Patents Represented by Attorney Dilworth & Barrese, LLP
  • Patent number: 7921667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator and/or freezer comprising an ice-cube maker with an ice-cube tray and with means by which the ice-cube tray can be moved out of its operating position into a cleaning position, wherein the refrigerator and/or freezer has a replication unit by means of which an option relating to the cleaning of the ice-cube tray can be replicated; wherein a selection unit is provided by means of which the replicated option can be selected; and wherein a control is provided by means of which the means of moving the ice-cube tray out of its operating position into a cleaning position are activated after selection of the option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hausgeraete Lienz GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Gradl, Bernd Fuetsch, Roland Schelodetz
  • Patent number: 7923081
    Abstract: A mat type recording medium for ink jet printing is provided which exhibits optimum printability no matter which of dye ink and pigment ink may be used in printing. The recording medium, which is for recording with use of water-based ink containing an ink colorant, comprises a paper base and an ink receptive layer formed on a surface of the paper base, the ink receptive layer comprising a porous layer containing an inorganic pigment and also containing a substance reactive with the ink colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignees: Oji Paper Co., Ltd., Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuura, Naho Ishida, Kenichi Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Nagashima, Sadayuki Sugama
  • Patent number: 7918329
    Abstract: Provided is a low-cost electrostatic attraction transfer apparatus which can perform high-speed transfer, stabilizes a contact status of an electrostatic attraction board with a film and the like and does not generate fine defects on an object to be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Seiren Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hidemasa Araie, Kenichi Takashima, Susumu Takagi
  • Patent number: 7914352
    Abstract: A cover for a flotation device includes a single piece fabric configured and dimensioned so as to slip over and completely enclose an individual noodle type flotation device and adapted for removal and replacement by the same or another cover. The cover possesses reopenable closures such as drawstring, zipper, button, snap and/or hook and loop type closures at the ends of the cover or along its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: C2MP, Inc.
    Inventor: Margaret K. Williams
  • Patent number: 7910665
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin and, as the effective curing agent, an epoxy-reactive polyphosphonate which can be of the formula (I) where “Y” is an arylene and “n” can range from about 2 to about 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: ICL-IP America Inc.
    Inventors: Sergei Levchik, Andrew M. Piotrowski
  • Patent number: 7910774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to synthetic routes to prepare a compound of the formula wherein R1 is halogen, C1-6halogenalkyl, C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyloxy or C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyl; R2 is halogen, C1-4alkyl or C1-4alkoxy; R3 and R4 are independently branched C3-6alkyl; and R5 is cycloalkyl, C1-6alkyl, C1-6hydroxyalkyl, C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkanoyloxy-C1-6alkyl, C1-6aminoalkyl, C1-6alkylamino-C1-6alkyl, C1-6dialkylamino-C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkanoylamino-C1-6alkyl, HO(O)C—C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyl-O—(O)C—C1-6alkyl, H2N—C(O)—C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyl-HN—C(O)—C1-6alkyl or (C1-6alkyl)2N—C(O)—C1-6alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as well as key intermediates obtained when following these routes as well as their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Sedelmeier, Stuart John Mickel, Heinrich Rueeger
  • Patent number: 7909944
    Abstract: A surface conditioning composition is provided in which a titanium phosphate compound can be stored in the state of a dispersion liquid for a long period of time while being stably present in the dispersion liquid, with favorable stability also in the bath, and with the composition being capable of forming a conversion coating film in a sufficient amount of the film even in the case of application to conversion resistant metal materials such as high-tensile steel sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventors: Toshio Inbe, Yusuke Wada, Masahiko Matsukawa, Kotaro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7902782
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a method for operating a door drive which includes at least one high-speed mode and at least one normal-speed mode, with the following steps: determining a load-dependent operating parameter of the door drive and changing from the high-speed mode into the normal-speed mode in dependence on the load-dependent operating parameter, in order to prevent an overload of the door drive. The invention likewise comprises a corresponding door drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Marantec Antriebs-Und Steuerungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Hormann
  • Patent number: 7896208
