Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Dvorak & Orum
  • Patent number: 6024515
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for inserting a new service pipe into an existing service pipe without the necessity of excavation or separately shutting off the supply of gas upstream of the effected pipe section comprises of a nosecone allowing a flow of sealer to travel back through an annular space between the new pipe and the old pipe, providing a gas tight permanent seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Nicor Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Konwinski, Robert Barrett, Charles Re, Randall Doctor, Frank Poskocil, John Fred, Anthony Pietramale
  • Patent number: 6021812
    Abstract: In a ball plug valve (10 ) which has a main opening (14 ) and an auxiliary opening (14 ) A serving as the inlet openings of a flow through hole (13 ) of a ball (12 ) and which has a sectorial opening (15 ) serving as an outlet opening thereof; it is set so that a tip (15 ) A of the sectorial opening (15 ) is in a first sealing region (17 ) A provided by an outlet sealing member near an outlet passage when the valve is fully closed, while the tip (15 ) A of the sectorial opening (15 ) passes across the outlet passage and enters a second sealing region (17 ) B provided by an outlet sealing member when the valve is fully opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha & Ichinose Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Iwamoto, Tadashi Ogawa, Hitoshi Ishiyama, Hideki Wakahara
  • Patent number: 6021974
    Abstract: A coiling system for coiling and uncoiling of the elongated flexible element. The elongated flexible element is preformed and coiled onto a core, which is detachable for the purpose of uncoiling the elongated flexible element by its inner end. A coiling system which comprises a coil component functioning as an end wall so arranged as to interact with a detachable core with an elongated flexible element coiled thereonto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Erkki Koskelainen
    Inventor: Erkki Koskelainen
  • Patent number: 6018993
    Abstract: A method for allocating transmitters and receiving antennas in tire pressure monitoring systems which consist of a pressure sensor, a transmitter, and a transmitting antenna at each wheel, of a receiving antenna respectively allocated to them on the body, and of an electronic receiving and analysis system connected thereto via cables. In this, an identifier characterizing the wheel is allocated to each transmitter, and the signals are forwarded to the central electronic receiving and analysis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Doduco GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Normann, Ralf Kessler, Gunter Schulze
  • Patent number: 6016825
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metering device for the metered admixture of a first fluid in a second fluid. The device comprises a housing (10) with a first inlet (15, 16), a second inlet (11), and an outlet (14) for a mixture of the two fluids. The housing (10) also contains a moving body (18) which is so arranged as to be influenced by a flow of fluid through the housing and exhibits means for regulating the first fluid, in such a way that a change in the flow at the outlet (14) produces a change in the flow of the first fluid. The inlet (15, 16) for the first fluid is connected to a tubular channel (17), which is centered essentially coaxially inside the outlet (14). The body (18) is mounted so that it is capable of displacement along the outside of the tubular channel (17), against the effect of a spring device (21) acting in a direction downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Rigab Raddningsutrustning 1 Goteborg AG
    Inventor: Ulf Andersson
  • Patent number: 6009780
    Abstract: A process carried out by an apparatus for cutting a tubular bar comprises a first cutting stage performed by a first disc-shaped rotary cutting tool, oriented so as to rotate about an axis parallel to a line of extension of the bar and also movable gradually along the contour of the bar, which is made to penetrate into the peripheral wall of the bar over a distance less than the thickness thereof, forming a groove therein. In a second and successive cutting stage, a second stationary cutting tool, oriented transversely with respect to the line of extension of the bar and movable along the contour of the bar inside the groove, is made to penetrate into the remaining thickness of the peripheral wall so as to cause gradual shearing of the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sica S.P.A.
