Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Diller, Ramik & Wight, PC
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Patent number: 6135385Abstract: The suture material dispenser comprises two panels (11, 12) of flexible hard sheet material, engaging each other with deformations (15, 18) and being fixed on top of each other. The panels (11, 12) have rim strips (13, 17) diverging to the outside and forming a channel (20) in the form of a wedge. By turning the panels (11, 12) around the central axis (20), a suture material thread (23) is wound into the channel (20). This thread (23) gets through the slot (21) at the bottom of the channel (20) into a receiving space (22). By pulling at a needle provided at an end of the thread (23), the coil is drawn out of the receiving space (22).Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: B. Braun Surgical, S.A.Inventor: Hugo Martinez de Lahidalga
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Patent number: 6135363Abstract: A vehicle wash boom apparatus includes a fixed journalling tube for journalling a boom-supporting tube for reciprocal and rotational movement about a vertical axis. The journalling tube carries a cam and the boom-supporting tube carries a cam follower. A pair of torsion springs at all times bias the cam follower in an upward direction against a cam surface of the cam which is inclined relative to the vertical axis. Thus, as the boom is rotated, the interaction between the cam and the cam follower effects a vertical movement of the boom-supporting member which allows the boom while being used to by-pass a like boom of an identical apparatus when in its home or parked position.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Inventor: Charles D. Titzer
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Patent number: 6129684Abstract: The urine measuring device comprises a holder (25) to be attached to the bed, which is provided with a measuring container (10) and a collecting bag (33). The measuring container (10) includes an overflow connection (22) which forms, together with the connecting tube (23) of the holder (25), a tube coupling (40). For emptying purposes the measuring container (10) can be swung up about the axis of the tube coupling (40). The urine is then discharged from the measuring container through the overflow connection (22) and the connecting tube (23) of the holder (25) into the collecting bag (33). Subsequently the empty measuring container (10) merely needs to be swung back into its position of use. This facilitates emptying of the measuring container since the container needs not be removed and attached again.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1999Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AGInventors: Martin Sippel, Remi Collin, Karl-Friedrich Voges
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Patent number: 6123448Abstract: An agitator includes a drive motor having a shaft projecting through an axial end of a housing and having connected thereto a propeller boss. The propeller boss and housing define a circumferential gap spanned by a circumferentially extending radially outermost gap covering and sealing portion of a deflector ring. The deflector ring includes a radially innermost ring mounting portion located in the circumferential gap. The deflector ring is preferably made of elastomeric material and an outermost circumferential surface of the deflector ring is exteriorly convexly curved in the form of an aerofoil converging axially toward ends of sealing lips of the deflector ring gap covering and sealing portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: ABS Pump Cent4r GmbHInventors: Klaus Becker, Manfred Dirla, Wilfried Wasser, Hans-Peter Fassbender
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Patent number: 6122994Abstract: A housing for at least partially housing a boat lift pulley of a boat lift includes a main wall having a substantially vertically disposed wall portion defining an inwardly opening generally concave chamber adapted to at least partially receive therein a boat lift pulley. The main wall includes vertical and horizontal planes disposed substantially normal to each other with the concave chamber being offset to one side of the vertical plane. First and second wall portions of the main wall located at opposite sides of the horizontal plane are adapted for selective removal whereby a gear driven shaft can project therethrough to adapt a housing for selective utilization in either of two positions of installation oriented 180.degree. relative to each other. A peripheral edge portion of the main wall preferably includes symmetrically located fasteners for securing the housing to a companion housing in each of the two positions of 180.degree. oriented installation.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Norfolk Fabrication, Inc.Inventors: Lynn P. Norfolk, David Charles Peterson, Jr., Ronald Price Ranere, Russell V. Welton, J. David Augustine
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Patent number: 6120720Abstract: This method involves the injection molding of a polymeric/copolymeric frame about a peripheral edge of glass panel in association with a pair of brackets to form a refrigerator shelf. The glass panel is placed in a cavity of a mold with a peripheral edge of the cavity corresponding to a peripheral edge of the glass panel. The cavity has side cavity portions each housing one of the shelf brackets. Polymeric/copolymeric synthetic plastic material is injected into the cavity preferably adjacent corners thereof such that the forces of the injected material are essentially self-balancing about the peripheral edge of the glass panel, thereby maintaining the glass panel in substantially mating conformity with the cavity to produce a relatively consistently contoured and cross-sectioned frame which, upon the solidification of the plastic material, also unites the shelf brackets to the glass panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1997Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignees: Gemtron Corporation, Mecalit GmbHInventors: Max Meier, Karl-Heinz Meier
