Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Device for mounting rotors, in particular articulated shafts, in a balancing machine
    Patent number: 7946172
    Abstract: A device for mounting rotors, in particular articulated shafts, in a balancing machine has a bearing frame and a frame upper part, which is mounted on the bearing frame so as to be able to oscillate via spring bars and includes a spindle for rotatable mounting of a rotor. The frame upper part is mounted on the bearing frame via groups of spring bars, the groups being arranged at a distance from the axis of rotation of the spindle and at a distance from one another, and the longitudinal axes of the spring bars forming the spring bar groups being oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the spindle. The spring bars forming the spring bar groups have an elongated, slender shape such that their rigidity in an axial direction is at least 100 times, in particular at least 300 times, greater than their radial flexural rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rogalla, Dieter Thelen
  • Sports shoe, in particular a ski shoe, with clamping means therefor
    Patent number: 7946061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sport shoe (1) with an outer shell (2) made from injection molded plastic, comprising a front foot shell (4) and a shoe cuff (5) adjoining it. At least partially accommodated in the shell (2) is a relatively soft elastic inner shoe (3). In particular, a ski shoe with at least one strap-shaped clamping means (12) disposed at least in a top end portion of the shoe cuff (5) and extending round the top end portion of the shoe cuff (5) is proposed. This strap-shaped clamping means (12) is of a non-stretch design within its entire longitudinal extension and the strap-shaped clamping means (12) is supported on at least one elastically flexible element (15) in the usage or active state, which is disposed between the shoe cuff (5) and the strap-shaped clamping means (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Holzer, Gerhard Trinkaus, Jason Roe
  • Two-part piston for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7946216
    Abstract: The invention relates to a two-piece piston (1) for an internal combustion engine, comprising a piston upper piece (2) and a piston lower piece (2). A cylindrical molding (24) is arranged on the underside of the piston upper piece (2), facing away from the piston crown, lying coaxial to the piston axis (15), with two radial outward-facing hooked projections (27) on the end thereof facing away from the piston crown. The piston lower piece (6) has an opening (16) on the piston crown side, in which the cylindrical molding (24) with the projections (27) is introduced and rotated on assembly of the piston upper piece (2) on the piston lower piece (6), such that the projections (27) engage behind the edge of the opening (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Scharp, Bernd Mahr
  • Spring hinge between a bow cheek and a bow of a pair of spectacles
    Patent number: 7946704
    Abstract: A spring hinge between a bow cheek and a bow of a pair of spectacles is described, having two hinge parts (3, 4), which are each associated with one of these spectacle parts (1, 2), one of which forms a bearing fork (6) having a hinge axis (5) for receiving the other hinge part (4), which is guided so it is displaceable in a housing (9) with the aid of a U-shaped sliding part (7), and having a coiled spring (12) situated between the two legs (11) of the sliding part (7), which is supported on one side on a web (13) of the sliding part (7) connecting the two legs (11) and on the other side on a buttress (14), which engages through a through opening (16) of the associated hinge part (4), which runs coaxially to the coiled spring (12), in a nut thread (15) of the housing (9) which is coaxial to the coiled spring (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Redtenbacher Präzisionsteile Ges.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Harald Buchegger
  • Two-part piston for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7946268
    Abstract: A two-piece piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper piece and a lower piece, the lower piece having an upper base part with an opening lying coaxial to the piston axis into which a pin on the upper piece is inserted. The upper piece is connected to the lower piece with a hexagonal nut screwed onto the pin. A resilient sleeve is arranged between the upper piece and the lower piece comprising an inwardly directed collar on the against which the upper face of the hexagonal nut lies and in the region facing away from the piston crown, a contact surface facing the piston crown lying on a surface on the inner side of the opening. An economically produced two-piece piston results with a resilient sleeve between both screwed piston pieces which exerts a pre-tensioning and thus provides security for the screw connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Messmer
  • Ski or snowboard with means for influencing its cross-sectional shape
    Patent number: 7942436
    Abstract: The invention describes a ski (2) or a snowboard in the form of a board-type gliding device (1). By reference to the width (13) of the gliding device (1), at least one recess (14) is provided in its middle portion extending in its depth direction—arrow (15)—from the top face (7) of the gliding device (1) in the direction towards the running surface facing (10) and disposed in its longitudinal direction essentially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the gliding device (1) with a view to causing a cross-sectional weakening. At least one manually adjustable adjusting means (20) is provided, which is designed to produce an individually adjustable change in the load-dependent deformability of the cross-sectional shape or to produce an individually adjustable limit to the maximum permissible load-dependent cross-sectional deformation of the gliding device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Holzer, Bernhard Riepler
