Patents Represented by Attorney Bachman & LaPointe, P.C.

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  • Semiconductor light emitting unit, method for manufacturing same and linear light source
    Patent number: 7821025
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting unit is provided which comprises: a support 1 formed with longitudinal side walls 15 disposed opposite to each other for forming a pair of light reflective surfaces 9, and a bottom wall 16 connected to longitudinal side walls 15 for forming a mount surface 3a between light reflective surfaces 9 to form a channel 3 by longitudinal side walls 15 and bottom wall 16 above mount surface 3a. Formed at either end of channel 3 in the longitudinal direction of support 1 is a vertical opening 18 which serves to directly communicate channels 3 of adjacent light emitting units when plural semiconductor light emitting units are lengthwise arranged, so that there is no lateral side wall 15 obstructing path of light radiated from LED chips 2 toward outside to thereby irradiate uniform light to outside along the longitudinal direction of linear light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohji Tsukagoshi
  • Indium oxide powder and method for producing same
    Patent number: 7820138
    Abstract: At least one basic precipitant selected from the group consisting of NaOH, KOH, NH4OH, NH3, NH4HCO3 and (NH4)2CO3 is added to an indium salt solution, which contains 0.1 to 3 M of indium, in an adding time of not longer than 24 hours, while the solution is maintained at a temperature of 5 to 95° C. until the equivalent of the basic precipitant reaches an equivalent of 0.5 to 3. Then, a precipitate obtained from the solution by a solid-liquid separation is dried and calcined at a temperature of 570 to 780° C. in an non-oxidizing atmosphere which contains ammonia gas and water vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Watanabe, Tatsumi Inamura, Yoshio Moteki
  • Deflecting device for an offset frontal collision for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 7819218
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle, a deflecting device (11) for an offset frontal collision for the motor vehicle is arranged in front of a front wheel (6). In order, in the event of a collision, to safely pivot the front wheel inward, the deflecting device (11) forms a kinematic chain, the coupling link of which is a deflector (12) which, under the action of a frontal impact, is pivoted to the rear and is displaced toward the outside of the vehicle. The kinematic chain is a slider crank mechanism comprising a swinging arm (13) which is pivotable about a bearing (14), a further bearing (16), a sliding guide (16) and the coupling link (12) which is connected to the outer end of the swinging arm at a pivot point (15) and is guided in the further bearing (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Arno Eichberger, Franz Hubmann, Friedrich Pernkopf, Wolfgang Schimpl, Stephan Winkler
  • Cold sprayed metal matrix composites
    Patent number: 7820238
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing homogenous metal matrix composite (MMC) powders and using the powders as the feedstock with cold spray deposition is described to produce composite coatings and freestanding bulk forms. Measured quantities of metal and ceramic powders having predetermined particle sizes are blended to produce homogeneous MMC powders. Spray parameters and procedures are controlled to produce dense, strong and well-bonded MMC coatings on any substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew DeBiccari, Jeffrey D. Haynes, Douglas A. Hobbs, Jeganathan Karthikeyan
  • Preparation for producing a material used to restore a mineralised substance, particularly in the dental field
    Patent number: 7819663
    Abstract: A preparation contains an aqueous liquid part, a solid part comprising at least one silicate selected from tricalcium silicate Ca2SiO5 and dicalcium silicate Ca2SiO4; and calcium chloride CaCl2 and a water reducing agent which are both contained in at least one of the aforementioned parts. According to the invention, the solid part and the liquid part are intended to be mixed in order to obtain the material. The preparation can be used to restore a mineralized substance, particularly in the dental field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Septodont Ou Specialties Sertodont S.A.
