Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Ronald R. Santucci
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Patent number: 6706472Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule or molecules and to a process for the detection of bacteria of the Salmonella genus. The invention relates also to a test kit or test kits for carrying out the mentioned detection processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Biotecon Diagnostics GmbHInventors: Cornelia Berghof, Alexander Gasch, Pia Scheu, Freimut Wilborn
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Patent number: 6706979Abstract: A vibration switch includes a housing with an accommodation chamber for receiving securely two electric contact bodies therein. The electric contact bodies are spaced apart from each other, and respectively have rolling surfaces, each of which defines a farthermost area and a tangential area. Two electrically conductive rollable bodies are respectively rollable on the rolling surfaces such that the rollable bodies respectively abut against the tangential areas by virtue of gravity to establish electric contact between the electric contact bodies. Once the housing is caused to quiver, the rollable bodies will lurch towards one of the farthermost areas so that one of the rollable bodies is out of contact with one of the rolling surfaces, thereby breaking the electric contact between the electric contact bodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Inventor: Tien-Ming Chou
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Patent number: 6706085Abstract: A filter assembly for filtering particulates out of a stream of gas, which includes an elongated filter bag made out of fabric with a plurality of pleats intermediate its ends with a support cage made from a plurality of wires on the outside of the bag having portions thereof disposed in the pleats.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Michael Gerakios, Paul Bowden, Ray Moeser
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Patent number: 6702927Abstract: A papermaker's fabric is made by spirally winding a woven fabric strip. The fabric strip has first and second lateral edges, along which are a first and second lip, respectively. Each lip has at least one lengthwise yarn woven with crosswise yarns. Adjacent to and inward of the first and second lips on the fabric strip are a first and second gap, respectively, which lack lengthwise yarns but whose crosswise yarns join the lips to the body of the fabric strip. When spirally winding the fabric strip, the first lip is disposed within the second gap, and the second lip is disposed within the first gap, of adjacent turns to form a spirally continuous seam which is closed by attaching adjacent turns to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Michael Glenn Moriarty, Michael A. Royo
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Patent number: 6699366Abstract: A press fabric for the press section of a paper machine has a base fabric which includes a nonwoven mesh fabric. The base fabric, or a layer thereof, is assembled in integral form using a strip or strips of the nonwoven mesh fabric. The assembly may be effected by spirally winding the nonwoven mesh fabric in a plurality of non-overlapping turns, by abutting each turn of the nonwoven mesh fabric against that previously wound, and by joining each turn of the nonwoven mesh fabric to that previously wound to form an endless loop. Alternatively, a plurality of endless loops of equivalent length are formed from separate strips of nonwoven mesh fabric, and arranged in a side-by-side abutting relationship. The endless loops are then joined, one to the next, to provide a base fabric, or component thereof, in the form of an endless loop.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2001Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Maurice R. Paquin, James G. Donovan
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Patent number: 6699953Abstract: The present invention provides a material for optical lenses which not only sufficiently has properties such as impact resistance and dye-affinity essential for the optical lenses but also simultaneously attains a high refractive index, a high Abbe's number and a low specific gravity, and which is photopolymerizable. The present invention further provides a lens made of a synthetic resin which is a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing a composition comprising 20 to 80% by weight of bis-2-methacryloylthioethyl sulfide represented by the following structural formula (1), 5 to 50% by weight of a bifunctional or multifunctional thiol and 0 to 75% by weight of a monomer copolymerizable with these compounds, and which has a refractive index of 1.58 or more, an Abbe's number of 35 or more and a specific gravity of 1.35 or less: CH2═C(CH3)COSCH2CH2SCH2CH2SCOC(CH3)═CH2 Structural formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Seed Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Oshikiri, Yasushi Oyaizu, Kenji Uno
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Patent number: 6695005Abstract: A pressure regulating valve for controlling an upstream fluid pressure in relation to a reference pressure by regulating the fluid quantity let through the valve, comprising a housing (1) having an upstream inlet (2) and a downstream outlet (3) for the fluid, a pressure-sensitive element (5) for sensing the pressure difference between the upstream pressure and the reference pressure, and a spring-loaded regulating piston (7) which, in cooperation with a seat (8), is arranged to regulate a flow passage (9) between the inlet (2) and the outlet (3), the piston (7) being operatively connected to the pressure-sensitive element (5), to change its position relative to the seat (8) in accordance with the position of the pressure-sensitive element (5). The regulating piston (7) is slidably arranged on the outside of a guide sleeve (10) having openings (11) for the flow of fluid from the flow passage (9) to the outlet (3).Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Ottestad Breathing Systems ASInventor: Nils Terje Ottestad
