48th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 6 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090288736 | Operation Device for Quick and Accurate Control of Working Device of Tenoner - An operation device includes a connecting member mounted on and moved with a working device of a tenoner. A positioning mechanism is mounted on and moved with the connecting member and includes a tube mounted on the connecting member and adapted to be fixed at various positions, an elastic member and a shaft retained in a hollow of the tube. The shaft includes an end extended outside of the tube and a roller mounted on the end and engaged with a guiding member. The elastic member is disposed between the tube and the shaft and selectively depressed such that the elastic member enables the shaft to movably engage with an undulated edge of the guiding member in a quick and accurate manner. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288737 | Apparatus for positioning and splitting wood - Apparatus for positioning and splitting wood. The apparatus includes: a beam having a longitudinal axis; a wood splitting blade attached at or near an of the beam; a workpiece slidably attached to the beam such that when wood is positioned between the splitting blade and the workpiece and the workpiece is slid in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the beam toward the splitting blade, the wood is forced into the splitting blade to split the wood; and a stationary jaw member attached at or near one end of the beam so that when the apparatus is attached to the boom of a backhoe or the like in place of the bucket thereof, wood can be grasped between the stationary jaw member and a jaw member attached to the boom of the backhoe or the like so that the wood can be positioned by movement of the apparatus. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288738 | PROCESS FOR OBTAINING DESALTED WATER FROM ZIRCONIUM-CONTAINING WASH WATER - A method for recovering demineralized water from zirconium-containing rinse water having a pH lower than 6.0, wherein a) the rinse water has added to it an aqueous solution of Ca(OH) | 2009-11-26 |
20090288739 | BINDER-COMPRISING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITIONS FOR PRODUCING SHAPED METALLIC BODIES - The present invention relates to binders for pulverulent metals or pulverulent metal alloys, thermoplastic compositions comprising these binders for producing shaped metallic bodies, a process for producing them, their use and a process for producing shaped bodies therefrom. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288740 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A CAST COMPONENT - The invention relates to a method for producing a cast component ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288741 | Amorphous Alloy and A Preparation Method Thereof - In one aspect, an amorphous alloy comprises Cu, Zr, Be and M. M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Sn, Si, group IB, group IIB, group IIIB, group IVB, group VB, group VIB, group VIIB and group VIIIB of the element periodic table, provided that the element is not Cu or Zr. In another aspect, an amorphous alloy comprises Cu, Zr, RE and M. RE is at least one element selected from the rare earth elements, M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Sn, Si, group IB, group IIB, group IIIB, group IVB, group VB, group VIB, group VIIB and group VIIIB of the element periodic table, provided that the element is not Cu, Zr or RE. In yet another aspect, a method for preparing an amorphous alloy comprises melting a raw material comprising Cu, Zr, Be, and M to form an alloy. M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Sn, Si, group IB, group IIB, group IIIB, group IVB, group VB, group VIB, group VIIB and group VIIIB of the element periodic table, provided that the element is not Cu or Zr. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288742 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF A PREDOMINANTLY STEEL MECHANICAL PART OF A WIND TURBINE AND/OR FOR REDUCING THE TENDENCY TO FORM WHAT ARE CALLED "WHITE ETCHING CRACKS" OR "BRITTLE FLAKES" IN SUCH STEEL MECHANICAL PARTS - Method for increasing the fatigue strength of a mechanical part of a wind turbine and/or for reducing the tendency to form what are called “white etching cracks” or “brittle flakes” in such a bearing, which includes making one or several of the bearing rings and/or roller elements concerned of the bearing at least partly of a hardened steel having a carbon content between 0.4 and 0.8 percent by weight. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288743 | POLYMERIC QUENCHANT, MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR QUENCHING STEEL - A polymeric quenchant. The polymeric quenchant comprises an inorganic nanoparticle, a water-soluble polymer, and water, wherein a weight ratio of the inorganic nanoparticle, water-soluble polymer and water is about 0.05-5:1-5:100. The cooling rate of steel during a quenching process can be adjusted by regulating the components and ratios of the adjusted by regulating the components and ratios of the polymeric quenchant to achieve desirable steel properties. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288744 | Collapsible Storable Handbag With Detachable Panels - A collapsible handbag comprised of a main body panel comprised of material having deformable features, two side panels, and a handle disposed on the outer surface of the main body panel, wherein all panels are attachable/detachable and can be laid down flat and folded/tuck for ease in storage or travel, and in which the panels are interchangeable with other panels of various designs. A flap panel is also attachable to one of the top edges of the main body panel as well as accessory attachment, including a coin purse or pouch, which is attachable to one of the side panels. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288745 | INSERTABLE PERSONAL STORAGE DEVICE - A personal storage device particularly well adapted to be carried in a foldable wallet or checkbook to occupy heretofore wasted space, providing a secure receptacle selectively closeable and extending parallel to and adjacent the fold line. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288746 | SINGLE-FOLD WALLET - There is a single-fold wallet configured to secure and store monetary funds and personal items. The wallet includes a single-fold housing configured to secure and store monetary funds and personal items. The wallet also includes a transparent window pocket disposed on an exterior surface of the housing. The wallet further includes a plurality of pocket sleeves, each having an aperture disposed along a top end of the sleeve. The sleeves are coupled to an interior surface of the housing in an array, wherein a portion of each sleeve is transparent. The wallet additionally includes a monetary pocket disposed within the housing between the plurality of pocket sleeves and the housing. Furthermore, the wallet includes a clip having a biased member disposed on the exterior surface of the housing, coupled to the housing opposite of the transparent window. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288747 | Metal Cord, Rubber-Cord Complex and Pneumatic Tire Using the Same - A rubber-cord complex having an improved wet heat adhesive property between a rubber and a cord comprising a drawn plated wire, and including a metal cord comprising a drawn plated wire prepared by providing a brass plated layer on the surface of an element wire and drawing the resulting plated wire, and a rubber vulcanized and bonded to the cord, wherein in a wet heat deterioration state of the drawn plated wire after being subjected to the vulcanization to bond the rubber thereto and further held under an atmosphere having a temperature of 50 to 100° C. and a humidity of 60 to 100% for one hour to 20 days, the average grain size of crystal grains present in the brass plated layer is not more than 50 nm, and the grain boundary of the crystal grains has a fractal dimension of 1.001 to 1.500. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288748 | Cellulose raw cord for rubber reinforcement - The present invention provides a lyocell raw cord prepared from at least 2-ply lyocell multifilaments, which gives a stress-strain curve exhibiting that (a) the lyocell raw cord has an elongation of 1.5% or less at an initial stress of 1.0 g/d, and an initial modulus value of 50 to 100 g/d; (b) has an elongation of 7% or less in a stress region of 1.0 g/d to 4.0 g/d; and (c) has an elongation of 1% or more at a tensile strength of 4.0 g/d to the breaking point, as measured in the dried state. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288749 | PNEUMATIC TIRE HAVING LIGHT SHIELDING LAYER ON SURFACE - A pneumatic tire having, as an air permeation preventive layer on the surface thereof, a layer of a thermoplastic resin or a layer of a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a thermoplastic resin, in which an elastomer component is dispersed, arranged and further having, on the surface of the layer of the thermoplastic resin or the layer of the thermoplastic elastomer composition, a light-blocking layer having a light transmittance of less than 10% in the range of a wavelength of 280 to 400 nm, wherein degradation of the air permeation preventive layer by sunlight is prevented using the thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer composition. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288750 | TIRE WITH AIR BARRIER LAYER - The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having an air barrier layer, particularly an integral pneumatic tire innerliner, for prevention, or retardation, of air permeation from its inner chamber to the atmosphere through the carcass of the tire. The innerliner is comprised of an annular, cylindrical, hoop of a film having its ends overlapped and heat sealed together. The film is comprised of a continuous thermoplastic polymer phase which contains a dispersion therein of cured rubber domains, particularly cured low unsaturation rubber domains. In one embodiment, one surface of the film contains a thin bonding layer to aid in bonding the film to an unsaturated rubber-containing tire carcass. In one embodiment, the overlapping portion of the ends of the film have a thin rubber layer positioned therebetween. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288751 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - This invention provides a pneumatic tire provided with a carcass ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288752 | Tire for Heavy Vehicles - A tire for a heavy vehicle with a radial carcass reinforcement of a width in excess of 25 inches comprising at least a working crown reinforcement made up of at least one layer of reinforcing elements oriented substantially circumferentially, radially surmounted by at least two so-called working layers axially wider than the layer of substantially circumferentially oriented reinforcing elements. Each of the working layers is made up of at least two axially separated parts, the distance between the axially inner end of each of the axially outer parts of at least the radially innermost working layer and the end of the radially outermost layer of substantially circumferentially oriented reinforcing elements being less than 45 mm and the gap, in the axial direction, between two parts of each of the working crown layers being greater than 5 mm. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288753 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING ADHESIONS BETWEEN AN IMPLANT AND SURROUNDING TISSUES - An anti-adhesion membrane is placed onto an implant introduced into a surgical site of a patient to prevent post-surgical adhesions between the implant and surrounding tissue. The implant may comprise either biological material, such as a transplanted organ, or non-biological material such as a medical device. The membrane may be applied in a variety of ways. In one example, a membrane according to the present invention is shrink-wrapped around a pace-maker. In another example, a breast implant is spray-coated or dipped with the membrane material. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288754 | LAYERED FILM FABRICATION METHOD, LAYERED FILM DEFECT DETECTION METHOD, LAYERED FILM DEFECT DETECTION DEVICE, LAYERED FILM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - When inspecting a defect of a layered film having a polarizer by using an inspection polarizing filter or an inspection phase difference filter, members to be arranged in the imaging optical path are arranged in an appropriate order. A defect detection method of a layered film ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288755 | DRYWALL JOINT COMPOUND APPLICATOR FOR SEAM AND PATCH SURFACING - A drywall patch is coated with a premeasured amount of joint compound in its wet state making it immediately available for application to a wall surface. The patch with compound is sealed in an airtight wrapper or between unsealed wrapper halves which are in turn sealed in a surrounding airtight package so that the joint compound stays moist and will not harden over time. The wrapper includes a peel-away adhesive dry patch. In use, the dry patch is first applied over a crack or hole to be repaired. The wrapper and compound are applied directly over the dry patch and, while the wrapper remains in place, pressure is applied to smooth the compound over the patch and removed after the compound has dried. The wrapper is preferably composed of microporous breathable plastic film. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288756 | FRAME SEAL METHODS FOR LCD - A method for providing a bonded glass component for use in an LCD display. A frame is sealed to a glass component. A barrier coat is then applied to the sealant. An adhesive is poured over the entirety of the glass component and the frame. Starting at one edge of the glass component a second glass component is lowered down until an adhesive wave progresses across the glass component, until the second glass component in position. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A CONTINUED UNION OF PAPER WEBS - Apparatus for continually joining paper webs, comprising a device able to compress the webs ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288758 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HONEYCOMB SEGMENT BONDED ARTICLE - There is provided a method for producing a honeycomb segment bonded article, the method inhibiting decrease in strength properties due to a variance in a texture of the bonding material layer between a plurality of honeycomb segments unitarily bonded together by means of the bonding material layer formed of the bonding material. After producing a preliminary block by unitarily bonding a plurality of honeycomb segments having a plurality of cells being partitioned by partition walls and passing through in the axial direction with a bonding material at a bonding face of each of the honeycomb segments and drying the honeycomb segments, the preliminary blocks are integrally bonded together, or honeycomb segments of one layer are bonded on an outer peripheral face of the preliminary block. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288759 | Method for Applying a Label and Labeling Unit for this Purpose - A method for applying a label on an object includes the following steps: an activatable adhesive coating is applied on the first side of the label which forms the rear-side in the labeled state, at least in regions; the label is stored in a labeling magazine; the label is removed from the label magazine by means of a removal pallet which has an adhesive coating; the activatable adhesive coating is activated by an activation agent and subsequently the label is applied on the object with the first side. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288760 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEELING A FLEXIBLE SHEET FROM A SUBSTRATE - Methods and apparatus are described for removing donor sheets from substrates. A take-up roller contacts the donor element at or near an edge thereof and a peel roller contacts the donor element at a location spaced apart from the edge. A securing mechanism secures the edge of the donor element to the take-up roller which is then moved away from the substrate. While maintaining the peel roller in contact with the donor element, the take-up roller is rotated to take up the donor element while the peel roller and take-up roller are both simultaneously moved in a direction tangential to the substrate. In this manner, the donor element is peeled from the surface of the substrate. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288761 | COMPOSITE WITH THERMO-FORMABILITY, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CASING WITH TEXTURE ON SURFACE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a composite with thermo-formability, a method for making the same and a method for making a casing with a texture on the surface thereof. The composite includes a PU medium layer, a thermo-formable resin layer, a base layer and a surface layer. The thermo-formable resin layer is disposed on the PU medium layer, and includes polyol. The base layer is disposed on the thermo-formable resin layer. The surface layer is disposed on the base layer. As a result, the composite has good stability after thermoforming, and plastic can be injected into the composite, so a PC film is unnecessary. Moreover, the composite may be adhered to a substrate directly or after thermoforming. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288762 | METHOD FOR THE CONTINUOUS LAYING OF A CONDUCTOR ON A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - The invention relates to a method for welding a conductor to a conductive film, which is preferably intended for connection to a circuit board support in order to produce a printed circuit board, the depth or diameter of the conductor being preferably larger than the thickness of the conductive film. According to said method, the conductive film is in contact with a thermal isolation plate, at least during the welding process, the thermal conductivity of said plate being lower than that of the conductive film. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288763 | Thermally strippable double faced adhesive sheet and method of working work piece - A thermally strippable double faced adhesive sheet comprising a substrate, a thermally strippable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (A) arranged on one side of the substrate, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (B) arranged on the other side of the substrate, in which the substrate comprises a porous substrate. The porous substrate preferably has a density of 0.9 g/cm | 2009-11-26 |
