Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Collard & Roe, P.C.
  • Patent number: 6962165
    Abstract: A safety device for insertion into a pipeline (K) in which fluid circulates in an upstream (X?) and a downstream (X+) direction, comprises a tube (1) that provides the fluid with a central circulatory passage (CC) regulated by a central valve (3) that closes in the event of an excessive flow of this fluid. There is an annular valve closure member (4) which is elastically malleable, mounted to the external periphery of the tube (1), and provides the fluid with a peripheral circulatory passage which it selectively obstructs by subjecting a radial expansion in the event of an excessive flow of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Gaz de France
    Inventors: Cyrille Delprat, David Leme, Lahouari Bouajaj, Sylvain Pineau
  • Patent number: 6962474
    Abstract: A loader is described, having a support frame (1) supported on front and rear wheels (2, 3) and receiving a driver cabin (4), to which a front boom (5) is linked on the rear side of the driver cabin (4), having two spars (6) running on both sides of the driver cabin (4), which form a curved section (10) overlapping the particular front wheel (2), and having a pivot drive (7) engaging on the lateral spars (6) for raising and lowering the front boom (5). In order to provide advantageous construction ratios, it is suggested that the spars (6) have a lengthwise section (9), engaging between the front and rear wheels (2, 3) in the lowered setting of the front boom (5) and running below a lateral cabin entrance, to which the curved section (10) overlapping the particular front wheel (2) is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: NEUSON Baumaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Neunteufel, Josef Erlinger
  • Patent number: 6962470
    Abstract: A rod clip for connecting a rod to a lever comprises a first portion and a second portion hinged to the first portion. The first portion has a top surface having a recess for receiving a rod, such that folding the second portion over the first portion forms a channel for retaining the rod. There are rod retaining tabs disposed above the channel for retaining the rod in the channel until the second portion can be snapped over the first portion. There is a lock for locking the first portion to the second portion after the second portion is folded over the first portion. There is a lever retaining device disposed on one of the two portions. The hinge is formed by apertures on sides of one of the portions and corresponding protrusions on the other. The protrusions extend into the apertures to allow pivoting of the first and second portions with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Inventor: Joseph Anscher
  • Patent number: 6960091
    Abstract: A card connector (100) receives and ejects a card therein and therefrom along receiving and ejecting directions (YR, YE). The card connector (100) comprises a housing (10). The housing (10) holds a slider (20) so that the slider (10) is slidable along the receiving and the ejecting directions (YR, YE), while carrying the card thereon. The slider (20) has an ejecting-directional end (20b) as an end thereof in the ejecting direction (YE). The card connector (100) is provided with a stopper (70), which is latchingly fitted with the ejecting-directional end (20b) of the slider (20). The stopper (20) serves to prevent the card from projecting out of the slider (20) in the ejecting direction (YE) even when the slider (20) partially projects from the housing (10) in the ejecting direction (YE), unless the latchingly-fit of the stopper (70) with the ejecting-directional end (20b) of the slider (20) is released. Thus, undesirable projection of the card upon ejection is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Matsunaga, Masafumi Kodera
  • Patent number: 6960077
    Abstract: A burner (1), fed with a mixture of fuel and air, comprising a body (2) consisting of two half-shells having a plane of symmetry, inside said body a Venturi tube (3) being defined, provided with and inlet (4) into which said mixture of fuel and air is introduced, said Venturi tube (3) communicating upwardly with a distributing chamber (5) of said mixture of fuel and air, said distributing chamber (5) communicating upwardly with a burner head (8), closed upwardly by a diffuser (9), on which openings are made for the outflow and the subsequent combustion of said mixture of fuel and air, said distributing chamber (5) exhibits a first portion (6) and a second portion (7), said first portion (6), communicating with said Venturi tube, comprising at least a first stretch (6a; 6c; 6e) having a cross section of substantially constant width and at least a second stretch (6b; 6d) having cross section that increases progressively along a direction parallel to said plane of symmetry towards an end of said distributing cha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Worgas Bruciatori S.r.L.
