Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm John P. Shannon
  • Patent number: 6647676
    Abstract: In a roof window with a frame structure and an openable, pane supporting sash structure, the top, bottom and side members (1-8) of the frame and sash structures are for the major part made as wood profiles, which on the outwards facing sides are covered by covering members of weather-shielding material connected with the wood profiles by means of engagement and securing means. The covering members (11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 21, 32) consist of an upper and a lower cap member (20, 21) on the frame and sash side members (3, 4, 7, 8) designed as flat, trough-shaped profiles with identical, substantially U-shaped profile cross section comprising an exterior wall (20a, 21a) and two low side walls (20w, 21b-c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Birgitte Hansen, Peter Forslund Nielsen, Kaj Nissen
  • Patent number: 6647683
    Abstract: In the drainage and sealing system, an external rain shield is designed as a separate flexible sealant strip (38,58,59), and an internal drain trench (44, 64) is provided on a separate drain element (40, 60) extending in parallel to and at a distance from the external sealant strip (38, 58, 59). The drain element (40) and the external sealant strip (38) comprise a flange portion (41, 38b) for releasable securing to a frame member of a panel in the panel system. The separate drain element (40, 60) can be designed as an internal cover strip where the drain trench (44, 64) is provided in an essentially U-shaped portion (43, 63), and where the drain element on the side facing away from the drain trench (44, 64) has a portion (42, 62) for reception of an internal sealant strip (45, 65).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Morten Werner Thomsen, Hans Ove Pedersen, Lars Helmersen, Vagn Einfeldt Jensen, Aage Mathiassen Wind, Niels Birkedal Kristiansen
  • Patent number: 6644900
    Abstract: A spindle device of a machine tool stably spouting spray coolant from the tip of a tool (26) in a tool holder (25) and suppressing a waste of the spray coolant, wherein the tool holder (25) is fixed to the tip part of a spindle (2) mechanically detachably through a clamp device (KR), an extension passage (101) is formed in the state that an in-spindle spray coolant passage (100) formed in the center part of the spindle (2) is extended forward (f2), and the in-spindle spray coolant passage (100) is formed to communicate with an in-holder spray coolant passage (102) formed in the center part of the tool holder (25) through the extension passage (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Yoshihide Seo, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6640508
    Abstract: A roof window assembly is composed of a window component, a main frame component and, optionally, an integrated flashing component. The window component may be used independently and without modifications for a roof window installation employing a curb-frame. The window component features a novel design with an glazing element fitted in a profiled sheet metal frame, which can be made from a single continuous sheet metal profile bent into a polygonal frame shape with corner junctions. In both fixed and ventilating versions of the roof window assembly identical connecting members into open mutual engagement at the top side of the window and main frame components provides for easy mounting and dismounting of the window component with respect to the main frame component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Claes Lindgren, Birgitte Hansen, Samuel Howard Darmer, Morten Falk Reventlow, Brent Møller, Lars Erdmann
  • Patent number: 6640534
    Abstract: A chain with mutually connected chain links (1, 2) each comprising a back portion and two parallel wall portions protruding substantially perpendicularly therefrom, in which wall portions corresponding rivet holes have been provided in each of the two and members of the chain link, wherein the chain links (1, 2) are connected with one another by means of an end member of a chain link with a comparatively narrow (2) back portion which is inserted into an end member of a neighbouring chain link with a comparatively broad back portion (1) such that the rivet holes (1c, 2c) in the parallel wall portions of the two end members (1a, 1b,2a-2b) are positioned opposite one another for engaging a river (3) or a shaft member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Harnæs, Stig Mathiesen
  • Patent number: 6634853
    Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor the drive shaft of the compressor is driven by a step up gear mechanism including an input shaft driving a central drive gear, an output gear mounted on the compressor drive shaft, and three gear trains extending from the central drive gear and the output gear. Two impellers to provide two stages of compression are mounted back to back on the inner end of the compressor drive shaft. The input shaft of the gear train mechanism comprises a quill shaft surrounded by a hollow shaft fixed by friction to the inner end of the quill shaft. A rubbing seal is provided between the outer end of the hollow shaft and the compressor casing. The compressor drive shaft is supported on its outer end by the gear train mechanisms and at its middle and near its inner end by angular contact ball bearings. The portion of the compressor drive shaft between the ball bearing at the middle of the shaft and the outer end of the drive shaft is a flexible quill shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Sea Solar Power, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Hilbert Anderson
