Patents Represented by Attorney Factor Intellectual Property Law Group, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8349181
    Abstract: A filter cartridge, which is suitable in particular for purifying dental waste waters, has a housing with three different spatial regions which receive three different filter materials having different filter properties. The first filter material is preceded by a sedimentation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Duerr Dental AG
    Inventor: Eberhardt Nonnenmacher
  • Patent number: 8342822
    Abstract: A suction device for dental, medical and industrial purposes with a radial fan with a suction side and a delivery side. An air outlet of a centrifugal separator is connected to the suction side of the fan. At least one drive motor controlled by a control unit, and in the form of a rotating electric motor, drives the fan and the separator. A fan drive motor and a separator drive motor are arranged, uncoupled in terms of rotation, one behind the other on a common shaft fixed to the housing. The respective stators are supported by the common shaft. The rotating parts of the fan are connected to the rotor of the fan drive motor, and the rotating parts of the separator are connected to the rotor of the separator drive motor and are mounted to rotate coaxially with respect to the shaft fixed to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Duerr Dental AG
    Inventors: Michael Thoms, Juergen Schnepf, Andreas Haegele
  • Patent number: 8342749
    Abstract: In order to prevent a storage film from being damaged when taking an X-ray image, when reading the latent X-ray image and when handling the storage film, the invention proposes providing spaced-apart guide parts on the rear face of the storage film, these guide parts not having an adverse effect on the ability of the film to bend. The guide parts interact with guide rails which are provide in a cassette which accommodates the storage film or on a film-clamping slide of a reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Duerr Dental GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Nitsche, Ulrich Prager, Michael Thoms
  • Patent number: 8336641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power tool comprises an adjusting mechanism, the adjusting mechanism comprising a station element defining at least a first engaged member, and an adjusting member rotated about a axis and driving the first engaged member to move elastically along the axis, wherein a frequency increase mechanism is disposed between the adjusting member and the station element, the frequency increase mechanism coupled to the first engage member, the frequency of the elastic moving of the first engage member increases when the adjusting member rotates about the axis. Because the adjusting mechanism can increase the sound frequency, so it can make precision and dense sound and remind of the operator when the adjusting member rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shisong Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xiaotian Zeng, Paolo Andriolo
  • Patent number: 8336701
    Abstract: A skid for supporting at least one object which is conveyable in a conveying direction inside a conveyor installation comprises at least two support runners disposed parallel to one another. Running means different from the support runners are fastened to the skid. In addition, a transfer station for transferring an above-mentioned skid from conveying means to a guide structure is specified. Also specified are a self-propelling drive unit with a chassis and a coupling device by means of which a skid can be coupled detachably to the chassis, a drive system for driving a skid and a conveyor installation, in which a drive unit is provided inside a conveying area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Eisenmann AG
    Inventors: Thomas Ruggaber, Joerg Robbin
  • Patent number: 8333229
    Abstract: A draft arrester for an overhead door. An exemplary embodiment may include a flexible draft curtain extending between a ceiling structure and a wound-up portion of the overhead door. The draft arrester may include a follower assembly, which may include one or more rollers arranged to roll against the overhead door. An exemplary embodiment may include a repositionable arm arranged to press the rollers against the wound-up portion of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Rytec Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Terrence Kimener
  • Patent number: 8331067
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing ground fault protection to a lifting device utilizing an electromagnet and powered by a generator. The apparatus and method rectifies an AC voltage emanating from the generator source and monitors unsafe operating conditions of the generator's circuit wherein operation of the lifting device is ceased when predetermined electrical operating parameters are exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Ephaugh, Inc.
    Inventor: John Samila
  • Patent number: 8324332
    Abstract: A resin for thermal imprint including a cyclic-olefin-based thermoplastic resin that contains at least one of skeletons represented by the following chemical equation 1 or the following chemical equation 2 in a main chain. The glass transition temperature Tg (° C.) and the value ([M]) of MFR at 260° C. satisfy the following equation 1, and [M]>10. The thermal imprint characteristics (transferability, mold release characteristic, and the like) are superior and the productivity (throughput) is improved. Tg (° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignees: Scivax Corporation, Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemori Toshifumi, Yoshiaki Takaya, Takahito Mita, Tetsuya Iizuka, Yuji Hashima, Takahisa Kusuura, Mitsuru Fujii, Takuji Taguchi, Anupam Mitra
  • Patent number: 8316922
    Abstract: A thermal postcombustion device includes, in a conventional manner per se, a housing, having an inlet for the exhaust air that is to be purified and an outlet for clean air. A combustion chamber is located inside the housing, and inside this combustion chamber, a heating device generates a temperature at which the pollutants carried by the exhaust air burn. In order to reduce the energy requirement, a heat exchanger is provided over which the exhaust air coming from the inlet is guided to the combustion chamber, and the clean air coming from the combustion chamber is guided to the outlet. In order to also be able to process exhaust air, which is loaded with adherent residues, for example, pitch vapors, a device is provided with which, during a purification mode, at least a portion of the clean air can be optionally fed past a section of the heat exchanger located closer to the combustion chamber and into another section of the heat exchanger located further from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Eisenmann AG
    Inventor: Apostolos Katefidis
  • Patent number: 8316915
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an industrial high-speed door assembly having a reduced door panel width and having guides for guiding the door which extend into a passageway but are resilient, tough, or resiliently collapsible, to either withstand impacts from vehicle collisions or moveable during opening of the door to avoid collisions while returning for guidance upon closing the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Rytec Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Norbert Drifka, Arno Klein, John Sonn, Donald P. Grasso, Daniel J. Gregoriou, Walenty Kalempa
  • Patent number: 8314358