    Abstract: A method for cleaving thin rods of glass or quartz with a rod cleaving blade (27) and body (28) carrying the blade, is provided. The body (28) is of material varying in length through application of electric and/or magnetic fields. Driving force (31, 33) achieves relatively steady movement of the blade (27) towards a desired cleaving point and relatively steady small-amplitude vibratory component of movement towards and away from the cleaving point superimposed to the relatively steady movement, by influencing the body (28) electrically and/or magnetically. The blade is driven to vibrate with a frequency below 1 kHz during cleaving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nyfors Teknologi AB
    Inventor: Uwe Böttcher
  • Patent number: 7896316
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a truck crane with a winch, in particular a hoisting winch, which is mounted on the uppercarriage, wherein the truck crane includes means for raising and/or lowering the winch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Dieter Willim
  • Patent number: 7891946
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotor blade adjusting drive for adjusting the pitch angle of a rotor blade of a wind power plant, comprising a drive train which at the output end can be connected with the rotor blade and/or a bearing member supporting the rotor blade, and a spring accumulator connectable with the drive train, which includes a spring accumulator shaft, a spring accumulator housing and a spring means which can be tensioned by rotating spring accumulator shaft and spring accumulator housing relative to each other, wherein the spring accumulator shaft and/or the spring accumulator housing can be uncoupled from the drive train and is rotatable with respect to the same for biasing the spring accumulator, wherein a braking device is provided for retarding and/or holding the spring accumulator shaft and/or the spring accumulator housing against the spring bias in the uncoupled condition of the spring accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Peter Mollhagen
  • Patent number: 7891057
    Abstract: A bearing block has a screw guided through a bore of the bearing block as well as a bearing sleeve which has an internal thread which is in engagement with the external thread of the screw and whose outer surface serves as a door support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hausgeräate Lienz GmbH
    Inventor: Anton Brugger
  • Patent number: 7886451
    Abstract: Fabrication methods are provided for an electrolytic tilt sensor which includes a containment envelope defining an interior space; at least first and second electrodes disposed along, and in contact with, a first interior surface portion of the containment envelope, said first and second electrodes being spaced apart from each other to define a gap between respective opposing edges of the first and second electrodes; at least a third electrode disposed along and in contact with a second interior surface portion of the containment envelope opposite said first interior surface portion; an electrolyte solution at least partially filling the interior space of the containment envelope to provide a bubble; and means for hermetically sealing the containment envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: The Fredericks Company
    Inventors: Andrew Ruether, Joseph J. Seipp, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7886554
    Abstract: A chest refrigerator and/or freezer with a carcass and a cover movable relative to the carcass, includes a pane, preferably a pane of glass or plastics, or is formed by the pane, with a heating element provided by which the pane can be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Simoner
  • Patent number: 7883163
    Abstract: A telescopic rail system, in particular for refrigerator units and/or freezer units, has a support plate for the holding the telescopic rail system in the inner compartment of the refrigerator unit and/or freezer unit and two telescopic rails arranged opposite at the support plate in its lateral regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hausgerate Ochsenhausen GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Dorner, Werner Schad, Stefan Rapp
  • Patent number: 7883837
    Abstract: This invention provides a transparent electrically conductive film, which, while maintaining the light transparency of a transparent film, has excellent electrical conductivity, can be utilized for electromagnetic wave shielding, and does not cause inclusion of air bubbles in the lamination onto other base material, and a process for producing the same. The production process comprises the steps of forming a large number of concaves and convexes having an average height of not more than 0.1 ?m on both sides or one side of a transparent film, forming a resist layer having a pattern shape opposite to the electrically conductive part in the electrically conductive film on the transparent film on its concave-convex side, applying a catalyst for plating onto the resist layer-formed face, separating the resist layer, forming a metal layer by plating, and blackening the metal layer, the metal layer satisfying 1?W/T?500 wherein W represents the width of the metal layer and T represents the height of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Seiren Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Yamada, Hidekazu Shiomi, Hideyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: D633982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Poolrite Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ross Leslie Palmer, Christopher Townsend
  • Patent number: D634338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Olofsfors AB
    Inventor: Lennart Burstrom
  • Patent number: D634399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Poolrite Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ross Leslie Palmer, Christopher Townsend
  • Patent number: D634788
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Inventor: Mats Andersson