Patents Represented by Attorney Foley & Lardener LLP
  • Patent number: 8261404
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wiping blade (30) for removing water from a surface having one or more vertebrae (32, 34, 36, 38) comprising at least one rail (32, 34) and at least one spring (36, 38), wherein said rail (32, 34) is curved and provides an elastic force quasi perpendicular to the windscreen, and said wire spring (36, 38) is fitted to said rail over its entire length or a part thereof and provides an elastic force in the direction of the length of the vertebra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: NV Bekaert SA
    Inventor: Eckart Wunsch
  • Patent number: 6911901
    Abstract: Multi-functional electro-acoustic apparatus has a bending wave panel loudspeaker, an input device (11) forming part of the surface of the bending wave panel (5), and means (13) for providing force feedback to the input device. An electro-acoustic transducer (15) attached to the bending wave panel excites bending waves in the panel to produce an acoustic output. The panel (5) provides several functions and may be considered to be a hyper-functional surface (HFS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: New Transducers Limited
    Inventor: Russ Bown
  • Patent number: D507651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis F. Mueller, Mary Ann Stoikes