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| 7338703 | Metallic-polymeric composite materials Composites are provided having improved strength and rigidity, with respect to mass or volume, as compared to known polymeric composites or polymeric composites in combination with metal reinforcement. The composites of the present invention are metallic-polymeric c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7303675 | Blister protection for spiral wound elements A method for preventing osmotic blistering in spirally-wound elements of semipermeable membrane sheet material (14) by applying an effective coating of a sealant (41, 43, 45) to the upstream surface of such membrane material in regions where such poten... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7261787 | Method of making a formable hockey stick blade The invention provides a method of making a formable hockey stick blade, the method comprising: (a) providing a core having a blade element with a thickness, the core being made of expandable foam having a Poisson ratio of at least 0.33; (b) forming a preformed stic... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258759 | Soft magnetic amorphous electromechanical component and method making the same A three dimensional soft magnetic metal mass suitable for milling is formed wrapping soft magnetic metal ribbon into a three dimensional shape and then applying adhesive to the three dimensional shape. The adhesive permeates the three dimensional shape. The adhesive... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252731 | Apparatus and method for applying double-coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape, and method for producing catalytic converter An application apparatus is provided with an object supporting section including a support surface for supporting an object; a tape carrying section for rotatably carrying, in a roll form, a double-coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape with a release paper attache... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7232386 | Hockey stick A composite hockey stick having a tubular hollow rectangular shaft and a blade is disclosed. The shaft comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, each of the inner and outer layers are formed of uni-directional substantially continuous fibers disposed in a hardene... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7186449 | Recycled rubber construction materials The present invention broadly comprises a construction material constructed from a plurality of flexible strips, the strips are helically wound upon one another to form a tire pole. The tire pole may incorporate bolts, nails, screws and polymers for securing the fle... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7166177 | Method for forming double containment pipeline sections Methods for forming double containment pipeline sections are provided where granular material is used to define the annuluses of such pipeline sections. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7152306 | Method for installing a stator winding A method for installing a stator winding in a stator core. A winding turn is formed by drawing a cable portion from a cable reel and inserting it into two winding slots. Each winding turn that is jointlessly connected to first winding turn and has the same winding d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7144343 | Hockey stick A hockey stick comprising a blade and a shaft adapted to being joined together. The blade portion having an upper portion and a lower portion and a face. The upper portion being comprised of a defined region having a reduced width dimension in a direction that exten... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144468 | Method of constructing a unitary amorphous metal component for an electric machine A unitary amorphous metal magnetic component for an axial flux electric machine such as a motor or generator is formed from a spirally wound annular cylinder of ferromagnetic amorphous metal strips. The cylinder is adhesively bonded and provided with a plurality of ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136765 | Buried object locating and tracing method and system employing principal components analysis for blind signal detection A blind locating system for finding and tracing buried objects such as utility lines, conductive pipes and sondes. A sensor array is coupled to a signal processor, which determines a field vector for one or more buried objects by producing a data signal representing... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132028 | Method of wrapping elongate material, especially cable harnesses, with a sheath A method of wrapping elongate material with a sheath having first and second single-sideded adhesive tapes the tapes laminated to one another with an offset, a free edge of the first adhesive tape aligned parallel to the center axis such that, relative to the center... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7097577 | Hockey stick A hockey stick having a composite blade and a shaft is disclosed. The composite blade includes a heel section that is recessed relative to the front and back faces of the blade. The recessed heel section is configured to be received by a hockey stick shaft or an ada... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086650 | Gland packing The present invention provides a gland packing in which impairment of the sealing performance due to cracks that unwillingly occur in an end portion in the width direction of an expanded graphite tape of a braiding yarn in the gland packing can be suppressed. In gla... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087129 | Method of forming an impregnated micro-fiber filtration unit A method of forming a blown micro-fiber filtration unit having multiple overlapping layers of fibrous material and an active material applied over said layers, The fibrous material layers being fused together. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7078082 | Dual-functioning mechanism for startup during winding of web material and for splicing during unwinding A tail end of a web is attached to a winding core via a two-component mechanism having a core component attached to the core and a web component attached to the web, the two components being attached to each other in releasable fashion. The mechanism assists startup... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077185 | Tape dispenser A hand held tape dispenser for applying adhesive tape to a surface. The dispenser includes a housing for holding and dispensing a roll of tape and has a tape dispensing opening therein. A plurality of rollers are within the housing, the outer surfaces of which coact... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7063763 | Tubular members integrated to form a structure Integrally stiffened and formed, load carrying structures comprising a plurality of elongated thin-walled tubes placed co-extensively in a complementary side-by-side fashion which together form a hollow structure having a desired external contour. Integral skins for... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7008338 | Durable high performance hockey stick A hockey stick comprises a shaft and a blade. The blade is configured to impact and exert energy on a hockey puck. The blade comprises a core that is generally enclosed within an outer layer. The core comprises a foam-filled cell structure having cell walls that def... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6991692 | Power transmission belt A method of manufacturing a belt having a region comprising a non-woven material on a pulley engaging surface. The non-woven region has a random coverage of the non-woven material to reduce natural frequency harmonics, control frictional characteristics, permeation ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977022 | Method and apparatus for performing a charging process on an image carrying device A charge roller that includes a metal core, an elastic member configured wrapped around the metal core, and film members is disclosed. Each of the film members is wrapped around each end of the elastic member in a circumferential direction of the metal core such tha... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6958104 | Sports racket with undulations in frame interior surface A sports racquet comprises a handle and a frame coupled to the handle. The frame includes an inner portion and an outer portion located substantially opposite the inner portion. The inner portion of the frame include a plurality of undulations that extend towards an... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955024 | Filament wound structural light poles A one-piece, unitary, elongate, tubular light pole. The elongate light pole defines a central axis and is constructed from a filament-wound composite of fiber-reinforced bonding agent and has a wall thickness of less than ¾ inch, and preferably ⅜ inch. The pole i... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6923008 | Method for transferring cryogenic liquids and associated cryogenic fill nozzle insulating boot In the present method, cold substances are transferred through a nozzle with moving parts. An insulating boot facilitates the method. The present method is generally suited for use in transferring cryogenic substances such as during the refueling of liquid natural g... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921448 | Impregnated micro-fiber filtration unit A blown micro-fiber filtration unit having multiple overlapping layers of fibrous material and an active material applied over said layers. The fibrous material layers being fused together. ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908526 | Process for making a composite material assembly and aircraft wing and stabilizing element obtained by this process Process for manufacturing an assembly made of a composite material and wing and stabilizing element obtained by this process. The junction zone for a part (P) made of a composite material comprising two parts (A1, A2) in which the principal dire... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6830798 | Continuous yarn laid wet friction material A friction disk suitable for running as an assembly of interleaved disks in a transmission is disclosed. A rigid metallic core on backing plate is covered on one or both sides with a wafer of non-woven yarn wherein the yarn comprises a continuous wound length of hea... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6719865 | Method for producing stiffened hollow structure composed of fiber-reinforced composite A method for efficiently producing a stiffened hollow structure from a first skin member, a second skin member and a stiffener each made of a fiber-reinforced composite with reduced steps, the stiffened hollow structure comprising a hollow skin portion and a stiffen... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6696001 | Double pressing method and machine for manufacturing a hockey stick shaft, and hockey stick shaft made therefrom A method for making a hockey stick shaft by a double pressing process, and an apparatus for making the same. The double pressing process consists of pulling resin soaked rovings through heated mold cavities. A core is inserted between upper and lower rovi... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6656302 | Epoxy resin composition for a fiber-reinforced composite material, yarn prepreg, and process and apparatus for preparing the same To provide an epoxy resin composition suitable as a matrix resin for fiber reinforcement, and a yarn prepreg suitable in unwindability, excellent in higher processability due to drapability, high in the tensile strength of the epoxy resin composition afte... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6632311 | Tape roll tab application method and article A method of making a roll of adhesive tape that comprises providing a length of tape having a leading end, a trailing end, a first side, and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the second side of the tape is at least partially covered with pres... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6500290 | Process for manufacturing a multi-layered flat adhesive tape A process for manufacturing easily portable and multi-layered adhesive tape roll is described. The flat piece of easily portable and multi-layered adhesive tape is formed by compressing the adhesive tape roll having circular shape or other shapes. The adh... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6436328 | Method for forming an absorbent structure A method for forming an absorbent article having an absorbent pad assembly with an outer fluid-contacting surface including discrete portions of different absorbency is provided. At least first and second absorbent pad materials are helically wound adjace... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6428646 | Method and apparatus for application of adhesive tape to an elongated member An apparatus and method for applying adhesive transfer tape, including an adhesive tape transfer roll holding an adhesive transfer tape, a roll locking cylinder wherein the roll locking cylinder stops the adhesive tape transfer roll from rolling, stopping... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6422540 | Leaf spring of composite material, and relative fabrication method A leaf spring, in particular for automotive suspensions, wherein a central core, e.g. of varying thickness, made of a polymer material having predetermined mechanical characteristics and no reinforcing fibers, is covered on two opposite work surfaces with... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6374892 | Heat transfer recording sheet producing apparatus and roll shaft supplying apparatus A sheet winding apparatus or a heat transfer recording sheet providing apparatus including the sheet winding apparatus, the sheet winding apparatus formed of a plurality of sheet winding devices arranged in multiple steps in a vertical direction. Each of ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6367531 | Method and device for the manufacture of a rim preform A process for the manufacture of a rim preform or rim-element having an axis of revolution by the placing on a preforming matrix pre-assembled fibers along two orientations defining deformable meshes. A winding of a strip of fibers is fastened on a circum... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6331337 | Bonding building blocks using adhesive tapes The method of this invention concerns bonding side-to-side glass or plastic building blocks to obtain decorative and/or functional modular sub-assemblies, walls, panels, floors, windows, skylights, etc., using flexible, light-weight, elongated, adhesive t... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6224705 | Special process for manufacturing multi-layered flat adhesive tape A process for manufacturing a flat adhesive tape comprises: providing a stiff interfacial sheet having a flat and solid form; surrounding the stiff interfacial sheet with a plurality of adhesive layers so as to form a roll of the adhesive layers with the ... | 05/01/2001 |
