Patents Represented by Law Firm Hazel & Thomas
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Patent number: 6250155Abstract: In the case of a method for balancing rotors, more particularly tool holders of machine tools, the imbalance of the rotor is ascertained in a computer, in terms of size and direction, of a balancing machine and is compensated by spreading at least two balancing elements with a predetermined imbalance into suitable positions of adjustment. Firstly from the measured imbalance of the rotor and the size of the imbalance of the balancing elements the position of adjustment of the balancing elements is determined and then the rotor of the balancing machine is turned until a balanced position is reached, at which the position of adjustment of the one balancing element is at a predetermined position in relation to the balancing machine. When the rotor is located in the balanced position, a visible marking is projected onto the balancing element. The balancing element is then set in its position of adjustment by bringing a mark provided on the balancing element into alignment with the visible marking.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Hofmann Mess und Auswuchttechnik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Dionys Hormann, Andreas Harborth
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Patent number: 6247429Abstract: The present invention provides a cooling water circulating apparatus capable of securing a required flow rate of cooling water without increasing the heads of water pumps. The apparatus includes a first water pump which has a first supply port for supplying the cooling water into the first water pump, the cooling water for flowing through the interior of an engine, and a first discharge port for discharging the supplied cooling water from the first water pump to the engine again, and which is directly connected to and rotated with a cam shaft of the engine. A control mechanism is adapted to cut off a flow of the cooling water, which is directed from a radiator to the first supply port, when the temperature of the cooling water is not higher than a predetermined level, and operatively connect the radiator and first supply port with each other when the temperature of the cooling water is higher than the predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naohiro Hara, Yasuo Ozawa
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Patent number: 6247904Abstract: An oil pump apparatus which includes an oil pump for being driven by a driving source and for being connected to a plurality of components to which an oil is supplied from the oil pump and a control valve preventing the oil which is unnecessary to the components from flowing into the components, wherein at least one of the components is an actuator operated by an oil pressure generated by the oil pump and wherein the control valve permits the oil of which the quantity is smaller than that of the oil which is consumed by the actuator to flow into the components when the actuator is not operated and the control valve permits the oil of which the quantity is larger than that of the oil which is consumed by the actuator to flow into the components when the actuator is operated.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Miyazaki, Yoshinori Miura, Ichiro Kimura, Kongo Aoki
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Patent number: 6246938Abstract: The vehicle is provided with a GPS receiver cooperating with a satellite positioning system in order to determine the position of the vehicle and subsequently to control, on the basis of the position detected, a distribution device, by adjusting the quantity of product distributed and its spreading methods as a function of the positions of the vehicle along a road route in order to adapt the spreading parameters to the morphological condition of the route.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Enzo Giletta, Guido Giletta
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Patent number: 6231645Abstract: A particle separation member is provided for use with a cyclone separator. The particle separation member divides the separator into a cyclone chamber and a particle receiving chamber. The cyclone chamber and the particle receiving chamber communicate via a plurality of apertures in the particle separation member. The particle separation member is provided with an access member which is movably mounted with respect to the particle separation member for providing access to the particle receiving chamber to empty the collected contents therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: G.B.D. Corp.Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Dave Petersen
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Patent number: 6227397Abstract: A variable height container for a vessel of which the upper side is open includes a bottom plate where freight is placed, a plurality of fixed posts installed on the bottom plate, a mobile post installed at each of the fixed posts to be capable of moving up and down by being guide by the fixed post to adjust the height of the container, and a fixing deice for fixing the mobile post to the fixed post so that the height of the mobile post can be fixed. Thus, the cost for transportation can be reduced, mass transportation can be possible, shipping is possible any shipping places, freight can be loaded anywhere on a deck of a ship or inside the ship. Also, rapid and free transportation can be available and the container can be folded by being folded so that a freight space can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Inventor: Jum-kyu Kim
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Patent number: 6228260Abstract: A particle separation member is provided for use with a cyclone separator. The particle separation member divides the separator into a cyclone chamber and a particle receiving chamber. The cyclone chamber and the particle receiving chamber communicate via a plurality of apertures in the particle separation member. The apertures have baffle members for reducing the flow of fluid in the particle receiving chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: G. B. D. Corp.Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Dave Petersen
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Patent number: 6227845Abstract: A torch holder includes a supporting portion, a receiving portion and a engaging portion. The supporting portion includes an L-shaped upper portion and a lower portion with one end connected to the upper portion and the other end inserted into the ground. The engaging portion is also an L-shape and so positioned that both L-shaped structures are in the same plane to keep the holder from rotating and fixed in the vertical position. The receiving portion is mounted on the upper portion of the supporting portion, which includes a cylindrical holding portion mounted on the supporting portion with a screw or the like for securing the torch in a cylindrical holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Inventors: Thomas M. Pillow, Richard F. Pillow
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Patent number: 6228151Abstract: An anti-reentrainment device is provided for use with a cyclone separator. The anti-reentrainment device has a plurality of vane upwardly extending members positioned in the bottom of a cyclone chamber and extending radially inwardly across the bottom. The vanes separate the bottom of the cyclone from the cyclonic fluid flow portion, thereby creating a reduced flow region above deposited particles settling on the bottom of the cyclone. The device impedes the cyclonic flow from reentraining the deposited particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: G.B.D. Corp.Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Dave Petersen
