Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Dilworth & Barrese
  • Patent number: 7497532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carcass member, in particular a cupboard, a chest of drawers or the like, comprising a flap by which the carcass member can be closed and comprising a fitting which has a mounting panel and a support arm connected in its end region to the flap directly or indirectly, with the mounting panel being mounted on the outer side of a wall of the carcass member and with the support arm being pivotally arranged on the mounting panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 7495143
    Abstract: A process for alkylation of a hydrocarbon compound includes providing a catalyst including a zeolite Y having a crystal size of no more than 100 nm, and reacting an alkylatable hydrocarbon with an alkylating agent in the presence of the catalyst under alkylation reaction conditions to provide a gasoline product having a Research Octane Number of over 99.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Xingtao Gao, Johannes Hendrik Koegler, Lawrence L. Murrell, Philip J. Angevine
  • Patent number: 7481068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the storage of deep-frozen goods in a freezer having a speed-controlled compressor. In accordance with the invention, the compressor is operated in long-term operation and the temperature is lowered in a low-temperature mode to a temperature which is clearly below ?18° C., and is kept substantially constant at this selected temperature with only low temperature fluctuations which are caused by a change in speed of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hausgeräte Ochsenhausen GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried King, Matthias Wiest, Helmut Bauer, Thomas Ertel
  • Patent number: 7481692
    Abstract: A constructional system comprises a plurality of building blocks and one or more connectors. In order to propose an improved constructional system, the building block (1) is characterized by a square assembly opening (2) which is surrounded by an assembly funnel (3)(FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
  • Patent number: 7478835
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile unit for mobile machines having extensible support devices comprising a first, continuous rigid support on which travel devices and some of the support devices are arranged and on which a further continuous support or divided support arms, which support the remaining support devices, are outwardly pivotably linked. In accordance with the invention, the first, continuous rigid support is aligned at an angle to the imagined longitudinal axis of the mobile unit and the further continuous support or the divided support arms are aligned with point symmetry to a real or imagined pivot point on the continuous rigid support, with them likewise supporting travel devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger
    Inventor: Oliver Autenrieth
  • Patent number: 7478490
    Abstract: A device is provided for attaching a first part in the form of an instrument or tool to a second part in the form of a beam or such on a working machine having, on each of the parts, one engagement member fixed thereto, which are designed to be driven into engagement with each other so that the force of gravity on the first part holds the parts attached to one another. A first (17) of the engagement members is of the male-type having external surfaces converging towards each other and a second of the engagement members is of the female-type having internal surfaces converging towards each other in a corresponding way to said surfaces of the first engagement means for receiving and holding the first engagement means in the second engagement means under the influence of the force of gravity on the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Stock of Sweden AB
    Inventor: Max Segerljung
  • Patent number: 7473725
    Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin composition contains, as the major plasticizer, a neopentyl glycol bis(diphenyl phosphate) composition in an amount that is no less than about 25% by weight, based upon the vinyl chloride resin being present at 100%, by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Supresta LLC.
    Inventors: Paul Y. Moy, Lambertus Antonius De Kleine
  • Patent number: 7470645
    Abstract: A catalytic material includes microporous zeolites supported on a mesoporous inorganic oxide support. The microporous zeolite can include zeolite Beta, zeolite Y (including “ultra stable Y”—USY), mordenite, Zeolite L, ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-20, Theta-1, ZSM-23, ZSM-34, ZSM-35, ZSM-48, SSZ-32, PSH-3, MCM-22, MCM-49, MCM-56, ITQ-1, ITQ-2, ITQ-4, ITQ-21, SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-37, Breck-6, ALPO4-5, etc. The mesoporous inorganic oxide can be e.g., silica or silicate. The catalytic material can be further modified by introducing some metals e.g. aluminum, titanium, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, iron, tungsten, palladium and platinum. It can be used as catalysts for acylation, alkylation, dimerization, oligomerization, polymerization, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, aromatization, isomerization, hydrotreating, catalytic cracking and hydrocracking reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiping Shan, Peter Wilhelm, Bowden George Maingay, Philip J. Angevine, Jacobus Cornelis Jansen, Chuen Y. Yeh, Thomas Maschmeyer, Frits M. Dautzenberg, Leonardo Marchese, Heloise de Oliveira Pastore
  • Patent number: 7468416
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a catalyst system includes the steps of combining a Lewis base, an organic compound having at least one functional group containing active hydrogen, and an organometallic component with a particulate support material to provide an intermediate composition, and then combining the intermediate composition with one or more metallocene compound. The catalyst system is advantageously used for olefin polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Sell, Joerg Schottek, Nicola Stefanie Paczkowski, Andreas Winter
  • Patent number: 7468475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for stimulating root growth and/or enhancing the formation of lateral or adventitious roots and/or altering root geotropism comprising expression of a cytokinin oxidase or comprising expression of another protein that reduces the level of active cytokinins in plants or plant parts. Also provided by the present invention are methods for increasing seed size and/or weight, embryo size and/or weight, and cotyledon size and/or weight. The methods comprise expression of a cytokinin oxidase or expression of another protein that reduces the level of active cytokinins in plants or plant parts. Methods and compositions for increasing seed yield are also provided. The invention also relates to isolated plant cytokinin oxidase proteins, nucleic acid sequences encoding cytokinin oxidase proteins as well as to vectors, host cells, transgenic cells and plants comprising such sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Schmülling, Tomàs Werner
