Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Andrew Wilford
  • Patent number: 8002882
    Abstract: A droplet separator installation for gas washers, cooling towers etc. is described according to which a row of parallel droplet separator profiles is supported at a support construction by means of an intermediate construction. The intermediate construction serves for the support and the stabilization of the droplet separator profile row and for the support of a rinsing means for rinsing the droplet separator profile row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Munters Euroform GmbH
    Inventor: Detlef Weber
  • Patent number: 8002011
    Abstract: The invention relates to top seal driver assembly for sealing the top opening of a pouch comprising Motor means for driving a rocker bar mounted on a central drive shaft, the rocker bar being connected on opposite ends to an outer seal rod drive bar and to an inner seal rod drive bar, the outer seal rod drive bar being connected to outer seal drive rods, and the inner seal rod drive bar being connected to inner seal drive rods, the outer and inner seal drive rods being supported in a box frame with bearing means, wherein outside dovetail bars are mounted to the outer seal drive rod and inner dovetail bars are mounted to the inner seal drive rod, wherein seal bar assemblies are mounted to the dovetail bars, wherein the box frame contains the central drive shaft, the rocker bar, the outer and inner seal rod drive bars and the outer and inner seal drive rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Scott Veix
  • Patent number: 8003885
    Abstract: A box for connecting a ribbon output conductor of a solar panel with a feed cable has a base mountable on the solar panel and formed with a first hole for the ribbon output conductor and a second hole for the feed cable, a removable cover fittable with the base and forming when fitted with the base a substantially closed compartment, and two holders at the first hole oriented at a predetermined angle to each other and adapted to hold a conductive part of the feed cable in either of two positions offset by the predetermined angle relative to the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Richter, Dennis Gazke, Lothar Fuhrmeister
  • Patent number: 7997197
    Abstract: A printer having a roll with a radial outer roll surface has an ink cartridge having a housing itself having a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls bridging the side walls and defining therewith a downwardly open mouth juxtaposed with the roll surface. One of the side walls is shiftable between an outer position defining a relatively large volume and an inner position. Doctor blades supported on the housing have outer edges resiliently engageable at the mouth with the surface. One of the doctor blades is shiftable between an open position with its outer edge spaced from the other doctor blade and a closed position. A mechanism connected to the one wall and to the one doctor blade shifts the one doctor blade between the open position and the closed position and simultaneously shifts the one wall from the inner position to the outer position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: KBA-Metronic AG
    Inventors: Rainer Wieland, Peter Schmitt
  • Patent number: 7987884
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for applying glue to fibers for the production of fiberboard, especially MDF board or similar wood material board. Said installation comprises a fiber feed unit having at least one fiber feed conduit which opens into a fiber exit tube via an arched fiber deflection element and receives the air that is used to transport the fibers, a chute which is located downstream of the fiber exit tube, a glue application device which is located e.g. between the fiber exit tube and the chute and which has spray nozzles for spraying the fibers that emerge from the fiber exit tube and enter the chute with drops of glue, and a collection device, located downstream of the chute and having a transport device for collecting and optionally carrying off the fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen -Und Anlagen Bau GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Aengenvoort, Michael Schöler, Klaus Schürmann, Lothar Sebastian
  • Patent number: 7985223
    Abstract: A ventral bone-plate assembly has a U-shaped base having a pair of legs bridged by a bight and each formed with an inner hole and an outer hole. A brace bar extends between outer ends of the legs and is formed with end holes alignable with the outer holes. Respective inner bone screws extend through the inner holes, and respective outer bone screws each extend through a respective one of the outer holes and a respective one of the end holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ulrich GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Cyrus Khodadadyan-Klostermann, Carsten Neumann
  • Patent number: 7985104
