Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David S. Safran
  • Patent number: 6828568
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for increasing the emission amount of red such that it is made the same as the emission amount of green and blue, to enable the application state of the fluophors to be easily tested within a short time. Light from a discharge lamp of the short-arc type in which the arc tube is filled with cadmium and rare gas and which has emission lines between 200 nm and 230 nm is radiated onto fluophors of a test article such as the substrate for a display. The fluorescence produced by these fluophors is received by a CCD sensor, and displayed in a display part, and thus the application state, such as faults of the fluophors or the like, is checked. The images picked up by the CCD camera can also be input to a control device and thus testing can be automated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Suzuki, Sayu Yamada
  • Patent number: 6827591
    Abstract: An electrical device such as a ballast for fluorescent lamps and including a housing, a terminal, and a catch element for connecting the terminal to the housing, the catch element including a catch leg for connecting the terminal to the catch element and for connecting the catch element to the housing. Accordingly, the electrical device is designed such that the individual terminal sites of the terminal have minimal positional tolerance so that the terminal can be wired with an automatic installation machine without the danger of misinsertions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignees: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co., Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft fuer elektrische Gluehlampen mbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Feye-Hohmann, Wolfgang Ebert, Gunther Löhmann, Axel Becker
  • Patent number: 6823730
    Abstract: A capacitive fill level measurement device with a fill level sensor having a plurality of sensor fields, electrical wires for electrically connecting the plurality of sensor fields to a multipole side of a selector switch, and a power supply and evaluation circuit electrically connected to a monopole side of the selector switch. The capacitive fill level measurement device can be made with simple production technology and thus economically for a host of different applications using a matrix of printed conductors which extend vertically and horizontally such that each horizontally extending printed conductor on one side is connected to one sensor field and on the other side connected to a vertically extending printed conductor. Each horizontally extending printed conductor is connected with a respective vertically extending printed conductor to form an electrical line or a part of an electrical line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: i f m electronic GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Buck, Jochen Gundlach, Jaromir Palata
  • Patent number: 6825614
    Abstract: Short-arc discharge lamp designed to minimize the phenomenon of foil floating between the metal foil located in the foil sealing area and the sealing quartz component that is in contact with the inside of the metal foil so as to prevent cracks from forming in the foil sealing area, gas leakage from the lamp, and premature breaking of the lamp. The short-arc discharge lamp includes electrodes which are located in an emission space, a metal foil electrically connected to the electrodes, a quartz tube part which surrounds the metal foil, a sealing quartz component in contact with the inside of the metal foil, and a metallic component inserted into the sealing quartz component and electrically connected to the metal foil. The foil sealing area is formed from the metal foil, the quartz tube, and the sealing quartz component, which are sealed against one another. By the sealing action of the foil sealing area, sealing of the emission space is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naohisa Ikeda, Masanori Sugihara
  • Patent number: 6820916
    Abstract: An actuating device for opening and closing a folding roof (2) of a motor vehicle with a bearing carriage (3) which is movably supported on a roof-side guideway (4) and which is connected to the movable part (7) of the folding roof (2), and with a drive means which is connected to the bearing carriage (3) by a drive carriage (10) which is supported on the roof-side guideway (11) and a connecting rod arrangement (13, 14) which has a toggle lever (14) and which is controlled by a control guideway (23), on the last portion of the closing path, the connecting rod arrangement (13, 14) steps down the drive motion of the drive carriage (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Dietl
  • Patent number: 6822168
    Abstract: A cable harness arrangement, especially for connection of the individual components of a motor vehicle, is provided which includes a flexible printed circuit board having at least one flat printed circuit and at least one non-flat conductor. The non-flat conductor is fixed at least partially by the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Klesing, Ferdinand Hahn, Peter Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 6819424
    Abstract: A device for exposing several rows of mask patterns on a strip-shaped workpiece without the device becoming larger and the rolls having to be replaced is achieved as follows: A strip-shaped workpiece is transported. When a first exposure area of the first row reaches a projection site on a workpiece carrier (3), the strip-shaped workpiece (Wb) is held by vacuum. A mask (M) is positioned relative to the strip-shaped workpiece and the first exposure area is exposed. Then, the strip-shaped workpiece is held by the workpiece suction devices (8, 8′). The movement devices (9) are driven and the strip-shaped workpiece is moved in the direction which orthogonally intersects the transport direction so that a second exposure area of the second row reaches the projection site on the workpiece carrier. The mask is positioned to the strip-shaped workpiece and exposes the second exposure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jyun Honma