  • High-resolution synthetic aperture side view radar system used by means of digital beamforming
    Patent number: 7944390
    Abstract: The transmission antenna (10) of the high-resolution synthetic aperture side view radar system comprises a plurality of sub-apertures (7, 8, 9). In each individual transmission pulse, said sub-apertures are controlled in such a manner that a spatiotemporally non-separable multi-dimensional high-frequency waveform is produced as an transmission signal pulse form, such that the modulation of each transmission pulse has a spatiotemporal diversity which is not described by the product having functions which are independent from each other and which are dependent on, respectively, only one spatial dimension. The thus produced transmission pulse form is combined to a capture-sided spatial filtering by means of digital beamforming adapted to said transmission signal pulse form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Krieger, Nicolas Gebert, Alberto Moreira
  • Local heterostructure contacts
    Patent number: 7943416
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel method for creating local contacts in solar cells. In the method, a surface passivation that has been applied to a semiconductor substrate is locally etched away using a plasma process with the help of a thin stretched, elastic foil. If necessary, deep doping gradients are then locally created at the same points by means of a hydrogen plasma treatment with the help of thermal donors so as to increase the diffusion length of the charge carriers in the direction of the contacts. Finally, local heterostructure contacts are applied through the same mask openings. The contacts are characterized by a much lower saturation current than common diffused contacts and are therefore particularly suitable for high-performance solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Q-Cells SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Scherff, Wolfgang Rainer Fahrner
  • Hobble turning method and preferred applications for said method
    Patent number: 7942086
    Abstract: A process for hobble lathing, and preferred process applications, for the cutting of workpieces with non-circular or discontinuous contours on programmable lathes. The use and combination of a special program e.g. of thread cycles and hobble values for the diameter and/or the longitudinal axis or the pitch, the angle of the spindle, in option of a reciprocal-step technique and interleaved machining sequences opens up virtually infinite possibilities. The preferred applications of the process allow special threads to be cut on screw-in bodies, e.g. screw-in artificial hip joint sockets and bone screws for example with neutral or virtually any angle of pitch or relief of the thread blade as well as e.g. internal and external contours on workpieces for circular wedge connections. A particularly beneficial hip joint socket is presented comprising so-called screw or threaded surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Inventor: Gerd Hörmansdörfer
  • Apparatus for burning organic substances
    Patent number: 7942666
    Abstract: An apparatus is described for burning organic substances, comprising a horizontal combustion chamber (2) provided in a housing (1) and heat-insulated against said housing (1), and a counter-flow heat exchanger (8) which preheats the combustion air with the help of the hot exhaust gases from the combustion chamber (2) and which forms a flow duct (10) for the combustion air between the combustion chamber (2) and a heat-exchanger wall (9) enclosing the combustion chamber (2), as well as a flow duct (11) for the hot exhaust gases on the side of the heat-exchanger wall (9) averted from the combustion chamber (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Inventor: Walter Freller
  • Drawing machine and method for drawing an elongated workpiece
    Patent number: 7937980
    Abstract: A method for the drawing of a longitudinal workpiece wherein drawing forces required for the drawing are applied by means of at least a sprocket chain comprising link plates wherein the drawing forces are introduced from the workpiece via the link plates into the sprocket chain as a result of which the latter can be constructed lighter and apply greater drawing forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: SMS Schumag GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Hessberger, Thomas Cmiel, Heiner Kudrus
  • Spring hinge between a bow and a bow cheek of a pair of spectacles
    Patent number: 7938534
    Abstract: A spring hinge between a bow cheek and a bow of a pair of spectacles is described, having two hinge parts (3, 4), each associated with one of these spectacle parts (1, 2), one of which forms a bearing fork (6) having a hinge axis (5) for receiving the other hinge part (3), which is guided so it is displaceable with the aid of a sliding part (7) in a housing (9), and having a coiled spring (13) situated between two legs (12) of the sliding part (7), which is supported on one side on a web (14) of the sliding part (7) connecting the two legs (12) and on the other side on a housing-fixed buttress. In order to achieve simple installation conditions, it is proposed that the housing (9) has a closure part, which forms a receptacle opening (8) of the associated spectacle part (1) for the sliding part (7), and which forms the buttress for the coiled spring (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Redtenbacher Präzisionsteile Ges. m.b.H.
