Patents Represented by Law Firm Hane, Baxley & Spiecens
  • Patent number: 4045867
    Abstract: In a method for encapsulating electrical components, especially capacitors, plastic moulds joined to a common trough-shaped pouring ingate are used. A liquid, hardenable plastics filling compound is poured into the moulds in excess under vacuum, and the plastics compound is brought to cure. After curing, the pouring ingate together with the surplus filling compound is cut off from the encapsulated components. The mould remains as a cover around the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Arne Gudmund Strom
  • Patent number: 4035769
    Abstract: The pressure exerted while writing a signature is transduced to an electrical analog signal which is periodically converted to a binary coded number representing the average amplitude of the pressure between periodic samplings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: Veripen, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Sternberg, Robert W. Freund
  • Patent number: 4032380
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of insulating stripped conductor wire portions of a cable insulated with solid polymer material so that the insulation of the stripped wire portions is substantially equivalent to the insulation of the cable. According to this method a vulcanizable insulation tape is wound about the stripped wire portion so that a layer of insulation tape is formed which is substantially flush with the insulation of the cable and then elastic tape is tightly wound about this layer of insulation tape and adjacent portions of the insulation so that the elastic tape applies an inwardly directed form of compression upon the layer of insulation tape. Heat is thereupon applied to the layer of elastic tape and through this layer to the insulation tape at a temperature and for a period of time such that the insulation tape is vulcanized. Upon completion of the vulcanization, application of heat is terminated and the layer of elastic tape is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Gotthard Valentin Olsson
  • Patent number: 4019431
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of dewatering sludge such as residuals in sewage discharge processing installations. The method provides that cakes are formed of the sludge. These cakes have initially a high water content and are of inhomogenous, loose consistency. They are guided between filter bands through a preliminary filtering zone in which some of the water contained in the cakes is extracted by straining and pressure action applied thereto. The filter bands with the cakes therebetween are then successively guided over a first dewatering drum and a subsequent second dewatering drum. Pressure is applied to the filter band while being guided about the drums, thereby extracting further water from the cakes. Additionally, the cakes while traveling from the feed-in point toward and through pressure zones are deformed and also turned over thereby compacting the cakes as water is extracted therefrom. Finally, the cakes after being sufficiently dewatered and compressed are discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Alb. Klein KG
    Inventor: Wendel Bastgen
  • Patent number: 4018993
    Abstract: The invention relates to a telephone system comprising: a satellite arranged to relay a plurality of signalling channels and speech transmission channels; a plurality of earth stations having a plurality of line units each of which is connected to a subscriber, a signalling equipment connected to such line units and arranged to transmit reports about the states of such subscribers and to receive commands about allocated calling and called sides of the speech transmission channels to calling and called subscribers over the signalling channels, and a frequency synthesizer unit connected to the line units and arranged to connect the calling and called subscribers to their allocated sides of the speech transmission channels under control of the commands; and a central control station comprising central signalling equipment arranged to receive the reports and transmit the commands, and a control equipment connected to the central signalling equipment and arranged to generate the commands and address them to the ea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Nils Herbert Edstrom
  • Patent number: 4014655
    Abstract: An explosive is produced in a continuous process made up of three stages. The first stage is mixing the solid ingredients of the explosive and transporting it to a mixing station. The second stage is emulsifying nitroglycerine and transporting it to the mixing station where the nitroglycerine is separated from the water and combined with other liquid ingredients. The third stage is the mixing stage where the solid and liquid ingredients are mixed or kneaded and formed into suitably-sized explosive units. The mixing station is provided with a mixer having a pair of hoppers in which are deposited the liquid ingredients and the solid ingredients, and which empty into a housing having a pair of rotating mixing screws which mix the liquid and solid ingredients. The liquid ingredients never contact the bearings of the mixing screws. The ratio of liquid to solid ingredients of the explosive may be varied by varying the feeding rate of each.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Nitro Nobel A.B.