  • Patent number: 6817857
    Abstract: A main frames having bottom and top frame parts for concrete molding machines of the kind which are used in making slabs or blocks for covering surfaces and erecting walls are usually made by welding together cut standard steel sections of the types HEM, RHS, UNP, etc. The requirements to materials and welds at the making of bottom frames of this kind are high due to the fact that welded structures subjected to vibration only has 10-15% of the basic material strength in the welding zones. Thus, the main frame has a bottom frame part (40) formed of two flame cut bottom plates (42, 44) arranged in parallel as an upper plate (42) and a lower plate (44) and forming the basic shape of the bottom, the bottom plates (42, 44) being interconnected by at least two longitudinal plates (46, 48) and a number of transverse plates (50, 52, 54). In this way, substantial savings are achieved as the main frame can be made with fewer or no welds in the critical areas, or with welds of a lower class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: KVM Industrimaskiner A/S
    Inventors: Erik Spangenberg, Jesper B. Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 6815910
    Abstract: To prevent lamp extinction during dead time of an inverter circuit of a full bridge system, to reduce delays of the rising time and the falling time of rectangular waves which have been output by the inverter circuit and to prevent formation of a phenomenon of momentary darkening of the radiant light, the discharge lamp is operated with an alternating current with rectangular waves which is produced by an inverter circuit of a full bridge system. When the inverter circuit of the full bridge system is driven a dead time is taken in which all switching devices are turned off. In the rear stage of the inverter circuit of the full bridge system, there is an inductance. The value of the inductance is fixed such that LL≧VL/IL·Td (VL being the luminous voltage of the discharge lamp, IL being the current and Td the dead time). Current can flow in the discharge lamp during the dead time by the energy stored in this inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Suzuki, Tomoyoshi Arimoto
  • Patent number: 6814391
    Abstract: A convertible motor vehicle roof with a roof part (12), with a rear part (14) which adjoins the roof part, and with side roof members (10) which are pivotally coupled on both sides to the roof part (12). To open the motor vehicle roof, the rear part (14) together with the roof part (12) and the side roof members (10) can be lowered into a stowage space (22) located in the rear and the side roof members (10) can be swung to the outside before or during lowering into the storage space (22), the swivel bearing means (28) which supports the respective side roof member (10) on the roof part (12) having at least two connecting rods or a connecting rod and a crank guide and being formed especially as a planar four-joint linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biecker, Marco Lauterbach, Gerhard Schwarz, Fritz Wegener, Burkhard Reinsch
  • Patent number: 6815895
    Abstract: To devise an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp in which even in the case of lamp operation over a long time devitrification of the light emitting part is suppressed, an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp with a silica glass light emitting part in there is a pair of opposed electrodes, a rare gas, a halogen and at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury, by the amount of halogen in the light emitting part being at least 1.0×10−4 &mgr;mol/mm3 and the amount of Mo in the light emitting part being at most 0.5×10−5 &mgr;mol/mm3. Also, such a lamp can have an amount of halogen in the light emitting part of at least 2.0×10−4 &mgr;mol/mm3 with an amount of Mo of at most 1.0×10−5 &mgr;mol/mm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuji Hirao
  • Patent number: 6815892
    Abstract: In a discharge lamp which has a silica glass discharge vessel with an arc tube portion and hermetically sealed portions in which in the hermetically sealed portions of this discharge vessel metal foils are installed and hermetically sealed areas are formed, in accordance with the invention has a high endurance of the sealing action in the hermetically sealed areas and thus a long service life is obtained by a coating layer being formed on at least one side of the respective metal foil. The coating layer is formed from at least one metal oxide which is selected from titanium oxide, lanthanum oxide, tantalum oxide, zirconium dioxide which can contain yttrium oxide, and from hafnium dioxide which can contain yttrium oxide. Furthermore, the metal oxide which forms the coating layer is advantageously crystalline, and moreover, can be formed over a base layer which is made of aluminum oxide or yttrium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihiro Morimoto, Katsumi Sugaya
  • Patent number: 6814641
    Abstract: A discharge lamp manufacturing method that provides control of the introduction of a predetermined amount of halogen, unaccompanied by carbon or hydrogen, into a discharge vessel of the lamp so that a discharge lamp having an adequate operating pressure and that can maintain enhanced lighting conditions over a long period can be achieved. In particular, a halogen-introduction carrier is used in the manufacture of the discharge lamp for introducing a predetermined amount of metal halide. The discharge lamp manufacturing method includes a device for introducing halogen into the discharge vessel and includes heating a halogen-introduction carrier composed of a porous body containing metal halides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukiharu Tagawa
  • Patent number: 6809630
