Patents Represented by Attorney Hughes Law Firm, PLLC
  • Patent number: 7676976
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for easily, quickly and reliably longitudinally securing and rotationally locking a noise suppressor or other auxiliary device to the muzzle end of a firearm barrel, and to a fixture such as a flash suppressor affixed to the muzzle end of the firearm, and for easily, quickly and reliably removing the noise suppressor or other auxiliary device therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: SureFire, LLC
    Inventors: Barry W. Dueck, John W. Matthews, Brooke C. Smith
  • Patent number: 7670233
    Abstract: A golf swing training aid adapted to have a first rail and a second rail whereby a carriage system is slidably attached thereto and the pitch of the club is controlled with respect to the position of the carriage assembly in the course of a swing. In one form, the rotation of the club about the shaft (the roll) is controlled in conjunction with the pitch of the club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventor: Jack Jones
  • Patent number: 7665389
    Abstract: A tool member for a multitool which is configured to strip wire. The tool member has first and second members which in one form are pivotally attached at a common axis on the handle portion of a multitool where the tool member has an extended orientation and can be retracted into the channel region of the tool member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives & Tools LLC
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: 7634858
    Abstract: A folding knife having a finger guard extension mounted to the handle portion that is operatively configured to be positioned in a stored position when the knife is in a closed orientation. The finger guard is adapted to be withdrawn from the handle in an extended position when the blade is in an open position where in one form the finger guard is adapted to open the blade when a force is applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives & Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: 7634988
    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: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Inventor: Reijo K. Salminen
  • Patent number: 7631681
    Abstract: A portable tire bead breaker comprising a plurality of elements which can be disassembled to form a compact kit. Includes a base over which a tire and rim may be placed, a support member, and a lever arm. Also included is a plunger member configured to engage the tire and break the bead thereon. To break a tire bead, the elements are assembled and a force is extended upon the lever arm, engaging the plunger member upon the tire and creating sufficient force against the tire in opposition to the rim to disassociate therefrom. The tire bead breaker can be disassembled into a compact unit for storage and transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventor: David Petersen
  • Patent number: 7631595
    Abstract: A milk pasteurizing unit having a force fluid convection chamber which is adapted to hold a milk product mass therein. There is an ejection nozzle which is in communication with a pressurization device such as a pump which forcefully ejects a nozzle over a separator plate which separates the milk product mass from a direct heat source such as a combustion chamber. The force convection of the milk prevents scalding of the same and allows for a more rapid heat transfer from the heat source to the milk product mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Daritech, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan DeWaard
  • Patent number: 7621255
    Abstract: A rotary motion device having piston valves that define an open region that are adapted to engage a power tooth of the power ring as the power ring rotates around the piston valves and the piston valves rotate about their own separate axis that is fixed with respect to the base housing of the device. The power ring is provided with radially inward and outward ports in one form that are adapted to communicate with radially inward and outward ports of a static member of the device. The ports are utilized to compress and expand a gas and in one form are utilized for an internal combustion chamber to create an internal combustion rotary motion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: E3P Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan T. Bowley
  • Patent number: 7615884
    Abstract: A hybrid wind turbine assembly and method capable of providing a total firm power output. There is a wind power section which delivers non-firm power from the wind turbine to a generator section. Then there is also an auxiliary power section which is capable of providing firm power to the same generator section. This can operate in three operating modes, namely an only wind power mode, an only auxiliary power mode, and a combined wind power and auxiliary power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: McMasterCorp, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas McMaster
  • Patent number: 7610907
    Abstract: A paintball marking system comprising a bolt assembly and a spool assembly which are operationally arranged to move in conjunction with one another, whereby the changing of pressure of an actuating chamber of the spool assembly repositions the piston to allow communication of a dump chamber having compressed gas therein be released to the bolt assembly for accelerating a paintball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Inventor: Josh Coray
  • Patent number: 7607864
    Abstract: An anchor system for a structure which experiences periodic buoyancy situations. The anchor system has a member connected at one end to a foundation and the other end to the buoyant structure. The member restricts movement of the buoyant structure in the transverse and longitudinal directions. The system allows the buoyant structure to move vertically between an upper and lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Inventor: Stephen Michael Kenady
  • Patent number: 7597056
    Abstract: A liquid manure distribution system where the manure is directed to an interior conduit within a distribution assembly or an outer rotating cylindrical member with tines attached thereto, creating crevice-like openings in the earth or a field and an internal timing member provides a slot for distribution of liquid manure at timed intervals when the slot is in positional alignment with the fluid passage openings as they are positioned downwardly adjacent to the formed crevice-like opening within the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Inventor: David Blok
  • Patent number: 7550086
    Abstract: Advanced treatment method and system of ethanolamine-containing wastewater are disclosed, which perform physicochemical and biological treatment processes. The method regenerates cation exchange resin that captures ethanolamine discharged from a nuclear power plant or a thermal power station, concentrates the ethanolamine-containing wastewater to reduce the volume of the wastewater, and then treats the highly concentrated ethanolamine-containing wastewater through biological decomposition and denitrification processes. The system for treating ethanolamine-containing wastewater performs the physicochemical process (ion-exchange and resin regenerations) where the waster is concentrated, and then applies the biological process to the small amount of wastewater highly concentrated. The physicochemical process is composed of exchanging ions and eluting/concentrating ethanolamine using sodium hydroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Inventors: In hyoung Rhee, Dae chul Cho, Byung gi Park, Hyun kyoung Ahn, Hyun jun Jung, Jun taek Hyun, Nam Soo Huh, Mi hae Yoon, Hyun kak Han
  • Patent number: 7543529
    Abstract: A vertical rotisserie open flame oven having a central flame post dispersing aesthetically pleasing flames and a secondary heater positioned outside the path of rotation of the food items. The oven has a central chamber area where the heat transfer to the food items is executed in a desirable manner to properly cook the food items without burning the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Wood Stone Corporation
    Inventors: Keith R. Carpenter, Harry E. Hegarty, Lawrence B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7533465
    Abstract: A folding knife having a finger guard extension mounted to the handle portion that is adapted to be positioned in a stored position when the knife is in a closed orientation. The finger guard is adapted to be withdrawn from the handle in an extended position when the blade is in an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives Inc.
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: 7534948
    Abstract: A musical instrument that having a shaker that is adapted to house a plurality of impact particles. The instrument employs a spring mass system where the mean mass of the impact particles provide a force due to the accelerations as the impact the lower portion of the inner surface of the shaker member. Where the force of impact of the impact particles causes a compression of a shaker spring which provides an opposite force upon the impact particles while the spring is expanding and hence raises the mean mass of the impact particles away from the lower portion of the inner surface of the shaker. Thereby, the impact particles repeat the cycle of falling upon the lower surface and a damping oscillation motion is created. Where the impacts of the impact particles causes a desirable musical sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Inventor: Steven H. Rice
  • Patent number: 7530130
    Abstract: A multi-tool attachment having a configuration that is well-suited for incising material and performing various operations where two incising members are positioned on a main portion of the tool and the cutting-edge surfaces are in close engagement with one another at an interface point where the two blades meet in forceful engagement with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives, Inc.
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: D589840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Paula Johnston
  • Patent number: D607529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Personal Protective Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: W. Thomas Craffey
  • Patent number: D607530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Personal Protective Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: W. Thomas Craffey