Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Diller, Ramik & Wight
  • Method for producing friction linings
    Patent number: 6808662
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing friction linings with or without an intermediate layer by compressing the friction material mixtures in a mold of a press during a pressing process comprising at least one pressing cycle, wherein a press control unit controls a plurality of manipulated variables individually or in combination with each other to attain a given lining property (controlled variable) of the friction linings, it is provided that at least one characteristic value representative of the lining property of the friction linings is measured in a first pressing cycle or in a plurality of pressing cycles, and that the manipulated variables are controlled in dependence on the at least one measured characteristic value of the current pressing cycle, the subsequent pressing cycles and/or the subsequent pressing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: TMD Friction GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hogenkamp, Ernst Pollmann
  • Coaxial cable connector
    Patent number: 6790082
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector 1 including a connection terminal (2) to be connected to an internal conductor (34) of a coaxial cable 31 and a metal shell (4) for supporting the connection terminal (2) via an insulating member 3 establishes electrical connection between the internal conductor (34) of the coaxial cable (31) and the connection terminal (2) by bending the connection terminal (2) according to the respective bending forces of the shell (4) and the insulating member (3) and making such connection terminal (2) retain the internal conductor (34) of the coaxial cable (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: I-Pex Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Obayashi
  • Machine for molding a peripherally encapsulated product
    Patent number: 6783347
    Abstract: A peripherally encapsulated product is molded by placing a piece of glass between mold clamping portions of movable closed bodies when the latter are in an open position. The bodies are heated and thermosetting polymeric material is placed upon one of the mold bodies outboard of a peripheral edge of a piece of glass. The glass is clamped and the mold bodies are closed creating compression forces which extrude the polymeric material into the annular cavity and into complete encapsulation of a peripheral edge of the piece of glass. The thermosetting polymeric material is cured, the mold bodies are opened and the product is removed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Gemtron Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Bienick, Bob Herrmann, Howard Daley
  • Mattress core and mattress providing pressure relief and minimizing body pressure
    Patent number: 6782575
    Abstract: A mattress core is defined by a base core to which is bonded upper and lower corrugated outer layers each having oppositely directed corrugations, and side rails bonded to at least sides of the base core. The side rails have a height corresponding to the distance between valleys of opposite corrugated outer layers. The mattress core and mattress have an ILD range of substantially 26 ILD to 50 ILD for the side rails, 24 to 40 ILD for the base core and 12 to 45 ILD for each of the corrugated outer layers. The base core and the outer layers also collectively define a torso firmness zone and opposite head and foot firmness zones with the torso firmness zone being substantially between 20% to 30% more dense than the head and foot firmness zones. Ends of the mattress core and mattress are devoid of end rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Inventor: Rick D. Robinson
  • Hydraulic drive for use in can manufacture
    Patent number: 6776021
    Abstract: A drive for use in the manufacture of cans comprises a hydraulically powered guide pod to which a can bodymaker is attached. The guide pod slides along a guide rod which is fixed in the bodymaker. Forward and rear hydraulic chambers are defined between the pod and the guide rod by means of bushings and a seal. Passage of fluid through ports to and from the chambers causes the pod and bodymaker to move forwards and backwards. The length of the stroke can be set by the distance between the ports. A rotary valve is used to control the timing of the drive and control flow of hydraulic fluid, which is typically obtained from the bodymaker coolant supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Scholey
  • Portable display case
    Patent number: 6772816
    Abstract: A portable display case includes four panels with adjacent panels being connected by pivots defining substantially parallel axes. The panels are pivotable between a closed position in which the panels are in face-to-face contiguous opposing relationship and an open position. Two center panels include handle members pivotally connected thereto at upper edges and wheelable members connected thereto at lower edges. The handle members and the wheelable members include recesses and projections for registering with projections and recesses, respectively, of adjacent outermost panel members. The recess and projections facilitate the stacking of identical portable displays atop each other. The handle members and the base members pivot through 180° for respectively latching and unlatching the panel members in their respective closed and open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventors: Wallace T. Carter, Paul Bradley Forrest, Robert Grant McRorie, III
  • Method of manufacturing a stack of spaced lites
    Patent number: 6773777
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the manufacture of lites (glass sheets) which have at least a pair of thin spacers applied thereto which maintain the lites in spaced relationship when stacked upon pallets, wrapped and shipped. The spacers are preferably only partially adhered to the lites, either by weak bonding adhesive or electrostatically, and can be readily removed during end-use applications. The spacers are applied automatically during production runs of the lites, and the spacers are applied from above or from below relative to the path of travel of the lites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Gemtron Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Lee Knoy, Jr., Aaron M. Bauer, Robert A. Moss
  • Appliance door or lid
    Patent number: 6766596
    Abstract: A door/lid for an appliance, such as a washer or dryer, includes a tempered glass panel upon an inner surface of which is applied one or two screen printed borders of fusible ceramic printing medium defining a substantially opaque peripheral border bounding a central viewing area through which clothing associated with a washer or dryer can be viewed when the door/lid is closed. An injection molded narrow encapsulation, border or rim surrounds an edge of the tempered glass panel and effects a water-tight seal therewith. Third ceramic printing means in the form of instructions or safety rules in applied to the first or second printing medium but is indiscernible from the outside when the door/lid is closed. When the door/lid is open, the instructions/safety rules are totally divisible, upright and readable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Gemtron Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Bienick, Howard Daley
  • Wastewater treatment apparatus
    Patent number: 6763950
