Patents Represented by Law Firm Furgang & Milde, LLP
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Patent number: 5695535Abstract: A pocket filter includes a front frame which accommodates at least two filter bags. The top of each bag accommodates a reinforcing frame. The bags are secured dust-tight to one another, to the reinforcing frames, and to the front frame. The front frame is a severed at at least one point along its perimeter. The front frame has a U-shaped channel around it that opens inward, and the reinforcing frames can be inserted into the channel when the front frame is open at the severed point. The reinforcing frames match each other and match the size of the front frame, creating a dust-tight contact between all the adjacent reinforcing frames and the inner surface of the channel when the front frame is closed at the severed point. Facing webs, disposed in the channel opening on each side of the "U", create a dust-tight contact with the reinforcing frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1997Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Assignee: Carl FreudenbergInventors: Dieter Hintenlang, Dieter Unrath, Udo Michaelis, Margit Hofmann
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Patent number: 5694150Abstract: A graphical user interface system is provided having an event-driven control program with a unified user input pointing event stream without distinction of source and a graphical user interface having a virtual display space containing objects. The control program processing events related to a plurality of user inputs representing different locations within the virtual display space, and operates optionally in two modes. A first mode permits the plurality of user inputs to interact, allowing an object in the virtual display space at a first location specified by an initial user input to be associated with a second location specified by a concurrent and subsequently terminating user input. In this case, the control program has a counter which increments on activity of any user input and decrements on cessation of activity of any user input, for determining an initial user input condition, temporal concurrence of a plurality of user inputs, and a terminal user input condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1995Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: Elo Touchsystems, Inc.Inventors: Michael R. Sigona, Anthony Winner
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Patent number: 5668625Abstract: An apparatus and method for handling photographic film within the print-exposure section of a photographic printer. A mask matches the film frame (negative) and has a window for the passage of the exposure light. The mask also has holes through which air can be directed onto the film. A guide for the edges of the film parallels, and demarcates a gap with the mask. A source of air under either overpressure or underpressure supplies such air to the mask (4) and the film (1) through the air-direction openings (15). The air is supplied with overpressure while the film is being advanced. The air is supplied with underpressure while the print is being exposed to clamp the film.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AktiengesellschaftInventors: Siegfried Bocklisch, Wolfgang Fielder, Helmut Treiber, Rainer Leuschner, Wilfried Reichel, Michael Wilde
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Patent number: 5667319Abstract: A simplified keyboard arrangement for use by a child. The simplified keyboard arrangement has a matrix of keys which are so situated to facilitate interaction between the child and a device, such as a computer. The simplified keyboard arrangement also develops motor skills of the child and encourages development of coordination. The simplified keyboard arrangement may be a self contained keyboard or an adapter provided for a standard-type keyboard. An adapter is also provided which allows connection of the simplified keyboard and a standard keyboard to a single keyboard port for simultaneous use of both keyboards.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Inventor: James Satloff
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Patent number: 5658324Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing cryotherapy and controlled compression using a non-chlorofluorocarbon pressurized refrigerant supplied in a disposable canister, including a canister adapter, an inject valve which mates to the adapter, providing a steady flow rate of refrigerant to provide a predetermined cooling and a selectively initiated rapid flow of refrigerant to rapidly establish operating conditions, a conduit for connecting the inject valve and a maze fluid flow path in which the heat of vaporization of the refrigerant fluid cools an object in proximity to the maze, a bladder for accumulating vaporized refrigerant outside the maze and an exhaust valve having a predetermined relief pressure, venting refrigerant gas from the bladder to the atmosphere, thereby inflating the bladder with gaseous refrigerant to a specified pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1994Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Promdx Technology Inc.Inventors: Richard F. Bailey, Sr., Ronald A. Fisher
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Patent number: 5654693Abstract: A transponder antenna is carried by a substrate and is sandwiched between the substrate and a cover sheet. A rectangular opening extends through the cover sheet and receives a signal processing chip adhesively carried in a recess below a cap which covers the opening. The chip is spaced with respect to the antenna so as to facilitate inductive coupling between the chip and antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1996Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: X-Cyte, Inc.Inventor: Keith Cocita
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Patent number: 5648998Abstract: A camera that projects data onto an X-ray film (2). The film is accommodated in a light-tight cassette (3). The data is imaged onto the film with light projected along a row (A) through an open window (4) in the cassette. The camera is characterized by means (24a, 24b, 25a, 25b, & 29) of releasably securing the cassette relative to the top (1a) of the camera along and/or across the row and by a control unit (27) that actuates the securing means during exposure and acts in conjunction with sensors (15a, 15b, & 15c) which emit signals in accordance with the orientation of the cassette.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AktiengesellschaftInventors: Walter Bauer, Eberhard Werner
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Patent number: 5645283Abstract: A radial shaft seal comprises a gasket and an anti-dust lip made of polymer and resting axially separated against the shaft with concentric sealing edges around it. The anti-dust lip has at least two sealing edges separated by a gap. Each edge is interrupted by at least one groove that opens toward the shaft at points distributed around the seal circumference.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Carl FreudenbergInventors: Rolf Drucktenhengst, Rolf Vogt
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Patent number: 5623587Abstract: A method for producing a composite electronic image of a subject comprises the steps of converting a set of representations of the first images into an another set of representations of the first image which are dependent upon the size information defined by the representations of the foreground and background frames; and combining the converted images with the foreground image using the reference points. This method can also be used to combine the sound data and a sequence of frame images.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1995Date of Patent: April 22, 1997Assignee: Kideo Productions, Inc.Inventor: Richard L. Bulman
