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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8119193 | Method and device for coating the junction area between at least two elongated elements, in particular between electric cables A method of coating the junction area between elongated elements, in particular between electric cables. This method includes the steps of: arranging a rigid tubular support having two axially separable tubular halves; mounting an elastic tubular sleeve in an elasti... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8034403 | Method for forming copper distributing wires A method of forming a primary coat, which consists of a V- or Ti-containing film, formed on the surface of a subject on which holes or the like have been formed, according to the CVD technique, while using, for instance, a tetravalent amide-type vanadium-containing ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8017177 | Method of automatically marking article and automatic marking device A method and device for automatically marking an article are provided, by which the deterioration in the yield can be prevented from occurring and a color of a mark to be formed on the article can be easily changed. A device 1 for automatically marking an ele... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7989019 | Method and apparatus for administering passivator to a conductor A method for administering passivator to a conductor in a power transformer, comprising providing a reservoir of the passivator, wherein the reservoir is provided by adding the passivator to solid insulation prior to impregnating the solid insulation with oil, and w... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7968142 | Method and apparatus for coloring electric wire A coloring apparatus for coloring an electric wire colors the wire spouts a liquid coloring agent, including a coloring material and a solvent, toward an outer surface of the wire with a specific amount thereof at a time. The coloring apparatus includes a coloring a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7892597 | In situ processing of high-temperature electrical insulation Methods are provided of producing a heater cable. An electrical conductor is coated with a preceramic resin. At least a portion of the coated electrical conductor is deployed into a operational location. The preceramic resin is pyrolyzed while the portion of the coa... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7875309 | Method for coating electrical cable An electrical cable coating method provides a coating layer on an outer surface of an electrical cable which is moving along a predetermined direction. The method involves utilizing a coating liquid jet unit to jet a given amount of a coating liquid at regular inter... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7794782 | Phosphonate and sulfido silane anti-corrosion additive for electrical cable restoration fluid A method of restoring electrical distribution cafes that have lowered performance due to treeing is carried out by (i) supplying the interstices of stranded aluminum conductor portions of such cafes with a restoration fluid comprising an alkoxysilane or mixture of a... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7744950 | Process for producing a cable with a recyclable coating comprising a thermoplastic polymer and a dielectric liquid A process for producing a cable, such as, for medium-tension or high-tension power transmission or distribution, having at least one coating layer made of a thermoplastic polymer material. The process includes at least the following steps: (a) extruding a thermoplas... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7718217 | Method and apparatus for marking electric wire An object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for marking an electric wire at a low cost. An apparatus 1 for marking an electric wire forms a band mark 21 on a part of an outer face 5a of the electric wire ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7670639 | Forming electrical cables An elongated electrical cable or flexible circuit board includes an electrically conductive path and an insulating body encompassing and electrically isolating the conductive path, the insulating body including an exposed surface having an array of fastener elements... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7615247 | Method for treating electrical cable at sustained elevated pressure A method for enhancing the dielectric properties of an electrical cable segment having a central stranded conductor encased in a polymeric insulation jacket and an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor, including filling the interstitial void volum... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7611748 | Method for selecting formulations to treat electrical cables A method for selecting components for a mixture to be injected into an interstitial void volume adjacent to a central stranded conductor of an electrical cable segment having the central conductor encased in a polymeric insulation jacket to enhance the dielectric pr... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7422696 | Multicomponent nanorods Multicomponent nanorods having segments with differing electronic and/or chemical properties are disclosed. The nanorods can be tailored with high precision to create controlled gaps within the nanorods or to produce diodes or resistors, based upon the identities of... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419703 | Thermally curable, thixotropic blends containing carbamate and/or allophanate groups The invention provides heat-curable thixotropic mixtures containing carbamate and/or allophanate groups, including at least one oligomer and/or polymer containing at least one of carbamate and allophanate groups, and at least one thixotropic agent that is a urea der... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7393554 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing flexible-type luminescent device In a method for manufacturing a flexible-type luminescent device, a flexible body is supplied from a flexible body supplying section to a luminescent material pattern forming section. Then, a luminescent material pattern is formed on the flexible body in the lumines... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7356911 | Method for producing an insulated wire A method for producing an insulated wire having a cross section of a desired shape, in which a conductor having a cross section of a desired shape is coated with an insulating film, which method comprises: supplying a raw conductor while passing through a rolling un... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7325304 | Method of connecting probe pin to circuit board and method of manufacturing probe card There is provided a method of manufacturing a probe card that electrically connects a testing device and a device under test to transmit a signal between the testing device and the device under test. The method includes the steps of forming a probe pin on a probe pi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310874 | Method for manufacturing a potassium niobate deposited body A potassium niobate deposited body includes a substrate, an electrode layer formed above the substrate, and a potassium niobate layer formed above the electrode layer. The potassium niobate layer can include a domain that epitaxially grows in a (110) or (001) orient... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311937 | Method for forming a line pattern, line pattern, and electro-optic device The invention provides a method for forming a uniform conductive-film interconnecting pattern via simplified processes. In particular, the invention provides: a method for forming an interconnecting pattern having at least one corner and which does not cause irregul... