2214 results about "Stress relief" patented technology

The present invention relates to a unique solution for relieving repetitive stress to dental professionals during the course of a day and is directed to sets of identical instruments, having handles made with varying diameters for grasping, designed to be used interchangeably throughout the day, thus cutting down on the repetitive grasping action through the change of grasp. Therefore, even if a dental professional uses the same type of instrument throughout the day, the hands, wrists and elbows can experience varying rather than repetitive action because the positioning of the hands, wrists and elbows are interchanging throughout the day. The dental instrument may also be ergonomically designed. Additionally, the instrument may also have a vibratory module. Further, a rotator may also be implemented.

There is provided a method of forming a thin film for providing improved fabrication productivity. The method includes introducing a semiconductor substrate into a process chamber. A process thin film is formed on the semiconductor substrate, in which a chamber coating layer is formed on inner walls of the process chamber while the process thin film is formed. The semiconductor substrate is removed from the process chamber. A stress relief layer is formed on the chamber coating layer. After all of the above operations are repeatedly performed at least one time, an in-situ cleaning is performed on the chamber coating layer and the stress relief layer, which are alternately formed in stack on the inner walls of the process chamber.

Integral fiber optic-based condition sensors detect conditions of a composite structure, e.g., a coated wire assembly so as to detect damage or conditions that may damage the same. Preferably, at least one optical fiber sensor having a plurality of Bragg gratings written into the fiber at spaced-apart locations along its axial length is integrated into the electrical insulator coating of a wire, wire bundle or wiring harness. The fiber optic sensor may thus be employed to measure the environmental loads on the electrical wiring including stresses from bending, axial loading, pinch points, high temperature excursions and chemical damage. The system is capable of detecting and locating transient conditions that might cause damage to a wiring system or permanent changes in state associated with damage events. The residual stress in the electrical insulator coating of a wire, wire bundle, or wiring harness are used to monitor the evolution of damage by wear or chaffing processes. Detected stress relief on one or more Bragg gratings will thus be indicative of damage to the insulator coating on the conductor. As such, the magnitude of such stress relief may be detected and used as an alert that the wire insulation is damaged to an unsafe extent.

Valve guide and spring retainer assemblies are described for use in plunger pump housings that incorporate structural features for stress-relief. These pump housing structural features accommodate correspondingly-shaped valve guides and/or spring retainers that are internally fixed in place using one or more non-threaded spacers. Plunger pumps so constructed are relatively resistant to fatigue failure because of stress reductions, and they may incorporate a variety of valve styles, including top and lower stem-guided valves and crow-foot-guided valves, in easily-maintained configurations. Besides securing valve guides and/or spring retainers, non-threaded spacers may be shaped and dimensioned to aid in further reducing stress and to improve volumetric efficiency of the pumps in which they are used.

The invention belongs to the architecture field, which relates to an improvement with the foundation pile shape and the structure and the manufacturing method of the foundation pile and the foundation pile shaper in the architecture field, in particular the invention is a prestressing force high strength concrete square pile and the manufacturing method thereof and the shaping device. In the invention a square terminal plate is disposed on the two ends of the square pile, and the four sides of the terminal plate is provided with a groove, while the center is equipped with a circular hole, and between the circular hole and the four sides, a strain hole and a threading hole are arranged symmetrically; a stirrp of a reinforcement cage in a twist is welded on the principal reinforcement continuously, wherein the principal reinforcement is the steel strand or the steel bar; the concrete square pile and the four-side corners of the terminal plate are in a stress elimination arc, and the pile core is a columnar mid level outlet having the same diameter with the terminal plate central circular hole. The manufacturing method is characterized in that, the principal reinforcement has the fix ed length and blanking, and the stirrp of the reinforcement cage is welded in the seam welder with the high degree of mechanisation; the principal reinforcement is stretched in a group of a whole pile fixed value, wherein the stretching performance is good and the balance is consistent; the disposable high pressure has short shaping time, low energy consumption, high product grade; the die design meets with the shaping requirement of the shape, which is convenient to use.

Disclosed are a group-III nitride-based semiconductor device that is grown over the surface of a composite intermediate layers consisting of a thin amorphous silicon film or any stress-relief film or a combination of them and at least one multi-layered buffer on silicon substrate, and a method of fabricating the same device. The intermediate layers that suppress the occurrence of crystal defects and propagation of misfit dislocations induced by the lattice mismatch between the epitaxial layer and substrate, ca n be grown on a part or the entirety of the surface of a silicon (001) or (111) substrate which can be single crystal or coated with a thin amorphous silicon film. Then at least one layer or multiple layers of high quality group-III nitride-based semiconductors are grown over the composite intermediate layers.

An electrolyte sheet comprises a substantially non-porous body and has at least one stress-relief area on at least a portion of the electrolyte sheet. The stress-relief area has a surface with a plurality of folds. The plurality of folds are arranged around and directed longitudinally toward a common central area.

A bag, method of manufacture and process are disclosed for the cryopreservation of thermolabile substances. The bag is characterized as having substantially uniform thickness throughout its length and height. The bag features a radiused peripheral edge wall for stress relief and to provide the constant cross-section. A peripheral flashing circumscribes the radiused edge wall and provides a suitable purchase area for sealing so that the thus formed bag is less susceptible to fracture particularly when exposed to cryogenic temperatures. The uniform thickness of the bag promulgates uniform heat transfer to and from the contents of the bag in relation to any surrounding medium at a different temperature. The bag affords more space for efficient storage and reduces heat invasion into the contents of the bag when a plurality of bags are placed with their larger planar surfaces in contact with each other.

