Patents Represented by Attorney Herbert Dubno
  • Patent number: 6999033
    Abstract: An antenna assembly for mounting an antenna on a vehicle body, especially upon the roof of a vehicle, in which the assembly has a base body of metal with a threaded projection passing through a hole in a wall of the vehicle body. A housing of plastic encloses the antenna components mounted upon a plate-shaped portion of the base body and a seal is provided between the base body and the vehicle body and seals around the opening between the base body and the wall of the vehicle. The seal can be injection molded and molded onto the base body in the injection-molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hirschmann Electronics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Kordass, Günther Blickle, Boris Wischniowski
  • Patent number: 6998547
    Abstract: A load changeover switch for a tap changer with two permanent main contact pairs for each phase to be switched, wherein the fixed contacts thereof are each time bridged over by a movable permanent main contact. The fixed permanent main contacts consist of a plurality of contact plates, which are articulated by means of contact springs, in the manner that the direction of deflection of the individual contact plates corresponds in each instance with the direction of impinging of the movable permanent main contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Kloth, Silke Wrede
  • Patent number: 6994571
    Abstract: An insert part can fit into the slot of a power track. A shaft extending into the insert part is pivotal about a shaft axis in the housing between a use position and a nonuse position. A one-piece conductive contact element rotationally fixed to the shaft has a contact projecting radially from the shaft and engageable with one of the power-track conductors when the insert part is fitted to the slot and the shaft is in the use position, and a one-piece plug-type terminal extending generally parallel to the axis. Formations unitarily formed with the contact element and the shaft axially and rotationally fix the contact element on the shaft. A hookup wire provided with another plug-type terminal mates with the terminal of the contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Erco Leuchten GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 6995498
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer having an ultrasonic conducting element with a plurality of arms extending from a common junction with some of the arms being provided with ultrasonic generators, at least one other arm carrying a bonding tool, especially for bonding a conductor to a chip and at least two of the arms including a straight angle of 180° with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hesse & Knipps GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Wallaschek, Piotr Vasiljev, Hans Hesse
  • Patent number: 6988311
    Abstract: A method of grounding a tube to a chassis wherein a plastic clip made conductive by the incorporation of conductive particles therein, is clamped onto the jacket of metal automotive vehicle tubing so that projections on the clip penetrate through the jacket to engage the outer surface of the metal tube. The clip body is welded to the jacket to hermetically seal the region of contact between the clip and the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: TI Automotive (Fuldabruck) GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Otto, Kurt Apel
  • Patent number: 6986470
    Abstract: A track fastener has a top plate spacedly surrounded by a frame and connected to the frame by a body of elastomer bonded to both the top plate and the frame at all surfaces at which the elastomer fills the gap between the two. The frame has hoods overhanging ribs of the elastomer which have inclined flanks covered by the elastomer as the elastomer reaches down from the gap between the hood and the rib to the top surface of the top plate lying below the receiving surface of the top plate on which the rail bears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Advanced Track Products, LLC
    Inventor: Wilbur F. Osler
  • Patent number: 6984130
    Abstract: A contact assembly has a dielectric mounting block having inner and outer faces, and a conductive contact unitarily formed of elastically deformable metal. The contact has a center web set in the block, an inner leg extending from the web past the inner face and elastically deflectable toward the inner face and toward the center web, and an outer leg extending from web and elastically deflectable from an outer position spaced well outward of the outer face and spaced from the web to an inner position extending at least partially inward past the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Richter, Dirk Pellizari
  • Patent number: 6979036
    Abstract: A frame which may be spanned by a panel for mounting by an adhesive or magnetically to the roof of a automotive vehicle to simulate a sunroof and thereby enhance the value and appearance thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Inventor: Andrew Poulos
  • Patent number: 6976377
    Abstract: In the planetary skew rolling blooms to form seamless metal tubing or pipe the internal tool is retracted at the leading and/or trailing end of the tubular bloom to allow the rolls to seal the end or ends and prevent coolant from entering the rolled tubing or bloom. The internal tool is advanced back into its normal rolling position after the end has passed the rolling location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: SMS Meer GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann-Josef Klingen, Thomas Winterfeldt, Norbert Zillekens
  • Patent number: 6971979
