Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Daniel O'Byrne
  • Patent number: 6520662
    Abstract: A projector particularly for projecting light in infinite colors, comprising a pair of light sources arranged side by side and inserted in a single luminaire, a single dimmer element, a single color changer and a single diffuser element being arranged after the lamps, in order to obtain in output a light beam determined by the sum of the light beams emitted by the light sources arranged side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Coemar S.p.A.
    Inventor: Bruno Dedoro
  • Patent number: 6520994
    Abstract: A shoulder endoprosthesis for fractures of the upper end of the humerus, comprising a humeral stem, adapted to be accommodated in an intramedullary canal of the humerus and provided with multiple longitudinal ribs, and a humeral proximal part, which is suitable to couple to one end of the stem, is provided with a plurality of lateral fins and has, at an upper end, a portion for engagement with a humeral head which is suitable to reconstruct the head of the humerus of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Cremascoli Ortho S.A.
    Inventor: Livio Nogarin
  • Patent number: 6517160
    Abstract: An extensible footrest, particularly for armchairs, sofas and the like, which comprises a frame adapted to be hinged to a frame of a seat of an armchair, sofa or the like, the footrest frame being constituted by a first pair of lateral arms and by a second pair of lateral arms which are slideable with respect to the first pair of lateral arms, at least one actuator being rigidly connected to the seat frame at one end and to the footrest frame at an opposite end, in order to transfer the footrest frame from a first retracted inactive position to an extended active position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Ciar S.p.A
    Inventor: Egidio Marcantoni
  • Patent number: 6517780
    Abstract: A container for liquids, particularly for analysis of biological liquids, comprising a main body which is constituted by a cylindrical chamber and by a plurality of cup-shaped parts for containing the liquids which protrude axially from the bottom of the chamber, an intermediate closure element which can be accommodated in the chamber and is in turn provided with tubular portions which can be inserted in the cup-shaped parts, and a sealing cover which can be coupled to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Kaltek S.r.l.
    Inventor: Lorenzo Cortelazzo
  • Patent number: 6514257
    Abstract: A device for anchoring an end of an elongated tensile flexible element guided along a tunnel provided through the bones of a joint for reconstruction of a ligament, comprising a female element, which defines an internal thread and can be inserted in the tunnel, and a male element, which defines an external thread and is suitable to be screwed with play into the female element so as to secure the elongated element between the internal and external threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Citieffe S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alan Dovesi, Franco Mingozzi
  • Patent number: 6514509
    Abstract: A method for preparing a disinfectant and sterilizing peracetic acid solution, comprising the production just before use of peracetic acid by mixing an activator (HP) with a parent mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Farmec S.n.c. di Tabasso Renato & C.
    Inventor: Renato Tabasso
  • Patent number: 6514232
    Abstract: A vacuum adjustment valve, particularly for thoracic drainage devices, which comprises a valve body arranged in the air intake duct and tuning a first region connected to the intake duct and a second region connected to the drainage device. A regulator is arranged between the regions, is struck by the air stream and is operatively connected to a flow control element which controls a port for connection between the second region and an environment at atmospheric pressure. Adjustable elastic closure elements act on the flow control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: Andrea Gibertoni
  • Patent number: 6510950
    Abstract: The storage system has two base members (1, 2) that support rails (3) that allow the carriages (4), provided with inclined frames (5), to slide longitudinally in both directions. At the opposite ends of the base members, there are two parallel transverse tracks (6, 6′) that lie at right angles to the base members and in which transfer units (7) run in order to transfer from one base member (1) to the other (2), the carriages (4) which support the inclined frames (5) and which have been transferred onto the transfer units (7). Parking stations (8, 9) are provided to pick up or deposit the material, while movement of the carriages (4) from one base member (1) to the other (2) along the transverse tracks (6, 6′) is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: Antonio Piazza
  • Patent number: 6508091
    Abstract: A cylinder lock with a key, the lock having a plug with at least one hole intersecting the keyway. The hole is provided with two shoulders, one whereof lies further outward, the other one lying further inward with respect to the surface of the plug. An auxiliary tumbler is accommodated in the hole and comprises an auxiliary pin, an auxiliary complementary pin and a spring acting by expansion between the auxiliary pin and complementary pin. The tumbler can assume an elongated configuration, wherein the pin and the complementary pin are mutually spaced and axially offset angularly with respect to each other, or a shortened configuration, wherein they are aligned in mutual abutment without axially offset. The key has an elastic element adapted to cooperate with the auxiliary tumbler to allow, with the key inserted, compression thereof to the shortened configuration and disengagement from the notch and rotation of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Cisa S.p.A.
    Inventor: Livio Donatini
  • Patent number: 6505385
    Abstract: A magnetic closure with mutual interlock for bags, knapsacks, items of clothing and the like, comprising a female element and a male element with regions for accommodating magnetic elements for mutual coupling. A particularity consists in that there are provided, on the female element, guiding means for coupling to the male element and, on the male element, mechanical engagement elements which are adapted to contrast the mutual sliding of the male element and the female element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Sama S.p.A.
