Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Connector with protection against electrostatic charges accumulated on a mating connector
    Patent number: 7320623
    Abstract: In a connector including a fitting portion to be fitted to a mating connector, signal contacts are disposed in the fitting portion in a first row. A ground plate includes a plurality of ground terminals disposed in the fitting portion in a second row parallel to the first row. These contacts are held by a housing. A conductive shell is coupled to the housing and includes a shell body partially covering these contacts, a bent portion bent inward from the shell body at an end of the fitting portion, and a protecting portion extending from the bent portion with a space which is kept between the protecting portion and the shell body. Each of the ground terminals includes a spring portion extending in the fitting portion and a free end portion extending from the spring portion and inserted into the space with being contacted with the protecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhito Hisamatsu, Kazukuni Hisatomi
  • Sports shoe, in particular a ski shoe
    Patent number: 7320191
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sports shoe (1), in particular a ski shoe (2), consisting of a shoe bottom part (3) comprising a sole (4) and a shell part (5) with a cuff part (7) pivotably connected to the shoe bottom part (3), and a lock mechanism (16) incorporating at least one locking means (17) displaceable between the shell part (5) and the cuff part (7), as well as an actuator drive (29) for the locking means (17). The actuator drive (29) is conductively connected to an energy store and/or an energy source (42) disposed in the shoe bottom part (3) or in the cuff part (7) and a switch means (44) is connected upstream of the actuator drive (29) to supply the actuator drive (29) with power from the energy source (42) and/or the energy store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: ATOMIC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Trinkaus, Helmut Holzer
  • Optical fiber coupler
    Patent number: 7321706
    Abstract: A fiber coupler for coupling light into an optical fiber and/or coupling light out of the fiber, has two holder elements, namely a fiber holder for holding the fiber, and a lens holder for holding a focusing lens. The holder elements are adjustable in the axial and transversal direction, respectively. In order to make such a fiber coupler available, which allows precise adjustment of the position of the focusing lens relative to the fiber, and which is furthermore compact in structure and inexpensive to produce, the holder elements are connected with a base body by way of at least one elastic monolithic joint, in each instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: TOPTICA Photonics AG
    Inventor: Rainer Heidemann
  • Method for generating new flow cytometry data files containing an infinite number of dimensions based on data estimation
    Patent number: 7321843
    Abstract: A method that generates new flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions is described. First two or more separate flow cytometry data files containing information about events measured in different aliquots from the same sample are fused. Then, the magnitude of the values and a corresponding uncertainty measure of the differing variables between one or more of the original data files which have been fused are estimated, for each individual event contained in the fused data file, for which that variable was not directly measured in the flow cytometer. The new data file containing both data actually measured in the flow cytometer for each event of the individual original data files fused and the estimated data for those parameters not measured in a group of events from one or more of the original data files are reconstructed multidimensionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Universidad de Salamanca
    Inventors: José Alberto Orfao De Matos Correia E Vale, Carlos Eduardo Pedreira, Elaine Sobral Da Costa
  • Process for the preparation of 9, 10-dihydro-9-OXA-10-organyloxyphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or -thione and derivatives of the same substituted on the phenyl groups
    Patent number: 7317119
    Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-organyloxyphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or -thione and derivatives of same substituted on the phenyl groups, in which: (a) 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOP) or a derivative of same is reacted in the presence of at least one mono- or polyhydric alcohol with at least one ortho ester with formation of a first intermediate product, (b) the intermediate product from step (a) is optionally reacted with at least one further mono- or polyhydric alcohol with formation of a further intermediate product and (c) the intermediate product from steps (a) or (b) is transformed by addition of oxidation agent into 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-organyloxyphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or -thione or a derivative of same substituted on the phenyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Schill & Seilacher “Struktol” AG
    Inventors: Uwe Dittrich, Berthold Just, Manfred Döring, Michael Ciesielski
  • Process for the preparation of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-organylphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide and derivatives of the same substituted on the phenyl groups
    Patent number: 7317120
    Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-organylphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide and derivatives of same substituted on the phenyl groups, in which: (a) 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOP) or a derivative of same is reacted in the presence of at least one mono- or polyhydric alcohol with at least one ortho ester with formation of a first intermediate product, (b) the intermediate product from step (a) is optionally reacted with at least one further mono- or polyhydric alcohol with formation of a further intermediate product and (c) the intermediate product from steps (a) or (b) is transformed by addition of catalytic quantities of alkylation agent into 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-organylphosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or a derivative of same substituted on the phenyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Schill + Seilacher “Struktol” AG
    Inventors: Uwe Dittrich, Berthold Just, Manfred Döring, Michael Ciesielski
  • Test table for measuring lateral forces and displacements
    Patent number: 7316155
