Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7970520
    Abstract: The lifting gear comprises two motors (1, 1?) that are connected to a transmission (6) via respective drive shafts (2, 2?), couplings (3, 3?), with fitted brake disks (4, 4?) or brake drums, brakes (14, 14?) and transmission input shafts (5, 5?). The transmission (6) drives cable drums (9, 9?) via transmission output shafts (7, 7?) and couplings (8, 8?). The cable drums have a cable pull (12, 12?) and fitted brake disks (10, 10?) or brake drums and safety brakes (11, 11?). The inventive lifting gear is characterized by comprising, in the drive shafts (2, 2?), devices (13, 13?) that completely or partially disconnect the motors (1, 1?) from the transmission (6) when an excess load exceeds the predetermined load. They are monitored on both sides of the devices (13, 13?) and the brakes (14, 14?) and/or safety brakes (11, 11?) are activated in the event of disconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: M.A.T. Malmedie Antriebstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Rahim Gross
  • Patent number: 7964069
    Abstract: A device for galvanic coating of a piston has a pot-shaped interior for accommodating the piston and an electrolyte fluid, a holder device for fixing the piston in place, a cover that is structured like a shutter and leaves only the surfaces of the piston that are to be coated uncovered, a first electrical contact that is connected with an anode and with the plus pole of a direct voltage source, and a second electrical contact that connects the piston with the minus pole of a direct voltage source. The piston can be simply and quickly attached to the holder device, since the holder device is in plate shape, and has an oblong centering device, the length of which corresponds to the radial inside diameter of the piston to be coated so that the piston can be pushed onto the centering device by way of its underside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Bergmann, Kurt Nikolei
  • Patent number: 7963411
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container (1), which is provided with a lock, can be filled with a liquid and is positively connectable with at least one another container (1). In order to form an assembly of several containers (1), the invention is characterized in that the containers (1) are provided with at least one flat surface, several containers can be assembled according to a two-dimensional interconnection, and a form fit is obtainable with at least one adjacent container, at least one first form (2, 5) projected with respect to the base form of the container (1), is engageable into at least one second corresponding form embedded in the base form of the container (1), and extends at least to one surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Inventor: Jürgen Nölle
  • Patent number: 7965925
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for transforming a liquid (8) into a gaseous state for a cutting process with a water-steam cutting device (1), consisting of a torch (6), an evaporator (25), an energy supply and a supply line (31) for a liquid (8), an appropriate temperature (27) being generated for evaporation of the liquid (8). To create a method of this type it is now provided that the temperature (27) is regulated during operation such that a sensor (28) senses the temperature (27) of the evaporator (25) and transmits it to a regulation unit which correspondingly supplies a heating element (24) with the energy necessary and by which a required pressure (34) of the liquid (8) supplied to the torch (6) is regulated so that an approximately constant temperature (27) of the evaporated liquid (8) is provided for a cutting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: FRONIUS International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Eder, Heribert Pauser, Florian Silbermayr, Alexander Speigner
  • Patent number: 7958713
    Abstract: A textile material with antenna components for an HF transponder is disclosed, which may be operated by connection of a circuit module to the antenna components, adjusted, or which may be adjusted to a working frequency. The antenna components comprise electrically-conducting components of the textile material itself, which may be formed as an E-field antenna, using the geometry thereof to match a working frequency in the UHF or microwave range, or by means of interruptions to, or extension of a conducting length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: ASTRA Gesellschaft für Asset Management mbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Anatoli Stobbe
  • Patent number: 7960651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an installation of a wiring device configured to receive a cover plate which snaps on to a wiring device such as a switch or receptacle. With this invention, openings for threaded fasteners in the face of the cover plate are eliminated. In an embodiment, the cover plate has an opening sized to accommodate a wiring device and supports, on opposing side walls of the opening, at least one protrusion. The protrusions on the cover plate are located to detachably engage corresponding protrusions on the wiring device as the cover plate is pressed onto the wiring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alderson, Michael D. Williams, Clifford G. Martin
  • Patent number: 7958773
