| 42nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 5 |
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| 20090255422 | Apparatus for Printing Poultry Eggs - Disclosed is a stamp head ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255423 | Printing Device For Printing Cylindrical or Spherical Objects - The present invention provides for a printing device for printing the surface of a cylindrical or spherical object, including a drive mechanism, a printing mechanism, and a rolling mechanism, wherein the rolling mechanism includes a first shaft and a second shaft positioned in a spaced-apart relationship for receiving the object to be printed, wherein the drive mechanism rotates at least the first shaft, causing the object to rotate. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255424 | SQUEEGEE FOR PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, AND PRINTING METHOD - [Problems] To provide a squeegee for a printing device that achieves a satisfactory scraping ability and is readily fabricated at low costs. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255425 | SCREEN PRINTING APPARATUS AND SCREEN PRINTING METHOD - The invention provides a screen printing apparatus and a screen printing method with which the separability of the printing member just after printing a print material has been improved. This invention relates to a screen printing apparatus comprising: a printing means including, a printing member with elasticity and with soft magnetism, with opening corresponding to a pattern, with a print area to which a print material is supplied and in which said opening is included, with one face which is aligned with one face of said work in predetermined positional relation, and also including a supporter supporting said printing member, a feeding means supplying the print material while pushing the print area from another face of the printing member, formed so that the upper part of the printing member can move along one direction at least, and a magnetic force generating means pulling up the printing member synchronously with the feeding means, formed behind the feeding means to cover the print area along moving direction of the feeding means. The magnetic force generating means comprises two or more magnetic domains on one face facing the printing member, and magnetic poles of adjoining the magnetic domains are opposite to each other. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255426 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLACING SUBSTRATE SUPPORT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for depositing viscous material on an electronic substrate includes a frame, a dispensing unit coupled to the frame, and a substrate support assembly coupled to the frame. The substrate support assembly includes a plurality of support elements, a table coupled to the frame. The table has a support surface to support at least one support element of the plurality of support elements, and a marking device coupled to the frame. The apparatus further includes an imaging system coupled to the frame. The imaging system is configured to capture images of the support surface of the table. A controller is coupled to at least the marking device and the imaging system, and configured to manipulate the marking device to mark the support surface of the table on predetermined positions and to manipulate the imaging system to verify whether the marks on the support surface of the table are accurate. Embodiments of the apparatus and related methods are further disclosed. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255427 | Hand-stamp with upper inking - A hand stamp with upper inking and comprising a housing displaceably accommodating an ink pad, an actuating part displaceably guided on the housing and pivotably supporting a character unit, which character unit includes at least one loop-shaped character band with stamp characters and is arranged within the housing and which, upon displacement of the actuating part against a spring force relative to the housing, is pivotable via a turning mechanism from an inking position, in which the character unit abuts on the ink pad, into a printing position. The hand stamp further comprises a stamp plate unit having an ink storage means and including a printing plate, wherein the stamp plate unit with ink storage means is combined with the character unit into a pivoting and displaceable unit, the printing side of the printing plate being arranged adjacent the stamp characters, and said the ink pad having an access opening restricted to the stamp characters of the character unit. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255428 | Printing Units Comprising Several Printing Groups, and Printing Tower - The invention relates to a printing unit ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255429 | PRINTING PRESS - A printing press includes an apparatus for handling or manipulating varnishing plates or printing plates, having a plate feed channel which is at least temporarily disposed in a plate feed position for feeding a varnishing or printing plate out of the plate feed channel to a plate cylinder. A seat or step surface for an operator is disposed above the plate feed channel. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255430 | Printing Press - It is the object to provide a printing press having no fear of interruption of printing operation and also having a structure by which the utilization efficiency thereof is increased. A printing press is provided that includes a plurality of blowers each having an air supply tube for supplying air, a header pipe to which the air supply tubes of all the blowers are connected, and a plurality of air showers for executing predetermined processes using air supplied from the header pipe through pneumatic tubing, by which the respective air showers are connected to the header pipe. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255431 | MINIATURIZED PRIMING CHAIN - A modular miniaturized priming chain has a detonator and a priming booster assembly. The priming booster assembly includes a first priming booster and a second priming booster which can be modularly combined together depending on the respective power requirement at an output of the priming chain, or only the first priming booster is combined with the detonator, which is a miniature detonator. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255432 | Super compressed detonation method and device to effect such detonation - A method and apparatus are provided for detonation of a super-compressed insensitive energetic material by cylindrical implosion followed by an axial detonation to a detonation velocity several times that of TNT and a detonation pressure in excess of ten times that of TNT. The device provides a conical metal flyer shell within which is disposed a cylindrical anvil surrounded by explosive. The anvil retains an insensitive energetic material to be compressed and detonated. A first detonation of explosive by impact of the flyer shell generates a reverberating oblique shock wave system for sample compression. Axial detonation of the compressed sample through any length of a sample is achieved following the principal of matching the axial velocity and compression time of the oblique shock wave system to the detonation velocity and induction delay time of the compressed sample. The method and apparatus are also applicable to enhancing the effect of anti-armour and anti-hard-target munitions. The apparatus is also applicable to inert sample compression to the megabar range without using the axial detonation. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255433 | Devices and Methods for Perforating A Wellbore - An apparatus and method for perforating a subterranean formation is disclosed. The apparatus includes a tubular carrier; a charge tube disposed in the tubular carrier; and at least one shaped charge mounted in the charge tube which includes a casing, an explosive material and a liner enclosing the explosive material within the casing. An apex portion of the liner has a cross-sectional thickness greater than a cross-sectional thickness of any other portion of the liner. The cross-sectional thickness of the apex portion may be at least fifty percent thicker than a cross-section of a portion adjacent the apex portion. A density of the apex portion may be greater than the density of any other portions of the liner. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255434 | Method and system for controlling small wild animals and rodents - A new type of animal control system and a new method of use of the animal control system is presented for controlling small, wild animals and rodents without killing or maiming. The control system is in the form of a portable kit that includes a launching device, a plurality of thermoplastic hollow projectiles, a supply of a natural animal control agent for loading into the projectiles, and a means for transferring and storing the control agent. The method of use of the control system involves filling the projectiles with the control agent and then sealing the projectiles prior to loading the projectiles into the launching device. The launching device is then aimed at an area that is being controlled by the animal and then the projectiles are discharged from the gun so as to disperse the control agent about the area being controlled. The control agent causes a biological reaction in the animals and rodents when they detect the scent of the control agent. The biological reaction causes a fear and intimidation response in the brain of the animals and rodents, such that they will voluntarily and permanently vacate the nest out of fear for its life and of its young. The control agent is a urine, marking gland oil or a combination of oil and urine, from a known predator of the animal or rodent. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255435 | PIEZOELECTRIC STUN PROJECTILE - The present invention provides a non-lethal projectile for delivering an electric pulse to a target. In one aspect of the invention, the projectile utilizes a piezoelectric device and an electrical oscillating circuit in order to generate a pulse. In another aspect of the invention, the projectile utilizes a piezoelectric device and a mechanical oscillating circuit in order to generate an electric pulse. Since the projectile of the present invention contains the structure to generate the required electric pulse, it can be employed effectively at distances of up to 150 meters. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255436 | RICKY BRAKING SYSTEM FOR ZIPLINE RIDERS - A zipline braking system and deceleration method having one load carrying cable, and at least one overhead member, where the overhead member can be extended above substantially the entire length of the load carrying member. A stopping member is attached with the cable, and a suspender is attached with the overhead member. A rope is attached with the stopping member and the suspender, such that when the stopping member and person traveling on the zipline move toward the finish end of the cable, the rope pulls counterweight against the force of gravity. A guide can apply friction to the rope at the finish end to further decelerate the speed of a person traveling on the zipline. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255437 | Railway vehicle carriage facilitating access for passengers with reduced mobility - A carriage including a floor comprising at least one low platform and two high floor levels, the low platform having a floor height lower than that of the high floor levels and being arranged opposite a door, the low platform being movable in translation is provided. The low platform is connected to said high floor levels by ramps. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255438 | THERMALLY CURABLE ENCAPSULANT COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINT CARTRIDGE - Disclosed is a micro-fluid ejection head of an inkjet print cartridge. More specifically, disclosed is a thermally curable encapsulant composition for use in the micro-fluid ejection head of the inkjet print cartridge. The encapsulant composition includes from about 1.5 to about 95 percent by weight of one or more cross-linkable epoxy resins having a rigid backbone. Further, the encapsulant composition includes about 0.1 to about 35 percent by weight of one or more thermal curative agents. Further disclosed is a method for protecting the micro-fluid ejection head using the encapsulant composition. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255439 | Oil-Based Ink Composition for Writing Utensil and Writing Utensil Employing the Same - The present invention provides an ink composition containing an olefinic wax dispersion added so as to impart smooth writing properties without causing starving at the starting of writing, and the ink composition has noticeably improved stability over time. The present invention provides an oil-based ink composition comprising a solvent selected from the group consisting of a monohydric alcohol, a polyhydric alcohol and glycol ether, and a colorant selected from the group consisting of a pigment, a dye, and a mixture of the pigment and the dye, the oil-based ink composition further comprising a dispersion of reprecipitated olefinic wax particles. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255440 | Benzothioxanthene dyes with improved application and toxicological properties - A C. I. Solvent Orange 63 with reduced corrosive behavior during the processing in plastics can be obtained by controlling the residual amount of organic bromine in by-products resulting from di-bromo content of the raw material. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255441 | Starch-Based Filler and Coating Pigment Composition for Fibre Webs and Method for the Manufacture Thereof - A material which is suitable as filler or coating pigment for a fibrous web and a method for manufacturing thereof. According to the method, a feed comprising organic polymer material is cooled to at least approximately −50° C., after which it is refined in a jet refiner to a desired particle size. The present invention generates uniform pigment particles which comprise, for instance, starch esters, and which particles have a porous surface structure, in which case they are suitable for instance as coating pigments and fillers for offset and ink-jet papers. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255442 | MAGNETIC PIGMENTS AND PROCESS OF ENHANCING MAGNETIC PROPERTIES - A pearlescent pigment and a process for enhancing the magnetic properties of a pearlescent pigment. The pearlescent pigment has a layer with regions of γ-Fe | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255443 | GYPSUM-BASED FLOOR UNDERLAYMENT - A flooring composition for mixing with water to produce a self-leveling slurry that quickly hydrates to form a high strength floor underlayment comprising a dry mixture of (1) beta gypsum produced by a continuous method; (2) Class C fly ash; (3) a conventional water reducing aid such as sulfonated melamines, sulfonated naphthalenes and their related formaldehyde condensates, and (4) a conventional set retarder. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255444 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING CO2 PRODUCED BY CEMENT PLANTS BY USING THE CALCIUM CYCLE - A method for capturing CO | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255445 | Vehicle Hitch Engageable Table - A portable table system engageable with a trailer hitch receiver mounted on a vehicle. The device features a pair of tables which are rotationally engaged to a support structure to allow movement from a deployed horizontal position, to vertical positions in a stacked arrangement adjacent to the rear of a vehicle. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255446 | PALLET - A pallet for the stable transport of goods; the pallet comprising at least one surface element, and a plurality of side elements arranged, in use, to maintain the at least one surface element under compression. Preferably the at least one surface element comprises a planar body, which is generally parallelepiped in shape, and having a periphery defined by peripheral edges. Preferably a portion of each side element is shaped and dimensioned to accommodate a respective peripheral edge of the at least one surface element whereby the at least one surface element is retained within the side elements. Preferably the perimeter length of the at least one surface element exceeds the perimeter length defined by the assembled side elements whereby the at least one surface element is held under compression within the frame assembly of the side elements. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255447 | TABLE GUIDED BY AEROSTATIC BEARING ELEMENTS FOR VACUUM APPLICATION - The invention is directed to a table for vacuum application which is guided by means of aerostatic bearing elements, having a fixedly mounted supporting structure and a tabletop which is displaceable in x-direction and y-direction with respect to the fixedly mounted supporting structure by means of slides. The slides are provided with the aerostatic bearing elements for guiding, these aerostatic bearing elements being connected to feed lines for supplying the gas required for the operation of the gas bearings and suction lines for removing this gas. The suction lines comprise at least one variable-length line arrangement having a first pipe member and a second pipe member which penetrate one inside the other without contacting, at least one sealing gap being provided between the pipe members. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255448 | BLAST RESISTANT GLASS BLOCK PANEL - A glass block panel assembled, framed and attached to a substrate such that it resists the shock wave resulting from a blast event. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255449 | SMOKELESS BURNING EQUIPMENT - The smokeless burning equipment is capable of burning undried plant-origin materials as fuel, burning waste plastics, preventing generation of smoke and reducing ash. The smokeless burning equipment comprises: a material/air inlet located close to one end of an upper wall of a burning chamber; an inlet lid for opening and closing the material/air inlet; an air outlet located close to the other end of the upper wall; a burn-promoting plate dividing the burning chamber into a primary burning chamber and a secondary burning chamber and being downwardly extended from the upper ceiling wall; a communication path communicating the primary and secondary burning chambers and being formed under the lower end of the burn-promoting plate; through-holes being dispersedly formed in the burn-promoting plate; a dry wood inlet provided to the secondary burning chamber and located under the air outlet; and a guide tube for guiding dry a dry wood, the guide tube attached to the dry wood inlet. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255450 | OXY-COMBUSTION COAL FIRED BOILER AND METHOD OF TRANSITIONING BETWEEN AIR AND OXYGEN FIRING - A new and unique boiler and method of transition between air and Oxy-combustion in a coal fired combustion process wherein near pure oxygen may be introduced to the boiler furnace in several locations including directly into the flame through the burner and/or directly into the furnace as nearly pure oxygen, and/or into the recycle flue gas streams to the burners, including both primary and secondary streams. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255451 | Apparatus and Method for Delivering Beneficial Agents to Subterranean Locations - An apparatus for delivering a beneficial agent to a subterranean location is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a water collection chamber having a substantially open end. A water-transporting membrane is provided to communicate with the water collection chamber. An extraction chamber receives water through the water-transporting membrane, expanding the extraction chamber. A dispensing chamber, containing a beneficial agent such as fertilizer, is configured to contract upon expanding the extraction chamber. This causes the dispensing chamber to expel the beneficial agent through a subterranean delivery channel, such as a rigid hollow spike. In certain embodiments, a rate adjustment mechanism may control the rate that water is received through the water-transporting membrane, thereby controlling the rate the beneficial agent is expelled from the subterranean delivery channel. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255452 | Single Disc Liquid Fertilizer Opener - A method and apparatus to be mounted upon a planter row unit for delivering liquid fertilizer to the bottom of a trench without contacting the seed to be planted may be integrated with a cleaner for the furrow opening device. The system as claimed and described is adapted for mounting to substantially all modern row units employing floating row units. The method and apparatus as described does not interfere with existing down pressure or seed placement systems as found on modern row crop planters. As described and implemented, the method and apparatus is more compact and lighter in weight than the prior art. The attached assembly for a seed planting unit works in combination with a seed trench opener to form a trench for the deposit of liquid fertilizer offset from and parallel to the later formed seed trench. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255453 | FEED-OFF-ARM TYPE SEWING MACHINE FOR FLAT SEAMING - A needle bar supported in a head unit is connected with a needle bar lever extending from the inside of a sewing machine arm and the needle bar is moved up and down by swing of the needle bar lever about a supporting shaft generated by transmission from a sewing machine main shaft. The sewing machine arm and the head unit are fluid-tightly shielded by a shield plate, and a first sealing part is provided in the shield plate. The first sealing part supports the needle bar lever by fitting a portion of the needle bar lever into seal plates held between a presser plate and a back face of a seal support having a curved shape of a circular arc taken along a swinging locus of the needle bar lever. The inside of the sewing machine arm is oil-lubricated, and the inside of the head unit is grease-lubricated. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255454 | Mooring System For Stabilizing A Vessel, A Vessel, Method For Stabilizing A Vessel And Use Of A Mooring System - A mooring system for stabilizing a vessel for handling offshore structures includes at least one mooring unit, a connection mechanism for connecting the mooring unit to the vessel, and a tractive mechanism for stabilizing the vessel by establishing permanent tension in the connection mechanism. Furthermore, the tractive mechanism includes a mechanism for lowering the connected vessel's position in relation to the water level. A method of stabilizing a vessel, a vessel for handling offshore structures and use of a mooring system are also contemplated. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255455 | TESTING APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE POSITION OF DECORATIVE PIECES - A testing apparatus ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255456 | Method for evaluating metal contamination of silicon single crystal - When a silicon single crystal is grown by the CZ method using a pulling apparatus in which a voltage can be applied between a crystal suspending member and a crucible, the voltage is applied under the condition that the crystal suspending member is set as a negative electrode while the crucible is set as a positive electrode in a process for growing a lower end portion of a cylindrical portion or a tail portion which is of a non-convertible portion of the silicon single crystal. A sample wafer is collected from the lower end portion of the cylindrical portion or the tail portion, which is grown in association with the voltage application, and the metal contamination of the sample wafer is evaluated. The sample wafer has enough metal impurity concentration to evaluate the metal contamination. The metal contamination is evaluated for each of the sequentially grown silicon single crystals, so that a metal impurity generation behavior in a pulling apparatus, which is a factor in silicon single crystal metal contamination, can assuredly be grasped. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255457 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EPITAXIAL DEPOSITION OF A CRYSTAL USING A LIQUID-SOLVENT FLUIDIZED-BED MECHANISM - A system and method for growing diamond crystals from diamond crystal seeds by epitaxial deposition at low temperatures and atmospheric and comparatively low pressures. A solvent is circulated (by thermal convection and/or pumping), wherein carbon is added in a hot leg, transfers to a cold leg having, in some embodiments, a range of progressively lowered temperatures and concentrations of carbon via the circulating solvent, and deposits layer-by-layer on diamond seeds located at the progressively lower temperatures since as diamond deposits the carbon concentration lowers and the temperature is lowered to keep the solvent supersaturated. The solvent includes metal(s) or compound(s) that have low melting temperatures and transfer carbon at comparatively low temperatures. A controller receives parameter signals from a variety of sensors located in the system, processes these signals, and optimizes diamond deposition by outputting the necessary control signals to a plurality of control devices (e.g., valves, heaters, coolers, pumps). | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255458 | Silicon carbide single crystal, silicon carbide single crystal wafer, and method of production of same - The present invention provides a high resistivity, high quality, large size SiC single crystal, SiC single crystal wafer, and method of production of the same, that is, a silicon carbide single crystal containing uncompensated impurities in an atomic number density of 1×10 | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255459 | Method for making zinc oxide nano-structrure - A method for making zinc oxide nano-structure, the method includes the following steps. Firstly, providing a growing device, the growing device comprising a heating apparatus and a reacting room. Secondly, providing a growing substrate and forming a metal layer thereon. Thirdly, depositing a catalyst layer on the metal layer. Fourthly, placing the growing substrate into the reacting room together with a quantity of zinc source material. Fifthly, introducing a oxygen-containing gas into the reacting room. Lastly, heating the reacting room to a temperature range of 500˜1100° C. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255460 | APPLYING A PROTECTIVE COATING TO MARKED MEDIA IN A PRINT ENGINE - A method of applying a protective coating over ink printed media in a digital printing engine whereby horizontally discharging ink jet nozzles arranged in a vertical array, discharging a protective coating onto the marked surface of media disposed on a belt in vertical disposition. The coated media is then transported vertically to an adjacent source of ultraviolet radiation for curing the protective coating. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255461 | Apparatus for Simultaneous Roll-to-Roll Wet Processing of Two Workpieces Disposed Within a Single Chamber - A system is described to deposit a buffer layer onto exposed surfaces of two different solar cell absorber layers of two different flexible workpieces from a process solution including all chemical components of the buffer layer material. The buffer layer is deposited from the process or deposition solution while the flexible workpieces are simultaneously heated and processed within a chamber in a face to face manner as the process solution is flown through a process gap formed between the exposed surfaces of the two solar cell absorber layers. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255462 | DEVICE FORMED BY PROBE-BASED LITHOGRAPHY UTILIZING THERMOMECHANICALLY ACTIVATED POLYMERS - Device having features formed utilizing probe-based lithography, including: depositing a preceramic polymer on a substrate; writing nanoscale features in the polymer by locally transforming the preceramic polymer via a chemical reaction causing it to undergo a permanent phase change into hardened, ceramic material, the chemical reaction activated with a prescribed activation energy supplied by heat and/or pressure applied by a probe tip; depositing new layers and continuing according to a desired three-dimensional pattern; by cross-linking unactivated preceramic polymer to act as a support medium that isolates a formed ceramic structure mechanically and/or electrically; and where the ceramic pattern is made electrically conductive by (a) incorporating dopant elements into or onto the preceramic polymer, or (b) performing the write step in a chemically-active environment that supplies dopant atoms during the chemical reaction. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255463 | SPLASH PLATE RETENTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A splash plate assembly is retained in a rotary bell cup by a barbed skirt that interfaces with an inner surface of the bell cup. The splash plate assembly includes a splash plate or deflector that is secured to the front side of an insert. The insert has barbed extensions that may form a skirt around an outer periphery thereof. The insert is snapped into the front bell opening of a bell cup, and the barbed extensions elastically deform and snap back outwardly to interface with a shoulder formed in the bell cup inner surface. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255464 | DEVICE FOR APPLYING ACTIVE SUBSTANCES TO SURFACES OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS, PARTICULARLY STENTS - A device for applying active substances to surfaces of medical implants ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255465 | THERMAL CONTROL OF DEPOSITION IN DIP PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY - The present invention describes an apparatus for nanolithography and a process for thermally controlling the deposition of a solid organic “ink” from the tip of an atomic force microscope to a substrate. The invention may be used to turn deposition of the ink to the substrate on or off by either raising its temperature above or lowing its temperature below the ink's melting temperature. This process may be useful as it allows ink deposition to be turned on and off and the deposition rate to change without the tip breaking contact with the substrate. The same tip can then be used for imaging purposes without fear of contamination. This invention can allow ink to be deposited in a vacuum enclosure, and can also allow for greater spatial resolution as the inks used have lower surface mobilities once cooled than those used in other nanolithography methods. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255466 | REAGENT DISPENSING APPARATUS AND DELIVERY METHOD - This invention relates to a vapor or liquid phase reagent dispensing apparatus that may be used for dispensing vapor or liquid phase reagents such as precursors for deposition of materials in the manufacture of semiconductor materials and devices. This invention reduces the number of container designs required to support different applications. A standard two port container without a tube can be converted to a container capable of being used in applications which require a tube (i.e., bubbler tube for gas delivery or a dip tube for liquid delivery), by inserting a gasket/tube adapter between one of the ports and the corresponding valve in accordance with this invention. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255467 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS - Improved methods and apparatus for forming thin-film layers of semiconductor material absorber layers on a substrate web. According to the present teachings, a semiconductor layer may be formed in a multi-zone process whereby various layers are deposited sequentially onto a moving substrate web. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255468 | Substrate Processing Apparatus - Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus, including: a processing chamber to accommodate a plurality of substrates therein in such a way that the substrate are vertically stacked; a gas supply system to supply processing gas into the processing chamber; an exhaust system to exhaust an atmosphere from the processing chamber; at least a pair of electrodes made of flexible member extending in a stacking direction of the substrates to activate the processing gas; and protecting tubes to accommodate the electrodes therein, wherein each of the protecting tubes is provided with a bent portion at a higher position than an uppermost substrate, and a tip end of each of the electrodes is located on a tip end side of each of the protecting tubes over the bent portion. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255469 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS - Improved methods and apparatus for forming thin-film layers of semiconductor material absorber layers on a substrate web. According to the present teachings, a semiconductor layer may be formed in a multi-zone process whereby various layers are deposited sequentially onto a moving substrate web. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255470 | ALD REACTOR - The invention relates to a reaction chamber of an ALD reactor which comprises a bottom wall, a top wall and side walls extending between the bottom wall and the top wall which define an inner portion ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255471 | METHOD OF DEPOSITING MATERIALS ON A NON-PLANAR SURFACE - A method of depositing materials on a non-planar surface is disclosed. The method is effectuated by rotating non-planar substrates as they travel down a translational path of a processing chamber. As the non-planar substrates simultaneously rotate and translate down a processing chamber, the rotation exposes the whole or any desired portion of the surface area of the non-planar substrates to the deposition process, allowing for uniform deposition as desired. Alternatively, any predetermined pattern is able to be exposed on the surface of the non-planar substrates. Such a method effectuates manufacture of non-planar semiconductor devices, including, but not limited to, non-planar light emitting diodes, non-planar photovoltaic cells, and the like. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255472 | Milking Parlour and Method for the Production Thereof - The invention relates to a milking parlor and a method for manufacturing same, said milking parlor comprising a work area for an operator and a platform elevated relative to said area, which forms a standing and walking area for the animals to be milked, said platform comprising a substructure on its side facing the work area where a utility space is left open beneath the standing and walking area, and wherein the substructure is formed by load-bearing elements positioned one after the other in the lengthwise direction and configured to be substantially identical. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255473 | System and method for on-line analysis and sorting of milk coagulation properties - A method for on-line channeling of milk based on predicted coagulation properties where the method comprises sampling raw milk from a milk line between a milking station and a collection point, performing spectral analysis of one or more of optical transmission, optical reflectance, scatter and fluorescence on the raw milk sample, predicting at least one coagulation parameter on-line based on the spectral analysis, and channeling milk from the milking station on-line to one of a plurality of destinations based on the at least one coagulation parameter. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255474 | Automatic aquarium feeder - A digital, automatic feeder for aquarium and pond animals for positioning above an aquarium tank or pond for distributing a pre-measured amount of feed into the tank or pond on a pre-determined schedule. The feeder includes a digital system and display that allows users to input either a schedule of feed amounts and days/dates, or input a variety of tank conditions and allow the system to select an appropriate schedule and amounts of food. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255475 | BIRD FEEDER - A bird feeder ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255476 | NECTAR FEEDER - A nectar feeder for birds has a body member with a base and a lid. The base has an open top end and a side wall. The lid is interfittingly engaged with the top end of the base. A hinge connects the lid to the base to allow movement of the lid relative to the base. The lid has a support extending from an upper surface of the lid. At least one feed port, preferably three, is defined through the lid. The feed port and the support are substantially aligned on the same horizontal plane. A latch is attached to the upper surface of the lid to prevent movement of the lid relative to the base. A moat optionally extends about the periphery of the body member. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255477 | Animal waste management device - A pet waste management device includes a housing having upper and lower ends. The device includes a receiving bowl positioned in the housing, the bowl having an open upper end and a lower end having an outlet. A cover is situated upwardly adjacent the bowl upper end. A water outlet is positioned adjacent the bowl upper end to introduce water into the bowl. A supply line provides water to the water outlet. The device includes a first foot pedal configured to selectively allow water from the supply line to enter the bowl through the water outlet. A drain line is operatively coupled to the bowl lower end to drain contents of the bowl. The device includes a heating unit to prevent water from freezing, the heating unit including a resistive heating element and a thermostat and is in electrical communication with a power source. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255478 | CLUMP RECOGNITION ANIMAL LITTER - A clump recognition animal litter is disclosed that enables a user to visually identify and dispose of all used litter portions from unused litter portions regardless of clump size and clump location within the litter. The clump recognition animal litter comprises a clumping component and a color indicating material. A wetted litter clumps and displays a color in response to wetness. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255479 | Method for the Preservation and Transportation of Products Including Live Aquatic Species - A moveable vehicle such as a truck, railway carriage, or the like is structured and dimensioned to enable the transportation of products including live aquatic species, such as fish in a refrigerated condition. The vehicle includes insulating and heat exchange layers which, when utilized to transport live aquatic species, may maintain them in a dormant state by temperature controls within the refrigeration system. A water spraying assembly provides a humidity and oxygen level for disposing of waste and also enables the spraying of fog to provide effective humidity between spraying cycles. Any existing animal waste is treated in the water and a recirculation or closed loop system is provided. A product storage area facilitates loading and unloading and a separate storage room may be provided to house the systems equipment or optionally may be attached to the vehicle. When refrigerated products which do not develop waste are transported, use of at least components of the water and filtration system may be selectively discarded as the operator deems appropriate for effective utilization of the system. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255480 | Filter device for aquarium - An aquarium includes a filter housing disposed in a container, the housing includes a number of spaced guide fins extended into the housing and arranged to form a peripheral passage around the guide fins, a filter member engaged in the guide fins, and a water pump attached to the housing for pumping the water into the passage of the housing and for guiding the water to flow through the guide fins and to flow from various directions into the filter member and for allowing the water to be guided to flow through an outer peripheral portion of the filter member and for preventing the water from flowing through only a small portion of the filter member and for preventing the filter member from being quickly blocked by dirt or contaminant. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255481 | Animal Door Having an Adjustable Resistance Against Being Opened - Described is an animal door that is movable between a closed position and an open position and that has an adjustable resistance against the door being removed from the closed position to the open position. More specifically, the animal door defines a passageway and includes a flap that is moveable between the closed position and the open position, whereby the flap obstructs the passageway when at the closed position. The animal door generates a magnetic force that generates a resistance against the flap being moved from the closed position to the open position, whereby magnitude of the magnetic force, and thus the resistance, is adjustable. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255482 | PET TOY - A pet toy may include first and second objects. The first object may include a first toy, and the second object may include a second toy. The first and second objects may be selectively joined to form a third toy and selectively disconnected to deconstruct the third toy. The first toy may be a ball or other toy that may be thrown. The second toy may be a plush or non plush toy, which may or may not be stuffed. The first toy may include two bodies that are selectively joined to form the first toy. One body may include a shaft that can be received in an opening defined in the other body to join the bodies to form the first toy. The second toy may include a hole to receive the shaft for joining the first toy to the second toy. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255483 | VETERINARY PROCEDURE TABLE - A veterinary procedure table includes a vertically extending frame and an animal support assembly upon which an animal may be placed during the performance of a veterinary procedure. An equipment support is secured to the animal support assembly or the vertically extending frame. The equipment support adjustably supports a device or surgical tool used during veterinary procedures performed on an animal placed on the animal support assembly. In one embodiment, a video display is associated with the vertically extending frame for viewing of a particular region on the animal. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255484 | Pet Restraint System - A pet restraint system includes a collar having first and second ends and a fastener to selectively secure the first and second collar ends about a pet. A radio transmitter is coupled to the collar that emits a signal at a predetermined frequency. The system includes a handheld unit separated from the collar that includes a radio receiver configured to receive a radio signal, a GPS receiver for receiving signals from global positioning satellites, a signal indicator, and a CPU in data communication with the radio receiver, GPS receiver, and signal indicator. The CPU includes programming for evaluating a relative strength of signals received by the radio receiver and for outputting the relative strength to the signal indicator indicative of a position of the signal transmitter relative to the handheld unit. The CPU also includes programming for evaluating GPS signals and determining a global position of the handheld unit. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255485 | LEASH ASSEMBLY FOR A PET COLLAR AND A COMBINED COLLAR AND LEASH - A leash assembly for a pet collar and a combined collar and leash. A base assembly is permanently or temporarily engaged with the collar. The leash assembly, which has an internal retractor mechanism, is detachably seated on the base assembly and is connected thereto by a short leash. When the leash and base assemblies are engaged, the leash is substantially retracted into the leash assembly. The leash assembly may be grasped and pulled out of engagement with the base assembly thus causing a length of the leash to be unwound from the retractor mechanism. The retractor mechanism includes a lock that is engaged unless a release button on the leash assembly is depressed. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255486 | COMBINATION PET COLLAR AND LEASH - The present invention provides a combination pet collar and leash adapted for operation between a retracted position and an extended position, the combination including a pet collar adapted for wear by a pet and including collar assembly in communication with a leash assembly associated with a handle, the collar assembly including a housing having a circular structure in communication with a segmented region by a passageway, the housing adapted for receiving a retraction mechanism for rotateable receipt of the leash where the retraction mechanism includes a resilient member adapted for biasing a spool adapted for rotatably receiving the leash. A pair of complementary fasteners is positioned along the collar and the handle for securing the handle along the collar with the leash assembly overlying the collar assembly in the retracted position. The leash rotatably extends from the collar assembly towards the leash assembly where the handle is spaced a distance from the collar in the extended position and the handle and the collar present common visual elements. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255487 | Water Heater Sealed Combustion Chamber Assembly - A fuel-fired water heater is provided with a combustion chamber assembly, representatively a sealed combustion chamber assembly, operative to create from combustion air delivered thereto via a circumferentially limited vertical side portion thereof a flow of primary combustion air to the underside of a centrally disposed fuel burner within the assembly via a first location underlying the burner, a first flow of secondary combustion air delivered to the burner via the first location, and a second flow of secondary combustion air delivered to the burner via a second location outwardly circumscribing the first location. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255488 | Cooling device for engine - A cooling device for an engine that can raise the temperature of cooling water within a short period of time during the warm-up operation and allows a simple structure. The cooling device has a radiator circulation flow channel for circulation via an engine, a radiator, and a thermostat; a heater circulation flow channel for circulation via the engine, a heater core, and the thermostat; a bypass circulation flow channel for circulation via the engine and the thermostat; an electronically controlled valve; and a pump. The radiator circulation flow channel, heater circulation flow channel, and bypass circulation flow channel merge in the thermostat and form a common flow channel between the thermostat and the engine. The pump is provided in the common flow channel. At the start of the warm-up period and during the warm-up operation, the circulation in the radiator circulation flow channel is substantially stopped by the thermostat, cooling water circulation is actuated in the bypass circulation flow channel, and an opening degree of the electronically controlled valve is gradually increased from a minimum as the cooling water temperature rises. At the end of the warm-up period, circulation is actuated in the radiator circulation flow channel and substantially stopped in the bypass circulation flow channel. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255489 | Straddle Type Vehicle - A motorcycle includes an engine, a radiator that cools a cooling liquid, a first piping that connects the engine to the radiator, and a second piping that connects the engine to the radiator. The second piping, engine, radiator and first piping form a circulating circuit through which cooling liquid circulates. At least one of the first and second pipings is substantially constituted by resin piping. The time required to warm up the engine is thereby reduced. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255490 | Cylinder Head - The invention relates to a cylinder head ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255491 | SPLIT-CYCLE AIRCRAFT ENGINE - A split-cycle aircraft engine includes a crankshaft rotatable about a crankshaft axis. A power piston is slidably received within a power cylinder and is operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the power piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke during a single rotation of the crankshaft. A compression piston is slidably received within a compression cylinder and is operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the compression piston reciprocates through an intake stroke and a compression stroke during a single rotation of the crankshaft. A gas crossover passage operatively interconnects the compression cylinder and the power cylinder. An air reservoir is operatively connected to the gas crossover passage by a reservoir passage. The air reservoir is selectively operable to receive and deliver compressed air. The engine is mounted to an aircraft and the air reservoir is disposed within the aircraft. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255492 | CONCENTRIC CAMSHAFT WITH VARYING WALL GEOMETRY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY - A camshaft may include a first shaft, a first lobe member, and a second lobe member. The first shaft may include an annular wall defining a first bore. The wall may include a first portion having a first radial outer surface and a second portion having a second radial outer surface that is radially offset relative to the first radial outer surface. The first lobe member may define a second bore having the first portion of the first shaft located therein and frictionally engaged with the first shaft for rotation with the first shaft. The second lobe member may define a third bore having the second portion of the first shaft located therein. The second lobe member may be rotatably disposed on the second portion of the first shaft. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255493 | Variable Valve Operating Device, Control Method of Variable Valve Operating Device, and Vehicle Equipped with Variable Valve Operating Device - In a hybrid vehicle, on a start of an engine, when an engine water temperature is low and there is a need of advancing open and close timings of an intake valve from their most delayed positions, electric power is supplied to a VVT motor either via a first route or via a second route. Even when the state of charge of a low voltage battery is very low and insufficient, the required electric power is supplied from a DC-DC converter to the VVT motor without passing through the low voltage battery. On the start of the engine, such start control ensures an adequate change of the open and close timings of the intake valve set in the stop state of the engine. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255494 | Variable Valve Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engine - A worm gear is connected to an actuator and a worm wheel is connected to a. control shaft. The worm wheel has teeth formed only on a predetermined angular range thereof. The above-referenced angular range includes a required rotational range of the control shaft. The worm wheel is formed to be brought out of mesh with the worm gear outside the predetermined angular range. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255495 | Method of Variable Valve Timing in an Internal Combustion Engine - A method of variable valve timing in an internal combustion engine in which the valve opening and closing timing of the actuated gas exchange valves of the internal combustion engine can be varied as a function of engine speed by adjusting means for adjusting at least one camshaft relative to a crankshaft, said internal combustion engine comprising hydraulic valve lash adjusters for adjusting a valve lash of the gas exchange valves, said lash adjusters being configured at least on one of an inlet side and an outlet side as idle stroke elements which, when actuated, at first produce an engine speed-dependent idle stroke and to provide a method of variable valve timing for internal combustion engines comprising a camshaft adjustment and a hydraulic valve adjustment with an idle stroke function that guarantees favorable valve timing in all operational situations of the internal combustion engine and, at the same time, improves the thermodynamic exploitation of such internal combustion engines, at each adjustment of the at least one camshaft, the respective idle stroke of the valve lash adjusters is taken into account. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255496 | CONTINUOUS VARIABLE VALVE LIFT DEVICE - A continuous variable valve lift device includes a valve, which opens/closes a channel by means of reciprocation, a control shaft, which is mounted so as to be able to move toward or away from a reciprocation central axis of the valve, a pivotable shoe, which is pivotably coupled to the control shaft, includes a cam insertion part in a recess or through-hole shape and a slide face slidably contacting an end of the valve, and reciprocates the valve when pivoted, and a drive cam, which comes into contact with an inner wall of the cam insertion part, and pivots the pivotable shoe. Thereby, the continuous variable valve lift device can freely adjust a lift amount and a lift time of the valve without changing positions of the drive cam and camshaft, and thus be easily applied to an existing engine. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255497 | DUAL-EQUAL CAM PHASING WITH VARIABLE OVERLAP - A cam phaser assembly may include a drive plate assembly, a cavity plate, and a driven plate assembly. The drive plate assembly may include a drive plate and a first vane fixed for rotation with the drive plate. The cavity plate may be rotationally driven by the drive plate and may define first and second chambers. The first vane may extend into the first chamber. The driven plate assembly may be rotationally driven by the drive plate assembly and may include a driven plate and a second vane fixed for rotation with the driven plate that extends into the second chamber. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255498 | DILUTING FUEL-IN-OIL TREATING APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present apparatus includes a cross-flow filtration fuel separator having a separation membrane separating by permeation, fuel from lubricating oil flowing in an oil circuit of an internal combustion engine; a vapor-liquid separator separating the fuel separated by the fuel separator, into a gas component and a liquid component; and a fuel collector (canister) collecting the gas component of the fuel separated by the vapor-liquid separator. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255499 | Surface Ignition Mechanism For Diesel Engines - The present disclosure relates to combusting fuel during cold start. A glow-plug may be provided within a combustion chamber having a volume including a piston, wherein the glow plug may provide a localized heated region. Air may then be provided into the chamber and compressed. A mass of fuel may also be provided into the combustion chamber, wherein an amount of the fuel mass may be directed towards the localized heated region of the glow plug, wherein the heated region of the glow plug may have a temperature T | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255500 | Spark Plug - A spark plug for igniting a combustible gas mixture in an internal combustion engine includes an ignition electrode with an electrical supply line is connected thereto. A pipe housing is provided for enclosing the electrical supply line and a venting channel is provided for discharging combustion gases from the pipe housing. The venting channel provides for discharging combustion gases infiltrating the spark plug as leakage gases run along the supply line. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255501 | Intake duct for vehicle - An intake duct for a vehicle having an inlet port formed so that the open side faces obliquely upward. The intake duct includes an inlet part formed in a flat shape expanding in the lateral direction crossing an air stream direction and a deflector provided in an air stream passage of the inlet part and extending in the left-and-right direction of the air stream passage. The intake duct further includes a first support member, which is provided between the deflector and the lower wall portion of the inlet part, and a second support member, which is provided between the deflector and the upper wall portion of the inlet part. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255502 | Starter System for Engine - A starting system for an engine having a crankshaft with a first end and a second end that includes a recoil-type manual pulley configured to selective engage a first ratchet mechanism operatively connected to the first end of the crankshaft and an electric motor gearingly connected to a starter gear having a cam assembly configured to selective engage a second ratchet mechanism operatively connected to the second end of the crankshaft. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255503 | ENGINE AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255504 | Method of Hardening Surface of Metallic Part, Piston, Cylinder Head, and Cylinder Block Each Produced Using the Surface-Hardening Method, and Process for Producing the Same - With regard to a surface hardening method that a surface of an engine member is coated with an alloy layer having high abrasive resistance so as to improve life of the member and a production method of a piston or the like that abrasive resistance of the member is improved by the hardening method, a surface of a metal base material is coated uniformly with mixture including metal powder, a binder and solvent so as to form a coat, and the coat is dried and applied thereon with laser or electron beam so as to be sintered and dispersed for forming an alloy layer on a surface of the metal base material and for bonding the alloy layer to the metal base material. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255505 | DILUTING FUEL-IN-OIL TREATING APPARATUS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present apparatus includes an oil container (an oil pan); an oil path connecting the oil container to lubricated parts; an oil pump provided in the oil path and supplying the lubricating oil from the oil container to the lubricated parts; a bypass path having a first end side thereof connected to a downstream side of the oil pump of the oil path and a second end side thereof connected to an upstream side of the oil pump of the oil path; a fuel separator provided in the bypass path and separating fuel from the lubricating oil flowing in the bypass path; and an open/close valve provided in the bypass path and opening and closing the bypass path based on a temperature of the lubricating oil or a physical quantity the lubricating oil having a correlation with the temperature. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255506 | Rotary internal combustion engine - The present invention relates to a rotary internal combustion engine that extracts power from expansion gases supplied to a rotary power-extraction assembly, and related methods. The disclosed engines include a compressor assembly, a combustion assembly, and a rotary power-extraction assembly. The compressor assembly supplies a compressed charge to the combustion assembly. The combustion assembly initiates combustion and discharges expansion gases to the rotary power-extraction assembly. A rotary power-extraction assembly can be configured to include an annular chamber where expansion gases drive a power rotor. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255507 | Piston Valve Internal Combustion Engine - An internal combustion engine of two perpendicular, toroidal cylinders intersecting at two junctions with each cylinder containing one piston filling half of its volume. The pistons are 180 degrees out of phase; each alternately occluding one intersection or the other. Each piston completes a full power, exhaust, intake, and compression stroke in one revolution. Endplates of 45 degrees allow the combustion chamber junction to be permanently filled and sealed at all times; first by one piston, then by the tips of both pistons as the complementary-angled endplates tangentially slide past one another, and then by the other piston. Compressed gases are shunted into the crossing cylinder's combustion chamber. Both pistons orbit continuously, one-way. Airflow is also one-way. Each piston is mounted to a sealed, 360-degree, counterbalanced ring gear. One ring gear is positioned centrally and the other peripherally to prevent interference. These maintain coordination between the pistons and provide output. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255508 | INJECTOR-IGNITION FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present invention provides a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses fuel substantially exclusively during the power stroke of an internal combustion engine, wherein ignition occurs in a fast burn zone at high fuel density such that a leading surface of the fuel is completely burned within several microseconds. In operation, the fuel injector precisely meters instantly igniting fuel at a predetermined crank angle for optimal power stroke production. Specifically, the fuel is metered into the fuel injector, such that the fuel injector heats, vaporizes, compresses and mildly oxidizes the fuel, and then dispenses the fuel as a relatively low pressure gas column into a combustion chamber of the engine. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255509 | IDLING STATE STABILIZING DEVICE FOR ENGINE - An idling state stabilizing device for an engine is disclosed that can decrease the torque that is necessary for rotation of a magneto by decreasing an output current, without setting an engine speed high, even though the engine is in the idling state, can stabilize the engine rotation, and accordingly can improve fuel economy, and further can reduce noises. A current value output from a generator when an engine is in an idling state is set as an output current value in a power generation control device. The power generation control device determines that the engine is in the idling state when the engine speed becomes equal to or less than an idling state rotational speed, detects the maximum engine speed and the minimum engine speed during a predetermined time period when the engine is in the idling state, calculates an engine speed fluctuation amount of the engine by subtracting the minimum engine speed from the maximum engine speed, and controls the current value output from the generator to be a low output current value which is lower than the previous output current value when the engine speed fluctuation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255510 | VARIABLE VALVE TIMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING VALVE PHASE THEREOF - When the engine speed is high (determination of YES at S | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255511 | FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEM - A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine, the system comprising a common rail fuel reservoir having a primary rail axis and comprising a plurality of outlets at spaced locations along said rail axis and a plurality of fuel injectors arranged at spaced locations with respect to said rail axis. Each injector comprises an injector inlet, said plurality of fuel injectors defining first and second groups of injectors. The system further comprises first and second groups of pipes of substantially equal length, wherein each of said first group of pipes is of a first common design and connects the injector inlet of one of said first group of fuel injectors to an outlet displaced relative to said one of said first group of fuel injectors in a first direction substantially parallel to said rail axis, and each of said second group of pipes is of a second common design and connects the injector inlet of one of said second group of fuel injectors to an outlet displaced relative to said one of said second group of fuel injectors in a second direction substantially parallel to said rail axis and antiparallel to said first direction. Not more than one of said first group of injectors is disposed adjacent to said second group of injectors. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255512 | COMPACT RELIEF VALVE HAVING DAMPING FUNCTIONALITY - A relief valve is provided for use with a fuel system. The relief valve may have a housing forming an inlet, an outlet, and a central bore fluidly connecting the inlet to the outlet. The relief valve may also have a valve element disposed within the central bore of the housing and being configured to move between a flow-passing position and a flow-blocking position. The valve element may have a passageway continuously communicating the inlet of the housing with the outlet of the housing. The relief valve may also have a resilient member situated to bias the valve element toward the flow-blocking position. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255513 | Deformable chamber-based homogeneous charge combustion ignition (HCCI) engine and generator - A reciprocating internal combustion engine is based on Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) that occurs in a deformable, resonant combustion chamber and that is coupled mechanically to efficient, resonant, electromechanical transducers acting as motors and generators. The mechanical coupling also implements fuel/air intake valves and exhaust valves. Embedded sensors allow an electronic control system to start the engine and thereafter to maintain operational configuration of the moving components in response to the effects of imperfect mechanical fabrication and/or assembly and dynamic changes in mechanical properties of the materials with run-time temperature and engine life. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255514 | FUEL PUMP SHAFT AND PUMP MOUNTING IN ENGINE BLOCK - An engine assembly may include an engine block, a fuel pump, and a drive shaft. The engine block may include first and second banks defining first and second sets of cylinders disposed at an angle relative to one another to form a V-configuration. The engine block may include a valley between the first and second banks of cylinders. The fuel pump may be supported by the engine block and located within the valley. The drive shaft may be supported by the engine block and may be drivingly engaged with the fuel pump. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255515 | Delivery Unit for Delivering Fuel - A delivery unit for delivering fuel in a fuel tank comprises a prefilter and swirl pot which are produced as one piece. The prefilter is produced during die-casting of the swirl pot. The invention allows the delivery unit to be produced in an especially inexpensive manner. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255516 | SOLENOID VALVE - A solenoid valve is directly connected to the intake pipe | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255517 | Two-Stage Supercharging System for Internal Combustion Engine - A sequential-type, two-stage supercharging system ( | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255518 | TURBO-CHARGED GASOLINE ENGINE WITH VARIABLE CONTROL OF INTAKE VALVES - In a turbo-charged gasoline engine the opening profile of each intake valve, defined by the opening and closing moments and by the lift, or by the opening stroke of the intake valve, is varied according to the engine operating conditions, so as to reduce or completely eliminate the intervention of a “waste-gate” valve and ensure that in each engine operating condition each cylinder processes only the quantity of air necessary for optimal combustion, with an air/gasoline dosage value close to the stoichiometric ratio. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255519 | SILENCER FOR A MOTOR DEVICE - A silencer for a two-stroke engine includes a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein a flow channel is provided between an outlet of a combustion chamber and the first chamber. A high charge degree of the combustion chamber has a pressure ratio in the region of the outlet which reduces or prevents an escape of fresh gas from the combustion chamber. The flow channel between the outlet and the first chamber is flow-favourably shaped in such a manner that the exhaust gas that flows out of the outlet because of its mass inertia predominantly flows into the first chamber and following charging of the first chamber flows back again and as a result a back pressure is formed in the direction of the combustion chamber. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255520 | TWO-TRACK SYSTEM FOR DUAL CAM COMPOUND BOW - The present invention comprises a two-track cam assembly wherein the cam assembly has a bowstring component for housing the bowstring and a power cable component that allows for the take up and let out of the power cable on opposing ends of the power cable component, effectively creating a two-track cam assembly. The efficiency rating of the device achieves 95.8%. The cam assembly can come in a unitary or modular form and further each component (i.e. the bowstring or power cable component) can be in a circular or non-circular form. | 2009-10-15 |
| 20090255521 | PAINT BALL GUN HAVING PAINT BALL DISPENSER WITH SNAP CONNECTOR - A paint ball gun is disclosed including a dispenser having a locking connector designed to lockingly engage a locking connector on a gun feed tube or one end of a hollow connecting member. | 2009-10-15 |
