Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7515645
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dividing the bit rate of QPSK signals by splitting the spectrum of said QPSK signals into at least two channels having band-limited filters in the modulator and demodulator. The prefiltered QPSK signal is split into at least one real and at least one imaginary spectrum at the transmitter end, is transmitted in frequency multiplex, and the filters in the modulator of the transmitter and the demodulator of the receiver are dimensioned according to the transmission function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Interessengemeinschaft für Runfunkschutzrechte GmbH Schutzrechtsverwertung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Willmut Zschunke, Khishigbayer Dushchuluun
  • Patent number: 7513232
    Abstract: An adjustable camshaft has at least one adjusting element of an adjusting system fixedly connected to inner and outer shafts that is at least partially in tight contact at the end with a connection surface which is formed by a mounting ring of the outer shaft with respect to the two shafts including the mounting ring. The connection surface is crossed by axial passages between hydraulic chambers of the adjusting system and by hydraulic liquid supply ducts which extend through the shafts, between the shafts and/or through annular gaps formed between the outer shaft and the mounting ring, from the connection surface to filling zones which are located in the peripheral surface of the mounting ring and open into circumferential ring-shaped channels associated each with a filling zone of a supply duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Falk Schneider
  • Patent number: 7515030
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fusible element provided with a flat insulating body and a pair of contacts which are projected therefrom and whose sections receivable in the reception areas of the insulating body are connected to each other by a fusing conductor wherein at least one reception area and the contact section associated thereto comprise form-fitting connectors corresponding to each other. The inventive fusible element makes it possible to simplify assembling of the individual elements forming it without affecting the quality and without additional costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Littelfuse Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Schulte, Jürgen Scheele
  • Patent number: 7514696
    Abstract: A method for eliminating airborne microorganisms in an air duct comprises placing a device containing at least one light emitting diode (LED) in the air duct so that the air flow passes through the beam emitted by the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Donald Spector
  • Patent number: 7513913
    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: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Gerd Hoermansdoerfer
  • Patent number: 7513783
    Abstract: In a connector including a housing to be fitted to a mating connector and a lever rotatable to the housing between a first and a second position, a main body of the lever has a generally flat shape and provided with a recess recessed from a principal surface of the main body in a thickness direction to have a bottom portion. A spring portion extends from the main body in the recess to have a free end and being elastically deformable in the thickness direction. A locking portion is formed to the spring portion at a first portion away from the free end and adapted to be locked with the housing when the lever is at the second position. The spring portion faces the bottom of the recess with a distance greater at a second portion between the free end and the first portion than that at the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Katsumasa Okuda, Satoru Majima, Hidenori Aizawa
  • Patent number: 7514133
    Abstract: A strip-shaped label has a transparent plastic film layer partially covered by an opaque film layer. A window area not covered by the opaque film layer remains. The film layers are bonded to one another using an adhesive layer. Before attachment, the label is positioned on a carrier. A bow-shaped suspension tab is produced through punching, on whose bottom non-adhesive areas are provided, which allow a suspension tab to be pulled out of the label plane easily for suspension of the container. Two printed voucher sections are implemented in the opaque label film. The transparent film layer has an adhesive-repellent coating, which is also transparent, below the voucher sections. In the stuck-on state, the label area in which the voucher sections are positioned overlap the transparent window area. After removal of one of the voucher sections, the window area is visible and the container contents may be viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Moosheimer, Robert Unglert
  • Patent number: 7513802
    Abstract: A lamp adapter can adapter a mogul base lamp holder to accept a medium base lamp. The lamp adapter can accommodate only open fixture rated lamps. An open end of the lamp adapter into which a lamp is inserted has an elongated flange which allows only an open fixture rated lamp having a medium base to be completely threaded into the adapter and make electrical contact with a threaded metal sleeve and central button contact of the lamp holder. The geometry of the elongated flange prevents the threading of a closed fixture rated lamp into the adapter by taking advantage of the physical differences between the open and closed fixture rated lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Tufano, Sr., Paul Endres, Anil B. Deshmukh, Rick Wyke
  • Patent number: 7513733
    Abstract: The invention relates to a generator for obtaining energy, in particular a torque comprising at least two elastic buoyant bodies which are moved around at least two deflection elements, and in the process pass a liquid-filled container through an inlet opening, which is arranged on the end surface of the container facing the ground, the cross section of which inlet opening is smaller than the cross section of an elastic buoyant body in the unloaded state. In order to narrow the elastic buoyant bodies to the cross section of the inlet opening before they enter the liquid-filled container, a funnel element is proposed according to the invention, and is arranged in front of the inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Eugen Dentler
  • Patent number: 7513569
    Abstract: A synchronous office chair comprising a support (1) firmly connected with a supporting column, a seat base (2) articulated on a tilting axis (4) support with a flange (5) and a backrest (3) with a back bracket (6). The back bracket (6) features a first, second and third cam tracks (7, 8, and 9) and engages in an interstice between support (1) and seat base (2). Said seat base (2) with flange (5) and backrest (3) with back bracket (6) are formed to execute a synchronous movement. A first roller bearing (10) is mounted on flange (5) of seat base (2) that engages in the first cam track (7) of back bracket (6) and in which the synchronous movement is guided in first cam track (7). A second roller bearing 11 is mounted on seat base (2) that engages in second cam track (8) of back bracket (6) and in which synchronous movement is guided in second cam track (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Stoll Giroflex AG
    Inventor: Erwin Curiger
  • Patent number: 7510207
