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  • Door assembly including a touch sensitive portion for controlling automated door movement
    Patent number: 8284071
    Abstract: An assembly (20) for controlling movement of an automatically moveable door panel (22) includes a sensor (30, 32, 34) positioned on at least one of a door panel (22) or a door frame member (24, 26). The sensitive portion provides an indication of when an object is in contact with or in very close proximity to a sensitive portion. A sensitive portion is established over an area of the door or door frame member at which an object may become caught during automated door movement. A disclosed example includes using an electromechanical film as a sensor so that the sensitive portion is responsive to pressure applied by the object on the sensitive portion. Another disclosed example includes a field effect sensor that generates an electric field that is at least partially interrupted when an object contacts or comes in very close proximity to the sensitive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Pei-Yuan Peng, Jaime A. Rivera, Atsushi Yamada, Takashi Saiki
  • Mobile surface drying apparatus
    Patent number: 8281499
    Abstract: A mobile surface drying apparatus includes a vacuum and blower assembly. The vacuum and blower assembly includes a vacuum head and a blower head. The vacuum head suctions moisture through an inlet of the vacuum and blower assembly, and the blower head communicates airflow through an outlet of the vacuum and blower assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventors: John Friesen, Jacob Friesen, Rob Brush
  • Pulse width modulation with reduced suction pressure to improve efficiency
    Patent number: 8276395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a way of reducing the amount of energy required to partially compress a refrigerant in a compressor operating in a rapidly cycled unloaded mode. A valve on a suction line is closed when the compressor moves to the unloaded condition. In this manner, the amount of energy required to partially compress the refrigerant in the compressor, at the unloaded condition, is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Lifson, Michael F. Taras
  • Gas turbine engine compressor arrangement
    Patent number: 8277174
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a gear arrangement configured to drive the fan section, a compressor section and a turbine section. The compressor section includes a low pressure compressor section and a high pressure compressor section. The turbine section is configured to drive compressor section and the gear arrangement. An overall pressure ratio, which is provided by a combination of a pressure ratio across said low pressure compressor section and a pressure ratio across said high pressure compressor section, is greater than about 35. The pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor section is between about 3 and about 8 whereas the pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor section is between about 7 and about 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Karl L. Hasel, Joseph B. Staubach, Brian D. Merry, Gabriel L. Suciu, Christopher M. Dye
  • Mounting arrangement for lower steering arm
    Patent number: 8276925
    Abstract: A knuckle includes a spindle to support a wheel and upper and lower bosses extending inwardly of the spindle. The lower boss includes a tie rod arm mount interface. A tie rod arm is received within the tie rod arm mount interface and a steer arm is positioned on an opposite side of the knuckle from the tie rod arm. The steer arm is fixed to the tie rod arm and includes an input mount interface to receive steering input to turn a wheel. The steer arm and tie rod arm are attached to each other with at least one fastener, or can be integrally formed together as a single-piece component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Tomaz D. Varela, Malcolm Green, Xinyu Wen, Kou Yang
  • Fluid reservoir assembly
    Patent number: 8272140
    Abstract: A bottle assembly has a bottle for storing a fluid, such as a cosmetic fluid. An applicator for applying the fluid is configured to be insertable and removable from the bottle along a path. A sealing body, or assembly, which may include one or more seals, is configured to continue to seal the bottle when the cap is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Group One Limited
    Inventors: Fredric Goldstein, Robert Murray Barto, Jr.
  • Core cowl airfoil for a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 8272204
    Abstract: An example core nacelle for a gas turbine engine includes a core cowl positioned adjacent an inner duct boundary of a fan bypass passage and having a pocket and an airfoil received within the pocket. The airfoil is moveable between a first position and a second position to adjust a discharge airflow cross-sectional area of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Edward F. Migliaro, Jr.
  • Spherical elastomeric bearing with improved shim thickness
    Patent number: 8275585
    Abstract: An elastomeric spherical bearing includes a multiple of shims, at least two of which have different thicknesses. In one exemplary embodiment, each of the shims has a different thickness with an essentially equivalent stress on each shim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Cunningham, Francis Edward Byrnes
  • Nickel braze alloy composition
    Patent number: 8273148
    Abstract: An alloy composition includes a blend of a first alloy and a second alloy, the first alloy having a first composition including about 17 wt %-25 wt % of chromium, about 6 wt %-12.5 wt % of aluminum, about 18 wt %-22 wt % of cobalt, up to 4 wt % of tantalum, up to about 8 wt % of tungsten, up to about 0.4 wt % of silicon, about 0.25 wt %-1 wt % of hafnium, about 0.1 wt %-1 wt % of yttrium, and a balance of nickel, and the second alloy having a second composition including about 21.25 wt %-22.75 wt % of chromium, about 5.7 wt %-6.3 wt % of aluminum, about 11.5 wt %-12.5 wt % of cobalt, about 5.7 wt %-6.3 wt % of silicon, boron in an amount no greater than 1.0 wt %, and a balance of nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Untied Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Minor
  • Torus geometry motor system
    Patent number: 8274184
    Abstract: A torus motor system includes a hollow stator and a rotor which is driven along a rotor path formed within the hollow stator by a magnet system. The rotor operates as a piston within the rotor path to intake and discharge fluid therefrom. The forces on the rotor all tend to center the rotor within the rotor path. The rotor is accelerated away from the inlet port on the magnet system and decelerated as the rotor approaches the discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sullair Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Caddell
  • Housing with integrated water line
    Patent number: 8272317
    Abstract: A beverage system includes a pump that draws a set amount of a flavored concentrate into a mixing chamber (28) for mixing with water to form a beverage. A pump head (46) includes a piston opening that receives a piston (48) and a water port that defines a water flow path. A housing (62) includes an integral water port (40). Water from a water source flows along a water line and into the integral water port (40) of the housing (62). The water flows through the water port (40) of the pump head (46) and into the mixing chamber (28) to form the beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Carrier Commercial Refrigeration, Inc.
