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

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  • Method for comparing similarity between phonetic transcriptions of foreign word
    Patent number: 7010487
    Abstract: The method described herein provides for comparing a similarity between various phonetic transcriptions of a specific foreign word on the basis of an English pronunciation similarity comparison algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Key-Sun Choi, Byung-Ju Kang, Jae Sung Lee
  • Heat sink for semiconductor components or similar devices, method for producing the same and tool for carrying out said method
    Patent number: 7009290
    Abstract: A heat sink for semiconductor components or similar devices, especially produced from an extruded aluminum alloy. The heat sink comprises cooling ribs which rise at a distance from a base plate and which are clamped in an insert groove made in the surface of the base plate, laterally limited by longitudinal or intermediate ribs with a coupling base that has an approximately rectangular cross-section. The coupling bases are held in their insert grooves in a form-fit and are cold-welded with the base plate at least in some sections. Cross ribs extend at a distance to one another on the surfaces of the intermediate ribs and have the form of upset heels that are linked with the coupling base in a form-fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Alcan Technology & Management Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Bock, Werner Graf, Stephan Bock
  • Fuel nozzle design
    Patent number: 7007864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel nozzle for use in an engine such as a gas turbine engine. The fuel nozzle includes a fuel injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine and a plurality of rows of holes surrounding the fuel injector for eliminating recirculation of hot gas products onto a face of the fuel nozzle. The holes eject air primarily in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy S. Snyder, James B. Hoke
  • Slot machining
    Patent number: 7007382
    Abstract: A method for cutting a blade root retention slot in a turbine engine disk element includes forming a precursor slot in the element. The precursor slot has first and second sidewalls and a base. A rotating bit is passed through the precursor slot to machine the base. The bit rotates about an axis off-normal to a direction of passing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Blake M. Mantel
  • Device for opening and closing the hood of a folding-top convertible motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7004529
    Abstract: A device comprising, additionally to the main jack, a balancing jack designed to facilitate manual opening of the hood from the in a forward movement for storing luggage in the trunk, and manual closure of hood in the opposite direction. The balancing jack has its base linked to the main jack and the free end of its piston rod fixed in articulation to the hood. It is designed so as not to obstruct the operation of the main jack for automatically opening or closing the hood. The device further comprises a device for actuating the balancing jack to enable the hood to be manually opened or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Societe Europeenne des Brevets Automobiles
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Guillez, Paul Queveau, Gérard Queveau
  • Ferulic acid dimers and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, their preparation and use thereof for treating dementia
    Patent number: 7005539
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ferulic acid dimers and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, preparation method and use thereof for treating dementia, which have excellent effect on the learning and memory-retention ability in vivo, thus it can be use for dementia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jaehoon Yu, Kye-Jung Shin, Dong-Jin Kim, Kyung-Sik Lee
  • Fan shroud assembly
    Patent number: 7004732
    Abstract: The fan shroud assembly includes: a rectangular-shaped plenum having a first plenum portion of a larger side and a second plenum portion of a smaller side, which are mounted eccentrically; a fan shroud formed on an air discharge side of the plenum and having a airflow guide portion, in which a fan having a blade and a band for connecting the outer end of the blade, is positioned; and a motor for driving the fan, wherein a connection point between the first plenum portion and the airflow guide portion is located within a height (BH) of the band, and wherein a height (H1) from the bottom of the plenum to connection point between the first plenum portion and the airflow guide portion is higher than a height (H2) from the bottom of the plenum to connection point between the second plenum portion and the airflow guide portion satisfying H1>H2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Kyungseok Cho, Seyoung Park, Changho Park
  • Thermoluminescent detector of LiF containing Mg, Cu, Na and Si as dopants and its preparation
    Patent number: 7005084
