Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David S. Safran
  • Motor vehicle body part
    Patent number: 7128365
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body part, especially a motor vehicle roof, cargo bed, or the like, which includes a composite material having an outside skin and a support structure in a sandwich structure. In order to prevent penetration of moisture into the support structure, the support structure, at least in certain areas, is provided with a vapor barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Kiesewetter, Kerim Oezkoek
  • Method and an apparatus for processing auscultation signals
    Patent number: 7130429
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing auscultation signals, e.g. embedded in an electronic stethoscope with a digital readout of an estimated heart rate. The apparatus comprises a bias processor for receiving an auscultation signal and providing a biased auscultation signal; said bias processor comprising an envelope detector and an estimator for calculating a signal representative of the beat frequency of the auscultation signal. In one aspect the information in the biased auscultation signal that is in conformity with the repeated information in the auscultation signal is enhanced. This may e.g. be done by calculating the conformity between the biased auscultation and at least a part of the biased auscultation signal. In another aspect of the invention the auscultation signal is biased by means of A-weighing. Preferably the two aspects of the invention are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen Technology A/S
    Inventors: Torben Naurbo Dalgaard, Lars Arknaes-Pedersen
  • Emission device for an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp
    Patent number: 7122960
    Abstract: An emission device for an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp which maintains an electrode tip shape by which a stable discharge can always be carried out is achieved for a short arc ultra-high pressure mercury lamp with silica glass arc tube containing a pair of opposed electrodes spaced apart a distance of at most 2 mm and in which the arc tube is filled with at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury, a rare gas and a halogen in the range from 1×10?6 ?mole/mm3 to 1×10?2 ?mole/mm3; by providing an operating device which produces a current feed by which the surface of the tip of at least one of the electrodes is shifted into a molten state during lamp operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Tukamoto, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Tomoyoshi Arimoto
  • Device for measurement of machine tools
    Patent number: 7119901
    Abstract: At least two identical combined transmitter/receivers are used to perform a measurement task to be carried out. Each combined transmitter/receiver utilizes a combined exit/entrance window. The identical configuration of the transmitter/receiver yields major cost advantages in the production of these articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Pruftechnik Dieter Busch AG
    Inventor: Heinrich Lysen
  • Hole shape measuring method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7117719
    Abstract: In a measuring apparatus 10, an arm 36 is lowered to insert a measuring sphere 30 into a hole 22A in a workpiece 22, and further the measuring sphere 30 is lowered in the depth direction of the hole 22A. Thereby, the back pressure of compressed air is detected at a plurality of locations by an A/E (air/electricity) converter 18. The detected value is compared with the master reference value by a controller 20 to convert the detected value into the inside diameter of the hole 22A. Thereby, the shape of various holes can be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Sawafuji, Masahiro Tomoeda, Kazuo Nakajima
  • Process for producing a film for controlling the chemotactic function and an artificial material and process for producing the artificial material
    Patent number: 7115419
    Abstract: A process for producing a film for controlling the chemotactic function in an extremely small area in which a chemotactic factor substance in the area has a concentration gradient in one direction. The invention further includes an artificial material with an arrangement in which, on a substrate, there is a film having a chemotactic factor substance for controlling the chemotactic function which it has a concentration gradient in one direction. The process of the invention includes controlling the amount of irradiation in one direction of the film such that the chemotactic factor substance is degenerated which results in a corresponding concentration gradient of the film in the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Suzuki
  • Motor vehicle lock
    Patent number: 7111878
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock includes a latch and a ratchet arrangement. The latch is able to swivel around a swivelling axis, and be moved into an open position, a main locked position and optionally a preliminary locked position. The ratchet arrangement is able to be moved into at least one holding position and into a release position. The ratchet arrangement when in the holding position, keeps the latch, in any case, in the main locked position. The ratchet arrangement includes ratchet kinematics and an adjustable blocking element. By resetting the latch out of the main locked position in the direction of the open position the ratchet kinematics is moved and when the ratchet arrangement is in the holding position the blocking element blocks the movement of the ratchet kinematics which can be caused by the latch and thus blocks the resetting of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Brose Schliesssysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Checrallah Kachouh
  • Openable motor vehicle roof
    Patent number: 7104598