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock system with at least one vehicle lock, an outside door handle assigned to the vehicle lock, and at least one sensor assigned to the outside door handle, where the system is adapted to detect the approach of the hand of an operator to the outside door handle and/or touching and/or activating of the outside door handle. In one embodiment of motor vehicle door lock system, the activation of the outside handle by the hand of an operator or the approach to the outside door handle is recognized early. A vibration generator is assigned to the outside door handle such that the outside door handle or a part thereof is mechanically vibrated. A sensor is provided for acquiring the vibration, the sound waves caused by the vibration and/or their reflections so that the motor vehicle door lock system can detect when the outside door handle or a part thereof is being approached and/or touched and/or activated by the hand of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Dreimann, Rainer Josef Berger, Stephan Schmitz, Christian Gerhardt, Gregor Buedding
  • Patent number: 6810203
    Abstract: An electrical air heating apparatus, especially for a motor vehicle, with electrical heating elements (3) for heating air and a housing (1) which has a ground connection (1a), an electrical supply connection and an electronic circuit (7) to control the supplying of electrical power to the heating elements (3). In the housing (1), the heating elements (3) are arranged in electrical contact with the ground connection and the electrical supply connection. The housing (1) is made of an electrically conducting material, for example, aluminum and is constructed in one piece with a molded-on ground connection (1a). The heating elements (3) and the electronic circuit (7) are arranged in direct electrical contact with the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Beru AG
    Inventors: Thomas Alban, Dirk Wenske
  • Patent number: 6808213
    Abstract: A closing device for doors, hatches, and similar closures of motor vehicles is provided which includes an electric motor as the drive device and a transmission device for transmitting a driving force to a sliding block of the closing device. The transmission device is a compression/tension cable which controls the opening and closing process of the closing device via the linear motion of the sliding block of a lock. The position of the sliding block controls the opening and closing state of the lock relative to a closing lever and a locking lever which are pivotally supported spaced apart from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heller, Markus Gross
  • Patent number: 6808193
    Abstract: A wheel suspension with a wheel-guiding strut in provided which includes a helical compression spring, a shock absorber, and a suspension arm, and which is connected to a body and to a wheel. The helical compression spring is preferably made such that it at least partially compensates for transverse forces on the shock absorber or on the piston rod of the shock absorber. Provisions are made for reducing or minimizing or eliminating the force which is delivered to the steering mechanism and which results from the difference between the components of the helical compression spring forces FF acting in the direction of travel, and thus the reaction forces RF, on the left and right sides of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Muhr und Bender
    Inventors: Robert Brandt, Vladimir Kobelev, Michael Lebioda, Jorg Neubrand
  • Patent number: 6807845
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus for determining the position of an object relative to a reference surface, with a measurement nozzle, a reference nozzle, and a measurement device, the outlet opening of the measurement nozzle being located in the reference surface. A compressed air source provides air having a certain feed pressure so that the measurement device acquires one of three state variables: flow rate, pressure and speed of the air upstream of the measurement nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: i f m electronic GmbH
    Inventors: Lorenz Halbinger, Benno Kathan, Alfred Wagner
  • Patent number: 6805569
    Abstract: An electrical unit including a proximity switch and a cable terminal part the proximity switch has an outside housing and an insulation part, the insulation part being on the end face of the outside housing and the insulation part having a terminal element with terminals which lead to the outside. The terminals of the terminal element lead to the outside are made as terminal sockets, the cable terminal part has a cable and a connecting part, the cable being attached in the connecting part, the connecting part being attached to the insulation part and the ends of the wires of the cable are connected in an electrically conductive manner to the terminal sockets of the terminal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: i f m electronic GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Buck
  • Patent number: 6805402
    Abstract: A motor vehicle roof with a roof opening in the fixed roof skin and with two successive adjustable covers for closing and partially clearing the roof opening. At least one of the covers is displaceable in the lengthwise direction of the motor vehicle into an open position and is swingable out of its closed position into a ventilator position by selectively lowering a front around the respective rear edge. The rear cover may be pushed out of its tilted ventilator position to under the closed front cover into an open position by being moved forward in its tilted position over most of its path of motion and then being lowered at its rear edge on the last section of the path of motion to essentially move completely under the front cover. Alternatively, the front cover can be moved rearward in its ventilator position to a point substantially overlying the rear cover in its ventilator position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Pfalzgraf