    Inventors: Giorgio Buccilli, Luca Barozzi, Feliciano Lasagni, Sandro Lugli
  • Patent number: 6958110
    Abstract: Apparatus for the production of cellulose paper pulps from vegetative masses, comprising: a tower for sterilizing the mass to form a culture medium; a first screw for mixing the sterilized mass with an inoculum and handling the same in a sterile environment; a first conditioning and reaction chamber for mixing and handling the inoculated mass in a sterile environment and controlled atmosphere of CO2 and O2, with controlled temperature and pH; a hydraulic pulper for the elementarization of the mass and its soaking up with suspensions of enzyme mixes; a hammer mill for the elementarization of vegetative material, to break up knots of stems and to pulverize leaves, detach bast from wood; a rotating tumbler having reels and counter reels for separating various fractions; a rotor compactor to reduce the volume of the vegetable mass and to remove air contained in the same; a second screw for mixing the compacted vegetetative mass with extracts containing enzymes and with water for handling in a sterile environment;
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignees: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Universita' Degli Studi Della Tuscia
    Inventors: Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni, Pier Luigi Cappelletto, Ruggero Baldo, Antonio Porri, Alessandro D'Annibale, Claudio Perani
  • Patent number: 6957638
    Abstract: A one-piece piston for an internal combustion engine, having a ring-shaped cooling channel arranged in the outer region of the piston head, is proposed, which is closed off by a ring-shaped cooling channel cover structured towards the side of the pin bosses as a support element. This cooling channel cover comprises at least two arc-shaped cover elements the outer edge of which supports the pin-boss-side face of the ring wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Mahle GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Scharp
  • Patent number: 6957489
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to produce a light-alloy bearing bush with a rough external surface. To achieve this, particles, which are subsequently surrounded in part by the molten metal, are applied to the surface of the casting mould. When the bearing bush is released from the mould, the particles remain in said bush and are subsequently removed from the bearing bush preform either mechanically or by being dissolved in liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Mahle GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bing, Martin Rühle, Fritz Warth, Frank Winger
  • Patent number: 6957969
    Abstract: In a card connector including a card guide for guiding movement of a card in a first direction, the card guide defines a fitting position and a releasing position of the card in the first direction. A slider is coupled to the card guide to be slidable in the first direction. The slider is continuously urged by an elastic member towards the fitting position. When the slider is slid against urging force of the elastic member, a butting portion of the slider is engaged with the card at the fitting position to transfer the card to the releasing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Kodera, Keisuke Nakamura, Koichiro Tsuji
  • Patent number: 6956533
    Abstract: A monopole antenna for use with at least two wireless communication services, having a monopole element (10) disposed along a straight line (11) and connected with a roof capacitor (1) that is designed as a flat area, the area normal line (12) pointing in the direction of the straight line (11). The roof capacitor (1) has rotational symmetry, and is formed by flat ring structures (2) that are separated from one another by ring-shaped gaps (3), the structures being oriented concentric to the straight line (11). Reactance circuits (4) connect the ring structures (2) with one another so that they are active for a wireless communication service having the lowest frequency, and the outermost ring structure (2) is essentially ineffective for the wireless communication service having the next higher frequency, because of the high impedance of the reactance circuit (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: FUBA Automotive GmbH &Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Lindenmeier
  • Patent number: 6955445
    Abstract: An illuminated writing implement has substantially tubular body and head portions. An electrically connected power source and light source are located in an interior of the head portion. A removable cap is provided on the top of the head portion. A display unit for displaying the time and date is located on an outer surface of the head portion. Switches are used to set the illumination mode of the light source and the time and date shown by the display unit. A beam of light produced by the light source shines through a lens at the bottom of the writing implement. A marking element has a tip which protrudes through a hole in the lens for writing or drawing. The brightness and focus of the beam of light are adjusted by rotating the head portion and a focusing ring on the body portion of the writing implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: Djoser Omowale
  • Patent number: 6955146
