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Cyber Media India, Mid-Day ,HarperCollins , ASAPP Media bag top AMPA honours
Eight winners and 16 excellence awardees from seven categories were awarded during the third Asian Multimedia Publishing Awards (AMPA)-Asia's premier awards program that recognizes best publishing practices in Asia. The event was held as part of the culmination of the Asian Publishing Convention (APC) held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel last July 16 & 17, 2009.
The seven categories of this year's AMPA include multimedia communication; use of digital technology; multimedia strategy and business model; multimedia advertising delivery; best use of multimedia marketing by a book publisher; best book/best writer on Asian media; and innovative corporate communications in a multimedia world. The AMPA incorporates the Asian Book Publishing Awards and Asian Corporate Communications Awards, which attracted 74 entries from 44 companies representing 9 countries worldwide.
The winners are as follows: Commonwealth Magazine Group (Taiwan); Studio Classroom (Taiwan); UDN.com (Taiwan); ASAPP Media Pvt Ltd (India); Cyber Media India Ltd (India); Commonwealth Publishing Co., Ltd. (Taiwan); HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd (India); and Ayala Corporation (Philippines).
Excellence awardees include: MediaCorp Pte Ltd (Singapore); MiD DAY Infomedia Ltd. (India); CMPMedica Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore); Fairfax Business Media (Singapore); HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd. (India); Bank of the Philippine Islands (Philippines); Equinox Publishing (India); Avantha (India); Benpres Holdings Corporation (Philippines); and DHL (Singapore).
The board of judges included: Allein Moore, CEO/Publisher, BluePrint Media Pte. Ltd.; Gary Gopinathan, BIZITMEDIA Consulting Pte. Ltd.; Abraham Mathew, President, CyberMedia; Matec Villanueva, Chairperson, Publicis Manila; Erik Hartmann, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google; R. Ramachandran, Executive Director, National Book Development Council of Singapore; and Chris Stevens, Global Account Manager, Swiss Post International.
APC 2009 is supported by Swiss Post International as Platinum sponsor, Synovate and Atex as Gold sponsors. The event is also made possible by its cooperating partners: ACC Group of Companies, Cordillera Coffee, Asian Massage, ABS-CBN Publishing Inc., LG Marketing and PLDT Sweetspots.
The official partner for PR is Weber Shandwick Worldwide, with Amex Team, Creative Crest, Integrated Public Relations and Public Relations Society of Indonesia as cooperating PR partners. Official media partners include AdAsia, Adobo Magazine, Media Partners Asia, Yehey.com, The Employer Magazine and Trainer Magazine and ACN Newswire.
Valued conference partners include: ASEAN Book Publishers Association (ABPA), Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA), Asian Media Information & Communication Centre (AMIC), Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP), Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PAPI), Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA), Magazine Business Association of Taipei (MBAT), Magazine Publishers Association of Malaysia (MPA), Magazine Publishers Association of Singapore (MPAS), National Book Development Board (NBDB), National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS), Telesis Consultation Inc. and OIC Events.


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One landscape architectural design trend I have noticed over the past several years has been the innovative integration of stainless steel in the exterior built environment. From retaining walls to linear water features, to coping and cladding treatments, stainless steel has repeatedly been the material of choice. Whether selected for its durability, stark contrast to other more "natural" landscape materials, or sheer aesthetic properties, I seem to be specifiying more of it than ever. For this reason, I thought it might be helpful to outline some of the characteristics of stainless steel types (alloys) when considering its' use in the landscape.
The specific alloy of stainless steel should be chosen to match the intended use of the metal. For simplicity sake, I would say there are roughly eleven standard architectural stainless steel alloys out of the close to sixty alloys recognized by the American Iron and Steel institute. Of these eleven alloys, consisting of the "200 Series", "300 Series" and "400 Series", the "300 Series" make up the majority and are predominatly the ones specified for landscape, site and marine applications.
Narrowed down further, Types 301, 302, 304 and 316 are the alloys commonly used for architectural stainless steel applications; Type 301 being the least corrosive resistant and Type 316 being the most. In general, Type 304 is usually my choice, given its excellent corrosion resistance, good workability, and good for welding – low carbon content. If the stainless steel application happens to be within an exterior urban or coastal environment where chloride and sulfur deposits might predominate making pitting corrosion a concern, then Type 316 is the choice.
A word about low carbon content alloys. If welding of stainless steel is required, a modified alloy type, designated by the letter "L" following the alloy number may be used, such as 316L. A condition is created when chromium carbides form at the site of the weld, stripping the protective chromium layer and allowing localized corrosion to occur. The "L" designation stands for low carbon alloy stainless steel. Designating a low carbon stainless steel alloy reduces the formation of chromium carbide. The one caveat however is that the lower carbon versions of the 304 and 316 stainless steel alloys have a reduced yield stress, therefore the lower strength trade off must be considered when using the low carbon alloys.
Thanks for reading and stop back in January when my next Specification News topic will address stainless steel finishes, their number system designation, description and uses.


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P0411 Diagnostic Trouble Code Discussion for January 2015
Secondary AIR System Incorrect Airflow Detected
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Virtual This and That. This and That!
Hitek Homeless May 11th, 2015
I've spent the last couple of weeks neck deep in new technology. That's always awesome. The end result is that a couple of our humble projects are going to be running on a considerably more robust platform than the one we administered professionally for a regional telco a decade ago. Also, I spent about $10 learning. Ouch!
As a telco, we ran a very large file server that handled all of our users web sites in one central location. It was nice because we could scale out to multiple web servers for redundancy and scalability. However, when the NFS server went down, the ENTIRE cluster had to be massaged in the right order to bring it back online. Talk about your nightmare scenario: send a new tech over to trace cables and just wait for the network wide outage to occur.
Our new infrastructure is a much smaller filesystem – we only have a couple of websites on it. However, we have three (3!!!) servers acting as redundant file servers. As they are all mirrors and geographically separated from each other, we can lose two entire regions before we have a real problem.
MySQL has been the defacto standard for sql servers on a budget for years. We ran this in an ISP environment and had the forethought to have a master-slave setup. In the budget telco world of a decade past, when we lost a SQL server, everything crapped out until someone manually logged into the slave server and told it to become master. Yay… we didn't lose everything. Boo, it was still an outage.
