Patents Represented by Attorney Hughes Law Firm, PLLC
  • Patent number: 7992335
    Abstract: A trigger assembly comprising a housing adapted to mount a trigger, hammer and sear therein. The housing has an adjustment feature adapted to fixedly mount the housing within the trigger chamber portion of the firearm. The trigger assembly is particularly conducive for an AR-15 type rifle and the various sear engagement surfaces are adapted to be adjustable irrespective of the various dimensions and tolerances of the underlying firearm. A safety system is employed that adjustably allows proper engagement of the trigger tail to properly engage and disengage the safety mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: J&K IP Assets, LLC
    Inventor: John Gangl
  • Patent number: 7980520
    Abstract: A garden item hanger assembly. The assembly has an upright with a first and second portion. The first end of the first portion and the second end of the second portion can be connected together by using a medial connection portion which provides a flush surface. The assembly also has a ground engaging stake with a self centering socket and a plurality of set screws to set the upright. The ground engaging stake utilizes a plurality of moment resisting surfaces to maintain an upright position against both a first and second moment about the ground engaging stake applied by the item load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventor: Scott Taylor
  • Patent number: 7955229
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a portable therapeutic exercise device and more particularly a convenient exercise device, which is particularly adapted for restoring and/or maintaining the range of motion of post-operative patients and also having general therapeutic use. The disclosed device has several significant and novel improvements over prior art devices. Several improvements have resulted in a device which is much easier and less expensive to produce, lighter, more convenient to transport and to store. The device has a lightweight base frame, and a moveable carriage connected thereto. A plurality of elastic members couple the base to the carriage to supply resistant force while in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Inventor: Gary Graham
  • Patent number: 7946201
    Abstract: A locking system for a multitool where multiple discrete lock members are attached to a handle and the lock members can be individually engaged to lock and unlock tool members from a retained to an extended position and vice versa within the handle of a multitool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives & Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: 7938146
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a repair apparatus and method for pipe and fittings. In one form, the method relates to utilizing fabric-like material which is intermixed with an adhesive. In one form, the adhesive is a two-part adhesive which hardens to a semi-rigid state to avoid stress fractures through repeated expansion and contraction due to physical movement or temperature variation in the pipe and/or fittings. In one form the method and apparatus are particularly useful in thermoplastic pipes. In other forms, the method is particularly useful in metal pipes and fittings, or in non-pipe structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Western Specialties, LLC
    Inventors: Carl M. Brooks, John R. Norton
  • Patent number: 7913945
    Abstract: A two-roll dispenser is disclosed for a plurality of rolls of products, in one embodiment a plurality of toilet paper rolls. The operation of resetting the device to accept replacement rolls of product is achieved by opening the casing. The seer mechanism is also disclosed in one form maintaining a secondary roll of product in a reserve position until a primary roll of product is substantially consumed. The seer mechanism is also disclosed in another form maintaining a casing door in a reserve position until a primary roll of product is substantially consumed. In one form, rolls of product having a partial or split core are utilized to achieve the objects of this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics International, Ltd,
    Inventors: Matthew Friesen, Bradley Friesen, John Friesen, Andrew Jackman, Alexander Tramploski
  • Patent number: 7905221
    Abstract: An engine block is disclosed in one embodiment having a cylinder shape bore, which forms the outside wall surface of a cylindrical air chamber. Radially outwards from the cylindrical air chamber there is an annular shape combustion chamber, which has a circular inner wall surface, circular outer wall surface, closed annular shaped top surface, and an annular shaped open end opposite of the top surface. The bottom end of the circular inner wall surface of the annular shape combustion chamber and the bottom end of the outside wall surface of the cylindrical air chamber defines an annular shape surface. This surface fits inside the annular shape air chamber in the piston assembly. In one embodiment, in the lower part of the circular inner wall surface of the annular shape combustion chamber there is a circular groove for an oil scraper ring of conventional design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Inventor: Reijo K. Salminen
  • Patent number: 7902728
    Abstract: A system and method for removing unwanted heat generated by a piezoelectric element of an ultrasound transducer. Some implementations have high thermal conductivity (HTC) material placed adjacent to the piezoelectric element. The HTC material can be thermally coupled to one or more heat sinks. Use of HTC material in conjunction with these piezoelectric element surfaces is managed to avoid degradation of propagating acoustic energy. Use of the HTC material in conjunction with heat sinks allows for creation of thermal paths away from the piezoelectric element. Active cooling of the heat sinks with water or air can further draw heat from the piezoelectric element. Further implementations form a composite matrix of thermally conductive material or interleave thermally conductive layers with piezoelectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: UST, Inc.
