Patents Represented by Law Firm Hane, Roberts, Spiecens & Cohen
  • Patent number: 4354265
    Abstract: In a telephone system for digitalized speech transmission additional digital information is transferred without disturbing a speech communication in progress. At the sending side, time slots for the transmission of the additional digital information are created by momentarily suppressing the digital speech signals transmitted on a digital channel and, at the receiving side, the digital information is extracted from the time slots and replaced by digital signals which constitute a continuous amplitude function starting from the amplitude value which was transmitted immediately before the time slot. To distinguish the additional digital information from speech signals a special identifying code is added at the sending side. The speech transmission may employ either Delta Modulation or Pulse Code Modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Karl F. L. Nyberg, Kjell S. Josefsson
  • Patent number: 4351061
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for phase synchronization in a synchronous data transmission system, which transmits a binary pulse train from a transmitter to a receiver by means of an amplitude-modulated carrier. The modulation is of the so-called single-side band type (SSBAM) and the modulating signal which has been derived from the input data flow consists of superimposed pulses of so-called Partial-Response Class 4 type. The receiver clock generator consists of a digital phase-locked loop (TK, FD) controlled by level crossovers in the baseband signal, in which there is arranged between the phase detector (FD) and the oscillator (TK) a sorting circuit (SD), which sorts out and passes through to the oscillator (TK) only such information related to detected level crossovers of a predetermined first category. Further, carrier regeneration is provided by a second phase-locked loop (CR) in series with a phase correction circuit (FK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Jan S. Hedin, Goran A. Jarnestedt
  • Patent number: 4350250
    Abstract: A packing comprising an outer cover constituted by a relatively rigid material and an inner container of relatively flexible material placed within the outer cover. A perimetral rim portion is formed on the outer cover at one end with a central opening within the rim. A plate is disposed within the rim to define a narrow gap therewith extending around the periphery of the plate. The plate is constituted of the same material as the outer cover and is affixed at its inner surface to the outer surface of the inner container by glue or other suitable expedient. The cover can be removed by cutting the inner container at the gap to expose the contents in the inner container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Platmanufaktur AB
    Inventor: Carl H. Peters
  • Patent number: 4349913
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for reducing the demand on the number of transferred bits when transferring PCM information. Polarity and amplitude information are transmitted from a transmitter side to a receiver side, expressed by binary code words, while a chosen upper limit in the amplitude code word indicates transition to a segment having a higher number and a chosen lower limit in the amplitude code word indicates transition to a segment having a lower number. The limit values are transmitted to the receiver side and are used on the receiver side as well as on the transmitter side for generating counting signals. The counting signals are registered on the transmitter side and the receiver side for giving a value which expresses the associated segment. By means of the registered value, a control signal is generated in order to increase and decrease respectively the segment value of the transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Karl I. L. Skoog
  • Patent number: 4348638
    Abstract: Apparatus for measuring power consumed by a load connected via mains to a source of alternating current having a given fundamental frequency includes means for generating a first signal proportional to the instantaneous voltage across the load and a transformer secondary toroidally wrapped around one of the mains for generating a second signal proportional to the instantaneous current through the load. Tuned amplifiers of narrow band pass amplify the signals before they are fed to a square low multiplier means including photooptical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Conversational Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Austin G. Boldridge, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4346533
    Abstract: Obstacle sensing apparatus for a pivotal door has a drive for operating the door between open and closed positions. Linkage is provided between the pivotal column which supports the door for swinging movement and a platform pivotally mounted on a fixed adjacent structure. When an obstacle is encountered the reactive force pivots the platform through the linkage and activates switches which reverse the drive. Elastic blocks keep the platform centered except when an obstacle is encountered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1982
    Assignee: Gebr. Bode & Co. GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Britzke, Manfred Horn, Peter Gossmann
  • Patent number: 4347501
