Patents Represented by Attorney Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis
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Patent number: 8323164Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a process for manufacturing sleeves, in particular paper sleeves for the production of paper cups, comprising a take-up mandrel for taking up a sleeve, whereby the take-up mandrel comprises a circumferential recess, also comprising a press roller for placing on an outer side of the sleeve and for forming at least one circumferential projection in the recess of the take-up mandrel. In accordance with the present invention, the recess is designed in the form of a shoulder. Application for example for the production of stackable double-walled paper cups.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Michael Hoerauf Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Uwe Messerschmid
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Patent number: 8322677Abstract: There is provided a slide structure of a vehicle seat comprises a stationary outer rail, a movable inner rail, and means for locking said movable inner rail which locks said movable inner rail against said stationary outer rail in the longitudinal direction, said movable inner rail fits with said stationary outer rail in such a way that opening portions formed by the respective C-shaped cross-sections face each other, a retainer extending in the longitudinal direction is provided between said stationary outer rail and said movable inner rail, said retainer includes a retaining portion for retaining a ball rolling between said two rails, said movable side surface, said stationary side surface and said retainer side surface portion are all disposed along the vertical direction of the vehicle, whereby each of said stationary outer rail and said movable inner rail is arranged to form a vertically elongated cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Nonomiya
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Patent number: 8315350Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing heat is disclosed. The method involves the steps of accelerating one or more first particle(s) to a first velocity; colliding the accelerated particle(s) with one or more second particles in a collision zone located within a housing causing the first particle(s) and second particle(s) to form one or more collision mass(es) containing subatomic particles of the first and second particles; controlling the position of the collision mass(es) with electric and/or magnetic fields; and introducing one or more further particle(s) into the collision mass(es), the further particle(s) undergoing nuclear fusion with the one or more particles in the collision mass(es) producing fusion products and releasing heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Inventor: Alan Charles Sturt
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Patent number: 8310487Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for combining multiple independent tile based graphic cores. An incoming geometry stream is split into a plurality of streams and sent to respective tile based graphics processing cores. Each one generates a separate tiled geometry lists. These may be combined into a master tiling unit or, alternatively, markers may be inserted into the tiled geometry lists which are used in the rasterization phase to switch between tiling lists from different geometry processing cores.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventor: John W. Howson
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Patent number: 8297133Abstract: A pressure sensor has a multiplicity of piezoelectric converter elements which are arranged such that they are essentially parallel to a force-applying or pressure-applying direction. The converter elements can be arranged at a distance from one another by an insulating material and/or are at least partially embedded in the material. A support material having greater mechanical rigidity than the converter elements, in particular in the force-applying or pressure-applying direction, is assigned to at least a number of piezoelectric converter elements, or the piezoelectric converter element is applied, in the form of a layer, to a supporting body made from this support material and is electrically contact-connected, for example, by a bottom electrode, which is arranged between the converter element layer and the supporting body, and a cover electrode which is applied to an outer side of the converter element layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignees: S.W.A.C. Schmitt-Walter Automation Consult GmbH, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Stefan Schmitt-Walter, Lutz Seffner, Thomas Roedig, Sylvia Gebhardt, Bent Brueckner, Andreas Schoenecker
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Patent number: 8297253Abstract: A rotary piston engine with a frame, a cylinder liner mounted rotatably therein, a rotor mounted coaxially in the cylinder liner and a gear mechanism connecting the frame, the liner and the rotor, where the gear mechanism is outside a working space arranged between liner and rotor and where the gear mechanism couples the cylinder liner and the rotor for a relative movement periodically oscillating between positive and negative rotational speed. The gear mechanism and the liner form with the rotor a transmission with five rotational joints with a degree of freedom of one and one rotational/prismatic joint, where the gear mechanism has a rotational element mounted rotatably by a first rotational joint on the frame and a connecting rod connected rotatably by a second rotational joint to the rotational element and rotatably by a third rotational joint to the cylinder liner and by the rotational/prismatic joint to the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Inventor: Waldemar Kurowski
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Patent number: 8298126Abstract: The invention relates to a supporting device for the back and head of a human being. Said device comprises a partial area of a back supporting section at the level of the shoulder blade, a central supporting surface in the region of a vertebral column and open areas which are arranged on the both sides of the central supporting surface in such a way that the shoulder blade regions can be lowered beyond the central supporting area. The invention can be used for furniture for the household or workplace.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Inventor: Joachim Berc
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Patent number: 8298681Abstract: The invention relates to an extrusion billet having two end sides, characterized in that the surface of at least one end side face has a three-dimensional topography which is composed of a substantially planar end side face from which local elevations protrude.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Wieland-Werke AGInventors: Ali Aydin, Hans-Peter Hoehe, Leszek Poletek, Florian Schopper
