Patents Represented by Law Firm Hane, Roberts, Spiecens & Cohen
  • Cosmetic breath freshener and palate coolant composition and method of use
    Patent number: 4292028
    Abstract: A cosmetic breath freshener composition having slow release comprising a multiplicity of microencapsulated liquid droplets of flavoring material contained in a carrier. The microencapsulated droplets are soluble in the saliva in the mouth to release the flavoring material. The composition can be used in conjunction with a dental adhesive particularly for use with dentures to release the flavoring material at a sustained rate for long periods of time in the mouth to mask bad breath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Inventor: Arthur Barr
  • Percutaneous pain alleviator methods
    Patent number: 4289136
    Abstract: A method for effecting percutaneous pain alleviation in which right-angled sawtooth shaped electrical pulses are produced at electrodes for percutaneous application to bodily areas experiencing pain. One of the electrodes is located at the site of the pain while the other electrode is moved to different sites of the region of the pain. At the same time the amplitude of the electrical signals is measured for each site until a maximum amplitude site is located. Thereafter, an electrode is continuously positioned at the located site for a given period of time for continuous application of the electrical pulses which may be selectively varied in amplitude in the range of zero to about 100 volts peak-to-peak and the output current controlled from 1 MA to 40 MA, while the pulse repetition frequency may be selectively varied in the range of about 10 HZ to 100 HZ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Inventor: Donald D. Rienzo, Sr.
  • Circuit structures including integrated circuits
    Patent number: 4288808
    Abstract: The specification discloses a structure for locating integrated circuits on a substrate by etching V grooves in a silicon substrate arranged to co-operate with spheroidal connectors on the integrated circuit. Contact pads are located in the V grooves whereby connections are made to the integrated circuit through the spheroidal connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: International Computers Limited
    Inventor: Gerald H. Hantusch
  • Strong focusing megatron
    Patent number: 4288289
    Abstract: A strong focusing megatron has a hollow toroidal chamber in which a plasma of isotopes of hydrogen support an orbital current driven by a changing magnetic field whose amplitude is controllably variable and whose direction is generally coaxial with the major axis (z-axis) of the toroidal chamber while the current is stabilized by a strong focusing magnetic field of alternately focusing and defocusing sections whose field is generally in the region of the toroidal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Inventor: Ronald W. Landau
  • Integrated circuit package
    Patent number: 4285002
    Abstract: A large scale integrated circuit package including a base or substrate section and a lid structure of thermally conductive material to which the chip or die of the package is mounted. A frame defining a recess for the chip is provided on the lid and the frame carries conductive tracks which are coupled to the connector pads of the chip or die. The base has a recess which accommodate the chip and frame and which is closed by the lid structure. The base of the recess is provided with conductive tracks which co-operate with those on the frame. The electrical connections between the two sets of tracks is formed by thermo-compression techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: International Computers Limited
    Inventor: William Campbell
  • Tubular container for viscous, viscous-elastic, plastic products as well as for powder or granular products
    Patent number: 4284196
    Abstract: It has been found that fluid, semi-fluid, plastic products as well as powder or granular products packed in plastic tubes have caused great problems in tropical countries due to the change in temperature between day and night. In some cases the products have expanded and burst open the closure of the plastic tube so that the contents ran out or, due to their constituents, the products have caused deterioration of the protective properties of the plastic tube. By choosing a plastic tube or olefin plastic and sealing said plastic tube with closures of olefin plastic, as well as orientating the plastic molecules in the tube in both axial and radial direction, a plastic seal is obtained which is not affected by the products enclosed and which also resists expansion of the products without rupturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Nitro Nobel AB
    Inventor: Conny B. Lagerkvist
  • Swinging door for vehicles
    Patent number: 4282686
    Abstract: A swinging door construction for a vehicle comprising a door panel having upper and lower swing arms coupled thereto and connected to a rotatable swing column. A drive mechanism is secured to the body of the vehicle and operatively engages the swing column to rotate the same and effect swinging of the door. The lower swing arm is connected to the swing column by a connecting member which extends upwardly above the drive mechanism and is secured to the swing column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Gebr. Bode & Co.
    Inventors: Ingo Britzke, Manfred Horn
  • Method for discharge of quantities of fluid or semi-fluid substances from a container
    Patent number: 4282986
    Abstract: A method of dispensing fluid or semi-fluid liquids or pastes in which the liquid or paste is contained in a container having a top flexible dome and a bottom dome connected at their open ends to each other. The method comprises pressing the top dome downwardly toward the bottom dome and forcing the top dome into the bottom dome and discharging the liquid or paste from the bottom dome under the action of the forcing of the top dome into the bottom dome. The top dome can be formed with an internal annular bead which is displaced along the inner walls of the bottom dome to scrape off material stuck to the inside walls of the bottom dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Landstingens Inkopscentral
    Inventors: Bo T. af Ekenstam, Erik G. P. Nordqvist
  • Barooptical verification apparatus
    Patent number: 4281313
    Abstract: Apparatus used in identifying a person by means of pressure patterns and X-Y movements of a stylus associated with a signature includes first and second spaced and parallel planar conductor means with an excutcheon means for defining on an exposed surface of one of the elements to provide a writing surface for a user who, by means of a stylus, exerts a varying pressure pattern via the lamina onto one of the elements to produce a varying capacitance signal while at the same time interrupting light paths to produce X-Y coordinate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Assignee: Conversational Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Austin G. Boldridge, Jr.