    Abstract: The socket contact (1) for receiving a plug contact (10), the socket contact (1) having a contact casing (4) mounted on one end of a cable (2), the contact casing being contacted to an electrical conductor (3) of the cable (2), wherein according to the invention a biasing spring (5) is provided, wherein according to the invention the biasing spring (5) is designed such that it acts on the contact casing (4) and acts through at least one section of the contact casing (4) on the plug contact (10), and is attached at a first joint (6) to the contact casing (4), wherein furthermore the electrical conductor (3) is attached to the contact casing (4) at another joint (7) spaced from the first joint (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Jäger, Rudolf Fekonja
  • Patent number: 7981357
    Abstract: A spunbond web is made by extruding a multiplicity of hot thermoplastic filaments, passing the filaments along an upstream stretch of a path, cooling and stretching the filaments as they move along the upstream stretch of the path, and depositing the cooled and stretched filaments at a downstream end of the upstream stretch on a foraminous belt such that the filaments form a mat thereon. The belt is continuously displaced the belt so as to move the mat downstream along a downstream leg of the path. The mat on the belt, then consolidated with a high-pressure water-jet treatment, and further processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignees: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik, Fleissner GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Willi Liebscher
  • Patent number: 7983455
    Abstract: A person making a handwritten signature performs a series of three-dimensional movements with a plane graphical finality. The movements generate kinetic information perceived by a special pen that the signature is performed with (the writing and digital acquisition device for the primary bio-kinetic information). The information, concordant to the afferent bio-kinetic pattern, is collected by included MEMS type acceleration sensors in the pen. The system analyzes the generated information (the signals) and determines the dynamic-biometrical characteristics based upon the biometrical dimension of the information. The characteristics are transformed into data vectors and invariants that are stored in a database. Based on algorithms, the system performs the required comparisons between the spatial kinetics of the specimens and the kinetics of the entrances and obtains distance-type answers. In statistical terms, the results are related to the entire subject database, by interpreting and sampling methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: S.C. Softwin SRL
    Inventors: Gabriel Alexandru Moise, Marian Secrieru, Adrian Dinescu, Stefan Stelian Diaconescu
  • Patent number: 7982649
    Abstract: The invention describes a device for the low-distortion conversion, especially amplification, of signals. In one embodiment, the device comprises a digital-to-analog converter having adjustable reference voltages to which an analog-to-digital converter having adjustable reference voltages may be connected upstream. In a further embodiment, the device has a unit, which predistorts a digitized signal, or a digital signal, corresponding to the characteristic transfer line of the amplifier. In a further embodiment, the device has a unit, which equalizes a distorted digitized signal corresponding to the characteristic transfer line of the amplifier stored in the unit. In yet a further embodiment, the device has a digital-to-analog converter operating on the basis of the summation of weighted currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventor: Juergen Straussmann
  • Patent number: 7981192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing binderless briquettes from metal chips and metal dusts in which the metal chips are pressed into a cup-shaped form and the upwardly open cavity produced as a result is filled with metal dust, after which the opening is closed with a cover consisting of pressed metal chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Egon Evertz KG(GmbH & Co)
    Inventors: Egon Evertz, Ralf Evertz, Stefan Evertz
  • Patent number: 7980730
    Abstract: An improved metal mesh with lights and an arrangement of such a mesh on a building are proposed. A light carrier receptacle is integrated in a mesh and thereby allow a light carrier to be removed from the mesh and reinserted without disintegrating the light carrier receptacle. Alternatively, a light carrier receptacle is attached to a mesh or other hanging, to which the light carrier is then attached. Clips can be preferably used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Mediamesh GBR
    Inventors: Ingo Kufferath-Kassner, Stephan Kufferath-Kassner, Christop Kronhagel, Ralf Mueller
  • Patent number: 7982624
    Abstract: A system for preventing accidents in the operation of a monitored apparatus carried by a user has terminal in direct contact with the body of the user and provided with a circuit for continuously or periodically transmitting an authorizing user data signal through the body of the user. A signal receiver assigned on the monitored apparatus or machine has an interface in contact with the user for receiving the signal, a circuit for continuously or periodically testing the received data signal, another circuit for outputting a clearance signal that allows operation of the monitored machine or apparatus after a successful test of the received authorizing user data signal, and yet another circuit for terminating output of the clearance signal following a successful test of the authorizing user data signal when a subsequent test of the data signal fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Ident Technology AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Richter, Stefan Donat, Peter Rosenbeck