Our new infrastructure has clustered master-master sql servers. I can bring a new one online without even telling the existing servers about it! We also have three of these running in different geographical areas. We can lose an entire region and keep chugging along. If we lose two regions, someone has to login and tell the remaining server that it's ok to think for yourself. It's quite an upgrade from the old days, but not quite as nice as the fileserver.
Then there's the whole web server thing. It needs to talk to the sql server and file server. Thanks to modern magic, it can seamlessly talk to either service even if it's own closest server crashes. It would be hard to mention all the differences in our new implementation versus the old way of doing things, but our new web server software is a) f*cking fast as sh!t. b) has built in caching to reduce the overall work load c) is really good on memory usage.
Back in the telco days, budget was always a thing. We simply couldn't get the money for load balancing hardware and didn't have the people/time to do it properly in software. Today, that's not even a concern. I can get multi-region load balancing that let's me put all of the above infrastructure in 4 different data centers for less than the cost of a 12 pack of microbrew once a month. Compare that to round robin DNS – where an outage means that users can keep hitting 'reload' and get a working server if they are persistent. I'll take dirt cheap load balancing over DNS hackery!
Want to know the best part? All of this costs about half as much as we've been paying every month to run a single server at our current hosting provider. That's right.. one big server, with no redundancy, a broken serial console and backups that don't even boot if we have an outage. I'm TERRIFIED of rebooting our server because the console doesn't work, our backups don't boot and tech support says 'pay for OS support and buy more capacity' any time I mention that their services don't actually work.
Meanwhile, I've intentionally rebooted 1-2 servers on the new system in the middle of SQL imports and filesystem modifications without a hiccup. Everything just works. Better yet.. I can add systems to the cluster if we need the capacity or upgrade the existing servers to larger systems anytime I want. We can literally get 3x the redundancy and twice the capacity for the same price. Yet, I only need half the capacity we currently pay for.
We also have to ability to add auto-scaling. That means we'd boot servers that contact our sql/file server and just serve web pages. And we could do it magically as needed and only pay for it while they were needed. Fancy.
Currently, I think or backend cluster has the extra capacity to handle our web services as well. But, if we need it in the future, we can boot thin web servers on-demand and kill them overnight to avoid unnecessary charges, Talk about the icing on your chocolate covered doughnut,
FYI, google is offering a $300/2 month credit on compute engine. Don't be like me and sign up before heading to Baja – losing your credit!
UPDATE (8:30am, 5.5 hours after cutover completion):
Cutover went well this morning… there's nothing like a 1am maintenance window to remind me why I don't want to work for the telcos again.
However, I had to scale up our servers in the middle of watching a movie as they were starting to lag a bit. 20 minutes of rebooting servers, without even a blip of an outage, and we've scaled our capacity vertically 4-fold.
Sadly, this raises costs. Now, our hosting costs are closer to 3/5 of what they were prior to cutover. Still, a nice savings. Did you see the part where I took the fileservers and sql servers offline and replaced them each in under 5 minutes with bigger servers and couldn't even tell anything was happening from the client side? That's pretty fancy for a couple of home-brewed websites about camping in the woods and where to dump poop.
After looking at the costs of inter-zone bandwidth and just how much of it we were using, I got to thinking about how to lower that cost. A little filesystem hackery was enough to drop our inter-zone bandwidth to 1/3 or less and reduce the CPU overhead enough that we could scale servers back DOWN! Who'd think the lowly symlink would be capable of saving 2/3 of our server costs as well as 2/3 of our bandwidth costs. Crazy!
I'm learning that the real power in cloud computing is in getting the smallest building blocks you can and using them as efficiently as possible.


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Whilst many of our Truffle Hunters were in DC this weekend for the President's inauguration …. others opted for the alternate jet set activity of the week and hopped a jet to the Tuileries of Paris to see the Spring couture lines from our favorite couturiers. Since we are an LA-based blog we should do the PSA of reiterating that couture or Haute Couture is not an open invitation to start a line of sweats. Haute Couture is an invite only club based on committee, and the term haute couture is protected by French law (if it were protected by US law, half the mall clothes would owe Karl like billions of dollars). Pics provided by Sutton Stracke and Cameron Silver.
Paris in the snow!
Snow covered Bristol
Bonjour Paris. Fittings, shopping and fete on this last day!
Thank you @CHANEL for the perfume. My new favorite. And for the most exquisite first Chanel #hautecouture show.
20th January: Atelier Versace
Brian Atwood and Donatella Versace after the Versace Haute Couture show
21st January: Christian Dior
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Data Never Sleeps 2.0
A few years ago, Domo created a wildly-popular infographic that cataloged how much data is created by common web services every minute. Since the internet landscape changes so quickly, Domo decided to revisit the topic and see what's changed, through the same 'one minute' lens. Enjoy!


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In the latest issue of Men's Health magazine, there is a little blurb about MRSA resistant paint. In testing, all MRSA bacteria died after 20 minutes of exposure to the painted surface.
MRSA Under an Electron Microscope (Photo from the CDC's Public Health Images Library)
A little further research found a more detailed article on the coating. The paint can actually be used on surgical equipment as well. The researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York expect a general commercial product to be available within a year, and health-care applications to take three years to make it through the regulatory process. (The time it takes to get through the approval process is fodder for a whole different article.)
Now, this is a Lean principle at its finest: Create a poka yoke that takes some of the burden off employees. Since the paint only targets MRSA, it doesn't eliminate the need to wash hands and follow sanitation procedures, but it does add in a layer of safety. And best of all, that extra security doesn't require an additional process step.
I'm sure that there are limitations to the paint—expense, effective life, etc. But it is certainly a step in the right direction in regards to dealing with serious infections.
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So who's been shooting all the lapwings?
The man is an eejit of the highest order.
So who's been shooting all the lapwings?
The man is an eejit of the highest order.
What a total dick
What looks right, is not necessarily right.
But what looks wrong, is definitely not right!
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It's amazing to see a fair percentage of the tweets asking what he's going on about. Where's his proof!! Change of habitat is more likely the cause.
To be fair to the guy he has since apologized and stated lapwings arent shot in the uk
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Tbh i am in complete agreement with you, but i very much doubt he actually posted the original post anyway hence the later apology. Most likely been posted by the bbc junior . Agree the post could be deleted and im sure it wlil be in due course. For what its worth i think nature manages very well by itself before man comes along and f**ks it up!
