Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Ipsolom LLP
  • Patent number: 6682547
    Abstract: A low cost tourniquet cuff with identification apparatus comprises: an outer strip; an inner strip positioned against the outer strip; a gas-tight seal joining the inner strip to the outer strip to form a cuff having a physical characteristic wherein the cuff includes an inflatable bladder of a predetermined length greater than the circumference of a limb at a selected location; and a cuff connector carried on the cuff and communicating pneumatically with the bladder for releasably connecting to a tourniquet instrument to establish a gas-tight passageway between the bladder and the instrument, wherein the cuff connector includes identification means indicative of the physical characteristic and detectable by the tourniquet instrument upon establishment of the gas-tight passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventors: James Allen McEwen, Kevin Bryant Inkpen, Michael Jameson, Kenneth L. Glinz
  • Patent number: 6385988
    Abstract: A dustproof implement applied to a clutch to be attached to a compressor in an air-conditioning system loaded on a working vehicle, comprises a plate to be disposed opposite to an annular recess of a rotor of the clutch and fixed at the compressor, and an annular pad attached to the annular plate and abutting the rotor on the outer peripheral side of the annular recess of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Unicla
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 6328331
    Abstract: A heavy duty collapsible wheelbarrow having a frame (including, for example, a wheel and a pair of handles), and a container (sometimes referred to in the prior art as a tray or bucket), the container being securable to the frame in a “ready for use” position, and being releasable from this “ready for use” position to enable the wheelbarrow to be collapsed, the means for securing the container to the frame including an “over-center” mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Inventor: Kevin P. McEnteggart