    Abstract: Openable motor vehicle spoiler roof, with at least one cover carrier for a cover which can be raised at its rear edge by pivoting the cover and in the raised state can be displaced to the rear in the lengthwise direction of the roof. The cover carrier is movably guided in the lengthwise direction of the roof by means of a first and second slide elements and is provided with a guide path with which a control carriage, which is also movably guided along the roof-mounted guide in the lengthwise direction of the roof, is engaged. The second slide element is connected to the cover carrier via a coupling element which is coupled to the cover carrier. At least during the pivoting movements of the cover, the second slide element can be moved over the coupling element depending on the motion of the control carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Wabasto AG
    Inventor: Bernhard Wingen
  • Saddle
    Patent number: 7104600
    Abstract: A saddle for pedal-powered devices, especially bicycles, with two spaced apart seat halves (1), each of which supports one half of the buttocks, and with a cup joint arrangement on its bottom. The cup joint arrangement (5) has an essentially hollow spherical socket (6) and a cup element (7) which can be moved in it. A support rod (11) has two supports (10), each of which is attached to a respective cup element (7), for connecting the saddle to a saddle support (13) by the support rod (11). The cup joint arrangements (5) each have a device for limiting the range of motion of the cup element (7) in the socket (6). The cup joint axes, around which the cup elements (7) can be moved in their respective socket (6), are each outwardly inclined. Thus, a solid seat on the saddle and ergonomic pedaling are enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventor: Hans Scholz
  • Housing for holding electrical and/or electronic components
    Patent number: 7102078
    Abstract: A housing for holding electrical and/or electronic components with a housing opening and with an entry fitting which is rotationally located in the housing opening, the entry fitting having a cylindrical holding part in which an annular groove is formed, and being held by a fastener in the housing. In the housing, the entry fitting can be securely attached to the housing with simple means and installation of the entry fitting, with the housing otherwise closed, is possible in that, for axially securing the entry fitting in the housing opening, there is an open plastic snap ring which is provided with a feed bevel which is guided in the annular groove, and which, in the installed state of the entry fitting, is locked at least partially in a groove in the housing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: i f m electronic GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Weber, Wolfgang Heinrich, Andreas Hornstein, Wolfgang Mehnert, Franz Sauter, Ralf Siegler
  • Xenon lamp
    Patent number: 7098597
    Abstract: A xenon lamp in which fluctuation of the arc can be suppressed and the time until formation of the flicker phenomenon delayed by having an anode with a flattened or rounded anode tip, a rounded or flattened back end; a portion with a diameter that gradually increases from the anode tip toward the back end of the anode; a portion with a decreasing diameter located behind the portion with the increasing diameter of an axial length which is greater than the length in the axial direction of the portion with an increasing diameter; and a portion with a maximum outside diameter formed in a transition area between the portion with the increasing diameter and the portion with a decreasing diameter, and that the transition area between the portion with the increasing diameter and the portion with the decreasing diameter is formed to be continuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiro Inaoka, Katsuoki Miyasu, Kyosuke Fujina
  • Housing arrangement with at least one junction box
    Patent number: 7098397
    Abstract: A junction box with a square housing and with at least opening and terminal strip for electric cables or lines. With the junction box, a housing arrangement can be modularly built from individual junction boxes that can be reliably connected to one another or to a base part. For attaching the junction box to a second junction box or to a base part, there are two pivotable locking elements on the housing which are movable from a first, open position into a second, locking position, and projecting ribs formed in the area of the outside corners on the housing, the locking element having a U-shape of which a U-bridge is used as an actuating clip and two U-legs, with ends which are bent down, and extend around the ribs on the housing of a second junction box or of the base part in the second, locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Lange, Robert Janke, Hubert Loedige
  • Retaining device for a wheel alignment analyzer
    Patent number: 7093369
    Abstract: Retaining device for a wheel-alignment analyzer for attachment to a wheel of a motor vehicle. Retaining device has a retaining element having at least three retaining arms and a clamping mechanism which can be displaced along the retaining arms. The ends of the clamping mechanism are provided with an overlapping portion for overlapping the edge of the rim and the retaining element can be secured to the edge of the rim. The retaining device offers a stable engagement and centering solution, thus permitting a correct wheel-alignment analysis. The overlapping portion may be spring-loaded and biased in the direction of the wheel and/or the clamping mechanism, and a spacer and the overlapping portion may be provided on the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Inventor: Axel Ohnesorge
  • Motor vehicle roof with a roof opening and a wind deflector
    Patent number: 7093892
