Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Diller, Ramik & Wight, PC
  • Bomb blast drapery
    Patent number: 5915449
    Abstract: A bomb blast drapery is defined by a sheet of substantially resilient fabric having high burst strength and substantial fullness in width and length such as to project peripherally beyond a glass window in a wall opening of an associated building. The fabric sheet has a fullness in a width direction approximately 21/2 times the wall opening width and a length fullness ranging from 20" for a window height of approximately 10" up to approximately 380" for a window height of up to 190". The burst strength of the fabric sheet is approximately 110 lbs. and the weight thereof is substantially 4.2 oz. per linear yard. A bottom hem of the flexible sheet includes a weight and the hem further includes a multiplicity of overfolds housed in a trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Craig Schwartz
  • Containers
    Patent number: 5911551
    Abstract: A can end 50 is attached to a flange 16 of a can body 1 by means of a double seam. The radius r.sub.2 of the seaming panel 55 of the can end is related to the radius r.sub.1 of the body flange radius 17 by the formular.sub.2 =r.sub.1 +twhere t is the thickness of the body flange. The benefit arising is that a longer body hook in the seam is achieved so that the overlap of body hook and can end is reliably increased so that reduced axial pressure may be used during formation of the double seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Carnaudmetalbox plc
    Inventor: Peter Leslie Moran
  • Tensile strength tester with clamping load application control
    Patent number: 5911166
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for measuring the tensile strength of a flat sheet of material with a set of clamping jaw members having respective clamping surfaces. A cylinder is provided for closing the first and second jaw members in a clamped position. Transitional members are provided for transferring the load developed by the cylinder to the first and second jaw members without any bending deflections occurring at the clamping surfaces which secure the sheet sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Inventor: Wavell F. Cowan
  • Latch socket for reinforcing the lock between a door and a door frame
    Patent number: 5906404
    Abstract: A latch socket is provided for reinforcing the lock achieved between the door and a door frame utilizing a deadbolt lock or a key lock. The latch socket includes a relatively rigid elongated metallic one-piece homogeneous cast metal member having an exterior cylindrical surface with a coarse thread cast therein which is adapted to be threaded into a relatively large diameter drill hole of an associated door frame. The member includes opposite tubular end portions with a wall therebetween having a socket for receiving a drive tool for imparting axial and rotational drive force to the member for threading the same into or unthreading the same from an associated door frame drill hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventor: John D. McGhee
  • Method and apparatus for measuring position by image processing
    Patent number: 5901236
    Abstract: An object whose position is to be measured is provided with a light-emitting element, the luminance of the light-emitting element is varied in two levels (lit/extinguished) with a prescribed period, images of four consecutive frames are successively acquired, one frame being an image picked up in a time of 1/4 of the period of this variation of luminance, of the four consecutive frames, a first difference image of the first frame and third frame and a second difference image of the second frame and fourth frame are acquired, and, of the first difference image and second difference image, the difference image of greatest lightness is selected. This selected difference image is always the difference image between the image during the lit period of the light-emitting element and the image during the extinguished period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiichi Mizui
  • Can body having sidewall grooves
    Patent number: 5899355
    Abstract: A metal container has a bottom wall and a side wall provided with a low relief pattern of shallow grooves or creases to define outwardly convex panels. The grooves or creases have a depth between 0.3 and 3% of the radius of the side wall which has thickness between 3 and 30% of the radius of the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Carnaudmetal box ( Holdings) USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Charles Claydon, Christopher Paul Ramsey
  • Card and device for processing of same
    Patent number: 5895909
    Abstract: A hybrid card and a processing device capable of rapidly identifying a read/write unit corresponding to an IC module from a plurality of read/write units and preventing fraud in respect of the IC module. Identification data identifying the type of an IC module 11a is held in for example a magnetic stripe 11b outside the IC module 11a of a hybrid card 11. Authentication data corresponding to the identification data is held in the IC module 11a. An R/W unit adapted to the IC module 11a is selected in accordance with the identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a. The identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a and the authentication data contained in the data read from the IC module 11a are compared and, only if the two agree, the reading from or writing into the an IC read/write unit 130 is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventor: Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Circuit for cyclically driving several loads
    Patent number: 5892296
    Abstract: A basic circuit (10) includes an oscillator (11) whose frequency can be set via a frequency-determining component (15). At outputs (A1-A5), the basic circuit (10) cyclically generates pulses by which consumers (L1-L5) are driven. A switch (18) is connected in parallel to the frequency-determining component (15), said switch being controlled by the outputs (A1-A5) and changing the oscillator frequency during an output pulse. Thus, the output pulses change the oscillator frequency and thus their own pulse duration themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignees: Electronic Art Gallery Elektronische Werbemittel GmbH, Loupi S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Paul Lafonta
  • Convertible waist pack, day backpack and shoulder bag
    Patent number: 5887770
    Abstract: A multiple use pack is designed for convenience, security and optimal use of space and structures which can be sued as a waist pack, a day backpack or a shoulder bag. A back face of the waist pack slides by means of a long belt loop on a removable, adjustable belt with quick release buckles allowing the waist pack to serve as a fanny pack/belly pack. The waist pack converts into a day backpack by opening a zippered main compartment posterior to the waist pack's main storage compartment. The zipper is stopped by a strip of fabric located in the middle bottom of the waist pack's main storage compartment connected to the middle bottom of the back face of the waist pack. The connecting fabric strip becomes a combined zipper stop and weight-bearing hinge which keeps the zipper slider from being pulled apart by the weight of items stored in the pack when used in the day backpack mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Inventor: John F. Covell
  • Belt including an extensible mid-portion and buckle and tail tab portions formed of injection molded synthetic plastic material
