Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Hedman & Costigan
  • Patent number: 7932219
    Abstract: The present invention provides a grease composition which prevents frictional wear of a lubricating surface in a high load-applied state or in a state in which sliding motion is generated and is durable for a long time, a method of manufacturing capable of easily determining an addition ratio of an extreme-pressure agent of the grease composition, and a rolling bearing in which the grease composition is enclosed. A grease composition is composed by adding a thickener and an extreme-pressure agent containing sulfur in a molecular structure thereof to base oil. The extreme-pressure agent is added to the base oil so that a product of an amount (mgS/g) of active sulfur contained in the extreme-pressure agent and an addition amount (wt %) of the extreme-pressure agent with respect to an entire amount of the grease composition is in a range of 3 to 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenobu Mikami
  • Patent number: 7926128
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for bathroom accessibility, which is based on a device having at least one horizontal guide fixable to a wall, at least one hooking element, which slides with respect to the guide, and at least one supporting element for equipment that engages the hooking element. The hooking element includes a regulation device for selectively varying the height of at least one supporting element for bathroom equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Inventor: Luca Mammi
  • Patent number: 7919266
    Abstract: A process for the detection of antibodies in a test sample by preparing a suspension of erythrocytes with a test serum or plasma by mixing a test serum or plasma with erythrocytes; incubating the suspension of erythrocytes at a temperature of from 37° C. to 45° C. to bind any antibodies in the test serum or plasma to the surface of said erythrocytes; combining the suspension of erythrocytes with an amount of a solution of a macromolecule which is effective to agglutinate the erythrocytes; packing the resultant red cell agglutinates by centrifuging the suspension of erythrocytes; and, determining the presence of anti-erythrocyte antibodies by observing if antibody-dependent erythrocyte agglutination has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Clavina Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventor: Parviz Lalezari
  • Patent number: 7913597
    Abstract: A machine for the recovery of white cellulose paper from a trimming roll of white cellulose paper on a cardboard core where the machine has a conveyor belt on which the trimming rolls are arranged with the axis vertical, and the trimming rolls are inserted on a guide bar which, with appropriate actuators, cuts the rolls while the cardboard core is retained on the bar and the paper is allowed to fall and sent to recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Gambini International S.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni Gambini
  • Patent number: 7909590
    Abstract: In a cat and mouse type apparatus for transforming volume variations of a plurality of chambers into a rotary motion of an axis, all of the driving mechanism is housed in a cylindric cavity coaxial with the driving axis, between the cylindric cavity, a smaller diameter inner coaxial cylinder and two discs perpendicular to the axis, a toroidal cavity in which are housed rotary pistons, each longitudinally traversed by an axis and having a circular sector in cross-section shape, the rotary pistons rotating to form cavities defined therebetween, also having a substantially circular shape in cross section, where the cavities cyclically change their volumes and an apparatus driving shaft is rotatively driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Inventor: Eliodoro Pomar
  • Patent number: 7909676
    Abstract: Measuring apparatus (50) of geometrical parameters of cylinders, rolls and similar elements (11), used for the rolling of flat products operating on a machine for the grinding of said cylinders with an autonomous movement, i.e. with a movement independent of the translation movement of the grinding wheel or other parts, characterized in that it comprises at least four sensors (54, 55), situated on a surface orthogonal to the cylinder (11) or roll and in that at least two of said sensors are situated in opposite positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Techint Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Boselli, Giovanni Guido Maria Bavestrelli, Flavio Stefano Bianchessi, Claudio Trevisan
  • Patent number: 7910198
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resinous porous article having a high interconnected hole porosity and capable of retaining a large amount of a lubricating oil and does not rust iron and steel, even though an unextracted portion of a pore-forming substance bleeds out when the resinous porous article is used as parts which contact a metal portion or the like and a method of producing the resinous porous article. The resinous porous article is formed by a producing method of molding a resin containing the pore-forming substance into a molding, and extracting the pore-forming substance from the molding with a solvent which does not dissolve the resin therein. The resinous porous article has an interconnected hole porosity not less than 30%. The pore-forming substance consists of an alkali compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Hirata, Hideyuki Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 7908894
    Abstract: Device (100) and dyeing process in continuous with indigo for warp yarn chains (3) and/or fabrics, equipped with a first hermetically sealed dyeing compartment (1), suitable for containing the dye bath, and a hermetically sealed fixing/dehydration compartment (2) of the yarn (3). The two dyeing (1) and fixing/dehydration (2) compartments comprise an inert environment and are functionally and hermetically connected with each other and there are means (4) for introducing nitrogen and/or deoxygenated air inside the same compartments; inside the compartment (2) there is at least one means (5) for directly heating and/or dehydrating the yarn (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Master S.r.l.
