Patents Represented by Attorney Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC
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Patent number: 8349485Abstract: A modular battery includes a housing, a first planar battery cell having a first planar electrode surface, a second planar battery cell having a second planar electrode surface, and an interconnector disposed between the first planar surface and the second planar surface and electrically connecting the first and second planar electrode surfaces, side peripheries of the interconnector, the first and second planar battery cells being electrically insulated from the housing. A method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Lightening EnergyInventors: Duncan Culver, Christopher K. Dyer, Michael L. Epstein
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Patent number: 8351049Abstract: An interferometric device for position measurement of an element moveable in a plane is disclosed. A laser light source measures the position of the moveable element and emits the required measuring light. A beam splitter splits the measuring light into a first partial beam path and a second partial beam path, which each impinge on a reflecting surface of the moveable element via an interferometer. Herein, at least the beam splitter, which splits the measuring light into a first partial beam path and a second partial beam path, and the beam splitter, which directs the third partial beam path onto an etalon via an interferometer, have a respective beam trap associated with them, which traps the light returning from the respective interferometers.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Vistec Semiconductor Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Artur Boesser, Siegfried Peter Kluge, Joerg Lenz, Gerhard Joseph Nickel
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Patent number: 8348077Abstract: The invention relates to bodies that have a structuring with connecting elements formed around the entire girth of the body. Furthermore, the invention relates to packages including an arrangement of at least two bodies according to the invention, with the connecting elements of a first body cooperating with the corresponding connecting elements of a second body in a form-locking manner. Furthermore, the invention relates to a device for producing packages from bodies. The device has an alignment unit and at least one sliding device for form-lockingly connecting the aligned bodies, with at least two bodies at a time being rotated about their longitudinal axes in order to align corresponding connecting elements of the two bodies so that they can cooperate. The invention moreover relates to a method for producing packages from bodies, whereby at least two bodies are aligned first and subsequently assembled to form a first package, with the oppositely arranged connecting elements form-lockingly interlocking.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Krones AGInventor: Thomas Wimmer
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Patent number: 8350526Abstract: A vehicle charging station is provided. The vehicle charging station includes a charging source providing an electrical charge, a coolant source providing coolant and a connector having both an electrical supply section delivering the electrical charge and a coolant supply section delivering the coolant. The connector is capable of connecting to a vehicle. A connector for a vehicle charging station and an electric vehicle are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Lightening EnergyInventors: Christopher K. Dyer, Michael L. Epstein, Duncan Culver
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Patent number: 8347681Abstract: A method is provided for controlling cold rolling of a sheet metal strip involving continuously passing the strip in at least two successive rolling stands, each stand including at least two driven rolls between which the strip moves and is plated. The method includes estimating the slippage variation in output of one rolling stand; and correcting the rotation speed of the rolls of at least one corrected rolling stand based on the estimated slippage variation.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Converteam Technology Ltd.Inventor: Lionel Broussard
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Patent number: 8348512Abstract: A clutch release bearing device having an interior and an exterior raceway. The exterior raceway is equipped with a ring wall being retracted underneath the path radius of an inner roller body raceway. An interior sealing device is provided, including a ring element axially supported on an inner radial wall section of the retracted ring wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Steffen Dittmer, Bernhard Kloepfer, Ludwig Winkelmann
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Patent number: 8341841Abstract: A method for machining components of a gas turbine, in particular for machining turbine blades, is described. The method includes the following steps: a) providing at least one component carrier having at least one component receptacle for detachable accommodation and fastening component to be machined, the component receptacle being designed with a contour similar to at least one contour of subarea of component to be accommodated; b) introducing at least one subarea of the component into component receptacle and form-fitting and/or substance-to-substance bonding of the subarea of the component to component receptacle; c) machining the component, which is attached to the component carrier; and d) releasing the machined component from the component carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Martin Fessler-Knobel
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Patent number: 8343642Abstract: A modular battery includes a housing, a first battery cell having a first electrode surface, a second battery cell having a second electrode surface, and a pressurizable bladder forcing the first battery cell against the second battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Lightening EnergyInventors: Duncan Culver, Christopher K. Dyer, Michael L. Epstein
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Patent number: 8346022Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image in an array of pixels, in a computer memory, performing a tone mapping method on the image, performing a log chromaticity method on the image and calculating a color value for each pixel as a function of information relevant to the tone mapping method and the log chromaticity method.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventor: Casey Arthur Smith