    Patent number: 5873133
    Abstract: A sports belt, particularly a baseball belt, which includes from one end to the other a buckle, a buckle tab portion, a loop, an elongated belt mid-portion which is preferably adjustable and a tail tab portion. The tail tab portion and the buckle tab portion are each constructed from a single piece of injection molded synthetic polymeric/copolymeric plastic material. The tail tab portion is injection molded with a slot between two connecting tabs into which is slid a terminal end of the mid-portion of the belt which is stitched and/or adhesively bonded thereto. The buckle tab portion is defined by central and opposite end portions with intermediate portions of lesser thickness therebetween about which the buckle tab portion can be folded to unite thereto a buckle and a looped portion of the elastic belt mid-portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Ampac Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Stan M. Jurga, Mike Chien-Fang Chen
  • Multithread package for surgical sewing material
    Patent number: 5871089
    Abstract: The package (10) provides a first panel (11) and a second panel (12) foldably connected thereto. The first panel (11) serves as a winding panel and is connected at opposite sides to various separation panels (18,19, 20,21). Thread coils (42) can be wound on the first panel (11), the needles (43) thereof are inserted into a foam material needle support (24). After that, a separation panel (19) is folded over to cover a part of the finished thread coil (42). Above that, a further thread coil is produced. The individual separation panels (18-21) each only cover a part of the thread coil below, yet keep the threads from becoming entangled with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: B. Braun Surgical AG
    Inventor: Erich K. Odermatt
  • Machine tool
    Patent number: 5871427
    Abstract: The machine tool comprises a machine stand (10) with a vertically movable vertical carrier (12) carrying a spindle head (SK1) for treatment of a workpiece. To exchange the spindle head (SK1) against a new spindle head (SK2), an exchange unit (15) is provided, comprising an exchange arm (16) pivotable by 90.degree. about a vertical axis (37). Two holding couplings (17,18) are mounted above each other on the exchange arm (16), each adapted to carry a spindle head (SK1,SK2). A delivery means (21), gripping the spindle heads from above, is used to supply the spindle heads for transfer to the exchange unit (15). The exchange unit (15) grips the spindle heads from the side. By pivoting the exchange arm (16) over 90.degree., the spindle head is pivoted to a position in front of the machine stand (10) and thus can be taken over by the vertical carrier (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Honsberg Lamb Sonderwerkzeugmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Koelblin, Reinhard Schneider
  • Connector
    Patent number: 5871369
    Abstract: A connector comprises a plurality of movable terminals, a a frame for holding the plurality of movable terminals in a row at prescribed intervals, a contact bar for joining under pressure the plurality of movable terminals and the terminal conductors of a cable disposed on the plurality of the movable terminals, and a cover for pressing the contact bar, whereby the cable is connected to the connector by a simple operation without the use of special tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: I-PEX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Obayashi, Eiji Kawabe, Shuichi Endo
  • Flow augmenting device for a wastewater treatment plant
    Patent number: 5868172
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment apparatus is provided which includes at least an aeration chamber and a clarification chamber having a common wall therebetween, a transfer port opening through the common wall between a lower portion of the clarification chamber and the aeration chamber, an aerator mechanism in the aeration chamber for creating wastewater flow currents which flow through an inlet portion of a flow augmenting device located in the common wall above the transfer port. The flow augmenting device is a conduit or pipe having a discharge outlet adjacent the lower portion of the clarification chamber through which exits the flow from the aeration chamber resulting in solid particles being agitated and returned from the clarification chamber lower portion into the aeration chamber through the transfer port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Norwalk Wastewater Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan D. Graves
  • Vandal-proof vending machine
    Patent number: 5860714
    Abstract: A vandal-proof vending machine includes a rigid frame housed within an opening of a building with a cabinet of the dispensing machine being housed entirely within the building and thereby being rendered inaccessible from the exterior. A front opening of the frame to which products housed in an interior of the cabinet can be viewed is protected by a laminate of tough transparent material and tough metal mesh. The cabinet has rollers at a bottom thereof and one corner is secured by pivots to a side of the frame. The cabinet can thereby be rolled between a closed dispensing position and an opened servicing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Inventor: Charles Robert Skord, Jr.
  • Measuring device for measuring concentrated radiation of light
    Patent number: 5861947
    Abstract: Measuring device (1) for measuring concentrated radiation of light with a reflector (3) arranged in an inclined manner being transversely movable through the incident light (4). A camera (2) recording the light reflected by the reflector (3) has its optical axis (2a) aligned approximately parallel to the direction of movement of the reflector (3). This allows for a flat arrangement of the measuring device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Deutshes Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventor: Andreas Neumann
  • Motor vehicle heat exhanger
    Patent number: 5860595
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for heating the passenger compartments of motor vehicles by means of the heat given off by the engine (1) via the coolant which is taken back to the engine (1) through coolant lines via a heat exchanger to heat the passenger compartment, and a device for implementing the process. The heating capacity provided for the passenger compartment can be markedly increased by the use of a counterflow heat exchanger (3) and reducing the coolant flow through the engine (1) and/or the heat exchanger (3) by a proportion determined by the permissible limit values of engine cooling. A counterflow characteristic can be obtained, in particular, by the series connection of conventional cross-flow heat exchangers. Further improvements are possible by specially designing the heat exchanger fins and the dimensions and insulation of the coolant lines (2, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Inventor: Johann Himmelsbach
  • Container
    Patent number: D403962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: CarnaudMetalbox (Holdings) USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Ramsey
  • Container
    Patent number: D409496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: CarnaudMetalbox (Holdings) USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Ramsey
  • Hand-pulled or shoulder-carried case
    Patent number: D411662
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Wallace Thomas Carter