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

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  • Portable apparatus and method for monitoring user's skin
    Patent number: 6936824
    Abstract: This portable apparatus comprises a housing having a circuit built-in, and an input key, an ultraviolet receptive opening and a display, which are combined with the housing as one body. An ultraviolet sensor is provided in the interior of the ultraviolet receptive opening. This portable apparatus comprises means for receiving characteristic data about a characteristic of a user's skin against a suntan from the input key and measurement data about an ultraviolet ray quantity from the ultraviolet sensor, for predicting a user's suntanned skin condition from these data, and for generating image data for displaying an image about the prediction of user's suntanned skin condition. The image, which is based on image data generated by this means, is displayed on the display, making it possible for the user to confirm the user's skin condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Konami Corporation
    Inventor: Eri Takada
  • Rotary slide
    Patent number: 6935365
    Abstract: A rotary slide for medium-carrying pipelines is proposed, comprising a housing (1) capable of being installed between two pipeline ends and having a stop member (9) for shutting off the pipeline and having an actuating device (8) for actuating the stop member, the housing possessing a first reception region (4) for receiving the stop member in the closed position of the rotary slide, a second reception region (5) for receiving the stop member in the open position of the rotary slide and a drive region (3) for receiving the actuating device, and the drive region (3) being arranged in the housing (1) separately from the first and the second reception region (4, 5). The rotary slide is distinguished by a compact and corrosion-resistant form of construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Georg Fischer Wavin AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schuster, Bernd Schwarz, Rufold Nikles
  • Silver braze alloy
    Patent number: 6936218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver braze alloy having improved wetting properties. The silver braze alloy consists essentially of from about 52.25 wt % to about 57.0 wt % silver, from about 38.95 to about 43.0 wt % copper, from about 0.5 wt % to about 5.5 wt %, preferably from about 1.0 wt % to about 5.5 wt %, manganese, and up to about 2.5 wt %, preferably from about 1.5 wt % to about 2.5 wt %, nickel. The alloy further may contain 0.15 wt % total of other trace elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wangen Lin, Brian Schwartz, Viktor Fedorovich Khorunov, F. Michael Hosking, Svitlana Vasylivna Maksymova
  • Final drive assembly with differential lock
    Patent number: 6935983
    Abstract: Axle-drive unit for a motor vehicle which contains a first and a second differential (18, 19) in a driven housing (22), the two differentials (18, 19) being spur-gear-type planetary gears with parallel axes, the sun wheels (32, 43) of which are in each case connected in terms of drive to the half axles (8, 9) of the first driven axle, and planet wheels (36, 38) of the two differentials (18, 19) meshing with their common ring gear (35). The housing (22) has a machined inner surface (50) which surrounds the ring gear (35) with little clearance, the ring gear is so thin in the radial direction that it is deformed in a lobe-like manner by the radial component of the tooth forces exerted by the planet wheels (31, 36). The outer circumferential surface (60) of the ring gear is placed against the inner surface (50) of the housing (22) in a manner producing friction at least locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG&Co KG
    Inventor: Hermann Pecnik
  • Composite profiled section
    Patent number: 6935473
    Abstract: A composite profiled section consisting of a base profiled section (1) made of a good electro-conductive material and at least one surface layer that is joined to the base profiled section (1) and is made of a material, such as a metal anti-wear strip (19), with a high resistance to abrasion. At least one of the longitudinal edges of the anti-wear strip (19) should contain recesses (27), notches (77, 78) or compressions (82) that are at least partially filled with a connecting substance (59) or a connecting profile (11, 39, 66, 69, 74) for connection to the base profiled section (1) in a positive or non-positive fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Joachim Gluck
  • Turbine engine fuel injector
    Patent number: 6935117
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is piloted with a pilot flow of fuel delivered to a combustor as a liquid. A first additional flow of the fuel is also delivered to the combustor as a liquid. A second additional flow of the fuel is vaporized and delivered to the combustor as a vapor. A fuel injector may have passageways associated with each of the three flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Curtis C. Cowan
  • Method and apparatus for cutting and polishing stone articles
    Patent number: 6935325
    Abstract: A method for making a stone article includes the steps of providing a block of material having substantially square top and bottom surfaces, impacting the top and bottom surfaces with a non-square blade so as to split off-excess material from the top and bottom surfaces and provide said surfaces with a shape substantially matching the non-square blade cutting a cylindrical cut into said top surface, drilling a hole into the bottom surface, and applying a force into the hole whereby a stone portion within the cylindrical cut is removed from the block of material. A stone polishing apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Lawrence L. Getty
  • Metal/ceramic bonding article and method for producing same
    Patent number: 6935554
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a metal/ceramic bonding article, the method including the steps of: arranging a metal plate 12 of an overall-rate solid solution type alloy on a ceramic substrate 10; and heating the metal plate 12 and the ceramic substrate 10 in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of lower than a melting point of the alloy to bond the metal plate 12 directly to the ceramic substrate 10. According to this method, it is possible to easily bond an alloy plate directly to a ceramic substrate, and it is possible to inexpensively provide an electronic member for resistance without causing the alloy plate to be deteriorated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Dowa Mining, Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Kimura, Susumu Shimada
  • Metal/ceramic circuit board
    Patent number: 6936337
    Abstract: There is provided a metal/ceramic circuit board capable of eliminating discrepancy during mounting of parts to improve the reliability of mounting of the parts. The metal/ceramic circuit board has a ceramic substrate 10, and a metal circuit plate (a copper plate 14) bonded to the ceramic substrate 10, the metal circuit plate having a thickness which is more than 0.25 mm and which is less than 0.3 mm, and the metal circuit plate having a skirt spreading length (a dimensional difference between the bottom and top portion of the peripheral edge portion of the metal circuit plate) of less than 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Tsukaguchi, Masami Kimura