    Inventor: Leopoldo Savioli
  • Patent number: 6006180
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing deformed speech signals outputted from a microphone includes a module for comparing deformed signals with simulated deformed signals that are generated from non-deformed speech signals that have previously been digitized and stored in a memory. Frequencies of the formants of simulated deformed signals are about two-three times the frequencies of the formants of digitized non-deformed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Philippe Bardaud, Gerard Chollet
  • Patent number: 5996386
    Abstract: The edging or tapering equipment requires that each of the two shaped pads, for the plastic deformation of the two edges of a respective can body, be positioned so that the longitudinal axis of the pads lies at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the can body located in an operating position zone, and that the pads be set at opposite angles to one another; each of these shaped pads also moves independently, rotating and traversing around and along their respective longitudinal axis and simultaneously traversing along a determined longitudinal axis so as to obtain, at an operating contact position, induced rotation of the can body in a direction concording with the rotation of the shaped pads and designed to allow contact between each operating head and the respective edge in a zone for the definition of the profile of said edge, a profile which is created gradually, by simultaneous linear traversing and rotation of the shaped pads along the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Inventor: Luigi Pazzaglia
  • Patent number: 5992076
    Abstract: The device relates to a locking device for firearms with a magazine guide. The locking device is insertable into the empty magazine guide of the firearm, and the locking device has a locking unit adapted to direct or indirect lock the functionally essential parts of the firearm, such as the bolt of the firearm, and to lock said locking device in said inserted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventor: Bjorn Magnusson
  • Patent number: 5993752
    Abstract: A device 10 for dissolving a coagulant having a rotor chamber 13 supporting rotors 21 around the horizontal axis, wherein a mixture of the coagulant and water is fed to the rotor chamber 13, the liquid level of the mixture is kept at a medium level of the rotors 21, and the mixture can be stirred vertically by means of the rotation of the rotors 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Kobayashi Engineering Works, Ltd. Diafloc Company Limited
    Inventor: Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5988704
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hose coupling device, which comprises a male part connectable to a female part. The female part consists of a sleeve, which is provided with a number of resilient tongues extending in equally spaced relationship along the inner wall of the sleeve and protruding inwards form the inner wall and directed away from the mouth of the sleeve. The male part consists of a tube portion with transverse edges in its outer wall. At the insertion of the male part into the female part the resilient tongues are arranged to resiliently snap into place behind the transverse edges of the male part and hence connect the female part to the male part. The parts can be separated by turning them relative to one another to a position where the resilient tongues assume a position laterally of the transverse edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: ABA of Sweden AB
    Inventor: Morgan Ryhman
  • Patent number: 5984142
    Abstract: A diffuser set for drinks dispensers having delivery groups provided with "post-mix" valves connected to at least two lines for collectively supplying respective drink components, comprising a valve having an output section connected to the "post-mix" valve and at least two input sections provided to receive corresponding drink components to be sent selectively to the output section; and two tubular elements, branched off at least three ways and having respectively first branches connected with corresponding supply lines and second branches taken off the first branch and connected to an input section of the valve in such a way as to send thereto the flow of drink components received from the respective supply lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Celli S.p.A.
    Inventor: Bruno Castaldi
  • Patent number: 5984666
    Abstract: A device for mounting burners inside a duct for gas and comprising at least one fuel injection pipe having a nose disposed in the head of said burner on an axis parallel to the axis of the duct. The injection pipe is situated inside a sheath secured to the burner head for feeding it with air from outside the duct and disposed transversely relative to the axis of the duct, and the nose of the injection pipe, situated at the end of a bent portion of the pipe, is movable along the axis relative to a guide orifice secured to the burner head, from which it is suitable for being disengaged by the injection pipe being moved inside the sheath from outside the duct, thereby making it possible, from outside the duct, to extract the injection pipe completely to the outside of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Entreprise Generale de Chauffage Industrial Pillard
    Inventors: Jean Claude Pillard, Jacques Pizant
  • Patent number: 5975967
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tilt device for a marine propulsion unit comprising a hydraulic cylinder device filled with a hydraulic fluid, where a piston fixed to one end portion of a piston rod is provided slidably in an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, a tank device for storing the hydraulic fluid, and a pump device for the telescopic operation of the hydraulic cylinder device by supplying and exhausting the hydraulic fluid in the tank device into the hydraulic cylinder device, wherein a valve block of the pump device is cast-molded, the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder of the hydraulic cylinder device are made of a pipe material, a cylinder fixing portion having a diameter larger than that of the outer cylinder is formed in the valve block, and the outer cylinder is fixed to the cylinder fixing portion by the diameter enlarging processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Nishi
  • Patent number: 5975968
    Abstract: A trim-tilt device 20 for a marine boat motor has a housing 31 forming a large-diameter trim chamber 32, a cylinder 41 inserted into the trim chamber 32 of the housing 31 to form a small-diameter tilt chamber 42, and a piston rod telescopically inserted into the tilt chamber 42 of the cylinder 41. Built into the wall of the cylinder 41 is the passage 46 for interconnecting a first trim chamber 32A and a first tilt chamber 42A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventor: Tamotsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5972093
    Abstract: The paint comprises in combination: pigments in a liquid solution chosen from the group of natural colouring earths; binders chosen from the group of milk, milk casein, egg white, egg yolk, starch paste and potato flour; compounds, mixed with said pigments and binders, chosen from the group of borax, kalinite, calcite, kaolin, slaked lime, mica and talc, sea salt and boron salts; and additives chosen from the group of vegetable oils, citrus-fruit juices, wine vinegar and natural waxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Bernacchia, Ida
    Inventor: Roberto Mosca
  • Patent number: D415635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: Kenneth Bengtsson
  • Patent number: D416369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: Rutger Johansson
  • Patent number: D418211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Infrarodteknik AB
    Inventor: Kenneth Lundin
  • Patent number: D419741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventor: Rutger Johansson