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  • Method of maintaining optimal braking and skid protection for a two-wheeled vehicle having a speed sensor failure on a single wheel
    Patent number: 8083295
    Abstract: The method of maintaining optimal braking and skid protection for a two-wheeled vehicle wheel with a wheel speed sensor failure involves providing pulsed braking pressure to the affected wheel with the wheel speed sensor failure. If an incipient or initial skid on another wheel with a functioning wheel speed sensor has occurred, the pulsed braking pressure to the affected wheel is limited to the brake pressure command that caused the last incipient or initial skid on the other wheel, scaled by a factor for safety. Otherwise the pulsed braking pressure to the affected wheel is limited to be no greater than the greatest commanded brake pressure to the other wheel. The pulsed braking pressure is also limited to be less than the brake pressure commanded to the affected wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Hydro-Aire, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Raby, Jordan Silberling
  • Device and method employing shape memory alloy
    Patent number: 8079983
    Abstract: A system for the metering and delivery of small discrete volumes of liquid is comprised of a small or minimal number of inexpensive components. One such component is a movable member, such as a miniature precision reciprocating displacement pump head, which is driven by an actuator that comprises a shape memory alloy material. The operating mechanism of the system is of little or minimal complexity. The system facilitates the precise metering and delivery of the small discrete volumes of liquid. Potential applications for the system include subcutaneous, long-term, automated drug delivery, for example, the delivery of insulin to a person with diabetes. In such an application, the small, simple and inexpensive nature of the invention would allow for its use as both a portable and a disposable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Rush, Christopher V. Reggiardo
  • Redemption game with security measure
    Patent number: 8079596
    Abstract: A redemption game is disclosed having an intermediate holding area for prizes that have been acquired by skillful or fortunate playing of the game, the holding area being inaccessible to the player. The compartment can be accessible via a pivotally mounted floor that leads to a lockable compartment. The lockable compartment would be accessible only with a key or other means that would be controlled by an attendant, so that a player could not acquire a prize without the help of the attendant. In this manner, thieves would be thwarted from cheating the game because the could not acquire the prizes without the assistance of an attendant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Inventor: Stephen P. Shoemaker, Jr.
  • Blow molded universal lid
    Patent number: 8079493
    Abstract: A lid for industrial or commercial large size solid waste containers has a ribbed single layer central portion and a peripheral edge having a hollow double wall boxed configuration. The lids have substantial symmetry so that the lids may be stacked and nested with alternate lids oriented in opposite front-to-back directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Inventor: Craig V. Taylor
  • Device and method employing shape memory alloy
    Patent number: 8079984
    Abstract: A system for the metering and delivery of small discrete volumes of liquid is comprised of a small or minimal number of inexpensive components. One such component is a movable member, such as a miniature precision reciprocating displacement pump head, which is driven by an actuator that comprises a shape memory alloy material. The operating mechanism of the system is of little or minimal complexity. The system facilitates the precise metering and delivery of the small discrete volumes of liquid. Potential applications for the system include subcutaneous, long-term, automated drug delivery, for example, the delivery of insulin to a person with diabetes. In such an application, the small, simple and inexpensive nature of the invention would allow for its use as both a portable and a disposable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Rush, Christopher V. Reggiardo
  • Method for attaching a spout to a flexible film pouch
    Patent number: 8075189
    Abstract: A flexible film pouch includes an aperture to access its contents, and a closure means such as a re-sealable spout is applied over the aperture to permit sealed storage of the contents after opening. The closure means is attached to the flexible film pouch by means of a patch that is bonded to the inside of the pouch adjacent to the aperture. The patch is selected to have a mating surface that bonds with the inner surface of the pouch, where such bonding is preferably conducted by ultrasonic welding or adhesive bonding. The patch itself may have a hole that permits access to the contents of the pouch, or the closure means may include a cutting surface that tears a portion of the patch to permit access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Bosch Pouch Systems AG
    Inventor: Ronald H. Berman
  • Device and method employing shape memory alloy
    Patent number: 8075527