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Patent number: 6692233Abstract: A lockable quick-release blade assembly for ceiling fans is disclosed. The lockable blade assembly comprises a fan blade having one end for inserting into a blade receiving slot in a fan rotor. The blade inserting end is provided with a notch on the longitudinal side for lockably engaging with a blade locking member. A housing defining the blade receiving slot and comprises a blade locking member and a blade releasing member. The blade locking member has a spring biased locking bolt for locking into the notch of the inserted fan blade. The blade releasing member has a spring biased slide slice located atop the housing and abutting the spring biased locking bolt at a 45° angle so that upon a user pressing the releasing member the locked fan blade is released from the locking member.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Hoo Cheung Group Ltd.Inventor: Hai Liang
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Patent number: 6692188Abstract: A rapid emergency dam is disclosed. During adverse weather conditions heavy rain can lead to rivers breaking their banks and lakes overflowing causing flooding to the surrounding countryside. Coastline defenses can also be breached by increased sea swell and large waves. A fluid barrier section (1) of the present invention comprises an elongate rectangular fluid barrier sheet 2, an apron 4 extending from the lowermost edge 6 of the fluid barrier (2), an elongate rectangular front panel (7) and support means in the form of a plurality of support ribs (8). The fluid barrier sheet (2) is of a flexible fluid impermeable material such as plastics, rubber, waterproof canvas, nylons or any other suitable natural or man made material. A preferred material for the barrier sheet (2) is a fluid impermeable tear resistant flexible foil. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention the lowermost edge (6) of the fluid barrier is bonded to one edge of the apron (4).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Hydroscience Holdings LimitedInventors: Andrew Gordon Walker, Nicholas Edward Ward
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Patent number: 6693283Abstract: The present invention relates to a scanning System for a heavy ion gantry comprising a scanner magnet (1-2; 3-4) for a high energy ion beam used in a heavy ion cancer therapy facility having a maximal bending angle (&agr;) of about 1.5. degree; a curvature radius of about 22 m; a path length of about 0.6 m and a gap height (h) and a gap width (w) in the range of 120 mm to 150 mm. Further each scanner magnet (1-2, 3-4) comprises one glued yoke element made of steel plates having a thickness of up to 0.3 mm and being alloyed with up to 2% silicon. This yoke element has a width in the range of 300 mm to 400 mm, a height in the range of 200 mm to 250 mm and a length in the range of 500 to 600 mm. A coil for each scanner magnet (1-2; 3-4) has a number of windings in the range of 50 to 70.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbHInventors: Hartmut Eickhoff, Thomas Haberer, Peter Spiller, Marius Pavlovic
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Patent number: 6683318Abstract: An ion beam therapy system and method for operating the system includes a source of ions (300), an accelerator system (400) and an ion beam transport system (60) for directing an ion beam to a plurality of treatment stations (100) to treat patients. The ion beam transport system (60) includes a gantry (8) carrying a vertical deflection system (45) and horizontal deflection system (55) positioned upstream from a last bending magnet (65) so as to provide a parallel scanning mode by an edge focusing effect.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbHInventors: Thomas Haberer, Michael Kraemer, Gerhard Kraft, Wilma Kraft-Weyrather, Dieter Schardt, Michael Scholz, Ulrich Weber, Aleksiy Dolinski, Hartmut Eickhoff, Bernhard Franczak, Udo Krause, Juergen Klabunde, Ludwig Dahl, Marius Pavlovic, Ulrich Ratzinger, Bernhard Schlitt, Joerg Pawelke, Rainer Hinz, Wolfgang Enghardt
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Patent number: 6681624Abstract: A thermal flowmeter is provided with a flow rate detecting unit (4) containing a heating element, a flow rate detecting temperature sensing element and a flow rate detecting electroconductive fin plate (44) extending into a fluid flow passage (3), which are disposed so as to enable heat transfer therebetween, the flow rate detecting temperature sensing element varying in electrical characteristic value in accordance with the flow of the fluid in the fluid flow passage (3); and, a fluid temperature detecting unit (6) containing a fluid temperature detecting temperature sensing element and a fluid temperature detecting electroconductive fin plate (44′) extending into the fluid flow passage (3), which are disposed so as to enable heat transfer therebetween, the fluid temperature detecting temperature sensing element varying in electrical characteristic value in accordance with the temperature of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Furuki, Kiyoshi Yamagishi
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Patent number: 6675734Abstract: A flexible fluid containment vessel or vessels fabricated out of spirally wound strips of fabric for transporting and containing a large volume of fluid, particularly fresh water, having beam stabilizers, beam separators, reinforcing, and the method of making the same.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Dana Eagles, Bjorn Rydin, Jan Rexfelt, Crayton Gregory Toney, Srinath Tupil, Donald Tripp Lawton