Where are all the bumble bees? Those bloody shooters are to blame. Please sign my petition.
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Eurozone crisis causes aid cuts to poor, report says
The European debt crisis has led to cuts in government development aid to poor countries, says a new report by the aid watchdog Data.
It is the first significant reduction in Europe-wide aid budgets for a decade.
The biggest percentage cuts in the year 2010/11 were made by two of the states worst affected by the debt crisis - Spain and Greece.
But overall European development aid was also down by 1.5%.
The report says the new figures "reveal that those bearing the brunt of Europe's economic crisis include some of the world's poorest people".
"As austerity bites across Europe, we can now see the impact it is having on life-saving aid programmes," it adds.
In the year 2010-11, Spain cut its aid budget - the sixth largest in Europe - by nearly a third.
Greece cut its much smaller programme by 40%, according to the Data study, which was published in association with the campaign group ONE.
Anti-poverty target
The report is published as part of a lobbying campaign by aid agencies as EU leaders begin negotiating the next seven year European budget.
Over the last decade the trend has been for aid cash to rise.
European countries account for just over half of all global official development assistance.
Many of them have been slowly nudging towards a United Nations anti-poverty target of 0.7% of national income spent on aid.
The Netherlands and some Scandinavian countries have exceeded this proportion.
By far the biggest three donors are Germany ($14bn - 0.39% of national income), UK ($13.5 bn - 0.55%) and France ($12 bn - 0.42%)
One of the authors of the Data report, Adrian Lovett, said the countries that would be worst affected by any prolonged aid cuts were poor African states.
He said: "The countries we're worried about are mostly in Africa - for example Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi.
"At the moment they need aid and its saving lives on a daily basis."
There's a broad official consensus among aid agencies - and the western governments that often finance them - that development aid works.
But aid is not without its critics.
Some say it is wastefully distributed and can discourage poorly performing developing country governments from accepting their responsibilities.
The argument goes that if Medecins Sans Frontieres run the best hospitals in Haiti, for example, or Oxfam successfully digs the best water wells in Chad, why should the governments there bother?
Smart leadership
Such critics would also argue that countries such as China and India - and the many African states which currently have strong economic growth rates - are not getting richer because of aid.
In many of these cases, the aid critics say, infrastructure investment, commodities exports or liberalisation have been far more significant than aid.
Adrian Lovett counters these arguments with the example of Ghana.
"Ghana has in the past had a substantial amount of aid. That assistance has been well used through smart leadership at the national level and better coordination by the various donors.
"So Ghana is now on the brink of ending its dependence on development cash. That's exactly the route we see many African countries potentially taking."
But Mr Lovett drew a distinction between emergency aid - for famine victims, for example - and longer term development assistance.
He said aid advocates such as himself wanted, ultimately, to do themselves out of a job.
"There's always going to be international action around humanitarian crises. That is a natural human impulse.
"But we do want to see a day when we will help some countries and they will also help us in return in a relationship of equals.
"We want that rather than the donor client relationship we have seen in the past."


text: Peribronchiolar Metaplasia: A Common Histologic Lesion in Diffuse Lung Disease and a Rare Cause of Interstitial Lung Disease: Clinicopathologic Features of 15 CasesFukuoka, Junya MD, PhD*; Franks, Teri J MD†; Colby, Thomas V MD‡; Flaherty, Kevin R MD§; Galvin, Jeffrey R MD∥; Hayden, Dennis DO†; Gochuico, Bernadette R MD¶; Kazerooni, Ella A MD#; Martinez, Fernando MD§; Travis, William D MD*The American Journal of Surgical Pathology: July 2005 - Volume 29 - Issue 7 - p 948-954 doi: 10.1097/01.pas.0000168177.71405.ac Original Article Abstract Author Information Peribronchiolar metaplasia (PBM) is a histologic lesion consisting of peribronchiolar metaplasia (PBM) of bronchiolar-type epithelium. Although widely recognized, PBM has received little attention in the pathologic literature and is not known to have clinical significance. We identified 15 cases in which PBM was the only major histologic finding in surgical lung biopsies from patients with interstitial lung disease (PBM-ILD), and we reviewed the clinical, imaging, and pathologic findings. The mean age was 57 years (range, 44-74 years) with 13 females and 2 males. One patient had been a welder with fume and asbestos exposure; another had pigeon exposure. Smoking history was available for 13 patients: three current smokers, one cocaine user, two former smokers, and seven never smokers. Three patients had collagen vascular disease. One had elevated serum antinuclear antibody titers. Pulmonary function data were available for 10 patients: one obstructive, five restrictive, two mixed obstructive and restrictive, and two normal. Computerized tomography in 7 patients showed mosaic attenuation in 3 patients and air trapping in 1 patient; no bronchiectasis, septal lines, or honeycombing were seen in any cases. All 11 patients with available follow-up are alive; 4 of them have experienced symptomatic improvement (follow-up, 0.6-6.9 years; mean, 2.4 years). PBM was found focally in other interstitial lung diseases, which were assessed for this lesion: 59% of usual interstitial pneumonia (17 of 29), 50% of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (10 of 20), desquamative interstitial pneumonia (3 of 6), hypersensitivity pneumonitis (9 of 18), and 11% of respiratory bronchiolitis (2 of 18). In summary, PBM is a common histologic finding in various interstitial lung disorders. It is rarely the sole major lung biopsy finding in patients presenting with interstitial lung disease (PBM-ILD). Patients are mostly older women, with mild symptoms and CT findings. Survival appears to be favorable. From the *Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD and †Department of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC; ∥Department of Radiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC; ‡Department of Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ; §Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ¶Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD and #Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The current affiliation for Dr. Fukuoka is Department of Pathology, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Toyama, Japan. The current affiliation for Dr. Travis is Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Reprints: William D. Travis, MD, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com). © 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Metro migraines
Two Metro trains collided in a rail yard, mildly injuring three employees and damaging at least three $3 million cars beyond repair. Metro will pay $200,000 for accidentally discharging acid into a sewer in 2003. (Post) And Farragut North has some "major ceiling cracks." (Examiner) Twitter
The Mall Map
In 1897, Senator Cannon proposed creating a 230-acre scale map of the United States in the area that's now West Potomac Park and the Tidal Basin. (Nikolas Schiller, The Daily Render) Twitter
Two-driver car replaces driverless cars?