  • Patent number: 7976706
    Abstract: A melt filter, for the purification of plastic melts, particularly dispensed from extruders, comprises a housing (1) with a melt channel (10), connecting a melt inlet (7) to a melt outlet (9), with a sieve disc (5), which may be rotated by a motorized ratchet drive provided in the melt channel (10), comprising recesses separated by ridges in a circular track for housing exchangeable filter elements and the housing (1) has a filter element changing station (13). The aim of the invention is that the above shall be designed such that large amounts of melt for filtering can be filtered in a cost-effective energy saving and space saving manner. The above is achieved by means of the housing comprising at least two melt inlets (7, 8) connected to the melt outlet (9) by at least two melt channels (10, 11) and in each melt channel (10, 11) a sieve disc (5, 6) driven on rotation by a motorized ratchet drive is provided and each sieve disc (5, 6) is provided with a filter element exchange station (13, 15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Detlef Gneuss
  • Patent number: 7976257
    Abstract: A profile rail has a face and is formed with a longitudinally extending channel open at the face and with longitudinally extending stabilizing formations on the face flanking the channel. The channel has confronting ribbed flanks. A stabilizing element has a face engageable with the face of the rail and formed with a pair of stabilizing formations fittable with the stabilizing formations of the rail and with a throughgoing hole between the respective stabilizing formations and aligned with the channel when the element stabilizing formations are fitted with the rail stabilizing formations. A screw fittable through the hole has a screwthread engageable with the flanks of the channel so that the screw can clamp the element to the face of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Ideematec Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Johann Kufner
  • Patent number: 7975482
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for utilizing supercritical subsurface steam as combined supercritical thermal and hydraulic power stations at an efficiency of 50 percent, using molten bath superdeep drilling technology, a hydrofrac process, and the special properties of the supercritical subsurface steam, such as the drastic increase in the thermal capacity, reduced viscosity, and inorganic solubility. The multifunctional use of said technologies and physical properties of supercritical subsurface steam in the inventive method allows a supercritical subsurface boiler to be tapped rapidly and at a low cost at a great depth while making it possible to produce electricity, power, process steam, and heat almost anywhere at one tenth of the cost of conventional fuel technologies and comparable expenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Franz-Josef Radermacher
    Inventor: Werner Foppe
  • Patent number: 7971527
    Abstract: Images are printed on surfaces of discrete objects that are loaded onto an upstream end of a production path passing through a plurality of treatment stations and taken off a downstream end the path. The path passes through a plurality of treatment stations and is split at least one of the stations into a plurality of generally parallel lanes each having a respective treatment device or printer. At the one treatment station the objects are split up and fed to the lanes from the path, the images are printed on the objects in the lanes with the respective printers, and all the objects are returned to the path after printing. The objects move single-file downstream along the path upstream and downstream of the one station. Instead of printers, each lane can have some other type of treatment machine and the operations performed by these treatment machines in the lanes can be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: KBA-Metronic AG
    Inventors: Alfred Bausenwein, Rainer Endres, Peter Schmitt
  • Patent number: 7972177
    Abstract: These objects are attained by a box for connecting an output conductor of a solar panel with a feed cable and that has a flat base mountable on the solar panel and having a first opening for the feed cable and a second opening for the output conductor. A contact mounted on a conductor of the feed cable has a flat connection region extending parallel to the base. A contact clip secures the conductor to the connection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Richter
  • Patent number: 7967649
    Abstract: A contact for connecting a wire to a terminal has a contact part engageable with the terminal and defining a main plane, and a wire part formed unitarily with the contact part and forming in an open position a seat offset from the plane and adapted to receive the wire and lying in a closed position coplanar with the contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Richter, Bernd Baumunk
  • Patent number: D641901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Zweibrueder Optoelectronics GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Opolka