Jeffrey W Robbins

US Patent:

7026031, Apr 11, 2006

Filed:

Dec 5, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/310375

Inventors:

Ulrich B. Holeschovsky - Mt Lebanon PA, US
Jeffrey L. Robbins - Chattanooga TN, US
Harry Stefanou - Strafford PA, US

Assignee:

Bayer MaterialScience LLC - Pittsburgh PA

International Classification:

B32B 33/00
D05C 17/02
D05C 15/04
H05H 1/00

US Classification:

428 97, 428 95, 428 96, 156 72, 1562726, 427535, 427569

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved process for the production of artificial turf, and the improved artificial turf. In accordance with this process, fibers are treated via corona discharge, tufted into a primary backing to form a greige good, and a precoat is applied to the back surface the greige good. Suitable fibers are polyolefins, and suitable precoats are reactive polyurethane mixtures. The fibers may be treated by corona discharge either before they are tufted into the primary backing to form the greige good or after the are tufted into the primary backing. Artifical turfs of the present invention comprise a greige good having fibers tufted into a primary backing, with the fibers being treated by corona discharge either before or after being tufted into the primary backing, and a precoat which is attached by its face surface to the back surface of the greige good.

US Patent:

57297487, Mar 17, 1998

Filed:

Apr 3, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/417066

Inventors:

Jeffrey C. Robbins - Seattle WA
David G. Bradlee - Seattle WA
Timothy L. Paterson - Redmond WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9445

US Classification:

395705

Abstract:

A call template builder constructs call templates for interfacing between two blocks of code that utilize different calling conventions. Each call template is built to perform calling convention translation for a call from a source code block to a particular function in a target code block. The call template is formed as a linear block of code having computer code instructions for moving each argument of the function call between locations in memory and registers of the computer complying with a calling convention of the source code block to locations complying with a calling convention of the target code block. Call templates can be constructed for any arbitrary calling convention by providing a definition to the call template builder of the calling convention indicative of the locations for passing arguments and transferring control to the function in compliance with that calling convention.