  • Method and apparatus for multiplex binary data communication
    Patent number: 4281409
    Abstract: In electromagnetic communication different data streams share a common communication medium by being multiplexed. Each individual data stream employs its own unique modulation waveform set. A receiver for a given data stream comprises correlators for the waveforms in the corresponding modulation waveform set. If the waveforms in all the different modulation waveform sets are not orthogonal, then the output of correlators at a given receiver will not only contain the desired information components of the data stream to which they are matched but also components from the other data streams. This is termed cross-talk. Processors are provided which are responsive to the outputs of all waveform correlators. They provide a means for detecting the original data stream information in the presence of cross-talk. When there is no noise in the communication transmission the processors cancel the cross-talk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Schneider
  • Controllably driven seamer
    Patent number: 4279211
    Abstract: A seamer for completing two preformed abutting sheets has a wheeled body for straddling by rolling over the sheets. Sets of die rollers and opposed backing rollers longitudinally aligned along the body are driven by a drive unit after being pivotably positioned in operative opposed relationship. A control mechanism including sensors extending from the body seeks the presence of the preformed sheets or an obstruction to control the operation of the drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Roll Former Corporation
    Inventor: Ewald A. Stellrecht
  • Method of and apparatus for operating stepping motors
    Patent number: 4280084
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving a stepping motor by angularly displacing the revolvable magnetic field with respect to the rotor by a first displacement angle in a given direction of revolution and then revolving the revolvable magnetic field, preferably with linearly increasing velocity and therefore maintaining constant displacement angle between the field and the rotor until the rotor rotates at a second velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Inventor: David Chiang
  • Apparatus for the batch filtering of suspensions
    Patent number: 4276822
    Abstract: Apparatus for the batch filtration of suspensions comprising a plurality of press-chambers and filter belts for transporting the suspension stepwise through the press-chambers, such that after pressing the suspension in the first press-chamber and before entry of the resultant press cake into at least one subsequent press-chamber, the structure of the press cake is changed by shearing forces and the press cake is curved and at least partially torn apart. In the case of municipal sludge the flaked sludge is subjected in a first pressing zone to slow increase of pressure and a pressure of up to about 1 bar and is subjected in at least one following press zone to a pressure increase which is more rapid than in the first press zone, up to a pressure of about 3 bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Alb. Klein & Co. GmbH KG
    Inventor: Wendel Bastgen
  • Method and apparatus for converting a ceiling light fixture having a plurality of fluorescent lamps into a single lamp, or two lamp, fixture
    Patent number: 4277820
    Abstract: A replacement for a light transmitting panel of a ceiling light fixture having a plurality of replaceable fluorescent lamps for reducing the number of lamps in the fixture. The replacement includes a light transmitting part partially covering the body of the fixture for partially surrounding one or more of the fluorescent lamps for permitting light passage therefrom, and light reflectors covering the remainder of the fixture body such that at least two other fluorescent lamp can be removed and rendered inoperable in the fixture. The reflectors are operatively positioned in facing relation to the light transmitting part to reflect downwardly light transmitted thereto. A door frame is detachably engageable with the fixture body and operatively engages both the light transmitting part and the reflectors to mount the same on the fixture body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Inventor: Edward T. Bostonian
  • Angle digitizer
    Patent number: 4277748
    Abstract: An angle digitizer receives signal representing the sine and cosine of the angle to be digitized. The voltages are fed to orthogonal pairs of input terminals. Between each two input terminals is a set of equivalued resistors to form a resistor ring. At the junction of each pair of resistors is an output terminal. Each pair of output terminals is connected to the input terminals of a signal amplitude comparator which compares the magnitude of the signals at its inputs to give a digital signal in accordance with which is greater. For each comparator the output terminals of the resistor ring are selected such that the signals are in a direct antiphase relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Anaren Microwave, Incorporated
    Inventors: Carl W. Gerst, Leonard J. Paciorek
  • Fastening arrangement in a telephone instrument
    Patent number: 4277652
    Abstract: PCT No. PCT/SE 78/00061 Sec. 371 Date June 24, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date May 31, 1979 PCT Filed Oct. 18, 1978 PCT Pub. No. W079/00227 PCT Pub. Date May 3, 1979A fastening arrangement for one or more circuit cards in a telephone instrument having a housing comprising a base plate with walls around the perimeter of the housing extending substantially perpendicular to the base plate and a rear casing which has a planar surface extending perpendicular to the base plate and directed towards the front of the instrument. Supporting elements are mounted on the planar surface and have the form of projections with grooves to receive a circuit card. The front wall of the base plate carries supporting elements for the circuit cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Leif Branden, Jan F. Bruun, Olle Holm, Ronnie E. Mellgren, Karl A. Ryr, Carl-Axel Stromer, Erling Tronslien
  • Chair
    Patent number: D260060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: Lewittes Furniture Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Mike T. Claman
  • Computer terminal case
    Patent number: D260202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Computer Transceiver Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles F. Middleton, Jr.
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D260238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Allan Costa
  • Telephone key base
    Patent number: D260519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Hans G. Thames