Patents Represented by Attorney Bachman & LaPointe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8124151
    Abstract: A method for producing edibles comprising an outer shell from a mass which is fed into a mold. A tempered male die is dipped into the mold, a process during which an excess amount of the mass overflows an edge of the mold. The excess mass is separated form the shell at the edge of the mold by the male die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: KMB Produktions AG
    Inventor: Guido Knobel
  • Patent number: 8123047
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter for fluids in conduits, consisting of: a tubular filter housing (1); a filtering basket (9) that is coaxial with the filter housing (1) and that is positioned to rotate; a stationary flushing connection (16) for removing substances that have been retained by the filtering basket (9), said connection covering successive parts of the filtering basket (9) and being connected to means for removing the substances. To achieve a simple construction for the filter, increased operational safety for the drive components and the rotational mounting of the filtering basket (9), in conjunction with reduced production and maintenance costs, a fluid-proof drum motor (3) is coaxial with the filter housing (1) and the filtering basket (9) is fixed to the drum (4) of said motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Taprogge GmbH
    Inventors: Guido Keller, Dirk Trostmann
  • Patent number: 8123466
    Abstract: A turbine engine blade outer air seal segment has a body having a base portion. The base portion has a transversely concave ID face, a forward end, an aft end, and first and second circumferential edges. The body has at least one mounting hook. At least one cover plate is secured to the body to define at least one cavity. The cover plate has a plurality of feed holes. A plurality of outlet holes extend through the base portion to the ID face. At least one of the base portion and cover plate comprises a protruding portion protruding into the cavity to form a partial restriction separating circumferentially and fore-aft offset cavity portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz, John C. Calderbank, Joseph A. Peto, Lisa P. O'Neill, Michael J. Bruskotter
  • Patent number: 8122600
    Abstract: A method for restoring blade dovetails to their original shape comprising the steps of removing damaged material from a blade dovetail at a damage site, physically depositing a metal at the damage site in an amount sufficient to replace the removed damaged material, and machining the blade dovetail to the original shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Monika D. Kinstler, David A. Rutz, Robert L. Memmen
  • Patent number: 8123228
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine augmentor has a centerbody within a gas flowpath from upstream to downstream. The augmentor has upstream and downstream shell sections, a downstream rim of the upstream shell section meeting an upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. A plurality of vanes are positioned in the gas flowpath outboard of the centerbody. An augmentor spray bar fuel conduit extends through the centerbody and a first of the vanes to deliver fuel to the centerbody. A seal is mounted to the spray bar and positioned in a recess extending from at least one of the downstream rim of the upstream shell section and upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. The seal has a first portion and a second portion engaging the first portion in a backlocked interfitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Marc J. Muldoon, Tor W. Sherwood, Meggan H. Harris-Miller, Robert T. Brooks
  • Patent number: 8124293
    Abstract: An interconnect for a solid oxide fuel cell includes a conductive structure having first portions defining a first contact zone, second portions defining a second contact zone which is spaced from the first contact zone, and intermediate portions extending between the first and second portions, wherein the intermediate portions are joined to the first portions through first corners, and wherein the intermediate portions are joined to the second portions through second corners, and wherein the first corners have a smaller radius than the second corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: UTC Power Corporation
    Inventors: Justin R. Hawkes, Connie E. Bird
  • Patent number: 8120454
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuating device comprising an armature unit which can be moved along a longitudinal axis relative to a stationary core by passing a current through a coil device, said armature unit being designed to form or define a fluid flow channel, wherein the armature unit has at one end an axially elongate cylindrical section, to which an annular groove-shaped section of reduced outer diameter is connected in the direction of the longitudinal axis, wherein the fluid flow channel extends into the annular groove-shaped section, wherein the fluid flow channel runs through the elongate cylindrical section in the manner of a through-channel, in particular a through-bore, running obliquely with respect to the longitudinal axis, so that a first opening at the end side and/or an opposite second opening of the through-channel are provided outside the cylindrical outer wall of the elongate section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: ETO Magnetic GmbH
    Inventor: Roland Stehle
  • Patent number: 8113182
    Abstract: Integrated supercharger module having a low-pressure charging device (2) having a low-pressure compressor housing (4), a high-pressure charging device (3) having a high-pressure compressor housing (5), a turbine (9) and a cooler arrangement, wherein the low-pressure charging device (2), the high-pressure charging device (3), the turbine (9) and the cooler arrangement form a structural unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Wegner, Joachim Huster, Georg Ruetz
  • Patent number: 8113008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigeration circuit having a mono- or multi-component refrigerant circulating therein, said refrigeration circuit comprising, in the direction of flow, a condenser, a collecting container, a relief device connected upstream of an evaporator, an evaporator and a compressor unit with single-stage compression. According to the invention, there is an intermediate relief device (a) arranged between the condenser (1) and the collecting container (3). Furthermore, there is disclosed a method of operating a refrigeration device in which pressure relief of the refrigerant to an (intermediate) pressure of 5 to 40 bar is effected in the intermediate relief device (a) arranged between the condenser (1) and the collecting container (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Bernd Heinbokel, Andreas Gernemann, Uwe Schierhorn