    Abstract: A system for the metering and delivery of small discrete volumes of liquid is comprised of a small or minimal number of inexpensive components. One such component is a movable member, such as a miniature precision reciprocating displacement pump head, which is driven by an actuator that comprises a shape memory alloy material. The operating mechanism of the system is of little or minimal complexity. The system facilitates the precise metering and delivery of the small discrete volumes of liquid. Potential applications for the system include subcutaneous, long-term, automated drug delivery, for example, the delivery of insulin to a person with diabetes. In such an application, the small, simple and inexpensive nature of the invention would allow for its use as both a portable and a disposable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Rush, Christopher V. Reggiardo
  • Agent delivery catheter having a radially expandable centering support members
    Patent number: 8075519
    Abstract: A catheter for delivering an agent to an injection site in a wall of a patient's body lumen, with an elongated shaft having a needle-through lumen slidably containing a needle therein, and an expandable member on the distal shaft section which has a collapsed configuration and a radially expanded configuration. In the radially expanded configuration, the expandable member supports the shaft in a position spaced away from the body lumen wall, and the needle slidably exits the needle-through lumen in the extended configuration through the port spaced away from the body lumen wall as a portion of the expandable member maintains the position of the port section of the shaft in the body lumen. The expandable member typically has an open-walled, helical, or lobed configuration providing a perfusion path along the expandable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Woo Min, Randolf von Oepen, Binh T. Nguyen, Kevin J. Ehrenreich, William E. Webler, Jr., Rommel Lumauig, Gregory W. Chan, Lorcan J. Coffey, Travis R. Yribarren, Jesus Magana
  • Catheter with a polyimide distal tip
    Patent number: 8075583
    Abstract: A catheter having an elongated shaft which has a multilayered distal tip with a first layer formed of a polyimide first material and a second layer formed of a polymeric second material. In one embodiment the multilayered distal tip is a separate member, distal to the distal end of a proximal portion of the shaft. In another embodiment, the shaft has an outer tubular member, and a multilayered inner tubular member with a distal end which forms the multilayered distal tip of the shaft. In a presently preferred embodiment, the polyimide material is a thermoset polyimide. In one embodiment, the polymeric second material is a polyamide material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong S. Lee, Edwin Wang
  • Safety clip for weight distribution trailer hitch
    Patent number: 8070176
    Abstract: A trailer hitch is disclosed having a spacer in the form of a fastener or stopper that limits the travel of a spring clip so as to allow complete removal of the safety pin from the associated weight distribution rod, but does not allow the clip to extend to a position where the pin's end passes the entrance of the hitch's outer surface. The fastener/stopper thus prevents the user or vibration/wear from allowing the clip to overextend to the point where the pin may become separated from the hitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Austin Su
  • Chemical vapor deposition method and system for semiconductor devices
    Patent number: 8071165
    Abstract: A method of and system for chemical vapor deposition of layers of material on substrates for producing semiconductor devices provides for continuous in-line processing. The method includes continuously conveying a plurality of substrates through a plurality of in-line deposition regions, continuously providing and distributing a chemical vapor at each region to deposit material for the layer, and continuously supplying a flow of chemical material for each region to provide the chemical vapor. The system includes a continuous in-line substrate conveyance apparatus for moving a plurality of substrates through a plurality of deposition regions, a deposition head for providing and distributing a chemical vapor at each of the regions to deposit material for the layers, and a chemical material supply apparatus for providing a flow of chemical materials to each of the heads for the chemical vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: International Solar Electric Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay K. Kapur, Richard T. Kemmerle, Phucan Le
  • Sanitary indicator
    Patent number: 8069509
    Abstract: A sanitary device 210 is provided. The sanitary device 210 includes a body and mounting means on the body for mounting the body on a toiletry actuation device 312 of a toilet 310. A stack of leaves of material is provided on the body, the leaves of material being selectively removable so as to enable a user to actuate the toiletry actuation device 312 by removing an uppermost leaf of material from the stack, to reveal a lower leaf of material, and then pressing on the lower leaf of material to actuate the toiletry actuation device 312. In this way, a user can actuate the actuation device 312 without having to touch the toiletry actuation device 312 in a manner in which the user touches a surface which has been touched previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Daniel Adam Polakow
  • Vacuum crane pick-up device
    Patent number: 8070167
    Abstract: An arcade game pick-up device for use with hollow cylindrical targets that can be picked-up by applying a suction force to the bottom of the target, the pick-up device having a suction means and a control for reducing the tolerance between an impeding structure and the upper wall of the target to control the win percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Stephen Shoemaker, Jr.