    Abstract: A system for variably actuating valves by means of cams for internal combustion engines has the following type of construction: A camshaft is rotationally supported in the cylinder head and has a fixed position in relation to the valves and their associated stroke-transmitting arrangements. A stroke-transmitting arrangement guided in a fixed position is associated with each of the valves arranged in the cylinder head and closes by means of spring force. A variable position element for adjusting the stroke of the valve is guided in a stationary manner in the cylinder head. An intermediate element is supported and pivotably guided on the variable position element. A cam of the camshaft is engaged by the intermediate element and is supported in a stationary manner in the cylinder head, as well as the stroke-transmitting arrangement associated with the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr
    Inventor: Andreas Werler
  • Patent number: 6955566
    Abstract: In a connector (1) having a slider (4) movable in a predetermined direction (A1) with respect to a housing (2) to carry a card (11) to a particular position faced to a contact (3), the slider has a pressing part (4a) which is non-flat and elastically deformed to cause restring force while the card is carried towards the particular position. When the card is placed at the particular position, the pressing part presses the card towards the contact by the restoring force. It is preferable that the slider has a butting part (4c) to be brought into contact with a front end of the card and a locking part (4b) to be engaged with a rear end of the card. The pressing part may be formed into a plate-like shape with a protruding part (4e) formed at an intermediate portion in the predetermined direction to protrude towards the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Matsunaga, Akira Natori, Keiichiro Suzuki, Yoichi Kanao
  • Patent number: 6953356
    Abstract: A lock release mechanism for releasing an engagement with a counterpart connector (10) by moving a lock lever (2) engaging with the counterpart connector (10). A pull-tab (6) is connected to the lock lever. The lock lever is moved by a force pulling the pull-tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhito Hisamatsu, Akira Kimura, Nobukazu Kato, Tomohiko Tamada
  • Patent number: 6953305
    Abstract: A bundle of tubes or pipes is arranged without trenches according to a fluid-assisted drilling method. A bore channel is made in a first boring step and the bore channel is widened when the bore/flushing head is removed therefrom, the bundle of tubes being drawn into the bore channel. The bundle is composed of individual tubes and flanges arranged lengthwise at a distance from and used as spacers for the tubes. A method is also described, wherein a rotational decoupling device prevents the rotational movement of the bore/flushing head produced during the removal process from being transmitted to the bundle of tubes. The bundle of tubes are supported by stabilizing devices inside the bore channel in the same spatial position as that of the tubes in relation to each other and the surrounding environment and are drawn through the bore channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Stadtwerke Schwerte GmbH
    Inventors: Martin John, Klaus Rous
  • Patent number: 6953187
    Abstract: An elastomer spring, particularly for rail vehicles, comprises a core made of metal or plastic; an outer sleeve that also consists of metal or plastic; a cushion made of elastomer material, in the form of a layered spring that is arranged between the core and the outer sleeve; as well as a base chamber that is configured below a core offset. The elastomer spring is configured in multiple steps in the vertical direction X, specifically consisting of at least a first spring and a second spring, whereby a chamber is present between two springs, in each instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Phoenix AG
    Inventors: Michael Groth, Andre Sanz
  • Patent number: 6953369
    Abstract: In a card connector for use in connection of a card, a guide portion connected to a connector body. The guide portion is adapted to guide movement of the card with respect to the connector body. A selecting portion is connected to the guide portion and has an engaging portion. When the card has a predetermined thickness, the selecting portion is elastically deformed by contact with the card to allow further movement of the card. When the card is thinner than the predetermined thickness, the engaging portion is engaged with the card to inhibit further movement of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masamichi Sasaki, Keisuke Nakamura, Takamitsu Wada, Keiichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6953627
    Abstract: A process for the production of thin walled parts of steel, wherein there are layers that are at least partly differently treatable relating to their strength and hardness qualities. This process can include creating a composite material from a plurality of different layers by connecting at least one core layer and at least one surface layer together. At least one layer of the core or surface layer is cast adjacent to another layer to form a composite material having an alloy gradient that is flat at each interface between any of the core layer or the surface layer. Next, the process can include deforming the composite material along a length of these layers. Finally the process can include heat treating the layers to transform the strength and hardness qualities of at least one of these layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: C.D. Walzholz-Brockhaus GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Toni Junius
  • Patent number: D510804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Allen Pickleworks, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Horman
  • Patent number: D511155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Inventor: Sérgio Paulo Saraiva Lino Pires