  • Patent number: 8113780
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component has a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure side and a suction side. The pressure side and suction side extend between the leading edge and trailing edge. One or more cooling passageways extend through the airfoil and comprise a trunk extending from an inlet. At the inlet, there is an additional passageway adjacent the trunk and having at least one edge recessed relative to the trunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony P. Cherolis, Eric P. Letizia, Matthew A. Devore
  • Patent number: 8113924
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a stick with a strand of sausage or the like suspended therefrom includes a transversely transferring device for transferring a stick from a first position to a second position by stick transverse transfer members; and a vertically transferring device having stick vertical transfer members which receive the stick from the stick transverse transfer members at the second position and deliver the stick to a conveyor device. The transversely transferring device has a stick transfer body having the stick transverse transfer members provided thereon, a rail body for supporting the stick transfer body and guiding its linear movement, and a transverse wrapping connector traveling body wound around and trained between transverse transfer wheels. A stick transfer body is adapted to be reciprocatingly moved by a transverse transfer electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: HITEC Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakamura, Katsuya Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8110740
    Abstract: In a dye sensitizing solar cell 1 wherein an electrolyte 4 is filled in a space between a photoelectrode substrate 2 and a counter electrode of a counter electrode substrate 3, a composite film 7 comprising metal portions 7a of titanium or the like and oxide portions 7b thereof is formed on a transparent electrode film 6 formed on the surface of a substrate member 5, and a porous semiconductor electrode film 8 adsorbing or carrying sensitizing dyes 8a thereon is formed on the composite film 7, the metal portions 7a of the composite film 7 contacting the porous semiconductor electrode film 8, and the oxide portions 7b of the composite film 7 contacting the electrolyte 4 without contacting the porous semiconductor electrode film 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Kozo Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8110094
    Abstract: A dewatered ethanol residue regenerable and non-regenerable sorbent for the removal of acid gas from hydrocarbon production gas streams and the process for the removal of acid gas from hydrocarbon gas. The process includes the steps of obtaining residue from the distillation of ethanol; de-watering the residue; mixing the de-watered residue with an amine; and, contacting the hydrocarbon gas with the dewatered residue/amine mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Intevep, S.A.
    Inventors: Alfredo Viloria, Rafael Yoll, Yanine González, Mónica Román, José Biomorgi
  • Patent number: 8109207
    Abstract: A gripper for a removable lid of a kitchen utensil is provided, which can be fixed to a top of a lid through the action of a magnet on a magnetic component. The gripper comprises a base plate and an operating member that can move relative to the base plate between a magnetizing position in which the force exerted by the magnet on the magnetic component allows the gripper to be secured to the top, and an isolating position in which this force is not strong enough to secure the gripper to the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Christophe Lorthoir
  • Patent number: 8109419
    Abstract: A device for absorbing shocks of a liftable and lowerable object such as a spare tire includes a first hoisting cable having a hoist-side end and an object-side end and a hollow cylinder encompassing a folded or coiled length of the first hoisting cable near the object end inside the cylinder. Lower and upper ferrules at the lower and upper ends of the cylinder are held in position by a second auxiliary cable having two ends, each end attached to one of the ferrules, the second auxiliary cable having a smaller tearing strength than the first hoisting cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mag-Eh Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexandre Khavronine
  • Patent number: 8109206
    Abstract: The inventive waffle iron has two baking sub-assemblies pivotable with respect to each other from an open position and a closed proximate position in which they define a baking chamber. At any position of the baking sub-assemblies between the closed proximate position and the closed offset position thereof, wherein they are offset from each other by a product expansion, a peripheral element of a baking sub-assembly slides along a corresponding peripheral element of the other baking sub-assembly in such a way that the variable volume baking chamber is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Seb SA
    Inventors: Roger Rosset, Guillaume Prieto, Jérôme Tranchant
  • Patent number: 8112234
    Abstract: A method is provided for estimating the components of the force torsor that are applied to a bearing, which method provides for the measurement of a vector (Vm) of N deformations and for the use of a physical model linking a vector (Q) of at most N representative values of the components of the torsor with a deformation measurement vector, the method comprises the following iterative steps: introduction of a vector (Q) of representative values into the model in order to calculate a deformation measurement vector (Vc); and carrying out a pertinence test (T) between the deformation measurement vector (Vc) which is calculated and the measured vector (Vm); if the test (T) is negative, establishing at least one new vector (Q) of representative values to be introduced into the model according to the result of the test; or if the test (T) is positive, storing the vector (Q) of introduced values; wherein the estimated components of the force torsor are established according to at least one stored vector (Q) of values
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: SNR Roulements
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, David Kwapisz, Alexandre Laurent
  • Patent number: D653851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: B&M Design AB
    Inventor: Espen Flyvholm
  • Patent number: D654406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventor: Gilles Henry
  • Patent number: D654521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Leister Process Technologies
    Inventors: Walter Flubacher, Andreas Furling, Peter Christen