Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Vehicle dynamics production system and method
    Patent number: 6853889
    Abstract: A vehicle dynamics prediction system for providing prediction of vehicle velocity for a predetermined future time period. The predictions utilize future vehicle control setting anticipated for the time period. An artificial intelligence database coupled to a processor that utilizes weighted values for neural network models representing dynamic performance of the vehicle forms part of the vehicle dynamics prediction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignees: Central Queensland University, Queensland Rail
    Inventor: Colin Robert Cole
  • Device for processing the finish of work pieces
    Patent number: 6852005
    Abstract: A device for processing the finish of work pieces. The device has a feed unit with a slide and an NC-controlled drive, a motorized spindle unit with a motor-driven tool spindle, and a force measurement device. The force measurement device is for measuring the contact pressure that is brought to bear upon the tool spindle in the course of processing a work piece. According to the invention, the motorized spindle unit is seated on the slide with resilient elements that accept the weight of the motorized spindle unit and are movable only in the direction of processing. The slide is supported on leaf springs, which are oriented perpendicular to the direction of advance of the slide. The force measurement device is arranged on the motorized spindle unit and on the slide between the connective elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Ernst Thielenhaus GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Harald Goldau, Peter Brust
  • Non-contact position sensor having helicoidal conductor forming a measuring surface covering a measuring object
    Patent number: 6853183
    Abstract: A device for contactless measurement of a displacement path, especially for the detection of position and movement, includes a sensor electronics system for the provision of an alternating current and the evaluation of alterations therein, in addition to an inductive sensor including at least one flat coil. Each coil is configured with a helicoidal conductor disposed on a plane and one of the two flat surfaces thereof forms a measuring surface which variously covers a measuring object, arranged at a distance, according to the movement thereof parallel to the measuring surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Inventor: Ulrich Kindler
  • Berth system, especially for means of transportation
    Patent number: 6851134
    Abstract: A berth arrangement, especially for means of transport, is described, comprising a plurality of single berths (1) which are arranged in rows in a successive, superimposed and mutually offset fashion and receive at least one reclining seat (6), and which berths form a sitting room (2) and a foot room (3) starting out from the sitting room (2), with the height of the foot room being smaller than the sitting room height. In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is provided that the respective ceilings (5) and floors (4) of the sitting rooms (2) correspond to the negative shapes of the floors (10) and ceilings (9) of the foot space (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Inventor: Walter Freller
  • Scanning using position transmission for triggering the recording of measured values
    Patent number: 6853459
    Abstract: The start of the displacement movement is initiated by a software instruction when measuring surface topologies with microscopic resolution. Trigger pulses which serve to trigger the recording of measured values on the sensor are generated in discrete local intervals by a position transmitter. The measured values obtained are stored and then asynchronously transmitted to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: NanoFocus AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Valentin, Marcus Grigat, Hans-Hermann Schreier
  • Method and device for inputting data into an electronic data processing device
    Patent number: 6853931
    Abstract: A process is for data input into an electronic data processing means that has an input and an output, and wherein a program runs in a loop that cyclically queries whether an input voltage whose magnitude is greater or small than a specified threshold value is present at the input. One pole of a voltage source is applied via a series connection made up of a first, a second and a third resistance to the other pole, whereby the voltage dropping at the third resistance forms the input voltage. The first resistance and the second resistance can be regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Kuka, Georg Pfaff
  • Method for producing tubular containers
    Patent number: 6852267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing tubular containers with an open filling opening and with an end that is provided with a seal. The inventive method comprises the following steps: separately producing a preform with a neck with definitive dimensions and a tubular body with smaller dimensions than the definitive form, the tubular body containing the open filling opening; fixing the preform that is produced to a drawing head by its neck and subjecting it to at least one partial heating process; introducing the heated preform that is attached to the drawing head into the inside of a multi-part closed blow mold in such a way that the open filling opening is air-tightly held at the lower end of the blow mold; fitting a blow nozzle to the filling opening of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Aisa Automation Industrielle SA
    Inventor: Gerhard Keller
  • Manual trash compactor
    Patent number: 6851357
    Abstract: A manual trash compactor comprising a can for holding the trash, a lever arm, at least one coupling arm coupling the lever arm to the can, and a plunging arm connected to the lever arm. There is also a compression plate connected to the plunging arm wherein this compression plate is designed to compress garbage inside the can. Disposed on top of the can is a collar and a cover coupled to the collar. The cover is coupled to the collar via a rotatable hinge. In a first embodiment of the invention, the can is disposed in a slidable tray so that the can, is able to be stored in a closed compartment. In addition, disposed adjacent to the can in the tray is a bin for storing other materials such as recyclable bottles. Coupled to either the can or the tray is a support means for supporting the can above a surface such as a kitchen floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Inventors: Rudolph Martorella, R Christopher Kidd
  • Method for regulating and/or controlling a welding current source with a resonance circuit
    Patent number: 6849828
    Abstract: The invention describes a method of controlling a welding current source (2) having a resonant circuit (27), whereby a bridge circuit (28) is controlled by a control system (4). A consumer, in particular a welding process, is supplied with energy via the bridge circuit (28) from a power source (29). In order to control the individual switching elements (32-35) of the bridge circuit (28), fixed pre-set control states S1 to S6 are stored and, during normal operation, the bridge circuit (28) is controlled on the basis of the control states S1 to S4 one after the other. If a change in resistance occurs at the consumer, the control system (4) switches to a special operating mode at the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit (27) and the bridge circuit (28) is controlled on the basis of the stored control states in order to run the special operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Aigner
