Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm John P. Shannon
  • Patent number: 6390743
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for locking containers on vehicles. The device has a twist lock which is moveably retained in a lock housing and a drive mechanism for moving the twist lock between the release and locking positions. The twist lock (10) is mounted in the lock housing in such a way that the twist lock is axially moveable (14) and can rotate about its axis (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Hamburger Patent Schmiede GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Rudiger Metternich
  • Patent number: 6390512
    Abstract: A retainer clip for holding a gasket between the ends of two coupling components includes a first resilient annular member extending circumferentially about two-thirds of a circle, a second resilient annular member having circumferential ends and a discontinuity between the ends, and a bridge connecting the first and second resilient annular members. The bridge has a circumferential extent of less than 45°, and the first resilient annular member is circumferentially expandable without causing the second resilient annular member to expand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: General Components, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Corbett
  • Patent number: 6374896
    Abstract: The roller blind is for use in connection with roof windows mounted in pitched roofs and comprises a preferably spring-loaded roller tube (1) which is mountable at the top of the frame or sash structure of the window and a flexible roller blind cloth (2) rolled up thereon as well as an arrangement for retaining the roller blind cloth (2) when rolled out against the spring-load on the roller tube (1) at least in a fully rolled-out condition of the roller blind cloth (2), in which the roller blind cloth (2) in at least a comparatively narrow, ribbon-shaped zone (4) in parallel with the rollertuber (1) is designed for fastening an edge portion of an additional cloth (3) when the roller blind cloth (2) is rolled out, will hang freely down therefrom and when the roller blind is rolled up follow the roller blind cloth (2) during its rolling up on the roller tube (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventor: Brent Møller
  • Patent number: 6358353
    Abstract: A roll fed labelling system and associated label are disclosed. The label (12) includes a triggering mark (28) formed of luminophor ink, i.e. containing a fluorescent optical brightening agent, that reflects visible light when irradiated with UV light. A modulated UV light is directed at the label and the modulated reflected visible light is detected and used to trigger a cutting mechanism to separate a single label from the remainder of the roll. The triggering mark need not visibly contrast with the surrounding graphics of the label and may be invisible in visible light. When producing the roll of labels, the amount of brightening agent may be controlled by monitoring the luminescence of the triggering mark relative to a reference level which may be derived with reference to a maximum luminescence of other parts of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Lawson Mardon USA Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce J. Maliner
  • Patent number: 6339846
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pocket for portable telephone in clothes. The pocket is provided in cloth such as front body cloth or sleeve cloth in a jacket, and front body cloth or back body cloth in slacks. The pocket comprises a lower section provided horizontally in cloth with the width of 6 cm˜11 cm, and an upper section provided horizontally to the lower section with the same width thereof. A bottom bag made of stretchy cloth with the comparatively shallow depth is sewed to the lower section to be suspended behind the cloth. A head bag with the height of 2 cm˜4 cm is sewed to the upper section to oppose upward to the bottom bag. The number of the upper section is not limited to one, but the upper section with the width of 2 cm˜3 cm can be provided above both sides of the lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Big Born Shoji Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizumaru Uchida
  • Patent number: 6338378
    Abstract: A braking device for a window screening arrangement includes at least one braking member (11, 12) mounted on the cords (4, 5) of the parallel guidance system. The braking members (11, 12) may be designed as hollow symmetrical bodies having a cylindrical outer shape and engage with the bar (3) at the free end of the free end of the screening body (2) of the screening arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: VKR Holdings A/S
    Inventor: Ove Kold
  • Patent number: 6336515
    Abstract: A vacuum intake horn is constantly secured to a portion of a land vehicle and connected to a vacuum generator to increase the load on the wheels and, thereby, enhance traction. In order to minimize the clearance between the intake horn face and road surface for greater vacuum force, the vacuum intake horn is attached to a portion of the vehicle such that movement of the vacuum intake horn relative to an associated wheel of the vehicle is no greater than 75% of the movement of the vehicle chassis relative to the wheel. The vacuum intake horn is mounted behind and substantially entirely within the outline of a tire, so that the tire protects the vacuum intake horn from debris and bumps in the road. In one embodiment, the vacuum intake horn is attached to the vehicle by a compensation arrangement that maintains the vacuum intake horn at a generally constant height close to the road surface despite tire deflection or movement of the chassis relative to the associated wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Inventor: Francesco Secondari
  • Patent number: 6336983
    Abstract: Reinforcing bands of high tensile strength filaments in a cured resin matrix are in the shape of a coil having a plurality of elastic convolutions for reinforcing a weakened pipe. Areas of depressions on the exterior surface of the pipe are filled with a load transfer filler material and the bands are coiled around the pipe with adhesive holding an innermost convolution of the coil to the pipe and subsequent convolutions of the coil to adjacent convolutions. A plurality of the bands are placed in abutment with one another to cover the entire weakened area of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Inventor: Norman C. Fawley
  • Patent number: 6332022
    Abstract: Emergency services calls may be alternate-routed in an intelligent network having at least one Service Control Point (SCP) with access to a routing table, a plurality of Service Switching Points (SSP) equipped with point-in-call triggers and one or more emergency services stations (PSAP). The routing table lists a routing number for each of the emergency services stations. The alternate routing involves presetting a point-in-call trigger at a Service Switching Point to operate at a predetermined point in a call for emergency services. During subsequent processing of an emergency services call, the trigger interrupts processing of the call and and prompts transmission to the SCP of a query signalling message requesting routing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventor: Edgar Martinez
