Norwegian, Emirati Inventors Develop Pipes Sealing Element

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 27, 2007 ;     329 words ......where the rod is provided with a conical portion with an outside adapted to the sleeve's conical inside, and where the rod's conical portion has a smallest diameter smaller than...direction, thus causing the rod's conical portion to come into contact with and be pressed...

Japanese Inventors Develop Spindle Motor

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 23, 2007 ;     277 words ......includes a rotational shaft which has a conical portion, whose outer surface gradually widens...bearing surface corresponding to the conical portion and the straight portion of the rotating...fluid dynamic forces generated by the conical portion." The inventors were issued U.S. ...

New York Inventors Develop Arcuate Taper Lock Anchor Base Plate

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 22, 2007 ;     328 words ......said: "The base plate has an arcuate conical portion that has a cross-sectional area that...radial dimension at a base of the conical portion. The greatest radial dimension is...interior surface to slide over the conical portion and the conical portion to frictionally...

Couplers on the Copenhagen mini-metro

Concrete;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the heavily reinforced 3000m3 concrete base slab is cast in one operation. The box is...temporary steel props for stability. The base slab is then cast and construction continues...This faster method is needed so the base slab is ready for arrival of the TBMs. Couplers...

Japanese Inventors Develop Spark Plug

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 22, 2006 ;     313 words ......electrode with columnar portion and conical portion. According to the U.S. Patent &...of the center electrode includes a conical portion having a tapered surface having a...formed to a top end portion of the conical portion so as to have a diameter in a range...

Japanese Inventors Develop Push Switch

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 24, 2007 ;     243 words ......first and second contacts by pushing the first contact, a hollow conical portion extending from a junction positioned at an end of the columnar portion, the conical portion having a truncated conical shape, and a thick portion provided at...

California Inventors Develop Mass Flow Meter with Fluid Lens

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 7, 2008 ;     271 words ......orifice is located within the chamber upstream of the first conical portion of the body and is of a predetermined size to control the...sensors sense the dynamic pressures at the apex of the first conical portion and at a position between the body and a wall of the chamber...

Renovating Resorts Atlantic City

Concrete International;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......series of supports resting on the original base slab below-a slab that was thought to be a...discovered in the floor of the original base slab. Because this was thought to be a slab-on-gr...investigation revealed that this part of the base slab was actually a suspended slab over an...

Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Power Cord Plug

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 18, 2007 ;     290 words ......snagging but is provided with hooks on the jack side of the conical portion for hooking the retainer on a suitable support such as a...suitable support. The second section with the hooks on the conical portion may be used to hang a cord of a power tool or any other...

U.S., British Inventors Develop Tubular Supporting Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 15, 2008 ;     320 words ......first surface and being adapted to be expanded into contact with a bore wall, and a conical portion adapted to be coupled to a tubular, the conical portion having a second surface adapted to engage the first surface of the sleeve." The inventors...

Formwork on the A2-M2 viaduct

Concrete;  June 1, 2002 ;     499 words ......100mm-diameter high-yield pins in special node connections. The base slab was then cast, followed by the walls and top slab. The inclined...climbing jacks, before being fixed to allow inspection of the base slab soffit. The assembly was then lowered to the ground. In total...

British Inventor Develops Subsea Wellhead Assembly

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 16, 2007 ;     285 words ......portion of the bore, and a central conical portion of the bore joins the upper portion...section that interfaces with the central conical portion of the bore." An abstract of the invention...seal is secured between the central conical portion of the bore of the wellhead housing...

Japanese Inventor Develops High Pressure Fuel Injection Tube

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2007 ;     240 words ......flange is spaced from the seat face in an axial direction. A conical portion is formed in the interval between the ring-like flange and...with a ring-like shape and a deep depth is formed on the conical portion. Thus, a shallow smooth ring-like recess groove is formed...

Temporary support walls for Barrington Road shaft

Concrete;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......incorporated a double water bar extending 1m below the bottom of the base slab connection to minimise the risk of leakage through the wall...encased in concrete. A 1.5m thick steel reinforced concrete base slab was cast at the bottom. Walls and slabs were then built from...

Swedish Inventor Develops Elongated Elements Centering Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 27, 2007 ;     315 words ......The holder includes a seat with a guiding surface for a peripherally conical portion of the casing. This is spring biased in the axial direction so that the conical portion strives to be in contact with the seat of the holder in and for centering...