Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gary M. Nath
  • Patent number: 6534519
    Abstract: The N-oxides of the compounds of formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R31, R4, R5, R51 and R6 have the meanings indicated in the description, are novel active bronchial therapeutics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Altana Pharma AG
    Inventor: Beate Gutterer
  • Patent number: 6532868
    Abstract: A stencil making and printing machine outputs a busy signal indicative that the stencil making and printing machine is a busy state, and then, gives the busy signal as an answer to the external computer system via the controller for a predetermined time after the stencil making process and for a predetermined time after a printing process, and thereby, an intervention operation from the external computer system is limited. By doing so, the present invention provides a stencil making and printing system and a stencil making and printing machine, which can improve an operability of stencil making and printing process, and has a high processing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kaneda, Manabu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 6532939
    Abstract: A fuel injector fixing structure for use with an in-cylinder injection type engine is improved to reduce the number of processing man-hours and the number of parts as well as the number of assembling man-hours. In detail, each fuel injector is inserted into an injector fixing hole of a cylinder head, followed by attaching an injector fixing bracket. Then, each connecting portion of a fuel delivery pipe is connected to a fuel inlet of each fuel injector, followed by inserting a common bolt through an fixing boss portion and an injector fixing bracket, and fixing these elements to a common boss portion of the cylinder head. In this way, each fuel injector and the fuel delivery pipe can be fixed in the cylinder head by virtue of a common bolt, thereby making it possible to reduce the number of processing man-hours and the number of parts as well as the number of assembling man-hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 6531493
    Abstract: The invention relates to the novel use of 3-cyclopropylmethoxy-4-difluoromethoxy-N-(3,5-dichloropyrid-4-yl)benzamide, a pharmacologically tolerable salt thereof or its N-oxide in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Altana Pharma AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Kley, Karl Sanders
  • Patent number: 6531144
    Abstract: There is provided a microemulsion aerosol composition whose hazards of flammability and explosion are reduced and which is one-layer type and does not require to shake a container containing the composition prior to use. A microemulsion aerosol composition containing an aerosol base solution comprising (a) an insecticidal ingredient, (b) a surfactant, (c) an aliphatic hydrocarbon having between 8 and 16 carbons, and (d) water, and (e) a liquefied petroleum gas as a propellant, wherein (b), (c) and (d) are contained in amounts of 5 to 20 vol %, 40 to 78 vol % and 15 to 53 vol %, respectively, in the aerosol base solution, and the surfactant (b) is composed of sorbitan fatty esters and polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ethers in a mixing ratio of 1:1 to 5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Dainihon Jochugiku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashima, Osamu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6531153
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of levodopa and of carbidopa, dispersed in a hydrophilic matrix, said composition further comprising an organic acid. A subject of the invention is also a process for preparing the composition, comprising granulation, in particular in a fluidized bed, of the various components and compression of the granules obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Drugtech Corporation
    Inventor: Pawan Seth
  • Patent number: 6530503
    Abstract: An ink bottle set-up device having a bottle set-up body 2 formed with a bottle set-up chamber 3 and a projection-guide recess formed along a direction in which an ink bottle 100 having a positioning projection 103 is inserted. An ink bottle erroneous set-up prevention mechanism 6 is located on the bottle set-up body and comprises a detecting lever 9 moveable in protruding or retracting positions and urged toward the protruding position, a slide member 12 slidable in bottle inserting or bottle discharging directions for selectively allowing the ink bottle to be inserted through the bottle set-up chamber when the positioning projection in alignment with the projection-guide recess is detected by the detecting lever, and a bottle stopper segment 14 secured to the slide member 12 and protruding into the bottle set-up chamber 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 6530777
    Abstract: An injection moulding machine for producing small plastic components with a drive unit (6, 84), a plasticizing device (4, 42) and a hot channel nozzle (1) having a collection chamber (10) for the molten plastic. An injection ram (35) projects into the hot channel nozzle (1) and can push the collected plastic out. In an embodiment, the plasticizing device (4, 42) and the drive unit (6, 84) are secured to a movable bearing housing (85) and can move the injection ram (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ganz, Paul Sillman
  • Patent number: 6530706
    Abstract: A paper feed unit has a paper feed tray stacking sheets thereon, a primary paper feed roller and a secondary paper feed member, wherein an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the paper feed tray is transferred toward the secondary paper feed member from the primary paper feed roller, a tip end of the sheet then contacts with the secondary paper feed member, and primary paper feed is then completed while the sheet is being bent. A counter rotation stop mechanism, which allows the primary paper feed roller to rotate in a paper feed direction but prevents the primary paper feed roller from rotating in a counter direction to the paper feed direction, and a rotation stop release mechanism, which releases a state in which the primary paper feed roller is prevented from rotating in the counter direction by the counter rotation stop mechanism, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Akitoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6526881
    Abstract: In a printing machine, a tip end of a print sheet 22, which is transferred from a paper feed section 5 synchronously with rotation of a printing drum 16 and a pressure drum 17, is clamped by a sheet clamp section 21 at a rotation clamp position upstream of a press portion on which the printing drum 16 and the pressure drum press each other. The print sheet 22 thus clamped is transferred along an outer peripheral surface of the pressure drum 17 and pressed against a stencil sheet on the press portion. Then, printing is done. The printing machine is provided with a sheet clamp guide member 30 guiding the tip end of the print sheet 22, which is transferred from the sheet feed section 5, to a position on which the print sheet 22 is abutted on a sheet abutment face 21a of the sheet clamp section 21 located at the rotation clamp position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Iimura
  • Patent number: 6527064