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Patent number: 6222061Abstract: A novel norbornene carboxylate compound and a method of producing the same are provided. The norbornene carboxylate compound is 2-alkyl-2-adamantyl 5-norbornene-2-carboxylate represented by formula (1): wherein R is methyl or ethyl.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Chem Search Corp.Inventor: Hyun-jin Jung
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Patent number: 6221134Abstract: A particle separation member is provided for use with a cyclone separator. The particle separation member divides the separator into a cyclone chamber and a particle receiving chamber. The cyclone chamber and the particle receiving chamber communicating via a plurality of apertures in the particle separation member.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1999Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: G.B.D. Corp.Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Dave Petersen
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Patent number: 6216810Abstract: A front end module structure of a vehicle comprises a front end panel mounted on front side members of the vehicle, the front end panel including a metal-made upper reinforcement extending in the widthwise direction of the vehicle and having a horizontally thrown U-shaped, or closed, sectional configuration and a resin-made main body formed integrally with the upper reinforcement and so formed on the upper reinforcement that a part thereof may intrude into the sectional configuration thereof, the resin-made main body having formed therein at least a retaining portion, by which a radiator is retained, and an upper reinforcement portion fixed to front fender reinforcements of the vehicle. As a result of this, there is enhanced the rigidity of the upper reinforcement portion of the front end panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyotaka Nakai, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6212127Abstract: Control on the speed of operation of a delay loop from the output of a variable delay circuit to a delay control input thereof is performed. For example, frequency-dividing circuits are respectively placed at the input and output of the variable delay circuit. A signal obtained by frequency-dividing a signal outputted from the variable delay circuit is supplied to one input of a phase comparator through a dummy delay circuit, and a signal obtained by frequency-dividing the input of the variable delay circuit is supplied to the other input of the phase comparator. Phase control is performed according to the result of comparison between the phases of both signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Funaba, Yoji Nishio, Yuichi Okuda, Yoshinobu Nakagome
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Patent number: 6210074Abstract: A material and method is provided for lining man-entry sized pipes and securing the lining to the pipe. The lining comprises a plurality of adjacent, unplasticized polyvinyl chloride panel segments circumferentially curved within the pipe, each including an interior channel through which grout may be injected. Upon the grout's curing, the grout provides strength and support for a second layer of grout injected into an annulus between the pipe's inner surface and an outer surface of the lining.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Danby of North AmericaInventor: George A. McAlpine
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Patent number: 6209415Abstract: A push-pull type control cable having a conduit tube and an inner cable comprised of a core wire and a plurality of strands wound around the core wire and inserted into the conduit tube, the control cable being filled with lubricant at a clearance between an inner periphery of the conduit tube and an outer periphery of the inner cable, wherein the plurality of strands each are comprised of three pieces of twisted element wires.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignees: Chuo Hatsujo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha AporonInventors: Masato Uneme, Seiji Yamada, Yasuhiro Yamada, Koichi Nagata
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Patent number: 6212014Abstract: A polarizing beamsplitter cube, such as for midwave infrared spectral applications, comprises two ZnSe 45° prisms, an adhesion layer and a thin-film polarization coating layer that are deposited onto the hypotenuse of the first prism, a refractive index liquid layer that provides an interface between the prisms that defeats total internal reflection when the prisms are joined together, and a urethane adhesive that permanently seals and encapsulates the liquid. The adhesion layer consists of 100 Å thorium fluoride and 50 Å chromium layers. The polarization coating (PC) comprises alternating layers of zinc sulfide (ZnS) and germanium (Ge) which are deposited by vapor deposition.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: LSA, Inc.Inventors: John G. Lehman, Jr., J. Michael Finlan, Kevin M. Flood, Mary E. Gerard
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Patent number: 6206343Abstract: A solenoid valve of a type wherein a yoke is provided thereon with a coil, a plunger arranged in the yoke coaxial therewith so as to be brought into a linear movement upon excitation of the coil and characterized in that a coating, such as Teflon®, is provided on at least one of an outer surface of the plunger and an inner surface of the yoke.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaaki Kato, Kazuhiko Maeda
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Patent number: 6199518Abstract: A cooling device of an engine includes a first liquid pump driven by decelerated rotation of an engine and for circulating the cooling liquid in the engine. A second liquid pump is driven by electricity and circulates the cooling liquid in the engine as a supplement to the first liquid pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Hotta, Yasuo Ozawa
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Patent number: 6196810Abstract: A multistage vacuum pump assembly comprising plural independent pumping stages connected in series is disclosed. A first pumping stage located at one end of the series is connected to a room to be evacuated, and a final pumping stage located at the other end of the series is connected to the atmosphere. At least the first pumping stage comprises plural pumps connected mutually in parallel, so that the plural pumps together can achieve the vacuum capacity expected without being driven to an excessive rate of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1998Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroya Taniguchi, Yoshihiro Naito
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Patent number: 6190082Abstract: In an improved child security fence system or pool gate, pole adapters are used for locking together two panels of the fence or pool gate. The pole adaptors are inserted into the support poles of two adjacent fence panels. The two panels are then attached to one another by a lock that bridges the two pole adaptors. The pole adaptors and the lock all have holes drilled through them that align with each other when assembled. Tension clips are positioned inside each pole adaptor so that dimples or tabs extend from the clips and through the aligned holes. In order to disengage the lock, the dimples or tabs from the clips must be simultaneously depressed at four points of the locking assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Inventor: Gary M. Butterfield