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a pellet type LiF element for a thermoluminescent dosimetry (TLD) and its preparation. More particularly, the disclosure concerns the pellet type LiF element for a thermoluminescent dosimetry (TLD) which includes 0.35˜0.12% by mole of Mg source; 0.08˜0.001% by mole of Cu source; 1.3˜0.5% by mole of Na source; and 1.3˜0.5% by mole of Si source as dopants. The pellet type LiF element according to the present invention shows excellent sensitivity and has the preferred glow curve with a simple and single main peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Jang-Lyul Kim, Si-Young Chang, Jung-Il Lee, Jeong-Sun Yang, Young-Mi Nam
  • Closure cap with refilling function
    Patent number: 7004660
    Abstract: A wet writing implement comprises a shaft (30) for holding a capillary writing tip (32) and a closure cap (10) which can be reversibly fitted on to the shaft (30) for protecting the writing tip (32). Arranged in the closure cap (10) is a writing fluid storage device (12) for receiving a writing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Schwan-STABILO Schwanhausser GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl-Peter Kaempf
  • Mechanical handling device for golf balls at a driving range
    Patent number: 6997816
    Abstract: A mechanical handling device for golf balls at a driving range, comprising a pivotally mounted balance or lever arm provided at one end with a tee adapted, in use, to receive and support a golf ball from a supply source, and provided at its other end with a weight sensitive transducer whereby, from a neutral start position, the arm/tee is initially pivoted downwardly under the influence of the weight of a ball arriving at the tee, such initial movement being sensed by the transducer to activate control means causing the arm/tee to be pivoted to an elevated, striking position, and loss of ball weight at the tee, after striking of the ball, also being sensed by the transducer to activate control means to cause the arm/tee to be pivotally returned to its neutral position. The invention also includes a driving range tee provided with a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: All Year Ventures LTD
    Inventor: Philip Gager
  • Beam welding apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 6998570
    Abstract: An apparatus and method may be used for welding a first panel to a second panel, the first panel having an inboard side partially contacting the second panel and an opposite outboard side. The apparatus has a welding beam generator. The apparatus reduces a pressure along the inboard side of the panel relative to an adjacent pressure along the outboard side so as to produce inward deflection of the first panel along a first portion of the first panel not contacting the second panel relative to a second portion. The apparatus has locates, based on said deflection, at least one of said first portion or said second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Watkins, Joseph C. Barone
  • Method of making bristle arrangement for brush seal
    Patent number: 6996885
    Abstract: A method of making a bristle arrangement for a brush seal, which includes: providing a bristle arrangement; severing the bristle arrangement, the bristle arrangement now having free ends; and joining the free ends. A method of reworking a bristle arrangement for a brush seal, which includes the steps of: providing a bristle arrangement; removing a section from the bristle arrangement; and adding a replacement section to the bristle arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Szymbor, Mark E. Addis
  • Device for removing break-off components from a sheet of material or equivalent
    Patent number: 6997363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for removing break-off pieces (12), especially waste parts, from a sheet of material containing blanks or similar flat pieces. An abutment device (20) which can move in a longitudinal direction is associated with a break-off tool (40, 42). The abutment device protrudes into a through opening (16). Even when said device is in a rest position it supports the break-off component or waste part of the sheet of material (10) in an approximately parallel position. When the waste part moves, its position can be modified by the break-off tool and brought into a specific angle of inclination in relation to the sheet of material, especially when the waste part is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Inventor: Franz Vossen
  • Device for the detachable mounting of workpieces on machining devices
    Patent number: 6997448
    Abstract: A device for holding workpieces in a releasable manner is proposed, comprising a mounting plate (2) with a clamping pin (3) for mounting a workpiece and an end plate (5) for connecting in a supporting manner to a machining apparatus for machining the workpiece, a hydraulically or pneumatically movable piston (11), a ball sleeve (15) with balls (16), which are arranged in such a way that they can be moved with respect to the clamping pin into the ball sleeve by the piston, and at least one spring (19) acting against the clamping force being provided between the mounting plate and the end plate as means which transmit the clamping force, and the mounting plate (2) having a centring region (21) which interacts with the clamping pin (3) and is designed in one piece and in an annular-disc shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Mecatool AG