    Inventor: Martin Sprickler
  • Auxiliary frame, particularly for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 7938414
    Abstract: The invention relates to an auxiliary frame (1) for multi-link rear axles of motor vehicles, comprising two lateral auxiliary frame parts (B) which are embodied at least approximately in a V-shaped manner in such an arrangement that the vertexes (6, 7) thereof face each other and are joined to each other via a central auxiliary frame part (C) that extends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The lateral auxiliary frame parts and the central auxiliary frame part are configured as hollow profiled members while the lateral auxiliary frame parts are provided with at least three of the following receptacles or recesses: the top transverse link; the bottom transverse link; the stabilizer; the longitudinal links; the fixture of the auxiliary frame to the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: KSM Castings GmbH, IAMT Ingenieurgesellschaft für Allgemeine Maschinentechnik mbH
    Inventors: Thomas Buschjohann, Heiko Kauert
  • Liquid-cooled composite piston
    Patent number: 7934482
    Abstract: The invention proposes a liquid-cooled assembled piston (1) having an upper part (2) and a lower part (3), wherein the upper part (2) and the lower part (3) are connected to one another by means of a radially outer annular support (12) and by means of a radially inner annular support (11). An outer cooling duct (13) is arranged between the outer support (12) and the inner support (11), and an inner cooling duct (18) is arranged radially within the inner support (11). Here, the outer cooling duct (13) is connected to the inner cooling duct (18) by means of at least one overflow duct (22, 22?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Messmer
  • Sub-caliber projectile
    Patent number: 7934455
    Abstract: A sub-caliber projectile is described for insertion into a projectile receptacle (8) having a projectile head (1) and a tail unit (2) forming guide vanes (4), which engages in a cavity of the projectile head (1). To provide advantageous construction conditions, it is suggested that the guide vanes (4) of the tail unit (2) extend up into the hollow projectile head (1) and the projectile head (1) be folded clamped into the groin area between the guide vanes (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Inventor: Udo Winter
  • System and process for switching between cell phone and landline services
    Patent number: 7937069
    Abstract: A system and a method for determining which type of telephone communication service to use. The system can include at least one base station, and at least one telephone communication system in communication with the base station. There can also be at least one computer which is in communication with at least one of the base station or the telephone communication system. There can also be at least one database system in communication with the computer. The database system can be for storing data for assisting the computer in selecting a particular telecommunication service to place a telephone call based upon a user's preferences. The database system can include a matrix which sets the price of the telephone call vs. the signal or reception quality of the call so that the computer or system will select the most desired calling plan based upon a user's criteria or preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Inventor: Frederic Rassam
  • Gaming apparatus and gaming apparatus control method
    Patent number: 7934988
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus which is equipped with a basic game and bonus games and is improved in entertainment value by means of adoption of new type of game development. The gaming apparatus has a display having a plurality of display areas on which areas are symbols are to be displayed, and a controller. Under specific requirements irrelevant to a result of another bonus game, there is performed a corresponding bonus game matching the requirements. Further, when at least one of a plurality of bonus games (i.e. a second bonus game) is executed when the specific requirements have been satisfied or when a specific result has been accomplished through another bonus game (i.e. a first bonus game).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Aruze Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Suzuki
  • Pliers
    Patent number: D637054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG
    Inventors: Jan Schleiminger, Bernd Hermann
  • Caster
    Patent number: D637069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: TENTE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Winfried Venne
  • Welding torch
    Patent number: D638270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Flattinger, Julia Huemer, Stefan Kammerer, Andreas Maderboeck, Friedrich Oberzaucher, Guenther Sklarski, Peter Oberroither, Manfred Stadler