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Patent number: 6119678Abstract: An appliance, such as a cooking range, a clothes dryer, a clothes washer, an oven or the like, includes a console along a rear edge of the appliance which can pivot between an upright in-use position and a lower shipping, repair and/or servicing position. The console is preferably of a two-part construction including a front housing body having an integrally injection molded encapsulation or frame peripherally retaining a touch sensor control panel which can be readily accessed when the console is in its lower repair position.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Gemtron CorporationInventor: Brian F. Marchand
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Patent number: 6116432Abstract: The invention concerns a mounting for flat objects, such as CD cases for example. According to the invention, an open frame (1) consists of an upper side leg (2), a lower side leg (3) and a transverse leg (4). In a preferred embodiment of the frame (1), the outer edges (5, 6, 7) of the legs (2, 3, 4) and the inner edges (8, 9, 10) are interconnected at right angles, the inner edge and outer edge of a leg being non-parallel, so forming a tilted holder (11). Since one inner edge (9) is shorter than the length of an edge of the object to be held, a corner of the object projects over the end face (22) of the frame (1). The frames can be secured adjacent to one another by suitable securing elements, and adjacent frames can be rotated through 180.degree., such that the projecting corners of the objects to be stored lie alternately at the top and the bottom, and the objects can thus be removed from the mountings easily, even through the amount of space available is very small.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Inventor: Thomas Rohner
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Patent number: 6116862Abstract: The blood pump (BP) has an elongate tubular pump housing (10) wherein a motor (16) is arranged that drives a pump impeller wheel (22), the pump housing having an inlet (12) at one end and an outlet (18) at the opposite end. The motor (16) comprises a motor housing (15) sealed off against the blood flow. The pump impeller wheel (22) is located at the end of the motor housing (15) facing the inlet (12) and, together with a transition portion (13) of the pump housing (10), forms a rotary pump flown through diagonally, which creates an axial flow flowing around the motor housing (15). Here, the blood flow exclusively flows between stationary parts, thereby reducing the risk of blood decay caused by shear stresses.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: MEDOS Medizintechnik GmbHInventors: Guenter Rau, Helmut Reul, Thorsten Siess
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Patent number: 6112876Abstract: A token for use with a token operated device includes a plurality of predetermined optical characteristics. The plurality of predetermined optical characteristics are disposed in a substantially radially symmetrical manner with respect to the token, and each of the optical characteristics have the property of a facet wherein an effective surface normal of said facet is a line along a predetermined vector angle with an elevational angle ranging preferably between 30.degree. and 60.degree.. An azimuthal angle of the facet surface is other than substantially along a radial line of the token or substantially along a line tangent to an annular ring centered on the token such that a token operated device can validate the predetermined optical characteristics substantially independent of token orientation.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: IDX, Inc.Inventors: Scott Juds, Dave Dauterman
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Patent number: 6106143Abstract: A vibrating device for vibrating liquid provided in vessels comprises a vibrating table (32) whereon the vessels are mountable. The vibrating table (32) is supported eccentrically on a flywheel (10). Due to the eccentric support of the vibrating table (32) on the flywheel (10), high centrifugal forces occur during the operation of the vibrating device, deteriorating the stability of the vibrating device. According to the invention, an adjustable counterbalance weight (76) is connected to the flywheel (10) for balancing the centrifugal forces occurring. For adjustment purposes, the counterbalance weight (76) can be shifted along a guiding device (78). The guiding device (78) comprises a guiding spindle (80) whereon a threaded adjusting nut (87) is provided. By rotating the adjusting nut (87) by means of an adjusting wrench (88), the counterbalance weight (76) can be shifted in the guiding device (78) radially to the flywheel (10).Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: B. Braun Biotech International GmbHInventors: Jens-Peter Nickel, Wolfgang Rietschel, Rainer Sandrock
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Patent number: 6102683Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor installation (10) with an injection-cooled compressor (12) and a method for compressing a gas in a compressor installation. In order to allow for an environmentally acceptable compression of gaseous media, the compressor system (10) is cooled with oil-free cooling water (25) free of additives. The cooling water injection into the compressor (12) is dosed such that the compression is almost isothermal. Further, a water treatment device (31) for preventing mineral deposits is provided that modifies the cooling water (25) such that the formation of mineral deposits in the cooling circuit is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1997Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Inventor: Guenter Kirsten