  • Ballast excavating chain
    Patent number: 6848514
    Abstract: An arrangement of an excavating chain for conveying ballast of a track bed comprises a guide comprising a transverse guide section articulately connected to longitudinal guide sections defining a guide channel having an end glide track along which the excavating chain is guided. The longitudinal guide sections are connected to the ends of the transverse guide section joints arranged below the second plane extending centrally through the end glide track and the excavating chain is deflected solely from the transverse to the longitudinal guide sections by frictional contact with the end glide track adjacent the joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Josef Theurer, Adolf Schauer
  • Sound transmission device for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 6848410
    Abstract: A device for the targeted sound transmission from an intake tract of an internal combustion engine to the interior of a motor vehicle. The device comprises at least one hollow transmission conduit, which communicates on the input side with the intake tract and to which at least one resonator chamber, which emits the sound to the motor vehicle interior, is connected. In order to achieve improved modulation of the sound that is emmitted to the motor vehicle interior, the inventive device has several resonator chambers operating in parallel, at least two of which differ from one another with respect to the tuning of their frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignees: Mahle Filtersysteme GmbH, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Hoffmann, Kay Brodesser, Udo Lindner
  • Process for synthesis of 1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexane acetic acid hydrochloride
    Patent number: 6846950
    Abstract: A process for synthesis of 1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexane acetic acid hydrochloride (Gabapentin hydrochloride) comprising: a) Reaction of a mixture of acetic anhydride/ammonium acetate with 1,1-cyclohexane-diacetic acid to yield 3,3-pentamethylene glutarimide; b) Treatment of 3,3-pentamethylene glutarimide with sodium hydroxide in an aqueous solution up to dissolution, dripping the solution thus obtained into a sodium hydroxide/sodium hypochlorite mixture, which is also aqueous, followed by acidification with hydrochloric acid to yield gabapentine hydrochloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Erregierre S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Ferrari, Marcello Ghezzi, Paolo Belotti
  • Automated slide loader cassette for microscope
    Patent number: 6847481
    Abstract: The slide handler is an instrument that automatically transfers glass microscope slides from a cassette or magazine to a motorized microscope stage and then returns the slide back into the second cassette. The use of this instrument permits the unattended computer control, measurement and inspection of specimens mounted to the slides. Full modular integration of the system components allows for the slide handler instrument to be utilized with any microscope. The instrument system has a minimum of three components; namely a slide cassette indexer, an XY-stage, and a slide exchange arm. The indexer, the arm and the XY-stage are connected together and integrated into one unitary modular instrument that can be moved from one microscope to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Ludl Electronics Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Helmut Ludl, David Sutton Denu
  • Flexible connection between sports device and shoe
    Patent number: 6843497
    Abstract: The invention describes a pivotable binding system (1) for mounting between a sports device (2) and a tread surface (5) for a user's foot, in which the tread surface (5) is pivotable about an axis extending more or less parallel with the ankle joint of the foot and is displaceable, at least in a part region assigned to the toes, to a position closer to the sports device (2), and can be joined to the sports device by at least one binding element (11). The binding element (11) is flexible and is resiliently deformable in a vertical plane (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Riepler
  • Connector which is resistant against mechanical shock upon connection
    Patent number: 6843671
    Abstract: In a connector adapted to be connected to and disconnected from a connection object, a fixing member is provided for fixing an insulator holding a contact to a fixation object. The fixing member has a butting portion to be brought into contact with a connection object when the connection object is connected to the connector. The fixing member may be a hold-down or an anchor pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kimura, Masafumi Kodera, Takehiko Tsuruyama
  • Nursing Pillow
    Patent number: 6842925
    Abstract: A support pillow for supporting an infant during nursing, comprises a generally U-shaped base having two free ends, a top surface and a bottom surface, and two infant securing straps attached to the base. The straps are adapted to be wrapped over an infant resting on the top surface of the base and be removably connected to each other to secure the infant on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Inventors: Marilou Owens, Jill Shaneman
  • Connector in which contact force can be maintained during a long period
    Patent number: 6843665
    Abstract: In a connector (10) for connecting a connection object (30), a conductive contact (11) is held by an insulator (12) and is for electrically connecting the connection object. In addition, a conductive plate (14) is held by the insulator. The conductive plate has a spring piece (16) facing the conductive contact. The spring piece has plural finger pieces and is for elastically contacting with the connection object. The finger pieces are arranged to have a slit left between adjacent ones of the finger pieces. The insulator has a beam portion (19) placed in the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuko Motojima, Hiroshi Akimoto, Kazuhito Hisamatsu, Masaaki Takaku
  • Device for a laser-hybrid welding process
    Patent number: 6844521
    Abstract: The invention describes an apparatus, in particular a laser hybrid welding head (1) for a laser hybrid welding process, in which a laser (4) or laser optics or an optical focussing unit and elements of a welding torch (5) for an arc welding process and/or a feed device for a welding wire as well as a device for generating a cross jet (8) connected by at least an incoming line (9) and an outgoing line (10) to a compressed air supply system, are mounted on at least one mounting element (2). The incoming line (9) and the outgoing line (10) carrying compressed air for the cross jet (8) are disposed between the two components, in particular the laser (4) and laser optics or the optical focussing unit and the elements of the welding torch (5) or feed device for the welding wire (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Staufer, Manfred Rührnössl, Gerhard Miesbacher, Manfred Hubinger, Wolfgang Haberler, Ewald Berger
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: D501448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ishikawa
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: D501651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Kikuchi, Masaaki Takaku, Takahiro Yamaji