Patent Publication December, 2001 (1 - 10 of 108,847 results)

Fred Thomas

Fred Thomas

An information storage device (10, 510, 610, 710) includes a cradle (12, 512, 612, 712) which can removably receive a cartridge (11, 411, 511, 611, 711). The cartridge contains a rotatably supported disk (91, 326-327), and a pivotal actuator arm (101) which supports a read/write head (107, 331-334) ...

Elliot Matel

Elliot Matel

A starting and stopping device for an internal combustion engine includes an energy storing device including at least one elastic member. The elastic member is loaded in response to rotation of a main shaft, and the main shaft rotates in an unloading direction in response to unloading of the elastic ...

David Sherrer

A waveguide carrier is located within a carrier tube, and an optical waveguide extends lengthwise in a longitudinal direction within the waveguide carrier. The waveguide carrier is made up of a first carrier body having a first principal surface and a second carrier body having a second principal su ...

Belgacem Haba

Belgacem (Bel) Haba

Various module structures are disclosed which may be used to implement modules having 1 to N channels. Bus systems may be formed by the interconnection of such modules.

David Sherrer

A dry etched optical fiber ferrule includes two semicircular half-sections each bonded together by diametric edge portions having respective semicircular notches opposing one another, for providing a hole in receiving and being bond to a portion of an optical fiber.

David Sherrer

Methods for making a micromachined device (e.g. an microoptical submount) having positive features (extending up from a device surface) and negative features (extending into the device surface). The present techniques locate the positive feature and negative features according to a single mask step. ...

Belgacem Haba

Belgacem (Bel) Haba

A component for forming solder connections includes a diectric base having a non solder-wettable surface, a plurality of solder-wettable pads exposed to said surface, and an electrically conductive potential plane element having a non solder-wettable surface overlying the surface of the base in prox ...

Jennifer Petoff

This invention relates to high melting polyolefin copolymers suitable as thermoplastic elastomers and catalysts and methods for their synthesis. These elastomeric olefin copolymers are characterized by a mole fraction of crystallizable component Xc from about 30 to about 99%; low glass transition te ...