Patents Represented by Law Firm Bruce & McCoy
  • Induction fluorescent light fixture
    Patent number: 7597450
    Abstract: A high bay induction fluorescent lighting fixture having a multiple of nested circular lamps suspended on a post below the ballasts therefor and enclosed in a reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: American Wholesale Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Clayton M. Garrett
  • Wire rope reeving system for twin lift cargo container handling
    Patent number: 7559429
    Abstract: A single wire rope reeving system for a twin lift cargo container handling crane for hoisting and lowering a pair of containers in side-by-side relation independently or simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: PACECO Corp.
    Inventor: Kinya Ichimura
  • Method for nonintrusive scanning of cargo containers in a buffer operation
    Patent number: 7267239
    Abstract: A method for nonintrusive scanning of cargo containers quay side while the containers are being transferred between ship and land transportation utilizing a mobile cargo container handling buffer crane having a bridge crane mounted thereon for transferring cargo containers between a ship and land transportation with an intermediate transfer position whereby a suspended container can be noninvasively inspected by a longitudinally reciprocating container traversing radiation emitter apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Inventors: Toru Takehara, Kinya Ichimura, Sun Huan Huang, Philip Alexander Tam
  • Method for energy storage for DC motor powered load hoisting machinery
    Patent number: 7228942
    Abstract: A method for energy storage and recovery for load hoisting equipment driven by a diode controlled DC motor and having an inverter controlling an induction motor which drives a flywheel whereby, utilizing rest power such as reverse power from the DC motor when lowering a load and unused power at small load or idle to accelerate rotation of a flywheel, whereby energy is stored, and the system is reversed when a load is lifted and power is consumed whereby the flywheel causes the induction motor to generate power and deliver it to the DC motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp.
    Inventors: Toru Takehara, Kinya Ichimura
  • Energy storage method for load hoisting machinery
    Patent number: 7165654
    Abstract: A method for energy storage and recovery for load hoisting equipment powered by an induction hoist motor controlled by a first inverter and having a dual inverter controlling a capacitor utilizing rest power such as reverse power generated from the motor when lowering a load, and unused power at small load or idle, to charge the capacitor whereby energy is stored in the capacitor and the system is reversed when a load is lifted and power is consumed whereby the capacitor is discharged to deliver power to the hoist motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp
    Inventors: Toru Takehara, Kinya Ichimura
  • Scuba diver weight carrying backpack
    Patent number: 7125201
    Abstract: A scuba diver weight carrying backpack having a packboard for carrying a multiple of rectangular based weights thereon with a cover over the weights and longitudinal parallel rods engaged with the cover from top to bottom and projecting through aligned rows of the weights, the weights being held on the rods by a quick release draw pins engaged with the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Inventor: William D. Walters
  • Wire rope reeving support system for cargo container handling gantry cranes
    Patent number: 7073673
    Abstract: A wire rope reeving support system for a cargo container handling crane having a transport trolley mounted for reciprocation along a horizontal gantry thereof and having a wire rope load hoisting system for the transport trolley wherein a mechanism is provided mid span of said gantry for supporting the wire ropes of at least the load hoisting system and permitting the transport trolley to actuate the rope system to let the trolley pass there by without mechanical interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: PACECO Corp.
    Inventors: Toru Takehara, Sun Huan Huang, Hans G. Vosskamp
  • Right side universal electrocardiogram sensor positioning mask and method
    Patent number: 6973343
    Abstract: A universal and reversible disposable ECG sensor positioning mask and method for use with electrocardiogram diagnostic equipment for left and right chest ECGs in which the mask has at least nine sensors, six of which can be used at any one time to provide up to four different sizes to accommodate varying sized human torsos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Unilead International Inc.
    Inventor: William K. Wenger
  • Fiber optic cable enclosure
    Patent number: 6933441
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable enclosure having a rectangular box with a sliding cover and containing a cable reel disposed and supported therein on protuberances projecting from the bottom of the reel with the side panels of the enclosure supported in C section channels for horizontal sliding intermittent reciprocating motion whereby a cable wound on said reel can be extracted and utilized as a jumper cable for establishing emergency connections in a telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Inventors: Denise E. Fuller, Richard D. Voliva
  • Universal electrocardiogram sensor positioning mask with repositionable sensors and method for employing same
    Patent number: 6751493
    Abstract: A universal disposable ECG sensor positioning device and method for use with electrocardiogram diagnostic equipment in which the mask has six sensors, two of which are movable, to provide four different sizes to accommodate varying sized human torsos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Unilead International, Inc.
    Inventor: William K. Wenger
  • Buffer jib crane for cargo container handling operations
    Patent number: 6685418
    Abstract: A buffer crane for supplementing a quay crane operation and formed to operate thereunder with a landing deck for supporting a multiple of cargo containers above dockside cargo transport operations and for moving cargo containers therebetween by means of a slewing jib crane secured to one edge of said landing deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: PACECO Corp.
    Inventors: Toru Takehara, Philip Alexander Tam, Sun Huan Huang, Hans C. Vosskamp
  • Fishing lure
    Patent number: D516663
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: PRO- Troll, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard B Pool, Cecil R Spurgeon
  • Automotive vehicle vacuum
    Patent number: D528253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventors: Xingyu Wu, Xingqiang Wu, Honghui Guo
  • Automotive vehicle polisher
    Patent number: D546155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Inventors: Xingyu Wu, Xingqiang Wu, Honghui Guo
  • Anterior lumbar interbody fusion implant
    Patent number: D553742
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp.
    Inventor: Ilwhan Park
  • Cervical lumbar interbody fusion implant
    Patent number: D553743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp.
    Inventor: Ilwhan Park
  • Posterior lumbar interbody fusion implant
    Patent number: D553744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp.
    Inventor: Ilwhan Park
  • Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion implant
    Patent number: D553745
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Paceco Corp.
    Inventor: Ilwhan Park
  • Baby bottle
    Patent number: D564665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Inventor: Sangpyo Kim
  • Notebook cover
    Patent number: D586852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Inventors: Justin Porcano, Gary Porcano, Ellen Porcano