Author: claimsbot

1. An application apparatus configured to apply an application material to a continuous web being conveyed, comprising:
a handover roll configured to receive the application material from a storage unit configured to store the application material;
an application roll provided adjacent to the handover roll and configured to receive the application material from the handover roll and apply the received application material to the web; and
press rolls provided on an opposite side of the web to the application roll and configured to press down the web to the application roll, wherein
the press rolls include a first press roll and a second press roll which is provided downstream of the first press roll in a conveyance direction of the web, and
in a plan view seen from a rotation axis direction of the first press roll and the second roll, the web passing the second press roll while being held between the application roll and the second press roll is conveyed in such a manner that the web is inclined toward the second press roll from a tangent line at a point of contact between the application roll and the second press roll.
2. The application apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the plan view seen from the rotation axis direction of the first press roll and the second press roll, an imaginary line connecting between a rotation axis of the first press roll and a rotation axis of the second press roll intersects an outer circumferential line of the application roll.
3. The application apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a feed roll provided downstream of the second press roll in the conveyance direction of the web, wherein
a rotation speed of the feed roll is higher than a conveyance speed of the web.
4. The application apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the application roll includes a cooling mechanism configured to set a temperature of the application material to be lower than that at the time when the handover roll receives the application material from the storage.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A stylus comprising:
a stylus body comprising a main section and a head portion protruding from one end of the main section, the head portion defining cutouts and notches;
a pointed portion defining a connecting groove, the connecting groove receiving the head portion; and
solvent-type adhesive filling up the cutouts and notches to adhere the head portion to the pointed portion.
2. The stylus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the head portion includes two opposite first walls and two opposite second walls, each first wall defines one of the cutouts in longitudinal direction, each second wall defines one of the notches in transverse direction.
3. The stylus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the adhesive is 3M2665.
4. The stylus as claimed in claim 2, wherein a latching block protrudes from each first wall, adjacent to the main section, the pointed portion including latching holes, the latching blocks latch with the latching holes.
5. The stylus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pointed portion includes a tip end and a connecting end opposite to the tip end, the connecting groove is defined in an end wall of the connecting portion, facing the head portion, two opposite sidewalls surround the connecting groove, the latching holes are defined in the two sidewalls.
6. The stylus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the tip end is approximately taper-shaped and made of wear-resistant rubber.
7. A stylus comprising:
a stylus body defining a connecting groove; and
a pointed portion comprising a head portion, the head portion defining cutouts and notches, the connecting groove receiving the head portion;
solvent-type adhesive filling up the cutouts and notches to adhere the head portion to the pointed portion.
8. The stylus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the head portion includes two opposite first walls and two opposite second walls, each first wall defines one of the cutouts longitudinally, each second wall defines one of the notches in width way.
9. The stylus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the adhesive is 3M2665.

1. A gas generating system comprising:
a gas generator for production of gas; and
a flame retardant positioned exterior to the gas generator, said flame retardant comprising at least one metal oxide,
wherein upon activation of the gas generator, the gas is at least partially reactable with the flame retardant, and, said flame retardant is provided in a molar amount sufficient to oxidize a predetermined amount of carbon monoxide formed upon activation of said gas generator.
2. The gas generating system of claim 1 wherein said gas generating system is a seatbelt pretensioner, and said gas generator and flame retardant are contained within the seatbelt pretensioner.
3. The gas generating system of claim 1 wherein said metal oxide is selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, iron oxide, copper oxide, aluminum oxide, lithium oxide, and mixtures thereof.
4. The gas generating system of claim 1 wherein said metal oxide is formed by mixing two or more metal oxides selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, copper oxide, aluminum oxide, and lithium oxide.
5. The gas generating system of claim 1 wherein said gas generator contains a gas generant that produces carbon monoxide upon combustion thereof.
6. The gas generating system of claim 1 wherein said gas generator contains nitrocellulose as a gas generant.
7. A seatbelt device comprising:
a housing:
a gas generator contained within said housing;
a gas generating composition contained within said gas generator, said gas generating composition combusted to produce gas including carbon monoxide;
a flame retardant positioned within said housing and exterior to the gas generator, said flame retardant comprising at least one metal oxide,
wherein upon activation of the gas generator, the gas is at least partially reactable with the flame retardant, and, said flame retardant is provided in a molar amount sufficient to oxidize a predetermined amount of carbon monoxide formed upon activation of said gas generator.
8. The seatbelt device of claim 7 wherein said metal oxide is selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, iron oxide, copper oxide, aluminum oxide, lithium oxide, and mixtures thereof.
9. The seatbelt device of claim 7 wherein said metal oxide is formed by mixing two or more metal oxides selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, copper oxide, aluminum oxide, and lithium oxide.
10. The gas generating system of claim 7 wherein said gas generator contains a gas generant that produces carbon monoxide upon combustion thereof.
11. The gas generating system of claim 7 wherein said gas generating composition comprises nitrocellulose.
12. A vehicle occupant protection system comprising:
a gas generator contained within said vehicle occupant protection system;
a gas generating composition contained within said gas generator, said gas generating composition combusted to produce gas including carbon monoxide; and
a flame retardant positioned within said housing and exterior to the gas generator, said flame retardant comprising at least one metal oxide,
wherein upon activation of the gas generator, the gas is at least partially reactable with the flame retardant, and, said flame retardant is provided in a molar amount sufficient to oxidize a predetermined amount of carbon monoxide formed upon activation of said gas generator.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. In a kernel processor including a pair of processor rollers between which chopped harvested material is passed, and with one of the processor rollers being adjustable toward and away from the other so as to alter a spacing between them, the improvement comprising: a powered element coupled to said one processor roller; a control device coupled to said powered device and being responsive to a control signal for controlling said powered device for effecting movement of said one processor roller; and a sensor coupled to said control device and being mounted for sensing a characteristic of the harvested material and issuing said control signal which corresponds to the sensed characteristic, whereby said powered device is controlled in accordance with said sensed characteristic.
2. The kernel processor defined in claim 1 wherein said sensor is a moisture sensor, which determines the moisture content of the harvested material, whereby said powered device is controlled in accordance with the moisture content of the harvested material.
3. The kernel processor defined in claim 2 wherein said sensor and control device respond to the moisture content of the harvested material in such a way that the powered device is caused to adjust said spacing between said processor rollers so that it is made increasingly smaller with increasing moisture content.
4. The kernel processor as defined in claim 2 wherein said sensor and control device respond to the moisture content of the harvested material in such a way that the powered device is caused to adjust a contact pressure between said processor rollers such that said contact pressure increases as said moisture content increases.
5. The kernel processor defined in claim 2 wherein a rocker arm is coupled to said powered device and to said one processor roller; a potentiometer coupled to said rocker arm for sensing its position at any one time so as to produce a spacing signal indicative of the spacing between said processor rollers; said spacing signal being coupled to said control device.
6. The kernel processor defined in claim 2 wherein said powered device is a one-way hydraulic cylinder; a rocker arm being coupled to said cylinder and said one processor roller; a spring being coupled to said rocker arm in opposition to said hydraulic cylinder and biasing said rocker arm to an extreme position in a range of positions disposing said one processor roller such that said spacing is at, and between, a minimum spacing and a maximum spacing.