Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7843399
    Abstract: The invention relates to a textile material that comprises an HF transponder. The HF transponder comprises a circuit module and an antenna linked therewith and set to a working frequency. The antenna is configured as an E field radiator for a working frequency in the UHF or microwave range. The E field radiator is completely constituted of electrically conducting components of the textile material itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: ASTRA Gesellschaft für Asset Management mbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Anatoli Stobbe
  • Patent number: 7837974
    Abstract: By means of a method and a system for heating and partial oxidation of not separately pre-heated, pre-reformed steam/natural gas mixture for an NH3 synthesis gas, whereby energy is supplied to the gas stream (raw synthesis gas), in the direction of flow, after a primary reformer, a solution is to be created, with which soot formation is to be prevented as much as possible, whereby the possibility of the addition of variable amounts, for example of N2 and O2 or mixtures thereof, is also supposed to be possible. This is achieved, according to the method, in that the energy is supplied directly after the primary reformer, by way of at least one pore burner positioned in the gas discharge line of the primary reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: UHDE GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Hederer, Joachim Johanning, Evgeni Gorval
  • Patent number: 7837236
    Abstract: A pipe connection has a aped pipe, a screw fitting body having an internal cone, a union nut, screwable onto the screw fitting body, having an internal clamping face, which, in the operating state of the pipe connection, works together with an outwardly projecting retention face of a retention bulge of the pipe which is produced facing away from the pipe end by reshaping and projects radially outward beyond the outer mantle surface of the pipe, and having an adapter ring which is supported on the side facing toward the screw fitting body by a conical clamping face in the internal cone of the screw fitting body. To provide an alternative pipe connection of this type, the adapter ring may be supported in the operating state on the side facing toward the pipe by a radially running contact face on the radially running front face of the pipe end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Eifeler Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Kloss, Alfons Schorn-Gilson
  • Patent number: 7833599
    Abstract: Process for the production of a multilayer composite material with a plastic layer that has release properties with respect to adhesives, where the materials producing the release properties are located within the plastic layer, where a first web is provided in production of the composite materia on the one side of which a layer of adhesive is located, after which the plastic layer with the release properties follows, which is in turn bonded to a second web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: 4P Folie Forchheim Zweigniederlassung der Huhtamaki Van Leer Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Gunter
  • Patent number: 7833054
    Abstract: An insulative housing 21 holding a conductive contact 11 is provided with a receiving portion 26 for receiving an electric wire 51. The contact is provided with a connecting portion 13 disposed in the receiving portion. When the electric wire is received in the receiving portion, the electric wire is electrically connected to the connecting portion of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Masakazu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7832458
    Abstract: A method for producing a casting mold from a composite mold material for foundry purposes that is composed of different kinds of mold materials that are heat-resistant for the casting of metals and that differ in substantive composition or have different contents of organic or inorganic binders. A solid mold body is prepared from a foundry mold material A that is completely or partially encased during its preparation with a free-flowing chemically bonded foundry mold material B. A composite mold material block is formed after the hardening of the foundry mold material B, which is then machined by a cutting method such as milling, boring, turning, or grinding. The mold cavity is introduced into the mold body consisting of the foundry mold material A, and the inflow system and the feed system are introduced into the mold material block consisting of the foundry mold material B, using CAD data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: ACTech GmbH
    Inventors: Rezo Aliyev, Detlev Gantner
  • Patent number: 7833636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston ring for an internal combustion engine, the piston ring comprises a sulphide rich compound layer forming a surface layer, said sulphide rich compound layer comprising an iron nitride matrix with iron sulphide (FeS) inclusions embedded in said matrix, said sulphide rich compound layer having a sulphur content of 1 to 4 wt % S and a nitrogen content of 10 to 20 wt % N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, MAHLE Metal Leve, S.A.