    Abstract: Known folded box gluing machines for producing folded boxes (1) from blanks comprise—a folding station (3), in which the parts of blanks provided with an adhesive strip are folded,—an adjoining transfer station (5) which is configured as a transport device and has at least two conveyer belt pairs, each consisting of an upper and a lower belt (7, 8) and a device for ejecting defective boxes (11) and—a collection and pressing device (6), in which the flat folded boxes are pressed together, in order for the adhesive to bind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Heidelberger Bruckmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Saro
  • Patent number: 6970414
    Abstract: This invention relates to a three-dimensional optical memory made from a fluorescent photosensitive material, and a method and device for the storage and retrieval of information on the three-dimensional optical memory. The fluorescent photosensitive material can be glass and vitroceramic, both of which exhibit both fluorescent and photosensitive properties. Both one-photon and two-photon processes can be used for writing and reading the digital information on to the three-dimensional optical memory, in conjunction with a confocal microscope. A high reading sensitivity is obtained by using fluorescence during the reading cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Inventor: Eugen Pavel
  • Patent number: 6965217
    Abstract: A tap changing assembly for power transformers having vacuum interrupters each of which is associated with a radio interrogated surface wave sensor capable of detecting whether the respective vacuum interrupter opens circuit in a timely manner. The sensors are interrogated by an interrogating unit transmitting high-frequency signals to the sensors and associated with a monitoring circuit responsive to signals received by the interrogating unit for signalling the status of the vacuum interrupter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Dohnal, Karsten Viereck
  • Patent number: 6964147
    Abstract: A method of operating a packaging machine and a packaging machine operated by the method, whereby sheets of a packaging material are given an undulating configuration with one or more crests before an end of the sheet is passed between object conveyors and then carried by a wrapping bar around the object to be wrapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Balmer S.R.L.
    Inventor: Mario Gambetti
  • Patent number: 6962341
    Abstract: A coupling for supplying a heat-exchange liquid to a load has a shaft extending from the load and centered on the axis. A nonrotating housing surrounding the shaft at the tube end has a connection so that the heat-exchange liquid can be pumped into the load. A roller bearing is engaged between the housing and the shaft axially between the opening and the load. Respective seal rings rotationally fixed on and sealed to the housing and the shaft between the bearing and the opening bear axially on one another. A cooling sleeve on the housing surrounds and extends axially past the seal rings. An insulator has a part closely radially surrounding the shaft between the seal rings and the opening and forming therewith a small gap through which the heat-exchange liquid can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Christian Maier GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Peter Szam
  • Patent number: 6962334
    Abstract: A delivery device for stacking cut flat articles such as rotary cross cut sheets has a braking table downstream of a sheet feeder which is provided with two counterrotating disks which are perforated and communicate with suction passages on the table beneath the disks to brake the sheets as they are supplied to a stacker. At the edge of this table, there is a broad slit nozzle directing a sheet of air upwardly onto the underside of the sheets which are delivered to the stacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: EHA Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Willi Erkelenz
  • Patent number: 6962557
    Abstract: Devices for cross-welding or cross-separating welding plastic films (2) are used in a manner known per se in machines for producing bags, said devices comprising a welding roller (3) and a heated welder terminal (4) which can be moved reciprocally and between which the plastic films (2) are guided for welding. According to the invention, the welding roller (3) is covered by a continuous belt (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Lemo Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Meyer, Jakob Schneider
  • Patent number: 6962329
    Abstract: A humidifier meters water into a chamber in which it is subjected to ultraviolet light for a predetermined period of time sufficient to destroy microorganisms whereupon the static quantity of water is transferred to a water dispersing unit which discharges the decontaminated water in a finely divided form into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Slant/Fin Corporation
    Inventor: Karl Bachert
  • Patent number: 6959805
    Abstract: A guide device on a vertical roll rolling mill frame (WG) which has vertical guide plates (FP) for the rolled product on both sides of the vertical roll pair (VW) above the rollers (RR) of the roller conveyor for feeding the rolled product 2 and removing the rolled product from the roll and on a carrier (TR) for each vertical guide plate (FP), shiftable transversely to the rolling direction, adjustable and lockable. The carrier (TR) of each guide plate (FP) is connected on its back side with the linear positioning member of a mechanically or hydraulically driven shifting device which is fixed on the bearing body (LK) of the vertical roll. The carrier (TR) is cantilevered slidably above the roller conveyer and parallel to its roller axed in a cantilevered kulisse (FK) which is fixedly connected with the rolling mill frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Wendt, Achim Klein
  • Patent number: D512171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Zweibruder Optoelectronics GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Opolka
  • Patent number: D515235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Zweibruder Optoelectronics GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Opolka