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for rejuvenating a wastewater treatment system of the type including a septic tank, an aerobic treatment unit or the like connected by a pipe to a plugged downstream soil absorption system includes a wastewater treatment unit which is interposed between the septic unit/aerobic treatment unit and the downstream soil absorption system. The wastewater treatment unit includes a single piece or a multiple piece solids settling and retention basin within which is suspendingly supported a wastewater treatment mechanism essentially of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,264,120. The wastewater treatment mechanism includes filters for filtering and settling solids from wastewater and flow equalization ports for effecting flow equalization thereby eliminating flow surges to the downstream plugged soil absorption system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Norwalk Wastewater Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan D. Graves
  • Wastewater management system
    Patent number: 6763951
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for rejuvenating a wastewater treatment system of the type including a septic tank, an aerobic treatment unit or the like connected by a pipe to a plugged downstream soil absorption system includes a wastewater treatment unit which is interposed between the septic unit/aerobic treatment unit and the downstream soil absorption system. The wastewater treatment unit includes a single piece or a multiple piece solids settling and retention basin within which is suspendingly supported a wastewater treatment mechanism essentially of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,264,120. The wastewater treatment mechanism includes filters for filtering and settling solids from wastewater and flow equalization ports for effecting flow equalization thereby eliminating flow surges to the downstream plugged soil absorption system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Norwalk Wastewater Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan D. Graves
  • Compression clamp for water-tight sealing of tubular components
    Patent number: 6764111
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for rejuvenating a wastewater treatment system of the type including a septic tank, an aerobic treatment unit or the like connected by a pipe to a plugged downstream soil absorption system includes a wastewater treatment unit which is interposed between the septic unit/aerobic treatment unit and the downstream soil absorption system. The wastewater treatment unit includes a single piece or a multiple piece solids settling and retention basin within which is suspendingly supported a wastewater treatment mechanism essentially of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,264,120. The wastewater treatment mechanism includes filters for filtering and settling solids from wastewater and flow equalization ports for effecting flow equalization thereby eliminating flow surges to the downstream plugged soil absorption system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Norwalk Wastewater Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan D. Graves
  • Drive for a hold down assembly of a can bodymaker a method of use thereof
    Patent number: 6761055
    Abstract: A drive for use in the manufacture of cans comprises a hydraulically powered guide pod to which a hold down assembly is attached. The guide pod slides along a guide rod which is fixed in the bodymaker. Forward and rear hydraulic chambers are defined between the pod and the guide rod by means of bushings and a seal. Passage of fluid through ports to and from the hydraulic chambers causes the pod and hold down assembly to move forward and backward. The length of the stroke can be set by the distance between the ports. A rotary valve is used to control the timing of the drive and control flow of hydraulic fluid, which is typically obtained from the bodymaker coolant supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Scholey, William Woulds
  • Wheeled container
    Patent number: 6761368
    Abstract: A wheeled container includes a one-piece molded polymeric/copolymeric container body defined by an elongated housing closed at a first end by a bottom wall ad having an opposite second end defining an opening. A one-piece molded polymeric/copolymeric cover is pivotally connected to a peripheral edge portion of the container body second end for pivotal movement between a first closed and a second open position respectively closing and opening the container second end opening. The cover has a handle projecting substantially radially away from a longitudinal axis of the housing, and a pair of relatively spaced wheels are located at the first end of the container at a side of the housing corresponding to a side from which the handle projects. Latches are disposed substantially diametrically opposite to the handle for retaining the cover in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Inventor: Wallace T. Carter
  • Method of manufacturing an interlocked, “flush-to-front” injection molded border and glass sheet
    Patent number: 6761949
    Abstract: The method of the present invention is performed by providing a glass sheet having first and second opposite surfaces merging with each other along a peripheral ground angled surface setting-off with the glass sheet first surface an included angle substantially greater than normal. The glass sheet is placed in a mold having opposing cavity portions which collectively define a cavity including a peripheral edge cavity portion defined in part by a cavity defining surface which lies in the plane of the glass sheet first surface when the mold is closed. The mold is then closed such that the cavity defining surface and the glass sheet round angled surface set-off and angled complementary to the included angle and with the glass sheet per surface abutting the cavity defining surface inboard of the glass sheet ground angled surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Gemtron Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Reames, Bob Herrmann, Howard Daley
  • Method and device for measuring process parameters of a material working process
    Patent number: 6757055
    Abstract: For a method for measuring process parameters of a material working process using a high energy beam (2), in particular a laser beam, focused onto a working zone of a workpiece (8), by measuring coaxially to the high energy radiation in the workspace zone the light intensity in the area of vapor capillaries (14) produced by then high energy beam (2) by means of an optical sensor (10) scanning a picture field and supplying the resultant measuring signals to an evaluation means (18), an optical sensor (10) having a dynamic range of more than 70 db is used, and the measuring signals of sections of the picture field showing the area of the vapor capillaries (14) and at least the area of the melting zone (20) surrounding the vapor capillaries (14) are simultaneously transmitted to the evaluation means (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Inventor: Werner Kluft
  • Slidable mouse tray for a personal computer keyboard support tray
    Patent number: D494598
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Charles A. Gillis
  • Gable header for a sign
    Patent number: D494628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: ArchiForm, Inc.
    Inventors: Wallace T. Carter, Brad Forrest, Tom Hines, Mac McRorie
  • Pedestal for supporting a sign
    Patent number: D494629
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: ArchiForm, Inc.
    Inventors: Wallace T. Carter, Brad Forrest, Tom Hines, Mac McRorie
  • Sign
    Patent number: D496406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventors: Wallace T. Carter, Brad Forrest, Tom Hines, Mac McRorie
  • Sign
    Patent number: D497649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Inventors: Wallace T. Carter, Brad Forrest, Tom Hines, Mac McRorie