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7285305 | Multilayered wiring board, method of producing multilayered wiring board, electronic device and electronic apparatus A method of producing a multilayered wiring board having at least two wiring layers (wiring patterns 17, 31), polyamide 22 (an interlayer insulation film) between the wiring layers, and an interlayer conducting post (a conductor post) 18 for con... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270844 | Direct write™ system Methods and apparatus for the deposition of a source material (10) are disclosed. An atomizer (12) renders a supply of source material (10) into many discrete particles. A force applicator (14) propels the particles in continuous, paralle... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263929 | Initiator An initiator includes a pair of electrode pins, a conductive header, an insulator, a bridge wire, an explosive, and capsules. A bottom wall of the inner capsule has a protrusion projecting from the bottom wall. The thickness of an end wall portion of the protrusion ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7234229 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing motor coil The present invention provides a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a motor coil by which a longitudinally wound motor coil, so called, can be easily prepared. First, a molded product 10 comprising a column part 11, and a fin part 12 | 06/26/2007 |
| 7176269 | Curable composition and its use The curable composition of the present invention contains (A1) a silyl-containing ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated polyene random copolymer rubber which has a structural unit derived from a norbornene compound as the non-conjugated polyene with at least one specifi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7153179 | Oxidation-protected metallic foil and method An electrical lead assembly for devices such as electrical lamps having a metallic foil for providing an electrically conducting path through a hermetic seal formed by pinch sealing a vitreous material. The metallic foil includes an oxidation-inhibiting coating of s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150842 | Method of extruding a mixture A method of extruding a mixture made of a granulate, chips, or powder, etc. of a first thermoplastic and a second thermoplastic is described, the melting range of the first thermoplastic differing from the melting range of the second thermoplastic, using an extruder... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148510 | Electronic apparatus having a protective circuit A semiconductor display device with an interlayer insulating film in which surface levelness is ensured with a limited film formation time, heat treatment for removing moisture does not take long, and moisture in the interlayer insulating film is prevented from esca... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135204 | Method of manufacturing a wiring board A method of manufacturing a wiring board is provided. The method includes performing a plating process to a land, in a condition that a resist film having an opening for exposing at least the center of the land is formed on a substrate with wires having the land for... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7125604 | Insulated magnet wire A novel polymer coated magnet wire that includes an insulating polymeric coating on only one facet thereof. Such a magnet wire can be conventionally wound using current transformer manufacturing processes but can be produced at significantly lower cost due to the al... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122244 | Polyamide-imide resin solution and the use thereof for producing wire enamels The present invention relates to a polyamideimide resin solution preparable by reacting (a) aromatic polycarboxylic acids and/or their anhydrides with (b) aromatic imide- and amide-forming components in cresol at temperatures above 170° C., to the use of this polya... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120993 | Method of manufacturing insulated coil On a surface of a glass cloth adhered a mica layer sheet, a mixture of inorganic particles having a thermal conductivity of at least 5 W/mK, a resin, and a solvent is applied to form a layer of the mixture of the inorganic particles, the resin, and the solvent; the ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7093356 | Method for producing wiring substrate A wiring substrate with bumps protruding from a surface of the substrate covers one side of a metallic base with an electrical insulating film thereon, having open holes exposing the base, etching the base through the open holes to form concavities in the base, elec... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7052550 | Apparatus and method for coloring electric wire The apparatus for coloring a wire includes a plurality of coloring nozzles, each of which spouts a liquid coloring agent toward an outer surface of a wire with a specific amount thereof per spouting so as to allow the liquid drop of the coloring agent to adhere to t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7034544 | Methods for minimizing the impedance discontinuity between a conductive trace and a component and structures formed thereby Methods and apparatus that minimize the impedance discontinuity between a component and a signal trace is described. The methods and apparatus generally comprise at least one signal trace disposed on a dielectric layer, wherein the signal trace comprises a first wid... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7009105 | Bundle twisted-pair cable A cable includes a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors in a dense hexagonal matrix-like form defining thereof horizontal rows and oblique columns with each other in a rectangular coordinate system wherein the twisted pairs in the same row have the same twist di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6991147 | Insulated bonding wire tool for microelectronic packaging A method for insulating a bonding wire that includes the steps of attaching a bonding wire to a bond pad and coating the bonding wire with an insulating liquid while drawing the bonding wire through a bond tool from the bond pad to a package lead. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983521 | Method of manufacturing a strain element The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a strain element. In one aspect, the method of the invention comprises forming a coating film of titanium or a titanium compound on a surface of a cylindrical mold, and shaping the coating film like a coil. The meth... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6959533 | Apparatus and method for producing twisted pair cables with reduced propagation delay and crosstalk An apparatus for forming a twisted pair cable comprising a device for rotating at a first predetermined rate of rotation a pair of elongated conductor strands about a twisting location, the device guiding the elongated conductor strands to the twisting location. The... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954983 | Method for producing flat cables A method for continuously producing flat cables with electric conductors embedded in an isolating material which are arranged at a certain distance from each other, parallel to each other. According to this invention, the band shaped conductors are guided separately... | 10/18/2005 |
