Patents Represented by Attorney Eugene E. Renz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6306230
    Abstract: A method for producing hardened parts of steel from an air-hardening steel comprising the steps of heating the steel is heated to a temperature above 1,100° C., hot-working the steel parts until they reach the A1 emperature, cooling the steel parts in air to about 280° C. under simultaneous thermo-mechanical sizing treatment, then cooling the steel parts in air to room temperature, stress relief treating the steel parts at 150-250° C., and hard-machining the steel parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Hengerer
  • Patent number: 6295735
    Abstract: A unit dose spoon having a bowl portion, a recessed handle portion communicating with the bowl portion. An upwardly extending pedestal is mounted in the recessed handle portion and is provided with an upwardly extending cutting blade on the top surface thereof. A container is integrally hinged to the free end of the handle portion and contains a unit dose of fluid such as a medicine, which is sealed in the container by a rupturable plastic cover. When the container is folded forwardly toward the handle portion and pushed downwardly toward the pedestal, the blade thereon punctures the plastic cover to allow the fluid to flow from the container into the recessed handle portion and into the bowl portion. The unit dose spoon is formed of molded plastic and is disposable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Comar, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Barger
  • Patent number: 6279231
    Abstract: A method for securing the outer ring of the bearing in a runner shell wherein the radius of an edge defining the seat for the bearing varies in a predetermined manner around its circumference, the steps comprising, positioning an outer ring of the bearing in the seat of the runner shell so that the edge of the runner shell overlies a circumferentially extending seating groove in the outer ring, placing a die having a forming face in engagement with the peripheral edge of the runner shell, and deforming by means of a die, the edge of the runner shell seat in a manner to displace essentially the same material around the circumference of the edge into the bearing groove, thereby producing a generally uniform force on the bearing ring around the circumference of the ring which eliminates distortion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Beyfuss, Hans-Juergen Friedrich, Peter Horling
  • Patent number: 6276830
    Abstract: Linear guide assembly comprising at least two guide rails, which are moveable in the longitudinal direction with respect to each other and have prismatic shaped raceways, a plurality of rolling elements guided in a cage, at least one gear wheel for the positive guidance of the cage is connected to the cage, which wheel engages in toothed racks, each of which is connected to a guide rail, the gear wheel comprising a disk, having axial projections distributed around the periphery at least one of the end surfaces and rows of uniformly spaced recesses, into which the projections on the disk can engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glöckner, Georg Hierl, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6273152
    Abstract: A dosage dispenser assembly for containers to dispense liquids in the containers. The assembly includes elongated hollow barrel and an arrangement for removably mounting the barrel over the discharge opening in the container so that the port in the barrel in the seated position is disposed adjacent the bottom of the container. A stop sleeve of generally tubular configuration engages internally of the barrel and has at least two key ways of different axial depth defining cam follower surfaces. A plunger engages in the barrel having a lug element and is rotatable relative to the stop sleeve between a position wherein the plunger tip is fully seated in the barrel and another position wherein the plunger may be activated axially to draw a predetermined dosage of liquid contents into the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Comar Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Buehler, Eric S. Mathias
  • Patent number: 6270384
    Abstract: A connecting terminal assembly for printed circuit boards comprising, an insulating housing 10, a connection contact 18 having an insertion opening 24 attached to the housing 10 through which a conductor can be inserted under the connection contact 18, a clamping means 26 having an elastic sidepiece 52, cooperatively associated with an actuating element 40 having a pressure surface 48 supported in the housing 10 operable between a clamping position, wherein the clamping means 34 pulls the conductor which has been inserted through the insertion opening 24 against the connection contact 18, and an open position allowing the insertion of the conductor, means mounting the actuating element 40 in such a way that it can slide back and forth to perch the actuating element 40 to an open position where it presses the elastic sidepiece 32 down so that the elastic force of the elastic sidepiece 32 locks into a latching recess 56 and when the actuating element 40 is lifted out of the latching recess 56 against the force
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Ria Electronics Albert Metz
    Inventor: Dieter Jaag
  • Patent number: 6261030
    Abstract: A desiccant feeder system comprising, a reservoir for desiccant canisters, means for delivering the canisters through a transfer tube to at a loading station, means for presenting the open end of containers one at a time at the loading station, means for circulating air at high velocity through the tubing including an adjustable internal ring-shaped nozzle to deliver desiccant canisters from the reservoir to the loading station, and a shuttle selectively actuatable to discharge at least one desiccant cannister to the containers at the loading station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Omega Design Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Rassman, Jr., Kirt C. Weidner, Alan S. Geckle
  • Patent number: 6244729
    Abstract: A lamp assembly comprising at least one elongated fluorescent tube and an elongated reflector of trough-like shape having a longitudinal center plane coincident with the longitudinal axis of the fluorescent tube. The shape of the reflector (10) is variable. Adjusting devices (34, 36) at least at one end of the reflector (10) changes the position of the free longitudinal edges (32) of the reflector (10), which forces the shape of the reflector (10) to change also.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Herbert Waldmann GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Gerhard Waldmann
  • Patent number: 6241112
    Abstract: A stopper for sealing containers for pharmaceutical liquids, especially infusion bottles, which stopper has a collar, which projects into the neck of the container; an edge, which rests on the neck of the container; and a puncture area, enclosed by the edge and the collar, the stopper being held on the neck of the container by a protective cap of metal or plastic, characterized in that the puncture area (3) is designed to have such elasticity and flexibility with respect to the edge (9) and the collar (6) that, after the stopper has been inserted into the neck (4) of the container, the puncture area bulges slightly outward; and in that, after the puncture needle (15) of an infusion kit (16) has been inserted into the stopper, the puncture area bulges down into the neck (4) of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Helvoet Pharma Belgium N.V.