A monolithically integrated MEMS and CMOS substrates provided by an IC-foundry compatible process. The CMOS substrate is completed first using standard IC processes. A diaphragm with stress relief corrugated structure is then fabricated on top of the CMOS. Air vent holes are then etched in the CMOS substrate. Finally, the microphone device is encapsulated by a thick insulating layer at the wafer level. The monolithically integrated microphone that adopts IC foundry-compatible processes yields the highest performance, smallest form factor, and lowest cost. Using this architecture and fabrication flow, it is feasible and cost-effective to make an array of Silicon microphones for noise cancellation, beam forming, better directionality and fidelity.

In accordance with certain embodiments, an electric device includes a flexible substrate having first and second conductive traces on a first surface thereof and separated by a gap therebetween, an electronic component spanning the gap, and a stiffener configured to substantially prevent flexing of the substrate proximate the gap during flexing of the substrate.

A cooling apparatus and method are provided which include an air-to-liquid heat exchanger and system coolant inlet and outlet plenums mounted to an electronics rack door along an edge of the door remote from the edge hingedly mounted to the rack. The plenums are in fluid communication with the heat exchanger and respectively include an inlet and outlet. Coolant supply and return hoses are disposed above the electronics rack and couple the inlet plenum to a coolant supply header and the outlet plenum to a coolant return header. The hoses are sufficiently long and flexible to open or close the door. A stress relief structure is attached to the top of the door and clamps the supply and return hoses in fixed relation to relieve stress on connect couplings at the ends of the hoses to the plenum inlet and outlet during opening or closing of the door.

A trap rich layer for an integrated circuit chip is formed by chemical etching and/or laser texturing of a surface of a semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, a trap rich layer is formed by a technique selected from the group of techniques consisting of laser texturing, chemical etch, irradiation, nanocavity formation, porous Si-etch, semi-insulating polysilicon, thermal stress relief and mechanical texturing. Additionally, combinations of two or more of these techniques may be used to form a trap rich layer.

A composite membrane comprising a layer of rubberized asphalt having a heavy duty plastic film layer continuously bonded to one side and, optionally, a layer of nonwoven geotextile continuously bonded to the other side. The membrane can be used in vertical or horizontal applications, and is particularly useful for its stress-relief properties that resist crack formation and propagation in concrete walls and slabs in addition to serving as a barrier to moisture, toxic substances and insects. An appropriate composite membrane of the invention can be advantageously utilized in positive side, blindside, underslab or split slab applications. The thickness of the composite membrane preferably ranges from about 30 mils to about 150 mils.

The invention discloses a high ground stress soft rock stress-relief construction method which comprises the following steps: A. anchor shotcreting constructing, tagging the anchor shotcreting constructing with heading, and eliminating dangerous rock; B. cystosepiment hanging, carrying out hanging construction on polystyrene cystosepiment; C. inverted arch excavating and U shape steel spanning, lining tunnel to a ring, and carrying out re-spraying with shotcrete on clearance of steel racks; D. inverted arch backfilling, carrying out construction of a waterproof barrier layer after completing spanning of the U shape steel so as to conserve concrete; E. waterproof barrier layer constructing, carrying out waterproof barrier layer constructing when the convergence rate of tunnel is stabilized;F. secondary lining constructing, carrying out secondary lining constructing when the waterproof barrier layer constructing is completed; and G. prestress anchor line constructing, determining a holesite of an anchor line and the drilling direction through field lofting, and clearing the location of the hole site. The construction method has obvious effect for controlling large deformation of the soft rock with the high ground stress, is simple and convenient, and has the advantages of simple operation, obvious effect and relatively low cost.

An article with a surface that includes undercut grooves depending beneath the surface to a bottom portion, where the grooves have an upper width on the surface and a lower width on the bottom portion connected by side walls, and where at least one of said side walls connects the upper width to the lower width to form an undercut angle with the surface of less than 90°. The article is covered with a coating that contains weak paths for stress relief. The coating fills the undercut grooves and ranges above the surface with a thickness from about 0.1 to 50 mm.

A relatively rigid roofing shingle or tile is provided, having relatively flexible stress relief nail zones, that may comprise variations in thickness relative to the remainder of the shingle or tile, or variations in materials, such as will allow for relative movement of the shingles or tiles due to temperature variations resulting in expansion or contraction, or due to other forces, such that the movement will be between the shingles or the tiles and the nails or other fasteners that are used to secure the shingles or tiles to a roof or other surface, and is preferably within the elastic limits of the fastening zones of the shingles or tiles.

A connector and method for electrically connecting adjacent solar cells together in a solar module. The terminals of the cells are connected with individual lengths of an electrically conductive material such as an electrically conductive metal ribbon. A substantial portion of the mid section of the ribbons remain unsoldered to thereby provide a stress relief zone in the ribbon between the cells to alleviate stress failures in the ribbons.

A semiconductor device disclosed herein includes a conductive connection structure having a stepped profile that serves as a stress relief feature. The conductive connection structure includes a stress buffer arrangement for a contact pad. The stress buffer arrangement has a stepped via that terminates at the contact pad, and the stepped via has a plurality of inwardly sloped and concentric sections in a stacked orientation. The connection structure also includes underbump metallization overlying at least a portion of the contact pad and lining the stepped via, and a conductive connection element coupled to the underbump metallization. The conductive connection element fills the lined recess.

The invention relates to improved water control gates and related inflatable actuators, and associated sealing, manufacture and operation apparatus and methods. Advancements in technologies related to air fitting design, inflated bladder stress relief, inflatable bladder strength enhancement, water gate related slide friction mitigation, abutment and other impounded water seals, gate panel fabrication, traffic accommodating water impoundment structures, and water gate panel system operation efficiency, as well as nappe aeration, hinges, and bladder manufacture technology are some of the advancements disclosed herein.