  • Device and method employing shape memory alloy
    Patent number: 8066665
    Abstract: A system for the metering and delivery of small discrete volumes of liquid is comprised of a small or minimal number of inexpensive components. One such component is a movable member, such as a miniature precision reciprocating displacement pump head, which is driven by an actuator that comprises a shape memory alloy material. The operating mechanism of the system is of little or minimal complexity. The system facilitates the precise metering and delivery of the small discrete volumes of liquid. Potential applications for the system include subcutaneous, long-term, automated drug delivery, for example, the delivery of insulin to a person with diabetes. In such an application, the small, simple and inexpensive nature of the invention would allow for its use as both a portable and a disposable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Rush, Christopher V. Reggiardo
  • Folding work bench
    Patent number: 8066042
    Abstract: The folding work bench folds compactly for storage when not in use and occupies a minimal work space. The folding work bench has a durable work surface, a top storage shelf, a back board for hanging tools, a locking mechanism, and a work table that can be folded up against the back board and locked in a compactly folded configuration that also secures the tools on the back board in the work bench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Mark C. Carter
  • Single-input control circuit for programming electronic ballast parameters
    Patent number: 8063588
    Abstract: A circuit uses a single control input to an oscillator of an electronic ballast to program the parameters of soft-start frequency, pre-heat frequency, ignition ramp time, and ballast run frequency. The output frequency of the oscillator is based on an electrical parameter at the control input node. A resistor-capacitor network may be used to program the soft-start ramp time and ignition ramp time. The resistive element of the restive-capacitance network may be used to program the pre-heat frequency. A switchable impedance may be used to program the ballast run frequency. A look-up table circuit may also be used in the alternative to implement a single control input for the oscillator of an electronic ballast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Ribarich, Peter Bredemeier
  • Overnight closed-loop insulin delivery with model predictive control and glucose measurement error model
    Patent number: 8062249
    Abstract: A closed-loop system for insulin infusion overnight uses a model predictive control algorithm (“MPC”). Used with the MPC is a glucose measurement error model which was derived from actual glucose sensor error data. That sensor error data included both a sensor artifacts component, including dropouts, and a persistent error component, including calibration error, all of which was obtained experimentally from living subjects. The MPC algorithm advised on insulin infusion every fifteen minutes. Sensor glucose input to the MPC was obtained by combining model-calculated, noise-free interstitial glucose with experimentally-derived transient and persistent sensor artifacts associated with the FreeStyle Navigator® Continuous Glucose Monitor System (“FSN”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Malgorzata E. Wilinska, Erwin S. Budiman, Gary A. Hayter, Marc B. Taub, Roman Hovorka
  • Craft dome
    Patent number: 8061378
    Abstract: The quickly erectable dome shelter includes an extendible perimeter truss assembly with link members connected between adjacent legs, a central truss assembly of link members, and a roof framework, including pairs of curved upper and lower peak truss members, that is movable between a lowered, collapsed configuration and a raised, upwardly arching position. The shelter also includes telescoping peak pole members coupled to the central truss assembly of link members and the roof framework, and may also include telescoping peak truss brace members connected between a peak truss member and a link member of the perimeter assembly of link members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Mark C. Carter
  • Hinge
    Patent number: D649007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: D & D Group Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Bartholomew Jeremy Caffin, Filip Tejszerski
  • Hinge
    Patent number: D649008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: D & D Group Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Bartholomew Jeremy Caffin, Filip Tejszerski