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Patent number: 5612733Abstract: A video camera adapted for use with a computer monitor, the video camera including a first housing and an optical video sensor mounted in the first housing and arranged to view the face of a computer operator, the monitor including a second housing and a display screen mounted in the second housing and arranged to be viewed by the computer operator, the display screen having an image surface, and the second housing including a frame portion disposed adjacent to the image surface at a top portion thereof, the frame having a top surface. The first housing is configured to position the optical video sensor between said display surface and the computer operator, superimposed along axis between the computer operator and the display surface on the frame at a position adjacent the display surface and below the top of the frame, and at a position between the lateral sides and not substantially obscuring the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1995Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: C-Phone CorporationInventor: Daniel P. Flohr
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Patent number: 5609184Abstract: The proposed device is intended for use in motor vehicles and permits a high level of accuracy in measurement and simple and cost-effective manufacture. It comprises a shaft component (12) arranged adjustably in a housing element (21) and a rotating unit (20') of a rotation angle sensor (2) which can move in relation to the fixed unit (20). The stator element (21) consists of two rounded cusp-shaped subcomponents held with a bracing unit and secured in a stator mount (23). There is a clearance recess between the subcomponents of the stator element. The rotating unit (20') is a ring-shaped magnet element (24) held by a magnet holder (26,27) connected to the shaft element (12); this arrangement allows the magnet element (24) to move around the stator element subcomponents leaving an air gap (25). The housing element (13) can be constructed in many parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: AB Elektronik GmbHInventors: Peter Apel, Marion Hauschopp, Klaus Wilczek
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Patent number: 5607285Abstract: A pump drive apparatus comprises a housing (1) that accommodates a shaft (2) and a pump impeller (3). Both rotate around the same axis (4). The impeller rotates against the housing on at least one bearing (5). There is an eccentric journal (6) on the end of the shaft inside the impeller. The journal rotates in an orbital journal bearing (7). The orbital journal bearing moves in a circle within an eccentric bearing 14 on the impeller, driving the impeller. The orbital bearing tightly encloses the journal. A flexible component (9) prevents the orbital bearing from rotating in, and seals it off from, the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Carl FreudenbergInventor: Hans-Gerd Eckel
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Patent number: 5608784Abstract: There is provided computerized method of enrollment in a computerized system and the verification of the location of employees. Each employee, using a predetermined set of instructions, telephones a computer which, under the control of a program and a voice recognition and speech identification device, derives a voice print of the employee. When the employee is sent to a location, the ANI and voice print, which are in the computer's database, are verified. If the correct telephone is used, and the voice print compares, the time and place of the telephone call and the employee are recorded for later use by the employer.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1994Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Inventor: Joel F. Miller
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Patent number: 5594774Abstract: A holder (3) for retaining a sheet of X-ray sensitive film (24) for making X-ray pictures includes (1) an outer cassette (5) with a low-friction shape and surface and (2) an inner cassette (20) that can be opened and closed, that is lightproof when closed, and that can be accommodated in the outer cassette. The inside of the closed outer cassette is longer and wider than the film and considerably higher than the film is thick.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1995Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: AGFA GeavertInventor: Manfred Schmidt
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Patent number: 5594525Abstract: A method of and printer for printing photographs on light-sensitive paper of a particular format from transparent masters on a roll of film by means of a projector. Both the film and a strip of the paper are advanced through a printing point. The paper is displaced across the direction the film travels in with the center of the prescribed paper format at a distance from the optical axis of the projector. The projector can be adjusted to project the image of the master larger or smaller than the paper format.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1995Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: AGFA GeavertInventors: Gerhard Benker, Helmut Treiber, Ulrich Kluter, Bernhard Lorenz, Reimund Munch
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Patent number: 5591945Abstract: An acoustic touch position sensor having a transducer which imparts a wave, propagating along a first axis. A reflective array disposed along the first axis which reflects the wave as a set of waves having a horizontally polarized component and a non-uniform volumetric energy density along an axis normal to said surface, traveling along a different axis into the touch surface region of the substrate. The waves are partially absorbed, attenuated or perturbed by an object touching the substrate, to create a modified waveform having characteristics indicative of the axial displacement and/or contact condition of the object with the substrate. The wave perturbation is detected by collecting the set of waves with a reflective array, which redirects the wave energy to a receiving transducer. The transducers preferably produce and are responsive to Rayleigh type waves, with the reflective arrays mode-converting acoustic wave energy between higher order horizontally polarized shear waves and Rayleigh type waves.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1995Date of Patent: January 7, 1997Assignee: Elo TouchSystems, Inc.Inventor: Joel Kent
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Patent number: 5592537Abstract: The present invention is a method of operating a telecommunication system for providing a limited access message service to a plurality of end users. Existing telecommunication lines with a telecommunication switching network and a computerized central switching station are used to establish a billing system for sponsors and to form an account for each sponsor purchasing subsequent usage relating to one third party telephone number, the usage being based on a predetermined bulk rate for consumption of user time over a preset time period. It also includes distributing a user unit to each of a plurality of end users for calling the one third party telephone number. Each end-user is given the third party telephone number, and at least one unique personal identification number.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1994Date of Patent: January 7, 1997Inventor: Arthur J. Moen
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Patent number: D376508Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1994Date of Patent: December 17, 1996Inventor: Beatrix Sternelle
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Patent number: D377417Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1996Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Inventor: Subhash Gupta
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Patent number: D380924Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Inventor: Beatrix Sternelle