20090288764 | Process For Manufacturing Free Standing Thermoplastic Polymeric Films - This invention discloses a novel process for manufacturing very thin freestanding polymeric films with the steps of supplying a molten film layer stream and a molten assist layer stream by a first extruder and second extruder; intimately contacting the film layer stream and the assist layer stream in coplanar fashion; extruding the film layer stream and the assist layer stream through a planar coextrusion die lip; stretching the multilayer melt curtain; cooling the multilayer film; delaminating the assist layer or layers from the film layer; and transporting the film layer to downstream processing operations. This process allows manufacturing of very thin freestanding films made from amorphous polymers, highly filled films made from amorphous, semi crystalline, or crystalline polymers, chemically cross linked films, and films with diffused addenda that would normally cause undesirable reactions in an extrusion environment. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288765 | Methods for the Manufacture of Fastener Tabs - A method of making fastener tabs includes providing a length of tab substrate. A first adhesive is applied to a first adhesive region of the length of tab substrate. A second adhesive is applied to a second adhesive region of the length of tab substrate. The first and second adhesive regions are adjacent such that the first and second adhesive regions have a common longitudinal edge. The first and second adhesive regions have different adhesion characteristics. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288766 | Heat-curable epoxy resin composition containing one blocked and one epoxide-terminated polyurethane prepolymer - Discussed are heat-curable epoxy resin compositions containing at least one epoxy resin A with, on average, more than one epoxide group per molecule, at least one curing agent B for epoxy resins, which is activated by an increased temperature, at least one terminally blocked polyurethane prepolymer of formula (I) and at least one epoxide-terminated polyurethane prepolymer of formula (II). The epoxy resin compositions are particularly suitable for use as one-component, heat-curable adhesives and are characterized by excellent mechanical properties, high glass transition temperatures and high impact resistance. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288767 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - By an electronic component mounting method for electrically connecting bumps to board electrodes, in a contact process for placing a thermosetting resin in a liquid glob state on the board surface and bringing the lower surface of the electronic component in contact with the thermosetting resin, the bumps are pressurized against the electrodes in positional alignment in a liquid glob distribution state where one portion of the liquid glob is arranged inside an electronic component mounting region and a remaining portion greater in liquid measure than the portion is arranged outside the electronic component mounting region. The thermosetting resin enters into a gap between the electronic component and the board by capillarity in a thermocompression bonding process. This prevents voids occurring in the sealing resin, reinforces bonded portions of bumps and electrodes with thermally cured thermosetting resin, thereby preventing bonded portion breakage due to thermal stress generated during a cooling process. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288768 | DI-CINNAMYL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREOF - The invention generally relates to di-cinnamyl compounds useful in a variety of adhesive applications. More specifically, the invention provides chain-extended bismaleimides and methods for generating them by reaction with di-cinnamyl compounds, including particular di-cinnamyl compounds disclosed herein. Invention di-cinnamyl compounds can also be used as co-monomers in a Diels-Alder type cure, and can act as a co-monomer in a thermoset composition with a maleimide monomer. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288769 | Surface-Promoted Cure of Cationically Curable Compositions Comprising Vinyl Ethers - The present invention relates to cationically curable compositions for curing on a surface comprising a cationically curable component, an accelerator species comprising at least one vinyl ether functional group and an initiator component capable of initiating cure of the cationically curable component. The initiator comprises at least one metal salt, which is chosen so that it is reduced at the surface, and where the standard reduction potential of the initiator component is greater than the standard reduction potential of the surface, and where when the composition is placed in contact with the surface, the metal salt of the initiator component of the composition is reduced at the surface, thereby initiating cure of the cationically curable component of the composition. The accelerator species comprising at least one vinyl ether functional group greatly enhances the rate of cure. No catalytic component is required in the composition for efficient cure | 2009-11-26 |
20090288770 | SURFACE-PROMOTED CURE OF ONE-PART CATIONICALLY CURABLE COMPOSITIONS - The present invention relates to cationically curable compositions for curing on a surface comprising a cationically curable component, and an initiator component capable of initiating cure of the cationically curable component. The initiator comprises at least one metal salt, which is chosen so that it is reduced at the surface, and where the standard reduction potential of the initiator component is greater than the standard reduction potential of the surface, and where when the composition is placed in contact with the surface, the metal salt of the initiator component of the composition is reduced at the surface, thereby initiating cure of the cationically curable component of the composition. No catalytic component is required in the composition for efficient cure. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288771 | SURFACE-PROMOTED CURE OF ONE-PART RADICALLY CURABLE COMPOSITIONS - The present invention relates to radically curable compositions for curing on a surface comprising a radically curable component, and an initiator component capable of initiating cure of the radically curable component. The initiator comprises at least one metal salt and a free radical generating component. The metal salt of the composition is chosen so that it is reduced at the surface, where the standard reduction potential of the metal salt is greater than the standard reduction potential of the surface, and where when the composition is placed in contact with the surface, the metal salt is reduced at the surface, and interacts with the free radical generating component, thereby initiating cure of the radically curable component of the composition. No catalytic component is required in the composition for efficient curing. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288772 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Metal Bearing Gases - A method and apparatus for processing metal bearing gases involves generating a toroidal plasma in a plasma chamber. A metal bearing gas is introduced into the plasma chamber to react with the toroidal plasma. The interaction between the toroidal plasma and the metal bearing gas produces at least one of a metallic material, a metal oxide material or a metal nitride material. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288773 | MULTIPLE-ELECTRODE PLASMA PROCESSING SYSTEMS WITH CONFINED PROCESS CHAMBERS AND INTERIOR-BUSSED ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE ELECTRODES - Apparatus for treating products with plasma generated from a source gas. The apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a plurality of juxtaposed electrodes arranged in adjacent pairs inside the vacuum chamber, and a plasma excitation source electrically coupled with the electrodes. The apparatus may include conductive members extending into the interior of each electrode to establish a respective electrical connection with the plasma excitation source. The apparatus may include a gas distribution manifold and multiple gas delivery tubes coupled with the gas distribution manifold. Each gas delivery tube has an injection port configured to inject the source gas between each adjacent pair of electrodes. The apparatus may further include flow restricting members that operate to partially obstruct a peripheral gap between each adjacent pair of electrodes, which restricts the escape of the source gas from the process chamber between each adjacent pair of electrodes. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288774 | SUBSTRATE BONDING APPARATUS - To provide a substrate bonding apparatus for manufacturing a substrate with a retainer capable of meeting standard requirements while reducing damage on the information recording surface of the substrate. The apparatus comprises a loading pedestal | 2009-11-26 |