  • Patent number: 6629391
    Abstract: A window for installation in a roof includes a window frame with frame pieces and mounting brackets. Each bracket includes an angular bracket member with first and second legs connected integrally with each other, and a substantially plate-shaped base member having an opening for receiving fasteners and is connected with the outer side wall of the frame piece. The angular bracket member is connected with the base member such that, in a transportation position of the window, the second leg of the angular bracket member protrudes inwards in relation to the base member, and, in an installation position, the second leg protrudes outwards. Locking mechanism locks the first leg relative to the base member in the installation position, and adjusting mechanism adjusts the position of the angular bracket member in at least a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the frame piece of the window frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Bjarne Børresen, Claes Lindgren, Lars Jørn Nissen-Schmidt, Wayne Quarles
  • Patent number: 6607020
    Abstract: A screening arrangement for installation in a curb for a skylight in a roof structure comprises four rails for mounting on an internal surface of the curb to form a frame in the curb. The rails comprise at least one supporting rail associated with a collapsible screen of which a first end is fixed in relation to said rail and a second end is free. Four corner brackets are provided for mounting at respective corners of the curb, each said bracket having an abutment surface for abutment on the top edge of the curb and a support member for supporting two of said rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventor: Jimmy Skjold Jensen
  • Patent number: 6594851
    Abstract: A golf ball cleaning device includes opposing panels joined by a hinge. The panels have a layer of a waterproof material defining an edge, a layer of a water absorbent material defining a perimeter and being affixed to the waterproof material of at least one of the panels, and a margin of waterproof material extending between the perimeter of the layer of water absorbent material and the edge of the layer of the waterproof material to which the water absorbent material is affixed. The golf ball cleaning device has a closed position in which the opposing panels contact one another, with the water absorbent material positioned between the layers of waterproof material. The margin of waterproof material prevents moisture in the water absorbent material from wicking out of the golf ball cleaning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Edwin J. Sprague
  • Patent number: 6595962
    Abstract: An injection device (1) has a slide (3) which can be displaced in relation to a housing (2) from a retracted position to an injection position, and which comprises a portion (8) situated within the housing (2) and a portion (6) situated outside the housing, both portions (6, 8) being interconnected through a groove (10) in the housing (2). The portion (6) situated outside the housing (2) has a syringe holder (5) for securing a hypodermic syringe (4), and the slide (3) is pretensioned toward the injection position. The housing (2) at the groove (10) is constituted by a tube part, the outer and/or inner surface (7, 9) of which forms a guide for the slide (3), and the slide (3) has one or more contact faces which are in contact with the guide at least at three areas distributed over more than the half of the circumference of the tube part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Union Medico
    Inventor: Michael Perthu
  • Patent number: 6591557
    Abstract: The panel system is meant for construction of a panel fillet or a major panel surface to be mounted in a pitched roof or in a facade, comprising a number of fixed panels (1) together with a number of openable panels (2), each panel comprising a frame structure composed of frame members (13, 22) bordering a panelling element (32) between them, each frame member (13, 22) comprising a profile element (30) and at least a core element (35). The profile elements (30) are designed as uniform standard parts, and in that at least some frame members of the frame structure are provided with means to vary the moment of inertia, where the means can comprise at least one element (47) which is received in said core element (35) and which extend over essentially the entire length of the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holdings A/S
    Inventors: Morten Werner Thomsen, Hans Ove Pedersen, Lars Helmersen, Vagn Elnfeldt Jensen, Aage Mathiassen Wind, Niels Birkedal Kristiansen
  • Patent number: 6582167
    Abstract: A spindle device and a tool holder of a machine tool stably ejecting spray coolant from the tip of a tool (19) in a tool holder (18) and suppressing a waste of the spray coolant, wherein the tool holder (18) is fixed to the tip part of a spindle (2) mechanically detachably through clamp means (KR), an extension passage (104) is formed in the state that an in-spindle spray coolant passage (102) formed in the center part of the spindle (2) is formed to communicate with the in-holder spray coolant passage (103) through the extension passage (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Yoshihide Seo, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6581666
