Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7150291
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a normally closed valve element that can be mounted on a mobile part and fluid distributor means that can be mounted on a stationary part and is operatively connectable with said valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Inventors: Gino Ferrari, Franco Maioli
  • Patent number: 7147322
    Abstract: An interlocking connection is described between a piece of wire (4) and a molded body (1) injected from plastic, especially for spectacles, with one end of the wire piece (4) being anchored in the molded body (1) by way of two sections of a fixing device which are arranged adjacent to each other. In order to provide simple constructional conditions it is proposed that the piece of wire (4) comprises an end (5) which is bent in a hairpin-like manner and whose legs (6, 7) form a fixing means, and with the end (5) bent in a hairpin-like manner of the piece of wire engaging in an interlocking manner in a plug-in receiving means (8) of the molded body (1), which receiving means is adjusted to the hairpin-like shape of the end of the wire (5) and forms an undercut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Silhouette International Schmied AG
    Inventor: Rupert Spindelbalker
  • Patent number: 7148962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining the position and direction of channel inlets and channel outlets in wastewater systems that, in the horizontal plane, lead into and out of sewer manholes. To this end, a device was created that is provided in the form of a tachymeter attachment which uses a system of mirrors to enable the horizontal aiming beam of the tachymeter to be redirected to a variable depth in order to form a horizontal aiming beam that is parallel to the first. A profiled tube (11) that is attached via a frame (10) to assigned to the tachymeter (1) and reflectors are provided inside said profiled tube (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventors: Matthias Fuhrland, Michael Fuhrland, Joerg Herrmann
  • Patent number: 7149786
    Abstract: Novel configuration preventing collision of data transmissions on data transmission paths. Repeated transmission attempts after said collisions thus become unnecessary. Transmission capacity of the data network can be used optimally resulting in considerably faster control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Jetter AG
    Inventors: Harald Böhringer, Stefan Kaiser, Andreas Kraut, Walter Nehr, Steffen Schwips
  • Patent number: 7146847
    Abstract: A knock sensor for an internal combustion engine with an electronically evaluated vibration sensor should have a simple design and allow a rational installation. To this end, the vibration sensor is characterized in that the knock sensor comprises at least one spring washer (4, 4?) that is or can be tensioned relative to the internal combustion engine, and a piezoresistive amorphous carbon layer (5) is applied onto at least one face of the at least one spring washer (4; 4?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Christian Bauer GmbH + Co.
    Inventors: Lothar Brückner, August Kästner
  • Patent number: 7146969
    Abstract: 1. Motor vehicle having an activated carbon filter and method for regenerating an activated carbon filter. 2. A motor vehicle (1) is proposed, comprising an, in particular, direct-injection internal combustion engine (2), a fuel tank (3) and an aeration device (4) for the fuel tank that comprises an activated carbon filter (5) and a regeneration device (6) for regenerating the activated carbon filter, and a method for regenerating an activated carbon filter in a motor vehicle comprising an, in particular, direct-injection internal combustion engine. 2.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Marko Weirich
  • Patent number: 7149401
    Abstract: A disassembling tool includes a holding block having a housing portion for accommodating a plug connector, a slide block, and a handling part for sliding the slide block. The plug connector comprises an outer member and a plug frame and is accommodated in the housing portion of the holding block. When turning a handle of the handling part, the slide block is slidably moved so that projections provided on the slide block release the locking between locking portions of the outer member and locked portions of the plug frame. Following this, contact portions provided on the slide block come into contact with the plug frame so as to push it out of the outer member by a given amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Koreeda, Makoto Sanguu, Kiyoyuki Mutaguchi, Yoshiteru Abe, Masaru Kobayashi, Ryou Nagase
  • Patent number: 7149337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of detecting flaws in the surface of a test object relative to the surface of a flawless master part by constructing in an artificial neuronal net a virtual master part for comparison with characteristic numbers derived from the grey values of sequential images of the test object recorded by a digital camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: INB Vision AG
    Inventors: Bernd Michaelis, Peter Albrecht, Tilo Lilienblum
  • Patent number: 7147552