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Patent number: 8298357Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and secondary workability and suitably used as a structural material for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, and aircrafts, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product has a composition containing 0.6 to 1.2% of Si, 0.8 to 1.3% of Mg, and 1.3 to 2.1% of Cu while satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4), 3%?Si %+Mg %+Cu %?4%??(1) Mg %?1.7×Si %??(2) Mg %+Si %?2.7%??(3) Cu %/2?Mg %?(Cu %/2)+0.6%??(4) and further containing 0.04 to 0.35% of Cr, and 0.05% or less of Mn as an impurity, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The cross section of the extruded product has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 500 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignees: The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Sano, Yasuaki Yoshino
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Patent number: 8297408Abstract: A stabilizer for material handling equipment, includes a base mount for mounting to the material handling equipment, a main frame pivotally attached to the base mount, and a release lever and magnet housing pivotally mounted to the main frame. A biasing element holds the main frame in a disengaged position away from a metallic floor surface. The release lever can be addressed by a user to overcome the biasing element and rotate the magnet housing to an engaged position, so that magnets in the magnet housing engage the metallic floor surface, holding or anchoring the material handling equipment in place. In order to disengage the magnets from the metallic floor surface, the user forces the release lever in an opposite direction, prying the magnets from the floor surface, upon which the biasing element further rotates the main frame, removing the magnet housing from the proximity of the floor.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Inventor: David J. Terhaar
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Patent number: 8292817Abstract: An ultrasonograph contains a probe provided with a transmitting/receiving ultrasonic transducer at the center thereof, and the probe has a transmitting ultrasonic transducer and a receiving ultrasonic transducer which are symmetrically movable with respect to the transmitting/receiving ultrasonic transducer. Contacting the probe with the skin of a diagnosis area, a direction of the probe is adjusted to be perpendicular to the diagnosis object using echo signals of the transducer. Then the echo signals of the transmitting ultrasonic transducer and the transmitting/receiving ultrasonic transducer, and a distance between the ultrasonic transducers are processed to obtain a signal intensity. Results are displayed on a display to indicate the thickness, hardness of an articular cartilage, and a surface condition thereof visually so that it is possible to diagnose the articular cartilage without inserting a probe into the cavitas articulare.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Yamaguchi UniversityInventor: Koji Mori
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Patent number: 8292129Abstract: A dispensing device for liquid media having a housing, a medium reservoir, an outlet opening for dispensing the medium and an inlet opening for intake of air for the purpose of volume equalization in the medium reservoir, wherein a cap is provided that is fittable onto the housing and protects the outlet opening when in the fitted state. The cap closes the inlet opening in gas-tight manner from an environment on the one hand and from the outlet opening on the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbHInventors: Peter Stadelhofer, Juergen Greiner-Perth
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Patent number: 8292124Abstract: A discharge device for a housing, an actuation handle, a transport device for transporting a liquid medium through a discharge opening, and a blocking device to restrict movement of the handle relative to the housing. The blocking device comprises at least one ratchet that can be moved wherein it does not hinder the movement of the actuation handle wherein it restricts the movement of the actuation handle relative to the housing, at least one blocking handle movable in response to application of force, and at least one thrust member through which the blocking handle is operably coupled to the ratchet, whereby the thrust member is connected to the blocking handle and to the ratchet such that the application of force enables the ratchet to be moved.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbHInventor: Christiane Guenther
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Patent number: 8287911Abstract: It is believed that the abnormal absorption of endotoxin present in the gastrointestinal tract relates to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. In an animal model for rheumatoid arthritis, it is observed that arthritis is improved by removing endotoxin. The present invention provides an endotoxin-adsorbent, which is capable of removing endotoxin in the gastrointestinal tract and can be administered to humans safely. By using a non-digestible and non-absorbable, and therefore, safe endotoxin-adsorbent, which has a high endotoxin-binding capacity for removing large amounts of endotoxin present in the gastrointestinal tract, it is possible to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignees: Chondrex Inc., Muromachi Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuniaki Terato, Hiroshi Shionoya, Sadaichi Iwashita
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Patent number: 8286806Abstract: A storage device for items connectable to a power source, particularly in patient care facilities. The device is attachable to an electrical power box in a support surface. A backing plate securable to the support surface has an upper free edge and a lower region defining a substantially planar intermediate region therebetween. A power supply aperture in the intermediate region allows for selective power connection between the power box and stored items. A base shelf at the lower region of the backing plate, and a projections from the free edge of the base shelf, provide securing locations for selected items. Removable bracket units for specific items can be secured on the projections. The device provides improved means of secure, hygienic, compact and efficient storage and access to the items, while overcoming disadvantages of health and safety hazards of the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Inventor: Joseph William Norris
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Patent number: D669870Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eui-Seok Kim, Jun-Ho Yang
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Patent number: D670256Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Gwang Kim, Eui-Seok Kim
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Patent number: D670679Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Ho Choi, Jin Kwon
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Patent number: D670701Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-Teik Lim, Ji-Sang Park
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Patent number: D671924Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su-An Choi, Chae-Joo Son