Two people drove a car into the Anacostia River, says the WUSA headline. It's still unclear how that happened (following a GPS, maybe?), but they're okay. After chuckling in amusement, note how the headline not only puts them in control of the car, but suggests that both of the people were "driving," in contrast to all the "car hits pedestrian" driverless headlines. Twitter
I was wondering that too
After January 1, grocery checkout clerks will have to add 5 cents for each bag you use, but how will that work with self checkout stations? Safeway and Giant say they're trying to figure that out. (City Paper) Twitter
Right hand, meet left hand's billboard
Shaw residents and DCRA officials have been trying to get rid of four billboards at 4th and P, NW of uncertain legal status. In the meantime, the Department of Health advertised HIV testing on one of them. (Examiner) Twitter
Driving on the left in Missouri
Springfield, Missouri is trying an innovative freeway interchange, the "diverging diamond," where traffic briefly switches to the left side of the road. At least it's innovative here; France has used it for decades. Amid the gushing over moving cars, it'd be nice if the story at least explored whether it's good for pedestrians and cyclists too; the interactive graphic notes that pedestrians will walk along the median but doesn't mention cyclists. (NPR) Twitter
Not Rhombus Heights
BeyondDC challenges us to name the 8 Metro stations with shapes in their names, or for a tougher one, all the metro areas over 1M people. Twitter


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UK inflation hits two-year high as households brace for tax and welfare reform
Economist says families will feel the pinch in 2017
Rising food, fuel and clothes prices pushed UK inflation to a two-year high of 1.2% last month, with 2017 expected to be even harder for households as families face tax and welfare changes in the new year.
The main driver of inflation came from increased clothing and footwear prices - which rose 1.6% between October and November this year, compared with a 0.1% fall over the same period in 2015.
The Government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation hit a higher-than-expected 1.2% in November after easing back to 0.9% in October from 1% in September. Economists had expected growth of 1.1%.
The index tracks the cost of household goods such as breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, snacks, housing, fuel and oil and uses it to gauge changes to the cost of living.
Richard Ramsey, chief economist at Ulster Bank, said: "The annual rate of inflation still remains low by historic standards and below the Bank of England's inflation target of 2%. That is expected to change in the coming months as the depreciation in sterling fuels further import cost inflation.
"Following the end of the two-year period of consumer goods price deflation, food, petrol, diesel and energy bills are expected to rise further in 2017. This will represent a squeeze on disposable incomes. Indeed, from mid-2017 we are likely to see consumer prices rising at a faster rate than wages.
"It is also worth remembering that the purchasing power of household incomes will be eroded by freezes in a range of welfare benefits and tax credits from April 2016 to 2020. The higher inflation rises, the bigger the squeeze. In turn, this is expected to reduce consumer spending and economic growth."
The higher price tags are mainly down to sterling's plunge to a 31-year low following the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
The weaker pound is causing prices to rise as manufacturers pass on higher material costs to consumers.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages also pushed higher, climbing 0.4% in November, compared with a 0.1% rise the same month last year.
Groceries such as bread, cereals, milk, cheese and eggs were also becoming more expensive.
And fuel prices are also rising. Petrol was up 1.6p a litre between October and November, after falling by 1.5p a litre a year ago and diesel up 2p a litre.
Mike Prestwood, ONS head of inflation, said: "November's slight rally in the value of sterling eased the inflationary pressure on businesses importing raw materials but consumer prices continued to edge upwards."
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Advocating for the Needs of Transgender People
For the past nine years, Deborah Coolhart has provided a much-needed resource in the Syracuse community. Almost as many years ago, Coolhart, an assistant professor in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), was one of only a few mental health professionals locally seeing transgender clients. Consequently, it was difficult to accommodate the volume in her private practice.
"Transgender people have a unique dependence on mental health professionals who provide recommendations that will allow them to receive necessary medical treatments, such as hormones and surgery," notes Coolhart. "Further, many transgender people who called me did not have the financial resources to obtain private practice therapy."
Through the development of the Transgender Treatment Team, commonly referred to as the Trans Team, Coolhart was able to refer clients to the Falk College's Couple and Family Therapy Center for the services needed. When the team was first established, services were provided at a very low cost and then eventually (and currently) for no cost. The Trans Team consists of MFT graduate students guided by Coolhart who are trained in basic clinical skills to work with the transgender population. Beginning in the spring 2013 semester, Dara Shipman, an adjunct supervisor with expertise in this area, will assist in managing the Trans Team, working closely with Coolhart and Falk Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy Linda Stone Fish.
Stone Fish notes, "Deb's respectful, innovative, interdisciplinary and community-collaborative work with the transgender population and their families is beginning to receive national recognition. She was recently asked to write an article in one of the lead MFT journals as an expert on therapy with transgender individuals. The research continues to support what many of us have always known: people who live in supportive families and communities fare better than people who live in hostile environments. Deb is on the forefront of helping Syracuse be a transgender friendly community. We are lucky to have her here."
The Trans Team has grown tremendously in the past nine years. It started with just a few clients and three student therapists. Now it includes 14 students, and Falk College's Couple and Family Therapy Center has approximately 30 transgender cases. Coolhart has seen significant change in the lives of the transgender community in the Central New York area as a result of the Trans Team's work. "Many clients have gained free access to mental health recommendations for the medical treatments they need to live more congruent lives. Couples and families have been assisted in the adjustment process that occurs when a loved one undergoes gender transition. Community advocacy has been achieved by student therapists interacting with school systems and places of employment to educate about transgender identities and to promote just and sensitive conditions for trans people in these settings," she notes.
Several scholarly projects involving students and Coolhart have resulted from work on the Trans Team, including a manuscript published in 2008 that appeared in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies. A second article titled, "Therapy with Transsexual Youth and Their Families: A Clinical Tool for Assessing Youth's Readiness for Gender Transition" is now in press with the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and was coauthored by Coolhart, newly appointed adjunct supervisor Dara Shipman and other students. Coolhart and her students have presented nationally on this topic, including at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). This semester, a Trans Team student will be presenting on working with transgender clients in Professor Keith Alford's SWK 328 class, "Human Diversity in Social Contexts."
