Patents Represented by Attorney Bernhard Kreten
  • Patent number: 6439817
    Abstract: An insert for use in allowing spark plugs, fasteners, couplings for hydraulic fittings and pipe threads of a given dimension to be used in a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Inventor: Gary Jack Reed
  • Patent number: 6435788
    Abstract: An insert for thread repair having an interior thread and a specially formed exterior thread which both precludes upheaval between sides of the cracked material on opposite sides of the crack and draws the crack together, radially inward towards the center of the insert. The insert may include a driving head, either solid or having a central hollow and may include a frangible neck to dissociate the head from the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Inventor: Gary Jack Reed
  • Patent number: 6427725
    Abstract: A lateral packer and felt combination are disclosed for use in efficiently inhibiting infiltration into or out of a pipeline. The lateral packer is inflated and expands radially to secure the felt at the source of infiltration. Once the felt is secured, the lateral packer is removed and the felt left in place as a barrier to infiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventors: Gerald J. Vanderlans, Eric G. Vanderlans, Victor F. Schuh, Stephen L. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6422789
    Abstract: This specification discloses a method and apparatus for the remediation of soil contaminated by pollutants. The method utilizes a unitary mobile remediation apparatus in which the soil is impounded, metered, and transported to be sprayed with a treatment spray, pulverized, and mixed to blend the spray with the soil. The disclosed unitary mobile remediation apparatus utilizes mechanical, gravimetric, inertial methods, and enclosed conveyors to accomplish the flow of the soil through the apparatus and also includes adjustable and separately supplied spray nozzles to alter the amount and coverage area of the treatment spray to be ejected by the nozzles. The apparatus also utilizes a screen to prevent the entry of excessively large objects into the treatment apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Inventor: Jonathan H. Brewer
  • Patent number: 6382893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and device which allows the replacement of a damaged thread in an object with a thread identical to the damaged thread by enlarging the original threaded hole and inserting a thread-insert in a newly threaded hole in the object which has an internally threaded hole identical to the original threaded hole. The thread-insert is fastened into the enlarged hole using a thread that securely holds it in place. When the thread-insert is threaded into the enlarged threaded hole, a pocket formed below the drive head of the thread-insert causes metal flow into the pocket to create a seal between the thread-insert and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventor: Gary J. Reed
  • Patent number: 6383166
    Abstract: A Blow/Fill/Seal, or injection molded plungerless syringe having a body portion, a fluid outlet at one end and an air passageway at an opposite end, extending from a back wall leading to a chamber having the ability to receive all syringe air plus some liquid. The air passageway communicates with the air chamber to trap all gas into the air chamber after docking with syringe needle or catheter at the fluid outlet. Air from the docked devices pass through the liquid and is trapped out of the fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventor: Barry Farris
  • Patent number: 6378387
    Abstract: A non-destructive inspection, testing and evaluation system and process is provided for the review of aircraft components. The system provides for a structure configured to contain an inspection and testing apparatus and the aircraft components under inspection. The structure is lined with shielding to attenuate the emission of radiation to the outside of the structure and has corbels therein to support the components that constitute the inspection and testing apparatus. The inspection and testing apparatus is coupled to the structure, resulting in the formation of a gantry for supporting a carriage and a mast is mounted on the carriage. The inspection and testing equipment is mounted on the mast which forms, in part, at least one radiographic inspection robot capable of precise positioning over large ranges of motion. The carriage is coupled to the mast for supporting and allowing translation of the equipment mounted on the mast. The mast is configured to provide yaw movement to the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Aerobotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Allen Froom
  • Patent number: 6378577
    Abstract: Provided is a carrier convertible from a sling supported vessel to a material handler for filling portable receptacles such as bags from a bulk lot of material. The front end of this unit is a scoop for gathering fluent material. Over top the scoop is a hood that prevents spill out of any material when the unit is raised into an upright position. The hood terminates at a projection that defines a hand grip. The scoop tapers into a flue. This tapering permits multiple units to nest into one another for storage purposes. The flue ends at an opening and the opening is sized so that an industry-specific standard bag fits over the opening. The length of the flue is dimensioned so that upon the bag being placed over the flue a hand can grasp both the carrier and bag easily at the projection. When grasped, the bag is tightened and secured to the carrier by the grasping hand. Other bags of different sizes can be accommodated by either gathering any slack with the gripping hand or making different size units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Inventors: Matthew Hain Piner, James Earl Schiller, Stefan Norman Smyle, Jeremy L. Ramirez
  • Patent number: 6379732
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for severing roots of bean sprouts and dewatering the bean sprouts are disclosed. Bean sprouts are supplied onto a severing and dewatering table having a number of severing slits each of which has such a width that a root of a bean sprout falls into each severing slit. Air is caused to blow from above the severing and dewatering table so that a flow of air flowing downward through the severing slits is produced to cause the roots of the bean sprouts on the severing and dewatering table to fall into the severing slits. The roots of the bean sprouts fallen in the severing slits are severed by a cutter blade while water adherent to the bean sprouts are being blown away by wind pressure downward from the severing slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Salad Cosmo U.S.A. Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro Nakada
  • Patent number: 6367639
    Abstract: A safety container incorporates a slidable locking pin with an integral but separately lockable locking tab. The locking pin is internally biased by an integral S-spring which, in cooperation with the lid on the container, urges the pin to slide in a slideway in the lid of the container. The locking pin may be locked into a closed position, however, by rotation of the locking tab into a flexed position. In this position, the locking tab cannot slide within a mating slot in the hinge lid and thus the locking pin cannot slide in the slideway in the lid. Alternatively, the locking tab may be rotated into a non-flexed position in which the locking tab can be urged to penetrate the mating slot in the lid and allow the locking pin to slide in the slideway in the lid. By use of the locking pin, the safety container can be set to require the user to engage in at least distinct hand motions in order to open the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Inventor: Bob Mar
  • Patent number: 6364769
    Abstract: A gaming device security system is disclosed which includes two processing areas linked together and communicating critical gaming functions via a security protocol wherein each transmitted gaming function includes a specific encrypted signature to be decoded and validated before being processed by either processing area. The two processing areas include a first processing area having a dynamic RAM and an open architecture design which is expandable without interfering or accessing critical gaming functions and a second “secure” processing area having a non-alterable memory for the storage of critical gaming functions therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Steven A. Weiss, Rex R. Carlson
  • Patent number: D457174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Sheldon Bissell
  • Patent number: D457626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Inventor: Barry Farris
  • Patent number: D457953
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: Barry Farris
  • Patent number: D458677
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Inventor: Barry Farris
  • Patent number: D459172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Inventor: Sheldon Bissell
  • Patent number: D459958
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Inventor: Mark Smith
  • Patent number: D462441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Inventor: Timothy Garner
  • Patent number: D462607
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventor: Jerry M. Alcone
  • Patent number: D463283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Robin Haynes