    Abstract: A thermal material-processing method wherein between the working spot of an electron beam and a workpiece a relative motion is brought about. Prior to the actual thermal treatment an effective processing contour is ascertained, in that the working spot of the electron beam executes, in accordance with the stored data of an ideal processing contour, a relative motion in relation to the workpiece, and on this relative motion a scan motion is superimposed which is directed transversely to the ideal processing contour. In this manner, both geometrical and magnetically conditioned deviations of the points of incidence of the electron beam on the workpiece can be compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Pro-Beam AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Thorsten Loewer, Juergen Fath
  • Patent number: 8276609
    Abstract: Disclosed is a concealed plumbing fixture including a connection member that is provided with at least one connection for a water pipe, especially a domestic cold water pipe and/or a domestic warm water pipe, and at least one fastening element for fixing the connecting member in a mounting hole. Said plumbing fixture further includes a functional unit, particularly with a plumbing valve that is provided with connection means for creating a water connection to complementary connecting means of the connecting member, and a joining device that allows the functional unit to be removably fixed to the connecting member. The connecting member is preferably provided with an adjustable fastening device by means of which the same can be fixed in the mounting hole at different mounting depths. The inventive plumbing fixture also includes at least one fastening ring that can be moved in an axial direction along the connecting member as well as at least one means for locking the fastening ring on the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hansa Metallwerke AG
    Inventor: Christof Frey
  • Patent number: 8276579
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot-air furnace module having a furnace space, which is at least partially delimited by walls and is assigned an air-delivery device for producing an airstream and a heat-transfer device for heating the airstream. According to the invention, an incoming-air channel is provided, which is formed between the air-feed device and the furnace space for guiding the airstream delivered by the air-feed device and which is provided with first and second throttle means, which are arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of flow and are intended to even out the airstream before it flows through the furnace space. Furthermore, according to the invention a hot-air furnace is formed from hot-air furnace modules which are rotated through 180 degrees with respect to one another and are in communication with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Eisenmann AG
    Inventor: Dietmar Bruckner
  • Patent number: 8276232
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for cleaning wheel rims. Said device is used for removing sticky excess powdered pigments from the flange and hub of the rims prior to the baking process during powder coating. The inventive device comprises a first brush which can be introduced into the hub of a rim that is to be cleaned as well as a second brush which is concentrically disposed around the first brush and rests against the flange surface of the rim when the first brush is inserted in the hub of the rim. The first brush can be axially displaced relative to the second brush and is spring-mounted on the second brush. Furthermore, a drive unit is provided which rotates the first and the second brush by a specific angle, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Eisenmann AG
    Inventor: Thomas Rau
  • Patent number: 8271063
    Abstract: A sensor is disclosed having one or more light sources, and one or more light detectors. At least one of the detectors produces an output in response to received light. Also, electrical circuitry in response to the output generates a pulse waveform proportional to the arterial and venous pulse of a human body, wherein the pulse waveform is used to synchronize an arterial-pulse measurement of the absorption or reflectance of one or more coherent light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Medtor LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Dietiker
  • Patent number: 8244019
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the perceptibility of different structures on radiographs by means of an image processing device consisting a) in storing a radiograph in electronic form as a local space-intensity distribution, b) in carrying out a Fourier transformation for determining a frequency-intensity distribution, c) in filtering said frequency-intensity distribution by modifying weighting between the high-frequency and low-frequency image signal components, wherein the fixing of the image signal components to be more intensively weighted is carried out taking into account the mean structure size of said structures whose perceptibility is to be improved, d) in carrying out an inverse Fourier transformation of the filtered frequency-intensity distribution in order to obtain a modified space-intensity distribution in which said structures are more easily perceptible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Duerr Dental GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Thoms
  • Patent number: 8242082
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel peptide based on CAP11 as well as provides an antibacterial agent, an LPS-cell-binding inhibitor, and a drug such as a bacterial-infection-treating agent or an endotoxin-shock suppressant, each containing the peptide as an active ingredient. The peptide has the following amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1): X01 X02 X03 X03 X04 X02 X03 X03 X05 X04 X03 X04 X02 X01 X03 X02 X05 X03 (wherein X01 represents a cationic amino acid residue or a polar uncharged amino acid residue, X02 represents a non-polar amino acid residue, X03 represents a cationic amino acid residue, X04 represents a non-polar amino acid residue or a cationic amino acid residue, and X05 represents a non-polar amino acid residue or a polar uncharged amino acid residue). Each of the antibacterial agent, lipopolysaccharide-cell-binding inhibitor, and drug (e.g., bacterial-infection-treating agent or endotoxin-shock suppressant) contains the peptide as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Seikagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Nagaoka, Daiju Okuda, Shin Yomogida, Hiroshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 8234995
    Abstract: A goal to ground indicator device indicates a ready and/or upset condition of a ground supported goal such as a soccer goal that has at least one bar that lies in contact with the ground. An indicator arm is movable relative to the contact arm between a ready position and an upset position. A contact arm cooperates with the indicator arm. A biasing element biases the indicator arm to the upset position. When the bar of the goal is no longer in contact with the ground the indicator arm moves from the ready position to the upset position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Goal Alert LLC
    Inventor: Gregory S. Dempsey
  • Patent number: 8225566
    Abstract: A tile for a synthetic grass system having a top surface with a plurality of trusses, a bottom surface with a plurality of legs extending therefrom. The trusses intersect and form apertures. The top surface has a plurality of sections which are hingedly attached to adjacent sections with expansion members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fieldturf Tarkett Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Prevost, Stephen Murphy
  • Patent number: 8222399
    Abstract: A photoreactive polysaccharide which comprises a polysaccharide bound to a glycidyl ester via a covalent bond, a photocrosslinked-polysaccharide prepared by using the photoreactive polysaccharide, and medical products comprising the photocrosslinked-polysaccharide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Seikagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Sato