    Abstract: In an assembly for cylindrical drill pipes made for the transport of different kinds of fluids, a combined flange assembly can combine the functions and can be assembled under low time consumption and at low cost. Drill rods are connected by axially directed bolts inserted in the outer wall of a first drill rod (1) and extending axially past the end of the first drill rod (1) into internally threaded blind holes (21, 22) in the next drill rod to be connected to the first drill rod. Each terminal surface of a drill rod is made with arrangements (13-17, 23-27) for at least one coupling plug (31, 33) for the transport of different kinds of fluids in the drill string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Welltec Aps
    Inventor: Jorgen Hallundbaek
  • Patent number: 6526754
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant includes a gasifier for converting biomass material, low grade coal, etc., to combustible gases and producing heat, an internal combustion engine coupled to a generator for burning the combustible gases and driving said generator which produces power. The internal combustion engine rejects heat and produces hot exhaust gases. A vaporizer containing an organic fluid is responsive to the hot exhaust gases for vaporizing the organic fluid and producing vaporized organic fluid which is supplied to an organic vapor turbine coupled to a generator. The turbine expands the vaporized organic fluid driving the generator and producing expanded vaporized organic fluid which is condensed in a condenser. The condensate produced by the condenser is returned to the vaporizer. At least some of the heat rejected by the internal combustion engine is transferred the condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Ormat Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Lucien Y. Bronicki
  • Patent number: 6524233
    Abstract: The Invention relates to the use of pulsating electromagnetic signals for stimulating chondrogenesis. The invention especially relates to the use of FGF (Fibroblast Growth Factor) in combination with pulsating electromagnetic signals for stimulating cartilage and chondrogenesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Inventor: Richard Markoll
  • Patent number: 6520474
    Abstract: A vehicle seat slide device includes an elongated lower guide rail adapted to be secured to a floor panel of the vehicle body in its longitudinal direction, and an upper slide rail slidably fitted into the lower guide rail. The lower guide rail has a rail body, side walls, slider rest portions and upper guide walls inwardly extending from upper ends of the side walls to define an elongated guide groove. First hook segments are formed on inner edges of the upper guide walls along the elongated guide groove, and second hook segments are formed on the side walls of the lower guide rail, respectively. The upper slide rail includes a slide body, vertical wall, upper slide walls, and lower side walls. In the upper slide rail, slider rest shoulders, first engaging segments, and second engaging segments are also formed. Either one of the slider rest portions may include a rectilinear portion by which one of the sliders is held in point of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Yoshida, Ryo Fujimoto, Moriyuki Eguchi
  • Patent number: 6520796
    Abstract: A codable kink protection is formed such that this forms an interference-fit connection with a coding sleeve. The coding means are provided with a through slot, thus allowing the coding sleeve to be pushed over the cable and the flexible bush. The coding sleeve is made of an elastic colored plastic and is shaped essentially complementary to the kink protection housing, in order to achieve a form-fit connection therewith. This coding sleeve can be applied and removed without necessitating special tooling and is excellently visible from all viewing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Reichle & De-Massari AG
    Inventor: Hans Reichle
  • Patent number: 6519821
    Abstract: In a hot stamping or embossing method for stamping single sheets or webs with stamping product located on a stamping foil web, the material to be printed is moved through the stamping gap and the stamping foil web is jointly moved in such a way that during stamping intervals it is moved at the same speed as the printing material and outside the stamping intervals, at least temporarily, it has a foil speed differing from the printing material speed. According to the invention between two selected stamping intervals the stamping foil web is briefly accelerated in such a way that a space between succeeding, stamping product-delivering stamping product areas of the stamping foil web is larger than the corresponding, unprinted area of the printing material between succeeding stamping locations, which can be utilized for economizing foil material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Inventor: Armin Steuer
  • Patent number: 6516999
    Abstract: A method of protecting data, stored in a memory device of a computer system connected to a SCSI interface, against, unauthorized access whereby access by the computer system to the memory device is either permitted or refused, depending upon the authorization of a request, by an exchange of information between the computer system and the memory device at the SCSI interface. Authorization is by means of identification of an authorized user. During access by the computer system to the memory device, any kind of operation with the memory device can be blocked, or access permission given for memory readout only, or for readout and recording, or only for recording. The equipment for carrying out the method includes a memory device connected by a SCSI bus to a host computer system, while between the memory device and the host computer system there an additional control unit with authorization block is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Solid Access Technologies Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Jaroslav Bélono{haeck over (z)}nik
  • Patent number: 6516632
    Abstract: A simple and compact device for wet granulation of liquid slag, comprising a granulating basin with a water injection device and a decanting basin that is separate from the granulating basin. A distribution channel for the granulate-water mixture extends above the decanting basin and is provided with outflow means along the entire length and on the lower side thereof for the granulate-water mixture. A vertical inflow shaft that is open towards the bottom is arranged underneath the distribution channel. The outflow means for the granulate-water mixture discharges into said inflow shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Paul Worth S.A.
    Inventors: Léon Ulveling, Jean-Luc Roth, Henri Radoux
  • Patent number: 6517890
    Abstract: Method of thin layer preparation for a radionuclide source comprising the following steps: deposition of a drop of a radionuclide dissolved in a solvent onto a on a support substrate, placing said support substrate with said drop in a confined space with a reduced pressure, directing at least one flow of a hot gas onto the drop, rotating the source relative to the hot gas jet creating turbulences inside the drop, evaporating the solvent and obtaining a thin layer of dry radionuclide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: European Community
    Inventors: Bruno Denecke, Tamas Szabo
  • Patent number: D471767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Inventors: Jose Javier Ucar Cortes, Miguel Ucar Cortes, Sandra Ucar Cortes, Maria Teresa Ucar Cortes, Maria Teresa Cortes Senosiain