    Inventors: Juliano Avelar Araujo, Gisela Ablas Marques, Jose Valentim Lima Sarabanda
  • Patent number: 7829201
    Abstract: A plain bearing is described having a bearing metal layer, supported by a support shell, made of an aluminum or copper alloy and having a lead-free running layer, possibly applied to the bearing metal layer over an intermediate layer, made of a zinc matrix having at least one further alloy element. To achieve good tribological properties, it is suggested that the zinc matrix of the running layer contains 1 to 49 wt.-% bismuth as an additional alloy element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignees: Miba Gleitlager GmbH, KS Gleitlager GmbH
    Inventors: Jakob Zidar, Werner Schubert, Megjit Seremeti
  • Patent number: 7828937
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scraper blade holding device comprising a mounting unit into which a scraper blade is normally inserted. According to the present invention a scraper blade carrier, which has in its region projecting out of the mounting unit fastening means for a scraper blade, is inserted into the mounting unit. This has the advantages that scraper blades with reduced dimensions can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Joh. Clouth GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Helmut Strauch
  • Patent number: 7828921
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating a cover profile and at least one compensation profile of a cover device, which can be connected to a cover flange of the cover profile and which is used for floor covering provided with a cover layer. The cover layer is stuck to a preprofile prior to the cover profile being produced from the preprofile which is coated by the cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Inventor: Martin Neuhofer
  • Patent number: 7824550
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel filter through which the fuel is to flow, in which water-separating, permeable layers are arranged spaced apart from one another in the direction of flow upstream of the filter layer, each time during operation of the filter the free space that lies between the two layers is connected to a first water collecting space, lying on the bottom of the filter, the first water collecting space lies below both the filter layer and the two permeable layers, is intended to permit a high degree of water separation. For this purpose, such a fuel filter is distinguished by the fact that the filter tube space lying upstream of the layer that is flowed through first of the two layers is connected to a second water collecting space within the filter, the assignment of which to the filter layer on the one hand and to the two permeable layers on the other hand coincides with that of the first water collecting space with respect to these components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Ricardo Simoes de Abreu, Dietmar Gernand
  • Patent number: 7826183
    Abstract: Resettable circuit interrupting devices, such as GFCI devices, that include reverse wiring protection, and optionally an independent trip portions and/or a reset lockout portion are provided. The reverse wiring protection operates at both the line and load sides of the device so that in the event line side wiring to the device is improperly connected to the load side, fault protection for the device remains. The trip portion operates independently of a circuit interrupting portion used to break the electrical continuity in one or more conductive paths in the device. The reset lockout portion prevents the reestablishing of electrical continuity in open conductive paths if the circuit interrupting portion is non-operational, if an open neutral condition exists or if the device is reverse wired. Methods for ensuring a reset lock out state before shipment are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Campolo, Nicholas L. Disalvo, William R. Ziegler
  • Patent number: 7824135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drill (4) and a device or a method for drilling boreholes in workpieces (3), in which a periodically acting radial force (19) is exerted on the drill head (5) of the drill (4). The drill head (5) of the drill (4) has a cutting edge (52) extending only over a part of the diameter D (51) and is designed to have a lateral, V-shaped chip removing groove or bead (59) and with a channel (12) with an outlet opening (56) in the drill head (5) for supplying a drill fluid (9). On a drill side (61) of the drill head (5) opposite the bead (59) between a first and a second cylinder casing partial surface (64, 65) of the drill head (5) a rear offset (63) is formed which reduces the cross section of the drill head (5) in relation to an enclosing cylinder casing surface (61) of the drill head (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Radkowitsch, Klaus Metzner, Friedrich Bleicher
  • Patent number: 7824199
    Abstract: A connector is matable with a mating connector which has an engaged portion. The connector comprises a support portion and a lock member pivotally supported by the support portion. The lock member comprises a body portion, a lock portion, a spring portion and an operated portion. The body portion comprises a first predetermined portion which has a plate-like shape and is pivotally supported by the support portion. The lock portion is movable between a lock position and a release position in response to a pivotal movement of the body portion. The lock portion comprises an engaging portion engagable with the engaged portion. The engagement of the engaging portion with the engaged portion is locked when the lock portion is positioned at the lock position, while the engagement is released when the lock portion is positioned at the release position. The spring portion urges the lock portion to move toward the lock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Kikuchi, Kazushi Kamata
  • Patent number: 7825686
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reconfigurable magnetic logic-circuit array having at least two magnetoresistive elements, each composed of at least two magnetic layers, which are separated from one another by an intermediate layer, in each instance, whereby one of the magnetic layers, as a reference layer, does not substantially change its magnetization under the influence of external magnetic fields, and the other magnetic layer, as a free layer, changes its magnetization perceptibly under the influence of external magnetic fields, and having at least one conductor for signal ports, with which conductor, when current is flowing, a first magnetic field can be generated that flips the magnetization of the free layers, and having a device for on-demand generation of a second variable magnetic field, which also influences the magnetoresistive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Universitaet Bielefeld, Universitaet Kassel
    Inventors: Volker Hoeink, Dirk Meyners, Guenter Reiss, Jan Schmalhorst, Arno Ehresmann
  • Patent number: 7820039
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous filtering of impurities from a flowable compound, especially a plastic melt, comprising a filter insert (3) in the form of a hollow rotary body which is held to rotate about its rotational axis (A) relative to a housing (1, 2) and is flowed through by the flowable compound and which is arranged in a flow conduit of the housing (1, 2) between a feed conduit (7) for the compound to be filtered and a discharge conduit (8) for the filtered compound, and a discharge apparatus for impurities held back by the filter, which apparatus comprises a feed screw (9) cooperating with the filter insert (3). In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is proposed that the filter insert (3) comprises a disk-like filter (5) which is arranged on the face side of the rotary body and is coaxial to the rotational axis (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Inventor: Helmuth Schulz
  • Patent number: 7819670
    Abstract: In a connector for connecting first and second connection objects faced to each other, a conductive contact includes a holding portion held by an insulator, a first spring portion, and a second spring portion connected to the first spring portion. The first spring portion extends from the holding portion in one direction and has a first contacting portion to be connected to the first connection object. The second spring portion extends in the other direction opposite to the one direction and has a free end provided with a second contacting portion to be connected to the second connection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Kunikazu Miyamoto, Kazuomi Sato, Kazuaki Ibaraki, Masao Higuchi, Takeharu Naitou
  • Patent number: D626335
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventor: Kevin Sime
  • Patent number: D626511
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Takamitsu Nakajima, Takeshi Shindo, Koji Hayashi
  • Patent number: D628160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Nanao, Yasufumi Yahiro, Masayuki Kikuchi, Keizo Kai, Kazushi Kamata