    Abstract: An apparatus is described for separating coins (1) whose diameter and thickness lie within predetermined magnitudes, with a coin funnel (12), with at least one revolving coin conveyor (3) whose conveying strand which rises in the conveying direction and leads upwardly out of the coin funnel (12) forms a part of the rear wall (13) of the coin funnel (12) and comprises coin receivers for individual coins (1), with an ejector device for coins (1) axially lying above one another in the coin receivers and with a removal device (24) for the separated coins (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Novotech Elektronik Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Johannes Schimpl
  • Patent number: 7147990
    Abstract: Photographic engraving procedure with high definition on metal, covering the stages of: obtaining a photographic positive or negative of the image to be reproduced in the engraving, cleaning, de-greasing, polishing and shining of the metal surface where the engraving is to be made, impregnation of the surface with photosensitive emulsion, making contact between the photographic positive or negative with the surface to be engraved, using a press, exposure to actinic light, developing of the emulsion, attack of the metal with salts or acids on the areas unprotected by emulsion during the development action, stripping of the protective emulsion and cleaning of the remains of salts or acids, and application of a protective layer of transparent enamel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Fernando Marin Paricio
  • Patent number: 7143456
    Abstract: A device for a sanitary tub, for producing a massage stream of air and water has an accommodation device that can be attached at an opening in the tub body of the sanitary tub, for accommodating an electric motor having a drive shaft. A propeller having a hub is attached to the drive shaft, and blades are arranged radially around the hub. A collar is arranged on the accommodation device, positioned within the sanitary tub, having edge-side inflow openings as well as a center outlet opening. The propeller draws in water located in the sanitary tub, through the inflow openings, and subsequently transports it back into the sanitary tub through the outlet opening. The accommodation device has a flow channel for feeding in air, which exits through the outlet opening, through an air channel arranged in the hub and with the stream of water transported by the propeller. Fan vanes for transporting air are arranged within the air channel of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Franz Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Woeste
  • Patent number: 7143536
    Abstract: A label has a film and an adhesive, as with a common bracket label. The label is divided into two functional regions (A) and (B) by a separating line. One region essentially supplies information, for example, by imprinting, and the other region assumes the hanging function of the bracket. Region (B) is generally designed to be non-adhering or is capable of reducing the adhesive action. In this manner, the bracket can be detached quickly from the labeled object with use, and no adhesive region is bared upon detachment. A lower film lies under the first film and is preferably connected with the first film by an adhesive. The lower film is provided with a further separating line slightly offset to the separating line between the two functional regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Moosheimer, Robert Unglert
  • Patent number: 7140320
    Abstract: A device for holding a boat speedometer log transmitter in a boat hull has a sleeve body fixed in a perforation in the hull with a longitudinal center opening for removably inserting and retaining the log transmitter in a watertight manner. A head part is coupled to the longitudinal opening for jointly receiving the log transmitter in a watertight manner. An axially displaceable sliding ring is located in a coaxial recess in the head part. A plane ring body supporting a sealing ring is located below the sliding ring. The sliding ring and sealing ring define a plane for guiding a transversely movable blocking slide which blocks and opens the openings for removal and insertion of the log transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Inventor: Hans Joachim Bamert
  • Patent number: 7142334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reading unit (1) for a document (2) having a control and/or evaluation device (44), incorporating a scanner device (25) for reading the document (2), and a guide mechanism (6) for the document (2) and a conveyor device (17) to effect a relative displacement between document (2) and scanner device (25). The control and/or evaluation device (44) cooperates with a compensating device (39) containing corrective values to correct the image signals (37) emitted by an optoelectric transducer (34) of the scanner device (25) in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Keba AG
    Inventor: Dieter Zechleitner
  • Patent number: 7140909