    Inventors: Perry Kaminski, Yu-Chi Chu
  • Patent number: 7900897
    Abstract: A clamping device & method for down clamping against a workpiece by utilizing part features produced during a prior operation. The mechanics of this device allow it to open, close, raise and lower during its initialization and release. The device contains a built in block type jaw restraint to facilitate the customization of its clamping heads to suit the shape of the part feature it is to clamp down upon. This device is used within the part boundaries, thus facilitating higher quantity part batch sizes being presented to the limited travels of the machine tool used to process the parts. This invention is comprised of readily available hardware items along with two cost effective and simple to mass-produce components. The device can be actuated manually or with automatic actuation. The method described to prepare the project is unique to the function & usage of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Ritchie Bonkowski
  • Patent number: 7886557
    Abstract: A water producing system adapted to condense water from the air and collected in a storage tank were the water is purified and bacteria is killed. An additive device is configured to supplement additives to the water such as minerals. An additive control system supplements the water and controls the amount of additives therein. One form of killing the bacteria is utilizing an ozone injection system with a filter system to remove the ozone before the water is dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Everest Water, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rae Anderson, Keith White
  • Patent number: 7889881
    Abstract: An earpiece adapted to transmit acoustic sound into an year, the earpiece having a flexible ear canal engagement member that is adapted to be repositioned longitudinally inwardly by way of some form of an extension member. When the extension member is released, the member contracts to a first position, thereby increasing a portion of its cross-sectional diameter at some portion thereof to engage the ear canal of a user's ear to securely fit the device to the user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventor: Chris Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 7878444
    Abstract: A two-roll dispenser is disclosed for a plurality of rolls of products, in one embodiment a plurality of toilet paper rolls. The operation of resetting the device to accept replacement rolls of product is achieved by opening the casing. The seer mechanism is also disclosed maintaining a secondary roll of product in a reserve position until a primary roll of product is substantially consumed. In one form, rolls of product having a partial or split core are utilized to achieve the objects of this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Friesen, Bradley Friesen, John Friesen, Andrew Jackman, Alexander Tramploski
  • Patent number: 7878368
    Abstract: A center pull towel mechanism having an adjustable iris system where a locking system is configured to enclose the surfaces defining the towel iris. In one form the adjustable iris system automatically adjusts the cross-sectional opening with an adjustable member positioned in the transverse rearward portion with respect to the towlette members interposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Friesen, Brad Friesen, John Friesen, Andrew Jackman, Alex Tramploski
  • Patent number: 7871358
    Abstract: The disclosure recites an apparatus having a kick plate that is adapted to be stored in an operable position where it is in a substantially vertically orientated manner where the kick plate is in a more vertically orientated or positioned orientation with respect to a frame and a carriage is movably attached in a substantially horizontal direction where a resistance system provides resistant movement of the carriage with respect to the frame. The kick plate is further adapted or operatively configured to be re-orientated in a stowed position where an upper surface of the kick plate operates in conjunction with an upper surface of the carriage to function as a table like support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Inventor: Gary Graham
  • Patent number: 7866593
    Abstract: A two-roll dispenser is disclosed for a plurality rolls of products, in one embodiment a plurality of toilet paper rolls. The operation of resetting the device to accept replacement rolls of product is achieved by opening and re-closing the casing. The seer mechanism is also disclosed, maintaining a casing door in a reserve position until a primary roll of product is substantially consumed. In one form, rolls of product having a partial or split core are utilized to achieve the objects of this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics International Ltd
    Inventors: Matthew Friesen, Bradley Friesen, John Friesen, Andrew Jackman, Alexander Tramploski
  • Patent number: 7866840
    Abstract: A flashlight and tool combination comprises a flashlight having a body, an illumination member, a power source and a switch for switching the illumination member on and off. The flashlight body has on one portion thereof a tool connector. The combination further comprises a tool assembly comprising a tool component and a connector component, the connector component being received by the connector member on the body of the flashlight. A fastener for releasably securing the connector component to the connector member is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Tools & Knives, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Stephen J Padden
  • Patent number: 7862444
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure relates to a golf swing training device, comprises three interoperating portions, the first portion of the device being an active area, the second being a collapsible frame, and the third being a golf club-like device and carriage. The collapsible base frame allows the active area to be repositioned from a fully upright orientation, to a partially lowered orientation, and continue to a significantly lowered orientation, to a fully lowered (collapsed) orientation. In the fully lowered orientation, the device has a much smaller profile and can therefore be more easily transported and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Jones Rutherford LLC
    Inventor: Herman L. Jones
  • Patent number: D632925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Magellan Group Ltd.
    Inventor: Debra Lynne Sasken-Duff
  • Patent number: D636215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Magellan Group Ltd.
    Inventors: Andre Dean Cloutier, Debra Lynne Sasken-Duff, Adriana Phillips
  • Patent number: D638901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Wright