CYLINDER BLOCK WITH STEPLESS PLATED COATING U.S. Patent 5,806,481. Sept. 15, 1998 H. Ikegaya, assignor to Yamaha Hatsudoki KK, Iwata, Japan

A cylinder block comprising a body member forming at least o n e cylinder bore extending be- tween an outer surface adapted to be closed by a cylinder head and an area adapted to form a crankcase chamber in which a crankshaf t rotates, the cylinder bore being formed by a cylinder wall surface comprised of a pis- ton s l id ing su r f ace por t ion adapted to be slidably engaged by a sealing portion of an associ- ated piston reciprocating in the cylinder bore with a plated coat- ing on at least the piston sliding surface portion.

CLEANING APPARATUS U.S. Patent 5,806,544. Sept. 15, 1998 T.J. Kosic, assignor to Eco-Snow Systems Inc., Livermore, Calif.

A carbon dioxide jet-spray disk cleaning system.

APPARATUS FOR COATING STRIP U.S. Patent 5,807,434. Sept. 15, 1998 R.A. Innes, assignor to Alcan International Ltd., Montreal, Canada

An apparatus for continuous two- sided painting of an elongated strip article.

CHROMATE P A S S I V A T I N G CONCENTRATE U.S. Patent 5,807,442. Sept. 15, 1998 B.H. Goodreau, assignor to Henkel Corp., P@mouth Meeting, Pa.

A concentrated aqueous solution suitable for being diluted with wa- ter to form an effective working composition for forming a chro- mium containing conversion coat- ing on a metal surface by chemical reaction comprising water and 20 to 300 g/L of phosphate ions; 75 to 350 g/L of CrQ; 0.010 to 0.40 M of a component of dissolved anions se- lected from the group consisting of BF4- , SiF6 -2, and ZrF6-2; and 0.3 to 25 g/L of HF; and, optionally, dis- solved trivalent chromium.

SPUI"rERING TARGET ASSEMBLY U.S. Patent 5,807,443. Sept. 15, 1998 K. Masuda et al., assignors to Hitachi Metals Ltd., Tokyo

A method of producing a sputter- ing t i t an ium targe t assembly, which comprises a target material of t i tanium having a recrystal- lized s t ruc ture and a backing plate bonded with each other by diffusion bonding.

SPUll"ERING APPARATUS U.S. Patent 5,807,470. Sept. 15, 1998 J. Szczyrbowski and G. Teschner, assignors to Balzers Und Leybold Deutschland Holding AG, Hanau am Main, Germany

An apparatus for coating a sub- strate comprising an evacuable coating chamber having means for in t roduc ing a process gas therein; an a l ternat ing current source; and cathodes cooperating electrically with targets so that sputtered particles of the target are deposited on the substrate while the process gas is supplied to the coating chamber.

PARTING FIXTURE FOR REMOVAL OF A SUBSTRATE FROM A M A N D R E L U.S. Patent 5,807,472. Sept. 15, 1998 L.E. Hendrix et al., assignors to Xerox Corp., Rochester, N Y

A method of separating an elec- troformed metal article from a mandrel comprising establishing a parting gap between the electro- formed metal article and the man- drel; at taching the electroformed metal article at an end where the electroformed metal article con- forms to a parabolic end of the mandrel to a part ing f ixture-- comprising an outer cup, an inner cup, and a fluid inle t tube, wherein the outer cup has a par- abolic shape for attaching to the electroformed metal article and extends in height beyond a height of the inner cup, the fluid inlet tube extends through a base por- tion of and into an inner portion of

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