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Patent number: 6677597Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the feedback control of a grid scanner in ion therapy. An apparatus of that kind for the feedback control of a grid scanner has scanner magnet current supply devices for ion beam scanner magnets that deflect horizontally and vertically with respect to the middle of the ion beam, the supply devices being controlled by control and read-out modules for the scanner magnets. Furthermore, the apparatus has a location-sensitive detector for location measurement, which is controlled by means of a control and read-out module. A sequence control device controls the activation and read-out sequence among the devices of the apparatus, the apparatus also having in the sequence control device a circuit arrangement having a feedback loop between the control and read-out modules for the scanner magnets and the control and read-out module of the location-sensitive detector.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbHInventors: Thomas Haberer, Wolfgang Ott
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Patent number: 6673426Abstract: There is disclosed a transfer body including at least a peelable layer, a transparent conductive layer and an adhesive layer all sequentially laminated on a supporting body, wherein the supporting body has a heat resisting property enough to withstand heat treatment to the layers on the supporting body and a large rigidity compared with an opponent member to which the layers are to be transferred, and wherein the peelable layer is formed to have a pull strength of 100 g/cm or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2000Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro Furukawa, Hisashi Sato, Ichiro Bekku, Kazumi Arai
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Patent number: 6670618Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of checking an isocentre and a patient-positioning device of an ion beam therapy system that comprises a grid scanner device, arranged in a beam guidance system, having vertical deflection means and horizontal deflection means for the vertical and horizontal deflection of a treatment beam perpendicular to its beam direction, with the result that the treatment beam is deflected by the grid scanner device onto an isocentre of the irradiation site, and a specific area surrounding the isocentre is scanned, wherein a check of the isocentre and a patient-positioning device is carried out and the patient-positioning device comprises a patient table rotatable about an axis of rotation of the table. For the checking, a target point within a spherical phantom is represented by means of a special specimen body and the centre point of the specimen body is visibly represented by means of several image-forming methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbHInventors: Gunther Hartmann, Peter Heeg, Oliver Jaekel, Christian Karger
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Patent number: 6652236Abstract: A fan blade assembly includes a mounting arm having a first end adapted to engage a fan rotor and a second end adapted to receive a fan blade. At least two mounting posts are disposed on the second end of the mounting arm and a fan blade has apertures for receive the mounting posts. A clamp plate has apertures with a receiving portion and a retaining portion. The receiving portion is adapted to receive the mounting posts and the clamp plate is movable to a securing position where the retaining portions engages with the mounting posts to secure the clamp plate and fan blade to the mounting arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Hoo Cheung Group Ltd.Inventor: Liang Hai
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Patent number: 6652239Abstract: Disclosure is made of a precision hydraulic energy delivery system that directly couples the pump to a primary mover (motor) and a related motor control. The system provides flow control of a hydraulically driven machine without the use of downstream devices by employing motion control algorithms in the motor control. Control features are electronically integrated into the hydraulic system by using control algorithms and subroutines specifically developed for the prime mover servo control system coupled to the pump.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Kadant Inc.Inventor: Peter T. Carstensen
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Patent number: 6637432Abstract: A device for dispensing medication in an aerosol form from an MDI which is activated by a source of compressed air which is pressurized by a compression piston in associate with a cocking lever which also acts as a mouthpiece cover wherein the device automatically discharges the medication upon inhalation on the mouthpiece. The device also has a detachable component for alternative use as a press and breathe type inhaler.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: IEP Pharmaceutical Devices Inc.Inventors: Keith Wakefield, Perry A. Genova
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Patent number: 6639234Abstract: The invention relates to a method of checking the beam guidance of an ion beam therapy system that comprises a grid scanner device, arranged in a beam guidance system (6, 8), having vertical deflection means (13) and horizontal deflection means (14) for the vertical and horizontal deflection of a treatment beam (11) perpendicular to its beam direction, with the result that the treatment beam (11) is deflected by the grid scanner device to an isocentre (10) of the irradiation site, and a specific area surrounding the isocentre (10) is scanned, wherein redundancy means are used for a redundant termination of extraction and their functionality is checked and checking of the ability of beam guidance dipoles in the beam guidance to connect and disconnect is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbHInventors: Eugen Badura, Hartmut Eickhoff, Thomas Haberer, Klaus Poppensieker