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Patent number: 6098266Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for the production of rotors (10) for screw-type compressors (16) and to rotors (10) to be produced according to said method. To allow the use of a straightforward manufacturing method for the production of rotors (10) of a complex geometry, a method is proposed wherein, during the production of the negative mold, material is removed from a negative mold blank to generate correction regions of a rotor (10).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Inventor: Guenter Kirsten
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Patent number: 6093008Abstract: The invention relates to a worn-rive compressor (10) with a main rotor shaft (18) on which are fitted at least one first and one second main rotor (14, 16), each of which meshes with a matching first or second sub-rotor (20, 22) on a rotor layshaft (24). To provide a hard-wearing, economically produced and highly efficient worm-drive compressor (10), the hearings of the rotor main and layshafts (18, 24) are matched to the compressed gas supply in such a way that the loads imposed on the shafts by the pressures produced are absorbed by radially operating bearings (40, 42, 44, 47) near the point at which they arise.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1997Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Inventor: Guenter Kirsten
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Patent number: 6081970Abstract: In a rapid mounting hinge cup for furniture hinges, comprising a cup body (2) adapted for insertion into a cup bore (4) of a piece of furniture (6) and for being locked in the cup bore (4) by radially extending the diameter of the cup body, it is provided that said cylindrical cup body (2) comprises two mirror symmetric cup halves (8, 9) connected with each other on one side in the peripheral area, the plane of symmetry of the cup halves extending in a plane including the center axis of the cup bore (4), and further comprising a spreader element (14) spreading the cup halves (8, 9) apart and being provided between the cup halves.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1998Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Prameta Gesellschaft fur Prazisionmetall-und Kuntstofferzeugnisse mbH & Co. KGInventor: Wladyslaw Wasilewski
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Patent number: 6076648Abstract: If the number of returned bills is two or more, the returned bills are identified as abnormally returned bills by an abnormally returned bill detecter, and predetermined abnormal-state processing is accomplished by performing control operations using an abnormality processor. If a bill has jammed in the bill conveying channel, information concerning the direction in which the bill has jammed is stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit of the control unit, and, as a result of control operations performed by the bill reverse-direction conveyance control unit of the control unit, the bill is conveyed in the direction opposite to the bill jamming direction stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit when the bill jammed in the bill conveying channel is to be removed.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Makoto Yamamoto, Mitsugu Mikami
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Patent number: 6077484Abstract: A low/intermediate/high flow tablet feeder is provided for the controlled dissolution of a solid treating agent in flowing liquid, such as water or wastewater. The tablet feeder includes a bottom wall which is contoured to define first, second and third fluid flow paths which are operative at low, intermediate and high volume/height fluid flow. An adjustable sluice is provided adjacent a downstream outlet of a chamber defined by the tablet feeder, and a sectional riser can be associated with the tablet feeder for extended or below grade installations.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Norwalk Wastewater Equipment CompanyInventor: Jan D. Graves
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Patent number: 6071015Abstract: A socket (10) for connecting a plug (15) to installed mains lines (17) has its base (12) provided with a casing (18) in which an electronic bus coupler (BA) is arranged. The bus coupler (BA) is connected to a bus line (19) also installed. Signals generated by the bus coupler (BA) are converted into optical signals by a photoelectric converter (21) and transmitted to the plug (15) The plug (15) comprises the end of an optical wave-guide (23) which extends through the connected cable (24) besides the electric supply lines. Thus it is achieved that the signals are present as optical signals in the cable (24) and cannot be influenced by electric disturbances.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1997Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Gebr. Merten GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Karl-Ulrich Erbse, deceased, Klaus Gringmann, Helmut Schmidt, Manfred Stefanski, Richard Vicktorius
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Patent number: 6066078Abstract: The machine tool comprises two headstocks (16,17), arranged on a support (10), which are movable independently of each other along their height and their longitudinal direction. A respective one (17) of the headstocks is active in the treatment of a workpiece attached on a workpiece carrier (20), while the other headstock (16) can be moved behind a tool magazine (24) for receiving a tool therefrom. While the one headstock is still working on the workpiece, the other headstock with the next tool can already be accelerated to the required working rotational speed and be advanced to the tool. Thus, the time required for exchange of tools is extremely shortened.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1999Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Honsberg Lamb Sonderwerkzeugmaschinen GmbHInventors: Rolf Koelblin, Reinhard Schneider, Werner Mueller, Horst Fein
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Patent number: D426771Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: Andrew Osborne Blow, Ian Connelly, Bruce John Munn