    Abstract: An operating device for window openers, screening arrangement and similar devices comprising an operating rod (6) with a hook-shaped operating elements (5) in its end and a rotatable coupling element (3) connected to said window opener or screening arrangement and having the form of an essentially annular eye with an aperture (8) with an area which is considerably larger than the cross-section of the hook-shaped operating element (5) such that at the insertion of the hook-shaped operating element in said aperture, the coupling element can be turned by means of the operating rod while simultaneously pulling the coupling element, where the annular eye in connection with said aperture (8) comprises a narrowed additional aperture (10) which, at least upon reception of the hook-shaped operating element as a result of said pull, encircles the operating element relatively closely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Niels Bartholin, Susumu Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 6578326
    Abstract: A window, in particular for mounting in an inclined roof surface, comprising a frame structure and a relative thereto openable sash structure with an insulating pane (6), the frame and the sash structures comprising top, bottom and side members (21-24) in the form of solid profiles which are for the major part made from a thermally well insulating material. For providing a good heat-transmission from the interior side of the sash structure to border areas of the insulating pane a passive heat bridge has been established at least in the areas (30, 31) around the corners of the sash bottom member (21) and the adjacent side members (24), said heat bridge being of a well heat-conducting material and established in connection with or through said bottom and side members (23, 24) of the sash structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Erik Bjørn Dyrby, Klaus Kornerup
  • Patent number: 6565426
    Abstract: A support apparatus for an animal has a frame for suspending an animal for hanging, gutting, cleaning and/or storage. At least one prong member is connected to the frame and has at least one hook extending from it. The prong member is movable between an animal supporting position and an animal releasing position. A securing mechanism releasably secures the prong member in the animal supporting position until the hanging, gutting, cleaning and/or storage and any additional processing is completed, after which the prong member is free to fall to the release position and the animal is released from the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Inventor: James T. Mayhew
  • Patent number: 6563763
    Abstract: Given a trajectory and unit pointing vectors determined based on a planar or other approximation of a shock wave, a method and apparatus are provided to calculate times the sensors should have detected, based on a conical geometry of the shock wave. A difference between the calculated times and the actual times measured by the sensors may be minimized. The minimization may be performed by perturbing the unit vectors. When the perturbation of the unit vectors results in an acceptable difference between the calculated times and the measured times, an accurate trajectory of the projectile can be generated from the perturbed unit pointing vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: AAI Corporation
    Inventor: Niall B. McNelis
  • Patent number: 6550733
    Abstract: A support for a window screening device includes a first pair of bracket members (6) for mounting on each of a pair of opposed parallel frame surfaces (2) engageable by the screening device. Each bracket member includes a relatively flat front part protruding from the frame surface and having a substantially smooth external surface, and the engaging mechanism (11-12; 111-112; 33-34) is provided by each coupling member (7; 107; 207; 307; 36) and includes a first engaging mechanism in the form of at least one contact surface on the coupling member engaging a circumferential surface part of a bracket member to provide temporary engagement therewith and non-resilient second engaging mechanism providing stable engagement of the coupling member with respect to the frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Gert Godvig Lassen, Carsten Brønnum Grinvalds
  • Patent number: 6551038
    Abstract: A machine tool and a cover device for the machine tool capable of preventing work cutting chips and coolant from falling on the rear part of a spindle head (8) and the operating positions of a first saddle (4) and a second saddle (6) without expanding the lateral width of the machine tool, wherein a column (2) is fixedly installed on a bed (1), the first saddle (4) is guided on the front surface of the column (2) movably in vertical direction (f1), the second saddle (6) is guided on the front surface of the first saddle (4) movably in lateral direction (f2), and the spindle device (8) is guided on the second saddle (6) movably in longitudinal direction (f3) and, in addition, a first cover plate (31) is fixed to the second saddle (6), a side cover plate (33) is installed continuously with each of the right and left side edges of the cover plate (31) bendably in longitudinal direction (f3), a second cover plate (39) is fixed integrally with the first saddle (4), and a third cover plate (41) is installed fixedly
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Yoshihide Seo
  • Patent number: D477090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Morten Werner Thomsen, Hans Ove Petersen, Aage Mathiassen Wind, Vagn Einfeldt Jensen, Thomas Ole Mathiesen, Nikolai Lapp Boysen
  • Patent number: D480265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Inventor: Pablo Javier Gronda