    Inventor: Francesco Ronchi
  • Patent number: 7910525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a grease composition capable of effectively preventing a rolling surface of a bearing from having hydrogen brittleness-caused peeling, a grease-enclosed bearing in which the grease composition is enclosed, and a rotation-transmitting apparatus with a built-in one-way clutch in which the grease composition is enclosed at a sliding portion. The grease composition contains a base grease consisting of a base oil and a thickener; and an additive added to the base grease. The grease composition prevents a frictional wear surface of the sliding portion or a newly generated surface consisting of iron or the like exposed owing to wear from being peeled owing to hydrogen brittleness. The additive contains a bismuth-based additive or a magnesium-based additive. The bismuth-based additive consists of at least one of inorganic bismuth and organic bismuth not containing a sulfur component. The magnesium-based additive consists of at least one of inorganic magnesium and organic magnesium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenobu Mikami, Takayuki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7906069
    Abstract: A method for sterilizing a plastic bottle in an aseptic filling system according to which at least an inner surface or an outer surface of a bottle is sterilized by injecting a heated sterilizing fluid at 65° C.-90° C. while maintaining internal pressure of the bottle at 1 kPa-20 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwashita, Yonosuke Takahara, Kenichi Kominami, Ken Isogawa
  • Patent number: 7866237
    Abstract: The invention deals with the field of screwing heads for small trigger-type pumps or triggers and namely for applying, on vessels, triggers equipped with a threaded securing ring nut (2). This screwing head (1) is rotated around a vertical axis through a permanent magnet-type clutch and comprises four rollers (5) which tighten the toothed ring nut (2) when screwing it; said rollers (5) are supported by vertical arms (4) whose axes are arranged at 90° one from the other on a circumference with its center on the rotation axis of the screwing head. The vertical arms (4) and the four rollers (5) are simultaneously carried along a radial direction towards said ring nut through an oscillating movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Rejves S.r.l.
    Inventor: Renzo Vesentini
  • Patent number: 7866744
    Abstract: A chronometer and triathlon bicycle saddle construction having a bodywork supported by a frame to be coupled to a supporting tubular element of a bicycle, the bodywork having an enlarged bearing region operating for supporting the ischiatic tuberosities of a bicycle user, where the enlarged bearing region substantially corresponds to a middle central zone of the saddle bodywork, the saddle construction further having a water-bottle supporting element at the rear part of the saddle and integral with the saddle bodywork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Selle Italia S.r.l.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bigolin
  • Patent number: 7866078
    Abstract: A mechanism (40) for locking and adjusting the assembly tension of the stock (20) to a receiver (12) of a firearm (10), characterized in that it comprises locking and tensioning means (50) integrally connected in an swinging manner to the stock (20) and in turn provided with a contact profile (51) adapted to be commanded in rotation around a hinging pin (41) and an engagement portion (54) adapted to cooperate with a stock bolt (16) integral with the receiver (12), in order to make said locking and tensioning means (50) pass, following the rotation of the contact profile, from an unlocked position of the stock bolt (16) to an engagement position of said stock bolt with increasing tension, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fabbrica D'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ugo Gussalli Beretta
  • Patent number: D629647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: La Termoplastic F.B.M. S.r.l.
    Inventor: Marco Munari
  • Patent number: D630286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Bu Innovations Ltd.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Bell, Franziska Conrad
  • Patent number: D630287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: BU Innovations Ltd.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Bell, Franziska Conrad
  • Patent number: D631589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Beghelli S.p.A
    Inventor: Gian Pietro Beghelli
  • Patent number: D632227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Piaggio & C. S.p.A.
    Inventor: Marco Lambri
  • Patent number: D634591
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sambonet Paderno Industrie S.p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Coppo
  • Patent number: D636231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Macom S.r.l.
    Inventor: Mattia Melocchi