Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jones, tullar & Cooper, P.C.
  • Printing machine comprising at least one printing group, one folder and at least one turn-and-mix stage
    Patent number: 7513195
    Abstract: A printing machine includes at least one printing group, one folder and at least one turn-and-mix stage that supplies the printed web output from the printing group to the folder. A web path from the printing group to the folder, when projected into a horizontal plane, is bent or deviates in the area of the turn-and-mix stage. The turn-and-mix stage or superstructure, includes a horizontal cutting device at an input side, for use in cutting the web into at least two partial webs. At least two horizontally displaceable turning bars are provided, and the partial webs pass around these turning bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günther Oskar Eckert, Burkard Otto Herbert
  • Threaded connection for oil field applications
    Patent number: 7510219
    Abstract: An interconnection for oil field tubular goods operates in a self sealing manner in response to internal pressures which might otherwise cause leakage through couplings or joints. Each coupling sleeve includes an interior fulcrum ring fitted between the nose ends of the tubing or casing, and centrally engaging a fulcrum seating zone centered in the sleeve. Internal pressures tend to bend the ends of the fulcrum ring outwardly toward clearance or relief spans on each side of the fulcrum zone. This deflection increases the contact force and enhances the metal-to-metal seal between the end faces of the fulcrum ring and the pin end faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Inventor: Fred N. Huston
  • Elongated cross coil assembly for use in borehole location determination
    Patent number: 7510030
    Abstract: A pair of elongated crossed coils is deployed in a first borehole and an instrument containing magnetic field sensors is deployed in a second borehole. The crossed coils are energized in quadrature by AC currents producing a rotating, elliptically polarized magnetic field at the second borehole. Mathematical analysis of the magnetic field sensor readings determines the location of the second borehole relative to the first. Both the distance and the rotational direction to the second borehole are determined as a function of depth of the sensors relative to that of the pair of crossed coils. Twisting of the long coil in the borehole is evaluated and the relative distance between the boreholes and the corrections needed due to such twisting are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Vector Magnetics LLC
    Inventors: Arthur F. Kuckes, Herbert J. Susmann
  • Hair clip with interlocking combs
    Patent number: 7506653
    Abstract: The hair clip comprises two combs and at least one elastic member to bias the teeth of the combs toward each other in overlapping relationship. The teeth of the combs are similar and are at least slightly wider than the spaces between the teeth. In use, the combs may be twisted relatively to each other while inserting them into engagement, such that some of the teeth of one comb overlay and others underlay the teeth of the other combs so as to clamp hair between the two combs. Preferably the teeth are oval or elliptical in cross-section, such that they interfit partially with the teeth with which they are engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Inventors: Thea Gladwin, Richard George Gladwin
  • Distributed Brillouin sensor system based on DFB lasers using offset locking
    Patent number: 7499151
    Abstract: A distributed Brillouin sensor system is provided. The system has two distributed feedback (DFB) lasers, which are locked at the Brillouin frequency of the optical fiber through offset locking method by coupler splitting into two parts. The split parts are sent to two photodiodes, the outputs of which are sent to a mixer. A PID controller means follows the mixer and a current controller follows the PID controller. The lasers have a wavelength of 1550 nm. The PID controller locks the frequency difference. An optical delay line is used to produce the frequency tuning of the two DFB lasers around the Brillouin frequency of the optical fibers. The lock-in amplifier is used to keep the DC level of the optical modulator at minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: University of Ottawa
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Bao, Evgueni Ponomarev, Yun Li, Fabien Ravet, Lufan Zou, Omur M. Sezerman
  • Printing group including cylinders supported for movement
    Patent number: 7484458
    Abstract: A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders comprises, at the most, one break in the circumferential direction. The surface forms, in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of adjacently arranged breaks which, when viewed in the circumferential direction, are arranged in a staggered manner with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Christel, Oliver Frank Hahn, Karl Erich Albert Schaschek, Georg Schneider
  • Multi-wavelength pulse generator using time-lens compression
    Patent number: 7483635