Students working with the Trans Team benefit from this experience tremendously. "They leave our program equipped to sensitively serve this population and to provide recommendations for transgender medical treatments. No other MFT program provides this type of training and incoming students are beginning to report that they are choosing SU's MFT Program because of the opportunity to be a part of the Transgender Treatment Team," concludes Coolhart.


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|Feb 3, 1970
|Filing date
|Mar 22, 1967
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|Mar 22, 1967
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|Fitzgerald Warren W, Haines Paul A, Harris Edward P, Kienle Richard F
|Original Assignee
|Gen Motors Corp
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|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (147), Classifications (19)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Feb. 3, 1970 w. w. FITZGERALD E A 3,493,257
RESi LIENT MICROCELLULAR FOAM BUMPER Filed March 22, 19 7 [NI/EN TOR S m l l aim/a P Harris, (5 r I United States Patent 3,493,257 RESILIENT MICROCELLULAR FOAM BUMPER Warren W. Fitzgerald, Detroit, Mich., and Paul A. Haines, Vandalia, Edward P. Harris, Dayton, and Richard F. Kienle, Trotwood, Ohio, assignors to General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich, a corporation of Delaware Filed Mar. 22, 1967, Ser. No. 625,055 Int. Cl. B60r 19/08 US. Cl. 29371 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An impact absorbing article having a flexible high density microcellular foam body and a thin elastomeric surface coating which conceals the porous characted of the foam body and which is capable of being elastically deformed with the body under impact without tearing or separation from the foam body may be utilized in combination with a suitable backup member as an automobile bumper, fender extension, rocker panel or the like.
This invention relates to a novel composite flexible impact absorbing article which is elastically deformable under substantial impact and which may be adapted for utilization as an automobile body member or the like. More particularly, this invention relates to an article having a flexible synthetic resin microcellular foam body of relatively high density and impact absorbence and an elastomeric film coating integrally bonded to said body and cooperating therewith such that the composite structure can be deformed under impact and will return to its original configuration without tearing of the surface coating or separation thereof from the body.
In many respects automobile design and manufacture presents unique problems in selection of materials of construction to the engineer. Unlike most other transportation devices, the automobile is purchased by a consumer who expects that his vehicle will be styled so that it is pleasing to the eye when new and that it will be designed such that it can be readily maintained in that condition. Among other things, the consumer wants a car which is fabricated from materials which will withstand, without significant deterioration at least, the impact of low-speed collisions, or of tire-thrown rocks and the like which chip or deform body members such as bumpers, rocker panels, and fender extensions. For many years, these body members have been formed from sheet metal and subsequently painted or chrome plated depending upon the specific application. However, sheet steel, which is employed in these applications, will permanently deform under relatively low impact and requires expensive bumping and painting or other repair work if the damaged member is to be restored to its original condition.
Solid or sponge rubber impact absorbing devices have also been used on automobiles. However, solid rubber tends to bulge under impact which ruptures or tears a surface coating. Moreover, bulk rubber requires high molding pressures. If an article the size of an automobile bumper were to be molded of bulk rubber massive and expensive equipment would be required to withstand the molding forces. On the other hand, sponge rubber is quite soft undergoing excessive deflection and tearing when subjected to the impact of a 4,000-lb. automobile traveling at a speed of up to five miles per hour.
It is an object of this invention to provide a synthetic "ice microcellular foam impact-resistant article which is elastically deformable under relatively high impact and which may be adapted to resemble painted sheet metal.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a synthetic microcellular foam automobile body member which matches or complements the decor of the rest of the automobile body and which whe adequately supported will withstand impact and normal wear and tear without appreciable deterioration.
It is a still further and more specific object of this invention to provide a composite elastomeric article having a urethane microcellular body portion and an integrally bonded elastomeric surface coating layer which cooperate in combination to deform elastically under impact without appreciable injury to the article.
These and other objects and advantages are accomplished in accordance with this invention in the case of a preferred embodiment thereof by first providing a suitable female mold having a cavity surface which defines at least a portion of the article to be produced. The mold surface is coated with a suitable release agent and then a solution of an elastomeric substance is sprayed onto the mold surface. After evaporization of the solvent, a thin film of elastomer coating remains on the mold wall. This coating may be clear or it may contain a colored pigment. The coating step may be repeated if additional thickness or color intensity is required. A foamable urethane composition is then deposited into the mold cavity against the elastometer coating. It is foamed and cured therein to produce a tough elastomeric nicrocellular foam, having a density of 60 pounds per cubic foot, which is integrally bonded to the elastomeric film. The individual cells are uniformly quite small and not readily distinguishable to the naked eye. In the case wherein an automobile bumper is formed, it is preferred that the foam have a density of to pounds per cubic foot. Finally the composite article is removed from the mold and subjected to a final curing heat treatment. When the article is to be used as an automobile bumper unit, it will be desired to provide a rigid channel beam member in the elastomeric article to support the elastomeric member and to provide means for connecting it to an automobile frame or the like. In this case, the channel beam insert is preferably positioned in the mold cavity in spaced apart relationship from the coated surface before the urethane is foamed and cured.
The above-described method produces an automobile bumper having a high density microcellular foam body member and an elastomeric surface member which may be deformed or deflected together from their original configuration under relatively high impact (equivalent to the impact of 4000-lb. automobile moving at two to five miles per hour striking a stationary object) and subsequently restore themselves thereto without appreciable damage to the article. Moreover, the surface of the elastomeric film may be smooth or irregular in accordance with the wall of the mold but it does not reflect the irregular surafce of the foam substrate structure.
A better appreciation of the invention will be gained from a detailed description of a specific embodiment thereof, reference being had to the drawing in which:
FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the front end of an automobile, a part of which is broken away, having a bumper prepared in accordance with this invention and illustrating the principles thereof;
FIGURE 2 is a sectional elevation view of a mold and bumper illustrating one stage of the preparation of an embodiment of this invention;
FIGURE 3 is an enlarged and more detailed sectional view of a portion of FIGURE 2 as indicated; and
FIGURE 4 is a sectional view of the bumper and related structures taken along line 4-4 of FIGURE 1.