    Inventors: Badreddine Bergaya, Jean-Yves Bottero, Marie-Josee Bottero, Jean-Claude Franquin, Dominique LeBlanc, Olivier Marie, Andre Nonat, Cyrille Sauvaget
  • Airfoil mini-core plugging devices
    Patent number: 7815414
    Abstract: A turbine engine component, such as a high pressure turbine vane, has an airfoil portion and at least one coolant system embedded within the airfoil portion. Each coolant system has an exit through which a cooling fluid flows, which exit has at least one device for preventing deposits from interfering with the flow of cooling fluid from the exit. The at least one device may be at least one depression and/or at least one grill structure formed from elongated ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Devore, Francisco J. Cunha
  • Fan rotor design for coincidence avoidance
    Patent number: 7811053
    Abstract: A fan rotor capable of avoiding coincidence will include a fan hub comprising one or more slots each designed to receive a fan blade; and one or more fan blades disposed within the slots. One or more slots will comprise an RZ? baseline and have one or more second fan blades disposed therein while another set of slots will have an RZ baseline having one or more first fan blades disposed therein. The tips of the second fan blades will be positioned at a distance farther from the fan hub than the tips of the first fan blades disposed, which when implemented in a turbofan engine will avoid coincidence occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley J. Balamucki, Eric W. Malmborg
  • Device for draining aqueous humor in cases of glaucoma
    Patent number: 7811268
    Abstract: A device is made up of one piece, or two independent pieces, that can be linked with each other to make a unit. The anterior end of a drainage tube is introduced 2 mm into the anterior chamber of the eye while the rear end of the tube is placed in the scleral lake. A cover is a plane body slight in height and oval or oblong in format that is provided with four parallel cuts that create two girths. The said girths are used to retain the drainage tube below the cover, thus creating a curvature in it to form a concave inner surface and a convex outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Artom S.A.
    Inventor: Arturo Maldon Ado Bas
  • Accelerometer calibrator resonance damper and methods
    Patent number: 7810370
    Abstract: A calibrator includes a moving element having a structural member having a mounting feature for mounting the device to be calibrated. The moving element includes first and second coils at first and second ends. A fixed element supports the moving element and includes at least one magnet magnetically cooperating with the first and second coils. In at least one mode of operation, an amplifier is coupled to the first and second coils in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventor: Galt B. Booth
  • Direct vessel injection (DVI) nozzle for minimum emergency core cooling (ECC) water bypass
    Patent number: 7809099
    Abstract: A direct vessel injection (DVI) nozzle for minimum emergency core coolant (ECC) bypass is disclosed. The DVI nozzle is used in a pressurized light water reactor (PLWR) having a reactor vessel with a reactor coolant system in which a coolant flows into the reactor vessel through a cold leg and passes through a reactor core prior to being discharged to the outside of the reactor vessel through a hot leg. The DVI nozzle, provided to directly inject ECC into the reactor vessel to cool the reactor core during a break in the reactor coolant system, such as a cold leg break (CLB) that may occur in the PLWR, is placed on the reactor vessel at a position horizontally offset from the central axis of the hot leg at an angle of 10° to 30° and is involved within a region defined above the central axis of the hot leg by a distance of 1.5 times the sum of diameters of the hot leg and the DVI nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae-Soon Kwon, Chul-Hwa Song
  • Device for finely cutting workpieces from a material
    Patent number: 7806031
    Abstract: A device for finely cutting workpieces from a material, which includes a press plate which is subjected to the pressure of a knife-edged ring cylinder consisting of a knife-edged ring and a clipping punch which is guided in the pressing plate, and associated with a blanking die with a counter holder (ejector) on a tappet, whereby the tappet is placed against at least one compensation cylinder which is hydraulically connect to the knife-edged ring cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Feintool International Holding AG
    Inventors: Ernst Rytz, Hans-Rudolf Gubler
  • Frictional rotary connection
    Patent number: 7806618
    Abstract: In a frictional rotary connector having a tapered ring arrangement (3) to be placed onto a shaft and having at least one tapered ring section (e.g. 4a) with an inner surface for abutting the shaft, and with an oblique outer surface (e.g. 5a), at least one tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) with an oblique inner surface, which element slides between a starting position and a clamping position on the oblique outer surface (e.g. 5a) of the tapered ring section (e.g. 4a), and a tensioning ring for moving the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in order to lock the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in the clamping position at least one retaining element (8) is provided which is arranged to be guided in a radial direction from a free position to a clamping position, wherein the retaining element (8) axially locks the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in the clamping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: TAS Schafer GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Schäfer, Harry Oppenländer
