Paxxal Inc.

General Electric Company

Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc.

Belcan Corporation

John Charny

Ezzeldin Elmassry

Omar Shawaf

Ben Stoller

Moustapha Bahsoun

Michael Laible

Robert W Walters

Peter C Foller

Robert H Tang

Forrest R Blackburn

Thomas Alexander Knapp

Edward James Balaschak

James Michael Kostka

Ellwood Phillip Hunt, Iii

Kevin W Seybert

Thomas Richard Hopson, Iii

Jonathan Bork

Stefan C Dehaseth

Andrew J Lamb

Michael A Steimle

A pallet assembly includes a support assembly and a base assembly. The support assembly has a deck molded from a plastic shell material and male fittings that extend away from a lower surface of said deck. The base assembly includes a stringer that defines a plurality of openings which extend through the entirety of the stringer. A female fitting extends completely through each of the openings in the stringer so that the base of each of the female fittings is flush with or extends beyond the bottom surface of said stringer. Each of the male fittings corresponds to a female fitting, attaching said support assembly to said base assembly.

Roto molded pallet

Certain embodiments of the present disclosure describe a pallet assembly having a support assembly and a stringer. The support assembly includes a deck and a plurality of blocks that extend from the deck. The deck and the blocks are unitarily formed to create a contiguous outer shell that defines a common internal space that is filled with a support material. The blocks include extension portions that correspond to openings defined in the stringer. The extensions are received in a corresponding opening to attach the stringer to the support assembly.

A method of forming an optical element which includes an electrochromic apodized aperture having variable light transmittance through a clear aperture area in response to an applied electrical current is disclosed. The apodized aperture includes a body including an area defining the clear aperture area wherein a fluid containment area substantially overlapping the clear aperture area, and includes at least one fill passage extending from the fluid containment area to at least one fill port outside of the clear aperture area; an electrochromic fluid within the fluid containment area substantially overlapping the clear aperture area and having variable light transmittance in response to an applied electrical current; a cover attached with the electrochromic fluid between the cover and body; electrical contacts electrically coupled to the electrochromic fluid for supplying electrical current thereto; and at least one passage seal in each said fill passage positioned outside of the clear aperture area.

Method of making an optical element having an electrochromic apodized aperture

Apparatus for accurately picking and placing one or more optoelectronic devices for vacuum lamination of materials in a way that minimizes stress to the materials.

Large area hermetic encapsulation of an optoelectronic device using vacuum lamination

A pallet type transfer device utilized to transport parts or components along a conveyor-type assembly line is disclosed. The pallet type transfer device includes a body member having a rear bumper member with a pair of oppositely disposed idler wheels rotatably mounted thereto and having a front bumper member attached to the front surface thereof. The top surface of the rear bumper member is inclined upwardly towards the rear surface of the body member. Parallel, longitudinally extending, spaced-apart complementary grooves are provided on the bottom surface of the body member, each groove having a conveyor belt received therein. When a 'moving' pallet type transfer device contacts a 'stopped' transfer device along the assembly line, the front bumper of the 'moving' transfer device contacts and moves laterally on the inclined top surface on the rear bumper member on the 'stopped' transfer device causing the body member of the 'moving' transfer device to move slightly upwardly resulting in the complementary grooves on the bottom surface thereof becoming disengaged from the conveyor belts, thus minimizing or eliminating wear to the belts and to the bottom surface of the 'moving' transfer device. The conveyor belts continue to move within grooves provided within the idler wheels, however, the belts do not contact the complementary grooves provided in the bottom surface of the body member of the 'moving' transfer device which has now been stopped.

Pallet type transfer device

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Richmond Heights, OH, United States of America

John Charny