    Inventors: Albert Louis Victor Jozef Claessens, Koen Louis Emma Van den Langenbergh
  • Patent number: 6241257
    Abstract: The combination comprising, a bearing housed in a belt pulley, a sealing disk covering the bearing clamped between the head of a screw and the inner ring of the roller bearing, means attaching said sealing disk 4 directly to the inner ring axially and radially and including projections 13, 14 extending into the bore of the inner ring to secure the screw 3 for transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Hauck, Deiter Plössl, Robert Stolz, Bettina Stoyke
  • Patent number: 6238097
    Abstract: A Sheet-metal cage for rollers of roller bearings, confronting a section having pockets for rollers and at least one side ring having a bore surface extending from one end of said section said ring-shaped section 8 of the side ring 2 carrying the bore surface 3 is connected to the sheet-metal cage by radially deformable flexing elements 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Beyfuss, Peter Horling, Jurgen Sturzenberger
  • Patent number: 6228433
    Abstract: A radiation curable and abrasion resistant coating composition is provided comprising: (a) 70% to 98% by weight of an urethane-acrylate oligomer; (b) 2% to 30% of fine particles of a filler capable of imparting abrasion resistance having an average particle size in the range of 1-20 microns; (c) optionally a reactive diluent; and (d) optionally an synthetic resin. The coatings when applied to wood floorings impart superior abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: PermaGrain Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin E. Witt
  • Patent number: 6215265
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting a predefined level of resistance in motor activated drive systems for activating devices such as roller shutters, rolling gates, jalousies, awnings and movie screens in a predetermined direction or path. The method includes means for sensing predetermined characteristics of the electric motor when the electric motor is activated to move the drive in the predetermined path and detecting a predefined change in the motor characteristics due to the blockage or resistance. The electric motor is deactivated when a predefined level of resistance is detected along the predetermined path which blocks movement of the drive by the electric motor in the predetermined direction for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Elero Antriebs- Und Sonnenschutz-Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Wolfer, Dieter Walddoerfer
  • Patent number: 6210043
    Abstract: A support assembly comprising an elongated shaft, a bearing assembly at opposite terminal ends of said shaft paralleled in a pillow block, support means for each of said pillow blocks and means mounting one of said bearing assemblies for adjustable axial movement relative to said pillow block thereby to compensate for any changes in the support structure in an axial direction and a method for supporting a load bearing member on spaced support structures comprising the steps of mounting the lower half of a pillow block on each of the spaced support structures, positioning a shaft having bearings journaled at opposite ends so that the bearings engage in the lower half of the pillow block, assembling the cap section of each pillow block, fixing the bearing in one of the pillow blocks against displacement in an axial directions relative to the pillow block, and displacing the bearing in the other pillow block axially to position it generally centrally in the pillow block with a predetermined clearance between the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: SKF USA, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Detweiler
  • Patent number: 6205684
    Abstract: A strike pad for an athletic shoe to be located adjacent the heel portion of the shoe, made of a flexible resilient material comprising a disc-like upper portion having a series of semi-spherical nubs on its upper face confronting the heels of the user, a thin, circular base portion of a larger diameter than the upper disc portion and a generally circular bottom disc secured to the base of the strike pad by a suitable adhesive or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Zephyr Athletic Footwear, Inc.
    Inventor: David Charles Snyder
  • Patent number: 6196728
    Abstract: A solid cage for roller bearings, where the pitch circle of the rollers is between the radial center of the cage and its bore, with guide surfaces on the webs which conform to the lateral surface of the rollers, thus forming retaining edges in the area of the bore, across which the rollers are snapped into the pockets, characterized in that the guide surface 4 is interrupted by at least one strip 10, which curves to form an arc facing the roller 3, this strip being recessed into the guide surface 4 in the radially outward area of the cage, but projecting beyond the guide surface 4 in the radially inward area to serve as an additional retaining projection 12 for the roller3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Wahler, Alfred Weidinger
  • Patent number: 6193417
    Abstract: A method for forming a clamping device comprising of a swiveling body made of plastic, a plain bearing bushing mounted radially inside the plastic swiveling body, a rolling bearing for mounting a clamping roll arranged eccentrically to the bearing bushing, the edges of the plain bearing bushing being wound out of a strip, and joined to each other under intrinsic tension in the area of the butt joint; and, wherein, the lateral surface of the plain bearing bushing and the bore surface of the rolling bearing function as parts of a mold for the injection-molding of the swiveling body and consisting of the steps of placing the rolling bearing assembly and a plain bearing bushing in a mold half in eccentric relation to one another, placing a second mold half over the plain bearing bushing and rolling bearing configured to form ring-shaped projections to hold rolling bearing in a predetermined axial position relating to the bearing bushing, and injecting a plastic material with the mold closed to form the swivel bod
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Brandenstein, Wolfgang Friedrich, Roland Haas, Roland Harich, Gerhard Herrmann, Bruno Schemmel, Josef Stork
  • Patent number: D438321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Herbert Waldmann GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Gerhard Waldmann
  • Patent number: D441637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: BTR Blumberger Telefon- und Relaisbau Albert Metz
    Inventors: Dieter Jaag, Hermann Stadler
  • Patent number: D445156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Inventors: Gary Reiter, Warner Busam