  • Method for checking surface condition after cleaning
    Patent number: 7805976
    Abstract: Methods for inspecting gas turbine component parts for possible distress after hydrogen fluoride cleaning are disclosed. The methods selectively remove a small amount of material for IGA inspection and restore the material using the same procedures as when the parts were manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy A. Milleville, Beth K. Abriles, Edward R. Szela
  • Papermakers dryer fabric
    Patent number: 7806147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a papermakers dryer fabric (C to G) adapted to carry a paper web on one fabric surface thereof and woven from machine direction yarns (1) and cross machine direction yarns (2; 6.1, 6.2; 15, 16) wherein the yarns (1, 2; 6.1, 6.2; 15, 16) cross over each other to create void volume (V.T, V.U1, V.U2) both inside the structure (T) of the fabric (C to G) and at the surfaces (U.1, U.2) of the fabric (C to G). The machine direction yarns (1) and the cross machine direction yarns (2; 6.1, 6.2; 15, 16) are interlaced so that virtually all of the void volume (V.U1, V.U2) is exposed to the paper web carrying and non-paper web carrying surfaces (U.1, U.2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Mark Adrian Hodson
  • Apparatus and method for white layer and recast removal
    Patent number: 7807037
    Abstract: A method for removing a metal layer comprising the steps of providing a part having a slot, providing a porous metallic cathode comprising a recess bounded by a wall having an outer surface corresponding to the slot, inserting the porous metallic cathode into the slot, introducing an electrolyte into the recess of the porous metallic cathode, and removing a portion of an inner surface of the slot by flowing an electric current between the part and the porous metallic cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick R. Joslin
  • Tilting connector
    Patent number: 7806622
    Abstract: In order to arrest a first profile, which has a groove provided with an undercut, a second profile, which has a location opening, whereby preventing these profiles from rotating, there is provided the invention provides a tilting connector in the form of a body extending along a longitudinal extension for fastening in a groove, which is provided with an undercut, of the first profile. This body comprises: a base; a web, which projects from the base, extends along the longitudinal extension and which serves to laterally fasten the tilting connector in the groove, a base area projecting above the web forming a stop surface for interlocking with the undercut; a first hole for an anchor bolt for inserting into a second profile, and; a second hole for a lever bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventor: Ulrich Stauss
  • Sample applicator
    Patent number: 7802937
    Abstract: A method for filling a personal care product applicator comprises flowing an amount of said personal care product into a one piece body of the applicator through a first end thereof. The flowing leaves the product in a first location within the body atop a transverse web. A closure is secured to the body at the first end. The web is displaced to shift the product from the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Plastek Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex S. Szekely
  • Screw compressor having asymmetric seal around rotor axis
    Patent number: 7802974
    Abstract: A compressor includes a male rotor (26) having a screw-type boy portion (30) extending from a first end (31) to a second end (32) and held within a housing assembly for rotation about a first rotor axis (500). A female rotor (27, 28) has a screw-type female body portion (33, 34) meshed with the male body portion and extending from a first end (35, 36) to a second end (37, 38) and held within the housing assembly for rotation about a second rotor axis (501, 502). An end seal (120) has a first surface (126) engaging the female body portion first end and being asymmetric around the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Rockwell, Frederick L. Miller, Jr., Yan Tang
  • Metallic coated cores to facilitate thin wall casting
    Patent number: 7802613
    Abstract: A core for investment casting processes includes a core having one or more ceramic materials; and an exterior layer of metal material not susceptible to oxidation under investment casting operating conditions. A method for casting a turbine engine component having an internal passageway includes the steps of forming one or more mold sections each having internal surfaces and at least one of the aforementioned cores for forming one or more turbine engine components having at least one internal passageway; assembling the one or more mold sections; introducing a molten alloy into the one or more assembled mold sections; and consuming the metal of the at least one core during the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Bullied, Joseph J. Parkos, Jr., Joshua E. Persky
  • Document validator with recycle unit
    Patent number: D624968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tomiyoshi, Tomonori Kitano