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device for rapid testing of the quality of cereals, grits and flours by measuring the aggregation of gluten, whereby the sample to be tested in aqueous solution/suspension containing mineral salts and/or acids and/or liquors in a specific amount in a sample cup is stirred with an electrically driven stirring paddle and the resistance opposed to the paddle by the sample during the stirring process is measured, the torque loads acting on the rotatably mounted electric drive motor being measured from the beginning of the stirring process by means of extensometric gauges, the measurement being completed once the maximum rotating torque is reached and the measuring process being monitored, controlled and analyzed by software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Brabender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jens Dreisörner
  • Patent number: 7958797
    Abstract: Turning device (24) for turning the drive train (1) of a wind energy system or at least of partial sections of same, whereby the drive train (1) is mounted to rotate in a machine frame (2), whereby the drive train (1) comprises a flange (16), and the turning device (24) comprises a console (29a) that can be fixed in place on the machine frame (2). The task of the present invention is to indicate a turning device that can turn the drive train (1) at any desired point, without using the gear mechanism (4). This task is accomplished by means of an adapter disk (17) that can be affixed to the flange (16), which has a plurality of force application points (19) that are disposed along a circle (20), and having at least one linear setting element (28a), which is mounted in the console (29a), on the one side, so as to move in terms of angle, and which can be coupled with the adaptor disk (17), on the other side, by way of its force application points (19), so as to move in terms of angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Aust, Marc Neufelder
  • Patent number: 7955144
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug connector, in particular a banana plug, having a base body (2) and having a contact pin (3) which is arranged on the front face of the base body (2), with the base body (2) having a connecting cage (4) for holding a connecting cable and for making an electrically conductive connection to the contact pin (3). The invention is based on the object of providing a better plug connector. The plug connector is intended to have good characteristics for transmission of audio signals. A further aim is that it should be possible to produce the plug connector at low cost. In order to achieve this object, the invention proposes that the contact pin (3) comprise two or more contact segments (5) and be in the form of a metallic stamped and bent part, with at least one of the contact segments (5) being at least partially embedded in the base body (2), which is composed of plastic, and extending into the interior of the connecting cage (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Inventor: Wolfgang B. Thoerner
  • Patent number: 7954632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conveying belt which is made of elastomeric material and has a load-bearing side (2) for the conveying material and a running side and, in particular, has a reinforcing support embedded within the conveying-belt core, wherein the conveying belt has at least one exchangeable part, wherein the invention provides for the exchangeable part to be a segment (6) which has a small surface area in relation to the load-bearing side (2) and/or running side as a whole and comprises a component support (7) and information carrier (8), the component support and information carrier forming a dedicated unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Phoenix Conveyor Belt Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Adolfo Kropf-Eilers
  • Patent number: 7955096
    Abstract: A wiring system includes a wiring module and a functional module. The wiring module in at least one embodiment includes elongated holes or openings which are configured to engage or lock with prongs on a functional module to create a lockable connection. The wiring module and the functional module form both a physical and an electrical connection. In another embodiment, the wiring module has at least three elongated openings or holes, and wherein one of the openings or holes is for receiving a ground prong, while the other openings or holes are for receiving prongs which conduct electricity or communicate information. In another embodiment there is a wiring module that has four elongated openings or holes with all four of these connections associated with the four elongated openings or holes configured to conduct electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo Arenas, Paul Endres, John Eder, Sunil Ganta
  • Patent number: 7954601
    Abstract: A lubricant dispenser includes a lubricant container that has an outlet opening for lubricant, a piston disposed in the lubricant container, and a cap connected with the lubricant container, having a device for generating a gas that impacts the piston. The device for gas generation has a gas cell with an electrolyte fluid and electrodes for electrochemical gas generation, a power source, as well as an electrical connection between the power source and the electrodes with a switch. The cap is a plastic injection-molded part produced in one piece, formed from several parts, using the multi-component injection-molding method, which part is made of an outer ring made of insulation material and an insert that forms the gas cell, having two electrically conductive wall regions as electrodes, as well as having an intermediate piece that separates the conductive regions. The insert contains a sponge saturated with electrolyte fluid, and is closed off with a plastic lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: perma-tec GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Graf