  • Method for the preparation of technetium or rhenium complex for radiopharmaceuticals
    Patent number: 6936240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing technetium or rhenium complex for radiopharmaceuticals, through reaction of pertechnetate or perrhenate with a ligand in the presence of a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent is a borohydride exchange resin (BER). The borohydride exchange resin of the present invention has advantages of being stable in a wide range of Ph, including acidic or alkaline condition(Ph 2˜14) and thus being applicable to biological materials as well as being easily removable through filtration when being administrated. Also since the radiolabelled complex is produced under conditions milder than those required for the conventional reducing agents as well as has high radiochemical purity and high labeling efficiency, the conventional reducing agents can be replaced by the BER of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyung Bae Park, Sang Hyun Park, Hui Jeong Gwon, Sun Ju Choi, Byung Chul Shin, Young Don Hong, Sang Mu Choi, Woong Woo Park, Kwang Hee Han, Beom Su Jang
  • Rotor inlet temperature control for turbo machine
    Patent number: 6931857
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing rotor inlet temperature in a turbine comprising the steps of determining a burner fuel flow (WFGG), a burner inlet pressure (PS32), and a compressor discharge temperature (T3) of a turbine, calculating a ratio unit parameter from the burner fuel flow, the burner inlet pressure, and the compressor discharge temperature, and calculating a synthesized rotor inlet temperature from the ratio unit parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Craig W. Irwin, Richard W. McBride, Kenneth D. Olson, Carl F. Simmons
  • Sound jacket for noise reduction in refrigeration apparatus
    Patent number: 6932190
    Abstract: An insulating jacket for refrigeration system component comprising a closed cell insulation layer comprising an inner and outer surface, an open cell foam layer comprising an inner and outer surface, the inner surface in contact with the outer surface of the closed cell insulation layer, and a sound barrier layer comprising an inner surface in contact with the outer surface of the open cell foam layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Vishnu M. Sishtla
  • Silicone-cork ablative material
    Patent number: 6933334
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a material for use in a thermal protection system contains a silicone resin binder, a silicone catalyst, ground cork, glass ecospheres, and a silicone solvent. In a preferred embodiment, the material consists of from 65.3 wt % to 72.3 wt % silicone resin, from 6.5 wt % to 7.25 wt % silicone catalyst, from 7.22 wt % to 7.98 wt % ground cork, from 8.36 wt % to 9.24 wt % glass ecospheres, and the balance silicone solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven A. Cosby, Matthew Kelly, Beth Van Waveren
  • Apparatus for severing the link between two sausages
    Patent number: 6932689
    Abstract: In an apparatus for severing a link between two sausages, in particular for cutting out a clip at a twisting point by means of a cutting device which has a cutting edge, comprises at least two cutting edges lying opposite one another and movable toward one another when the twisting point is located between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Stimpfl & Gieseler Sondermaschinen F. Lebensmittelindustrie
    Inventor: Christoph Stimpfl
  • Electrochemical process for the simultaneous stripping of diverse coatings from a metal substrate
    Patent number: 6932898
    Abstract: An electrochemical process for simultaneously stripping diverse coatings from a metal substrate and, more particularly to the removal of MCrAlY and aluminide coatings from a base metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Kryzman, Mark Jaworowski
  • Monopropellant combustion system
    Patent number: 6931832
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for decomposition of a propellant. The propellant includes an ionic salt and an additional fuel. Means are provided for decomposing a major portion of the ionic salt. Means are provided for combusting the additional fuel and decomposition products of the ionic salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald R. Berg, Donn C. Mueller, Mark W. Parish
  • Pulse combustion device
    Patent number: 6931833
    Abstract: A pulse combustion device has a number of combustors with upstream bodies and downstream nozzles. Coupling conduits provide communication between the combustors. For each given combustor this includes a first communication between a first location upstream of the nozzle thereof and a first location along the nozzle of another. There is second communication between a second location upstream of the nozzle and a second communication between a second location upstream of the nozzle of a second other combustor and a second nozzle location along the nozzle of the given combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Kirk R. Lupkes
  • Blade damper
    Patent number: 6932575
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade damper has a damper member with first and second damping surfaces for respectively engaging first and second surfaces of adjacent first and second blades. The damper has a seal having a first portion engaged in the damper member to resist relative movement of the seal in at least one direction and a second portion engaging at least one of the blades and advantageously forming a seal to resist upstream gas infiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Surace, Dennis I. Colon
  • Butterfly valve
    Patent number: 6929243
    Abstract: The butterfly valve comprises a disk which is provide with at least one protuberance over at least a portion of at least one of its faces. Quite unexpectedly, the use of such a disk makes it possible to improve considerably the quality of the cleaning of the valve and to reduce the time required for cleaning operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Defontaine
    Inventors: Bruno Maraud, Jean Bonnefous
  • Electrically driven aircraft cabin ventilation and environmental control system
    Patent number: 6928832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrically driven aircraft cabin and ventilation and environmental control system. The system includes at least one inlet for capturing ram air, an electrically driven compressor for pressurizing the ram air, and a thermal conditioning subsystem for thermally conditioning the pressurized ram air. The system further includes a subsystem for removing undesirable moisture from the thermally conditioned ram air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Hamilton Sunstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Lents, Steven E. Squier, Wayne A. Thresher