    Inventor: Erico Grunberger
  • Patent number: 6502375
    Abstract: A machine for packaging a mattress in a sheet, comprising horizontal supporting and receiving mattress surfaces, guides for guiding the sheet on a vertical plane, so that by moving the mattress in the advancement direction from the supporting surface toward the receiving surface the sheet is arranged over and under the mattress, a device for joining and cutting the sheet upstream of the mattress and for forming a bag which wraps around the mattress, sheet unwinding assemblies comprising two rollers movable along the receiving surface with a return stroke, the rollers being articulated to rotate between alignment and parallel positions in which they are perpendicular or parallel to the advancement direction and to the sides of the mattress, and actuators for actuating the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Resta S.r.l.
    Inventor: Roberto Resta
  • Patent number: 6502362
    Abstract: An anchoring device for components made of concrete comprises an elongated section which is associable with a concrete component so as to protrude from the component with at least one of its longitudinal sides and with at least one portion of its lateral faces, which extend from the longitudinal side. Engagement regions are provided in this portion of the lateral faces of the section and form a plurality of possible engagement positions, mutually spaced along the longitudinal extension of the section, for a coupling element which is detachably associable with the portion of the section that protrudes from the component. The coupling element has at least one engagement region which forms a plurality of possible engagement positions, mutually spaced parallel to the longitudinal extension of the section, for an element for connecting the coupling element to another component or another element to be rigidly coupled to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6503220
    Abstract: A vaginal douching and/or enteroclysm device including a grip holder (26a) for being held by a user's hand, a cannula (36) connected to the grip holder (26a), a liquid container (24a) for containing liquids, and an electric pump (10) arranged for delivering fluid from the liquid holder (24a) to the cannula (36). The electric pump (10) is selectively activated by means of a switch (40) carried by the grip holder (26a) and actuatable when engaged by the user's hand. The electric pump (10) may be completely arranged inside the grip holder (26a), which may also contain a rechargeable battery (42) for operating the electric pump (10), and which may further support the liquid container (24a), while a base (44) is provided for removably supporting the grip holder (26a) such that the grip holder (26a) is completely removable from said base (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Inventors: Stefano Cirillo, Giuseppe Fucá
  • Patent number: 6502370
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a package for packaging food products, composed of an outer sheet made of heat-sealable material and of an undulated inner sheet. In a first step of the method, the two sheets are unwound from respective reels, so that the outer sheet forms two lateral borders left exposed by the inner sheet. By way of appropriate longitudinal movements of the sheets, the inner sheet is centered on the outer sheet so as to form, at their opposite ends, two transverse borders which are perpendicular to the lateral ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Inventor: Guglielmo Martelli
  • Patent number: 6494773
    Abstract: A border planing machine for wood floors comprising a footing provided with wheels and a handle, a structure which is hinged to the footing so as to rotate about a longitudinal axis and adapted to support abrasive disks on either side with respect to the longitudinal axis and to support elements for moving the disks so that the disks arranged on one side rotate in the opposite direction with respect to the disks arranged on the other side, and levers adapted to determine, following an actuation on the part of the operator, small rotations of the structure with respect to the longitudinal axis, in both directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Inventors: Claudio Marchini, Raffaele Migliari, Riccardo Zanchetta
  • Patent number: 6491123
    Abstract: An electric earth-moving vehicle, particularly for poorly ventilated locations, comprising an electric motor drive for driving wheels of the vehicle, a hydraulic unit which is actuated by a further electric motor drive for equipment installed on the vehicle, at least two sets of batteries for the motor drives, a control unit for connecting the motor drives to the two sets of batteries which is adapted to connect the motor drives individually or simultaneously to one set of batteries or the other or to both, and a supporting chassis which has, in a median and downward region, a tunnel for inserting one of the two sets of batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignees: VF Venieri S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Pasquini, Giacomina Venieri
  • Patent number: 6488924
    Abstract: A vitamin K adduct, particularly suitable as vitamin supplement for feeds, constitued by menadione bisulfite bonded with an appropriate ion-exchange resin and exceptionally stabilized thereby. The adduct can be used as an antihemorrhagic additive for farm animal feeds. The high thermal stability of the vitamin adduct allows to use it in modern technologies for producing feeds in extruded form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Luigi Stoppani S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Monteleone, Stefano Bonati
  • Patent number: 6488054
    Abstract: An anti-balloon device, to be placed downstream of a weft feeder for weaving looms, comprising a structure which forms a substantially tubular through cavity, preferably substantially frustum-shaped; the cavity is crossed by an unwinding thread that arrives from the weft feeder and controls the passage of the thread, by opposing the centrifugal force that affects it. The structure is shaped like a bottomless basket which is formed by rods lying longitudinally between end elements which connect the rods; the end elements are end rings which are mutually angularly spaced so as to surround the cavity in order to control the passage of the thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: L.G.L. Electronics S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pietro Zenoni, Rosario Castelli
  • Patent number: 6488484
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump with permanent-magnet motor having a preset direction of rotation, comprising a permanent-magnet motor connected to an impeller with curved vanes which is rotatably accommodated in a volute. The volute is predominantly symmetrical with respect to a line being directed toward an intake port and passing through a rotation axis of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Sicce S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Pettenon
  • Patent number: D466853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Due Emme Mille Miglia S.r.l.
    Inventor: Fulvio Maifrini