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Porous roll with axial zones and method of proving printing liquid to a cylinder in a printing press
Patent number: 8342092Abstract: A roll for distributing printing liquid in a printing press is provided. The roll includes a roll core having at least a first and a second axial zone, a first liquid feed for feeding liquid to the first axial zone, a second liquid feed for feeding the liquid to the second axial zone independent of the first axial zone and a porous shell covering the first and second axial zones. A printing press, a method for providing printing liquid through a porous shell of a printing liquid supply roll to a cylinder of a printing press, an inking apparatus and a method for providing ink to an anilox roll are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Kent Dirksen Kasper, Lawrence Edward Zagar, David Robert Dawley, Aaron Christian Sakash -
Patent number: 8333251Abstract: A pneumatically striking hand-held power tool is controlled by the following steps. An acceleration (a) along a striking axis (8) of the hand-held power tool (1) is detected. A driving power is reduced if the detected acceleration (a) is greater than a threshold value (A), the threshold value (A) being selected to be greater than maximum acceleration values (a1, a2) that occur on a workpiece during the striking operation of the hand-held power tool (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Holger Cecchin, Erwin Manschitz, Germar Meiendres, Franz Moessnang, Stefan Hammerstingl
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Patent number: 8327987Abstract: A torque converter including a housing, a lock-up clutch, the lock-up clutch having a split piston having a radial inner portion and a radial outer portion, and a drive plate connecting the housing and the outer portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Andre Soto
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Patent number: 8329734Abstract: The invention is directed to formulations and methods of treating a migraine and/or cluster headache with a serotonin agonist, pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or derivative thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: AFGIN Pharma LLCInventor: Ronald Aung-Din
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Patent number: 8327636Abstract: A torque converter including a turbine, a vibration damper, a cover, the cover having blades, and a clutch pack, the blades increasing a fluid flow toward or away from the clutch pack.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Aliihsan Karamavruc, Andre Soto
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Patent number: 8328502Abstract: A method for manufacturing a torque converter includes providing an outer race of a one way clutch, contacting the outer race with a side plate, and casting a stator housing together with the outer race and the side plate. A torque converter is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Eric Krusinski, David Avins
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Patent number: 8327991Abstract: A slave cylinder and a release system, the slave cylinder being configured in particular as a CSC for a hydraulic system of a motor vehicle. While maintaining the axial extension of the working space of the piston axially moveable in the slave cylinder, the force for actuating the clutch is increased in that the pressure chamber is sealed by two sealing elements having different diameters, and in that at least one energy accumulator is disposed in the pressure chamber of the slave cylinder, the energy accumulator generating a preload on the clutch release bearing operative connected to the slave cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Peter Scholz, Thomas Rammhofer, Christof Sester
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Patent number: 8329109Abstract: A dry conversion reactor for converting uranium hexafluoride to uranium dioxide, the dry conversion reactor including a gas-phase reaction segment and a fluidized bed segment, wherein at least one of the gas-phase reaction segment and the fluidized bed segment is a replaceable segment. A method for operating a dry conversion reactor utilizing a uranium hexafluoride to uranium dioxide conversion process, the method including replacing at least one conversion reactor segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Areva NPInventors: Richard Thaddeus Kimura, Andrew Landon, Clifford Yeager
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Patent number: 8322270Abstract: A reciprocating piston machine, such as an air-conditioning compressor for motor vehicles, having a housing, a rotationally drivable shaft, a shaft sealing device, in particular a mechanical shaft seal, at least one radial shaft bearing, especially a radial rolling-contact bearing, and at least one axial shaft bearing, in particular an axial rolling-contact bearing, a bearing sleeve which accommodates at least the radial shaft bearing, being configured within an opening in the housing, extending into the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: LUK Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Jan Hinrichs
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Patent number: 8319821Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining an illumination flux condition in a scene. The method comprises the steps of generating and storing a sequence of images of the scene, each one of the sequence of images comprising an array of pixels and corresponding to the scene photographed in a preselected polarization direction, different from the polarization direction of other ones of the sequence of images, determining a polarization sequence vector for at least one pixel in the array, as a function of color information for the pixel in the array, among the sequence of images; and utilizing the polarization sequence vector to determine one of a shadowed and lit illumination condition for the at least one pixel.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Kristin Jean Dana, Richard Mark Friedhoff, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Steven Joseph Bushell, Casey Arthur Smith
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Patent number: D672266Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: David Yurman IP LLCInventor: Evan Yurman