    Inventors: James J. Minard, Mark E. Bush
  • Voice command remote control system
    Patent number: 8271287
    Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for controlling electronic devices from a remote location. The method and apparatus utilizes a remote control device which receives and transmits voice commands as electrical signals to at least one controlled device having a recognition processor which converts received electrical signals to pattern data and compares that pattern data with data stored in the processor. The invention may incorporate the use of a recorder for recording electrical signals in the remote or controlled device and may further include a teaching circuit for retrieving and reproducing voice commands as visual or audio prompts as needed. The invention may be adapted to control multiple controlled devices in coordination so that each coordinated device is made to perform the same or a different function in response to a single voice command is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Bahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani
  • Crowned end winding support for main wound field of a generator
    Patent number: 8269393
    Abstract: An end turn support for a generator includes a wire support. The wire support extends along an axis in a radial direction from an axis of rotation. The wire support defines an arcuate wire receipt surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Dhaval Patel, Alan D. Hanson, Glenn W. Hufstedler
  • Flight control system for rotary wing aircraft
    Patent number: 8271151
    Abstract: A flight control system and method includes a control loop control law to bias the collective stick toward a trim reference position with a motor and generate a force gradient with a clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Muhammad Emadul Hasan, Donald W. Fowler, Pengju Kang
  • Optically monitoring comb-line of escalators and moving walks
    Patent number: 8264538
    Abstract: Method for monitoring at least part of a comb-line (18) of a comb plate (14) having a plurality of teeth (16), of a people conveyor (2) having a movable transportation band (4) and the comb plate (14) located at the transition (20) between the movable transportation band (4) and the stationary comb plate (14), wherein the method includes (a) taking a picture of the comb-line (18) with a camera (12); (b) comparing the picture with a reference picture; (c) determining the safety state of the comb-line (18) based on such comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Herbert Horbruegger, Reinhard Henkel
  • Apparatus for moving tunnel part of boarding bridge
    Patent number: 8261394
    Abstract: An exemplary apparatus is for moving a tunnel part of a boarding bridge equipped with a tunnel (100) that consists of a first tunnel part (110), a second tunnel part (120), and a third tunnel part (130) in sequence from one side and can be moved so that the second tunnel part (120) and third tunnel part (130) are placed in contact and are connected to each other based on the first tunnel part (110). The apparatus includes a first rope (210) with one end coupled with the first tunnel part (110) and its other end coupled with the third tunnel part (130). A first pulley (220) that fixedly coupled to the second tunnel part (120) by hooking the first rope (210) at a position that is separated toward the other end side rather than both ends of the first rope (210) and is interlocked and moved in accordance with the moving displacement of the other end of the first rope (210).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventor: Ju Ryong Kim
  • Gas turbine engine with geared turbofan and oil thermal management system with unique heat exchanger structure
    Patent number: 8261527
    Abstract: An oil supply system for a gas turbine engine has a lubricant pump delivering lubricant to an outlet line. The outlet line is split into at least a hot line and into a cool line, with the hot line directed primarily to locations associated with an engine that are not intended to receive cooler lubricant, and the cool line directed through one or more heat exchangers at which lubricant is cooled. The cool line then is routed to a fan drive gear system of an associated gas turbine engine. A method and apparatus are disclosed. The heat exchangers include at least an air/oil cooler wherein air is pulled across the air/oil cooler to cool oil. The air/oil cooler is provided with an ejector tapping compressed air from a compressor section to increase airflow across the air/oil cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ethan K. Stearns, Jorn A. Glahn, Daniel J. McKaveney
  • Electric power generating system for multiple sources and interface to an AC grid
    Patent number: 8264100
    Abstract: An electric power generating system includes a plurality of variable power sources including at least one source of DC power and at least one source of AC power. Converters convert power supplied by the plurality of power sources to a common source of power to be communicated to a collector bus. A power grid supplies three-phase power to components requiring three-phase power downstream of the collector bus. Converters provide three phases of power to the power bus from the collector bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory I. Rozman, Steven J. Moss
  • Weightlifting system
    Patent number: 8257233
    Abstract: A weightlifting system includes a weight bar first frame member that extends along a longitudinal axis. The first frame member includes a front face, a first side face, a second side face and a multiple of opposed pairs of openings disposed along the longitudinal axis. Each of the multiple of opposed pairs of openings are generally L-shaped and include a first opening and a second opening. A weightlifting weight arm system includes a weight horn and a bracket assembly that is engageable with at least two opposed pairs of openings of the multiple of opposed pairs of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Rogers Athletic Company
    Inventors: Orley David Rogers, Kenneth Edward Staten
  • Geared turbomachine fluid delivery system
    Patent number: 8257024
    Abstract: An exemplary geared turbomachine fluid delivery system includes a first fluid path configured to communicate fluid from a supply to a gear system of a geared turbomachine, and a second fluid path configured to communicate fluid from the supply to the gear system. The fluid introduced to the gear system by the first fluid path is cooler than that the fluid introduced to the gear system by the second fluid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kathleen R. Phillips, Thomas G. Phillips, Ethan K. Stearns, Federico Papa