    Abstract: The invention describes a ski binding (1), with guide elements (8, 9) which can be mounted or pre-fitted on a ski (3) in the binding longitudinal direction (10), for a front and a rear jaw body (4, 5). A first coupling element (15) is connected to the front jaw body (4) and a second coupling element (16) is connected to the rear jaw body (5). Mutually facing end portions (17, 18) of these coupling elements (15, 16) co-operate with a positioning and fixing mechanism (14) disposed between the jaw bodies (4, 5) in order to adjust and retain the jaw body (4, 5) as necessary. An overlap width (19) between the two coupling elements (15, 16) can be varied to make an individual adjustment for different jaw distances (12). At least one coupling element (15, 16) is provided with at least two mutually parallel rows (21, 22, 23) of positioning elements (20), and these positioning element-rows (21, 22, 23) are disposed offset from one another in the binding longitudinal direction (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Resch, Helmut Holzer
  • Patent number: 7509928
    Abstract: Suspended steam boiler, in which the steam boiler lower portion (5), having inclined tubes, is suspended from the steam boiler upper portion (1), having vertical tubes exclusively from the vertical tubes of the latter without additional external tensile or support elements. (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Becker, Vu-Tam Lai
  • Patent number: 7511244
    Abstract: A method for resistance welding for welding two workpieces to one another using spot-welding tools. In the method, two electrodes of the spot welding tool are pressed against each other, and the electrodes are powered with energy. The workpieces are interposed and contact of the workpiece with the spot-welding tool is detected with a pressure element movably arranged on at least one of the electrodes and projecting beyond the electrode. The pressure element is then displaced relative to the electrode until the electrode contacts the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Stieglbauer, Manfred Wimmer, Karin Himmelbauer
  • Patent number: 7511587
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oscillator containing two one-port surface wave resonators as frequency-determining elements. The aim of the invention is to modify known oscillators such that the variable /S21/ for the oscillator frequency, that is adapted according to the respective temperature, only slightly depends on the temperature. The inventive oscillator is characterized in that, in relation to a pre-determined temperature, the first-order temperature coefficients of the synchronous frequency of the two one-port surface wave resonators (2; 3; 12; 13; 42; 43) have different signs or are equal to zero, and the second-order temperature coefficients of the synchronous frequency of the two one-port surface wave resonators have the same signs. The circuit consisting of the two one-port surface wave resonators is either two-terminal or four-terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Tele Filter GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Martin
  • Patent number: 7510445
    Abstract: In a connector adapted for connection to a mating connector, each contact includes a holding portion held by the housing, a contact receiving portion extending from the holding portion and adapted to contact a contact portion of a corresponding one of contacts of a mating connector, a spring portion extending from the contact receiving portion and movable relative to the housing, and a contact portion provided at the spring portion and adapted to contact a contact receiving portion of the corresponding contact of the mating connector. The housing includes accommodating portions accommodating therein at least portions of the contact receiving portions of the contacts, respectively, and guide portions adapted to guide the contact portions of the contacts of the mating connector toward the accommodating portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Takashi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 7507548
    Abstract: A method for detecting aberrant phenotypes expressed by neoplastic cells includes the steps of: 1) staining one or more normal/reactive samples and one neoplastic sample with multiple combinations of monoclonal antibodies, 2) measuring fluorescence emissions associated to the stained cells, 3) storing two independent list mode data files of information on light scatter and fluorescence characteristics of each cell, 4) creating new data files by mixing list mode data from the data file containing information the neoplastic sample into the data file containing information on the normal samples, 5) defining corresponding to normal cells and areas corresponding to empty spaces in normal/reactive samples that may be occupied by tumor cells in neoplastic samples, 6) identifying events corresponding to neoplastic cells and events corresponding to normal cells coexisting in a multidimensional space, and 7) establishing the most relevant phenotypic aberrations displayed by the neoplastic cells as compared to their nor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: University of Salamanca
    Inventors: Alberto Orfao De Matos Correia E Valle, Carlos Eduardo Pedreira, Elaine Sobral Da Costa
  • Patent number: 7507032
    Abstract: In an optical connection component for use in connecting a connection object having a key formed on one side surface thereof, a housing for fitting over the connection object is formed around an optical axis. A shutter member is coupled to the housing and includes a light shielding portion which is elastically deformable and extends across the optical axis. The housing includes a key groove portion for receiving the key and an escape groove portion adapted to receive the light shielding potion in an elastically deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Naoki Katagiyama, Yuichi Koreeda, Yasutaka Hiroki, Akihiro Onogawa
  • Patent number: 7506404
    Abstract: The invention relates to a caster comprising a trailing wheel, a fork and an assembly journal. The fork can be swiveled in relation to the assembly journal and inside the fork a braking device is disposed which can be displaced into the braking position via a tappet actuated by a trip cam. The aim of the invention is to provide a direction-lockable caster that has a simple design. For this purpose, the tappet interacts with a direction locking part mounted stationarily on the fork, when spring biased into a direction locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: TENTE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Block, Manfred Milbredt
  • Patent number: 7503803
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plug-in connector (10) having a base element (11) and at least one side element (12). There is further provided that at least one mounting element (13) for mounting the plug-in connector (10) and/or for mounting a matching plug-in connector. The side element 12) comprises at least one locating element (20) which fixes the mounting element (13) in its position in the mounted condition of the plug-in connector (10). Preferably, a screening element (14) is further provided which is likewise fixed in its position by the mounting element (13). The plug-in connector (10) according to the invention provides a high pull-out force relative to an element that is mechanically connected with the mounting element (13) either directly or indirectly. Further, a high electric screening function can be achieved with the plug-in connector (10) according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: ERNI Electronics GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Lappoehn
  • Patent number: D589315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG
    Inventor: Bernd Herrmann