    Abstract: In an installation for transmitting alarms, preferably in connection with attacks on persons, and for locating the alarm sender, there is at least one portable alarm sender 2 sending an alarm to a central alarm receiver (3) by radio. The senders each contain a memory (24) for a code unique to their position in the installation. The code is automatically set by fixed transmitters (1) having a small range, which transmit it electromagnetically, especially inductively, to the sender (2), the code being unique to the location of a transmitter and stored in the sender memory. When fixed transmitters (1) are arranged so close together that their unique codes are difficult to separate in the sender (2), a dummy transmitter (56) is arranged to prevent alteration of a code already stored in the memory (24) of the alarm sender, as long as the sender (2) is close to the dummy transmitter (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Dag Akerberg
  • Patent number: 4345903
    Abstract: A boat comprising a tread drive system including pedals which are adjustable to the size of the operator. An axle extends through the bottom of the boat at the center of the tread system and is connected for oscillating movement therewith, the axle carrying at its lower end a horizontal swing arm. A vertical fin is mounted on the free end of the swing arm for pivotal movement relative thereto. The fin is a flat rigid plate which is tiltable between angular stops. The fin widens rearwardly and is confined by top and bottom baffles. The fin is arranged beneath the center area of the boat between an aft stabilizing fin and a front fin acting as a rudder whose pivot bearing may be coaxial with that of the tiltable fin. The aft stabilizing fin corresponds in size and shape to the rudder and is rigidly fastened to the bottom of the boat near its stern, preferably underneath the seat area for the operator. The boat is steered by a horizontal tiller or steering wheel joined to the upper end of the rudder shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1982
    Inventor: Otto Laser
  • Patent number: 4341231
    Abstract: An applicator for mascara eyebrow lotion or the like comprising a handle having a stem at the free end of which is an applicator. The applicator comprises a flexible tape element secured to the stem and carrying a plurality of filaments projecting from the tape element. The filaments are of hook-shape and are oriented randomly on the tape element and they are adapted to hold a quantity of liquid by surface tension of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Inventor: Allan Costa
  • Patent number: 4339673
    Abstract: A driver circuit for use in testing either ECL (emitter-coupled logic) or TTL (transistor-transistor logic) devices. The circuit has a pair of variable reference voltages (V.sub.H,V.sub.L) for determining the logic levels 0 and 1. The circuit also has two termination networks (8,9) for ECL and TTL, which are selectively connected to the output of the driver circuit according to the value of one of the reference voltages (V.sub.L). Preferably the circuit is formed as a hybrid network in which transistors from the same semiconductor slice are mounted on the same ceramic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: International Computers Limited
    Inventor: Graham A. Perry
  • Patent number: 4338146
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an emulsion explosive which is insensitive to a number 8 detonator comprising forming a water solution of at least one oxidizing salt dispersed in a fuel such as oil, wax, urea, aluminum and the like and then heating the solution to a temperature of 70.degree.-100.degree. C. Thereafter gaseous particles are added to the heated solution both as an aid to detonation and as a co-emulsifier. Fuel with emulsifier dissolved therein is then added and emulsification takes place thereafter at relatively low stirring speed due to the presence of the co-emulsifier of gaseous particles and its introduction into the salt solution before any of the other components used for the explosive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Nitro Nobel AB
    Inventor: Lars A. Granlund
  • Patent number: 4336760
    Abstract: An earthworking implement comprising a frame on which are supported front wheels, rear wheels and a rearmost dolly wheel. An aerator member with blades is rotatably secured to the frame between the front and rear wheels. The dolly wheel is mounted on the frame for rotation about a vertical axis at a location rearwards of the rear wheels. The front wheels and the dolly wheel represent endmost wheels on the frame. One of the endmost wheels is vertically movable with respect to the frame between raised and lowered positions, such that in the raised position the front wheels and dolly wheel define a common tangential plane which is at a level above the blades of the aerator member and below the rear wheels thereby establishing an operative aerating position whereas in the lowered position the front wheels and dolly wheel define a common tangential plane which is at a level below the aerator member and the rear wheels thereby establishing a transport position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Assignee: Improved Lawn Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Sidney Cohen, Robert Schlemmer
  • Patent number: 4335844
