A member to be welded to another member by means of a welding tool that clamps the two members together with the weld location in register with a welding tip carried by the tool. Attached to the member is a welding collar of a material different than the material of the members to be welded together. The collar is located relative to the tip by an interlocking connection between the tool and the one member.

A porous structure with high uniformity is provided even when evaluated at a high resolution (high evaluation standard) of several or several ten nm or less. By applying this porous structure to the manufacture of an SOI substrate, an SOI substrate which has an SOI layer with a small number of defects is provided. In a region at a depth of 5 to 10 nm from the surface of a porous Si layer, values of parameters such as porosity and the like which represent a porous structure are uniformed. The man...

A support member comprising a polymer material and a transparent and electrically conductive metal oxide semi-conductor layer on the polymer material. Alternatively, the support member comprises a polymer material, and a transparent and electrically conductive metal oxide semi-conductor layer and a metal fluoride layer on the polymer material. The support member can be used as a support for a photographic member.

A wall is provided between a ceiling and floor, such wall comprising outer dry wall boards sandwiching a corrugated cardboard core. Supporting the wall at its upper end adjacent the ceiling is an inverted U-channel. Supporting the wall at its lower end is a support comprising two components, one of which is fastened to the floor by nailing. The other component is inserted under an edge of the first component to support the wall panel therebetween.

An improved sealing member utilizable as a plug button or grommet is disclosed. An annular locking portion made of a rigid material is integrally bonded to a flexible elastomeric body. For use as a grommet, the sealing member also has an opening in the center of the elastomeric body and a sealing surface projecting therefrom for engaging a member (wire, cable, or the like) to be supported thereby. The rigid annular shaped portion of the sealing member has a tapered shape and is slightly larger t...

An imaging system using a migration imaging member comprising a softenable photoconductive material with a fracturable layer of migration marking material contacting the softenable photoconductive material and having the fracturable layer spaced apart from at least one surface of the softenable layer and typically contiguous to the free surface of the softenable material. Imaging with a member comprising a softenable photoconductive binder material with marking particles therein dispersed throug...

A fiber optic connector member having a removable front plate for protecting the faces of optical fibers mounted within the connector. The plate is retained within the connector shell by a resilient retention finger. The finger extends into a T-shaped slot formed on the outer surface of the plate. The slot opens at the front face of the plate. An extraction tool is disclosed which may be inserted into the slot to release the retention finger and grip shoulders formed on the sides of the slot all...

The shuttering member of this invention comprises a foamed resin block rabbeted along at least two opposed longitudinal edges of the same major surface of the block and having internal strengthening rods across the width of the block. The invention also comprises a method of producing a foamed shuttering member having strengthening rods.

A bearing member intermediate structural members provide for low friction relative movement of the structural members comprising, in operative position, a flattened tube having an elastic wall and an anti-friction medium deposited within the tube.

An abrasive member providing a working surface characterized by having a multiplicity of upstanding angularly extending ridges. Particles of an abrasive material, such as diamond, are affixed to the ridges in a manner so that as the tops of the ridges wear down, fresh particles of the abrasive material will become reembedded therein, thereby continually presenting a fresh cutting surface.