    Inventor: Bernt Brunnberg
  • Patent number: 4010421
    Abstract: A synchronization method for the recovery, at the receiver side of an information transmission equipment, of bit timing information during the transmission of a binary signal which at the transmitter side of the equipment is converted into a multilever signal with correlative properties. From such multilevel signal, a binary signal conforming with the original binary signal is reconstructed at the receiver side. Bit timing information for sampling purposes at the receiver side is obtained by detection of the times at which the multilevel signal reaches and/or leaves at least one specific level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Kurt Bertil Reinhold Lind
  • Patent number: 4004398
    Abstract: A firm container is fed with a plastic material which surrounds the firm container along a portion of its length. The firm container has an open end which is closed off by a pair of welding jaws which welds the plastic material together and forms the bottom of a container that holds a pulverized material. Pulverized material is then fed to the bottom of the container and after feeding is over, the plastic material is allowed to fall from the firm container by moving a support table downwardly. After the support table has moved downwardly a certain distance, the welding jaws are operated again and weld a new piece of plastic material to the open end of the firm container, thus forming a bottom for a new container and closing off the top of the previously-made container. A piston is provided within the firm container for compressing the pulverized material fed into the interior of the firm container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget Platmanufaktur
    Inventors: Lars Goran Larsson, Sture Ingemar Sundberg
  • Patent number: 3999086
    Abstract: A drive circuit for a controllable electronic switching element, preferably a power transistor has two part circuits. One part circuit includes a first transistor and one primary half of a current transformer the secondary winding of which is connected to the main current path of the switching element. The other part circuit consists of a second transistor and the other primary half of the current transformer. The transistor in each part circuit has its collector connected to the respective primary half and the bases of the transistors are connected together and to a voltage pulse source. The emitter of each of the transistors is connected to the control electrode of the switching element so that one of the part circuits forms a positive feedback loop for the collector current of the switching element when it is conducting and the other of the part circuits forms a negative feedback loop when the switching element is not non-conducting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Folke Josef Bertil Ekelund
  • Patent number: 3997821
    Abstract: The invention refers to a solid electrolytic capacitor, the anode and cathode leads of which are in known manner formed from a metal strip while the electrolytic capacitor per se comprises a metallic anode body which has a relatively large plane surface above which a dielectric layer and a cathode layer are stacked in that order. The cathode lead is a part formed from the metal strip and shaped as a plate having a surface that is at least as large as the plane surface of the anode body and faces the cathode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Olaf Sternbeck
  • Patent number: 3996567
    Abstract: Apparatus for indicating an abnormal program execution by a process controlling computer in, for example, a telecommunication system wherein the different programs, each consisting of one or more program sectors, are called for and executed within certain so-called priority levels. Each priority level includes a counter for supervising the execution of the programs on the level. This counter is stepped, for example, in its forward direction by a clock for measuring the time during which the computer works on the associated priority level and if a certain time limit is exceeded, a warning signal is obtained. For supervising the work of a certain program sector a second counter is arranged which is stepped in either direction by means of the clock and if a certain time limit is exceeded an alarm signal is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Oleg Avsan
  • Patent number: 3993883
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a contact spring set comprising contact springs and a lifting card, attached at the outer ends of the contact springs between an upper return spring and a lower return spring. In order to achieve a playless fixing of the lifting card to at least one of the return springs, which allows for a simple fitting of the lifting card, the return spring is flat and provided with two pairs of tabs, which are bent in such a way that adjacent tabs point in opposite directions. The lifting card has a hole for the return spring which is constituted by two portions, substantially equal and displaced relative to a symmetry line through the center of the lifting card, which is perpendicular to the plane of the return spring. The contour of each hole portion has at least one straight side, these straight sides being parallel and having a distance corresponding to the thickness of the return spring and a combined overall length corresponding to the width of the return spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Sven-Erik Lindeberg
  • Patent number: 3992745