In the embodiment of the invention which is described herein, an automobile bumper is formed. The outer surface of the bumper is smooth and colored in a manner consistent with the decor of the sheet metal surfaces of the car. In many respects this bumper thus formed does not look like the ordinary chrome plated bumper, but rather it is styled to match the rest of the car in color and lines. The bumper 10- is shown in FIGURE 1 appended to car 12. In the preparation of the bumper, typifying the elastomeric composite article of this invention, an electroformed nicked female mold 14 is prepared Which defines the exposed surface 32 of the bumper 10. It has an inner surface 16, which defines a cavity in the configuration of the bumper 10. In the case of the subject bumper, it is desired to have a smooth colored surface similar to or pleasantly matching painted sheet metal 18 which comprises much of the rest of the car body. Therefore, the surface 16 of the mold is very smooth. Surface 16 of the mold is coated with a dispersion of a Tefion-typefiuorocarbon polymer in a liquid Freon. The Freon is evaporated and the residual fluorocarbon is melted onto the surface 16 by heating the mold to about 600 F. Subsequently, the mold is brought to a temperature of about 250 F. and a solution of a fully reacted urethane elastomer is sprayed onto surface 16. For the exposed surface of an automobile external body member preferably the urethane is the reaction product of a polyester polyol, formed from a-dipic acid and a glycol, with butane diisocyanate. This fully reacted polyurethane is dissolved in ethylene glycol monomethylether and dimethyl acetamide to obtain a suitable viscosity for spraying. No pigment is added to this first coating. The solution is sprayed onto the preheated cavity surface 16 until a thin uniform base film 20, FIGURE 3 is obtained. The solvent is evaporated from the mold surface to leave a thin coating of the fully reacted urethane elastomer. Subsequently, a second coating is applied to the clear coating already on the mold surface. The solution is basically the same type of formulation as above except that a colored lightreflecting pigment is included to give a desired color. This layer is indicated at 222, FIGURE 3. During this time, the mold 14 is maintained at a temperature of about 250 F. The colored coating is dried by evaporating the solvent. A second colored coating (not shown) may be applied, if desired, of the same composition as the first colored coating as soon as the first coating has been dried. FIGURE 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a portion of FIGURE 2 showing the outer clear coating 20 adjacent mold surface 16 and the color coating 22 both of which consist substantially of a fully reacted urethane elastomer. The specific composition defined above is preferred because it has excellent chemical stability when exposed to sunlight, air and salt spray. Moreover, the physical properties of the material are such that it can be elastically distorted or deformed without appreciably injuring the surface finish. The purpose of the coating is to hide the cells of the foamed body member to be molded against it. In the products we have made and found successful, the thickness of the complete coating is 6 mils or less.
When the color coating has dried, which typically requires about three minutes at the temperature of the mold cavity, a mold lid 24 and a channel beam steel bumper insert 26 (shown in cross section) are located upon and in the mold cavity. The steel U-shaped beam is designed to have a moment of inertia sufficient to resist the bending moment of the impact of a 4000-lb. automobile travelling m.p.h. The bumper insert 26, as
shown in FIGURES 1 and 4, is also employed as shown to attach the bumper 10 to the frame 28 of the car through the medium of support springs 29, FIGURES 1 and 4. When the mold lid 24 and insert 26 have been positioned in the mold, a foamable urethane composition is poured into the mold cavity through a suitable aperture (not shown) in the mold lid. A urethane composition which may be foamed and cured to a microcellular structure having a density of 2560 pounds per cubic foot, preferably close to about 40 pounds per cubic foot, is comprised of the following materials: 100 parts by weight of polyoxypropylene diol having a molecular weight of about 1,000, 26.7 parts by weight of 4,4- methylene-bis (Z-chloroaniline), 2 parts by weight silicone glycol surfactant, 0.5 part by weight carbon black, 0.05 part by weight distilled water, 36.5 parts by weight toluene diisocyanate 2,4-toluene diisocyanate and 20% 2,6-toluene diisocyanate), and 0.3 part by weight stannous octoate. This foamable composition is poured into the mold cavity and cured for ten minutes at about 250 F., the amount of material being that which, by experiment, is found to be sufficient to fill the entire mold cavity on expansion. The material foams and expands to completely fill the cavity providing the microcellular high density urethane elastomer foamed body portion 30 which is bonded both to insert 26 and to the colored portion of the film coating 22. The bottom of the mold is water sprayed to a temperature of about F. and the mold lid 24 and molded bumper 10 are removed from the cavity. The bumper structure 10 is separated from the lid 24 and given a final cure at 250 F. for one hour. Any extraneous elastomer is trimmed from the bumper and the backside is '(originally adjacent the mold lid) painted preferably to match the color of the urethane layer 22. The bumper insert 26 is then welded, bolted, or otherwise attached to support spring 29, FIG- URES 1 and 4, and thence to the frame 28 of the car.
Impact-resistant elastomeric articles produced in accordance with this invention, as typified by bumper 10, have a number of unique properties. They have a surface coating which conceals the porous foam substrate and which has the appearance of painted sheet metal car bodies that can be chosen at will to match or otherwise appear well with whatever other colors appear on the car. The microcellular foam substrate 30 displaces under impact, but does not bulge so as to tear or rupture a surface coating. In this respect the microcellular material differs from normal elastic material, which bulges outside of a specific portion under compression. The porous substrate also tends to distribute the load of a substantial impact whereby it is elastically displaced rather than permanently deformed. The subject elastomeric article has the advantage over other impact absorbing materials, such as sheet metal or rubber, of being able to withstand substantial impact without permanent deformation or noticeable destruction of the colored surface. In this regard, a bumper produced as described was subjected to a nimpact equivalent to that of a five miles per hour 4000-lb. automobile collision with a stationary object without permanent or even noticeable damage to the bumper. A commercial metal automobile bumper was permanently deformed and its chrome plate cracked when subjected to an equivalent impact. Moreover, the elastomeric article produced in accordance with this invention does not corrode when exposed to salt spray. It will also be appreciated that other parts of an automobtile body such as fender extensions, rocker panels and the like, prepared in accordance with this invention, will withstand stone bruises and other mild impacts without being damaged. In the event that a more severe impact is received by the member and it is permanently deformed, as would be sheet metal under similar impact, the elastomeric article may be simply and easily repaired by cutting out the damaged portion and remolding with a small amount of solid flexible material. The local surface may then be repainted.