    Abstract: Motor vehicle roof with a roof opening, a movable closing element to selectively close or at least partially clear the roof opening, a wind deflector in a front edge area of the roof opening and which is movable between lowered and fully raised positions, and a positioning device for setting intermediate positions of the wind deflector which has a holder which engages the wind deflector and a driven displacement mechanism for vertically displacing the wind deflector into the intermediate positions. The adjustment mechanism has a guide element which is driven by the drive into motion along the wind deflector with an inclined guideway along which an engagement element which is connected to the holder is movably guided. The engagement element is supported on a body-mounted carrier such that it can be moved with respect to the carrier only normal to the direction of motion of the guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Webasto AG
    Inventors: Jadi Karami, Martin Kiedl, Christian Gallner
  • Foil seal lamp
    Patent number: 7095175
    Abstract: A foil seal lamp in which even when a high temperature of the seal area is reached oxidation of the molybdenum metal foils and the molybdenum outer leads which have been placed in the seal area can be reliably prevented, and in which a long service life can be obtained. is achieved by providing the surfaces of the metal foil and the outer lead which are placed in the seal areas with protective coatings of crystalline molybdate. An increase in the amount of protective coating that can be carried is produced by surface roughening the outer leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenzo Kai, Kaoru Nakamura, Kazunori Morikawa
  • Motor vehicle door locking system and door handle
    Patent number: 7091836
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door locking system and a door handle are proposed. In order to prevent unlocking or opening of an electrically triggered motor vehicle door lock by unintentional actuation of a first actuating means, a second actuating means is employed and required to be activated in combination with the first actuation means for unlocking or opening of the motor vehicle door lock, and thus unlocking or opening the assigned motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Brose Schliesssysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Checrallah Kachouh, Ingmar Hentsch
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 7083435
    Abstract: An electrical connector for surface mounting on circuit boards has a housing and at least two contact elements, the contact elements each have a contact leg and a solder terminal leg arranged essentially perpendicularly to each other. The contact legs project into a receiving space in the housing and the solder terminal legs run along a first outer side of the housing. Both horizontal and vertical plug-in directions are obtainable by an end of the solder terminal legs being connected in one piece to a second solder terminal leg, the second solder terminal legs running perpendicular to the first solder terminal legs and parallel to the contact legs along a second outer side of the housing, and by at least one projection being provided on the side of the first solder terminal legs and/or the second solder terminal legs for making electrical contact with the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Markus Lohr
  • Electrical supply or connecting terminal
    Patent number: 7083463
    Abstract: An electrical supply or connecting terminal with a clamping spring and a metal part, the clamping spring having a clamping leg and a contact leg, and the metal part having a conductor bar piece. The clamping leg and the conductor bar piece form a spring force clamp connection for the electrical conductor. The contact leg of the clamping spring has a recess for insertion of the electrical conductor, and an end of the clamping leg extends through the recess. The clamping spring has a retaining section which runs essentially parallel to the insertion direction of the electrical conductor and parallel to the conductor bar piece and the conductor bar piece has been inserted though the recess in a direction opposite the insertion direction of the electrical conductor, the conductor bar piece being clamped securely between the end of the clamping leg and the retaining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Anke Steinkemper, Udo Hoppe, Ralf Geske, Dieter Holste, Thomas Beier, Ralf Lange, Markus Kettern, Sebastian Schaefer
  • Heating flange
    Patent number: 7084374
    Abstract: A heating flange especially for the preheating of the intake air of an internal combustion engine with a frame (8), a supporting ceramic element (2) with a heating band (10) fitted thereto. The supporting ceramic element 2 is held in the frame at an inner side of the frame, and a support spring (1) is arranged between the supporting ceramic element (2) and the inner side of the frame. The support spring (1) is a leaf spring which is straight in the non-stressed state, and sits under an initial prestess between the supporting ceramic element (2) and the inner side of the frame. As a result of this configuration, low friction arises between the supporting ceramic element (2) and heating band (10), as well as leaf spring (1), which reduces failures due to vibratory loading, and a defined initial spring tension with a defined spring deflection is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Beru AG
    Inventors: Steffen Geiger, Thomas Giffels, Martin Eller
  • Feeder verification with a camera
    Patent number: 7083082
    Abstract: A method for component verification during operation of a component placement machine (101) has a series of feeder slots (103) for holding component feeders (104) with feeder markers. Each feeder marker carries a unique feeder ID, and each feeder slot (103) has a unique slot ID (208). On an image taken with a camera of the feeder slots, image analysis is performed to check whether the actual feeders in the slots correspond to those feeders that are intended to be placed in these slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Valor Denmark A/S
    Inventors: Kurt Byskov, Henning Maerkedahl