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a multi-wavelength pulse train use a technique referred to as time-lens compression. The time-lens is formed of a phase modulator in series with a dispersion element. In addition to pulse compression, this time-lens simultaneously displaces the pulses according to their center wavelengths, resulting in a temporally evenly spaced multi-wavelength pulse train. An aberration correction technique, based on the temporal analog of a spatial correction lens, can also be employed improve the quality of the compressed pulses. Through use of CW DFB lasers and electrooptic phase modulators, the all-fiber system allows complete tunability of temporal spacing, spectral profile and repetition rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Chris Xu
  • Method for evaluating and correcting the image data of a camera system
    Patent number: 7477294
    Abstract: The image data of a camera system is corrected. The camera system includes a color camera which supplies three output signals to three separate color channels, in the form of output signal vectors. The output signal vectors, the coefficients of which represent the output signals supplied by the color camera to the three color channels in a specific position lying in the range of observation, are multiplied by a correction matrix, particularly a square one. The corrected output signal vectors are then processed further in the camera system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Lohweg, Harald Heinrich Willeke
  • Printing press comprising coupled inking unit and printing form changing device
    Patent number: 7475634
    Abstract: A printing press is comprised of at least one printing cylinder. A displaceable inking unit and a displaceable plate changing device can alternatingly be placed against the printing cylinder or can be moved out of contact with it. The inking unit and the plate changing device are coupled together so that their respective displacements are accomplished by a common drive. The two move in opposite directions with respect to the printing cylinder and may be connected together. Alternatively, each may have its own drive, with the two drives being coupled together by a common controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claus-Dieter Barrois, Brigette Dunninger, legal representative, Reinhold Dünninger
  • Process for preparation of chemically stable, dry-flow, low compact, dust free, soluble granules of phosphoroamidothioates
    Patent number: 7473685
    Abstract: Dry flow, low compact, dust free, soluble granules of phosphoroamidothioates, preferably acephate, are produced by the process of 1) pre-mixing technical grade phosphoroamidothioate with specified adjuvants and other inert ingredients; 2) grinding to produce a ground product having a preferred particle size of 5 microns to 10 microns; 3) post-mixing; 4) granulating; 5) drying; 6) sizing to required length, preferably 1.5 to 3.0 mm; 7) and sieving to remove the fines to get the desired dust free soluble granule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: United Phosphorus, Ltd.
    Inventors: Prakash Mahadeo Jadhav, Rajju Devidas Shroff
  • Printing group of a printing press, as well as a printing press
    Patent number: 7469637
    Abstract: A printing group of a printing press has two forme cylinders, and two transfer cylinders which are assigned to the two forme cylinders and which, in a print-on position, cooperate to form a printing position. The forme cylinders and the transfer cylinders each have at least one groove or slit on their shell face which groove or slit is adapted to secure ends of a blanket or a dressing. The forme cylinders have circumferences which correspond to a section length of a printed page. Rotating shafts of the forme and transfer cylinders, when in the print-on position, are located in a common plane. The circumferential width of each of the grooves or slits, in the shell faces of the cylinder does not exceed 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Christel, Oliver Frank Hahn, Karl Erich Albert Schaschek, Georg Schneider
  • Porous film type solvent-free polymer electrolyte filled with oligomer/prepolymer electrolyte and secondary battery employing the same
    Patent number: 7468226
    Abstract: A solvent-free polymer electrolyte and a secondary battery employing the electrolyte are provided. The electrolyte includes: a porous film, including a first polymer and a second oligomer, the first polymer being at least one selected from the group consisting of poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) copolymers, polyvinylidenefluorides, polymethylmethacrylates, polyacrylonitriles, polyethyleneoxides, and celluloses having a polyether chain, and the second oligomer being at least one selected from the group consisting of poly(ethylene oxide-co-ethylene carbonate) copolymers with at least one terminal groups substituted by a halogen atom and polyethyleneglycols with at least one terminal group substituted by a halogen atom. An electrolyte comprising the second oligomer and a lithium salt is present in the pores of the porous film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Seung-Yeop Kwak, Jae-Deok Jeon
  • Devices and methods for raising and/or lowering a printing form
    Patent number: 7464644