    Abstract: An openable and closable lid is formed at the open end of a container which has a peripheral flange extending inwardly within the container in a plane beneath the open end. The lid comprises a first lid element removably fitted within the open end of the container above the peripheral flange and a second lid element secured to the first lid element as a unit. The first lid element can be formed as an open box with a frame and the second lid element has flaps which are secured to the side walls of the container. By separating one of the flaps from the container, a hinged connection can be formed for the lid unit to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Platmanufaktur AB
    Inventor: Alwin Egli
  • Patent number: 4334847
    Abstract: An injection molding device for molding shaped bodies of natural or synthetic rubber comprising a heatable mold for shaping and vulcanizing therein the bodies to be molded and an elongated feed duct communicating with the mold via an injection nozzle. Plasticized material is fed into the duct by a plasticizing device and injection is effected by a piston-type injection device, both communicating with the duct. There is provided in the duct a valve which in its closed position blocks ingress of plasticized material into the duct but opens the duct for ingress of the material to be pressed by the injection means into the mold via the nozzle. The valve head is axially displaceable in the duct and mounts a member so dimensioned that in the open position of the valve it fully closes the nozzle opening, thereby pushing any residual plasticized material into the mold and in the closed position is completely withdrawn from the nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: Werner & Pfleiderer
    Inventor: Gunther Schauffele
  • Patent number: 4334764
    Abstract: Apparatus for automatically feeding sheet material such as fan fold paper to a photocopier in which the apparatus may be movable towards and away from the window of the photocopier either by disconnecting the apparatus completely from the photocopier by means of readily releasable clamps or by pivoting part of the apparatus away from the window of the photocopier whereby the apparatus may be used not only to photocopy fan fold paper but used in a conventional manner to photocopy normal documents. Control signals to operate the apparatus are derived by a light sensitive means viewing the light source within the photocopier through the window of the photocopier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Inventors: Lionel E. J. Rawson, John Wray
  • Patent number: 4333904
    Abstract: A process for forming a mouthpiece on a preform formed from a tubular blank consisting of thermoplastic material, which is intended for the production of a container, e.g. by blow molding, whereby connecting means, such as a thread, which is adapted to a suitable form of closure of the container is formed on the outside of the mouthpiece. The process comprises inserting the blank between an outer mold section with a mold portion for the attachment surface of the connecting means and an inner mold section, whereupon a driven relative axial movement of the two mold sections relative to each other forces the material of the blank, in tightly enclosed manner, radially outwards into the mold portion for the attachment surface, and an axial head cup is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: PLM AB
    Inventor: Kjell M. Jakobsen
  • Patent number: 4334257
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection device for wires, preferably telephone cables, comprises overvoltage arresters (11) of the discharge tube type and connection clamps (7, 8) for the wires, which connection clamps are placed in a terminal block (2). The device is manufactured in such a manner that the overvoltage arresters (11) are enclosed in a detachable cassette (16) and so that the terminal box (2) is pivotal to allow for insertion and removal of the cassette (16). The cassette comprises a number of spaces for the overvoltage arresters (11) and a movable lock (19) to retain and to release the overvoltage arresters (11) respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Per A. A. Ekdahl, Fred L. Moller
  • Patent number: 4332332
    Abstract: A container (4) has a closure (15) which consists of a fastener (6) and a lid (1) which are joined together all the way round by a failure zone (2). When the container is originally sealed the closure is inserted into the opening and the fastener is fixed to a flanged top surface (5) which surrounds the opening. The failure zone is located at the point at which the internal surface (3) of the opening meets the top surface of the opening. The lid is dished inwards within the failure zone in such a way that the outer edge of the dishing (7) forms a guide (10) against the internal surface (3). A surface (8) of the lid running parallel with the top surface is connected to the guide (10). The lid is broken open and is torn along the length of the failure zone by a locally applied force. The application of force inwards will as a rule move the lid over the distance a until the surface (8) makes contact with a ledge (11) located inside the container (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: A/S Haustrup Plastic
    Inventor: Ole Ingemann
  • Patent number: D265189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Sven G. Eriksson, Bo A. Morwing
  • Patent number: D266377
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Lewittes Furniture Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Mike T. Claman