20090288775 | Handicraft assisting tool - A handicraft assisting tool for folding a fabric into a configuration having rotational symmetry is provided. The handicraft assisting tool includes a flexible sheet body adhered to the fabric and a folding facilitator formed at the sheet body. The folding facilitator facilitates an operation of folding an overlapped product, which is obtained by adhering the fabric to the sheet body, along a predetermined folding line. The folding facilitator includes, for example, a plurality of slits disposed along the predetermined folding line. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288776 | HAND-HELD PRINTER - A receptacle section stores a label. A label discharge port is positioned at a front end portion of a housing to let the label pass therethrough. A guide passage connects the receptacle portion and the label discharge port with each other and guides the label. A conveyance mechanism conveys the label along the guide passage from the receptacle section and discharges it through the label discharge port. A control section controls a drive source of the conveyance mechanism. A printing section performs a printing operation in the guide passage. A pivotable member is positioned in the label discharge port. One end of the pivotable member is located outside the front end portion of the housing, while an opposite end thereof is located inside the front end portion of the housing, and the pivotable member pivots, centered on an axis thereof extending in the width direction of the label discharged through the label discharge port. A label pressing section is positioned on the one end side of the pivotable member to press the label discharged through the label discharge port against a to-be-labeled object. A label cutting section is positioned on the opposite end side of the pivotable member, and with a pivoting motion of the pivotable member induced by the pressing motion of the label pressing section, the label cutting section comes into abutment against the label to form a slit in the label. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288777 | TAPE SPLICING APPARATUS AND ATTACHING APPARATUS - Provided is an apparatus capable of easily splicing ACF tapes that are thin and are hard to handle. The tape splicing apparatus splices two ACF tapes ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288778 | LABELING MACHINE WITH A LABEL PRESSING DEVICE - A labeling machine includes a conveying device, a label applying device, and a label pressing device. The conveying device includes opposite upper and lower conveyer belts adapted for conveying a container such that upper and lower ends of the container are contacted by the upper and lower conveyer belts, respectively. The label applying device is adapted to attach a portion of the label on an initial label attaching portion of the container on the conveying device. The label pressing device includes a first press unit adapted to press a first segment of the label against the container while the container is being conveyed by the conveying device in a conveying direction, and a second press unit adapted to press a second segment of the label against the container while the container is being conveyed by the conveying device in the conveying direction. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288779 | PAPER-SHEET HANDLING DEVICE - A paper-sheet handling device comprises a clamp movement mechanism for sandwiching a bundle of paper-sheets by attaching component guide members to a position covering a portion of punch holes from the front and rear surfaces of the bundle of paper-sheets. A binding component is bound to the bundle of paper-sheets while contacting both tip portions of the binding component to the binding component guide members and sandwiching the bundle of paper-sheets by the clamp movement mechanism. Such a configuration enables both tip portions of the binding component to insert into each perforated hole while keeping a distance between both tip portions of the binding component and each of the perforated holes substantially constant and at the same time, even in the case of binding components of different diameters, the distance between the binding component and an internal circumference of each of the holes perforated in the bundle of paper-sheets is kept substantially constant. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288780 | PERFORATED SUPPORT PLATE - To provide a perforated support plate with high rigidity, the perforated support plate for supporting a surface of a wafer by interposing an adhesive layer comprises a reinforcing part for deflection prevention. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288781 | APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING TIRES ON LARGE WHEELS - A device for mounting a tire on a wheel that includes a locking ring to hold the tire in place on the wheel, where the device includes a locking member which locks to the rim of the wheel and includes a cross bar with depending feet, which is connected to the locking member and is movable toward the locking member with the depending feet engaged with the locking ring to press the locking ring into locking engagement with the wheel. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288782 | LAYERED BLINDS - A layered blinds device having a series of screens of evenly spaced rods held in parallel relation to one another that allow users to manipulate light penetration and view transparency as independent variables and a method for doing the same. A spacing mechanism adjusts the spacing between the screens which controls the light penetration while an alignment mechanism adjusts the alignment of the rods which controls the view transparency. The blinds can be adjusted manually or by a tracking system. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288783 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF CURTAINS - A curtain system is described that includes a curtain having a plurality of rod engaging members attached at an end thereof. The plurality of rods each have a curtain release mechanism attached thereto where the rod engaging members are configured to engage respective curtain release mechanisms. The curtain release mechanisms each include a user operable mechanism for retention of and subsequent substantially simultaneous release of the rod engaging members from the curtain release mechanisms. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288784 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF CURTAINS - A privacy curtain system is described that includes a curtain having a plurality of curtain release mechanisms attached thereto, the curtain release mechanisms each having a rod engaging member extending therefrom. The system also includes a plurality of rods each comprising a lower hooking member configured to engage one of the rod engaging members. The curtain release mechanisms are operable to cause a portion of each rod engaging member to release from the respective curtain release mechanism. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF CURTAINS - A curtain system is described which includes a curtain having a plurality of rod engaging members attached thereto, a plurality of rods each having a first end, and a curtain release mechanism attached to the rod at the first end thereof. The rod engaging members each includes a stem having a first end and a second end and a yoke extending from the first end of the stem. The curtain release mechanisms have a slot formed therein and extending therethrough and also include a user operable mechanism for retention of the yoke upon insertion into the slot. The user operable mechanism is further operable for substantially simultaneous release of the yokes and therefore the curtain from the curtain release mechanisms. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288786 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF PRIVACY CURTAINS - A privacy curtain system is described that includes a curtain having a plurality of rod engaging members extending therefrom, a curtain gathering cord slidably engaged with the curtain, and a plurality of rods. Each rod has a lower hooking member configured to engage one of the rod engaging members. The curtain gathering cord is operable to cause the rod engaging members to release from a respective lower hooking member. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288787 | CARGO NET FOR VEHICLE - A cargo net for vehicle enabling stored luggage to be prevented from being damaged by vibrations transmitted from a floor of a luggage compartment. A cargo net | 2009-11-26 |
