Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Don Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 6223567
    Abstract: A lock arrangement having a driver element which has two outer surface sections. The first section has a first geometrical cross-section configuration which engages an outer lever spindle in both the locked and unlocked condition. In the unlocked condition, the first section also engages an outer driver spindle which rotates with the outer lever handle and outer lever spindle and engages the latch retraction structure for retraction of the latch. In the locked position, the second outer surface section of the driver element is aligned with outer drive spindle and the second surface section is free of driving engagement with the outer drive spindle such that retraction of the latch is prevented when the outer lever handle is rotated. A solenoid is provided on the interior of the lock and controls the movement of the driver element between the locked and unlocked positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: NT Falcon Lock
    Inventor: Cedric Q. Fadul
  • Patent number: 6206134
    Abstract: A cover for a stethoscope head having a discontinuous layer of peelable adhesive in a predetermined pattern for detachable affixing to the head of the stethoscope including the diaphragm and the preselected pattern has a plurality of spaced apart adhesive segments and provides air flow passages from regions between the cover and the diaphragm to regions external the stethoscope to prevent the formation of air pockets and bubbles therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Inventors: Wayne T. Stark, Raymond J. Mikelionis
  • Patent number: 6108835
    Abstract: A camping mat in which the upper surface has a plurality of air insulating chambers to provide a reduction in body heat loss of the user. The mat may be configured as either a sleeping mat or a camping chair, or combination thereof, and may be of the self-inflating type with open-cell foam inside a waterproof and airtight envelope. Two pads of flexible foam are in the envelope and the upper pad has a plurality of pad cavities or pad apertures which, upon the assembly of the mat, cause the formation of the air insulating chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Goodway Corporation
    Inventor: Mike Hwang
  • Patent number: 6102486
    Abstract: A frustum cutting insert having a cutting end and a shank end and the cutting end having a cutting edge and inner walls defining a conical tapered surface. First walls in the insert define a cavity at the inner end of the inner walls and second walls define a plurality of apertures extending from the cavity to regions external the cutting insert to define a powder flow passage from regions adjacent the cutting edge, past the inner walls, through the cavity and through the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Briese Industrial Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard A. Briese
  • Patent number: 6099075
    Abstract: A seating arrangement having a flexible back and/or seat portion with retaining type pockets thereon for removably retaining at least one bendable rigid support in a predetermined orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Convaid Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mervyn M. Watkins
  • Patent number: 6086133
    Abstract: A vehicle window shade arrangement for at least partially shading the windshield of a vehicle, such as an automobile, having a dash with an upper surface and an elongated opening in the surface extending along the width of the windshield, the window shade arrangement comprising a shade rolled about a shade tube rotatably mounted below the upper surface of the dash; a shade extender-retractor for selectively unrolling the shade from the shade tube to an extended position at least partially shading the windshield, and rolling the shade about the shade tube to a retracted position not shading the windshield; and left and right elongated side supports disposed adjacent left and right sides, respectively, of the windshield. The shade is supported and concealed by the left and right side supports when not retracted. The shade extender-retractor may comprise a manual or powered drive arrangement for driving the shade to the extended and retracted positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Inventor: Miguel Alonso
  • Patent number: 6050242
    Abstract: A lobe sensor arrangement for an internal combustion ignition system provides a control signal to an ignition coil of the internal combustion engine to effect sequential firing of spark plugs, the ignition system comprising a distributor camshaft having a plurality of alternate circumferentially spaced lobes and valleys. The lobe sensor arrangement includes a pair of sensors spaced from the rotating camshaft and sensing the proximity of the spaced lobes to provide a pair of sensor output signals, and a processor circuit for analyzing the two sensor output signals and generating an ignition control signal upon the occurrence of the sensor output signals having values meeting relative predetermined criteria. One criterion requires that the two output signals be equal in magnitude. Another criterion may require that both output signals have magnitudes above a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Pertronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 6042034