The effective impact absorbing members of the subject bumper are the flexible synthetic resin microcellular foam portion and the rigid backup member which act in cooperation with each other to absorb substantial impacts without major damage to the composite structure. It is preferred that the support member be in the configuration of a channel beam (as shown in cross section at 26) or a closely related structural variation thereof such as an I-beam, so as to obtain a relatively high moment of inertia for resisting substantial bending moments. The length of the channel beam backup member is such that it is substantially coextensive with the bumper, at least that portion extending across the front of the car. The other dimensions of the member are designed so that the beam will be able to withstand a predeterimned impact, such as that of a 4000-lb. automobile traveling about miles per hour, without permanent deformation.
The foam member of the composite bumper structure has the effect of distributing the impact over a gerater area of the beam. The high density microcellular urethane foam is particularly suitable in this capacity as it requires relatively high loads before it will undergo substantial deflection or deformation. Moreover, when it does deform, it does not bulge thereby tearing the skin portion. We have found that the urethane foam described above requires a load of about 500 psi. to effect a 50% deflection or compression of a specimen which is one inch thick and having a density of 37-lb. per square inch. In accordance with our invention the foam body member preferably is capable of undergoing up to 5065% deflection under loads of this type without rupture or other failure.
In order that the foam portion be capable of deflecting to this extent, thereby more readily distributing an impact over a substantial surface area, the foam cells must be extremely small and uniformly distributed. The cells of a mircocellular foam are scarcely visible to the naked eye, but they may be observed under a magnifying lens. We have observed that the diameter of the cells is typically in the range of about 1()200 microns. The specific size range of the cells is a function of the density of the foam. In accordance with this invention the density of the foam is at least one third and preferably about two thirds of the solid bulk density of the resin of which it is formed. In the case of a urethane foam this density is in the range of -60-lb. per cubic foot. As is well known in the foamable polymer art, the density of a flexible foam may be satisfactorily controlled by concentration of the blowing agent in the foamable composition. The smaller the amount of blowing agent (here the water component), the greater the density of the foam.
The physical dimensions of the bumper are determined by the design of the automobile and the impact forces that are to be withstood. When the bumper is expected to Withstand the impact of a 4000-1b. automobile traveling at 5 m.p.h. with a stationary object without damage to the bumper we have found that the foamed body portion (FIGURE 2 or 3) should be at least about 1 /2" thick between the leading impact surface 34 and the surface 40 of the rigid metal insert 26 which is perpendicular to the principal direction of impact upon the bumper. This dimension was determined to provide a five square inch contact area under full deflection when a two inch diameter object having the kinetic energy of a 5 m.p.h. 4000-lb. automobile strikes the bumper. At points where the bumper is expected to receive only a glancing blow (such as at 36 or 38 for example) the foam thickness may be reduced. Of course, it is understood that the design of any bumper is largely empirical and the specific dimensions of the bumper, particularly of the cross section parallel to the normal direction of impact (from straight ahead), may vary substantially according to the needs of the designer.
The above-described method, apparatus, and article may be modified depending upon the particular application without deviating from the spirit of this invention. For example, the number and color of the coating films applied initially to the mold are arbitrary and may be determined to fulfill a particular need. In other words, all or none of the. coatings may be colored. Of course, additional coatings may be applied to the molded article. The elastomer coating does not have to be fully reacted as described above when it is initially applied to the mold. It may be cured after it is in the hot mold, or the final curing of the last applied coat may be concurrent with the foaming of the foamable resin composition so that a bond more chemical in nature is obtained between the foam member and the surface film.
In the above description, a mold was employed that was electroformed so as to have a very smooth surface. This would be preferred if the article of this invention is to be used as an automobile body component so that it will resemble painted sheet metal. However, it is apparent that the mold may have a more roughened or grained surface in other applications if desired. The reason for applying the elastomeric coating to the mold surface in the first instance is that in this way the thin elastomeric coating takes on the character of the mold surface and does not reflect the character of the foamed body portion beneath it.
The nature of the rigid insert member, of course, may vary depending upon where the impact resistant article is to be used and how it is to be attached to another structure. In the case of a rocker panel the problem is not so much one of support, but of attaching the article to the body. The foamed structure does not, however, have substantial resistance to bending moment and therefore requires some support where it may be subjected to severe blows.
Elastomeric coating layers other than urethanes may be employed. Other suitable materials, for example, from the standpoint of physical and chemical properties, are chloro-sulfonated polyethylene and chlorinated polyethylene. Other elastomers may be used so long as they do not yellow or otherwise deteriorate in the environment in which the article is to be used and they have elastomeric properties compatible with the microcellular foam substrate. In this regard, it is expected that the composite flexible portion of the bumper be capable of deforming inwardly up to as much as 50 to 65% and returning to its normal configuration without the surface coating being torn, destroyed, or separated from the foam body member. Less demanding physical requirements may be encountered in other applications.
While this method and article have been described in terms of a specific embodiment, it will be appreciated that other forms may readily be adapted by those skilled in the art and the invention should be considered limited only by the following claim.
We claim:
1. An automobile bumper unit comprising in combination: an elongated channel beam member adapted to be aflixed to the automobile, defining an outer surface generally perpendicular to the principal direction of impact on the bumper unit, and of moment of inertia and material sufficient to resist bending moments of predetermined impacts when mounted on the automobile; a layer of microcellular foam synthetic resin enveloping said surface of the beam member, said layer being composed of foamed polyurethane having a density of about 35-45 pounds per cubic foot and foam cells uniformly less than about 200 microns in diameter, said layer further being of the order of at least 1 /2 thick in a direction perpendicular to said beam surface; and a layer of nonfoamed resin enveloping the surface of said first mentioned layer, said last layer being of the order of .006" thick and formed principally of polyurethane material, whereby impact on the bumper unit compresses said microcellular foam resin layer and said enveloping nonfoamed resin layer to deform them, said layers ultimately returning to their original configuration.