    Abstract: A printing form is either raised or is lowered by the use of a pressure device which includes a roller. The roller is arranged on a cross-beam in such a way that the roller can selectively be placed on, or taken off the forme cylinder, or a forme that is supported on the forme cylinder, by a device. The pressure device, or the cross-beam which supports the roller can be displaced in a manner such that the distance of the roller from the cylinder can selectively be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Ewald Heinrich Bernard, Lars Keil, Manfred Herrmann Liebler
  • Printing machines having at least one machine element that can be adjusted by a setting element
    Patent number: 7464645
    Abstract: A printing machine has at least one machine element which can be adjusted by the use of a setting element. An adjustment of the one machine element has an effect on the quality of the printing performed by the printing machine. An optical detection device, which includes a sensor that is oriented toward the surface of a material which is being printed, detects the quality of the printing. A controlling device receives data from the optical sensor and adjusts, together with the setting element, the at least one machine element based on a difference between a quality of the printing which has been specified as a set value and the quality of the printing detected as an actual value by the optical detection device. This adjustment is done to manage the differences between the set value and the actual value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Heinz Peter Jeschonneck, Stefan Arthur Budach, Thomas Türke, Harald Heinrich Willeke, Andreas Ewald Heinrich Bernard
  • Touch sensor controlled switch with intelligent user interface
    Patent number: 7466040
    Abstract: A module for controlling power supply to a load in a product which includes a microchip, and an electromechanical switch and a proximity/touch sensor connected to the microchip, preferably to the same input. The switch is primarily used to activate or deactivate the load and the proximity/touch sensor to vary the effect of operating the switch, or to control additional functions such as the activation of a signal, typically a light signal, which helps to locate the product, particularly in the dark, and to vary the duration of an automatic time-out period at the end of which the load is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Inventor: Frederick Johannes Bruwer
  • System and method for detection of freefall with spin using two tri-axis accelerometers
    Patent number: 7451057
    Abstract: A system and method detect freefall associated with an object that is spinning or tumbling as it falls. Two tri-axis accelerometers provide inputs to an algorithm that detects the freefall of a spinning object that would not otherwise be detected by a conventional freefall detection system, due to the centrifugal and centripetal forces being placed on the falling object as it spins. The system can be used to detect the freefall of portable devices with onboard memory or hard disk drives, allowing the devices to have time to park the read/write head and reduce the potential of losing data that can be damaged by impact. This freefall detection system may be applied to such portable devices as notebook computers, PDAs, MP3 players, digital cameras, mobile phones and even automobiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Kionix, Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon Kim, Scott A. Miller
  • Deconvolving far-field images using scanned probe data
    Patent number: 7449688
    Abstract: A method for deconvolving far-field optical images beyond the diffraction limit includes the use of near-field optical and other scanned probe imaging data to provide powerful and new constraints for the deconvolution of far-field data sets. Near-field data, such as that which can be obtained from atomic force microscopy on a region of the far-field data set in an integrated and inter-digitate way, is used to produce resolutions beyond the diffraction limit of the lens that is being used. In the case of non-linear optical imaging or other microscopies, resolutions beyond that which is achievable with these microscopies can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Nanoptics, Inc.
    Inventor: Aaron Lewis
  • Transcription factors, DNA and methods for introduction of value-added seed traits and stress tolerance
    Patent number: 7446241
    Abstract: Abscisic acid-inducible gene expression in different plant tissues is enhanced synergistically by the co-expression of a B3-domain transcription factor and various bZIP-domain transcription factors, or a different B3-domain transcription factor. Using these transcription factors in novel formulations, as shown by examples, will confer value-added traits to transgenic plants, including, but not limited to, higher levels of heterologous gene expression, drought and salt tolerance, viability and productivity under stress, and enhanced nutrient reserves and seed properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Tech University
    Inventors: Christopher Dale Rock, Srinivas Satyalinga Gampala
  • Slipper
    Patent number: D581638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: NNL Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: John Lee
  • Mounting panel for an audio-video assembly
    Patent number: D586792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Inventor: Anthony Lozano