    Abstract: A food processing arrangement for mashing various food products to provide a food of the nature of West African fufu. The food processor has a base unit with a rotation producing structure. A mashing unit having a roller is removably mounted on the base unit and is driven by the rotation producing structure and a bowl is removably mounted on the base unit and the roller of the mashing unit is positioned in the food receiving cavity of the bowl. The roller has driving engagement with the inside surface of the bowl so that the roller rotates the bowl about the bowl axis as the roller rotates about the roller axis. Food in the food receiving cavity is mashed between the inside surface of the bowl and the outer surface of the roller. A scraper is provided to scrape food from the outside surface of the roller and the inside surface of the bowl and is positioned to direct the food so scraped to a predetermined location where the mashed food may be removed from the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Inventor: Kodzo Obed Abledu
  • Patent number: 6041889
    Abstract: A plurality of single diaphragm cover dispensable assemblies (11) each of which has a stethoscope diaphragm cover (12) having a thin plastic body member (16) to which there is applied a pressure sensitive adhesive layer (26) mounted on an adhesive protective layer (14) on a first surface (30). A stacking pressure sensitive adhesive layer (34) is on the adhesive protective layer (14) in a location spaced from the portion (28B) attached to the cover (12). The stacking pressure sensitive adhesive layer 34 may be on the first surface (30) or the second surface (32) of the adhesive protective layer (14). A plurality of the assemblies (11) are in a stacked aligned array with the stacking pressure sensitive adhesive layers (34) providing the detachable coupling of one assembly (11) to the next assembly (11) in the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Inventors: Wayne T. Stark, Raymond J. Mikelionios
  • Patent number: 6026916
    Abstract: A rotary drill arrangement comprising a combination spade drill body having a rotational axis, a shank portion, and a generally planar spade cutter portion with a pair of oppositely directed cutting edges extending radially of the axis, and a rotatable frusto conical cutter mounted on the spade cutter portion adjacent the maximum radial extent of each cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Briese Industrial Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard Arden Briese
  • Patent number: 6026918
    Abstract: A roof bolt bit arrangement comprising a combination spade drill body having a rotational axis, a shank portion, a generally planar spade cutter portion with a pair of oppositely directed cutting edges extending radially of the axis, and at least one rotatable frusto conical cutter mounted on the shank portion with its cutting edge in the path of the maximum radial extent of each spade cutter portion cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Briese Industrial Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard Arden Briese
  • Patent number: 6021654
    Abstract: A driver element in this lock has two outer surface sections. The first of the sections has a first geometrical cross-sectional configuration which engages an outer lever spindle in both the locked and unlocked condition. In the unlocked condition the first section also engages an outer driver spindle which rotates with the outer lever handle and outer lever spindle and engages the latch retraction structure for retraction of the latch. In the locked position, a push button on the inner handle pushes the driver such that a second section of the outer surface of the driver is aligned with the outer drive spindle and the second section is free of driving engagement with the outer driver spindle such that operation of the latch is prevented when the outer lever handle is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: NT Falcon Lock
    Inventor: Eugene S. McCaa
  • Patent number: 5992189
    Abstract: A driver element in this lock has two outer surface sections. The first of the sections has a first geometrical cross-sectional configuration which engages an outer lever spindle in both the locked and unlocked condition. In the unlocked condition the first section also engages an outer driver spindle which rotates with the outer lever handle and outer lever spindle and engages the latch retraction structure for retraction of the latch. In the locked position, a push button on the inner handle pushes the driver such that a second section of the outer surface of the driver is aligned with the outer drive spindle and the second section is free of driving engagement with the outer driver spindle such that operation of the latch is prevented when the outer lever handle is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: NT Falcon Lock
    Inventor: Eugene S. McCaa
  • Patent number: D437560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Inventor: Joseph Niesyn
  • Patent number: D465559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Santec, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas S. H. Chen
  • Patent number: D466536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Dep Enterprise and Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Raffi Piliguian
  • Patent number: D471489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Inventor: Trevor Dale Greenfield
  • Patent number: D417833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: NT Quality Hardware
    Inventor: Michael E. Heithe
  • Patent number: D419051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: NT Quality Hardware
    Inventor: Michael E. Heithe
  • Patent number: D422151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Inventors: Mu-Ing Hwang, Mike Hwang