  • Patent number: 6327820
    Abstract: The kit is made from sheet material for flashing a quadrangular roof-penetrating element, for instance a window (4), in an inclined roof (5) with a substantially plane surface, which material comprises a first element (1) with two through cuts (6) extending convergingly from the ends of a first line segment (L1) to an edge (7) of this element (1), a second element (2a) with two through cuts (11, 12), which cuts extend from each end of a second line segment (L2) obliquely to an edge (13) of the element (2a) under formation of an acute angle (V21) with the line segment (L2) and obliquely or straight to an edge (14) of the element (2a) under formation of an obtuse or straight angle (V22) with the line segment (L2), respectively, an element (2b) mirror-inverted relative to the second element (2a), a third element (3) with two through cuts (19), which elements extends from each end of a third line segment (L3) extends to each their respective edge (20) of the element (3) under formation of an obtuse or straight an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventor: Vincenzo Picco
  • Patent number: 6327781
    Abstract: A hand-held tool has a powered work tool at one end of a handle shaft, and a first handle and a second handle at the opposite end of the handle shaft, the second handle being adjustable between a first position and a second position. The second handle in its first position cooperates with the first handle to provide for two-handed operation, and the second handle in its second position cooperates with the first handle to provide support for the wrist and/or forearm of a user grasping the first handle with one hand in a single-handed operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Lee Sinclair, Nicholas John Butcher
  • Patent number: 6322334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary piston system mounted within an engine or a pump and characterized in that a piston moves inside a housing, thus reducing or enlarging closed spaces. The piston is an oloid element rotating about its axis. The internal space consists of two identical shells contiguously assembled along the equatorial planes thereof. The space defined by the shells inside the housing has an enveloping surface resulting from the biaxial rotation of the oloid element, the maximum diameter of which corresponds to its longitudinal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas Klipstein
  • Patent number: 6318753
    Abstract: A safety device in a motor vehicle, the device comprising an inflatable element adapted to be disposed between an occupant of the vehicle and the side of the vehicle when inflated to afford protection in the event of a side impact or a roll-over, means for inflating the inflatable element and means for sensing a side impact or a roll-over and for activating the inflating means, the inflatable element being formed from two layers of fabric which define a front part and a rear part of the inflatable element, selected regions of the two layers of fabric being interconnected by means of straps disposed internally within the inflatable element, the inflatable element having an edge portion secured to part of the door frame of the vehicle, the said part of the door frame being non-linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Jan-Huibert Valkenburg
  • Patent number: 6311335
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pocket for portable telephone in clothes. The pocket is provided in cloth such as front body cloth or sleeve cloth in a jacket, and front body cloth or back body cloth in slacks. The pocket comprises a lower section provided horizontally in cloth with the width of 6 cm to 11 cm, and an upper section provided horizontally to the lower section with the same width thereof. A bottom bag made of stretchy cloth with the comparatively shallow depth is sewed to the lower section to be suspended behind the cloth. A head bag with the height of 2 cm to 4 cm is sewed to the upper section to oppose upward to the bottom bag. The number of the upper section is not limited to one, but the upper section with the width of 2 cm to 3 cm can be provided above both sides of the lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Big Born Shoji Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizumaru Uchida
  • Patent number: 6309274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic drive and clutch assembly, especially to an assembly suitable for use in radio or remote-controlled toys and model vehicles. There is described a magnetic drive for a wheel or other rotating body comprising (i) a motor assembly (23) coupled to an axle (30) carrying a housing (14) carrying at least one drive magnet (15) of a chosen polarity, and (ii) a wheel (27) or other rotating body including at least one wheel magnet (9) of the opposite polarity; the motor assembly and wheel (or other rotating body) being mounted for support such that the drive (15) and wheel (9) magnets are positioned adjacently axially with a spacing therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Inventors: Harry Thomson, David Raffo, Shaun Woodward, John Pape
  • Patent number: 6305696
    Abstract: The tool holder for machine tool includes grip 10a on an outer circumference held on an automatic exchange of a cutting edge 8. A through hole 10b is in the longitudinal center. An internal thread (g) is on one end of through hole 10b, and a tool stopper 11 is screwed on internal thread (g). A through hole 11a is in the longitudinal center of tool stopper 11. A conical engaging body 10c is on the other end of through hole 10b, so that conical engaging body 10c protrudes outwards. The conical engaging body 11c connects with a tool shank taper (n) and a flanged end face (m) of a main spindle. A mist receiving tube 12 is on a connecting side of through hole 10b, and a through hole 12a is in the longitudinal center of the mist receiving tube 12. A communicating tube 14 is in the through hole 12a of mist receiving tube 12 and through hole 11a of tool stopper 11, so that communicating tube 14 bridges them to flow cutting oil directly thereinside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Horkos Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sugata, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D451768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Essential Box Company Limited
    Inventor: Jessica Walker
  • Patent number: D453087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventor: Brent Møller
  • Patent number: D454210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Claes Lindgren, Birgitte Hansen, Samuel Howard Darmer, Morten Falk Reventlow, Brent Møller, Lars Erdmann
  • Patent number: D456635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Christian Porsbo, Jean-Paul Leininger