    Abstract: A test table for measuring lateral forces and displacements while simultaneously applying, if necessary, normal forces, particularly in nanoidenters and in scratch and wear testers. The test table is mounted in a manner that enables it to be laterally displaced, and the lateral force and displacement can be determined by means of a measured-value acquisition. The test table is fixed between at least two vertically upright leaf springs, which can be laterally deflected in the direction of the lateral (horizontal) motion of the test table to be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: ASMEC Advanced Surface Mechanics GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Chudoba, Norbert Schwarzer, Ilja Hermann
  • Apparatus for determining cardiovascular parameters
    Patent number: 7314449
    Abstract: An apparatus that continuously monitors the arterial pressure measured by a pressure sensor in an artery, which pressure is regarded as the reading Pao that approximately corresponds to the aortal pressure. In principle, the arterial pressure can be measured in the aorta, near the aorta, or in the arterial tree. To provide a second reading, the apparatus, via the input channel, continuously monitors the central venous pressure (CVP), which is regarded as the reading PIT that approximately corresponds to the intrathoracic pressure (ITP). The third reading is provided via the input channel as a reading Z which expresses the thoracic compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Pulsion Medical Systems AG
    Inventors: Ulrich J. Pfeiffer, Thorsten Burger
  • Method for processing and producing a surface with a degree of lustre
    Patent number: 7311869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing and producing a surface of a material with a reproducible degree of lustre and to a press for carrying out said method. The aim of the invention is to increase the stability of the press. To achieve this, a press is provided with a coating that consists of carbon with diamond-like layers and that adheres to the surface of the press. Said coating has a layer thickness of between 0.1 and 10 ?m and a surface hardness in excess of 1800 HV (Vickers). The attrition of the surface of the press is thus significantly reduced during the processing of abrasion-resistant materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Hueck Engraving GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Espe, Oliver Espe
  • Control unit for a valve, especially a gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7311072
    Abstract: A gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine, has valve lifting movements with valve displacement curves and a control unit. To this end, a control unit is provided for operation of at least one valve, in particular a gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine, in which the valvelifting movement of the at least one valve (6) is generated by superimposing two synchronously rotating cam profiles acting mechanically on a lift operating element (4). The two cam profiles (1, 2) have specially shaped areas by means of which, when superimposed to form one of the two cam profiles (1, 2), at least one additional valve displacement (ZV) can be generated on the whole in addition to a main valve displacement movement (HV) over a full revolution of each of these cam profiles (1, 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignees: Mahle Ventiltrieb GmbH, Mechadyne PLC
    Inventors: Hermann Hoffmann, Timothy Mark Lancefield, Martin Lechner, Ian Methley
  • Adsorbing material for blood and plasma cleaning method and for albumin purification
    Patent number: 7311845
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorbent material, a method for cleaning blood and plasma and purifying albumin, and to a method for producing said adsorbent material. The inventive adsorbent material is embodied in the form of a highly cross-linked and porous spherical divinylbenzene copolymer which contains from 4 to 30 weight % of an imidazole derivative and at least 50 weight % of divinylvenzene incorporated by radical polymerization in the presence of air and/or oxygen. Said adsorbent material is embodied in such a way that it is biocompatible and suitable for removing free and albumin-bound toxic substances, drugs, pharmaceutical products, endogenic and exogenic toxins from blood, plasma, and external albumin circuits at a high rate and efficiency. The material is used in particular for adsorbing bilirubin and bile acids and is produced by suspension polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Polymerics GmbH
    Inventors: Aniela Leistner, André Leistner
  • Method and device for balancing journal-less rotors
    Patent number: 7311003
    Abstract: In the case of a bearing with a bearing mandrel for mounting a journal-less rotor with a bore hole in a balancing device, in which the bearing mandrel has openings for fluid to pass through, to be able to determine the imbalance of rotors with bearing possibilities on only part of their axial extent with high precision, in the bearing mandrel first openings for fluid delivery and second openings for liquid removal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Thelen
  • Split piston for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7311075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a split piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising an upper piece, connected to a lower piece, by means of a screw connection. The screw connection comprises a tubular connector piece, mounted on the underside of the piston upper piece with an external thread, a spacer sleeve with an external and an internal thread and a support rib formed on the lower piece of the piston with an internal thread. The upper piece can thus be screwed to the lower piece, by means of the connector piece, the spacer sleeve and the support rib. The spacer sleeve acts as a compressing body and the connector piece as an extending body, to generate the mechanism tension necessary for fixing the screw connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Mahle GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Ullrich
  • Pet carrier
    Patent number: D558406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Inventor: Lise King
  • Cleaning apparatus for an aquarium
    Patent number: D558418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Inventor: Uwe Krauss
  • Joints for pipes
    Patent number: D559361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: E. Hawle Armaturenwerke GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Zeppetzauer
  • Joints for pipes
    Patent number: D559362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: E. Hawle Armaturenwerke GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Zeppetzauer
  • Cup
    Patent number: D559623
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Rundpack AG
    Inventor: Walter Schellenberg
  • Umbrella handle
    Patent number: D560065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Knirps License Corporation GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernard Rothbucher
  • Umbrella handle
    Patent number: D560348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Knirps License Corporation GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernard Rothbucher