    Abstract: Cleaning the inside of a receptacle such as a chill mould by brushing the inside of the mold is effected by moving one or more brushes up and down within the mold. Each brush is generally disc-shaped and the periphery is shaped in conformity with the shape of the mold. The brushes are so arranged that the bristles thereon can be moved into and out of brushing engagement with the inside of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Ferrox AB
    Inventor: Jaakko Johanes Laurila
  • Patent number: 3993871
    Abstract: A relay matrix, especially a reed relay matrix for selectors in telephone exchanges, consists of a crossing point network, i.e. relays arranged in rows and columns constituting switching elements of speech paths, control unit and holding units common to such a network. The relays of the crossing point network are of the monostable reed-relay type. The through connection is of the two pole type i.e. each crossing point comprises just two make contacts. The wire connection between the matrices in the selector is limited to the speech wires since a continuous holding wire is not utilized. Addressing of the crossing points in a connection is carried out by means of a central processor by the setting up of a connection as well as by the releasing of the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Royne Gunnar Hjortendal, Jons Kurt Alvar Olsson
  • Patent number: 3993404
    Abstract: There is disclosed a motion picture projector with self-threading mechanism with which has been combined automatic electric clutch and brake means for forward and reverse operations to permit the projector to be used in a search mode, an automatic film tension control means, an automatic lower-loop setter, a switch for stopping the projector upon loss of the upper loop, a frame counter and a pre-threaded projection magazine which fits over the reel arms and threads in the same manner as the conventional reels. The projector has in the front panel of its enclosure a slot into which is insertable a length of film extending between the two reels of the projector. After dropping a length of film into the slot the lever is pivoted from its leading position into its threading position. While being so pivoted, the lever sequentially causes locking of the film to the take-up sprocket, then to the supply sprocket, then forming the lower loop, then the upper loop, and finally pressing the film into the film channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Kalart Victor Corporation
    Inventors: Roger W. Coomer, Ray L. Marquis, Frank H. Beckman
  • Patent number: 3993110
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of diffusing gaseous medium such as tritium into a vessel such as a tube of an overvoltage protector. According to the method, a vessel such as a tube including a wall portion made of a material permitting diffusion of gas therethrough is provided. This vessel is heated to a predetermined elevated temperature and sealed while the vessel is at the elevated temperature. The vessel is thereupon evacuated and exposed to an atmosphere of gas to be diffused into the vessel while maintaining this atmosphere for a predetermined period of time at an elevated temperature less than the sealing temperature and at a pressure higher than the pressure within the sealed and evacuated vessel, thereby causing diffusion of gas into the vessel for filling the same with the gas. There is also disclosed a device for carrying out the hereinbefore described method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Sven Gustaf Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 3986120
    Abstract: The invention relates to a telephone system comprising: a satellite arranged to relay a plurality of signalling channels and speech transmission channels; a plurality of earth stations having a plurality of line equipments each of which is connected to a subscriber, a signalling equipment connected to such line equipments and arranged to transmit reports about the states of such subscribers and to receive commands about allocated calling and called sides of the speech transmission channels to calling and called subscribers over the signalling channels, and a frequency synthesizer equipment connected to the line equipments and arranged to connect the calling and called subscribers to their allocated sides of the speech transmission channels under control of the commands; and a central control station comprising a second signalling equipment arranged to receive the reports and transmit the commands, and a control equipment connected to the second signalling equipment and arranged to generate the commands and ad
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Nils Herbert Edstrom, Bo Gustav Haglund
  • Patent number: 3984051
    Abstract: A tank for liquid drainable towards an outlet is disclosed which may be u in appliances where the action of gravity is neutralized such as in artificial satellites. The tank comprises a casing and inside said casing a porous retention material in contact with the inner surface of the casing and designed as a structure with compartments, the sections of the compartments decreasing in size in the direction towards the tank outlet and the dimensions of the pores decreasing in the said direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (O.N.E.R.A.)
    Inventors: Jean G. Labbe, Andre R. Hivert
  • Patent number: 3981711
    Abstract: In a glass container making machine using a split face mold, means are provided for controllably diverting the parisons from the mouth of the mold to a waste glass collector when the mold is closed so that at the same time swabbing means lubricate the inner faces of the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget Platmanufaktur
    Inventor: Gosta Bjorkstrom
  • Patent number: D243619
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget
    Inventor: Karl Axel Torbjorn Olsson