20090288788 | Pretreating cellulosic biomass - The present invention pertains to methods for pretreatment of cellulosic biomass for bioconversion into ethanol and other biofuels and wood-based chemicals, recycling of newsprint and other paper products, microfibrillation of cellulose for use as an additive in the food and cosmetic industries, manufacturing improved hardboard, and producing and improved “super” pulp while reducing chemical usage and spent liquor generation. In particular, the instant invention employs supercritical, critical or near critical fluids with and without polar cosolvents [critical fluid, SuperFluids or SFS] for the pretreatment of cellulosic biomass. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288789 | MEDIUM CONSISTENCY REFINING METHOD OF PULP AND SYSTEM - A thermomechanical pulping method including: refining pulp with a high consistency refining stage, and a medium consistency refining stage processing the refined pulp discharge from the high consistency refining stage. Chemical pretreatments for improving pulp quality development during medium consistency refining can be optionally added at the pressurized chip press, fiberizer pre-refining step, primary high consistency refining step, and/or the standpipe feeding the medium consistency refiner. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288790 | Process and apparatus for treating green liquor - A method of and apparatus for treating a green liquor stream produced in a kraft pulp process to separate green liquor from dregs present in the stream by utilizing a filtration vessel that has a pressure differential between the green liquor inlet and outlet to drive the dregs from the green liquor. In addition, negative pressure is utilized in the filtration vessel to thereby drive water vapor from and consequently cool the filtered green liquor. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288791 | Nonwoven having improved wet fastness and alkali resistance and cellulose hydrate-based food casing from said nonwoven - The invention relates to a wet-fast nonwoven, preferably a fiber paper, which comprises fibers from a cellulose-containing material and fibers from a thermoplastic material welded firmly together at their points of intersection. The fibers from the cellulose-containing material are preferably hemp fibers while the fibers from the thermoplastic material are preferably fibers from polypropylene, polyester or polyamide. The fibers are interlinked under the action of pressure and/or heat, especially using a pair of heated calender rolls. The nonwoven or the fiber paper is especially used to reinforce food casings based on regenerated cellulose, especially in artificial cellulose hydrate-based sausage skins. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288792 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRESSED PRODUCTS FROM FIBER-CONTAINING RAW MATERIALS - A method produces pressed products from fiber-containing raw materials such as wood, straw, peat or suchlike, which are also referred to as secondary raw materials. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288793 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTINUOUS COOKING - The continuous digester system has an inlet defined therein for the feed of a chips suspension and an outlet for the output of a cooked suspension of pulp. The suspension of chips is fed in to the inlet through a line at the beginning of the cook, where the chips suspension has a volume of starting cooking fluid that establishes a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5. A final cooking fluid is present during the cook for the major part of the cook and is withdrawn through a withdrawal strainer only during the final 15 minutes of the cook. The final cooking fluid ensures a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5 in association with the withdrawal. The withdrawn final cooking fluid during the final 15 minutes of the cook consists of spent black liquor that maintains a residual alkali level that lies under 15 g/l. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288794 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING METAL BARS OR INGOTS - Method and apparatus for manufacturing metal bars or ingots. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288795 | Oxide restraint during co-casting of metals - A method and apparatus is disclosed for casting a composite ingot made of metals that are susceptible to surface oxide formation when molten. The method involves co-casting at least two metal layers from at least two molten metal pools formed within a direct chill casting apparatus. During the casting operation, movement of metal oxide formed on the upper surface of at least one of the pools towards an edge of the pool is restrained by an oxide skimmer positioned close to an edge of the pool above an external surface or metal-metal interface of the ingot. The apparatus provides a DC caster with at least one oxide skimmer that operates in this manner. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288796 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A CASTABLE HIGH TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM ALLOY BY CONTROLLED SOLIDIFICATION - A castable high temperature aluminum alloy is cast by controlled solidification that combines composition design and solidification rate control to synergistically enhance the performance and versatility of the castable aluminum alloy for a wide range of elevated temperature applications. In one example, the aluminum alloy contains by weight approximately 1.0-20.0% of rare earth elements that contribute to the elevated temperature strength by forming a dispersion of insoluble particles via a eutectic microstructure. The aluminum alloy also includes approximately 0.1 to 15% by weight of minor alloy elements. Controlled solidification improves microstructural uniformity and refinement and provides the optimum structure and properties for the specific casting condition. The molten aluminum alloy is poured into an investment casing shell and lowered into a quenchant at a controlled rate. The molten aluminum alloy cools from the bottom of the investment casting shell upwardly to uniformly and quickly cool the aluminum alloy. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288797 | EXPENDABLE SALT CORE FOR CASTING - An expendable salt core has the shape of a water jacket by, e.g., die casting using a salt of bromine and at least one of sodium and potassium, and a salt of carbonic acid and at least one of sodium and potassium. The expendable salt core is formed to contain at least one of potassium and sodium as a cation, and bromine and carbonic acid as anions. For example, the expendable salt core is formed by casting using a melt obtained by melting a salt mixture of sodium bromide and sodium carbonate. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288798 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF THIN CAST STRIP - An apparatus and method for continuously casting thin steel strip includes a pair of counter-rotatable casting rolls having a nip there between capable of delivering cast strip downwardly from the nip, a metal delivery system capable of forming a casting pool supported on casting surfaces of the casting rolls above the nip with side dams adjacent the ends of the nip to confine the casting pool, and a hot rolling mill having work rolls with work surfaces forming a gap between them through which hot strip delivered from the casting rolls is rolled, the work rolls having work surfaces relating to the desired strip profile across the work rolls. Misting jets may be in intervals along the path of the cast strip exiting from the hot rolling mill to form a cooling zone, the misting jets capable of directing toward surfaces of the cast strip a mixture of gas and water having a ratio of gas over water between 9 and 90 to cool the cast strip at more than 1.6° C. per liter of water used. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288799 | Method of Production of Ultralow Carbon Cast Slab - A method of production of an ultralow carbon cast slab characterized by adding Ti to molten steel decarburized to a carbon concentration of 0.01 mass % or less, further adding at least one of Ce, La, and Nd, and using an immersion nozzle to inject the above molten steel from a tundish to a casting mold for continuous casting while maintaining a flow rate of Ar gas blown from any location in a range from a tundish upper nozzle to discharge ports of said immersion nozzle at 3 Nl (normal liter)/min or less. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288800 | Cooling and Heating Cabinet Device of Rear Seat for Vehicles Using Thermoelectric Element - The present invention relates to a cooling and heating cabinet device of a rear seat side for a vehicle using a thermoelectric module that is mounted between rear seats of a vehicle, having cooling and heating functions and further having an arm-resting function irrespective of its activation as the cooling and heating device, and that makes the exhaust fan activated by the control of the controller of the air conditioning system, thereby achieving the air-refreshing function as well as the cooling or heating mode function of the cooling and heating cabinet. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288801 | Capillary Pumped Diphasic Fluid Loop Passive Thermal Control Device with Thermal Capacitor - The thermal control device comprises at least one capillary pumped diphasic fluid loop, comprising, in a known manner, an evaporator extracting the heat from a so-called hot source and connected via a vapour pipe to a condenser in which the condensation of the fluid vapour releases thermal energy transmitted to a so-called cold source, the condenser being connected via a liquid pipe to the evaporator, and the device moreover comprises at least one thermal capacitor in permanent heat exchange relationship with liquid phase fluid in said at least one diphasic fluid loop. Use in particular with space vehicles such as satellites. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288802 | Heat sink for chips - A heat sink includes a first heat dispensing unit including multiple heat dispensing plates between which chips are clamped. A base board is connected on a top of the first heat dispensing unit and a second heat dispensing unit is fixed on a top of the base board. The base board is connected to the first heat dispensing unit by two clamping members. The second heat dispensing unit can be a fan, a water-cooling unit or an aluminum extruding member. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288803 | Heat sink for chips - A heat sink includes a first heat dispensing unit including multiple heat dispensing plates between which chips are clamped. A base board is connected on a top of the first heat dispensing unit and two engaging portions are connected to two ends of the base board. A second heat dispensing unit is fixed on a top of the base board. Two clamps connect the base board to the first heat dispensing unit. The second heat dispensing unit can be a fan, a water-cooling unit or an aluminum extruding member. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288804 | Heat sink for chips - A heat sink includes a first heat dispensing unit including multiple heat dispensing plates between which chips are clamped. A base board is connected on a top of the first heat dispensing unit and a second heat dispensing unit is fixed on a top of the base board. The base board is connected to the first heat dispensing unit by two clamping members. The clamping members each have a first portion fixed to the base board and a second board which is removably connected to the first portion. The second portion is connected to the first heat dispensing unit. The second heat dispensing unit can be a fan, a water-cooling unit or an aluminum extruding member. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288805 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE WITH A CHIP ON A SUPPORT PLATE - A semiconductor package includes a support plate made of an electrically non-conducting material. Electrical connection vias are formed outside a chip fixing region provided on the front face of the support plate. Electrical connection wires connect pads on a front of the chip to pads on the front of the support plate associated with the electrical connection vias. The front face of the support plate is further provided with at least one intermediate front layer made of a thermally conducting material extending at least partly below the chip. The rear face of the support plate is provided with at least one rear layer made of a thermally conducting material extending at least partly opposite the front layer. The front and rear layers are connected by vias made of a thermally conducting material that fills through-holes made through the plate. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288806 | Heat Radiating Unit - A heat radiating unit in the form of a heat sink includes a contact section arranged on a central portion of an end face of the heat sink for contacting with a heat source, and having more than one extension plate outward extended therefrom; a first heat-dissipating section composed of multiple curved radiation fins outward extended from two opposite sides of the contact section to provided increased heat radiating areas; and a second heat-dissipating section composed of multiple straight fins outward extended from another two opposite sides of the contact section and outer surfaces of the extension plates. The contact section conducts heat generated by the heat source to the first and second heat-dissipating sections, through which airflow produced by a cooling fan flows to carry the heat away from the heat sink in multiple directions to achieve enhanced heat-dissipating effect. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288807 | BLOWERLESS HEAT EXCHANGER BASED ON MICRO-JET ENTRAINMENT - A blowerless heat exchanger apparatus based on micro-jet entrainment is disclosed. The heat exchanger apparatus incorporates a number of fins regularly spaced apart from each other and parallel to each other, thus letting air currents flow in the space defined between them. A dense array of micro-jet nozzles can be fabricated on the fins surface pointing to the flow direction of the air movement in order to induce increase airflow. The air from an air compressor delivers sufficient airflow on the fins surface utilizing micro-jets entrainment. The micro-jet entrainment confirms strong turbulent around the micro-jets and suggests significant heat transfer enhancement. The turbulence from the micro-jets enhance the heat transfer coefficient, potentially by an order of magnitude, therefore allowing much larger fin spacing and leads to huge reduction of flow resistance and overall power consumption. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288808 | Quick temperature-equlizing heat-dissipating device - A quick temperature-equalizing heat-dissipating device includes a hermetic container, a metallic sheet, and two metallic nets. The hermetic container contains a liquid working medium and has an internal top side and an internal bottom side. The metallic sheet is mounted inside the hermetic container, having a plurality of pores running therethrough and a plurality of support pieces protruding outward from its upper and lower surfaces respectively. The two metallic nets are supported by the support pieces to contact against the internal top and bottom sides of the hermetic container. Accordingly, the heat-dissipating device is based on the aforesaid heat-dissipating structure and the principle of working medium liquid phase transition to quickly equally dissipate the high heat flow density of an electronic component. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288809 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT-PURPOSE ELECTRODE AND ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT-PURPOSE ELECTRODE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode that stabilizes properties and a film-forming rate of a coating made by surface treatment that uses the electrode showing a narrow distribution in physical properties such as a composition and resistance. A method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode according to the present invention is identified as a method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode formed of a green compact made of a metal powder subjected to compression molding, characterized in that the method includes the step of forming a nitride coating by nitriding a surface of the metal powder, and the step of forming a green compact by subjecting the metal powder having its surface nitrided to compression molding. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288810 | Heat Radiating Fin - A heat radiating fin includes a flat body, two flange portions formed at two opposite edges of the flat body, and two inward bent locking ends formed at two lateral ends of each of the flange portions to space from the flat body by a distance. When two or more of the heat radiating fins are stacked to form a thermal module, the locking ends of a second heat radiating fin extend beyond the first heat radiating fin via the spaces between the locking ends and the flat body of the first heat radiating fin to upward abut against the flat body of the first heat radiating fin, so that the first heat radiating fin is firmly held to the second heat radiating fin. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288811 | ALUMINUM PLATE-FIN HEAT EXCHANGER UTILIZING TITANIUM SEPARATOR PLATES - A plate fin heat transfer device utilizes titanium plate members and aluminum dividers. The solid bar may be titanium, aluminum or an alloy of either. The titanium plate members may have a thermal conductivity of approximately 50 or 100 BTU/Hr/ft/F/in and dramatically reduce matrix conduction of heat within the plate members. The plate members may be as thin as approximately 0.002 inches while providing the necessary strength to avoid leakage during or after the manufacturing process. The advantageous thinness satisfies weight and volume parameters critical to an aircraft. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288812 | TURBULIZERS AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME - Disclosed is a method of forming a heat exchanger turbulizer apparatus including a member having a longitudinal axis, a lateral width and a plurality of strips including first strips and second strips, each strip extending widthwise and being corrugated longitudinally so as to form a plurality of laterally spaced-apart sections connected to one another by bridges projecting from the sections in a common direction, the bridges of the first and second strips extending in the same direction and the corrugations of the second strips being offset laterally from the corrugations of the first strips. The method comprises: crimping longitudinally-corrugated strip material between first and second forming dies to form said apparatus, said dies being adapted such that substantially all lateral movement of strip material in crimping results from strip material being drawn laterally by material that has been displaced in a direction parallel to the direction of die movement. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288813 | Structure of Heat Exchange Apparatus for Gas Boiler - A heat exchange apparatus of a high-load bottom-up-type condensing gas boiler is disclosed. In the gas boiler system having a ventilator attached to a lower part of a combustion chamber, the heat exchange apparatus structured in such a manner that a Venturi path for achieving a high-pressure and high-velocity flow of exhaust gas is mounted in an exhaust duct formed between a sensible heat exchanger in which first heat exchange is performed and a latent heat exchanger to which firstly heat-exchanged exhaust gas is flown, so that the sensible heat exchanger and the latent heat exchanger are perfectly independent from the exhaust gas after combustion. In addition, a curve-type exhaust guide and a V-guide are mounted to an upper part of the latent heat exchanger to guide a flow of the exhaust gas being firstly heat-exchanged and discharged from the sensible heat exchanger, such that condensed water generated during second heat exchange in the latent heat exchanger can be smoothly discharged and the thermal efficiency is enhanced. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288814 | Mixed Carbon Foam/Metallic Heat Exchanger - A heat exchanger includes a thermally-conductive fluid barrier having first and second surfaces, at least one first type of foam element placed in thermally-conductive contact with the first surface of the thermally-conductive fluid barrier and having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and at least one second type of foam element placed in thermally-conductive contact with the second surface of the thermally-conductive fluid barrier and having a second coefficient of thermal expansion. The first coefficient of thermal expansion of the first type of foam element and the second coefficient of thermal expansion of the second type of foam element are substantially different. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288815 | Heat-dissipating device without injection pipe and method of making the same - A heat-dissipating device without any injection pipe, which includes an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate. The upper cover plate is combined with the lower cover plate, wherein a crevice and an internal space are formed between the upper and lower cover plates. The crevice is sealed by where the upper and lower cover plates are close to the crevice by high-temperature autogenous welding to become a flat sealed surface flush with the surfaces of the upper and lower cover plates. Accordingly, the heat-dissipating device is provided with enhanced reliability and heat-dissipating efficiency. A method of making the heat-dissipating device includes the steps of putting the upper and lower cover plates together by welding; injecting a liquid working medium through the crevice into the internal space; and sealing the crevice by high-speed welding under a vacuum environment. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288816 | Integrated Thermo-Electric System - A system for controlling the temperature of a passenger cabin has a tube for receiving a heat transfer fluid from an engine and a number of heating coils being thermally connected to the tube. The system also has a number of thermo-electric heat pumps connected to the tube. The heat transfer fluid is modulated for controlling the temperature of the passenger cabin at a number of different points of the passenger cabin. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288817 | CASING EXIT JOINT WITH EASILY MILLED, LOW DENSITY BARRIER - A casing exit joint with an easily milled and low density barrier. A casing exit joint for use in drilling a lateral wellbore outwardly from a parent wellbore includes a generally tubular window structure having a window formed through a sidewall of the structure. An outer sleeve is disposed external to the window structure, so that the sleeve overlies the window. A hardenable substance supports the sleeve against deflection toward the window. A method of drilling a lateral wellbore extending outwardly from a parent wellbore includes the steps of: providing a casing exit joint including a hardenable substance positioned in a sidewall of the casing exit joint; then installing the casing exit joint in the parent wellbore; and then cutting through the hardenable substance in order to provide access for drilling the lateral wellbore. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288818 | PASSIVE GAS SEPARATOR FOR PROGRESSING CAVITY PUMPS - An electrical submersible well pump assembly having a progressing cavity pump, a pump motor, a flex shaft connecting the pump motor to the pump, and a gas/liquid separator on the inlet to the pump. An inner and outer housing circumscribe a portion of the flex shaft, each having fluid inlets. The fluid inlets on the outer housing are above the inner housing inlets and an annulus is formed between the inner and outer housing. Wellbore fluid enters the assembly through the outer housing inlets, flows downward through the annulus, and into the inner housing inlets. Gas separates from the liquid as the fluid flows downward from the outer housing inlets to the inner housing inlets. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288819 | System and Method for Improving Operational Characteristics - A technique improves the operational characteristics of a well device while the device is used in a wellbore environment. The well device benefits from a unique material, in the form of a negative stiffness material or a negative Poisson's ratio material, positioned to improve the operational characteristics of the well device. The material can be located to reduce vibration and/or other detrimental effects that can interfere with operation of the well device. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288820 | Method Of Manufacture And The Use Of A Functional Proppant For Determination Of Subterranean Fracture Geometries - Proppants having added functional properties are provided, as are methods that use the proppants to track and trace the characteristics of a fracture in a geologic formation. Information obtained by the methods can be used to design a fracturing job, to increase conductivity in the fracture, and to enhance oil and gas recovery from the geologic formation. The functionalized proppants can be detected by a variety of methods utilizing, for example, an airborne magnetometer survey, ground penetrating radar, a high resolution accelerometer, a geophone, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultra-sound, impedance measurements, piezoelectric activity, radioactivity, and the like. Methods of mapping a subterranean formation are also provided and use the functionalized proppants to detect characteristics of the formation. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288821 | Monitoring Flow Rates While Retrieving Bottom Hole Assembly During Casing While Drilling Operations - A bottom hole assembly in a casing-while-drilling operation is retrieved by reducing the density of the fluid in the casing string above the bottom hole assembly, creating an upward force on the bottom hole assembly. As the bottom hole assembly moves upward in the casing string, fluid is pumped into the upper end of the annulus and displaced fluid flows out of the upper end of the casing string. The flow rate of the fluid flowing into the upper end of the annulus and the flow rate of the displaced fluid flowing out of the casing string are monitored and compared. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288822 | MITIGATION OF ELEMENTAL SULFUR DEPOSITION DURING PRODUCTION OF HYDROCARBON GASES - Methods of producing a sour hydrocarbon gas via production tubing intersecting a reservoir, are described, one method including contacting an underground reservoir with an aqueous composition optionally comprising an additive, the reservoir comprising hydrocarbons and sulfur compounds; displacing the composition into the reservoir by forcing a fluid (which may be a non-hydrocarbon gas, or inert gas, or nitrogen, or argon, or mixture thereof), into the reservoir, or into the production tubing; and producing at least some of the hydrocarbons and sulfur compounds from the reservoir through the production tubing, the composition wetting the production tubing and preventing substantial deposition of elemental sulfur thereon. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288823 | Efficient Multiple Prediction In Two and Three Dimensions - A method is disclosed that uses (a) source-receiver reciprocity and (b) a method such as ISR DMO (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0098529) that allows reconstruction of densely sampled gathers at arbitrary surface locations, to efficiently predict multiple reflections, either surface related or interbed multiples, in seismic data. For each reconstructed gather and each output (field) trace, two traces are extracted corresponding to the field source and receiver positions of the output trace, then they are convolved and the convolution result is added (summed) to that obtained by applying this procedure to previously reconstructed gathers. The efficiency results from the fact that the convolutions are performed by looping over all traces for each “bounce” point, with the outer loop being over bounce points. Once all the reconstructed gathers are processed, multiple predictions are obtained for the whole survey by conventional means. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288824 | MULTI-ZONE FORMATION FLUID EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF SAME - A formation fluid evaluation system ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090288825 | Surfactant method for improved oil recovery from subterranean reservoirs - A method to enhance oil recovery from a subterranean reservoir, the reservoir being accessible via a production well. The method includes injecting a surfactant solution that includes surfactants into the production well. The surfactant solution selected to increase an oil-to-water ratio of oil recovery from a porous matrix portion of the reservoir. The method also includes injecting a well-servicing volumetric solution into the production well to perform a second well treatment process. The second well treatment process is selected from the group consisting of a scale inhibition squeeze process, a well acidizing process, a chemical process to reduce water production rate, an acid fracturing process, and a hydraulic fracturing process. In the method, the surfactant solution and the second well treatment solution are injected into the production well within less than about six months of one another. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288826 | Enzyme enhanced oil recovery (EEOR) for cyclic steam injection - The present disclosure relates to the release or recovery of subterranean hydrocarbon deposits and, more specifically, to a system for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), by utilizing stabilized enzymatic fluid and cyclic injection of steam or heated fluid into subterranean formations. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288827 | In Situ Thermal Process For Recovering Oil From Oil Sands - A method of recovering oil from an oil sands reservoir comprises first applying cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) to a series of generally horizontally extending wells in the reservoir; then applying steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to at least one vertically-spaced well pair in which one well in each well pair is part of the series of wells to which CSS was applied, while producing oil from at least one single well in the series of wells. In this case, each single well is adjacent to and offset from at least one of the well pairs. The method can then further comprise applying a SAGD blowdown to an injector well of each well pair and producing oil from a producer well of each well pair and from the single well to economic limit. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288828 | Non-flammable, non-aqueous group IVB metal alkoxide crosslinkers and fracturing fluid compositions incorporating same - A non-aqueous, non-flammable Group IVB metal alkoxide crosslinker composition includes a non-aqueous, non-flammable Group IVB metal alkoxide, wherein the metal is chemically bonded to a glycol containing 4 or more carbons, to an alkoxy group containing 6 or more carbons, or a mixture of both. A fracturing fluid employed in the hydraulic fracturing of subterranean formations is formulated through mixture of the non-aqueous, non-flammable Group IVB metal alkoxide crosslinker composition with a polymer solution. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288829 | CUTTING WINDOWS FOR LATERAL WELLBORE DRILLING - A system and method for cutting windows for lateral wellbore drilling. A method of cutting a window through a sidewall structure for drilling a lateral wellbore through the window includes the steps of: providing an internal profile in the sidewall structure; then installing the sidewall structure in a parent wellbore; and then cutting the window through the sidewall structure, the cutting step including engaging a cutting tool with the internal profile. The cutting step may include resisting lateral displacement of the cutting tool due to engagement between the cutting tool and the internal profile. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288830 | HOMOGENOUS SYNTHETIC MUD-TO-CEMENT CEMENTING GLASSES - A synthetic glass family in the quaternary phase field of CaO—SiO2-Al2O3-MgO (CSAM) with hydraulic and pozzolanic properties for use in differing applications in the gas and oil well cementing area. A method of making a mud-to-cement (MTC) slurry and a method for treating oil and gas wells with the MTC slurry containing a homogenous amorphous synthetic glass made from a mixture of inorganic materials selected from the group consisting of CSAM, wherein the cementing glasses with the mixture of inorganic materials are in a 100% amorphous phase with a degree of crystallization of zero. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288831 | Polymeric Extenders for Flexible Cement - A flexible cement stable at high temperatures contains an extender that is a finely ground polyetheretherketone. The cement retains its flexibility for long times at high temperatures, for example those used for steam assisted gravity drainage of heavy oil formations, for example from about 480 to about 644° F. (249 to 340° C.). Compressive strength, tensile strength, permeability and porosity are all stable and suitable for high temperature down-hole oilfield use. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288832 | Varying Access Points for Tubing and Casing Monitoring and Casing Annulus Remediation Systems - An adapter for connecting a casing annulus remediation system to a well having a wellhead with standard lateral ports. The adapter has a body with first and second ends. The first end of the adapter body has a substantially planar surface adapted to cover the lateral ports and be in abutting contact with the wellhead when the two are connected to one another. The second end of the adapter body has a planar surface positioned at an angle greater than 0 degrees and up to 90 degrees to the planar surface of the first end. The second end of the adapter is adapted to be connected to a casing annulus remediation system. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288833 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND FRACTURE STIMULATING MULTIPLE ULTRA-SHORT RADIUS LATERALS FROM A PARENT WELL - Systems and methods for multi-lateral wellbore construction and stimulation from cased parent wellbores. Methods and apparatus are provided to facilitate the creation of casing exit openings in the casing of parent wellbores. Methods and systems are provided for azimuthally and longitudinally aligning drilling assemblies through openings in a parent wellbore casing are provided to allow for drilling multiple lateral wellbores extending outwardly from a parent wellbore. A method of stimulating one or more subterranean zones intersected by multiple lateral wellbores extending outwardly from one or more patent wellbores includes the steps of: simultaneously injecting a stimulation fluid into the lateral wellbores; and stimulating the zones intersected by the lateral wellbores in response to the stimulation fluid injecting step. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288834 | Dynamic scale removal tool - A scale removal tool with adjustably positionable fluid dispensing arms. The scale removal tool may be configured for delivery to within a hydrocarbon well via coiled tubing. Thus, fluid may be driven through the coiled tubing and through the tool at the fluid dispensing arms. The fluid may thereby be jetted at high pressure toward scale at the wall of the well in order to achieve its removal. In the case of a well having scale of varying thicknesses, the fluid dispensing arms may be dynamically positioned and repositioned while downhole in the well, depending on scale thickness. In this manner, the tool need not be removed from the well in order to reposition the fluid dispensing arms for optimum scale removal at each section of the well. As such, considerable time and expense of a scale removal application may be saved. | 2009-11-26 |
20090288835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPTH MEASUREMENT AND CORRECTION DURING SUBSEA INTREVENTION OPERATIONS - A technique enables determination of changes in length of a conveyance deployed between a surface vessel and a subsea installation. The technique allows information to be obtained on the relationship between length of conveyance spooled out or spooled in at a surface location and the depth and/or speed of an intervention well tool deployed in a well. The information can be used to determine the actual depth of the well tool deployed in the well for the intervention operation. | 2009-11-26 |