(References on following page) 7 8 References Cited 2,926,904 3/1960 Erlbacher 293-71 XR 2,902,072 9/1959 Reuters 152-330 UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,022,810 2/1962 Lambe 152 157 1,980,867 11/1934 L 293-19 2,274,440 2/1942 T2212, 293 19 XR 5 ARTHUR LA P0INT,P1-1mary Ex mer 3,074,751 1/1963 Gerin 29319 H. BELTRAN, Assistant Examiner 3,116,778 1/1964 Herzegh et a1 152330 3,140,111 7/1964 Dabroski 293 9 XR us. 01, X,R, 2,188,082 1/1940 Irnhofe 293 71 293 3 2,829,915 4/1958 Claveau 293-71 10 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3,493,257 Dated February 3, 1970 warren W. Fitzgerald, Paul A. Haines, Inventor(s) Edward P. Harris and Richard F. Kienle It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:
Column 1, line 15, "characted" should read character Column 2, line 29, elastometer' should read elastomer line 30, "nicrocellular" should read microcellular line 52, before "4000-11). insert Column 3, line 17, "nicked" should read nickel line 26, "'leflon-typefluorocarbon" should read Teflon-type fluorocarbon line 48, "222 should read 22 Column 4, line 57, "a nimpact" should read an impact Column 5, line 15, "predeterimned" should read predetermined line 19, 'gerater" should read greater line 36, "mircocellular" should read microcellular Column 6, line 31, subjected should read subject SIGNED KN' SEALED JUN 3 01970 (S AL) WHILIM IE-- SGHUYIm, JR.
1 am Fletcher, In Commissioner of Patents Attesting Officer
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|Jan 27, 1981
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|Rigid and semiflexible polyurethane foams produced with phenol-aldehyde-amine resins
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|Feb 17, 1981
|Motor Wheel Corporation
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|Sep 21, 1982
|Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
|Bumper for use on vehicles
|Oct 8, 1981
|Oct 4, 1983
|Ex-Cell-O Corporation
|Vacuum metallized dielectric substrates and method of making same
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|Feb 14, 1984
|Ex-Cell-O Corporation
|Vacuum metallizing a dielectric substrate with indium and products thereof
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|Mar 26, 1985
|Cenegy Louis F
|Method for protecting a substrate with a multi-density composite polyurethane
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|May 16, 1989
|Weiss David A
|Floral container
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|Jul 23, 1996
|Ymos Aktiengesellschaft Industrieprodukte Assignee Of Said Palige And Said Zielinski
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|Jan 13, 1998
|Avery Dennison Corporation
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|Mar 10, 1998
|Avery Dennison Corporation
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|May 5, 1998
|Green Tokai Co., Ltd.
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|Nov 30, 1999
|Henkel Corporation
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|May 30, 2000
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|Aug 1, 2000
|Henkel Corporation
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|Dec 26, 2000
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|Jan 2, 2001
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|Mar 13, 2001
|Sika Corporation
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|Apr 10, 2001
|Green Tokai Co., Ltd.
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|May 22, 2001
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|Henkel Corporation
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|Henkel Corporation
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|Henkel Corporation
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|Avery Dennison Corporation
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|Hyundai Motor Company
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|Aug 11, 2015
|Tundra Composites, LLC
|Magnetic composite
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|Tundra Composites, LLC
|Magnetic polymer composite
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|Tundra Composites, LLC
|Reduced density glass bubble polymer composite
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|Jun 28, 2016
|Tundra Composites, LLC
|Ceramic composite
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|L&L Products, Inc.
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|May 6, 2004
|L&L Products, Inc.
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|Jun 3, 2004
|L&L Products, Inc.
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|Nov 4, 2004
|L&L Products, Inc.
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|Mar 17, 2005
|Jeffrey Wax
|Method and apparatus to immobilize an internal combustion engine motor vehicle
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|Apr 28, 2005
|Zander Robert J.
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|Apr 28, 2005
|Zander Robert J.
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|Jun 23, 2005
|Lear Corporation
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|Jan 5, 2006
|Dinello Panfilo M
|Process for forming plastic, apparatuses for forming plastic,and articles made therefrom
|Oct 14, 2008
|Jun 18, 2009
|Jeffrey Wax
|Apparatus to immobilize an internal combustion engine motor vehicle
|Nov 24, 2008
|Oct 8, 2009
|Tundra Compsites Llc
|Enhanced property metal polymer composite
|Jan 16, 2009
|Dec 24, 2009
|Kurt Emil Heikkila
|Melt molding polymer composite and method of making and using the same
|Nov 12, 2004
|Dec 31, 2009
|Heikkila Kurt E
|Enhanced property metal polymer composite
|Apr 28, 2010
|Nov 4, 2010
|Tundra Composites, LLC
|Reduced Density Glass Bubble Polymer Composite
|Apr 28, 2010
|Nov 4, 2010
|Tundra Composites, LLC.
|Ceramic Composite
|Apr 28, 2010
|Nov 4, 2010
|Tundra Composites, LLC.
|Inorganic Composite
|Oct 7, 2010
|Aug 9, 2012
|Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
|Resin molded product
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|Jul 4, 2013
|Aerofficient Llc
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|Jan 15, 2015
|Hyundai Motor Company
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|Nov 20, 2003
|Mar 11, 2014
|Zephyros, Inc.
|Bladder system for reinforcing a portion of a longitudinal structure
|May 8, 1995
|Nov 30, 1995
|Wycech Joseph S
|Composite laminate beam for automotive body construction
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|Sep 25, 1997
|Textron Automotive Company Inc.
|Method for fabricating painted bumper
|U.S. Classification
|293/120, 428/31, 293/109, 428/319.3, 428/315.7, 428/315.9, 428/71
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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Transcend Releases Very Low Profile DDR2-533 Unbuffered Modules, 1.8" IDE Flash Disks
Transcend Information announced its very low profile (0.72-inch high) DDR2-533 Unbuffered DIMM memory modules (P/N: TS64/128MLQ64V5VL). Each module consists of 64Mx8 own-brand DDR2 FBGA chips. The six-layer PCBs used for 512MB/1GB modules are designed to meet the highest specifications by minimizing noise signal disturbance and enhancing overall performance. The new memory chips use FBGA chip packages for their improved electrical and heat dissipation characteristics.
Transcend also introduced high-capacity 1.8" IDE Flash Disks designed for use with specialist equipment in industrial environments. The 1.8" IDE Flash Disks feature 44-pin interface, tough outer metal case, reliability, low power consumption and anti-shock features. These are available with 2GB, 4GB and 8GB memory capacities. Transcend's 1.8" IDE Flash Disks are compact in size and measure only 60mm x 69.85mm x 7.0mm. In addition, these novelties have built-in ECC (Error Code Correcting) functionality and the Auto Sleep and Power-Down modes for higher energy efficiency.
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