    Abstract: In a connector to be connected to a connection object, a housing holds a contact having a conductivity. An operating member is coupled to the housing to bring a part of the connection object into press contact with the contact. The connector is provided with a locking member which is for clamping the other part of the connection object in cooperation with the operating member. It is preferable that the locking member is engaged with the operating member and the housing to lock the operating member with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Moritake
  • Patent number: 7140278
    Abstract: A pair of manual tongs comprising two limbs which are rotatably connected in a common first rotational axis. The first limb is separated into two levers in its lever section, the two levers being rotatably connected in a first articulation, in a second rotational axis parallel to the common first rotational axis. A means of traction connects the second limb to the lever of the first limb, which is situated at a distance from the handle. The means of traction can be shortened by means of a pivotal movement of the lever of the first limb, which is situated close to the handle, above the second rotational axis. The areas of use of the manual tongs are often difficult to access. According to the invention, the second limb of the inventive manual tongs is thus separated into a lever situated at a distance from the handle and a lever situated close to the handle and the two levers are rotatably connected in a second articulation, in a third rotational axis which is parallel to the common first rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Vulkan Lokring GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Neumann, Thomas Böker, Rolf Nuyken
  • Patent number: 7138076
    Abstract: In a dielectric composition for use in formation of a dielectric layer in a plasma display panel, comprising glass powder, the glass powder is powder of glass which contains PbO of 50% or less and CuO as one of essential elements contained in the glass for preventing color change of the dielectric layer from being caused due to reaction with Ag electrodes in the plasma display panel. Ceramics powder can be mixed with the glass powder. The dielectric composition can also be provided in a form of paste, alternatively in a form of a green sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Fukushima, Hiroyuki Oshita, Takayuki Mito, Masahiko Ouji, Kazuo Hadano
  • Patent number: 7139009
    Abstract: An ion printer is proposed for simultaneous generation on the spatially fixed substrate of the whole image composed of micron and submicron size elements, containing a fixed substrate with layer of material capable of changing its properties under the ion influence; an ion source with a tool for beam forming, which ensures the divergence angle less than 20°, and with the first tool of acceleration of ions providing them the energy less than the one needed for variation of the properties of the material on the substrate surface. The said ion printer contains also a mask with parallel flat surfaces and with a ratio of its thickness to the distance from the mask to the substrate equals to 1:(0.6–3), correspondingly. The said mask has a plurality of apertures for passing the said accelerated ions, each of the apertures having the ratio of its depth to its cross-section size in the range from 9 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Inventor: Boris Aronovich Gurovich
  • Patent number: 7138024
    Abstract: A process for producing an elastic composite film having a textile surface including at least one unwinding fibrous web being irreversibly extended at right angles to its direction of transport. The increase in the width of the fibrous web due to transverse extension is formed into foldlets by pulling tension acting in the direction of transport of the fibrous web. The fibrous web, which is under pulling tension and modified by transverse extension, is applied atop a transversely elastic film web of a thermoplastic elastomer and is adhered or welded thereto at contact sites which are spaced apart at right angles to the direction of transport of the webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Nordenia Deutschland Gronau GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Hamulski
  • Patent number: 7137522
    Abstract: A collapsible storage and transport container made of plastic, has a bottom, lengthwise and crosswise side walls that rise vertically from it, opposite one another in pairs, in the operating position, and a top end frame connected with the side walls in articulated manner, in the region of their top edge. The lengthwise side walls are mounted on the bottom and on the end frame, in articulated manner, about longitudinal axes that run parallel to one another and to the plane of the bottom, and can be folded about a center longitudinal axis. The crosswise side walls are structured in one piece, in each instance, and are arranged to pivot about a crosswise axis that is parallel to the plane of the bottom, after a lock has been released, from their upright position into a horizontal collapsed position. The crosswise side walls are mounted to pivot in the region of the bottom, and are provided, at their free top edge, with devices to secure them in place with a positive lock, on the top end frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Georg Utz Holding AG
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Dubois