  • Patent number: 7957435
    Abstract: A device for generating light pulses that are separated in terms of time has a light source that emits a sequence of light pulses. A regulation signal is formed within a regulation circuit from a cycle signal and the light pulse sequence of the light sources via a phase detector. The regulation circuit includes a regulator that generates a setting signal that influences the repeat frequency of the light pulse sequence of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: TOPTICA Photonics AG
    Inventors: Christian Rausch, Florian Tauser
  • Patent number: 7950873
    Abstract: A set of concrete pavers is formed by a plurality of pavers being arranged in a paver row, and a plurality of paver rows being arranged to form a row. A number of parallel, adjacent rows form linear or meandering joints in the end-paver region of the rows when the rows are laid together. At least one section of the upper delimiting surface of the pavers is convexly cambered towards the outside, and projections on the side faces of the pavers form support elements for the adjacent pavers. The support elements, in combination with projections on adjacent pavers, create spaces that act as water-drainage openings in the joint regions. The pavers in each set include not only paving blocks with a length-to-height ratio of less than or equal to 4 but also at least one paving slab with a length-to-height ratio greater than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Inventor: Peter Geiger
  • Patent number: 7950204
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for separating foil layers in a foil processing line, the foil layers being caused to move relative to each other, and to a method and an apparatus for further processing the separated foils for manufacturing a product in which an insert is interposed between two foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: KIEFEL GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dandl, Dieter Kamml, Marco Hobelsberger, Heinz Hinterseer, Martin Klein
  • Patent number: 7953470
    Abstract: The invention relates to one or several navigation aids whose position can be used to maintain the recorded state of at least one partial structure of a non-bone structure. The navigation aid(s) is/are inserted into the non-bone structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
    Inventors: Marcus Vetter, Peter Hassenpflug, Gerald Glombitza, Ivo Wolf, Hans-Peter Meinzer
  • Patent number: 7950625
    Abstract: A shut-off instrument for a flow medium, in particular a slide valve instrument designed for pressurization on both sides with an instrument housing forming a flow channel and a slide valve chamber and with a soft-sealing shut-off element closing off the flow channel and with a slide valve stem which penetrates a seal arrangement and/or bearing arrangement in a housing neck extension delimiting the slide valve chamber and which is rotationally connected to a stem nut coupled to the shut-off element by a screw contact. The shut-off element is designed to include more than one part and at least one external dimension of the main body is slightly smaller than a nominal width of the flow channel and seal elements are arranged on opposite support surfaces of the main body via an engaged connection projecting over the external dimension with a peripheral edge collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: E. Hawle Armaturenwerke GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Johann Pohn, Rupert Schlagnitweit, Christian Berger, Gerhard Führer
  • Patent number: 7946608
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ski (2) or a snowboard in the form of a board-type gliding device (1), comprising a multi-layered gliding board body. A force-transmitting element (13) is supported on the top face (7) of the gliding board body, the top face of which is provided as a means of supporting a binding mechanism (3) for a connection to a sports shoe which can be released as and when necessary. The force-transmitting element (13) is of a plate-type design and extends across more than 50% of the length of the gliding board body. Within its longitudinal extension, the plate-type force-transmitting element (14) is supported in at least part-portions on the top face (7) of the gliding board body so as to transmit load and is connected to the gliding board body by means of a plurality of connecting zones (30) disposed in the longitudinal direction of the plate-type force-transmitting element (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Riepler, Rupert Huber, Helmut Holzer
  • Patent number: D639148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Metalúrgica Schioppa LTDA.
    Inventor: Roberto Nicola Schioppa
  • Patent number: D639149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Metalúrgica Schioppa LTDA.
    Inventor: Roberto Nicola Schioppa