the fry stabilize, the salinity can be gradually increased to match the salinity of a standard salt water aquarium. The fry and their offspring mature, live, and breed in salt water with no future intervention. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271681 | Loading Bar for Animal Transporter - A loading bar for fixing to a wall of an animal transporter adjacent a stall of the transporter is disclosed that comprises an elongate member having a front section located at a front of the stall, a rear section that in use extends across the rear end of the stall in the vicinity of the rear of the horse, and an intermediate section that extends in a direction along the length of the stall and interconnects the front and rear sections. At least said rear section is provided with a latch means that cooperates with a feature on the transporter, to hold the loading bar in a raised position across the stall when the front section is in a predefined position. The latch means is made of sound absorbing material and is remotely operable. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271682 | Methodology and design of an interactive pet toy that inspires play behavior in cats - The methodology and design of an interactive pet toy that inspires play behavior in cats by incorporating four stimulation or “play-inspiring” factors and consists of a set of equal length cords, in certain materials and widths; of lengths and corresponding weights that create identified movements; in colors included in the visual spectrum of the cat; with other attributes appealing to cats; attached to a handle designed for human comfort; and with decorative pieces for aesthetic purposes. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271683 | Retractable pet leash with self powered electric light - A retractable pet leash having an integrated lamp powered by an electric generator. A spool is rotatably mounted inside a housing and a leash cord is coiled on the spool. The spool rotates in a first direction of rotation as the leash cord pays out through an opening provided in the housing. A spring inside the housing is configured to bias the spool toward rotation opposite the first direction of rotation, for retracting the leash cord. A circular toothed gear is attached to the spool for synchronous rotation and a set of speed change gears are configured to translate rotation of the circular toothed gear to turn the generator. A cup gear, having an inner wall provided with a unidirectional teeth groove, engages a speed change gear. A prism plate with pivotally mounted pawls is rotatably mounted in contact with the unidirectional teeth groove, for translating rotation in one direction only, to the generator. The generator outputs direct current to a circuit board. The circuit board includes a set of capacitors for storing electric potential and an electric filter for outputting a stable power supply to energize the lamp. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271684 | ANIMAL WASTE COLLECTION APPARATUS - Among other things, apparatus and methods are disclosed for collecting animal waste. A garment or harness is provided for placement on a dog or other animal that collects eliminated waste before the waste contacts the ground, and without having to pick up the waste. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271685 | Detonative cleaning apparatus - An apparatus is provided for cleaning a surface within a vessel. A vessel wall separates a vessel exterior from a vessel interior and has a wall aperture. The apparatus comprises an elongate conduit having an upstream first end and a downstream second end. The conduit is positioned to direct a shock wave from the second end into the vessel interior. A source of fuel and oxidizer is coupled to the conduit to deliver the fuel and oxidizer to the conduit. An initiator is positioned to initiate a combustion of the fuel and oxidizer. The conduit comprises a first portion and a second portion downstream of the first portion. The second portion is extensible and contractible relative to the first portion to selectively position the second end at a desired location within the vessel. The conduit downstream end comprises a centerbody positioned to direct the shock wave essentially axisymmetrically. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271686 | Link Type Seismic Tie For Boilers - A link-type seismic tie is provided between a steel structural support and a buckstay, and includes two horizontally arranged, parallel, and spaced apart link members, which are connected at their ends to large vertical pins. Each of the link members includes two horizontally arranged and parallel longitudinal outboard stringers and a horizontally arranged and parallel longitudinal center stringer centered between the two outboard stringers. Each link member further includes finger plates standing upright and spaced apart from each other relatively perpendicular to the longitudinal stringers. The finger plates are held between each of the outboard stringers and the longitudinal center stringer. A gusset plate connects the outboard stringers to a pin plate, which is connected to a large pin at the buckstay. The other end of the link members is connected to a large pin at the steel structural support via the ends of the outboard stringers. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271687 | Two-stroke opposite radial rotary-piston engine - A two-stroke opposite rotary-piston engine comprises a cylinder block including a sleeve and two pistons slidely disposed therein, oppositely movable forming a common combustion chamber and a first gap with sleeve's sidewalls, a rotor having a surface formed by an ellipse or Cassini line, traverses attached to the pistons, rollers attached to the traverses and springly depressed against the rotor, oil tubes with end bushings, oil supply and withdraw means, two plungers disposed in each tube forming a second gap essentially less than the first. The plungers are attached to the traverses and oppositely movable, including through channels, outward surfaces with the bushings forming external spaces, and inward surfaces with the tube sidewalls forming an internal space communicating with the oil supply and withdraw means. Oil drain means communicate the external spaces with the oil supply means. The engine absorbs side and inertial forces, is more efficient and clean. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL TRANSITION BETWEEN HCCI AND SI COMBUSTION IN A DIRECT-INJECTION GASOLINE ENGINE - A method for transitioning operation of a spark-ignition, direct-injection internal combustion engine having a two-step, variable phase valvetrain between HCCI and SI modes includes providing a low-lift intake valve, un-throttled stoichiometric SI operation intermediate a low-lift exhaust and intake valve HCCI mode and a high-lift exhaust and intake valve, un-throttled SI mode. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271689 | Control Valve for a Device for Variably Adjusting the Valve Timing for Gas Exchange Valves in an Internal Combustion Engine - A control valve ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271690 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH INTEGRATED VALVE SLIDE - A camshaft adjuster ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271691 | Engine Valve Operating System - A rocker arm ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271692 | Rocker arm for valve actuation - The present invention provides an improved rocker arm system for actuating poppet valves in high performance internal combustion engines. The rocker arm provides journals extending from each side fitted to outboard bearing mounts to guide the motion of the rocker arm. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271693 | DEACTIVATING ROCKER ARM / MECHANICAL LASH ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM - A deactivating rocker arm mechanical adjustment system for internal combustion engines is provided wherein a lash adjustment screw which has eccentric cam and a feature by which the screw can be rotated using a tool. The adjustment screw is installed a valve actuation section of a split rocker arm wherein the cam end of the adjustment screw engages a feature of the cam follower section of the split rocker arm. When the lash adjustment screw is rotated, the design of the cam is such that the angular orientation of the valve actuation and cam follower sections is varied and in turn varies the distance or lash between the cam follower section latch pin and the receiving latch pin hole in the valve actuation section. The lash adjustment screw is rotated until a previously specified lash is obtained and then a jam nut is tightened to prevent rotation of the lash adjustment screw. Valvetrain component design may be altered that other than threaded means may be used to control the rotational orientation of the adjustment cam. An additional feature of the invention is that in the preferred embodiment, the lash adjustment screw provides a valve actuation section feature upon which a lost motion spring is mounted. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271694 | Limited travel hydraulic lifter and methods of assembly and use thereof - A travel limited plunger for a hydraulic lifter for, among other purposes, use in racing and/or other high performance applications. In one variation, an existing retaining clip is replaced by a heavy duty retainer and a precisely sized spacer is inserted between the retainer and the plunger to limit travel of the plunger. In a second variation, the existing retaining clip is removed, a retaining groove is formed (e.g., by machining) within the interior of the lifter at a position located so as to allow a retainer inserted therein to limit travel of the plunger to a predetermined distance. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271695 | POWER SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF POWERING A VEHICLE - A power system is provided for a vehicle includes a primary combustion engine for powering a drive system of the vehicle for propelling the vehicle and non-drive systems associated with the vehicle in a first mode of operation. An auxiliary combustion engine is coupled to the primary engine for powering the non-drive systems in a second mode of operation when the primary combustion engine is powered off. The auxiliary engine is powered by the same fuel as the primary engine. The auxiliary combustion engine is coupled to the primary engine through at least one clutch that disengages and engages the auxiliary engine from the primary engine when the primary engine is powered on and off. A method of powering a vehicle is accomplished by powering a drive system of the vehicle for propelling the vehicle and non-drive systems associated with the vehicle through a primary combustion engine in a first mode of operation. When the primary combustion engine is powered off in a second mode of operation, the non-drive systems are powered by an auxiliary combustion engine that is coupled to the primary engine. The auxiliary engine is powered by the same fuel as the primary engine. The auxiliary combustion engine is coupled to the primary engine through at least one clutch that disengages and engages the auxiliary engine from the primary engine when the primary engine is powered on and off. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271696 | Intake Air Control Apparatus and Method - An intake air control apparatus comprises an intake air path connected to a combustion chamber, and an intake airflow control device having a first opening deviated in one direction when viewed from an axial direction of the intake air path by partially closing a cross-section of a flow path of the intake air path, and that controls distribution of an intake airflow by deviating the intake airflow downstream of the first opening to a side in which the first opening is formed, the intake airflow control device having a second opening of smaller opening area than that of the first opening, and deviated in an opposite side to the side in which the first opening is formed and at a location away from an intake air path wall. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271697 | Lower Intake Manifold with Charge Motion Control Valve - A lower intake manifold assembly includes a lower housing and a runner insert fitted into the lower housing. The lower housing may be made of metal and the runner insert may advantageously be made of a synthetic resin material. The runner insert provides a sealing surface between the lower housing and the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The runner insert also supports a charge motion control valve flap assembly that advantageously may include a shaft and synthetic resin flaps over-molded onto the shaft. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271698 | Internal Combustion Engine with Starter Device - An internal combustion engine has a starter device, wherein the starter device has a drive member and a driven member and a locking mechanism for coupling the drive member and the driven member to one another for starting the internal combustion engine. The locking mechanism has at least one pawl that is pivotably supported on the driven member. For decoupling the drive member and the driven member, the at least one pawl is pivoted outwardly relative to an axis of rotation of the starter device. The at least one pawl has at least one pivot position in which the at least one pawl contacts at least one contact area of the driven member. The at least one pawl has at least one cover covering the at least one contact area. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271699 | Combustion Engine - The present invention relates to an internal combustion engine of piston type operating with a mixture of combustible fuel and air comprising at least one combustion chamber ( | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271700 | CYLINDER HEAD AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR A CYLINDER HEAD - A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine is provided for a motor vehicle. The cylinder head includes, but is not limited to a flow channel, which can be connected to a cylinder. An air duct for injecting gas into the flow channel is connected to the flow channel via a connection channel. The air duct is produced by means of casting and cylinder head provides for a good secondary air injection by means of a simple production. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271701 | Inverted cardioid wankel engine - An internal combustion engine comprising a support structure, including a tube and a hollow stator core, supported by and rigidly affixed to the tube. Additionally, a rotor assembly is eccentrically and rotatably mounted about the stator core and having a pair of partial sidewalls, each of which defines a circular opening. A pair of shaft seals, in which each shaft seal is set into one of the circular openings and are rotatably mounted about the tube. The stator core, rotor and shaft seals together define multiple, separate sealed chambers that change volume as the rotor moves. Finally, ignition, intake and exhaust mechanisms are mounted internal to the hollow stator core. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271702 | FUEL-SAVING ACCELERATOR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present invention discloses a fuel-saving accelerator for internal combustion engine, which comprises a water tank for storing water therein as auxiliary fuel for the inner combustion engine; a water processing unit communicating with the water tank to process the water supplied from the water tank; and a water control unit which is connected between the water processing unit and a combustion chamber of the inner combustion engine to control the amount of the processed water supplied from the water processing unit and supply a controlled amount of water to the combustion chamber. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271703 | TRAPPED VORTEX COMBUSTION CHAMBER - A combustor for a gas turbine engine is disclosed which is able to operate with high combustion efficiency, and low nitrous oxide emissions during gas turbine operations. The combustor consists of a can-type configuration which combusts fuel premixed with air and delivers the hot gases to a turbine. Fuel is premixed with air and is delivered to the combustor with a high degree of swirl motion. This swirling mixture of reactants is conveyed through a flowpath that expands; the mixture reacts, and establishes a central recirculation zone. An imperforate trapped vortex cavity is disposed proximal to the swirler apparatus which provides for a second reaction zone. Fresh fuel/air reactants are exchanged with burned products in the trapped vortex and a pilot flame is established in the trapped cavity. The imperforate trapped cavity is not supplied with either fuel or air, but is cooled on a backside of the cavity with a flow of cooling air. The cooling air is then conveyed to the combustion chamber so as to not interfere with the critical flame holding flow features of the combustor. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271704 | Method of Controlling Operation of an Engine that Can Use a Single-Fuel of a Multi-Fuel Combustion Mode - The present invention relates to a method of controlling operation of an internal-combustion engine using a single-fuel or a multi-fuel combustion mode with at least one fuel type comprising a high octane number and a low energy density and at least another fuel type comprising a low octane number and a high energy density, a method wherein the energy required for the engine to operate in multi-fuel mode is provided by a combination of two fuel types. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271705 | Variable compression engine - A variable compression internal combustion engine having a compression that is variable via a compression relief valve (in addition to the intake and exhaust valves) that is precisely timed and controlled by a selectable timing hydraulic pump or other means and designed to relieve compression in the combustion chamber during a portion of the compression stroke of an engine. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271706 | Hydrogen gas injector plug for diesel engines - The hydrogen gas injector plug for diesel engines employs an injector plug for generating hydrogen gas from water. Pressurized hot water is pulsed into contact with a heated metallic catalyst. The pressurized hot water turns to steam and disassociates into a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases. The catalyst removes the oxygen gases from the gaseous mixture. The hydrogen gas expands into a combustion chamber and is burned therein, creating a pressure to drive an engine piston disposed in the combustion chamber. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271707 | Liquefied Gas Fuel Supply Device of Diesel Engine - In a diesel engine system of a liquefied gas fuel, the present invention aims at the prevention of storing of the liquefied gas fuel in a cam chamber even when a diesel engine repeats stopping and operation thereof without returning the liquefied gas fuel in a fuel gallery of a fuel pressurizing device such as a supply pump or an injection pump to a fuel tank. An electrically-operated compressor | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271708 | Fuel Metering Unit For a High-Pressure Fuel Pump, and High-Pressure Fuel Pump - The invention relates to a fuel metering unit, in which the displaceable parts of an electromagnet are guided through two bushings in an axial direction, the bushings being located at a distance from one another. The bushings guide the armature bolt, which can be produced from a wear-resistant material, such as for example tempered steel. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271709 | Combustion engine technology - A fuel system for use in a combustion chamber of a compression ignition internal combustion engine comprises a pump arrangement having a pump chamber for fluid and a piston which is movable outwardly from the combustion chamber in response to pressure generated within the combustion chamber as a result of combustion so as to pressurise fluid within the pump chamber. The system also includes a control valve assembly for controlling the supply of fluid that is pressurised within the pump chamber to an accumulator volume. In one particular aspect, the invention provides a fuel system for use in an engine having at least two engine cylinders, comprising a first pump arrangement associated with one of the engine cylinders and a second pump arrangement associated with the other of the engine cylinders, each of the first and second pump arrangements having a pump chamber for fluid and a piston which is movable outwardly from the combustion chamber in response to pressure generated within the combustion chamber as a result of combustion so as to pressurise fuel within the pump chamber. At least one control valve assembly controls the supply of fluid that is pressurised within the pump chamber of at least one of the pump arrangements to an accumulator volume. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271710 | Fuel supply device - The invention provides a fuel supply device, which is possible to prevent undesired water entered into a fuel path from remaining therein with a simple arrangement. A fuel supply pipe for supplying fuel to each of the fuel injection valves of an engine disposed with a plurality of cylinders in a vertical direction includes a fuel path in longitudinal direction, a smaller diameter portion formed perpendicular to the fuel path and continuous with a fuel injection valve mounting hole, and a cap attached to a lower end of the fuel path. The cap is arranged so that the upper end of its protruding portion is positioned at the same or nearly same level as that in height of the smaller diameter portion. Thus, the water entered in the fuel supply pipe is exhausted through the smaller diameter portion without delay. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271711 | Four-Stroke Free Piston Engine - A free piston engine utilizes a shuttle frame external to combustion chambers to rigidly link shuttle parts reciprocating along a centerline. If the shuttle parts are spaced apart along the centerline, the shuttle frame may be struts extending from the shuttle parts and linked by rods. Alternatively the shuttle parts are within a tubular shuttle frame that forms part of the combustion chamber boundary. If one shuttle part is arranged around the other with both centered about the centerline, the shuttle frame may include an annular plate between a cylindrical inner shuttle part and an annular outer shuttle part. Alternatively the shuttle frame may include an inner tube with a cylindrical inner shuttle part within the inner tube, and an outer tube with an annular outer shuttle part arranged between the inner and the outer tubes so that the shuttle frame forms part of the combustion chamber boundary. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271712 | CARBON DEPOSIT RESISTANT COMPONENT - Carbon deposits on engine components can negatively affect engine performance. An engine of the present disclosure includes at least one carbon deposit resistant engine component attached to an engine housing. The engine component includes at least one relatively high surface tension surface that is a non-contact wear surface and to which a relatively low surface tension coating is attached. The relatively low surface tension coating has a surface tension at least one of equal to and less than 30 dyne/cm. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271713 | FUEL INJECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH INJECTOR SEAL RETENTION - A fuel injector assembly with injector seal retention includes a fuel injector body including an injector nozzle housing disposed at a distal end of the fuel injector body. The injector body is adapted with a grooved portion to securely capture an injector seal to prevent the loss of the injector seal during installation and/or removal of the fuel injector assembly into an engine cylinder head. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271714 | ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP - An electric fuel pump includes a pump unit, motor unit, fuel discharge unit, stator holder, magnet wire, connection terminal, first mold resin, driver board assembly, and second mold resin. The motor unit drives the pump unit. The fuel discharge unit includes a discharge port member and discharges fuel supplied from the pump unit through the motor unit. The stator holder is provided to the motor unit and includes a stator support which supports a stator of a motor and a partition which defines the motor unit and the fuel discharge unit. The partition includes a terminal insertion hole and a fuel passage. The magnet wire is wound around a core of the stator. The connection terminal is connected to the magnet wire. The first mold resin molds the core and a connecting portion where the magnet wire is connected to the connection terminal. The driver board assembly is stored in a space formed in the discharge port member and electrically connected to the connection terminal. The second mold resin molds the driver board assembly and a connecting portion where the driver board assembly is connected to the connection terminal. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271715 | Internal combustion barrel engine - A two-stroke barrel engine includes a power output shaft configured to rotate, an even number of cylinders encircling the power output shaft, wherein each cylinder includes opposing first and second power pistons configured to reciprocate within their respective power cylinder, and a pair of non-rotating wobbleplates opposed and hingedly connected to the power pistons. The wobbleplates are configured to transfer the reciprocating motion of the power pistons to rotary motion of the power output shaft via a nutating motion of the non-rotating wobbleplate. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271716 | CANISTER ARRANGEMENT IN POWER GENERATING APPARATUS - A power generating apparatus has a frame, an engine disposed inwardly of the frame and configured to drive a generator, a fuel tank for storing fuel to be supplied to the engine, and a canister containing an adsorbent for adsorbing fuel vapor from the fuel tank. The canister includes a communicating tube, which places the canister in communication with the atmosphere. The canister is also in communication with an intake system. The canister is movably positioned in a space S between the frame and the intake system so as to prevent an increase in the size of the power generating apparatus when the canister is added to the power generating apparatus. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271717 | CANISTER MOUNTING STRUCTURE IN POWER GENERATING APPARATUS - A power generating apparatus has a simplified structure for introducing fuel vapor from a fuel tank and blow-by gas produced in an engine into the engine's intake system so as to facilitate the manufacturing of the power generating apparatus. The power generating apparatus includes an engine for driving a generator, a canister containing an adsorbent for adsorbing thereonto fuel that evaporates from a fuel tank, an evaporative fuel inlet pipe for introducing fuel vapor purged from the adsorbent into an engine intake system, and a blow-by gas inlet pipe for introducing blow-by gas produced in the engine into the intake system. A first end of the evaporative fuel inlet pipe is connected to the canister, and a second end of the evaporative fuel inlet pipe is connected to an intermediate portion of the blow-by gas inlet pipe. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271718 | Method for Fuel Vapor Canister Purging - A method of controlling fuel vapor purging in a hybrid electric vehicle capable of selectively operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes, determining a fuel tank condition parameter based on an amount of liquid fuel residing in a fuel tank of the hybrid electric vehicle and a duration since the previous fuel tank filling event, in response to the fuel tank condition parameter exceeding a threshold limit, initiating operation of the internal combustion engine and purging fuel vapor from the fuel vapor canister for a predetermined duration, and in response to the fuel tank condition parameter being less than the threshold limit, selectively purging fuel vapor from the fuel vapor canister based on an engine operating condition. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271719 | Vented Gear Drive Assembly for a Supercharger - A gear drive assembly for a supercharger is provided. The gear drive assembly has at least one gear member rotatable about an axis of rotation and includes a cover member operable to substantially enclose the at least one gear member. A tube member extends though the cover member and is generally aligned along the axis of rotation. The tube member is operable to vent the gear drive assembly. A supercharger assembly incorporating the gear drive assembly is also disclosed. | 2008-11-06 |
| 20080271720 | Valve actuation assembly - A valve actuation assembly includes a housing and a vane connected to a shaft. The vane is at least partially disposed within the housing. The valve actuation assembly further includes a valve assembly connected to the housing and a feedback device connected to at least one of the vane and the shaft. The feedback device is configured to apply a feedback force to the valve assembly. | 2008-11-06 |