    Inventors: Walter Roth, Rudolf Kuratli
  • Notched compound semiconductor wafer
    Patent number: 6998700
    Abstract: There is provided a notched compound semiconductor crystal having the same specification even if it is turned over. With respect to a compound semiconductor wafer produced by slicing a compound semiconductor crystal having a crystal plane of (100) plane, the crystal is sliced so as to be tilted from the (100) plane in a direction of [101] or [10?1] when a notch is formed in a direction of [010], or the crystal is sliced so as to be tilted from the (100) plane in a direction of [0?10] or [010] when a notch is formed in a direction of [001], or the crystal is sliced so as to be tilted from the (100) plane in a direction of [001] or [00?1] when a notch is formed in a direction of [0?10], or the crystal is sliced so as to be tilted from the (100) plane in a direction of [010] or [0?10] when a notch is formed in a direction of [00?1].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., LTD
    Inventors: Ryuichi Toba, Naoya Sunachi
  • Bearing housing with divided drainage and oil pooling annulus
    Patent number: 6997618
    Abstract: A bearing housing comprising an annulus having an aft side and a forward side, a barrier extending from the aft side to the forward side to form a first and second zone, a first opening in the first zone extending through the forward side, and a second opening in the second zone extending through the forward side at least a portion of the first opening being at a level lower than a lowermost level of the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Peter G. Delano
  • Filter material and method
    Patent number: 6997969
    Abstract: A filter is provided including a synthetic filter material formed into a filter structure and having at least one embossment having a depth of at least about 1.5 mm, preferably at least about 4.0 mm, and more preferably at least about 5.0 mm. A method for making the filter is also provided, and results in a filter which is formed without rupture of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: LPD Technologies
    Inventors: Dirk Dieter Hans Ter Horst, Hans Joachim Lippold
  • Electric machine
    Patent number: 6995489
    Abstract: An electric machine (2) comprising a rotor (4) and a stator (6) arranged coaxially therewith, at least one of said rotor (4) and stator (6) being formed of a plurality of parts and there being provided a bandage (16) holding together the plurality of parts of said rotor and/or stator (6), wherein the bandage (16) is formed of an electrically non-conducting fiber material having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the parts of said rotor (4) and/or stator (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignees: Magnet-Motor Gesellschaft fur, Magnet-Motorische Technik mbH
    Inventors: Peter Ehrhart, Anton Mueller
  • Method for facilitating the entry of a URL address into an internet web browser URL address window
    Patent number: 6996608
    Abstract: A method for entering and facilitating the input of an Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address into a URL address window including the steps of providing an interactive device for connecting to the Internet via a web browser having a URL address window, where the interactive device includes an operating system which employs a cursor and a cursor device for communicating position commands to the operating system, connecting to the Internet using the interactive device and the web browser, positioning the cursor over the URL address window, receiving a cursor position command, validating the cursor position command, displaying an enlarged text window, entering a desired URL address into the enlarged text window, inserting the entered URL address into the URL address window and engaging the interactive device so as to cause the web browser to be communicated with the URL address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Signtel, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Smith, Boris Nalibotski, Raanan Liebermann
  • Height-adjustable support for semitrailers or the like
    Patent number: 6994325
    Abstract: A height-adjustable support for semitrailers, having a stationary outer support tube, an inner support tube, which is arranged in a longitudinally displaceable manner therein, and a gearbox output shaft, on which is seated in a rotationally fixed manner a bevel wheel of relatively small diameter which belongs to a bevel wheel gear stage which drives the spindle drive for the purpose of displacing the inner support tube. Two large-diameter gearwheels are arranged in a rotationally fixed manner on the gearbox output shaft, the gearwheel being located exclusively within the flux of force of the manual drive, which is initiated via the hand crank, and the gearwheel only transmitting the flux of force which is brought about by the motor, which, in a known manner, may be arranged inside or outside the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Georg Fischer Verkehrstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhold Riedl