  • Patent number: 7467524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air-conditioning system, in particular an air-conditioning system for the air-conditioning of a passenger cabin of an airplane, having at least one heat exchanger arranged in a stagnation air passage for the cooling of compressed air and having at least one first shaft device and one second shaft device, with the heat exchanger including at least one first heat exchanger unit and one second heat exchanger unit separate from it on the compressed air side, which are arranged in the common stagnation air passage and of which a respective one is in communication on the compressed air side with a respective one of the shaft devices, with the shaft devices having compressors which are in respective communication on the outlet side with the inlet of the heat exchanger units on the compressed air side. The compressors are acted on by stagnation air or environmental air on the inlet side and are driven by means of one or more motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Brutscher, Joachim Haas
  • Patent number: 7466421
    Abstract: A diffractive interferometric optical device is provided for measuring spectral properties of light. The device includes means for coupling in a single spatial mode of an incoming light field to be examined, means for splitting the single spatial mode of incoming light field into at least two partial fields, means for changing one of a shape or a direction of propagation of the wavefront of at least one of the at least two partial fields in dependence on the wavelength and means for generating an interference pattern superimposing the at least two partial fields. The device further comprises detection means to record and evaluate the interference pattern at a plurality of discrete spatial positions in order to derive spectral properties of the incoming light field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: CAMPus Technologies AG
    Inventor: Thilo Weitzel
  • Patent number: 7458308
    Abstract: A multistaged telescope boom, where a hydraulic unit, comprising a piston and a cylinder, is arranged between successive, telescopic arms, comprises a hydraulic system connecting to said hydraulic units for the operation thereof and which is designed to force the hydraulic units of at least the two innermost arms for filling a cylinder chamber of one of these cylinders (9, 10) at the time starting from that of the innermost arm and outwardly in the order of the arms when extending the boom and draining said cylinder chambers in the opposite order when retracting the boom. At least the hydraulic unit of said innermost arm is provided with an arrangement adapted to isolate the cylinder chamber of that first cylinder from communication with said hydraulic system when the cylinder is fully extended and re-establish said communication upon fully retraction of the cylinder next to said first cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Cargotec Patenter AB
    Inventor: José María Badia
  • Patent number: 7459304
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the analysis of macromolecules using a microarray on which a plurality of first at least partly different macromolecules are located in a known arrangement, wherein the microarray is arranged on a solid surface on which a region is defined whose wetting properties differ from the surrounding solid surface such that a liquid with a plurality of second macromolecules preferably stays thereon, the liquid with the second macromolecules is brought onto the solid surface and at least partly removed and the second macromolecules remaining after the removal process are detected in order to determine from the position which of the first macromolecules have formed a bond with second macromolecules. The invention further relates to a method wherein a surface wave is launched to the liquid to distribute and/or thoroughly mix the liquid on the microarray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Advalytix AG
    Inventor: Christoph Gauer
  • Patent number: 7456973
    Abstract: The invention serves for the contour measurement and/or deformation measurement of an object, particularly a tire or a structural component of a composite material. The object is irradiated with light, particularly structured light, that is emitted by a radiation source and consists, in particular, of coherent light or partially coherent light, especially laser light. The light reflected by the object is picked up by a camera with an imaging sensor. In order to improve the image quality, a first image is produced with a first adjustment of the camera and/or the radiation source which is adapted to a first image region (13). In addition, a second image is produced with a second adjustment of the camera and/or the radiation source which is adapted to a second image region (12). Both images are combined (FIG. 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Steinbichler, Roman Berger, Thomas Mayer
  • Patent number: 7455363
    Abstract: A device for moving headrest back and forth for automobile in which a tilt adjusting device and a back and forth movement device are united into a single device is provided. The device comprises a stay 114, a ratchet member RM, a tilt adjusting device (TAD), a check member CM, a back and forth movement device MD, a first torsion coil spring 130, one or a pair of second torsion coil springs 121 and a mobile shaft 122 for the back and forth movement device (MD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Woobo Tech Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Hae Il Chung
  • Patent number: 7449526
    Abstract: Epoxy resins that are suitable for forming epoxy laminates that meet a UL-94 rating of V-0 comprise a hydroxy-terminated oligomeric phosphonate comprising the repeating structure —OP(?O)(R)OArylene-, where R is alkyl, as a flame retardant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Supresta U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Sergei V Levchik, Sophia Dashevsky, Edward Weil, Qiang Yao
  • Patent number: 7448312
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic swivel drive for a grab which has two tong-like movable grab arms, in particular two-shell grabs, having two swivel shafts which are pivotally supported in a shell carrier, are parallel to one another and whose shaft ends can be connected to the grab arms, as well as a shaft drive piece which is displaceably supported parallel to the swivel shafts and is in screw engagement with both swivel shafts so that the swivel shafts are rotated in opposite directions by displacement of the shaft drive piece. In accordance with the invention, the swivel drive is characterized in that at least one hydraulically chargeable plunger piston is provided to displace the shaft drive piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Kinshofer GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Friedrich
  • Patent number: 7444808
    Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic system comprising at least one hydraulic drive means (1), a conduit system (10) connected to the hydraulic drive means for conveying hydraulic liquid to and from the hydraulic drive means, where the conduit system comprises a conduit circuit (11) containing hydraulic liquid, connected to the hydraulic drive means, a pump (12) for generating a flow of hydraulic fluid in the conduit system and a motor (13) to power the pump. The pump (12) is arranged to control the flow of hydraulic liquid in said circuit (11), and the hydraulic drive means (1) is controllable substantially only by controlling the flow of hydraulic liquid in said circuit (11) by means of the pump (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Stock of Sweden AB
    Inventor: Max Segerljung
  • Patent number: 7441670
    Abstract: The invention relates to a derrick crane having a main boom and having a derrick boom which are connected to one another by a stay cable to guy the main boom, having an auxiliary tip adjoining the main boom and a stay cable for its guying. In accordance with the invention, the stay cable of the auxiliary tip engages at the auxiliary tip at the one end and at the stay cable of the main boom at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Dieter Willim